Neither does TPB, because you can easily find torrents directed at legal material on there. It's the users who decide which torrents to put up and a link is not illegal, whether it's a hyperlink, a magnet or a torrent.
That is a completely naive argument. It is blatantly obvious that TPB's main motivation is to serve pirate magnet links. That someone tucks there an occasional legal torrent does not change the big picture much.
It isn't stealing. When I steal, you don't have what I took from you.
You take away the potential to make money from that copy.
People somehow seem to think that when the reproduction cost for something is zero, it automatically removes all the value from the product and unlimited free copies can be made and no one loses anything.
For example, when you buy a book from a real bookstore, you are not only paying for the printing costs but also the extra value that the bookstore, publisher and the author has set for the item to recoup the production costs. Now we can take the physical printing process and the bookstore out of the equation and if we want, and make unlimited PDF copies or whatever. Does that mean that the publisher and author deserve no compensation?
I'm generally the anti-piracy guy in these Slashdot discussions, but don't view redistributing NES, SNES and N64 games today as a bad thing. The actual cash flows from them have dried a long time ago. If I was, say, a developer of some N64 game, I would give piracy just a good smile and feel flattered that my game is still being played somewhere.
It's a complicated question. It depends on which parts of the game data the drive decides to store in the flash memory. Maybe it's based on "recent popularity" of HDD sectors. In that case it might mean that the levels which you are currently churning through in both games might reside in the flash cache, meaning that both of the games would start up quickly. However if both games actually go through all the data during a session, then there will be some occasional slowdowns in either one or both of the games. But we would need to know the actual behavior of the drive to know all this for sure.
He/she meant Pirated/hacked copies of WINDOWS AND linux, genius. Learn to 'merican.
No, the parent understood the GP correctly. He just talked about the point that it's Linux which is more often "hacked" (by its hacker nature) than Windows.
The script is actually quite cool, but it still has the vulnerability that if someone happens to capture the single secret phrase and figures the method you use to generate the scrambled ones, at that point he too can discover all your passwords for any web site.
The things you learn. I never knew before about JBIG2 and how scanners use it to repeat pieces of image. Seems to me that the JBIG2 parameters are tuned incorrectly in these scanners.
No no no. Please read carefully. The ComputerWorld article says that the final device ("once used to create embedded memory and solid-state drives") can have from 128GB to 1TB of storage. However the article states erroneously "Samsung's new V-NAND offers a 128 bit density in a single chip".
JStylo-Anonymouth (JSAN)?! Could you possible have come up with any more clunky name than that?;) Damn, I should set up some agency just to create punchy names for all these projects.
Also, you think this is going to identify people that type very little? Or have multiple personalities, bipolar disorders or similar?
No, it probably can't. And there's likely to be many, many other scenarios in which it cannot detect the writer reliably. So what? It doesn't have to be completely perfect to be useful.
There is simply not enough data in your post to find that out. You would probably have to write a few paragraphs of text in your natural style to give the algorithm any real chance.
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Neither does TPB, because you can easily find torrents directed at legal material on there. It's the users who decide which torrents to put up and a link is not illegal, whether it's a hyperlink, a magnet or a torrent.
That is a completely naive argument. It is blatantly obvious that TPB's main motivation is to serve pirate magnet links. That someone tucks there an occasional legal torrent does not change the big picture much.
Yes, but they don't index deliberately only pirate links, and remove copyright-violating links on the copyright holder's demand.
While my general point still stands, thanks for the corrections.
Facepalm... that's all I can say.
It isn't stealing. When I steal, you don't have what I took from you.
You take away the potential to make money from that copy.
People somehow seem to think that when the reproduction cost for something is zero, it automatically removes all the value from the product and unlimited free copies can be made and no one loses anything.
For example, when you buy a book from a real bookstore, you are not only paying for the printing costs but also the extra value that the bookstore, publisher and the author has set for the item to recoup the production costs. Now we can take the physical printing process and the bookstore out of the equation and if we want, and make unlimited PDF copies or whatever. Does that mean that the publisher and author deserve no compensation?
Maybe not, but TPB hugely contributes to the efficient indexing of magnet links which point mostly to pirated files.
Why are you giving them free press. Except couple grandmas nobody is using Windows. Much better choices are available.
Shut up. Every news article is "free press" for someone if you look it that way. Windows is a big thing in IT world so it's good to hear about it too.
Is there any hacker functionality, or is it mostly a web browsing and content consumption computer?
I was wondering this too.
I'm generally the anti-piracy guy in these Slashdot discussions, but don't view redistributing NES, SNES and N64 games today as a bad thing. The actual cash flows from them have dried a long time ago. If I was, say, a developer of some N64 game, I would give piracy just a good smile and feel flattered that my game is still being played somewhere.
It's a complicated question. It depends on which parts of the game data the drive decides to store in the flash memory. Maybe it's based on "recent popularity" of HDD sectors. In that case it might mean that the levels which you are currently churning through in both games might reside in the flash cache, meaning that both of the games would start up quickly. However if both games actually go through all the data during a session, then there will be some occasional slowdowns in either one or both of the games. But we would need to know the actual behavior of the drive to know all this for sure.
He/she meant Pirated/hacked copies of WINDOWS AND linux, genius. Learn to 'merican.
No, the parent understood the GP correctly. He just talked about the point that it's Linux which is more often "hacked" (by its hacker nature) than Windows.
The script is actually quite cool, but it still has the vulnerability that if someone happens to capture the single secret phrase and figures the method you use to generate the scrambled ones, at that point he too can discover all your passwords for any web site.
Actually that's an interesting point as it would be completely possible to make a quite good automated AI for that purpose.
Yes, that is true. That's why I still save my long-term archived stuff on optical media.
And yes, I second the motion to stop using Windows -- its full of zero day bugs like this.
Duh. This was a Firefox vulnerability, not Windows.
Exactly. JavaScript is a basic requirement to use the modern web.
The things you learn. I never knew before about JBIG2 and how scanners use it to repeat pieces of image. Seems to me that the JBIG2 parameters are tuned incorrectly in these scanners.
You'd think ComputerWorld would know better...
It's not 128 GB (gigabytes), it's 128 Gb (gigabits) of capacity.
"128 gigabit (Gb) density in a single chip..." - Samsung press release
No no no. Please read carefully. The ComputerWorld article says that the final device ("once used to create embedded memory and solid-state drives") can have from 128GB to 1TB of storage. However the article states erroneously "Samsung's new V-NAND offers a 128 bit density in a single chip".
JStylo-Anonymouth (JSAN)?! Could you possible have come up with any more clunky name than that? ;) Damn, I should set up some agency just to create punchy names for all these projects.
Also, you think this is going to identify people that type very little? Or have multiple personalities, bipolar disorders or similar?
No, it probably can't. And there's likely to be many, many other scenarios in which it cannot detect the writer reliably. So what? It doesn't have to be completely perfect to be useful.
Which person posted this?
There is simply not enough data in your post to find that out. You would probably have to write a few paragraphs of text in your natural style to give the algorithm any real chance.
Comments are generally not deleted in Slashdot. Maybe you were browsing with a score threshold high enough and your questions were already downmodded.
I'd hardly call any industry that uses a physical key "high security" in an age of individually-revokable key card technologies.
How secure can a facility be when the loss of one key means that everyone's keys have to be replaced in order to recode the lock?
Remember that electronic locks can have various vulnerabilities too.
"Do Not Duplicate". Really? That makes them difficult to duplicate? On which planet?
I assume that message was intended for the owner of the key.