So let's say I buy a pair of shoes with an RFID tag in them and I don't like this. Never mind I haven't heard of a single shoe manufacturer proposing to do this, let's just say it happens. All I should have to do is run the shoes through the microwave and the RFID tag should fry, right?
I just bought a pair of skis that have RFID tags in them. What do you suggest I do?
- It would require 100,000 liters of ink to write down all the 1's and 0's - It would take 400 years to transmit it over a 14.4 kbps modem
* Requiring about 10 Giga Joules - If each bit was encoded on a single hydrogen atom, the whold db would weight about 0.1 mg - If ones are transmitted as a single (infrared) photon, it would take 0.01 Joules to transmit the whole db
* You could transmit it 100 times with the energy of a mouse trap - It would require about one year for a million monkeys to type it in (without having to guess)
It's better to avoid the problem and ensure that GPL'ed software is honestly free by not allowing it to be DRM'ed at all.
They can't do it directly, because they would 1) need to have a good definition of DRM and 2) it would mean you can't modify the code any way you like. The clause they include is good because they make sure nobody can use the law (e.g. DMCA) to prevent you from modifying a piece of GPL code (removing DRM).
With the current GPL, I could take GPL movie player and add a feature to decrypt my DRM format. Now, anyone who simply modifies my GPL DRM version could be sued under the DMCA. The code is GPL, but nobody is allowed to modify it (remove DRM part), which goes against the spirit of the GPL. With the new clause, if I add DRM stuff in the code, the license "makes me say" that it isn't really DRM in the first place, so it's harder for me to sue if someone removes it.
Third party movie studios can still claim that CSS is effective
They never intended to protect against 3rd parties (they can't). They're only trying to prevent a person/company from distributing GPL DRM software and then suing when someone removes the DRM from it.
I think I understand what they're trying to do with this. Without the clause, I could (theoretically) take a GPL program, add "pseudo-DRM" to it and then sue whoever removes that DRM from the (GPL) code using the DMCA. With the clause, I'm "forced" (if I want to distribute the program) to state that my stuff isn't an "effective technological protection measure" (which I assume is the phrasing of the DMCA). Would be much harder to defend in a court "Yes, I know we say in the license that it's not an effective technological protection measure, but we for the purpose of this lawsuit, we would like to change our mind...". Anyway, I'm not sure how strong a protection it offers, but I can't see that really hurting anyone.
Not quite. If Mass. says that all their documents have to be exchanged in ODF, then people will be forced to export from doc to ODF. Others will complain about the quality of the ODF documents produced by Word and eventually they'll move to OpenOffice. Instead, what I suspect is that MS will try to "embrace and extend" ODF any way they can so that Word still reads everything fine, while other implementations have a harder time.
In any case, if ODF really gets implemented in the end, it going to have at least a good consequence, either 1) MS will be forced to support ODF or 2) There will be a large organisation switching to OpenOffice or another Word alternative.
...the vehicles could reportedly reach more than 130 degrees. 'It's like putting somebody in a toaster oven on low heat,...
OK, so I have the temperature on the Fahrenheit scale and on the "kitchen appliances" scale. Now, how about a SI unit like, say, degrees Celcius (or Kelvin, why not)?
What the hell are you talking about??? North American houses get 220-240 Volts. The only difference with Europe is that it's done in a two-phase/three wire way (+110, 0, -110) so you can get 110 V for most of the stuff and 220 for "big" appliances. I'm not sure what gets carried by the neighborhood power lines (before transformer), but I'm pretty sure it's not just 220 V (must be three-phase, thousand volts or something like that).
Sure, let me know when you implement Voice over Port Knocking:-) Seriously, they don't have to make it impossible to reach certain things, just make it inconvenient and (especially) slow.
In closing, the US needs to sell $3,000,000,000 in bonds everyday to China just to keep running. If they really wished us harm they could just stop buying our debt.
Of course not. The buy the US debt so that they get financial control over your country. Once they a couple $1e12 USD worth of bonds, they have the power to make the country bankrupt, hence they can start dictating what you do.
Not quite. At least for the most popular topics, there *is* reviewing of the content and incorrect information is more likely to be corrected than on a random web page. For more obscure topics, yes it's pretty much the same I'd say.
We have, particularly in the last 20 years, taken on an anti-intellectualism stance that borders on the kind of thing that you see in HS jocks, where they apparently take their pride in NOT being intellectual. It's as if being educated about science and history (meaning, using books other than The Bible) becomes an immediate mark of suspicion.
I find it funny/scary how close this description is to the Taliban (just change the economic context).
So if I proposed a system that blocked the car from going over 200 km/h, would you say it's still a good idea to go that speed in case of an emergency? If not, what do you think should be the limit. I wouldn't like the idea of all cars to be locked at 100 km/h, but I see no reason not to block at around 120 or 130.
Lets organize a law to create state agencies that get to take over and maintain the phone and cable lines and poles and conduits for a monthly utility fee, just like happens with highways or other city run utilities.
<sarcasm> What? You mean denying big corporations their rights to overcharge customers? What kind of anti-free market communist are you? If your American, it's time to hide before they get you. </sarcasm>
No matter what they do, the various Christian extremist groups will be against it.
I don't get it. If i were one of those Christian extremists, I'd be backing this.xxx TLD. Then I'd push for all porn to be required to move to.xxx TLD. Then I'd push to force US ISPs to "block" (DNS null route) the.xxx TLD. What's next? Well maybe a.dw TLD for all that evil Darwinist propaganda?
In related news, only 4% of Internet users can flag 100% of phishing e-mails as fraudulent
Had a look at the test and this is not surprising. Basically, they just take a screenshot of the mail reader window, ripping out any info (headers, html source) that could be of any help. Not to mention that as long as you assume anything you get from your bank/ebay/paypal/... is *potentially* a phishing e-mail, you don't have to actually be able to tell the difference. Education should not be about recognizing phishing emails because phishers will always be ahead. However, if you *never* click on a link and always use bookmarks (to bank and all) you have, then there's nothing a phisher can do. Of course, education should also be for institutions like my bank which includes its website URL in emails they send me (they're encouraging their customers to learn bad habits).
One bit wrong could create a document that causes other applications trying to read it to crash.
Am I the only one thinking that if your app crashes because one bit in a file is wrong, then not only is the app badly written, but the bug is also probably exploitable to run arbitrary code (buffer overflow and all)? Of course, I get the original idea that if a small detail is wrong, the file may be considered invalid.
Except that left and right are very relative. I'm sure most people in Texas would say the Washington Post has a "left" bias and many Europeans and Canadians would think most of the media on your list have a "right" bias. Same way with parties, the US democrats would be qualified as "right wing" in many other countries. Yet Chirac (French "right wing") would probably be qualified as "left wing" in the US.
Oh, I'm not saying anyone in the right mind would ever consider Windows for a supercomputer. Just that in this particular case, the money itself isn't that much of an issue. If an OS costs you 300$/CPU and improved the performance by just 10%, it would most likely be worth it. Of course, Windows would probably do the opposite, but that's another thing.
While Windows probably wouldn't make sense for many other reasons, price is probably the least of the issues. Given how expensive the interconnects are in these machines, 300$ CPU is negligeable.
Resonance occurs at multiple of half-wavelengths, so the first resonance would occur at around (depending on humidity, pressure, and all) 172 meters. I doubt your bathroom is that large:-)
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So let's say I buy a pair of shoes with an RFID tag in them and I don't like this. Never mind I haven't heard of a single shoe manufacturer proposing to do this, let's just say it happens. All I should have to do is run the shoes through the microwave and the RFID tag should fry, right?
I just bought a pair of skis that have RFID tags in them. What do you suggest I do?
More nerdly examples, please.
- It would require 100,000 liters of ink to write down all the 1's and 0's
- It would take 400 years to transmit it over a 14.4 kbps modem
* Requiring about 10 Giga Joules
- If each bit was encoded on a single hydrogen atom, the whold db would weight about 0.1 mg
- If ones are transmitted as a single (infrared) photon, it would take 0.01 Joules to transmit the whole db
* You could transmit it 100 times with the energy of a mouse trap
- It would require about one year for a million monkeys to type it in (without having to guess)
It's better to avoid the problem and ensure that GPL'ed software is honestly free by not allowing it to be DRM'ed at all.
They can't do it directly, because they would 1) need to have a good definition of DRM and 2) it would mean you can't modify the code any way you like. The clause they include is good because they make sure nobody can use the law (e.g. DMCA) to prevent you from modifying a piece of GPL code (removing DRM).
With the current GPL, I could take GPL movie player and add a feature to decrypt my DRM format. Now, anyone who simply modifies my GPL DRM version could be sued under the DMCA. The code is GPL, but nobody is allowed to modify it (remove DRM part), which goes against the spirit of the GPL. With the new clause, if I add DRM stuff in the code, the license "makes me say" that it isn't really DRM in the first place, so it's harder for me to sue if someone removes it.
Third party movie studios can still claim that CSS is effective
They never intended to protect against 3rd parties (they can't). They're only trying to prevent a person/company from distributing GPL DRM software and then suing when someone removes the DRM from it.
This is exactly what I wrote. ;-)
I think I understand what they're trying to do with this. Without the clause, I could (theoretically) take a GPL program, add "pseudo-DRM" to it and then sue whoever removes that DRM from the (GPL) code using the DMCA. With the clause, I'm "forced" (if I want to distribute the program) to state that my stuff isn't an "effective technological protection measure" (which I assume is the phrasing of the DMCA). Would be much harder to defend in a court "Yes, I know we say in the license that it's not an effective technological protection measure, but we for the purpose of this lawsuit, we would like to change our mind...". Anyway, I'm not sure how strong a protection it offers, but I can't see that really hurting anyone.
Not quite. If Mass. says that all their documents have to be exchanged in ODF, then people will be forced to export from doc to ODF. Others will complain about the quality of the ODF documents produced by Word and eventually they'll move to OpenOffice. Instead, what I suspect is that MS will try to "embrace and extend" ODF any way they can so that Word still reads everything fine, while other implementations have a harder time.
In any case, if ODF really gets implemented in the end, it going to have at least a good consequence, either 1) MS will be forced to support ODF or 2) There will be a large organisation switching to OpenOffice or another Word alternative.
...the vehicles could reportedly reach more than 130 degrees. 'It's like putting somebody in a toaster oven on low heat,...
OK, so I have the temperature on the Fahrenheit scale and on the "kitchen appliances" scale. Now, how about a SI unit like, say, degrees Celcius (or Kelvin, why not)?
What the hell are you talking about??? North American houses get 220-240 Volts. The only difference with Europe is that it's done in a two-phase/three wire way (+110, 0, -110) so you can get 110 V for most of the stuff and 220 for "big" appliances. I'm not sure what gets carried by the neighborhood power lines (before transformer), but I'm pretty sure it's not just 220 V (must be three-phase, thousand volts or something like that).
How about "port knocking" as a data transport?
:-) Seriously, they don't have to make it impossible to reach certain things, just make it inconvenient and (especially) slow.
Sure, let me know when you implement Voice over Port Knocking
In closing, the US needs to sell $3,000,000,000 in bonds everyday to China just to keep running. If they really wished us harm they could just stop buying our debt.
Of course not. The buy the US debt so that they get financial control over your country. Once they a couple $1e12 USD worth of bonds, they have the power to make the country bankrupt, hence they can start dictating what you do.
Not quite. At least for the most popular topics, there *is* reviewing of the content and incorrect information is more likely to be corrected than on a random web page. For more obscure topics, yes it's pretty much the same I'd say.
We have, particularly in the last 20 years, taken on an anti-intellectualism stance that borders on the kind of thing that you see in HS jocks, where they apparently take their pride in NOT being intellectual. It's as if being educated about science and history (meaning, using books other than The Bible) becomes an immediate mark of suspicion.
I find it funny/scary how close this description is to the Taliban (just change the economic context).
So if I proposed a system that blocked the car from going over 200 km/h, would you say it's still a good idea to go that speed in case of an emergency? If not, what do you think should be the limit. I wouldn't like the idea of all cars to be locked at 100 km/h, but I see no reason not to block at around 120 or 130.
Lets organize a law to create state agencies that get to take over and maintain the phone and cable lines and poles and conduits for a monthly utility fee, just like happens with highways or other city run utilities.
<sarcasm>
What? You mean denying big corporations their rights to overcharge customers? What kind of anti-free market communist are you? If your American, it's time to hide before they get you.
</sarcasm>
he only believes in having control over exactly what he wants you to see first.
And then be liable for at least that content. But they'll probably get the law changed too, so it's a non issue.
No matter what they do, the various Christian extremist groups will be against it.
.xxx TLD. Then I'd push for all porn to be required to move to .xxx TLD. Then I'd push to force US ISPs to "block" (DNS null route) the .xxx TLD. What's next? Well maybe a .dw TLD for all that evil Darwinist propaganda?
I don't get it. If i were one of those Christian extremists, I'd be backing this
In related news, only 4% of Internet users can flag 100% of phishing e-mails as fraudulent
Had a look at the test and this is not surprising. Basically, they just take a screenshot of the mail reader window, ripping out any info (headers, html source) that could be of any help. Not to mention that as long as you assume anything you get from your bank/ebay/paypal/... is *potentially* a phishing e-mail, you don't have to actually be able to tell the difference. Education should not be about recognizing phishing emails because phishers will always be ahead. However, if you *never* click on a link and always use bookmarks (to bank and all) you have, then there's nothing a phisher can do. Of course, education should also be for institutions like my bank which includes its website URL in emails they send me (they're encouraging their customers to learn bad habits).
What? Of course it's released. You can get it on ftp.sco.com right next to the 2.7 Linux kernel.
One bit wrong could create a document that causes other applications trying to read it to crash.
Am I the only one thinking that if your app crashes because one bit in a file is wrong, then not only is the app badly written, but the bug is also probably exploitable to run arbitrary code (buffer overflow and all)? Of course, I get the original idea that if a small detail is wrong, the file may be considered invalid.
Except that left and right are very relative. I'm sure most people in Texas would say the Washington Post has a "left" bias and many Europeans and Canadians would think most of the media on your list have a "right" bias. Same way with parties, the US democrats would be qualified as "right wing" in many other countries. Yet Chirac (French "right wing") would probably be qualified as "left wing" in the US.
Oh, I'm not saying anyone in the right mind would ever consider Windows for a supercomputer. Just that in this particular case, the money itself isn't that much of an issue. If an OS costs you 300$/CPU and improved the performance by just 10%, it would most likely be worth it. Of course, Windows would probably do the opposite, but that's another thing.
While Windows probably wouldn't make sense for many other reasons, price is probably the least of the issues. Given how expensive the interconnects are in these machines, 300$ CPU is negligeable.
does that mean that the GPL is *NOT* open source?
No, it is not. The GPL is copyrighted by the FSF and modifications to it are not allowed.
Resonance occurs at multiple of half-wavelengths, so the first resonance would occur at around (depending on humidity, pressure, and all) 172 meters. I doubt your bathroom is that large :-)