Depending on the degree of market concentration-- not a whole lot. It gets worse when most of the large media companies are held by conglomerates that don't put a lot of stock in Free Speech issues. For instance, Disney owns ABC. Obviously Disney has a number of businesses which aren't terribly concerned with free speech and are more concerned with producing toys, animation and clothing at cut rate prices.
Disney's lawyers may snarl at ABC, and get a story changed or rewritten. After a few years of this nonsence, ABC may succumb to a sort of "Stockholm Syndrome" and instinctively self censor.
As more and more news media companies get swallowed up by large conglomerates, this self censorship will bocome the rule and not the exception.
The contribution of independence to a press's integrity should not be underestimated. Of course, independence is no guarentee of accurate reporting, but that's another story.
No. The 2.3 kernel series already provides support for DVD ioctls and the the UDF file system. I think 2.2.15 has this supportbuilt in as well. The main obstacles to DVD support on Linux are as follows.
Information on the open-source Linux DVD player is available at LiVid
1. DVDs are scrambled using a low grade (40-bit) encryption algorithm known as CSS. Although the relevant algorithms have been reverse engineered, and cracking the relevant keys has been shown to be trivial, the legal status of these reverse engineered algorithms is very much in doubt, as two lawsuits, one by the Motion Picture Association of America, the other by the DVD Copy Control Association, may have the effect of removing this source code from open distribution.
2. Portions of the AC3 sound decoder algorithm may be owned by Dolby, although an unlicenced decoder has been developed.
3. Portions of the MPEG2 video decoder algorithm are entangled in various patents. An unlicenced decoder has been developed.
4. The menu system and subpicture/subtitle decoders still need some work.
5. The current focus within Livid seems to be syncing up audio and video streams.
Most of the people working on LiVid are working on technical problems, not legal ones, however, and development continues apace.
I found this book to be a very good read-- the manner in which it ties together Gulf War Syndrome, nanontechnology and software design is most amusing. I was particularly interested in his descriptions of hardware design and debugging.
I'm not sure if Sundman is writing from first hand experience, but it would seem to me that several of the comapanies mentined in the book are rather thinly veiled parodies of existant companies. Digital MicroSystems seems very similar to DEC, for instance.
Oh, and the title-- "Acts of the Apostles" has little of nothing to do with religion and everything to do with megalomania.
Actually, from a legal standpoint, the "findings of fact" present an impressive factual foundation for the Government's proposed Remedies. The evidentiary standard for overturning a court's "findings of fact" is very high-- They must be shown to be clearly erroneous. I very much doubt that Microsoft will be able to breach that standard../
This reminds me of the problems one might to ensure that a "clickwrap license" is read and agreed to by the consumer. The traditional method of ensuring that the agreement is actually read is to disable the OK button until the user has scrolled through the license. But how can you ensuretaht a reader actually reads what's scrolling past? I propose a multiple choice reading comprehension exam.
Insurance is a good idea, and despite the GPL's disclaimer of responsibilty, the fact source is available should be a factor in deciding what software to aquire. There are also a couple of projects to audit the kernel and major applications for security. Business idea: package a free OS with business insurence, possibly with a utility to verify the integrity of the various package. Security patches would of course be avilable to the Linux/FreeBSD community-- but if a customer uses a unaudited package, he loses insurance benefits for that particular package. It would be analogous to fire insurance companies approving an alarm/sprinkler installation.
The courts have pretty much declined to provide a threshhold based on percentages. For instance, the Nation excerpted 300 words from Gerald Ford's soon to be published memoir, A Time to Heal concerning, among other things, his pardon of Richard Nixon, yet was found to have infringed on Harper and Row's copyright interest. (Harper and Row vs Nation 471 US 539), and that its publication did not constitute fair use. ( copy of the decision is available at Jurisline.com Of course, in this instance, the court used the "effect on the market" test (" More important, to negate fair use one need only show that if the challenged use "should become widespread, it would adversely affect the potential market for the copyrighted work.") which is not easily applied to Free Software.
Porn is perfectly healthy. Erotica, as the "upmarket" version of "porn" certainly falls into the realm of protected speech. But, let us contemplate the problem of banning "porn." If one bans pornography, one removes from the public sphere a great deal of information dealing with human sexuality. Some of would be classic erotica (e.g. The secret logs of Mistress Janeway, or Dirty Pictures (with annoying popups), but some of might well be pages relating to Sexual Health, or Gnostic scripture, or a work of Impressionism. Would a site dedicated to Hot Grits and Natalie Portman be thus banned from the net? The CDA was bad law. Requiring filters is bad law. Allowing filter companies to silence their critics with lawsuits and/or filter abuse is also bad law.
In ten or twenty years, I may use a filtering program for the sake of efficiency. But I would want to know exactly what kinds of decisions went it to building that filter....
But it's 480i, not even 480p. That's less rresolution than a DVD with a decent PC-based deinterlacer. The real attraction of HDTV is in the 720p and 1080i modes. (Of course, 1080p is also theoretically possible)
But games are what sell a platform, not expensive packages used by "artists".
I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that OpenGL is an "artist['s]" tool. Most 3D animation uses OpenGL only as a means to an end. The final non-realtime rendering is produced using tools such as Renderman. OpenGL is widely used in the scientific community. OpenGL simply isn't avilable for many scientifically important platforms, and I doubt it would be much used even if MS released a Direct3D for Unix.
.just ONE revolution of a vinyl groove contains more musical information than a WHOLE CD. Vinyl holds information at a close to molecular level.
I'm not defending the abysmally low sound quality of MP3s, nor am I about to claim that 16bit/44.1 kHz PCM is the the ne plus ultra of sound quality. However, I would like to point out that a great deal of that information in vinyl is not really information at all, but noise. Vinyl producers can't possibly ague that their methods produce precision on a molular level. To do so would require a stylus capable of precision on a molecular level, something that presently does not exist, except, perhaps, in conjunction with scanning tunneling microscopes. And lack of precision results in noise.
We need to address issues of crime etc first before we can give Big Bro the middle finger. That's what stephenson meant..i think..
But this leads directly to a state where Big Brother exists...
1. Crime is a threat to the welfare of a population.
2. If "concerns about crime" trump privacy concerns, violations of privacy in order to stop crime are appropriate.
3. Since the state acts in a manner to abate crime, destabilizing the state is attack against crime abatement, and indirectly, an attack on the welfare of a population.
4. Therefore, acting in a manner that subverts the actions of the state in pursuit of its lawful crime abatement strategy should be regarded as a crime.
5.Surveilence in order to prevent subversion is a lawful action on the part of the state.
6. Big Brother.
Luckily, "crime abatement" is not the basis of our present society. That's why we have the Bill of Rights, and specifically the right to be secure in our homes against unlawful searches and seizures, the right not to be forced to quarter troops in our homes (Imagine the crime abatement opportunities if everybody had cops as "roommates."), even the right to bear arms (in the context of a well organized militia).
which is more standard. After all, the free software community produced a 'true' command which responded to the --help flag. You can't add this sort of critical functionality with a simple void main(){}.
The OED defines liberalism (in a political sense) as (among others)
4 a. Free from narrow prejudice; open-minded, candid.
b. esp. Free from bigotry or unreasonable prejudice in favour of traditional opinions or established institutions; open to the reception of new ideas or proposals of reform. Hence often applied as a party designation to those members of a church or religious sect who hold opinions `broader' or more `advanced' than those in accordance with its commonly accepted standard of orthodoxy, e.g. in Liberal Catholic. Liberal Christian: in the U.S. chiefly applied to the Unitarians and Universalists; in England somewhat more vaguely to those who reject or consider unessential any considerable part of the traditional system of belief; so liberal Christianity, liberal theology. Also in application to Judaism.
5. Of political opinions: Favourable to constitutional changes and legal or administrative reforms tending in the direction of freedom or democracy. Hence used as the designation of the party holding such opinions, in England or other states; opposed to Conservative. Liberal-Labour, of or pertaining to (persons associated with or sympathetic to) both the Liberal and the Labour parties. So Liberal Labourism. Cf. Lib-Lab a. In Liberal Conservative, the adj. has rather sense 4 than this sense; the combination, however, is often hyphened, which perhaps indicates that it is interpreted as = `partly Liberal, partly Conservative.' Liberal Unionist: a member of the party formed by those Liberals who refused to support Mr. Gladstone's measure of Irish Home Rule in 1886.
and
b. in British politics. Early in the 19th c. the sb. occurs chiefly as applied by opponents to the advanced section of the Whig party: sometimes in Sp. or Fr. form, app. with the intention of suggesting that the principles of those politicians were un-English, or akin to those of the revolutionaries of the Continent. As, however, the adj. was already English in a laudatory sense, the advocates of reform were not reluctant to adopt the foreign term as descriptive of themselves; and when the significance of the old party distinctions was obliterated by the coalition of the moderate Whigs with the Tories and of the advanced Whigs with the Radicals, the new names `Liberal' and `Conservative' took the place of `Whig' and `Tory' as the usual appellations of the two great parties in the state.
Now, in the interest of preserving space, I have not quoted the various references that form the great part of the OED's definitions. Nevertheless the first appearence of the word in a political sense occurs in 1816, "Southey in Q. Rev. XV. 69 These are the personages for whose sake the continuance of the Alien Bill has been opposed by the British Liberales. " but see "1940 N.Y. Times 23 Jan. 20/4 Since then [sc. the Russian Revolution] Liberal has been a word of confusion. Everybody who was not a Conservative became a Liberal or Radical or Red, whichever came first to the mind. ".
In short, the epithet "liberal" does not have a static meaning, except perhaps non-Conservative/Tory. Since Conservatives, by and large, approve of "free trade", and it is no longer so appropriate to call "free trade" a liberal ideology. The essence of a liberal trade policy was not that Liberals were wedded to the idea of a free market, but they wanted a freer market than the economic systems the Conservatives wished to have. Now, as some of the excesses of various free markets have come to light, "laissez-faire" is no longer the dominant liberal position.
If I, as a revolutionary, topple a "totalitarian" state, and erect in its place a "Eutopia", would I no longer be a revolutionary? Would thouse elements of my Eutopian society wedded to the old ideas, and therefore oppossed to this new revolutionary state, be conservative, or would they be revolutionary?" The Republicans no longer would support Reconstruction Era race policies (and, in fact, would probably oppose the more radical elements.) The Democrats no longer argue in support of the "Jim Crow" social order. But since the 1860s, the Republicans and Democratts have offered essentially opposing palatforms. The only consistent definition of either would seem to be "one who opposes the other." Now, some would argue that at the core of the Republican party lies a credo not dependent on "civil rights" policy, but more substantial than "opposition to the Democratic Party". Likewise, at the core of the Liberal political view lies something not related to trade policy and probably more substatial than "opposition to the Tories." But such reasons are by their very nature, long, detailed, contradictory, and off-topic.
Well, I suppose that the development process could be forked. But this time, include the various licences. Of course, this could lead to major legal testing of the GPL, and since the original developers didn't go through _all_ the motions, it could turn out to be a really lousy testcase.
Why did the Wired article describe NMR as a specialized version of MRI? If anything, it's the other way around. "... nuclear NMR spectromotor, which is a specialized version of the imaging devices commonly used in hospitals." Also, "nuclear NMR" is, like " ATM machine", redundant.
I'd take those results with a grain of salt: on the Direct3d side, there's a 486 SX 25 (8MB) cranking out a score of 281.81 with 8bit 640x480 (built in S3-2mb). A gateway Pentium III "other" (128 MB) with a nVidia TNT (16 MB) gets 260.4 at 16bit 640x480. Yet a gateway Pentium MMX 233 (not II, MMX) (128MB) with an ATI Rage 4MB, gets 266.4 at the same resolution and bit depth. The same chart shows a 8MB ATI card running at 32bits*1600*1200, which is just silly...(264 on a Celeron 333)
Alltheweb does a terrible job of filtering out dictionary/search engine trap pages. For some reason, it always seems to return "free live pussy isthisreallylegal clusterfuck" pages in the #1 and #2 position.
Displays such as digital flat panels don't convert to a recordable analog signal.
I was using a very wide definition of "analog." Think of it this way. Your eyes, and ears are all analogue devices. If I play a CD-Audio disk, the only way I'm going to hear the music is if at some point, the digital data is converted into sound (an analog medium). Cheap CD-players convert into analogue using an onboard converter. More expensive players (transports) use an outboard A/D converter (either a seperate cconverter or one built into the pre-amplifier. The most exotic systems convert in the speaker. The sound that comes out of the speakers can be recorded.
If I place a microphone in between the speaker and my ear, I will be able to intercept a signal for recording. I don't know of anyone who has an S/PDIF connector into his/her brain (although it may be feasible to hack a cochlear implant).
Not much of article, and it begs the question-- why? At some point, the signal needs to be converted into analog. At that point, the signal is recordable. I suppose they could devise a cybernetic implant that activates retinal neurons if an individual is "licensed" to view content. If this things catches on, I bet we'll see the development of video cameras that are adapted to take screenshots.
As an aside, what's with that ass-ugly cover? Don't you get Josh Kirby covers on your
Pratchett books in America??
It's a tradition in the states. Book comes out in Britain with a nice cover-- then gets republished here with an awful/tasteless/crude cover.
The American "Harry Potter" titles have rather juvenile covers (fittingly so?) that pale in comparison to the British releases. Supposedly, some American adult readers have bought the British versions, just so they might not be riduculed for reading a more juvenile looking book on the subway, etc.
When Ellis Peter's "Brother Cadfael" mysteries were published in England, their covers looked like illuminated manuscripts, whereas the American versions have pictures of medieval corpses. Rather tasteless, IMHO.
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Depending on the degree of market concentration-- not a whole lot. It gets worse when most of the large media companies are held by conglomerates that don't put a lot of stock in Free Speech issues. For instance, Disney owns ABC. Obviously Disney has a number of businesses which aren't terribly concerned with free speech and are more concerned with producing toys, animation and clothing at cut rate prices.
Disney's lawyers may snarl at ABC, and get a story changed or rewritten. After a few years of this nonsence, ABC may succumb to a sort of "Stockholm Syndrome" and instinctively self censor.
As more and more news media companies get swallowed up by large conglomerates, this self censorship will bocome the rule and not the exception.
The contribution of independence to a press's integrity should not be underestimated. Of course, independence is no guarentee of accurate reporting, but that's another story.
Information on the open-source Linux DVD player is available at LiVid
1. DVDs are scrambled using a low grade (40-bit) encryption algorithm known as CSS. Although the relevant algorithms have been reverse engineered, and cracking the relevant keys has been shown to be trivial, the legal status of these reverse engineered algorithms is very much in doubt, as two lawsuits, one by the Motion Picture Association of America, the other by the DVD Copy Control Association, may have the effect of removing this source code from open distribution.
2. Portions of the AC3 sound decoder algorithm may be owned by Dolby, although an unlicenced decoder has been developed.
3. Portions of the MPEG2 video decoder algorithm are entangled in various patents. An unlicenced decoder has been developed.
4. The menu system and subpicture/subtitle decoders still need some work.
5. The current focus within Livid seems to be syncing up audio and video streams.
Most of the people working on LiVid are working on technical problems, not legal ones, however, and development continues apace.
I found this book to be a very good read-- the manner in which it ties together Gulf War Syndrome, nanontechnology and software design is most amusing. I was particularly interested in his descriptions of hardware design and debugging.
I'm not sure if Sundman is writing from first hand experience, but it would seem to me that several of the comapanies mentined in the book are rather thinly veiled parodies of existant companies. Digital MicroSystems seems very similar to DEC, for instance.
Oh, and the title-- "Acts of the Apostles" has little of nothing to do with religion and everything to do with megalomania.
Actually, from a legal standpoint, the "findings of fact" present an impressive factual foundation for the Government's proposed Remedies. The evidentiary standard for overturning a court's "findings of fact" is very high-- They must be shown to be clearly erroneous. I very much doubt that Microsoft will be able to breach that standard../
This reminds me of the problems one might to ensure that a "clickwrap license" is read and agreed to by the consumer. The traditional method of ensuring that the agreement is actually read is to disable the OK button until the user has scrolled through the license. But how can you ensuretaht a reader actually reads what's scrolling past? I propose a multiple choice reading comprehension exam.
Note that the law firm representing them is Proskuer Rose,LLP, which also represents the various plaintiffs in Universal vs Riemeirdes, Corley, et al.
Insurance is a good idea, and despite the GPL's disclaimer of responsibilty, the fact source is available should be a factor in deciding what software to aquire. There are also a couple of projects to audit the kernel and major applications for security.
Business idea: package a free OS with business insurence, possibly with a utility to verify the integrity of the various package. Security patches would of course be avilable to the Linux/FreeBSD community-- but if a customer uses a unaudited package, he loses insurance benefits for that particular package.
It would be analogous to fire insurance companies approving an alarm/sprinkler installation.
The courts have pretty much declined to provide a threshhold based on percentages. For instance, the Nation excerpted 300 words from Gerald Ford's soon to be published memoir, A Time to Heal concerning, among other things, his pardon of Richard Nixon, yet was found to have infringed on Harper and Row's copyright interest. (Harper and Row vs Nation 471 US 539), and that its publication did not constitute fair use. ( copy of the decision is available at Jurisline.com Of course, in this instance, the court used the "effect on the market" test (" More important, to negate fair use one need only show that if the challenged use "should become widespread, it would adversely affect the potential market for the copyrighted work.") which is not easily applied to Free Software.
In ten or twenty years, I may use a filtering program for the sake of efficiency. But I would want to know exactly what kinds of decisions went it to building that filter....
But it's 480i, not even 480p. That's less rresolution than a DVD with a decent PC-based deinterlacer. The real attraction of HDTV is in the 720p and 1080i modes. (Of course, 1080p is also theoretically possible)
Perhaps Cox@home would like to be extra nasty to all these Linux users, and ban the use of X servers...
But games are what sell a platform, not expensive packages used by "artists".
I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that OpenGL is an "artist['s]" tool. Most 3D animation uses OpenGL only as a means to an end. The final non-realtime rendering is produced using tools such as Renderman.
OpenGL is widely used in the scientific community. OpenGL simply isn't avilable for many scientifically important platforms, and I doubt it would be much used even if MS released a Direct3D for Unix.
.just ONE revolution of a vinyl groove contains more musical information than a WHOLE CD. Vinyl holds information at a close to molecular level.
I'm not defending the abysmally low sound quality of MP3s, nor am I about to claim that 16bit/44.1 kHz PCM is the the ne plus ultra of sound quality. However, I would like to point out that a great deal of that information in vinyl is not really information at all, but noise. Vinyl producers can't possibly ague that their methods produce precision on a molular level. To do so would require a stylus capable of precision on a molecular level, something that presently does not exist, except, perhaps, in conjunction with scanning tunneling microscopes. And lack of precision results in noise.
But this leads directly to a state where Big Brother exists...
1. Crime is a threat to the welfare of a population.
2. If "concerns about crime" trump privacy concerns, violations of privacy in order to stop crime are appropriate.
3. Since the state acts in a manner to abate crime, destabilizing the state is attack against crime abatement, and indirectly, an attack on the welfare of a population.
4. Therefore, acting in a manner that subverts the actions of the state in pursuit of its lawful crime abatement strategy should be regarded as a crime.
5.Surveilence in order to prevent subversion is a lawful action on the part of the state.
6. Big Brother.
Luckily, "crime abatement" is not the basis of our present society. That's why we have the Bill of Rights, and specifically the right to be secure in our homes against unlawful searches and seizures, the right not to be forced to quarter troops in our homes (Imagine the crime abatement opportunities if everybody had cops as "roommates."), even the right to bear arms (in the context of a well organized militia).
int main(int argc, char *argv[]){return 0;}
which is more standard. After all, the free software community produced a 'true' command which responded to the --help flag. You can't add this sort of critical functionality with a simple void main(){}.
OpenGL 1.2 includes support for 3d textures--essentially voxel rendering. Why isn't OGL 1.2 available for Windows?
4 a. Free from narrow prejudice; open-minded, candid.
b. esp. Free from bigotry or unreasonable prejudice in favour of traditional opinions or established institutions; open to the reception of new ideas or proposals of reform. Hence often applied as a party designation to those members of a church or religious sect who hold opinions `broader' or more `advanced' than those in accordance with its commonly accepted standard of orthodoxy, e.g. in Liberal Catholic. Liberal Christian: in the U.S. chiefly applied to the Unitarians and Universalists; in England somewhat more vaguely to those who reject or consider unessential any considerable part of the traditional system of belief; so liberal Christianity, liberal theology. Also in application to Judaism.
5. Of political opinions: Favourable to constitutional changes and legal or administrative reforms tending in the direction of freedom or democracy. Hence used as the designation of the party holding such opinions, in England or other states; opposed to Conservative. Liberal-Labour, of or pertaining to (persons associated with or sympathetic to) both the Liberal and the Labour parties. So Liberal Labourism. Cf. Lib-Lab a. In Liberal Conservative, the adj. has rather sense 4 than this sense; the combination, however, is often hyphened, which perhaps indicates that it is interpreted as = `partly Liberal, partly Conservative.' Liberal Unionist: a member of the party formed by those Liberals who refused to support Mr. Gladstone's measure of Irish Home Rule in 1886.
and
b. in British politics. Early in the 19th c. the sb. occurs chiefly as applied by opponents to the advanced section of the Whig party: sometimes in Sp. or Fr. form, app. with the intention of suggesting that the principles of those politicians were un-English, or akin to those of the revolutionaries of the Continent. As, however, the adj. was already English in a laudatory sense, the advocates of reform were not reluctant to adopt the foreign term as descriptive of themselves; and when the significance of the old party distinctions was obliterated by the coalition of the moderate Whigs with the Tories and of the advanced Whigs with the Radicals, the new names `Liberal' and `Conservative' took the place of `Whig' and `Tory' as the usual appellations of the two great parties in the state.
Now, in the interest of preserving space, I have not quoted the various references that form the great part of the OED's definitions. Nevertheless the first appearence of the word in a political sense occurs in 1816, "Southey in Q. Rev. XV. 69 These are the personages for whose sake the continuance of the Alien Bill has been opposed by the British Liberales. " but see "1940 N.Y. Times 23 Jan. 20/4 Since then [sc. the Russian Revolution] Liberal has been a word of confusion. Everybody who was not a Conservative became a Liberal or Radical or Red, whichever came first to the mind. ".
In short, the epithet "liberal" does not have a static meaning, except perhaps non-Conservative/Tory. Since Conservatives, by and large, approve of "free trade", and it is no longer so appropriate to call "free trade" a liberal ideology. The essence of a liberal trade policy was not that Liberals were wedded to the idea of a free market, but they wanted a freer market than the economic systems the Conservatives wished to have. Now, as some of the excesses of various free markets have come to light, "laissez-faire" is no longer the dominant liberal position.
If I, as a revolutionary, topple a "totalitarian" state, and erect in its place a "Eutopia", would I no longer be a revolutionary? Would thouse elements of my Eutopian society wedded to the old ideas, and therefore oppossed to this new revolutionary state, be conservative, or would they be revolutionary?" The Republicans no longer would support Reconstruction Era race policies (and, in fact, would probably oppose the more radical elements.) The Democrats no longer argue in support of the "Jim Crow" social order. But since the 1860s, the Republicans and Democratts have offered essentially opposing palatforms. The only consistent definition of either would seem to be "one who opposes the other." Now, some would argue that at the core of the Republican party lies a credo not dependent on "civil rights" policy, but more substantial than "opposition to the Democratic Party". Likewise, at the core of the Liberal political view lies something not related to trade policy and probably more substatial than "opposition to the Tories." But such reasons are by their very nature, long, detailed, contradictory, and off-topic.
Well, I suppose that the development process could be forked. But this time, include the various licences. Of course, this could lead to major legal testing of the GPL, and since the original developers didn't go through _all_ the motions, it could turn out to be a really lousy testcase.
Why did the Wired article describe NMR as a specialized version of MRI? If anything, it's the other way around.
"... nuclear NMR spectromotor, which is a specialized version of the imaging devices commonly used in hospitals."
Also, "nuclear NMR" is, like " ATM machine", redundant.
Damn: I knew there was something strange about God's DNA-- it contains uracil!
I'd take those results with a grain of salt: on the Direct3d side,
there's a 486 SX 25 (8MB) cranking out a score of 281.81 with 8bit 640x480 (built in S3-2mb).
A gateway Pentium III "other" (128 MB) with a nVidia TNT (16 MB) gets 260.4 at 16bit 640x480. Yet a gateway Pentium MMX 233 (not II, MMX) (128MB) with an ATI Rage 4MB, gets 266.4 at the same resolution and bit depth.
The same chart shows a 8MB ATI card running at 32bits*1600*1200, which is just silly...(264 on a Celeron 333)
Alltheweb does a terrible job of filtering out dictionary/search engine trap pages. For some reason, it always seems to return "free live pussy isthisreallylegal clusterfuck" pages in the #1 and #2 position.
I was using a very wide definition of "analog." Think of it this way. Your eyes, and ears are all analogue devices. If I play a CD-Audio disk, the only way I'm going to hear the music is if at some point, the digital data is converted into sound (an analog medium). Cheap CD-players convert into analogue using an onboard converter. More expensive players (transports) use an outboard A/D converter (either a seperate cconverter or one built into the pre-amplifier. The most exotic systems convert in the speaker. The sound that comes out of the speakers can be recorded.
If I place a microphone in between the speaker and my ear, I will be able to intercept a signal for recording. I don't know of anyone who has an S/PDIF connector into his/her brain (although it may be feasible to hack a cochlear implant).
Not much of article, and it begs the question-- why? At some point, the signal needs to be converted into analog. At that point, the signal is recordable. I suppose they could devise a cybernetic implant that activates retinal neurons if an individual is "licensed" to view content. If this things catches on, I bet we'll see the development of video cameras that are adapted to take screenshots.
It's a tradition in the states. Book comes out in Britain with a nice cover-- then gets republished here with an awful/tasteless/crude cover.
The American "Harry Potter" titles have rather juvenile covers (fittingly so?) that pale in comparison to the British releases. Supposedly, some American adult readers have bought the British versions, just so they might not be riduculed for reading a more juvenile looking book on the subway, etc.
When Ellis Peter's "Brother Cadfael" mysteries were published in England, their covers looked like illuminated manuscripts, whereas the American versions have pictures of medieval corpses. Rather tasteless, IMHO.
Of course, I'm sure there are counter examples...