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Sorry, I'm just an expression of the slashdot group-think mind-fuck that goes for "copryright reform" discourse here.
The whole point of what NYCL is doing is almost a public service in pushing the final dregs of the the entertainment industry into the 21st Century. They should be fricking _paying_ him for the good this will do them once the pain is over and they come out the other side.
-P
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Here in Australia, our consumer protection department sorted this out about 4 years ago. The 'consumers' they were protecting was of course in this case the independent fuel station operators.
The solution here was to define an Australian Standard Measurement. All fuels must be measured (or compensated) at the temperature of 15 degrees C, everywhere in the country.
Interestingly, the temperature they have chosen also seems close to what you'd expect the natural underground temperature to be in most parts of the country at the depth where fuel is stored. Another win for Aussie common sense?
...while most celebrities are less celebrated... they are an edge case. Most people don't have that enough *legitimate* mail in their inbox to make dumping email a rational response. I agree with the parent post. I switched over to 100% email in 1992 and have been very active online ever since, and in my professional life I've been regularly dealing with entire teams of people. I get such a massive amount of legitimate email (not spam) that last year I decided that it wasn't a quality use of my personal time for me to use email at all.
I've almost completely eliminated email from my personal life now, and I'm not missing it. There has been a slight increase in SMS messages from friends, but since I began ignoring these and turned off my mobile phone's voicemail service things have settled down again.
When I tell people that I don't use email in my personal life their reaction is that they are generally surprised but don't think I'm insane or anything. The only problem is that most people find it hard to imagine how bad a problem legitimate email can become.
a comet exploded over ice-covered Canada 12,900 years ago and triggered a firestorm across North America
According to TFA, the firestorm seems to be the most controversial part of their claims. All the dissenting voices in the article made mention of it.
According to the abstracts of the research, it looks like the strongest evidence of a trans-american firestorm is "... a carbon-rich black layer commonly referred to as a black mat, with a basal age of approximately 12.9 ka,... identified at over 50 sites across North America"
Can any security researchers tell me what GPG key length I should be using in the real world to give me a good trade-off between computational simplicity and future security please? I'm only using crypto for email and secure file storage.
In reality? You probably don't need any crypto at all. Or, in other words; What are you trying to hide that needs to be hidden forever? (Maybe you shouldn't be doing it.) Or are you one of those folks who feels he needs encryption just to get street cred among his fellow geeks - and the larger the key the larger your E-penis is?
I'm an online service provider who resides in a country whose privacy laws have teeth. Crypto is a day to day business tool used to ensure that we always are in complience with all sorts of legal requirements.
This may be total FUD, but I swear I read an article recently showing how the way some of the recent laws were wroded, the RIAA supposedly has the right to collect royalties even for artists who are not on any labels they represent. So, in theory, they could come after me for publishing my own songs (which I composed and performed on my own) on my own web site.
Is the writing on the wall for 1024-bit encryption?"The answer to that question is an unqualified yes," says Lenstra. For the moment the standard is still secure, because it is much more difficult to factor a number made up of two huge prime numbers, such as an RSA number, than it is to factor a number like this one that has a special mathematical form. But the clock is definitely ticking."Last time, it took nine years for us to generalize from a special to a non-special hard-to factor number (155 digits). I won't make predictions, but let's just say it might be a good idea to stay tuned."
Reading Lestra's comments, I get the feeling that he has a fairly high degree of confidence that they will succeed in making the leap to a mathematical generalization within a modest time frame.
Can any security researchers tell me what GPG key length I should be using in the real world to give me a good trade-off between computational simplicity and future security please? I'm only using crypto for email and secure file storage.
The superconductor cable is expected to cost nearly $40 million, funded in part by the US Dept of Homeland Security.
That's rich -- toss in a reference to terrorism into the bid, and you get federal dollars for your project. Lame... and expensive.
However, I think the grid's greatest enemy is it's own users. This country is too power hungry.
I tend to agree with you. I'm not sure that this system addresses any part of the power infrastructure that might actually be vulnerable to human attack. Natural disasters are fine, but have any NYC blackouts in recent decades been caused by nature, or have they all been SNAFU?
Don't want to RTFA? That's fine, this is/. after all. Here's a summary of the main points to get you started:
"Project Hydra" is named after the mythical Greek monster that grew back multiple heads when one was severed. The grid is expected to be able to self-regulate power surges and maintain supply under extreme conditions.
The system's reliability comes from the large number of interconnections that will be made to the power grid under NYC. This is also the driving force behind the need to use HTS materials because the electrical resistance of copper is too high for it to be used.
The superconductor cable is expected to cost nearly $40 million, funded in part by the US Dept of Homeland Security.
The cable is expected to be commissioned for operation in early 2010.
This link is the best place to start if you want to find out more about Team Hydra.
I, for one, welcome our new multi-headed superconducting subterrainian overlords!
Actually, a good economic argument does exist for perpetual copyright... but that same argument would require copyright owners to perpetually pay fees to re-register their works so that the "deadwood" -- works with worthless copyrights -- would fall into the public domain within very short amounts of time, sometimes within 10 years of creation. Thus, the 0.01% of works that are actually worth money 100 years after their creation would continue to be subject to copyright laws, while the 99.99% that isn't making any amount of money would fall into the public domain. The problem with this approach is that there is no way to fairly determine how much the annual copyright extension fee would cost. It would have to be a flat rate that was low enough so that families could easily retain the copyright on, say, cherised family poems, songs and other sentimental forms of intellectual property yet be high enough to reap the economic 'benefits' of allowing Disney to hold on to Mickey for all time.
In addition, it would be necessary for the entire world to shift toward the same system, and much of the rest of the world have had very bad experiences with dynastic styles of public policies that grant special favors to particular families. You might find that you just can't push this sort of idea through other culture's social filters.
Anyway, the killer argument against it is that in the history of ideas there have been some very powerful and important ones, and it would be too risky for society to allow a single family to control some of these ideas forever. Are you seriously suggesting that the Edison family should still hold the entire motion picture industry in their vice like grip? The Ford family? Disney?
I'm using the Nuance voice recorder on my PDA to record dictation, and I've been training Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 to recognise my voice and convert it into text. When I get home I upload the voice files into the desktop computer and it crunches away for an hour running the DNS language recognition engine to turn my speech into text.
I have used older versions of DNS in the past and the current version is a massive improvement. Basically, if you decide that it is worth spending dozens of hours training the software in order to get reasonably accurate transcriptions then I recommend the product. Make sure to always use the same microphone/headset when recording on your PDA and you'll get great results.
If your need for accuracy is high, or you have alternatives to recording dictation, then DNS is still probably not for you. Also note that it is still a very frustrating experience to train DNS for non-american accents. There are at least a few reasonably common words that seem to be simply untrainable using the Australian language model for example.
I'm not sure that it is a good idea for TPB to try to build an real business running a proper internet service. The many software developers here on/. will tell you that there is a massive difference between what it takes to host the current TPB website, and what it would take to develop and deploy a youtube rip-off.
Developing such a site demands a return on investment, which calls for a business model and legitimate corporate structure, which will ultimately require them to protect themselves by censoring their users and removing illegal content.
Looks to me like the start of a slippery slope - if TPB ever goes legit it will bring about the end of an era. Until copyright law is reformed on the international stage, true rebels will have to remain completely outside of the system.
While there may be laws in Thailand against such pictures, there are none in most of the rest of the world.
Not true. Most, perhaps all countries have obscenity laws of some type. In general these laws all work the same and regulate the same sorts of things but they also all contain a common difference all over the world. The legal test for what is, and isn't, obscene is universally delegated to the local country or (in some places) local community to decide.
To put it another way, both the USA and Australia have anti-drug laws but at every level of this legislation our countries differ on what substances are covered and what penalties are appropriate. Nevertheless, it is easy to get prosecuted from either jurisdiction for trafficing between them.
Both the USA and Thailand have obscenity laws, which differ between states in America and also between the countries themselves, yet their legal forulations are considered mutually valid despite the variety. I'd love to see some of this sort of thing actually. Perhaps we could pass a law in Oz that makes it illegal for US Presidents to be dicks, and then extradite any violators to Tasmania?
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You must be new...no, wait...RIAA sues YOU!...I mean...PROFIT!!!
Sorry, I'm just an expression of the slashdot group-think mind-fuck that goes for "copryright reform" discourse here.
The whole point of what NYCL is doing is almost a public service in pushing the final dregs of the the entertainment industry into the 21st Century. They should be fricking _paying_ him for the good this will do them once the pain is over and they come out the other side.
-P
(Moderators, bring it on. Karma-protection suite: Activated.)
Here in Australia, our consumer protection department sorted this out about 4 years ago. The 'consumers' they were protecting was of course in this case the independent fuel station operators.
The solution here was to define an Australian Standard Measurement. All fuels must be measured (or compensated) at the temperature of 15 degrees C, everywhere in the country.
Interestingly, the temperature they have chosen also seems close to what you'd expect the natural underground temperature to be in most parts of the country at the depth where fuel is stored. Another win for Aussie common sense?
...while most celebrities are less celebrated... they are an edge case. Most people don't have that enough *legitimate* mail in their inbox to make dumping email a rational response. I agree with the parent post. I switched over to 100% email in 1992 and have been very active online ever since, and in my professional life I've been regularly dealing with entire teams of people. I get such a massive amount of legitimate email (not spam) that last year I decided that it wasn't a quality use of my personal time for me to use email at all.I've almost completely eliminated email from my personal life now, and I'm not missing it. There has been a slight increase in SMS messages from friends, but since I began ignoring these and turned off my mobile phone's voicemail service things have settled down again.
When I tell people that I don't use email in my personal life their reaction is that they are generally surprised but don't think I'm insane or anything. The only problem is that most people find it hard to imagine how bad a problem legitimate email can become.
-P
According to TFA, the firestorm seems to be the most controversial part of their claims. All the dissenting voices in the article made mention of it.
According to the abstracts of the research, it looks like the strongest evidence of a trans-american firestorm is "... a carbon-rich black layer commonly referred to as a black mat, with a basal age of approximately 12.9 ka, ... identified at over 50 sites across North America"
-P
In reality? You probably don't need any crypto at all. Or, in other words; What are you trying to hide that needs to be hidden forever? (Maybe you shouldn't be doing it.) Or are you one of those folks who feels he needs encryption just to get street cred among his fellow geeks - and the larger the key the larger your E-penis is?
I'm an online service provider who resides in a country whose privacy laws have teeth. Crypto is a day to day business tool used to ensure that we always are in complience with all sorts of legal requirements.
Troll.
-P
Here ya' go.
-P
From TFA:
Is the writing on the wall for 1024-bit encryption?"The answer to that question is an unqualified yes," says Lenstra. For the moment the standard is still secure, because it is much more difficult to factor a number made up of two huge prime numbers, such as an RSA number, than it is to factor a number like this one that has a special mathematical form. But the clock is definitely ticking."Last time, it took nine years for us to generalize from a special to a non-special hard-to factor number (155 digits). I won't make predictions, but let's just say it might be a good idea to stay tuned."Reading Lestra's comments, I get the feeling that he has a fairly high degree of confidence that they will succeed in making the leap to a mathematical generalization within a modest time frame.
Can any security researchers tell me what GPG key length I should be using in the real world to give me a good trade-off between computational simplicity and future security please? I'm only using crypto for email and secure file storage.
-P
That's rich -- toss in a reference to terrorism into the bid, and you get federal dollars for your project. Lame... and expensive.
However, I think the grid's greatest enemy is it's own users. This country is too power hungry.
I tend to agree with you. I'm not sure that this system addresses any part of the power infrastructure that might actually be vulnerable to human attack. Natural disasters are fine, but have any NYC blackouts in recent decades been caused by nature, or have they all been SNAFU?
-P
Don't want to RTFA? That's fine, this is /. after all. Here's a summary of the main points to get you started:
-P
Is the parent post related to the Atlanta based 'Jazz Colors' internet radio website here? I didn't RTFA.
-P
In addition, it would be necessary for the entire world to shift toward the same system, and much of the rest of the world have had very bad experiences with dynastic styles of public policies that grant special favors to particular families. You might find that you just can't push this sort of idea through other culture's social filters.
Anyway, the killer argument against it is that in the history of ideas there have been some very powerful and important ones, and it would be too risky for society to allow a single family to control some of these ideas forever. Are you seriously suggesting that the Edison family should still hold the entire motion picture industry in their vice like grip? The Ford family? Disney?
-P
I'm using the Nuance voice recorder on my PDA to record dictation, and I've been training Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 to recognise my voice and convert it into text. When I get home I upload the voice files into the desktop computer and it crunches away for an hour running the DNS language recognition engine to turn my speech into text.
I have used older versions of DNS in the past and the current version is a massive improvement. Basically, if you decide that it is worth spending dozens of hours training the software in order to get reasonably accurate transcriptions then I recommend the product. Make sure to always use the same microphone/headset when recording on your PDA and you'll get great results.
If your need for accuracy is high, or you have alternatives to recording dictation, then DNS is still probably not for you. Also note that it is still a very frustrating experience to train DNS for non-american accents. There are at least a few reasonably common words that seem to be simply untrainable using the Australian language model for example.
-P
I'm not sure that it is a good idea for TPB to try to build an real business running a proper internet service. The many software developers here on /. will tell you that there is a massive difference between what it takes to host the current TPB website, and what it would take to develop and deploy a youtube rip-off.
Developing such a site demands a return on investment, which calls for a business model and legitimate corporate structure, which will ultimately require them to protect themselves by censoring their users and removing illegal content.
Looks to me like the start of a slippery slope - if TPB ever goes legit it will bring about the end of an era. Until copyright law is reformed on the international stage, true rebels will have to remain completely outside of the system.
-P
As someone who found the original deposition to be a very enjoyable page-turner, I'm hoping that the sequel will be even better than the first one.
-P
Not true. Most, perhaps all countries have obscenity laws of some type. In general these laws all work the same and regulate the same sorts of things but they also all contain a common difference all over the world. The legal test for what is, and isn't, obscene is universally delegated to the local country or (in some places) local community to decide.
To put it another way, both the USA and Australia have anti-drug laws but at every level of this legislation our countries differ on what substances are covered and what penalties are appropriate. Nevertheless, it is easy to get prosecuted from either jurisdiction for trafficing between them.
Both the USA and Thailand have obscenity laws, which differ between states in America and also between the countries themselves, yet their legal forulations are considered mutually valid despite the variety. I'd love to see some of this sort of thing actually. Perhaps we could pass a law in Oz that makes it illegal for US Presidents to be dicks, and then extradite any violators to Tasmania?
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