What's worse? A browser that may occasionally crash or a browser that's full of security holes?
Given that a crash is a security hole there's no difference. A crash will always loose information, i.e.. a malicious web site or plugin could crash Firefox causin loss of data.
A crash can potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code and take over the machine, I believe the way many exploits are found is by trying to exploit crashes in applications.
'When you link, you create a copy in RAM' 1: I don't link the user does, that's why it's called runtime and dynamic, because it doesn't happen at compile time. 2: I've never seen an instance where a copy in RAM actually counts, since that comes under fair use. 'Thats why various EULAs' 3: EULAs are not copyright they are EULAs and the GPL is not an EULA is is a copyright[left] license. (Personally I never read a EULA and follow the my local copyright and fair use laws since it's not the Job of companies to create new laws)
Think! because their are GPL versions of OpenGL drivers does that mean that every application that uses GPL must also be licensed under GPL?.. Oh, and don't forget presenting the work of another as your own tends towards trademarks but my also come under copyright law, so I could never wrap up a GPL library and sell it as my own.
Last time I checked the IPod still palyed mp3's, if real really wanted to 'sell songs, and and have them work with the iPod' then they could have distributed mp3's without even having to do anything with DRM.
Have real really broken DRM i.e. all files are clean, or have they just implemented the same DRM in a different way? If your still leaving exactly the same restrictions that were there in the firstplace then your not providing software to crack anything. I should imagine this would make a huge difference to a possible DMCA violation.
There's a legal process called Abstraction, Filtration, Comparison that happens when someone claims that reverse engineering violates copyright.
The process is basically as follows:
For a copyright violation someone must have copied to code, so the source code is the only thing that relates to reverse-engineering and copyright.
First of all all trivial bits of the code are ignored The two code bases are then checked for common areas of code. Then the code in the common areas that is their due to necessisity is removed. and the code that's left is used as the basis of the copyright infringement.
It's also a good argument for GPL not being able to prevent dynamic runtime linking. (Since GPL is based on copyright)
When I tried moving over to Koffice or OpenOffice I found that there were 3 very important missing features.
1: I could find no way to share the documents so I can't work efficiently on the same document with aa group off people. 2: The documents don't support versioning which is pretty important if your writing anything more important that a sick note. 3: Under Excell a call can be muti-choice and presents the feature as a dropdown. I tend to use them a lot when I'm sending out spread sheets as surveys or test documentation where I want to limit the user to a set of predefined options.
1 and 2 can be got around by using something like SubVersion but it's not nice and easy, and doesn't support offline editing and versioning very well.
don't forget Macro, interpreted or runtime modifiable.
Personally I think that a model with extremal strong typing giving the data more controle over the execution flow. Think a jpeg image can also be a collection of bytes, and it can also be wrapped up in DRM and given rights. By DRM I mean digital rights management, where the data can be prevented from moving between users, increasing security of the system.
I think Apply put drug into the water, or maybe it's because their favorite start in their favorite moved uses an Apple Mac to save the world.
Personally I think almighty patent suites (like taking apple for 50% of the iPod because I patented the interface fist) will be the only way that patents will be reformed.
Someone along the line decided because Apple 'innovates' with their UI that they are pro-bono when it comes to taking mod points on/.
'I've got friends that swear to using tablet PCs as notetaking devices.'
That's should be a great opportunity for tablet PC's. The teacher could hand out powerpoint's with well, just the key points. They could then give a propper lecture, following the same course and the powerpoint, and the student could annotate the powerpoint with their own notes.
n.b. Never use powerpoint ?presentations? instead of lectures.
There are are a lot of OSS apps out there that may be usefull to your business but be missing a key feature. Why not offer up bounty to get the features that you would like to see implemented, you could even get together with some other law firms and be able to offer a reasonable bounty to get the software you would like (I'm sure a few K won't hurt a law firms wallets too much (-:)
'the only time to do anthing outside is during the coldest part of the day', Isn't it very dark then? And you'll get far more even days the closer to the equator you get so daylight saving makes no sense at all.
I think it's the DVD drive, a memory upgrade made most or the problems go away (I don't hit swapspace any more!) I'm waiting until I upgrade my PC and then may have a look as running some diagnostics (and turning on kernel debugging etc..)
Their are two problems, 1: For some weird reason we work 9-5 (or 8:30- 7:30 in the UK) and we don't adjust the time we work to fit in with how hot it is, what that lighting conditions are in the morning / at night etc... Daylight savings is like mass psychosis so that everyone can still work 9-5.
2: (And more importantly) The idea of daylight saving it to make sure that the coldest hours of the day occur when we are asleep so that we don't have to turn on the heating.... This is occurs and extension of #1.
The president could always be a double agent for the mujaheddin, so no the database could never be protected but it's not to hard to put security measures in-place to make it very unlighted that it will be compromised in that way.
First to gain access to the information in the database you have to have some kind of permission granted to a request for information.
The request is then sent to someone who has access to the database and you are given the key.
All access to the database is logged, any access that doesn't have an authorized request is investigated.
I put FOSS on my CV, all of the really intersting work I have done if FOSS and it shows a potential employer that I have a highly technical capability to go along with my industry experience.
The first programming job I had was because of 'FOSS' (This was in the ISDN and Modem days so it was my own code that I placed on bulletin boards, if I had of had and internet connection I would have started my own company). The company required that potential employees send in some programming that they had done, I don't have a degree of even a levels but when I sent in a few complete applications, byte code compilers and C++ wrappers for the Windows API I easily got the job over graduates.
Most of the apps that spark my imagination involve some level of GPS awareness.
Your in a shop and want to locate an item. Your in a shop and what to know what deals their are. Your in a restaurant and want to watch you food being cooked, and get the attention of the waiter. Your in a pub and want to put some music on....
I think there are far more apliations that don't involve GPS than do.
I should imagine that before gaining access some 'permission' will be required, it easy enough to have a FBI internal system where say the data is email to the agent in a PGP encrypted email from wherever the database is located.
They do this kind of thing all the time, often they have whole networks that have data sent between them physically using magnetic tape to prevent people from hacking in from the outside. (well we do that in the UK, so I hope you do that in the US)
I'm curious how easy it will be for you to squeeze your DirectX over OpenGL shim in between this Aeroglass layer ? Being compatible is one thing, getting the OS to use it can be another thing.
In theory it's easy, just replace d3d9.dll with the one from wine. But I exepect that microsoft is going to start signing everything as part of their 'trusted' computing, making it almost impossible without a serious hack.
If this is the case I expect that the EU will get a little annoyed and may require Microsoft to sign a version of the wine driver...
If it is easy, I'm sure these OpenGL complainants, e.g., ATI, NVidia would be very interested in your project. You may even be able to get some sponsorship from them if you needed it.
I'm currently employed by the crossover people, but I was thinking about contacting whoever wrote the story on OpenGL to see if they are interested in extending the project in that direction, possibly providing sponsorship and 'inside' technocal info for windows with the very nice side effect of getting DirectX 3D games and applications running very well under Linux.
Guess what, D3D for wine can be compiled so that it uses WGL under windows. That means that you can emulated DirectX via openGL, so the desktop can be accelerated (via openGL) and openGL apps are happy too.
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Since the restriction doesn't enforce copyprotection or add to the security of the product I wouldn't expect it to be covered by the DMCA.
What's worse? A browser that may occasionally crash or a browser that's full of security holes?
Given that a crash is a security hole there's no difference.
A crash will always loose information, i.e.. a malicious web site or plugin could crash Firefox causin loss of data.
A crash can potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code and take over the machine, I believe the way many exploits are found is by trying to exploit crashes in applications.
-10 Troll, but hell it's the weekend.
.. Oh, and don't forget presenting the work of another as your own tends towards trademarks but my also come under copyright law, so I could never wrap up a GPL library and sell it as my own.
'When you link, you create a copy in RAM'
1: I don't link the user does, that's why it's called runtime and dynamic, because it doesn't happen at compile time.
2: I've never seen an instance where a copy in RAM actually counts, since that comes under fair use.
'Thats why various EULAs'
3: EULAs are not copyright they are EULAs and the GPL is not an EULA is is a copyright[left] license.
(Personally I never read a EULA and follow the my local copyright and fair use laws since it's not the Job of companies to create new laws)
Think! because their are GPL versions of OpenGL drivers does that mean that every application that uses GPL must also be licensed under GPL?
Last time I checked the IPod still palyed mp3's, if real really wanted to 'sell songs, and and have them work with the iPod' then they could have distributed mp3's without even having to do anything with DRM.
Have real really broken DRM i.e. all files are clean, or have they just implemented the same DRM in a different way? If your still leaving exactly the same restrictions that were there in the firstplace then your not providing software to crack anything. I should imagine this would make a huge difference to a possible DMCA violation.
There's a legal process called Abstraction,
Filtration, Comparison that happens when someone claims that reverse engineering violates copyright.
The process is basically as follows:
For a copyright violation someone must have copied to code, so the source code is the only thing that relates to reverse-engineering and copyright.
First of all all trivial bits of the code are ignored
The two code bases are then checked for common areas of code.
Then the code in the common areas that is their due to necessisity is removed.
and the code that's left is used as the basis of the copyright infringement.
It's also a good argument for GPL not being able to prevent dynamic runtime linking. (Since GPL is based on copyright)
When I tried moving over to Koffice or OpenOffice I found that there were 3 very important missing features.
1: I could find no way to share the documents so I can't work efficiently on the same document with aa group off people.
2: The documents don't support versioning which is pretty important if your writing anything more important that a sick note.
3: Under Excell a call can be muti-choice and presents the feature as a dropdown. I tend to use them a lot when I'm sending out spread sheets as surveys or test documentation where I want to limit the user to a set of predefined options.
1 and 2 can be got around by using something like SubVersion but it's not nice and easy, and doesn't support offline editing and versioning very well.
don't forget Macro, interpreted or runtime modifiable.
Personally I think that a model with extremal strong typing giving the data more controle over the execution flow. Think a jpeg image can also be a collection of bytes, and it can also be wrapped up in DRM and given rights. By DRM I mean digital rights management, where the data can be prevented from moving between users, increasing security of the system.
I think Apply put drug into the water, or maybe it's because their favorite start in their favorite moved uses an Apple Mac to save the world.
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Personally I think almighty patent suites (like taking apple for 50% of the iPod because I patented the interface fist) will be the only way that patents will be reformed.
Someone along the line decided because Apple 'innovates' with their UI that they are pro-bono when it comes to taking mod points on
Theres a party a few streets away, their really going for it which is the loudest whilst you trying to go to sleep, the base or the treble?
'I've got friends that swear to using tablet PCs as notetaking devices.'
That's should be a great opportunity for tablet PC's. The teacher could hand out powerpoint's with well, just the key points. They could then give a propper lecture, following the same course and the powerpoint, and the student could annotate the powerpoint with their own notes.
n.b. Never use powerpoint ?presentations? instead of lectures.
There are are a lot of OSS apps out there that may be usefull to your business but be missing a key feature. Why not offer up bounty to get the features that you would like to see implemented, you could even get together with some other law firms and be able to offer a reasonable bounty to get the software you would like (I'm sure a few K won't hurt a law firms wallets too much (-:)
'the only time to do anthing outside is during the coldest part of the day', Isn't it very dark then? And you'll get far more even days the closer to the equator you get so daylight saving makes no sense at all.
I think it's the DVD drive, a memory upgrade made most or the problems go away (I don't hit swapspace any more!) I'm waiting until I upgrade my PC and then may have a look as running some diagnostics (and turning on kernel debugging etc..)
And I've just spent the last 6 months trying to find out what's hanging on to that IRQ and blocking everything else..
DMA should stop this from happening (I wonder if it happens outside X86)
Their are two problems,
1: For some weird reason we work 9-5 (or 8:30- 7:30 in the UK) and we don't adjust the time we work to fit in with how hot it is, what that lighting conditions are in the morning / at night etc... Daylight savings is like mass psychosis so that everyone can still work 9-5.
2: (And more importantly) The idea of daylight saving it to make sure that the coldest hours of the day occur when we are asleep so that we don't have to turn on the heating.... This is occurs and extension of #1.
The president could always be a double agent for the mujaheddin, so no the database could never be protected but it's not to hard to put security measures in-place to make it very unlighted that it will be compromised in that way.
First to gain access to the information in the database you have to have some kind of permission granted to a request for information.
The request is then sent to someone who has access to the database and you are given the key.
All access to the database is logged, any access that doesn't have an authorized request is investigated.
Umm.. Like everything else Microsoft didn't invent Direct3D the aquired it with the aid of a few dollars.
I don't know, I'd say work out what you want to do and go for that. It usually works, even if you have to wait a few years.
I put FOSS on my CV, all of the really intersting work I have done if FOSS and it shows a potential employer that I have a highly technical capability to go along with my industry experience.
The first programming job I had was because of 'FOSS' (This was in the ISDN and Modem days so it was my own code that I placed on bulletin boards, if I had of had and internet connection I would have started my own company). The company required that potential employees send in some programming that they had done, I don't have a degree of even a levels but when I sent in a few complete applications, byte code compilers and C++ wrappers for the Windows API I easily got the job over graduates.
Most of the apps that spark my imagination involve some level of GPS awareness.
Your in a shop and want to locate an item.
Your in a shop and what to know what deals their are.
Your in a restaurant and want to watch you food being cooked, and get the attention of the waiter.
Your in a pub and want to put some music on....
I think there are far more apliations that don't involve GPS than do.
I should imagine that before gaining access some 'permission' will be required, it easy enough to have a FBI internal system where say the data is email to the agent in a PGP encrypted email from wherever the database is located.
They do this kind of thing all the time, often they have whole networks that have data sent between them physically using magnetic tape to prevent people from hacking in from the outside. (well we do that in the UK, so I hope you do that in the US)
I'm curious how easy it will be for you to squeeze your DirectX over OpenGL shim in between this Aeroglass layer ? Being compatible is one thing, getting the OS to use it can be another thing.
In theory it's easy, just replace d3d9.dll with the one from wine. But I exepect that microsoft is going to start signing everything as part of their 'trusted' computing, making it almost impossible without a serious hack.
If this is the case I expect that the EU will get a little annoyed and may require Microsoft to sign a version of the wine driver...
If it is easy, I'm sure these OpenGL complainants, e.g., ATI, NVidia would be very interested in your project. You may even be able to get some sponsorship from them if you needed it.
I'm currently employed by the crossover people, but I was thinking about contacting whoever wrote the story on OpenGL to see if they are interested in extending the project in that direction, possibly providing sponsorship and 'inside' technocal info for windows with the very nice side effect of getting DirectX 3D games and applications running very well under Linux.
All you do is assign each product a unique ID and key, the feds just look up the key for the individual device from a database that's off the net.
I doubt you need any complex protocols so security shouldn't be too much of an issue.
Guess what, D3D for wine can be compiled so that it uses WGL under windows. That means that you can emulated DirectX via openGL, so the desktop can be accelerated (via openGL) and openGL apps are happy too.