Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 21 Mar 2013 @ 9:16am
Re: Re: HDCP?
Just get a darkened room and a video camera.
I was thinking a driver that pretends to be a compliant display and writes the incoming stream straight back to disk unencrypted... but I guess that works too.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 18 Mar 2013 @ 10:40am
Well... close
What we have here is a yet another example of the fact that DRM does nothing but punish the paying customer.
Well that's not entirely true... after all:
things went downhill quickly thanks to pricing issues [SNIP] and a failure to capitalize on a rapidly growing smartphone market.
Perhaps if they hadn't paid for the pointless DRM technology the prices could have been a little lower and certainly more people would have bought even at the higher price for unencumbered content. More to the point, any barrier to "capitalizing on a rapidly growing smartphone market" would have instantly vanished with a product unencumbered by DRM. So it turns out that DRM is also useful for screwing up your niche company.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 14 Mar 2013 @ 12:36pm
Re: Career politician
Being a career politician can be a very nice living even if you lose.
And therein lies one of the major problems with so-called democracies. We've managed to create effectively a ruling class of politicians whos livelihood relies on "being a politician" rather than actually serving the population they are ostensibly elected to serve. Add in the mandatory money requirement and you pretty much guarantee that 90%+ of politicians are more interested in serving anyone that'll pay them enough than the public.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 9 Mar 2013 @ 9:56am
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Even with 4th amendment rules applying, presenting yourself at the border, as a member or contributor to something like Wikileaks, with encrypted files on your laptop will still be enough to qualify for a full search.
Well I'm not an american, but if the 4th amendment applies at the border, doesn't the 1st too? I seem to remember there's something in there about "freedom of association".... wouldn't that make "being associated with a completely non-criminal organistion" a little bit problematical as the basis for a search?
I recall a spoof Not The Nine-O-Clock News sketch from my youth where "Constable Savage" detained a suspect for "Possession of thick rubbery lips and wiry black hair" and "looking at me in a funny manner". You appear to be suggesting a similar standard of suspicion.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 7 Mar 2013 @ 11:32am
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i'd be worried about the impact and implications if it weren't immediately obvious that, as usual, this asshole has no idea how computers or the internet works.
And that's stopped stupid ideas based on such a lack of understanding becoming laws...... what percentage of occasions would you say? I'm not sure that clears up the worry for me.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 7 Mar 2013 @ 11:30am
Re: May contain Sarcasm
As it turns out it was hard to tell whether that was sarcasm or prophecy...
Not likely to see you in a robe shouting, "The end of the world is nigh!", are we? You're likely to be closer with what you suggested than Nostradamus was...
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 7 Mar 2013 @ 10:21am
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How do we let these people into positions of power?
Good question. A better one would be How do we let these people STAY in power?
Easiest answer to either is Douglas Adams, who was completely correct when he said:
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it...
anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
I think all the various international interpretations of "democracy" and "justice" are fundamentally flawed, having completely failed to evolve to cope with modern society and especially the advent of modern media
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 5 Mar 2013 @ 9:54am
Re: Re: Re: We do this all of the time-- it's called public policy
Apply DRM to a gun and you get a gun that someone else decides when, if, and how it should be fired.[snip] How is that not perfect?
Because it removes the point (and whatever value there might be) in owning a gun. Plus, of course, any military using such weapons would lose horribly against anyone who wasn't.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 27 Feb 2013 @ 3:15pm
Re: Anyone with a server knows this is nothing new
Within a day, your login prompts will generally be swapped out with some gotcha message
That's optimistic... last time I tried that a few years ago the thing was penetrated practically in minutes and totally hacked to hell and gone in hours... 'course that was on a corporate address range, I guess it might last a bit longer on a generally less target-rich environment like a bog-standard home broadband DHCP range....
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 27 Feb 2013 @ 2:55pm
Re: Re: Re: Re: Typos and stuff
Any way I read that sentence it comes of to me as meaning that the prosecution leading to the suicide.
In terms of that specific sentence out of context I'd tend to agree - I was more looking at the context of it being in the middle of a rant about "cyber-terrosism and scary-type-computer-stuff". If he had directly inferred a link, there would have been outrage but to put the 2 things in the same sentence in the middle of the other things he's talking about seems to me to try and infer a link purely by association - otherwise why refer to his suicide in that context at all?
But then maybe I'm totally wrong and giving him too much credit for rationality and subtlety. It's entirely possible he's just talking total bollocks throughout.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 27 Feb 2013 @ 1:25pm
For all things there's a quote somewhere...
What appears to be upsetting the Congressman is that the Chinese are using espionage to make money in a way that the United States didn’t think of first.
Sounds about right... and brought this to mind...
Captain Darling: So you see, Blackadder, Field Marshall Haig is most anxious to eliminate all these German spies.
General Melchett: Filthy hun weasels, fighting their dirty underhand war!
Captain Darling: And fortunately, one of our spies...
General Melchett: Splendid fellows, brave heroes risking life and limb for Blighty!
- Blackadder Goes Forth, General Hospital
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 27 Feb 2013 @ 1:13pm
Re: Typos and stuff
If you take "protect" as a typo for "protest", substitute "Aaron" for "Bart", let him say that the prosecution caused the suicide, which may be false but certainly isn't an absurd position to take, and wave away "destroyed" as coming from someone who doesn't understand websites, that sentence makes sense.
Um, not really, no. Re-reading it again, it more looks like he's trying to subtly make a link between the hacking of the website and Aaron Swartz's suicide, which falls more into the disgustingly and cynically manipulative category.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 26 Feb 2013 @ 12:45pm
Re: Re: Re: Re:
yeah...
Congress intentionally made the exclusive rights of copyright owners to be as broad and exclusive as possible, precisely to avoid the kind of game-playing Aereo engages in.
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Re: Re: HDCP?
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Re: You CAN disagree that "it facilitates piracy".
From your link:
Now there's a completely independent and unbiased source.... Here's a less partisan quote for you:
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Well... close
So it turns out that DRM is also useful for screwing up your niche company.
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Re: Re: Free doesn't work?
But then, free doesn't work, does it? /s
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Re: Career politician
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I recall a spoof Not The Nine-O-Clock News sketch from my youth where "Constable Savage" detained a suspect for "Possession of thick rubbery lips and wiry black hair" and "looking at me in a funny manner". You appear to be suggesting a similar standard of suspicion.
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Re: May contain Sarcasm
Not likely to see you in a robe shouting, "The end of the world is nigh!", are we? You're likely to be closer with what you suggested than Nostradamus was...
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I think all the various international interpretations of "democracy" and "justice" are fundamentally flawed, having completely failed to evolve to cope with modern society and especially the advent of modern media
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Re: Re: Re: We do this all of the time-- it's called public policy
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Re: Anyone with a server knows this is nothing new
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Typos and stuff
But then maybe I'm totally wrong and giving him too much credit for rationality and subtlety. It's entirely possible he's just talking total bollocks throughout.
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For all things there's a quote somewhere...
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Re: Typos and stuff
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