If Windows is the insecure POS it is, use something else.
Then why do 99 percent of the hardware devices on the shelves of the computer sections of Best Buy stores list "Insecure POS" in the system requirements?
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As a songwriter, it was a good place to park tunes and have folks listen to them.
One problem: What if "folks" include has-been songwriters from the 1950s and 1960s who sue people like you, alleging plagiarism? "No, I never heard it" is not a defense because if you have overheard it at least once on the radio or on some department store's elevator music, you are considered to have had "access" to the work.
Do you really think that Bugs Bunny's company (CNN parent Time Warner) could buy out Mickey Mouse's company (ABC parent Disney) or vice versa? Not within the next Life Plus 70.
they'll licence a perpetual, non-revokable right to rent it
Most DVD movies go on "sale" to end consumers on the day they're first released for "rental." The studios will have a h**k of a time trying to get Best Buy, Wal*Mart, and other large chains to adapt their systems to handle 95-year rentals rather than sales.
What if it is MY prerelease for MY movie that I'm trying to get into the hands of critics so that it sees the light of day despite my not being part and parcel of the MPAA?
Easy. I'm assuming that, like other laws relating to copyright in unpublished works, the bill under discussion limits the crime's definition to actions performed "without the authority of the owner of copyright in the work." If it's "your" movie, then you are either the copyright owner or under contract with the copyright owner.
So that theater showings, TV showings, DVD rentals all do not count?
Public performances (such as theatrical and TV release) do not count as "publication" under copyright law as Americans know it, but the studio sells VHS and DVD copies of films to rental stores.
I think it was more a failure not to have a Zelda or Mario title available for launch
Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser, Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf are playable characters in the launch title Super Smash Bros. Melee. Everybody raise your hand if you bought a Cube for Melee.
Then what do you do when you want to switch from the Xbox to your Super NES, N64, Dreamcast, PS2, GameCube, or VHS player? My solution is a $20 five-input A/V switch from Pelican Accessories. It even has a built-in RF modulator/switch for older TV sets.
There are plenty of parents out there without enough money to get their kid a dvd player and a console.
Xbox plus DVD player software: $210.
PS2, with DVD player in BIOS: $180.
GameCube plus separate Apex DVD player: $160.
Not having to give up your GameCube when somebody else in the house wants to watch all three The Lord of the Rings directors' cuts straight through: Priceless.
There are plenty of things coins can't buy. For everything else, there's WarioCard.
The Xbox console cannot play DVD movies out of the box; that's a $30 attachment, where most of the money goes to MPEG-LA, Dolby, DVD CCA, Macrovision, and other holders of DVD-related patents and trade secrets.
it seems like you would have access to the cameras private key and ritzs public key
How? Neither key can be deduced from the other without brute force, and the relevant keys together with crypto hardware can be hidden in a tamper-proof chip (see also TCPA).
you can always hack the firmware / hardware to just skip all that crap
The firmware is Flash this time, but the next version might be a mask ROM, whose contents cannot be changed.
since the data is obviously unencrypted and digital at somepoint
Unless the encryption happens on the same die as the image sensor, in which case "somepoint" is not accessible to those with macro-scale logic probes.
From Windows on the source side, erase all unused space on the drive. For example, use `dd' compiled for Cygwin to copy/dev/zero to a normal file until it fails from disk full.
From Knoppix on the destination side, pipe netcat through gunzip to a partition.
From Knoppix on the source side, pipe a partition through 'gzip -1' to netcat.
Use of gzip will 1. provide another layer of error detection (no, link-level and TCP-level error detection are often not enough) and 2. not waste time sending repetitive data such as zeroed-out tracks.
It is fundamentally dishonest to be talking about desktop linux and then focus on the terms for the Enterprise Server version when it comes to RedHat.
True, but is it "fundamentally dishonest" to discuss the EULA for Red Hat Professional Workstation (part of the RHEL family) in the context of desktop GNU/Linux OS distributions?
This is the biggie. Where's the Linux based graphical program that makes a.swf (Flash object) document? Where's the Linux based graphical program that makes a.mid (Standard MIDI file) document?
There must be the option of a graphical interface around every feature exposed to the user of a desktop-oriented OS distribution. For example, get CD recording to the point where the user can right-click a folder, choose "Record to CD", and pick options in a dialog box, and then mkisofs and cdrecord run automatically, and grandparent will be happy.
The Open Source Initiative doesn't seem to maintain software as such, but its president does. I count at least a couple dozen apps by Mr. Raymond alone; the web pages of other board members show their contributions. Notably, Michael Tiemann wrote G++, and Guido van Rossum wrote Python.
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Now, not only is he a moron but he himself broke the law by even downloading kidpix.
The only way that one would possibly break a U.S. federal law by downloading Kid Pix is possibly by infringing Broderbund's copyright therein.
The /. journal entry I linked to mentions at least Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs .
If Windows is the insecure POS it is, use something else.
Then why do 99 percent of the hardware devices on the shelves of the computer sections of Best Buy stores list "Insecure POS" in the system requirements?
As a songwriter, it was a good place to park tunes and have folks listen to them.
One problem: What if "folks" include has-been songwriters from the 1950s and 1960s who sue people like you, alleging plagiarism? "No, I never heard it" is not a defense because if you have overheard it at least once on the radio or on some department store's elevator music, you are considered to have had "access" to the work.
Faux News is the foe of the left.
Do you really think that Bugs Bunny's company (CNN parent Time Warner) could buy out Mickey Mouse's company (ABC parent Disney) or vice versa? Not within the next Life Plus 70.
I thought "SPIM" was a PC program that simulates a generic MIPS architecture processor, used in computer architecture courses in computer science and computer engineering curricula.
they'll licence a perpetual, non-revokable right to rent it
Most DVD movies go on "sale" to end consumers on the day they're first released for "rental." The studios will have a h**k of a time trying to get Best Buy, Wal*Mart, and other large chains to adapt their systems to handle 95-year rentals rather than sales.
What if it is MY prerelease for MY movie that I'm trying to get into the hands of critics so that it sees the light of day despite my not being part and parcel of the MPAA?
Easy. I'm assuming that, like other laws relating to copyright in unpublished works, the bill under discussion limits the crime's definition to actions performed "without the authority of the owner of copyright in the work." If it's "your" movie, then you are either the copyright owner or under contract with the copyright owner.
So that theater showings, TV showings, DVD rentals all do not count?
Public performances (such as theatrical and TV release) do not count as "publication" under copyright law as Americans know it, but the studio sells VHS and DVD copies of films to rental stores.
What I've seen of Super Monkey Ball Jr. is not 3D acceleration at all. It's software 3D in 120x80 pixels; notice the flat shading.
Or more importantly it isn't compatible with any GB/GBA games.
Doesn't a Game Boy emulator already run on GP32? And they're working on porting VisualBoyAdvance, a GPL'd GBA emulator.
I think it was more a failure not to have a Zelda or Mario title available for launch
Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser, Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf are playable characters in the launch title Super Smash Bros. Melee. Everybody raise your hand if you bought a Cube for Melee.
(At least yerricde's hand goes up.)
Then what do you do when you want to switch from the Xbox to your Super NES, N64, Dreamcast, PS2, GameCube, or VHS player? My solution is a $20 five-input A/V switch from Pelican Accessories. It even has a built-in RF modulator/switch for older TV sets.
There are plenty of parents out there without enough money to get their kid a dvd player and a console.
There are plenty of things coins can't buy. For everything else, there's WarioCard.
The Xbox console cannot play DVD movies out of the box; that's a $30 attachment, where most of the money goes to MPEG-LA, Dolby, DVD CCA, Macrovision, and other holders of DVD-related patents and trade secrets.
Typically, public-key crypto isn't done on arbitrary-length messages; instead, it's done on short symmetric-cipher keys of fixed length.
it seems like you would have access to the cameras private key and ritzs public key
How? Neither key can be deduced from the other without brute force, and the relevant keys together with crypto hardware can be hidden in a tamper-proof chip (see also TCPA).
you can always hack the firmware / hardware to just skip all that crap
The firmware is Flash this time, but the next version might be a mask ROM, whose contents cannot be changed.
since the data is obviously unencrypted and digital at somepoint
Unless the encryption happens on the same die as the image sensor, in which case "somepoint" is not accessible to those with macro-scale logic probes.
Moral: Rotate your backup tapes, and test every nth backup (where 3
Use of gzip will 1. provide another layer of error detection (no, link-level and TCP-level error detection are often not enough) and 2. not waste time sending repetitive data such as zeroed-out tracks.
It is fundamentally dishonest to be talking about desktop linux and then focus on the terms for the Enterprise Server version when it comes to RedHat.
True, but is it "fundamentally dishonest" to discuss the EULA for Red Hat Professional Workstation (part of the RHEL family) in the context of desktop GNU/Linux OS distributions?
make documents
This is the biggie. Where's the Linux based graphical program that makes a .swf (Flash object) document? Where's the Linux based graphical program that makes a .mid (Standard MIDI file) document?
You must mean graphical interfaces.
There must be the option of a graphical interface around every feature exposed to the user of a desktop-oriented OS distribution. For example, get CD recording to the point where the user can right-click a folder, choose "Record to CD", and pick options in a dialog box, and then mkisofs and cdrecord run automatically, and grandparent will be happy.
Skip step 2
Nobody wants to.
Oh, and instead of ctrl-v being the paste operation, middle-button on the mouse is (or a 2-button chord, for those without a third button).
A common GUI idiom on Mac and Windows is select, copy, select, paste, where the pasted text replaces the selected text.
There are clipboard programs which will allow you to manage many different "cuttings"
Has the X clipboard system matured to where the user can copy rich text, spreadsheet cells, images, or audio and have everything Just Work?
How many software packages does the OSI provide?
The Open Source Initiative doesn't seem to maintain software as such, but its president does. I count at least a couple dozen apps by Mr. Raymond alone; the web pages of other board members show their contributions. Notably, Michael Tiemann wrote G++, and Guido van Rossum wrote Python.