*sigh* Yet another reinforcement that "Linux" == "x86 only". PPC, Alpha, Sparc, and all the other platforms are really wasted efforts; you should just suck it up and buy crappy Intel hardware. [end sarcasm] --
"There's only one thing about this show I'd change." "What's that?" "The channel!" "O-ho-ho-ho-ho!" Man, I miss regular doses of Statler and Waldorf... --
Reminds me of the little section in Neal Stephenson's Zodiac (What? You still haven't read it?) where Sangamon mentions pH differences and calls it "More than twice what they're licensed for" when he knows that it's really more than 100,000 times what the guilty party is licensed for (pH scale is exponential). Why? People think about it if you say "more than twice" but dismiss you as a flake if you say "over 100,000 times more". There's a point where any discussion of quantities becomes fuzzy because we don't quite have a good picture of what the numbers mean. Even if a million dollars doesn't go as far as it used to, it still has that mystique attached to it of being a 'millionaire'. In the same vein, I suppose, one can dismiss 'one in a million' but one has to think about 'one in twenty'. To quote The Tick, "I just can't get my mind around it!" --
As the previous comment mentions, MDs use their own compression scheme. So whether or not Sony will make an MD-MP3 player is up in the air. However, Sony's put out MD Digital Cameras now, that use MDs as their storage medium (a HUGE number of still images or a small amount of motion video), and reportedly are looking at ways to use MDs in more devices, so it's possible that a digital music player based on MP3 (or something) could use MP3s as it's storage medium, though Sony's also putting out their memory stick players, so I don't know if they'd want to hamstring that business... --
OK, firstly, the link's to the original House Bill, before the amendments to allow research and for interoperability. The parts that edit the existing U.S. Code to implement the WIPO (et al) treaties don't bother me. It's Section 3 that deals with the Copyright Management & Protection Laws. Now, it's not just illegal to violate copyrights, it's illegal to consider violating copyrights. In some sense, it's a free speech violation, as it's leaning to the point that one must have a PhD and a research position to be able to research copyright management systems without violating the law. It grants a copyright holder not only a monopoly on the copyrighted work, but a monopoly on how you can access it. This has nothing to do with the WIPO treaty implementation. Also, consider, that developing DeCSS to copy an encrypted DVD to an unencrypted medium violates that section, but doing a raw bit-for-bit copy doesn't fall under Chapter 12 (the additions regarding Copy Management & Protection) as it's just a "normal" copyright violation (illegal copies for commercial gain). I'd be kinda interested in checking the numbers for potential damages awarded, as for which is considered more damaging: infringement, or creating the ability to infringe without infringing. --
Trawling is a criminal offence, punishable by 3 weeks of non-stop Mork & Mindy Re-runs.
Isn't that a little harsh?
Seriously, though, such Patent Trawling becomes hard to prosecute without some hard "what did they know and when did they know it" evidence. It'd probably be better to enforce the 'non-obvious invention' requirement for a patent to be granted (at the least). Or maybe something like an early expiration if you don't do something with it within a certain amount of time.
That's all I'm going to say, since just thinking about the patent system makes me ill. --
1. AOL announces buyout of (oops! sorry, "merger with") Time-Warner. 2. Road Runner subscribers realize they're going to be taken over by AOL. 3. Subscriber posts to roadrunner newsgroup: "I'll quit before I become an AOLer!" 4. Follow-up posts quickly summarized as "Me too!" (True, at least in the columbus groups...) --
Is it really worth it, though, to make an "Award of Shame"?
I think it's a good counterpoint example to the awards. A 'Look, here's how far we still need to go' sort of perspective. Otherwise, the awards lose a little of their meaning (IMHO) and become Just Another Feel-Good Awards List pat-on-the-back. --
Actually, I don't think this is the best explanation. In the 68K to PPC conversion, Apple said, "Here's a new and faster chip, which because of our software emulator, 99% of your stuff will still run." It was a) the emulator, and b) the just-recompile-and-ship-a-single-fat-binary that allowed them to get away with it. Why this didn't work with the Alpha and x86 emulation is/was the problem illustrated (no market penetration, multiple versions, etc). --
That's 'Cthulhu'. So obviously, you're an imposter. The Elder Party leadership will be around shortly to rectify the situation. Thank you for your support! --
Slight deviation from the main topic, but a very good (and entertaining) look at the events leading up to Pearl Harbor can be seen in "Tora! Tora! Tora!". Draws a nice picture of some of the behind the scenes work and some of the mistakes/misjudgments made. --
The government built the roads, so they make the rules. AT&T builds/upgrades cable infrastructure (the roads) so they get to make the rules. Okay, the rules: You are required to lease a car from us to drive on our roads. If you have your own car, you still have to pay for a lease from us with no discount. And you also can only use our gasoline.
The gov't built the roads, but they're not requiring you to buy a car from them to drive on them. I think that's where that argument breaks down. We pay for roads (in the form of taxes or tolls), so we can use them *with our existing vehicles*. An End-to-End solution, as the paper describes. Separate the road builders from the car manufacturers, and let the car manufacturers work on their value-adding, rather than being stuck with a Model T that's any color, as long as it's black. --
The major plugins RealAudio, Flash are now available for Linux
Not quite true; they are available for Linux/x86. I don't see any of those for Linux/PPC, Linux/SPARC, Linux/Alpha, Linux/other-non-x86. These plugins are a bone being thrown to Linux users to quiet them. There's always going to be an incentive for people to use the dominant platform, which is going to draw more developers to it, which is going to create an incentive to use the dominant platform. See the trend? The solution requires some platform-independent solution so anyone can use it. Unfortunately, I don't know what that should be right now... --
>5 Bytes? And they call this secure? They were probably limited by the speed of decryption as to how complex/secure they could make the algorithm. DVD Video is coded twice if it's encrypted, and the MPEG2 video decoding isn't cheap (most PCs use dedicated hardware), so wasting time on complex decryption algorithms was probably out of the question. --
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>You or anyone else could have registered nigger.com. Nobody stopped you.
Ah... No. Reread the story up top: NSI refused it to others before allowing the NAACP to register it. --
Well, I can see why NSI wouldn't allow some of them, but there's really no policy that can be applied globally, given language variance, even American English vs British English vs Australian English. NSI's allowed the NAACP to register 'nigger.com' but turned down others. Where's the line drawn? godhatesfags.com was allowed, would godhatesblacks.com be? Or would they only allow (e.g.) the NAACP to register it to present their side of it? --
*Bzzzt!* Thank you for playing, we have some lovely parting gifts.:) CodeWarrior is only *certified* for RedHat. You may have to do a little work, if any, to run it on SuSE or Debian, but it can work. Someone else have direct experience here? I don't... Please (please, please) learn more about what you're commenting on before attempting to pass off erroneous beliefs as fact in this forum, you'll only earn no end of grief (and flames, and flames, and...). --
...at mp3.com. I kinda wish Diamond would've pressed the countersuit against the RIAA (on monopoly practice and the AHRA's constitutionality) but from Diamond's point-of-view, it doesn't do well to litigate against people you're wanting some partnership with... --
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*sigh* Yet another reinforcement that "Linux" == "x86 only". PPC, Alpha, Sparc, and all the other platforms are really wasted efforts; you should just suck it up and buy crappy Intel hardware. [end sarcasm]
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Slightly offtopic, but does anyone else here think Rygel looks like a hideously failed attempt to cross-breed Yoda and Beaker? :-)
:)
I'd never thought of him that way, but now that you mention it...
--
"There's only one thing about this show I'd change."
"What's that?"
"The channel!"
"O-ho-ho-ho-ho!"
Man, I miss regular doses of Statler and Waldorf...
--
Reminds me of the little section in Neal Stephenson's Zodiac (What? You still haven't read it?) where Sangamon mentions pH differences and calls it "More than twice what they're licensed for" when he knows that it's really more than 100,000 times what the guilty party is licensed for (pH scale is exponential). Why? People think about it if you say "more than twice" but dismiss you as a flake if you say "over 100,000 times more". There's a point where any discussion of quantities becomes fuzzy because we don't quite have a good picture of what the numbers mean. Even if a million dollars doesn't go as far as it used to, it still has that mystique attached to it of being a 'millionaire'.
In the same vein, I suppose, one can dismiss 'one in a million' but one has to think about 'one in twenty'. To quote The Tick, "I just can't get my mind around it!"
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I think it's simple why they're doing it...
From the Evil Overlord list:
100. Finally, to keep my subjects permanently locked in a mindless trance, I will provide each of them with free unlimited Internet access.
Simple, really...
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As the previous comment mentions, MDs use their own compression scheme. So whether or not Sony will make an MD-MP3 player is up in the air.
However, Sony's put out MD Digital Cameras now, that use MDs as their storage medium (a HUGE number of still images or a small amount of motion video), and reportedly are looking at ways to use MDs in more devices, so it's possible that a digital music player based on MP3 (or something) could use MP3s as it's storage medium, though Sony's also putting out their memory stick players, so I don't know if they'd want to hamstring that business...
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It wouldn't be involved in the MPAA case (DMCA in NY), but the DVD-CCA case (Trade Secret in CA).
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OK, firstly, the link's to the original House Bill, before the amendments to allow research and for interoperability. The parts that edit the existing U.S. Code to implement the WIPO (et al) treaties don't bother me. It's Section 3 that deals with the Copyright Management & Protection Laws.
Now, it's not just illegal to violate copyrights, it's illegal to consider violating copyrights. In some sense, it's a free speech violation, as it's leaning to the point that one must have a PhD and a research position to be able to research copyright management systems without violating the law. It grants a copyright holder not only a monopoly on the copyrighted work, but a monopoly on how you can access it. This has nothing to do with the WIPO treaty implementation.
Also, consider, that developing DeCSS to copy an encrypted DVD to an unencrypted medium violates that section, but doing a raw bit-for-bit copy doesn't fall under Chapter 12 (the additions regarding Copy Management & Protection) as it's just a "normal" copyright violation (illegal copies for commercial gain). I'd be kinda interested in checking the numbers for potential damages awarded, as for which is considered more damaging: infringement, or creating the ability to infringe without infringing.
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Soon enough
these people will realize that their trying to stuff a genie back into
a bottle.
They may not be able to stuff the genie back into the bottle, but they can litigate it into poverty.
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Trawling is a criminal offence, punishable by 3 weeks of non-stop Mork & Mindy Re-runs.
Isn't that a little harsh?
Seriously, though, such Patent Trawling becomes hard to prosecute without some hard "what did they know and when did they know it" evidence. It'd probably be better to enforce the 'non-obvious invention' requirement for a patent to be granted (at the least). Or maybe something like an early expiration if you don't do something with it within a certain amount of time.
That's all I'm going to say, since just thinking about the patent system makes me ill.
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1. AOL announces buyout of (oops! sorry, "merger with") Time-Warner.
2. Road Runner subscribers realize they're going to be taken over by AOL.
3. Subscriber posts to roadrunner newsgroup: "I'll quit before I become an AOLer!"
4. Follow-up posts quickly summarized as "Me too!"
(True, at least in the columbus groups...)
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Is it really worth it, though, to make an "Award of Shame"?
I think it's a good counterpoint example to the awards. A 'Look, here's how far we still need to go' sort of perspective. Otherwise, the awards lose a little of their meaning (IMHO) and become Just Another Feel-Good Awards List pat-on-the-back.
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I guess the Quiet Period worked... Andover.net IPO'ed (note the past tense) way back in October.
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Actually, I don't think this is the best explanation. In the 68K to PPC conversion, Apple said, "Here's a new and faster chip, which because of our software emulator, 99% of your stuff will still run." It was a) the emulator, and b) the just-recompile-and-ship-a-single-fat-binary that allowed them to get away with it. Why this didn't work with the Alpha and x86 emulation is/was the problem illustrated (no market penetration, multiple versions, etc).
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Didn't I read this in Neil Stephenson's Zodiac? :)
That's the same thought I had...
"For every research victory there is a corresponding increase in ignorance." - David Orr
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That's 'Cthulhu'. So obviously, you're an imposter. The Elder Party leadership will be around shortly to rectify the situation. Thank you for your support!
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I think it had something to do with designing it to NOT have the resonant frequency of a car driving over it.
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Slight deviation from the main topic, but a very good (and entertaining) look at the events leading up to Pearl Harbor can be seen in "Tora! Tora! Tora!". Draws a nice picture of some of the behind the scenes work and some of the mistakes/misjudgments made.
--
The government built the roads, so they make the rules.
AT&T builds/upgrades cable infrastructure (the roads) so they get to make the rules. Okay, the rules: You are required to lease a car from us to drive on our roads. If you have your own car, you still have to pay for a lease from us with no discount. And you also can only use our gasoline.
The gov't built the roads, but they're not requiring you to buy a car from them to drive on them. I think that's where that argument breaks down. We pay for roads (in the form of taxes or tolls), so we can use them *with our existing vehicles*. An End-to-End solution, as the paper describes. Separate the road builders from the car manufacturers, and let the car manufacturers work on their value-adding, rather than being stuck with a Model T that's any color, as long as it's black.
--
The major plugins RealAudio, Flash are now available for Linux
Not quite true; they are available for Linux/x86. I don't see any of those for Linux/PPC, Linux/SPARC, Linux/Alpha, Linux/other-non-x86. These plugins are a bone being thrown to Linux users to quiet them. There's always going to be an incentive for people to use the dominant platform, which is going to draw more developers to it, which is going to create an incentive to use the dominant platform. See the trend? The solution requires some platform-independent solution so anyone can use it. Unfortunately, I don't know what that should be right now...
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>5 Bytes? And they call this secure?
They were probably limited by the speed of decryption as to how complex/secure they could make the algorithm. DVD Video is coded twice if it's encrypted, and the MPEG2 video decoding isn't cheap (most PCs use dedicated hardware), so wasting time on complex decryption algorithms was probably out of the question.
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>You or anyone else could have registered nigger.com. Nobody stopped you.
Ah... No. Reread the story up top: NSI refused it to others before allowing the NAACP to register it.
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Well, I can see why NSI wouldn't allow some of them, but there's really no policy that can be applied globally, given language variance, even American English vs British English vs Australian English. NSI's allowed the NAACP to register 'nigger.com' but turned down others. Where's the line drawn? godhatesfags.com was allowed, would godhatesblacks.com be? Or would they only allow (e.g.) the NAACP to register it to present their side of it?
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*Bzzzt!* Thank you for playing, we have some lovely parting gifts. :)
CodeWarrior is only *certified* for RedHat. You may have to do a little work, if any, to run it on SuSE or Debian, but it can work. Someone else have direct experience here? I don't...
Please (please, please) learn more about what you're commenting on before attempting to pass off erroneous beliefs as fact in this forum, you'll only earn no end of grief (and flames, and flames, and...).
--
...at mp3.com. I kinda wish Diamond would've pressed the countersuit against the RIAA (on monopoly practice and the AHRA's constitutionality) but from Diamond's point-of-view, it doesn't do well to litigate against people you're wanting some partnership with...
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