Funny thing about this... Hollywood also employs a LOT of Canadian actors, uses Canadian locations to shoot a lot of film, and uses Canadian support services (canteens, housing, rig builders, etc.) while doing these shoots.
In reality, the only things Canada is missing are the distribution channels (Canada has labels like Lions Gate, which are now becoming more and more popular).
Of course, the problem is that Canadian writers write tragedy, and Canadian actors are mostly comedians. Canadian producers tend to produce romances and dramas.
I guess a fully-Canadian Hollywood equivalent would probably produce dramatic tragic comedies. The question then of course is, who would watch them? The British? PBS Viewers Like You?
I think you mean our Prime Minister. Unless you're from Alberta, then most of what is said by the premier is both ignorant and malicious.
I think he meant Premier... nobody takes Stephen Harper seriously.
On the other hand, the Premiers of Quebec, Ontario, Newfoundland, Manitoba, Alberta, and B.C. have all said stupid things in the last year or two that have pissed off others around the world (generally in the US, however).
The other possibility is that the majority of people crossing the border aren't white males... however, I think the answer lies somewhere in the middle.
Actually, this gave me a great idea. Run your own DNS repeater, and log its DNS requests. Nobody but you would have a device configured to use your DNS server, and it is a location vector unlikely to be noticed - more likely to be wiped when someone formats your HD. You get the added benefit of viewing what the person who stole your equipment is doing with it;)
Gosh, I'm usually very mild-mannered when it comes to/., but sorry, this is a load of steaming crap. "Recently discovered"? Do you even you know what you're talking about? Does the term 'refraction' mean nothing to you?
Yes, it does; and that's not recently discovered. However, that's also accounted for in the original definition. After all; with refraction, the light isn't slowed down, it is just given a further distance to travel at the same speed.
Sigh. Not according to Wikipedia, friend, but according to the Systeme Internationale . Wikipedia merely quotes SI's definition; it doesn't do the defining by itself. There's a difference.
I'm sorry... I quote my sources, and since I checked Wikipedia, that's what I quoted. I used Wikipedia instead of Systeme Internationale so that people could read the rest of the context, which Systeme Internationale doesn't provide. This is Slashdot, not a research paper.
All you've done with this is made the distance measurement "metre" (or meter if you're American) dependent upon the arbitrary time measurement of "second". Add to this that recently scientists have discovered how to "slow down" light, and you're on thin ice.
According to Wikipedia, "the second is currently defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom.[1] This definition refers to a caesium atom at rest at a temperature of 0 K (absolute zero). The ground state is defined at zero magnetic field.[1] The second thus defined is equivalent to the ephemeris second."
So in effect, all metric measurements are based upon physical properties of various substances, as measured on a temperature scale that is purely theoretical (you can't actually MEASURE anything at 0 kelvin, and you never have a 0-gauss [another measurement] magnetic field).
In fact, when Mean Time was invented, the duration of a swing of a specific pendulum one metre in length on the earth's surface was defined to be one second. As you can see, this becomes quite a paradox.
Actually, in the UK, it is ALWAYS illegal to copy a CD... new legislation is currently under review to fix this issue. Of course, the line said OK, not Legal. The questionnaire appears to be trying to moralize legislation.
That suggests something less than a blanket popular endorsement of piracy.
You seem to have a very fixed opinion of who a pirate is... my guess is that many people treat the theatre as a social outing, and have no qualms downloading the movie they see either before, so they can pre-screen what they want to see, or after, if they found they really enjoyed it.
Movie piracy doesn't hurt theatre sales, it hurts DVD sales. Of course, I have a feeling you'll find plenty of DVD rental and sales outlets in Sweden too -- and that many people own both legitimate copies and pirated copies.
1: download the latest copy of ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata*.tar.gz. This will include the details of the DST change. You could also update the source files by hand i.e.:/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/src in solaris
2: view file to ensure necessary changes have been made.
3: compile the binary zone file per the instructions of the time zone compiler 'zic' which comes with the system.
4: install the new binary zone file over the current zone file, making sure all symbolic links, etc, are updated as needed.
And the five-year forecast: Civil war between eskimos, quebecois and english-speaking canadians.
That's a relief... most Canadians wouldn't be involved in the war if you mean english as sole language. Either that, or most of Quebec and a small group of Inuit with an identity crisis be at war with themselves.
I own the CD, I own the blank CD, I own the burner, it's in my house, what I do with my property on my property - including giving the burned CD to a friend - is my business.
Unfortunately, Canadian copyright law disagrees. Copying and distributing is infringement. However, if you lend your friend your CD and they make a copy of it and return your CD, THAT is fully legal under Canadian law. Anyone in possession of the IP can make as many personal copies as they want. They just can't distribute copies. To me, that makes a LOT of sense. Similarly, making a copy of a movie in a theatre should be legal; distributing the copy shouldn't be. Modifying a game console in your possession should be legal; I'm not sure about distributing modified consoles, as they shouldn't fall under copyright law, but appear to in some instances. Same with direct satellite.
Canada would never turn off the oil... just charge more for it... and for electricity and water, for that matter. If the US slaps WIPO-illegal sanctions and tariffs on Canada, Canada can just do the same back.
Canada would probably do better trading with Russia and China than with the US nowadays anyway.
Maybe select port 22 as your torrent port?
If they start blocking that, a LOT of tech-savvy people (who use SSH) are going to start complaining about degradation of service....
Since it is also a matter of public record that SCO has in the past had PIs tailing PJ, I would assume she is legitimate. Also, I find it interesting that SCO started looking for her just AFTER she publicly announced she was taking a sick leave. I think they waited for her to be unable to respond, and then started slinging mud, knowning that she would be unable to defend herself like she did last time they tried this.
Actually, the Slashdot article last week mentioned that MediaSentry only gathers the IP addresses of people currently listed in the node, and doesn't check for downloading OR uploading. All they know is that you're associating with other IP addresses using a tool whose main function is to upload and download data. It is possible that all you're doing is rating the file listings, grabbing MD5 hashes, or something else perfectly legal. It's just not likely.
...which will be a matter of minutes. We now know where the key is stored. In order to keep the new key private, they would have to move its storage location, which would break the current AACS implementation.
Every player has a different key. The key from a software player has been extracted, so only that player needs to be updated. Software players run on Windows PCs that are connected to the Internet, so updating keys should be easy./blockquote...as easy as intercepting the update and extracting the new key using the already compromised old key.
Trojaning titles with updates is how you either plug a leak in a player or replace a thoroughly exploited encryption system with a new one.
...except that the old player code has to be able to read that trojan code... which means the compromised system has to be able to read the trojan code. This means that any updates distributed by these means are also compromised, as it becomes relatively easy to reverse engineer the trojan and extract the keys you want, plus use it as a template for your own "custom" trojan.
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In reality, the only things Canada is missing are the distribution channels (Canada has labels like Lions Gate, which are now becoming more and more popular).
Of course, the problem is that Canadian writers write tragedy, and Canadian actors are mostly comedians. Canadian producers tend to produce romances and dramas.
I guess a fully-Canadian Hollywood equivalent would probably produce dramatic tragic comedies. The question then of course is, who would watch them? The British? PBS Viewers Like You?
What??? Stop giving me that look....
On a similar note, can I claim intellectual property rights on the non-obvious idea that the Emperor's poodle wore invisible clothes?
I did mention Alberta, or didn't you notice? ;)
On the other hand, the Premiers of Quebec, Ontario, Newfoundland, Manitoba, Alberta, and B.C. have all said stupid things in the last year or two that have pissed off others around the world (generally in the US, however).
The other possibility is that the majority of people crossing the border aren't white males... however, I think the answer lies somewhere in the middle.
Actually, this gave me a great idea. Run your own DNS repeater, and log its DNS requests. Nobody but you would have a device configured to use your DNS server, and it is a location vector unlikely to be noticed - more likely to be wiped when someone formats your HD. You get the added benefit of viewing what the person who stole your equipment is doing with it ;)
According to Wikipedia, "the second is currently defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom.[1] This definition refers to a caesium atom at rest at a temperature of 0 K (absolute zero). The ground state is defined at zero magnetic field.[1] The second thus defined is equivalent to the ephemeris second."
So in effect, all metric measurements are based upon physical properties of various substances, as measured on a temperature scale that is purely theoretical (you can't actually MEASURE anything at 0 kelvin, and you never have a 0-gauss [another measurement] magnetic field).
In fact, when Mean Time was invented, the duration of a swing of a specific pendulum one metre in length on the earth's surface was defined to be one second. As you can see, this becomes quite a paradox.
Last I heard, ASCAP was actually pretty sane about who they sued.
Actually, in the UK, it is ALWAYS illegal to copy a CD... new legislation is currently under review to fix this issue. Of course, the line said OK, not Legal. The questionnaire appears to be trying to moralize legislation.
Movie piracy doesn't hurt theatre sales, it hurts DVD sales. Of course, I have a feeling you'll find plenty of DVD rental and sales outlets in Sweden too -- and that many people own both legitimate copies and pirated copies.
Indeed... there is a reason the French sent the Americans the Statue of Liberty.
How to build the Unix Zoneinfo Time Zone Files Manually
Build binary zone files:
1: download the latest copy of ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata*.tar.gz. This will include the details of the DST change. You could also update the source files by hand i.e.: /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/src in solaris
2: view file to ensure necessary changes have been made.
3: compile the binary zone file per the instructions of the time zone compiler 'zic' which comes with the system.
4: install the new binary zone file over the current zone file, making sure all symbolic links, etc, are updated as needed.
Canada would probably do better trading with Russia and China than with the US nowadays anyway.
Since it is also a matter of public record that SCO has in the past had PIs tailing PJ, I would assume she is legitimate. Also, I find it interesting that SCO started looking for her just AFTER she publicly announced she was taking a sick leave. I think they waited for her to be unable to respond, and then started slinging mud, knowning that she would be unable to defend herself like she did last time they tried this.
Actually, the Slashdot article last week mentioned that MediaSentry only gathers the IP addresses of people currently listed in the node, and doesn't check for downloading OR uploading. All they know is that you're associating with other IP addresses using a tool whose main function is to upload and download data. It is possible that all you're doing is rating the file listings, grabbing MD5 hashes, or something else perfectly legal. It's just not likely.
Hey! I've got the perfect solution for movie publishers! Do what book publishers do... provide the movies as flip-books :)
...which will be a matter of minutes. We now know where the key is stored. In order to keep the new key private, they would have to move its storage location, which would break the current AACS implementation.
I can just see the headlines... "Criminal mastermind escapes by covering himself in unauthorized content and becoming invisible!"