Most of the DMCA like laws prevent you from performing interlectual activities on media, even in your own home. Circumventing a copy protection system is a weird concept, since most if not all digital media can be coppied using 10+ year old technology (given enough time) it can hardly be called 'Copy' protection.
Bypassing DRM is also interesting, it effectivly says that you may not produce a tool that allows you to copy material 'unpacked' from a DRM system. now in the UK that can either be civil or criminal, in the case of criminal a media player that stores or sends 'unpacked' data in a digital form violates the law.
"only benefits large companies", is quite an interesting comment. given that large companies only exist in either land e.g. there not real, Such laws seem to be selling Human rights away to a non-physical entity. That's a very weird stance for a group, that is supposed to represent the people, to take.
Instead of addressing mass anarchic law breaking by 90%+ of the population shouldn't they be addressing the reason for such a large revolt i.e. The dismissal of human rights over the rights of non-existent entities.
I am a software developer, and have used a lot of pireted software in my time, becuase a) i couldn't have afforded it any how b) to evaluate the software and c) so that i could get a job using the software.
so in the case of 'A' the developer wins (larger use base), and loses nothing as i couldn't afford the software.
in the case of 'B' the developer wins, if i like a piece of software I usually buy a licence.
and in the case of 'C' the developer wins, the company I work for has to buy another licence, I may decided that because the software was infuential in getting a Job that I will buy a licence.
Hey I'm sure that defrag say's somthing to the effect of 'Your boot record is corrupt' e.g. MBR != M$, and the default option is to replace it with the m$ MBR. Assuming that you trusted microsoft and didn't know any better that'd screw your dule boot.
Ok, so they did allow printing after a fassion, but for quite a while the bible had to be hand written, no wood-cuts, or engravings all hand written by cancel light, in lattin, through the tired weiry eyes on age old monks.
To the best of my knowlage, the first piece of mass distributed music was a tune for an epson dot matrix printer or somthing like that. Print it and the pins on your printer play jinggle bells.
A little while ago, printing was banned in most of the modern world. This was because the good prople of the church knew that only they could speek the word of the gospal, and though that printed material may allow the devil to creep into the system.
As good church going citisens, RIAA feer this evil creeping into music, via the file sharing networks as we all should.
So by putting in legistation we can kill of the heritics that use file sharing networks.
Trees are fine, until they die at which point they normall get eaten by small things that produce C02, or go down to smallow river/see beds and do the same. unleyy you plan to make a huge stockpile of charcoal or somthing trees are more or less useless.
Some of the best HCI work has been done in areas like Aircraft control. I don't think anyone would disagree that the Euro fighter development team hasn't put a lot of research into HCI. Car manufacturers are also doing a lot of good HCI work. Nokia managed to develop a efficient interface with a low learning curve, this is a fairly major achievement. I think things like touchtone phones, and remote control devices should have made the list.
This story makes me laugh, we have web and mail filters that block everything (well almost) with a 'this page is not suitable for' message, It's good to see experian (who also keep 'big brother' type database) getting blocked.
THis guy brough a MAC, he is now learning that the reduced learning curve of a macs u results in piss poor performance after ohh a day or so. MAC's are for twats that's why it rymes.
I had 20 double expressos in 2 hours the other day, just like a coke buzz, but your mussles ache and twitch, still they couldn't do anything if they stopped me from driving like an idiot.
Lasted about 5hours (not to bad for shopping on either)
At the moment DNA gets broken up into small segments and fired at a device that can decode each of thease segments,
The problem it you know what the segments are but not what order there in, like a big jigsaw.
Sequencing is putting thease pieces back in the correct order.
This new process decodes the DNA in sequence so there hard and sloq sequencing step is no longer needed
they've been doing that here in big brother(the UK) land for ages,
there also thinking about putting speed cameras in cats eyes.
for those of you who dont live in the most cctv populated country.
Speed cameras are devices beside the road that use radar to find out how fast you are going, and take a picture of licence plate if your going faster than the speed limit, there quite often hidden in bushes and placed around bends or places where people are lightly to be going fast or overtaking.
there thinking of miniturising them and placing then in the cats eyes in the middle of the road.
i don't know anyone (except me of course) that hasn't been caught by a speed camera at some time.
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Most of the DMCA like laws prevent you from performing interlectual activities on media, even in your own home. Circumventing a copy protection system is a weird concept, since most if not all digital media can be coppied using 10+ year old technology (given enough time) it can hardly be called 'Copy' protection.
Bypassing DRM is also interesting, it effectivly says that you may not produce a tool that allows you to copy material 'unpacked' from a DRM system. now in the UK that can either be civil or criminal, in the case of criminal a media player that stores or sends 'unpacked' data in a digital form violates the law.
"only benefits large companies", is quite an interesting comment.
given that large companies only exist in either land e.g. there not real, Such laws seem to be selling Human rights away to a non-physical entity.
That's a very weird stance for a group, that is supposed to represent the people, to take.
Instead of addressing mass anarchic law breaking by 90%+ of the population shouldn't they be addressing the reason for such a large revolt i.e. The dismissal of human rights over the rights of non-existent entities.
You need good old electron waves, would i make light of such an important subject?
Wave guides that small are useless, you need big wave guides to improve the experiance of surfing the net.
I am a software developer, and have used a lot of pireted software in my time, becuase a) i couldn't have afforded it any how b) to evaluate the software and c) so that i could get a job using the software.
so in the case of 'A' the developer wins (larger use base), and loses nothing as i couldn't afford the software.
in the case of 'B' the developer wins, if i like a piece of software I usually buy a licence.
and in the case of 'C' the developer wins, the company I work for has to buy another licence, I may decided that because the software was infuential in getting a Job that I will buy a licence.
And
ISmell, 'Scratch and Sniff' over the internet
ICame with the later revisions ISaw and IConqured.
Ok it's gota happen sometime.
Here's a couple of my trademarks.
For those butter fingered people
IHold and IHeld
One for the copywrite loyers
IWrite and IRate
One for the saylours out there
IEye
And the recycleing board have
IPlannet.
Hey I'm sure that defrag say's somthing to the effect of 'Your boot record is corrupt' e.g. MBR != M$, and the default option is to replace it with the m$ MBR. Assuming that you trusted microsoft and didn't know any better that'd screw your dule boot.
Maybe if youre looking at building a linux box you should order a trial copy of Maya, as it runs on linux and windows.
I thought that cows where the number one cause of global warming. Eat the fuckers.
So microsoft has flogged the hated UK passport/gateway system to the USA, well
The Register has a far better
Write up then I could ever do.
Maybe that's why there making 64bit processors, or it could just be to increase the size of the machine word and slow things down a little.
Ok, so they did allow printing after a fassion, but for quite a while the bible had to be hand written, no wood-cuts, or engravings all hand written by cancel light, in lattin, through the tired weiry eyes on age old monks.
To the best of my knowlage, the first piece of mass distributed music was a tune for an epson dot matrix printer or somthing like that. Print it and the pins on your printer play jinggle bells.
A little while ago, printing was banned in most of the modern world. This was because the good prople of the church knew that only they could speek the word of the gospal, and though that printed material may allow the devil to creep into the system.
As good church going citisens, RIAA feer this evil creeping into music, via the file sharing networks as we all should.
So by putting in legistation we can kill of the heritics that use file sharing networks.
Without the RIAA we would all burn in hell.
Trees are fine, until they die at which point they normall get eaten by small things that produce C02, or go down to smallow river/see beds and do the same. unleyy you plan to make a huge stockpile of charcoal or somthing trees are more or less useless.
Some of the best HCI work has been done in areas like Aircraft control.
I don't think anyone would disagree that the Euro fighter development team hasn't put a lot of research into HCI.
Car manufacturers are also doing a lot of good HCI work.
Nokia managed to develop a efficient interface with a low learning curve, this is a fairly major achievement.
I think things like touchtone phones, and remote control devices should have made the list.
But i already know who I am, why would i ever buy one of those ID chips?
This story makes me laugh, we have web and mail filters that block everything (well almost) with a 'this page is not suitable for' message, It's good to see experian (who also keep 'big brother' type database) getting blocked.
THis guy brough a MAC, he is now learning that the reduced learning curve of a macs u results in piss poor performance after ohh a day or so. MAC's are for twats that's why it rymes.
When i run linux in english i get colour, with windows i get color, I try to run a full colour operating system as much as possible.
I live in the UK therefore spell colour correctly and drive on the left hand side. I hope thats trouble enough for you billy boy!
I had 20 double expressos in 2 hours the other day, just like a coke buzz, but your mussles ache and twitch, still they couldn't do anything if they stopped me from driving like an idiot.
Lasted about 5hours (not to bad for shopping on either)
to keep adobe happy until the name change is complete an interim name of KINKY could be used.
KIllistrutor if not KINKY yet.
Well as i understand it,
At the moment DNA gets broken up into small segments and fired at a device that can decode each of thease segments,
The problem it you know what the segments are but not what order there in, like a big jigsaw.
Sequencing is putting thease pieces back in the correct order.
This new process decodes the DNA in sequence so there hard and sloq sequencing step is no longer needed
they've been doing that here in big brother(the UK) land for ages, there also thinking about putting speed cameras in cats eyes. for those of you who dont live in the most cctv populated country. Speed cameras are devices beside the road that use radar to find out how fast you are going, and take a picture of licence plate if your going faster than the speed limit, there quite often hidden in bushes and placed around bends or places where people are lightly to be going fast or overtaking. there thinking of miniturising them and placing then in the cats eyes in the middle of the road. i don't know anyone (except me of course) that hasn't been caught by a speed camera at some time.