IANAL, and neither are you. Why do you say his lawyer was incompetent? Perhaps the lawyer said something like, "If you are prepared to invest 1,000 hours of your time and 1,000 hours of a lawyer's time (pro bono or otherwise) you have an 80% chance of not owing your next 20 years' income to Sony."
Tell you what - why don't you offer to indemnify him and take over the software and his case?
Seems pretty transparent to me. Sony threatened him. After seeking legal advice, he settled with Sony. The terms of the settlement included turning over the domain and a covenant not to communicate copy-protection-evasion methods to anyone.
Can you expand on this and/or provide references? In particular, how does this amount to anything other than depleting the energy of the original head vehicle?
No question there's a difference between energy and power. TFA said that the objects would move upward at 200 mile/h. That's a whack of power. And energy.
"they do not know"... they == The Court "you have the rights"... you == copyright owner "other guy may be guilty"... alleged infringer "case can't be brought"... by Copyright owner against infringer
I'm still confused. How would "The Court" be involved unless "copyright owner" had already filed suit? In which case the conclusion makes no sense.
The parent has nothing to do with the grandparent.
I'd say that the author of the parent is just on drugs, but a number of other responses to this article, and another I posted recently, just don't fit.
Enderle is the most quoted "analyst" ever. He has accomplished this status by virtue of his always absurd pronouncements. He has no credentials other than the ability to string inflammatory buzzwords together.
I don't need to make a case against Enderle. Google will do it for me.
"The issue is that if they do not know that you have the rights to the software then they do not know that you have a right to bring the case, and while the other guy may be guilty as hell of infringement, a case can't be heard if it can't be brought."
Huh?
"they do not know"... they == infringers "you have the rights"... you == copyright owner "other guy may be guilty"... who? "case can't be brought"... by whom against whom?
I said that you as the copyright owner can bring suit against an infringer. It is irrelevant whether or not the infringer knows that you are the copyright owner.
What did you say?
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I have exclusive copyright for my work, unless I transfer it in a written "instrument of conveyance."
An infringer might claim that I have no standing, but could not possibly make that case as there is no instrument of conveyance, and I and FSF would both testify that I had not tranferred ownership.
Since when was uncertainty as to the owner a defence? If I rip off your bicycle (to use the stupid IP as physical property analogy), am I less guilty because I thought I was ripping off somebody else's?
1. Linux is hard[er than Windows] to install. 2. Linux doesn't run Windows games well. 3. Linux is hard[er than Windows] for ordinary people to understand.
I have recently installed Windows XP and MEPIS Linux. The latter was much easier. Didn't ask me about domain controllers, or make me hit single keys like "1" and "8" and "y" and choose between NTFS and FAT and choose between quick format and real format... Not only that, MEPIS booted to a desktop in the time it took the XP disk to ask me the first text-mode question.
Windows games don't run on Linux. So what? Lots of people use computers for communication, computation, and composition. If you want to play games, fine. Buy Windows or a PS2...
You said, "what seems easy and natural to Linux geeks is definitely not what regular people consider easy."
I suggest that the fact that Windows geekdom has somewhat more members than Linux geekdom makes Windows neither easy nor natural for "regular people."
"I'm a first year programming student at an Ivy League school and I've just finished my Visual Basic classes."
As Ann Landers would've said, "An Ivy League School in New Haven?"
In the 70s there was a de facto competition among a bunch of Yale students to try to get some preposterous story accepted and published in her column. Parent proudly upholds the tradition.
Male sperm is more abundant but weaker than female sperm. So in an amenable environment, male sperm are more likely to implant and reproduce. In a hostile environment, the hardier female sperm are more likely to survive.
I'm therefore not at all surprised by the result that couples are more likely than chance to have "more of the same" sex children.
I also would not discount the testosterone theory out of hand.
The work was not published in a crypto or security forum. For that matter, it was not published - where's the paper? Where's
BSDCan's list of expert reviewers and description of their review process? Where're the thousand cryptographers that disagree with Linus?
Without the paper to judge, without any testimony from any security authority, and without any obvious remedy, what would be gained by starting to generate kernel hacks at this time?
"10-carat, half-inch thick diamonds at rates of about 100 micrometers per hour."
This characterization will, no doubt, be oft-repeated. But what does it mean? I have no clue.
"Carat" is a measure of weight. Weight is proportional to volume. Volume has 3 dimensions. One of the dimensions is, presumably, 1/2 inch. One of the dimensions is growing at 100 micrometers per hour. What's the 3rd dimension?
Or are all three dimensions growing at 100 uM/h? That would make the diamond a sphere. Not a bad approximation for the shape of a crystal, I suppose. But a 1/2-inch sphere would weigh a bunch more than 10 carats. (A carat is 0.20 mg and the specific gravity of diamond is about 3).
The MPAA and RIAA know full well that sharing improves sales. The reason they want to put sharing out of business is that it opens the distribution market to indies and self-published artists.
It is nevertheless worthwhile to continue to point out the (unremarkable) fact that sharing promotes rather than diminishes sales. MPAA/RIAA want to limit competition, not maximize revenues from their existing offerings.
Thanks to all who pointed out that changing the culture involves also changing the behaviour of application developers.
Does anybody know a sensible way to write a reduced-privilege application for Windows? That is, one that is launched by an administrator but runs as a non-administrator version of the same user.
It isn't a solution to run the app as guest, because the app would want to access the documents and settings of the actual user.
If this were possible, responsible application developers could use the facility to make sure that any system breaches were "not on their watch."
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IANAL, and neither are you. Why do you say his lawyer was incompetent? Perhaps the lawyer said something like, "If you are prepared to invest 1,000 hours of your time and 1,000 hours of a lawyer's time (pro bono or otherwise) you have an 80% chance of not owing your next 20 years' income to Sony."
Tell you what - why don't you offer to indemnify him and take over the software and his case?
"Disney" is metaphor/synecdoche/sarcasm referring to the American business-dominated legislature.
DVD Shrink is a free Windows program that (mostly) works under wine with a little bit of effort.
It lets you delete or retain menus and components, and do (lossy) compression without transcoding.
Seems pretty transparent to me. Sony threatened him. After seeking legal advice, he settled with Sony. The terms of the settlement included turning over the domain and a covenant not to communicate copy-protection-evasion methods to anyone.
Can you expand on this and/or provide references? In particular, how does this amount to anything other than depleting the energy of the original head vehicle?
Of course. But escape energy for the payload alone is still non-trivial. A saving over payload+vehicle, so perhaps worthwhile. Still not a free lunch.
No question there's a difference between energy and power. TFA said that the objects would move upward at 200 mile/h. That's a whack of power. And energy.
Thank you for a sensible, if flippant, response!
Where does the power from your "big frickin' laser" come from? I don't call 200 mile/h "crawling up the line."
Have you ever run up a flight or two of stairs? Just getting going isn't good enough. You need a sustained input of energy to keep going.
This elevator will propel its payload straight up at 200 mile/h, using solar power? Those are mighty powerful solar panels.
In a nutshell, you have to supply escape-velocity energy to any mass you drag up the thing. No two ways about it.
I'm still confused. How would "The Court" be involved unless "copyright owner" had already filed suit? In which case the conclusion makes no sense.
The parent has nothing to do with the grandparent.
I'd say that the author of the parent is just on drugs, but a number of other responses to this article, and another I posted recently, just don't fit.
Is slashdot broken?
Enderle is the most quoted "analyst" ever. He has accomplished this status by virtue of his always absurd pronouncements. He has no credentials other than the ability to string inflammatory buzzwords together.
I don't need to make a case against Enderle. Google will do it for me.
"The issue is that if they do not know that you have the rights to the software then they do not know that you have a right to bring the case, and while the other guy may be guilty as hell of infringement, a case can't be heard if it can't be brought."
... they == infringers ... you == copyright owner ... who? ... by whom against whom?
Huh?
"they do not know"
"you have the rights"
"other guy may be guilty"
"case can't be brought"
I said that you as the copyright owner can bring suit against an infringer. It is irrelevant whether or not the infringer knows that you are the copyright owner.
What did you say?
I have exclusive copyright for my work, unless I transfer it in a written "instrument of conveyance."
An infringer might claim that I have no standing, but could not possibly make that case as there is no instrument of conveyance, and I and FSF would both testify that I had not tranferred ownership.
Since when was uncertainty as to the owner a defence? If I rip off your bicycle (to use the stupid IP as physical property analogy), am I less guilty because I thought I was ripping off somebody else's?
Significant power, perhaps, but not in any position to guarantee continued, stable, adequate funding for such a project.
Or for the other, perhaps more worthwhile, objectives that NASA may have or have had before this neo-grand-challenge was dropped on them.
The parent makes 3 assertions:
... Not only that, MEPIS booted to a desktop in the time it took the XP disk to ask me the first text-mode question.
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1. Linux is hard[er than Windows] to install.
2. Linux doesn't run Windows games well.
3. Linux is hard[er than Windows] for ordinary people to understand.
I have recently installed Windows XP and MEPIS Linux. The latter was much easier. Didn't ask me about domain controllers, or make me hit single keys like "1" and "8" and "y" and choose between NTFS and FAT and choose between quick format and real format
Windows games don't run on Linux. So what? Lots of people use computers for communication, computation, and composition. If you want to play games, fine. Buy Windows or a PS2
You said, "what seems easy and natural to Linux geeks is definitely not what regular people consider easy."
I suggest that the fact that Windows geekdom has somewhat more members than Linux geekdom makes Windows neither easy nor natural for "regular people."
"I'm a first year programming student at an Ivy League school and I've just finished my Visual Basic classes."
As Ann Landers would've said, "An Ivy League School in New Haven?"
In the 70s there was a de facto competition among a bunch of Yale students to try to get some preposterous story accepted and published in her column. Parent proudly upholds the tradition.
Male sperm is more abundant but weaker than female sperm. So in an amenable environment, male sperm are more likely to implant and reproduce. In a hostile environment, the hardier female sperm are more likely to survive.
I'm therefore not at all surprised by the result that couples are more likely than chance to have "more of the same" sex children.
I also would not discount the testosterone theory out of hand.
Frem the CIA Factbook (Canada):
Oil - production:
3.11 million bbl/day (2004 est.)
Oil - consumption:
2.2 million bbl/day (2003 est.)
Oil - exports:
1.37 million bbl/day (2004)
Oil - imports:
987,000 bbl/day (2004)
Without the paper to judge, without any testimony from any security authority, and without any obvious remedy, what would be gained by starting to generate kernel hacks at this time?
"10-carat, half-inch thick diamonds at rates of about 100 micrometers per hour."
This characterization will, no doubt, be oft-repeated. But what does it mean? I have no clue.
"Carat" is a measure of weight. Weight is proportional to volume. Volume has 3 dimensions. One of the dimensions is, presumably, 1/2 inch. One of the dimensions is growing at 100 micrometers per hour. What's the 3rd dimension?
Or are all three dimensions growing at 100 uM/h? That would make the diamond a sphere. Not a bad approximation for the shape of a crystal, I suppose. But a 1/2-inch sphere would weigh a bunch more than 10 carats. (A carat is 0.20 mg and the specific gravity of diamond is about 3).
The statement is gibberish to me.
In Canada, Private Member Bills are a joke. Is Australia different?
The MPAA and RIAA know full well that sharing improves sales. The reason they want to put sharing out of business is that it opens the distribution market to indies and self-published artists.
It is nevertheless worthwhile to continue to point out the (unremarkable) fact that sharing promotes rather than diminishes sales. MPAA/RIAA want to limit competition, not maximize revenues from their existing offerings.
Thanks to all who pointed out that changing the culture involves also changing the behaviour of application developers.
Does anybody know a sensible way to write a reduced-privilege application for Windows? That is, one that is launched by an administrator but runs as a non-administrator version of the same user.
It isn't a solution to run the app as guest, because the app would want to access the documents and settings of the actual user.
If this were possible, responsible application developers could use the facility to make sure that any system breaches were "not on their watch."