Good luck doing that in a fair and unbiased fashion. Besides, if they do that, I'll just create an encrypted MP3 indexer - go to my page, enter the title you want, and it'll give you a ciphertext to go enter into Napster. Participating members could have their libraries tagged with bogus ID3 tags.
Whups, oh, sorry RIAA.. did I mention you need engineers not lawyers?
substring searching has been (at best) a good way of finding the wrong result with confidence online. Just try doing keyword-only searching via altavista and you'll see why you never get quite what you want, but usually get close enough to make progress and track down what you did want after a few minutes.
Because Napster *is* a substring glob search engine with ZERO ability to distringuish what's popular / not popular / copyrights or any additional info, it very well might return bogus results. Here, take an RIAA-endorsed website like allmusic.com - search for a title called "Unforgiven". Now, you might think that was Metallica I was searching for, but how can you be sure?
And therein lies the problem with the RIAA and Napster - napster by design is incapable of respecting copyrights because it depends on users to maintain the integrity of the database! Infact, the internet at large is a peer-to-peer system - it is inherently incapable of being directed by an authority - which copyrights require!
Ye gods, the RIAA doesn't need more lawyers, they need more engineers!
Hey Rob! I want you to delete all my pirated software from my machine or I'm going to sue you for being an accomplice to the crime! Oh, and I'm sorry if it's impossible for you to do that.. you're still going to jail.
Good luck, RIAA.. even stupid judges don't need to think hard about that one.
.. and incase anyone is wondering how the FCC could get away with not caring that a airplane took a dirt nap because of cell phones, it's called part 13.. specifically... "and must accept any harmful interference, even if such interference causes undesired operation". It's on the sticker on the back of every piece of commercial electronics. Now you know why it's there!
Hey, what they're really afraid of is that a cell phone at 5 miles in the atmosphere has a footprint to *hundreds* of cells - a single transmission sucks up *tons* of bandwidth.. if your plane can't handle 5 freaking watts of output, it deserves to take a dirt nap (just let me know before I board so I can find another ticket, k?). No, the real reason is that the cell phone network would collapse if people used their phones while in the air. Of course, the airlines have no problem selling you their on-board cell service at fifty dollars per second... *cough* *cough* not that the conflict of interest could POSSIBLY have any influence on the outcome *cough*.. this is america afterall!
Anyway, even if you don't care about how much you are using your cable I'd suggest ZoneAlarm or another personal firewall--you'd be amazed at how many times people will probe your machine once you are on a cable network.
Once my DNS provider gets the kinks out of the server, surf on over to www.malign.net and probe a few ports. Let me know whatcha think. =)
If they would have included bandwidth limitations at signup time than maybe it would be a different story.
Yeah, they have this ever-so-vague-and-subtle thing saying "reasonable measures"... to "ensure network integrity" which I was brought up to speed on after a 3am mirroring session of ftp.redhat.com spanning across 3 days.
Anyway, MediaOne atleast is a #$@! bunch of #$@! sorry.. even slashdot doesn't deserve to be blessed with my description of their service.. but in any event, let's just say they say unlimited but limit the hell out of it. I'm paying for unlimited.. I don't get unlimited. Which I have mixed feelings on, ironically enough - I hate paying for something I'm not getting, but by the same token I am rather glad that people can't abuse the bandwidth..
Okay, I'd just like to go completely offtopic for a minute and say that it is NOT the network providers that are sucking up all the bandwidth - that is totally business. If your ISP sucks, go to another one that has a different backbone / pop.. slashdotters should know better.:) All that is is a temporary equilibrium that will eventually be shattered as more options become available and the marketplace adjusts. Standard economics there.
My gripe is with the jerks who get their fancy new cablemodem and then download 800 gigabytes of porn in one evening, starving off the entire feed for everyone else on that part of the network - or the xDSL guys who do the same thing. Do you #$@! people have any idea how oversubscribed that bandwidth is? Your little FTP suck-it-down-fest just took out more bandwidth than 100 users aggregated!
*THAT* pisses me off - these people ought to have their home addresses published for doing this, and the ISPs should be more liberal about inserting a few extra ICMP calls to slow down Mr. Hog's connection. Look, I got this thing for e-mail, quake, and ocasionally pulling the latest ISO for my linux box (which I am polite about and do at 3am). Yes, that extra bandwidth is nice.. but during prime time, I want either a premium service called UnHog Supremus or a policy that lets me know with certainty these people will be dragged out into the street and clubbed for doing crap like that during prime time (that is 4pm - 11pm for those who didn't know).
Yes, I'm aware of that, but try doing that on a remote host sometime. I don't want my syslog going out over unsecure channels.. so the alternative is nc and the loopback device.:P~~~
Besides, I'm lazy and firewalling is a b*tch to setup, esp when you throw ipautofw into the mix.
I think I also have an awk script in there to delete useless crap like icmp/0 and stuff. I only wish syslog was slightly more intelligent at dealing with ipchains packets that differ only by a character or two.
Supermarkets are highly electronic and would probably collapse.
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My step-dad works at a supermarket as store manager and I can say with authority that if the grid dies, the food will not. These are critical infrastructure things - there are multiple generators at each store designed to keep power to the refridgeration 24/7 in the event of an outage. Will those systems survive a prolonged outage? No, of course not. No system can without a supporting network of people maintaining them and refueling. However, I am confident that the critical infrastructure where I live (Minneapolis, MN) is secured - ie, we will not be eating our shoes a month after the power goes out.
-Sieving techniques for the decomposition of large composites into prime factors
I wouldn't mention it just because I have yet to see a practical (ie, fast) sieving algo. Hell, even the RSA guys decided to move to optics instead of using computers for this one.
-Berlekamp's Q-matrix algorithm for the factorization of polynomials
You know, after reading this I was rather amused to note that none of this is technology people would use on a regular basis! We can create a multitude of tools today, but what use are they if nobody wants to use them? Why are there no auto-flushing toilets in residential areas like there are in offices? Hmm...alittle food for thought.
Take the auto-driving car - this one will take alot longer than 10 years to have people start using it. Simple reason: fear. They don't want to drive something that could kill them.. and more importantly, people like control. A car that is controlled by a robot is frightening.
Or how about the "everybody's a temp" company. As if.. anyone heard of Microsoft? That's not from the future, it's from the past.
And then there's the phaser. Yeah.. right.. let's remember why people use guns - to KILL people. Ask any prison inmate how they can kill in a prison with no guns or metal. Until we address the issue of why people kill, every non-lethal weapon on the planet won't reduce the death count. There's a reason tasers didn't catch on - nobody wants a "useless" weapon. Yeah, that's it.. I'll just rob a bank with a non-lethal weapon.. sorry guys, but criminals aren't that stupid.
Oh, and how about the genetic-lawn? Wonderful idea, that.. I can understand why opponents call it "frankenlawn" - we've f*cked up genetic engineering enough times already - like a certain corn crop that won't reproduce.. and its pollen makes sure every other crop in the area does the same. Real smart, that - if the corn plant blows up we'll all starve to death! w00t w00t!
If you were listening, you would have heard OSI say that "open source" wasn't protectible as a trademark. You are too busy talking to get the facts straight. Neither is "free software" trademarkable.
And you were too busy flaming to notice that they dropped it because they couldn't agree to who owned it. But, you don't have to take my word for it....
Sounds vaguely familiar to Sun's vision of what Java-and-the-desktop could have been with every program being a "widget" instead.. or the more dated-but-implimented macintosh applescript.. a nice idea, but it never took roots.
Opening up the specifications for the programming hooks the operating system offers (opening the API's, in other words), is not the same thing as opening up the source code.
Yes, but if all the APIs are known, it can help with projects like WINE - making a windows-lookalike.. something poor Judge Jackson wasn't briefed on, I suspect!
All they're being asked to do in reality is provide the world with the information it should have had.
Actually, they're being told. And in addition, this means that everyone can take advantage of a new windows feature, instead of just the people who are in bed with chairman gates.
Microsoft is just being asked to play fair and do their job correctly. It's not an onerous request!
I'm just waiting to see how they "innovate" around that one. Perhaps they'll refuse to work?
Well, really this issue would best be brought to Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens / OSI. If you recall, the term "open source" was trademarked by one of the two (nobody knows which, each claims it as their own). What this COULD HAVE meant is that any company that labels its software "open source" would have been required to meet something like the Debian Free Software Guidelines to allow a company (or any individual, for that matter) to call something open source.
However, ESR and Bruce got involved in alittle pissing contest and didn't take advantage of current trademark law, and now any company could legitimately claim that they have not enforced the trademark, hence it is lost. A pity too.
However, there is another term out there that we might be able to latch on to - free software. "Always, there is another way yes, oooh" --Yodageek on programming.
Note: Excercise caution when handling this post: contents under pressure.
Categorically, every single attempt at copy protection of digital media has been compromised and rendered inoperative. By the information's very nature, it must be decoded back into a format suitable for interpretation by humans. The primary outputs: audio, video, text. The universal decoding schemes:
audio: we have audio inputs at 44khz available on virtually every computer on the market now. Many have digital inputs.
video: We have monitors and modems. Some have faster digital connections.
text: Duh.
In short, every single scheme is vulnerable to decryption. If the companies succeed in encoding the over-the-air transmissions, I will simply crack open my television and physically link a video encoder directly over the CRT monitor and then oversample it at 4:1 ratio.
Slashdot Mirror
Whups, oh, sorry RIAA.. did I mention you need engineers not lawyers?
Because Napster *is* a substring glob search engine with ZERO ability to distringuish what's popular / not popular / copyrights or any additional info, it very well might return bogus results. Here, take an RIAA-endorsed website like allmusic.com - search for a title called "Unforgiven". Now, you might think that was Metallica I was searching for, but how can you be sure?
And therein lies the problem with the RIAA and Napster - napster by design is incapable of respecting copyrights because it depends on users to maintain the integrity of the database! Infact, the internet at large is a peer-to-peer system - it is inherently incapable of being directed by an authority - which copyrights require!
Ye gods, the RIAA doesn't need more lawyers, they need more engineers!
Good luck, RIAA.. even stupid judges don't need to think hard about that one.
My thoughts *exactly*. What happened to "truth in advertising"? Does it just vanish because people don't read the fine print after?
.. and incase anyone is wondering how the FCC could get away with not caring that a airplane took a dirt nap because of cell phones, it's called part 13.. specifically ... "and must accept any harmful interference, even if such interference causes undesired operation". It's on the sticker on the back of every piece of commercial electronics. Now you know why it's there!
Hey, what they're really afraid of is that a cell phone at 5 miles in the atmosphere has a footprint to *hundreds* of cells - a single transmission sucks up *tons* of bandwidth.. if your plane can't handle 5 freaking watts of output, it deserves to take a dirt nap (just let me know before I board so I can find another ticket, k?). No, the real reason is that the cell phone network would collapse if people used their phones while in the air. Of course, the airlines have no problem selling you their on-board cell service at fifty dollars per second... *cough* *cough* not that the conflict of interest could POSSIBLY have any influence on the outcome *cough*.. this is america afterall!
Once my DNS provider gets the kinks out of the server, surf on over to www.malign.net and probe a few ports. Let me know whatcha think. =)
Yeah, they have this ever-so-vague-and-subtle thing saying "reasonable measures" ... to "ensure network integrity" which I was brought up to speed on after a 3am mirroring session of ftp.redhat.com spanning across 3 days.
Anyway, MediaOne atleast is a #$@! bunch of #$@! sorry.. even slashdot doesn't deserve to be blessed with my description of their service.. but in any event, let's just say they say unlimited but limit the hell out of it. I'm paying for unlimited.. I don't get unlimited. Which I have mixed feelings on, ironically enough - I hate paying for something I'm not getting, but by the same token I am rather glad that people can't abuse the bandwidth..
My gripe is with the jerks who get their fancy new cablemodem and then download 800 gigabytes of porn in one evening, starving off the entire feed for everyone else on that part of the network - or the xDSL guys who do the same thing. Do you #$@! people have any idea how oversubscribed that bandwidth is? Your little FTP suck-it-down-fest just took out more bandwidth than 100 users aggregated!
*THAT* pisses me off - these people ought to have their home addresses published for doing this, and the ISPs should be more liberal about inserting a few extra ICMP calls to slow down Mr. Hog's connection. Look, I got this thing for e-mail, quake, and ocasionally pulling the latest ISO for my linux box (which I am polite about and do at 3am). Yes, that extra bandwidth is nice.. but during prime time, I want either a premium service called UnHog Supremus or a policy that lets me know with certainty these people will be dragged out into the street and clubbed for doing crap like that during prime time (that is 4pm - 11pm for those who didn't know).
Okay, I'm done now, please adjust my karma.. :\
Besides, I'm lazy and firewalling is a b*tch to setup, esp when you throw ipautofw into the mix.
tail -f /var/log/messages | grep "Packet log: " > /dev/lp0
I think I also have an awk script in there to delete useless crap like icmp/0 and stuff. I only wish syslog was slightly more intelligent at dealing with ipchains packets that differ only by a character or two.
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My step-dad works at a supermarket as store manager and I can say with authority that if the grid dies, the food will not. These are critical infrastructure things - there are multiple generators at each store designed to keep power to the refridgeration 24/7 in the event of an outage. Will those systems survive a prolonged outage? No, of course not. No system can without a supporting network of people maintaining them and refueling. However, I am confident that the critical infrastructure where I live (Minneapolis, MN) is secured - ie, we will not be eating our shoes a month after the power goes out.
I wouldn't mention it just because I have yet to see a practical (ie, fast) sieving algo. Hell, even the RSA guys decided to move to optics instead of using computers for this one.
-Berlekamp's Q-matrix algorithm for the factorization of polynomials
Never heard of it. Can you tell me more?
I'm afraid that is an AS algo.. that is, "artificial stupidity", and hence does not qualify. :)
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Apparently some people missed line 20.
Damn... out of rockets...
Take the auto-driving car - this one will take alot longer than 10 years to have people start using it. Simple reason: fear. They don't want to drive something that could kill them.. and more importantly, people like control. A car that is controlled by a robot is frightening.
Or how about the "everybody's a temp" company. As if.. anyone heard of Microsoft? That's not from the future, it's from the past.
And then there's the phaser. Yeah.. right.. let's remember why people use guns - to KILL people. Ask any prison inmate how they can kill in a prison with no guns or metal. Until we address the issue of why people kill, every non-lethal weapon on the planet won't reduce the death count. There's a reason tasers didn't catch on - nobody wants a "useless" weapon. Yeah, that's it.. I'll just rob a bank with a non-lethal weapon.. sorry guys, but criminals aren't that stupid.
Oh, and how about the genetic-lawn? Wonderful idea, that.. I can understand why opponents call it "frankenlawn" - we've f*cked up genetic engineering enough times already - like a certain corn crop that won't reproduce.. and its pollen makes sure every other crop in the area does the same. Real smart, that - if the corn plant blows up we'll all starve to death! w00t w00t!
And you were too busy flaming to notice that they dropped it because they couldn't agree to who owned it. But, you don't have to take my word for it....
Ask Eric Raymond.
Or if you don't believe him, why don't you ask Bruce Perens?
Sounds vaguely familiar to Sun's vision of what Java-and-the-desktop could have been with every program being a "widget" instead.. or the more dated-but-implimented macintosh applescript.. a nice idea, but it never took roots.
Actually, it was:
Q: How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None, they just define dark as an industry standard.
Cheers!
Yes, but if all the APIs are known, it can help with projects like WINE - making a windows-lookalike.. something poor Judge Jackson wasn't briefed on, I suspect!
All they're being asked to do in reality is provide the world with the information it should have had.
Actually, they're being told. And in addition, this means that everyone can take advantage of a new windows feature, instead of just the people who are in bed with chairman gates.
Microsoft is just being asked to play fair and do their job correctly. It's not an onerous request!
I'm just waiting to see how they "innovate" around that one. Perhaps they'll refuse to work?
However, ESR and Bruce got involved in alittle pissing contest and didn't take advantage of current trademark law, and now any company could legitimately claim that they have not enforced the trademark, hence it is lost. A pity too.
However, there is another term out there that we might be able to latch on to - free software. "Always, there is another way yes, oooh" --Yodageek on programming.
Note: Excercise caution when handling this post: contents under pressure.
audio: we have audio inputs at 44khz available on virtually every computer on the market now. Many have digital inputs.
video: We have monitors and modems. Some have faster digital connections.
text: Duh.
In short, every single scheme is vulnerable to decryption. If the companies succeed in encoding the over-the-air transmissions, I will simply crack open my television and physically link a video encoder directly over the CRT monitor and then oversample it at 4:1 ratio.
Dear MPAA: F*ck your intellectual property.
Yes, it stated it was Microsoft's DOS 3.3.. but I didn't feel like typing all that. :P