Sorry, but say you want to write a utility to convert one file format to another. Working out the formats would probably come under reverse engineering.
I agree under that legislation they'd be in trouble, but the UK government has a nasty habit of falling in line with whatever silly ideas cross the pond.
To us these sorts of statutes are so obviously stupid. To politicians they make great sense.
Maybe it is because the vast majority of politicians are lawyers.
BTW they're expecting around 30,000 of them to come over to London for some great Lawyer love-in this summer. All I can say is thanks pal, we'll do the same for you one day...
Don't underestimate the power of the consumer. If they want a separate box for everything then they will get a separate box for everything.
Not many people want to power a computer up, rattle keys, whizz a mouse around and all the attendant house keeping. They want to get home from work, crack open a beer and slob.
Now, if someone could think up a way for all these household electrics to play nicely with each other...
This story is a little confused compared to what I posted up to/. some days ago...
Hackers do spoof to hide their origin address, but what these perps did was to change URLs to a box in China.
My thought is: due to the control the Chinese Gov't exerts on their populaces boxes, and even stronger one would suppose on a 'government site'; how come there was a page waiting at the other end? (allegedly).
I was taught: X is the unknown quantity, a spurt is a drip under pressure.
So a 1 in 56 chance actually happening blows the minds of some 'American experts'. Scary is the word that comes to mind. So it's easy to mock journalists. Mock mock mock.
From what I've experienced it only seems to work with some American CD's. Out of my (expansive) CD collection I only got The Verve: Urban Hymns to be recognised.
If I reverse engineered this closed library. Would I get into trouble like that DeCSS chap? I would like to find, out of general interest, what attributes relate to which album by send lots of pseudo randomly generated data sets upto the server.
I agree. If someone phoned me up and asked me these questions, they are so long I would have forgotten the beginning before they got to the end, so I wouldn't know which way to answer, even if I had an opinion. See what I mean?
I am so glad I encourage my children to use Linux (not that it takes much). Now when they are older and looking for jobs they will have a head start over all those who were saddled them with dead end systems and taught outmoded systems theory either at school or from their parents employers.
I do think a generation of drones is in the making.
Cash flow is everything. For example: if you can get a client payment to come in as multiple parts over a period rather than as a lump sum 90 days later, things will be so so so much easier.
Benjamin Franklin said some things about this in his speech Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy delivered during the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
The upside is that such organizations always have as their main aim the consolidation of their own position. Whenever this aim clashes with others, the bureaucracy sacrifices the purpose rather than jeopardize its own privileges. Hence it will less and less serve the purpose to which it was founded, eventually becoming redundant.
HCF==Halt and Catch Fire. It used to be a wizard wheez for a certain type to go into Office Equipment shops, type a few lines of BASIC and watch the machine die with a little whisp of smoke curling out of the back. Ah reminiscences, the BSOD just doesn't have the same cachet.
At Bletchley Park they used to have this wonderful card index system. The only problem was that the table legs used to give out on account of the weight.
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Sorry, but say you want to write a utility to convert one file format to another. Working out the formats would probably come under reverse engineering.
Maybe it is because the vast majority of politicians are lawyers.
BTW they're expecting around 30,000 of them to come over to London for some great Lawyer love-in this summer. All I can say is thanks pal, we'll do the same for you one day...
Not many people want to power a computer up, rattle keys, whizz a mouse around and all the attendant house keeping. They want to get home from work, crack open a beer and slob.
Now, if someone could think up a way for all these household electrics to play nicely with each other...
Here's a nice one.
Don't you yanks have nice retirement homes?
Hackers do spoof to hide their origin address, but what these perps did was to change URLs to a box in China.
My thought is: due to the control the Chinese Gov't exerts on their populaces boxes, and even stronger one would suppose on a 'government site'; how come there was a page waiting at the other end? (allegedly).
X is the unknown quantity,
a spurt is a drip under pressure.
So a 1 in 56 chance actually happening blows the minds of some 'American experts'. Scary is the word that comes to mind. So it's easy to mock journalists. Mock mock mock.
Why should a motive be necessary? Some people go out with spray cans and tag everything that'll accept paint (and somethings that won't).
Fnar fnar.
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I heard of a NATO cypher clerk who accidentally ripped two pages off one evening. Much fun was had for several days as the decrypt still made sense.
Where can I get a dual Athlon mobo that'll run with this things speed?
From what I've experienced it only seems to work with some American CD's. Out of my (expansive) CD collection I only got The Verve: Urban Hymns to be recognised.
If I reverse engineered this closed library. Would I get into trouble like that DeCSS chap? I would like to find, out of general interest, what attributes relate to which album by send lots of pseudo randomly generated data sets upto the server.
I agree.
If someone phoned me up and asked me these questions, they are so long I would have forgotten the beginning before they got to the end, so I wouldn't know which way to answer, even if I had an opinion.
See what I mean?
I do think a generation of drones is in the making.
Cash flow is everything. For example: if you can get a client payment to come in as multiple parts over a period rather than as a lump sum 90 days later, things will be so so so much easier.
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The upside is that such organizations always have as their main aim the consolidation of their own position. Whenever this aim clashes with others, the bureaucracy sacrifices the purpose rather than jeopardize its own privileges. Hence it will less and less serve the purpose to which it was founded, eventually becoming redundant.
Me to.
HCF==Halt and Catch Fire. It used to be a wizard wheez for a certain type to go into Office Equipment shops, type a few lines of BASIC and watch the machine die with a little whisp of smoke curling out of the back. Ah reminiscences, the BSOD just doesn't have the same cachet.
At Bletchley Park they used to have this wonderful card index system. The only problem was that the table legs used to give out on account of the weight.
I would suggest the Tank. Invented 13th June 1900 by Major General Sir Ernest Swinton.
Could someone stick the puzzles on the back of the NSA form up on the web so that we might now have a little fun seeing how quickly they can be done?