all console games come with a license that says that you cannot make any copies of the game, including for back-up purposes.
In the United States, the backup law (17 USC 117) gives the owner of a copy the right to make those copies and adaptations necessary to run a program. The Betamax and Diamond Rio precedents give the owner of a copy the right to time-, space-, and format-shift a copyrighted work. And no, I did not see the "EULA" printed in the manual before I handed over the cash at Best Buy, so I don't think it's all that enforceable in a court of law.
See here for Nintendo's policy.
That's a publisher's official line, and it includes no citations of any court cases that support the company's position.
And finally people who insist on running exclusively Free Software on their computer.
To my knowledge, very few programs designed for arcade platforms have been published as free software. It's not like the situation on the Game Boy Advance, where a ROM, compiler, and emulator are all under the GPL.
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Even if the company doesn't exist anymore, SOMEBODY probably still has the rights to the software.
If the game's publisher has been out of business for more than ten years, and the publisher was not bought by IDSA, it's pretty safe to assume that whoever owns the game's copyright doesn't even know he owns it. The chance of the copyright owner actually finding out about your piracy and taking action are about the same as the chance of a software patent holder doing the same on a random original program.
Just look at "Zero Wing", an old arcade game. Toaplan, its publisher, has been out of business for a long time. Had the company who bought Toaplan's copyrights known about the song and music video that sampled parts of "Zero Wing", then we probably would have seen legal sparks fly a couple months into the "All Your Base" craze. But we didn't.
The developers were able to add back the gambling type (fruit machines, blackjack, poker, etc.) games.
If the MAME developers are so strictly against "fruit machine" type games, then they should remove support for the Vs. Unisystem and PlayChoice 10 platforms (arcade platforms based closely on NES hardware), as the Vs. and PC10 versions of Super Mario Bros. 2 has a "fruit machine" at the end of every level, and the arcade versions of Super Mario Bros. 3 have a "fruit machine" in the Ace of Spades space on world maps.
The crime of owning ROM images you do not own is still just as illegal
Yes, distributing copies of ROM images over the Internet is copyright infringement. But is it also against the law to write your own software that runs on arcade hardware platforms? It seems all you'd need is a cross-assembler.
It's really no different than the various bootleg games that appeared throuought the 80's like Galaga being rewritten to run on different hardware.
Actually, there is a big difference between porting an existing game to run on different arcade hardware and writing an original game on arcade hardware. A port of Galaga to (say) the Vs. Super Mario Bros. hardware can be done only with Namco's permission because Namco owns the copyright on the sprites and the trademark on the word "GALAGA"; on the other hand, writing a generic vertical shooter to run on the Vs. Super Mario Bros. hardware shouldn't be a problem under copyright law.
According to the GnuPG web site, building GnuPG on Windows 2000 requires a "special setup," which I take to mean Cygwin. I currently use MinGW because I have had trouble getting Cygwin to work. What OpenPGP compatible software package do you recommend for users of Windows operating systems?
The dividing line between "consoles" and "handhelds" isn't as sharp as some would think. Did the Sega Genesis format cease to be a "console" format when the Nomad was released? Was the Game Boy still a "handheld" after peripherals such as Super Game Boy and TV de Advance were released? OK, I'll constrain my discussion to DVD consoles.
PSX, PS2, XBox, Gamecube, Dreamcast, etc.
Even on the disc-based consoles, if you stream in music while the game is playing, you won't be able to stream in sections of the map because the read head can only point at one part of the disc at once. That's why some games for GCN, PS2, and Xbox still use tracked music, because it makes the "loading" stall shorter. In addition, doing cut scenes with the game engine rather than with FMV gives the game even more time to stream in a large chunk of level data.
I know some hardened old unix guy will say "bah microsoft still sux0rz" well have you really used any of it lately or are you still making fun of windows 95?
No, I'm making fun of Windows XP, which can't be slimmed down much tighter than 128 MB of RAM, as opposed to GNU/Linux which is comfortable with well under 16 MB. Thus, Linux (especially uclinux) beats Windows on handheld and embedded devices.
I can assure you that there is no OpenGL support on Xbox
Halo is old, and Metroid Prime for GCN is coming out. Microsoft desperately needs a first-person shooter. If Microsoft wants Doom 3 for Xbox, Microsoft will make sure that Carmack has his OpenGL.
(Context: hypothetical situation that poses a difficulty in upgrading from obsolete rlogin/rsh to OpenSSH. Current roadblock is the cost of travel to the colocation facility where the machine resides, as all major security upgrades such as this one should be done at the console.)
How did you install the system then?
I lived close to the colo plant back then, but then either I or my servers have moved cross country.
But I just thought of a possible solution: rlogin tunneled over ssh. First ssh to another box at the colo plant, and then because they control their own internal network, rlogin using a non-routable address to the server in question, and install ssh that way.
Under the states' plan, online sellers would be required to purchase approved software to compute the appropriate state and local taxes or to certify with the state any in-house calculation systems already in place. E-tailers could choose to outsource tax collection to a certified third-party under the states' plan.
So far, participating states have conducted only one tax software pilot, involving four states, three technology vendors, and one online seller. Of the technology vendors participating in the pilot, just one -- Salem, Mass.-based Taxware, working in conjunction with Hewlett-Packard -- managed to get a system up and running.
I hope that the states don't go with a "trusted client" model that requires a specific piece of proprietary software in the point-of-sale system, and possibly a monopoly publisher. Write your state legislatures and ask them to consider the use of free software in this interstate catalog/internet sales tax measure should it pass.
But in this case, why should the smokers feel
any different?
Because even if all restaurants are smoke-free, it's still possible to go to a restaurant and smoke. They just have to be separated by two minutes. But if all restaurants have one section, the smoking section, a non-smoker can't go to a restaurant without breathing.
Separate ventilation for the smoking section and for the rest of the restaurant satisfies both sides of the debate.
f you don't like smoking, don't go to restaurants that have smoking sections. It's a free market system. Vote with your dollars and quit whining about it.
I'm sorry; I don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars to invest in starting my own restaurant if all the restaurants within a five-mile radius have a popular smoking section.
However, he is also QUITE clear. Source patches are fine. Of any sort.
Has Bernstein put permission to redistribute any patches against djbdns in writing? If so, then the license becomes roughly equivalent to the Trolltech QPL.
if something works like this, why do you need to be able to redistribute anything more than patches?
What about for porting the program to operating systems that don't fit Bernstein's idea of how the directory structure should be laid out, such as Windows 2000 Server or Windows.NET Enterprise Server?
Install buggy BIND
Buggy? At least the vulnerability mentioned in the article does not affect most recent version of BIND 9.x.
Another vulnerability has been found in Microsoft Windows 98...
I take that comment to imply: "Windows 98 Second Edition is too old to be supported; all users of Windows 98 Second Edition should upgrade to Windows XP Home Edition." The problem with upgrading from one major version of a product to the next just to fix a bug is that newer major versions will often drop useful features that an older version had. For instance, Windows XP Home Edition loses Windows 98's competent support for running proprietary applications designed for MS-DOS. In addition, XP Home loses the ability to run acceptably on a 133 MHz machine with 32 MB of RAM.
Does BIND 9 drop major features or require more hardware for a given level of service vs. BIND 8?
So I strongly recommend doing the installation of ssh on the console if it's not included with your operating system.
Yes, but physical access to the console may cost hundreds of dollars per session. I guess that's just the price of data security. Are the data security companies in bed with the commercial airlines?
FACT: rlogin, rsh, rexec, and all other remote access utilities that do not perform cryptographically strong authentication and offer at least the option to encrypt the session are OBSOLETE.
Then how does one remotely connect to a machine to install OpenSSH? And what about those systems to which OpenSSH has not yet been ported?
and an MP3 player that doubles the number of notes in a song by guessing and filling them in!
Actually, that's exactly how "mp3PRO" technology works. It stores a low-bit-rate MP3 of signals from 20 Hz to 8000 Hz, and then it does "spectral band replication" to guess at the frequencies from there to 16000 Hz.
Eagle and Kreed's 2xSaI are based on different algorithms. The "Super Eagle" and "Super 2xSaI" filters by Kreed are combinations of the techniques of Eagle and 2xSaI.
Key Feature #5 [of Mac WiMP] is "Support Digital Rights Management to help protect your content"
However, Microsoft can't prevent Total Recorder "waveOut tee" hacks on the Mac like it can on Windows with WHQL driver signing. Anybody can write a new Mac output driver, and Windows Media Player has no way to check whether or not it's signed. The primary Sound Manager audio device on Mac OS X could tee into oggenc for all it knows.
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all console games come with a license that says that you cannot make any copies of the game, including for back-up purposes.
In the United States, the backup law (17 USC 117) gives the owner of a copy the right to make those copies and adaptations necessary to run a program. The Betamax and Diamond Rio precedents give the owner of a copy the right to time-, space-, and format-shift a copyrighted work. And no, I did not see the "EULA" printed in the manual before I handed over the cash at Best Buy, so I don't think it's all that enforceable in a court of law.
See here for Nintendo's policy.
That's a publisher's official line, and it includes no citations of any court cases that support the company's position.
And finally people who insist on running exclusively Free Software on their computer.
To my knowledge, very few programs designed for arcade platforms have been published as free software. It's not like the situation on the Game Boy Advance, where a ROM, compiler, and emulator are all under the GPL.
Even if the company doesn't exist anymore, SOMEBODY probably still has the rights to the software.
If the game's publisher has been out of business for more than ten years, and the publisher was not bought by IDSA, it's pretty safe to assume that whoever owns the game's copyright doesn't even know he owns it. The chance of the copyright owner actually finding out about your piracy and taking action are about the same as the chance of a software patent holder doing the same on a random original program.
Just look at "Zero Wing", an old arcade game. Toaplan, its publisher, has been out of business for a long time. Had the company who bought Toaplan's copyrights known about the song and music video that sampled parts of "Zero Wing", then we probably would have seen legal sparks fly a couple months into the "All Your Base" craze. But we didn't.
I just can't use my SideWinder or Gravis gamepad and get the same feel as playing with my SNES controller.
So plug a PlayStation or N64 pad into your computer and get the authentic console feel. There exist USB adapters for many consoles' controllers.
The developers were able to add back the gambling type (fruit machines, blackjack, poker, etc.) games.
If the MAME developers are so strictly against "fruit machine" type games, then they should remove support for the Vs. Unisystem and PlayChoice 10 platforms (arcade platforms based closely on NES hardware), as the Vs. and PC10 versions of Super Mario Bros. 2 has a "fruit machine" at the end of every level, and the arcade versions of Super Mario Bros. 3 have a "fruit machine" in the Ace of Spades space on world maps.
The crime of owning ROM images you do not own is still just as illegal
Yes, distributing copies of ROM images over the Internet is copyright infringement. But is it also against the law to write your own software that runs on arcade hardware platforms? It seems all you'd need is a cross-assembler.
It's really no different than the various bootleg games that appeared throuought the 80's like Galaga being rewritten to run on different hardware.
Actually, there is a big difference between porting an existing game to run on different arcade hardware and writing an original game on arcade hardware. A port of Galaga to (say) the Vs. Super Mario Bros. hardware can be done only with Namco's permission because Namco owns the copyright on the sprites and the trademark on the word "GALAGA"; on the other hand, writing a generic vertical shooter to run on the Vs. Super Mario Bros. hardware shouldn't be a problem under copyright law.
Download gpg from gnupg.org. Build it.
According to the GnuPG web site, building GnuPG on Windows 2000 requires a "special setup," which I take to mean Cygwin. I currently use MinGW because I have had trouble getting Cygwin to work. What OpenPGP compatible software package do you recommend for users of Windows operating systems?
The gameboy is a handheld, not a console!
The dividing line between "consoles" and "handhelds" isn't as sharp as some would think. Did the Sega Genesis format cease to be a "console" format when the Nomad was released? Was the Game Boy still a "handheld" after peripherals such as Super Game Boy and TV de Advance were released? OK, I'll constrain my discussion to DVD consoles.
PSX, PS2, XBox, Gamecube, Dreamcast, etc.
Even on the disc-based consoles, if you stream in music while the game is playing, you won't be able to stream in sections of the map because the read head can only point at one part of the disc at once. That's why some games for GCN, PS2, and Xbox still use tracked music, because it makes the "loading" stall shorter. In addition, doing cut scenes with the game engine rather than with FMV gives the game even more time to stream in a large chunk of level data.
I know some hardened old unix guy will say "bah microsoft still sux0rz" well have you really used any of it lately or are you still making fun of windows 95?
No, I'm making fun of Windows XP, which can't be slimmed down much tighter than 128 MB of RAM, as opposed to GNU/Linux which is comfortable with well under 16 MB. Thus, Linux (especially uclinux) beats Windows on handheld and embedded devices.
consoles haven't been space constrained since 1995
Current Game Paks for the Game Boy Advance handheld game console are only 8 megabytes in size, the same size as the first N64 games.
I can assure you that there is no OpenGL support on Xbox
Halo is old, and Metroid Prime for GCN is coming out. Microsoft desperately needs a first-person shooter. If Microsoft wants Doom 3 for Xbox, Microsoft will make sure that Carmack has his OpenGL.
(Context: hypothetical situation that poses a difficulty in upgrading from obsolete rlogin/rsh to OpenSSH. Current roadblock is the cost of travel to the colocation facility where the machine resides, as all major security upgrades such as this one should be done at the console.)
How did you install the system then?
I lived close to the colo plant back then, but then either I or my servers have moved cross country.
But I just thought of a possible solution: rlogin tunneled over ssh. First ssh to another box at the colo plant, and then because they control their own internal network, rlogin using a non-routable address to the server in question, and install ssh that way.
Under the states' plan, online sellers would be required to purchase approved software to compute the appropriate state and local taxes or to certify with the state any in-house calculation systems already in place. E-tailers could choose to outsource tax collection to a certified third-party under the states' plan.
So far, participating states have conducted only one tax software pilot, involving four states, three technology vendors, and one online seller. Of the technology vendors participating in the pilot, just one -- Salem, Mass.-based Taxware, working in conjunction with Hewlett-Packard -- managed to get a system up and running.
I hope that the states don't go with a "trusted client" model that requires a specific piece of proprietary software in the point-of-sale system, and possibly a monopoly publisher. Write your state legislatures and ask them to consider the use of free software in this interstate catalog/internet sales tax measure should it pass.
gene exchange is just one method by which bacteria maintain genetic diversity.
Genes are software. Thus, bacterial conjugation is a form of software exchange, or "SEX" for short. Or is it piracy?
Yeah, Alyson Hannigan (Willow) is much better.
I could have sworn Willow was a man, a midget, played by Warwick Davis.
But in this case, why should the smokers feel any different?
Because even if all restaurants are smoke-free, it's still possible to go to a restaurant and smoke. They just have to be separated by two minutes. But if all restaurants have one section, the smoking section, a non-smoker can't go to a restaurant without breathing.
Separate ventilation for the smoking section and for the rest of the restaurant satisfies both sides of the debate.
f you don't like smoking, don't go to restaurants that have smoking sections. It's a free market system. Vote with your dollars and quit whining about it.
I'm sorry; I don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars to invest in starting my own restaurant if all the restaurants within a five-mile radius have a popular smoking section.
However, he is also QUITE clear. Source patches are fine. Of any sort.
Has Bernstein put permission to redistribute any patches against djbdns in writing? If so, then the license becomes roughly equivalent to the Trolltech QPL.
if something works like this, why do you need to be able to redistribute anything more than patches?
What about for porting the program to operating systems that don't fit Bernstein's idea of how the directory structure should be laid out, such as Windows 2000 Server or Windows .NET Enterprise Server?
Install buggy BIND
Buggy? At least the vulnerability mentioned in the article does not affect most recent version of BIND 9.x.
Another vulnerability has been found in Microsoft Windows 98...
I take that comment to imply: "Windows 98 Second Edition is too old to be supported; all users of Windows 98 Second Edition should upgrade to Windows XP Home Edition." The problem with upgrading from one major version of a product to the next just to fix a bug is that newer major versions will often drop useful features that an older version had. For instance, Windows XP Home Edition loses Windows 98's competent support for running proprietary applications designed for MS-DOS. In addition, XP Home loses the ability to run acceptably on a 133 MHz machine with 32 MB of RAM.
Does BIND 9 drop major features or require more hardware for a given level of service vs. BIND 8?
So I strongly recommend doing the installation of ssh on the console if it's not included with your operating system.
Yes, but physical access to the console may cost hundreds of dollars per session. I guess that's just the price of data security. Are the data security companies in bed with the commercial airlines?
FACT: rlogin, rsh, rexec, and all other remote access utilities that do not perform cryptographically strong authentication and offer at least the option to encrypt the session are OBSOLETE.
Then how does one remotely connect to a machine to install OpenSSH? And what about those systems to which OpenSSH has not yet been ported?
and an MP3 player that doubles the number of notes in a song by guessing and filling them in!
Actually, that's exactly how "mp3PRO" technology works. It stores a low-bit-rate MP3 of signals from 20 Hz to 8000 Hz, and then it does "spectral band replication" to guess at the frequencies from there to 16000 Hz.
is sai2x basically 'eagle'?
Eagle and Kreed's 2xSaI are based on different algorithms. The "Super Eagle" and "Super 2xSaI" filters by Kreed are combinations of the techniques of Eagle and 2xSaI.
That is why you should support the group that most aligns with your own ideals. In my case, it would be the EFF, and Ashcroft.
I support Eldred. Those who support AG Ashcroft are Sonny and Cher fans.
Key Feature #5 [of Mac WiMP] is "Support Digital Rights Management to help protect your content"
However, Microsoft can't prevent Total Recorder "waveOut tee" hacks on the Mac like it can on Windows with WHQL driver signing. Anybody can write a new Mac output driver, and Windows Media Player has no way to check whether or not it's signed. The primary Sound Manager audio device on Mac OS X could tee into oggenc for all it knows.