Another advantage to using a font server is that it keeps the X server from coming to a griding halt when it needs to render a font with many glyphs. Ever click on one of those eastern fonts with a zillion different characters in it?
Even small fonts take a while to render on a 386 or 486 X terminal, so the concurrency provided by a separate font server is highly desirable there.
IANAL, but I think that if a patent holder doesn't protect it's intellectual property, it loses the right to defend. If Freetype has been around for a long time, it could be argued that this is the case.
I'm not a lawyer either, but I can tell you that patents are a little bit different than trademarks, where the owner risks losing protection altogether by failing to enforce their mark. With a patent, so long as you obtain one within a year of first publishing, displaying, or selling your invention, you own the right to make others stop using or selling that invention for 20 years. If you choose not to enforce your patent for the first 10, and then go after people when your invention falls into widespread use, that's your prerogative.
In Apple's case, it looks like they missed the one year deadline. They published the TrueType specification and software using it circa 1990, but didn't file for their patents until 2 years later.
Apple's three patents on TrueType are invalid, because they forfeited their patent rights by failing to file for a patent within one year of publishing documents and software containg the patented technologies.
Agreed. I picked up a 4 port 10/100 ethernet card there for cheap money. Also got myself a complete SPARCstation ELC system with extra ram and an external hard drive for $50.
Replay TV and TiVo are about to get hit by some major lawsuits contending that they need to pay licensing fees to the networks.
Networks are treating these as they would a Sattelite system as they allow skipping over commercials (major source of network revenue).
Two faults here:
Sattelite systems don't allow skipping over commercials. You'll just recieve network commercials only with no local commercials., and
There are federal court precidents granting the rights of end-users to time and space shift copyrighted materials that they have legally obtained. These would be the rulings in favor of JVC and Diamond Multimedia.
If you cannot be trusted with minor responsibilities like not seeing a restricted movie, why should you be trusted with adult things?
If he can't be trusted to stand up for his right not to be discriminated against based on his age, how can he be trusted to stand up for all our rights should he be drafted into our armed forces or commisioned for jury duty when he turns 18?
Because of the AARP, we can't impose special restrictions for old people. Why should it be any different for young people? You can't have it both ways.
Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor (fyodor@dhp.com, www.insecure.org/nmap/) Interesting ports on www.windows2000test.com (207.46.171.196): (Not showing ports in state: filtered) Port State Protocol Service 80 open tcp http 88 unfiltered tcp kerberos-sec
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 678 seconds
Any access you gain to this machine will have to be via the web server. Perhaps there is Front-Page Extensions or CGI/ASP stuff that uses unchecked/untrusted values that can be exploited.
If n2h2's real intent was accuracy, the'd be blocking only http://visitors.978.org/people/profiles/diagonail. html and not *.978.org, www.drumhillford.com, and every other web site I run or provide hostnames/DNS for.
The real reason for the blocking is to punish me for creating the page at http://ians.978.org/, which contains information and software that reveals faults in their product and renders it even more ineffective than normal.
I had one of these.. The clip was too small, and the 4 AA batteries kept going dead. I found it out in my yard a few summers later sans-clip and battery door and decided to improvise it back into working condition.
I used a backpack with a gallon bottle and instead of 4 AA batteries, I used two 6v lantern batteries. It was a great time for 2 summers before it started to break down (2 years out in the weather did it in, I think...) We used to spray neighborhood kids with this thing and they'd end up with red marks. Sprayed so hard it stung.
Theater enforced ratings are silly. Anyone who's old enough to earn their own money is also old enough to decide what movies they'd like to watch. Anyone younger, and their parents control their viewing habits financially, so it's a moot point.
Head over to http://www.peacefire.org/ for information on disabling CyberPetrol. If you can't get to the Peacefire web site because it's already been burned with CyberPetrol, try going to http://ians.978.org/, or https://lesser-magoo.lcs.mit.edu/.
To search the list of web sites burned by CyberPetrol, head over to http://osiris.978.org/~brianr/ians/cyber_petrol/ (I like this logo better than the one on their "official" page). Be aware that the client software often burns sites reported as not burned by this search engine. I've reported it. They've ignored me.
I'm sorry to say that I've experienced similar problems with n2h2's Bess censorware. Bess is popular in many public schools and libraries in my area.
Shortly after I published information on my web site criticizing n2h2's Bess product and similar products, along with software that helps censored users work around such products, n2h2 blocked every web site on my machine. Despite repeated attempts to get them to rectify the situation, it goes uncorrected. At one point, they even went so far as to modify their program to provide false unblocked results when accessed from hostnames I commonly browse the web from!
N2h2 has ignored or dismissed my requests to narrow the scope of their blocking. Through carelessness, negligence, or malice, they have chosen to block the entire 978.org domain and any other site hosted on my machine (ie, http://fiero.978.org/, http://tendafoot.978.org/, http://www.drumhillford.com/) and to tell third parties that contact them about the blocking that these sites are blocked due to pornographic content, information about circumventing their product, or because I offer free, anonymous, and instantaneous web access. None of these claims are true.
The fact that n2h2 has chosen to not only prejudicially block every web site that I'm involved in but also to spread lies about the nature of content on hosts in the 978.org domain and sites hosted on my machine is particularly disturbing.
Shortly after I discovered the blocking, I sent several letters similar to the following, asking them to rectify the problem.
Excuse me:
My machine at http://978.org/ does not offer free web hosting to anyone as you claim. Web site service and DNS hosting are extended only to personal friends, business associates, and family. This claim is false, and I urge you to stop making it at once.
Furthermore, there is no objectionable content in the "loophole" category at the URL http://978.org/. These claims are false and I urge you to discontinue them at once. My attempts at verifying your unblocking claims using publicly accessable bess proxy servers have hinted that these claims are also false.
I have contacted you in good faith to resolve an issue regarding inappropriate blocking. Because n2h2 is unhappy with the nature of one particular web site I maintain (because it basicly renders your product useless), I feel you have blocked every other web site I am involved with. Evidence of this prejudicial blocking includes the entire 978.org domain, Drum Hill Ford http://www.drumhillford.com/ car dealership, and all hostnames in other domains that point at my machine. I urge you to discontinue this overzealous blocking at once and only block URL's that have been verified by a human and found to meet your criteria.
Automated blocking of entire hosts (which may carry dozens of domains), blocking of DNS registries (even private ones like 978.org), and personal targeting of individuals like myself make it clear to me that you may have been less than honest with your customers and people who have contacted you regarding the current situation with *.978.org and drumhillford.com. If definite, verifyable steps are not taken to resolve this problem, I will be forced to pursue it through other channels. While I understand you have obligations to your customers, these obligations do not grant you a license to be deceitful to customers and business contacts, nor a right to defame my services or me personally by reporting falsely to these people.
Your prompt response and action will be appreciated.
I renegotiated the Oracle 8i download terms by editing the contract before I clicked OK. My copy of Oracle 8i is licensed to me under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
This is a fine example of why software patents should not be permitted. Now software developers will be afraid to include cool diff features in their programs for fear of being sued under this bogus patent.
I'd like to see how Linux would fare on the same mindcraft test with 1 Gigabit Ethernet card instead of 4 100baseTX cards. It seems there's some sort of contention going on for the cards or the IP stack that's slowing things down when more than one interface is active.
Sometimes there is no source code for microcode. Certain devices -- especially custom, specialized ones -- don't even have an assembler let alone high-level language compilers. In this case, the microcode is probably scribbled down on a napkin or a notebook by an engineer and then entered with a hex editor.
In the case of the X11 license, source code for modifications isn't even required anyway so this argument is moot anyway.
For GPL licensed stuff, the source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. If the microcode was originally authored with a hex editor, then an octet stream is the preferred form.
So you're opposed to paying taxes to the library if they provide anything less than complete, unfettered access to everything available. Well then, you better start donating your entire income to your local library -- they've got years of Hustler and Penthouse subscriptions to catch up on.
No. I'm opposed to paying taxes to the library if they spend that on technology to restrict or limit what they already have in the library. Paying money for a full Internet connection and then paying more money to limit that connection is foolish. Ditto for paying money for a full encyclopedia set and then ripping out all the pages that discuss sex, nudity, explosives, etc.
If "my tax dollars" is the best reason you can find to not even consider such a plan, maybe you ought to just move overseas and start a porn site of your own...
Remember, were talking about software. The government could pay someone (if that was even necessary!) to develop a filtering standard and open-sourced client software. Something like this would be so cheap and simple to do, its almost stupid.
Software costs are negligable. The cost of installing the software and maintaining those installations is not. I refuse to pay money to get less from the Internet access. What's next? Pay the librarians overtime to rip out pages in books the government doesn't like?
here's a very simple solution to this whole "filtering" debate: require adult oriented sites to note as much in some META or other tag, and have all filtering software check that tag.
Two problems: 1. people won't use this tag, and 2. software to check for the tags will have to be paid for with my tax dollars. I object.
If an adult-oriented site does not label itself as such, they should be prosecuted.
The United States Department of Justice can not prosecute people outside of the United States.
What adult site would _not_ do this?
Adult sites outside of the US. Adult sites owned by lazy operators. Adult sites owned by cheap operators.
What adult site is targeting children?
Since not very many children have credit cards, probably very few.
There's a simpler, more cost effective, more reliable way of handling this. See that little X in the upper corner of your browser window?
Set one of these up ASAP. It helps you walk right through most proxy-server based censorship. The proxy server is Free Software. Anyone can download it, modify it, share it with their friends, and set up their own proxy.
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The only truly uncopyable music is also unlistenable music. Anyone who claims to have an encoder or player that can prevent copying is a liar.
Yes. The LaserWriter II family had TrueType fonts and a TrueType rasterizer in ROM.
Another advantage to using a font server is that it keeps the X server from coming to a griding halt when it needs to render a font with many glyphs. Ever click on one of those eastern fonts with a zillion different characters in it?
Even small fonts take a while to render on a 386 or 486 X terminal, so the concurrency provided by a separate font server is highly desirable there.
The LaserWriter II, introduced in January 1988, had TrueType support. Sorry for any confusion I created with earlier vague dates.
The Laserwriter II series, introduced in January 1988, had TrueType support.
IANAL, but I think that if a patent holder doesn't protect it's intellectual property, it loses the right to defend. If Freetype has been around for a long time, it could be argued that this is the case.
I'm not a lawyer either, but I can tell you that patents are a little bit different than trademarks, where the owner risks losing protection altogether by failing to enforce their mark. With a patent, so long as you obtain one within a year of first publishing, displaying, or selling your invention, you own the right to make others stop using or selling that invention for 20 years. If you choose not to enforce your patent for the first 10, and then go after people when your invention falls into widespread use, that's your prerogative.
In Apple's case, it looks like they missed the one year deadline. They published the TrueType specification and software using it circa 1990, but didn't file for their patents until 2 years later.
Apple's three patents on TrueType are invalid, because they forfeited their patent rights by failing to file for a patent within one year of publishing documents and software containg the patented technologies.
Agreed. I picked up a 4 port 10/100 ethernet card there for cheap money. Also got myself a complete SPARCstation ELC system with extra ram and an external hard drive for $50.
Replay TV and TiVo are about to get hit by some major lawsuits contending that they need to pay licensing fees to the networks.
Networks are treating these as they would a Sattelite system as they allow skipping over commercials (major source of network revenue).
Two faults here:
If you cannot be trusted with minor responsibilities like not seeing a restricted movie, why should you be trusted with adult things?
If he can't be trusted to stand up for his right not to be discriminated against based on his age, how can he be trusted to stand up for all our rights should he be drafted into our armed forces or commisioned for jury duty when he turns 18?
Because of the AARP, we can't impose special restrictions for old people. Why should it be any different for young people? You can't have it both ways.
$ nmap www.windows2000test.com
Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor (fyodor@dhp.com, www.insecure.org/nmap/)
Interesting ports on www.windows2000test.com (207.46.171.196):
(Not showing ports in state: filtered)
Port State Protocol Service
80 open tcp http
88 unfiltered tcp kerberos-sec
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 678 seconds
Any access you gain to this machine will have to be via the web server. Perhaps there is Front-Page Extensions or CGI/ASP stuff that uses unchecked/untrusted values that can be exploited.
If n2h2's real intent was accuracy, the'd be blocking only http://visitors.978.org/people/profiles/diagonail. html and not *.978.org, www.drumhillford.com, and every other web site I run or provide hostnames/DNS for.
The real reason for the blocking is to punish me for creating the page at http://ians.978.org/, which contains information and software that reveals faults in their product and renders it even more ineffective than normal.
I had one of these.. The clip was too small, and the 4 AA batteries kept going dead. I found it out in my yard a few summers later sans-clip and battery door and decided to improvise it back into working condition.
I used a backpack with a gallon bottle and instead of 4 AA batteries, I used two 6v lantern batteries. It was a great time for 2 summers before it started to break down (2 years out in the weather did it in, I think...) We used to spray neighborhood kids with this thing and they'd end up with red marks. Sprayed so hard it stung.
Theater enforced ratings are silly. Anyone who's old enough to earn their own money is also old enough to decide what movies they'd like to watch. Anyone younger, and their parents control their viewing habits financially, so it's a moot point.
Head over to http://www.peacefire.org/ for information on disabling CyberPetrol. If you can't get to the Peacefire web site because it's already been burned with CyberPetrol, try going to http://ians.978.org/, or https://lesser-magoo.lcs.mit.edu/.
To search the list of web sites burned by CyberPetrol, head over to http://osiris.978.org/~brianr/ians/cyber_petrol/ (I like this logo better than the one on their "official" page). Be aware that the client software often burns sites reported as not burned by this search engine. I've reported it. They've ignored me.
I'm sorry to say that I've experienced similar problems with n2h2's Bess censorware. Bess is popular in many public schools and libraries in my area.
Shortly after I published information on my web site criticizing n2h2's Bess product and similar products, along with software that helps censored users work around such products, n2h2 blocked every web site on my machine. Despite repeated attempts to get them to rectify the situation, it goes uncorrected. At one point, they even went so far as to modify their program to provide false unblocked results when accessed from hostnames I commonly browse the web from!
N2h2 has ignored or dismissed my requests to narrow the scope of their blocking. Through carelessness, negligence, or malice, they have chosen to block the entire 978.org domain and any other site hosted on my machine (ie, http://fiero.978.org/, http://tendafoot.978.org/, http://www.drumhillford.com/) and to tell third parties that contact them about the blocking that these sites are blocked due to pornographic content, information about circumventing their product, or because I offer free, anonymous, and instantaneous web access. None of these claims are true.
The fact that n2h2 has chosen to not only prejudicially block every web site that I'm involved in but also to spread lies about the nature of content on hosts in the 978.org domain and sites hosted on my machine is particularly disturbing.
Shortly after I discovered the blocking, I sent several letters similar to the following, asking them to rectify the problem.
This is a fine example of why software patents should not be permitted. Now software developers will be afraid to include cool diff features in their programs for fear of being sued under this bogus patent.
I'd like to see how Linux would fare on the same mindcraft test with 1 Gigabit Ethernet card instead of 4 100baseTX cards. It seems there's some sort of contention going on for the cards or the IP stack that's slowing things down when more than one interface is active.
Sometimes there is no source code for microcode. Certain devices -- especially custom, specialized ones -- don't even have an assembler let alone high-level language compilers. In this case, the microcode is probably scribbled down on a napkin or a notebook by an engineer and then entered with a hex editor.
In the case of the X11 license, source code for modifications isn't even required anyway so this argument is moot anyway.
For GPL licensed stuff, the source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. If the microcode was originally authored with a hex editor, then an octet stream is the preferred form.
So you're opposed to paying taxes to the library if they provide anything less than complete, unfettered access to everything available. Well then, you better start donating your entire income to your local library -- they've got years of Hustler and Penthouse subscriptions to catch up on.
No. I'm opposed to paying taxes to the library if they spend that on technology to restrict or limit what they already have in the library. Paying money for a full Internet connection and then paying more money to limit that connection is foolish. Ditto for paying money for a full encyclopedia set and then ripping out all the pages that discuss sex, nudity, explosives, etc.
If "my tax dollars" is the best reason you can find to not even consider such a plan, maybe you ought to just move overseas and start a porn site of your own...
Remember, were talking about software. The government could pay someone (if that was even necessary!) to develop a filtering standard and open-sourced client software. Something like this would be so cheap and simple to do, its almost stupid.
Software costs are negligable. The cost of installing the software and maintaining those installations is not. I refuse to pay money to get less from the Internet access. What's next? Pay the librarians overtime to rip out pages in books the government doesn't like?
here's a very simple solution to this whole "filtering" debate: require adult oriented sites to note as much in some META or other tag, and have all filtering software check that tag.
Two problems: 1. people won't use this tag, and 2. software to check for the tags will have to be paid for with my tax dollars. I object.
If an adult-oriented site does not label itself as such, they should be prosecuted.
The United States Department of Justice can not prosecute people outside of the United States.
What adult site would _not_ do this?
Adult sites outside of the US. Adult sites owned by lazy operators. Adult sites owned by cheap operators.
What adult site is targeting children?
Since not very many children have credit cards, probably very few.
There's a simpler, more cost effective, more reliable way of handling this. See that little X in the upper corner of your browser window?
Set one of these up ASAP. It helps you walk right through most proxy-server based censorship. The proxy server is Free Software. Anyone can download it, modify it, share it with their friends, and set up their own proxy.