> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:25:26 -0700
> From: AARG!Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The only way that TCPA will become as popular as you fear is if it really
> solves problems for people. Otherwise nobody will pay the extra $25 to
> put it in their machine.
Although I support the vote-with-your
> Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:50:29 -0700
> From: AARG!Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'd like the Palladium/TCPA critics to offer an alternative proposal
> for achieving the following technical goal:
>
> Allow computers separated on the internet to cooperate and share data
> and computations
> I'd like the Palladium/TCPA critics to offer an alternative proposal
> for achieving the following technical goal:
> Allow computers separated on the internet to cooperate and share data
> and computations such that no one can get access to the data outside
> the limitations and rules impo
Anon wrote:
> You could even have each participant compile the program himself,
> but still each app can recognize the others on the network and
> cooperate with them.
Matt Crawford replied:
> Unless the application author can predict the exact output of the
> compilers, he can't issue a signatur
Holy fuck, I can't believe these new TV PSAs from the
AdCouncil:
http://www.adcouncil.org/campaigns/campaign_for_freedom
I thought they were going to be rah-rah patriotic and stuff. In fact,
they use scare tactics -- way beyond "this is your brain on drugs."
I think these are to urge conformity
> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 21:55:40 +0200
> From: "R. Hirschfeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:50:29 -0700
> > From: AARG!Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > I'd like the Palladium/TCPA critics to offer an alternative proposal
> > for achieving the following technical goal:
>
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On 8 Aug 2002 at 13:09, cubic-dog wrote:
> For the purpose of this argument, lets accept as fact this
> Hollywood/gubbmint alliance. So, why wouldn't Bill & Co want to
> play?
A big bureaucracy has a lot of inertia. It wants to do what it
always has been doing, it gets set in its ways.