I am not so sure that this is so much an isuee of Creative Commons, as it is the gray void that is relicensing. You should only be applying the CC to your own work and if you are applying the CC to something else, then you should responsible for the fallout, especially if the license is incompatible with the original.
Just because the box is DRMed doesn't mean that you don't have access to the source. The GPL should be provided as part of the box and a reference to the source. If Sony is smart then all the DRMed stuff would be in user space and therefore protected by an independent license. What you won't get are the keys to the DRM, unless they are in kernel space - truth if you are doing DRM properly then the keys should be on a separate chip, which is readable by the system.
Clock drift is an issue, hence the fact that three overlapping minutes are kept active at once.
But if you have ever used one of those RSA generators you will find that it will sometimes take three or four attempts before connecting to your VPN. This is even with the valid pass-key.
Before everyone starts arguing about the merits of GPLv3, let's remember that it's just the license for the kernel. It's not going to be changing much when used in proprietary consumer devices. On the other hand, if it's not going to change it much, why lock it up? Kinda a moot point...
The real question, is how would a move to GPLv3 benefit Linux? If the answer is not at all, then by keeping it a GPLv2 helps make everyone's life simpler. Any change in license would in certain cases mean that Linux would have to revetted by legal departments in a number of companies and for TiVO-like products a real pain in the neck.
In many ways GPLv3 is a reaction to DRM, but getting all religious about things is not going to be the solution either, IMHO.
Here's the deal: If the Blu-ray backers decide they're going to "seal the deal" and make a serious effort to challenge both HD DVD and DVD by abolishing BD+ (with BD+ discs re-released and made available for free replacement without BD+); make managed copy mandatory, backdated to all existing BD discs; make AACS optional; and freeze the standard so whatever it is in six months will stay current for the next ten years, no more firmware updates required, I'll change my mind and back Blu-ray. I want them to make Blu-ray palatable to me.
Yup, but in many ways we on/. are a small minority. The truth is most buyers of HD-DVD and Bluray know nothing about the limitations and advantages of each technology, or which is more likely to screw them in the long run. The only thing they understand is that it 'looks better' (open to opinion) on their HD TV, beyond that you will probably get some head scratching if they were asked why one was better than the other.
You do realise that the USA is not the only country in "the West", surely?
You obviously didn't see Miss Carlonia. The world is split up into:
- the west
- the old world
- terrorist states
- those commies
- manufacturing central
- there be dragons
Just kidding, but sometimes you have to wonder;) This will probably get marked as troll, but if we're playing stereotypes, I might as well go ahead with it.
... 'Western style voting', while 'proportional voting' seems to have a stronghold in Europe.
Also in Canada. In fact this seems to be the difference between parliamentary based systems and presidential based systems. In a parliamentary based system you are generally voting for a party, and not a country leader. In Canada for example, we are in situation where the leading party is actually a minority government. That is the conservative party has less seats than the Liberals and Partie Quebecois put together. In a presidential system you essentially have a popularity vote, where the guy doesn't necessarily represent the party he is meant to stand for.
From what I can tell most democratic systems fail when there aren't enough political parties to choose from. Two parties in a system pretty much is the worst number you can have (if you only have one then it is not democratic), since it makes it easier for one party to bad mouth the other without necessarily having a positive agenda of their own.
Technical advantages aren't always what wins the battle, as the VHS vs Betamax war battles showed us - Betamax was considered to be the superior product.
their EULA which has been rigorously tested time to time in International Court of Justice.
Not only that but with a single applications EULA changing every time you upgrade you don't know what the exact wording was anymore. In this case I wish companies would highlight what has changed in the ways of terms when you upgrade, or give a version number of the license so you can tell whether you are being prompted with the same license a second time.
Welcome to last year, when LG released the first dual-format player. BTW, are you aboslutely sure these 'couple of companies' (reference please?) are still going to be working on these players now that Warner has said they're going Blu-Ray only? Absolutely?
I suppose it comes down to how much dual format costs LG, and other companies, and whether they consider that Bluray has really won. Only time will tell.
I won't buy any except perhaps some Chinese DRM free HD extended EVD. Or even just huge hard-drives. In five years time we will have 10 terabyte hard-drives as standard. Blueray disks are 25 Gb single layer and 50GB dual layer. A ten terabyte hard-drive can hold 200 to 400 of these films.
That's probably going to be the ultimate irony. Just as soon as the HD-DVD vs Bluray war is considered won, you will suddenly find all your new drives support extended EVD, even if it is by 'debug menu' and usurping the winner. Things are probably going to get weirder still, since there are also holographic discs which are meant to making it to market in a few years.
like freebsd.org, netbsd.org, isc.org, and a bunch of the other stuff ISC hosts. (kernel.org has been here for a while, but has not asked us for IPv6 connectivity for pub.kernel.org yet.)
Doing a dig I confirm freebsd.org and isc.org, but not netbsd.org or kernel.org? Other hosts I tried with negative success were apple.com and microsoft.com.
then there's darwin ports and a gnu-darwin if you want other package managers.
Darwin Ports is now known as MacPorts. Its been a while since I used Fink, but both are valid solutions to solving the same problem.
You'd be surprised how much is available for the Mac, if you look amongst open source. Sure not everything has a refined Mac like interface, but for the more popular tools front-ends are usually available. Also much hardware that does not officially support the Mac have open source drivers or software supporting them, you just need to do a little research.
What's stopping you? Ironically enough my girlfriend (the artist) is less locked into Windows then I am (the IT person). She needs a PC to be able to surf the web (Firefox), do document production for her graduate courses (Open Office) and read e-mail (any number of free clients). She didn't even notice when I switched her to Firefox and isn't really locked into anything that requires Windows.
Not all girlfriends/wives are so tollerant. Usually a better approach (but not 100% guaranteed) is to offer a compromise: something you are willing to support if she switches to it, but at the same time still as usuable for her needs. Generally a Mac and maybe even Ubuntu will do the job.
A Mac might be more expensive, but I find that it is less grief - but then again I am biased:)
Unless you get something from their Mac division, Microsoft is just forgetting about the users and is instead is more interested in ultimate control, even if it is playing the whipper boy of the media industry.
Yup. The solution to Apple being accused of being a monopolist is to have them license DRM from a convicted monopolist. Seems simple enough.
Not only that but even Microsoft doesn't support its original DRM with the Zune. WMA is 100% closed spec, while AAC+DRM is only closed spec for the DRMed portion, since AAC is an open spec (note open doesn't necessarily mean license free) owned by Dolby and it part of the MPEG4 specification.
This suit sounds like another money grab. The only winners are the lawyers.
The irony in all this is that neither Cisco or any of the developers of IPv6 compliant OSs (Microsoft, Apple, Kernel.org, for example) actually have AAAA records themselves.
Do you Americans realize that you are heading towards a totalitarian regime?
Scarey isn't it and yet at the same time the US government seems to be hell bent it destorying others (yet the CIA seems to do the opposite). Ironic.
What bothers me with this system is that there is likely to be a lot of false positives, given that the whole customs process for entering the USA makes you feel like you have been pre-branded a terrorist. I know a few people who would prefer to avoid transiting through the states, for example if going from Europe to Canada, because of this nonsense.
Slashdot Mirror
Since the time this news was in the firehose till now... we are now discussing green-ray vs MegaHD-DVD. The old war is over.
I know this was a joke, but in many ways you aren't far from the truth:
- Holographic Storage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_data_storage
- Tapestry Media: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapestry_Media
- Enhanced Versatile Disc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Versatile_Disc
I am not so sure that this is so much an isuee of Creative Commons, as it is the gray void that is relicensing. You should only be applying the CC to your own work and if you are applying the CC to something else, then you should responsible for the fallout, especially if the license is incompatible with the original.
Just because the box is DRMed doesn't mean that you don't have access to the source. The GPL should be provided as part of the box and a reference to the source. If Sony is smart then all the DRMed stuff would be in user space and therefore protected by an independent license. What you won't get are the keys to the DRM, unless they are in kernel space - truth if you are doing DRM properly then the keys should be on a separate chip, which is readable by the system.
Clock drift is an issue, hence the fact that three overlapping minutes are kept active at once.
But if you have ever used one of those RSA generators you will find that it will sometimes take three or four attempts before connecting to your VPN. This is even with the valid pass-key.
Sometimes being too smart is the wrong answer.
Before everyone starts arguing about the merits of GPLv3, let's remember that it's just the license for the kernel. It's not going to be changing much when used in proprietary consumer devices. On the other hand, if it's not going to change it much, why lock it up? Kinda a moot point...
The real question, is how would a move to GPLv3 benefit Linux? If the answer is not at all, then by keeping it a GPLv2 helps make everyone's life simpler. Any change in license would in certain cases mean that Linux would have to revetted by legal departments in a number of companies and for TiVO-like products a real pain in the neck.
In many ways GPLv3 is a reaction to DRM, but getting all religious about things is not going to be the solution either, IMHO.
Depends. Is everyone around you wearing goatees?
Why did I read that as:
"Depends. Is everyone around you wearing goatsies"?
Heck, that site has scarred me life.
Here's the deal: If the Blu-ray backers decide they're going to "seal the deal" and make a serious effort to challenge both HD DVD and DVD by abolishing BD+ (with BD+ discs re-released and made available for free replacement without BD+); make managed copy mandatory, backdated to all existing BD discs; make AACS optional; and freeze the standard so whatever it is in six months will stay current for the next ten years, no more firmware updates required, I'll change my mind and back Blu-ray. I want them to make Blu-ray palatable to me.
/. are a small minority. The truth is most buyers of HD-DVD and Bluray know nothing about the limitations and advantages of each technology, or which is more likely to screw them in the long run. The only thing they understand is that it 'looks better' (open to opinion) on their HD TV, beyond that you will probably get some head scratching if they were asked why one was better than the other.
Yup, but in many ways we on
You do realise that the USA is not the only country in "the West", surely?
;) This will probably get marked as troll, but if we're playing stereotypes, I might as well go ahead with it.
You obviously didn't see Miss Carlonia. The world is split up into:
- the west
- the old world
- terrorist states
- those commies
- manufacturing central
- there be dragons
Just kidding, but sometimes you have to wonder
... 'Western style voting', while 'proportional voting' seems to have a stronghold in Europe.
Also in Canada. In fact this seems to be the difference between parliamentary based systems and presidential based systems. In a parliamentary based system you are generally voting for a party, and not a country leader. In Canada for example, we are in situation where the leading party is actually a minority government. That is the conservative party has less seats than the Liberals and Partie Quebecois put together. In a presidential system you essentially have a popularity vote, where the guy doesn't necessarily represent the party he is meant to stand for.
From what I can tell most democratic systems fail when there aren't enough political parties to choose from. Two parties in a system pretty much is the worst number you can have (if you only have one then it is not democratic), since it makes it easier for one party to bad mouth the other without necessarily having a positive agenda of their own.
And I think HD edges Blue-Ray out in this regard.
Technical advantages aren't always what wins the battle, as the VHS vs Betamax war battles showed us - Betamax was considered to be the superior product.
their EULA which has been rigorously tested time to time in International Court of Justice.
Not only that but with a single applications EULA changing every time you upgrade you don't know what the exact wording was anymore. In this case I wish companies would highlight what has changed in the ways of terms when you upgrade, or give a version number of the license so you can tell whether you are being prompted with the same license a second time.
Welcome to last year, when LG released the first dual-format player. BTW, are you aboslutely sure these 'couple of companies' (reference please?) are still going to be working on these players now that Warner has said they're going Blu-Ray only? Absolutely?
I suppose it comes down to how much dual format costs LG, and other companies, and whether they consider that Bluray has really won. Only time will tell.
I won't buy any except perhaps some Chinese DRM free HD extended EVD. Or even just huge hard-drives. In five years time we will have 10 terabyte hard-drives as standard. Blueray disks are 25 Gb single layer and 50GB dual layer. A ten terabyte hard-drive can hold 200 to 400 of these films.
That's probably going to be the ultimate irony. Just as soon as the HD-DVD vs Bluray war is considered won, you will suddenly find all your new drives support extended EVD, even if it is by 'debug menu' and usurping the winner. Things are probably going to get weirder still, since there are also holographic discs which are meant to making it to market in a few years.
Oh wait...Sony?
/. and all, who are we meant to hate more Sony or Microsoft?
This being
Can anyone the relative advantages to each format, especially as a data storage solution?
IMHO the battle is not over until the 'loser' concedes.
Any idea why the AAAA record might be missing for me? The following link points to what I see, when I do (dig www.netbsd.org):
/. complains about junk characters.
http://ajmas.dyndns.org/misc/dig-netbsd.txt
I would have included it here, but
like freebsd.org, netbsd.org, isc.org, and a bunch of the other stuff ISC hosts. (kernel.org has been here for a while, but has not asked us for IPv6 connectivity for pub.kernel.org yet.)
Doing a dig I confirm freebsd.org and isc.org, but not netbsd.org or kernel.org? Other hosts I tried with negative success were apple.com and microsoft.com.
then there's darwin ports and a gnu-darwin if you want other package managers.
Darwin Ports is now known as MacPorts. Its been a while since I used Fink, but both are valid solutions to solving the same problem.
You'd be surprised how much is available for the Mac, if you look amongst open source. Sure not everything has a refined Mac like interface, but for the more popular tools front-ends are usually available. Also much hardware that does not officially support the Mac have open source drivers or software supporting them, you just need to do a little research.
What's stopping you? Ironically enough my girlfriend (the artist) is less locked into Windows then I am (the IT person). She needs a PC to be able to surf the web (Firefox), do document production for her graduate courses (Open Office) and read e-mail (any number of free clients). She didn't even notice when I switched her to Firefox and isn't really locked into anything that requires Windows.
:)
Not all girlfriends/wives are so tollerant. Usually a better approach (but not 100% guaranteed) is to offer a compromise: something you are willing to support if she switches to it, but at the same time still as usuable for her needs. Generally a Mac and maybe even Ubuntu will do the job.
A Mac might be more expensive, but I find that it is less grief - but then again I am biased
Unless you get something from their Mac division, Microsoft is just forgetting about the users and is instead is more interested in ultimate control, even if it is playing the whipper boy of the media industry.
Yup. The solution to Apple being accused of being a monopolist is to have them license DRM from a convicted monopolist. Seems simple enough.
Not only that but even Microsoft doesn't support its original DRM with the Zune. WMA is 100% closed spec, while AAC+DRM is only closed spec for the DRMed portion, since AAC is an open spec (note open doesn't necessarily mean license free) owned by Dolby and it part of the MPEG4 specification.
This suit sounds like another money grab. The only winners are the lawyers.
Does anyone have any photos that give a real feel of what the portable looks like, as opposed to the sampler images on the web site?
The irony in all this is that neither Cisco or any of the developers of IPv6 compliant OSs (Microsoft, Apple, Kernel.org, for example) actually have AAAA records themselves.
"Mr. Putin, tear down your digital wall!"
Ah he's too busy trying to beat bush to the next iteration of the KGB to do that.
Tried getting some info:
- Warner Music Group
- Sony BMG Music Entertainment, appears to be a private company, so no data
- EMI Group, no historic data?
Do you Americans realize that you are heading towards a totalitarian regime?
Scarey isn't it and yet at the same time the US government seems to be hell bent it destorying others (yet the CIA seems to do the opposite). Ironic.
What bothers me with this system is that there is likely to be a lot of false positives, given that the whole customs process for entering the USA makes you feel like you have been pre-branded a terrorist. I know a few people who would prefer to avoid transiting through the states, for example if going from Europe to Canada, because of this nonsense.