I think the law will be open to interpretation as most are written that way. If you are using these tools for a legitiment purpose, I doubt the government will be coming after you. If you committed a crime while using these tools, then they will charge you with the crime in question and enhance it with software paraphernalia.
Commissioner Deborah Tate has apparently announced that while she knows its outside the FCC's authority, she's a huge fan of copy protection and hopes to use her new position as a "bully pulpit" on the topic.'"
Her views are her views, however why did she have to say this while punched on the clock? It's as if I was in court said something the Jury shouldn't have heard, was objected to, and withdrawing my statement knowing full well that I just tainted the jury and that no matter what the judge tells them, they will in no doubt, keep what I said in mind.
The sheep will hear it, accept what the government said although it's beyond their scope, and eventually grant that power. someone has to right? We don't have a Federal Digital Rights Management Commission as of yet.
This is just an introductory tactic to eventually gain power and regulate DRM officially for of course... copyright reasons; Exactly what the FCC was hired to do right? I forget these days. Enlighten me.
Perhaps the user wanted to go to untied.com instead of united.com; It works both ways. Since "untied" is a dictionary word, this would most likely not cause any issues.
One concern I immediately had -- and I happily saw noted in the article as well -- is the question of who will pay to support this? Data storage isn't free, or cheap.
This could kill small and medium-sized web hosting providers.
Especially companies that have a business model based on anonymity such as anonymizer.com. They advertise that they do not keep logs and all data that goes through there port 22 ssh is encrypted.
So you know, PKI certificates ask for your password before signing a document and we have authentication measures in place so the user knows it is our component doing the signing. The program will not arbituarily take your key and sign something else, the program returns a hash and nothing but back to the document.
My guess is that Microsoft actually doesn't mind this one bit. ActiveX was a mistake from the get-go, with its permissions-based scheme which is dramatically more hackable than Java's sandbox-based scheme.
There are other technologies that can plug the hole. For some applications, an Ajax page could provide the same level of interactivity as ActiveX. For stuff like Flash, they can have a plugin architecture more line Firefox's.
Well, our company developed a PKI Signer ActiveX control that generates hashes based on their certificate. This is something AJAX would not be able to pull off. Some things do need to be called externally.
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"Europe will STILL have to have a separate set of games because they use PAL instead of NTSC anyway"
Since there is support for HD for the PS3, I do not know if the games will be encoded either PAL or NTSC. I would assume it would use the global ATSC format and have the hardware dumb it down to PAL or NTSC. Therefore, the games should work "region-free." This is of course just an assumption.
It's interesting that we read about a palm emulator running under linux and the rumors of a possible acquisition by Apple. I wonder if Apple will use a mobile form of BSD, write applications and games for it, yet keeping the device backwards compatible so Palm applications may still run.
I felt so empty leaving the voting booth after using an electronic voting machine. They should print a receipt for you with a confirmation code of some sort. And in the future, allow you to enter in your confirmation code on the internet and it can show at least what "party" is registered with your vote.
It only takes the tiniest amount of study to understand that, without patents, the pharmaceutic industry would cease to exist. A lot of other technology-based industries would also be crippled or destroyed.
For the sake of humanity, someone will be there to continue medicine...
That they stole code from LAME and violated the LGPL got like one minute of news airtime before falling into the background. That really isn't important to the average person, which is really a damn shame. I would expect that part to be more important or at least more-covered in the media.
NPR Covered the story which pleased me. They started it off like this:
(Sony is patenting a method for games console discs to be tied to the console unit they're first ran on. No second hand game sales or loaning of games...)
This would be cracked the first day it came out. All one would do is mirror the re-writable sector of a disc and re-image it onto the disc that was modified. Unless of course they use some sort of write once type system. If they did this, if your game console is under warranty and had to be replaced, they would be obligated to replace every title for that console as well. This would not be very cost effective for them to use this.
Seriously, if you are not a geek, you wouldn't even know what the term "Zombie" even means... Why don't ISPs and others take out a TV/Radio campaign to say "Are you at risk?" The common people will then perhaps think, maybe my computer IS unsafe and attempt to do something about it...
In any other part of the world, you buy your own phone from wherever you choose (even another country) and just plug in a sim card from your chosen provider and it just works.
This is no longer true. Leading edge mobile companies such as ones in Sweden do lock the phone to the service after seeing how successful this market plan was in the United States.
Here in Sweden you can already get 100 mbit up/down without limitations or caps for around 45 USD ( www.bredband2.se ) in an assortment of locations, not only universities. It's even better in Japan and Korea I think.
I believe you only get this in your local area network. Such as bredband to bredband customer. That is why DC++ is so popular in Sweden besides the coder being from there.
However when connecting outside the bredband network, you get typical DSL speeds.
Not quite true. There are so many video game stores for example that if one place is selling it for $50 equivalence. You can go down 3 stores and find that game for $40. Since many of the stores are of the same variety, they must have competition to stay in business. You can find cheap things and great deals. You just need patients and check out more than just a couple of stores. Also I used to buy Super Famicom games in the bargain bin for $1.00 ~ $5.00 for a game that just came out here. Such as Super Metroid which was a bilingual cart.
$150 buys about 3hrs of my time, most of those projects posted look to take much longer than that.
Sure, but I don't think they expect people to quit their day jobs to code. This is something for you to make a little extra side cash for doing something you like to do already. I enjoy programming and have a decent paying job already. However making an extra $500.00 to put away would be nice. I enjoying doing work for the community as it is and if you get a few bucks reward for doing so then that is just a bonus!
In fact so many younger generation japanese girls can text so fast that some company created a T9 pad that acts as a keyboard.
I think this comparison is bias. They are comparing a pro at morse and a 13 year old girl texting. Compare morsing to me and I'll type out 35 words a minute.
I typically enjoy a system when it is elegant. Something open source projects tend to lack. Not to be finicky, but the icons for OpenOffice that go on your desktop are aliased and jagged when they could be using alpha transparency. The icons also don't seem to have any meaning as to what program is such as 3 horizontal lines. Why not take a moment and clean it up and out do microsoft in elegance and graphic design to actually capture potential users eyes!
Why are there good coders in the open source community but heavily lack on good graphic designers and UI?
This does nothing but make people upload and release a pre-releases from servers overseas. How will America enforce a 3 year sentence to someone who did not commit a crime in the United States and not an American citizen?
Who knows - we may even see IE for loonix soon, after all, everyone knows Microsoft is the king of business. Maybe not software/whatnot. But, they are the kings of business. They will make sure they have a share in every part of the market. Why do you think they g0t a huge part in APPLE/Mac? =P =P =P
Actually they are deprecating themselves from the Mac. They stopped IE development for it and they are now considering phasing out MSN Messenger and Office for the Mac. What makes you think they will make IE for loonix anytime soon?
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I think the law will be open to interpretation as most are written that way. If you are using these tools for a legitiment purpose, I doubt the government will be coming after you. If you committed a crime while using these tools, then they will charge you with the crime in question and enhance it with software paraphernalia.
The biggest proposal is to change the minimum age from 14 to 18 with an age verification system,
Oooh, that's scary. I bet kids will have a really hard moral dilemma lying to the "are you under 18? [YES] [NO]" page.
Not only will they lie and say they are 18 to enter the site, but they will look legal to people browsing the site.
Commissioner Deborah Tate has apparently announced that while she knows its outside the FCC's authority, she's a huge fan of copy protection and hopes to use her new position as a "bully pulpit" on the topic.'"
Her views are her views, however why did she have to say this while punched on the clock?
It's as if I was in court said something the Jury shouldn't have heard, was objected to, and withdrawing my statement knowing full well that I just tainted the jury and that no matter what the judge tells them, they will in no doubt, keep what I said in mind.
The sheep will hear it, accept what the government said although it's beyond their scope, and eventually grant that power. someone has to right? We don't have a Federal Digital Rights Management Commission as of yet.
This is just an introductory tactic to eventually gain power and regulate DRM officially for of course... copyright reasons; Exactly what the FCC was hired to do right? I forget these days. Enlighten me.
Perhaps the user wanted to go to untied.com instead of united.com; It works both ways. Since "untied" is a dictionary word, this would most likely not cause any issues.
One concern I immediately had -- and I happily saw noted in the article as well -- is the question of who will pay to support this? Data storage isn't free, or cheap.
This could kill small and medium-sized web hosting providers.
Especially companies that have a business model based on anonymity such as anonymizer.com.
They advertise that they do not keep logs and all data that goes through there port 22 ssh is encrypted.
So you know, PKI certificates ask for your password before signing a document and we have authentication measures in place so the user knows it is our component doing the signing. The program will not arbituarily take your key and sign something else, the program returns a hash and nothing but back to the document.
My guess is that Microsoft actually doesn't mind this one bit. ActiveX was a mistake from the get-go, with its permissions-based scheme which is dramatically more hackable than Java's sandbox-based scheme.
There are other technologies that can plug the hole. For some applications, an Ajax page could provide the same level of interactivity as ActiveX. For stuff like Flash, they can have a plugin architecture more line Firefox's.
Well, our company developed a PKI Signer ActiveX control that generates hashes based on their certificate. This is something AJAX would not be able to pull off. Some things do need to be called externally.
"Europe will STILL have to have a separate set of games because they use PAL instead of NTSC anyway"
Since there is support for HD for the PS3, I do not know if the games will be encoded either PAL or NTSC. I would assume it would use the global ATSC format and have the hardware dumb it down to PAL or NTSC. Therefore, the games should work "region-free." This is of course just an assumption.
It says Medium to Large Businesses, so this page does not necessarily target desktop or consumers. This is more of a "server" solution.
It's interesting that we read about a palm emulator running under linux and the rumors of a possible acquisition by Apple. I wonder if Apple will use a mobile form of BSD, write applications and games for it, yet keeping the device backwards compatible so Palm applications may still run.
I felt so empty leaving the voting booth after using an electronic voting machine. They should print a receipt for you with a confirmation code of some sort. And in the future, allow you to enter in your confirmation code on the internet and it can show at least what "party" is registered with your vote.
It only takes the tiniest amount of study to understand that, without patents, the pharmaceutic industry would cease to exist. A lot of other technology-based industries would also be crippled or destroyed.
For the sake of humanity, someone will be there to continue medicine...
That they stole code from LAME and violated the LGPL got like one minute of news airtime before falling into the background. That really isn't important to the average person, which is really a damn shame. I would expect that part to be more important or at least more-covered in the media.
NPR Covered the story which pleased me. They started it off like this:
"Today's vocabulary word is 2 words: ROOT KIT"
A decent 5 minute segment on it.
(Sony is patenting a method for games console discs to be tied to the console unit they're first ran on. No second hand game sales or loaning of games...)
This would be cracked the first day it came out. All one would do is mirror the re-writable sector of a disc and re-image it onto the disc that was modified. Unless of course they use some sort of write once type system. If they did this, if your game console is under warranty and had to be replaced, they would be obligated to replace every title for that console as well. This would not be very cost effective for them to use this.
Seriously, if you are not a geek, you wouldn't even know what the term "Zombie" even means... Why don't ISPs and others take out a TV/Radio campaign to say "Are you at risk?" The common people will then perhaps think, maybe my computer IS unsafe and attempt to do something about it...
In any other part of the world, you buy your own phone from wherever you choose (even another country) and just plug in a sim card from your chosen provider and it just works.
This is no longer true. Leading edge mobile companies such as ones in Sweden do lock the phone to the service after seeing how successful this market plan was in the United States.
Here in Sweden you can already get 100 mbit up/down without limitations or caps for around 45 USD ( www.bredband2.se ) in an assortment of locations, not only universities. It's even better in Japan and Korea I think.
I believe you only get this in your local area network. Such as bredband to bredband customer.
That is why DC++ is so popular in Sweden besides the coder being from there.
However when connecting outside the bredband network, you get typical DSL speeds.
Not quite true. There are so many video game stores for example that if one place is selling it for $50 equivalence. You can go down 3 stores and find that game for $40. Since many of the stores are of the same variety, they must have competition to stay in business. You can find cheap things and great deals. You just need patients and check out more than just a couple of stores. Also I used to buy Super Famicom games in the bargain bin for $1.00 ~ $5.00 for a game that just came out here. Such as Super Metroid which was a bilingual cart.
$150 buys about 3hrs of my time, most of those projects posted look to take much longer than that.
Sure, but I don't think they expect people to quit their day jobs to code. This is something for you to make a little extra side cash for doing something you like to do already. I enjoy programming and have a decent paying job already. However making an extra $500.00 to put away would be nice. I enjoying doing work for the community as it is and if you get a few bucks reward for doing so then that is just a bonus!
In fact so many younger generation japanese girls can text so fast that some company created a T9 pad that acts as a keyboard.
I think this comparison is bias. They are comparing a pro at morse and a 13 year old girl texting. Compare morsing to me and I'll type out 35 words a minute.
The beta of version 2 fixes many of those problems. It opens Word, WordPerfect and Excel files flawlessly.
Especially since they re-introduced the opening of password locked files such as excel spreadsheets.
Prior to 2.0 beta. They said they didn't introduce the feature due to legality reasons and not for technical reasons.
They somehow overcame the legality. I wonder how they did that.
I typically enjoy a system when it is elegant. Something open source projects tend to lack. Not to be finicky, but the icons for OpenOffice that go on your desktop are aliased and jagged when they could be using alpha transparency. The icons also don't seem to have any meaning as to what program is such as 3 horizontal lines. Why not take a moment and clean it up and out do microsoft in elegance and graphic design to actually capture potential users eyes!
Why are there good coders in the open source community but heavily lack on good graphic designers and UI?
This does nothing but make people upload and release a pre-releases from servers overseas. How will America enforce a 3 year sentence to someone who did not commit a crime in the United States and not an American citizen?
I apologize for saying that MSN Messenger was being phased out for Mac. Actually it was the MSN portal for the Mac that was being phased out.
Microsoft to kill MSN for the Mac
Who knows - we may even see IE for loonix soon, after all, everyone knows Microsoft is the king of business. Maybe not software/whatnot. But, they are the kings of business. They will make sure they have a share in every part of the market. Why do you think they g0t a huge part in APPLE/Mac? =P =P =P
Actually they are deprecating themselves from the Mac. They stopped IE development for it and they are now considering phasing out MSN Messenger and Office for the Mac. What makes you think they will make IE for loonix anytime soon?