You seem to be of the opinion that if copyright was "nullified" you would magically get source code, that isn't the case.
The GPL's obligation to distribute source goes much further than simply nullifying copyright. If copyright were merely nullified then I could take some code, use it to make some binaries and then distribute the binaries, keeping my source changes to myself. As the other guy said that would be similar to the BSD.
The GPL ensures: 1) You have the legal right to make modified works. 2) You have access to the source to you can, in practice, actually make such modifications. 3) You must give that source access to others for modified works you distribute.
A "nullified copyright" would only achieve item 1.
They are talking about increasing access to already public records.
There is nothing inherantly "public" about the IP address of the computer I happen to be sitting at when sending an email. You might like to have it for some reason but it is arguably private information, not public.
it suddenly becomes a worthwhile thing to have someone who's contractually obliged to fix your system when it breaks. Posting a bug report at freshmeat doesn't quite cut it when you have planes grounded...
Yes, because IBM (who have been running Qantas' IT for almost threee years now) don't support Linux and often refer their clients to freshmeat......
Verisign may well revoke it, but do any browsers pay attention to revocation lists? Besides, if you were being fraudulent you'd have probably moved on by the time the chargeback goes through.
I think you would have a very difficult time using registration details to track down someone interested in fraud, they don't tell you that a business is trustworthy. Certificates are only really meaningful when you already have some trust in the business in question, such as your bank or some other big name.
The web page doesn't seem to suggest that it does. If it doesn't then there's a fairly obvious method of identifying a good proportion of "real" searches.
Seems pretty ridiculous to me. If it was worth the effort you could probably be tracked and what you are doing is only 'effective' to the degree that Google doesn't care.
Is there a relatively simple explanation of why we think the space we experience is actually the result of 3 distinct "dimensions"?
Obviously from a practical point of view it is useful for use to measure things using a coordinate system with three sets of perpendicular axes but why do we think that is more than a useful logical construct? Why do we think it tells us that the very nature of the universe really stems from three distinct "dimensions"?
There doesn't seem to be any real distinction between up/down, left/right, and forward/backward. Couldn't they all be something that is part of one "space" dimension?
In this case the "where they belong" (ie where the CDs are currently sold) is outside Mosques. Frankly you would be hard pressed to convince me that limiting DVDs preaching violent jihad and and hate to that "circuit" is a good thing.
I don't think there's much chance of Joe Public hearing about it in the news and the DVD hitting the charts.
I was interested to read today that the ABC (that's the Australian Broadcasting Corporation) has a policy that allows for it's content to be used on other platforms by operators.
I found this out after content was taken down when a teenager pretended to be their representative and sent YouTube an infringement notice (complete with awful spelling, "Australian Broddcasting Corperation")! The kid has since apologised.
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If you put your TV in the control socket then presumably when you turn the TV off (or put it on standby) it would completely power down whatever other items you have in the switched sockets and there are constant hot sockets for your PVR and whatever.
It's not exactly what you described and wouldn't shut off the TV standby power. On the upside it wouldn't give you another remote control to keep track of!
My perspective on PCI compliance, from working with our customers on it, is that it is actually a crapload of work for companies to do. The standard is actually a pretty high bar. For example, a webserver that allows SSLv2 will fail you, or a VPN device that allows connections with regular DES.
Making sure the systems don't raise any security scanning flags can be a pain but mostly it's a tick the box affair. (I have had to handle the SSL issue you mention. Actually disabling SSLv2 is easy, the hard part is getting all your long term clients who have been happily processing to update their side where necessary! Ultimately telling them that if they don't make their client SSLv3/TLS capable by the end of the week then they won't be able to process does the trick.)
For me the interesting part is in limiting exposure if there is a security failure. The fundamental problem is that the applications need to store credit card information to be useful, the applications need to store credit card numbers to do what they have to do (issue credits, do recurring billing etc).
The PCI documentation talks about encrypting information but in my opinion most of that is largely obfuscatory rather than giving any real security. You can have all the data encryption keys and key encryption keys you like but if the application needs to decrypt that data to do it's job then someone who compromises the application can get at it too.
The best thing you can do in terms of minimising exposure is determining how long you need to keep data for and getting rid of it after that.
Any real solutions to avoid the necessity of storing card information would need to come down from the card issuers. Personally though I am not sure they are motivated to change the status quo, they must make an absolute bundle out of charging merchants for chargebacks and so forth.
It just means processing through a terminal where CVV is not a requirement.
I have worked with several gateways/processors and the details depend a lot on their implementation. However typically we set up two accounts, a CVV account and a non CVV account. We funnel initial transactions through the CVV account and recurring transactions through the non-CVV accounts.
Sometimes explicit linkage is required (ie a transaction reference for the initial transaction) and sometimes there is just "trust" that the no-CVV account isn't being abused.
Sony should sell a lot initially. There are a lot of people who a year ago (when the Xbox was launched) decided for one reason or another (perhaps they have a PS2 and were under the impression that the promised backwards compatibility would be worth something) that they were going to wait for a PS3.
They have been waiting and waiting (and had time to save!) so it is no surprise there is a large amount of initial demand. This isn't a weeks worth of customers, it's a years worth.
The real trick will be to see if there is ongoing demand like there has been for the Wii (though even that may be threatened, at least here in Australia, if we don't start seeing a quality games a bit more regularly).
Full backwards compatibility has served it's purpose, namely it has helped make some PS2 owners decide to wait for the PS3 rather than jumping to the XBox 360.
Now Sony don't need it anymore and for those that have waited limited compatibility is still better than the no compatibility they'd get by jumping to the 360.
I am sure there are things going on with the latest "gaming" cards that open source would have trouble keeping up with but how much "functionality" and "quality" is needed for the desktop?
My laptop has an Intel chipset in it and it does an admirable job the the Beryl effects I have set up on my Ubuntu Edgy installtion. The drivers for it are open source (supported heavily by Intel).
Certainly as far as I am concerned the PS3 and probably the 360 are "next gen" as they leverage technologies that aren't in the average home yet (eg HDTV). I think this is why the Wii will do well, at least in the short term. There is little point in paying so much for a PS3 or 360 when you don't have a TV to support them, While such TVs are still in "early adopter" style price ranges and still undergoing rapid improvement I think that considering them "next gen" is reasonable.
Lets say I meet someone online. They claim to be underage. However, I honestly beleive them to be of age and roleplaying. (After all, you generally need a credit card to get internet service, and you generally need to be 18 to get a CC.)
No one would believe it because it's ludicrous. Your "After all" reasoning is incredibly stupid. I suppose if you could provide some evidence of low intelligence or incapacity to go along with your story you might have something though....
Your actions can give a fair idea of your intent. A jury would have to decide whether some other explanation you might offer puts reasonable doubt in their minds.
If I go to someone's house with a gun and start shooting at them but miss with all the bullets I have are you going to let me off an attempted murder charge when I claim that I never intended to hit him and was trying to miss?
You don't know for sure what I was doing but it's beyond any reasonable doubt.
Yes the Wii points work. The manual does warn that you may lose your Wii points by changing regions but so far that has not happened (I have "moved" to the UK twice, once to get Bomberman and once to get R-Type).
Just to be safe I wouldn't do it if you had a lot of Wii Points in your account. There doesn't seem to be a discount for buying Wii Points in bulk so there is no reason to buy anything other than the smallest amount anyway.
I guess that at the end of the day judges used "judgement".
This guy was actively and specifically involved in helping people get MP3 files that he knew to infringe on peoples copyright.
It's not hard to imagine why a reasonable person would conclude he is an active participant in copyright violation while people doing general linking are not.
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You seem to be of the opinion that if copyright was "nullified" you would magically get source code, that isn't the case.
The GPL's obligation to distribute source goes much further than simply nullifying copyright. If copyright were merely nullified then I could take some code, use it to make some binaries and then distribute the binaries, keeping my source changes to myself. As the other guy said that would be similar to the BSD.
The GPL ensures:
1) You have the legal right to make modified works.
2) You have access to the source to you can, in practice, actually make such modifications.
3) You must give that source access to others for modified works you distribute.
A "nullified copyright" would only achieve item 1.
They are talking about increasing access to already public records.
There is nothing inherantly "public" about the IP address of the computer I happen to be sitting at when sending an email. You might like to have it for some reason but it is arguably private information, not public.
Verisign may well revoke it, but do any browsers pay attention to revocation lists?
Besides, if you were being fraudulent you'd have probably moved on by the time the chargeback goes through.
I think you would have a very difficult time using registration details to track down someone interested in fraud, they don't tell you that a business is trustworthy.
Certificates are only really meaningful when you already have some trust in the business in question, such as your bank or some other big name.
The web page doesn't seem to suggest that it does. If it doesn't then there's a fairly obvious method of identifying a good proportion of "real" searches.
Seems pretty ridiculous to me. If it was worth the effort you could probably be tracked and what you are doing is only 'effective' to the degree that Google doesn't care.
Then if you bought a particularly tasty steak you could remember to look out for others from copies of the same cow in future.
Is there a relatively simple explanation of why we think the space we experience is actually the result of 3 distinct "dimensions"?
Obviously from a practical point of view it is useful for use to measure things using a coordinate system with three sets of perpendicular axes but why do we think that is more than a useful logical construct? Why do we think it tells us that the very nature of the universe really stems from three distinct "dimensions"?
There doesn't seem to be any real distinction between up/down, left/right, and forward/backward. Couldn't they all be something that is part of one "space" dimension?
In this case the "where they belong" (ie where the CDs are currently sold) is outside Mosques. Frankly you would be hard pressed to convince me that limiting DVDs preaching violent jihad and and hate to that "circuit" is a good thing.
I don't think there's much chance of Joe Public hearing about it in the news and the DVD hitting the charts.
I was interested to read today that the ABC (that's the Australian Broadcasting Corporation) has a policy that allows for it's content to be used on other platforms by operators.
I found this out after content was taken down when a teenager pretended to be their representative and sent YouTube an infringement notice (complete with awful spelling, "Australian Broddcasting Corperation")! The kid has since apologised.
things.
If you put your TV in the control socket then presumably when you turn the TV off (or put it on standby) it would completely power down whatever other items you have in the switched sockets and there are constant hot sockets for your PVR and whatever.
It's not exactly what you described and wouldn't shut off the TV standby power. On the upside it wouldn't give you another remote control to keep track of!
Making sure the systems don't raise any security scanning flags can be a pain but mostly it's a tick the box affair. (I have had to handle the SSL issue you mention. Actually disabling SSLv2 is easy, the hard part is getting all your long term clients who have been happily processing to update their side where necessary! Ultimately telling them that if they don't make their client SSLv3/TLS capable by the end of the week then they won't be able to process does the trick.)
For me the interesting part is in limiting exposure if there is a security failure. The fundamental problem is that the applications need to store credit card information to be useful, the applications need to store credit card numbers to do what they have to do (issue credits, do recurring billing etc).
The PCI documentation talks about encrypting information but in my opinion most of that is largely obfuscatory rather than giving any real security. You can have all the data encryption keys and key encryption keys you like but if the application needs to decrypt that data to do it's job then someone who compromises the application can get at it too. The best thing you can do in terms of minimising exposure is determining how long you need to keep data for and getting rid of it after that.
Any real solutions to avoid the necessity of storing card information would need to come down from the card issuers. Personally though I am not sure they are motivated to change the status quo, they must make an absolute bundle out of charging merchants for chargebacks and so forth.
It just means processing through a terminal where CVV is not a requirement.
I have worked with several gateways/processors and the details depend a lot on their implementation. However typically we set up two accounts, a CVV account and a non CVV account. We funnel initial transactions through the CVV account and recurring transactions through the non-CVV accounts.
Sometimes explicit linkage is required (ie a transaction reference for the initial transaction) and sometimes there is just "trust" that the no-CVV account isn't being abused.
Sony should sell a lot initially. There are a lot of people who a year ago (when the Xbox was launched) decided for one reason or another (perhaps they have a PS2 and were under the impression that the promised backwards compatibility would be worth something) that they were going to wait for a PS3.
They have been waiting and waiting (and had time to save!) so it is no surprise there is a large amount of initial demand. This isn't a weeks worth of customers, it's a years worth.
The real trick will be to see if there is ongoing demand like there has been for the Wii (though even that may be threatened, at least here in Australia, if we don't start seeing a quality games a bit more regularly).
And if you really want it as alt-D, then just go into Preferences->advanced->shortcuts and edit the keyboard setup.
Just add an entry for "d alt" "Focus address field" in the application or browser window section.
Full backwards compatibility has served it's purpose, namely it has helped make some PS2 owners decide to wait for the PS3 rather than jumping to the XBox 360.
Now Sony don't need it anymore and for those that have waited limited compatibility is still better than the no compatibility they'd get by jumping to the 360.
I am sure there are things going on with the latest "gaming" cards that open source would have trouble keeping up with but how much "functionality" and "quality" is needed for the desktop? My laptop has an Intel chipset in it and it does an admirable job the the Beryl effects I have set up on my Ubuntu Edgy installtion. The drivers for it are open source (supported heavily by Intel).
Why are you "most likely" buying it "this year" rather than buying it tomorrow? That sure sounds like a lot of money for a relatively small TV to me.
Certainly as far as I am concerned the PS3 and probably the 360 are "next gen" as they leverage technologies that aren't in the average home yet (eg HDTV). I think this is why the Wii will do well, at least in the short term. There is little point in paying so much for a PS3 or 360 when you don't have a TV to support them, While such TVs are still in "early adopter" style price ranges and still undergoing rapid improvement I think that considering them "next gen" is reasonable.
Your actions can give a fair idea of your intent. A jury would have to decide whether some other explanation you might offer puts reasonable doubt in their minds.
If I go to someone's house with a gun and start shooting at them but miss with all the bullets I have are you going to let me off an attempted murder charge when I claim that I never intended to hit him and was trying to miss?
You don't know for sure what I was doing but it's beyond any reasonable doubt.
It's simple and an obvious relation to iPod.
It's not much sillier than iPod and about on par with the Wii and they both sold well.
For an old job I had some of the Cisco (though they weren't Cisco then) iPhones to play with. Snazzy toys for their time but not much practical use.
Yes the Wii points work. The manual does warn that you may lose your Wii points by changing regions but so far that has not happened (I have "moved" to the UK twice, once to get Bomberman and once to get R-Type).
Just to be safe I wouldn't do it if you had a lot of Wii Points in your account. There doesn't seem to be a discount for buying Wii Points in bulk so there is no reason to buy anything other than the smallest amount anyway.
I guess that at the end of the day judges used "judgement".
This guy was actively and specifically involved in helping people get MP3 files that he knew to infringe on peoples copyright.
It's not hard to imagine why a reasonable person would conclude he is an active participant in copyright violation while people doing general linking are not.