Yes there are morons everywhere, but American culture and attitudes produces an extra loud and visible kind. That's why Americans have the reputation they do.
He also does songs based on ideas submitted by people who don't play, but they are generally shorter and you don't really get any control over the song, and there's no guarantee he'll make it.
Basically the entire point of the site is that he makes songs based on your ideas.
Only you can't tax Linux this way... due to the GPL, in the FSF's position it's implicit in the license that you can't distribute unless you can pass on all the same terms you have. They count patents as part of that (it's not in the GPL as written but they feel that it's implied by it's terms, GPL3 makes this explicit, but Linux is not under GPL3).
I'd link to the position but I don't remember where I saw it.
Basically it means that anyone who wants to distribute Linux would need to get a patent license that covers everyone they give it to and anyone further down the chain, in other words it would effectively cover every Linux user and distributor there is. If they can't get that they can't distribute. (Or so says the FSF, for GPL3 this is definitely the case since they made it that way on purpose)
I'm curious has Bedrock ever used Linux, if so have they ever done something that could count as distributing it? If so they may have given everyone the right to use Linux.
(Note this implicit patent thing would only cover stuff that could be a derivative work of the software in question so they could still troll proprietary companies)
That may be, but you don't need complete results to get a very very very accurate idea of which way a riding went, usually they just call it based on partial counts from some polling stations (and later announce if it went differently than it seem initially)
Yes people's opinions are that easily swayed, it's a known fact about people in general I don't think it's really necessary to do a study specifically with respect to elections.
We know people will regard things the perceive as popular more favorably that then would otherwise, and it's fairly obvious there's a strong possibility early results could influence people who are on the fence.
I don't have any specific studies to reference with respect to people's decision making so maybe someone with better research skills could go looking for one that talks about this sort of thing.
The main problem here is that this shouldn't even be possible if Dropbox had actually provided a secure system it would not be.
It should be that the key used to encrypt files exists only on clients, and so the server does not have it, and so the server would be very unlikely to be able to do any de-duplication.
It'll be a while before anyone really knows how the two codecs stack up, VP8 does not have a mature implementation, h264 does, at the moment there is NO way to run a fair comparison (crappy h264 encoders can't even compete with Theora or XVID, implementation quality is VERY important)
I think you misunderstand what 'freetards' means... the MPEG-LA is about 3rd last on the list of groups for whom that epithet is appropriate (below them is the RIAA and the MPAA).
You forgot to mention Adobe is planing to add WebM support to flash, so basically we're left with Windows not supporting out of the box, but can be made through codec installation, and the iPad... smooth Apple, people aren't going to blame youtube when it stops working on their iPads.
What about a short term for unregistered copywrite that expires in say 10 or 20 years, then you have to register to get your insanely long term, that should keep the industry lobbyists happy, and put all kinds of stuff in the public domain at the same time
This evidence isn't exactly compelling, and decidedly would not have stood up in court, SCO would have had to demonstrate that the code in question DID NOT originate in BSD or something older, this would be hard; then it would have convince the judge that it was infringing, again hard (for the reasons that it's similarity orientates in the fact that they are implementing the same standard)
The problem is not that methods that are difficult to defeat don't exist, but that such methods CANNOT be applied in this case since a SHA1 (or something like it I forget what bittorrent uses) is all isoHunt has they cannot compute the kind of 'fingerprint' that would make identifying the content even remotely possible.
Since isoHunt is a bittorrent tracker/search engine site it doesn't have the actual files being shared so all it can do is examine the hashes in the torrent, this is totally infective for video/image/audio data since just a simple reencode will result in a new hash, you don't even have to change anything... or you could add a tag to the container metadata, append junk to the end of the file (most media formats don't care about stuff that comes after the end of the content)
There are more sophisticated audio/video/image 'fingerprinting' methods that are robust to even fairly extensive degradation/alteration of the material, but those are not an option for isoHunt since it doesn't have the actual file data that is need to compute such a 'fingerprint'. So yes defeating this measure is trivial, and it won't really stop anything...
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Yes there are morons everywhere, but American culture and attitudes produces an extra loud and visible kind. That's why Americans have the reputation they do.
Re: Re: Re: Can we sue
I think Jimbaux was being sarcastic too, just less obviously... although it is difficult to tell true crazy from sarcasm
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Some companies like to sue you for using their trademarks... they would probably not win such a lawsuit, but they are expensive to fight.
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He also does songs based on ideas submitted by people who don't play, but they are generally shorter and you don't really get any control over the song, and there's no guarantee he'll make it.
Basically the entire point of the site is that he makes songs based on your ideas.
There's a guy in Toronto who's been selling the creation of new songs for a long time: http://songstowearpantsto.com/
Unfortunately a while ago he started charging for downloads to some of his older songs, but you can still commission a new song from him.
Only you can't tax Linux this way... due to the GPL, in the FSF's position it's implicit in the license that you can't distribute unless you can pass on all the same terms you have. They count patents as part of that (it's not in the GPL as written but they feel that it's implied by it's terms, GPL3 makes this explicit, but Linux is not under GPL3).
I'd link to the position but I don't remember where I saw it.
Basically it means that anyone who wants to distribute Linux would need to get a patent license that covers everyone they give it to and anyone further down the chain, in other words it would effectively cover every Linux user and distributor there is. If they can't get that they can't distribute. (Or so says the FSF, for GPL3 this is definitely the case since they made it that way on purpose)
I'm curious has Bedrock ever used Linux, if so have they ever done something that could count as distributing it? If so they may have given everyone the right to use Linux.
(Note this implicit patent thing would only cover stuff that could be a derivative work of the software in question so they could still troll proprietary companies)
Re: Precincts Reported
That may be, but you don't need complete results to get a very very very accurate idea of which way a riding went, usually they just call it based on partial counts from some polling stations (and later announce if it went differently than it seem initially)
Re: Re: One simple solution
Yes people's opinions are that easily swayed, it's a known fact about people in general I don't think it's really necessary to do a study specifically with respect to elections.
We know people will regard things the perceive as popular more favorably that then would otherwise, and it's fairly obvious there's a strong possibility early results could influence people who are on the fence.
I don't have any specific studies to reference with respect to people's decision making so maybe someone with better research skills could go looking for one that talks about this sort of thing.
The main problem here is that this shouldn't even be possible if Dropbox had actually provided a secure system it would not be.
It should be that the key used to encrypt files exists only on clients, and so the server does not have it, and so the server would be very unlikely to be able to do any de-duplication.
Re: DropBox could be sued over this
It's already in wide use...
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But the file could also be legitimate for the original uploader.
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Chrome won't be supporting h264 much longer, google announced that a week or two ago.
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It'll be a while before anyone really knows how the two codecs stack up, VP8 does not have a mature implementation, h264 does, at the moment there is NO way to run a fair comparison (crappy h264 encoders can't even compete with Theora or XVID, implementation quality is VERY important)
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I think you misunderstand what 'freetards' means... the MPEG-LA is about 3rd last on the list of groups for whom that epithet is appropriate (below them is the RIAA and the MPAA).
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You forgot to mention Adobe is planing to add WebM support to flash, so basically we're left with Windows not supporting out of the box, but can be made through codec installation, and the iPad... smooth Apple, people aren't going to blame youtube when it stops working on their iPads.
What about a short term for unregistered copywrite that expires in say 10 or 20 years, then you have to register to get your insanely long term, that should keep the industry lobbyists happy, and put all kinds of stuff in the public domain at the same time
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This evidence isn't exactly compelling, and decidedly would not have stood up in court, SCO would have had to demonstrate that the code in question DID NOT originate in BSD or something older, this would be hard; then it would have convince the judge that it was infringing, again hard (for the reasons that it's similarity orientates in the fact that they are implementing the same standard)
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You could try using the googles... or just read Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution
Re: Re: Re: Re: But will it work?
The problem is not that methods that are difficult to defeat don't exist, but that such methods CANNOT be applied in this case since a SHA1 (or something like it I forget what bittorrent uses) is all isoHunt has they cannot compute the kind of 'fingerprint' that would make identifying the content even remotely possible.
Re: Re: But will it work?
I think you hit the nail on the head.
Since isoHunt is a bittorrent tracker/search engine site it doesn't have the actual files being shared so all it can do is examine the hashes in the torrent, this is totally infective for video/image/audio data since just a simple reencode will result in a new hash, you don't even have to change anything... or you could add a tag to the container metadata, append junk to the end of the file (most media formats don't care about stuff that comes after the end of the content)
There are more sophisticated audio/video/image 'fingerprinting' methods that are robust to even fairly extensive degradation/alteration of the material, but those are not an option for isoHunt since it doesn't have the actual file data that is need to compute such a 'fingerprint'. So yes defeating this measure is trivial, and it won't really stop anything...