Now, I try [Windows Update] again, and I'm getting the same old Can't Find Server message. Anyone else having problems with the site, or is it just me?
Between the SNMP scare and this vulnerability, Windows Update is probably just slashdotted.
At trial, since the console manufacturer failed to show that there was a way of booting a game without that text ["Licensed by Sega"], they lost the case.
The case in question was Sega v. Accolade. A similar reasoning applies to games for Game Boy and Game Boy Advance systems, which use a nearly identical protection (a small graphic instead of text). To be perfectly safe, as soon as the system gives your program control, put "Correction: Not licensed by $console_maker" at the top of the first copyright notice screen. The makers of Bleem! did this for the Dreamcast version of their PSX emulator, and Sega couldn't touch them.
Project Gutenburg [gutenberg.org] put up free ASCII versions of out-of-copyright books.
So what if by 2050, OCR technology has progressed so far that PG has put every significant piece of pre-1923 literature into electronic form, and the copyright term has been extended to 150 years or longer? What will they do then?
"And they maybe could add some region encoding so that people couldn't read a book in England that was meant for sale to Americans."
books allready have region encoding, its called language.
And I have its DeCSS, its kryptonite. It's called SYSTRAN, the engine behind AltaVista's Babel Fish.
Even then, if you're willing to accept a language barrier as access control, your analogy completely falls apart. DVDs produced completely in English should be viewable in Canada, Australia, USA, UK, South Africa, or any other place that has English (or an acceptably compatible dialect thereof) as one of its official languages.
The files themselves may be cheap, but the hardware isn't. How is a minor (i.e. Rowling's target audience) supposed to afford a PDA on which to read e-books?
I prefer a simple book.pdf to a book/ with tons of jpg's and html files.
Then get an HTML browser that can handle zip files. Galeon and Konqueror may be able to because their underlying widget sets come with file system wrappers that can transparently peek into zip files.
While I don't particularly regret the decision, I have noticed that there is definitly a considerable amount of eystrain associated with staring at a screen for a few hours at a time, even on a LCD.
Have you tried Windows XP, recent XFree86, or other color display systems that allow sub-pixel rendering? They look three times sharper than traditional square-pixel displays.
So what do you do when you read a book that *does* require backpaging?
If you install Spark Notes, Barron's Notes, Monarch Notes, or Cliffs Notes for the book you're reading, you have summaries of what you've already read at your fingertips.
The major headache with any form of electronic book is that you cant put a bookmark on it....
Blame copyright owners for turning off annotation in the e-books you, erm, licensed.
(Im forced to remember a phrase/number and search for it to get something similar to a bookmark...)
If you can annotate an e-book, you can simply name your bookmarks BMBM and then do Find Again until you're at the right spot. A good reader will display the text surrounding each annotation.
I don't know about ebooks that much so maybe you could answer this for me. Are you able to create book marks that are easy to flip to ?
This is trivial in any e-book system that allows the user to make annotations, but unfortunately, copyright owners have the power to prevent users from annotating their works.
Which means that you'll have to click the little "Install Anyway" button when you install the drivers? So what? It still works.
Secure Audio Path applications can tell whether or not a device's driver is signed and will not open a device with an unsigned driver. If a media player insists on the Secure Audio Path, it will not output through Total Recorder.
Not necessarily. Watermarks are designed to survive D=>A=>D conversion, and if the legislative bodies of the USA, Europe, and Japan (the major electronics markets) pass a law that makes it illegal for consumer audio equipment to ignore watermarks, you're screwed. (The DMCA already makes it illegal to remove watermarks or other copy management information from an existing signal.)
The upshot is that every time I use my Philips CDR765 to record music composed 300 years ago
Watch out! That composition might be copyrighted in the European Union if the next retroactive copyright term extension bill passes. Unlike the USA, where once it's expired, it's expired, EU copyright term extensions typically re-copyright works whose copyright has expired.
I have just submitted a patent to the US patent office on a device that allow you to make recordings even if they implement a completely closed audio path. It is an audio to analog to digital conversion device. I call it a microphone.
Not if Congress (or your local equivalent) passes Son of SSSCA which requires all consumer audio recording devices to contain policeware that detects and responds to watermarks (which are designed to survive D/A/D conversion) and bans possession of possessing non-consumer audio recording devices by people who aren't licensed and bonded audio professionals.
Will not be signed by Microsoft. Microsoft doesn't sign any audio driver unless it has a way of letting applications disable all digital outputs (such as Total Recorder's waveOut to waveIn redirection) that users cannot override. (Read More...)
you'll be the last person picked to play in a dodge ball game
Only because most geeks are sedentary. At my school, dodgeball players were picked based on the performance that they had demonstrated, not on any character stereotype. Sure, the agile geek might get picked near the end before the first couple games, but that can change quickly.
See also "Recess." (Yes, I know Di$ney is evil, but still...)
OpenGL is what we call source-portable...anything that's legal openGL will work any openGL environment. So what's platform-specific in this code?
OpenGL does not handle windowing, that is, actually creating a surface on which to draw. OpenGL also does not handle input (DirectInput), audio (DirectSound/DirectMusic), or video (DirectShow). GLUT handles windowing and video to an extent, but AFAIK, standard GLUT can't go full-screen, read joysticks, or read more than one keyboard key at a time.
It seems that the only thing that is keeping FreeNet from really being usable is a good key/searching mechanism. No way to really crawl the thing is there?
If somebody develops a way to publish web pages within Freenet, using URLs that link to other Freenet pages, you'll eventually see Google spider Freenet.
We are assuming she has unlimited, always on connection (like DSL or Cable)
So you're limiting this architecture to highly urban areas of highly developed countries.
And her machine doesn't cost her anything except electricity
This can be significant. Most modern PC operating system kernels' idle loops execute wait instructions that halt the CPU until an interrupt occurs. The cost of electricity to run any instruction other than wait and the cost of cooling the machine can pile up.
and the wear on her hardware (constant disk access, etc.).
This can be significant. I had a Macintosh Performa 6230CD computer's hard drive wear out on me in less than a year, and it wasn't even under heavy use.
Did you read the article? The article states that the gender ratio is closer to 84% male, 16% female, and more than half of the females playing EQ are engaged, married, or separated. Check the "RL demographics".
Being a Libertarian, I believe every corporation has a right to make whatever EULA's they like. As a consumer, it's your personal decision to agree or not agree with such EULA's.
But what if every provider of a given necessary good or service had a provision that required you to turn over your firstborn? (Ignore for a moment the 13th Amendment.) Assume that in this hypothetical system there is no way to do without this product, and all providers of this product insist on placing such terms on the sale of the product. How would you react?
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Now, I try [Windows Update] again, and I'm getting the same old Can't Find Server message. Anyone else having problems with the site, or is it just me?
Between the SNMP scare and this vulnerability, Windows Update is probably just slashdotted.
At trial, since the console manufacturer failed to show that there was a way of booting a game without that text ["Licensed by Sega"], they lost the case.
The case in question was Sega v. Accolade. A similar reasoning applies to games for Game Boy and Game Boy Advance systems, which use a nearly identical protection (a small graphic instead of text). To be perfectly safe, as soon as the system gives your program control, put "Correction: Not licensed by $console_maker" at the top of the first copyright notice screen. The makers of Bleem! did this for the Dreamcast version of their PSX emulator, and Sega couldn't touch them.
Don't you mean Irrationalexuberance?
And everybody say, Yatta!
Project Gutenburg [gutenberg.org] put up free ASCII versions of out-of-copyright books.
So what if by 2050, OCR technology has progressed so far that PG has put every significant piece of pre-1923 literature into electronic form, and the copyright term has been extended to 150 years or longer? What will they do then?
books allready have region encoding, its called language.
And I have its DeCSS, its kryptonite. It's called SYSTRAN, the engine behind AltaVista's Babel Fish.
Even then, if you're willing to accept a language barrier as access control, your analogy completely falls apart. DVDs produced completely in English should be viewable in Canada, Australia, USA, UK, South Africa, or any other place that has English (or an acceptably compatible dialect thereof) as one of its official languages.
Cheap? [A novel on a PDA] was free.
In that case, where can I get a PDA for free?
The files themselves may be cheap, but the hardware isn't. How is a minor (i.e. Rowling's target audience) supposed to afford a PDA on which to read e-books?
I prefer a simple book.pdf to a book/ with tons of jpg's and html files.
Then get an HTML browser that can handle zip files. Galeon and Konqueror may be able to because their underlying widget sets come with file system wrappers that can transparently peek into zip files.
While I don't particularly regret the decision, I have noticed that there is definitly a considerable amount of eystrain associated with staring at a screen for a few hours at a time, even on a LCD.
Have you tried Windows XP, recent XFree86, or other color display systems that allow sub-pixel rendering? They look three times sharper than traditional square-pixel displays.
So what do you do when you read a book that *does* require backpaging?
If you install Spark Notes, Barron's Notes, Monarch Notes, or Cliffs Notes for the book you're reading, you have summaries of what you've already read at your fingertips.
The major headache with any form of electronic book is that you cant put a bookmark on it....
Blame copyright owners for turning off annotation in the e-books you, erm, licensed.
(Im forced to remember a phrase/number and search for it to get something similar to a bookmark ...)
If you can annotate an e-book, you can simply name your bookmarks BMBM and then do Find Again until you're at the right spot. A good reader will display the text surrounding each annotation.
I don't know about ebooks that much so maybe you could answer this for me. Are you able to create book marks that are easy to flip to ?
This is trivial in any e-book system that allows the user to make annotations, but unfortunately, copyright owners have the power to prevent users from annotating their works.
Which means that you'll have to click the little "Install Anyway" button when you install the drivers? So what? It still works.
Secure Audio Path applications can tell whether or not a device's driver is signed and will not open a device with an unsigned driver. If a media player insists on the Secure Audio Path, it will not output through Total Recorder.
so if you can hear it, you can record it
Not necessarily. Watermarks are designed to survive D=>A=>D conversion, and if the legislative bodies of the USA, Europe, and Japan (the major electronics markets) pass a law that makes it illegal for consumer audio equipment to ignore watermarks, you're screwed. (The DMCA already makes it illegal to remove watermarks or other copy management information from an existing signal.)
The upshot is that every time I use my Philips CDR765 to record music composed 300 years ago
Watch out! That composition might be copyrighted in the European Union if the next retroactive copyright term extension bill passes. Unlike the USA, where once it's expired, it's expired, EU copyright term extensions typically re-copyright works whose copyright has expired.
I have just submitted a patent to the US patent office on a device that allow you to make recordings even if they implement a completely closed audio path. It is an audio to analog to digital conversion device. I call it a microphone.
Not if Congress (or your local equivalent) passes Son of SSSCA which requires all consumer audio recording devices to contain policeware that detects and responds to watermarks (which are designed to survive D/A/D conversion) and bans possession of possessing non-consumer audio recording devices by people who aren't licensed and bonded audio professionals.
If I can hear it, I can copy it. Total Recorder
Will not be signed by Microsoft. Microsoft doesn't sign any audio driver unless it has a way of letting applications disable all digital outputs (such as Total Recorder's waveOut to waveIn redirection) that users cannot override. (Read More...)
GLUT *can* handle fullscreen, in GAMEMODE.
All the libraries I could find last time I tried developing in GLUT gave me the error: Game mode not implemented.
you'll be the last person picked to play in a dodge ball game
Only because most geeks are sedentary. At my school, dodgeball players were picked based on the performance that they had demonstrated, not on any character stereotype. Sure, the agile geek might get picked near the end before the first couple games, but that can change quickly.
See also "Recess." (Yes, I know Di$ney is evil, but still...)
OpenGL is what we call source-portable...anything that's legal openGL will work any openGL environment. So what's platform-specific in this code?
OpenGL does not handle windowing, that is, actually creating a surface on which to draw. OpenGL also does not handle input (DirectInput), audio (DirectSound/DirectMusic), or video (DirectShow). GLUT handles windowing and video to an extent, but AFAIK, standard GLUT can't go full-screen, read joysticks, or read more than one keyboard key at a time.
It seems that the only thing that is keeping FreeNet from really being usable is a good key/searching mechanism. No way to really crawl the thing is there?
If somebody develops a way to publish web pages within Freenet, using URLs that link to other Freenet pages, you'll eventually see Google spider Freenet.
We are assuming she has unlimited, always on connection (like DSL or Cable)
So you're limiting this architecture to highly urban areas of highly developed countries.
And her machine doesn't cost her anything except electricity
This can be significant. Most modern PC operating system kernels' idle loops execute wait instructions that halt the CPU until an interrupt occurs. The cost of electricity to run any instruction other than wait and the cost of cooling the machine can pile up.
and the wear on her hardware (constant disk access, etc.).
This can be significant. I had a Macintosh Performa 6230CD computer's hard drive wear out on me in less than a year, and it wasn't even under heavy use.
Should I guess the missing 40% from the available 60%?
Yes! Error-correcting codes will make it possible to guess the whole file from fragments that add up to 50%. Mojo Nation already does this.
99% male, 1% female.
Did you read the article? The article states that the gender ratio is closer to 84% male, 16% female, and more than half of the females playing EQ are engaged, married, or separated. Check the "RL demographics".
If you possess, do you not also own?
If you rent, you possess, but you do not own.
"Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 7.6)."Being a Libertarian, I believe every corporation has a right to make whatever EULA's they like. As a consumer, it's your personal decision to agree or not agree with such EULA's.
But what if every provider of a given necessary good or service had a provision that required you to turn over your firstborn? (Ignore for a moment the 13th Amendment.) Assume that in this hypothetical system there is no way to do without this product, and all providers of this product insist on placing such terms on the sale of the product. How would you react?