For those that are curious, here is some actual exploit code from the paper:
There is a major center of economic activity, such as Star Trek, including The Ed Sullivan Show. The former Soviet Union. International organization participation Asian Development Bank, established in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Palestinian territories, the International Telecommunication Union, the first ma
The bold characters are code. The rest have no net effect.
Their strategy is to break the exploit into two pieces, a small executable decoder, and the payload. As you might imagine, the decoder decodes the payload. The payload is encoded in a benign-looking format which is simple enough. Their goal was make the decoder also look like benign data. To achieve that, their tool takes an existing decoder and automatically converts it to English-looking prose like the paragraph above. The tool is able to convert a decoder is less than an hour on commodity hardware.
So are you suggesting that Monsanto and other big business interests outright bribe certain justices? Well now, I'm interested in what evidence you have to support this theory, because we have here the makings of one of the biggest scandals we've ever seen.
I can't speak for this case but one week before issuing a ruling in Eldred v Ashcroft, Thomas accepted a seven figure deal with HarperCollins to publish his memoirs. HarperCollins is owned by News Corp which submitted an Amicus Curie brief in that very case. Oddly enough, Thomas ruled in News Corp's favor.
Most of the other justices have their memoirs published by independent academic institutions such as Harvard University Press but Thomas saw fit to sign a deal with a huge corporation just days before issuing a landmark ruling in their favor. Perhaps Thomas did it because HarperCollins was offering an order of magnitude more than his colleagues were getting for their memoirs, but that just screams of corruption to me.
This happened almost seven years ago. It seems the articles have faded from the internet. All I can find on it now is this Slashdot thread. I read the article it references back in 2003 and another one from Fox (yes Fox!) which said basically the same thing. Even though that thread was written in 2003 it is worth noting Thomas's memoirs were in fact published by Harper in 2007.
In Paul v. Virginia (1869) the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that insurance is outside the scope of the commerce clause. In United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Association (1944), the Supreme Court reversed Paul V. Virginia with respect to anti-trust regulation. However, congress immediately turned around and granted states the exclusive right to regulate insurance. It has been that way ever since. The issue of what role the federal government can play in insurance is still not entirely settled.
And where in the constitution does it say the government can force you to... pay for military or border protection
Article 1, section 8, clauses 1, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16. Also, the 16th amendment.
Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States...
Clause 12: To raise and support Armies...
Clause 13: To provide and maintain a Navy
Clause 14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces
Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions
Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress
16th amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
or pay for roads
Article 1, section 8, clause 7.
Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and Post Roads
It is your local government that forces you to pay for sewers, police, and fire protection. Where that power is derived you will have to look at your state constitution.
'Isaac Asimoc died forty years after they were first written. If he had wanted to follow them up, he would have. The author's intentions need to be respected here,'
The original book should have entered the public domain 14 years after it was published as our original copyright laws demanded. Anyone should be allowed to create any derivative work they want. The only problem with the current situation is that someone is getting an exclusive grant to create derivative works.
The real irony here is that the minorities opposed to network neutrality are the same people that will be discriminated against because of it. Without network neutrality the NAACP may soon find people can't access their network because the NAACP hasn't paid extra dues to a dozen different service providers.
I've seen dozens of work laptops come back with full installations of football games, office, etc.... technically that's copyright infringement ("software piracy") because it's a breach of the license.
I'm not a lawyer and neither are you, but technically, I think your reasoning here is flawed. Copyright grants the author six exclusive rights. Copyright infringement is the act of exercising one of those rights without the author's consent. Violating the license is a simple breach of contract.
One could argue that the author's right to distribute or reproduce the work was infringed but that's not as clear-cut as breach of contract.
McCarthyism is long dead and will not resurrect in out lifetime
Perhaps not in the form of protecting us from communists but it will undoubtedly come back in one form or another. With complacency like yours it will come back even quicker.
The DMCA and Software patents do not limit speech
The DMCA makes it illegal to publish an entirely open source DVD player. It effectively grants a limitless patent to the DVD CCA which controls who can make a DVD player and under what conditions. Software patents limit my ability to publish ideas I developed on my own having never heard of an obvious submarine patent that will bar me from publishing my software.
Hell, a lot of the protesters provoked the other side just to get headlines when they broke and retaliated.
What makes you so sure the protesters did that? COINTELPRO was an FBI program in which agents infiltrated protest groups and started riots to make the group look bad, and to give the authorities an excuse to interfere with the group's free-speech rights.
I discovered that it would be absolutely trivial for me to steal the credentials of every single user of the site
What do you propose they do about it? Employees need to have access to critical information. Banks have no choice but to trust their employees. The reason this is not a problem is because you, like the overwhelming majority of people, have some integrity.
good lord what stays solid at those temperatures? inquiring minds need to know!
4220F = 2600K. The following elements (with associated melting points) would all remain solid at those temperatures.
Carbon (3825K)
Niobium (2742K)
Molybdenum (2896K)
Ruthenium (2610K)
Tantalum (3293K)
Tungsten (3695K)
Rhenium (3455K)
Osmium (3300K)
Iridium (2720K)
...and that is all the known atomic elements that would remain solid. It's possible elements 99+ may remain solid but Kalzium doesn't have their melting points and it's doubtful they would occur in nature anyway. It is, however, quite likely many alloys and compounds could remain solid as well.
If they don't accept anonymous payments I won't pay for the content regardless of how good it is. The technology for anonymous electronic cash has been around for more than a decade. If a vendor wants my money they had better respect my privacy.
Windows on ARM runs existing Windows x86 software about as well as Linux does: not at all.
It's worth noting.Net apps would work just fine. Much like Java, they are compiled to byte code and converted to native code by the runtime environment. As more and more apps are rewritten in.Net this becomes less of an issue for Microsoft.
Plus we all know that taxes get paid by consumers anyway.
This is not entirely true. Consider oil for example. The price is set by supply and demand. Taxes don't come into this equation until it pushes the cost higher than would normally be set by supply and demand. Let's say it costs $0.30/gallon to pump oil out of the ground, ship it overseas, and refine it. Demand is high enough and supply is low enough that gas still costs $2.50/gallon at the pump. Regardless if we pay $0.01/gallon or $1.00/gallon in taxes, the law of supply and demand will still set the pump price at $2.50/gallon. Taxes in this case are paid by oil company shareholders, not consumers. Of course at some point taxes would push the price up. For example, if taxes were $3.00/gallon.
It actually makes sense to have companies be taxfree.
There are other reasons to tax companies. If you tax companies for the harm they cause the environment they will modify their business to cause less harm, thus lowering their tax burden. In that manner you would only pay the tax if you patronize businesses that harm the environment.
The guy is just a vicious sick fuck, and as we have seen time after time after time that "bullies with badges" just keeping pushing the limit until they go to far and get somebody killed. And the odds are he won't kill some hardened rapist, but some kid caught riding in a stolen car or with a bag of dope.
Some would argue he has already gotten several people killed. And Charles Agster was not some kid caught riding in a stolen car or with a bag of dope. Ambria Spencer's daughter certainly didn't commit any crimes. Richard Post really was caught with dope but he wasn't killed. Instead, the guards broke his neck turning him into a quadriplegic, and then they went on to laugh about it.
Machine or transformation test is not a reliable indicator of anything relevant. The standard for patentability should usefulness as set forth in the Constitution, in the patent statute, and by the Court.
But this ignores the constitutional requirement that it promote progress:
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;
Teles AG says:
Further, the global nature of todays economy strongly recommends that the United States patent system be harmonized with robust patent systems of other nations wherever possible.
This is the same argument used in favor of the Sony Bono Copyright Term Extension Act yet at the time the United States was one of very few nations to actually extend copyright to such a length. In this case the U.S. is one of very few nations to support software patents.
When I was in school 10 years ago they taught us that Psychopathy is the deprecated term for Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD). People with APD have a different physiological response to pain, lying, and suffering than the general population. Research has linked it with both genetic and environmental factors. It's quite possible, even likely, that law-abiding people have the same physiological characteristics as Psychopaths but were raised in an environment which countered those characteristics.
This research has important implications for developing a treatment for APD. A treatment could take the form of drugs, therapy, or both.
Regarding this being brought up in court, it seems likely to me the defense would use it to argue for a reduced sentence since the defendant, through no fault of his own, didn't have complete control of his faculties. Since he has discovered that he has APD he can seek more effective treatment than a prison sentence.
The Associated Press collects articles from reporters all over the world. I doubt those reporters submit articles royalty-free. How does the AP tie licensed text back to the article it applies to? Clearly they don't bother.
it sounds like he meant Wikipedia should have a license that allows photographers to contribute _only to Wikipedia_ (presumably *.wikipedia.org) and still retain rights for usage of that photo anywhere else.
Certainly most organizations that are willing to pay for a photo will not want to attach a CC license to it. If such organizations are publishing without a license the photographer has grounds to file suit. If an organization does include a CC license they probably weren't willing to pay for a photo anyway. It's likely Mr. Avenaim just wants to cut off amateur competitors by populating the most obvious source of photos with non-free content.
It's mildly interesting to know how many KW of power it takes to move some water but it would be more interesting to know how many KW of power it takes to transfer heat. With your measurements, how much heat can you transfer with a ton of water and how does the temperature of the computers compare to the ambient air?
I do recall a couple who signed a contract in which the man agreed to donate sperm the natural way. She got pregnant, then sued him for child support and won.
If one does the math it is easy to see it was impossible for her to have caused $1.92 million damage. The offense occurred in 2004. Back then a typical cable modem had an upload speed of 256kbps shared with the neighbors. A typical song costs $0.99 on iTunes. An average MP3 is about 3MB. To upload 1.92 million songs would take 2,184.5 days (almost six years) with no protocol overhead, no downtime (infinite nines!), nobody using bandwidth to search for songs, no neighbors using any of the bandwidth, and no one in her house using the internet for anything but uploading files. Kazaa had only existed for three years at the time. She would have had to start before even Napster existed.
We already know the plantiffs were unsuccessful in several of their download attempts (this was brought up at trial). So it seems many attempts to upload files failed which means it would have taken even longer to cause $1.92 million in damages.
Oh yeah, also note today is Independence Day in the U.S. Four of the companies that sued her are headquartered outside the U.S. The one U.S. company has a CEO from Canada.
Slashdot Mirror
The bold characters are code. The rest have no net effect.
Their strategy is to break the exploit into two pieces, a small executable decoder, and the payload. As you might imagine, the decoder decodes the payload. The payload is encoded in a benign-looking format which is simple enough. Their goal was make the decoder also look like benign data. To achieve that, their tool takes an existing decoder and automatically converts it to English-looking prose like the paragraph above. The tool is able to convert a decoder is less than an hour on commodity hardware.
I can't speak for this case but one week before issuing a ruling in Eldred v Ashcroft, Thomas accepted a seven figure deal with HarperCollins to publish his memoirs. HarperCollins is owned by News Corp which submitted an Amicus Curie brief in that very case. Oddly enough, Thomas ruled in News Corp's favor.
Most of the other justices have their memoirs published by independent academic institutions such as Harvard University Press but Thomas saw fit to sign a deal with a huge corporation just days before issuing a landmark ruling in their favor. Perhaps Thomas did it because HarperCollins was offering an order of magnitude more than his colleagues were getting for their memoirs, but that just screams of corruption to me.
This happened almost seven years ago. It seems the articles have faded from the internet. All I can find on it now is this Slashdot thread. I read the article it references back in 2003 and another one from Fox (yes Fox!) which said basically the same thing. Even though that thread was written in 2003 it is worth noting Thomas's memoirs were in fact published by Harper in 2007.
In Paul v. Virginia (1869) the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that insurance is outside the scope of the commerce clause. In United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Association (1944), the Supreme Court reversed Paul V. Virginia with respect to anti-trust regulation. However, congress immediately turned around and granted states the exclusive right to regulate insurance. It has been that way ever since. The issue of what role the federal government can play in insurance is still not entirely settled.
Article 1, section 8, clauses 1, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16. Also, the 16th amendment.
Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States...
Clause 12: To raise and support Armies...
Clause 13: To provide and maintain a Navy
Clause 14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces
Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions
Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress
16th amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Article 1, section 8, clause 7.
Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and Post Roads
It is your local government that forces you to pay for sewers, police, and fire protection. Where that power is derived you will have to look at your state constitution.
The original book should have entered the public domain 14 years after it was published as our original copyright laws demanded. Anyone should be allowed to create any derivative work they want. The only problem with the current situation is that someone is getting an exclusive grant to create derivative works.
The real irony here is that the minorities opposed to network neutrality are the same people that will be discriminated against because of it. Without network neutrality the NAACP may soon find people can't access their network because the NAACP hasn't paid extra dues to a dozen different service providers.
I'm not a lawyer and neither are you, but technically, I think your reasoning here is flawed. Copyright grants the author six exclusive rights. Copyright infringement is the act of exercising one of those rights without the author's consent. Violating the license is a simple breach of contract.
One could argue that the author's right to distribute or reproduce the work was infringed but that's not as clear-cut as breach of contract.
And speaking of ASN.1, does anybody understand it?
Perhaps not in the form of protecting us from communists but it will undoubtedly come back in one form or another. With complacency like yours it will come back even quicker.
The DMCA makes it illegal to publish an entirely open source DVD player. It effectively grants a limitless patent to the DVD CCA which controls who can make a DVD player and under what conditions. Software patents limit my ability to publish ideas I developed on my own having never heard of an obvious submarine patent that will bar me from publishing my software.
What makes you so sure the protesters did that? COINTELPRO was an FBI program in which agents infiltrated protest groups and started riots to make the group look bad, and to give the authorities an excuse to interfere with the group's free-speech rights.
What do you propose they do about it? Employees need to have access to critical information. Banks have no choice but to trust their employees. The reason this is not a problem is because you, like the overwhelming majority of people, have some integrity.
4220F = 2600K. The following elements (with associated melting points) would all remain solid at those temperatures.
...and that is all the known atomic elements that would remain solid. It's possible elements 99+ may remain solid but Kalzium doesn't have their melting points and it's doubtful they would occur in nature anyway. It is, however, quite likely many alloys and compounds could remain solid as well.
If they don't accept anonymous payments I won't pay for the content regardless of how good it is. The technology for anonymous electronic cash has been around for more than a decade. If a vendor wants my money they had better respect my privacy.
It's worth noting .Net apps would work just fine. Much like Java, they are compiled to byte code and converted to native code by the runtime environment. As more and more apps are rewritten in .Net this becomes less of an issue for Microsoft.
School just started. Why would the kid have a report card? This story smells of hoax.
This is not entirely true. Consider oil for example. The price is set by supply and demand. Taxes don't come into this equation until it pushes the cost higher than would normally be set by supply and demand. Let's say it costs $0.30/gallon to pump oil out of the ground, ship it overseas, and refine it. Demand is high enough and supply is low enough that gas still costs $2.50/gallon at the pump. Regardless if we pay $0.01/gallon or $1.00/gallon in taxes, the law of supply and demand will still set the pump price at $2.50/gallon. Taxes in this case are paid by oil company shareholders, not consumers. Of course at some point taxes would push the price up. For example, if taxes were $3.00/gallon.
There are other reasons to tax companies. If you tax companies for the harm they cause the environment they will modify their business to cause less harm, thus lowering their tax burden. In that manner you would only pay the tax if you patronize businesses that harm the environment.
Some would argue he has already gotten several people killed. And Charles Agster was not some kid caught riding in a stolen car or with a bag of dope. Ambria Spencer's daughter certainly didn't commit any crimes. Richard Post really was caught with dope but he wasn't killed. Instead, the guards broke his neck turning him into a quadriplegic, and then they went on to laugh about it.
But this ignores the constitutional requirement that it promote progress:
Teles AG says:
This is the same argument used in favor of the Sony Bono Copyright Term Extension Act yet at the time the United States was one of very few nations to actually extend copyright to such a length. In this case the U.S. is one of very few nations to support software patents.
When I was in school 10 years ago they taught us that Psychopathy is the deprecated term for Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD). People with APD have a different physiological response to pain, lying, and suffering than the general population. Research has linked it with both genetic and environmental factors. It's quite possible, even likely, that law-abiding people have the same physiological characteristics as Psychopaths but were raised in an environment which countered those characteristics.
This research has important implications for developing a treatment for APD. A treatment could take the form of drugs, therapy, or both.
Regarding this being brought up in court, it seems likely to me the defense would use it to argue for a reduced sentence since the defendant, through no fault of his own, didn't have complete control of his faculties. Since he has discovered that he has APD he can seek more effective treatment than a prison sentence.
The Associated Press collects articles from reporters all over the world. I doubt those reporters submit articles royalty-free. How does the AP tie licensed text back to the article it applies to? Clearly they don't bother.
Certainly most organizations that are willing to pay for a photo will not want to attach a CC license to it. If such organizations are publishing without a license the photographer has grounds to file suit. If an organization does include a CC license they probably weren't willing to pay for a photo anyway. It's likely Mr. Avenaim just wants to cut off amateur competitors by populating the most obvious source of photos with non-free content.
It's mildly interesting to know how many KW of power it takes to move some water but it would be more interesting to know how many KW of power it takes to transfer heat. With your measurements, how much heat can you transfer with a ton of water and how does the temperature of the computers compare to the ambient air?
I do recall a couple who signed a contract in which the man agreed to donate sperm the natural way. She got pregnant, then sued him for child support and won.
If one does the math it is easy to see it was impossible for her to have caused $1.92 million damage. The offense occurred in 2004. Back then a typical cable modem had an upload speed of 256kbps shared with the neighbors. A typical song costs $0.99 on iTunes. An average MP3 is about 3MB. To upload 1.92 million songs would take 2,184.5 days (almost six years) with no protocol overhead, no downtime (infinite nines!), nobody using bandwidth to search for songs, no neighbors using any of the bandwidth, and no one in her house using the internet for anything but uploading files. Kazaa had only existed for three years at the time. She would have had to start before even Napster existed.
We already know the plantiffs were unsuccessful in several of their download attempts (this was brought up at trial). So it seems many attempts to upload files failed which means it would have taken even longer to cause $1.92 million in damages.
Oh yeah, also note today is Independence Day in the U.S. Four of the companies that sued her are headquartered outside the U.S. The one U.S. company has a CEO from Canada.
Assuming a typical server uses 500W this data center would house 130,000 servers.