Well there are speed limiters and RPM limiters. The speed limiter is to prevent you from exceeding the speed limit of the car (i.e. its engineering limit, not any local speed limits). The RPM limiter is to prevent you from destroying the engine. One can be driving at an extreme speed and be nowhere near redline, conversely one can be attempting to go 55 mph in first gear and over-rev the engine, which can in some cases kill it. I have a car that runs approx 2000 RPM @ 65mph. Redline is at 6000 RPM, the "yellow line" is at 5500 RPM. Those correspond to speeds of 195 and 178 mph respectively. The car would not go that fast, I'm sure. So RPM limiting and speed limiting are 2 different things. My car won't go above 4000 RPM in neutral, and that definitely has nothing to do with vehicle speed.
Only the author can patent, and the agreement does not have a clause stating they can order you to patent. So if you want your work to stay free, don't patent it. And don't sign anything that could allow them to force you to, or anything that would ever prohibit redistribution of your work.
Well, just having one's DNA translate to an N'Sync song would itself me the most terrifying thing one can imagine.
Although it is more likely that a virus, not a human, would have DNA that translated to that.
Re:Here's something DNA can be converted to...
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It IS source code. Proteins are the object code. Of course, the compiling algorithm is very simple. Every 3 bases (4 different bases - i.e. 2 bits a base) code for one amino acid. 3*2=6 2**6=64 and there are less than that many amino acids, some are aliases of others, some (3 of them I think) stop protein coding, and some (I think 1 one them) starts protein coding.
So maybe it is more like assembly language source code.
The "tree" metaphor has also been successful with a lot of my clients. The hard drive is the "root", the folders/directories are the
"branches" and the files are the "leaves". Go ahead and draw a picture; this isn't patronizing.
One confusing thing about this is that ONE goes DOWN from the root to the "leaves" in a computer filesystem, and real world trees always (I'm fairly sure of this) grow up, not down.
You see? I have a different opinion about browsers. It's informed, but it's different than yours. The problem is, everyone has
different opinions. One group isn't in the right, the other in the wrong. Republicans aren't more right than Democrats,
they're just more different.
Not having standards hurts interoperability. What if you asked me for directions and I used my own proprietary version of English, in which North and South and left and right are switched? Wouldn't that cause confusion?
Your solution also would also be poor for sending specific content to non-typical-but-growing-more-common devices like
PDAs.
A better solution is to have the client send what types of data it prefers, perhaps a "Content-class: simple" as an example. You should send what a client says it wants, not keep a list of clients and what to send them (which leaves you stuck if a new client comes out until you update the database).
Well, you can give them fake data then. Tell them you have 20 kids if you don't have any, lie about age, gender, race, religion, income, location, even your name, etc. If they are shady enough to try to use loopholes in the law, and they are acting unethically that it could be considered fair for you to lie (make sure it isn't illegal though). That could make their data worthless.
If no one will help you, consider "Self Help" measures.;)
Exactly my point. If the person who wrote the article was your judge, you would have gone free. As for what you did, since it was unlocked, would that properly be prosecuted as Tresspassing rather than Breaking and Entering? Still a crime, albeit a lesser one. (not a subtle distinction - B&E is often a felony, Tresspass a misdemeanor) Any lawyers care to comment?
I'd just
drop your entire network in the bit bucket at my firewall.
Hmm, it seems to be the case you already have a counter-measure to stop port scanners that doesn't involve the legal system and the issues that result from that (restriction of freedom, making yet more people into criminals, further burdening the already extremely overburdened police and courts who have MUCH more serious issues to deal with than someone running NMAP, etc).
With that in mind, you don't need to use the law in this case... you already have a better solution. Judicial solutions should be the last resort.
If someone breaks in, you can have them prosecuted in any court with jurisdiction, even if they did no damage.
P.S. If I were to go to the police because of the people trying to connect to various ports on my computer - I'd gather the police would either laugh or be annoyed. Never mind that I'd be spending a few dozen hours each week going to the police station. Or worse... The last attempt (less than 24 hours ago) appears to have come from Asia. I'm not even thinking of calling Interpol.
In real world terms, computer owners should be able to assert their property rights (in the form of
imposing liability) only when users have circumvented technical measures that should have prevented the litigated use. (from the article)
2 problems:
(1)Lack of security is an excuse to break in. If someone leaves the root password unset on a machine, or leaves off the security on their web server, the above would say it is legal to access whatever you want on that system - whether it is meant to be private or even if one is explicitly told it is private. Imagine the prosecutor letting someone who robbed you go free because you "didn't take precautions" (e.g. left personal belongs for a second, etc). (2) It legitimizes making technical measures have the force of law. If I (as an private citizen) have the technical ability to stop you from entering a public park, should you get arrested for going there anywhere? Heck no. In fact, I wouldn't be allowed to even use technical measures to stop you. That is why the DMCA is so bad. Copyright is limited by fair use - fair use activities are not trespass, they are more like entering a public easement on a property where such is allowed by law. If I as a property owner in the real world block access to an easement (try to build a wall on a road crossing my property), not only do people not get arrested for breaking down/circumventing/destroying the wall, I'll get arrested for building it. The DMCA turns that common sense notion upside down - the wall builder is ALWAYS right, the others are ALWAYS criminal.
That article seems to feed that thinking.
I am not a lawyer, but I understand common sense - which puts me above most of Congress.
UCLA is a state school. They are subject to the First Amendment, as they are government. The Constitution MUST be followed by all government agencies. Allowing ANY network traffic, but not servers, is restricting some forms of speech and not others. That would be against the highest law of the land, the Constitution, and thus the policy should not be enforcable.
I am not a lawyer, and I know the Constitution isn't 100% in force these days, so the above is likely wrong.
HTML easy?! Even Slashdot gets it wrong! The home page http://www.slashdot.org/ has some very SERIOUS HTML coding errors:
Like this little gem (as of this post) right in the main navigation area (!):
<A href=/code.shtml>code</A>
An unquoted attribute (not XHTML compliant), actually an unquoted non-numeric attribute (very bad, always), and non-XHTML compliant uppercase tags. Surely a GEEK site should get this right by now...
So if you can get these kids to code correct HTML, have them make extra money this summer working to fix Slashdot;)
Try validating sites with validator.w3.org and see how FEW pass! See how many big name commercial sites have SERIOUS errors.
As for Java, it is very slow, NOT truly cross platform, and just restrictive and anal to try to program in.
As for teaching MAC addresses versus IP addresses, even most IT people don't even know the difference (I kid you not!).
These are ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS, not TCP/IP gurus (yet;).
Just post it again. Even better, make/find a program that notices when your post is cancelled and auto-reposts it. The good news is a LOT of sites ignore cancel messages nowadays...
I just had this post rejected and got a message saying I must wait 2 minutes between posts. So much for free speech here. 1 minute is reasonable, but the 2 minute time is TOO LONG, both my posts were legitimate. Can we cut it back to one minute for those with karma >= 25? Well, I'll wait tand try it again...
Never mind that the techniques were invented and freely shared or at least published and not patented for a year before IPIX waltzed in and got a patent.
Maybe there is nothing wrong with a company trying to outlaw people from continuing to use a freely available technology that the company had nothing to do with, and make it its own.
Maybe we should get rid of prior art.
Just allow any company to take any non-patented technology, and claim it as its own, and outlaw the previous users of it from continuing to use it.
Maybe we can do the equivalent in the real world. Allow any company to take over any public park, and take it over. For $20K.
I don't think they have a leg to stand on even with a granted
patent.
Courts PRESUME any patent which is granted is valid. The plantiff has to prove infringement, but if he does, than the defendant needs to prove the patent is invalid to win. The plaintiff does NOT have to prove anything about the validity, it is considered valid by default because it has been so carefully (hah!) reviewed by the patent office. (i.e. they glance at the title, and make sure it is paid for before rubber stamping it).
A tax/royalty and (I think) a bit set somewhere it the prewritten header or CD identification area. Would be easy to have CD players (stereos and CD-ROMS in play-audio mode) only play if the bit is set for an Audio ("music") CD. WOuld actually seem like a semi-reasonable compromise.
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Well there are speed limiters and RPM limiters. The speed limiter is to prevent you from exceeding the speed limit of the car (i.e. its engineering limit, not any local speed limits). The RPM limiter is to prevent you from destroying the engine. One can be driving at an extreme speed and be nowhere near redline, conversely one can be attempting to go 55 mph in first gear and over-rev the engine, which can in some cases kill it. I have a car that runs approx 2000 RPM @ 65mph. Redline is at 6000 RPM, the "yellow line" is at 5500 RPM. Those correspond to speeds of 195 and 178 mph respectively. The car would not go that fast, I'm sure. So RPM limiting and speed limiting are 2 different things. My car won't go above 4000 RPM in neutral, and that definitely has nothing to do with vehicle speed.
Ask a lawyer if you need real legal advice.
Can a PUBLIC university make it ILLEGAL for a student to share works that he or she created?
Well, it's good enough for Microsoft.
Although it is more likely that a virus, not a human, would have DNA that translated to that.
So maybe it is more like assembly language source code.
One confusing thing about this is that ONE goes DOWN from the root to the "leaves" in a computer filesystem, and real world trees always (I'm fairly sure of this) grow up, not down.
Not having standards hurts interoperability. What if you asked me for directions and I used my own proprietary version of English, in which North and South and left and right are switched? Wouldn't that cause confusion?
A better solution is to have the client send what types of data it prefers, perhaps a "Content-class: simple" as an example. You should send what a client says it wants, not keep a list of clients and what to send them (which leaves you stuck if a new client comes out until you update the database).
If no one will help you, consider "Self Help" measures. ;)
Exactly my point. If the person who wrote the article was your judge, you would have gone free. As for what you did, since it was unlocked, would that properly be prosecuted as Tresspassing rather than Breaking and Entering? Still a crime, albeit a lesser one. (not a subtle distinction - B&E is often a felony, Tresspass a misdemeanor) Any lawyers care to comment?
Hmm, it seems to be the case you already have a counter-measure to stop port scanners that doesn't involve the legal system and the issues that result from that (restriction of freedom, making yet more people into criminals, further burdening the already extremely overburdened police and courts who have MUCH more serious issues to deal with than someone running NMAP, etc).
With that in mind, you don't need to use the law in this case... you already have a better solution. Judicial solutions should be the last resort.
If someone breaks in, you can have them prosecuted in any court with jurisdiction, even if they did no damage.
P.S. If I were to go to the police because of the people trying to connect to various ports on my computer - I'd gather the police would either laugh or be annoyed. Never mind that I'd be spending a few dozen hours each week going to the police station. Or worse... The last attempt (less than 24 hours ago) appears to have come from Asia. I'm not even thinking of calling Interpol.
2 problems:
(1)Lack of security is an excuse to break in. If someone leaves the root password unset on a machine, or leaves off the security on their web server, the above would say it is legal to access whatever you want on that system - whether it is meant to be private or even if one is explicitly told it is private.
Imagine the prosecutor letting someone who robbed you go free because you "didn't take precautions" (e.g. left personal belongs for a second, etc).
(2) It legitimizes making technical measures have the force of law. If I (as an private citizen) have the technical ability to stop you from entering a public park, should you get arrested for going there anywhere? Heck no. In fact, I wouldn't be allowed to even use technical measures to stop you. That is why the DMCA is so bad. Copyright is limited by fair use - fair use activities are not trespass, they are more like entering a public easement on a property where such is allowed by law. If I as a property owner in the real world block access to an easement (try to build a wall on a road crossing my property), not only do people not get arrested for breaking down/circumventing/destroying the wall, I'll get arrested for building it.
The DMCA turns that common sense notion upside down - the wall builder is ALWAYS right, the others are ALWAYS criminal.
That article seems to feed that thinking.
I am not a lawyer, but I understand common sense - which puts me above most of Congress.
I am not a lawyer, and I know the Constitution isn't 100% in force these days, so the above is likely wrong.
XML is better to use than SGML. SGML is very hard to deal with and parse. XML is more strict, and less likely to have interoperability problems.
An alligator is a tool?? What for? Umm, maybe I DON'T want to know... ;)
HTML easy?! Even Slashdot gets it wrong! The home page http://www.slashdot.org/ has some very SERIOUS HTML coding errors:
;)
;).
Like this little gem (as of this post) right in the main navigation area (!):
<A href=/code.shtml>code</A>
An unquoted attribute (not XHTML compliant), actually an unquoted non-numeric attribute (very bad, always), and non-XHTML compliant uppercase tags. Surely a GEEK site should get this right by now...
So if you can get these kids to code correct HTML, have them make extra money this summer working to fix Slashdot
Try validating sites with validator.w3.org and see how FEW pass! See how many big name commercial sites have SERIOUS errors.
As for Java, it is very slow, NOT truly cross platform, and just restrictive and anal to try to program in.
As for teaching MAC addresses versus IP addresses, even most IT people don't even know the difference (I kid you not!).
These are ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS, not TCP/IP gurus (yet
A good teacher will get at least some of those who start out refusing to learn to end up wanting to learn.
I just had this post rejected and got a message saying I must wait 2 minutes between posts. So much for free speech here. 1 minute is reasonable, but the 2 minute time is TOO LONG, both my posts were legitimate. Can we cut it back to one minute for those with karma >= 25? Well, I'll wait tand try it again...
Looks like the corporate cabal has hidden the location of the files in the subject header of your own post! :)
Maybe there is nothing wrong with a company trying to outlaw people from continuing to use a freely available technology that the company had nothing to do with, and make it its own.
Maybe we should get rid of prior art.
Just allow any company to take any non-patented technology, and claim it as its own, and outlaw the previous users of it from continuing to use it.
Maybe we can do the equivalent in the real world. Allow any company to take over any public park, and take it over. For $20K.
IS this the world you want?!?
I sure don't!
Courts PRESUME any patent which is granted is valid. The plantiff has to prove infringement, but if he does, than the defendant needs to prove the patent is invalid to win. The plaintiff does NOT have to prove anything about the validity, it is considered valid by default because it has been so carefully (hah!) reviewed by the patent office. (i.e. they glance at the title, and make sure it is paid for before rubber stamping it).
Disclaimer: This is not legal advice.
Of course. Their lawyers are too busy filing look and feel and trademark lawsuits to have any time left to file DMCA lawsuits.
There are only 168 hours in a week you know...
Plus Steve Jobs would NEVER accept any fascist system other than his own - he HATES competition.
A tax/royalty and (I think) a bit set somewhere it the prewritten header or CD identification area. Would be easy to have CD players (stereos and CD-ROMS in play-audio mode) only play if the bit is set for an Audio ("music") CD. WOuld actually seem like a semi-reasonable compromise.
Or if you are unaware you have a choice. Look at people who use IE because it is the DEFAULT, even though they can download Netscape FOR FREE.