Uh...dude, R-S codes are common and well known in academia. My dad works with R-S codes.
And the point of open source is not to evade the law. If it is, you're here for the wrong reason; go find some warez group on IRC. (Disclaimer: that does not count as an endorsement of warez.)
Uh...Reed-Solomon error correction counts as error correction. The likelihood of a perfect read of relatively small dots by a relatively cheap device is not that high, so R-S coding is used to find what was misread (if any) and fix it.
Error correction cannot be copy protection, since it is not encryption, copying the error-coded dots is trivial, and stripping the error codes from the data is easy.
This is not just for laughs
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Plenty of you are making light of this, but do you realize how many would love to go to a church on Sundays but can't (e.g., those who are sick, those who live in rural areas)? Fellowship with other Christians is half the Christian faith, and this is a useful tool for those who'll need it.
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And there's a bit of a problem leaving porn in the reach of minors in libraries...my friend and I did a project about that (specifically, COPPA and Internet censorship in public libraries) earlier this year.
You just lost your whole argument by bringing in gay marriage, which was irrelevant, but I'll bite. The problem is not if it endangers straight families, the problem is if J. Random Conservative had been born into / adopted by a gay family.
Repeat after me. You did not buy the song. Full rights to the song cost millions of dollars.
For e.g. charitable organizations, the money you give them is only to be used in certain ways. And haven't you heard of loans? You pay less than the full value of the money (interest) to get access to the money, but you're given rights only to use it in certain ways.
And yes, the DRM has to be there. Why else are the music labels so willing to stock the iTMS?
And fair use != freedom to do whatever you want with creative works noncommercially. Methinks thou dost misunderstand the term.
But it's not, it's assembly using mnemonics (probably rst 28h.db 4540h ret for that piece of code). I just didn't feel like going through an assembler and looked up the bytecodes without writing the assembly first.
What if you didn't have the original source (improper distribution to you, choice not to download it with the binaries, lost disks) and you made a binary patch via reverse-engineering and hex-editing / disassembling? There is no source code to distribute....
Could you GPL a program written originally in assembly or machine code, e.g., EF4045C9, machine code for TI-83 series calculators to clear the screen?
Since when has looking around in a theater owned by the looker's employer been an invasion of privacy? The use of night-vision goggles is solely because the theater is dark as a convenience for the moviegoers.
You're using "ANSI" (some ANSI standard) and ISO Latin-1/Windows-1252 in your subject title. ASCII is, by definition, codes 0 to 127, and US-ASCII. (That's why it's the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.)
According to the Wikipedia: "ASCII is, strictly, a seven-bit code, meaning that it uses the bit patterns representable with seven binary digits (a range of 0 to 127 decimal) to represent character information. At the time ASCII was introduced, many computers dealt with eight-bit groups (bytes) as the smallest unit of information; the eighth bit was commonly used as a parity bit for error checking on communication lines or other device-specific functions."
Even "3XPL1X1T" would probably not stand in a court of law as equivalent to the word "EXPLICIT", unless $#!+ were ruled equivalent to the word that it resembles.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected (X) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it (X) The police will not put up with it (X) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it (X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email (X) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses (X) Asshats (X) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam (X) Joe jobs and/or identity theft (X) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses (X) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email (X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough (X) Other: Too much effort from the legal system required
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
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Every 500 addresses goes to a spammer's account. If it doesn't get through, you aren't paid.
It would even be difficult to defeat, since they could automatedly sign up for free accounts.
That is, of course, because GNUStep implements NEXTSTEP, and Apple bought Steve Jobs' NeXT and based Mac OS X on NEXTSTEP. We get Objective C mainly from NeXT.
Although you meant it humorously, that would probably be an effective solution. Distribute an attachment that contains a self-replicator and a downloader stub for the latest security patch every time one comes out. Let there be a simple self-propagation scheme that requires the file to be digitally signed from Microsoft, and user permission / permission granted in EULA.
See the Mutopia project (Canadian server, American mirror from IBiblio). They provide public domain and BSD-style licensed musical scores in GNU LilyPond format, and have PDFs and MIDIs of the score rendered for download. Many classical music pieces are available there, and the PDFs make for nice printouts.
It's not quite a song, as in a recording (any recordings from before the PD date probably haven't survived), but it's still public domain music.
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It's sad that we have three serious comments in a row responding to an intentionally funny comment about a Beowulf cluster.
Uh...dude, R-S codes are common and well known in academia. My dad works with R-S codes.
And the point of open source is not to evade the law. If it is, you're here for the wrong reason; go find some warez group on IRC. (Disclaimer: that does not count as an endorsement of warez.)
Uh...Reed-Solomon error correction counts as error correction. The likelihood of a perfect read of relatively small dots by a relatively cheap device is not that high, so R-S coding is used to find what was misread (if any) and fix it.
Error correction cannot be copy protection, since it is not encryption, copying the error-coded dots is trivial, and stripping the error codes from the data is easy.
Plenty of you are making light of this, but do you realize how many would love to go to a church on Sundays but can't (e.g., those who are sick, those who live in rural areas)? Fellowship with other Christians is half the Christian faith, and this is a useful tool for those who'll need it.
Quite. We've got church once a week...
Uh, not just decades. It's been done since the first century AD - and more successfully than in the Western world.
Uh...funny doesn't get you karma.
And there's a bit of a problem leaving porn in the reach of minors in libraries...my friend and I did a project about that (specifically, COPPA and Internet censorship in public libraries) earlier this year.
You just lost your whole argument by bringing in gay marriage, which was irrelevant, but I'll bite. The problem is not if it endangers straight families, the problem is if J. Random Conservative had been born into / adopted by a gay family.
Repeat after me. You did not buy the song. Full rights to the song cost millions of dollars.
For e.g. charitable organizations, the money you give them is only to be used in certain ways. And haven't you heard of loans? You pay less than the full value of the money (interest) to get access to the money, but you're given rights only to use it in certain ways.
And yes, the DRM has to be there. Why else are the music labels so willing to stock the iTMS?
And fair use != freedom to do whatever you want with creative works noncommercially. Methinks thou dost misunderstand the term.
a single download that wasn't corrupt
;-)
Isn't downloading porn intrinsically corrupt?
Maybe I shouldn't give them the idea for dogandcat.cx ....
But it's not, it's assembly using mnemonics (probably rst 28h .db 4540h ret for that piece of code). I just didn't feel like going through an assembler and looked up the bytecodes without writing the assembly first.
Uh...Morse code for SOS?
What if you didn't have the original source (improper distribution to you, choice not to download it with the binaries, lost disks) and you made a binary patch via reverse-engineering and hex-editing / disassembling? There is no source code to distribute....
Could you GPL a program written originally in assembly or machine code, e.g., EF4045C9, machine code for TI-83 series calculators to clear the screen?
Are click-through licenses unenforceable because they discriminate against those who can't click?
Is it discrimination to send license keys via e-mail, or to require handwritten or typewriter-typed registration?
gross invasions of privacy and civil liberties
Since when has looking around in a theater owned by the looker's employer been an invasion of privacy? The use of night-vision goggles is solely because the theater is dark as a convenience for the moviegoers.
You're using "ANSI" (some ANSI standard) and ISO Latin-1/Windows-1252 in your subject title. ASCII is, by definition, codes 0 to 127, and US-ASCII. (That's why it's the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.)
According to the Wikipedia: "ASCII is, strictly, a seven-bit code, meaning that it uses the bit patterns representable with seven binary digits (a range of 0 to 127 decimal) to represent character information. At the time ASCII was introduced, many computers dealt with eight-bit groups (bytes) as the smallest unit of information; the eighth bit was commonly used as a parity bit for error checking on communication lines or other device-specific functions."
Even "3XPL1X1T" would probably not stand in a court of law as equivalent to the word "EXPLICIT", unless $#!+ were ruled equivalent to the word that it resembles.
Actually, the idea is to let the spammers break the law and then arrest them:
Your post advocates a
( ) technical
(X) legislative
( ) market-based
(X) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
(X) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
(X) The police will not put up with it
(X) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
(X) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(X) Asshats
(X) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
(X) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
(X) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
(X) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
(X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
(X) Other: Too much effort from the legal system required
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
Every 500 addresses goes to a spammer's account. If it doesn't get through, you aren't paid.
It would even be difficult to defeat, since they could automatedly sign up for free accounts.
Using a dumb terminal connected to a mainframe.
That is, of course, because GNUStep implements NEXTSTEP, and Apple bought Steve Jobs' NeXT and based Mac OS X on NEXTSTEP. We get Objective C mainly from NeXT.
Although you meant it humorously, that would probably be an effective solution. Distribute an attachment that contains a self-replicator and a downloader stub for the latest security patch every time one comes out. Let there be a simple self-propagation scheme that requires the file to be digitally signed from Microsoft, and user permission / permission granted in EULA.
See the Mutopia project (Canadian server, American mirror from IBiblio). They provide public domain and BSD-style licensed musical scores in GNU LilyPond format, and have PDFs and MIDIs of the score rendered for download. Many classical music pieces are available there, and the PDFs make for nice printouts.
It's not quite a song, as in a recording (any recordings from before the PD date probably haven't survived), but it's still public domain music.
damn or slow down the flow of water
;-)
I don't think water has much of a chance in Hell.
Microsoft indeed rules...with an iron fist. The rest of the industry cowers in terror under the tyranny.