We here at/. are paranoid of an Obrwellian future however likely or unlikely. To us, DRM will get much worse if it is at all possible, no matter what the track record.
(It's kind of scary that Google has become so powerful that they can order news corporations around, but I'd rather it be them in power than the news co's.)
So far. Maybe in a few decades, you will wish ten thousand news companies were battling it out instead of Google reigning supreme. You never know what the future will hold. The best of men have given in to temptation. Don't be so sure Google won't.
I understand how he managed to get arbitrary javascript into the page. But how does he manage to display it to other users, since it is returned as an error to the enterer of the javascript?
Nope. It didnt change. What you forgot to take into account is the fact that people arent computers. They dont bid their maximum. Most of the time they dont even know their absolute maximum.
If by bookmarking of podcasts, you are referring to the fact that when you leave one, and return to it, you are in the same place, this is possible on any music or video file. If you right click on it in iTunes and go to Options, you can check the Remember playback position box. Unfortunately, this cant be done in mass, but you can always do it to a few of the files you care about it most on.
There was a psychological study, perhaps someone here will remember the name of it, in which the subject were asked to punish a subject (who actually was an actor participating in the experiment), with increasingly powerful electric shocks whenever they provided the wrong answer. It was done under the guise of a memory experiment. The results showed that everyone who was asked to was willing to deliver a mild shock, and an extraordinary percentage (90%+, I think) went all the way to a lethal shock. This showed the willingness of people to keep going just a little bit further.
People often talk about a slippery slope. Well it exists and a lot of people slip on it. Sure you wont hear "papers please" for a while, but I would rather we not take that critical first step. I'm sure its too late for that now, but lets stop while we still have a shot.
It would be quite helpful. All I would have to do is shutdown your primary and backup sites for a week, and you would never be able to recover the bots.
It would not be a signed message, and would be encrypted to a public key that was widely available. This leaves no cryptographic connection to you that is not plausibly deniable.
The only non cryptographic connection to you would be your email or IM account. GTalk uses your GMail account, so you have that connection with GTalk. If you used AIM, and a mailinator.com email account, there would be almost no connection to you.
I have to wonder what happens if I delete the playlist and recreate an identical one. Will it still be locked out? What if I use a different name for the playlist?
I would try myself, but I dont have any DRMed iTunes music.
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But they won't.
AARG Orwellian.
We here at /. are paranoid of an Obrwellian future however likely or unlikely. To us, DRM will get much worse if it is at all possible, no matter what the track record.
I hereby hijack this subthread for users with even uids only.
I found it very easily on the first page of google.
I understand how he managed to get arbitrary javascript into the page. But how does he manage to display it to other users, since it is returned as an error to the enterer of the javascript?
An honest question, as I dont know too much about him:
Why do we care about Dvorak? What is his significance?
But think of the children!
You're screwed again.
The quote is the key. What you posted is just the ciphertext.
Now that big money is using bittorrent, many ISPs that throttle or block it may have to reconsider their policies on that.
Nope. It didnt change. What you forgot to take into account is the fact that people arent computers. They dont bid their maximum. Most of the time they dont even know their absolute maximum.
This is true of me.
Good. Now that we know this is the problem, lets fix it.
I am going to work to fix it for myself. Your turn.
Take another look at those numbers.
160GB storage: Great!
100MB you can upload or download monthly: Makes it kinda useless for backups, at least initially.
What about the blind people, you insensitive clod?
Yep! Just like the last hundred times, failing to count B.C.
If by bookmarking of podcasts, you are referring to the fact that when you leave one, and return to it, you are in the same place, this is possible on any music or video file. If you right click on it in iTunes and go to Options, you can check the Remember playback position box. Unfortunately, this cant be done in mass, but you can always do it to a few of the files you care about it most on.
This is a great idea as long as people take the time to check that the IP is right. I doubt many will.
Thats why Microsoft is scared and wants to discredit all open source.
If my torrent program can de-DRM my iTunes song, and re-DRM it for someone else, wont this be easily exploited by DRM crackers?
There was a psychological study, perhaps someone here will remember the name of it, in which the subject were asked to punish a subject (who actually was an actor participating in the experiment), with increasingly powerful electric shocks whenever they provided the wrong answer. It was done under the guise of a memory experiment. The results showed that everyone who was asked to was willing to deliver a mild shock, and an extraordinary percentage (90%+, I think) went all the way to a lethal shock. This showed the willingness of people to keep going just a little bit further.
People often talk about a slippery slope. Well it exists and a lot of people slip on it. Sure you wont hear "papers please" for a while, but I would rather we not take that critical first step. I'm sure its too late for that now, but lets stop while we still have a shot.
It would be quite helpful. All I would have to do is shutdown your primary and backup sites for a week, and you would never be able to recover the bots.
It would not be a signed message, and would be encrypted to a public key that was widely available. This leaves no cryptographic connection to you that is not plausibly deniable.
The only non cryptographic connection to you would be your email or IM account. GTalk uses your GMail account, so you have that connection with GTalk. If you used AIM, and a mailinator.com email account, there would be almost no connection to you.
So any change, even if the end result is the same playlist, will work?
I have to wonder what happens if I delete the playlist and recreate an identical one. Will it still be locked out? What if I use a different name for the playlist?
I would try myself, but I dont have any DRMed iTunes music.