Comment Re:That's great and all... (Score 1) 535
Nah, that's the NULL position. That's where programming languages go to die.
Programming languages never die, they just decompile. (hint: http://www.bored.com/agehumor/)
Nah, that's the NULL position. That's where programming languages go to die.
Programming languages never die, they just decompile. (hint: http://www.bored.com/agehumor/)
Considering they are having issues with the EU Commission and some European Publishers as to what one may consider as having "passed into the public domain", I believe there are reasons to question what they are doing.
S
(PS: not trying anything... just in a bit of a rush)
And what about copyright holders ?
Google has scanned books that are still under copyright. Now you may go and print those books avoiding the editors and publishers and Google and ODB get a buck each, while the authors and copyright holders (families and such) don't...
So now, it seems that Intellectual Property (in this case it is) only works for some...
File permissions security isn't all that useful on removable media like it is on the boot drive (and other internal drives).
Actually, I'd say that file permission are completely useless on removable media. As someone pointed out :
If I have the drive in my hand, I can plug it into any computer I want and access it as root anyway.
That's why, when you think of security w.r.t. portable drives, you go for encryption !
sma
Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Warhol