As a student of Purdue, I would like to say that they are doing the right thing. No service has been banned, carnivore has not been installed, and students are left responsible for their personal actions.
How can you be so sure of Carnivore not being installed?
On a different tangent, since 'DNA computers' are going to have four states for each bit instead of two, we'll need a different method define the states. Here's my proposal for the different values of each bit(Quadruple-state logic):
Actually, what you could do is have one state represent 00, another represent 01, another represent 10, and another represent 11. Thus your memory size is instantaneously doubled. Somewhat like hardware-based compression.
You are correct, however, on that there is an upper limit on percievable effect of adding more frames per second but it is closer to 80. I saw a nice scientific explaination of it all, but I'm too lazy to look up the reference.
The explanation lies in the fact that the human eye can only see X frames per second. If I remember correctly, it is somewhere in the neighborhood of 40-60. So once you get above that range, your eyes/brain can't tell much (if any) of a difference from increased framerates.
They are of course going to publish the encryption method so we can add SMDI into our current favorite music players (XMMS, etc.)...right?:-)
They're going to pull a DeCSS and require that SDMI only be used in "licensed" players. IOW, you'll have to pay extra for an SDMI player, and it'll only be available for Winblows. Those who write Linux-compatible SDMI players will be up to their neck in legal trouble. (Let's hope this isn't what they actually do, but given their reputation, don't be surprised if it is)
After it's done installing windows it boots up in a sort of "safe mode" so OEM's can load drivers etc.
What, then, is the end user who adds hardware supposed to do when additional WinXX files are needed? Buy another license? Suuuuuuure Microsoft, take my money. I don't want it.
Recently, in one of my EE courses, overclocking was mentioned. It was also mentioned why certain designs can only be pushed so far, and after that they cannot be clocked any higher, regardless of how well they are cooled.
The problem is with propagation delays. Basically, when one part of a digital logic circuit goes high or low, this change takes time to propagate to the rest of the circuit. This is a very small delay, but when you have a circuit as complicated as, say a Pentium III, it can become important. There are small gaps in between parts of the circuit being in different states, and as the clock rate is pushed higher and higher, these gaps become smaller and smaller. If the clock rate is pushed too high, different states of the circuit will overlap, essentially causing it to malfunction. It should be noted that a circuit or portion thereof does not change states (0 to 1 or 1 to 0) instantaneously; this is what allows the overlap that ends overclockability. Propagation delays also explain why, for example, you can't push a C64 to 200 MHz. The circuits in the CPU weren't designed for speeds like that.
From the April 7, 2000 issue of the O'Colly (campus newspaper for those of you who aren't students here) -- The FBI has even gotten involved in a case that involved a student hacking into a Department of Energy subcontractor's server.
What, if anything, does this imply? Sure, if they get a complaint from the FBI, they had darn well better act on it. But if they get complaints from a student, nothing?
Sony Corp and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) will join forces to provide movies, games and other products to households via a fibre-optic network and Sony's video game console PlayStation2
Sending videos over fibre-optic networks and playing them on PSX2s? Nobody tell the MPAA.
I happen to be a student at Oklahoma State University myself, and while I am aware of plenty of other students who have been in trouble for MP3 distribution, most of them just had their network access cut off. The article in the campus newspaper on this particular incident, which can be found here, mentions that unlike some other campuses, however, OSU's CIS department will *not* censor traffic and will *not* scan the network for "illegal" shares. To quote the assistant director - "We are not Big Brother, we are not a censor, but we won't turn a blind eye."
Incidentally, the dorm that this student lived in had just been wired with ethernet and was one of the last dorms on campus to have this done.
How on earth do website defacements (in the Jesse Salens case) constitute monetary damages? I work as a web developer, and while fixing a website is work, it isn't that much work - a few minutes, max.
While the 'altered' web site is up, how many customers will read it, expecting to find the company's normal site? How much business will this cost the company? Not to mention the labor costs and lost productivity (however small) involved in having a web site maintainer repair the damage.
"What's that you have, a warrant? I'm sorry, but the contents of my hard disk are encrypted. And since there's copyrighted material on my hard disk, circumventing the encryption on the disk constitutes a violation under the DMCA with regards to circumventing a technological method that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work or works."
Unfortunately, chances are that the warrant will have something like "we will also decrypt that which is encrypted and check there." Especially if the warrant was signed by the likes of Judge Kaplan.
The MPAA is a non-profit organization, actually. They've covered their asses really well with that one. It seems like the companies within the MPAA are into some form of collusion or another, however.
But if they're a non-profit organization, why are they raising such a big stink over "licensed" players (i.e. ones that they have received extra $$$ for)?
When I was a youngin' (not that I'm so old now) I was, one week, restricted by a curfew law. The next week I participated in an election to ban it. Seven days separated my maturity level between "too young to know what to do at ten in the evening" and "old enough to vote on this law, and for the president of the USA"?
Same sort of thing happened here: there was a $10000 drawing in my community, held ONE WEEK before my 18th. And no, they wouldn't let me participate. Point is, drawing distinct age lines such as the one KMart is drawing is dangerous at best for a number of reasons, one of the most prominent ones being that different people mature at very different rates.
You mean, how many have collided and seriously disrupted life on earth? None within recorded history, much less modern history.
None within recorded *human* history. If the theory is true that the dinosaurs were killed off by an asteroid (I'm not saying that it is or isn't true), then your argument here proves false.
I think you are half right. Isn't it licensed to a linux (not OSS) company? I thought a player was coming out RSN.
IINM there is such a product in the works. But..it will be proprietary. Chances are, you will have to pay for it like most any other commercial software package. The problem here is that end users will be paying extra $$$ for a CSS "licensed" player -- something they should not have to do. VHS players don't require MPAA licenses and proprietary formats, CD players and Walkmans (Walkmen?) don't require RIAA licenses and proprietary formats, so DVD players should be no different, regardless of whether they are hardware based or software based, and regardless of what OS they run on.
But that's just the issue: the encription does NOT control the access!
But through the encryption, the MPAA/DVDCCA is able to control access. They come up with a proprietary encryption scheme (CSS), license it out ONLY to those who they choose to license it out to, and basically tell the others that they are out of luck (even though they have a right under fair use laws to access the data). You're right in that DeCSS enables access on non-M$ systems, but since DeCSS isn't licensed use of CSS, it doesn't make the MPAA happy.
I'm quite sure that no licence on a DVD or DVD player says you can only access it through a Bill Gates systems.
Then why hasn't the MPAA/DVDCCA authorized any Linux/OSS developers to use CSS?
DHCP supports anonymity by sharing (admittedly limited) IP address among large numbers of people.
If the DHCP server keeps good enough logs (depending on how it is configured), then the IP address and time can be linked with the MAC address, which can then be traced back to your computer. And also, some places that use DHCP (including the college dorm where I live) have enough IPs that they can assign one *static* IP to every computer on the network.
IPv4 works... now. We don't need IPv6... unless it's advocates have a different goal, which IPv4 isn't meeting.
IPv4 works just fine, but is running out of addresses. Hence the need for IPv6. IPv6 isn't about tracking people -- it's about keeping up with a rapidly expanding Internet.
Should there be, at a minimum, some sort of 'commenting standard' to be (at least voluntarily) followed by developers in the Linux/Open Source community?"
Perhaps this would help those who are trying to read and understand the code, but the problem is that each different coder has their own styles and practices. This includes commenting -- some don't comment at all, some write long, verbose descriptions of what they are doing, and some are in between. You could ask them to follow a standard such as this, but some coders may think that their style is better and thus refuse.
Slashdot Mirror
Why not have the government pull a Microsoft on the RIAA and break it up for being a monopoly?
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As a student of Purdue, I would like to say that they are doing the right thing. No service has been banned, carnivore has not been installed, and students are left responsible for their personal actions.
How can you be so sure of Carnivore not being installed?
=================================
On a different tangent, since 'DNA computers' are going to have four states for each bit instead of two, we'll need a different method define the states. Here's my proposal for the different values of each bit(Quadruple-state logic):
Actually, what you could do is have one state represent 00, another represent 01, another represent 10, and another represent 11. Thus your memory size is instantaneously doubled. Somewhat like hardware-based compression.
=================================
You are correct, however, on that there is an upper limit on percievable effect of adding more frames per second but it is closer to 80. I saw a nice scientific explaination of it all, but I'm too lazy to look up the reference.
The explanation lies in the fact that the human eye can only see X frames per second. If I remember correctly, it is somewhere in the neighborhood of 40-60. So once you get above that range, your eyes/brain can't tell much (if any) of a difference from increased framerates.
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They are of course going to publish the encryption method so we can add SMDI into our current favorite music players (XMMS, etc.)...right? :-)
They're going to pull a DeCSS and require that SDMI only be used in "licensed" players. IOW, you'll have to pay extra for an SDMI player, and it'll only be available for Winblows. Those who write Linux-compatible SDMI players will be up to their neck in legal trouble. (Let's hope this isn't what they actually do, but given their reputation, don't be surprised if it is)
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After it's done installing windows it boots up in a sort of "safe mode" so OEM's can load drivers etc.
What, then, is the end user who adds hardware supposed to do when additional WinXX files are needed? Buy another license? Suuuuuuure Microsoft, take my money. I don't want it.
=================================
Recently, in one of my EE courses, overclocking was mentioned. It was also mentioned why certain designs can only be pushed so far, and after that they cannot be clocked any higher, regardless of how well they are cooled.
The problem is with propagation delays. Basically, when one part of a digital logic circuit goes high or low, this change takes time to propagate to the rest of the circuit. This is a very small delay, but when you have a circuit as complicated as, say a Pentium III, it can become important. There are small gaps in between parts of the circuit being in different states, and as the clock rate is pushed higher and higher, these gaps become smaller and smaller. If the clock rate is pushed too high, different states of the circuit will overlap, essentially causing it to malfunction. It should be noted that a circuit or portion thereof does not change states (0 to 1 or 1 to 0) instantaneously; this is what allows the overlap that ends overclockability. Propagation delays also explain why, for example, you can't push a C64 to 200 MHz. The circuits in the CPU weren't designed for speeds like that.
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From the April 7, 2000 issue of the O'Colly (campus newspaper for those of you who aren't students here) --
The FBI has even gotten involved in a case that involved a student hacking into a Department of Energy subcontractor's server.
What, if anything, does this imply? Sure, if they get a complaint from the FBI, they had darn well better act on it. But if they get complaints from a student, nothing?
=================================
Sony Corp and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) will join forces to provide movies, games and other products to households via a fibre-optic network and Sony's video game console PlayStation2
Sending videos over fibre-optic networks and playing them on PSX2s? Nobody tell the MPAA.
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In case you want to bid, the eBay URL is here:
http://cgi.ebay.co m/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=439118853
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I happen to be a student at Oklahoma State University myself, and while I am aware of plenty of other students who have been in trouble for MP3 distribution, most of them just had their network access cut off. The article in the campus newspaper on this particular incident, which can be found here, mentions that unlike some other campuses, however, OSU's CIS department will *not* censor traffic and will *not* scan the network for "illegal" shares. To quote the assistant director - "We are not Big Brother, we are not a censor, but we won't turn a blind eye."
Incidentally, the dorm that this student lived in had just been wired with ethernet and was one of the last dorms on campus to have this done.
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The only other GIF-like animated graphics format supported by web browsers is MNG, and it only works in 6.x browsers such as Mozilla.
Don't you mean PNG?
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How on earth do website defacements (in the Jesse Salens case) constitute monetary damages? I work as a web developer, and while fixing a website is work, it isn't that much work - a few minutes, max.
While the 'altered' web site is up, how many customers will read it, expecting to find the company's normal site? How much business will this cost the company? Not to mention the labor costs and lost productivity (however small) involved in having a web site maintainer repair the damage.
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WTF?? "not really enough statistics to prove anything"
So? 74% of all statistics are made up anyway...
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"What's that you have, a warrant? I'm sorry, but the contents of my hard disk are encrypted. And since there's copyrighted material on my hard disk, circumventing the encryption on the disk constitutes a violation under the DMCA with regards to circumventing a technological method that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work or works."
Unfortunately, chances are that the warrant will have something like "we will also decrypt that which is encrypted and check there." Especially if the warrant was signed by the likes of Judge Kaplan.
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If I've paid for a dvd, exactly what am I getting for free by using an open-source dvd player?
You are gaining the ability to view content that you have legally obtained. Clear enough?
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The MPAA is a non-profit organization, actually. They've covered their asses really well with that one. It seems like the companies within the MPAA are into some form of collusion or another, however.
But if they're a non-profit organization, why are they raising such a big stink over "licensed" players (i.e. ones that they have received extra $$$ for)?
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To do this, find the "hosts" file (stuck in \windows\system or \winnt\system32; I don't know where for Linux).
/etc/hosts
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When I was a youngin' (not that I'm so old now) I was, one week, restricted by a curfew law. The next week I participated in an election to ban it. Seven days separated my maturity level between "too young to know what to do at ten in the evening" and "old enough to vote on this law, and for the president of the USA"?
Same sort of thing happened here: there was a $10000 drawing in my community, held ONE WEEK before my 18th. And no, they wouldn't let me participate. Point is, drawing distinct age lines such as the one KMart is drawing is dangerous at best for a number of reasons, one of the most prominent ones being that different people mature at very different rates.
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You mean, how many have collided and seriously disrupted life on earth? None within recorded history, much less modern history.
None within recorded *human* history. If the theory is true that the dinosaurs were killed off by an asteroid (I'm not saying that it is or isn't true), then your argument here proves false.
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overclock r2d2 to make him more interesting then c3po
I can only wonder what a robot's version of "I am Cornholio" is....
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I think you are half right. Isn't it licensed to a linux (not OSS) company? I thought a player was coming out RSN.
IINM there is such a product in the works. But..it will be proprietary. Chances are, you will have to pay for it like most any other commercial software package. The problem here is that end users will be paying extra $$$ for a CSS "licensed" player -- something they should not have to do. VHS players don't require MPAA licenses and proprietary formats, CD players and Walkmans (Walkmen?) don't require RIAA licenses and proprietary formats, so DVD players should be no different, regardless of whether they are hardware based or software based, and regardless of what OS they run on.
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But that's just the issue: the encription does NOT control the access!
But through the encryption, the MPAA/DVDCCA is able to control access. They come up with a proprietary encryption scheme (CSS), license it out ONLY to those who they choose to license it out to, and basically tell the others that they are out of luck (even though they have a right under fair use laws to access the data). You're right in that DeCSS enables access on non-M$ systems, but since DeCSS isn't licensed use of CSS, it doesn't make the MPAA happy.
I'm quite sure that no licence on a DVD or DVD player says you can only access it through a Bill Gates systems.
Then why hasn't the MPAA/DVDCCA authorized any Linux/OSS developers to use CSS?
=================================
DHCP supports anonymity by sharing (admittedly limited) IP address among large numbers of people.
If the DHCP server keeps good enough logs (depending on how it is configured), then the IP address and time can be linked with the MAC address, which can then be traced back to your computer. And also, some places that use DHCP (including the college dorm where I live) have enough IPs that they can assign one *static* IP to every computer on the network.
IPv4 works... now. We don't need IPv6... unless it's advocates have a different goal, which IPv4 isn't meeting.
IPv4 works just fine, but is running out of addresses. Hence the need for IPv6. IPv6 isn't about tracking people -- it's about keeping up with a rapidly expanding Internet.
=================================
Should there be, at a minimum, some sort of 'commenting standard' to be (at least voluntarily) followed by developers in the Linux/Open Source community?"
Perhaps this would help those who are trying to read and understand the code, but the problem is that each different coder has their own styles and practices. This includes commenting -- some don't comment at all, some write long, verbose descriptions of what they are doing, and some are in between. You could ask them to follow a standard such as this, but some coders may think that their style is better and thus refuse.
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