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Actually, it appears that the name of the codec is "DivX ;-)"
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The article is very careful to avoid techno-babble but it does so to the extent of marginalizing a lot of the openDVD argument. a lot of the importance to free speech that surrounds this issue is locked up in the technology of it. she was also deceptively cut-and-dried about the disposition of the cases, for example even though preliminary injunction has been granted in CA, the case hasn't been to trial yet. it also doesn't help that they ignored the advent of a legitimate DVD software player. the background with SJG is neat and provides a frame of reference we can relate to.

all the same, you're still better off going to the opendvd homepage.
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I think Jon brought up an important point about the need for secure communications. I know that many ISPs, schools, and businesses log network traffic like crazy. Some will watch the actual web pages that you are browsing. Others just log every single packet that goes through their big routers. That's a tremendous amount of information about where people are going and when.

That is why this isn't just a Napster issue. That is why people need to get involved.
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Personally, I've always prefered the New York Times over other national newspapers (read McNews), now I have more reason to love the paper. This is the type of Journalism we need to see more of, unbiased, fair coverage of both sides of the story. It sure beats my local paper's "MP3: Local Students Stealing Music Online".

My Prediction: The NYTimes is fond of freedom of the press. Their defiance of the MPAA will lend legitamacy to the OpenDVD cause.

Mirror DeCSS on on a T-Shirt.

LILO is a two-stage bootloader like most of the bootloaders for x86 systems. The first stage is approximately 500 bytes that sit in the MBR or the boot block of the partition you put it on. The second stage is in the file /boot/boot.b

One big problem with LILO is that it won't boot your system if you've moved the kernel to a different set of blocks on the hard drive. GRUB and other more intelligent boot loaders actually understand the filesystem and can be told to blindly load a previously specified filename, and many have a command line interface that allows the user to find a different kernel to load at boot time.

The best solution would be to rebuild the underlying methods by which PCs are created. A 512 byte MBR is an artifact of the original IBM PC, which is nearing it's 20th anniversary. BIOSes of today are built upon legacy after legacy, even though we have a few more modern operating systems out there today (like Linux, HURD, and the *BSDs. Ok, NT too..) that would much rather have a fully contiguous block of memory rather than the chunkified model that evolved along with the PC.

Anyway, I'd be really happy if someone decided to make MBR's be 100kB in size or at least something a *little* larger than 512 bytes. Or heck, the BIOS itself could be redesigned to understand filesystems and kernels..
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Yep. There have even been certain situations where museums have re-organized bones in their displays to account for this (to show that dinosaurs were much more `active').

Too bad the site's videos are in Sorenson.. I think a lot of people interested in this discovery are on Unix systems..
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Right now, I don't care too much about this. Besides, it's his movie -- he can do whatever he wants with it (well, within the confines of the law..) Besides, it can be argued that DVD isn't quite stable yet (there are plenty of old players that can't play new movies). Also, DVDs will be obsolete as soon as HDTV becomes common. There's also the very small possibility that he doesn't want to get involved in any way with the problems relating to CSS..

Anyway, I'm sure that Mr. Lucas has plenty of reasons to wait on this. I'm patient ;-)
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Another reason to boycott this movie:

Warner Brothers (acting under the umbrella of the MPAA), is leading the fight to restrict your rights. I'm referring to DeCSS, of course.

Why put money into their pockets? There are plenty of other things to do on a Friday night, some of them not even involving computers! ;-)

Oh yeah, before I forget: Gargoyles was also a great show! Of course, that's from Disney, so you can't like Gargoyles if you don't like Disney... :-p
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Yeah, my uncle used to watch Batman all of the time -- the first time that I remember seeing someone older than 15 be interested in a `cartoon'.. That show also had coolest opening animation and music that I can remember.

Of course, I have to say that I also thoroughly enjoyed some of the other WB stuff -- Tiny Toons was a favorite of mine as a kid, and Animaniacs was even better (some of the extra characters were especially enjoyable -- Pinky and the Brain is definitely on the top of the heap). Freakazoid was a short-lived show, but the few episodes I saw were very funny.

These days, the Simpsons is probably the king of the hill, but Family Guy is a great show that loves to play on the short attention spans of audiences these days. Futurama is pretty good, but it will probably take a while for that show to distance itself enough from the Simpsons to stand entirely on its own (although I thought the most recent episode was very good).

Of course, those are all comedies -- but I like to laugh, what can I say? ;-)

I have been pretty impressed with Batman Beyond, and Superman does have some pretty good stuff too. However, I don't like it when shows of any kind play too much to the ``moral of the story'' crowd..

Okay.. I'm rambling.. sorry ;-)
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First, the basic stuff:

The MPAA has been granted injunctions in New York and California to prevent the distribution of the DeCSS source code. In every other state, this activity is legal.

Despite the fact that DeCSS is still legal in 48 states and the rest of the world, the MPAA sends out threatening letters to everyone listed on the 2600 mirror list, and whomever else they can shake an email at, in the hopes of preventing its distribution.

2600 has hired a lawyer with the help of the EFF who has experience defending first amendment rights in front of the Supreme Court and in many states. They are specifically prevented from hosting the data, but have provided a mirror list. The links to this data are on 2600.

And now the extrapolation and fun stuff:

A recent ruling has determined that source code is free speech. Clearly, this applies to HTML, and is likely related to the decision that deep linking was OK'd by another federal judge. This puts 2600 squarely in the right, and now that they have a quality lawyer, I expect this injunction to be denied.

Aside from on 2600, some good advocacy information can be found on OpenDVD.org The best suggestions I have heard for protecting our first amendment rights from the copyright zealots are:

• contact local media and eloquently state your case, providing resources like 2600 and OpenDVD for reference;
• crafting fliers to distribute peacefully and respectfully near movie theatres or rental outlets, copying them to brightly colored paper and explaining the situation (or use the flyer at 2600, though I'm sure a whole we could fill a whole archive of new and varied leaflets for different audiences);
• and mirroring the source code on sites where the code is still legal.

Well, then, where does code stop being speech? Assembler code is source code, as companies have written code in assembler for ages. The next step down is microcode -- certainly, it's very difficult for most people to read, but it is not indecipherable (get a book with the instruction set or get a disassembler).
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• "Take a look at what I found out: the Motion Picture Association is
• encrypting content on DVDs! Not only that, but this is how they do it. Another thing I noticed, they use some sort of code to prevent the play of DVDs purchased in one region from being played in another! This is wrong! Take a look at my source code and see it for yourself!"

• "Take a look at what I found out: the Motion Picture Association is
• encrypting content on DVDs! Not only that, but this is how they do it. Another thing I noticed, they use some sort of code to prevent the play of DVDs purchased in one region from being played in another! This is wrong! Take a look at my source code and see it for yourself!"

Welp, I guess this is officially big news -- CNN's main webpage is in overload mode..
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I reckon we should all be supporting the OpenDVD campaign at www.opendvd.org. Make sure that you get that logo on your websites!

Okay, this is an AFJ, but the idea is at least moderately interesting.. Subliminal advertising was tried long ago in movie theaters (promoting the refreshments, of course). More recently, we've seen the anti-drug poster and situation placements in popular TV shows. While it is regarded by many people as a Bad Thing, it all happens on a fairly regular basis.

I don't think I mind the more obvious placement of items (i.e., things you can actually see for more than a single frame), but subliminal advertisement is a messy idea and should be stomped out at all costs.
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The guy who did this is in my cool book:
http://torsion.org/witten/movieboycott/
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My friend and I used to build Lego "Rocket Sleds"... we used to build up this lego device which would contain a model rocket engine. We then stuck a playing card on the bottom of the sled so that it would slide easily across the snow.

They never worked quite right, mostly becuase the snow was fairly uneven and they would bounce up and then shoot off into wierd directions.

We also built Lego rocket cars, which worked a little bit better when there was a good concrete surface.

I remember never having the right tools to ignite those damn rockets... We ended up dousing the things with lots of lighter fluid or sticking tons of matches in the exhuast of the rocket engines. Hmm, I'm a pyro...
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And then I took it to school...

Sorry, horrifically bad joke, but I wish kids would make more lego machine guns than play with real ones.
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I completely understand this, as I was basically in the same situation. These cards do cost quite a large amount. I wasn't too happy about shelling out cash for this, but 1) it was something I felt I had to do, 2) I had owned my TNT2 for just barely long enough for me to justify the replacement, and 3) I actually had/have enough money (for the time being) to do this. I still really need to get a job, though ;-)
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You make a very important point, and I thank you for that. However, perhaps it would be even better if NVidia had released some more specs to their cards, and did some work on their own drivers. Who knows, maybe NVidia would produce the better interface (I know that there have been questions about the quality of DRI).
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The answer to his question would pretty much be `everywhere.' I wrote a note to NVidia just before I ordered my G400 (which just replaced my TNT2 yesterday). I wrote a note to my local LUG at the same time, and at least one person there did the same. This article is probably generating a fair number of messages. It's snowballing pretty much in every direction.
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Well, of course, I did send a slightly nasty letter to NVidia explaining my disappointment and the fact that I was planning on buying a G400. I think that both types of action can provide results on their own, but the maximum effect is only realized when both are used together.
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The simple solution to this is to vote with your dollars. Just yesterday, I ripped out my TNT2 and put in a Matrox G400 Max. I am extremely disappointed with the way NVidia has behaved. Their code release was merely playing lip service to the Linux community. I, along with many, many others, went out and bought NVidia cards because of their perceived superiority and support at the time. I was very disappointed to be shot down like that, especially when the card cost as much as it did.

Anyway, now I am becoming very interested in the reasons why Matrox has apparently not released all the specs for their cards, either. Fortunately, the 3D portions seem to all be there, but portions relating to DVD playback do not appear to be open (big surprise). Also, my card has the ability to do TV-out, but there are apparently some problems with releasing information about that. Somethig to do with that annoying MacroVision copy protection, I guess, but I don't know why I should be forced to copy protect my desktop....

Anyway, Matrox is still doing a great many Good Things for the Linux/Free Software community, and I am very grateful.
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There are problems with the way we are organized as a community. This is an inherent problem with a group that is so widely distributed, but sites like Slashdot help to alleviate that problem. Of course, there are plenty of people who used to read Slashdot, before all the First Posters and other weenies showed up, so I fear there is still a great lack of communication (heck, even Linus Torvalds doesn't read Slashdot ;-)

I am firmly convinced that we have a voice, but the voice is not focused in any particular direction. Only on a few issues (such as Section 1201 of the DMCA or the DVD/DeCSS cases), have we been able to focus in any significant manner. Even in situations like the above, we do not have the experience as a political group to get any attention.

In early February, I stood out on a streetcorner in front of a movie theater, protesting the actions the MPAA and DVD CCA were taking against DeCSS distributors. It was a cold Minnesota evening, and I wasn't sure at all what I was doing.

When I first arrived, I was looking for some of the people I was expecting to meet. I fairly quickly found one person who was holding a sign with one hand, and with his other was trying to hand out flyers from a pile that was in great danger of blowing away in the wind. Mere seconds after I arrived, a very angry-looking manager told us to move off of the property of the theater and the mall in which it was located. We walked across the street, only to find that the mall owned that property as well. We finally ended up in a spot on the corner of a very busy intersection -- one so busy as to make distribution of our leaflets nearly impossible. We were also by this point quite a distance away from the theater, so no one really knew what we were protesting.

I learned many things that night and from reading post-protest coverage on 2600 sites and the like. If I had known these things earlier, I and the people with me would have been able to bring our point to a much greater number of people. I understand there are ways to get permits to be on `private' property (I use the quotes since it was a mall, a place of business usually open to anyone). Also, if our group had been slightly more forward-thinking and found a location before the protest, we probably would have made a much larger influence. Lastly, there were some very tight time constraints put on us. It is very difficult to organize something like what 2600 hoped to accomplish in just a week -- especially when the night of action in question was a Friday

Because of all of this, I propose creating a site (or two or three, if they become necessary) where geeks can learn about the political events that have the most influence on us. Also, the site could carry information about the best ways to get your message across to the public and the people in power. Basically, host HOWTOs for protesting, contacting representatives, and other things.

Of course, I might just be off my rocker...

(what would be a good name for such a site? geekpolitics.org? any other ideas?)
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Why Slashdot would not start such movement? I mean a political/lobby group with Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda as the leader followed with hundreds of thousands of slashdotters, the Free Software Foundation preachers, all the Linux advocates, Perl scripters and DeCSS hosters.

We all can help fund such organization to polically defend our point of view and maybe see one day Linus become President and Rob his Vice-President.

You have to start this.

The following is a rant I wrote on Saturday, when I first found out about Mattel being awarded the injunction. Anybody may feel free to copy or reproduce parts of it.

My mirror does not include any of the program files, but only the published analysis, Mattel's complaint, and an English translation of the Swedish copyright law 1960:729. I have no relation to the defendants in this case, and am only an interested third party.

- David Michael Turover(Perpetual Newbie)

(begin rant)

I am not in a good mood right now.

I've just had to troubleshoot NT's braindead permissions scheme, I've taken a test where several of the "correct answers" are wrong, my right wrist is aching(not good for a CS student), and it's barely noon. On my lunch break I crack open Netscape to read the news, and find that a United States federal judge has ordered two cryptology researchers to remove an essay that they had published on a Swedish website.

The two researchers in question are Matthew Skala, a Canadian, and Eddy L. O. Jansson, a Swede. They have reverse-engineered a program called Cyber Patrol, and described in detail the cryptography and computer file formats used by the program.

Cyber Patrol is a product made by Microsystems Software, which is a subsidiary of Mattel. The purpose of the product is to prevent any user of a computer where it is installed from accessing any of a list of several Internet web sites, ostensibly to prevent children from viewing pornography. As part of their report, Skala and Jansson offered a Win32 binary named cphack.exe, a utility which decodes Cyber Patrol's list of blocked URLs(website addresses).

Mattel promptly sued the authors of the report, charging them with copyright violations and ordering them to remove their program, report, and all supporting and related documents and materiel, claiming that the report and software will cost them over $75,000 in lost sales. On Friday March 17th, two days after Mattel's complaint was registered, Judge Edward F. Harrington awarded Mattel a preliminary injunction against the two. Jansson's internet service provider, though in Sweden and not subject to U.S. law, has removed his account and deleted the documents.

Reverse-engineering is the process of examining a product to see how it works. In almost every industry it is not only expected to occur but considered an integral part of the free market. In the software industry, however, products are often sold with "shrinkwrap licenses" that restrict reverse-engineering. A shrinkwrap license is a contract describing terms of use for a product, in which these terms cannot be read until after the product has been purchased, can not be disputed, and must be agreed to for the consumer to use the product which they have already paid for and in most cases cannot return. In most Western countries these shrinkwrap contracts are unenforcable, and in the U.S. their legality is disputed, although the upcoming UCITA bill will make them law.

In most Western countries, including Sweden, reverse-engineering of software is a right explicitly allowed by law that cannot be taken away by a contract(1960:729 26 g). Legal protections against reverse engineering can be obtained; they are called "Patents". Furthermore, an action undertaken in Canada and Sweden should be out of the United States' jurisdiction; However, the U.S. court did not refuse to hear the case as it should have done, and instead granted the injunction by weighing the action under U.S. law.

To make the situation more repugnant, Cyber Patrol doesn't work. And not just Cyber Patrol. It is well known that all content-blocking programs such as Cyber Patrol have a high rate of failure, and a high rate of erroneously blocking acceptable content despite any claims by their marketing departments of being 100% accurate.

This is not the first time Microsystems/Mattel's lawyers have been aggressive. A Microsystems software engineer who was fired from his job for seeking medical attention for his sore wrists has since been sued by Mattel for documenting his experiences. Outrageous lawsuits such as this have been happening often lately, and what is frightening is that in the United States' court culture, they have a good chance of succcess.

Personally, I find the output of pdflatex and dvipdfm to be far superior to the output of ps2pdf. Anyone who has ever seen the output of ps2pdf knows that PS->PDF conversion is less than optimal. The resulting document (if I understand correctly) is basically just a set of images embedded in a simple PDF document. Unfortunately, these images can appear very blobby when read with a GUI reader. They tend to print just fine (though perhaps at a lower resolution than what would normally be possible).

Just my $0.02, I guess..
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I second that!
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It is a little late to be responding, however, if you had bothered to read the post to which I responded you would have noticed that I was answering a specific question regarding DeCSS with a pointer to where the reader could get the answers they were (presumably) looking for. The reader may indeed have confused the DeCSS issue with the "Trade Dress" issue of this thread, however, three is absolutely nothing in my post, or the site I referred them to, which would have led to their confusion.

The original questioner can clarify whatever "confusion" they may have on the issue be reading a wealth of material at the aforementioned site. It is a stretch reaching lightyears to assign any level of additional confusion to my short post, and perhaps more representative of your own confusion than anyone else's.

Finally, if you define referring someone with a question to a reasonably authoritative source on the subject to be sowing confusion, then perhaps that explains the arrogant, and confused, content of your own rather bitter reply.

It is a little late to be responding, however, if you had bothered to read the post to which I responded you would have noticed that I was answering a specific question regarding DeCSS with a pointer to where the reader could get the answers they were (presumably) looking for. The reader may indeed have confused the DeCSS issue with the "Trade Dress" issue of this thread, however, three is absolutely nothing in my post, or the site I referred them to, which would have led to their confusion.

The original questioner can clarify whatever "confusion" they may have on the issue be reading a wealth of material at the aforementioned site. It is a stretch reaching lightyears to assign any level of additional confusion to my short post, and perhaps more representative of your own confusion than anyone else's.

Finally, if you define referring someone with a question to a reasonably authoritative source on the subject to be sowing confusion, then perhaps that explains the arrogant, and confused, content of your own rather bitter reply.

The last time I replaced my video card was this past summer. I got an NVidia TNT2, because I expected NVidia to release some decent drivers (they had already released their 'open source' drivers).

Little did I know that NVidia was merely playing lip service to the open source movement. The code was highly obfuscated, so nobody could really understand what it was doing. Nobody knows how to make NVidia cards work with DMA transfer (something that would really speed up the card, especially in 3D).

In my opinion, the best available card is the Matrox G400 Max, which allows for Dual-head capability. It can be upgraded to handle TV input by adding in an extra Ranbow Runner PCI card. The Rainbow Runner is compatible with the entire Gx00 line. TV output comes standard with the G400 Max (output from one of the heads).

(Please note that there are a few different kinds of G400. The Millennium G400 comes with either 16 or 32 MB of RAM and with either single- or dual-head. The G400 Max comes with 32MB and dual head, plus I think it has a slightly higher clockspeed (not sure). There is also the G400-TV that has TV input built in.)

I have gotten very annoyed with my TNT2 because of the lack of support NVidia has given to the DRI project. The other major 3D card manufacturers (3dfx, Matrox, and ATI) have pledged their support, so I don't understand why NVidia wants to be so different.
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I was not able to find any information on an possible affiation microsoft has with the Human Genome project. I searched Microsoft, Google, and a human genome site.

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Please, moderators, verify this before you mark it down. He may be right (In fact, the post was well worded enough so that there's a good chance of it)
He/She did not include a link, so there's no harm in leaving his comment open to debate right now.

I'm just afriad of knee-jerk moderation.

A) Browse at -1 when moderating
B) Moderate up more than down.
C) Comments which are critical of common slashdot views are often more valuable to the discussion than the standard /. responce.

I wish I was a moderator right now so I could return his comment to the standard discussion.

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Whoa! WAIT A SEC...

THE WHOLE DAMN UNIVERSE MUST HAVE BEEN ROTATING AROUND THE M&M'S!!!!!

That solves the acceleration problem. The M&M's were really staying still!!!!

(No, I'm not this stupid in real life)
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Michael Robertson originally registered mp3.com becuase it was a very popular search term. He started out with the domain as a squatter. Since then however, he has taken the domain and created something really useful. Now domain registering is a first-come first serve basis, and domain squatters often take advantage of this. Michael, however, has turned something which we all tend to look down upon and actually inovated. So before you guys go beat him like a little girly man, remember that his domain squatting eventually transelated into inovation.
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Sorry, that's my roommate. I laugh at his stupidty. In a tribute to his pea brain, I will forever use the sig:

I don't know exactly what that means, but I'm sure it means something...

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No.

(The short answer.)

http://opendvd.org

(Why the answer is "No", with all the facts and details you could ever want.)

Yeah, yet another thing that /.'s authors should try to remember...
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Eeek, I want my old gtk colors back! This is too dark! Does anyone have a gtkrc file I could use to fix this?
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While I do agree that naptster was banned form universities becuase it hugs bandwidth, the fact is that the DMCA is a way for an organized and well funded group to get what they want from consumers (See CSS and the way it keeps UK DVD Drives pricey).

The creation of and subsequent prosecution of the poeple involved with DeCSS has *nothing* todo with copy protection. It has to do with control. Control over distribution, creation, and use of various media. It may not be a conspiracy. I mean we all know what the MPAA really wants ($$) but it leads to the limitation of our music, video, and written choices.

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As a guy involved in the DVD issue, I've found out the hard way that the DMCA is of direct relavance to me and everyone else who is interested in opensource / reverse engineering/ free speech.

The more interesting parts (for me, at least) of the DMCA are those dealing with the legality of access control measures. This part of the DMCA basically makes it illegal to distribute any software or hardware device which overides some access control measure designed to protect copyrighted works. This type of law does nothing to prevent piracy, bits can be copyed just as easily. What it does do is limit poeple's ability to use *legal* copyrighted works in any way they choose (such as in OS Linux players).

Katz kind of dropped in the DeCSS example at the end with out explaining the legal foundation for it. The DMCA is so broad, however, that it would be difficult to cover it all.

-John
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Maybe what they need to do in thier class is write *Documentation* (gasp!!) for the Linux kernel. Or at least those parts that haven't made it into some book yet. The linux kernel is constantly under development, I'm sure there's always something new to document here and there. And it sure would be useful.

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For over 200 years, the basic role of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has remained the same: to promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries (Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution). (italics are mine, and the exact quote from Article 1, Section 8 is that "[Congress shall have the power to] promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.")

Creators and other owners of intellectual property rights will not be willing to put their investments and their property at risk unless appropriate systems are in place -- both in the U.S. and internationally -- to permit them to set and enforce the terms and conditions under which their works are made available in the NII environment. Likewise, the public will not use the services available on the NII and generate the market necessary for its success unless a wide variety of works are available under equitable and reasonable terms and conditions, and the integrity of those works is assured.

Yes, I remember this. It came with Personal Netware. It was the first game I played over ether! Is there a linux port anywhere? I suppose I could just run it under dosemu, but dang, I loved that game.

-John
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Their main web site appears to be up, at least the
sattic pages. Any link that seems to point to
something dynamic is down.

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in my apartment. I don't want my roommates tying up the DSL with thier sick sick rapping music. I much prefer polka.

I also ban porn sites. This is a masturbation-free apartment. I have a web cam in one room, and I plan to add more to all of the other rooms to keep them honest about their masturbation.

Everynight I ask them, "Did you masturbate today? Could you turn down that filth?" and then they beat me, but I think I made my point.

I'm happy that I control the throttle to their internet access. It means that we get 150k-bytes to all that is holy, and 0k-bytes to all that is sinful and evil. Our apartment is truely becoming a lovely place to live.

-John
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It's stupid, yes. The only thing I can point to is that DeCSS *does* attact a lot of visitors to your site.

Most likely they are banning DeCSS not becuase of bandwdith, but to limit the colleges liability in the DeCSS trials.

My copy of DeCSS is (was, actually, I'm a defendant) located on *my* web server, not my college web site. CalPoly would be seriously pissed at me if they were caught anywhere near a legal battle cuased by DeCSS.

-John
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Thank you //Johan