The text appears to be written in a Brahmi descended script, namely Bengali. Such scripts are used widely in India and surrounding areas, where the predominant religion is Hinduism rather than Islam.
Any machine you can get physical access to is insecure.
Not all physical access is the same. Many demo machines in stores are left in screensaver mode, so that they show the computer is "doing something" without allowing users to write dirty messages in Notepad (or whatever Apple calls its version; I haven't used a Mac since Mac OS 8.1, when it was called "SimpleText"). It's easy to interact with the keyboard of a floor model, but it's often not feasible to turn off the machine and insert a boot disk, and it's definitely impossible to open the machine's case without getting caught, kicked out of the store, and possibly arrested for attempted vandalism.
A speedy internet connection and tons of computers wouldn't be needed to print out documents from Gutenberg.
It still costs money to turn downloaded digital copies of works into printed copies for 100 students in a grade level.
they would realize that it would be cheaper in the longrun to get texts off Gutenberg, instead of buying pre-bound books elsewhere.
Public domain etexts, such as those offered by Project Gutenberg, would be useful in schools only under limited circumstances. Though they would be useful in literature classes in high school (and possibly middle school), forget about them in elementary school, where most books are illustrated, because most PG editions leave out illustrations. Forget about them in science classes as well; the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica contains outdated views of anything scientific, and anything significantly newer is tied up forever in the Bono Act and its obligatory sequels. And what keeps a publisher from tying purchases of its science books to purchases of its literature books?
The law specifically says you can not distribute a work that is copyrighted without the copyright holders permission.
True, 17 USC 106 says that, but it limits itself "Subject to sections 107 through 121", such as 17 USC 109:
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106(3), the owner of a particular copy or phonorecord lawfully made under this title, or any person authorized by such owner, is entitled, without the authority of the copyright owner, to sell or otherwise dispose of the possession of that copy or phonorecord.
fair use laws, but the DMCA removed most of those
From the DMCA: "Nothing in this section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to copyright infringement, including fair use, under this title."
Once someone digs the key out of the hardware, or finds any other vulnerability, then they own their system. They can run an undetectable virtualized system.
Undetectable? Bulldroppings. Virtualization requires memory, and a commercial virtualizer such as VMware or Virtual PC typically emulates a system with half as much RAM as the host. Xbox games expect to see all 64 MB of RAM on the Xbox, and they expect to see all of it in real time (that is, without swapping).
And even if you are convicted of some sort of made up IP crime, you can always take the matter to the European Court of Human Rights, which pretty much always finds for the individual, because the EU Convention on Human Rights is a very broad and generous document.
If the EU Convention on Human Rights is anything like the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it includes something about copyright. Article 27 of the UDHR guarantees at least some semblance of copyright to adhering nations.
"112Dbl" is a typo for "112 dB SPL", or 112 decibels sound pressure level. This means that the sound has 10^11.2 times as much power as the quietest detectable sound.
most places are banning cellphones that have cameras because you don't know that you are being photographed.
From what I've read of those bans, any digital camera that produces noise when the picture is fixed, whether built into a phone or not, is exempt from such bans on silent phones.
Tetris was a seperate licensing issue. Two groups thought they had the license. Tengen made a version of Tetris that nintendo later got pulled from the shelves. It's a shame, as Tengen's version was better than Nintendo's.
The Tetris licensing issue popped up again later, but as The Tetris Company's claims of copyright were picked apart by armchair jurists, it was discovered that The Tetris Company had only the trademark on "TETRIS" to protect it. Tengen would probably have won the Tetris case (but not the lockout chip case) had it named its product something dissimilar to TETRIS®.
the folks at Tengen had a look at the patent, and figured out how to make a chip that would allow their games to work in the NES without paying for the license. Tengen lost the case because it was not a clean room reverse engineering with virgins and all that, but based on actual knowledge of the technical details of Nintendo's patent.
Wrong. The Atari Games v. Nintendo case was a fraud case. Tengen (Atari Games's console division) defrauded the Copyright Office to obtain information beyond what was published in the patent, namely the source code of the "10NES" program on the lockout chips. The court tossed out the fair use defense because of Tengen's dirty hands.
What percent of shared files are not available by paying for them ?
Ninety-eight percent of copyrighted works over x years old have fallen Out Of Print, if one is to believe the dissenting opinions in the Supreme Court phase of Eldred v. Ashcroft.
If you're going to be printing a lot, just pick up a used business-class printer. A decent laserjet isn't that expensive off of eBay.
What would you recommend for somebody who is going to be printing a lot of color? Last time I checked, color laser printers were priced well into four figures USD. Have they come down in price since then?
I used to recommend Canon for precisely the reasons you stated until I learned that Canon does not make its printer hardware interfaces available to developers of printer drivers for Free operating systems.
But what you can't do on your spiffy new PC is to play the console games that you can on your modded Xbox.
On a PC with similar specs to the Xbox (plus a PlayStation controller and a PS->PC adapter such as the EMS USB2, which handles two controllers), I can play dumps of at least all my NES, Game Boy, Super NES, and GBA games. There are more NES and Super NES games in my neighbor's collection than Xbox-exclusive titles in existence.
So with a modded Xbox, you get... a multimedia system (especially if you buy the remote)
Multi? It's just a DVD player. It can't play DivX, VCD, or Flash movies without a mod chip.
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Apple brought us those fruity iMac's, why not have the "Yellow Screen `O Death" or "Green Screen `O Death" for once?
Want a green screen of death? Have it!
The text appears to be written in a Brahmi descended script, namely Bengali. Such scripts are used widely in India and surrounding areas, where the predominant religion is Hinduism rather than Islam.
Actually the Notepad utility in Mac OS 8.1 was called "Note Pad."
There was a Note Pad on Mac OS 8.x, but it was limited to editing a single multi-page document in the System Folder called the "Note Pad File".
Notepad on Windows is just a basic text editor.
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Expect a lawsuit from Scholastic Inc., the publisher of the Harry Potter novels by J. K. Rowling.
more about Scholastic's recent legal activities
Any machine you can get physical access to is insecure.
Not all physical access is the same. Many demo machines in stores are left in screensaver mode, so that they show the computer is "doing something" without allowing users to write dirty messages in Notepad (or whatever Apple calls its version; I haven't used a Mac since Mac OS 8.1, when it was called "SimpleText"). It's easy to interact with the keyboard of a floor model, but it's often not feasible to turn off the machine and insert a boot disk, and it's definitely impossible to open the machine's case without getting caught, kicked out of the store, and possibly arrested for attempted vandalism.
Why should one person control so much wealth?
A taint is the space between your nut sack and asshole.
No, the area between frontal private parts and the anus is the "choad".
An "accoun-taint" is one who "taints" (alters deceptively) the books. See "taint" and the poster child.
Although it's still way better than Budweiser! (rice beer - boo/hiss!)
Wouldn't "rice beer" be sake?
Where are the 1-3 second scanners?
Wouldn't it be possible to rig up a high-speed scanner based on digital video technology? Or are CCD and CMOS image sensors not fine enough yet?
A speedy internet connection and tons of computers wouldn't be needed to print out documents from Gutenberg.
It still costs money to turn downloaded digital copies of works into printed copies for 100 students in a grade level.
they would realize that it would be cheaper in the longrun to get texts off Gutenberg, instead of buying pre-bound books elsewhere.
Public domain etexts, such as those offered by Project Gutenberg, would be useful in schools only under limited circumstances. Though they would be useful in literature classes in high school (and possibly middle school), forget about them in elementary school, where most books are illustrated, because most PG editions leave out illustrations. Forget about them in science classes as well; the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica contains outdated views of anything scientific, and anything significantly newer is tied up forever in the Bono Act and its obligatory sequels. And what keeps a publisher from tying purchases of its science books to purchases of its literature books?
The law specifically says you can not distribute a work that is copyrighted without the copyright holders permission.
True, 17 USC 106 says that, but it limits itself "Subject to sections 107 through 121", such as 17 USC 109:
fair use laws, but the DMCA removed most of those
From the DMCA: "Nothing in this section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to copyright infringement, including fair use, under this title."
Once someone digs the key out of the hardware, or finds any other vulnerability, then they own their system. They can run an undetectable virtualized system.
Undetectable? Bulldroppings. Virtualization requires memory, and a commercial virtualizer such as VMware or Virtual PC typically emulates a system with half as much RAM as the host. Xbox games expect to see all 64 MB of RAM on the Xbox, and they expect to see all of it in real time (that is, without swapping).
And even if you are convicted of some sort of made up IP crime, you can always take the matter to the European Court of Human Rights, which pretty much always finds for the individual, because the EU Convention on Human Rights is a very broad and generous document.
If the EU Convention on Human Rights is anything like the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it includes something about copyright. Article 27 of the UDHR guarantees at least some semblance of copyright to adhering nations.
Article 17 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union states bluntly: "Intellectual property shall be protected."
ICP is Insane Clown Posse, an idiotic rap group.
"112Dbl" is a typo for "112 dB SPL", or 112 decibels sound pressure level. This means that the sound has 10^11.2 times as much power as the quietest detectable sound.
So unless this hits mid prime time i'm too busy watching [adult swim] on CN
Tape it. Or, if you are rich, record it on your TiVo. If you live in the USA, time-shifting is a fair use.
I liked the GameCube better when it was in reboot
most places are banning cellphones that have cameras because you don't know that you are being photographed.
From what I've read of those bans, any digital camera that produces noise when the picture is fixed, whether built into a phone or not, is exempt from such bans on silent phones.
Tetris was a seperate licensing issue. Two groups thought they had the license. Tengen made a version of Tetris that nintendo later got pulled from the shelves. It's a shame, as Tengen's version was better than Nintendo's.
The Tetris licensing issue popped up again later, but as The Tetris Company's claims of copyright were picked apart by armchair jurists, it was discovered that The Tetris Company had only the trademark on "TETRIS" to protect it. Tengen would probably have won the Tetris case (but not the lockout chip case) had it named its product something dissimilar to TETRIS®.
the folks at Tengen had a look at the patent, and figured out how to make a chip that would allow their games to work in the NES without paying for the license. Tengen lost the case because it was not a clean room reverse engineering with virgins and all that, but based on actual knowledge of the technical details of Nintendo's patent.
Wrong. The Atari Games v. Nintendo case was a fraud case. Tengen (Atari Games's console division) defrauded the Copyright Office to obtain information beyond what was published in the patent, namely the source code of the "10NES" program on the lockout chips. The court tossed out the fair use defense because of Tengen's dirty hands.
I can't find a Web source to back up the details.
Atari Games v. Nintendo opinion
What percent of shared files are not available by paying for them ?
Ninety-eight percent of copyrighted works over x years old have fallen Out Of Print, if one is to believe the dissenting opinions in the Supreme Court phase of Eldred v. Ashcroft.
If you're going to be printing a lot, just pick up a used business-class printer. A decent laserjet isn't that expensive off of eBay.
What would you recommend for somebody who is going to be printing a lot of color? Last time I checked, color laser printers were priced well into four figures USD. Have they come down in price since then?
I used to recommend Canon for precisely the reasons you stated until I learned that Canon does not make its printer hardware interfaces available to developers of printer drivers for Free operating systems.
But what you can't do on your spiffy new PC is to play the console games that you can on your modded Xbox.
On a PC with similar specs to the Xbox (plus a PlayStation controller and a PS->PC adapter such as the EMS USB2, which handles two controllers), I can play dumps of at least all my NES, Game Boy, Super NES, and GBA games. There are more NES and Super NES games in my neighbor's collection than Xbox-exclusive titles in existence.
So with a modded Xbox, you get ... a multimedia system (especially if you buy the remote)
Multi? It's just a DVD player. It can't play DivX, VCD, or Flash movies without a mod chip.
Nike doesn't make shoes that fit people who have no legs.
That is, "Nike doesn't make gloves." What do you mean by that?
People are vegetarian by choice, not handicap.
Some people are vegetarian by allergy.