I'm not sure about DSL, but this is the same Thomson that owns RCA, GE, and the U.S. rights to the MP3 patents. Boycott Thomson's new "Stupid Card" project and support the Ogg codec projects instead.
Finding software for the MAC is a pain in the ass.
Mac OS X has four application subsystems: Classic, Carbon, Cocoa, and POSIX + X11. Programs that run in POSIX + XonX see the Mac as a mixed FreeBSD/NetBSD box running an X11 server. You can find almost any POSIX + X11 app you need at OSDN Freshmeat.
Not only that but a regular desktop user isn't going to be needing apache so there is no point in turning it on
How else are you supposed to share files? Email is out because your ISP says the files are too large to fit in attachments. NFS, SMB, etc. are out because they're platform specific and don't work across dial-up. That's why I run Apache on my Linux box and WinApache on my Windows ME box, so that I can send files to users on other IM services.
And yes if a newbie wants his own webserver and wants to use Apache he or she must learn it just like any other software program.
Except "any other software program" the user is likely to encounter on a Macintosh computer has GUI configuration.
I would assume that there's a command for that
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If it's staying in memory, how does one get it to unload (cleanly without killing it in taskmgr)?
I would assume that there's some sort of menu command to Unload Mozilla. Or the turbo mode puts up a systray icon (like Napster does) when you close the last window; clicking the icon puts up a menu with "Quit" as one of the choices.
I expect this will be just one more obnoxious automatic feature I'd spend 30 minutes trying to find how to disable
In IE 5.5, you can disable most unwanted "features" by choosing Tools | Options... and clicking the Advanced tab. You'll find checkboxes for lots of features that are on by default, and many that are off by default. This new feature will be off by default anyway.
navigation is a critical part of web content - critical enough that browser companies should not tweak with it. they should let web site owners decide what type of navigation they want to put in their pages.
Not necessarily. For instance, many sites disable browsers' contextual menus to keep users from making fair use of images or to keep users from opening new windows, locking them in a frame jail. Users should have the final choice whether to allow these new links, not browser makers or webmasters.
but are the listings copyrighted material? If not, isn't that a requirement
The listings may be copyright the TV networks. But even if the listings may not be copyrighted, other parts of the protocol may be. For example, there may be a big piece of copyrighted data passed around (like the Dreamcast IP.bin's license screen code) that must match a copy in ROM bit-for-bit. Or a hash of some copyrighted data may be involved (see also GAIM troubles). Either way, you have copyright + access control + circumvention == DMCA violation.
I'd be interested in reading the legal definition of "effective", in re access control.
The DMCA (17 USC 1201) defines an effective access control as one that, "in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work."
Obviously, eight bit is far from effective
DigitalConvergence doesn't seem to think so. DC cease and desisted somebody who cracked the CueCat barcode reader's third-grade 8-bit XOR encryption.
That would mean that the Tivo itself is illegal under the DMCA, since it "decripts" a video signal
Decryption brings the DMCA into play only if the decryption involves an "effective access control," that is, an 8-bit or longer key. An unscrambled analog signal enters the TiVo unit, and an unscrambled analog signal leaves. The TiVo system circumvents no access control at any point during its normal operation.
My original point refers to the decryption of a digital stream. In the eyes of the law (ignoring for a moment constitutionality and other aspects of "good law"; to some politicians, any law lobbied for with dollars spent on products for which Americans voted with their wallets counts as good law), digital + decryption + key + no specific contract with copyright owner == DMCA violation.
Besides, with digital TV/HDTV you really do want to get the original MPEG2 stream... Any set-top boxers/satellite recievers with firewire out
No. The transmissions are encrypted, and manufacturing a device producing cleartext digital output and marketing it to United States customers would violate DMCA. Sorry.
If the unit is not calling, its clock is potentially hours or days off, as there is NO menu option to set the clock without calling TiVo's servers. Read the longer thread.
Heck, we could even get the listings from the net and provide those too. Reverse engineer the protocol and enable whatever features you want!;).
No. If you try to reverse engineer them but find out that the protocol is encrypted, you just violated the DMCA because you published your results on a site accessible to United States viewers. Sorry.
Lucas created it; Lucas controls it.
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Whether he realizes it or not, Dibbell is right to point out that Tokien, along with Lucas and a host of others who worked their way into the popular culture, has specified the architecture for the imagination-space of our culture
And if they don't allow us the benefit of generous fair use (including transformative use), then that means Tolkien's estate or Lucasfilm could pull the entire structure out from under us at any second. Just look at what Paramount has been doing to Trek fan pages with all the damage the monopolists have been doing to the concepts of "fair use" (DMCA) and "public domain" (copyright extensions that keep even "Happy Birthday" under AOL Time Warner's exclusive control).
This is how I "encrypt" my email address to hide it from spam robots when posting on the web. To bad GIF and JPEG can't do 2d-block compression or the size could be kept pretty small.
PNG's interlace system amounts to compression on 2D blocks if you render the text in an 8x8 or 8x16 monospaced font.
the external server generates the corresponding GIF
What bothers me most about the Open Directory license is that the requirement to keep checking back home makes the license to use a specific version of the data non-perpetual and makes the license not a free documentation license.
Linux 2.4 supports more commodity workstation hardware. I'm not saying it's better, but I'm saying that a fellow may not get FreeBSD or NetBSD to even boot on systems with a relatively new proprietary chipset, a proprietary video card, a proprietary sound card, a proprietary network card, proprietary assistive input devices, etc. For some reason, the Linux developers are having more luck at squeezing either specs or binary kernel modules out of the hardware manufacturers.
Of course, FreeBSD has its features too, especially server-side.
Perhaps not, but there is such a creature as "Extended ASCII".
Say not "extended ASCII" or "high ASCII" but "ISO-8859-1" or "ISO Latin-1." Latin-1 happens to use the same characters at codepoints 00 to 7f as ASCII, but that of itself does not make it ASCII. Unicode uses the same characters at codepoints U+0000 to U+00FF as Latin-1, but...
Supporting UTF-8 variable names as an extension to C and to C++ would not break any standard because, by definition of UTF-8, any valid ASCII string equals its UTF-8 representation.
english will be the standard
Programming languages use English as the standard for keywords because more programming language designers can speak English than any other language.
The complex Chinese character used for legal documents, cheques (when not in English), etc
The Chinese character used in markets
So then, are they the same, or not? The answer is NO.
Unicode would distinguish among these four forms because they are distinct characters, but it would not distinguish among similar forms of the SAME character. Unicode does not distinguish sans-serif from roman from italic from fraktur from monospace; that's the job of the stylesheet.
To answer another common objection: When two characters look the same but are not the same, they are assigned separate codespaces. For instance, Latin capital letter A, Greek capital letter Alpha, and the Cyrillic equivalent look exactly the same. Chinese 'yi' (one) is the same character with the same origin as Japanese 'ichi' (one), but it is not the same character as hyphen is not the same character as em-dash.
Likewise, in Unicode, English, German, and Finnish all share the same codepoints and glyphs, so you can't grep for one language or another without using META headers or something similar.
For instance, if you were searching in English for "gift", this string in Unicode would be the same as the German characters for "poison" (Gift), so your search would get hits from other latin-based languages in addition to English.
It's difficult even to sort Unicode correctly without choosing some language or another, due to this overlap of characters. "Alphabetical order" is a bit different for the different European languages, even though they use the same characters.
if someone tried to remove redundancies from the English language such as pork and ham, or argue and dispute
C. K. Ogden once did just this, reducing the English vocabulary to a set of 850 basic English words, but the result has (some foreigners claim too many) idiosyncratic idioms and turns of phrase.
Old English, by the way, did have more letters than are found from modern english ("thorn" letter for "th", and couple of others).
The letter thorn looks like (U+00DE; Alt+0222; capital) or (U+00FE; Alt+0254; lowercase).
Thus, "Ye olde..." is a kind of a typo; the first letter wasn't Y, but was close enough visually that it started at some point to be thought to be Y...
Except DisneyCo (famous for buying bad legislation) actually does the opposite: using instead of y in the corporate logo.
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I'm not sure about DSL, but this is the same Thomson that owns RCA, GE, and the U.S. rights to the MP3 patents. Boycott Thomson's new "Stupid Card" project and support the Ogg codec projects instead.
Finding software for the MAC is a pain in the ass.
Mac OS X has four application subsystems: Classic, Carbon, Cocoa, and POSIX + X11. Programs that run in POSIX + XonX see the Mac as a mixed FreeBSD/NetBSD box running an X11 server. You can find almost any POSIX + X11 app you need at OSDN Freshmeat.
Not only that but a regular desktop user isn't going to be needing apache so there is no point in turning it on
How else are you supposed to share files? Email is out because your ISP says the files are too large to fit in attachments. NFS, SMB, etc. are out because they're platform specific and don't work across dial-up. That's why I run Apache on my Linux box and WinApache on my Windows ME box, so that I can send files to users on other IM services.
And yes if a newbie wants his own webserver and wants to use Apache he or she must learn it just like any other software program.
Except "any other software program" the user is likely to encounter on a Macintosh computer has GUI configuration.
If it's staying in memory, how does one get it to unload (cleanly without killing it in taskmgr)?
I would assume that there's some sort of menu command to Unload Mozilla. Or the turbo mode puts up a systray icon (like Napster does) when you close the last window; clicking the icon puts up a menu with "Quit" as one of the choices.
I expect this will be just one more obnoxious automatic feature I'd spend 30 minutes trying to find how to disable
In IE 5.5, you can disable most unwanted "features" by choosing Tools | Options... and clicking the Advanced tab. You'll find checkboxes for lots of features that are on by default, and many that are off by default. This new feature will be off by default anyway.
If proper hyperlinking of article text hadn't become the forgotten point of the Internet,
It hasn't. You just haven't been looking at the right web sites. Everything2.com is linked profusely. Try it; you might like it.
(See what I've written on E2)
navigation is a critical part of web content - critical enough that browser companies should not tweak with it. they should let web site owners decide what type of navigation they want to put in their pages.
Not necessarily. For instance, many sites disable browsers' contextual menus to keep users from making fair use of images or to keep users from opening new windows, locking them in a frame jail. Users should have the final choice whether to allow these new links, not browser makers or webmasters.
How exactly is this suit "against U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft"?
Read the filing. Rights advocates often sue the the Attorney General in order to overturn a bad law; see also the case formerly known as Eldred v. Reno , which seeks to overturn the Sonny Bono Effectively Perpetual Copyright Act.
It's not illegal if if it's licensed by the company (DirectTV) that encrypts the signal.
It's also DirecTV's right to refuse to license any decryption that produces a cleartext digital output.
but are the listings copyrighted material? If not, isn't that a requirement
The listings may be copyright the TV networks. But even if the listings may not be copyrighted, other parts of the protocol may be. For example, there may be a big piece of copyrighted data passed around (like the Dreamcast IP.bin's license screen code) that must match a copy in ROM bit-for-bit. Or a hash of some copyrighted data may be involved (see also GAIM troubles). Either way, you have copyright + access control + circumvention == DMCA violation.
I'd be interested in reading the legal definition of "effective", in re access control.
The DMCA (17 USC 1201) defines an effective access control as one that, "in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work."
Obviously, eight bit is far from effective
DigitalConvergence doesn't seem to think so. DC cease and desisted somebody who cracked the CueCat barcode reader's third-grade 8-bit XOR encryption.
That would mean that the Tivo itself is illegal under the DMCA, since it "decripts" a video signal
Decryption brings the DMCA into play only if the decryption involves an "effective access control," that is, an 8-bit or longer key. An unscrambled analog signal enters the TiVo unit, and an unscrambled analog signal leaves. The TiVo system circumvents no access control at any point during its normal operation.
My original point refers to the decryption of a digital stream. In the eyes of the law (ignoring for a moment constitutionality and other aspects of "good law"; to some politicians, any law lobbied for with dollars spent on products for which Americans voted with their wallets counts as good law), digital + decryption + key + no specific contract with copyright owner == DMCA violation.
Besides, with digital TV/HDTV you really do want to get the original MPEG2 stream ... Any set-top boxers/satellite recievers with firewire out
No. The transmissions are encrypted, and manufacturing a device producing cleartext digital output and marketing it to United States customers would violate DMCA. Sorry.
If the unit is unsubbed, it's not calling
If the unit is not calling, its clock is potentially hours or days off, as there is NO menu option to set the clock without calling TiVo's servers. Read the longer thread.
Heck, we could even get the listings from the net and provide those too. Reverse engineer the protocol and enable whatever features you want! ;).
No. If you try to reverse engineer them but find out that the protocol is encrypted, you just violated the DMCA because you published your results on a site accessible to United States viewers. Sorry.
Whether he realizes it or not, Dibbell is right to point out that Tokien, along with Lucas and a host of others who worked their way into the popular culture, has specified the architecture for the imagination-space of our culture
And if they don't allow us the benefit of generous fair use (including transformative use), then that means Tolkien's estate or Lucasfilm could pull the entire structure out from under us at any second. Just look at what Paramount has been doing to Trek fan pages with all the damage the monopolists have been doing to the concepts of "fair use" (DMCA) and "public domain" (copyright extensions that keep even "Happy Birthday" under AOL Time Warner's exclusive control).
This is how I "encrypt" my email address to hide it from spam robots when posting on the web. To bad GIF and JPEG can't do 2d-block compression or the size could be kept pretty small.
PNG's interlace system amounts to compression on 2D blocks if you render the text in an 8x8 or 8x16 monospaced font.
the external server generates the corresponding GIF
Only if you're a big corporation, as GIF is patented.
Also you can prevent them from copying it to some degree
This also promotes bad netiquette by preventing them from quoting you in their replies.
Virtually every license I've ever read has stated "Subject to change without notice".
Including the GNU General Public License, but not including the BSD license, the X license, or the zlib license.
What bothers me most about the Open Directory license is that the requirement to keep checking back home makes the license to use a specific version of the data non-perpetual and makes the license not a free documentation license.
anyway, FreeBSD kicks all your arses ;-)
Linux 2.4 supports more commodity workstation hardware. I'm not saying it's better, but I'm saying that a fellow may not get FreeBSD or NetBSD to even boot on systems with a relatively new proprietary chipset, a proprietary video card, a proprietary sound card, a proprietary network card, proprietary assistive input devices, etc. For some reason, the Linux developers are having more luck at squeezing either specs or binary kernel modules out of the hardware manufacturers.
Of course, FreeBSD has its features too, especially server-side.
Perhaps not, but there is such a creature as "Extended ASCII".
Say not "extended ASCII" or "high ASCII" but "ISO-8859-1" or "ISO Latin-1." Latin-1 happens to use the same characters at codepoints 00 to 7f as ASCII, but that of itself does not make it ASCII. Unicode uses the same characters at codepoints U+0000 to U+00FF as Latin-1, but...
As long as C programs have to be written in ASCII
Supporting UTF-8 variable names as an extension to C and to C++ would not break any standard because, by definition of UTF-8, any valid ASCII string equals its UTF-8 representation.
english will be the standard
Programming languages use English as the standard for keywords because more programming language designers can speak English than any other language.
Limit use of 'to be' verbs to add power to your English.
Looks like you've just stuffed yourself...
The point of the transformations hard c -> k and soft c -> s is to free the letter 'c' to stand uniquely for the 'tsh' sound of church and Medici.
So then, are they the same, or not? The answer is NO.
Unicode would distinguish among these four forms because they are distinct characters, but it would not distinguish among similar forms of the SAME character. Unicode does not distinguish sans-serif from roman from italic from fraktur from monospace; that's the job of the stylesheet.
To answer another common objection: When two characters look the same but are not the same, they are assigned separate codespaces. For instance, Latin capital letter A, Greek capital letter Alpha, and the Cyrillic equivalent look exactly the same. Chinese 'yi' (one) is the same character with the same origin as Japanese 'ichi' (one), but it is not the same character as hyphen is not the same character as em-dash.
Likewise, in Unicode, English, German, and Finnish all share the same codepoints and glyphs, so you can't grep for one language or another without using META headers or something similar.
For instance, if you were searching in English for "gift", this string in Unicode would be the same as the German characters for "poison" (Gift), so your search would get hits from other latin-based languages in addition to English.
It's difficult even to sort Unicode correctly without choosing some language or another, due to this overlap of characters. "Alphabetical order" is a bit different for the different European languages, even though they use the same characters.
Translation: Language collision can be avoided by exact phrase matching ("perpetual copyright" wouldn't return many matches for non-English documents) and specifying the natural language of a document either in the document or in the headers.
if someone tried to remove redundancies from the English language such as pork and ham, or argue and dispute
C. K. Ogden once did just this, reducing the English vocabulary to a set of 850 basic English words, but the result has (some foreigners claim too many) idiosyncratic idioms and turns of phrase.
The letter thorn looks like (U+00DE; Alt+0222; capital) or (U+00FE; Alt+0254; lowercase).
Thus, "Ye olde ..." is a kind of a typo; the first letter wasn't Y, but was close enough visually that it started at some point to be thought to be Y...
Except DisneyCo (famous for buying bad legislation) actually does the opposite: using instead of y in the corporate logo.