Perhaps I would be more impressed if the ruling said that all companies, including phone carriers, had to get customer approval before selling records via an opt-in waiver separate from their service agreement. I imagine most carriers have some sentence in the fine print saying that by taking their service you're agreeing by default to let them use your data.
Oh, wait. They do. Hence we all have to run around to every company we do business with and make phone calls, check boxes on online forms, and send postcards to opt-out of their information selling.
he assumes that big company X will settle out of court for a handsome sum.
...and he's probably right. Since when have companies stood up for the freedom of speech of their employees? They already think they have the right to tell you how to live when you're out of work and not being paid by them.
They'll settle out of court, then the blogger will be fired for costing the company money and making them "look bad".
[blockquote]'Low level infra-red red is thought to stimulate the growth of cells of all types of tissue and encourage their repair. It is able to penetrate the skin and even get through the skull.'[/blockquote] That's funny. When I leave the infrared transmitter for my wireless headphones on when I go to bed, I don't seem to sleep as well.
Microsoft issued a year-one security report on its Windows Vista operating system today [CC], and it turns out Vista logged less than half the vulnerabilities than Windows XP did in its first year.
Who cares how many security flaws XP had in it's first year? This isn't it's first year anymore. The question is how many flaws does Vista have now compared to how many flaws XP has now. Maybe once the number of Vista flaws is that low, I'll consider it.
Companies like Time Warner that decide to cap bandwidth risk being relegated to a 'broadband ghetto. Alternatives to the standard cable modem vs. DSL conundrum will come from technologies like WiMax and (eventually) the 'white space' broadband that might be offered by whoever wins the 700mhz auction.
Yeah, 'cause those wireless companies would never institute bandwidth caps of their own.
Hello? We haven't even had the spectrum auction yet for 700 mhz. Internet service becoming available from it is still years away, so who cares right now.
What's to stop T-W from reaping the profits of extra bandwidth charges now and then change back to an unlimited structure later when the competition arrives.
In business there are things like trade secrets, documents, drawings and the like that you have to distribute to a jobber or some other outside entity to accomplish a task, but you really only want the outside entity to have them for the amount of time that they actually need them to get a task completed.
Typically this has been accomplished via NDA's or other legal agreements. It appears that in some instances they want more then a "promise" to destroy the information when it is no longer useful for the legitimate contracted purpose. Sort of like the old "This tape will self destruct in 10 seconds" gag from mission impossible.
Perhaps what he is seeking is plausible deniability for documents. Something that would prevent someone from making a legitimate copy of a document to prove something. Take the earlier story about the U.S. stealing nuclear secrets, in response to the FIA request, the FBI said "we don't have a document by the designation". If it wasn't for the signed document by and FBI official confirming it does exist, this wouldn't be a story. The FBI could just claim the accuser was some anti-government crackpot. And people would believe it or chalk it up to a conspiracy theory for the lists. Nothing more. Even if the person remembered the text of the document, unless the press was able to verify key facts from what they said it's still his word against theirs.
You can block printing, saving, copying, etc the file itself without too much work assuming you had control of the filesystem or OS of the viewing machine and are using encryption, or had a special viewer application created for viewing the document. But people have brought up screen shots and digital cameras. I can't take plain screen shots of movies playing in VLC (without using VLC's capture function) because the video is played through a layer of hardware acceleration. It doesn't exist on the normal display level. Creating levels of abstraction like between the display device and OS might be one avenue to investigate.
Digital cameras are sensitive to different wavelengths of light than the human eye. What if the monitor put out a huge amount of light at wavelengths beyond human vision, but within that of a camera? The digital camera would have difficulty taking pictures of the document since it would see the screen as all bleached out.
I'm not saying it would be possible to create Total Information Security. But as long as they prevent creating a copy of the document that looks halfway authentic, the rest will be PR/damage control.
No it's enough to make you wish you had enough money to buy your own politicians, so you could write the laws you wanted.
Maybe that's the whole point of this. Make sure the file downloaders can't afford to complete college. That way they wont grow up to become people who have the money or power to fight the RIAA/MPAA.
'Remember the sturm und drang that erupted after Think Secret revealed the coming of the Mac Mini, prompting Apple to take legal action to silence Think Secret?
That's funny. I remember it was information about a Firewire audio break-out box going under the development code name "Asteroid" that was the focus of the Apple/Think Secret spat. And Apple ended up selling the product unreleased to another company (I think they just did that so it would appear Think Secret was wrong).
With cable, the same show can appear on a channel several times. In Europe and Japan, viewers need to grab copies of shows when they can, as it could be some time before the episode is broadcast again.
Does anyone else read that as "there are too many cable channels in the United States if repeating shows often is required to fill those hours of broadcasting"?
Flat pricing just means that someone like me - who isn't downloading movies all day - is helping pay the bills of people who are.
Unless Time-Warner lowers the bills of people who are not using the excessive bandwidth, that's still the case. Chances are Time-Warner will leave the prices the way they are and just add caps to all the existing rates, so it can charge the heavy users more. This doesn't make in difference in your pocket, just in Time-Warner's.
If your service has been slow thanks to constant torrent users, I suppose this move will help improve your quality of service, though.
It is clear at least one writer -- the author of this piece at Web Worker Daily -- thinks that the iPhone should be left on the dresser in the morning. She offers several reasons that the device isn't a good corporate tool.'"
Ah, so the exploit means you should not use your iPhone at all.
Oh, BTW, here's her little rant about how she thinks the iPhone is bad for business users. Not that it has any relation to the topic of iPhone exploits, just that she has you attention with a scaremongering article about iPhone security breaches so I'm gonna use this soapbox to my advantage dang-nabbit!
So when a Windows virus is released, does she believe everyone should leave their PC off until it's fixed? Yeah, I didn't think so.
Just another anit-Apple/iPhone troll. Nothing to see here, move along.
Car locks, home locks, e-mail accounts, and computer firewalls all differ greatly from media DRM in (at least) one important way: Not one of the security models used in his analogy depends on giving the key to the potential attacker. With media DRM you are given a restricted format and an obscured key to unlock it. This is its weakness, and has no corollary with the examples he gave.
Another difference is the ability to bypass the protection if needed is not held by a single entity (the content provider) which is a company (and companies have a history of merging, disappearing, changing polcies, "losing" the keys on accident and on purpose, etc).
If I break my Schlage key off in my Schlage doorset, I don't have to depend on Schlage to get my door open, or hope Schlage is still in existance to call to begin with. I can call any locksmith and get the door drilled or picked as needed and gain access to the contents of my home again.
We've only been hearing this since about the day after the first CD player came out.
Actually, this story is somewhat of a dupe. I'm sure it wasn't the same story linked last time and it hasn't been real recently, more like several months. But we had a stupid discussion just like this within the last year about how vinyl is "coming back" mostly due to garage rock and the sudden availability of USB turntables (the irony being that playing vinyl on a USB turntable gets you the exact same thing as a CD - digitally sampled sound).
Man in Black Coat in Alley: "Very good, sir. Now, remember when you're buying alcohol, you're a 22 year old student named James Huffington from Rhode Island. When you're boarding a plane, you are Agnes Krakaour, age 51... you winter vacation in Florida and enjoy shuffle boarding and watching Matlock."
Ooooo, so close. But you've already forgotten the summary it seems. If the person is presenting themselves as 51, they are now over the age limit for needing a Real ID to fly. Therefore they only need the real fake ID.
A three THOUSAND page pdf? Nobody is going to read it.
You think they read it when it was printed out for them? This measure really is just about the environment since they know making all those bound copies was just busywork anyway.
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Perhaps I would be more impressed if the ruling said that all companies, including phone carriers, had to get customer approval before selling records via an opt-in waiver separate from their service agreement. I imagine most carriers have some sentence in the fine print saying that by taking their service you're agreeing by default to let them use your data.
Oh, wait. They do. Hence we all have to run around to every company we do business with and make phone calls, check boxes on online forms, and send postcards to opt-out of their information selling.
I thought they were berry funny.
They'll settle out of court, then the blogger will be fired for costing the company money and making them "look bad".
[blockquote]'Low level infra-red red is thought to stimulate the growth of cells of all types of tissue and encourage their repair. It is able to penetrate the skin and even get through the skull.'[/blockquote]
That's funny. When I leave the infrared transmitter for my wireless headphones on when I go to bed, I don't seem to sleep as well.
No, he means 'ahah' as in the Geekgasm that would be occurring over yet another IIS venerability to gleefully talk about.
Who cares how many security flaws XP had in it's first year? This isn't it's first year anymore. The question is how many flaws does Vista have now compared to how many flaws XP has now. Maybe once the number of Vista flaws is that low, I'll consider it.
Oh... nope. I can't use it. It's too long. Too bad.
Ooo. You mind if I use that as a sig line? (with attribution, of course)
Perhaps what he is seeking is plausible deniability for documents. Something that would prevent someone from making a legitimate copy of a document to prove something. Take the earlier story about the U.S. stealing nuclear secrets, in response to the FIA request, the FBI said "we don't have a document by the designation". If it wasn't for the signed document by and FBI official confirming it does exist, this wouldn't be a story. The FBI could just claim the accuser was some anti-government crackpot. And people would believe it or chalk it up to a conspiracy theory for the lists. Nothing more. Even if the person remembered the text of the document, unless the press was able to verify key facts from what they said it's still his word against theirs.
You can block printing, saving, copying, etc the file itself without too much work assuming you had control of the filesystem or OS of the viewing machine and are using encryption, or had a special viewer application created for viewing the document. But people have brought up screen shots and digital cameras. I can't take plain screen shots of movies playing in VLC (without using VLC's capture function) because the video is played through a layer of hardware acceleration. It doesn't exist on the normal display level. Creating levels of abstraction like between the display device and OS might be one avenue to investigate.
Digital cameras are sensitive to different wavelengths of light than the human eye. What if the monitor put out a huge amount of light at wavelengths beyond human vision, but within that of a camera? The digital camera would have difficulty taking pictures of the document since it would see the screen as all bleached out.
I'm not saying it would be possible to create Total Information Security. But as long as they prevent creating a copy of the document that looks halfway authentic, the rest will be PR/damage control.
Hahahaha! Thanks. I appreciated that.
Hey! I saw that movie, too!
It wasn't that great.
Maybe that's the whole point of this. Make sure the file downloaders can't afford to complete college. That way they wont grow up to become people who have the money or power to fight the RIAA/MPAA.
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That's funny. I remember it was information about a Firewire audio break-out box going under the development code name "Asteroid" that was the focus of the Apple/Think Secret spat. And Apple ended up selling the product unreleased to another company (I think they just did that so it would appear Think Secret was wrong).
Does anyone else read that as "there are too many cable channels in the United States if repeating shows often is required to fill those hours of broadcasting"?
Unless Time-Warner lowers the bills of people who are not using the excessive bandwidth, that's still the case. Chances are Time-Warner will leave the prices the way they are and just add caps to all the existing rates, so it can charge the heavy users more. This doesn't make in difference in your pocket, just in Time-Warner's.
If your service has been slow thanks to constant torrent users, I suppose this move will help improve your quality of service, though.
Ah, so the exploit means you should not use your iPhone at all.
Oh, BTW, here's her little rant about how she thinks the iPhone is bad for business users. Not that it has any relation to the topic of iPhone exploits, just that she has you attention with a scaremongering article about iPhone security breaches so I'm gonna use this soapbox to my advantage dang-nabbit!
So when a Windows virus is released, does she believe everyone should leave their PC off until it's fixed? Yeah, I didn't think so.
Just another anit-Apple/iPhone troll. Nothing to see here, move along.
Another difference is the ability to bypass the protection if needed is not held by a single entity (the content provider) which is a company (and companies have a history of merging, disappearing, changing polcies, "losing" the keys on accident and on purpose, etc).
If I break my Schlage key off in my Schlage doorset, I don't have to depend on Schlage to get my door open, or hope Schlage is still in existance to call to begin with. I can call any locksmith and get the door drilled or picked as needed and gain access to the contents of my home again.
Actually, this story is somewhat of a dupe. I'm sure it wasn't the same story linked last time and it hasn't been real recently, more like several months. But we had a stupid discussion just like this within the last year about how vinyl is "coming back" mostly due to garage rock and the sudden availability of USB turntables (the irony being that playing vinyl on a USB turntable gets you the exact same thing as a CD - digitally sampled sound).
Ooooo, so close. But you've already forgotten the summary it seems. If the person is presenting themselves as 51, they are now over the age limit for needing a Real ID to fly. Therefore they only need the real fake ID.
You think they read it when it was printed out for them? This measure really is just about the environment since they know making all those bound copies was just busywork anyway.
Nobody seems bothered that Pfizer's on that list. Microsoft server software + Pfizer? The spam jokes write themselves.
I know! Can you believe he stole the AC's joke and somehow managed to post it 8 minutes before the AC did!
YOU FAIL!
...and no one is going to make a porn joke?