I'm involved in church music. We have two licenses, CCLI and LicenSing. Read the permissions - and the prices here.
A couple of points
most of those rights under the license are routinely arrogated today, because they're not enforced. If I had a penny for every photocopy that says "used by permission" where the copier didn't have permission, well, it would pay my license budget!
Most people know squat about copyright.
Composers and sheet music publishers routinely get robbed, and know it. They should get a penny or several for every copy.
One reason sheet music costs heaps is that it is pirated.
I see DRM making being legal easier, and making composers get the royalties that they're due.
has anyone ever gone after the resellers for hardware for not including the original bundled software? M$ is getting extra bucks - because the OS that they got paid for once that should have been resold to me with the hardware wasn't, and I get to go out and buy it again. Nice!
...because I made a serious mistake and uninstalled some commercial software. Not naming names - I think the problem is common.
A certain package's uninstaller careless nuked HKLM...\ODBC - all of it. To fix this up, I had to repair Win2K, reapply SP2, and reinstall my commerical ODBC software. And I blew it, I didn't repatch afterward!:-(
Therefore, Nimda ate my machine. Had to entirely format and reinstall. Puts me in the Dilbertian position "dealing with the loss of beloved data".
My experience is that the uninstallers of software are rarely well-tested.
Canadian news indicates many diverted to Canada. Canadian domestic air travel is also shut down. As of 1 pm, CBC radio (www.cbc.ca) has reported thirty plus jumbo jets landed at Gander.
When I was fifteen, or a little older, through a friend-of-a-friend I got illicit access to university APL accounts, hung out in little computer stores on Queen Street in Toronto, and we built BBS on those 300 baud acoustic couplers. In that year, it wasn't legal to have an auto-answer modem that you didn't rent from the phone company. We did it anyway. That's circa 1975-77 - the Sol-20 was a fancy machine then.
No one seems to have observed that these are results from Japan, where, from what I've read, the educational system is not big on evaluating information. If you've been taught (implicitly) not to question authority, you will have trouble, because you can't reject all the stuff that the computer displays - you'll have to remember it all.
Whatever did happen to the child that said the Emperor had no clothes?
Running MacOS over a network conforms exactly to the patent - type information with the document causes a progam to be selected and executed. Circa 1984, December, IIRC
A point I found interesting was that AOL sued for header forgery, according to c|net
The complaint includes... breaches of federal trademark laws. AOL charges that some of the Webmasters forged the company's name in email headers.
I'm not completely sure that this will stand up, nor that it should. Typing aol.com is, after all, necessary to send email. OTOH, intent does matter in trademark suits, so maybe this will be a useful tool.
My ambition, if that universe comes to exist, is to be the human downloaded into a computer, in possession of Berserker hardware that Larry Niven wrote about... The Ultimate Badlife
Search on Google for "Davis Stine reactionless" and you'll find an entry into all of this wonderful world.
Summary: Davis and Stine maintain that there's a 3rd derivative force. Normally this balances out; but in transient circumstances, you can get it to show itself. Their best demo was a mechanical gadget that had an unexplained 3 degree phase angle.
Essentially, it's changing the system "before" the reaction force gets there. I don't know about this; if you think about physically long objects, Relativity would seem to prevent a reaction in less than twice the end-to-end light time - so there might be something.
I have here on the shelf JavaScript, The Definitive Guide Beta Edition, 1996. ORA tried issuing books in Beta, promising to send the final at a 25% discount when ready.
The intro summarizes all this and points to http://www.ora.com/info/early, which is 404 today.
So, it's been tried, but I don't know what happened to the experiment.
..."rice grain sized"... a book-sized device... A GPS antenna is significantly larger.
I think you mean a GPS receiver is bigger than a grain of rice, but smaller than a book.
We've got some GPS that clip onto a Palm* VII and exchange data with it. Smallest GPS I've seen is pager-sized, and the GPS add-ons to cell phones will necessarily be very small additional volumes - but then the big RF stuff is already there.
Henry Troup
My personal position or opinion is not that of Nortel Networks.
Nortel Networks (my employer) issued this press release on "e-mobility Location Communications Service" (we called it M-Com...)
Trial participants received a Palm* handheld computer equipped with a Rand
McNally global positioning satellite transceiver. Participants are able to
quickly access services based on location via the Palm.Net* service from
Palm*, Inc.
While the PKI functions are not present, well SMOP. The existing system has optional tracking; you can turn off sharing your location with the server.
Current services are things like "where's an ATM", "Get me a cab to where I am", etc.
BEGIN OPINIONS
When talking about reliability of this information, there are two big chunks:
how reliable with a cooperative user?
how reliable with a deceptive user?
I think a cooperative, security aware user could make a case for using this technology to prove their location to a civil court standard; getting a criminal court standard beyond a reasonable doubt requires the second.
And that's hard! You can't trust devices in the hands of deceptive users; any private/public key in the device can be cloned.
Possibly you could build protocols that relied on continuous availablity - but then how do you deal with, say, airplane travel? I'm thinking of things like negotiation every time you cross a cell boundary to establish that the unit with identity A exiting cell site Q is the same one that entered. It'd probably have heaps of false negatives - wireless just isn't that reliable.
Henry Troup
Nortel Networks eXtremeVoice
My personal position or opinion should not be confused with the position or opinion of Nortel Networks.
Claimer: the opinions below are of residents and citizens of Canada
We showed this around the office. One of the PhD's did a classic double-take and said he'd have marked it incorrectly.
But the bigger issue is what happens; my understanding is that this is why there's an "Electoral College", and the electors can decide what the voters "really meant". Glad I'm not one of them!
Anyone know Florida state electoral law? How are the electors bound by election results?
Not too long ago, Scientific American ran a couple of items like this one citing Xerox, and specifically Mark Stefik on digital rights enforcement. So where's Xerox and their tech in all this?
At the Xerox site I found some references to XRML or DPRL (Digital Property Rights Language) and ContentGuard
But I don't see anything off-hand on doing the MP3 kind of thing. That would involve an extension to autonomous devices. Could be done if the devices had decent hard-to-tamper clocks.
There are other people in the same business such as NetActive
It's still not free, of course. But I'm not yet convinced that copyright is dead. I'm willing to pay for rights, but I need the real rights that I used to get, not some constrained version like SDMI.
I'm surprised more people haven't seen this idea. Once it's been pointed out to you, it seems so reasonable. After all, this is the way that we have already used with reasonable success to pass on our culture and values to newly created intelligent beings.
I worry that today's markets faithfully mirror the 1929 boom. Then, stocks bought on margin were used as collateral to buy more stocks. Investors were buying with fake money.
Today, corporations are buying corporations with stocks with infinite price to earnings ratios - using fake money to make more fake money. If Amazon bought GM for all-stock, say, would that provoke a crunch where real value has to be produced to cover multiplied value?
A non-conspiracy, non-Marxist web site on the 1929 crash eludes me at present. For the simple history, see the Britt anica article on the origins of WWII. That suggests a contraction of international credit - a crunch to produce real money, to pay all the margin. That's more useful than the actual article on the Stock Market Crash.
Slashdot Mirror
In Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky there's an artificially induced state called "Focus" that sounds astonishing like some parts of this.
This post obviously leaked in from an alternate universe. Asimov's Friday would be a lot like Heinlein's Foundation trilogy.
Can we start a list of COMDEX attendees I least want to see naked?
I'm involved in church music. We have two licenses, CCLI and LicenSing. Read the permissions - and the prices here.
A couple of points
I see DRM making being legal easier, and making composers get the royalties that they're due.
YMMV.
has anyone ever gone after the resellers for hardware for not including the original bundled software? M$ is getting extra bucks - because the OS that they got paid for once that should have been resold to me with the hardware wasn't, and I get to go out and buy it again. Nice!
...because I made a serious mistake and uninstalled some commercial software. Not naming names - I think the problem is common.
A certain package's uninstaller careless nuked HKLM ...\ODBC - all of it. To fix this up, I had to repair Win2K, reapply SP2, and reinstall my commerical ODBC software. And I blew it, I didn't repatch afterward! :-(
Therefore, Nimda ate my machine. Had to entirely format and reinstall. Puts me in the Dilbertian position "dealing with the loss of beloved data".
My experience is that the uninstallers of software are rarely well-tested.
One must ask: would these proposed measures have prevented last week's outrage?
The content of their email, phone conversations, etc. are unknown, of course. But machine-readable identity cards wouldn't even have slowed them down.
Henry Troup
Ottawa, Canada
hwt@igs.net
Heard on CBC radio, about 13:50 EDT.
Canadian news indicates many diverted to Canada. Canadian domestic air travel is also shut down. As of 1 pm, CBC radio (www.cbc.ca) has reported thirty plus jumbo jets landed at Gander.
Henry Troup, Ottawa, Canada
Indeed!
When I was fifteen, or a little older, through a friend-of-a-friend I got illicit access to university APL accounts, hung out in little computer stores on Queen Street in Toronto, and we built BBS on those 300 baud acoustic couplers. In that year, it wasn't legal to have an auto-answer modem that you didn't rent from the phone company. We did it anyway. That's circa 1975-77 - the Sol-20 was a fancy machine then.
A favorite exercise, for early on: Make the computer display or print
2 + 2 = 5
Maybe not necessary, but every computer course ought to go near the issue of how the machine lies.
Henry Troup
My .sig is in the .shop
No one seems to have observed that these are results from Japan, where, from what I've read, the educational system is not big on evaluating information. If you've been taught (implicitly) not to question authority, you will have trouble, because you can't reject all the stuff that the computer displays - you'll have to remember it all.
Whatever did happen to the child that said the Emperor had no clothes?
And this is one of the indefensible ones.
Running MacOS over a network conforms exactly to the patent - type information with the document causes a progam to be selected and executed. Circa 1984, December, IIRC
A point I found interesting was that AOL sued for header forgery, according to c|net
I'm not completely sure that this will stand up, nor that it should. Typing aol.com is, after all, necessary to send email. OTOH, intent does matter in trademark suits, so maybe this will be a useful tool.
Henry Troup, hwt@igs.net
My ambition, if that universe comes to exist, is to be the human downloaded into a computer, in possession of Berserker hardware that Larry Niven wrote about... The Ultimate Badlife
Return of the Dean Drive/Davis Drive!
Search on Google for "Davis Stine reactionless" and you'll find an entry into all of this wonderful world.
Summary: Davis and Stine maintain that there's a 3rd derivative force. Normally this balances out; but in transient circumstances, you can get it to show itself. Their best demo was a mechanical gadget that had an unexplained 3 degree phase angle.
Essentially, it's changing the system "before" the reaction force gets there. I don't know about this; if you think about physically long objects, Relativity would seem to prevent a reaction in less than twice the end-to-end light time - so there might be something.
Henry Troup
I have here on the shelf JavaScript, The Definitive Guide Beta Edition, 1996. ORA tried issuing books in Beta, promising to send the final at a 25% discount when ready.
The intro summarizes all this and points to http://www.ora.com/info/early, which is 404 today.
So, it's been tried, but I don't know what happened to the experiment.
This looks like a really good one - an illustration that the DMCA is potentially restraint of trade (UK-ism for anti-trust, more or less.)
I think you mean a GPS receiver is bigger than a grain of rice, but smaller than a book.
We've got some GPS that clip onto a Palm* VII and exchange data with it. Smallest GPS I've seen is pager-sized, and the GPS add-ons to cell phones will necessarily be very small additional volumes - but then the big RF stuff is already there.
Henry Troup
My personal position or opinion is not that of Nortel Networks.
While the PKI functions are not present, well SMOP. The existing system has optional tracking; you can turn off sharing your location with the server.
Current services are things like "where's an ATM", "Get me a cab to where I am", etc.
BEGIN OPINIONS
When talking about reliability of this information, there are two big chunks:
I think a cooperative, security aware user could make a case for using this technology to prove their location to a civil court standard; getting a criminal court standard beyond a reasonable doubt requires the second.
And that's hard! You can't trust devices in the hands of deceptive users; any private/public key in the device can be cloned.
Possibly you could build protocols that relied on continuous availablity - but then how do you deal with, say, airplane travel? I'm thinking of things like negotiation every time you cross a cell boundary to establish that the unit with identity A exiting cell site Q is the same one that entered. It'd probably have heaps of false negatives - wireless just isn't that reliable.
Henry Troup Nortel Networks eXtremeVoice
My personal position or opinion should not be confused with the position or opinion of Nortel Networks.
Claimer: the opinions below are of residents and citizens of Canada
We showed this around the office. One of the PhD's did a classic double-take and said he'd have marked it incorrectly.
But the bigger issue is what happens; my understanding is that this is why there's an "Electoral College", and the electors can decide what the voters "really meant". Glad I'm not one of them!
Anyone know Florida state electoral law? How are the electors bound by election results?
Not too long ago, Scientific American ran a couple of items like this one citing Xerox, and specifically Mark Stefik on digital rights enforcement. So where's Xerox and their tech in all this?
At the Xerox site I found some references to XRML or DPRL (Digital Property Rights Language) and ContentGuard
More XRML at Oasis-Open like this item by Robin Cover.
But I don't see anything off-hand on doing the MP3 kind of thing. That would involve an extension to autonomous devices. Could be done if the devices had decent hard-to-tamper clocks.
There are other people in the same business such as NetActive
It's still not free, of course. But I'm not yet convinced that copyright is dead. I'm willing to pay for rights, but I need the real rights that I used to get, not some constrained version like SDMI.
--
Henry Troup
Worse than that: if count is not exactly one (and we didn't lose a *), whatever is after RandBuf is in for a hard time.
Henry Troup
Another SF writer, who's name hasn't so far come up, is David Brin. He suggested that an ethical solution to AI is to raise AIs as human children. This is a speech transcript, and this part is about 75% down. Look for Raise them as our children.
Brin is also the author of The Transparent Society, a fascinating piece on privacy.
I'm surprised more people haven't seen this idea. Once it's been pointed out to you, it seems so reasonable. After all, this is the way that we have already used with reasonable success to pass on our culture and values to newly created intelligent beings.
Henry Troup
I worry that today's markets faithfully mirror the 1929 boom. Then, stocks bought on margin were used as collateral to buy more stocks. Investors were buying with fake money.
Today, corporations are buying corporations with stocks with infinite price to earnings ratios - using fake money to make more fake money. If Amazon bought GM for all-stock, say, would that provoke a crunch where real value has to be produced to cover multiplied value?
A non-conspiracy, non-Marxist web site on the 1929 crash eludes me at present. For the simple history, see the Britt anica article on the origins of WWII. That suggests a contraction of international credit - a crunch to produce real money, to pay all the margin. That's more useful than the actual article on the Stock Market Crash.
The Dismal Scientist looks like an interesting site to explore.