The GPL restricts what can be done with a digital object. This makes the GPL DRM.
clever, but no. the GPL is a license, which you are free to break at any time, although you are potentially guilty of copyright infringement should you do so. DRM isn't a simple restriction; otherwise telling you "stop posting stupid comments on Slashdot" would be DRM. DRM is a restriction enforced by some kind of technological mechanism (encryption or other). breaking a DRM requires a deliberate technological step, and is a DMCA violation and potentially, but not necessarily, a copyright violation.
If Americans did not understand the resources and secrets that their government is sharing with Seoul, it does not bode well for the American democracy...
I'm sorry, are you suggesting there's something that does bode well for American democracy these days??
Sadly, the modern American brain contains a short circuit that associates any mention of "Korea" with images of "puppet sex". Adding "South" to "Korea" doesn't overcome this effect. It's all Kim Jong Il territory to US. Amuhrrikuh, fuck yeah.
Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is not under copyright, so you could use it for a favicon or stick it on a t-shirt if you wanted. I wouldn't recommend trying to trademark it, as it's a little too well-known to make your brand distinctive, but if you decide to attempt it no one will bring a copyright infringement suit to stop you.
"Catcher in the Rye" was published in 1951, so it's very much still under copyright protection.
The argument isn't that it's different for music; the argument is that extensions to the copyright periods have made copyrights effectively unlimited. By the time I was born, all the Beatles recordings that were ever made were already made (though some may have still been unpublished). I'm now approaching 40, and those publications have not been released into the public domain, so I can't use them any way I like. The fact is, unless the owners explicitly gift them to the public domain, I won't be able to use them AT ALL during my lifetime.
The constitution provides for copyrights for a limited time. While current copyright law DOES do this to the letter, it violates the spirit -- I'll be dead before stuff that was PUBLISHED BEFORE I WAS BORN runs out of copyright. For me, that's an unlimited time. I should be able to change Holden Caulfield's name and publish my own "Catcher in the Rye" by now.
I saw the same thing -- Firefox reported the plugin (before & during download) as an expected 4gb -- but the actual download completed after about 1mb. Looks like the plugin itself is a little under 2mb as installed.
Dunno about the game itself -- the updater/installer is running now and appears to have grabbed about 200mb, roughly 1/3rd of the way across the progress bar. I hope it's not a 4gb download -- I might have enough space to download that, OR install it, to my C: drive, but certainly not both!
I believe exception 4 covers the consumer's use of such a ringtone:
(4) performance of a nondramatic literary or musical work otherwise than in a transmission to the public, without any purpose of direct or indirect commercial advantage and without payment of any fee or other compensation for the performance to any of its performers, promoters, or organizers, if --
(A) there is no direct or indirect admission charge; [...]
Clearly a ringtone playing is "otherwise than in a transmission", and just as clearly the owner of the phone isn't charging admission to the people around him to hear his ringtone. However, this exception does seem to be aimed towards live performances, and it probably won't protect AT&T as a ringtone provider.
Sounds like this type of device needs a "pick another channel" button. (Along with a touch of intelligence, so that the channel it picks isn't also suffering from interference.)
Surfing to the web-admin page just to find yourself a clean channel sounds like it would get old fast.
I screwed up my first install and left the hard disk unbootable. Easy recovery, right? Boot from floppy and reinstall lilo.
Except there was a BIOS flaw. If the boot order was "C:, A:" instead of "A:, C:", the system only booted from floppy if the hard disk was not present. If it was present but not bootable, it would just halt and never failed over to try booting from the floppy. (This was late '95, with a 486 that had never heard of booting from CDROM.)
Oh, did I mention I'd passworded my BIOS and forgotten the password?
Yeah, not so smart.
My machine ("jefry", with one "f") spent the next month completely dissassembled. I knew I had to clear the CMOS memory, but couldn't figure out how. There was supposed to be a jumper I could use. Eventually I figured out that the jumper contacts were present but the pins weren't installed (in '95, tech support had access to motherboard specs!!) and managed to bridge the contacts with a paperclip.
And that was just to get the machine to boot from the floppy drive so I could get back to my Windows install. Even after getting lilo installed properly, it took another couple of months to get to a working slackware install. I learned a lot, though.
Certainly, some of these sites are active. I contribute to one sporadic site that got "volunteered"; a couple of our contributors actually welcomed the experiment. (No idea how the site's admin staff feels about it, though.)
Congrats for prooving him wrong, and coming up with a creative way to use the parking lot he hadn't anticipated... now cut it out.
To their credit, the grad students in charge were completely open about what they were doing. Not in the sense of requesting permission beforehand, but in the sense of providing contact information and some explanation of the experiment. And they were indeed asked to cut it out, and did so (automated removal of the 85k of data they posted to our site). Good for them.
One of our contributors even reposted the data after the automated deletion. It could disappear if the admins take a disliking to it, but for now it's still live.
And I'd sign up for the $150 unlimited model in a heartbeat if I could get it, particularly if it's actually a $75 plan with a maximum $75 overage charge. I'm paying $110 a month today for satellite. For that, I'm guaranteed about 150GB per month at full speed, as long as I break it up into 500MB/day chunks. Overstep that daily allocation by a byte, and it's down to POTS speeds for 24 hours.
Sounds like you're already the telecomm's favorite sucker. You can have 150GB per month as long as you only take 500MB per day? 500MB per day, over 31 days, comes to about 15500MB, or approximately 15GB.
Looks like they're already cheating you out of some money. I'd review my contract if I were you -- if your numbers are right, you're only getting 10% of what you're paying for. In other words, you're getting ripped off.
Of course, it's more likely that you're misreporting the numbers here. Nobody here on/. would be dumb enough to fall for the deal you describe, right?
Amen. It's not "unlimited bandwidth"; it's "unlimited usage".
And it's not even that; if you drill down, the $150 plan is actually a $75-for-100gb/mo, with a promise to cap overage charges at $75 -- thus virtually unlimited usage for $150. How long before they renege on that particular promise?
Here's the article's source; sadly, it's the original source of the confused use of the term "bandwidth": http://a.longreply.com/109511
How far would computing have gotten with 1's but no 0's?
You shouldn't take phrases like "Arabic numerals" at face value. It can make you look really stupid.
oooo, nifty. i didn't realize the arabs got them from the indians. thanks for the link.
though i'd point out that the same link credits two Arab philosophers, Al-Kindi and Al-Khwarizmi, with principle responsibility for diffusing those indian numerals into the west. which is likely why we refer to them as arabic numerals, and not hindu numerals.
Yeah, because the the Qur'an (first published ca. 610AD) emphasizes the use of empirical observation and reason, and had technology and building know-how far ahead of its time.
Very true. How far would computing have gotten with 1's but no 0's?
Thank Allah they didn't continue that tradition.
Also true. Too bad the idiot Christian world had to pick up where they went off.
If you've got an analog setup already -- analog TV, analog VCR, analog antenna -- you'll be adding a DTV-to-analog converter box. After the cutoff, the antenna won't pick up (m)any analog signals anymore, and your other equipment doesn't speak DTV. However, the converter box outputs standard analog signals over coax-antenna-style or composite-RCA-style (or both) outputs. There's no reason you couldn't record that signal on a standard VCR -- but the manufacturers really haven't made that a design priority, and I'm not sure it's a widely understood part of the switchover.
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The GPL restricts what can be done with a digital object. This makes the GPL DRM.
clever, but no. the GPL is a license, which you are free to break at any time, although you are potentially guilty of copyright infringement should you do so. DRM isn't a simple restriction; otherwise telling you "stop posting stupid comments on Slashdot" would be DRM. DRM is a restriction enforced by some kind of technological mechanism (encryption or other). breaking a DRM requires a deliberate technological step, and is a DMCA violation and potentially, but not necessarily, a copyright violation.
If Americans did not understand the resources and secrets that their government is sharing with Seoul, it does not bode well for the American democracy...
I'm sorry, are you suggesting there's something that does bode well for American democracy these days??
Sadly, the modern American brain contains a short circuit that associates any mention of "Korea" with images of "puppet sex". Adding "South" to "Korea" doesn't overcome this effect. It's all Kim Jong Il territory to US. Amuhrrikuh, fuck yeah.
imagine the horror of walking into a lab where all the workstations are named OMG-David-Caruso-01, ...
OMG-David-Caruso-02,
*shudders*
Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is not under copyright, so you could use it for a favicon or stick it on a t-shirt if you wanted. I wouldn't recommend trying to trademark it, as it's a little too well-known to make your brand distinctive, but if you decide to attempt it no one will bring a copyright infringement suit to stop you.
"Catcher in the Rye" was published in 1951, so it's very much still under copyright protection.
The argument isn't that it's different for music; the argument is that extensions to the copyright periods have made copyrights effectively unlimited. By the time I was born, all the Beatles recordings that were ever made were already made (though some may have still been unpublished). I'm now approaching 40, and those publications have not been released into the public domain, so I can't use them any way I like. The fact is, unless the owners explicitly gift them to the public domain, I won't be able to use them AT ALL during my lifetime.
The constitution provides for copyrights for a limited time. While current copyright law DOES do this to the letter, it violates the spirit -- I'll be dead before stuff that was PUBLISHED BEFORE I WAS BORN runs out of copyright. For me, that's an unlimited time. I should be able to change Holden Caulfield's name and publish my own "Catcher in the Rye" by now.
... at least, if the summary is accurate and precise.
Oh wait, this is slashdot. Of course the summary's incomplete and/or biased. I haven't RTFA, someone tell me what's missing?
That and I'm pretty sure I got an erection the first time I bounced a transmission off the atmosphere. That did not happen with my first e-mail.
+1, Frightening.
-1, TMI.
net mod: 0.
So... we can use a jumbo jet full of fatasses as a kinetic bunker-buster?
You're thinking of a Lagrange point. It's analagous to a geostationary orbit -- it's position is fixed in space relative to two large masses.
I saw the same thing -- Firefox reported the plugin (before & during download) as an expected 4gb -- but the actual download completed after about 1mb. Looks like the plugin itself is a little under 2mb as installed.
Dunno about the game itself -- the updater/installer is running now and appears to have grabbed about 200mb, roughly 1/3rd of the way across the progress bar. I hope it's not a 4gb download -- I might have enough space to download that, OR install it, to my C: drive, but certainly not both!
I always used to love my Velveeta and shells. Photography and food, what a combo ^^
FTFY.
I believe exception 4 covers the consumer's use of such a ringtone:
(4) performance of a nondramatic literary or musical work otherwise than in a transmission to the public, without any purpose of direct or indirect commercial advantage and without payment of any fee or other compensation for the performance to any of its performers, promoters, or organizers, if --
(A) there is no direct or indirect admission charge; [...]
Clearly a ringtone playing is "otherwise than in a transmission", and just as clearly the owner of the phone isn't charging admission to the people around him to hear his ringtone. However, this exception does seem to be aimed towards live performances, and it probably won't protect AT&T as a ringtone provider.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
quiet you fool! you'll give some groklaw fanboy ideas...
or how about "The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford"?
Sounds like this type of device needs a "pick another channel" button. (Along with a touch of intelligence, so that the channel it picks isn't also suffering from interference.)
Surfing to the web-admin page just to find yourself a clean channel sounds like it would get old fast.
actually, i imagine he's referring to the ATM network protocol, not the Automated Teller Machine.
Marvel beat them to it: Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham
I screwed up my first install and left the hard disk unbootable. Easy recovery, right? Boot from floppy and reinstall lilo.
Except there was a BIOS flaw. If the boot order was "C:, A:" instead of "A:, C:", the system only booted from floppy if the hard disk was not present. If it was present but not bootable, it would just halt and never failed over to try booting from the floppy. (This was late '95, with a 486 that had never heard of booting from CDROM.)
Oh, did I mention I'd passworded my BIOS and forgotten the password?
Yeah, not so smart.
My machine ("jefry", with one "f") spent the next month completely dissassembled. I knew I had to clear the CMOS memory, but couldn't figure out how. There was supposed to be a jumper I could use. Eventually I figured out that the jumper contacts were present but the pins weren't installed (in '95, tech support had access to motherboard specs!!) and managed to bridge the contacts with a paperclip.
And that was just to get the machine to boot from the floppy drive so I could get back to my Windows install. Even after getting lilo installed properly, it took another couple of months to get to a working slackware install. I learned a lot, though.
And I never passworded another BIOS.
Certainly, some of these sites are active. I contribute to one sporadic site that got "volunteered"; a couple of our contributors actually welcomed the experiment. (No idea how the site's admin staff feels about it, though.)
Congrats for prooving him wrong, and coming up with a creative way to use the parking lot he hadn't anticipated... now cut it out.
To their credit, the grad students in charge were completely open about what they were doing. Not in the sense of requesting permission beforehand, but in the sense of providing contact information and some explanation of the experiment. And they were indeed asked to cut it out, and did so (automated removal of the 85k of data they posted to our site). Good for them.
One of our contributors even reposted the data after the automated deletion. It could disappear if the admins take a disliking to it, but for now it's still live.
And I'd sign up for the $150 unlimited model in a heartbeat if I could get it, particularly if it's actually a $75 plan with a maximum $75 overage charge. I'm paying $110 a month today for satellite. For that, I'm guaranteed about 150GB per month at full speed, as long as I break it up into 500MB/day chunks. Overstep that daily allocation by a byte, and it's down to POTS speeds for 24 hours.
Sounds like you're already the telecomm's favorite sucker. You can have 150GB per month as long as you only take 500MB per day? 500MB per day, over 31 days, comes to about 15500MB, or approximately 15GB.
Looks like they're already cheating you out of some money. I'd review my contract if I were you -- if your numbers are right, you're only getting 10% of what you're paying for. In other words, you're getting ripped off.
Of course, it's more likely that you're misreporting the numbers here. Nobody here on /. would be dumb enough to fall for the deal you describe, right?
Amen. It's not "unlimited bandwidth"; it's "unlimited usage".
And it's not even that; if you drill down, the $150 plan is actually a $75-for-100gb/mo, with a promise to cap overage charges at $75 -- thus virtually unlimited usage for $150. How long before they renege on that particular promise?
Here's the article's source; sadly, it's the original source of the confused use of the term "bandwidth": http://a.longreply.com/109511
why the hell would you need wireless pants?? are you allergic to suspenders or something?
You shouldn't take phrases like "Arabic numerals" at face value. It can make you look really stupid.
oooo, nifty. i didn't realize the arabs got them from the indians. thanks for the link.
though i'd point out that the same link credits two Arab philosophers, Al-Kindi and Al-Khwarizmi, with principle responsibility for diffusing those indian numerals into the west. which is likely why we refer to them as arabic numerals, and not hindu numerals.
At least they aren't muslims!
Yeah, because the the Qur'an (first published ca. 610AD) emphasizes the use of empirical observation and reason, and had technology and building know-how far ahead of its time.
Very true. How far would computing have gotten with 1's but no 0's?
Thank Allah they didn't continue that tradition.
Also true. Too bad the idiot Christian world had to pick up where they went off.
If you've got an analog setup already -- analog TV, analog VCR, analog antenna -- you'll be adding a DTV-to-analog converter box. After the cutoff, the antenna won't pick up (m)any analog signals anymore, and your other equipment doesn't speak DTV. However, the converter box outputs standard analog signals over coax-antenna-style or composite-RCA-style (or both) outputs. There's no reason you couldn't record that signal on a standard VCR -- but the manufacturers really haven't made that a design priority, and I'm not sure it's a widely understood part of the switchover.