If I tape a show and give it to a friend, yes, that's illegal...
AFAIK, that's legal, as far as there is "sequential quality degradation", which is true for most, if not all, analog recording devices, and not true for digital devices.
Many years ago I established the Data Compression Challenge (that pays my own real money), specifically to deal with the vaporware con-artists like these. It was only claimed twice, both times by individual developers known in the data compression community.
Unless and until they show a self-contained archive of a small size that can be brought to a standalone computer and expanded into a standardized benchmark data compression corpus, they can be ignored.
With @Home I was uisng some (news) servers that required the clients to have proper reverse DNS. With
AT&T, nobody gets reverse DNS and their customer support does not even know what that is!
I'm a customer of AT&T@Home. I never go to the
"Excite Portal", I do not use their web space, the only mail I get to the @home.com address are the bills and announcements...
How much money Excite@Home burns to maintain all that? I do not want to pay for service that I do not use; I want to have plain broadband Internet access with static (or quasi-static) IP address, and I believe AT&T will be able to provide just that.
I think traffic analysis is the way for the government to go
I was going to say the same. It is much easier to restrict usage of tools that hamper traffic analysis than to restrict usage of encryption per se. Moreover, anyone who establishes an anonymous remailer service could be prosecuted as aiding and abetting.
Only half of the male children of a tetrachromatic woman will be colorblind. And, strictly speaking, it is a shade of green, because it is the gene for "green" rods that is in the X chromosome.
An LCD-projection monitor a la Sony KL-W9000 or LK-W7000. Takes much less space (depth-wise) than a TV with comparable screen size, accepts SVGA input, and is quite bright.
Search for "soviet computer" (hoping to find anything on the history of computer science in xUSSR) and what do you get? Namely (I just love the number 1; does theindex.com have a hidden agenda, anyone?):
1 : Russian Immigration Services and Adoption Agency for Russian Orphans
Russian Immigration Services offers many free services to immigrants from the former Soviet Union. RIS supports Russian orphanages and is a licensed adoption agency for Russian orphans.
2 : East-West Technology Partners Ltd. technology search and transfer service specializing in technologies from Russia and the former Soviet Union.
3 : Kent International page frame-placeholder for index.htm
Providing management experience and the financial support to unlock the value of target company assets.
4 : High School 116 (Odessa, former USSR / Ukraine) Home Page
The main auto symbology detecting software in the cat is very nice and would be
good code to use in another reader.
How do you know? Has anyone extracted the firmware for analysis? It will be interesting to know the size of the firmware.
If they managed to write a several Kb code for the functionality implemented in other barcode readers by several hundreds of Kb, they do deserve a credit, and it is conceivable that it could have taken some significant number of man-months.
Also AFAIU the copyright law, copying something into one's brain is not a violation, and therefore ripping the firmware, disassembling it and understanding its innards for one's own enjoyment is not.
You cannot detect colon cancer with a thing that has colon cancer itself (:Cue:C.A.T.). And it's spreading! If it becomes:Cue:C:A:T: it will not
be advisable to make it touch any part of your colon.
So what happens if I make a barcode that happens to point to DeCSS. Does my barcode become illegal?
Let's see... A full URL pointing to DeCSS is illegal; the same with http:// omitted must be illegal as well. Suppose DeCSS is on the home page - this makes a host name illegal.
If the host name is replaced with an IP, it is still illegal. Now, an IP can be written as an integer, the A.B.C.D notation is really a "syntactical sugar". This makes some integers illegal. Moreover, it is possible to find an IP address that will (in its integer notation) coincide with a UPC for an existing product. This will effectively make the product illegal, because all instances of it bear the illegal integer.
Punctuation is nothing compared to the word "cat". It is to allow them to say "our cat is temperamental" in their FAQ as an excuse for its sloppy performance.
Take a free CueCat, sign an agreement that you will send everything that you
scan to their server, along with the CueCat's serial number which was also scanned at Radio Shack and linked to your name and
address.
No, it was not. They only scan the cuecat UPC to know that you "bought it for $.00" and to make sure you don't visit 10 RadioShacks and take 10 cuecats.
The implementations with the stack growing toward higher addresses is somewhat less efficient. Here's why: a called function only gets the current value of stack pointer (that is usually assigned to a frame pointer register). When the stack grows toward smaller addresses, it already points to the beginning of the arguments, and (in case the arguments are of different sizes) it is enough to figure out the size of an argument to find the stack location of the next. <-stack grows/FP-points->| a |b| c... If 'a' can tell us its size, we can find the address of 'b', etc. Not so if we simply store arguments backwards into the forward-growing stack - to obtain the address we need to know the size of the argument the pointer to which we're trying to obtain: | c |b| a |SP-> grows, points (no way to find where 'a' starts without additional info) Therefore we have to pass the old value of SP (or the total size of all arguments) to the function on the top of the stack or in an additional register, to achieve this: FP->| a |b| c |SP->
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As a jugde of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (which is, by the way, accepting submissions until March 31) I (and the 3 other judges) will be in a very delicate position if such an entry is submitted and happens to win. Although, luckily for us, a contest rule requires that the code size must be no more than 3217 bytes in length, the size of data files is not limited, therefore if somebody implements an obfuscated virtual machine that becomes a DeCSS machine if supplied with the appropriate data, and that entry wins, it will be, in my understanding, OK for us to post the entry and leave the details of supplying the data or the instructions on how to modify the supplied data to the author.
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AFAIK, that's legal, as far as there is "sequential quality degradation", which is true for most, if not all, analog recording devices, and not true for digital devices.
Is at BESM-6 Nostalgia page.
Unless and until they show a self-contained archive of a small size that can be brought to a standalone computer and expanded into a standardized benchmark data compression corpus, they can be ignored.
I pity the poor VPs who gave them money.
Leather and Weather?
Lizard and Wizard?
Ledge and Wedge?
Leek and Week?
Lake and Wake?
Lane and Wane?
Life and Wife?
Line and Wine?
Link and Wink?
.. and I can assure you, the general public can too.
With @Home I was uisng some (news) servers that required the clients to have proper reverse DNS. With
AT&T, nobody gets reverse DNS and their customer support does not even know what that is!
How much money Excite@Home burns to maintain all that? I do not want to pay for service that I do not use; I want to have plain broadband Internet access with static (or quasi-static) IP address, and I believe AT&T will be able to provide just that.
I think traffic analysis is the way for the government to go
I was going to say the same. It is much easier to restrict usage of tools that hamper traffic analysis than to restrict usage of encryption per se. Moreover, anyone who establishes an anonymous remailer service could be prosecuted as aiding and abetting.
...namely, for my BESM-6 museum? Well, it's more of a nostalgia page, but anyway.
Only half of the male children of a tetrachromatic woman will be colorblind. And, strictly speaking, it is a shade of green, because it is the gene for "green" rods that is in the X chromosome.
An LCD-projection monitor a la Sony KL-W9000 or LK-W7000. Takes much less space (depth-wise) than a TV with comparable screen size, accepts SVGA input, and is quite bright.
Search for "soviet computer" (hoping to find anything on the history of computer science in xUSSR) and what do you get? Namely (I just love the number 1; does theindex.com have a hidden agenda, anyone?):
1 : Russian Immigration Services and Adoption Agency for Russian Orphans
Russian Immigration Services offers many free services to immigrants from the former Soviet Union. RIS supports Russian orphanages and is a licensed adoption agency for Russian orphans.
2 : East-West Technology Partners Ltd. technology search and transfer service specializing in technologies from Russia and the former Soviet Union.
3 : Kent International page frame-placeholder for index.htm
Providing management experience and the financial support to unlock the value of target company assets.
4 : High School 116 (Odessa, former USSR / Ukraine) Home Page
www.116.org
5 : Intel Russia
Online technical support for the Soviet Union.
6 : FarPost - ??????&
FarPost - VIRTUAL RUSSIAN FAR EAST.
The rest are as ludicrous, esp. 4 and 5.
E-e-excuse me?!
How do you know? Has anyone extracted the firmware for analysis? It will be interesting to know the size of the firmware.
If they managed to write a several Kb code for the functionality implemented in other barcode readers by several hundreds of Kb, they do deserve a credit, and it is conceivable that it could have taken some significant number of man-months.
Also AFAIU the copyright law, copying something into one's brain is not a violation, and therefore ripping the firmware, disassembling it and understanding its innards for one's own enjoyment is not.
You cannot detect colon cancer with a thing that has colon cancer itself (:Cue:C.A.T.). And it's spreading! If it becomes :Cue:C:A:T: it will not
be advisable to make it touch any part of your colon.
Let's see... A full URL pointing to DeCSS is illegal; the same with http:// omitted must be illegal as well.
Suppose DeCSS is on the home page - this makes a host name illegal.
If the host name is replaced with an IP, it is still illegal.
Now, an IP can be written as an integer, the A.B.C.D notation is really a "syntactical sugar". This makes some integers illegal. Moreover, it is possible to find an IP address that will (in its integer notation) coincide with a UPC for an existing product. This will effectively make the product illegal, because all instances of it bear the illegal integer.
What a way to drive products off the market!
Punctuation is nothing compared to the word "cat". It is to allow them to say "our cat is temperamental" in their FAQ as an excuse for its sloppy performance.
No, it was not. They only scan the cuecat UPC to know that you "bought it for $.00" and to make sure you don't visit 10 RadioShacks and take 10 cuecats.
The implementations with the stack growing toward higher addresses is somewhat less efficient. Here's why: a called function only gets the current value of stack pointer (that is usually assigned to a frame pointer register). When the stack grows toward smaller addresses, it already points to the beginning of the arguments, and (in case the arguments are of different sizes) it is enough to figure out the size of an argument to find the stack location of the next. ...
<-stack grows/FP-points->| a |b| c
If 'a' can tell us its size, we can find the address of 'b', etc. Not so if we simply store arguments backwards into the forward-growing stack - to obtain the address we need to know the size of the argument the pointer to which we're trying to obtain:
| c |b| a |SP-> grows, points
(no way to find where 'a' starts without additional info) Therefore we have to pass the old value of SP (or the total size of all arguments) to the function on the top of the stack or in an additional register, to achieve this:
FP->| a |b| c |SP->
As a jugde of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (which is, by the way, accepting submissions until March 31) I (and the 3 other judges) will be in a very delicate position if such an entry is submitted and happens to win. Although, luckily for us, a contest rule requires that the code size must be no more than 3217 bytes in length, the size of data files is not limited, therefore if somebody implements an obfuscated virtual machine that becomes a DeCSS machine if supplied with the appropriate data, and that entry wins, it will be, in my understanding, OK for us to post the entry and leave the details of supplying the data or the instructions on how to modify the supplied data to the author.