The LAME mp3 encoder was, for a long time, officially distributed not in binary form or in source form, but as a patch against the reference code published by Fraunhofer.
Due to patent encumberance and licencing restrictions, distribution of modified source or binaries was not permitted. But since the patches were 100% work of the LAME authors, they could distribute in this format. The fact that they were useless unless applied to the code distributed under a very restrictive license was irrelevant.
A similar argument could be made for a (closed source) application that accepted as an argument a specific tarball (which could even be included in the package -- the GPL makes it freely distributable!) and output an application different from what is in the tarball.
Established five years ago, IPv6 creates enough IP addresses for every person on Earth to have 1,000 Web-enabled devices. It does so by quadrupling the size of the IP address itself.
The versions created 30 years ago were 32 bits long. Under that scheme, there are 4.3 billion different number combinations.
IPv6 addresses are 128 bits. The resulting list of IP addresses is two googols long, an enormous number. "It's a nearly infinite address space," said Cisco Systems Vice President Sangeeta Anand.
Ok. IPV4 may have a domain of 2^32, or roughly 4.3 billion, but large parts of this range is reserved, is it not? I don't expect to ever see a 127.0.0.0/8, 192.168.0.0/16, 172.16.0.0/16 or 10.0.0.0/8 assigned to anyone for use on the 'net, for example. Anyone have any idea how many assignable IPs exist in V4?
And what about V6? How many IPs are assignable? The article says it's a number "Two googols long". What the F is that? A googol is 10^100, and the domain of V6 is 2^128 == 3.4 * 10^38, or a little more than a third the length of a googol. (and 1/10^42 or so of the magnitude of one) The article also promises 1,000 V6 IPs for every person on earth. This indicates a total of around 6 trillion ( 6 * 10^12) V6 IPs, which is a tiny, tiny fraction (1/10^26 or so) of the total V6 address space.
Can someone who knows what they are talking about summarise how many V6 addresses will be valid and assignable, and why? Yes, it's huge, and we'll probably never run out. But how huge, and why?
... you REALLY need to consult with an intellectual property lawyer who can properly advise you.
And a suggestion -- get the company to foot the bill. They want you and your stuff, but are worried about their stuff being contaminated. $500 or a $1000 to have a 3rd party who is is experienced in this sort of thing might be expensive to you personally, but for a company that is willing to pay you 50 or 60 times this amount annually, it's cheap.
Then you'd just have to work out (in advance) if the IP lawyer is going to draw up a contract that everyone is expected to sign unchanged, or if it is just going to be advice that can be modified....
Three hundred forty undecillion two hundred eight-two decillion three hundred sixty-six nonillion nine hundred twenty octillion nine hundred thirty-eight septillion four hundred sixty-three SEXtillion four hundred sixty-three quintillion three hundred seventy-four quadrillion six hundred seven trillion four hundred thirty-one billion seven hundred sixty-eight million two hundred eleven thousand four hundred fifty-six.
Eh heheheh. Heh heh. Heh. He said 'sex'. Hehehehe.
I knew I shouldn't have spent $40 buying that damn Telezapper
Or you can go to http://home.attbi.com/~dakine/defeat.htm and get a.wav file to record at the beginning of your outgoing message on your answering machine, and you get the same effect -- FREE!
The.wav files (and the TeleZapper) basically play the three tones you hear when you dial a number no longer in service. When this is played at he beginning of a call, the predictive dialling software of the telemarketer (in theory) removes your number from the database.
Might not work 100% of the time, but it can't hurt...
Ok, does this mean that the classic sci-fi "warp drive", where a black hole is projected in front of the ship, which accelerates toward it, which moves the projected hole forward etc, etc, is not possible?
(Makeing the assumption, of course, that it is possible to generate gravity other than the old-fashioned way.)
Because the CRT is an electron accelerator, designed soley to fling electrons at high speed at the screen. That's why the voltage in a monitor is so dangerous -- it takes a very high voltage differential to accelerate the electrons.
In a regular wire, electrons *do* move very slowly, that's high school level physics. If you pour a cup of water into a hose, you get a cup of water out at the other end, but it may take quite a long time for the first cup you poured in to come out. Electricity behaves in a similar fashion.
grnbrg (Who hopes *he* didn't screw anything up -- high school was a *long* time ago...:) )
Ingredients:
1 Website
5 large Star Trek related Movie Files
Instructions:
Post 5 movie files on your website. Have someone post a link on slashdot.org. Watch your webserver cook at 300 degrees until the case is a nice golden brown.
Yeah, they've released the source. Weeee! But there's still a nasty click through to get it --
License. This Software is licensed by Sigma, free of charge, to you as end user solely for the purpose of building ISO MPEG-4 compatible content for your own use. This license to you is personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive, and without right to sublicense the use of the Software. You may NOT modify, prepare derivative works of, rent, lease, distribute, sublicense, sell or transfer the Software or any part thereof.
And added to all (most?) of the source code files --
This may be the coolest geek toy I have ever seen. Four horizontally mounted propellers on a carbon fibre X-frame. Gyro stablized and electrically powered. 5 minutes of free-flight time.
Yours for the low, low price of {cough}{cough} US$799.:)
Do we really need/. to let us know when a kernel is released?
YES! Its more fun to watch a mob try to pick at it, rip it apart, and maul the latest tarball in a public pit of interrogation. Its great to see open source build strength and character amid the assault.
Yeah, but shouldn't we be testing the kernel, not the kernel.org ftp server?:)
Yeah, but think about what most of those users are going to be doing with the connection: looking at web pages, reading email, and instant messaging people.
The cable companies brought out DSL and didn't worry too much about that fact that heavy use could saturate the local segment of the network, because very few people would ever be downloading multi-megabyte files, they'd just be looking at web pages, reading email and instant messaging people....
Then Napster happened.
It's just a matter of time before someone figures out a high-bandwidth app that Joe Public wants on his phone.
Want an example? Wouldn't it be cool if Nokia (or someone else) put one of these modems, a small colour LCD, camera, and video conferencing software into a cheap phone? Suddenly everyone is sending/recieving high-bandwith multi-media streams, 'cause everyone just *has* to have a videophone.
Demand will always grow to exeed limitations, usually in ways that could not be predicted when the limitations were imposed.
How come there's no Windows version of this? I demand a Windows port of this feature! It just shows you how strong a monopoly Linux has among the skript k1dd13z, that this was released without ANY Windows support!
Yeah, but the Windoze version is already pre-installed on many Win installations already -- haven't you heard of IIS? Nearly impossible to get rid of and upgrade resistant!
Slashdot Mirror
Look down at your fingertips. That UI hasn't changed in years .
Sure, there are other options, but have you ever seen one?
In the final analysis, people hate change, even if it's good for them.
grnbrg.
-- grnbrg
The LAME mp3 encoder.
The LAME mp3 encoder was, for a long time, officially distributed not in binary form or in source form, but as a patch against the reference code published by Fraunhofer.
Due to patent encumberance and licencing restrictions, distribution of modified source or binaries was not permitted. But since the patches were 100% work of the LAME authors, they could distribute in this format. The fact that they were useless unless applied to the code distributed under a very restrictive license was irrelevant.
A similar argument could be made for a (closed source) application that accepted as an argument a specific tarball (which could even be included in the package -- the GPL makes it freely distributable!) and output an application different from what is in the tarball.
Sauce for the goose and all that....
--
grnbrg
YOU BASTARD!
Established five years ago, IPv6 creates enough IP addresses for every person on Earth to have 1,000 Web-enabled devices. It does so by quadrupling the size of the IP address itself.
The versions created 30 years ago were 32 bits long. Under that scheme, there are 4.3 billion different number combinations.
IPv6 addresses are 128 bits. The resulting list of IP addresses is two googols long, an enormous number. "It's a nearly infinite address space," said Cisco Systems Vice President Sangeeta Anand.
Ok. IPV4 may have a domain of 2^32, or roughly 4.3 billion, but large parts of this range is reserved, is it not? I don't expect to ever see a 127.0.0.0/8, 192.168.0.0/16, 172.16.0.0/16 or 10.0.0.0/8 assigned to anyone for use on the 'net, for example. Anyone have any idea how many assignable IPs exist in V4?
And what about V6? How many IPs are assignable? The article says it's a number "Two googols long". What the F is that? A googol is 10^100, and the domain of V6 is 2^128 == 3.4 * 10^38, or a little more than a third the length of a googol. (and 1/10^42 or so of the magnitude of one) The article also promises 1,000 V6 IPs for every person on earth. This indicates a total of around 6 trillion ( 6 * 10^12) V6 IPs, which is a tiny, tiny fraction (1/10^26 or so) of the total V6 address space.
Can someone who knows what they are talking about summarise how many V6 addresses will be valid and assignable, and why? Yes, it's huge, and we'll probably never run out. But how huge, and why?
--
grnbrg
And a suggestion -- get the company to foot the bill. They want you and your stuff, but are worried about their stuff being contaminated. $500 or a $1000 to have a 3rd party who is is experienced in this sort of thing might be expensive to you personally, but for a company that is willing to pay you 50 or 60 times this amount annually, it's cheap.
Then you'd just have to work out (in advance) if the IP lawyer is going to draw up a contract that everyone is expected to sign unchanged, or if it is just going to be advice that can be modified....
--
grnbrg
Eh heheheh. Heh heh. Heh. He said 'sex'. Hehehehe.
grnbrg
And then Ludicrous-DMCA!!
Oh, wait....
grnbrg
Pfff.
Mandrake Linux 2003.May
grnbrg
Coming soon from id Software, "Where in The Hell is Carmen Sandiego"!
When it's done, real soon now.
grnbrg
Or you can go to http://home.attbi.com/~dakine/defeat.htm and get a .wav file to record at the beginning of your outgoing message on your answering machine, and you get the same effect -- FREE!
The .wav files (and the TeleZapper) basically play the three tones you hear when you dial a number no longer in service. When this is played at he beginning of a call, the predictive dialling software of the telemarketer (in theory) removes your number from the database.
Might not work 100% of the time, but it can't hurt...
grnbrg
Ok, does this mean that the classic sci-fi "warp drive", where a black hole is projected in front of the ship, which accelerates toward it, which moves the projected hole forward etc, etc, is not possible?
(Makeing the assumption, of course, that it is possible to generate gravity other than the old-fashioned way.)
grnbrg
Because the CRT is an electron accelerator, designed soley to fling electrons at high speed at the screen. That's why the voltage in a monitor is so dangerous -- it takes a very high voltage differential to accelerate the electrons.
:) )
In a regular wire, electrons *do* move very slowly, that's high school level physics. If you pour a cup of water into a hose, you get a cup of water out at the other end, but it may take quite a long time for the first cup you poured in to come out. Electricity behaves in a similar fashion.
grnbrg
(Who hopes *he* didn't screw anything up -- high school was a *long* time ago...
1 Website
5 large Star Trek related Movie Files
Instructions:
Post 5 movie files on your website. Have someone post a link on slashdot.org. Watch your webserver cook at 300 degrees until the case is a nice golden brown.
Mirror. Rinse. Repeat.
"Connection Refused" -- The mirror has cracked.
grnbrg
You mean like this?
grnbrg
License. This Software is licensed by Sigma, free of charge, to you as end user solely for the purpose of building ISO MPEG-4 compatible content for your own use. This license to you is personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive, and without right to sublicense the use of the Software. You may NOT modify, prepare derivative works of, rent, lease, distribute, sublicense, sell or transfer the Software or any part thereof.
And added to all (most?) of the source code files --
Copyright © 2002 Sigma Designs, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Source and object code (Copyright Sigma Designs 2002) may be covered by one or more pending patents.
(GPL header stuff)
Sigma Designs, Inc. www.sigmadesigns.com
This code inspired by the XVID MPEG-4 VIDEO CODEC
Although I think the best bit comes again from their Click-thru licence to get the source --
You also expressly agree that you will not violate any copyright of a third party or Sigma in your use of the Software.
Bwahahahaha. Do as I say, not as I do!
Idiots.
grnbrg
Yours for the low, low price of {cough}{cough} US$799. :)
A guy can dream, can't he?
grnbrg
Instead of chasing windmills, let's have a poll on this.
Spontaneous computer combustion:
( ) Seen it
( ) Heard of it
( ) Heard of someone who heard of someone who...
( ) Nope
( ) CowboyNeal's did. He said so!
grnbrg
YES! Its more fun to watch a mob try to pick at it, rip it apart, and maul the latest tarball in a public pit of interrogation. Its great to see open source build strength and character amid the assault.
Yeah, but shouldn't we be testing the kernel, not the kernel.org ftp server? :)
grnbrg
Did you even see the last Star Wars movie?!!?
Nine bucks?? No way. There are some movies that are worth that, but not many. And SW:TPM was not one of them.
And yes, I shelled out to see it in the theatre. It wasn't worth it.
grnbrg
http://www.alchemysemi.com/product_info/secure_da
grnbrg
You don't need to see these stories.
This isn't the site you're looking for.
Move along. Move along.
grnbrg
WTF are you smoking?
Apparently some very high quality crack.
Ok, the telcos brought out DSL, and the cable companies brought out (duh) broadband cable internet.
Still doesn't change the fact that their capacity is being strained....
grnbrg
The cable companies brought out DSL and didn't worry too much about that fact that heavy use could saturate the local segment of the network, because very few people would ever be downloading multi-megabyte files, they'd just be looking at web pages, reading email and instant messaging people....
Then Napster happened.
It's just a matter of time before someone figures out a high-bandwidth app that Joe Public wants on his phone.
Want an example? Wouldn't it be cool if Nokia (or someone else) put one of these modems, a small colour LCD, camera, and video conferencing software into a cheap phone? Suddenly everyone is sending/recieving high-bandwith multi-media streams, 'cause everyone just *has* to have a videophone.
Demand will always grow to exeed limitations, usually in ways that could not be predicted when the limitations were imposed.
grnbrg
Yeah, but the Windoze version is already pre-installed on many Win installations already -- haven't you heard of IIS? Nearly impossible to get rid of and upgrade resistant!
grnbrg