Having to break the law to watch a family-friendly animated movie. Of course Disney would throw a fit, and Studio Ghibli sure doesn't like it either, but I'm ready, willing, and able to give them money -- even if they want to overcharge -- but they won't sell them!
They are overcharging. You can buy those movies in the United States for several billion dollars; simply buy Disney Enterprises Inc.
is quick to fire off the lawyers in any direction where there is a little guy to be squashed for painting Donald Duck on the side of his daycare center or otherwise depriving the mother ship of a dollar of profit.
Now, why would the Feds not want to disclose the mechanism of their keylogger? Either it's typical spook selfishness OR they think that doing so would strengthen the defense's argument. I havn't looked at the actual details of the argument the defense is making, so it's hard to tell if this is part of the motivation for the "it's classified" song and dance.
Defense: "Prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you got a warrant to gather this information or that the keylogging was otherwise not an unreasonable search and seizure."
Feds: "Umm..... uh...."
Defense: "Motion to reject this evidence."
Perhaps they learned their lesson from the Sklyarov debacle and are trying to get a judge to rule the "wiretapped" evidence inadmissible.
Why should I have to register on their site??? I can still be subjected to their ads without them knowing my Name
With a unique account, NYT can track how many unique users saw and/or clicked through a banner, thus judging the banner's effectiveness. Using accounts instead of IP addresses blocks robots from driving up the click count by hitting an ad, getting a new IP address from DHCP, rinse and repeat.
With a postal code, NYT can show you ads relevant to your region. For example, what if a local band were to advertise on NYT? How would NYT know you were from 46808 without requiring you to show your account?
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All it is that makes a server a server is it running services.
OK. I guess I was bitching to ISPs who think "server" is "something you pay $$$$$$ per month to run" and not something that the average consumer can run.
Sega is dead; long live Sega.
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In the same period, there were 0 support calls to the Sega helpline about Zelda.
Sega is now making games for Nintendo and Sony consoles; therefore, the Nintendo tip line is now also a Sega tip line.
What I really want to see is ports of Toaplan's arcade games to Game Boy Advance, especially the sideways shooter Zero Wing.
First of all, Di$neyCo doesn't own the copyright on Pinocchio.
Toad's real name is Kinopio (scroll down to Player Select). If Kinopio made it in, why not rival Pinocchio? Pinocchio was expected to make it into Super Mario RPG (I have the Nintendo Power back issues to prove it) but was replaced at the last minute.
Proprietary? I thought the GC's media was just a ~3" DVD
The Nintendo GAMECUBE system uses 8 cm DVD-based media, but the format may not be UDF, and it's probably encrypted, making any unauthorized backups a violation of DMCA.
here the corporations own the copyrights for 75 years after we die
Officially, in the United States, your heirs own your copyrights for 70 years after the end of the calendar year in which you die, and copyrights on works of corporate authorship last for 95 years. In practice, because the copyright industry lobbies for (and gets) a 20-year copyright term extension every 20 years, we have perpetual copyright on every work first published on or after January 1, 1923, except for certain works with defective notices or pre-1964 works whose owners did not renew their 28-year copyrights for an additional 67 years. International copyright is worse: for example, the British government is free to enact a specific perpetual copyright on Peter Pan. Please read my writeup about the Sonny Bono Act for more information.
and the patents last for centuries as well.
No. Virtually all patents last no longer than 20 years after filing, period. Congress rarely grants extensions on individual drugs' patents.
While I might buy the ethernet card, but I can't really fathom why I'd need a hard drive... With a well-designed format, an 8Mb FLASH card should be able to hold many, many savegames.
Answer: Mario Artist. The sequel to Mario Paint will be released on GAMECUBE, not N64 as originally planned. If you're going to be storing full-color lossless images (PNG/TIFF), you need lots of space.
it didnt say anything about a new mariokart being in the release titles.
Mario Kart is never a release title; it comes out 6 to 12 months after system launch. For example Mario Kart 3: Super Circuit is coming soon for GBA, and Mario Kart 4 for GCN is in development.
And P6 (used in Xbox's PIII) still has only eight 32-bit integer registers. A system doesn't have "64 bits" until it has native support for long long (64-bit) integers.
It has the same PowerPC architecture thats been around for years.
The Nintendo GAMECUBE system has a 480 MHz PowerPC Gekko processor. Its PowerPC core is about twice as fast as P6 clock for clock.
proprietary, smaller, storage of the GC(N64 anyone?)
Yes, I know N64 only went up to 32 megabytes (256 megabits) in games such as WWF Attitude, Ocarina of Time, and Mario Party 3, but GAMECUBE supports 3-inch DVDs that can store 1.5 GB of data. And you won't experience PSX loading syndrome because the disc mechanism is fast enough to stream in the next couple rooms while you're playing.
no internet out of the box
Xbox can't access AOL either, no matter how many FREE HOURS!!!1!1 they give away.
realtime Dolby Digital
The audio coding state of the art has already almost left AC-3 (the Dolby Digital codec) behind; AC-3 will severely distort rapid impulsive sounds such as raindrops on a tin roof. Ogg technology shows much more promise.
On the bright side that means 15-20 dollar generic [controller]s.
Not if Nintendo's controllers encrypt all communications. Because Nintendo owns copyright on the boot code and some game software, and because the games check for the presence of a controller so that the players can Press Start, the controllers effectively control access to a copyrighted work as required by 17 USC 1201. Nintendo is well aware of the DMCA; the company produced only cartridge systems (hiding behind mask work copyright, which prohibits backing up semiconductor ROMs for 10 years after first publication) until TW and Disney bought the DMCA (which prohibits backing up encrypted discs for 95 years after first publication). Even though 17 USC 1201 provides an exception for reverse engineering for interoperability, Nintendo's unlimited legal budget will allow the company to bring baseless lawsuits and filibuster the trial until the smaller company has run out of money. Just look at Mad Catz, a manufacturer of popular independently produced gaming accessories: hey caved to MS and paid the protec^H^H^H^H^H^H licensing fees to produce official Xbox controllers
Remember the first time you saw someone perform "The Jump" shortcut at Wario's Stadium?
A well-timed jump over the first wall on the left is dramatic and adds a bit of tactics (should I try the jump and lose a couple seconds if I fail, or should I just race?), but a seven second lap (jump over the left wall, then jump over the wall again, making sure to go around the left pole of the s/f line, repeat, repeat for a 22 second run) is just cheap.
Or being knocked off a ramp by a well-timed red shell?
I remember what part of Wario Stadium you're talking about, but I normally did it with a row of banana peels. With a red shell, it a was good comeback tactic, but with an unstoppable Blue Shell Of Death(TM), it was cheap.
But what about MK64's cheesy Battle Mode music, the invisible banana peels in 150cc multiplayer, or the other couple dozen bugs and design flaws in the Mario Kart games? Perhaps this is why Mario Kart Super Circuit for GBA is going back to the SMK roots. (/me starts a petition to get Kamek the Magikoopa and Pinocchio the non-Disney little wooden boy added to Mario Kart 4 for GCN.)
Difference between P2P and C/S
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You were getting [files] from a machine 'serving' them. That makes it a server.
Why can't a server also act as a client? We need to get away from the idea that a "server" must always have a permanent, high-throughput connection with three or more nines reliability at the edge of the network.
Even with Napster it wasn't really P2P. You were getting [files] from a machine 'serving' them. That makes it a server.
But that machine was also 'getting' files from other servers. Read the article. In a client-server system, the client and server have relatively fixed roles, whereas in a distributed or "peer-to-peer" system, the clients and servers exchange roles frequently or even concurrently, preferably even when the agents are on transient network connections. For example, I may be downloading the latest Linux kernel from user foo while serving the latest XFree86 release to user bar.
Wasn't there some article here the other day about some P2P network working better the more users were using it at once?
Are you looking for the Freenet Project? Each Freenet agent ("clerver" sounds clumsy to me, and "servent" should have passed away with the 13th Amendment) retrieves documents from the closest user on the net, so as more people grab the latest Linux kernel, the path between each user and Linux 2.4.x becomes shorter and sending each copy creates less long-haul traffic.
There's nothing to keep a government from funding malaria research, and freely licensing the result.
Except campaign contributions: "If you publicly fund this research and then give it to ME, you'll get more money to help you get elected." Happens all the time.
Just because the ISP or anyone believes someone probably did violate copyright laws doesn't give them the right to take action against you. That is, if you believe in being innocent until proven guilty.
Civil law, not criminal law, governs most copyright cases. The only right the accused gets in a civil case is the right to trial by jury. All that "innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt" and "right to remain silent" jazz applies only to criminal cases.
If you want to play back a DVD home movie, you would need to encrypt it, i.e. ReCCS
If a DVD disc initializes a player's CSS encryption shift registers to 00000000's, it won't attempt to decrypt the data on the disc. Consumer DVD-R's with zeroes in the player key sections. Therefore, you just need to multiplex MPEG-2 video with AC-3 audio (good luck getting patent licenses for all this) and record it to the DVD as.vob files.
Normally, devices read data on a bus by sampling and holding. But with asynchronous clocks, there is no way to make sure that all the bits on the bus switch at the same time to assure that all devices meet their specified setup and hold times. This can lead to a state whether a bit is neither 1 or 0 but metastable for a short time, after which random noise from outside the flip-flop flips the bit to a 1 or 0. You also get "glitches," or the result of doing logic on the result of a "hazard" or race condition. Designers of asynchronous have to work very carefully to eliminate metastability and glitches.
so, does this make any mp3 generating software liable for "viral" infringment?
No, but if you don't turn on the "ogg" option in abcde, you commit patent infringement. In the United States of America and several other countries, inventors can patent algorithms by patenting any device running the algorithm, and Fraunhofer owns patents on MP3 in several jurisdictions.
My game freepuzzlearena contains some "viral infringement" of its own, as it includes a clone of the patented game "Dr. Mario" whose object is to remove viruses from a bottle.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm assuming the Slashcode has some way to tell when the DB is broke?
Wasn't one of the new features that we can create our own threads or something to discuss this? How do you do that?
Create a thread here, but because Slashcode stores discussions and comments in the database, comments are unavailable when the database is down.
Having to break the law to watch a family-friendly animated movie. Of course Disney would throw a fit, and Studio Ghibli sure doesn't like it either, but I'm ready, willing, and able to give them money -- even if they want to overcharge -- but they won't sell them!
They are overcharging. You can buy those movies in the United States for several billion dollars; simply buy Disney Enterprises Inc.
is quick to fire off the lawyers in any direction where there is a little guy to be squashed for painting Donald Duck on the side of his daycare center or otherwise depriving the mother ship of a dollar of profit.
This copyright will not expire in our lifetimes. Unless the Supremes get involved, DisneyCo will keep buying bad law from Congress, such as a 20-year copyright term extension every 20 years and a law making 8-bit XOR encryption unbreakable.
Now, why would the Feds not want to disclose the mechanism of their keylogger? Either it's typical spook selfishness OR they think that doing so would strengthen the defense's argument. I havn't looked at the actual details of the argument the defense is making, so it's hard to tell if this is part of the motivation for the "it's classified" song and dance.
Defense: "Prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you got a warrant to gather this information or that the keylogging was otherwise not an unreasonable search and seizure."
Feds: "Umm..... uh...."
Defense: "Motion to reject this evidence."
Perhaps they learned their lesson from the Sklyarov debacle and are trying to get a judge to rule the "wiretapped" evidence inadmissible.
Why should I have to register on their site??? I can still be subjected to their ads without them knowing my Name
With a unique account, NYT can track how many unique users saw and/or clicked through a banner, thus judging the banner's effectiveness. Using accounts instead of IP addresses blocks robots from driving up the click count by hitting an ad, getting a new IP address from DHCP, rinse and repeat.
With a postal code, NYT can show you ads relevant to your region. For example, what if a local band were to advertise on NYT? How would NYT know you were from 46808 without requiring you to show your account?
There are very few comments at this time because Slashdot's database server died right after michael posted this story. When the db server dies, Slashdot switches to the static homepage that Anonymous Coward normally sees, which points to the static pages in /articles/... and all .pl files simply put up the static homepage. Under the old slashcode, you could tell this because "dead db static Slashdot" didn't have any banners. Now sometimes there's a line of text above the banner that pushes the banner down about 30 pixels.
Note: With the removal of the static archives of old Slashdot stories, you can no longer search Slashdot through Google.
All it is that makes a server a server is it running services.
OK. I guess I was bitching to ISPs who think "server" is "something you pay $$$$$$ per month to run" and not something that the average consumer can run.
In the same period, there were 0 support calls to the Sega helpline about Zelda.
Sega is now making games for Nintendo and Sony consoles; therefore, the Nintendo tip line is now also a Sega tip line.
What I really want to see is ports of Toaplan's arcade games to Game Boy Advance, especially the sideways shooter Zero Wing.
Come on, everybody, it's the Sega Dance!(the first gameboy one was ok I guess... haven't played the new ones)
Zelda 7: Oracle of Seasons and Zelda 8: Oracle of Ages are brought to you by the company that makes the world's most popular really expensive database management system.
(Pinocchio, however... why?!)
First of all, Di$neyCo doesn't own the copyright on Pinocchio.
Toad's real name is Kinopio (scroll down to Player Select). If Kinopio made it in, why not rival Pinocchio? Pinocchio was expected to make it into Super Mario RPG (I have the Nintendo Power back issues to prove it) but was replaced at the last minute.
Proprietary? I thought the GC's media was just a ~3" DVD
The Nintendo GAMECUBE system uses 8 cm DVD-based media, but the format may not be UDF, and it's probably encrypted, making any unauthorized backups a violation of DMCA.
here the corporations own the copyrights for 75 years after we die
Officially, in the United States, your heirs own your copyrights for 70 years after the end of the calendar year in which you die, and copyrights on works of corporate authorship last for 95 years. In practice, because the copyright industry lobbies for (and gets) a 20-year copyright term extension every 20 years, we have perpetual copyright on every work first published on or after January 1, 1923, except for certain works with defective notices or pre-1964 works whose owners did not renew their 28-year copyrights for an additional 67 years. International copyright is worse: for example, the British government is free to enact a specific perpetual copyright on Peter Pan. Please read my writeup about the Sonny Bono Act for more information.
and the patents last for centuries as well.
No. Virtually all patents last no longer than 20 years after filing, period. Congress rarely grants extensions on individual drugs' patents.
While I might buy the ethernet card, but I can't really fathom why I'd need a hard drive ... With a well-designed format, an 8Mb FLASH card should be able to hold many, many savegames.
Answer: Mario Artist. The sequel to Mario Paint will be released on GAMECUBE, not N64 as originally planned. If you're going to be storing full-color lossless images (PNG/TIFF), you need lots of space.
it didnt say anything about a new mariokart being in the release titles.
Mario Kart is never a release title; it comes out 6 to 12 months after system launch. For example Mario Kart 3: Super Circuit is coming soon for GBA, and Mario Kart 4 for GCN is in development.
No, its not 128 bit. Its 64. Sorry.
And P6 (used in Xbox's PIII) still has only eight 32-bit integer registers. A system doesn't have "64 bits" until it has native support for long long (64-bit) integers.
It has the same PowerPC architecture thats been around for years.
The Nintendo GAMECUBE system has a 480 MHz PowerPC Gekko processor. Its PowerPC core is about twice as fast as P6 clock for clock.
proprietary, smaller, storage of the GC(N64 anyone?)
Yes, I know N64 only went up to 32 megabytes (256 megabits) in games such as WWF Attitude, Ocarina of Time, and Mario Party 3, but GAMECUBE supports 3-inch DVDs that can store 1.5 GB of data. And you won't experience PSX loading syndrome because the disc mechanism is fast enough to stream in the next couple rooms while you're playing.
no internet out of the box
Xbox can't access AOL either, no matter how many FREE HOURS!!!1!1 they give away.
realtime Dolby Digital
The audio coding state of the art has already almost left AC-3 (the Dolby Digital codec) behind; AC-3 will severely distort rapid impulsive sounds such as raindrops on a tin roof. Ogg technology shows much more promise.
On the bright side that means 15-20 dollar generic [controller]s.
Not if Nintendo's controllers encrypt all communications. Because Nintendo owns copyright on the boot code and some game software, and because the games check for the presence of a controller so that the players can Press Start, the controllers effectively control access to a copyrighted work as required by 17 USC 1201. Nintendo is well aware of the DMCA; the company produced only cartridge systems (hiding behind mask work copyright, which prohibits backing up semiconductor ROMs for 10 years after first publication) until TW and Disney bought the DMCA (which prohibits backing up encrypted discs for 95 years after first publication). Even though 17 USC 1201 provides an exception for reverse engineering for interoperability, Nintendo's unlimited legal budget will allow the company to bring baseless lawsuits and filibuster the trial until the smaller company has run out of money. Just look at Mad Catz, a manufacturer of popular independently produced gaming accessories: hey caved to MS and paid the protec^H^H^H^H^H^H licensing fees to produce official Xbox controllers
Remember the first time you saw someone perform "The Jump" shortcut at Wario's Stadium?
A well-timed jump over the first wall on the left is dramatic and adds a bit of tactics (should I try the jump and lose a couple seconds if I fail, or should I just race?), but a seven second lap (jump over the left wall, then jump over the wall again, making sure to go around the left pole of the s/f line, repeat, repeat for a 22 second run) is just cheap.
Or being knocked off a ramp by a well-timed red shell?
I remember what part of Wario Stadium you're talking about, but I normally did it with a row of banana peels. With a red shell, it a was good comeback tactic, but with an unstoppable Blue Shell Of Death(TM), it was cheap.
But what about MK64's cheesy Battle Mode music, the invisible banana peels in 150cc multiplayer, or the other couple dozen bugs and design flaws in the Mario Kart games? Perhaps this is why Mario Kart Super Circuit for GBA is going back to the SMK roots. (/me starts a petition to get Kamek the Magikoopa and Pinocchio the non-Disney little wooden boy added to Mario Kart 4 for GCN.)
You were getting [files] from a machine 'serving' them. That makes it a server.
Why can't a server also act as a client? We need to get away from the idea that a "server" must always have a permanent, high-throughput connection with three or more nines reliability at the edge of the network.
Even with Napster it wasn't really P2P. You were getting [files] from a machine 'serving' them. That makes it a server.
But that machine was also 'getting' files from other servers. Read the article. In a client-server system, the client and server have relatively fixed roles, whereas in a distributed or "peer-to-peer" system, the clients and servers exchange roles frequently or even concurrently, preferably even when the agents are on transient network connections. For example, I may be downloading the latest Linux kernel from user foo while serving the latest XFree86 release to user bar.
Wasn't there some article here the other day about some P2P network working better the more users were using it at once?
Are you looking for the Freenet Project? Each Freenet agent ("clerver" sounds clumsy to me, and "servent" should have passed away with the 13th Amendment) retrieves documents from the closest user on the net, so as more people grab the latest Linux kernel, the path between each user and Linux 2.4.x becomes shorter and sending each copy creates less long-haul traffic.
There's nothing to keep a government from funding malaria research, and freely licensing the result.
Except campaign contributions: "If you publicly fund this research and then give it to ME, you'll get more money to help you get elected." Happens all the time.
Just because the ISP or anyone believes someone probably did violate copyright laws doesn't give them the right to take action against you. That is, if you believe in being innocent until proven guilty.
Civil law, not criminal law, governs most copyright cases. The only right the accused gets in a civil case is the right to trial by jury. All that "innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt" and "right to remain silent" jazz applies only to criminal cases.
I'd be more than happy to terminate my relationship with that ISP ... even if it's the only highspeed provider
If your net connection is worth USD$200,000 to you, you can always move.
If you want to play back a DVD home movie, you would need to encrypt it, i.e. ReCCS
If a DVD disc initializes a player's CSS encryption shift registers to 00000000's, it won't attempt to decrypt the data on the disc. Consumer DVD-R's with zeroes in the player key sections. Therefore, you just need to multiplex MPEG-2 video with AC-3 audio (good luck getting patent licenses for all this) and record it to the DVD as .vob files.
Normally, devices read data on a bus by sampling and holding. But with asynchronous clocks, there is no way to make sure that all the bits on the bus switch at the same time to assure that all devices meet their specified setup and hold times. This can lead to a state whether a bit is neither 1 or 0 but metastable for a short time, after which random noise from outside the flip-flop flips the bit to a 1 or 0. You also get "glitches," or the result of doing logic on the result of a "hazard" or race condition. Designers of asynchronous have to work very carefully to eliminate metastability and glitches.
so, does this make any mp3 generating software liable for "viral" infringment?
No, but if you don't turn on the "ogg" option in abcde, you commit patent infringement. In the United States of America and several other countries, inventors can patent algorithms by patenting any device running the algorithm, and Fraunhofer owns patents on MP3 in several jurisdictions.
My game freepuzzlearena contains some "viral infringement" of its own, as it includes a clone of the patented game "Dr. Mario" whose object is to remove viruses from a bottle.