A giant (R = 1 km) disk approcahes earth and starts orbitting it, is is discovered that it's surface is completely covered with numbers.
Somebody discovers that those numbers are all made up of two prime factors. The race is on.. Everybody and his brother starts crunching numbers to decode the message.
Should the resulting combination of prime numbers be patentable ?
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During a conversation
about Microsoft's break in, and how the stolen
source code would affect things like wine, a friend mentioned that Yankees.com
had also just been hacked (I found out later that he got that infomation
from The Register, specifically here,
which in turn found out from here).
It is clear from the text that the guy poked around after a reported had got the news, written a story about it, but it up on the web, it then propagated to a different news agency (the register) where his friend read it.
Yes I know that nothing travels faster than the speed of bad news, but this is not a question of minutes, much more like hours.
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He had a look after the media had arrived, left, reported the break-in and published the news.
You have to strech your imagination pretty thin to link him to the break-in based on those logs.
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Bertelsmann AG has no intention whatsoever in creating, or maintaining, a P2P protocol service (aka Napster today)
What will happen next is that Napster will sign a deal that will give Bertelsmann AG veto powers in deciding future services (business model) but there will be no interest from Bertelsmann AG in doing anything further at all, after all they have gotten what everyboy wanted "shutting Napster down for good".
And after two years when you all will have just distant memories of a service called "Napster", just remember this: "I told you so!". --
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This program XL-R8R will benchmark your system as a gaming platform (calculate framerates for different types of games), and will then connect to a database, find results from people with similar hardware, and tell you what you should expect in terms of framerate, if you were to upgrade to this or that hardware. --
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A standard audio CD is only recorded at 41KHz, that means that the highest frequency that can be recorded onto the CD is 20.5KHz. And frankly, quite a lot of young people can hear up to 22KHz.
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"As evidence, I
examine Raymond's fetchmail project and Linus Torvalds's work
with Linux."
Wow, man !!!
Some 200 years ago a guy named Sigmund Freud said a similar thing: ".. and as evidence I examined this 3 ladyes and their condition matched exactly my theory, that I, by the way, made based on my observations on those same 3 ladyes...
Now, I'm not saying that your results are wrong, only that the method to get them were wrong.
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An MP3 player is like a gun, it is only as good or as bad as the person using it. It is silly to ban
devices that can play an established, very widely used protocol, simply because some of the users
choose to use it in ileagal ways.
Ohh, righty then, we better call for some new laws then...
Permit needed for purchasing MP3 players.
Mandatory waiting period before purchasing an MP3 player.
Background check needed for MP3 player purchasers.
Minimum age requirement.
No sale of MP3 players at trade shows.
"Play"-key lock per player required at sale.
Registration of all MP3 player owner required.
Carrying and operating license required for MP3 players.
Manufactures of MP3 players pay for potentially lost CD sales, or be sued by the cities.
Advertisements for MP3 players aimed at children should be forbidden.
MP3 player manufactures should be paid not to produce players.
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Now think about this: "what do you think the NSA is doing with your tax money ?", playing solitare on Windows ?
It's definately in there interest if they can crack the communications they intercept. And what nicer way than to have "bugs" introduced in crypto products exported from the US ?
9. You may not use any third party software to modify the Software to change Game play. You
may not use our intellectual property rights contained in the Game or the Software to create or
provide any other means through which the Game may be played by others, as through server
emulators
This clause has no legal meaning outside some US states. Meaning that if you don't have to agree to it. I use to consider the "I agree" button as saying "Install".
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The only way to be *sure* that you or your correspondant aren't encrypting your data in such a way that a 3rd party can read it, is to check it yourself.
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A giant (R = 1 km) disk approcahes earth and starts orbitting it, is is discovered that it's surface is completely covered with numbers.
Somebody discovers that those numbers are all made up of two prime factors. The race is on .. Everybody and his brother starts crunching numbers to decode the message.
Should the resulting combination of prime numbers be patentable ?
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Was it complicated ?
Just have a look and then tell us with a straight face that it's simple.
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Just found THIS
Click on "Virgin Webplayer"
And then on " It looks like Linux...invoke the GPL? "
Could it be that it runs linux after all ??
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Ouch, will they 'settle' the Internet like they 'settled' in the middle east ? Throw me out of my flat and confiscate my computer and domain name ?
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From the webpage:
During a conversation about Microsoft's break in, and how the stolen source code would affect things like wine, a friend mentioned that Yankees.com had also just been hacked (I found out later that he got that infomation from The Register, specifically here, which in turn found out from here).
It is clear from the text that the guy poked around after a reported had got the news, written a story about it, but it up on the web, it then propagated to a different news agency (the register) where his friend read it.
Yes I know that nothing travels faster than the speed of bad news, but this is not a question of minutes, much more like hours.
And the FBI *IS* waisting it's time because of incompitence.
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Huh, ? And just when did "sticking ones nose in a place it shouldn't be" become a crime ??
Please name one, JUST ONE, important event in history, where it can't be argued that somebody wasn't "sticking his nose where it shouldn't be".
No, I'm not claiming that this is such a thing, just that curiosity isn't a crime.
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He had a look after the media had arrived, left, reported the break-in and published the news.
You have to strech your imagination pretty thin to link him to the break-in based on those logs.
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What will happen next is that Napster will sign a deal that will give Bertelsmann AG veto powers in deciding future services (business model) but there will be no interest from Bertelsmann AG in doing anything further at all, after all they have gotten what everyboy wanted "shutting Napster down for good".
And after two years when you all will have just distant memories of a service called "Napster", just remember this: "I told you so!".
--
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This program XL-R8R will benchmark your system as a gaming platform (calculate framerates for different types of games), and will then connect to a database, find results from people with similar hardware, and tell you what you should expect in terms of framerate, if you were to upgrade to this or that hardware.
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The poorest 10% propably pay less than 3% of the taxes. That's "disproporionately" for ya, is it fair ?
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Let's face it, someone will get a hold of the database, or part of it, eventually, ant what will you do then ??
Issue everyone a new DNA ??
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B U L L S H I T !
A standard audio CD is only recorded at 41KHz, that means that the highest frequency that can be recorded onto the CD is 20.5KHz. And frankly, quite a lot of young people can hear up to 22KHz.
Have you ever heard one of those "anti-rodent audio signal generators" ?, I have and it feels like a torture.
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YES !!! Somebody has actually been granted a patent for Method of exercising a cat !!
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Statement on IPv6 Privacy Concerns
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As the IETF pointed out, this is a optional implementation, but not a requirement of the standard.
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Here we go: All the sourcecode you need to write your own DivX :-)
And yes that includes the Microsoft sourcecode.
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Wow, man !!!
Some 200 years ago a guy named Sigmund Freud said a similar thing: ".. and as evidence I examined this 3 ladyes and their condition matched exactly my theory, that I, by the way, made based on my observations on those same 3 ladyes...
Now, I'm not saying that your results are wrong, only that the method to get them were wrong.
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Ohh, righty then, we better call for some new laws then ...
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not-so-long-ago, the same was said about hologram-stickers.
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Now think about this: "what do you think the NSA is doing with your tax money ?", playing solitare on Windows ?
It's definately in there interest if they can crack the communications they intercept. And what nicer way than to have "bugs" introduced in crypto products exported from the US ?
Bruce Schneier reported last year that the NSA was walking door-to-door trying to introduce backdoors into crypto products, that would then be eligeble for export.
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Outside hamburgerland, "Agree" means "Install".
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This clause has no legal meaning outside some US states. Meaning that if you don't have to agree to it. I use to consider the "I agree" button as saying "Install".
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The server states that the file cannot be found..
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Moderate this up !!
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The only way to be *sure* that you or your correspondant aren't encrypting your data in such a way that a 3rd party can read it, is to check it yourself.
This utility might be of help: pgpdump-0.02.tar.gz
It will dump the format of your PGP encrypted data, telling you about all the keys that the data was encrypted for.
You can of course use this utility on both your own encrypted data and encrypted messages that you get from others.
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