My worst one is grad saying things like "Why would I need to know what a binary tree(Insert any kind of very fundamental data structure or algorithm here) is... thats all taken care of in the library".
I think you are missing the point. You point 1. is eaxctly the argument the record companies use. They say if there are X downlaods then they have lost X in sales. They are stating that each download is eual to a lost sale. They are say that they *do* know people would have paid for it if they couldnt download it. 2. Again they are not stealing it. They are infringing coypright. Im not apologising for people when I make this point... if we are going to debate this issue then at least state the facts. If they "stole" something they woudl be charged with theft. 3. Is the same as 2. really.
I really couldnt give a rats arse who does and doesnt load Metallicas latest lame album(Im old enough to recall when they were good). The point is we are undergoing a technological shift. Things have changed. CDs and tradional forms of information distribution are dead. As dead as non movable type and the horse and carriage. The body just hasnt hit the ground yet. The current industry will either reform itself to the new situation, die and be replace by those who will adapt to the new situation or attempt to sue and pass totalitarian laws to put a stop to something that is virtually unstoppable.
I dont want to get into the whole climate change argument but I feel it must be pointed out that Australia goes thru this same thing everytime there are major bush fires(I was born in semi rural Australia and spent the first 28 years of my life there). Australias environment has adapted to the indigenous population using buring as a hunting method. They have been doing this for around 40000 odd years. What is required in Asutralia is a policy of controlled buring to reduce the build up of combustibles. If you talk to an Australian firefighter she or he will thell you this is obvious. It is not however always obvious to our city populations or politicians who sometimes grow a bit lazy and indiffernet to the problems. Perhaps this recent firestorm was made worse by climate change and perhaps not. For me it is more a pointer that Australians have to be a lot more vigilate about fire. A few years ago many of my friends homes were almost taken out by the fires surrounding Canberra(where I grew up) and destroy a wonderful radio telescope. People forget so quickly what we need to do.
I do agree with you. There is inertia and the DVD will be with us I suspect for a good long time. However there will also be the on demand download movie competing with.
As the the horse and buggy industry, in the UK they managed to get the speed limit of the automobile limited tp 4mph on the grounds that I mentioned in my OP. There is a tradition London to Brighton old time car race that still goes on today to celebrate the lifting of that act. See here
From there
The first run in 1896, organised by Harry J. Lawson,[1] was named "The Emancipation Run": it was originally a celebration of the lifting of the Locomotive Act which had required vehicles to travel no faster than 4 mph (6.4 km/h). This run was started by the symbolic burning of a red flag: the Locomotive Act was popularly known the "Red Flag Act" which had once required cars to be preceded by a person on foot carrying a red flag.
Why live with it. What the bottom line on all of this has nothing to do with what we should or should not do to prevent "piracy" or who is and isnt accountable for allowing it to happen. The bottom line is simply this : The tradional way in which audio, video and textual content is distributed is over. Its finished. Its the automobile replacing the horse and carriage and there is nothing that anybody can do about it. History shows us time and again how this old story plays out. Weather it be the horse whip and buggy manufaturer claiming that cars are dangerous and should not be able to travel faster than a horse, or Luddites smashing cotton spinning machines to protected the cotttage industries they upsurped. The bottom line is that the world has changed again and we learn to live with it.
He was talking about a one time pad. That is indeed mathematically impossible to decrypt given a random seed source. Like absolutely impossible. As to the RSA and NSA I have no idea what you are talking about. Perhaps you should read this
That in fact is exactly what non compete clauses used to be. You agreed to not work in the same field for x years after leaving the company. The other side of the obligation is that the company was required to pay you a salary for x years after you parted ways. that to me sounds like a fair deal.
In physical poker the house has no real motivation to cheat. Poker is a nice steady winner for a casino... they just take a cut of every pot. They are however motivated to have people gamble more money at poker thus increasing the pot.
Yes I recall now. You are correct. I used Visual Prolog towards the end of that course for my final assignment(I only "purchased" a copy from a friend then)... alas the prolog environment we used was developed by some academic institution so we were given that(was pretty primitive and incomplete). My lecturer was a Prolog guy and I think he had something do to with its development(he also wrote the text we used in class:) )... I think was being disparaging based on my tools. Im always doing that.
When I did a software engineering course we were using prolog. Nothing like writing a two page prolog program(for non prolog people two pages is pretty big), running it and having the result of "no"(or worse still... expecting output and getting "yes"... yes? yes what you pile of crap?). Going thru a prolog debugger is an exercisse in insanity as well.
Thats the ways it works. I wrote a media streaming product once back in the day which was intended for such things as piping muzak and video ads in public spaces. We had to negoiate with the Australian branch of these guys. At first they wanted 30% off the top... of the entire busines... the business had more products than just the music playing stuff... but they felt they deserved 30% of the money coming from our hardware division also.
Does Lockheed Martin not have a VPN and policies about conducting all company activities through company resources? Most of the large companies I have worked for do. Often for security reasons it is a disciplinary offense to discuss business matters via non company means. I have not worked for Lockheed Martin but have worked for (Australian) security and defense and financial service organisations in the UK and Germany.
Even if you were dealing with someone face to face I suspect you would get a lot more response as a potential client by saying you are representing Lockheed Martin than saying you are electrictroy uid = 912290 from slashdot(if fact you see a similar effect on slashdot... people with lower uids are often seen to be more impressive than higher... I once had a very lower uid but lost it due to neglect and really noticed the differene in mod points).
It was the bubble. I'm a contractor and have had to deal with more than my share of big name working permies who know nothing. I'm dealing (in the UK) with so called senior network engineer who seem to barely understand what a UDP packet is. Ive met developers who seem to take great pride in their lack of understanding of the fundamentals of computer science and software development.
I would try hit you up but I 1. live in London and 2. Am not a network guy... more an software architect/senior developer.
Here to second you about godaddy - slow and unreliable. I have some mail take ~ 6 hours to get thru to me for some reason. We are changing as soon as we get some time in our schedule.
Agreed. I recall the good old days when I waited with anticipation for the next DDJ to come out. Always informative and interesting. There was always at least one article that had nothing to do with my day to day programming job that I read all the way thru because it was cool. RIP DDJ.
I spent 7-8 odd years in the IT security and access control industry. I think you'd be surprised how many people there are with half a brain. For example I once wrote some software to interface to a telcos hardware to do wiretapping(record it to a signed file etc). I could really not understand why organised crime(and these dudes were fighting high up type organised crime) dudes would talk openly on a telephone about there activities. Criminals are dumb. The police are generally not that much smarter.
Actually I used to write disk encryption software(For NT/9X) and that was one of our (minor) features. We figured when we wanted to sell to military it might be cute to have a duress passpharse that would shred designated files but boot the OS as if nothing had happened. Alas we never had anyone who was interested.
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Ummm. EU member nations have their own nuclear weapons you know.
My worst one is grad saying things like "Why would I need to know what a binary tree(Insert any kind of very fundamental data structure or algorithm here) is... thats all taken care of in the library".
You just don't want the garbage collection to go wrong.
But hey we canm always build more Kill-bots!
I think you are missing the point. You point 1. is eaxctly the argument the record companies use. They say if there are X downlaods then they have lost X in sales. They are stating that each download is eual to a lost sale. They are say that they *do* know people would have paid for it if they couldnt download it. 2. Again they are not stealing it. They are infringing coypright. Im not apologising for people when I make this point... if we are going to debate this issue then at least state the facts. If they "stole" something they woudl be charged with theft. 3. Is the same as 2. really.
I really couldnt give a rats arse who does and doesnt load Metallicas latest lame album(Im old enough to recall when they were good). The point is we are undergoing a technological shift. Things have changed. CDs and tradional forms of information distribution are dead. As dead as non movable type and the horse and carriage. The body just hasnt hit the ground yet. The current industry will either reform itself to the new situation, die and be replace by those who will adapt to the new situation or attempt to sue and pass totalitarian laws to put a stop to something that is virtually unstoppable.
The poroblem is that you havent really "taken" anything. When you copy a file the original is still there and available for the owners use.
I dont want to get into the whole climate change argument but I feel it must be pointed out that Australia goes thru this same thing everytime there are major bush fires(I was born in semi rural Australia and spent the first 28 years of my life there). Australias environment has adapted to the indigenous population using buring as a hunting method. They have been doing this for around 40000 odd years. What is required in Asutralia is a policy of controlled buring to reduce the build up of combustibles. If you talk to an Australian firefighter she or he will thell you this is obvious. It is not however always obvious to our city populations or politicians who sometimes grow a bit lazy and indiffernet to the problems. Perhaps this recent firestorm was made worse by climate change and perhaps not. For me it is more a pointer that Australians have to be a lot more vigilate about fire. A few years ago many of my friends homes were almost taken out by the fires surrounding Canberra(where I grew up) and destroy a wonderful radio telescope. People forget so quickly what we need to do.
I do agree with you. There is inertia and the DVD will be with us I suspect for a good long time. However there will also be the on demand download movie competing with.
As the the horse and buggy industry, in the UK they managed to get the speed limit of the automobile limited tp 4mph on the grounds that I mentioned in my OP. There is a tradition London to Brighton old time car race that still goes on today to celebrate the lifting of that act. See here
From there
The first run in 1896, organised by Harry J. Lawson,[1] was named "The Emancipation Run": it was originally a celebration of the lifting of the Locomotive Act which had required vehicles to travel no faster than 4 mph (6.4 km/h). This run was started by the symbolic burning of a red flag: the Locomotive Act was popularly known the "Red Flag Act" which had once required cars to be preceded by a person on foot carrying a red flag.
Why live with it. What the bottom line on all of this has nothing to do with what we should or should not do to prevent "piracy" or who is and isnt accountable for allowing it to happen. The bottom line is simply this : The tradional way in which audio, video and textual content is distributed is over. Its finished. Its the automobile replacing the horse and carriage and there is nothing that anybody can do about it. History shows us time and again how this old story plays out. Weather it be the horse whip and buggy manufaturer claiming that cars are dangerous and should not be able to travel faster than a horse, or Luddites smashing cotton spinning machines to protected the cotttage industries they upsurped. The bottom line is that the world has changed again and we learn to live with it.
Exactly. The same principle is applied to taxation. At least it should be :)
He was talking about a one time pad. That is indeed mathematically impossible to decrypt given a random seed source. Like absolutely impossible. As to the RSA and NSA I have no idea what you are talking about. Perhaps you should read this
Wow. You just gave me flashbacks to that accountant character in Ghostbusters. :)
That in fact is exactly what non compete clauses used to be. You agreed to not work in the same field for x years after leaving the company. The other side of the obligation is that the company was required to pay you a salary for x years after you parted ways. that to me sounds like a fair deal.
In physical poker the house has no real motivation to cheat. Poker is a nice steady winner for a casino... they just take a cut of every pot. They are however motivated to have people gamble more money at poker thus increasing the pot.
Ill extend your analogy a little. Once inside the office and out of side of casual observation, he can open the server room door with a sledge hammer.
Yes I recall now. You are correct. I used Visual Prolog towards the end of that course for my final assignment(I only "purchased" a copy from a friend then)... alas the prolog environment we used was developed by some academic institution so we were given that(was pretty primitive and incomplete). My lecturer was a Prolog guy and I think he had something do to with its development(he also wrote the text we used in class :) )... I think was being disparaging based on my tools. Im always doing that.
When I did a software engineering course we were using prolog. Nothing like writing a two page prolog program(for non prolog people two pages is pretty big), running it and having the result of "no"(or worse still... expecting output and getting "yes"... yes? yes what you pile of crap?). Going thru a prolog debugger is an exercisse in insanity as well.
Thats the ways it works. I wrote a media streaming product once back in the day which was intended for such things as piping muzak and video ads in public spaces. We had to negoiate with the Australian branch of these guys. At first they wanted 30% off the top... of the entire busines... the business had more products than just the music playing stuff... but they felt they deserved 30% of the money coming from our hardware division also.
Does Lockheed Martin not have a VPN and policies about conducting all company activities through company resources? Most of the large companies I have worked for do. Often for security reasons it is a disciplinary offense to discuss business matters via non company means. I have not worked for Lockheed Martin but have worked for (Australian) security and defense and financial service organisations in the UK and Germany.
Even if you were dealing with someone face to face I suspect you would get a lot more response as a potential client by saying you are representing Lockheed Martin than saying you are electrictroy uid = 912290 from slashdot(if fact you see a similar effect on slashdot... people with lower uids are often seen to be more impressive than higher... I once had a very lower uid but lost it due to neglect and really noticed the differene in mod points).
It was the bubble. I'm a contractor and have had to deal with more than my share of big name working permies who know nothing. I'm dealing (in the UK) with so called senior network engineer who seem to barely understand what a UDP packet is. Ive met developers who seem to take great pride in their lack of understanding of the fundamentals of computer science and software development.
I would try hit you up but I 1. live in London and 2. Am not a network guy... more an software architect/senior developer.
Here to second you about godaddy - slow and unreliable. I have some mail take ~ 6 hours to get thru to me for some reason. We are changing as soon as we get some time in our schedule.
Agreed. I recall the good old days when I waited with anticipation for the next DDJ to come out. Always informative and interesting. There was always at least one article that had nothing to do with my day to day programming job that I read all the way thru because it was cool. RIP DDJ.
Its been a while since I've watched the first terminator but if I recall correctly I think they were 6502 instructions.
I spent 7-8 odd years in the IT security and access control industry. I think you'd be surprised how many people there are with half a brain. For example I once wrote some software to interface to a telcos hardware to do wiretapping(record it to a signed file etc). I could really not understand why organised crime(and these dudes were fighting high up type organised crime) dudes would talk openly on a telephone about there activities. Criminals are dumb. The police are generally not that much smarter.
Actually I used to write disk encryption software(For NT/9X) and that was one of our (minor) features. We figured when we wanted to sell to military it might be cute to have a duress passpharse that would shred designated files but boot the OS as if nothing had happened. Alas we never had anyone who was interested.