If Dolby hold the patent in the UK, then they could well be violating UK law, UK law provides legal defence against "groundless threats" made by patent holders against sellers, users and middlemen who may as a result of being threatened stop using the product regardless of whether the patent claim is valid or not. I assume NetBSD has at least one mirror in the UK, which means that UK law could be applicable as the letter refered to _all mirrors_. (Incidently also notice the UK address at the bottom of page 1 of the letter.)
See section 70 of the 1977 Patents Act (http://www.butterworths.co.uk/academic/lloyd/Stat utes/patents.htm) for details of remedies.
How long will it take for Bugtraq and similar full disclosure lists to be prosecute under the DMCA ?
Last year I posted a simple exploit to Bugtraq which allowed remote access to a users file. That after all is a way of gaining an unauthorized copy of a file by circumventing copy-protection methods (i.e operating system defences). Would this now be a violation of the DMCA ?
How long before buffer overflow exploits get regarded as methoods to circumvent copyprotection methods ?
How long until legal action is taken against SecurityFocus ?
If you're in the UK write to the foreign office and try and get them to change the "LOCAL LAWS AND CUSTOMS" section in their USA travel advice to include a warning to anyone who is either a computer developer or taking any computer software/hardware abroad that they could be arrested if they or any of their possesions violate the DMCA.
"now account for more than half of all the time spent online by U.S. surfers"
Thus totally ignoring the big non-US sites like bbc.co.uk (The most popular news portal in Europe)and cricinfo.com (The most popular sport site in the world).
To Quote: ["Open source" means that anyone can get a copy of the source code. Developers can find security weaknesses very easily with Linux. The same is not true with Microsoft Windows.]
Yes Microsoft, would you like to tell us more about your developers not being able to find the security weaknesses in Windows.
Unfortunatly the way we're going now the protocol may actualy become useful one day....
Imagine, BeCoffee, All your coffee needs catered for using fully RFC compliant software, order your coffee anytime any where from over the internet. Never have to wait for instant coffee again !
I'd just like to point out that Microsoft have released the full-specs for Word.doc files and an open source.doc reader is available, it's called wvware.
er...No.
The most common _first_ language in Chinese, followed by Spanish.
Including people who speak English as a secod/third/fourth/etc language, English is the most popular language. (Especially as popular indicates choice rather then being born into it)
Surely more than anything, it has highlighted an important point, Microsoft either don't run a virus checker or they haven't updated the one they do use.
As the later is unlikely, one must assume the first, their reasons would be fairly obvious (Would you run software which was constantly in memory and written by a semi-competitor on your development machines ?). But surely announcing it in such a way is an open invitation for "would-be" hackers to send them viruses.
(Incidently apparently the code was ".NET" related, any bets that it was a virus checker they were writing ?:-)
The 92 estimation of world population put China at 1/5th(0.21544) of the world population, since then China has had negative population growth so it's probably 1/6th by now. India it is estimated will surpass China within a few decades.
Mandarin is the most spoken "first" language, German is the largest first language in Europe.
French, Spanish and Arabic are also spoken widely, it's hard to say what will be the world language.
The one thing we can say is that it's not going to be welsh:-)
It seems to have slipped everyone by that the UK goverment is now accepting electronic petitions which have more then 200 signatories (including name & address).
Slashdot Mirror
If Dolby hold the patent in the UK, then they could well be violating UK law, UK law provides legal defence against "groundless threats" made by patent holders against sellers, users and middlemen who may as a result of being threatened stop using the product regardless of whether the patent claim is valid or not. I assume NetBSD has at least one mirror in the UK, which means that UK law could be applicable as the letter refered to _all mirrors_. (Incidently also notice the UK address at the bottom of page 1 of the letter.)
t utes/patents.htm) for details of remedies.
See section 70 of the 1977 Patents Act (http://www.butterworths.co.uk/academic/lloyd/Sta
IANAL
How long will it take for Bugtraq and similar full disclosure lists to be prosecute under the DMCA ?
Last year I posted a simple exploit to Bugtraq which allowed remote access to a users file. That after all is a way of gaining an unauthorized copy of a file by circumventing copy-protection methods (i.e operating system defences). Would this now be a violation of the DMCA ?
How long before buffer overflow exploits get regarded as methoods to circumvent copyprotection methods ?
How long until legal action is taken against SecurityFocus ?
If you're in the UK write to the foreign office and try and get them to change the "LOCAL LAWS AND CUSTOMS" section in their USA travel advice to include a warning to anyone who is either a computer developer or taking any computer software/hardware abroad that they could be arrested if they or any of their possesions violate the DMCA.
While your at it don't forget to have a look at the Free Sklyarov UK protest site and Fax your MP abput the issues that matter to you.
"now account for more than half of all the time spent online by U.S. surfers"
Thus totally ignoring the big non-US sites like bbc.co.uk (The most popular news portal in Europe)and cricinfo.com (The most popular sport site in the world).
A List of government sites and what they run their servers on:
diss.gov.uk runs
Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) FrontPage/4.0.4.3 PHP/3.0.12 on Linux
www.homeoffice.gov.uk runs
Apache/1.3.3 (Unix) on Linux
www.ukonline.gov.uk runs
IBM_HTTP_Server/1.3.6.2 Apache/1.3.7-dev (Unix) on Solaris
barn.ccta.gov.uk runs
Lotus-Domino/5.0.2 on Solaris
www.gtnet.gov.uk runs
Apache/1.3.3 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux) on Linux
www.parliament.uk runs
Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on Solaris
www.ombudsman.org.uk runs
Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 SP1 on Solaris
www.cabinet-office.gov.uk runs
Minstrel-httpd/10 on NT4/Windows 98
www.patent.gov.uk runs
Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) on Solaris 8
www.dera.gov.uk runs
Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) on Linux
www.detr.gov.uk runs
Apache/1.3.3 (Unix) on Linux
www.open.gov.uk runs
Apache/1.3.3 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux) on Linux
seek.open.gov.uk runs
Ultraseek/3.1 Python/1.5.1 on Linux
www.number-10.gov.uk runs
Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98
www.statistics.gov.uk runs
Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on SCO UNIX
www-library.ccw.gov.uk runs
Apache/1.2.0 on NetWare
To Quote: ["Open source" means that anyone can get a copy of the source code. Developers can find security weaknesses very easily with Linux. The same is not true with Microsoft Windows.]
Yes Microsoft, would you like to tell us more about your developers not being able to find the security weaknesses in Windows.
With the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)
Unfortunatly the way we're going now the protocol may actualy become useful one day....
Imagine, BeCoffee, All your coffee needs catered for using fully RFC compliant software, order your coffee anytime any where from over the internet. Never have to wait for instant coffee again !
I'd just like to point out that Microsoft have released the full-specs for Word .doc files and an open source .doc reader is available, it's called wvware.
er...No. The most common _first_ language in Chinese, followed by Spanish. Including people who speak English as a secod/third/fourth/etc language, English is the most popular language. (Especially as popular indicates choice rather then being born into it)
Reading it's description it appears to be a testing program more then a teaching program.
More details of the maths involved can be found at The ClayMath Institute's webpage and some related papers at R.W.Kaye's webpage
Surely more than anything, it has highlighted an important point, Microsoft either don't run a virus checker or they haven't updated the one they do use.
:-)
As the later is unlikely, one must assume the first, their reasons would be fairly obvious (Would you run software which was constantly in memory and written by a semi-competitor on your development machines ?). But surely announcing it in such a way is an open invitation for "would-be" hackers to send them viruses.
(Incidently apparently the code was ".NET" related, any bets that it was a virus checker they were writing ?
The 92 estimation of world population put China at 1/5th(0.21544) of the world population, since then China has had negative population growth so it's probably 1/6th by now. India it is estimated will surpass China within a few decades. Mandarin is the most spoken "first" language, German is the largest first language in Europe. French, Spanish and Arabic are also spoken widely, it's hard to say what will be the world language. The one thing we can say is that it's not going to be welsh :-)
It seems to have slipped everyone by that the UK goverment is now accepting electronic petitions which have more then 200 signatories (including name & address).
Anyone care to set up an electronic petition ?