Vuze / Azerus already does this. Uses RC4 as the algorithm. But it should be enough to stop the virgin in it's tracks.
Indeed, from the linked artcle:
Klein added that encryption of data would cause major problems for CView. "Encryption of the data packet would defeat us," he said. "We're not going to put the processing power into defeating it."
Most p2p software is able to encryption now days....use it.
Oh really? Then how do you hand-wave away Mary's 'Immaculate Conception', the [alleged] resulting in baby Jesus, and this whole upcoming Christmas? Then there is the whole pesky issues of man being created in God's image, the Son of God[the a fore mentioned Jesus] being a man, etc.
I understand your concern, and refuse to trivialize it with some flip comment. It is a valid concern, and has been pondered for centuries within military establishments of the world. Siege engines, artillery (including the V-1 and V-2 rockets in WW2, ICBM, etc....), are examples of this.
Your concern is really a matter of scale.
As an ex-US Army sniper, I can see both sides of this. On one hand, you can become callous to the killing of another person, and losing the restraints that holds us back from doing so everyday, at whim. (I believe this is the root of your concern-also addressed on Star Trek TOS, "A Taste of Armageddon"[season 1, episode 23]) On the other hand, you could do 'mental gymnastics' to rationalise your job. Someone has to do the dirty work, and all the better if that someone finds the job distasteful. (a good account of this is "One Shot,One Kill" about Carlos Hathcock, USMC sniper) In Hathcock's own words:
"Hell," he once said, "anybody would be crazy to like to go out and kill folks. . . . I never did enjoy killing anybody. It's my job. If I don't get those bastards, then they're going to kill a lot of these kids we got dressed up like Marines. That's the way I look at it."
Banish these Word-pirates, (you sacred mistresses of learning) into the gulfe of Barbarisme: doome them euerlastingly to liue among dunces: let them not once lick their lips at the Thespian bowle, but onely be glad (and thanke Apollo for it too) if hereafter (as hitherto they haue alwayes) they may quench their poeticall thirst with small beere
That sentence just sent the self-proclaimed Grammar Nazi looking over my shoulder into an apoplectic fit, and I think it blew up my spell checker too!
You would think old-time writers could spell...;-)
First of all, I don't remember ever "no ads" being the selling point of cable.
Just because you don't remember it that way, it did not happen like that?
I remember it, and the 'no commercials' was THE marketing hype for cable. It only lasted a year or two, but it was definitely the angle they used to market this 'new cable service' back in the beginning.
Armed patrols would shoot you if they catch you humming a tune?
Not yet, anyway. What they would like better, is the armed patrols carry a credit card machine and/or root access to your bank account. Oh yeah, the armed patrols would be paid on commission...
Open Firefox, type:"about:config" in the address bar, hit "enter", click on okay/continue on the warning, then scroll down to "extensions.blocklist.x" and change x (or whatever is there instead of x) to "enabled".
You are limiting yourself by using "can't" in your vocabulary. I was told not to use that word unless I was a lumberjack every time I used that word as a kid. Lumberjacks have a tool to move logs around called a 'cant hook', and unless I was moving logs I did not need that word in my vocabulary.
Seriously, WTF did they publish the victims' name for?
So we could all poke them, and try for our own restraining order? I'm going to hang my shiny, new restraining order on the wall next to my Kindergarten Diploma!
Because people are stupid. A person is smart, but people are stupid.
Okay, n00b**, here's how it works:
1. one person can be intelligent 2. two persons can have an intelligent conversation 3. three persons introduce the 'unwashed masses' into the 'intelligent conversation', all reason and logic fail here 4. unwashed masses introduce 'herding bobcats in a burning barn' to the *alleged intelligent conversation*, and declare the change in topic okay by popular demand 5. ????? 6. Profit???
It does seem that the number of people involved in any given 'project' seems to produce more confusion and chaos....maybe the problem is people?
Any 'Perfect Plan/Ultimate Plan' will look great on paper, but as soon as you include humans into the mix, all bets are off. (sorry to mix metaphors here, but you get my point, I hope.-7 Deadly Sins, and alll...)
How about work for a living instead of patenting vague ideas and waiting for a company to make something that sort of resembles it?
Believe you me, I want to see more of these patent trolls. Keep them coming until the system breaks.
[Sarcasm-on]Get with the current program, dooood! Trolls are Tough to kill![sarcasm-off]
I hear you, man...and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter....
That is the same reason I, personally was opposed to the recent bailout...let it crash and burn...the much stronger, smarter Phoenix would then rise from the ashes.(so to speak)
This is totally ridiculous. We will not survive as an advanced country if this is the standard for innovation.
Well, there is this possible gem 'From The fine Article':
The ITC, in an unrelated case, is currently considering the standard that must be met before patent owners who don't make products can file complaints.
We can only hope something productive will come from the ITC considering this problem of patent trolls. *not holding my breath, but crossing my fingers*
BTW, I agree wholeheartedly with your statement I quoted, and the remainder of your comment. This whole Imaginary Property mess is getting ludicrous, to say the least.
The US Patent system was originally designed to foster innovation and advancement...not cripple it.
It has become way too easy over the past handful of decades to game the system into tyranny by the Big Corporations against the people and small businesses. The people and small businesses have traditionally made up the backbone of the whole lure and value of the USA...this has changed in subtle ways, and is no longer the case.
Last I checked, one of the "A"'s in MPAA and RIAA stood for "America"
Last time I checked, America consists of: 1.North America
a. Canada
b. USA
c. Mexico
2. Central America
a. Belize
b. Costa Rica
c. El Salvador
d. Guatemala
e. Honduras
f. Nicaragua
g. Panama
3. South America
a. Argentina
b. Bolivia
c. Brazil
d. Chile
e. Colombia
f. Ecuador
g. Falkland Islands (United Kingdom)
h. French Guiana
i. Guyana
j. Paraguay
k. Peru
l. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
m. Suriname
n. Uruguay
o. Venezuela
1, 2, and 3, are known collectively as 'the Americas'.
If you are going to be a pendant, then go all the way...otherwise you are a half-ass moron, wasting everyone's time...including your own. America is not just the USA. America encompasses North, Central, and South America...get over it. The USA only accounts for 1/25th of 'American' Sovereign Nations/States.
P.S. I understand that/. is a USA based site, but if we can argue semantics/grammar NAZI for other topics, then why is one this taboo?
Uhmm...the RIAA/MPAA? Wait a minute, is this a trick question? Hasn't the same things you propose been happening already? What's your point then, exactly?
Maybe this will make it easier for you: (I will even use your favorite word 'perhaps' to help you out).
Perhaps it will be like it was before, only out of reach of the RIAA/MPAA this time...perhaps.
P.S. You do not need the comma between 'sorry' and 'then' in the sentence I quoted from your comment, as it is superfluous.;-)
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Vuze / Azerus already does this. Uses RC4 as the algorithm. But it should be enough to stop the virgin in it's tracks.
Indeed, from the linked artcle:
Most p2p software is able to encryption now days....use it.
*claps heartily*
Well said!
BTW, the '34 Ford coupe sounds like an awesome project, if it is more than 'just a car analogy' for this discussion. :-)
Hot-rodders are hackers too!
I've the popcorn and beer...let's make it a party!
Oh really?
Then how do you hand-wave away Mary's 'Immaculate Conception', the [alleged] resulting in baby Jesus, and this whole upcoming Christmas?
Then there is the whole pesky issues of man being created in God's image, the Son of God[the a fore mentioned Jesus] being a man, etc.
Pretty dump question.
No, dumb answer.
10 points for each one you hit? (15 points if they are pushing strollers, or in wheel chairs)
I understand your concern, and refuse to trivialize it with some flip comment. It is a valid concern, and has been pondered for centuries within military establishments of the world.
Siege engines, artillery (including the V-1 and V-2 rockets in WW2, ICBM, etc....), are examples of this.
Your concern is really a matter of scale.
As an ex-US Army sniper, I can see both sides of this.
On one hand, you can become callous to the killing of another person, and losing the restraints that holds us back from doing so everyday, at whim. (I believe this is the root of your concern-also addressed on Star Trek TOS, "A Taste of Armageddon"[season 1, episode 23])
On the other hand, you could do 'mental gymnastics' to rationalise your job. Someone has to do the dirty work, and all the better if that someone finds the job distasteful.
(a good account of this is "One Shot,One Kill" about Carlos Hathcock, USMC sniper)
In Hathcock's own words:
"Hell," he once said, "anybody would be crazy to like to go out and kill folks. . . . I never did enjoy killing anybody. It's my job. If I don't get those bastards, then they're going to kill a lot of these kids we got dressed up like Marines. That's the way I look at it."
Banish these Word-pirates, (you sacred mistresses of learning) into the gulfe of Barbarisme: doome them euerlastingly to liue among dunces: let them not once lick their lips at the Thespian bowle, but onely be glad (and thanke Apollo for it too) if hereafter (as hitherto they haue alwayes) they may quench their poeticall thirst with small beere
That sentence just sent the self-proclaimed Grammar Nazi looking over my shoulder into an apoplectic fit, and I think it blew up my spell checker too!
You would think old-time writers could spell... ;-)
Also, I turned off the classic index just so that I could vote this story down as 'stupid' and tag it...
*facepalm* Thanks. I was wondering why I could no longer tag stuff!
It's this kind of thing that's keeping me trying to be more humble as I age. :-)
They were raiding in WoW, I would imagine. ;-)
"Tutoring in the new scheduling software", my ass.
First of all, I don't remember ever "no ads" being the selling point of cable.
Just because you don't remember it that way, it did not happen like that?
I remember it, and the 'no commercials' was THE marketing hype for cable. It only lasted a year or two, but it was definitely the angle they used to market this 'new cable service' back in the beginning.
If Jack Thompson could get in on that, you would have a three ring circus!
More fun than a barrel of monkeys.
Armed patrols would shoot you if they catch you humming a tune?
Not yet, anyway.
What they would like better, is the armed patrols carry a credit card machine and/or root access to your bank account.
Oh yeah, the armed patrols would be paid on commission...
It's all about the money.
Obligatory
I am a sociopathic janitor, you insensitive clod!
Careful there, or I'll grab a rag and clean the toilets, then clean your coffee mug!
And I have keys to everything!
Yeah, I see what you mean!
The moderators might not of:
a. understood
b.seen
c.took too seriously
d.all of the above
your post, but I laughed!
Thanks for a much needed chuckle...Well done, good sir!
This does (sometimes) work for animals - but human beings are not animals.
We aren't animals?
I suppose we are all plants, or minerals then?
WTF?
Where did you go to school?
Open Firefox, type:"about:config" in the address bar, hit "enter", click on okay/continue on the warning, then scroll down to "extensions.blocklist.x" and change x (or whatever is there instead of x) to "enabled".
You are limiting yourself by using "can't" in your vocabulary. I was told not to use that word unless I was a lumberjack every time I used that word as a kid.
Lumberjacks have a tool to move logs around called a 'cant hook', and unless I was moving logs I did not need that word in my vocabulary.
What a peculiar idea.
Old news/idea:(circa 1962)
Beany and Cecil
At least it would probably come in a neat box.
My propeller beanie not only came in a neat box, but even included a stuffed toy sea serpent!
Batteries not included...:-(
Seriously, WTF did they publish the victims' name for?
So we could all poke them, and try for our own restraining order?
I'm going to hang my shiny, new restraining order on the wall next to my Kindergarten Diploma!
Yeah. With carp like this, is it any wonder...
[my emphasis]
I think I see a basic flaw in your understanding of rocket science...;-)
Now get off my lawn, and take your fish with you...it's starting to draw flies!
Because people are stupid. A person is smart, but people are stupid.
Okay, n00b**, here's how it works:
1. one person can be intelligent
2. two persons can have an intelligent conversation
3. three persons introduce the 'unwashed masses' into the 'intelligent conversation', all reason and logic fail here
4. unwashed masses introduce 'herding bobcats in a burning barn' to the *alleged intelligent conversation*, and declare the change in topic okay by popular demand
5. ?????
6. Profit???
It does seem that the number of people involved in any given 'project' seems to produce more confusion and chaos....maybe the problem is people?
Any 'Perfect Plan/Ultimate Plan' will look great on paper, but as soon as you include humans into the mix, all bets are off. (sorry to mix metaphors here, but you get my point, I hope.-7 Deadly Sins, and alll...)
All meant in good fun;)
No problem, as I look Great in a grass skirt!!!
[Sarcasm-on]Get with the current program, dooood! Trolls are Tough to kill![sarcasm-off]
I hear you, man...and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter....
That is the same reason I, personally was opposed to the recent bailout...let it crash and burn...the much stronger, smarter Phoenix would then rise from the ashes.(so to speak)
This is totally ridiculous. We will not survive as an advanced country if this is the standard for innovation.
Well, there is this possible gem 'From The fine Article':
The ITC, in an unrelated case, is currently considering the standard that must be met before patent owners who don't make products can file complaints.
We can only hope something productive will come from the ITC considering this problem of patent trolls.
*not holding my breath, but crossing my fingers*
BTW, I agree wholeheartedly with your statement I quoted, and the remainder of your comment. This whole Imaginary Property mess is getting ludicrous, to say the least.
The US Patent system was originally designed to foster innovation and advancement...not cripple it.
It has become way too easy over the past handful of decades to game the system into tyranny by the Big Corporations against the people and small businesses.
The people and small businesses have traditionally made up the backbone of the whole lure and value of the USA...this has changed in subtle ways, and is no longer the case.
Last I checked, one of the "A"'s in MPAA and RIAA stood for "America"
Last time I checked, America consists of:
1.North America
a. Canada
b. USA
c. Mexico
2. Central America
a. Belize
b. Costa Rica
c. El Salvador
d. Guatemala
e. Honduras
f. Nicaragua
g. Panama
3. South America
a. Argentina
b. Bolivia
c. Brazil
d. Chile
e. Colombia
f. Ecuador
g. Falkland Islands (United Kingdom)
h. French Guiana
i. Guyana
j. Paraguay
k. Peru
l. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
m. Suriname
n. Uruguay
o. Venezuela
1, 2, and 3, are known collectively as 'the Americas'.
If you are going to be a pendant, then go all the way...otherwise you are a half-ass moron, wasting everyone's time...including your own.
America is not just the USA. America encompasses North, Central, and South America...get over it. The USA only accounts for 1/25th of 'American' Sovereign Nations/States.
P.S. I understand that /. is a USA based site, but if we can argue semantics/grammar NAZI for other topics, then why is one this taboo?
Who's gonna be sorry, then?
Uhmm...the RIAA/MPAA?
Wait a minute, is this a trick question?
Hasn't the same things you propose been happening already?
What's your point then, exactly?
Maybe this will make it easier for you: (I will even use your favorite word 'perhaps' to help you out).
Perhaps it will be like it was before, only out of reach of the RIAA/MPAA this time...perhaps.
P.S. You do not need the comma between 'sorry' and 'then' in the sentence I quoted from your comment, as it is superfluous. ;-)