Oh, lots. It's much easier to reorganize minimized JS than to figure out disassembled code. Javascript runs several layers of abstraction above the CPU, and every call belongs in a tiny namespace, compared to what happens in assembler. It's comparing apples and industrial orange juice.
So, he gets a leak about his site that's made of leaked material, but won't post the script of the movie about it FRONT PAGE as soon as received? What an hypocritical imbecile.
And they would go about securing JS code how, exactly? It's cleartext to the browser! You just can't protect that. I just thought of three ways to get the source, in the time it took me to type this sentence.
If desktop computers just go away, how will we develop the apps for those half-baked non-self-contained computers? It's not like you can run Eclipse on Android, or XCode on iOS.
I should begin crowdsourcing a slew of form documents, in the style of "here is why your spam solution won't work".
Beginning with "So you wrote up a cyber law. It won't work. Here's why it won't work."
NOTHING can be saved if it can't be freely copied by anyone from anywhere. Most documents won't survive anyway, lacking interest in making copies for all of the time they're available.
The one and only way to keep a document is to have it freely copyable by everyone everywhere forever, end of story. Everything else is on reprieve.
Trollolol, an idiot doing disruptive shit under his own name in the U.S.A, like that was going to be let alone.
What we need is so many Bitcoin miners that they'll never be able to lock them all up. They're the ones minting the money, after all. A really good idea would be to include mining capabilities in all Bitcoin clients, to balloon the number of users way past what it's feasible to oppress.
That is the WHOLE POINT! Bitcoin is simply more trustworthy. It's cash, guaranteed by the central authority of all its users.
Let legacy financial players be crushed under the inexorably advancing wall of ice called History. No matter how much they thrash around, they're still getting crushed. Good riddance.
I'm not surprised, but I'd be curious to know what this means in regard to ownership of the music uploaded to something like the iTunes store or Amazon's MP3 store. Does this mean those artists lose their property rights by uploading their music/movies to these retailers?
Very good. But no, artists lose only the property rights on the files, not the copyright on the content.
What we should do is trillions of bogus DMCA takedown notices targeting everything the Government has put on file lockers. Just to let them know what it's like to be on the receiving end of rock-stupid legislation.
I remember that time in HS when the English teacher was asked a question that was formulated in a way that made obvious exactly how the student had misunderstood the data. Then the teacher answered in a way that made obvious exactly how he had misunderstood how the student had undersood it.
Stat analysis of the different ways things can be understood is a very good way to ensure shitty teachers don't get the questions wrong. This is an important innovation, waiting to happen.
You're right, English is my second language. What I was saying isn't worth the effort to parse something so badly-written. I was drunk and willing to rant about how Linux still sucks at hardware 3D, always has, how games shouldn't need to switch resolution, how THAT is caused by how the hardware is either grossly underperforming or ridiculously expensive, and how MacOSX is done so much better than Linux that Hackintoshes work better than any distro's default install.
Even Windows had it right by the time of XP SP1, when no game worth even pirating actually broke anything when changing resolution.
Ho comes Linux can't do that?
Yeah, I know some answers. Fuck those answers. I can install HackOSX on the same machine and it works even better even when it's not even supposed to.
That speaks of QUALITY.
Linux's state of hardware 3D support and everything that needs for it to Just Work Right fucking SUCKS, and that this article exists is a symptom of that. A band-aid on a wooden leg, a hack on top of a hack, and nothing works right anyway.
That's actually the one first reason I hate using Linux. One more datapoint in the graphs, but I know I'm not exceptional enough that I'm not in a statistically-significant place. Are YOU that arrogant? Do you deserve to?
Games shouldn't need to change resolutions in the first place. If the real unemasculated cards were sold at reasonable prices, everyone could play every current game at native resolution in the year they come out, and next ones at native res and lessened candy.
Lolno not gonna happen. It's not like I don't know it. But that's what we deserve for spending money on things. A graph card that can't display current games at native resolutions is a scam deserving of a class-action for damages beyond bankruptcy until one company (or some Open Design) gets it right.
Just so that we use tech the way it's designed to be used.
They aren't real. They have no bearing on what's real. Items. Things. Bitcoins are more real than their protections. The cracking is necessary to use the things you own. End of story.
Talk about licenses all you want, fuck you for even thinking about it. Instead, consider reality. Reality is that I can build a device that will copy any optical disk bit-by-bit, or even by the half-bit, or more precise if necessary. Then the bits can be sent to a lib that will decode the bit stream into moving pictures.
That is what is technically possible. So is murder? Murder affects others. Copying culture doesn't.
Why is it more not unethical to break those laws? Well, would YOU argue that murder is not worse than downloading porn?
That's the exact same reason I'm stoned right now, smoking a joint, and rolling the next. For the reason that it doesn't harm you, and thus is not unethical, period.
If I listen to music without having paid anything, it harms no one.
And I'm still hosting a DJ in my house since he lost his, going out twice a month to raves that pay their DJs and concerts that pay their musicians, buying their albums and uploading them on the 'Net so that YOU can listen to them across half a planet, where the shit isn't sold at all forever so stop complaining and enjoy what I'm doing for you. And the creators.
Decentralized, attack-resistant and encrypted all sound nice, but I'm curious both about the funding it would take, and whether it matches Wikileaks' own security.
What funding? I'd host it on every device I own. How many more Anons like me are there, again?
Posting signed, wince I'm in Belgium, in a small European country no one really important gives any shit about, and a with laws so localized they don't matter in teh world... I'm untouchable as far as the US DOJ is concerned.
Not that I'd concern them. Not when there are eighty millions of us. Extraterritoriality, it doesn't work for Kim Dotcom, but _I_'m not a superstar. So aren't all the other Anons, except the one scapegoat they always manage to tell the media to out as our "leader"... They'll never get it before we get their authority out of reality.
None of those, lots of others. Starting with repos one year behind upstream, going on to include the slowest piece of shit package manager in the galaxy (no parallel downloads? Showstopper. I'm not waiting for the download of packages that should have happened while it was installing the deps. And I had thought the 90s were over), and the usual intellectual property bullshit causing they won't default to ship the mostly-working nvidia drivers, Adobe Flash and spooky codecs.
So, yeah, what I said : it's not working. "Automagically discover everything publicly shared that can be seen from current location". That, is "working out of the box". I certainly shouldn't have to touch ANYTHING to be able to fucking mount a share from a server.
Without touching it? On what distro, please? Not on any version (that I ever happened to try) of : gentoo, debian, fedora, xenserver, elive, puppy, Sabayon, DamnSmall, Backtrack, Liberté, tails, LiveHacking, Knoppix.
Not with the default config from upstream, not with deleting your smb.conf and reloading the service.
So, on what distro does it work automagically, as well as on MacOX? Or even Windows XP? (It's been fucked up so bad by Vista and next ones that they won't enter this discussion. It's enough on the part of Microsoft that even they got it right at least once.)
As of now, I've never met any distro in which I could just fire up the file manager and be able to mount SMB shares. EVER.
Apple got it right. Microsoft got it right, sometimes.
Yeah, why not simply break everything that expects those defaults? Like when VirtualBox demands to know the location of the desktop's password store, while using KDE.
Like figuring out how to set up a gentoo that cross-compiles to embedded systems, by hand with $EDITOR, man and of course, all the docs are outdated. Fun times.
Like using a non-default package manager, that one never gets old. Or a distro that ships with several package managers enabled and fighting. Or half-made forks with just enough incompatibilities that you can't use the best-supported ones when the solitary geek who made it suddenly loses interest.
Like fully configuring Samba using a text editor and the smb.conf file. (Why on Earth does that one never, <b>ever</b>, Just Work? Did Microsoft patent "a method of getting Samba to Just Work" or something? Even Macs will find public shares on their segment automagically.)
Like updating a distro fresh-installed from isos over six months old. Circular deps, incompatible archives, different file locations, programs reading different conf files for the same setting, or searching for files where they were or aren't yet, and you're supposed to fix every software fart by hand, and even if you CAN, you still may also have to fight the package manager, if it authenticates the package files, or worse case, you may have to install shit <u>without</u> the package manager, in which case some update WILL definitely break something some time.
Like when conf files have their default locations changed, or their syntax, or both, and the software gets confused finding a default conf in the new place and a custom one in the old place. Especially horrible when different parts of the software access different settings sets.
Like when things suddenly break for no reason whatever, like hardware 3d on Sabayon on Virtualbox on Mac, where the guest-additions version 4.2.0, compiled against kernel 3.5, didn't work, but did just fine as soon as the kernel got updated to 3.6, and the guest-additions to 4.2.0-for-kernel3.6. Something about an improper export somewhere.
Like when custom conf files need to be updated, if the same settings are even available in newer versions.
Like when several of the above combine just to make bug tracking fastidious enough to justify "reinstalling properly a distro with sensible defaults instead". Or "restoring the backup of when it Just Worked (hopefully enough to fix the rest)".
So, no, there's never any reason whatsoever to prefer leaving everything set as default as much as possible, just as I didn't meet every single rage-inducing timesink mentioned above within a single week.
As long as they're not based in the U.S., no one really cares about copyright. The WHOLE rest of the world half-asses the enforcement of IP protection in comparison. The only news that ever happen in that field are always caused by US interests trying to force a shrill, paranoid climate of fear of reprisal for innovating anything at all without having paid everyone else in the industry.
just to post high enough that it'll be read, not that anyone with an opinion would care about mine:
That's fucking retarded. Japan is afraid of nuclear power now, what with being the only nation ever to have been a-bombed. Officials pander to a scared public by shutting down nuclear power although it's demonstrably safer and ecologically better than every other alternative.
Wind and solar are too weak, end of story.
Burning stuff is stupidly dirty. Coal power plants release even more radioactive crap than nuclear disasters, and that's nothing compared to the footprint of their carbon emission, without even beginning to count the other reasons those plants should have disappeared.
Marine barrages genocide entire ecosystems. What do you think happens when you block the tides with kilotons of concrete?
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Oh. It's just that then it's only for idiots who can't figure it out then.
One more law that only enact a tax on stupidity.
Just like every law that's designed to prevent humans from spreading information... and their far-flung side effects
Remember it?
Oh, lots. It's much easier to reorganize minimized JS than to figure out disassembled code. Javascript runs several layers of abstraction above the CPU, and every call belongs in a tiny namespace, compared to what happens in assembler. It's comparing apples and industrial orange juice.
My point is, JS code is open source in fact, in all cases ever. Legality notwithstanding, it's just there to read and modify and stuff.
So, he gets a leak about his site that's made of leaked material, but won't post the script of the movie about it FRONT PAGE as soon as received? What an hypocritical imbecile.
And they would go about securing JS code how, exactly? It's cleartext to the browser! You just can't protect that. I just thought of three ways to get the source, in the time it took me to type this sentence.
Argument invalid : Tools have blueprints.
n/t
Bans on export, when any blueprint can be sent anywhere at all in about zero time, they're guarding a door with no wall.
How much are those bozos PAID?
If desktop computers just go away, how will we develop the apps for those half-baked non-self-contained computers? It's not like you can run Eclipse on Android, or XCode on iOS.
I should begin crowdsourcing a slew of form documents, in the style of "here is why your spam solution won't work".
Beginning with "So you wrote up a cyber law. It won't work. Here's why it won't work."
NOTHING can be saved if it can't be freely copied by anyone from anywhere. Most documents won't survive anyway, lacking interest in making copies for all of the time they're available.
The one and only way to keep a document is to have it freely copyable by everyone everywhere forever, end of story. Everything else is on reprieve.
Trollolol, an idiot doing disruptive shit under his own name in the U.S.A, like that was going to be let alone.
What we need is so many Bitcoin miners that they'll never be able to lock them all up. They're the ones minting the money, after all. A really good idea would be to include mining capabilities in all Bitcoin clients, to balloon the number of users way past what it's feasible to oppress.
That is the WHOLE POINT! Bitcoin is simply more trustworthy. It's cash, guaranteed by the central authority of all its users.
Let legacy financial players be crushed under the inexorably advancing wall of ice called History. No matter how much they thrash around, they're still getting crushed. Good riddance.
I'm not surprised, but I'd be curious to know what this means in regard to ownership of the music uploaded to something like the iTunes store or Amazon's MP3 store. Does this mean those artists lose their property rights by uploading their music/movies to these retailers?
Very good. But no, artists lose only the property rights on the files, not the copyright on the content.
What we should do is trillions of bogus DMCA takedown notices targeting everything the Government has put on file lockers. Just to let them know what it's like to be on the receiving end of rock-stupid legislation.
That would be about fucking time.
I remember that time in HS when the English teacher was asked a question that was formulated in a way that made obvious exactly how the student had misunderstood the data. Then the teacher answered in a way that made obvious exactly how he had misunderstood how the student had undersood it.
Stat analysis of the different ways things can be understood is a very good way to ensure shitty teachers don't get the questions wrong. This is an important innovation, waiting to happen.
http://falkvinge.net/2012/08/27/saving-jobs-in-copyright-industry-is-counterproductive-regressive-policy/
"Saving jobs is counterproductive because progress means making more things with less labor."
You're right, English is my second language. What I was saying isn't worth the effort to parse something so badly-written.
I was drunk and willing to rant about how Linux still sucks at hardware 3D, always has, how games shouldn't need to switch resolution, how THAT is caused by how the hardware is either grossly underperforming or ridiculously expensive, and how MacOSX is done so much better than Linux that Hackintoshes work better than any distro's default install.
Get it fucking right.
Even Windows had it right by the time of XP SP1, when no game worth even pirating actually broke anything when changing resolution.
Ho comes Linux can't do that?
Yeah, I know some answers. Fuck those answers. I can install HackOSX on the same machine and it works even better even when it's not even supposed to.
That speaks of QUALITY.
Linux's state of hardware 3D support and everything that needs for it to Just Work Right fucking SUCKS, and that this article exists is a symptom of that. A band-aid on a wooden leg, a hack on top of a hack, and nothing works right anyway.
That's actually the one first reason I hate using Linux. One more datapoint in the graphs, but I know I'm not exceptional enough that I'm not in a statistically-significant place. Are YOU that arrogant? Do you deserve to?
Games shouldn't need to change resolutions in the first place. If the real unemasculated cards were sold at reasonable prices, everyone could play every current game at native resolution in the year they come out, and next ones at native res and lessened candy.
Lolno not gonna happen. It's not like I don't know it. But that's what we deserve for spending money on things. A graph card that can't display current games at native resolutions is a scam deserving of a class-action for damages beyond bankruptcy until one company (or some Open Design) gets it right.
Just so that we use tech the way it's designed to be used.
Physics? Math? Reality? No?
They aren't real. They have no bearing on what's real. Items. Things. Bitcoins are more real than their protections. The cracking is necessary to use the things you own. End of story.
Talk about licenses all you want, fuck you for even thinking about it. Instead, consider reality. Reality is that I can build a device that will copy any optical disk bit-by-bit, or even by the half-bit, or more precise if necessary. Then the bits can be sent to a lib that will decode the bit stream into moving pictures.
That is what is technically possible.
So is murder? Murder affects others. Copying culture doesn't.
Why is it more not unethical to break those laws?
Well, would YOU argue that murder is not worse than downloading porn?
That's the exact same reason I'm stoned right now, smoking a joint, and rolling the next. For the reason that it doesn't harm you, and thus is not unethical, period.
If I listen to music without having paid anything, it harms no one.
And I'm still hosting a DJ in my house since he lost his, going out twice a month to raves that pay their DJs and concerts that pay their musicians, buying their albums and uploading them on the 'Net so that YOU can listen to them across half a planet, where the shit isn't sold at all forever so stop complaining and enjoy what I'm doing for you. And the creators.
I am right. Because I do no wrong.
What funding? I'd host it on every device I own. How many more Anons like me are there, again?
Posting signed, wince I'm in Belgium, in a small European country no one really important gives any shit about, and a with laws so localized they don't matter in teh world... I'm untouchable as far as the US DOJ is concerned.
Not that I'd concern them. Not when there are eighty millions of us. Extraterritoriality, it doesn't work for Kim Dotcom, but _I_'m not a superstar. So aren't all the other Anons, except the one scapegoat they always manage to tell the media to out as our "leader"... They'll never get it before we get their authority out of reality.
None of those, lots of others. Starting with repos one year behind upstream, going on to include the slowest piece of shit package manager in the galaxy (no parallel downloads? Showstopper. I'm not waiting for the download of packages that should have happened while it was installing the deps. And I had thought the 90s were over), and the usual intellectual property bullshit causing they won't default to ship the mostly-working nvidia drivers, Adobe Flash and spooky codecs.
So, yeah, what I said : it's not working.
"Automagically discover everything publicly shared that can be seen from current location". That, is "working out of the box".
I certainly shouldn't have to touch ANYTHING to be able to fucking mount a share from a server.
Without touching it? On what distro, please? Not on any version (that I ever happened to try) of : gentoo, debian, fedora, xenserver, elive, puppy, Sabayon, DamnSmall, Backtrack, Liberté, tails, LiveHacking, Knoppix.
Not with the default config from upstream, not with deleting your smb.conf and reloading the service.
So, on what distro does it work automagically, as well as on MacOX? Or even Windows XP? (It's been fucked up so bad by Vista and next ones that they won't enter this discussion. It's enough on the part of Microsoft that even they got it right at least once.)
As of now, I've never met any distro in which I could just fire up the file manager and be able to mount SMB shares. EVER.
Apple got it right.
Microsoft got it right, sometimes.
Which Linux distro did it?
Yeah, why not simply break everything that expects those defaults? Like when VirtualBox demands to know the location of the desktop's password store, while using KDE.
Like figuring out how to set up a gentoo that cross-compiles to embedded systems, by hand with $EDITOR, man and of course, all the docs are outdated. Fun times.
Like using a non-default package manager, that one never gets old. Or a distro that ships with several package managers enabled and fighting. Or half-made forks with just enough incompatibilities that you can't use the best-supported ones when the solitary geek who made it suddenly loses interest.
Like fully configuring Samba using a text editor and the smb.conf file. (Why on Earth does that one never, <b>ever</b>, Just Work? Did Microsoft patent "a method of getting Samba to Just Work" or something? Even Macs will find public shares on their segment automagically.)
Like updating a distro fresh-installed from isos over six months old. Circular deps, incompatible archives, different file locations, programs reading different conf files for the same setting, or searching for files where they were or aren't yet, and you're supposed to fix every software fart by hand, and even if you CAN, you still may also have to fight the package manager, if it authenticates the package files, or worse case, you may have to install shit <u>without</u> the package manager, in which case some update WILL definitely break something some time.
Like when conf files have their default locations changed, or their syntax, or both, and the software gets confused finding a default conf in the new place and a custom one in the old place. Especially horrible when different parts of the software access different settings sets.
Like when things suddenly break for no reason whatever, like hardware 3d on Sabayon on Virtualbox on Mac, where the guest-additions version 4.2.0, compiled against kernel 3.5, didn't work, but did just fine as soon as the kernel got updated to 3.6, and the guest-additions to 4.2.0-for-kernel3.6. Something about an improper export somewhere.
Like when custom conf files need to be updated, if the same settings are even available in newer versions.
Like when several of the above combine just to make bug tracking fastidious enough to justify "reinstalling properly a distro with sensible defaults instead". Or "restoring the backup of when it Just Worked (hopefully enough to fix the rest)".
So, no, there's never any reason whatsoever to prefer leaving everything set as default as much as possible, just as I didn't meet every single rage-inducing timesink mentioned above within a single week.
As long as they're not based in the U.S., no one really cares about copyright. The WHOLE rest of the world half-asses the enforcement of IP protection in comparison. The only news that ever happen in that field are always caused by US interests trying to force a shrill, paranoid climate of fear of reprisal for innovating anything at all without having paid everyone else in the industry.
Abolish IP, solve the problem, adapt or die.
just to post high enough that it'll be read, not that anyone with an opinion would care about mine:
That's fucking retarded. Japan is afraid of nuclear power now, what with being the only nation ever to have been a-bombed. Officials pander to a scared public by shutting down nuclear power although it's demonstrably safer and ecologically better than every other alternative.
Wind and solar are too weak, end of story.
Burning stuff is stupidly dirty. Coal power plants release even more radioactive crap than nuclear disasters, and that's nothing compared to the footprint of their carbon emission, without even beginning to count the other reasons those plants should have disappeared.
Marine barrages genocide entire ecosystems. What do you think happens when you block the tides with kilotons of concrete?
What else is there?