Can I make illegal digital copies with this cd?
-No
Does this mean the "CD" (remember to say "CD" in quotes if it doesn't follow the Red Book) will fail horribly on any stereo equipment with digital output because the digital output could be piped directly to the digital input of some recording device? Or does it mean that in order for a player with digital outputto play it, it has to pollute the output?
My money's on door number one, which would mean:
Can I make illegal digital copies with this cd? -Yes
What happens to your grandmother who lives off a pension that is heavily in X's stocks and bonds? Just liquidating a company gives you its book value, which is generally nowhere near its market capitalization... What happens to the employees?
Same damn thing that happens if the corporation goes under due to doing something market-stupid instead of legal-stupid. Employees get first dibs at the liquidation proceeds, then secured creditors, then other creditors and the government (which instead of revoking their charter simply fines them into certain bankruptcy; it's just easier.)
As for the investors (like this poor foolish grandmother who didn't have the sense to diversify her pension portfilio) also the same as bankruptcy: they try to sue the board and upper management, and are otherwise SOL.
How do you defend against an enemy living within your borders when that enemy has bombs, guns, and other firearms, and is desparate enough to resort to stones?
Simple, you realise that your enemy is not the desperate, but their despair. The only way to achieve peace is to form an alliance with your fellow humans to fight the real enemy.
This is not at all meant to be specific to Israeli-Palestinian conflict, though that is the context that brought it up.
Accepting the Times' definition of computer science, we still have a few sciences that can't be classified as computer science. They include mathematics, and statistics...
It's the jammer's responsibility to make sure that they can't be held liable for damages due to jammed signals, although I'm sure the government could help them by only issuing "jamming licenses" (really just changing the licensee for that bit of EM band in the affected area) if the following criteria are met:
Jammed areas are completely restricted to the property (owned or rented) of the licensee
Jammed areas must have signs clearly indicating the affected area and what devices will stop working
Additionally, for commercial sites (like theatres, as opposed to classroms) it would make good sense to have someone sit outside the jammed area to take calls/pages for patrons on call (the symphony here already does this)
Alternately, some theatres could run without jammers and cater to the discourteous market niche:)
One of the other replies I read before this involved someone, who tried reloading a page incessantly just to find a paper airplane banner that he enjoyed. Another one had someone complaining that replying to a post, or following an article link in it prevents you from getting the same ad when you return so, when you encounter an intersting ad, you have to click it before doing anything else, lest it disappear when you return.
Now that we have someone suggesting an ad page where you can select ads to block, I thought it might be worthwhile to point out that this ad page could also serve as a place where users can find ads that they thought were interesting or enjoyable.
I've seen a lot of standards written, and rewritten, and rewritten, with never a fully-compliant implementation. No standards-body should ever release a standard without a fully-functional reference implementation
Wrong. No standards body should ever release a standard without at least two fully functional reference implementations. With only one reference implementation, you have to refer to ambiguous human language to try and determine which behaviours of it are part of the standard, and which are implementation details. With multiple reference implementations, you can say that whatever is the same between them is standard, whatever varies is not.
The problem with doing that in the U.S. is they they don't have a parliamentary system. We (Canadians, Brits, Austrailians, etc.) only have to vote for one position: our MP (Member of Parliament for those readers in republics and whatnot).
As a dual citizen, I also voted in the U.S. election and the absentee ballots (yes, there were several) got as large as a bloody poster because they did have a simple "place an X" layout (thankfully the elections board decided it was too much trouble to send one of their bizarre voting machines to each absentee voter).
Needless to say, I am rather looking forward to tonight's simple Canadian federal ballot (the design of which has remained constant for as long as we've had secret ballots)
On a toll road, you have to pay for how your driving wears down the road (so you cover the cost of repairs.) Tolls also moderate traffic.. so consider our environment a toll facility: you have to pay for how your pollution wears it out (so you cover the cost of cleanup.)
Taxes are still for revenue generation, tolls are still for recovering costs of use of public facilities, and we're not paying to clean up other people's messes (when they made enough money making them to cover these costs) with our taxes (nor are we living in the filth they make).
Living in a poor environment has shortened my life (given me asthma), and interfered with my pursuit of happiness (these are my rights, no?) so somebody damn well better do something about it.
MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earh and Canada.
.inc gave me the idea that they should add corp, gmbh, ltd, tm, etc. and restrict those domains to corporations whose name contains the relevant tld, then kick all the trademark lawyers out of the rest of the domains (like com, org, net)
That and have some sort of mechanism to prevent registration of both foo.inc and foo.sucks by the same company (or wholly owned subsidiaries)
why not just use the pop bottle/can method inflated a few hundredfold? Comanies that sell household electronics and the like are charged a $100 environment tax, of which, say $60 is returned to the customer when the equipment is taken to a recycling depot, and the other $40 used to cover the cost of running said recycling depot?
that and you make it mandatory for computer vendors to mention that the end-of-its-life computer is returnable for the depotis on their invoices.
If someone can pull off the same sploits as a big name black-hat, and not get caught, they must have some sort of superior skills that enabled them to avoid getting caught. If they didn't pull off the same sploits, then the scope of the exploits should be weighted more heavily than the conviction in judging candidates.
Of course, there's also the factor of having the sense to do little enough that you won't get busted.
ISTR an earlier story here on/. explaining the different types of patent issued by the USPTO, and one of those types was a rather cheap (free?) patent that was basically just a registration of an idea in the database so it would pop up more easily in searches for prior art.
Last I read that this sort of thing happened (a group with power controlling the common language to maintain support) was about 16 years ago: Orwell's version.
Onlinepiracy doubleplusungood. Plusgood to protect intellectualproperty of moviesec and musicsec so minitrue works goodly.
Other news: Victory against Eastasia soon; chocolate rations increased to 6g by miniplenty.
In a time, still a while off, we won't be speaking English or any other recognisable contemporary language, but it will probably become one of the languages from which much of the contemporary language of the day is constructed. Just look at how much western language is based on Latin and Greek.
IPChains is not just for firewalls. You can take your own machine, and configure your output chain to deny all packets destined for somewhere you don't want to get any information from you. Perhaps it's time we start putting a standard/etc/blackout (and/etc/blackin for our input chain) into our distributions in addition to properly configuring our cookie handling and whatnot.
I first read the trilogy when I was 13, and I loved it. I especially liked (and still really enjoy) Arthur's argument with the drink machine near the beginning of restaurant.
How could the possibly leave out all the wonderful synthetic materials that the 20th century produced? Where would we be without polyethylene? polyester? polystyrene? nylon? PVC? (etc.)
As soon as I read this, my stomach turned. It used to be that you returned a rented video so that it would be there for the next person to rent, now it seems you return them because you're not licensed to view them for any longer then the rental period. On top of this, imagine how much more trash you would have generated had you thrown out any rented media as soon as you were done with it. What's next, libraries that only let you take out photocopies made with disappearing toner?
I just hope that the cost of new media for each rental will keep the technology too expensive (read more expensive than the current system) to ever get used.
P.S. First post (at least when I started writing:)
Slashdot Mirror
-No
Does this mean the "CD" (remember to say "CD" in quotes if it doesn't follow the Red Book) will fail horribly on any stereo equipment with digital output because the digital output could be piped directly to the digital input of some recording device? Or does it mean that in order for a player with digital outputto play it, it has to pollute the output?
My money's on door number one, which would mean:
Can I make illegal digital copies with this cd?
-Yes
Same damn thing that happens if the corporation goes under due to doing something market-stupid instead of legal-stupid. Employees get first dibs at the liquidation proceeds, then secured creditors, then other creditors and the government (which instead of revoking their charter simply fines them into certain bankruptcy; it's just easier.)
As for the investors (like this poor foolish grandmother who didn't have the sense to diversify her pension portfilio) also the same as bankruptcy: they try to sue the board and upper management, and are otherwise SOL.
Simple, you realise that your enemy is not the desperate, but their despair. The only way to achieve peace is to form an alliance with your fellow humans to fight the real enemy.
This is not at all meant to be specific to Israeli-Palestinian conflict, though that is the context that brought it up.
Jammed areas are completely restricted to the property (owned or rented) of the licensee
Jammed areas must have signs clearly indicating the affected area and what devices will stop working
Additionally, for commercial sites (like theatres, as opposed to classroms) it would make good sense to have someone sit outside the jammed area to take calls/pages for patrons on call (the symphony here already does this)
Alternately, some theatres could run without jammers and cater to the discourteous market niche :)
Now that we have someone suggesting an ad page where you can select ads to block, I thought it might be worthwhile to point out that this ad page could also serve as a place where users can find ads that they thought were interesting or enjoyable.
Wrong. No standards body should ever release a standard without at least two fully functional reference implementations. With only one reference implementation, you have to refer to ambiguous human language to try and determine which behaviours of it are part of the standard, and which are implementation details. With multiple reference implementations, you can say that whatever is the same between them is standard, whatever varies is not.
Is it just me, or is the idea of software trying to recognise a doctor's handwriting a source of humour just waiting to be exploited©
As a dual citizen, I also voted in the U.S. election and the absentee ballots (yes, there were several) got as large as a bloody poster because they did have a simple "place an X" layout (thankfully the elections board decided it was too much trouble to send one of their bizarre voting machines to each absentee voter).
Needless to say, I am rather looking forward to tonight's simple Canadian federal ballot (the design of which has remained constant for as long as we've had secret ballots)
Taxes are still for revenue generation, tolls are still for recovering costs of use of public facilities, and we're not paying to clean up other people's messes (when they made enough money making them to cover these costs) with our taxes (nor are we living in the filth they make).
Living in a poor environment has shortened my life (given me asthma), and interfered with my pursuit of happiness (these are my rights, no?) so somebody damn well better do something about it.
As an absentee voter (in Canada) though I haven't mailed my ballot in yet.
Of course, since my name is on this message, my vote won't be. (archived public forum.. ummm no, I'll keep my ballot secret thankyouverymuch)
of a passage from the Devil's Dictionary:
MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earh and Canada.
.inc gave me the idea that they should add corp, gmbh, ltd, tm, etc. and restrict those domains to corporations whose name contains the relevant tld, then kick all the trademark lawyers out of the rest of the domains (like com, org, net)
That and have some sort of mechanism to prevent registration of both foo.inc and foo.sucks by the same company (or wholly owned subsidiaries)
why not just use the pop bottle/can method inflated a few hundredfold? Comanies that sell household electronics and the like are charged a $100 environment tax, of which, say $60 is returned to the customer when the equipment is taken to a recycling depot, and the other $40 used to cover the cost of running said recycling depot? that and you make it mandatory for computer vendors to mention that the end-of-its-life computer is returnable for the depotis on their invoices.
Of course, there's also the factor of having the sense to do little enough that you won't get busted.
ISTR an earlier story here on /. explaining the different types of patent issued by the USPTO, and one of those types was a rather cheap (free?) patent that was basically just a registration of an idea in the database so it would pop up more easily in searches for prior art.
Onlinepiracy doubleplusungood. Plusgood to protect intellectualproperty of moviesec and musicsec so minitrue works goodly.
Other news: Victory against Eastasia soon; chocolate rations increased to 6g by miniplenty.
#!/bin/sh
if [ -f ~/.netscape/lock]; then
exit
fi
for i in `cat ~/undesirable_cookies`; do
cat ~/.netscape/cookies | grep -v $i > ~/.netscape/cookies
done
# It has a race condition to it
# Please patch in replies gotta leave soon
In a time, still a while off, we won't be speaking English or any other recognisable contemporary language, but it will probably become one of the languages from which much of the contemporary language of the day is constructed. Just look at how much western language is based on Latin and Greek.
How exactly am I supposed to inflict pain with this device?
IPChains is not just for firewalls. You can take your own machine, and configure your output chain to deny all packets destined for somewhere you don't want to get any information from you. Perhaps it's time we start putting a standard /etc/blackout (and /etc/blackin for our input chain) into our distributions in addition to properly configuring our cookie handling and whatnot.
I dunno... that looks an awful lot like a cleanroom implementation to me.
I first read the trilogy when I was 13, and I loved it. I especially liked (and still really enjoy) Arthur's argument with the drink machine near the beginning of restaurant.
How could the possibly leave out all the wonderful synthetic materials that the 20th century produced?
Where would we be without polyethylene? polyester? polystyrene? nylon? PVC? (etc.)
As soon as I read this, my stomach turned.
:)
It used to be that you returned a rented video so that it would be there for the next person to rent, now it seems you return them because you're not licensed to view them for any longer then the rental period.
On top of this, imagine how much more trash you would have generated had you thrown out any rented media as soon as you were done with it.
What's next, libraries that only let you take out photocopies made with disappearing toner?
I just hope that the cost of new media for each rental will keep the technology too expensive (read more expensive than the current system) to ever get used.
P.S. First post (at least when I started writing