Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: Moving right along?, in reply to martinb,
It’s great we now have a template for the terms of independent audits and investigations into allegations and appearances of the potential for impropriety in the public sphere.
We always did. You should really read the legislation.
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Hard News: Mega Strange, in reply to Martin Brown,
Since 1910? Must be well out of copyright now.
Just wait, the Americans are sure to wind it back, because innovation.
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Hard News: Mega Strange, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
Not possible for Mega. The same file encrypted (on client side) with different encryption keys yields entirely different data.
Vikram explained in another post that there was enough information visible in the non-obscured portion of the URLs on Whale’s site to identify the files on Mega’s servers.
Yeah, I hadn't read that at the time. The encryption point is one I'd missed in passing, but that would also wreck de-duping, yes?
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Hard News: Mega Strange, in reply to Stephen R,
One of the claims I’ve seen is that with so many new books coming out, an author is more at risk of not being noticed than of being pirated, and that giving away e-books (especially of older back-catalog stuff) can lead to increases in both the sales of the back-catalog and new books by the same author.
This is Cory Doctorow's approach. It seems to be working for him.
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Hard News: Mega Strange, in reply to SteveH,
How did they identify those two instances? Mega are not able to access the file contents, right? If they identified the files by name, how did they verify those files were in fact the book itself and not (for example) someone's review of the book?
One way to do it would be to identify the file that Slater referred to (which we're to understand they did) then use that as a fingerprint to identify any other matching files. All possible without breaking the encryption, but not foolproof. If one byte is different, the fingerprint is useless. They wouldn't be searching by title, if that's what you meant ;-)
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Hard News: Moving right along?, in reply to BenWilson,
Could explain the hasty departure from the country of Wewege.
But he's done nothing wrong! He said so, repeatedly, in that hideous Herald interview. #tui
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Hard News: Movie Disaster, in reply to Nik Williams,
Good rant.
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Hard News: Movie Disaster, in reply to Keir Leslie,
But doesn't this start to become simply an economic development game, where we pick winners?
If you increase the opportunities for people to create and develop ideas to the pre-production stage, the likelihood is that more viable ideas will present themselves. It's not about picking winners, but about giving more opportunities to win.
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Ho hum
The outer outedThe PM's response:
"I don't believe the National Party has been involved at all. There may be people that knew about it who are members of the National Party or at least vague sort of details," he said. "
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Hard News: Moving right along?, in reply to Rob Stowell,
It does seem a tad curious that while most of Bevan Chuang’s account seems to be accepted by commenters here, her belief that the mayor was offered and accepted free hotel rooms is not.
I don't uncritically accept as fact anything that Bevan Chuang is reported to have said, beyond the fact of a relationship with Brown and only because he verified it. The conduits used to pass the information taint it, IMHO, especially as the earlier information released had no mention of Wewege, Palino or any of the other items that have been drip fed into the public arena that don't prove embarrassing to Brown.
It would not surprise me to find that the first affidavit was completely bogus, written by someone other than Chuang, and that she had been pressured into signing it. Everyone is scrambling so hard to spin their story that it's very hard to ascertain what the actual truth is.
The point about the hotels has been dealt with.