Just because someone is at university, it doesn't mean that they have surrendered their rights. The University can set policy and punishment for misuse of University facilities, but they do not exist to support and prosecute the legal claims of others.
The university administrations should say a polite "Thank you for your letter" and file it in the round filing cabinet.
Is it an accident that the RIAA seems only to go after ordinary people in these cases? Given the thousands of cases you would expect the occasional politician, lawyer, rich businessman to be accused.
Yet people who can barely afford the settlement costs seem to be the most common.
If I'm an evil acid spitting pirate I don't care about DRM. If I can hear it or see it, I can copy it. And guess what? There are customers out there who WILL buy a cheap copy made by putting a camera in front of a TV screen.
But, thanks to the special qualities of digital encoding, any given DRM only has to broken ONCE. The cost for the first crack may be high and take a few months, but the second and subsequent copies are effectively free. So my pirate business model is simple and economically valid.
And the killer fact is... if you prevent copying, the number of full price sales doesn't increase.
Balmer doesn't give a damn about the iPhone as a product. However a cellphone is a cellphone is a cellphone; there is little difference between them at the hardware level. Apple are developing an operating system for the iPhone, but with a few changes the same OS will work on a number of cellphones. That is what Microsoft cares about.
Microsoft still doesn't have a strangle hold on cellphone software and Apple is entering the market -- that scares Balmer
Security requires at least two parts. These are commonly described as "something you are" and "something you know". The common username/password pair is an example. For fingerprints, the fingerprint is the "username"; it is not the password. The fact the movies and TV commonly show access control systems that only use the fingerprint doesn't mean that such systems are secure in the real world.
In the end, iPods and similar items are not sufficently valuable to bother with extensive access controls. It's doubtful that the UK police could even be bothered to investigate the theft of an iPod.
As for the content, well, that's what backups are for:-)
One of the major reasons for a confidential voting process taking place in the voting booth is that it is difficult to intimidate the voter or make vote buying effective. As soon as the vote takes place elsewhere all kinds of influences become possible and almost impossible to detect or prevent.
GHB is rare. The use of GHB is rare. Suppose the test kits are 99% accurate. In 1000 tests, there will be 10 false positives. In 1000 people there is probably zero actually carrying GHB. So when some cops jump to a conclusion based on the supposed effectiveness of the test, they are almost always going to be wrong.
It seems that the test kits are a lot less reliable than 99% in some environments which makes them useless.
In situations where the event is rare, the failure mode of the test will dominate the effectiveness of the action taken.
The same faulty thinking is common in anti-terrorism procedures. Actual terrorists are rare and almost every action taken to detect or prevent terrorist acts has a very high false positive rate that makes it useless for the purpose.
Plus Adobe can just release a free, open source flash generation package. Why waste time and money competing against MS when they can dominate the market for free? Of course Adobe doesn't make a lot by giving away the s/w, but there is always a market for support and enhanced versions. Once open flash is established, Adobe can then concentrate on something new.
Just occurred to me.. Are the RIAA/MPIAA proper litigants? It's not their copyright material and although they are contracted to carry out the investigation surely it should be the copyright owner who instigates the legal case.
Come on! You run virtualised web servers because 99.9% of all web servers are idle at any given time. So you put 100 on a server. The customer doesn't see any worse performance with their 3 hits a week page and the ISP makes more money/server.
How many terrorists have been detected, arrested, prosecuted and jailed because of the list?
100, 30, 10, 3, 1, none?
The only measure of success is terrorists captured. You can't assume that a lack of attacks is because of a measure like this; the terrorists may just be having a long vacation.
Instead of the current icons used for stories about RIAA let's use parody versions of the music company logos. It's only fair that the real villains get the credit they deserve.
Why not? Their tactics are intended to scare people into changing their behaviour without regard to the victims involvement in the process. Isn't that the definition of terrorism.
Sadly, none of the current "security theatre" will prevent an attack for the simple reason that it's looking at the wrong people. The vast number of false positives generated by any monitoring of the general population will overwhelm the security forces and and the terrorists only have to be overlooked once while the security must succeed 100% of the time.
The entire scheme of ID cards, enhanced passports, financial tracking etc is a fraud.
There should be a scale, like the Richter scale for earthquakes, for dumb ideas. This one would be 11/10.
Hijacks are very, very rare so the effectiveness of this stupid idea is dominated by the failure modes. The obvious failure mode is accidental activation. This will occur much more often than an actual hijack.
So rather than being a solution, it will be just another cause of flight delays.
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If you arm the students, no student will ever get less than an A.
How is this different to running a couple of copies of Windows in VMWare?
The university administrations should say a polite "Thank you for your letter" and file it in the round filing cabinet.
Is it an accident that the RIAA seems only to go after ordinary people in these cases? Given the thousands of cases you would expect the occasional politician, lawyer, rich businessman to be accused.
Yet people who can barely afford the settlement costs seem to be the most common.
It truly is possible to write BASIC programs in any language......
When you have access to the replay hardware, no "encryption" can ever be secure.
But, thanks to the special qualities of digital encoding, any given DRM only has to broken ONCE. The cost for the first crack may be high and take a few months, but the second and subsequent copies are effectively free. So my pirate business model is simple and economically valid.
And the killer fact is... if you prevent copying, the number of full price sales doesn't increase.
Microsoft still doesn't have a strangle hold on cellphone software and Apple is entering the market -- that scares Balmer
In the end, iPods and similar items are not sufficently valuable to bother with extensive access controls. It's doubtful that the UK police could even be bothered to investigate the theft of an iPod.
As for the content, well, that's what backups are for :-)
One of the major reasons for a confidential voting process taking place in the voting booth is that it is difficult to intimidate the voter or make vote buying effective. As soon as the vote takes place elsewhere all kinds of influences become possible and almost impossible to detect or prevent.
It seems that the test kits are a lot less reliable than 99% in some environments which makes them useless.
In situations where the event is rare, the failure mode of the test will dominate the effectiveness of the action taken.
The same faulty thinking is common in anti-terrorism procedures. Actual terrorists are rare and almost every action taken to detect or prevent terrorist acts has a very high false positive rate that makes it useless for the purpose.
Plus Adobe can just release a free, open source flash generation package. Why waste time and money competing against MS when they can dominate the market for free? Of course Adobe doesn't make a lot by giving away the s/w, but there is always a market for support and enhanced versions. Once open flash is established, Adobe can then concentrate on something new.
Just occurred to me.. Are the RIAA/MPIAA proper litigants? It's not their copyright material and although they are contracted to carry out the investigation surely it should be the copyright owner who instigates the legal case.
...isn't everything the fault of global warming?
Who let this FUD out before it was approved by the global warming mafia?
With the added bonus realization that it only has to happen *once* in the digital domain and you've got "perfect sound (and video) for ever".
Is this supposed to work via some kind of sympathetic magic?
So how does it determine the direction in which the copying took place?
Come on! You run virtualised web servers because 99.9% of all web servers are idle at any given time. So you put 100 on a server. The customer doesn't see any worse performance with their 3 hits a week page and the ISP makes more money/server.
How many terrorists have been detected, arrested, prosecuted and jailed because of the list?
100, 30, 10, 3, 1, none?
The only measure of success is terrorists captured. You can't assume that a lack of attacks is because of a measure like this; the terrorists may just be having a long vacation.
Instead of the current icons used for stories about RIAA let's use parody versions of the music company logos. It's only fair that the real villains get the credit they deserve.
Why not? Their tactics are intended to scare people into changing their behaviour without regard to the victims involvement in the process. Isn't that the definition of terrorism.
So, the broadcasters want to increase direct and indirect costs and persecute their viewers.
There is a management speak phrase, "Managing Decline", and that is exactly what they appear to be doing.
Sadly, none of the current "security theatre" will prevent an attack for the simple reason that it's looking at the wrong people. The vast number of false positives generated by any monitoring of the general population will overwhelm the security forces and and the terrorists only have to be overlooked once while the security must succeed 100% of the time.
The entire scheme of ID cards, enhanced passports, financial tracking etc is a fraud.
Actually, only about 26% of the people voted for the current government.
There should be a scale, like the Richter scale for earthquakes, for dumb ideas.
This one would be 11/10.
Hijacks are very, very rare so the effectiveness of this stupid idea is dominated by the failure modes. The obvious failure mode is accidental activation. This will occur much more often than an actual hijack.
So rather than being a solution, it will be just another cause of flight delays.