Yes their site may suck, but violating Copyright is violating Copyright no matter how you slice it.
I'm not sure he is violating copyright.
From the UK's Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1998 (as modified by the Copyright (Visually Impaired Persons) Act 2002):
31A Making a single accessible copy for personal use
(1) If a visually impaired person has lawful possession or lawful use of a copy ("the master copy") of the whole or part of-
(a) a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work; or
(b) a published edition,
which is not accessible to him because of the impairment, it is not an infringement of copyright in the work, or in the typographical arrangement of the published edition, for an accessible copy of the master copy to be made for his personal use.
I believe the site falls under the category of service providing such copies.
The operator of the site may need to make modifications to his site to ensure he complies with this law, for instance while I understand he acknowledges the original source and notes that the pages have been modified, it seems in order to comply he needs to include a notice that the modification has been made under that particular law.
agreements have been made to permit legal DVD copying for use on portable devices
Permit? It is not these companies' place to permit me to do anything! The rights to use recorded material has been defined by the Supreme court of the United States.
Given that this is a British article you're quoting from, what on Earth does the US Supreme Court have to do with it?
I believe a worm is a program that sends copies of itself to another computer. A trojan is a malicious program that requires activation by the user. So this is a trojan worm.
They might even succeed, at which point they would be awarded an amount in the same ballpark as the value of their IP which has been violated (i.e., not a whole lot).
But, while doing so, they'd probably be arrested and charged with (whatever offence distributing a virus is in your jursidiction).
1. STI/CLI are priveleged instructions, so cannot be run by a windows process (other than a driver)
2. This will only stop a debugger in single step. If the user spots what you're doing, they just put a breakpoint after this code and run through the whole section and it works fine.
No, I think it checks if it is running under a debugger, not just inside one.
It's actually a fairly easy check to make on windows. I believe you can set an unhandled exception handling function and then call DebugBreak(). If you get to the exception handler, then you aren't being debugged.
Neural networks have a checkered history in Artificial Intelligence research.
Largely because most people don't understand how they work.
[vastly simplified description of how a single-layer perceptron works snipped]
This is useful, but it was soon discovered that these simple neural networks, for certain sets of inputs, failed, because of overlapping categories: both birds and humans are bipedal, but only humans are also mammals.
That's not why single layer perceptrons fail at all. In fact, a perceptron can cope with independent categorisations very easily. The problem is that they can only make a decision based on a single 'cut' across the input vector-space, meaning that any classification problem with exceptions, or a non-linear rule, cannot be solved by a single layer network. Most real-world classification problems fall into at least one of these categories, so work on perceptrons was abandoned until the development of back-propogation, the first good method for training a multilayer network.
These problems can be alleviated by adding additional "hidden" layers of nodes between input and outputs, and by allowing "back-propagation" from output or hidden nodes to layers "previous" to them.
But even with these enhancements, it's been conclusively shown that some problems are intractable for neural networks.
Do you have a reference to that conclusion, or are you just making it up? In fact, it has been mathematically shown that, theoretically at least, a 2 layer perceptron can solve any input classification problem. The only remaining task is to determine how to train such a network for any given problem -- this is hard, but I don't think it has ever been proven to be impossible.
If everyone clicks on meta-moderate, you might get a chance to record against the moderators who decided otherwise. I believe this will increase the length of time it takes for them to get their mod points back.
$2 isn't an unreasonable prive for a DVD[+-]RW blank. My local shop sells them for about GBP 1.50, which is roughly $2.20. I can get them cheaper by mail order, of course.
Same is true for standard NTSC/PAL television, btw.
Exactly. 10 years ago, everyone thought we'd all have ditched those old standards by now, but between the two of them they're still in use by the vast majority of people around the world. Even people with digital cable / satellite TV generally use one of those standards between their decoder and their TV.
Higher quality will make another format more popular with users
It hasn't worked for any of the CD replacement formats that have come and gone. The point is, CD quality is good enough for the average listener. And I believe that DVD quality is good enough for the average viewer. Sure, I'd love to see a 1600x900 pixel 50fps progressive video format come along, but I think most people will look at it and say -- so what? The image is a bit sharper than a DVD, but why should I spend the money to upgrade?
Yeah, but even now CDs aren't "obsolete" -- there are a huge proportion of people who use them exclusively. It took over 10 years worth of people saying that 3.5" floppy drives would soon be obsolete before they even began to go out of favour. I'm not sure whether or not they're obsolete even now; I still occasionally use mine and know very few people who don't have one.
Like it or not, the DVD format (as it is now) is here to stay for the foreseeable future, and that extends more than 10 years down the line. Hell, it'll probably take 5 years for the industry to agree on what format will replace them. We're not talking about an item that is driven by the fast-moving PC industry, but rather by the home entertainment industry, which isn't renowned for being an early adopter of new technology.
I've been using the same release of Visual Studio for 7 years, and have little desire to upgrade. I don't see why many people would. The new features beyond VS97 just aren't worth it, IMO.
... companies that provide consumer electronics equipment to the EU are legally required to provide a recycling facility to their customers. HP, being one of these companies, has obviously set a scheme up. It makes sense to also offer it in other countries...
None of Microsoft's documentation describes the function in question (actually a COM object, but the distinction is narrow) as 'unsecure' [sic]. So what source did you use to determine that it was such a problem?
(Note: they were using the API for the _exact purpose_ for which it was intended)
Tell you what, you look at the Mozilla source code and find out about the recently discussed problems.
Here's the catch: the problem was caused by undocumented behaviour in the Microsoft Windows APIs for handling URLs. No source audit by somebody who didn't know about that behaviour would have found it, because those APIs are closed source.
I've never understood the compulsion to get a lego set and build something from an instruction booklet. The whole point of lego is that you can put it together however you want.
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Yes their site may suck, but violating Copyright is violating Copyright no matter how you slice it.
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I'm not sure he is violating copyright.
From the UK's Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1998 (as modified by the Copyright (Visually Impaired Persons) Act 2002):
31A Making a single accessible copy for personal use
(1) If a visually impaired person has lawful possession or lawful use of a copy ("the master copy") of the whole or part of-
(a) a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work; or
(b) a published edition,
which is not accessible to him because of the impairment, it is not an infringement of copyright in the work, or in the typographical arrangement of the published edition, for an accessible copy of the master copy to be made for his personal use.
I believe the site falls under the category of service providing such copies.
The operator of the site may need to make modifications to his site to ensure he complies with this law, for instance while I understand he acknowledges the original source and notes that the pages have been modified, it seems in order to comply he needs to include a notice that the modification has been made under that particular law.
http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts200
Did anybody else fall on the floor in a fit of hysterics when they read this:
DVDs are presently protected by content scrambling which prevents copying.
"Your bullets cannot harm me, for I will hide behind a sheet of paper."
agreements have been made to permit legal DVD copying for use on portable devices
Permit? It is not these companies' place to permit me to do anything! The rights to use recorded material has been defined by the Supreme court of the United States.
Given that this is a British article you're quoting from, what on Earth does the US Supreme Court have to do with it?
I thought I'd never see another day like this one.
.plan file of id CEO Todd Hollenshead
No, not the release of Doom 3. To quote the poster:
According to the
Somebody's actually running a finger daemon, and it does more than just say "finger disabled for privacy reasons, try sending an e-mail".
A possible bug, related to the way Atak checks its activation date, prevents it from being run in a "sandbox"
Sounds more like a bug in the sandbox to me. A sandbox should be indistinguishable from running on a real non-virtualised computer.
I believe a worm is a program that sends copies of itself to another computer. A trojan is a malicious program that requires activation by the user. So this is a trojan worm.
They could do this.
They might even succeed, at which point they would be awarded an amount in the same ballpark as the value of their IP which has been violated (i.e., not a whole lot).
But, while doing so, they'd probably be arrested and charged with (whatever offence distributing a virus is in your jursidiction).
I don't think any of them are that stupid.
1. STI/CLI are priveleged instructions, so cannot be run by a windows process (other than a driver)
2. This will only stop a debugger in single step. If the user spots what you're doing, they just put a breakpoint after this code and run through the whole section and it works fine.
No, I think it checks if it is running under a debugger, not just inside one.
It's actually a fairly easy check to make on windows. I believe you can set an unhandled exception handling function and then call DebugBreak(). If you get to the exception handler, then you aren't being debugged.
Neural networks have a checkered history in Artificial Intelligence research.
Largely because most people don't understand how they work.
[vastly simplified description of how a single-layer perceptron works snipped]
This is useful, but it was soon discovered that these simple neural networks, for certain sets of inputs, failed, because of overlapping categories: both birds and humans are bipedal, but only humans are also mammals.
That's not why single layer perceptrons fail at all. In fact, a perceptron can cope with independent categorisations very easily. The problem is that they can only make a decision based on a single 'cut' across the input vector-space, meaning that any classification problem with exceptions, or a non-linear rule, cannot be solved by a single layer network. Most real-world classification problems fall into at least one of these categories, so work on perceptrons was abandoned until the development of back-propogation, the first good method for training a multilayer network.
These problems can be alleviated by adding additional "hidden" layers of nodes between input and outputs, and by allowing "back-propagation" from output or hidden nodes to layers "previous" to them.
But even with these enhancements, it's been conclusively shown that some problems are intractable for neural networks.
Do you have a reference to that conclusion, or are you just making it up? In fact, it has been mathematically shown that, theoretically at least, a 2 layer perceptron can solve any input classification problem. The only remaining task is to determine how to train such a network for any given problem -- this is hard, but I don't think it has ever been proven to be impossible.
If everyone clicks on meta-moderate, you might get a chance to record against the moderators who decided otherwise. I believe this will increase the length of time it takes for them to get their mod points back.
$2 isn't an unreasonable prive for a DVD[+-]RW blank. My local shop sells them for about GBP 1.50, which is roughly $2.20. I can get them cheaper by mail order, of course.
Same is true for standard NTSC/PAL television, btw.
Exactly. 10 years ago, everyone thought we'd all have ditched those old standards by now, but between the two of them they're still in use by the vast majority of people around the world. Even people with digital cable / satellite TV generally use one of those standards between their decoder and their TV.
It might have been, if he hadn't decided to sink it a couple of years later.
Higher quality will make another format more popular with users
It hasn't worked for any of the CD replacement formats that have come and gone. The point is, CD quality is good enough for the average listener. And I believe that DVD quality is good enough for the average viewer. Sure, I'd love to see a 1600x900 pixel 50fps progressive video format come along, but I think most people will look at it and say -- so what? The image is a bit sharper than a DVD, but why should I spend the money to upgrade?
Yeah, but even now CDs aren't "obsolete" -- there are a huge proportion of people who use them exclusively. It took over 10 years worth of people saying that 3.5" floppy drives would soon be obsolete before they even began to go out of favour. I'm not sure whether or not they're obsolete even now; I still occasionally use mine and know very few people who don't have one.
Like it or not, the DVD format (as it is now) is here to stay for the foreseeable future, and that extends more than 10 years down the line. Hell, it'll probably take 5 years for the industry to agree on what format will replace them. We're not talking about an item that is driven by the fast-moving PC industry, but rather by the home entertainment industry, which isn't renowned for being an early adopter of new technology.
I've been using the same release of Visual Studio for 7 years, and have little desire to upgrade. I don't see why many people would. The new features beyond VS97 just aren't worth it, IMO.
... companies that provide consumer electronics equipment to the EU are legally required to provide a recycling facility to their customers. HP, being one of these companies, has obviously set a scheme up. It makes sense to also offer it in other countries...
they even hired mafia to carry out a murder in north america, related to the scam.
Really? I'm pretty sure the Mafia don't do contracts for other people. They have principles. Do you have any references?
None of Microsoft's documentation describes the function in question (actually a COM object, but the distinction is narrow) as 'unsecure' [sic]. So what source did you use to determine that it was such a problem?
(Note: they were using the API for the _exact purpose_ for which it was intended)
Eh? Opera's equivalent technology is described here.
Tell you what, you look at the Mozilla source code and find out about the recently discussed problems.
Here's the catch: the problem was caused by undocumented behaviour in the Microsoft Windows APIs for handling URLs. No source audit by somebody who didn't know about that behaviour would have found it, because those APIs are closed source.
Press SHIFT+ENTER inside of a list item to insert a non-terminating line break.
But then it doesn't add my first-line indent or inter-paragraph spacing.
I've never understood the compulsion to get a lego set and build something from an instruction booklet. The whole point of lego is that you can put it together however you want.
His argument came across more like "like emacs but not so arcane" to me, which is more likely to work.