It is the server that is to actively check if there is a new update. If you download the database, and check for yourself it doesn't count.
I am not sure what the automated update software for linux does, but if it runs ls in the RPM directory at Red Hat, and checks the version number of the output. I cant see that it is the same thing
Also you would have to have a "Are you completely sure you want to install this software?" box pop up, and you cant download the software before you ask.
In the UK the police can demand that you provide passwords and keys to unencrypt mail you have sent. In the US they can't.
I don't think your employer can demand that you give up your PGP keys, but if you have saved them on the harddrive on your workplace computer you have allready given it to them. And if they are really pranoid they have a keyboard strokelogger, and can find your passphrase from that.
Im not shure if I got the name right, but when you heat a circuit board to about 170 degrees celcus a gas is released that has proven health risks, and that is viewed as the "New Asbestos". People who work in soldering cricuitry are brething this gas, and are getting problems with their nervous system.
The main argument from DVD CCA is that the revese engeneering was done in an unlawful way.
What happens to this argument if someone does it again with obviously legal means. Then the tradesecret would be known to all legaly, and there would be now point in stopping the illegal one.
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This patent also includes something else.
It is the server that is to actively check if there is a new update. If you download the database, and check for yourself it doesn't count.
I am not sure what the automated update software for linux does, but if it runs ls in the RPM directory at Red Hat, and checks the version number of the output. I cant see that it is the same thing
Also you would have to have a "Are you completely sure you want to install this software?" box pop up, and you cant download the software before you ask.
In the UK the police can demand that you provide passwords and keys to unencrypt mail you have sent. In the US they can't.
I don't think your employer can demand that you give up your PGP keys, but if you have saved them on the harddrive on your workplace computer you have allready given it to them. And if they are really pranoid they have a keyboard strokelogger, and can find your passphrase from that.
Im not shure if I got the name right, but when you heat a circuit board to about 170 degrees celcus a gas is released that has proven health risks, and that is viewed as the "New Asbestos". People who work in soldering cricuitry are brething this gas, and are getting problems with their nervous system.
Would it infringe their patent if someone made a card that was 0.1mm smaller or larger than a standard creditcard?
As of now Jon Johansen is not in jail.
He is free to do whatever he wants until after the trial.
The main argument from DVD CCA is that the revese engeneering was done in an unlawful way.
What happens to this argument if someone does it again with obviously legal means. Then the tradesecret would be known to all legaly, and there would be now point in stopping the illegal one.