In one hour? To quote from the article, "Quantum computers have the potential to be blazingly fast because a string of quantum bits, or qubits, that store the ones and zeros of computer information can represent all the numbers possible within that string at once."
In other words, in the time it takes you to transfer a single porn movie, you can simultaneously transmit _every_ porn movie of the same size or less.
As with almost any new technology, the real benefit may come not in the originally intended manner, but through through other uses people find for the technology.
WD-40 was an accident, and the inventor was not trying to make a lubricant. Now we've got a lubricant, let's see what else we can do with it.
With the exception of communications providers (ISPs, phone providers, forum operators, etc), it's typically "Company X lobbied for/tried to use law to attempt to limit my 1st amendment rights".
The communication providers can do almost anything they want on their networks, but in any other context, a company cannot stop you without using the law.
You have every right, if what I'm doing is to you or your property.
No, not really. Suppose you live next to me. There are any number of things you can do that will affect me or my property. The lights from your house are visible at night. You consume oxygen, and your car puts out exhaust. The pollen from your plants spreads. If you have sprinklers, some of the mist may go to my house. The various noises your make through the day (parking, garage, mowing, etc.) are all audible from my property.
Now consider this: You shine a 3,000,000 candlepower high-intensity beam at my house every night. You set up an industrial factory next door, and produce vast amounts of toxic fumes. Your plants keep growing over to my property. You have really loud parties all night long.
The activities in the second list are the same as in the first list, only taken further. The difference between the two is that the activities in the second list cause me harm, and I have a right to be concerned with them. The items in the first list do not cause me harm, and I should have no say in how you do them.
Furthermore, nobody can "own" an idea. What you can "own" is a government-granted "temporary" monopoly on the distribution of copies. Copying is not stealing in the digital world, nor is it in the physical world.
If I take your car, you are out one car. If I take a look at your car, and decide to copy your car by building my own, you still have the car. Is the manufacturer of your car out of a sale? Potentially. Is it wrong? No, it's called competition, and usually is considered to be healthy for the market.
Unfortunatly for the RIAA, you have industries where the cost of development is high, and the cost of production is significantly lower. In any normal, non-IP industry, this is a difficult position to be in. If you want to survive as a company, you must figure out a way to make the money before others go in and copy it. This applies to any original idea, from pet rocks to the aforementioned car. It is the job of the company, not the government, to derive a profit.
Perhaps the current system of mass-manufactured CDs from cookie-cutter artists will no longer work, as the cost of reproduction has gone down to almost zero. Perhaps they RIAA will need to start pre-selling CDs before release. Perhaps the answer really is DRM. I have no problem with whatever steps they take, as long as it doesn't involve buying legislators off.
If an attack were to happen on US soil for which the planning occurred over VOIP lines, or email, or normal phone lines, and the CIA couldn't prevent it because they couldn't tap lines, then we would all be up in arms.
Why? 1000 people die every day to smoking. Are we up in arms? How many people die in auto accidents? Are we up in arms? More life is lost (in terms of time) each year waiting in airport security lines than was lost on 9-11. Are we up in arms?
We spend billions on stupid security measures at airports, when all that's needed is to arm the pilots. The passengers will take care of anyone who tries to hijack a plane. I don't care if the terrorist has a handgun, he would still have to face an armed pilot and 200 passengers who figure they are going to die anyway.
Guess what, encryption is here, and it's here to stay. We already know terrorists use encryption and stenography. This is just another "feel-good" project, making people feel safer while wasting lots of money and not really accomplishing anything. Here's a hint: if the terrorists are smart enough to switch to VoIP to avoid wiretaps, they are smart enough to switch back to encrypted transmissions if VoIP becomes tappable.
This is just more of the same paranoid, knee-jerk crap the American people have come up with post 9-11. "I know! Let's give away our civil liberties to make it slightly less convenient for the terrorists!" Well, if giving away civil liberties away made us safer and better off, Russia and Cuba should be right up your alley.
Oh, you. I saw your site before - the RTV->DVD page is pretty good, but there was another one online I liked better.
As for the future support, RTV would be foolish to abandon it's customer base (not that there is a law against being foolish). Their market currently is not the $2000 people, and they have an established customer base. All a company would need to do is embed the RTV OS in a HDTV-Ready box to make a profit - if they made a DirecTV, Dish, and Digital Cable compatible replay, people would beat a path to their door.
Unfortunatly, the digital television providers would want some form of draconian DRM on it.
I've used Windows Media Center, Tivo, and a ReplayTV extensively, and while Tivo has the nicest looking interface, I've settled on the ReplayTV.
First off, (in medium quality), the ReplayTV records in MPEG-2, at a bitrate and resolution that (usually) follow the DVD spec. Sometimes the bitrate goes a little out of spec, but that's not too hard to do. No DRM, and the files can be streamed over the network. Having an ethernet port come standard was a good idea.
Automatic Commercial Skip, and Internet sharing are very nice features, trivial to re-enable. Also, adding a second hard drive took less than 5 minutes, only needing a Y power adapter, an IDE cable, and RTVpatch.
Also, the MyReplayTV site lets me change which shows are recorded while I'm on the road.
I got the RTV a month ago, and I'd seen people raving on about the Replay for quite some time. Now I can see why. While Tivo and Windows Media Center can record shows, neither offers quite the features the ReplayTV does. Activation sucks, but that's what ebay is for.
You can pick up a 40gb for $150 (+ $300 activation), and throw in 2 big hard drives. Not bad for something that actually made watching TV worthwile again. Before, I watched TV when I had a continuous block of time, and hoped something decent was on. Now, I watch TV when I have time, and have a choice of which episode I want to watch, of what show I want to watch.
I work in the airline industry (Fleet Services) - I honestly wish I didn't have one. I believe employees should be able to use collective bargaining - I just don't want other people collectivly bargaining on my behalf, without my consent.
And, whether I choose to join the union or not, I still have to pay dues, or I get fired.
If my IT side jobs had a union, I would be significantly worse off.
I've been using ClamAV now for a while, and it does a good job.
For my mail server, I use Qmail-Scanner, which does a very good job. Older versions had some issues with funky/broken MIME messages, but they seem to have been mostly resolved.
Actually, it's not legal at all. Those codecs are covered under copyright, and you are distributing them without a license. It's copyright infringement, plain and simple.
Are the EULAs unenforcable? Of course. However, that doesn't matter. It's copyright law that prevents you from distributing, not the EULA.
And why is this a bad thing? Welcome to the world of competition and consumer choice.
Do you have a problem with 3rd party car accessories? Companies that sell replacement tires to consumers are piggybacking on the hard work of automobile manufacturers. So are companies who make replacement vacuum belts, printer toner, cell phone accessories, etc.
Creating a product does not give you control post-sale, nor does it legally, ethically, or morally prevent competitors from trying to make their products talk to yours. Circumvention of revenue model is not a crime.
People modify their cars, their computers, their guitars, remote control cars, and even their houses to do things the manufacturer didn't think of, didn't choose to implement, or specifically didn't want done. Often times, this is done with the help of a Company, many of whom make business models entirely out of helping people use their property how they want to.
Why is this a bad thing? Last I checked, this was innovation, and considered healthy for the market. It means less money goes to the original manufacturer, but the market benefits from competition, and consumers benefit from choice. Monopolies are (usually) unhealthy.
I use bestcrypt (kind of like a crypto loopback device, only for windows), and SP2 hosed it. The device driver won't load, and I still can't access any of my encrypted data.
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In one hour? To quote from the article, "Quantum computers have the potential to be blazingly fast because a string of quantum bits, or qubits, that store the ones and zeros of computer information can represent all the numbers possible within that string at once."
In other words, in the time it takes you to transfer a single porn movie, you can simultaneously transmit _every_ porn movie of the same size or less.
Now that's a lot of porn.
As with almost any new technology, the real benefit may come not in the originally intended manner, but through through other uses people find for the technology.
WD-40 was an accident, and the inventor was not trying to make a lubricant. Now we've got a lubricant, let's see what else we can do with it.
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"Company X violated my 1st amendment rights"
With the exception of communications providers (ISPs, phone providers, forum operators, etc), it's typically "Company X lobbied for/tried to use law to attempt to limit my 1st amendment rights".
The communication providers can do almost anything they want on their networks, but in any other context, a company cannot stop you without using the law.
Because that doesn't work if a guy is using 3000 unknown (to the site) proxies.
1) It's not encrypted. .exe most certainly is present.
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2) The
Don't believe me, open up gcfScape and check for yourself
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You have every right, if what I'm doing is to you or your property.
No, not really. Suppose you live next to me. There are any number of things you can do that will affect me or my property. The lights from your house are visible at night. You consume oxygen, and your car puts out exhaust. The pollen from your plants spreads. If you have sprinklers, some of the mist may go to my house. The various noises your make through the day (parking, garage, mowing, etc.) are all audible from my property.
Now consider this: You shine a 3,000,000 candlepower high-intensity beam at my house every night. You set up an industrial factory next door, and produce vast amounts of toxic fumes. Your plants keep growing over to my property. You have really loud parties all night long.
The activities in the second list are the same as in the first list, only taken further. The difference between the two is that the activities in the second list cause me harm, and I have a right to be concerned with them. The items in the first list do not cause me harm, and I should have no say in how you do them.
Furthermore, nobody can "own" an idea. What you can "own" is a government-granted "temporary" monopoly on the distribution of copies. Copying is not stealing in the digital world, nor is it in the physical world.
If I take your car, you are out one car. If I take a look at your car, and decide to copy your car by building my own, you still have the car. Is the manufacturer of your car out of a sale? Potentially. Is it wrong? No, it's called competition, and usually is considered to be healthy for the market.
Unfortunatly for the RIAA, you have industries where the cost of development is high, and the cost of production is significantly lower. In any normal, non-IP industry, this is a difficult position to be in. If you want to survive as a company, you must figure out a way to make the money before others go in and copy it. This applies to any original idea, from pet rocks to the aforementioned car. It is the job of the company, not the government, to derive a profit.
Perhaps the current system of mass-manufactured CDs from cookie-cutter artists will no longer work, as the cost of reproduction has gone down to almost zero. Perhaps they RIAA will need to start pre-selling CDs before release. Perhaps the answer really is DRM. I have no problem with whatever steps they take, as long as it doesn't involve buying legislators off.
It's a free market. Innovate or die.
If an attack were to happen on US soil for which the planning occurred over VOIP lines, or email, or normal phone lines, and the CIA couldn't prevent it because they couldn't tap lines, then we would all be up in arms.
Why? 1000 people die every day to smoking. Are we up in arms? How many people die in auto accidents? Are we up in arms? More life is lost (in terms of time) each year waiting in airport security lines than was lost on 9-11. Are we up in arms?
We spend billions on stupid security measures at airports, when all that's needed is to arm the pilots. The passengers will take care of anyone who tries to hijack a plane. I don't care if the terrorist has a handgun, he would still have to face an armed pilot and 200 passengers who figure they are going to die anyway.
Guess what, encryption is here, and it's here to stay. We already know terrorists use encryption and stenography. This is just another "feel-good" project, making people feel safer while wasting lots of money and not really accomplishing anything. Here's a hint: if the terrorists are smart enough to switch to VoIP to avoid wiretaps, they are smart enough to switch back to encrypted transmissions if VoIP becomes tappable.
This is just more of the same paranoid, knee-jerk crap the American people have come up with post 9-11.
"I know! Let's give away our civil liberties to make it slightly less convenient for the terrorists!" Well, if giving away civil liberties away made us safer and better off, Russia and Cuba should be right up your alley.
I'll bite.
If what you are doing does not cause me harm, what right have I to tell you not to do it?
Sure they do.
I truly do have karma to burn, so I'm going to test out a thoery...
Do people with low UIDs go around looking for Low UID threads, and reply?
Time will tell...
Oh, you. I saw your site before - the RTV->DVD page is pretty good, but there was another one online I liked better.
As for the future support, RTV would be foolish to abandon it's customer base (not that there is a law against being foolish). Their market currently is not the $2000 people, and they have an established customer base. All a company would need to do is embed the RTV OS in a HDTV-Ready box to make a profit - if they made a DirecTV, Dish, and Digital Cable compatible replay, people would beat a path to their door.
Unfortunatly, the digital television providers would want some form of draconian DRM on it.
I've used Windows Media Center, Tivo, and a ReplayTV extensively, and while Tivo has the nicest looking interface, I've settled on the ReplayTV.
First off, (in medium quality), the ReplayTV records in MPEG-2, at a bitrate and resolution that (usually) follow the DVD spec. Sometimes the bitrate goes a little out of spec, but that's not too hard to do. No DRM, and the files can be streamed over the network. Having an ethernet port come standard was a good idea.
Automatic Commercial Skip, and Internet sharing are very nice features, trivial to re-enable. Also, adding a second hard drive took less than 5 minutes, only needing a Y power adapter, an IDE cable, and RTVpatch.
Also, the MyReplayTV site lets me change which shows are recorded while I'm on the road.
I got the RTV a month ago, and I'd seen people raving on about the Replay for quite some time. Now I can see why. While Tivo and Windows Media Center can record shows, neither offers quite the features the ReplayTV does. Activation sucks, but that's what ebay is for.
You can pick up a 40gb for $150 (+ $300 activation), and throw in 2 big hard drives. Not bad for something that actually made watching TV worthwile again. Before, I watched TV when I had a continuous block of time, and hoped something decent was on. Now, I watch TV when I have time, and have a choice of which episode I want to watch, of what show I want to watch.
Sure there is - ActiveX. That's how windows update checks it.
> Nothing a $30 mini-FM transmitter hacked into your phone's handset while you're at work won't fix.
Then why bother sniffing in the first place?
I work in the airline industry (Fleet Services) - I honestly wish I didn't have one. I believe employees should be able to use collective bargaining - I just don't want other people collectivly bargaining on my behalf, without my consent.
And, whether I choose to join the union or not, I still have to pay dues, or I get fired.
If my IT side jobs had a union, I would be significantly worse off.
> id Software lost $2.75 million to record-breaking piracy on the weekend before Doom 3's release. Thanks, guys!
I'm one of those "weekend pirates". You know what? I went out and bought it today. Some of us just wanted to show off to friends 2 days early.
Ass-Reamed.
I've been using ClamAV now for a while, and it does a good job.
For my mail server, I use Qmail-Scanner, which does a very good job. Older versions had some issues with funky/broken MIME messages, but they seem to have been mostly resolved.
Actually, it's not legal at all. Those codecs are covered under copyright, and you are distributing them without a license. It's copyright infringement, plain and simple.
Are the EULAs unenforcable? Of course. However, that doesn't matter. It's copyright law that prevents you from distributing, not the EULA.
Except for the specific exemption "for the purposes of creating interoperable software".
Sounds pretty cut and dry to me.
As long as you are getting MP3 music from russia, get it from AllofMp3. They will even give it to you in MPC/OGG if you want.
And why is this a bad thing? Welcome to the world of competition and consumer choice.
Do you have a problem with 3rd party car accessories? Companies that sell replacement tires to consumers are piggybacking on the hard work of automobile manufacturers. So are companies who make replacement vacuum belts, printer toner, cell phone accessories, etc.
Creating a product does not give you control post-sale, nor does it legally, ethically, or morally prevent competitors from trying to make their products talk to yours. Circumvention of revenue model is not a crime.
People modify their cars, their computers, their guitars, remote control cars, and even their houses to do things the manufacturer didn't think of, didn't choose to implement, or specifically didn't want done. Often times, this is done with the help of a Company, many of whom make business models entirely out of helping people use their property how they want to.
Why is this a bad thing? Last I checked, this was innovation, and considered healthy for the market. It means less money goes to the original manufacturer, but the market benefits from competition, and consumers benefit from choice. Monopolies are (usually) unhealthy.
There was a DMCA-Related thread I wanted to read, so I actually printed out the entire discussion, and took it with me on the plane.
Hey, it works.
I use bestcrypt (kind of like a crypto loopback device, only for windows), and SP2 hosed it. The device driver won't load, and I still can't access any of my encrypted data.
I wonder what SP2 did that broke it?