Then the workgroup administrator should simply not let his/her users have the permissions necessary to install it. If they need to install apps on their own, don't give them the permissions to install system components like the p2p widget that threedegrees relies on.
If, otoh, you don't feel like setting up your systems to match your desires of them, that's your problem.
Ok, you win 6 months at the Lawrence Lessig Re-Education Camp for completely failing to grasp that this is not true (although in a fair world, maybe it should be), thanks to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
Your specific example is also wrong in Europe where terms are also at artist death + 70 years, but were not extended retroactively.
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Domain registered through netsol/Veri$ign as far as I can tell.
that's a common misconception - but if I make some minor tweeks to GNUFoo and sell it as VisualFoo for $75 + tax, I have to sell it under the terms of the GPL, with everything that entails (i.e. every user would then be free to re-modify it and give it away or sell it better and cheaper to compete commercially with me).
The Free Software Foundation (they who wrote the GNU GPL) have a good FAQ which tells you about as much as you can find out about it without needing a lawyer's advice.
Have we FORGOTTEN all the perceived angst and trauma about usage-prevented audio CDs (sharpie marker deprotection, all that)??
If I buy a CD and find I'm totally unable to rip it, I can and will go searching for the tracks on p2p. If/when every "CD" that comes out (including from the smaller dance music labels I like) is similarly mangled, a few people will manage to rip it (carefully via analogue, or whatever) and the music will still proliferate over p2p.
If, in order to get the music I've paid for into a format I regard as usable (mp3s or oggs) I have to go get them off p2p networks then I've gained no *actual* value from the purchase of the "CD".
perl's a superb example because of the various cool bits of wizard-authored code to do stuff in few enough lines to put it on a t-shirt (RSA public key crypto, CSS-decoding, all of those sorts of things). Where would/should the line between "speech" and "machine" be drawn with interpreted languages?
(Also, what's the language which has been defined with the specific request that nobody ever write a compiler/interpreter for it, so it can always be used to express stuff as speech with no sensible claim of machine-ness?)
If a US citizen went to sweden on holiday, bought something IN SWEDEN, took it back to the US where it was found to be defective (or otherwise in violation of *US* laws), this does not make the originating company which has not left sweden subject to US jurisdiction. If it does, I'm emigrating. Mars, perhaps.
The issue of whether sending an HTTP response back to some other country because of the request the server received counts as "doing business in" the remote user's country is a different argument. I'd argue "no", but pretty much purely from the intuitive position (obviously IANAL, I'm just another screaming ninny with an opinion, like everyone else).
There is no explicit "Remote-Jurisdiction:" header in an HTTP request - it is *possible* to try to determine country of origin by IP netblock ownership, however according to such a test I am apparently a resident of Virginia (all of AOL's customers worldwide get US-blocked IPs - and there are no other ISPs offering unmetered internet to me in my specific situation here in the UK, yes it's awful).
hell, even britain's given up on the "million million" idea for the most part. Mostly, I suspect, because it doesn't sit with the as-taught-in-schools SI prefixes (kilo, mega, giga and tera are 10^3, 10^6, 10^9 and 10^12 respectively).
Folks, I'm disheartened... Over 60 posts at the time I started writing this comment and a brief scan reveals that *nobody* has yet made any allusions to HEX, the "working things out machine" run by the High-Energy Magic department of Unseen University in Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
For those of you not familiar, HEX is a lovely analogy constructed out of fictional glass tubes through which vast numbers of ants walk, diverted by gates (you get the idea). It has components including an unreal-time clock and generates messages along the lines of "+++ Out Of Cheese Error. Redo from Start +++". It apparently bears a witty "Anthill Inside" legend, and in one of the Discworld adventure games a comment is made that when you break it and the ants escape "it's been completely debugged".
I don't need to painfully fill in the gap between "walkware" and "ants walking around inside HEX", do I?
VB lets you initially get away with doing really shitty things (certainly vb6, vb.net apparently much less so) like not having to declare variables, letting you use variant types too easily, and some other things. It isn't necessarily the best language for producing apps for the mass public (things can be "wrong" but mostly work, whereas same flaw in Delphi would generate a compiler Warning), but that isn't all there is to programming - it's pretty well-suited to in-house work and can make a fairly good job of tying in to DBMSs (even mysql over odbc if you're that way inclined).
I agree 100% with the value of knowing different languages (even if it's only vaguely so you can read it, even if you don't know enough to write in it) - VB is my pet language for personal coding, picking up some basic Java for a course at uni, and I'm fond of PHP for web stuff (I've written win-cgis in VB before, not fun, and I don't care for using *spit* vbscript in ASP).
I've done C at uni for low-level stuff and once had to do a full Windows GUI app in Visual C++. Let's just say I quite liked the low-level stuff (it was just fairly simple assignment stuff, but interesting) but have no intent on ever using VisC for GUI stuff ever again!
The tech was CPRM (content prevention for removable media), the Evil Entity was 4C, and El Reg's coverage summary is right here.
It's also pretty much the protection measures on SD flash cards (which, along with additional transfer speed, differentiate them from MMC cards), apparently.
Umm, been done - remember the almighty collective panty-twisting session we had a while back when we were all convinced that horrific wide-reaching DRM measures would shortly turn up on all new HDDs? The acronyms and initials don't immediately spring to mind (some number of Cs, might've been 3 or 5) but everyone remembers what I mean, right?
This nice new format which has got us all going "oooh oooh! GIMME!" is, my best bet, where all that development work is gonna resurface...
no, because *your* server at the first point you have control over it (your isp running a suitable filter for you, your box if you self-MX your mail, your company's mail servers at work) check for a valid "work effort" header which works by some cunning crypto which I'm going to handwave over at this point.
Spam sent through Hoo Thee Fusk's open mail server at some korean primary school won't have had a crypto challenge "stamp" calculated, so (once the process has had good enough uptake among all the properly maintained relay servers) your server can just say "no stamp? *fail*".
and in answer to your question, you index it once which can be done in pretty much 1:1 time, then you save the index files and just search *those* to find things - the index files tell you which recording and timecode the result is found at, then you playback from there.
on the contrary, there are only a limited number of 802.11b channels available, and only 3 of those don't mutually interfere. If 3 cellphone companies saturate those channels, there's no room left for community WLAN projects apart from point-to-point high gain pringles-can project.
you could, if you really wanted to, run new parallel power lines to sell electricity down - there's not nearly enough available spectrum for wifi to gain massive widespread use.
Also, my current wifi network consists of 2 Belkin USB wifi thingies seperated by one wall and 3', and I get a 1-2 second dropout every couple of minutes which makes it pretty much useless for UT2003! Anyone got similar issues?
not yet fully implemented. WMP9beta might well bring that in, but I'll be installing that particular shit over my dead body. can rip with trec just fine in XP with WMP8.
Worked just fine for me on WMP8 on WinXP when I got a free hybrid Elvis Costello CD in the Sunday Times with a couple of tracks free as CD Audio tracks, plus WMAs of those tracks, plus locked-down WMAs of other tracks (so you had to go online and fill in a little form to get through "license acquisition" - no, I can't remember how much detail it demanded). Went through license-getting, hit Record in trec, Play in WMP, waited a bit, then saved out a wav and encoded it to mp3 in cdex.
WMP9 may well bring in this new "super-signed drivers" thing MS are working on, so that protected WMAs won't play unless MS trusts your audio drivers. This is an incoming dead loss given the number of drivers on my system which don't have basic "doesn't hose your system" signing.
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£233 for the 5500 is a damn good price, I paid out £350 for mine from Expansys last year.
Then the workgroup administrator should simply not let his/her users have the permissions necessary to install it. If they need to install apps on their own, don't give them the permissions to install system components like the p2p widget that threedegrees relies on.
If, otoh, you don't feel like setting up your systems to match your desires of them, that's your problem.
this is the style of "unattributed" where he starts off by saying "from ipv6.org..."?
Your specific example is also wrong in Europe where terms are also at artist death + 70 years, but were not extended retroactively.
Domain registered through netsol/Veri$ign as far as I can tell.
The Free Software Foundation (they who wrote the GNU GPL) have a good FAQ which tells you about as much as you can find out about it without needing a lawyer's advice.
hey kids, Captain Obvious here - your CPU is a more effective spaceheater when it has a big copper radiator attached :-)
presuming that Godwin's applies to /. as it does to usenet, of course :-)
Have we FORGOTTEN all the perceived angst and trauma about usage-prevented audio CDs (sharpie marker deprotection, all that)??
If I buy a CD and find I'm totally unable to rip it, I can and will go searching for the tracks on p2p. If/when every "CD" that comes out (including from the smaller dance music labels I like) is similarly mangled, a few people will manage to rip it (carefully via analogue, or whatever) and the music will still proliferate over p2p.
If, in order to get the music I've paid for into a format I regard as usable (mp3s or oggs) I have to go get them off p2p networks then I've gained no *actual* value from the purchase of the "CD".
ok, we can instantly rule out any risk of people taking you seriously until:
1) you sit down and work out what fixed-bitrate compression means
2) you learn to spell *algorithm*
Then use intepreted languages, surely?
perl's a superb example because of the various cool bits of wizard-authored code to do stuff in few enough lines to put it on a t-shirt (RSA public key crypto, CSS-decoding, all of those sorts of things). Where would/should the line between "speech" and "machine" be drawn with interpreted languages?
(Also, what's the language which has been defined with the specific request that nobody ever write a compiler/interpreter for it, so it can always be used to express stuff as speech with no sensible claim of machine-ness?)
umm, I call you on your dodgy analogy.
If a US citizen went to sweden on holiday, bought something IN SWEDEN, took it back to the US where it was found to be defective (or otherwise in violation of *US* laws), this does not make the originating company which has not left sweden subject to US jurisdiction. If it does, I'm emigrating. Mars, perhaps.
The issue of whether sending an HTTP response back to some other country because of the request the server received counts as "doing business in" the remote user's country is a different argument. I'd argue "no", but pretty much purely from the intuitive position (obviously IANAL, I'm just another screaming ninny with an opinion, like everyone else).
There is no explicit "Remote-Jurisdiction:" header in an HTTP request - it is *possible* to try to determine country of origin by IP netblock ownership, however according to such a test I am apparently a resident of Virginia (all of AOL's customers worldwide get US-blocked IPs - and there are no other ISPs offering unmetered internet to me in my specific situation here in the UK, yes it's awful).
hell, even britain's given up on the "million million" idea for the most part. Mostly, I suspect, because it doesn't sit with the as-taught-in-schools SI prefixes (kilo, mega, giga and tera are 10^3, 10^6, 10^9 and 10^12 respectively).
For those of you not familiar, HEX is a lovely analogy constructed out of fictional glass tubes through which vast numbers of ants walk, diverted by gates (you get the idea). It has components including an unreal-time clock and generates messages along the lines of "+++ Out Of Cheese Error. Redo from Start +++". It apparently bears a witty "Anthill Inside" legend, and in one of the Discworld adventure games a comment is made that when you break it and the ants escape "it's been completely debugged".
I don't need to painfully fill in the gap between "walkware" and "ants walking around inside HEX", do I?
I'll answer that in one word:
Ralsky.
VB lets you initially get away with doing really shitty things (certainly vb6, vb.net apparently much less so) like not having to declare variables, letting you use variant types too easily, and some other things. It isn't necessarily the best language for producing apps for the mass public (things can be "wrong" but mostly work, whereas same flaw in Delphi would generate a compiler Warning), but that isn't all there is to programming - it's pretty well-suited to in-house work and can make a fairly good job of tying in to DBMSs (even mysql over odbc if you're that way inclined).
I agree 100% with the value of knowing different languages (even if it's only vaguely so you can read it, even if you don't know enough to write in it) - VB is my pet language for personal coding, picking up some basic Java for a course at uni, and I'm fond of PHP for web stuff (I've written win-cgis in VB before, not fun, and I don't care for using *spit* vbscript in ASP).
I've done C at uni for low-level stuff and once had to do a full Windows GUI app in Visual C++. Let's just say I quite liked the low-level stuff (it was just fairly simple assignment stuff, but interesting) but have no intent on ever using VisC for GUI stuff ever again!
unless it was a new protocol for teleporting carrier pigeons over IP connections... :-)
The tech was CPRM (content prevention for removable media), the Evil Entity was 4C, and El Reg's coverage summary is right here.
It's also pretty much the protection measures on SD flash cards (which, along with additional transfer speed, differentiate them from MMC cards), apparently.
Umm, been done - remember the almighty collective panty-twisting session we had a while back when we were all convinced that horrific wide-reaching DRM measures would shortly turn up on all new HDDs? The acronyms and initials don't immediately spring to mind (some number of Cs, might've been 3 or 5) but everyone remembers what I mean, right? This nice new format which has got us all going "oooh oooh! GIMME!" is, my best bet, where all that development work is gonna resurface...
no, because *your* server at the first point you have control over it (your isp running a suitable filter for you, your box if you self-MX your mail, your company's mail servers at work) check for a valid "work effort" header which works by some cunning crypto which I'm going to handwave over at this point.
Spam sent through Hoo Thee Fusk's open mail server at some korean primary school won't have had a crypto challenge "stamp" calculated, so (once the process has had good enough uptake among all the properly maintained relay servers) your server can just say "no stamp? *fail*".
'cmon, would it kill you to RTFA?
oh, what am I saying, of course it would!
and in answer to your question, you index it once which can be done in pretty much 1:1 time, then you save the index files and just search *those* to find things - the index files tell you which recording and timecode the result is found at, then you playback from there.
this is not even an RTFA. Demon is a UK ISP, I'm pretty certain Godfrey's a brit, and it was contested in the English courts. not relevant.
on the contrary, there are only a limited number of 802.11b channels available, and only 3 of those don't mutually interfere. If 3 cellphone companies saturate those channels, there's no room left for community WLAN projects apart from point-to-point high gain pringles-can project. you could, if you really wanted to, run new parallel power lines to sell electricity down - there's not nearly enough available spectrum for wifi to gain massive widespread use. Also, my current wifi network consists of 2 Belkin USB wifi thingies seperated by one wall and 3', and I get a 1-2 second dropout every couple of minutes which makes it pretty much useless for UT2003! Anyone got similar issues?
not yet fully implemented. WMP9beta might well bring that in, but I'll be installing that particular shit over my dead body. can rip with trec just fine in XP with WMP8.
Worked just fine for me on WMP8 on WinXP when I got a free hybrid Elvis Costello CD in the Sunday Times with a couple of tracks free as CD Audio tracks, plus WMAs of those tracks, plus locked-down WMAs of other tracks (so you had to go online and fill in a little form to get through "license acquisition" - no, I can't remember how much detail it demanded). Went through license-getting, hit Record in trec, Play in WMP, waited a bit, then saved out a wav and encoded it to mp3 in cdex. WMP9 may well bring in this new "super-signed drivers" thing MS are working on, so that protected WMAs won't play unless MS trusts your audio drivers. This is an incoming dead loss given the number of drivers on my system which don't have basic "doesn't hose your system" signing.