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  1. Re:Check out AMD's misdeed on AMD Subpoenas to Stop Document Destruction · · Score: 1

    I'll agree as soon as I'm allowed to import products from there for the same prices they're paying, then I could work for the same wage. At the moment companies are allowed to have the work done elsewhere, but at the same time you can't buy the cheaper products there and sell them over here.

  2. Re:We have got to take these decisions from them on Internet Movies Before DVD · · Score: 1

    Look for your local artsy cinema. Maybe funded by your council or similar. They do exist, don't get as much advertising as the big multiplexes and can't afford to run the blockbusters, but they're there. There's one in my town hall basement, screen's not very big but it's a great place, seen lots of nice films, and they often keep them running for a month or so.

  3. Re:Why would this help piracy? on Internet Movies Before DVD · · Score: 1
    Getting the secret key is trivial, because they give it to you. How else would anyone be able to watch the movie?

    Yes, but it will be in the player, possibly bit-reversed and otherwise transformed, maybe encrypted with another key, maybe that's stored encrypted with yet another key. And every time you get one key they'll make the next one harder to get.

    After they revoke a secret key thats been used once ("Aww, shoot, Star Wars 17 Serial #234253242364 was pirated, quick, shut it down") its meaningless because the cleartext has already entered the darknet.

    Yes, but it means the cracking has to be done all over again for each new movie. They just release an update to the player and say you need version 1.6 or later to watch this new film, crackers have to reverse engineer to grab the key all over again. If the updates are automatic they could use a new key for every film, the keys only need to be 128 bits or probably less to make brute forcing infeasible. And whenever they feel like it they change the key storage mechanism to make it harder to reverse engineer. I don't think anyone would keep up with all the releases, if a good reverse engineer wanted a particular film they could get it but there wouldn't be anything like decss where anyone can rip with one click, and it would be uneconomical for warez groups to rip every one. You might see them putting in the effort for the big blockbusters, but organised large-scale piracy as it is now would not benefit much from this medium. It's probably easier for a group to get someone on the inside to give them a preprint than to reverse engineer for the tree.

  4. Re:SIP and NAT on Project Gizmo Challenges Skype · · Score: 1

    That's alright. Borrowing a quote, I want nice nerd girls not coked-up models. Seriously, I can't see why you'd want dumb girls. (Though maybe it's my catholic upbringing that says I should only get involved with girls there's a chance I'd spend the rest of my life with. I never went for the whole one night stand thing, maybe dumb girls are ok for stuff like that).

  5. Re:Open doors on Man Arrested for Using Open Wireless Network · · Score: 1
    Really? So no one on the net should be allowed to make money? And if they do, they should feel guilty about it?

    That's not what I said at all. Of course you can make and spend money on the net, but you shouldn't assume you have to. I don't know how on earth you managed to equate "you should be able to access the net for free" with "you shouldn't be able to make money on the net".

    Oh, and plenty of things are the library are free that aren't free at home. They're called books

    But you don't get to keep the books for free. That's a clear difference between what you can do for free (borrow them for a while, my friends do that from me sometimes for free and I from them) and what you can't (have a copy to keep forever). What's the corresponding difference between the kind of net access you get at the library and the kind you do at home.

  6. Re:It's dupe-a-licious! on Florida Man Charged For Stealing Wi-Fi · · Score: 1, Informative
    1)Adding dupes means articles fall off quicker

    2)There's this link to "older stories", you know? That's what you use if you want to see an old story

    Some of us are actually trying to cut down our /. use, you know

  7. Re:conspiracy theory on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    Don't forget it's happening while the government is trying to introduce mandatory ID cards against the will of the populace.

  8. Re:Bound to happen, unfortunately on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1
    1)Nor did it end because people invaded random nearby countries who they didn't get on with so well, which is what attacking Iraq amounts to.

    2)The reason it started was because there hadn't been enough talking and general niceness at the end of WWI. Talking may not have been what ended WWII once it had started, but it was what stopped there being a WWIII.

  9. Re:This was innevitable on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do you honestly believe bush or any of the other leaders give two shakes about the people who died in this attack, or on september 11th? People in power will always try and keep it and get more, and use any means necessary. However, I honestly believe a lot of the ground troops in Al Quaeda - probably some of the people who planted these bombs - joined up because of the innocent civilians who died in those military actions. If you stop the people they're recruiting, it won't matter what the leaders think.

  10. Re:First Post on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    People who feel like it listen to leaders most of the time, but ignore then if they don't want to do what's being asked. That's why anarchist army regiments in Spain weren't terribly effective - if the sergeant said advance and the troops preferred to retreat, they'd retreat.

  11. Re:Maybe 4 bombs on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 4, Insightful

    FFS, if people dying shouldn't affect politics then what the hell should?

  12. Re:Maybe 4 bombs on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Funding Israel's random killing of everyone who actually lived there, and propping up the undemocratic saudi royal family because they gave you oil.

    Besides, just because one attack wasn't triggered by a war that means wars can never trigger attacks? Computer crashes are never caused by faulty hardware, because mine crashed today and all the hardware is fine.

  13. Re:The spread of news.... on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    Take a look at the plastic coverage. Had the story earlier, and they tend to have slightly more intelligent commenting than here.

  14. Re:Cellphone system near breakdown on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1
    What you have to remember is that these people are ideologically opposed to our way of life. They call my fellow Americans and I "infidels" and constituents of "the Great Satan."

    Try reading what they themselves say rather than what Fox tells you. It's not about hating your way of life, it's about hating what you've done to them and their fellow Muslims. Bin laden had 3 reasons for what he does, US support of Israel doing whatever it pleases including killing any Palestinians it wants to, US support of the undemocratic and not really nice to its people Saudi royal family, and one thing I can't remember but it was in similar vein. Are these attacks an appropriate response? No, of course not. But have Blair and the US govt done things wrong? Definitely. And would these attacks have happened if they didn't? That's far from certain. Possibly someone else would have had the idea, or found something else wrong with things. But Bin Laden does his attacks in response to what the US and others have done, and though his response is grossly disproportionate, the people who did the things that motivated him still take some of the blame.

  15. Re:Anti-Callousness on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1
    No way. If we can't laugh, the terrorists have already won.

    I'm betting it was a those damn frenchies sore at losing the olympic bid.

  16. Re:SIP and NAT on Project Gizmo Challenges Skype · · Score: 1

    SIP, it will act as a sort of intelligence test for people to call me.

  17. Re:Another Michael Robertson project on Project Gizmo Challenges Skype · · Score: 1

    Not working through a nat router does not imply brokenness on the part of the protocol - ftp doesn't either. It's nat that's broken.

  18. Re:Why would this help piracy? on Internet Movies Before DVD · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it's getting the secret key that's the hard part. Especially since they may have a mechanism to revoke secret keys they know have been released.

  19. Re:Not very efficient.... on Internet Movies Before DVD · · Score: 1

    Bandwidth, it's all a question of bandwidth. I have a divx rip of a 4.5gb dvd that's 1gb and looks just as good to my eyes. That's why people rip to divx. Once bandwidth gets to the point you can download a movie in realtime at decent quality, then we'll see a move to higher quality formats, but at the moment size is king.

  20. Re:Linux 8.0?!? on Google to Release Firefox Toolbar · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But this doesn't help them at all. Will they think Ubuntu is a lot older because it's only on version 5? It's stupid.

  21. Re:Slashdotted already? on DVD-Audio's CPPM Circumvented · · Score: 1

    Call me a philistine but that would be fine for me. The sound coming out of your speakers is only there to remind you, the real tune is inside your head, and it always sounds fine.

  22. Re:It's a start... on DVD-Audio's CPPM Circumvented · · Score: 1

    Is it that, or is it intercepting the decrypted stream before it's decoded? Like using mplayer -streamdump to rip files from web streaming video servers. If so, it is a big thing. Seems possible, and makes me wonder if someone could disassemble windvd and take the decryption code out.

  23. Re:torrent on Opera Embedding BitTorrent Client · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fuck nat users. If you're not accepting connections you don't deserve to be on the internet.

  24. Re:Fine, but... on Opera Embedding BitTorrent Client · · Score: 1

    Don't forget all those wonderful gopher sites!

  25. Re:Tor and Privoxy? on Opera Embedding BitTorrent Client · · Score: 1

    The tor problem will happen with any bittorrent client, tor simply wasn't designed to be sending that much data. I'd imagine it will be able to use a proxy if you really want to though.