Imagine if your HD programs on the premium channels are audio watermarked so that if you copy them, release them onto the web, that they'll be able to track you down. Actually, this would be very fair since once you release them onto the web, it's not personal use anymore.
Now imagine that you had them stored on your hard disk and somebody installed a trojan FTP server on your system and started playing with it, downloaded your videos and seeded them onto BitTorrent for you. What are you going to say when the cops come and knock on your door?
We'll be fine, seeing as there's no such thing as a "light impulse". Unless somebody can point out which of these definitions applies:
impulse ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mpls) n.
1.
1. An impelling force; an impetus.
2. The motion produced by such a force.
2. A sudden wish or urge that prompts an unpremeditated act or feeling; an abrupt inclination: had an impulse to run away; an impulse of regret that made me hesitate; bought a hat on impulse.
3. A motivating force or tendency: "Respect for the liberty of others is not a natural impulse in most men" (Bertrand Russell).
4. Electronics. A surge of electrical power in one direction.
5. Physics. The product obtained by multiplying the average value of a force by the time during which it acts. The impulse equals the change in momentum produced by the force in this time interval.
6. Physiology. The electrochemical transmission of a signal along a nerve fiber that produces an excitatory or inhibitory response at a target tissue, such as a muscle or another nerve.
[dictionary.com]
I think they mean "light pulse", but the writer was too stupid to know the difference between a pulse and an impulse.
Distributors could start requiring installation of the system, or delaying release. You don't have a camera detector? You'll have to wait an extra week before you can show Latest Blockbuster III.
Well, it's a long time sinceI used it, but it had a mini browser and a video player + some badly structured features.
My 2.8 doesn't have a video player. The minibrowser can be switched off & doesn't seem to load any code into RAM if you don't use it.
But the 2.x was sloooooooow to start up and crashed a lot more.
I have 4 seconds startup here, on a system that's got heavy memory and CPU usage right now (many Mozilla windows, doing MPEG encoding in the background). Winamp has _never_ crashed on me, and I use it heavily. I have a machine whose windows 2000 sound driver sometimes causes a lock up, but that's not winamp's fault as other programs can trigger the same behaviour.
I think you must have had some kind of strange problem with your system to have such trouble with winamp 2. Winamp 3, though, _was_ a nightmare.
Just tell 'em to use winamp. It's not like it'll need any new features to continue doing its job. And it has a well defined plugin interface, just in case any are required.
Huh? I've never had any trouble with 2.x on my 350MHz/256Mb box. And 1.x seems to have trouble playing anything with a bitrate higher than about 160, probably due to inefficient design or something.
And what feature creep? OK, I'll buy the 'minibrowser', so you switch that window off and never have to see it again. Anything else?
Is anyone else having trouble getting extensions? The extensions browser page at mozila update is only listing a tiny number of option for Mozilla 1.0, and if you change the version to 1.0PR it jumps to the first page of 'all categories', and if you try to change page, it jumps back to version 1.0 only.
Very annoying. Perhaps somebody should have sorted that out before the release...?
No, but I don't suspect the person who suggested they weren't violating freetype's license has either. My point was that we don't know that they're not, not that they are.
What I don't get is that you need to be a BT Together customer for this. BT Together customers (such as myself) already get free calls to geographic numbers (ie. those that start 01 or 02).
The only extra information the losing registrar may have would perhaps be the credit card used to pay for the domain, and really, this sort of information shouldn't be accessable anyway once the payment has been made.
My recent experience has been that the losing registrar has a username/password combination for the registrant, which is likely more secure than a random number in an e-mail that could be sniffed by anyone on the same network as the registrant when they download it. And which is often sent to an address that is out-of-date, because nobody ever notifies their domain registrars when they change ISP.
I have a DVD-RW drive, a number of DVD-Rs and DVD-RWs, and CD-Rs and CD-RWs. Depending on what the media format is, I convert it to something appropriate, write it onto a DVD, VideoCD or MP3-CD, and play it on my DVD player.
through most of human history somebody who commited a serious crime was either executed or enslaved.
There's not actually a huge amount of difference between imprisonment and enslavement. Both are saying "because of what you did, we will take away your freedom." However, in the case of enslavement the justice is handed out by the private owner of the new slave, wheras with imprisonment it is a function of the state. Slaves don't usually get released, either, although I believe there have been societies where this was a normal occurrence (e.g. in ancient Rome, I believe, a slave who had worked for some specified period of time was automatically given his freedom).
I haven't seen spam from a legitimate but clueless company in years.
I get a lot trying to sell mortgages. I don't know how legit the companies are, but they don't scream out that its an obvious fraud. I'm also not sure what percentage of spam-vertised porn sites are legit, probably a few of them. It's an easy enough operation to run legitimately.
Please do not take any action against these people. Criminals have a right to legal representation. Would you murder a lawyer who represented a murderer? Didn't think so. Why would you therefore spam a lawyer who represented a spammer?
You may not pretend that you wrote this software. If you use
it, or only parts of it, in a program, you must acknowledge
somewhere in your documentation that you have used the
FreeType code. (`credits')
[...] you must provide offer valid for any third party to request the source from you
OK. I've done this for a customised version of an item of GPL software (that I'm not going to specify for you) for a client (who I'm not going to specify). They have the offer, as required by the GPL.
If you can produce a copy of that offer, I'll give you a copy of the source code. That's what the offer says, anyway.
What, don't you have a copy of the offer? Sorry, no sourcecode then.
(BTW: if you have a binary, you ought to have a copy of the offer... the redistributor is obliged to pass on a copy to you, if he doesn't pass on the source code himself)
So, you see, the 'any 3rd party' part really does come down to 'anyone who has received the binary', because it really means 'any 3rd party who has received the offer'. Of course, someone with a copy of the offer could just start handing out copies of it without the binary, but that would seem a little pointless to me...
. How do we know this, we wonder? Because they're Still Here, and Unchanged since then
No, they're not. There are other similar bees around that the researcher has assumed are unchanged in critical respects, but does not present any evidence to back up this assumption.
A question for you: how can the gaining registrar, who has no previous contact with the customer, ensure that the person they are dealing with is the same person who originally registered the domain with the losing registrar?
Isn't it _easier_ for the losing registrar to ascertain this?
The Saturn V went from drawing board to test flight in only six years
That Saturn V was the culmination of Werner von Braun's years of experience of building rockets with the ambition of reaching space, and was only an incremental improvement on its predecessors (leading right back to the V2). I believe it took him somewhere in the region of 20 years solid work to achieve it.
Yes, it is "just" an engineering problem. So was what von Braun was doing during that time. OK, so some of what he learned from his experience is now in the public domain, and available for anyone to pick up and use. Also, materials science is a lot further progressed. These things should help.
But also, this is a much more complicated task that von Braun faced. Not only do you need to get into space, you need to do it on a much more limited budget, with larger constraints on what you need to achieve. The only real advantage ASP contenders have is that they don't need to lift as much mass as the Saturn V could.
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Imagine if your HD programs on the premium channels are audio watermarked so that if you copy them, release them onto the web, that they'll be able to track you down. Actually, this would be very fair since once you release them onto the web, it's not personal use anymore.
Now imagine that you had them stored on your hard disk and somebody installed a trojan FTP server on your system and started playing with it, downloaded your videos and seeded them onto BitTorrent for you. What are you going to say when the cops come and knock on your door?
I watched one once. The keyword there is one
Agreed. I downloaded one, watched the first minute (which had audio about a second out of sync with the video!) and gave up. It was a joke.
Unless you can see into the infrared spectrum, the picture won't be messed up.
The audio will, though, although probably not enough for it to be detectable by most people, and probably only at very infrequent intervals.
We'll be fine, seeing as there's no such thing as a "light impulse". Unless somebody can point out which of these definitions applies:
impulse ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mpls)
n.
1.
1. An impelling force; an impetus.
2. The motion produced by such a force.
2. A sudden wish or urge that prompts an unpremeditated act or feeling; an abrupt inclination: had an impulse to run away; an impulse of regret that made me hesitate; bought a hat on impulse.
3. A motivating force or tendency: "Respect for the liberty of others is not a natural impulse in most men" (Bertrand Russell).
4. Electronics. A surge of electrical power in one direction.
5. Physics. The product obtained by multiplying the average value of a force by the time during which it acts. The impulse equals the change in momentum produced by the force in this time interval.
6. Physiology. The electrochemical transmission of a signal along a nerve fiber that produces an excitatory or inhibitory response at a target tissue, such as a muscle or another nerve.
[dictionary.com]
I think they mean "light pulse", but the writer was too stupid to know the difference between a pulse and an impulse.
A very large proportion of films are released in the UK on the same date as US now. The idea is to reduce demand for pirate copies.
Distributors could start requiring installation of the system, or delaying release. You don't have a camera detector? You'll have to wait an extra week before you can show Latest Blockbuster III.
Well, it's a long time sinceI used it, but it had a mini browser and a video player + some badly structured features.
My 2.8 doesn't have a video player. The minibrowser can be switched off & doesn't seem to load any code into RAM if you don't use it.
But the 2.x was sloooooooow to start up and crashed a lot more.
I have 4 seconds startup here, on a system that's got heavy memory and CPU usage right now (many Mozilla windows, doing MPEG encoding in the background). Winamp has _never_ crashed on me, and I use it heavily. I have a machine whose windows 2000 sound driver sometimes causes a lock up, but that's not winamp's fault as other programs can trigger the same behaviour.
I think you must have had some kind of strange problem with your system to have such trouble with winamp 2. Winamp 3, though, _was_ a nightmare.
The rest of us just kept using version 2.
.wav file" option).
(I uninstalled v3 because it didn't have an "output to
Just tell 'em to use winamp. It's not like it'll need any new features to continue doing its job. And it has a well defined plugin interface, just in case any are required.
Huh? I've never had any trouble with 2.x on my 350MHz/256Mb box. And 1.x seems to have trouble playing anything with a bitrate higher than about 160, probably due to inefficient design or something.
And what feature creep? OK, I'll buy the 'minibrowser', so you switch that window off and never have to see it again. Anything else?
Is anyone else having trouble getting extensions? The extensions browser page at mozila update is only listing a tiny number of option for Mozilla 1.0, and if you change the version to 1.0PR it jumps to the first page of 'all categories', and if you try to change page, it jumps back to version 1.0 only.
Very annoying. Perhaps somebody should have sorted that out before the release...?
No, but I don't suspect the person who suggested they weren't violating freetype's license has either. My point was that we don't know that they're not, not that they are.
What I don't get is that you need to be a BT Together customer for this. BT Together customers (such as myself) already get free calls to geographic numbers (ie. those that start 01 or 02).
So, what would be the benefit of this for me?
The only extra information the losing registrar may have would perhaps be the credit card used to pay for the domain, and really, this sort of information shouldn't be accessable anyway once the payment has been made.
My recent experience has been that the losing registrar has a username/password combination for the registrant, which is likely more secure than a random number in an e-mail that could be sniffed by anyone on the same network as the registrant when they download it. And which is often sent to an address that is out-of-date, because nobody ever notifies their domain registrars when they change ISP.
My approach is from the low-tech-but-works dept.
I have a DVD-RW drive, a number of DVD-Rs and DVD-RWs, and CD-Rs and CD-RWs. Depending on what the media format is, I convert it to something appropriate, write it onto a DVD, VideoCD or MP3-CD, and play it on my DVD player.
It works for me, YMMV.
through most of human history somebody who commited a serious crime was either executed or enslaved.
There's not actually a huge amount of difference between imprisonment and enslavement. Both are saying "because of what you did, we will take away your freedom." However, in the case of enslavement the justice is handed out by the private owner of the new slave, wheras with imprisonment it is a function of the state. Slaves don't usually get released, either, although I believe there have been societies where this was a normal occurrence (e.g. in ancient Rome, I believe, a slave who had worked for some specified period of time was automatically given his freedom).
I haven't seen spam from a legitimate but clueless company in years.
I get a lot trying to sell mortgages. I don't know how legit the companies are, but they don't scream out that its an obvious fraud. I'm also not sure what percentage of spam-vertised porn sites are legit, probably a few of them. It's an easy enough operation to run legitimately.
Please do not take any action against these people. Criminals have a right to legal representation. Would you murder a lawyer who represented a murderer? Didn't think so. Why would you therefore spam a lawyer who represented a spammer?
No, but it does require this:
You may not pretend that you wrote this software. If you use
it, or only parts of it, in a program, you must acknowledge
somewhere in your documentation that you have used the
FreeType code. (`credits')
[...] you must provide offer valid for any third party to request the source from you
OK. I've done this for a customised version of an item of GPL software (that I'm not going to specify for you) for a client (who I'm not going to specify). They have the offer, as required by the GPL.
If you can produce a copy of that offer, I'll give you a copy of the source code. That's what the offer says, anyway.
What, don't you have a copy of the offer? Sorry, no sourcecode then.
(BTW: if you have a binary, you ought to have a copy of the offer... the redistributor is obliged to pass on a copy to you, if he doesn't pass on the source code himself)
So, you see, the 'any 3rd party' part really does come down to 'anyone who has received the binary', because it really means 'any 3rd party who has received the offer'. Of course, someone with a copy of the offer could just start handing out copies of it without the binary, but that would seem a little pointless to me...
The only exception will be for embedded versions of Windows, since vendors are able to modify the source code.
WTF? There's no source code on my copy of the XP Embedded database/tools cds, so what are they on about...?
There's a cygwin port of KDE. You could use that.
. How do we know this, we wonder? Because they're Still Here, and Unchanged since then
No, they're not. There are other similar bees around that the researcher has assumed are unchanged in critical respects, but does not present any evidence to back up this assumption.
A question for you: how can the gaining registrar, who has no previous contact with the customer, ensure that the person they are dealing with is the same person who originally registered the domain with the losing registrar?
Isn't it _easier_ for the losing registrar to ascertain this?
Here is a Google cache of the Firefox Mirror List.
:(
Woh! We just slashdotted the google cache. It took me like 2 minutes to download that page!
The Saturn V went from drawing board to test flight in only six years
That Saturn V was the culmination of Werner von Braun's years of experience of building rockets with the ambition of reaching space, and was only an incremental improvement on its predecessors (leading right back to the V2). I believe it took him somewhere in the region of 20 years solid work to achieve it.
Yes, it is "just" an engineering problem. So was what von Braun was doing during that time. OK, so some of what he learned from his experience is now in the public domain, and available for anyone to pick up and use. Also, materials science is a lot further progressed. These things should help.
But also, this is a much more complicated task that von Braun faced. Not only do you need to get into space, you need to do it on a much more limited budget, with larger constraints on what you need to achieve. The only real advantage ASP contenders have is that they don't need to lift as much mass as the Saturn V could.