> Why and how is a computer program expressive speech?
There have been many discussions in the past two years about code as expression. Briefly summarized in a simile: code is to what programmers use to communicate as chemical formulas are to what chemists use to communicate, as mathematical notation is to what mathematicians use to communicate, as legal jargon and statute notation are to what lawyers and judges use to communicate,... . Very little of the above is part of the common vernacular nor even comprehendable by the average American, yet all are speech and expression.
Code can be the most succinct way to show you an algorithm, in the same way that a string of chemical symbols may be the most succinct way to express a complicated benzene ring structure, in the same way that statute notation may be the most succinct way to communicate where to find the law detailing a specific tax issue.
Code is very personal, in part because it is language. Back (way back) in high school, if I left my name off of an essay, my English teacher could identify it as mine. In the same way, I could look at the code written by co-workers and identify who wrote it by the style and content. Any code, of good or bad quality, is expression by the person who wrote it.
Lastly, we've been writing code using programming _languages_ long before code was challenged as language, expression, and speech.
> What examples of fair uses absolutely require access to the work in its most modern, digital, uncorrupted, un-macrovisioned form?
Handicap accessibility may be one. Physically handicapped people may need to transform the information in some way so that they can access it. Hypothetically, let's create a person with no eyes, but has a machine to transfer images to his optic nerves. And there is loss in the information transfer. In it's highest quality form, he might view something worthwhile, but if he starts with a scratched record, what reaches his brain might be unrecognizable.
Every book on security that I have ever read recommends keeping multiple (different) checksums/md5sums/hashes of important files (e.g. binaries), to keep those hashes on read-only media (such as a floppy or on a different host), and to compare the real files to the hashes at regular intervals. A mismatch might indicate a system compromise.
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Even if you do not have a firewall, you can at least do:
# route add -host 64.94.110.11 reject
What's so special about base 10, other than that most of us have 10 digits on our hands? (Devil's advocate)
Numbers patterns become interesting when they can be mapped to real-world phenomena where the phenomena closely "follow" the patterns.
Has anyone tried to find "Lychrel Numbers" on other bases?
> Why and how is a computer program expressive speech?
... . Very little of the above is part of the common vernacular nor even comprehendable by the average American, yet all are speech and expression.
There have been many discussions in the past two years about code as expression. Briefly summarized in a simile: code is to what programmers use to communicate as chemical formulas are to what chemists use to communicate, as mathematical notation is to what mathematicians use to communicate, as legal jargon and statute notation are to what lawyers and judges use to communicate,
Code can be the most succinct way to show you an algorithm, in the same way that a string of chemical symbols may be the most succinct way to express a complicated benzene ring structure, in the same way that statute notation may be the most succinct way to communicate where to find the law detailing a specific tax issue.
Code is very personal, in part because it is language. Back (way back) in high school, if I left my name off of an essay, my English teacher could identify it as mine. In the same way, I could look at the code written by co-workers and identify who wrote it by the style and content. Any code, of good or bad quality, is expression by the person who wrote it.
Lastly, we've been writing code using programming _languages_ long before code was challenged as language, expression, and speech.
> What examples of fair uses absolutely require access to the work in its most modern, digital, uncorrupted, un-macrovisioned form?
Handicap accessibility may be one. Physically handicapped people may need to transform the information in some way so that they can access it. Hypothetically, let's create a person with no eyes, but has a machine to transfer images to his optic nerves. And there is loss in the information transfer. In it's highest quality form, he might view something worthwhile, but if he starts with a scratched record, what reaches his brain might be unrecognizable.
This is not just prior art used in Apache.
Every book on security that I have ever read recommends keeping multiple (different) checksums/md5sums/hashes of important files (e.g. binaries), to keep those hashes on read-only media (such as a floppy or on a different host), and to compare the real files to the hashes at regular intervals. A mismatch might indicate a system compromise.