Don't let anyone like Katz demonize you for not allowing your children to watch whatever they want whenever they want to.
That's not what Katz is saying. Katz is in no way demonizing good parents. He's talking about theater owners, ushers, etc. who TRY to be substitute parents by making "moral" decisions regarding what a child can or cannot see. And I agree with Katz. Theater owners shouldn't be taking away a parent's right to decide what children see. Additionally, they shouldn't be treating MPAArecommendations as law, enforcing them blindly. The recommendations are just that. They are guidelines for parents to decide what children can see. This is a good idea with poor implementation. I don't want to know what somebody else thought of the moral fiber of a movie; I would much prefer facts, such as the RSAC's implementation of a ratings system for software and internet content. It has a rating from 0 to 4 in each of the following categories: Violence, Nudity, Sex, and Language. If somebody sings "Uncle Fucker" it would indicate language. It doesn't just slap on the same rating someting gets if it has pervasive nudity and sexual themes. In contrast the ESRB has a system that simply says "T" for Teen or "M" for Mature, etc. which is just as bad as the MPAA. While I'm rambling i may as well also complai about the RIAA's rating system for music: a "Parental Advisory" sticker of no parental advisory sticker. That's all-no explanation. People should be free to make their own moral judgements based on facts, not fed somebody else's moral code and forced to accept it. People need to learn that morals are not universal, and they can't seek to have their moral judgements applied to everyone. People deserve to know more that just opinions: they deserve facts.
A Clockwork Orange was rereleased either last year or the year before. Tragically, it got very little notice. The only place around me that showed it was the theater that plays, virtually exclusively, art films that have no popular interest. Unfortunately, that particular theater is not exactly in a nice part of the city, so i generally wait for video release. BTW it was reviewed by the MPAA and the rating WAS bumped up to an NC-17 for the rerelease.
Bloom County Characters have appeared in UF. Fairly recently too.
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That's not entirely true. Antoine Fuqua was a music video director, but then went on to make The Replacement Killers. Personally I thought that movie was spectacularly done, and rich in plot.
Also, the Come to Daddy video was brilliant, as well as Cunningham's follow-up video for Aphex Twin, Windowlicker. I think we can expect the best from Cunningham.
if the place blocks by domain name, then all you have to do is reference the server by it's IP address, and the problem is solved.
However, if this is the case, then a techno-savvy kid could do the same and get around Cyber Patrol. The whole damn thing is pointless, anyway. For every "protect the children" scheme, the children find a way around it.
the URL of the press release is http://www.house.gov/hasc/openingstatementsandpr essreleases/106thcongress/99-07-21HR850mar kup.pdf for some reason it apparently didn't like me linking there...
Provisions of the committee approved Weldon-Sisisky-Andrews amendment would:
Reaffirm authority of the President to control export of encryption production products for national security purposes.
Establish statutory framework for export control of high performance encryption products.
Require the President to establish a performance threshold for encryption. Encryption products
that fall below the threshold would be permitted for export without a license. Encryption products above the threshold would require an export license for export.
Require a one-time technical review for all encryption products proposed for export.
Allow the President to establish certain sectors that would be subject to license free treatment of encryption products above the threshold, consistent with current U.S. policy.
Require the President to review the adequacy of the performance threshold every six months.
Establish an advisory board to review and advise the President on the foreign availability of encryption products.
I don't like these provisions either, but everyone here should admit that this should be better than the current state of affairs. My problem is that it appears that the decisions will be solely made by the president. We all know how the president feels about issues of "national security." This means that things basically won't change until someone intelligent coms into office, which will happen eventually. Also it does not define who issues export liscenses, which might mean that they would be impossible to get if the wrong people are in power
Chernobyl was written in Taiwan, though. (or was it Hong Kong?) The US can't arrest someone there, although they could request extradition. Practically however, extradition would not happen. If every virus author were extraditied to US courts to be senteced without a trial, it would not only clog the prison system, but the US would appear to be on a witch hunt, marring our appearance even further in international politics. Plus, Chernobyl isn't new anymore, it's not viewed as an issue by the masses. They just pay attention to what they are told by mass media, which went crazy with Melissa and makes a slight mention of Chernobyl on maybe a monthly basis. (around the 26th, of course.) This isn't justice. It's a game of saving face. make it look like you're coming down hard on the bad guy, even if he's not all that bad.
Selected AFX Loops It's not MP3, and the songs aren't complete, but it's quite a comprehensive site. it has a little of almost every song he's ever released. if you insist on mp3 just do a search for either "aphex twin" or "afx" in an mp3 search engine.
if you were actually doing this for security purposes, then why not let ms have a prerelease copy? that would give them opportunity to fix the problems, making the negative aspects of back orifice a moot point. script kiddies couldn't exploit those holes. I honestly don't think ms would fix the holes, but they deserve the opportunity.
by your logic documents for a GPL word processor would be GPL. The levels are loaded into the engine just as a document is loaded into the word processor. You don't hace to use the levels made by the people who released the engine, just as you don't have to open a document provided by the people who made the word processor.
I agree with you though, under certain conditions: that the engine is dependent upon the specific level set released by those that produced the game, and that set of levels can't be replaced.
A Mind Forever Voyaging is on Activision's "Classics of Infocom" CD. I can't offhand remember the official title of the compilation, but i have it. It includes the data files for 30 or so old infocom games. all you need is a z-machine emulator. Various versions of one called frotz are available here.
There is a big difference between owning an object and owning commercial rights to it. As I read the liscense, they were not claiming ownership, but were claiming the right to reproduce your product. In other words, they aren't liable if you post something someone doesn't like, but anything you post can be reproduced freely by yahoo for their own purposes.
An analogy: you buy an artwork at an auction. You have bought the object, but that doesn't mean you can reproduce it freely. This is the inverse situation. Yahoo is just claiming the commercial rights, not ownership. Note that the agreement specifically says "non-exclusive." This means that you still have the right to liscense your IP however you want, as long as yahoo has the right to use it. However, yahoo claims the right to subliscense their rights, so in theory you could be in competion with them for liscensing fees. If, however, they enacted that clause, their customers would be unhappy and probably would flock to other webspace providers.
that requires nothing more than copying a 1K file to the desktop directory, which (unless you have a user that knows how to change windows settings) is virtually always c:\windows\desktop. If user profiles are set up with different desktops, it's c:\windows\profiles\(username)\desktop However, with NT, it's c:\winnt\profiles\(username)\desktop
so to fully work, it would have to be aware of not only the OS, but the settings in the os.
i'm not defending his actions, merely pointing out that his motives were not malicious.
Regarding your murder analogy, that might (depending on various things) make the difference between first degree murder and second degree murder, but not between guilty and innocent.
i'm blanking on his name, but there was a cracker arrested last year for electronically stealing something like $100,000. He didn't do it out of greed: he did it out of curiosity. He was exploring the bank's system and found an insecure point in the money transfer system. He just wanted to see if he could do it, not be greedy. In the end it did the bank some good by pointing out a serious problem.
as i recall i read somewhaere that he originally wanted to call it freenix or something like that, but he though it was too awkward. You have to wonder if RMS would be so adamant about GNU/Freenix when the "free" is already in the name.
Is the percentage of code measured by number of bytes in the binary, (and compiled for what platform?) the number of bytes of source code, the number of lines of code developed by Americans, or perhaps even by algorithms patented to Americans.
One could develop something in another country based on an algorithm (unfortunately) patented to an American. Would that code be American or not?
This is yet another pathetic attempt by a technically inept government to take absolute control of technology.
I know that at my high school, anybody that liked computers hated the systems that the school owned. As of last year, we had the following:
a massive lab of Apple IIe's, which was all most of the faculty knew how to use
2 smaller labs of 286s, which were used for "high tech" courses like PASCAL and word processing
a lab with low-end pentiums that belonged to a local community college and was only allowed to be used for the CAD class
Any attempts to do decent programming had to be done at home bacause of the lack of decent technology. I come from an upper middle class community, so I know the majority of school districts are worse off than that. In most instances, a technologically oriented club would be fairly futile due to the outdatedness of technology in most public schools. There are a select few communities where people don't bitch and whine when the school tax bills don't include anything "superfluous" like computers.
I don't know about you people, but my playlist is currently over 35 hours/2GB. It'll still be a while before there's a portable player good enough for that. Maybe if it could read a DVD full of MP3s...
It's probably not a joke. It just seems like shutting down the sites would be a little far to go. Also, faking a MS lawsuit would be reason for MS to file an actual lawsuit. I just hope their lawyers can argue freedom of speech fast enough, so I can read segfault and UF again.
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Don't let anyone like Katz demonize you for not allowing your children to watch whatever they want whenever they want to.
That's not what Katz is saying. Katz is in no way demonizing good parents. He's talking about theater owners, ushers, etc. who TRY to be substitute parents by making "moral" decisions regarding what a child can or cannot see.
And I agree with Katz. Theater owners shouldn't be taking away a parent's right to decide what children see.
Additionally, they shouldn't be treating MPAA recommendations as law, enforcing them blindly. The recommendations are just that. They are guidelines for parents to decide what children can see. This is a good idea with poor implementation. I don't want to know what somebody else thought of the moral fiber of a movie; I would much prefer facts, such as the RSAC's implementation of a ratings system for software and internet content. It has a rating from 0 to 4 in each of the following categories: Violence, Nudity, Sex, and Language. If somebody sings "Uncle Fucker" it would indicate language. It doesn't just slap on the same rating someting gets if it has pervasive nudity and sexual themes.
In contrast the ESRB has a system that simply says "T" for Teen or "M" for Mature, etc. which is just as bad as the MPAA. While I'm rambling i may as well also complai about the RIAA's rating system for music: a "Parental Advisory" sticker of no parental advisory sticker. That's all-no explanation.
People should be free to make their own moral judgements based on facts, not fed somebody else's moral code and forced to accept it. People need to learn that morals are not universal, and they can't seek to have their moral judgements applied to everyone. People deserve to know more that just opinions: they deserve facts.
A Clockwork Orange was rereleased either last year or the year before. Tragically, it got very little notice.
The only place around me that showed it was the theater that plays, virtually exclusively, art films that have no popular interest. Unfortunately, that particular theater is not exactly in a nice part of the city, so i generally wait for video release.
BTW it was reviewed by the MPAA and the rating WAS bumped up to an NC-17 for the rerelease.
General Jack Ripper...
I take it you've been watching Dr. Strangelove?
Bloom County Characters have appeared in UF. Fairly recently too.
That's not entirely true. Antoine Fuqua was a music video director, but then went on to make The Replacement Killers. Personally I thought that movie was spectacularly done, and rich in plot.
Also, the Come to Daddy video was brilliant, as well as Cunningham's follow-up video for Aphex Twin, Windowlicker. I think we can expect the best from Cunningham.
if the place blocks by domain name, then all you have to do is reference the server by it's IP address, and the problem is solved.
However, if this is the case, then a techno-savvy kid could do the same and get around Cyber Patrol. The whole damn thing is pointless, anyway. For every "protect the children" scheme, the children find a way around it.
the URL of the press release isr essreleases/106thcongress/99-07-21HR850mar kup.pdf
http://www.house.gov/hasc/openingstatementsandp
for some reason it apparently didn't like me linking there...
from the press release
Provisions of the committee approved Weldon-Sisisky-Andrews amendment would:
- Reaffirm authority of the President to control export of encryption production products for national security purposes.
- Establish statutory framework for export control of high performance encryption products.
- Require the President to establish a performance threshold for encryption. Encryption products
- that fall below the threshold would be permitted for export without a license. Encryption products above the threshold would require an export license for export.
- Require a one-time technical review for all encryption products proposed for export.
- Allow the President to establish certain sectors that would be subject to license free treatment of encryption products above the threshold, consistent with current U.S. policy.
- Require the President to review the adequacy of the performance threshold every six months.
- Establish an advisory board to review and advise the President on the foreign availability of encryption products.
I don't like these provisions either, but everyone here should admit that this should be better than the current state of affairs. My problem is that it appears that the decisions will be solely made by the president. We all know how the president feels about issues of "national security." This means that things basically won't change until someone intelligent coms into office, which will happen eventually. Also it does not define who issues export liscenses, which might mean that they would be impossible to get if the wrong people are in powerChernobyl was written in Taiwan, though. (or was it Hong Kong?) The US can't arrest someone there, although they could request extradition.
Practically however, extradition would not happen. If every virus author were extraditied to US courts to be senteced without a trial, it would not only clog the prison system, but the US would appear to be on a witch hunt, marring our appearance even further in international politics. Plus, Chernobyl isn't new anymore, it's not viewed as an issue by the masses. They just pay attention to what they are told by mass media, which went crazy with Melissa and makes a slight mention of Chernobyl on maybe a monthly basis. (around the 26th, of course.)
This isn't justice. It's a game of saving face. make it look like you're coming down hard on the bad guy, even if he's not all that bad.
Selected AFX Loops
It's not MP3, and the songs aren't complete, but it's quite a comprehensive site. it has a little of almost every song he's ever released.
if you insist on mp3 just do a search for either "aphex twin" or "afx" in an mp3 search engine.
if you were actually doing this for security purposes, then why not let ms have a prerelease copy? that would give them opportunity to fix the problems, making the negative aspects of back orifice a moot point. script kiddies couldn't exploit those holes.
I honestly don't think ms would fix the holes, but they deserve the opportunity.
i had never really looked at it, i just knew something was there. thanks for clearing up the misconception.
by your logic documents for a GPL word processor would be GPL. The levels are loaded into the engine just as a document is loaded into the word processor. You don't hace to use the levels made by the people who released the engine, just as you don't have to open a document provided by the people who made the word processor.
I agree with you though, under certain conditions: that the engine is dependent upon the specific level set released by those that produced the game, and that set of levels can't be replaced.
actually, id has the quake 2 source posted on their ftp site, and has for quite a while. check here
A Mind Forever Voyaging is on Activision's "Classics of Infocom" CD. I can't offhand remember the official title of the compilation, but i have it. It includes the data files for 30 or so old infocom games. all you need is a z-machine emulator. Various versions of one called frotz are available here.
There is a big difference between owning an object and owning commercial rights to it. As I read the liscense, they were not claiming ownership, but were claiming the right to reproduce your product.
In other words, they aren't liable if you post something someone doesn't like, but anything you post can be reproduced freely by yahoo for their own purposes.
An analogy: you buy an artwork at an auction. You have bought the object, but that doesn't mean you can reproduce it freely. This is the inverse situation. Yahoo is just claiming the commercial rights, not ownership.
Note that the agreement specifically says "non-exclusive." This means that you still have the right to liscense your IP however you want, as long as yahoo has the right to use it. However, yahoo claims the right to subliscense their rights, so in theory you could be in competion with them for liscensing fees. If, however, they enacted that clause, their customers would be unhappy and probably would flock to other webspace providers.
that requires nothing more than copying a 1K file to the desktop directory, which (unless you have a user that knows how to change windows settings) is virtually always c:\windows\desktop. If user profiles are set up with different desktops, it's c:\windows\profiles\(username)\desktop
However, with NT, it's c:\winnt\profiles\(username)\desktop
so to fully work, it would have to be aware of not only the OS, but the settings in the os.
i'm not defending his actions, merely pointing out that his motives were not malicious.
Regarding your murder analogy, that might (depending on various things) make the difference between first degree murder and second degree murder, but not between guilty and innocent.
i'm blanking on his name, but there was a cracker arrested last year for electronically stealing something like $100,000. He didn't do it out of greed: he did it out of curiosity. He was exploring the bank's system and found an insecure point in the money transfer system. He just wanted to see if he could do it, not be greedy. In the end it did the bank some good by pointing out a serious problem.
as i recall i read somewhaere that he originally wanted to call it freenix or something like that, but he though it was too awkward. You have to wonder if RMS would be so adamant about GNU/Freenix when the "free" is already in the name.
There are several core issues here:
Is the percentage of code measured by number of bytes in the binary, (and compiled for what platform?) the number of bytes of source code, the number of lines of code developed by Americans, or perhaps even by algorithms patented to Americans.
One could develop something in another country based on an algorithm (unfortunately) patented to an American. Would that code be American or not?
This is yet another pathetic attempt by a technically inept government to take absolute control of technology.
- a massive lab of Apple IIe's, which was all most of the faculty knew how to use
- 2 smaller labs of 286s, which were used for "high tech" courses like PASCAL and word processing
- a lab with low-end pentiums that belonged to a local community college and was only allowed to be used for the CAD class
Any attempts to do decent programming had to be done at home bacause of the lack of decent technology. I come from an upper middle class community, so I know the majority of school districts are worse off than that. In most instances, a technologically oriented club would be fairly futile due to the outdatedness of technology in most public schools. There are a select few communities where people don't bitch and whine when the school tax bills don't include anything "superfluous" like computers.I don't know about you people, but my playlist is currently over 35 hours/2GB. It'll still be a while before there's a portable player good enough for that. Maybe if it could read a DVD full of MP3s...
It's probably not a joke. It just seems like shutting down the sites would be a little far to go. Also, faking a MS lawsuit would be reason for MS to file an actual lawsuit. I just hope their lawyers can argue freedom of speech fast enough, so I can read segfault and UF again.