Bypassing digital rights management is prohibited _except_ as provided for fair use (and a select few other uses).
If only that were true. Although the text of the DMCA mentions fair use, it doesn't really offer any protection for people who violate "technological protection" of the media in order to exercise those rights. Just look at http://chillingeffects.org/ for examples. The only real protection for people who have legitimate needs to get around DRM come in the form of exemptions which are reexamined and granted every 3 years. Here is the latest set of DMCA exemptions. The EFF specifically notes that no provisions have been made for the sort of fair use rights relevant to this discussion:
...all the proposed exemptions that would benefit consumers were denied (space-shifting, region coding, backing up DVDs).
"It's easy to add a ccTLD, but much much harder to remove one."
Define easy. Ryan Lackey of Havenco spoke at ACM's Reflections/Projections conference this weekend, and he expects that getting a TLD for Sealand will take about 5 years. That sounds like a long process.
Similarly, try pushd and popd. You can build up a stack of directories, which is especially intuitive for those of use used to stack programming... e.g. owners of HP calculators.
Further, this requires that they already know what kind of structure they expect as an answer (in order to filter it out from the rest), so it will only work on problems where they already have a good guess about the answer.
That actually makes a lot of sense for many problems... like the Hamiltonian circuit that you mention. The only criteria needed to set up a filter are length (any valid solution must be a string of DNA long enough to contain the representation for every node (by definition of Hamiltonian circuit)) and content (every node's representation must appear in a valid solution). These criteria are relatively easy to check for.
Further, most of the trouble involved in setting up the `calculation' for such a problem is a constant time operation. The $O(n)$ portion of the time complexity is minimal compared with all the other set-up involved, so that makes this approach more than worthwhile, especially for NP-complete problems.
Popular media is still portraying this case as a hacker who made availible to the public the means by which to copy DVDs. The case still seems to be about piracy, even though we know that's not the purpose of the code. How do you intend to educate the courts of public opinion?
So why don't we do something about the definition that the journalists use? Especially in this CBC article, they seem to go strictly by the dictionaries, so let's change the dictionary definition. If Merriam-Webster and Oxford understood that some substantial portion of the population (i.e., those affected by the word's usage) wanted to see what we consider to be the correct definition, perhaps they would at least add it to their lists of definitions. In time, we might see the new usage become popular.
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Bypassing digital rights management is prohibited _except_ as provided for fair use (and a select few other uses).
If only that were true. Although the text of the DMCA mentions fair use, it doesn't really offer any protection for people who violate "technological protection" of the media in order to exercise those rights. Just look at http://chillingeffects.org/ for examples. The only real protection for people who have legitimate needs to get around DRM come in the form of exemptions which are reexamined and granted every 3 years. Here is the latest set of DMCA exemptions. The EFF specifically notes that no provisions have been made for the sort of fair use rights relevant to this discussion:
Ohhh, maybe they'll bring back the Rachael Leigh Cook series Fearless. As far as I know, only a pilot was produced, and the show was not picked up.
This simply can't be: slashdot correcting the spelling of an AP wire article!?! Unbelievable.
Define easy. Ryan Lackey of Havenco spoke at ACM's Reflections/Projections conference this weekend, and he expects that getting a TLD for Sealand will take about 5 years. That sounds like a long process.
Similarly, try pushd and popd. You can build up a stack of directories, which is especially intuitive for those of use used to stack programming... e.g. owners of HP calculators.
Could this destroy all the benefits consumers have received from the deregulation of the telecommunications industry!?!
Oh, nevermind. I guess we're still waiting for that competition in local service to really kick in.
That actually makes a lot of sense for many problems... like the Hamiltonian circuit that you mention. The only criteria needed to set up a filter are length (any valid solution must be a string of DNA long enough to contain the representation for every node (by definition of Hamiltonian circuit)) and content (every node's representation must appear in a valid solution). These criteria are relatively easy to check for.
Further, most of the trouble involved in setting up the `calculation' for such a problem is a constant time operation. The $O(n)$ portion of the time complexity is minimal compared with all the other set-up involved, so that makes this approach more than worthwhile, especially for NP-complete problems.
The car has embedded Linux? So why do I need Window's media player to see the video?
Popular media is still portraying this case as a hacker who made availible to the public the means by which to copy DVDs. The case still seems to be about piracy, even though we know that's not the purpose of the code. How do you intend to educate the courts of public opinion?
So tell Merriam-Webster and Oxford if you want to see something done.