This is all well and good, but I can't help thinking this is exactly what the MPAA boys need right now. A nice new format to sell to the public, obsoleting that leaky-as-a-sieve legacy DVD format.
They can lock it up WAY tighter than DVD, make sure no software players are made available, further curtail fair use, and make damned sure there's nothing us hapless customers can do about it. Anyone fancy one region per US State?
This is only a preliminary thing lads, don't get too excited. The judge has quite correctly decided that we don't suffer much financially by this preliminary injunction, and that it's possible that the DVD people would suffer by it's absence. It's not hard to see his point of view here, and he hasn't barred linking to pages with CSS code. All things considered this is a fair and reasonable judgement IMHO.
Now what we need is a port to Quake so that our big, far away, headless boxen can run a dedicated Quake server and we can get down to some serious remote administration.
Next we need to place the processes belonging to a given user all in the same locked room. That way there's less chance of important processes dieing from 'friendly fire' if someone starts a fork-bomb. When the player^H^H^H^H^H^H user starts the administration session she should be automatically granted door keys commensurate with her rights as a user.
Do you ever feel that Linus is blocking the advancement of the kernel? (e.g. GGI, EvStack, raw IO, devfs)
Can you see a time in the future when a group of people such as yourself might have a quiet word with Linus and ask him to step aside? Or even mutiny and fork kernel development entirely?
That's fair enough. The proxy only has to work on localhost which would remain on the user's personal computer. The command send from a player to the proxy could be 'tell me about the cd in/dev/cdrom now' which satisfies ii A and II b.
As for iii, it's arguable that the data is not being transmitted - it remains within the one computer. The data certainly isn't upoaded, aggregated, or collected. Though that would seem to prevent caching.
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This is all well and good, but I can't help thinking this is exactly what the MPAA boys need right now. A nice new format to sell to the public, obsoleting that leaky-as-a-sieve legacy DVD format.
They can lock it up WAY tighter than DVD, make sure no software players are made available, further curtail fair use, and make damned sure there's nothing us hapless customers can do about it. Anyone fancy one region per US State?
Paul.
(Apologies for the sour note. It's late.)
This is only a preliminary thing lads, don't get too excited. The judge has quite correctly decided that we don't suffer much financially by this preliminary injunction, and that it's possible that the DVD people would suffer by it's absence. It's not hard to see his point of view here, and he hasn't barred linking to pages with CSS code. All things considered this is a fair and reasonable judgement IMHO.
Anyway, roll on the (unadorned but functional) Whack A Mole Entry
Paul.
DeCSS 1.21b and a livid snapshot available here.
Now what we need is a port to Quake so that our big, far away, headless boxen can run a dedicated Quake server and we can get down to some serious remote administration.
Next we need to place the processes belonging to a given user all in the same locked room. That way there's less chance of important processes dieing from 'friendly fire' if someone starts a fork-bomb. When the player^H^H^H^H^H^H user starts the administration session she should be automatically granted door keys commensurate with her rights as a user.
This is like a dream coming true...
Paul.
Do you ever feel that Linus is blocking the advancement of the kernel? (e.g. GGI, EvStack, raw IO, devfs)
Can you see a time in the future when a group of people such as yourself might have a quiet word with Linus and ask him to step aside? Or even mutiny and fork kernel development entirely?
Paul.
I just want to know if it's region-free and if the VGA is done digitally or with an analog pass-through.
Paul.
Maybe they should release Q3A in Europe first on May 19th, and release it at a more appropriate time in the States. Say July 16th.
Paul.
Paul.
That's fair enough. The proxy only has to work on localhost which would remain on the user's personal computer. The command send from a player to the proxy could be 'tell me about the cd in /dev/cdrom now' which satisfies ii A and II b.
As for iii, it's arguable that the data is not being transmitted - it remains within the one computer. The data certainly isn't upoaded, aggregated, or collected. Though that would seem to prevent caching.
Paul.