Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:47:26 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Trying to make bits uncopyable and unmodifiable is like trying to > > make water not wet. > > Certainly not. I can put water into the freezer
Turning it into ice, and making it not useable as water. So, to the extent you've made it not-wet, you've also made it not-water. To torture the analogy further, this would be equivalent to engraving the bits in stone and sealing the whole in a concrete slab. While still technically the bits can be extracted, the extent to which they are uncopyable and unmodifiable is exactly the extent to which they are useless as bits. As soon as they become available for use as digital bits in some way, they become available for copying and modifying again. -- \ "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of | `\ thought which they avoid." -- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard | _o__) (1813-1855) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
