but people with the money and determination will still be able to get fake IDs.
In actual fact, it should become easier to get fake ID's. Standardisation across the entire country would mean a greater pool of people working to circumvent security on the cards - with 50 different security systems, you only have one state's worth of villains working on each system. If everyone is the same, you can have 50 states worth of villains all working on the same problem, and it'll be solved much more quickly.
Also, you get better economies of scale on materials when you are creating fake ID's for the whole country at once, leading to an eventual commoditisation of fake ID
Sorry what? When in the last 3000 years have women been *common* property? I'll agree there's been a woeful discrepancy in men's vs women's rights and position in society since the dawn of time, even so far as being the property of their fathers and husbands at various times. But common property?
I wasn't the one who called her a cow, I agreed with you that that was out of line.
I play a guitar, write my own music and release it under a Creative Commons license. It's crap, and nobody listens to it, but if it was suddenly picked up and made successful in some way, I'd continue to have it freely available alongside CD sales.
The RIAA isn't simply enforcing the laws, they are lobbying with dollars to change the laws to suit themselves and the recording companies
She's not complaining about Fairplay though, she wants to play DRM'd WMA files on her iPod. Because big business loves microsoft. I bet she uses Outlook for mail too:P
For ten thousand years culture has been the property of its society. People shared music to build their culture, in the same way that they shared stories and pictures.
Till the last few hundred years or so when profit became more important than culture.
In current Western society we do the same thing. Ever since the creation of blank tapes, and maybe before, teenagers copied music to share with their friends, to create their own cultural identity. When the majority of the people are engaged in this, but small but wealthy groups like the RIAA can control and alter our rights to do so, we no longer have the right to call ourselves a free democratic society.
The whole DRM thing means now that we are often restricted from copying a CD we own to another format (MP3 or whatever) for our own personal use.
That's 'our' music.
There's two other things not considered in ATMs:
The 3 mistake lockout - you can't brute force a password with 10^4 possible combinations when you only get three goes at it.
Having to type - it's easier to brute force a computer password because the frequency of your attempts is limited only by ever increasing CPU speed. I've seen some people who are pretty fast on the number pad but even at half a second to type and half a second for the atm to think about it, you are looking at the possibility of two or more hours standing at the ATM typing furiously, which is bound to draw attention.
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but people with the money and determination will still be able to get fake IDs. In actual fact, it should become easier to get fake ID's. Standardisation across the entire country would mean a greater pool of people working to circumvent security on the cards - with 50 different security systems, you only have one state's worth of villains working on each system. If everyone is the same, you can have 50 states worth of villains all working on the same problem, and it'll be solved much more quickly. Also, you get better economies of scale on materials when you are creating fake ID's for the whole country at once, leading to an eventual commoditisation of fake ID
OK I see the point there. But throwing out everything of the past, because half of it was broken is not necessarily the best approach either
Sorry what? When in the last 3000 years have women been *common* property? I'll agree there's been a woeful discrepancy in men's vs women's rights and position in society since the dawn of time, even so far as being the property of their fathers and husbands at various times. But common property?
I wasn't the one who called her a cow, I agreed with you that that was out of line.
I play a guitar, write my own music and release it under a Creative Commons license. It's crap, and nobody listens to it, but if it was suddenly picked up and made successful in some way, I'd continue to have it freely available alongside CD sales.
The RIAA isn't simply enforcing the laws, they are lobbying with dollars to change the laws to suit themselves and the recording companies
She's not complaining about Fairplay though, she wants to play DRM'd WMA files on her iPod. Because big business loves microsoft. I bet she uses Outlook for mail too :P
For ten thousand years culture has been the property of its society. People shared music to build their culture, in the same way that they shared stories and pictures. Till the last few hundred years or so when profit became more important than culture. In current Western society we do the same thing. Ever since the creation of blank tapes, and maybe before, teenagers copied music to share with their friends, to create their own cultural identity. When the majority of the people are engaged in this, but small but wealthy groups like the RIAA can control and alter our rights to do so, we no longer have the right to call ourselves a free democratic society. The whole DRM thing means now that we are often restricted from copying a CD we own to another format (MP3 or whatever) for our own personal use. That's 'our' music.
Even though cheap goods are made for cheap people, it's a false sense of cheap, because the cheap good will inevitably break
That's why I have a Macintosh
To slow/adware/spyware filled add linux/macintosh to the list of computers that would probably struggle with any DRMed ondemand movie service
There's two other things not considered in ATMs: The 3 mistake lockout - you can't brute force a password with 10^4 possible combinations when you only get three goes at it. Having to type - it's easier to brute force a computer password because the frequency of your attempts is limited only by ever increasing CPU speed. I've seen some people who are pretty fast on the number pad but even at half a second to type and half a second for the atm to think about it, you are looking at the possibility of two or more hours standing at the ATM typing furiously, which is bound to draw attention.
Many hosting companies will give you SSH, which means you can use SCP, or SFTP
> Oh - hang on... What year is it again? 20 years too late