Arg, "Future Business Leaders of America", aka FBLA was a school club I foolishly joined. In their state-level competition (multiple choice tests) I blew away every other score on computer concepts, not because I knew computers, but because I actually studied the materials, that is books written for business people to understand computer concepts.
like 'Core Memory', which is computer memory made of little iron cores with wires wrapped around it to make an electromagnet to hold a mechanical relay closed. This was in the early 1990s and they didn't even mention transistors. I even took a college level COBOL class.
I scored 98 out of 100, second best was 76. (I also got 5th in state in Business Law)
So, they disqualified me because I must have cheated. No trip to Washington DC for nationals, no chance to meet people from IBM, scholorship, etc. but I did get a nifty wooden plaque (My father had a computer controlled engraving machine anyway)
Not one to give up easily, I competed again the next year, and easily got top score, even under close scrutiny.
So, they disqualified me again, because you can't win twice. No trip to Anaheim, etc. etc. not even a plaque this time.
After the stress of all that I stopped going to school for a few weeks, then dropped out and got a GED, and went straight to a technical school, where I taught more than I learned, so dropped out, and went to work.
Maybe they didn't ruin my life, maybe they kept me from becoming a middle manager in a soul-numbing corporation. But Washington and Disneyland would have been fun to visit.
I think there is an expression, that begins "Wish in one hand..."
Copyright is not just for the authors, Copyright was at one point designed partly for the public benifit, to encourage authors to release their works instead of keeping them secret, locked away in coded books or vaults.
If something is registered and properly Copyrighted, it does not need any protection mechanisms to allow the author to file suit against infringers. Making software that bypasses DRM illegal is an unneeded burden on public resources, consuming the time and effort of Law enforcement and the Courts, using public funds to protect private interests that are sufficently protected by tort law. The RIAA is doing well enough by suing people without the need for criminal charges, for something that does not even measure up to a 'public nuisance', Person A giving Persons B and C a copy of a song does less harm to the public than a teenager skateboarding in a public part.
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The problem is, that corporations keep lobbying to extend the duration of copyrights retroactivly, and for longer and longer terms; when with the increased pace of creation and distribution I think the terms should be getting shorter (at least for Software, and such).
If you can manage to replace a hashed file from a web site with content of your choosing, couldn't you just as well change the hash it's checked against?
Even if the hash and the file came from seperate sources, odds are a user went to 'xyzzysoft.com' from which the link to both the hash and the file are provided; so if xyzzy's page were hacked, they are screwed anyway.
To use a car analogy, to steal a purse in a car, a theif dosn't pick the lock, he smashes the window.
Unless you have a seperate, secure channel for transmitting the hashes, end-to-end, and compare them manually. (such as faxing the hash, then downloading the file) it's silly to use the logic of: File Hash equals Website Hash therefore File is safe, File is the one I wanted, File is really from Xyzzy. Not that hashes are useless, far from it they are excellent to verify against transmission/storage corruption, viruses, and unsophisticated attacks.
There have been hacks such as replacing the system random number generator to cheat in an online game, which would wreak utter havok with any crypto depending on it; a complier virus that adds itself to compliers compiled with an infected compiler, which could silently modify the output of a hash comparing program if a particular sequence was detected. And here's an idea I just thought up, a hacked file decompression library that modifies executables as they are being extracted, after you carefully manually checked the hash of the compressed package you recieved. (if you used a user-priviledge extraction utility for something like an updated kernel mode driver)
They are both groups of people who have, historically, been classified by some as 'subhuman' for something which is not their choice. I didn't say "Murderers, Spammers, Gym Teachers, and People with Tattoos"
But, is that worse than the other kind, which instead of extending 'human rights' to groups that are generally not considered to be people (gorillas, feti, robots, dolphins...) deny those rights to those who are human (black, poor, pedophiles, jewish...)
"The exhibition Garry Knox Bennett: Call Me Chairmaker is sponsored by Microsoft Corporation and features 52 one-of-a-kind sculptural chairs created by Garry Knox Bennett, one of the foremost contemporary studio furniture makers in America."
Ever look at the price tag on a Textbook?, those things are expensive.
To pay for the textbook publishers political action committee.
Think of the money that will need to be spent by schools for new science textbooks; just after they got done replacing them to give equal space to 'Intelligent Design'.
You might think it's unimportant, but when the federally mandated standardised test asks how many planets are in the Solar System...
If the RIAA sends someone a note saying that they wern't supposed to have particular files, and use particular files; what's wrong with deleting those files and programs?
Also, If an authorized agent of the RIAA is asking you for a copy of music that they own, why is it a violation to provide them a copy?
as an example:
1) NASA makes a video of people on the moon 2) NASA then loses the origional 3) NASA requests copies to be returned 4) Guy with a movie studio offers to send them his copy
1) RIAA member makes a CD of someone performing a song 2) RIAA member is worried about who has it 3) RIAA member requests a copy from my computer 4) My computer offers to send them a copy
The distinction is, that by searching for querying, and requesting copies; then when someone provides the owner what they asked for; they sue... Isn't that entrapment? I wouldn't send them anything if they hadn't asked for it. I wasn't advertizing or offering it, they requested it.
What would it take to Boot an OS from a remote drive?
think Virtual Machine.
Also, why not use all 3, in a RAID-style configuration?
If you lose access to any one, the other two would let you rebuild important data. While at the same time no single one has access to your data.
(the three being Google, Live, and a USB device; with parity data rotated very frequently, and the file being encrypted, so even the 2/3 data + 1/3 parity they have would be useless.)
I had read that if the universe were infinite that the sky would be blindingly white from all the old light from old stars, which is one of the reasons that a Big Bang (or other creation) was assumed to have happened.
But if there are dark clouds that can absorb the light, could there be stars further than 13ish billion light years away, that are simply obscured?
I actually have a copy of my county payroll database (name, position, salary, SSN...); I should copy it to all my computers, so if one of them gets stolen...
(well, it's kinda out of date data, from the late '90's; and yes, I had it for a legitimate reason, and yes, it's encrypted, but I'm not gonna track down that one file out of all my old backups)
You're actually planning to massivly overclock arn't you?
But I think the leading edge OC'ers have some of the same problems, Condensation, temperature changes warping parts (can pop IC's off boards.) So there may be common solutions. I recall a story of a fellow who suspended his computer in Mineral Oil (non-conductive, used inside electrical transformers) one advantage of which is to naturally exclude water; however I don't know it's freezing point, but there was also discussion about 3M or DuPont producing chemicals specifically designed for this purpose: little thermal expansion, no electrical conductivity, high thermal conductivity, wide range of tempuratures at which it remains liquid.
Another problem I forsee is the cold air and low humidity may lead to static electric buildup.
I'd like to see that poll data correlated with those who think Bush is doing a good job.
One could assume a link in that older people are more likely vote republican, and older people were more likely to get the year wrong... but would be nice to have data.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
Copyrights are granted by the goernment; and they naturally exempt themselves from them, just like Patents.
I already have; picked up a 64 meg mp3/non-drm WMA player at Bartells for under $50.
'free and open' doesn't meet everyones needs; e-mail is free and open, and innundated with spam. at some point it's worth it to pay a little for a step up in quality.
I recall articles about some music publishers not liking the iTunes flat-rate price structure; so those providers may come on board. Also the Beatles (aka 'Apple records') have issues with iTunes (aka 'Apple omputer'), along with some governments. (France, I think).
To me, the question is, will it be much cheaper than iPods?
While I dislike DRM in principle, I'd rather use a license system from Microsoft than Sony, anything from a Cellular company would probably suck as well.
Only other company I see being 'likeable' would be Nintendo, but they are very focused on games.
JNE/JE thing is exactly what I did with some BBS software I bought when the key didn't work (back in the 286 days).
However, there were multiple places that needed it, my first attempt turned off the invalid key error message; but didn't actually enable the software.
I'd expect small checks to be added in multiple places.
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Arg, "Future Business Leaders of America", aka FBLA was a school club I foolishly joined. In their state-level competition (multiple choice tests) I blew away every other score on computer concepts, not because I knew computers, but because I actually studied the materials, that is books written for business people to understand computer concepts.
like 'Core Memory', which is computer memory made of little iron cores with wires wrapped around it to make an electromagnet to hold a mechanical relay closed. This was in the early 1990s and they didn't even mention transistors. I even took a college level COBOL class.
I scored 98 out of 100, second best was 76.
(I also got 5th in state in Business Law)
So, they disqualified me because I must have cheated. No trip to Washington DC for nationals, no chance to meet people from IBM, scholorship, etc. but I did get a nifty wooden plaque (My father had a computer controlled engraving machine anyway)
Not one to give up easily, I competed again the next year, and easily got top score, even under close scrutiny.
So, they disqualified me again, because you can't win twice. No trip to Anaheim, etc. etc. not even a plaque this time.
After the stress of all that I stopped going to school for a few weeks, then dropped out and got a GED, and went straight to a technical school, where I taught more than I learned, so dropped out, and went to work.
Maybe they didn't ruin my life, maybe they kept me from becoming a middle manager in a soul-numbing corporation. But Washington and Disneyland would have been fun to visit.
I think there is an expression, that begins "Wish in one hand..."
Copyright is not just for the authors, Copyright was at one point designed partly for the public benifit, to encourage authors to release their works instead of keeping them secret, locked away in coded books or vaults.
If something is registered and properly Copyrighted, it does not need any protection mechanisms to allow the author to file suit against infringers. Making software that bypasses DRM illegal is an unneeded burden on public resources, consuming the time and effort of Law enforcement and the Courts, using public funds to protect private interests that are sufficently protected by tort law. The RIAA is doing well enough by suing people without the need for criminal charges, for something that does not even measure up to a 'public nuisance', Person A giving Persons B and C a copy of a song does less harm to the public than a teenager skateboarding in a public part.
The problem is, that corporations keep lobbying to extend the duration of copyrights retroactivly, and for longer and longer terms; when with the increased pace of creation and distribution I think the terms should be getting shorter (at least for Software, and such).
If you can manage to replace a hashed file from a web site with content of your choosing, couldn't you just as well change the hash it's checked against?
Even if the hash and the file came from seperate sources, odds are a user went to 'xyzzysoft.com' from which the link to both the hash and the file are provided; so if xyzzy's page were hacked, they are screwed anyway.
To use a car analogy, to steal a purse in a car, a theif dosn't pick the lock, he smashes the window.
Unless you have a seperate, secure channel for transmitting the hashes, end-to-end, and compare them manually. (such as faxing the hash, then downloading the file) it's silly to use the logic of: File Hash equals Website Hash therefore File is safe, File is the one I wanted, File is really from Xyzzy. Not that hashes are useless, far from it they are excellent to verify against transmission/storage corruption, viruses, and unsophisticated attacks.
There have been hacks such as replacing the system random number generator to cheat in an online game, which would wreak utter havok with any crypto depending on it; a complier virus that adds itself to compliers compiled with an infected compiler, which could silently modify the output of a hash comparing program if a particular sequence was detected. And here's an idea I just thought up, a hacked file decompression library that modifies executables as they are being extracted, after you carefully manually checked the hash of the compressed package you recieved. (if you used a user-priviledge extraction utility for something like an updated kernel mode driver)
They are both groups of people who have, historically, been classified by some as 'subhuman' for something which is not their choice. I didn't say "Murderers, Spammers, Gym Teachers, and People with Tattoos"
Once we run out of fossil fuels to burn, there won't be as much air pollution.
Plus, white styrofoam chunks, shiny aluminum cans, and glass bottles should be spread around outside, to help reflect sunlight away from the earth.
And bird flu/SARS will solve any overpopulation problem.
Nature can take care of itself, by taking care of us.
But, is that worse than the other kind, which instead of extending 'human rights' to groups that are generally not considered to be people (gorillas, feti, robots, dolphins...) deny those rights to those who are human (black, poor, pedophiles, jewish...)
Before anyone makes any more chair throwing jokes...
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http://www.bellevuearts.org/exhibitions/exhib_cha
"The exhibition Garry Knox Bennett: Call Me Chairmaker is sponsored by Microsoft Corporation and features 52 one-of-a-kind sculptural chairs created by Garry Knox Bennett, one of the foremost contemporary studio furniture makers in America."
I'll tell you why.
Ever look at the price tag on a Textbook?, those things are expensive.
To pay for the textbook publishers political action committee.
Think of the money that will need to be spent by schools for new science textbooks; just after they got done replacing them to give equal space to 'Intelligent Design'.
You might think it's unimportant, but when the federally mandated standardised test asks how many planets are in the Solar System...
If the RIAA sends someone a note saying that they wern't supposed to have particular files, and use particular files; what's wrong with deleting those files and programs?
Also, If an authorized agent of the RIAA is asking you for a copy of music that they own, why is it a violation to provide them a copy?
as an example:
1) NASA makes a video of people on the moon
2) NASA then loses the origional
3) NASA requests copies to be returned
4) Guy with a movie studio offers to send them his copy
1) RIAA member makes a CD of someone performing a song
2) RIAA member is worried about who has it
3) RIAA member requests a copy from my computer
4) My computer offers to send them a copy
The distinction is, that by searching for querying, and requesting copies; then when someone provides the owner what they asked for; they sue... Isn't that entrapment? I wouldn't send them anything if they hadn't asked for it. I wasn't advertizing or offering it, they requested it.
What would it take to Boot an OS from a remote drive?
think Virtual Machine.
Also, why not use all 3, in a RAID-style configuration?
If you lose access to any one, the other two would let you rebuild important data. While at the same time no single one has access to your data.
(the three being Google, Live, and a USB device; with parity data rotated very frequently, and the file being encrypted, so even the 2/3 data + 1/3 parity they have would be useless.)
I had read that if the universe were infinite that the sky would be blindingly white from all the old light from old stars, which is one of the reasons that a Big Bang (or other creation) was assumed to have happened.
But if there are dark clouds that can absorb the light, could there be stars further than 13ish billion light years away, that are simply obscured?
A generator that runs on stupidity, it would never run out of fuel.
Just sell the entire 'album' as a single 'track', for $.99
I actually have a copy of my county payroll database (name, position, salary, SSN...); I should copy it to all my computers, so if one of them gets stolen...
(well, it's kinda out of date data, from the late '90's; and yes, I had it for a legitimate reason, and yes, it's encrypted, but I'm not gonna track down that one file out of all my old backups)
You're actually planning to massivly overclock arn't you?
But I think the leading edge OC'ers have some of the same problems, Condensation, temperature changes warping parts (can pop IC's off boards.) So there may be common solutions. I recall a story of a fellow who suspended his computer in Mineral Oil (non-conductive, used inside electrical transformers) one advantage of which is to naturally exclude water; however I don't know it's freezing point, but there was also discussion about 3M or DuPont producing chemicals specifically designed for this purpose: little thermal expansion, no electrical conductivity, high thermal conductivity, wide range of tempuratures at which it remains liquid.
Another problem I forsee is the cold air and low humidity may lead to static electric buildup.
I'd say not getting sick from spoiled meat is a pretty good benifit...
Fewer sick days, more productive workers...
I'm sure the military will feed this to soldiers, so we'll see if it's the next agent orange/desert storm syndrome.
9/11: Never 3get
(sigh)
I'd like to see that poll data correlated with those who think Bush is doing a good job.
One could assume a link in that older people are more likely vote republican, and older people were more likely to get the year wrong... but would be nice to have data.
They have a lot in common with Steam; however, the 'Steam' they are like is not the online service, but hot air and water vapor.
Like 'Dialing' a phone, or better yet 'booting' a computer (from the old tall tales about a man lifting himself into the air by his bootstraps)
also consider the adage: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon loaded up with backup tapes.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Copyrights are granted by the goernment; and they naturally exempt themselves from them, just like Patents.
I already have; picked up a 64 meg mp3/non-drm WMA player at Bartells for under $50.
'free and open' doesn't meet everyones needs; e-mail is free and open, and innundated with spam. at some point it's worth it to pay a little for a step up in quality.
I recall articles about some music publishers not liking the iTunes flat-rate price structure; so those providers may come on board. Also the Beatles (aka 'Apple records') have issues with iTunes (aka 'Apple omputer'), along with some governments. (France, I think).
To me, the question is, will it be much cheaper than iPods?
While I dislike DRM in principle, I'd rather use a license system from Microsoft than Sony, anything from a Cellular company would probably suck as well.
Only other company I see being 'likeable' would be Nintendo, but they are very focused on games.
I think you mean a Beowolf Cluster...
JNE/JE thing is exactly what I did with some BBS software I bought when the key didn't work (back in the 286 days).
However, there were multiple places that needed it, my first attempt turned off the invalid key error message; but didn't actually enable the software.
I'd expect small checks to be added in multiple places.