we all have an obligation to stand up together and forcefully oppose Carnegie Mellon University's uneducated reinterpretations of copyright law.
It is actually a well informed interpretation of the law. If students are making copies of music illegally available and it is brought to the attention of the administration, they have to act or assume liability themselves.
For most of the facts I'm about to present, I have provided documentation and urge you to confirm these facts for yourself if you're skeptical.
And then you neglect to present any facts. If this were a paper that I were grading, you would earn an F for an utter lack of content.
The password is not the issue. They were made publically available which is a violation of the law. When a violation of the law is made known to the administrators and when the violation is as clear cut as this one, the administrators had to act.
Bill Gates does too support Open Source. In Excel, Edit -> Links brings up a dialog box with an Open Source button. I keep pressing it, but I haven't found the source to either Excel or Windows yet. Must be another Windows bug.:^(
Penfield's findings document had Roman numeraled major sections, lettered subsctions and numbered sections with one or at most a few paragraphs within each. You and I can talk about paragraph 4 of section 214 even if you print it in 12 point courier and I print it in 36 point Times.
Hey, Jeff. Jeff's page gave me the courage to buy the Aircard 210 for my Mitsubishi Amity. Highly recommended. I had to take a few extra steps to get the Aircard working because it needs to be initialized with the IP address that the cellular provider gives you. A little research on the Sierra wireless site gave me the data I needed to initialize the card. If I had still had Win95 installed on the laptop, the software provided would have done that for me.
I have a flat rate "email only" package from Bell Atlantic Mobile for $25/month. And it seems that they don't filter packets at all, so I can actually ssh and irc on the service even though I nearly only use it for email.
As much as I am a fan of fair use, it has already been eroded by the latest revisions to the copyright act which make it illegal (in the US) to defeat encryption of digital data. Since the fair use concept was enshrined in Copyright Law to begin with, it can be changed by a simple act of Congress.
The SAS System, Version 6 had this feature in the YEARCUTOFF= system option. My manual (SAS Institute Inc., SAS Language: Reference, Version 6, First Edition Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc., 1990 ISBN 1-55544-381-8 p790 documents this option) copyrighted 1990 clearly indicates that an arbitrary 100 year span could be used to infer 4 digit dates from two digit dates. I believe that this was a feature prior to Version 6.
The SAS system, which I learned to program in 1987, already had a date window. By setting an option with a date (i.e. 1950), all two digit dates were interpred to occur in the 100 year span from date to date+99. This is exactly the claim in the patent. Many pre-1987 SAS manuals exist which document this option.
I only have a SAS manual from 1990. The YEARCUTOFF= system option is documented on page 790 of my SAS Language: Reference; Version 6; First Edition (ISBN 1-55544-381-8).
211.101 Applicability. The provisions of this part apply to all NASA manned and unmanned space missions...
I could dismiss this whole controversy as a tempest in a teacup if the above passage contained the word "only", so as to read: "The provisions of this part apply only to all NASA manned and unmanned space missions..."
I read it. There is nothing confusing about it and there is absolutely no need to insert the word "only" in the text. The section applies to NASA missions. It does not apply to you and me. If you think that it does, you don't understand Federal Regulations. (You should note that this is a regulation, not a law.) If anyone tried to deprive you of your liberty on the basis of this section, any judge would release you faster than you could say "habeus corpus".
If they want to illegally keep you far away from daylight, they don't need this bogus section to do it.
Most people don't have a need for phones that speak multiple protocols. Some friends of mine that travel between the US and Europe frequently need them and they're very expensive when you can get your hands on them. This could reduce the the cost of those devices, but I still wonder about the NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome that led to conflicting wireless (and for that matter analog and digital TV) standards.
Get a grip! A 1969 law, already repealed, that allows NASA to quarrentine people who, while on a NASA mission, encountered extraterrestrial material -- how is this an example?
I don't know if you even bothered to read the text of the law that was posted, but it clearly applied only to NASA mission s despite the paranoid ravings of the authors of the page.
But notice that the site now carries a disclaimer above the title. It was a hilarious response, but IDG got all it really wanted from this group, an acknolegement of it's trademark.
It's not the technology that is right or wrong, it's the uses to which it is put. Most posters here are interested in playing DVDs on their Linux systems. Since it is then intention of the licensees that they be able to play the DVDs that they have bought/licensed, this desire, in and of itself, is not wrong. Cracking the keys may be a way to enable Linux-based playback if the companies won't support our favorite OS.
The technology, once available, might also be put to wrong uses. Piracy in any form is wrong, whether it takes place on a Windows system with a CD or DVD ripper or on a Linux system.
Even then, there may be justiafiable uses for a CD/DVD ripper. The concept of "fair use" under copyright law allows you to make additional copies of copyrighted material for your own use. Copyright holders (and supporters of UCITA) may wish to get rid of fair use, but we don't have to cooperate.
Except that different Christian groups interpret the teachings differently. Some groups are anti-intellectual and expect the members to believe what is force fed to them. Other groups depend on each person to follow their own conscience on matters of belief.
I'm sorry but the thing that finally allowed me to laugh at most blindly devoted Christians is the continuing theme of "Come follow me, my sheep".
That's just one metaphor out of many in the Gospels. There's a lot of vineyard imagery as well. The metaphors are used to make a specific point. In the passages you are referring to, the focus is on the care that the shepherd has for the sheep. Any metaphor can be stretched too far, as I think you've done.
But yes, sheep are stupid and don't always know what's best for themselves. Does that remind you of any humans that you know? Do you know anyone who has self-destructive behavior?
Where some Christians go off the track is to set themselves up as judges for the behavious of others. They don't seem to realize that we are not set up as judges over others.
Back to the topic here, who cares if someone publishes a Christian-theme game? Does it hurt you somehow? No one is making you buy it.
Ever since they delisted my ISP and all the pages hosted there (including mine), I've been down on Altavista.
It seems that someone put up a web page with a recursive Babelfish interface to repeated translate and retranslate entered text until it converged. Once the/. effect had worn off, Altavista decided that my ISP has spammed them by submitting too many URLs and they delisted all of our pages and will not allow anyone to submit new ones.
What part of IE dosn't suck? ActiveX is nothing but a huge security hole as is their independant and non-standard "implementation" of Java. I've never seen a DHTML page and I've never installed Shockwave and I don't think that I'm missing a damn thing. I have to use IE at work because the PHBs have standardized on it. But, half the time it won't pull pages through the proxy server correctly. It writes outside of it's own frigging window on this NT box -- software shouldn't even be able to do that. I would never use it on my Windows PC at home.
I certainly don't use it on my Linux boxes. (note the singular in the previous paragraph and the plural here.) Not even in VMWare.
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we all have an obligation to stand up together and forcefully oppose Carnegie Mellon University's uneducated reinterpretations of copyright law.
It is actually a well informed interpretation of the law. If students are making copies of music illegally available and it is brought to the attention of the administration, they have to act or assume liability themselves.
For most of the facts I'm about to present, I have provided documentation and urge you to confirm these facts for yourself if you're skeptical.
And then you neglect to present any facts. If this were a paper that I were grading, you would earn an F for an utter lack of content.
The password is not the issue. They were made publically available which is a violation of the law. When a violation of the law is made known to the administrators and when the violation is as clear cut as this one, the administrators had to act.
Bill Gates does too support Open Source. In Excel, Edit -> Links brings up a dialog box with an Open Source button. I keep pressing it, but I haven't found the source to either Excel or Windows yet. Must be another Windows bug. :^(
I met my wife through a personals ad. Her ad was specific in what she wanted and I fit (except for height -- she is 5'11" and I am 5'5").
She's not a geek, but she uses Linux and dosn't complain to me when her friends give her Windows-centric advise.
I think I'll keep her.
Penfield's findings document had Roman numeraled major sections, lettered subsctions and numbered sections with one or at most a few paragraphs within each. You and I can talk about paragraph 4 of section 214 even if you print it in 12 point courier and I print it in 36 point Times.
I read the decision in an HTML format.
NPR reported the rumor this morning before /. did.
Despite the sound of the crowd wanting blood, I think US v. Microsoft may have been rendered obselete before its time.
Completely untrue. The AOLSun/Netscape deal does not change any of the essential facts of the case:
That MS had (and continues to have) an effective monopoly in personal computer operating systems, and
That MS abused the power of this monopoly in an attempt to extend that monopoly to another market.
End of case. Anything else is just smoke.
formatting is VERY important in legal documents.
That appearance is more important than content is only one of the things wrong with our legal system.
Repeat after me: *BSD is not an enemy.
Hey, Jeff. Jeff's page gave me the courage to buy the Aircard 210 for my Mitsubishi Amity. Highly recommended. I had to take a few extra steps to get the Aircard working because it needs to be initialized with the IP address that the cellular provider gives you. A little research on the Sierra wireless site gave me the data I needed to initialize the card. If I had still had Win95 installed on the laptop, the software provided would have done that for me.
I have a flat rate "email only" package from Bell Atlantic Mobile for $25/month. And it seems that they don't filter packets at all, so I can actually ssh and irc on the service even though I nearly only use it for email.
Now... if I could just get embedded linux installed into my wife, life would be great!
Remember, an operating system is no more reliable than the hardware on which it runs.
As much as I am a fan of fair use, it has already been eroded by the latest revisions to the copyright act which make it illegal (in the US) to defeat encryption of digital data. Since the fair use concept was enshrined in Copyright Law to begin with, it can be changed by a simple act of Congress.
The SAS System, Version 6 had this feature in the YEARCUTOFF= system option. My manual (SAS Institute Inc., SAS Language: Reference, Version 6, First Edition Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc., 1990 ISBN 1-55544-381-8 p790 documents this option) copyrighted 1990 clearly indicates that an arbitrary 100 year span could be used to infer 4 digit dates from two digit dates. I believe that this was a feature prior to Version 6.
The SAS system, which I learned to program in 1987, already had a date window. By setting an option with a date (i.e. 1950), all two digit dates were interpred to occur in the 100 year span from date to date+99. This is exactly the claim in the patent. Many pre-1987 SAS manuals exist which document this option.
I only have a SAS manual from 1990. The YEARCUTOFF= system option is documented on page 790 of my SAS Language: Reference; Version 6; First Edition (ISBN 1-55544-381-8).
211.101 Applicability. The provisions of this part apply to all NASA manned and unmanned space missions...
I could dismiss this whole controversy as a tempest in a teacup if the above passage contained the word "only", so as to read: "The provisions of this part apply only to all NASA manned and unmanned space missions..."
I read it. There is nothing confusing about it and there is absolutely no need to insert the word "only" in the text. The section applies to NASA missions. It does not apply to you and me. If you think that it does, you don't understand Federal Regulations. (You should note that this is a regulation, not a law.) If anyone tried to deprive you of your liberty on the basis of this section, any judge would release you faster than you could say "habeus corpus".
If they want to illegally keep you far away from daylight, they don't need this bogus section to do it.
Most people don't have a need for phones that speak multiple protocols. Some friends of mine that travel between the US and Europe frequently need them and they're very expensive when you can get your hands on them. This could reduce the the cost of those devices, but I still wonder about the NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome that led to conflicting wireless (and for that matter analog and digital TV) standards.
Get a grip! A 1969 law, already repealed, that allows NASA to quarrentine people who, while on a NASA mission, encountered extraterrestrial material -- how is this an example?
I don't know if you even bothered to read the text of the law that was posted, but it clearly applied only to NASA mission s despite the paranoid ravings of the authors of the page.
But notice that the site now carries a disclaimer above the title. It was a hilarious response, but IDG got all it really wanted from this group, an acknolegement of it's trademark.
But they'll put "Linux?" in the head of many PHB's.
Gee, do you think there's room?
The guy's email address is not @aol.com. It looks like someone anticipated the /. effect and wanted someone else's server to get creamed.
It's not the technology that is right or wrong, it's the uses to which it is put. Most posters here are interested in playing DVDs on their Linux systems. Since it is then intention of the licensees that they be able to play the DVDs that they have bought/licensed, this desire, in and of itself, is not wrong. Cracking the keys may be a way to enable Linux-based playback if the companies won't support our favorite OS.
The technology, once available, might also be put to wrong uses. Piracy in any form is wrong, whether it takes place on a Windows system with a CD or DVD ripper or on a Linux system.
Even then, there may be justiafiable uses for a CD/DVD ripper. The concept of "fair use" under copyright law allows you to make additional copies of copyrighted material for your own use. Copyright holders (and supporters of UCITA) may wish to get rid of fair use, but we don't have to cooperate.
Instead He just asks them to act all the same.
Except that different Christian groups interpret the teachings differently. Some groups are anti-intellectual and expect the members to believe what is force fed to them. Other groups depend on each person to follow their own conscience on matters of belief.
I'm sorry but the thing that finally allowed me to laugh at most blindly devoted Christians is the continuing theme of "Come follow me, my sheep".
That's just one metaphor out of many in the Gospels. There's a lot of vineyard imagery as well. The metaphors are used to make a specific point. In the passages you are referring to, the focus is on the care that the shepherd has for the sheep. Any metaphor can be stretched too far, as I think you've done.
But yes, sheep are stupid and don't always know what's best for themselves. Does that remind you of any humans that you know? Do you know anyone who has self-destructive behavior?
Where some Christians go off the track is to set themselves up as judges for the behavious of others. They don't seem to realize that we are not set up as judges over others.
Back to the topic here, who cares if someone publishes a Christian-theme game? Does it hurt you somehow? No one is making you buy it.
Ever since they delisted my ISP and all the pages hosted there (including mine), I've been down on Altavista.
/. effect had worn off, Altavista decided that my ISP has spammed them by submitting too many URLs and they delisted all of our pages and will not allow anyone to submit new ones.
It seems that someone put up a web page with a recursive Babelfish interface to repeated translate and retranslate entered text until it converged. Once the
It wouldnt be practical if an adminstrator program ate up all processor power.
No, because that would make it Windows.
What part of Ie sucks?
What part of IE dosn't suck? ActiveX is nothing but a huge security hole as is their independant and non-standard "implementation" of Java. I've never seen a DHTML page and I've never installed Shockwave and I don't think that I'm missing a damn thing. I have to use IE at work because the PHBs have standardized on it. But, half the time it won't pull pages through the proxy server correctly. It writes outside of it's own frigging window on this NT box -- software shouldn't even be able to do that. I would never use it on my Windows PC at home.
I certainly don't use it on my Linux boxes. (note the singular in the previous paragraph and the plural here.) Not even in VMWare.