While the original poster is out in left field (hey, it's/.:) there's an interesting issue that's brought up here.
Under European continental copyright law, especially French law, the original creator has a set of rights that can't be waived. One of them is the right to control how the work is presented. This technology could be used to override that.
Odds are, to be legal in France/Germany, and maybe Canada (we've got a wimpier form of moral rights in our copyright legislation), any edits like this would have to be done with the consent of the director.
Jacob's Ladder? Most of it would survive, except for nearly all the important scenes.
Lost Highway? Five minutes again.
8mm? I'm not even sure the title credits would show.
Kalifornia? Like Jacob's Ladder, I think. Except that they'd probably have to cut all the discussions of what the reason for the roadtrip was. Fifteen minutes, maybe.
The Wall? Well, I dunno...
The irony, of course, is that teenagers love most of those movies.:)
Patents aren't linked to criminal law the way copyrights are. The duty you mention is a duty in civil law.
When does it become criminal? When it crosses the line into fraud. And yes, it is possible for something like this to become fraud, especially if the royalties that come in from an affected patent are significant.
But that would be a separate proceeding, with different rules. And yes, I'd expect that a prof convicted of fraud would lose the appointment, tenure or no tenure.
Verizon is well-known as being probably the worst DSL provider in the world.
I have DSL, and while my DSL provider is quirky and occasionally erratic, the kinds of war stories I hear from Verizon people are insane.
FWIW, when I originally got DSL, I didn't have to wait for a visit. They Purolatored the modem to me, turned on the line remotely, and I set it up myself. Took about a week IIRC.
The 8080 was the first 8-bit microprocessor, wasn't it?
I'm still a 65xx fan. The 6502 was a really nice little chip for the time; it actually managed to survive in ordinary use (in the 6510 format) until the late '80s.
Imagine a chip design being good enough to last ten years now.
If you track my posts, you'll discover that I'm a Canadian.
I'm willing to risk arrest if I visit the United States in order to pursue a claim that the DMCA is unconstitutional. I don't believe it is the law in the United States because it violates the Constitution, and I'm willing to risk arrest and imprisonment if I'm wrong.
I am also willing to allow whichever Americans that view my website to take the same risk as I am willing to.
That doesn't mean I think Alan Cox is wrong to do what he did... His situation is different from mine.
"Fine art" is a specific term with a specific meaning, and most movies don't qualify.
That said... of course video games are art! Art communicates a cultural message of some kind: it makes the person receiving the art feel something. Videogames that don't achieve this suck.
This isn't just the post-Quake games either. Pacman is art. Maybe it's simpler than modern games, but it has a cultural impact.
Art is the part of culture that arises for its own sake. People don't play videogames because games help them perform any tasks (well except for the USMC people reported to use hacked copies of Quake for training, but that's different); they play videogames because games are interesting in themselves. They play games for the experience.
As another rule of thumb: If it's art, some people will think it's more interesting when they're stoned. It may be fun to go to work stoned but it's not better; some people think that (for example) The Wall is better stoned. Some people apparently believe the same think about Counterstrike.
The way I understand open source, what it means is that when you give somebody your binaries, you give them the source as well.
You just don't glom onto the binaries the way M$ does and refuse to hand over the source.
This is the normal way of doing in-house code at many establishments. The exception is when the in-house company hires a consultant firm to write the code.
The definition you seem to be going by is that open source means that you give the source to anybody who asks. This is "free as in beer," and is different from the kind of "free" that RMS talks about all the time.
Canada's not white-bread anymore though. This is from Statistics Canada 1996 census information for Ontario, which used to be the most anglo province in Canada:
English 3,086,145
Canadian 2,700,870
Scottish 1,887,695
Irish 1,723,065
French 1,330,465
German 984,765
Italian 743,425
Dutch 433,690
South Asian origins 427,470
Chinese 422,770
Polish 370,455
Ukrainian 276,950
Aboriginal origins 246,070
Portuguese 231,805
Jewish 191,445
Jamaican 159,465
Welsh 140,030
Filipino 122,000
Hungarian (Magyar) 118,450
Greek 113,730
Spanish 96,280
British, n.i.e. 76,255
Russian 74,465
American 71,345
Vietnamese 62,055
Total: 10,642,790
The anglos weigh in at almost a third, and most of them are in rural areas. Toronto's now minority white. Ottawa's working on it.
Actually, I did read the article, and I stand by my complaint about Lasser. Of course, he's much closer to the truth than the/. poster I was replying to, but I still think he's overstating the case.
Cox did release the changelogs. He just didn't release them in the United States. Lasser doesn't mention that fact. Apparently, he's unaware of the world past the land of the DMCA.
You really need to follow the news more closely, as does Jon Lasser.
Alan Cox did not release the changelogs for Linux kernel 2.20 in the United States for fear of prosecution under the DMCA.
Cox did release the changelogs internationally, and some of us mirror the censored logs on sites accessible inside the U.S. The reason for the censoring of the logs is that they specify particular applications that can be used to exploit the kernel bug, which could well be interpreted under the DMCA as giving directions to script kiddies.
Interestingly, Apple has generally taken the exact opposite approach. I haven't run OS X yet so I don't know what the precise situation there is, but out of the box an OS 1-9 machine has no network services enabled by default, except the basic support for AppleTalk/EtherTalk, while Windows boxen, particularly NT systems, have a bunch of open ports by default. I suspect that OS X probably has some open ports; *nix tends to necessitate it. I still get paranoid about syslogd.:)
I've never heard that Apple gets tons of support calls from this policy.
One can discuss Russell quite apart from his politics; we can agree that he was an activist at least though.
All philosophers?
Huh. Surely you jest. Even under your definition of the term authoritarian, there are definitely philosophers who do not qualify. The solipsists, for example.
However, I think I have to conclude that under your definition, you're an authoritarian. You appear to care whether I believe you or not. This makes you just as much an authoritarian as Tom Paine... by your rules.
Another tip: Use as mainstream a release as you can manage. If you get redhat running, for example, you can use that in interviews with MBA types who may well have never heard of Slackware/Debian/etc.
Solaris is also common. If you can say you've set up the operating system that the company is using, the PHBs are more likely to hire you, even if you happen to be an idiot. Sad but true.
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While the original poster is out in left field (hey, it's /. :) there's an interesting issue that's brought up here.
Under European continental copyright law, especially French law, the original creator has a set of rights that can't be waived. One of them is the right to control how the work is presented. This technology could be used to override that.
Odds are, to be legal in France/Germany, and maybe Canada (we've got a wimpier form of moral rights in our copyright legislation), any edits like this would have to be done with the consent of the director.
Interesting. Any European copyright lawyers here?
It would be nice if these community standards actually held for the playground too.
I remember seeing A Clockwork Orange when I was about ten, and thinking how much it reminded me of recess.
Or, well, half my movie collection.
The irony, of course, is that teenagers love most of those movies. :)
Patents aren't linked to criminal law the way copyrights are. The duty you mention is a duty in civil law.
When does it become criminal? When it crosses the line into fraud. And yes, it is possible for something like this to become fraud, especially if the royalties that come in from an affected patent are significant.
But that would be a separate proceeding, with different rules. And yes, I'd expect that a prof convicted of fraud would lose the appointment, tenure or no tenure.
Verizon is well-known as being probably the worst DSL provider in the world.
I have DSL, and while my DSL provider is quirky and occasionally erratic, the kinds of war stories I hear from Verizon people are insane.
FWIW, when I originally got DSL, I didn't have to wait for a visit. They Purolatored the modem to me, turned on the line remotely, and I set it up myself. Took about a week IIRC.
Two reasons.
That said, it's only a Matter of Time before somebody hacks the AP controller protocol and produces something like netatalk to run it.
That's assuming that all the geeks don't just sell out and run OS X, anyway. :)
That day would have been around 1978 or so.
I might remind you that the Apple ][ wiped the floor with the kit-based PCs of the day, because it came in an integrated box.
The 8080 was the first 8-bit microprocessor, wasn't it?
I'm still a 65xx fan. The 6502 was a really nice little chip for the time; it actually managed to survive in ordinary use (in the 6510 format) until the late '80s.
Imagine a chip design being good enough to last ten years now.
I dunno. Sexium... mmmm... I can see that selling to, uh, lonely geeks ;)
simple. they mean that you need at least this class of processor to make WinXP usable.
at least that's my theory :)
If you track my posts, you'll discover that I'm a Canadian.
I'm willing to risk arrest if I visit the United States in order to pursue a claim that the DMCA is unconstitutional. I don't believe it is the law in the United States because it violates the Constitution, and I'm willing to risk arrest and imprisonment if I'm wrong.
I am also willing to allow whichever Americans that view my website to take the same risk as I am willing to.
That doesn't mean I think Alan Cox is wrong to do what he did... His situation is different from mine.
That's true, but most RIAA discs no longer include that little logo.
"Fine art" is a specific term with a specific meaning, and most movies don't qualify.
That said... of course video games are art! Art communicates a cultural message of some kind: it makes the person receiving the art feel something. Videogames that don't achieve this suck.
This isn't just the post-Quake games either. Pacman is art. Maybe it's simpler than modern games, but it has a cultural impact.
Art is the part of culture that arises for its own sake. People don't play videogames because games help them perform any tasks (well except for the USMC people reported to use hacked copies of Quake for training, but that's different); they play videogames because games are interesting in themselves. They play games for the experience.
As another rule of thumb: If it's art, some people will think it's more interesting when they're stoned. It may be fun to go to work stoned but it's not better; some people think that (for example) The Wall is better stoned. Some people apparently believe the same think about Counterstrike.
It depends on your definition of open source.
The way I understand open source, what it means is that when you give somebody your binaries, you give them the source as well.
You just don't glom onto the binaries the way M$ does and refuse to hand over the source.
This is the normal way of doing in-house code at many establishments. The exception is when the in-house company hires a consultant firm to write the code.
The definition you seem to be going by is that open source means that you give the source to anybody who asks. This is "free as in beer," and is different from the kind of "free" that RMS talks about all the time.
I actually agree with the rest of your post.
Canada's not white-bread anymore though. This is from Statistics Canada 1996 census information for Ontario, which used to be the most anglo province in Canada:
Total: 10,642,790
The anglos weigh in at almost a third, and most of them are in rural areas. Toronto's now minority white. Ottawa's working on it.
Actually, I did read the article, and I stand by my complaint about Lasser. Of course, he's much closer to the truth than the /. poster I was replying to, but I still think he's overstating the case.
Cox did release the changelogs. He just didn't release them in the United States. Lasser doesn't mention that fact. Apparently, he's unaware of the world past the land of the DMCA.
You really need to follow the news more closely, as does Jon Lasser.
Alan Cox did not release the changelogs for Linux kernel 2.20 in the United States for fear of prosecution under the DMCA.
Cox did release the changelogs internationally, and some of us mirror the censored logs on sites accessible inside the U.S. The reason for the censoring of the logs is that they specify particular applications that can be used to exploit the kernel bug, which could well be interpreted under the DMCA as giving directions to script kiddies.
I mean, c'mon. You'd think Europeans would learn after a few centuries or so that trying to make bad people shut up doesn't really work.
No, I'm not an American.
I prefer not to talk to people willing to exert force on me to force me to comply.
You think there's no difference between that sort of person and yourself: therefore, you are willing to use force on me.
End of discussion.
Interestingly, Apple has generally taken the exact opposite approach. I haven't run OS X yet so I don't know what the precise situation there is, but out of the box an OS 1-9 machine has no network services enabled by default, except the basic support for AppleTalk/EtherTalk, while Windows boxen, particularly NT systems, have a bunch of open ports by default. I suspect that OS X probably has some open ports; *nix tends to necessitate it. I still get paranoid about syslogd. :)
I've never heard that Apple gets tons of support calls from this policy.
One can discuss Russell quite apart from his politics; we can agree that he was an activist at least though.
All philosophers?
Huh. Surely you jest. Even under your definition of the term authoritarian, there are definitely philosophers who do not qualify. The solipsists, for example.
However, I think I have to conclude that under your definition, you're an authoritarian. You appear to care whether I believe you or not. This makes you just as much an authoritarian as Tom Paine... by your rules.
Bell Canada's DSL service, Sympatico High Speed Edition, is available in Ontario and Quebec, the traditional Bell provinces.
There are reliability problems in some areas.
For example, Nova Scotia. Mpowered. Bah.
Also, if you're getting your DSL from Bell Canada, never move. It's just not worth it. Blow up the modem first.
And in other news, Rogers@Home costs the same as DSL, as do most other cablemodem deals I know of.
BTW, $40CAN hasn't been $30US since sometime in the eighties. By today's prices, it's more like $25US :)
True, but normally you make new words when you do that. ;)
Another tip: Use as mainstream a release as you can manage. If you get redhat running, for example, you can use that in interviews with MBA types who may well have never heard of Slackware/Debian/etc.
Solaris is also common. If you can say you've set up the operating system that the company is using, the PHBs are more likely to hire you, even if you happen to be an idiot. Sad but true.