I personally use bold text to indicate prominence and readability.
So do I, when I can, and so do some proprietary software publishers in their printed manuals, but many of the installation tools support only plain ASCII or UTF-8.txt (not.rtf,.html, etc.) in the EULA window, and.txt doesn't support bold.
As a participant in standards forums, I get dozens of spams a day, and I plan to set up filtering.
How do you filter a message that you haven't received? If you're talking about a procmail recipe or other client-side filter, then by the time the mail enters your local spool, you've already received, and paid your ISP to receive, the spam. It costs money to download data and to store it.
But putting people into jail for sending emails to lists of people seems as wrong as putting someone in jail for port scanning or other things where there are likely to be legitimate actions that will be outlawed.
If somebody repeatedly sends you unsolicited messages with 120 KB Flash attachments, what are you to do? Let your ISP's provided mailbox fill up?
If the user never clicks through, does the license still apply to him? Any lawyer could sucessfully argue otherwise.
You think so? If I were publishing a piece of software, and I didn't have a heart, I could claim in court that your decryption of the installer without using the installer's GUI constituted circumvention of an access control device, which is a tort and a crime under Title 17, United States Code, section 1201.
these are not USE licenses (frankly IMNSHO use should be covered under fair use doctrine anyway, making the whole "click through" issue moot)
Before the U.S. Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (using a voice vote to hide the identities of those who voted YEA), it had passed a law creating 17 USC 117, which made use of a program (defined as making necessary copies such as into RAM) and backup of a program not copyright infringement.
However, under U.S. law, you can circumvent access control without infringing copyright, and you will go to jail for it. Given enough money, a publisher could buy lawyers that could convince a judge into thinking that a compressed self-extracting installer package contains access control.
I DON'T KNOW WHY LAWYERS LIKE TO MAKE EVERYTHING EVEN HARDER TO READ THAN IT NORMALLY IS.
The laws of several states in the United States require that the disclaimer of warranty and the limitation of liability be "prominent". Contract authors upcase those parts of a contract because they know that a judge will consider an all-uppercase paragraph "prominent".
Gee, how much bandwidth do you use (download huge ISOs, big slashdot discussions
Slashdot discussions? Those work just fine over my 48 kbps modem connection. It's mostly text, and text gzips well (Content-Encoding: gzip). With Mozilla's tab browser that lets you middle-click to load a page in the background, I see no reason to get broadband just so you can read Slashdot faster.
It's pretty annoying to be uploading, say, a 20MB Photoshop document at 30K/s
Doesn't Photoshop use some sort of lossless compression on images? If not, why not.zip up the images before sending them? Or do you work with images that are many megapixels big and many layers deep?
One that acts as a proxy to intercept requests going out to CDDB.
This is a direct violation of the DMCA. The CDDB protocol version 2 (used in newer apps) is proprietary and encrypted, and it controls access to a copyrighted compilation of data maintained by Gracenote. However, for CDDB 1 apps, a napigator-like program that intercepts DNS for cddb.com should work fine.
Violation of FCC "equal time" rule?
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In order to ensure that campaign financing doesn't dry up these greedy bastards (Like Senator HOLLINGS from SC) will draft legislation that is favorable to the corporations.
Here's the problem. In some cases, such corporations are television networks. A network (such as AOL/CNN, Disney/ABC, MSNBC, etc) gives money to a politician's campaign, and then come campaign time, the politician gives it right back to the network to buy 30-second spots. In effect, the network has given the politician free promotion through a loophole in the FCC's "equal time" rule that states that a radio or TV station must make advertising time available to all candidates under the same terms.
maybe someone who knows how to do this could organize a friend/foe list around [the DMCA and the Bono Act]?
Sorry, no. Nobody (except of course the members of Congress) will ever know how the members of Congress voted on those two acts. Even though most yea/nay votes are performed via computer and placed on a public record, the technology doesn't exist for recognizing 400 simultaneous 'yea' votes in a voice vote. (Both the DMCA and the Bono Act were passed through voice vote.)
is there any easy way to get voting records for what they actually did in previous congressional votes?
The members of the House and Senate anticipated that and used one of the oldest ways to measure support for a bill while avoiding individual accountability: the anonymous voice vote. Both the DMCA and the Bono Act were passed by voice vote.
What's to stop me from trademarking the name after the fact and petitioning for ownership of the related domain names?
You run a risk that such action would be considered reverse hijacking, defined as "using the Policy in bad faith to attempt to deprive a registered domain-name holder of a domain name" (Resolution Rules) (emphasis by yerricde).
AFAIK, the spec for Memory Stick was already released
Only half of the Sony MemoryStick standard was released. The other half (MagicGate, required by all Sony digital audio devices and by Sony PlayStation 2 memory cards) is still a trade secret.
I would LOVE it if they make removeable media such as CF/SM/MS/MMC bootable
CF is based on the ATA electrical interface; others have posted Google links to CF/IDE adapters that are merely a circuit board with an ATA connector, a molex power connector, and a CF connector, with no logic. Put a CF cartridge into one of those adapters (you can mount it in a drive bay if you want), and voila! Bootable CF.
It would not matter if ogg was capable of reproducing music at any bitrate, no body will care with a name like that.
It would not matter if mp3 was capable of reproducing music at any bitrate, no body will care with a name like that. Heck, the middle syllable sounds like something you do in the bathroom.
The name of a product can make or break its success in the consumer world
The answer would be once ripped, leave it ripped- but that isn't always feasable
Once ripped, leave it ripped, and stored on music CD-R. (Use music CD-R instead of data CD-R to make sure that the recording artist and songwriter get paid.)
few CD players will (yet) play compressed music.
Let me clarify my perception of your "few". Most newer CD players that also play DVDs (DVD video or DVD audio) will also decode play RCA's MPEG audio layer 3 ("MP3") format. In addition, a growing number of portable CD players can handle MP3 audio. But currently, the majority of CD players play only Red Book linear PCM audio.
Microsoft's media player will play a wma file WITH its RIAA trojan even if the wma has been misnamed to MP3.
Not if I've associated.mp3 to Winamp, where I've turned off the WMA plugin.
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There is absolutely no reason for anyone to subject themselves to LILO any more
Unless, of course, you want to support an evil corporation that goes by the name of The Walt Disney Company.
The Truth About Lilo & Stitch
Since grub can read your filesystems, you'll never be stuck needing to use a rescue disk if there is still a valid kernel somewhere on your HD.
That is, unless something else <cough>Windows Update</cough> eats your dual-boot machine's master boot record.
I personally use bold text to indicate prominence and readability.
So do I, when I can, and so do some proprietary software publishers in their printed manuals, but many of the installation tools support only plain ASCII or UTF-8 .txt (not .rtf, .html, etc.) in the EULA window, and .txt doesn't support bold.
Last time I checked, its pretty difficult for ISPs to trace where an email came from.
If these guys can do it...
As a participant in standards forums, I get dozens of spams a day, and I plan to set up filtering.
How do you filter a message that you haven't received? If you're talking about a procmail recipe or other client-side filter, then by the time the mail enters your local spool, you've already received, and paid your ISP to receive, the spam. It costs money to download data and to store it.
But putting people into jail for sending emails to lists of people seems as wrong as putting someone in jail for port scanning or other things where there are likely to be legitimate actions that will be outlawed.
If somebody repeatedly sends you unsolicited messages with 120 KB Flash attachments, what are you to do? Let your ISP's provided mailbox fill up?
If the user never clicks through, does the license still apply to him? Any lawyer could sucessfully argue otherwise.
You think so? If I were publishing a piece of software, and I didn't have a heart, I could claim in court that your decryption of the installer without using the installer's GUI constituted circumvention of an access control device, which is a tort and a crime under Title 17, United States Code, section 1201.
these are not USE licenses (frankly IMNSHO use should be covered under fair use doctrine anyway, making the whole "click through" issue moot)
Before the U.S. Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (using a voice vote to hide the identities of those who voted YEA), it had passed a law creating 17 USC 117, which made use of a program (defined as making necessary copies such as into RAM) and backup of a program not copyright infringement.
However, under U.S. law, you can circumvent access control without infringing copyright, and you will go to jail for it. Given enough money, a publisher could buy lawyers that could convince a judge into thinking that a compressed self-extracting installer package contains access control.
I DON'T KNOW WHY LAWYERS LIKE TO MAKE EVERYTHING EVEN HARDER TO READ THAN IT NORMALLY IS.
The laws of several states in the United States require that the disclaimer of warranty and the limitation of liability be "prominent". Contract authors upcase those parts of a contract because they know that a judge will consider an all-uppercase paragraph "prominent".
Gee, how much bandwidth do you use (download huge ISOs, big slashdot discussions
Slashdot discussions? Those work just fine over my 48 kbps modem connection. It's mostly text, and text gzips well (Content-Encoding: gzip). With Mozilla's tab browser that lets you middle-click to load a page in the background, I see no reason to get broadband just so you can read Slashdot faster.
It's pretty annoying to be uploading, say, a 20MB Photoshop document at 30K/s
Doesn't Photoshop use some sort of lossless compression on images? If not, why not .zip up the images before sending them? Or do you work with images that are many megapixels big and many layers deep?
One that acts as a proxy to intercept requests going out to CDDB.
This is a direct violation of the DMCA. The CDDB protocol version 2 (used in newer apps) is proprietary and encrypted, and it controls access to a copyrighted compilation of data maintained by Gracenote. However, for CDDB 1 apps, a napigator-like program that intercepts DNS for cddb.com should work fine.
DeMoCrAcy?
in the future computers may have as few as 1,000 vacuum tubes
PM's 1949 prediction was off by about three orders of magnitude. Most entry-level computer workstations have one vacuum tube.
It's in the display.
Some high-end computers have additional vacuum tubes sitting outside the case, which serve to amplify the output of the external DACs.
As opposed to [living in] which of the alternatives: the past or the present
The entertainment industry is living in the past by trying to implement 19th century business models in 21st century technology.
Me? I'll just live in the now.
with my new Sony-Ericsson TI-85 phone
Confused? The TI-85 is a graphing calculator, for Butcher's sake!
In order to ensure that campaign financing doesn't dry up these greedy bastards (Like Senator HOLLINGS from SC) will draft legislation that is favorable to the corporations.
Here's the problem. In some cases, such corporations are television networks. A network (such as AOL/CNN, Disney/ABC, MSNBC, etc) gives money to a politician's campaign, and then come campaign time, the politician gives it right back to the network to buy 30-second spots. In effect, the network has given the politician free promotion through a loophole in the FCC's "equal time" rule that states that a radio or TV station must make advertising time available to all candidates under the same terms.
maybe someone who knows how to do this could organize a friend/foe list around [the DMCA and the Bono Act]?
Sorry, no. Nobody (except of course the members of Congress) will ever know how the members of Congress voted on those two acts. Even though most yea/nay votes are performed via computer and placed on a public record, the technology doesn't exist for recognizing 400 simultaneous 'yea' votes in a voice vote. (Both the DMCA and the Bono Act were passed through voice vote.)
is there any easy way to get voting records for what they actually did in previous congressional votes?
The members of the House and Senate anticipated that and used one of the oldest ways to measure support for a bill while avoiding individual accountability: the anonymous voice vote. Both the DMCA and the Bono Act were passed by voice vote.
On a side note, does the date of the trademark in relation to the registration date of the domain have any correlation then?
Read the UDRP, version 19991024, and the resolution rules. An action in bad faith, such as reverse domain name hijacking, will be thrown out.
What's to stop me from trademarking the name after the fact and petitioning for ownership of the related domain names?
You run a risk that such action would be considered reverse hijacking, defined as "using the Policy in bad faith to attempt to deprive a registered domain-name holder of a domain name" (Resolution Rules) (emphasis by yerricde).
Ludacris
[regarding giving floppies away for free,] have you ever heard of a company called america online?
America Online Inc. hasn't distributed its AOL client software on floppy bisk since the 3.x series. Here's some relevant poetry:
"AOL Is Sucks" by SaundersAFAIK, the spec for Memory Stick was already released
Only half of the Sony MemoryStick standard was released. The other half (MagicGate, required by all Sony digital audio devices and by Sony PlayStation 2 memory cards) is still a trade secret.
I would LOVE it if they make removeable media such as CF/SM/MS/MMC bootable
CF is based on the ATA electrical interface; others have posted Google links to CF/IDE adapters that are merely a circuit board with an ATA connector, a molex power connector, and a CF connector, with no logic. Put a CF cartridge into one of those adapters (you can mount it in a drive bay if you want), and voila! Bootable CF.
Hint - [to transfer Mac dual-fork files] use .bin or .hqx.
So how do you copy the bin or hqx decoder? It too, like all Classic Mac apps, is a dual fork file. And how do you get an FTP client?
That's like calling streamed movies HTTP's or something...
No. It's like calling them ASFs or AVIs when the underlying codecs are DivX and MP3.
It would not matter if ogg was capable of reproducing music at any bitrate, no body will care with a name like that.
It would not matter if mp3 was capable of reproducing music at any bitrate, no body will care with a name like that. Heck, the middle syllable sounds like something you do in the bathroom.
The name of a product can make or break its success in the consumer world
Coca-Cola sells, even though the first half of its name is the first half of "cocaine". Trust me, any name can be promoted by the entertainment media.
As it is now, [the name of Ogg technology is] based on two bits of extremely nerdy trivia
And "Motion Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3" isn't?
Supposedly the MP3 version [of the Aphex Twin "Face" clip] obliterates [the image hidden in the spectrogram] because of lost frequencies.
I tried it with LAME at 64 kbps mono, and the face was still recognizable.
The answer would be once ripped, leave it ripped- but that isn't always feasable
Once ripped, leave it ripped, and stored on music CD-R. (Use music CD-R instead of data CD-R to make sure that the recording artist and songwriter get paid.)
few CD players will (yet) play compressed music.
Let me clarify my perception of your "few". Most newer CD players that also play DVDs (DVD video or DVD audio) will also decode play RCA's MPEG audio layer 3 ("MP3") format. In addition, a growing number of portable CD players can handle MP3 audio. But currently, the majority of CD players play only Red Book linear PCM audio.
Microsoft's media player will play a wma file WITH its RIAA trojan even if the wma has been misnamed to MP3.
Not if I've associated .mp3 to Winamp, where I've turned off the WMA plugin.