A minor correction. Russians were well aware of the real value of Alaska. They just had no hope to defend it. If they didn't sell it, America would take it by force. Hope it helps.
Freedom of speech does not include freedom to yell "fire" in a crowded theater, remember? Nor there's a freedom to ruin somebody's life just because you feel like it. I know of a case (outside of US) when a young girl was publicly accused of theft by a store manager -- complete with suggestion to go and hang herself. Guess what? She did. And the man went to prison. I think he well deserved that. --
Ok, at this point I'll admit that I'm not an American and don't exactly know how US justice works. (Incidentally, IANAL in my own jurisdiction too.)
You are right that the Judicial system is not to be used as a tool to further an agenda. However (and what follows is what I think should be, not what actually is) courts of law are the only places where a man can be pronounced guilty of crime. If somebody (not a judge or jurors) does the same, this action oughtta be punishable, regardless of any monetary loss.
WINE doesn't, or at least shouldn't. I know it works better with native DLLs, but this is only matter of time.
VMWare requires you to have a copy of Windows, but you can run several copies of VMWare, each with its own copy of Windows, on a single computer. This is handy when debugging kernel-level stuff, e.g. device drivers. Without VMWare one has to do this with two computers, one running debugger, the other running debuggee -- and two copies of Windows. (This last point is irrelevant to DeCSS per se, but is highly relevant to the issue at hand. Which is about freedom to use a product in a way its manufacturer doesn't like.) --
I can't make heads or tails out of this discussion. Are you guys talking about some kind of sport or what? Must be an American thing I guess; don't remember anything like this played here. Oh, maybe things did change since I've stopped watching TV about three years ago.
Articles like this nearly make me think I miss something in my life.
On the second thougt -- no I don't.
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Some internet gazillionaire/geek should do this instead:
Fund nuclear fusion research out of pocket
Once fusion is profitable, go to the Moon and bring tons of He3 from there
Use this He3 in the fusion reactor
Make even more gazillionz selling the energy
IIRC coupla tons of He3 should cover all energy needs of the entire human race for its lifetime. (I can't check it right now because my sources are away from me.)
Moon has lots of He3, while Earth has next to nothing. It should be easier to do fusion with He3.
The thing being that Transmeta's technology involves optimistic compilation. That is, the compiler (morpher) can happily assume no errors will happen during the execution. If errors do happen, it will just rollback and re-execute the whole sequence (procedure or whatever) without optimistic assumptions. Note that any infrequent condition can be called "error".
To match this performance a traditional compiler would have to compile everything twice, once normally and once optimistically, thus doubling the executable size. Of course the CPU must have this rollback capability in order for things to work.
The irony is that CSS probably didn't have to be reverse engineered in the first place. The decoder is patented. Of course the patent is not valid in the free world. Thus all the needed information is publicly available -- except the player keys.
Now, I was told it's trivial to brute force said player keys. It should take couple of minutes on a PIII-500. Am I totally off?
The bad guys are trying to outlaw cryptanalysis. This must be stopped.
Cryptanalysis is a well established, time honored activity. Be afraid, be very afraid. Next time they'll outlaw electronics, because somebody can use the knowledge and build a radio receiver to intercept broadcasts of (horrors!) copyrighted material.
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While all software patents are bad, this one is simply ridiculous. Did anybody bother to actually read the claims? (It's not that hard.) In Claim 1 they say, in essence:
we have objects that need be presented to the user
each object has mandatory requirements and advisory attributes
the UI engine selects a UI implementation that satisfies mandatory requirements; if it can also satisfy advisory attributes, great; if not, well, life is tough
That is, I have a list of objects, and want to present it with a listbox (mandatory) with 2 columns (advisory), but my widget set has only 1-column listboxes, so I have no choice but use 1-column listbox. That's it.
Will somebody stand up and challenge this nonsence in court?
This is part of the point. Creators of CSS are, in sci.crypt parlance, snake oil salesmen. They fooled the movie industry into believing that CSS is impossible to crack, while in fact it is/was so easy it's boring.
There is a whole profession of cryptanalysis. Practicing cryptanalysts do just that: try and break chiphers. Including commercial ones. And they publish their results.
Snake oil salesmen try to sell their snake oil (weak chiphers) from time to time. In order to show the general public these are indeed snake oil products, a crack has to be found and published.
Now DVD industry wants to outlaw the profession of cryptanalysis. THIS ATTEMPT MUST BE DEFEATED. Otherwise, snake oil salesmen will sell rot13 encryption and sue when it's broken.
the distance(s)? I thought that in order to do that, one identifies known emission lines, finds the redshift, multiplies by Hubble constant, and gets the distance. Since many of the x-ray sources do not emit visible light, what is the procedure in this case? I mean, how do they even know that these are x-ray sources and not say redshifted gamma-ray sources?
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Freedom of speech does not include freedom to yell "fire" in a crowded theater, remember? Nor there's a freedom to ruin somebody's life just because you feel like it. I know of a case (outside of US) when a young girl was publicly accused of theft by a store manager -- complete with suggestion to go and hang herself. Guess what? She did. And the man went to prison. I think he well deserved that.
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Ok, at this point I'll admit that I'm not an American and don't exactly know how US justice works. (Incidentally, IANAL in my own jurisdiction too.)
You are right that the Judicial system is not to be used as a tool to further an agenda. However (and what follows is what I think should be, not what actually is) courts of law are the only places where a man can be pronounced guilty of crime. If somebody (not a judge or jurors) does the same, this action oughtta be punishable, regardless of any monetary loss.
Now let me say goodbye to this thread.
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OTOH I couldn't figure out how to make it read pre-recorded files. If this works, I'll consider implementing these dummy functions.
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VMWare requires you to have a copy of Windows, but you can run several copies of VMWare, each with its own copy of Windows, on a single computer. This is handy when debugging kernel-level stuff, e.g. device drivers. Without VMWare one has to do this with two computers, one running debugger, the other running debuggee -- and two copies of Windows. (This last point is irrelevant to DeCSS per se, but is highly relevant to the issue at hand. Which is about freedom to use a product in a way its manufacturer doesn't like.)
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- Slashdot is a commercial site.
- Slashdot featured DeCSS code on several occassions.
- Mr. Valenti sez people who distribute DeCSS are thieves.
- According to Mr. Valenti, Slashdot is a bunch of thieves.
- This accusation can turn potential viewers (those that don't want to associate themselves with theft) away from Slashdot.
- Which means some ad revenue is lost.
- This is monetary loss if I ever saw one.
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Articles like this nearly make me think I miss something in my life.
On the second thougt -- no I don't.
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- Fund nuclear fusion research out of pocket
- Once fusion is profitable, go to the Moon and bring tons of He3 from there
- Use this He3 in the fusion reactor
- Make even more gazillionz selling the energy
IIRC coupla tons of He3 should cover all energy needs of the entire human race for its lifetime. (I can't check it right now because my sources are away from me.)Moon has lots of He3, while Earth has next to nothing. It should be easier to do fusion with He3.
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To match this performance a traditional compiler would have to compile everything twice, once normally and once optimistically, thus doubling the executable size. Of course the CPU must have this rollback capability in order for things to work.
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I'm only doing this because some people, including myself, check answers to their posts through their user page.
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Now, I was told it's trivial to brute force said player keys. It should take couple of minutes on a PIII-500. Am I totally off?
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Cryptanalysis is a well established, time honored activity. Be afraid, be very afraid. Next time they'll outlaw electronics, because somebody can use the knowledge and build a radio receiver to intercept broadcasts of (horrors!) copyrighted material.
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- we have objects that need be presented to the user
- each object has mandatory requirements and advisory attributes
- the UI engine selects a UI implementation that satisfies mandatory requirements; if it can also satisfy advisory attributes, great; if not, well, life is tough
That is, I have a list of objects, and want to present it with a listbox (mandatory) with 2 columns (advisory), but my widget set has only 1-column listboxes, so I have no choice but use 1-column listbox. That's it.Will somebody stand up and challenge this nonsence in court?
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There is a whole profession of cryptanalysis. Practicing cryptanalysts do just that: try and break chiphers. Including commercial ones. And they publish their results.
Snake oil salesmen try to sell their snake oil (weak chiphers) from time to time. In order to show the general public these are indeed snake oil products, a crack has to be found and published.
Now DVD industry wants to outlaw the profession of cryptanalysis. THIS ATTEMPT MUST BE DEFEATED. Otherwise, snake oil salesmen will sell rot13 encryption and sue when it's broken.
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