User: sqlrob

Re:HERE is a good use for a firewall.

On: Sony Proudly Rolls Out Spyware/Restrictions System

And if communication uses PKI, how do you spoof it?

Re:How Lazy do you get?

On: Consumer Friendly (or Disney Hostile) DVD Players?

More of my concern is whether or not this practice will spread to more movies. The only one that I'm aware of is Tarzan (which I don't have and am not likely to get). Disney owns a hell of a lot of movie production companies though.

Re:How Lazy do you get?

On: Consumer Friendly (or Disney Hostile) DVD Players?

12 seconds?

I never heard ~10 minutes called 12 seconds. Tarzan has the previews on that unskippable track

Re:Instead of slammin Jon for making DVD's playabl

On: Jon Johansen DVD Trial Date Set

Try Ogle worked flawlessly the first time for me.

Hell, DVD playing is what drove me full time to Linux from my Windows/Linux dual boot. After re-imaging, I couldn't reinstall the DVD player because it didn't think it was going on the computer I bought. Ain't copy protection lovely?

Re:Instead of slammin Jon for making DVD's playabl

On: Jon Johansen DVD Trial Date Set

So how do you play it off the DVD without decrypting it?

Re:Because...

On: What is Holding SAP-DB Back?

Why does that matter?

GPL deals with modifications, not what you use the software for.

Are you modifying Postgre for your installs? Do you give the source code to those modifications for the people you install it for? If so, then GPL isn't an issue

Re:Benefit--voter registration

On: Governmental ID System in Japan

Any state I've dealt with has a Non-Driver's ID already.

Re:"network of newspaper sites"

On: New Patent for Serving Ads to Newspaper Sites

You forget many newspapers are owned by huge conglomerates that own more than one paper.

See for example, the pile of papers owned by the same company that owns USA Today

Re:I'm outraged!

On: Suddenly a JPEG Patent and Licensing Fee

So, who implementing libjpeg did the search?

Re:Typical

On: House OKs Life Sentences For Hackers

Get what repealed?

IT'S A BILL

This still needs to go to the Senate and the Pres. Lobby them.

Re:Is it their way of making EULA a real contract?

On: MS Passport and... Visa

Those are signatures by US Federal Law. It's the intent that matters

Re:An idea to solve this...

On: Overpeer Spewing Bogus Files on P2P Networks

What secures the client?

Re:Just say NO

On: Record Industry Wants Royalties for Used CD Sales

And Eric Flint disagrees with him. But unlike Ellison, he presented proof.

Same "sharing helps revenues" arguments, with numbers to prove it.

Re:Article is meta-paranoia

On: McAfee Manufactures Virus Threat

If you read the article you would know that this isn't even a theoretical vunerablility in JPEG. The statement from McA boils down to "If you get a virus it might change some of your files; some of them might be JPEGs!".

Not quite, more like:
If you get a virus, it can get "expansion packs" from any file type, even JPGs

Re:OHNO

On: UK Government Expands Spying Powers

get over your immature paranoia, as long as you aren't plotting to blow things up or dumb enough to do drug deals online, they just don't care.

Are you sure?

Re:No backups?

On: FBI Carnivore Screwup Destroys E-Mail Evidence

I didn't know VB was available for Linux.

Re:NYTimes Login

On: Senator Prevents Action on Online Privacy Bill

Nope. I can't take any credit it for it. My wife found it a couple of weeks ago.

Re:NYTimes Login

On: Senator Prevents Action on Online Privacy Bill

Now what would be -really- useful is for someone to write a PHP script that goes to the signup page, enters random information. signs you up, then logs in and goes to the page you originally wanted. Then we could just point all the links to mydomain.net/ReferToNyTimes?StoryID=x You mean something like this?

Re:A T*roll....

On: Bitter Java

Hmmm...
Pascal
Scheme
Python

Re:Territoriality

On: Two Helpings of WINE

So what was this about? Certainly sounds like MPAA throwing its weight around by any means necessary.

Re:Another kudo for the Patriot Act

On: Consumer Groups Protest SonicBlue/ReplayTV Order

Yeah, right. Like we'll get a real leader from EITHER of the parties. They're all pandering sycophants.

Re:Territoriality

On: Two Helpings of WINE

The DCMA is relevant to and has force only for United States Persons. If someone in the USA downloads your source from outside of the USA, and that source violates the DCMA, the downloader is liable, not the author if the source in question is subsequently implimented in a project.

So why was Johansesn (DeCSS) arrested (or at the very least, taken by authorities) and questioned in Sweden?

Re:Belo may have a point.

On: "Deep Linking" Controversy Renewed in Texas

So let's say the table of contents is copyrighted.

A single link sounds like fair use to me. If you aren't framing the result or other trickery, how is the link to the article not fair use?

Re:Violation of the DMCA

On: Fighting Back Against EULAs

IIRC, that's still in court (isn't that part of Skylarov?)

It's not even as if these files were encrypted in any form. A simple checksum or encryption would defeat this script in a heartbeat.

Re:Violation of the DMCA

On: Fighting Back Against EULAs

Go look at the script. If that's all it takes, I'd argue that the measure wasn't effective.