Your company payroll dependant on machines that shoppers can tinker with wihle on display at a store?
The user of a properly administered public kiosk (i.e. kiosk user is a normal user, not root) won't be able to affect any process that his account doesn't own.
it should be required at least to move a jumper to flash it.
So you have to open your computer's case just to flash the BIOS? Sure, requiring physical access is good and all, but novice users do not want to open the computer for fear of breaking something. When designing secure systems, remember that the Internet will always contain machines administered by home users with no clue as to how to run them.
You're both right. Parts of Xiph.org's Ogg Vorbis reference software are under a BSD style license; parts are under the GPL. The libvorbis* packages and the Tremor decoder are BSD licensed, but libao and the vorbis-tools (executables such as oggenc, ogg123, etc) are under the GNU General Public License (or is it Lesser GPL now?).
Granted, the article covers choice of law in a libel case, but the interaction between contracts and investigation reaches to other areas of law.
Of course this all comes down to how much a person who is making a claim is exempt from copyright and EULAs in investigating for a lawsuit or potential lawsuit.
For example, in the United States, the DMCA's circumvention ban does not apply to any investigative action in which federal, state, or local government is involved (17 USC 1201(e)).
And doesn't a subpoena trump a unilateral contract?
This has to be the most stupidest comment ever made.
Then how else do you suggest that a songwriter avoid accidentally infringing the copyright on any of the millions of published musical works?
You must work for the Recording/Pulishing Industry.
No I don't. I'm just a would-be songwriter, but I stopped writing music after having done some research on music plagiarism cases. It turns out that if a song written by Alice is "substantially similar" to a song by Bob that Alice has heard even once, then Alice infringes Bob's copyright.
If you can help me figure out how to avoid musical plagiarism, please do so.
If there's someone abusive, you want to be able to ban them, not the entire shell server.
If you ban the entire shell server, you force the legitimate users on that shell server to force the shell server's admin to force the misbehaving user not to misbehave. It works on the same principle as SPEWS banning a whole/24 or larger IPv4 address block.
If you suspect a breakin, schedule a half-hour of downtime and boot from a trusted CD, like Knoppix or the live filesystem that comes with Slackware, and check your HD from there.
While this may be true, it's extremely unlikely unless you get your music released.
What's the point of creating if one publishes absolutely nothing?
Prior to having your music released, it would nearly always be necessary to get any samples cleared
Where did I say anything about samples? The "My Sweet Lord" case wasn't about sampling (copying the sound recording) at all; it was about copying the underlying musical work.
(meaning that you check with the copyright holder and pay an appropriate royalty fee for use of their work).
There are 6,259,378,087 potential copyright owners. Because checking with all of them is prohibitively expensive, how does a songwriter know with which people to check?
You might want to exercise a bit of caution if you get as far as releasing any of your music online
If I didn't use any samples other than samples I created myself or licensed, but I did use a underlying musical work which I don't know if I own or not, then how do I exercise caution given only the content of the underlying musical work?
scare-mongering like this only helps to further propagate the FUD
It's impossible to creating an antidote for FUD without having samples of the FUD.
Don't tell me that we need GIF for animated banners, they are useless and still we have MNG for that.
Because Microsoft Internet Explorer does not come with a MNG viewer, the vast majority of home users of the World Wide Web cannot see MNG images. And is there any way to convert XCF (GIMP's format) to MNG?
For example, I collect vinyl, and much of the vinyl I own there are very very limited copies of. Because of this they are worth something.
A vinyl record from the nth printing of an album will most likely still be worth something because it's from the nth printing. Example from comics: Even though MAD Magazine has reprinted its first 18 or so issues a few years ago, original copies of the first few issues still fetch a wad of dough.
I wonder how labels will go about structuring things to limit them for collectors.
Is it in a monopolist's interest to limit the production of a good at any level other than where marginal revenue equals marginal cost? No. That's the price that maximizes the bottom line.
If, when writing a song, you create a melody similar to that of an existing copyrighted musical work, even by coincidence, a music publisher with billions of dollars in the bank may take legal action against you. If you have no money with which to hire legal counsel to defend you against an allegation of copyright infringement, you're in deep doo-doo.
I'd suggest staying the heck away from music unless you plan only to cover classical pieces first published before January 1, 1923.
Just a note, that patent runs out in a couple months, then GIF will be patent free!
U.S. Patent 4,558,302 encumbers LZW compression until late June 2003. On July 4, I will celebrate not only the independence of the United States from the United Kingdom but also the independence of LZW compression from those who are not willing to license its use in free software.
But we still can't count chickens yet. Congress could pass a Cherilyn Lapierre Patent Term Extension Act. If Sonny could get a copyright extension onto the books in the USA, certainly Cher could be a spokeswoman for the pharmaceutical industry to demand longer patent terms.
Hopefully future publishers will start the timebomb license: This book is copyrighted till 2005, after which it becomes completely free (public domain).
This is how copyright initially worked in common-law countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom: a 14-year copyright, and possibly a 14-year renewal term if the author is still alive and thinks it's worth it, then PD. This promotes the progress of knowledge by giving the author a chance to make a return on investment of effort into a work in exchange for letting the public make unlimited use of a work after a short time. But over the last two centuries, the apparent influence of French "right of author" (not to mention that of DisneyCo) has corrupted the system to the point where it is today, where copyright doesn't expire for two lifetimes, and the copyright owner keeps 99.8 percent of the value of the work, giving almost nothing to the public.
I still have yet to write a single useful C program that I couldn't have done in Perl.
Can you write a video driver with acceptable performance in Perl? Can you write programs that do things other than text manipulation, such as (say) a 3D engine and make them faster in Perl than in C? Remember that in the real world, time is money because a shorter execution time means lower system requirements and thus a larger market for mass-market desktop applications.
Ultima uses 320x200 resolution, displaying 256 colours. That's absolutly standard. Any VGA-card can display this resulotion.
It's true that the MCGA and VGA can display mode 13h, but some machines come with video cards that aren't VGA compatible. Like the old Hercules card, they may emulate only the BIOS and memory-access layers of text mode, requiring a software driver to set up the card's registers for graphics modes, and such drivers may exist only for GDI, DirectX, and OpenGL.
VESA only describes a minimum ruleset for SVGA compliance
VESA is an extension of VGA, which in turn is an extension of EGA. This ruleset includes a hardware interface that was considered efficient in 1984 when the first EGA card came out.
there is absolutely no need for any card maker to avoid offering VESA compliance modes on their card
A requirement for VESA conformance forces video card makers to spend precious gates on an EGA/VGA compatibility layer, and the design of such a layer imposes restrictions on all levels of the design of a video chipset.
If standard DOS SVGA drivers will not work on your card then your card is not VESA SVGA compliant
Some newer cards seem to have dropped VESA support.
and will have problems with many other programs and games.
But not with GDI, DirectX, and OpenGL games, which cover 99.9+% of PC games sold in 2002. "Oh, you can't run your old games? Here, try some new games."
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who would have thought that something as simple as installing a real copy of DOS and some real mode drivers, or creating a real DOS bootdisk with real mode drivers would make playing an antique game easy on a modern OS.
What if your Really Recent PC no longer has support for real-mode apps that use VGA graphics? In theory, it's possible to make a PC that can boot to Windows XP (with appropriate drivers) but can't boot to DOS.
You can [open a site in a new tab] with alt-enter in Phoenix.
That just doesn't feel right to me. In a Microsoft Windows environment, Alt+Enter is supposed to either maximize the current window and either kill or reduce the toolbars (currently, F11 does this) or pull up the properties dialog for the selected object.
you can use any icon you want. Make a shortcut to the Ph??n?x exe. Then open properties and simply click the 'Change Icon...' button and find one that suits you.
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Your company payroll dependant on machines that shoppers can tinker with wihle on display at a store?
The user of a properly administered public kiosk (i.e. kiosk user is a normal user, not root) won't be able to affect any process that his account doesn't own.
it should be required at least to move a jumper to flash it.
So you have to open your computer's case just to flash the BIOS? Sure, requiring physical access is good and all, but novice users do not want to open the computer for fear of breaking something. When designing secure systems, remember that the Internet will always contain machines administered by home users with no clue as to how to run them.
OGG isn't GPL'd. It has a BSD license.
You're both right. Parts of Xiph.org's Ogg Vorbis reference software are under a BSD style license; parts are under the GPL. The libvorbis* packages and the Tremor decoder are BSD licensed, but libao and the vorbis-tools (executables such as oggenc, ogg123, etc) are under the GNU General Public License (or is it Lesser GPL now?).
Granted, the article covers choice of law in a libel case, but the interaction between contracts and investigation reaches to other areas of law.
Of course this all comes down to how much a person who is making a claim is exempt from copyright and EULAs in investigating for a lawsuit or potential lawsuit.
For example, in the United States, the DMCA's circumvention ban does not apply to any investigative action in which federal, state, or local government is involved (17 USC 1201(e)).
And doesn't a subpoena trump a unilateral contract?
This has to be the most stupidest comment ever made.
Then how else do you suggest that a songwriter avoid accidentally infringing the copyright on any of the millions of published musical works?
You must work for the Recording/Pulishing Industry.
No I don't. I'm just a would-be songwriter, but I stopped writing music after having done some research on music plagiarism cases. It turns out that if a song written by Alice is "substantially similar" to a song by Bob that Alice has heard even once, then Alice infringes Bob's copyright.
If you can help me figure out how to avoid musical plagiarism, please do so.
If there's someone abusive, you want to be able to ban them, not the entire shell server.
If you ban the entire shell server, you force the legitimate users on that shell server to force the shell server's admin to force the misbehaving user not to misbehave. It works on the same principle as SPEWS banning a whole /24 or larger IPv4 address block.
Mail doesn't use identd.
If you suspect a breakin, schedule a half-hour of downtime and boot from a trusted CD, like Knoppix or the live filesystem that comes with Slackware, and check your HD from there.
And if the BIOS is trojaned?
While this may be true, it's extremely unlikely unless you get your music released.
What's the point of creating if one publishes absolutely nothing?
Prior to having your music released, it would nearly always be necessary to get any samples cleared
Where did I say anything about samples? The "My Sweet Lord" case wasn't about sampling (copying the sound recording) at all; it was about copying the underlying musical work.
(meaning that you check with the copyright holder and pay an appropriate royalty fee for use of their work).
There are 6,259,378,087 potential copyright owners. Because checking with all of them is prohibitively expensive, how does a songwriter know with which people to check?
You might want to exercise a bit of caution if you get as far as releasing any of your music online
If I didn't use any samples other than samples I created myself or licensed, but I did use a underlying musical work which I don't know if I own or not, then how do I exercise caution given only the content of the underlying musical work?
scare-mongering like this only helps to further propagate the FUD
It's impossible to creating an antidote for FUD without having samples of the FUD.
The only secure way to use the verification tool is to boot from a readonly media and run the tool from there.
The black hats have trojaned, and will continue to trojan, a machine's flash BIOS.
Don't tell me that we need GIF for animated banners, they are useless and still we have MNG for that.
Because Microsoft Internet Explorer does not come with a MNG viewer, the vast majority of home users of the World Wide Web cannot see MNG images. And is there any way to convert XCF (GIMP's format) to MNG?
Troll? I'm seriously concerned about this legal issue. If you have insight into the legal issues, please reply instead of knee-jerk downmodding.
For example, I collect vinyl, and much of the vinyl I own there are very very limited copies of. Because of this they are worth something.
A vinyl record from the nth printing of an album will most likely still be worth something because it's from the nth printing. Example from comics: Even though MAD Magazine has reprinted its first 18 or so issues a few years ago, original copies of the first few issues still fetch a wad of dough.
I wonder how labels will go about structuring things to limit them for collectors.
Is it in a monopolist's interest to limit the production of a good at any level other than where marginal revenue equals marginal cost? No. That's the price that maximizes the bottom line.
I now want to spark up my interest in music again as I want to broaden my horizons, and I figure the best way to do it is with my PC.
If you reproduce a copyrighted musical work on your computer without authorization, you commit the crime of copyright infringement.
If, when writing a song, you unconsciously copy from an existing copyrighted musical work, you commit copyright infringement.
If, when writing a song, you create a melody similar to that of an existing copyrighted musical work, even by coincidence, a music publisher with billions of dollars in the bank may take legal action against you. If you have no money with which to hire legal counsel to defend you against an allegation of copyright infringement, you're in deep doo-doo.
I'd suggest staying the heck away from music unless you plan only to cover classical pieces first published before January 1, 1923.
Just a note, that patent runs out in a couple months, then GIF will be patent free!
U.S. Patent 4,558,302 encumbers LZW compression until late June 2003. On July 4, I will celebrate not only the independence of the United States from the United Kingdom but also the independence of LZW compression from those who are not willing to license its use in free software.
But we still can't count chickens yet. Congress could pass a Cherilyn Lapierre Patent Term Extension Act. If Sonny could get a copyright extension onto the books in the USA, certainly Cher could be a spokeswoman for the pharmaceutical industry to demand longer patent terms.
Hopefully future publishers will start the timebomb license: This book is copyrighted till 2005, after which it becomes completely free (public domain).
This is how copyright initially worked in common-law countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom: a 14-year copyright, and possibly a 14-year renewal term if the author is still alive and thinks it's worth it, then PD. This promotes the progress of knowledge by giving the author a chance to make a return on investment of effort into a work in exchange for letting the public make unlimited use of a work after a short time. But over the last two centuries, the apparent influence of French "right of author" (not to mention that of DisneyCo) has corrupted the system to the point where it is today, where copyright doesn't expire for two lifetimes, and the copyright owner keeps 99.8 percent of the value of the work, giving almost nothing to the public.
I believe in time bombs.
I still have yet to write a single useful C program that I couldn't have done in Perl.
Can you write a video driver with acceptable performance in Perl? Can you write programs that do things other than text manipulation, such as (say) a 3D engine and make them faster in Perl than in C? Remember that in the real world, time is money because a shorter execution time means lower system requirements and thus a larger market for mass-market desktop applications.
Ultima uses 320x200 resolution, displaying 256 colours. That's absolutly standard. Any VGA-card can display this resulotion.
It's true that the MCGA and VGA can display mode 13h, but some machines come with video cards that aren't VGA compatible. Like the old Hercules card, they may emulate only the BIOS and memory-access layers of text mode, requiring a software driver to set up the card's registers for graphics modes, and such drivers may exist only for GDI, DirectX, and OpenGL.
VESA only describes a minimum ruleset for SVGA compliance
VESA is an extension of VGA, which in turn is an extension of EGA. This ruleset includes a hardware interface that was considered efficient in 1984 when the first EGA card came out.
there is absolutely no need for any card maker to avoid offering VESA compliance modes on their card
A requirement for VESA conformance forces video card makers to spend precious gates on an EGA/VGA compatibility layer, and the design of such a layer imposes restrictions on all levels of the design of a video chipset.
According to the 'ldd' output given by an Anonymous Coward, this comment's parent is incorrect.
If standard DOS SVGA drivers will not work on your card then your card is not VESA SVGA compliant
Some newer cards seem to have dropped VESA support.
and will have problems with many other programs and games.
But not with GDI, DirectX, and OpenGL games, which cover 99.9+% of PC games sold in 2002. "Oh, you can't run your old games? Here, try some new games."
who would have thought that something as simple as installing a real copy of DOS and some real mode drivers, or creating a real DOS bootdisk with real mode drivers would make playing an antique game easy on a modern OS.
What if your Really Recent PC no longer has support for real-mode apps that use VGA graphics? In theory, it's possible to make a PC that can boot to Windows XP (with appropriate drivers) but can't boot to DOS.
You can [open a site in a new tab] with alt-enter in Phoenix.
That just doesn't feel right to me. In a Microsoft Windows environment, Alt+Enter is supposed to either maximize the current window and either kill or reduce the toolbars (currently, F11 does this) or pull up the properties dialog for the selected object.
you can use any icon you want. Make a shortcut to the Ph??n?x exe. Then open properties and simply click the 'Change Icon...' button and find one that suits you.
But why does this Google query turn up a whole bunch of $20-$30 products before this GPL tool for windows and linux?
But builds of mozilla and phoenix ports are consistently larger than their windows counterparts. Why?
The Linux port of Mozilla statically links GTK+ and Glib.
It's not like these two are competing technologies.
Actually, they are. Phoenix FirstView Connect is a stripped-down web browser. Mozilla.org Phoenix is a stripped-down web browser.
Phoenix is a straight up IE killer
And Phoenix Technologies' product is a straight up Pocket IE killer. So will be Gecko, once the Weenies reduce its footprint.