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I nearly fell off my chair I was laughing so hard. The best part is that the list of sites blocked is shared amongst quite a few universities in here. Talk about poetic justice.
Of course, any filter company would block their rivals' sites.
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Is it too much of a stretch to get a carnivore box
defined to be an electronic soldier? After all, the new documents show that it carries out a very broad intelligence gathering function.
> This morning when I got up I would not, in my > wildest flights of suspicion and > paranoia, have dreamed to suggest that the music > industry was taking steps to > DEPRECATE RED BOOK AUDIO.
You must have slept through the whole DVD saga then: that is *exactly* the purpose of DVD-Audio!
After all, DVD is supposed to be copy-proof. Which is why the DVD consortium is going ballistic over DeCSS.
If the easily copied CD format can't be replaced by a copy-proof DVD format then all their starry dreams of total control evaporate.
AFAIK the RSA patents are only valid in the USA, and this will have little affect on code that uses RSA. After all PGP and GNUPG are pretty widespread inside and outside the USA.
The only affect should be on commercial (closed source) code within the USA.
Now there should be no reason for RSA to be preferred key exchange, et al., alg.
I enjoyed this book; it was interesting to read about those parts of the IRC bot wars that are not mentioned anywhere else.
I do think that the audience for this book is small though: I picked up the hardcover on sale and it had been marked down *twice* to 1/4 of the original price.
Thanks to all the open source out there (especially the libraries) I was able to complete a project last year without unneccessary work. (appox. 600 LOC vs the 5000+ LOC of the previous version.)
It's a well-known proverb that the best hackers are the lazy ones: code reuse.
P.S. Remember Steve Balmer complaining in "Triumph of the Nerds" about IBM's obsession with "kaylocs" in the OS/2 project? Well I guess M$ learnt that lesson well, Steve. What about all those MEGAlocs in Windows xx?
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Of course, any filter company would block their rivals' sites.
Then why the fsck are OLD movies on DVD
region coded!?
These have already been seen all over the world.
But it's the old movies that are hardest to find
in any region except 1.
Old movies on DVD are supposed to be region 0 (unlocked). But they aren't. Why?
Is it too much of a stretch to get a carnivore box defined to be an electronic soldier? After all, the new documents show that it carries out a very broad intelligence gathering function.
...has already happened: it's called ``Three'' and seems to be a thin clone of the film `The Mod Squad' which was a based on the series from long ago.
Which just goes to show you that there is a serious lack of creativity on TV.
Back to books.
> This morning when I got up I would not, in my
> wildest flights of suspicion and
> paranoia, have dreamed to suggest that the music
> industry was taking steps to
> DEPRECATE RED BOOK AUDIO.
You must have slept through the whole DVD saga
then: that is *exactly* the purpose of
DVD-Audio!
After all, DVD is supposed to be copy-proof. Which
is why the DVD consortium is going ballistic over
DeCSS.
If the easily copied CD format can't
be replaced by a copy-proof DVD format then all
their starry dreams of total control evaporate.
AFAIK the RSA patents are only valid in the USA,
and this will have little affect on code that
uses RSA. After all PGP and GNUPG are pretty
widespread inside and outside the USA.
The only affect should be on commercial (closed
source) code within the USA.
Now there should be no reason for RSA to be preferred key exchange, et al., alg.
What's wrong with this scenario? (apart from the jailtime, of course):
Cop: Give us your encryption key.
You: No.
Cop: Right, you're under arrest. You have the
right to remain silent, etc. etc.
You: Okay, I'm remaining silent.
Now since your key is in your head (you
*didn't* write it down did you?) the police
are stymied.
I enjoyed this book; it was interesting to read
about those parts of the IRC bot wars that are
not mentioned anywhere else.
I do think that the audience for this book is
small though: I picked up the hardcover on sale
and it had been marked down *twice* to 1/4 of
the original price.
Thanks to all the open source out there (especially the libraries) I was able to complete a project last year without unneccessary work. (appox. 600 LOC vs the 5000+ LOC of the previous version.)
It's a well-known proverb that the best hackers are the lazy ones: code reuse.
P.S. Remember Steve Balmer complaining in "Triumph of the Nerds" about IBM's obsession with "kaylocs" in the OS/2 project? Well I guess M$ learnt that lesson well, Steve. What about all those MEGAlocs in Windows xx?