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I didn't ask the question, I quoted it, and suggested that whoever asked the question should read the book. Yeah, I've should put <i></i> around the quote, as well as <blockquote></blockquote>. --
What if you don't write your key (passphrase) down? (You shouldn't anyway.) Can your mind be subpoenaed?
Suppose I have a very long passphrase, and considerable mental effort is required to reproduce it. Say you make few spelling errors in it and on purpose do not remember exactly what these errors are, so you have to try several times each time you type it. Can you be required to make this effort?
What if you encrypt your key with a passphrase, and then mail this encrypted key to your friend abroad? Then each time you want to use your key, you request it from your friend. Arrange it so you never see the key, or store it on your computer (even encrypted). When you are subpoenaed, tell your friend so. He will promptly destroy the key. --
I'm afraid there'll be a whole bunch of prior art here.
Consider gzip. This handy program searches for duplicate strings in a file, and replaces all but one of them by (gasp!) links. Thus it achieves compression.
Now treat your filesystem as one big file. What's the invention again? gzip+COW (copy-on-write)? --
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etc.
With an option to display 'em on user's page, and an option to use top N popular filters, where popularity is weighed by karma. You will earn ethernal gratitude and Karmic Koolness. --
In my humility, I always thought that base object like 'Object' in Java is a kludge to avoid the fact that there are no templates (and standalone functions). By the way there's a base object in C++. It's spelled 'void*'. --
Imagine a sphere. A balloon. Earth is a spot at the surface of the sphere. (The sphere is actually 4-dimensional, but its easy to visualize the picture in 3D.)
For simplicity we'll say that both quasars are 13 billion LY away, and the universe is 13.1 billion years old.
The first quasar is almost diametrally opposite on to the Earth on the balloon's surface. So is the second. The distance between them is more like 0.2 billion LY.
Or rather they were that close 13 billion years ago, right after the Big Bang -- which is the time their light needs to reach us. Actually, everything was that close. As our balloon inflated, the distances scaled accordingly.
This is of course very simplistic but more or less correct (I think).
IIRC we're prevented from seeing past the diametrally opposite point, because time needed by light to reach us from there is greater than the age of universe. Or something like that. --
This is strictly a matter of preference and habit.
A Cup is 0.237 liter. I happily use either 0.2 liter (a glass) or 0.25 liter (a "metric" cup) measurements.
A Pint is 0.473 liter. I'm happy with half-liter beer servings. My wife prefers 0.33 liter -- half-liter (or pint) is too large and quarter-liter (or half-pint aka cup) is too small.
A Gallon is 3.78 liter. (US gallon, that is; British is more like 4.55 liter.) Dunno; I buy milk in one liter quantities as I hate the taste of "long-live" milk.
A Mile is about 1.6 km. Well. Speed limits are usually posted in increments of five. Smaller unit allows for finer granularity.
You see, every coin has two sides.
I happily admit that binary fractions used in Imperial system are much more appealing to hacker/nerd types like me:) --
Mayall is usually referred to as "Four Meter" which is approximately 157 inch. Whereas Hale is usually referred to as "200 Inch" which is approximately five meter. I wonder what actual diameters are, to a millimeter? --
You see...he didn't. He got it via NNTP from HisFriendlyISP.net. Which got it via NNTP from LocalMajorUniversity.edu. Which got it via NNTP from BigBadUpstreamProvider.com. Which, finally, got it via NNTP from LargeEuropeanTelecom.fr... aha! Throw the CEO of BigBadUpstreamProvider.com to jail, oui?
Which leads us to the following interesting question. If I've recieved an unsolicited e-mail message from abroad, does it mean I've "imported" it?
If yes, you know what to do. Your politicians' e-mail addresses are public.
If not, you know what to do. There must be an OpenDVD mailing list somewhere. --
This output is unfortunately uncompressed. Compressing it again with today's technology would lose quality.
Now, it's theoretically possible to create a lossless compressor that would compress an uncompressed stream back, with the same or better ratio. Hmm, would be an interesting project on its own <g>. --
(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that -
This is so easy to avoid it's ridiculous. Suppose a Norwegian schoolboy (hi Jon Johansen) created such a technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof -- namely a computer program. Suppose he then posted this program to Usenet. Then John R. User from Newton, MA downloaded and installed this program on his computer. Who's going to be liable under this subsection?
A Norwegian schoolboy? Not bloody likely. He's a Norwegian schoolboy, DMCA does not apply in Norway (yet).
An ISP? Not bloody likely. Common carrier status protects ISPs.
John R. User from Newton, MA? Not bloody likely. He did not manufacture it. He did not import it (his ISP is in Newton, MA). Nor he offered to the public, provided, or otherwise trafficked in this technology. He merely used it.
IANAL but it looks like a whole subsection of DMCA is wasted. Actually two of them, 1201(a)(2) and 1201(b)(1). I cant' believe it. Your Congress and your Senate are full of lawyers, and these lawyers can't protect interests of those who hired them (MPAA in this case). Any self-respecting hacker would do better. --
Last I looked, when you buy a DVD, the law gives you the authority to do whatever you want that falls under the copyright 'fair use' protection that applies to you where you live.
Yes. The law (DMCA) also prohibits you from trafficking in "circumvention" devices.
And even if there is, I am not aware of any law that makes this restriction enforceable. Again, check your 'fair use' rights. If I buy a book, there's no way a publisher could make stick a clause on the back of the book saying that this book may only be read under the light of an 'authorised' light source - a bulb which happens to be made by a sister company to the publisher.
Maybe. The law (DMCA) talks specifically about unencripting encrypted work and unscrambling scrambled work, and calls it "circumvention". It is only applicable to digital media.
The "circumvention" under the DMCA that the MPAA are trying to prosecute with is the creation of the plans in the first place by reverse-engineering an existing player.
No, in DMCA lawsuits reverse engineering doesn't play a role. Circumvention does. --
There are at least two persons (one at TECHNOCRAT.NET, one at OpenLaw) who think otherwise. Here's the argument:
Movie publishers gave me authority to descramble a movie on DVD for the sole purpose of viewing the movie at home. Some of them may explicitly state that I'm allowed to use authorized player only; others may not. It's enough to find ONE DVD that does not explicitly restricts my choice of player to argue that I have the authority to build and use (with this particular movie) my own player, and I can share its design with others. It will not be a "circumvention" as defined by DMCA.
OTOH suppose a game like Quake comes along with encrypted copyrighted non-distributable (hi NP guy) maps, and the license explicitly states that you can use these maps within context of this game only. Then decrypting a map would be an act of "circumvention" as defined, as there are no non-infringing uses for that.
// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify // it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by // the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or // (at your option) any later version. // // This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the // GNU General Public License for more details.
The conventional step-up transformer (short primary winding, long secondary on an iron core) boosts voltage at the expense of amperage. This is not true of Tesla's transformer. There is a real gain in power.
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I didn't ask the question, I quoted it, and suggested that whoever asked the question should read the book. Yeah, I've should put <i></i> around the quote, as well as <blockquote></blockquote>.
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Suppose I have a very long passphrase, and considerable mental effort is required to reproduce it. Say you make few spelling errors in it and on purpose do not remember exactly what these errors are, so you have to try several times each time you type it. Can you be required to make this effort?
What if you encrypt your key with a passphrase, and then mail this encrypted key to your friend abroad? Then each time you want to use your key, you request it from your friend. Arrange it so you never see the key, or store it on your computer (even encrypted). When you are subpoenaed, tell your friend so. He will promptly destroy the key.
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Consider gzip. This handy program searches for duplicate strings in a file, and replaces all but one of them by (gasp!) links. Thus it achieves compression.
Now treat your filesystem as one big file. What's the invention again? gzip+COW (copy-on-write)?
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please introduce user-customizable comment filters. They may look like this:
- content:goatse.cx: -1
- content:grits.*pants: +1
- author:Broose Perrens: -1
- author:^TrollKing$: +1
- etc.
With an option to display 'em on user's page, and an option to use top N popular filters, where popularity is weighed by karma. You will earn ethernal gratitude and Karmic Koolness.--
There is no X support at all. Moreover, there's no ML support at all! Please W3C change the name.
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There's no such thing as "the" OO thing to do. OO means different things to different people.
Gosling wants templates in Java. Go figure.
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In my humility, I always thought that base object like 'Object' in Java is a kludge to avoid the fact that there are no templates (and standalone functions). By the way there's a base object in C++. It's spelled 'void*'.
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As Bjarne once said, Smalltalk is the best Smalltalk around. And ObjC is just C that tries to be Smalltalk.
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Imagine a sphere. A balloon. Earth is a spot at the surface of the sphere. (The sphere is actually 4-dimensional, but its easy to visualize the picture in 3D.)
For simplicity we'll say that both quasars are 13 billion LY away, and the universe is 13.1 billion years old.
The first quasar is almost diametrally opposite on to the Earth on the balloon's surface. So is the second. The distance between them is more like 0.2 billion LY.
Or rather they were that close 13 billion years ago, right after the Big Bang -- which is the time their light needs to reach us. Actually, everything was that close. As our balloon inflated, the distances scaled accordingly.
This is of course very simplistic but more or less correct (I think).
IIRC we're prevented from seeing past the diametrally opposite point, because time needed by light to reach us from there is greater than the age of universe. Or something like that.
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A Cup is 0.237 liter. I happily use either 0.2 liter (a glass) or 0.25 liter (a "metric" cup) measurements.
A Pint is 0.473 liter. I'm happy with half-liter beer servings. My wife prefers 0.33 liter -- half-liter (or pint) is too large and quarter-liter (or half-pint aka cup) is too small.
A Gallon is 3.78 liter. (US gallon, that is; British is more like 4.55 liter.) Dunno; I buy milk in one liter quantities as I hate the taste of "long-live" milk.
A Mile is about 1.6 km. Well. Speed limits are usually posted in increments of five. Smaller unit allows for finer granularity.
You see, every coin has two sides.
I happily admit that binary fractions used in Imperial system are much more appealing to hacker/nerd types like me :)
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Mayall is usually referred to as "Four Meter" which is approximately 157 inch. Whereas Hale is usually referred to as "200 Inch" which is approximately five meter. I wonder what actual diameters are, to a millimeter?
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Yes, it is.
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Which leads us to the following interesting question. If I've recieved an unsolicited e-mail message from abroad, does it mean I've "imported" it?
If yes, you know what to do. Your politicians' e-mail addresses are public.
If not, you know what to do. There must be an OpenDVD mailing list somewhere.
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Now, it's theoretically possible to create a lossless compressor that would compress an uncompressed stream back, with the same or better ratio. Hmm, would be an interesting project on its own <g>.
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A Norwegian schoolboy? Not bloody likely. He's a Norwegian schoolboy, DMCA does not apply in Norway (yet).
An ISP? Not bloody likely. Common carrier status protects ISPs.
John R. User from Newton, MA? Not bloody likely. He did not manufacture it. He did not import it (his ISP is in Newton, MA). Nor he offered to the public, provided, or otherwise trafficked in this technology. He merely used it.
IANAL but it looks like a whole subsection of DMCA is wasted. Actually two of them, 1201(a)(2) and 1201(b)(1). I cant' believe it. Your Congress and your Senate are full of lawyers, and these lawyers can't protect interests of those who hired them (MPAA in this case). Any self-respecting hacker would do better.
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If somedomain.com is a trollhouse, ban somedomain.com accounts from posting. Permanently. No excuses.
If you are a legitimate poster and happen to have a hotmail account, tough luck. Get a real address, or get lost.
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Movie publishers gave me authority to descramble a movie on DVD for the sole purpose of viewing the movie at home. Some of them may explicitly state that I'm allowed to use authorized player only; others may not. It's enough to find ONE DVD that does not explicitly restricts my choice of player to argue that I have the authority to build and use (with this particular movie) my own player, and I can share its design with others. It will not be a "circumvention" as defined by DMCA.
OTOH suppose a game like Quake comes along with encrypted copyrighted non-distributable (hi NP guy) maps, and the license explicitly states that you can use these maps within context of this game only. Then decrypting a map would be an act of "circumvention" as defined, as there are no non-infringing uses for that.
No "moderate this down" this time.
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// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
//
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
// GNU General Public License for more details.
while (ucita) {
old_money = money;
software.buy(&money);
software.package.open();
software.license.read();
software.get_refund(&money);
assert(money == old_money);
}
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