Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 2 Mar 2012 @ 9:32am
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How effective would protests just outside the perimeter be? Do we really need to be adjacent to a politician to protest?
I guess that would depend on the definition of "in the area of". Is the language specific as to distance? Otherwise "in the area of" could include, for example, line of sight. After all if it's about "protection" a mile away but still in sight is "in the area of" for a sniper, right?
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 29 Feb 2012 @ 3:05pm
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Since the uploader, domain and servers are all US based, UK law simply does not apply anymore, right?
Very true, since the UK has the international clout to sue it's way out of a paper bag and not a lot more these days. On the other hand, the other way round where US law doesn't apply in the UK is seems extradition and a criminal trial is called for.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 29 Feb 2012 @ 2:08pm
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The "better solutions" still all suck, trading billion dollar industries for million dollar ideas.
Except according to all the figures it seems that this is not what's happening at all. It looks more like a small handful of billion dollar companies that are a part of the industry are being traded for an industry made up of an increasing number of million-dollar companies and smaller that total an industry of more billions that it was before.
Sorry, but you cannot make your opinion true by repeating it over and over again in different ways Mike. Where's the beef? Where's the actual business models that are financially better than the current ones?
Well if you add "used to be" to the end of that sentence the answer is probably none. It's probably not possible to make the same amount of monopoly rent when the pie is shared between ever increasing amounts of people. That's not "piracy", that's genuine competition in a free-market that's been enabled by a paradigm shift of technology.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 29 Feb 2012 @ 1:58pm
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I used to have an imaginary friend when I was young but he got killed in a dream by a rabid IP lawyer. Do you think I should report the "suspect" to the police?
I remember "descramblers"; these were what people bought
By the way, "descramble" = decrypt. Breaking encryption is now done on (relatively cheap) computers not proprietary hardware as encryption (of any flavour) = maths and computers are good at maths.
Can you also invent a flying car for me while you're at it?
wireless tech that will be built for the music systems I'm talking about
Which is???????? I hear claims like that from vendors all day. Vapour-ware is vapour-ware. Convince me, send me links to, you know, actual COTS technology I can buy. I love security, I want to build my network from it. Where can I get some?
Excellent. I love new knowledge and I'm not at the moment aware of any such thing. Please provide links so I can read up. This is COTS technology that's viable for mass implementation, right? Rather than a developmental thing that may well be breakable by the time it's ready for market?
I remember "descramblers"; these were what people bought on the black market back in the day to try and unscramble HBO programming.
And now I know that every time the satallite companies change their encryption the updates to "pirate" systems are available usually within hours or days at best. Once upon a time the equipment necessary for "breaking" such systems properly was prohibitively expensive, now it's dirt cheap. Such is progress.
Except hold a mic up to a speaker and rip it that way.
Uh, no since there are at least 2 data transfers and 3 devices required in what you describe (the media must be read by the player device and the player must send it to the speaker) and to be work a damn all of those data transfers will have to be lossless, I'd simply create a device that pretends to be one of the legitimate devices and transfer it from there. Any time you move data from one system to another it's vulerable.
The only "perfect" security system is one you can put data in but can't get it out again. Ironically in replying to your post I may have just demonstrated that kind of system. Assuming the "data" went in, I'm pretty sure it's not ever coming back out agin in any useful form.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 25 Feb 2012 @ 2:19pm
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That's the funniest thing I've seen in quite a while thank you very much for a really good belly laugh.
FYI, unless you happen to be talking about a point-to-point link like laser (not terribly practical for a many-many network really), "wireless" = broadcast (i.e. one to many) and broadcast = easily interceptable.
What you may mean is a matter of protocol and encryption not interception of signals. Protocols proprietory or not are, well, protocols. As for encryption, anything for such a large and wirespread network would be all but impossible to keep updating fast enough to outpace the increase in processing power to break is. Just take a look at current wireless encryption like WPA for example.
Plus the entire tech industry is moving to convergence and interoperability and it's what customers want. What makes you think that a relative handful of companies shouting "We're taking our ball and going home!" is going to convince everyone to run after them and ditch every bit of equipment they already have for a new, untried, proprietory and inevitably overpriced solution?
Oh, and mobile phone calls? Mic and speaker not required. Very susceptible to "man in the middle" attacks are mobiles to name but a single vulnerability, and the equipment to do so is portable and relatively cheap already.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 25 Feb 2012 @ 1:29pm
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I think every square inch of artistic human culture should be owned and any part thereof can only be used with the expressly dead-letter written permission of said owner.
An excellent idea. Now all you need to do is define "artistic human culture". I'm sure there won't be any arguments about that so no problem there.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 22 Feb 2012 @ 1:52pm
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Where is the magic number? Usually in a democracy, it is 50% (plus 1).
Except that would be 50% + 1 of the people that turn up. By that measure then 100% of the people that turned up are against ACTA. By any other measure then you don't live in a democracy there in America (assuming you ARE American),or anywhere else for that matter, since at the last presidential election voter turnout was 56.8% and Obama got 52.9% of the vote, so about 25% of Americans allowed to vote voted for him (considerably less than 25% of Americans). So... what exactly IS the magic number?
I'm curious, do you seriously beleive that the ONLY say a citizen of a country should have is to once every [four] years make a choice between a small handful of people they had no say in choosing and with whom they will inevitably disagree with strenuously on a majority of issues? When was the last time you found ANYONE who agreed with you on every issue? Or is it your position just a convenient excuse for something else such as a lack of caring or a vested interest?
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 22 Feb 2012 @ 8:25am
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The European Parliament represents the people!
I'm assuming this was a joke. With the average voter turnout being 43% per country in 2009 and THAT only being helped by countries like Luxembourg up in the 90's and for example the Conservatives the top scorers in the UK getting 25 seats from 27% of the actual vote (or about 10% of people in the country voting Conservative). I wouldn't call that terribly representative of the people.
I'd say Winston Churchill was right: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
Of course no one has actually tried a real democracy yet and it seems in most cases Parlimentary Democracy has little to do with "The People". In this day and age a "true" democracy is technicaly possible - I wonder why no-one has tried. Perhaps Sir Winston was right about that one too: “The best argument against democracy is 5 minutes with the average voter.”, but I don't think they could make a worse hash of it than the average bought-and-paid-for politician.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 22 Feb 2012 @ 6:55am
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So where on earth do you get your "without question" comment
I think it's a quantum thing and largly exists only in the same realm as the number i. At least that's the only explanation I can think of as to how you can "lose" something you never had. Binary states and all that - you both have and dont have the money until observation collapses the waveform. Similar to when I come over all "Schroedinger" and want to simultaneously laugh and cry every time I see an argument that goes something like: "Dirty pirates stealing my moneny!"... "Uh, but you made billions last year"... "Yeah! and it would have been TRILLIONS if not for those dirty pirates they stole the rest"
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I guess that would depend on the definition of "in the area of". Is the language specific as to distance? Otherwise "in the area of" could include, for example, line of sight. After all if it's about "protection" a mile away but still in sight is "in the area of" for a sniper, right?
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Well they had a good start with the olympic logo... ahem!
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Very true, since the UK has the international clout to sue it's way out of a paper bag and not a lot more these days. On the other hand, the other way round where US law doesn't apply in the UK is seems extradition and a criminal trial is called for.
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Except according to all the figures it seems that this is not what's happening at all. It looks more like a small handful of billion dollar companies that are a part of the industry are being traded for an industry made up of an increasing number of million-dollar companies and smaller that total an industry of more billions that it was before.
Well if you add "used to be" to the end of that sentence the answer is probably none. It's probably not possible to make the same amount of monopoly rent when the pie is shared between ever increasing amounts of people. That's not "piracy", that's genuine competition in a free-market that's been enabled by a paradigm shift of technology.
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Invented by Phillips. And?
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By the way, "descramble" = decrypt. Breaking encryption is now done on (relatively cheap) computers not proprietary hardware as encryption (of any flavour) = maths and computers are good at maths.
Don't need to looks like someone already has.
Actually it'd be a very nice suprise to find that such an "unbreakable" network was actually possible. It would make my job an awful lot easier.
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Which is???????? I hear claims like that from vendors all day. Vapour-ware is vapour-ware. Convince me, send me links to, you know, actual COTS technology I can buy. I love security, I want to build my network from it. Where can I get some?
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Excellent. I love new knowledge and I'm not at the moment aware of any such thing. Please provide links so I can read up. This is COTS technology that's viable for mass implementation, right? Rather than a developmental thing that may well be breakable by the time it's ready for market?
And now I know that every time the satallite companies change their encryption the updates to "pirate" systems are available usually within hours or days at best. Once upon a time the equipment necessary for "breaking" such systems properly was prohibitively expensive, now it's dirt cheap. Such is progress.
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Yes. He can.
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The only "perfect" security system is one you can put data in but can't get it out again. Ironically in replying to your post I may have just demonstrated that kind of system. Assuming the "data" went in, I'm pretty sure it's not ever coming back out agin in any useful form.
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FYI, unless you happen to be talking about a point-to-point link like laser (not terribly practical for a many-many network really), "wireless" = broadcast (i.e. one to many) and broadcast = easily interceptable.
What you may mean is a matter of protocol and encryption not interception of signals. Protocols proprietory or not are, well, protocols. As for encryption, anything for such a large and wirespread network would be all but impossible to keep updating fast enough to outpace the increase in processing power to break is. Just take a look at current wireless encryption like WPA for example.
Plus the entire tech industry is moving to convergence and interoperability and it's what customers want. What makes you think that a relative handful of companies shouting "We're taking our ball and going home!" is going to convince everyone to run after them and ditch every bit of equipment they already have for a new, untried, proprietory and inevitably overpriced solution?
Oh, and mobile phone calls? Mic and speaker not required. Very susceptible to "man in the middle" attacks are mobiles to name but a single vulnerability, and the equipment to do so is portable and relatively cheap already.
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An excellent idea. Now all you need to do is define "artistic human culture". I'm sure there won't be any arguments about that so no problem there.
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Except that would be 50% + 1 of the people that turn up. By that measure then 100% of the people that turned up are against ACTA. By any other measure then you don't live in a democracy there in America (assuming you ARE American),or anywhere else for that matter, since at the last presidential election voter turnout was 56.8% and Obama got 52.9% of the vote, so about 25% of Americans allowed to vote voted for him (considerably less than 25% of Americans). So... what exactly IS the magic number?
I'm curious, do you seriously beleive that the ONLY say a citizen of a country should have is to once every [four] years make a choice between a small handful of people they had no say in choosing and with whom they will inevitably disagree with strenuously on a majority of issues? When was the last time you found ANYONE who agreed with you on every issue? Or is it your position just a convenient excuse for something else such as a lack of caring or a vested interest?
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Finest and most accurate political documentary series ever.
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I'm assuming this was a joke. With the average voter turnout being 43% per country in 2009 and THAT only being helped by countries like Luxembourg up in the 90's and for example the Conservatives the top scorers in the UK getting 25 seats from 27% of the actual vote (or about 10% of people in the country voting Conservative). I wouldn't call that terribly representative of the people.
I'd say Winston Churchill was right: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
Of course no one has actually tried a real democracy yet and it seems in most cases Parlimentary Democracy has little to do with "The People". In this day and age a "true" democracy is technicaly possible - I wonder why no-one has tried. Perhaps Sir Winston was right about that one too: “The best argument against democracy is 5 minutes with the average voter.”, but I don't think they could make a worse hash of it than the average bought-and-paid-for politician.
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I think it's a quantum thing and largly exists only in the same realm as the number i. At least that's the only explanation I can think of as to how you can "lose" something you never had. Binary states and all that - you both have and dont have the money until observation collapses the waveform. Similar to when I come over all "Schroedinger" and want to simultaneously laugh and cry every time I see an argument that goes something like: "Dirty pirates stealing my moneny!"... "Uh, but you made billions last year"... "Yeah! and it would have been TRILLIONS if not for those dirty pirates they stole the rest"
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