If I hadn't started programming on my C-64 (or, heck, my Sinclair ZX81) I probably wouldn't be programming today - at least, I wouldn't have been doing it for the last 15 years and have the job that I always wanted today.
There is a substantial difference between people who discovered programming as a kid and learned to appreciated it, and those who decided to take it at university for the job opportunities.
With the barrier to entry so high to get into programming these days, I think it's great that they're putting a free language, no matter what it is, in with the system.
Since the RIAA loses money every time we download a file from Napster, I have begun downloading files 24 hours a day! I have already download Britney Spears' and The Spice Girls' over 350,000 times! By my calculations, they'll be broke by July 2003!
Dammit, somebody get me a Beowolf cluster and an OC3!
An Operating System is a System that Operates. That is, software that operates and manages system devices and resources (hardware)... if it doesn't deal directly with managing the hardware IT'S AN APPLICATION.
Is this concept just a little too tough for marketing drones (or marketed to drones) to understand?
But for a slash shouldn't IBM's legal department be investigating this name
Maybe - Sony uses the full name (PlayStation2), we're the ones who use the shorthand. I've heard of Sony kicking games out of their approval process for using the term "PSX" in the game.
Before I get flamed, yes I realize there's bright blue PS2 written on the top of the machine. That could protentially be a problem, anybody know what IBM has for a PS/2 trademark? I suspect they are substantially different and could never be confused... the whole point of a trademark.
Why not buy / write some logging software, and then market it as child protection software? Maybe couple it with a log analysis program to make the job easier on parents?
It makes more sense than filter (it works), is more technically feasible (they already exist) and is just more legally acceptable (no censorship issues, minimal privacy concerns).
This is a marketing problem, not a technical one. Someone, get on it! I'm not a marketer, I'm a computer programmer!
Are both Bush and Gore blocked, or does Al have an advantage in the upcoming election due to the American obsession with fearing sex and embracing violence?
As far as I'm aware, Sony loses money on the hardware and makes money on the software... they need as many machines out there as possible to avoid losing money.
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about 1 person every 2-3 days, and they flame me for selling out
For every one who flames, there are probably several who never notice and several more who do but don't get worked up about it.
You can probably get a few hundred hits a day off of the ineptitude of others. Maybe they'll learn to use bookmarks someday (or just make/. their home page:-)
Instilling moral behavior in your kids is your job, and either you feel you've done a sufficiently good job that you can trust them to surf the net alone, or you don't. If you don't, then don't let them go to the library.
(Anecdote on)
When I was in high school, we were supposed to read two books by a Canadian author and compare them... so, I picked one of the female authors at random and selected a couple of books from the school library...
One of the books had a moderately graphic description of one of the young female protagonist's male friends (possibly teacher) take her out to a field and watch him masturbate. This was followed later in the book by a fairly vivid description of intercourse.
(Anecdote off, moral on)
OK, so if I can find that sort of stuff on the RECOMMENDED READING LIST, who really gives a rat's ass if some kid accidentally stumbles across something? Or even if they actually seek it out... actually, who seeks that sort of stuff out on a public terminal? What kind of irreparable harm is possibly caused by catching a casual glimpse of the human reproductive system? Freakin' city kids grow up to be parents... go visit a damn farm sometime. Oops, sorry, I think I entered an unannounced rant mode somewhere back there...
As a side note, I did have the presense of mind to omit those particular parts from the paper.:-)
Are ideas copyrightable? I was under the impression that they were not.
Creations are protected under copyright. Ideas are protected under patents.
Copying a song is also fundamentally different from imitating a computer game. Music can be broken down into a set of simple instructions (musical notes) which can then be used to replicate the music. If you use essentially the same notes in your own song, you've copied the song.
Computer programmers don't work like that. There is a set of instructions that tell the computer what to do. When someone clones a game, they create an entirely different set of computer instructions that do not even vaguely resemble the original. This is the part that companies copyright, and if this part has not been duplicated, then I don't see where the violation is.
The music example is an intiguing one. If I have a song represented as a bunch of notes, I can remove sections, move sections around, move a section up or down by a series of semitones, and still be in violation of copyright. But, if I move each note independently, I can convert any song into any other song. So, by the court's logic, the creator of the first song holds the copyright on every derived work.
Who the hell invented Rap or Techno? They must still be alive, I want to buy their rights (I think I have a dollar around here somewhere...) and sue the ass off everyone currently violating their "idea."
OK, I'm a bit puzzled... exactly which part of copyright does this fall under? They are certainly not "unauthorized duplication" (exact copy of binary), "reverse engineering" (figuring out how the code works), or "deriving" (since none of the original work (code / art) beyond the idea has been used in creation).
I thought it was established in a case of Atari vs. Sierra On-Line in the 80s regarding Pac-Man and Jawbreaker - where Jawbreaker was the same "idea" and gameplay, but the maze and graphics were altered - that ideas are not copyrightable.
Given the simlicity of most "classic" games, claiming owner ship of the idea of shooting rocks that break apart just doesn't sit well with me. Where is the line? If I'm admittedly using another work as a "frame of reference," at what point am I infringing on their copyright, and at what point am I off the hook?
1201(b)(2)(B): a technological measure `effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title' if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, prevents, restricts, or otherwise limits the exercise of a right of a copyright owner under this title.
I would say rot13 restricts or limits (i.e. steps must be taken to view the data).
If a judge disagreed, I would want a VERY specific line where one type of encryption is effective and another is not.
The real problem is that the use of encryption AT ALL goes beyond the rights of the copyright owner and infringes on the purchaser's rights of fair use, unless the DMCA overrides previous copyright law, which it expressly says it does not.
I don't mean to rant, but I find the concept of a corporation telling me what I can or cannot do - in the privacy of my own home - fairly offensive. To have my private actions limited in such an arbitrary and ill-defined way, and for something as trivial as movie entertainment, is just disgusting.
Or would be if I was living in the States, which I'm not. Neener neener neener.:-)
Part of the point is that there does not and can not exist a perfect "copy control mechanism."
In the rot13 case... if DVDs had been rot13 encoded instead of CSS encoded, rot13 would have become exactly as illegal as DeCSS, because it allows unauthorized access to a copyrighted work.
Hey, there's an interesting question - is it possible for EXISTING, LEGAL tools to become ILLEGAL under the DMCA if anyone EVER encrypts a copyrighted work with them?
Anyway, good or bad is not the point - there can never be one good enough, and if it's really bad it's still illegal to crack it under the DMCA (even accidentally I would imagine). That's just absurd.
So if I applied rot13 to protect my new commercial data distribution media and someone used/usr/games/rot13 and not my licenced decryption program to view it, they're in violation of the DMCA.
Yes.
Now, if we could get a case involving THAT kind of violation in front of a court, instead of someone well more than three times removed from the creation of the unlicensed decryption program, and burying the case in half-truths and FUD, maybe we would get reasonable legal decisions.
There are provincial prefixes for many of the Canadian TLD like this one, but there are also lots of ones like this one. Heck, even this one doesn't bother with the provincial prefix.
I was registering a domain a few years back, and the price was the same for a.com or a.ca, so I don't know why the US can't get it together...
I don't know... I would find the ability to administer from a central machine out of the box, and the ability to customize what services are running in the background (all without having to buy a license for every machine it's on - $$$$$) RELEVANT.
The OS-Rendering connection is dubious, yes, but if you consider Linux a platform as opposed to an OS, it seems to be a tremendous benefit.
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I think this is great!
If I hadn't started programming on my C-64 (or, heck, my Sinclair ZX81) I probably wouldn't be programming today - at least, I wouldn't have been doing it for the last 15 years and have the job that I always wanted today.
There is a substantial difference between people who discovered programming as a kid and learned to appreciated it, and those who decided to take it at university for the job opportunities.
With the barrier to entry so high to get into programming these days, I think it's great that they're putting a free language, no matter what it is, in with the system.
Since the RIAA loses money every time we download a file from Napster, I have begun downloading files 24 hours a day! I have already download Britney Spears' and The Spice Girls' over 350,000 times! By my calculations, they'll be broke by July 2003!
Dammit, somebody get me a Beowolf cluster and an OC3!
DAMN IT!
Now you've got that song stuck in my head.
Oh well. Reeeeeemember that you're standing...
OK, didn't read article... bad me...
BUT
An Operating System is a System that Operates. That is, software that operates and manages system devices and resources (hardware)... if it doesn't deal directly with managing the hardware IT'S AN APPLICATION.
Is this concept just a little too tough for marketing drones (or marketed to drones) to understand?
But for a slash shouldn't IBM's legal department be investigating this name
Maybe - Sony uses the full name (PlayStation2), we're the ones who use the shorthand. I've heard of Sony kicking games out of their approval process for using the term "PSX" in the game.
Before I get flamed, yes I realize there's bright blue PS2 written on the top of the machine. That could protentially be a problem, anybody know what IBM has for a PS/2 trademark? I suspect they are substantially different and could never be confused... the whole point of a trademark.
Apple's stock just nosedived 50% - I don't think anybody should be taking a page out of that book... or, alternatively, maybe Intel already did. :-)
There is some money to be made there...
Why not buy / write some logging software, and then market it as child protection software? Maybe couple it with a log analysis program to make the job easier on parents?
It makes more sense than filter (it works), is more technically feasible (they already exist) and is just more legally acceptable (no censorship issues, minimal privacy concerns).
This is a marketing problem, not a technical one. Someone, get on it! I'm not a marketer, I'm a computer programmer!
Hadn't considered that one before...
Are both Bush and Gore blocked, or does Al have an advantage in the upcoming election due to the American obsession with fearing sex and embracing violence?
As far as I'm aware, Sony loses money on the hardware and makes money on the software... they need as many machines out there as possible to avoid losing money.
about 1 person every 2-3 days, and they flame me for selling out
/. their home page :-)
For every one who flames, there are probably several who never notice and several more who do but don't get worked up about it.
You can probably get a few hundred hits a day off of the ineptitude of others. Maybe they'll learn to use bookmarks someday (or just make
Instilling moral behavior in your kids is your job, and either you feel you've done a sufficiently good job that you can trust them to surf the net alone, or you don't. If you don't, then don't let them go to the library.
:-)
(Anecdote on)
When I was in high school, we were supposed to read two books by a Canadian author and compare them... so, I picked one of the female authors at random and selected a couple of books from the school library...
One of the books had a moderately graphic description of one of the young female protagonist's male friends (possibly teacher) take her out to a field and watch him masturbate. This was followed later in the book by a fairly vivid description of intercourse.
(Anecdote off, moral on)
OK, so if I can find that sort of stuff on the RECOMMENDED READING LIST, who really gives a rat's ass if some kid accidentally stumbles across something? Or even if they actually seek it out... actually, who seeks that sort of stuff out on a public terminal? What kind of irreparable harm is possibly caused by catching a casual glimpse of the human reproductive system? Freakin' city kids grow up to be parents... go visit a damn farm sometime. Oops, sorry, I think I entered an unannounced rant mode somewhere back there...
As a side note, I did have the presense of mind to omit those particular parts from the paper.
1. Spin around
2. Shoot stuff
3. Don't get killed
And
4. Pay up.
Just had another thought:
Isn't the recent PC release of Asteroids more a rip off of Astro-3D than Astro-3D is of the original arcade Asteroids?
Who should be suing who here?
Are ideas copyrightable? I was under the impression that they were not.
Creations are protected under copyright. Ideas are protected under patents.
Copying a song is also fundamentally different from imitating a computer game. Music can be broken down into a set of simple instructions (musical notes) which can then be used to replicate the music. If you use essentially the same notes in your own song, you've copied the song.
Computer programmers don't work like that. There is a set of instructions that tell the computer what to do. When someone clones a game, they create an entirely different set of computer instructions that do not even vaguely resemble the original. This is the part that companies copyright, and if this part has not been duplicated, then I don't see where the violation is.
The music example is an intiguing one. If I have a song represented as a bunch of notes, I can remove sections, move sections around, move a section up or down by a series of semitones, and still be in violation of copyright. But, if I move each note independently, I can convert any song into any other song. So, by the court's logic, the creator of the first song holds the copyright on every derived work.
Who the hell invented Rap or Techno? They must still be alive, I want to buy their rights (I think I have a dollar around here somewhere...) and sue the ass off everyone currently violating their "idea."
OK, I'm a bit puzzled... exactly which part of copyright does this fall under? They are certainly not "unauthorized duplication" (exact copy of binary), "reverse engineering" (figuring out how the code works), or "deriving" (since none of the original work (code / art) beyond the idea has been used in creation).
I thought it was established in a case of Atari vs. Sierra On-Line in the 80s regarding Pac-Man and Jawbreaker - where Jawbreaker was the same "idea" and gameplay, but the maze and graphics were altered - that ideas are not copyrightable.
Given the simlicity of most "classic" games, claiming owner ship of the idea of shooting rocks that break apart just doesn't sit well with me. Where is the line? If I'm admittedly using another work as a "frame of reference," at what point am I infringing on their copyright, and at what point am I off the hook?
They might have planned for it, but losing $150M that they otherwise would have had HAS to hurt some.
Buying life insurance doesn't mean you're doing fine when you're dead.
It's only frightening because you care, arguably, TOO MUCH about this form of entertainment.
As for me, I tape just about EVERYTHING I watch, because I'm usually too busy to be around when things are broadcast.
If the MPAA gets something like this through, they lose a customer. That should scare THEM.
But what do I know, I'm just supposed to be a freakin' media zombie.
1201(b)(2)(B): a technological measure `effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title' if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, prevents, restricts, or otherwise limits the exercise of a right of a copyright owner under this title.
I would say rot13 restricts or limits (i.e. steps must be taken to view the data).
If a judge disagreed, I would want a VERY specific line where one type of encryption is effective and another is not.
The real problem is that the use of encryption AT ALL goes beyond the rights of the copyright owner and infringes on the purchaser's rights of fair use, unless the DMCA overrides previous copyright law, which it expressly says it does not.
I don't mean to rant, but I find the concept of a corporation telling me what I can or cannot do - in the privacy of my own home - fairly offensive. To have my private actions limited in such an arbitrary and ill-defined way, and for something as trivial as movie entertainment, is just disgusting.
Or would be if I was living in the States, which I'm not. Neener neener neener.
That does explain why these organizations seem so technically ignorant - they can't hire anybody with a clue.
Probably can't even hire anyone with enough clue to hire somebody with one.
Funny that.
What does constitute a "good" encryption scheme?
Part of the point is that there does not and can not exist a perfect "copy control mechanism."
In the rot13 case... if DVDs had been rot13 encoded instead of CSS encoded, rot13 would have become exactly as illegal as DeCSS, because it allows unauthorized access to a copyrighted work.
Hey, there's an interesting question - is it possible for EXISTING, LEGAL tools to become ILLEGAL under the DMCA if anyone EVER encrypts a copyrighted work with them?
Anyway, good or bad is not the point - there can never be one good enough, and if it's really bad it's still illegal to crack it under the DMCA (even accidentally I would imagine). That's just absurd.
As long as "laughed out of court" is the standard precedent for all future DMCA cases, I'd call that a win.
So if I applied rot13 to protect my new commercial data distribution media and someone used
Yes.
Now, if we could get a case involving THAT kind of violation in front of a court, instead of someone well more than three times removed from the creation of the unlicensed decryption program, and burying the case in half-truths and FUD, maybe we would get reasonable legal decisions.
The DMCA applies to the DeCSS case because there was encryption envolved ("access control"). Nothing of the sort in the Sony case.
It didn't have to be good encryption, they just had to try.
Lame, but true.
There are provincial prefixes for many of the Canadian TLD like this one, but there are also lots of ones like this one. Heck, even this one doesn't bother with the provincial prefix.
I was registering a domain a few years back, and the price was the same for a
the OS is 100% totally and completely IRRELIVANT.
I don't know... I would find the ability to administer from a central machine out of the box, and the ability to customize what services are running in the background (all without having to buy a license for every machine it's on - $$$$$) RELEVANT.
The OS-Rendering connection is dubious, yes, but if you consider Linux a platform as opposed to an OS, it seems to be a tremendous benefit.