I thought that applied only if you are commercial. If you can show that you get no monetary gain, you can broadcast all you like. Am I wrong about this?
Yes. Talk to ASCAP or BMI. The rates for non-commercial stations are cheaper, but you still have to pay. The rates for non-commercial stations are set by the U.S. Copyright Office.
There are already frequencies allocated for that sort of thing. You can use 902-928 MHz, an ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) band for just about anything. There are limits on transmitter power.
I disagree. IBM has successfully used this strategy with their AS/400 system. Hiding the hardware implementation of the architecture has given them the freedom to make radical hardware design modifications without breaking customer software. It has also allowed them to present a very high level "virtual machine" to application software.
You will find the same practice, not touching members of the opposite sex, in orthodox Jewish communities. It isn't meant as an insult. It's part of that culture's concept of modesty. Mixed-sex dancing is also out. The rules are different for spouses and family members.
With apologies to Mark Twain, There is something fascinating about Mr. Katz's articles. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Anecdotes, random email messages and gut feelings are not evidence. How did Mr. Katz determine the demographics of the slashdot community? Was it intuitively obvious to him that user X was a testosterone poisoned, 16-year old white male member of the ruling class?
Mr. Katz assumes that his personal experience with Slashdot is representative of the average Internet user, neatly avoiding the need for research.
I'm sure the oppressed women and minorities on Slashdot are going to be appropriately grateful that Mr. Katz has appointed himself their spokesman.
In copyright law there is something called "contributory infringement" that seems to be vague and poorly defined. The SPA has a policy statement that asserts that an Internet Access Provider who allows serial numbers and cracks to be downloaded from their system is liable for contributory infringement. That may or may not be the law, but it wouldn't be much of a leap to claim that hypertext links might also constitute contributory infringement.
I still cannot understand why on earth any US court would even hear a case like this.
My understanding of the law is that civil lawsuits are easy to file, just a matter of submitting the right paperwork. There are penalties for frivolous lawsuits, but they seem to rarely be applied. This can be financially devastating if you have pissed off someone with a lawyer and lots of money who wants revenge. There is even a new acronym, SLAPP, strategic lawsuits against public participation, for lawsuits designed to punish people who exercise their first amendment rights.
- This being said, it can be safely assumed that the DVD consortium is approaching this under false pretenses, and what they really want to do is maintain the profits they get from licensing players.
They may also be worried about losing control over the region coding scheme enforced by licensed DVD players. That is one of the most objectionable "features" from the user's point of view.
It was there fault they didn't use decent encryption on the keys, (using deeper encryption would have made it much more difficult to brute-force the other keys after Xing's was discovered),
I don't think a larger key size would have made much of a difference. They were screwed as soon as they permitted software implementations of DVD players. It was only a matter of time before someone reverse engineered the software. A VLSI chip can also be reverse engineered, but it is much more difficult.
I suppose it depends on how you were brought up, but I would be extremely upset if someone was snooping through my private files. There isn't anything particularly interesting in them, I just value my privacy and don't subscribe to the notion that a relationship gives someone a right to know everything about the other person.
"Furthermore cardholders are protected by the Canadian Code of Practice for Debit Card Services that assures that confirmed victims of proven fraudulent activity will not suffer losses."
Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but that sounds weak to me. It could be read as "You are screwed unless someone proves that fraud was committed." In my dealings with banks I've found that they have a poor record of investigating errors that cost the customer, not the bank, money.
I am not an Astronomer/Physicist, but this whole idea of dark matter seems suspect to me. If the expansion rate of the universe and the observation of galaxies indicates more mass than we can observe, maybe there is something missing from our understanding of gravity or other forces. Chalking it up to dark matter, which conveniently can't be observed, and is a form of matter that has never been detected in a laboratory, is a bit like saying that lightning is caused by invisible thunder gods. Of course you can't see them, they're invisible.
FreeBSD has a version of Kerberos that is available outside the US. From the FreeBSD 3.3 release notes:
The latest versions of export-restricted code for FreeBSD (2.0C or later) (eBones and secure) are also being made available at the following locations. If you are outside the U.S. or Canada, please get secure (DES) and eBones (Kerberos) from one of the following foreign distribution sites:
You should also consider the time involved in researching and ordering parts, building, integrating and testing the system. Sometimes it is more cost-effective to buy a packaged system.
A good vendor will have qualified, integrated and tested all of the parts in your system. They may also have access to parts that are difficult or impossible to find on the retail market.
At my workplace, I've built/upgraded all of my computers from parts. My current PC, a Pentium III, started out as an excessed IBM PC/AT. Mostly because the procurement system makes it easy to order parts and difficult to order complete computers. If you factor in the cost of my labor, it would have been cheaper to buy assembled systems with service contracts.
I agree. Years ago, I asked AT&T for information on some UNIX applications software that they were selling. They sent me the information and a legal contract that had to be signed and submitted with the order before they would ship the software. That seemed much more honest than the shrinkwrap licenses that are so popular today.
What business would possibly purchase software that legally allowed the creator of the software to shut it down remotely at a whim.
Many mainframe software packages are not sold, but rented on a monthly basis. You pay $500 a month to run UltraBase on your mainframe. The software vendor has a legitimate interest in being able to disable the software if you stop paying the monthly licensing fee. The question is whether the vendor must get a court order or can use some technical means to disable the software.
You all seem to think that the United States is the only place anyone can get full strenght ecryption.
I doubt that many well-read people believe that. But that isn't important.
PGP and Fortify are useful programs. They are also inconsequential to the goal of putting strong, easy to use encryption on every desktop and server.
Most of the PCs in the world are running some version of Windows, which is closed software exported from the USA. They are not running OpenBSD or FreeS/WAN. That makes the US export regulations important. Unless Microsoft can put strong encryption in all of their products, not just special versions for domestic use, everyone loses.
Strong crypto needs to be included in every operating system, web browser and email program shipped by Microsoft, Apple and Netscape.
We need IPSEC and secure email with automatic key management. If it is hard to use, requires user action or needs to be patched/downloaded, it will be a failure. Strong encryption should be the default and transparent to the user.
I want a world where a user can buy a bog-standard PC from the local retailer, take it home and send strongly encrypted email to their grandmother, without having to think about it.
Every time I watch 2001, I wonder why we don't have speech synthesis software that sounds as good as HAL. Most of the current software generates speech that is difficult to understand.
Thank you for mentioning Robert Rankin. Terry Pratchett is one of my favorite authors and from reading the reviews of his books, I think I will like Rankin too. As with Pratchett, Rankin's books are available at http://www.amazon.co.uk.
Re:From the goebbels-would-be-proud dept.? Huh?
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I don't think the connection is entirely unfair. Goebbels was extremely cynical and was willing to manipulate the public for causes that he was indifferent towards. The modern media delights in manufacturing controversies and exploiting tragedy, not for moral goals, but for rating points. The question in the television news producer's mind is not "is it news?", but "is it good television?".
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Yes. Talk to ASCAP or BMI. The rates for non-commercial stations are cheaper, but you still have to pay. The rates for non-commercial stations are set by the U.S. Copyright Office.
There is no free lunch. Spread spectrum can increase the efficiency with which the airwaves are used but it does not increase the bandwidth.
There are already frequencies allocated for that sort of thing. You can use 902-928 MHz, an ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) band for just about anything. There are limits on transmitter power.
You need an amateur radio license. See http://www.arrl.org. You can transmit video on the UHF (432 MHz) and higher frequency bands.
I disagree. IBM has successfully used this strategy with their AS/400 system. Hiding the hardware implementation of the architecture has given them the freedom to make radical hardware design modifications without breaking customer software. It has also allowed them to present a very high level "virtual machine" to application software.
Trolls. Nasty pieces of work in my opinion. They need keeping an eye on.
You will find the same practice, not touching members of the opposite sex, in orthodox Jewish communities. It isn't meant as an insult. It's part of that culture's concept of modesty. Mixed-sex dancing is also out. The rules are different for spouses and family members.
Anecdotes, random email messages and gut feelings are not evidence. How did Mr. Katz determine the demographics of the slashdot community? Was it intuitively obvious to him that user X was a testosterone poisoned, 16-year old white male member of the ruling class?
Mr. Katz assumes that his personal experience with Slashdot is representative of the average Internet user, neatly avoiding the need for research.
I'm sure the oppressed women and minorities on Slashdot are going to be appropriately grateful that Mr. Katz has appointed himself their spokesman.
In copyright law there is something called "contributory infringement" that seems to be vague and poorly defined. The SPA has a policy statement that asserts that an Internet Access Provider who allows serial numbers and cracks to be downloaded from their system is liable for contributory infringement. That may or may not be the law, but it wouldn't be much of a leap to claim that hypertext links might also constitute contributory infringement.
My understanding of the law is that civil lawsuits are easy to file, just a matter of submitting the right paperwork. There are penalties for frivolous lawsuits, but they seem to rarely be applied. This can be financially devastating if you have pissed off someone with a lawyer and lots of money who wants revenge. There is even a new acronym, SLAPP, strategic lawsuits against public participation, for lawsuits designed to punish people who exercise their first amendment rights.
They may also be worried about losing control over the region coding scheme enforced by licensed DVD players. That is one of the most objectionable "features" from the user's point of view.
I don't think a larger key size would have made much of a difference. They were screwed as soon as they permitted software implementations of DVD players. It was only a matter of time before someone reverse engineered the software. A VLSI chip can also be reverse engineered, but it is much more difficult.
I suppose it depends on how you were brought up, but I would be extremely upset if someone was snooping through my private files. There isn't anything particularly interesting in them, I just value my privacy and don't subscribe to the notion that a relationship gives someone a right to know everything about the other person.
A brute force attack is the upper bound. More sophisticated attacks may be possible. A simple substitution cipher has approximately 88 bits of key.
Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but that sounds weak to me. It could be read as "You are screwed unless someone proves that fraud was committed." In my dealings with banks I've found that they have a poor record of investigating errors that cost the customer, not the bank, money.
I am not an Astronomer/Physicist, but this whole idea of dark matter seems suspect to me. If the expansion rate of the universe and the observation of galaxies indicates more mass than we can observe, maybe there is something missing from our understanding of gravity or other forces. Chalking it up to dark matter, which conveniently can't be observed, and is a form of matter that has never been detected in a laboratory, is a bit like saying that lightning is caused by invisible thunder gods. Of course you can't see them, they're invisible.
The latest versions of export-restricted code for FreeBSD (2.0C or later) (eBones and secure) are also being made available at the following locations. If you are outside the U.S. or Canada, please get secure (DES) and eBones (Kerberos) from one of the following foreign distribution sites:
South Africa
ftp://ftp.internat.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
ftp://ftp2.internat.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
Brazil
ftp://ftp.br.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD
Finland
ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/FreeBSD/eurocrypt
A good vendor will have qualified, integrated and tested all of the parts in your system. They may also have access to parts that are difficult or impossible to find on the retail market.
At my workplace, I've built/upgraded all of my computers from parts. My current PC, a Pentium III, started out as an excessed IBM PC/AT. Mostly because the procurement system makes it easy to order parts and difficult to order complete computers. If you factor in the cost of my labor, it would have been cheaper to buy assembled systems with service contracts.
I agree. Years ago, I asked AT&T for information on some UNIX applications software that they were selling. They sent me the information and a legal contract that had to be signed and submitted with the order before they would ship the software. That seemed much more honest than the shrinkwrap licenses that are so popular today.
Many mainframe software packages are not sold, but rented on a monthly basis. You pay $500 a month to run UltraBase on your mainframe. The software vendor has a legitimate interest in being able to disable the software if you stop paying the monthly licensing fee. The question is whether the vendor must get a court order or can use some technical means to disable the software.
I doubt that many well-read people believe that. But that isn't important.
PGP and Fortify are useful programs. They are also inconsequential to the goal of putting strong, easy to use encryption on every desktop and server.
Most of the PCs in the world are running some version of Windows, which is closed software exported from the USA. They are not running OpenBSD or FreeS/WAN. That makes the US export regulations important. Unless Microsoft can put strong encryption in all of their products, not just special versions for domestic use, everyone loses.
Strong crypto needs to be included in every operating system, web browser and email program shipped by Microsoft, Apple and Netscape.
We need IPSEC and secure email with automatic key management. If it is hard to use, requires user action or needs to be patched/downloaded, it will be a failure. Strong encryption should be the default and transparent to the user.
I want a world where a user can buy a bog-standard PC from the local retailer, take it home and send strongly encrypted email to their grandmother, without having to think about it.
Every time I watch 2001, I wonder why we don't have speech synthesis software that sounds as good as HAL. Most of the current software generates speech that is difficult to understand.
Thank you for mentioning Robert Rankin. Terry Pratchett is one of my favorite authors and from reading the reviews of his books, I think I will like Rankin too. As with Pratchett, Rankin's books are available at http://www.amazon.co.uk.
I don't think the connection is entirely unfair. Goebbels was extremely cynical and was willing to manipulate the public for causes that he was indifferent towards. The modern media delights in manufacturing controversies and exploiting tragedy, not for moral goals, but for rating points. The question in the television news producer's mind is not "is it news?", but "is it good television?".
Aspirin was a trademark of the Bayer company but they lost the trademark in the USA when aspirin became a generic term for acetylsalicylic acid.