Not as bad as it sounds, actually. In practice, the openness of personal information here mostly means that the average citizen has access to the same information that "the man" allready has.
Sure. My neighbour can check my tax records. I bet your american neighbor could too. All it would take is a friend in the right place, or some quiet dollars.
... or what do you say "Firstly, rightholders have complete control over the manufacture, distribution etc. of devices designed to circumvent anti-copying devices. A more flexible solution in this regard would have carried a greater risk of abuse and piracy.
Secondly, the Directive provides that rightholders either voluntarily or by way of agreements with other parties have to provide
those who would benefit from a particular exception e.g. schools, libraries in the case of teaching, with the means to do so. It will
be up to Member States to ensure that such means exist."
(My empasis)
So, rightholders have legal protection for their encryptions schemes, but they must provide a bypass for "fair use" copies.
SQL-server is actually quite a decent piece of software.
It is *very* convenient to develop for, but something of a pain to maintain. (Depending on wether or not you know your stuff)
I'd say that SQL server works as well as DB2 and Oracle as long as you do not have extreme load.
Of course, again, you must know your stuff. Don't use all fancy wizards and widgets. Script everything and skip the GUI and you'll be fine...
DC had this interesting idea.
Hey! Perhaps one can connect the barcodes with ads and make a buck?
But regular people can't scan barcodes, they lack the hardware!
Oh bummer, lets give away barcode scanners for free! Then people can scan away at the barcodes and we can sell all the ads we want.
Now, the problem was that noone was very interested in scanning barcodes and get to the ads. We get ads enough as is without scanning any badcodes for it.
On top of that someone cracked their coding.
That *would* threat their source of income *if* someone else started to sell barcode-ads. Guess what? Nobody did. There was not enough market for barcode ads to support DC.
A CueCat scanner used to play aroun with is no more threat to DC than a CC not used at all.
Wasn't that Hober Mallow?
"Mallow, Hober. Master Trader from Smyrno and first of the "Merchant Princes". Negotiated a trade
agreement with the Commdor of Korell, Asper Argo, while working as a agent for the Foundation. Indicted for
the murder of an Anacreonian Priest on Korell, but was acquitted after he demonstrated the the priest was
really a member of the Korellian Secret Police. Overthrew Jorane Sutt and became Mayor of Terminus.
Changed Foundation foreign policy away from the Priesthood and toward free trade. "
It's already impossible to watch the (unedited) olympics, and always has been. Surely you weren't going to claim the IOC allows
open unedited broadcasts....
Nah, just insinuating that some tv companies are worse than others (as reported)
Seriously, though. It would be very easy to alter history, if the stations official archive was the *only* archive. (No Trotskij was never there, see nowhere in our pictures, and if you have any record of him being there, you are a PIRATE!)
No, there will be no real-time shows on TV. It will all be downloadable, for a price.
Only live envents will be sent in real time, and rest assure that you will be able to purchase it afterwards. You will get your content whenever you want it, you'll just have to pay for it...
Too bad if you want to watch the (unedited) olympics and happen to be in the US though.
Next thing the free software guys will be trying to tell me that I can't put a chain on my bike!
Nope, You cannot put a chain on your bike. The bike company provided your bike with its own patented locking mechanism, and by putting a chain on your bike, you would alter their copyrighted bike-design...
OK you do have a point or two. Much of the talk about the freedom of information may really just be whining for a free lunch.
BUT
There are laws regarding copyright. They do NOT give the copyright exclusive rights to published content. Some things are explicitly excluded. (fair use)
What the various copy protection schemes aim at is *total* control of published content, that is beyond the copyright given by law.
And no, piracy does not make companies go bust. (show me one single example that it does)
Piracy limits the profit margin for popular content, true, but popular content, makes money anyway and less popular content is less widely pirated.
I wrote '"safe"' not 'safe'. As in "(cost of additional security) + (cost of extra hassle for users) > (risk of successful attack)*(cost of a haxored system)"
Where I work. Most development database servers still have the default admin uid/pwd combo. Why? is that not irresponsible? NO!
a) They *are* behind good firewalls. Any external hacker would have much more interesting targets.
b) People jump from project to project. People quit. Keping track of different passwords would be a pain.
c) The potential internal haxors must have a life, since they don't abuse the situation (and what haxor type would bother to crack a wide open server?)
d) There is nothing really secret on them anyway.
A backdoor *in a high security environent* is never a good idea.
But if you are a sysadmin, responsible for a lot of users, and your network is "safe" from external attacks, you might consider a back door into the workstations. *Never* into anything secret, like most servers, but into workstations.
The worst thing that can happen is one user hacking into another users machine.
The solution, like the telephone system, is to have a handfull of standard numbers for these services. So
http://1/1/1, 1/1/2 , 1/1/3 etc could be assigned to search engines and 1/2/1, 1/2/2 etc to directory services.
Fine, but do you know how many search engines there are out there? Or how many there were when google launched? Who would be using the cutting edge search engine 1/1/3867?
Question: What are six words you DON'T want to hear your girlfriend say?
Answer:
- B46y 600t3d up, U R 0wnd!
- PLEASE READ THIS LOVELETTER FOR YOU
- Where is that cute little paperclip?
- I looked at your cashed gifs...
- Condoms? my last boyfriend hated them.
- No way you'll get root back.
I'd say he just purchased a HouseKeeper (TM pend) marketed as "all you need to run a home"
One of the features of HouseKeeper is to be able to fetch various items from the household for a person requesting it.
As a default, HouseKeeper is configured to fetch anything for anyone. At page 384 in the manual there are (slightly outdated) instructions on how to restrict access to that functionality, for example set it to refuse to fetch the gun for anybody but you, but happliy lend a neighbour a cup of sugar.
Now due to either a bug in HouseKeeper, a faulty manual or negligence, the owner failed to restrict anonymous access to the fetch(gun) command. This, luckily, did not result in a killing spree, but "only" in some late night target practice, which caused considerable irritation for a lot of people and a lot of work patching bullet holes the following day.
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Sounds like Heinlein by the style, though I don't recognize the story.
Not as bad as it sounds, actually. In practice, the openness of personal information here mostly means that the average citizen has access to the same information that "the man" allready has.
Sure. My neighbour can check my tax records. I bet your american neighbor could too. All it would take is a friend in the right place, or some quiet dollars.
But it will be sued out of existance for infringing on the intellectual property of Adams...
My boss keeps putting pressure in my back, but all I can see ahead is vacuum...
"Firstly, rightholders have complete control over the manufacture, distribution etc. of devices designed to circumvent anti-copying devices. A more flexible solution in this regard would have carried a greater risk of abuse and piracy.
Secondly, the Directive provides that rightholders either voluntarily or by way of agreements with other parties have to provide those who would benefit from a particular exception e.g. schools, libraries in the case of teaching, with the means to do so. It will be up to Member States to ensure that such means exist."
(My empasis)
So, rightholders have legal protection for their encryptions schemes, but they must provide a bypass for "fair use" copies.
Or have the trolls taken over Texas?
RIAA == decrypt(MPAA)?
Damn! I guess I just broke an encryption scheme...
It is *very* convenient to develop for, but something of a pain to maintain. (Depending on wether or not you know your stuff)
I'd say that SQL server works as well as DB2 and Oracle as long as you do not have extreme load.
Of course, again, you must know your stuff. Don't use all fancy wizards and widgets. Script everything and skip the GUI and you'll be fine...
Once you're trapped inside you'll witness the power of this fully armed and operational OS...
Hey! Perhaps one can connect the barcodes with ads and make a buck?
But regular people can't scan barcodes, they lack the hardware!
Oh bummer, lets give away barcode scanners for free! Then people can scan away at the barcodes and we can sell all the ads we want.
Now, the problem was that noone was very interested in scanning barcodes and get to the ads. We get ads enough as is without scanning any badcodes for it.
On top of that someone cracked their coding.
That *would* threat their source of income *if* someone else started to sell barcode-ads. Guess what? Nobody did. There was not enough market for barcode ads to support DC.
A CueCat scanner used to play aroun with is no more threat to DC than a CC not used at all.
Wasn't that Hober Mallow?
"Mallow, Hober. Master Trader from Smyrno and first of the "Merchant Princes". Negotiated a trade agreement with the Commdor of Korell, Asper Argo, while working as a agent for the Foundation. Indicted for the murder of an Anacreonian Priest on Korell, but was acquitted after he demonstrated the the priest was really a member of the Korellian Secret Police. Overthrew Jorane Sutt and became Mayor of Terminus. Changed Foundation foreign policy away from the Priesthood and toward free trade. "
Lolita
Or the Bible?
Nah, just insinuating that some tv companies are worse than others (as reported)
Seriously, though. It would be very easy to alter history, if the stations official archive was the *only* archive. (No Trotskij was never there, see nowhere in our pictures, and if you have any record of him being there, you are a PIRATE!)
Only live envents will be sent in real time, and rest assure that you will be able to purchase it afterwards. You will get your content whenever you want it, you'll just have to pay for it...
Too bad if you want to watch the (unedited) olympics and happen to be in the US though.
Nope, You cannot put a chain on your bike. The bike company provided your bike with its own patented locking mechanism, and by putting a chain on your bike, you would alter their copyrighted bike-design...
OK you do have a point or two. Much of the talk about the freedom of information may really just be whining for a free lunch.
BUT
There are laws regarding copyright. They do NOT give the copyright exclusive rights to published content. Some things are explicitly excluded. (fair use)
What the various copy protection schemes aim at is *total* control of published content, that is beyond the copyright given by law.
And no, piracy does not make companies go bust. (show me one single example that it does)
Piracy limits the profit margin for popular content, true, but popular content, makes money anyway and less popular content is less widely pirated.
I wrote '"safe"' not 'safe'. As in "(cost of additional security) + (cost of extra hassle for users) > (risk of successful attack)*(cost of a haxored system)"
Where I work. Most development database servers still have the default admin uid/pwd combo. Why? is that not irresponsible? NO!
a) They *are* behind good firewalls. Any external hacker would have much more interesting targets.
b) People jump from project to project. People quit. Keping track of different passwords would be a pain.
c) The potential internal haxors must have a life, since they don't abuse the situation (and what haxor type would bother to crack a wide open server?)
d) There is nothing really secret on them anyway.
Well, thanks for elaborating my second paragraph ;-)
A backdoor *in a high security environent* is never a good idea.
But if you are a sysadmin, responsible for a lot of users, and your network is "safe" from external attacks, you might consider a back door into the workstations. *Never* into anything secret, like most servers, but into workstations.
The worst thing that can happen is one user hacking into another users machine.
Though, in principle, you're right of course.
A *global* back door otoh is just a disaster waiting to happen.
Limits on US imports are not.
Sad but true.
Fine, but do you know how many search engines there are out there? Or how many there were when google launched? Who would be using the cutting edge search engine 1/1/3867?
Answer:
- B46y 600t3d up, U R 0wnd!
- PLEASE READ THIS LOVELETTER FOR YOU
- Where is that cute little paperclip?
- I looked at your cashed gifs...
- Condoms? my last boyfriend hated them.
- No way you'll get root back.
You really mean "...what is so hard about using 64.209.200.100 to find something..." don't you?
I guess you just answered your own question.
One of the features of HouseKeeper is to be able to fetch various items from the household for a person requesting it.
As a default, HouseKeeper is configured to fetch anything for anyone. At page 384 in the manual there are (slightly outdated) instructions on how to restrict access to that functionality, for example set it to refuse to fetch the gun for anybody but you, but happliy lend a neighbour a cup of sugar.
Now due to either a bug in HouseKeeper, a faulty manual or negligence, the owner failed to restrict anonymous access to the fetch(gun) command. This, luckily, did not result in a killing spree, but "only" in some late night target practice, which caused considerable irritation for a lot of people and a lot of work patching bullet holes the following day.