Or even a VCR. Tape a PPV movie in the middle in the night
Most newer converter boxes (especially those for digital cable and satellite TV) will insert Macrovision brand copy protection into pay-per-view signals and (if you have a really possessive cable company) even plain old premium channels. Even though it's an analog technology, circumvention devices are still illegal, as Macrovision holds a patent on every straightforward method of removing the VBL burst and colorstripe distortion.
"Pennies on the dollar" can mean 99 cents on the dollar.
for the production of the textbook, and the rest is royalties to the publisher and authors of the book.
You're assuming textbooks can't be released under the GNU Free Documentation License after their first printing. (Why use GNU FDL?) At least in the print industry, the publisher is less likely to take all rights from the author than it would in the record or movie industry.
If people realized that the abolition of copyright
I'm not necessarily for abolition of the copyright monopoly. I'm for restoring it to its original purpose: promoting the creation of new works. Retroactive copyright term extensions do NOT promote the creation of new works; most works make most of their money by far in the first 28 years. I'm also for full disclosure of the terms of any license (especially fair use restrictions) BEFORE the license is bought: "This DVD contains CSS encryption and may be played only on players licensed by DVD CCA. You may NOT copy the caption text. You may NOT grab frames. You may NOT back up the video or audio. You may NOT skip the Special Offers that precede the program."
removes or squeezes the profit motive out of [the entertainment industry], and that such action then reduces both the number of suppliers and the quality and quantity of what is produced, it no longer sounds like a Good Idea(TM)
Even if the monopoly were abolished, there would still be people who create for the fun of creating. The love of money should never be a fellow's primary motivation.
I can legally take a piece of BSD software, make binaries of it, and share the binaries with my neighbors.
I can legally take a piece of GPL software, make binaries of it, and share the binaries with my neighbors, offering in the README to sell them a CD of the source code for the price of media, duplication, and postage (GNU GPL section 3b).
You're paying for the medium (textbooks) and support (professors).
this is why you PAY for software
When you buy a copy of Progeny (a version of Debian GNU/Linux), you're paying for the medium (CDs and books) and support.
newspapers, etc
You're paying for the medium (paper).
Yes, copyright is a government-granted monopoly. The United States Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8) recognizes copyright as existing "to promote the progress of science and useful arts." Anything else is not constitutional. But somehow, the courts think that perpetual copyright[?] "promote[s] the progress of science and useful arts" and that because it's effectively limited to one day less than the lifetime of the Universe, it counts as "limited times."
The AMD logo is the default logo for newly submitted stories because it's the first on the list. If the first on the list were a blank space, it'd be easier to verify the form data: "Go back and pick something!"
Software can't be un-GPL'd
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remember a few weeks ago they relicensed [tux racer], it is now closed source and windows only.
Not necessarily. It's like ghostscript: the older versions are contributed back to the community. Even then, the community could work from the old GPL versions.
>That would be true if they were somehow leveraging their windows monopoly.
They are leveraging the revenue stream from their Windows monopoly.
>I don't see any connection between Windows and the X-box, though.
The operating system that comes on most XBox discs is based on the embedded version of Windows 2000.
>Because I use Windows, is there a reason I'd rather buy the X-box than the PlayStation?
Microsoft may introduce software for Windows XP that lets users play XBox games on a PC.
New N64 for $250 includes 60 games
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just how many games does it come with?
Define "game". If "a game" is not defined, this number is subject to manipulation: is "Tetris & Dr. Mario" for Super NES one game or two? Worse, the games "Mario Party 2" and "Mario Party 3" for Nintendo 64 each include about 64 minigames. This way, vendors can claim that a $100 N64 console with three extra $30 controllers and $60 Mario Party 3 "Comes with 64 games!"
In old times, if there had been a story without a #1 comment, or even #2 or #3, it would have been obvious something was deleted.
Slashdot very rarely deletes comments; it rarely has to. Most of the time what you see as deletion is really just moderation down to -1; please read the FAQ. The only time Slashdot deletes comments is when Score:-1 is not acceptable, such as when a copyright owner sends Slashdot's copyright agent a takedown notice.
The only thing in a patent that holds force of law is the list of claims. I'll excerpt here:
1. A purified preparation of pluripotent human embryonic stem cells which (i) will proliferate in an in vitro culture for over one year, (ii) maintains a karyotype in which the chromosomes are euploid and not altered through prolonged culture, (iii) maintains the potential to differentiate to derivatives of endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm tissues throughout the culture, and (iv) is inhibited from differentiation when cultured on a fibroblast feeder layer.
In other words, the only practical way to maintain a stem cell line.
9. A method of isolating a pluripotent human embryonic stem cell line, comprising the steps of isolating a human blastocyst; isolating cells from the inner cell mass of the blastocyte of (a); plating the inner cell mass cells on embryonic fibroblasts, wherein inner cell mass-derived cell masses are formed; dissociating the mass into dissociated cells; replating the dissociated cells on embryonic feeder cells; selecting colonies with compact morphologies and cells with high nucleus to cytoplasm ratios and prominent nucleoli; and culturing the cells of the selected colonies to thereby obtain an isolated pluripotent human embryonic stem cell line.
This method of getting at the stem cells looks pretty obvious to anyone who has ever studied the field.
I guess this patent will focus U.S. researchers on getting stem cells from other places.
You -can- do this. Right click on the link and choose "Save Target As."
What if the designer of the page has turned off right-click for that page? "Sorry, you're not allowed to right-click. However, this does not truly protect my copyright because anybody with wget can just go in and leech me."
You better not allow SBLive owners to take the test, as they can turn on What-U-Hear and record everything played through waveOut. In other words, you need a solution that goes through Windows's Secure Audio Path.
IE has always been more W3C HTML compliant then Netscrape.
More like "had always been." Mozilla 0.9.x, aka Netscape 6.1, does quite a bit more CSS than 4.x did. IE's CSS engine has a nasty problem: it inserts three extra pixels of whitespace on both sides of a floating object, even when its margin-left and margin-right are set to zero. This creates problems when creating cute little rounded corners on web pages, especially when CSS itself can only do one corner per box (fine for Slashdot's design but not for that of Misunderestimated).
Then how does Microsoft keep managing to get its way on the Mac platform? Answer: MS threatens to withdraw Office:mac.
Well guess what? ANYONE is free to write a desktop os for x86. The resources are there, and available
Wrong. You need documentation on the hardware interfaces, and many peripheral manufacturers have a policy of keeping hardware interfaces a trade secret.
This isn't like oil or the phone lines - microsoft doesn't have all the raw materials locked up.
Yes it is like the phone lines. Ever try to get a Linux driver out of a winmodem maker (Lucent LT drivers for linux 2.2 notwithstanding)? The "raw materials" in this case are the peripherals.
They just want to bust all these kids under the DMCA!
Can't. DMCA's anti-circumvention provision has two standards:
The circumvention must be unauthorized. If you have the authority to authorize something, and you encourage somebody to do it, it's no longer "unauthorized."
The measure must protect a work covered under copyright. Vote counts are facts, which cannot be copyrighted. By the way, this has implications for anybody who wants to put silent movies published before 1923[?] on DVD with CSS, as a single CSS encrypted public domain title would be justification for "this software is designed to decrypt public domain DVD content; use as directed." It could also get Sklyarov off the hook if a significant number of classic (i.e. pre-1923) books are published in eBook form.
why Phillips thinks that people will want one of these more than a Sony MDLP player/recorder?
Copying your existing MP3 files you downloaded from mp3.com or that you ripped from your CDs a while ago to a 3-inch CD-R is a lossless process. Decoding MP3 and encoding ATRAC isn't.
Business card CDs can hold up to about 55 MB of data or almost 40 minutes of CD-quality audio[1] encoded with a good MP3 encoder, making them very useful for distributing a demo "tape." This new player should be able to play them just fine.
[1]Yes, 192 kbps MP3 encoded with LAME is CD-quality if you consider CD-quality to mean "capable of profound fidelity over 0-20 kHz" or "transparent to the human ear vs. stereo 16 bit per channel linear PCM." See also R3mix.net's "encoding" section.
1. Make sure your ventilation ducts are too small to crawl through.
Ineffective if your enemy is allied with the borrowers[?].
7. Make sure your main computers have their own special operating system that will be completely incompatible with standard IBM and Macintosh powerbooks.
I might suggest OpenBSD. It's a nice server for servers and firewalls because if you don't know the password, it's incompatible with everything.
10. No matter how many shorts you have in the system, treat every surveillance camera malfunction as a full-scale emergency.
Bad idea because it would then open up a possible DoS: one of them will blow up the camera, which draws the guards away from the really valuable things.
12. Do not shoot at any of your co-workers if they are standing in front of the crucial support beam to a heavy, dangerous, unbalanced structure.
Better yet, hire some competent engineers <plug>who graduated from Rose-Hulman</plug> to design your structures, over-engineering them for safety.
18. Pad any data file of crucial importance to 1.45MB.
Won't help if your can get access to Apache or WinApache. Won't help if you can use dd to split files (a DOS dd fits on a floppy). Won't help if you can get access to a CD burner, as a 4x CD burner can burn 1.5 MB in five seconds (not counting ToC and closing the session).
Disney will probably join with the rest of the MPAA and lobby for a constitutional amendment that removes what "limited times" are still left in copyright law after the passage of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act[?].
Excess verbiage not only takes more time to type in, but more importantly, it opens more possibility for bugs.
So does barely readable "line-noise" such as sed code and uncommented Perl code. So does any code that doesn't have comments briefly describing what it does. Good code is largely self-documenting.
The goal is to write in the most abstract, most succinct possible way.
You mean like Mel[?]? You have to leave an opening for seq^H^H^Hrevisions to your code.
Actually, there was a successor to Forth called Fifth. Forth with OO extensions, IIRC.
Fith is a spoken language with a stack grammar. It's reported to be very hard for humans to speak in real time because humans seem to have a register architecture.
Anyone who really knows the origins of the language "C" knows that its successor should be called "P"
First, there was B. Then there was C. Then there was P, the first letter of the "plus" in C++. Then there was L, but it was really a backward J for Java.
who would argue that ASM was the most portable of any language, and he could cross-compile his project (with millions of lines of code) onto any new CPU
It's not as far-fetched as you may think. "Portable assembly" refers to mnemonic languages that represent a bytecode that can be recompiled into a CPU's native bytecode. For example, Jasmin is an assembler for JVM bytecode. The new Amiga OS comes with a virtual machine and an assembler for its bytecode. Heck, even x86 bytecode is beginning to be thought of as somewhat high-level; Transmeta's Crusoe processor dynamically recompiles ("Code-Morphs") x86 code into its own asm.
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Or even a VCR. Tape a PPV movie in the middle in the night
Most newer converter boxes (especially those for digital cable and satellite TV) will insert Macrovision brand copy protection into pay-per-view signals and (if you have a really possessive cable company) even plain old premium channels. Even though it's an analog technology, circumvention devices are still illegal, as Macrovision holds a patent on every straightforward method of removing the VBL burst and colorstripe distortion.
Wrong, you pay pennies on the dollar
"Pennies on the dollar" can mean 99 cents on the dollar.
for the production of the textbook, and the rest is royalties to the publisher and authors of the book.
You're assuming textbooks can't be released under the GNU Free Documentation License after their first printing. (Why use GNU FDL?) At least in the print industry, the publisher is less likely to take all rights from the author than it would in the record or movie industry.
If people realized that the abolition of copyright
I'm not necessarily for abolition of the copyright monopoly. I'm for restoring it to its original purpose: promoting the creation of new works. Retroactive copyright term extensions do NOT promote the creation of new works; most works make most of their money by far in the first 28 years. I'm also for full disclosure of the terms of any license (especially fair use restrictions) BEFORE the license is bought: "This DVD contains CSS encryption and may be played only on players licensed by DVD CCA. You may NOT copy the caption text. You may NOT grab frames. You may NOT back up the video or audio. You may NOT skip the Special Offers that precede the program."
removes or squeezes the profit motive out of [the entertainment industry], and that such action then reduces both the number of suppliers and the quality and quantity of what is produced, it no longer sounds like a Good Idea(TM)
Even if the monopoly were abolished, there would still be people who create for the fun of creating. The love of money should never be a fellow's primary motivation.
I can legally take a piece of BSD software, make binaries of it, and share the binaries with my neighbors.
I can legally take a piece of GPL software, make binaries of it, and share the binaries with my neighbors, offering in the README to sell them a CD of the source code for the price of media, duplication, and postage (GNU GPL section 3b).
What do you have to hide today?
this is why you PAY for an education
You're paying for the medium (textbooks) and support (professors).
this is why you PAY for software
When you buy a copy of Progeny (a version of Debian GNU/Linux), you're paying for the medium (CDs and books) and support.
newspapers, etc
You're paying for the medium (paper).
Yes, copyright is a government-granted monopoly. The United States Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8) recognizes copyright as existing "to promote the progress of science and useful arts." Anything else is not constitutional. But somehow, the courts think that perpetual copyright[?] "promote[s] the progress of science and useful arts" and that because it's effectively limited to one day less than the lifetime of the Universe, it counts as "limited times."
Games that seem to stimulate the mind either do it directly (chess, go)
And don't forget Tetanus! This falling tetramino game builds spatial skills and hand-eye coordination.
The AMD logo is the default logo for newly submitted stories because it's the first on the list. If the first on the list were a blank space, it'd be easier to verify the form data: "Go back and pick something!"
remember a few weeks ago they relicensed [tux racer], it is now closed source and windows only.
Not necessarily. It's like ghostscript: the older versions are contributed back to the community. Even then, the community could work from the old GPL versions.
>That would be true if they were somehow leveraging their windows monopoly.
They are leveraging the revenue stream from their Windows monopoly.
>I don't see any connection between Windows and the X-box, though.
The operating system that comes on most XBox discs is based on the embedded version of Windows 2000.
>Because I use Windows, is there a reason I'd rather buy the X-box than the PlayStation?
Microsoft may introduce software for Windows XP that lets users play XBox games on a PC.
just how many games does it come with?
Define "game". If "a game" is not defined, this number is subject to manipulation: is "Tetris & Dr. Mario" for Super NES one game or two? Worse, the games "Mario Party 2" and "Mario Party 3" for Nintendo 64 each include about 64 minigames. This way, vendors can claim that a $100 N64 console with three extra $30 controllers and $60 Mario Party 3 "Comes with 64 games!"
In old times, if there had been a story without a #1 comment, or even #2 or #3, it would have been obvious something was deleted.
Slashdot very rarely deletes comments; it rarely has to. Most of the time what you see as deletion is really just moderation down to -1; please read the FAQ. The only time Slashdot deletes comments is when Score:-1 is not acceptable, such as when a copyright owner sends Slashdot's copyright agent a takedown notice.
The only thing in a patent that holds force of law is the list of claims. I'll excerpt here:
In other words, the only practical way to maintain a stem cell line. This method of getting at the stem cells looks pretty obvious to anyone who has ever studied the field.I guess this patent will focus U.S. researchers on getting stem cells from other places.
You -can- do this. Right click on the link and choose "Save Target As."
What if the designer of the page has turned off right-click for that page? "Sorry, you're not allowed to right-click. However, this does not truly protect my copyright because anybody with wget can just go in and leech me."
to ensure the user can only hear the clip twice
You better not allow SBLive owners to take the test, as they can turn on What-U-Hear and record everything played through waveOut. In other words, you need a solution that goes through Windows's Secure Audio Path.
IE has always been more W3C HTML compliant then Netscrape.
More like "had always been." Mozilla 0.9.x, aka Netscape 6.1, does quite a bit more CSS than 4.x did. IE's CSS engine has a nasty problem: it inserts three extra pixels of whitespace on both sides of a floating object, even when its margin-left and margin-right are set to zero. This creates problems when creating cute little rounded corners on web pages, especially when CSS itself can only do one corner per box (fine for Slashdot's design but not for that of Misunderestimated).
They dont have any influence anymore on powerpc
Then how does Microsoft keep managing to get its way on the Mac platform? Answer: MS threatens to withdraw Office:mac.
Well guess what? ANYONE is free to write a desktop os for x86. The resources are there, and available
Wrong. You need documentation on the hardware interfaces, and many peripheral manufacturers have a policy of keeping hardware interfaces a trade secret.
This isn't like oil or the phone lines - microsoft doesn't have all the raw materials locked up.
Yes it is like the phone lines. Ever try to get a Linux driver out of a winmodem maker (Lucent LT drivers for linux 2.2 notwithstanding)? The "raw materials" in this case are the peripherals.
They just want to bust all these kids under the DMCA!
Can't. DMCA's anti-circumvention provision has two standards:- The circumvention must be unauthorized. If you have the authority to authorize something, and you encourage somebody to do it, it's no longer "unauthorized."
- The measure must protect a work covered under copyright. Vote counts are facts, which cannot be copyrighted. By the way, this has implications for anybody who wants to put silent movies published before 1923[?] on DVD with CSS, as a single CSS encrypted public domain title would be justification for "this software is designed to decrypt public domain DVD content; use as directed." It could also get Sklyarov off the hook if a significant number of classic (i.e. pre-1923) books are published in eBook form.
If you want legal advice, talk to your attorney.why Phillips thinks that people will want one of these more than a Sony MDLP player/recorder?
Copying your existing MP3 files you downloaded from mp3.com or that you ripped from your CDs a while ago to a 3-inch CD-R is a lossless process. Decoding MP3 and encoding ATRAC isn't.
Business card CDs can hold up to about 55 MB of data or almost 40 minutes of CD-quality audio[1] encoded with a good MP3 encoder, making them very useful for distributing a demo "tape." This new player should be able to play them just fine.
[1]Yes, 192 kbps MP3 encoded with LAME is CD-quality if you consider CD-quality to mean "capable of profound fidelity over 0-20 kHz" or "transparent to the human ear vs. stereo 16 bit per channel linear PCM." See also R3mix.net's "encoding" section.
1. Make sure your ventilation ducts are too small to crawl through.
Ineffective if your enemy is allied with the borrowers[?].
7. Make sure your main computers have their own special operating system that will be completely incompatible with standard IBM and Macintosh powerbooks.
I might suggest OpenBSD. It's a nice server for servers and firewalls because if you don't know the password, it's incompatible with everything.
10. No matter how many shorts you have in the system, treat every surveillance camera malfunction as a full-scale emergency.
Bad idea because it would then open up a possible DoS: one of them will blow up the camera, which draws the guards away from the really valuable things.
12. Do not shoot at any of your co-workers if they are standing in front of the crucial support beam to a heavy, dangerous, unbalanced structure.
Better yet, hire some competent engineers <plug>who graduated from Rose-Hulman</plug> to design your structures, over-engineering them for safety.
18. Pad any data file of crucial importance to 1.45MB.
Won't help if your can get access to Apache or WinApache. Won't help if you can use dd to split files (a DOS dd fits on a floppy). Won't help if you can get access to a CD burner, as a 4x CD burner can burn 1.5 MB in five seconds (not counting ToC and closing the session).
If your web server is named Banjo, is your database server named Kazooie?
And what will Disney do with all three of them?
Disney will probably join with the rest of the MPAA and lobby for a constitutional amendment that removes what "limited times" are still left in copyright law after the passage of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act[?].
Excess verbiage not only takes more time to type in, but more importantly, it opens more possibility for bugs.
So does barely readable "line-noise" such as sed code and uncommented Perl code. So does any code that doesn't have comments briefly describing what it does. Good code is largely self-documenting.
The goal is to write in the most abstract, most succinct possible way.
You mean like Mel[?]? You have to leave an opening for seq^H^H^Hrevisions to your code.
Actually, there was a successor to Forth called Fifth. Forth with OO extensions, IIRC.
Fith is a spoken language with a stack grammar. It's reported to be very hard for humans to speak in real time because humans seem to have a register architecture.
The true successor to forth is PostScript.
Anyone who really knows the origins of the language "C" knows that its successor should be called "P"
First, there was B. Then there was C. Then there was P, the first letter of the "plus" in C++. Then there was L, but it was really a backward J for Java.
who would argue that ASM was the most portable of any language, and he could cross-compile his project (with millions of lines of code) onto any new CPU
It's not as far-fetched as you may think. "Portable assembly" refers to mnemonic languages that represent a bytecode that can be recompiled into a CPU's native bytecode. For example, Jasmin is an assembler for JVM bytecode. The new Amiga OS comes with a virtual machine and an assembler for its bytecode. Heck, even x86 bytecode is beginning to be thought of as somewhat high-level; Transmeta's Crusoe processor dynamically recompiles ("Code-Morphs") x86 code into its own asm.