I wonder if this "reserved space" is the same thing as the space that some people lost when upgrading from version 1 to 2? If so, then saying that this was without cost to the user, is pretty slimey.
Yes, it is. The reserved space isn't a set amount of space, but rather a percentage of the overall diskspace. Users, like me, who purchased a 12hour Tivo and upgraded it with an 80gig drive still only have the space reserved for the 12 hour unit. Not what TiVo deemed "acceptable" for the larger units. With the upgrade to 2.0, additional space was reserved to match TiVo's worldview.
While I now demand a PVR as part of my TV watching and that PVR currently happens to be a TiVo, that's not likely to stay so for long. This is just the latest in a list of activity by Tivo that has lost them at least two more sales, when I decided not to upgrade my standalone to a DirecTV unit, and when I didn't buy one for my parents.
The servers which give the user their initial contact?
This is fundamentally how Gnutella works as well. General operation is to connect to a set of servers to seed the clients list of nodes (connect1.gnutella.net...connect4. Bearshare and Limewire also have their own private servers to do the same thing. Gnucleus can also seed this information off IRC)
If this is grounds to sue the servers for Kazaa then it would be equal grounds to sue the servers for Gnutella. Since that hasn't happened yet, I suspect it's for a good reason.
"Copyright 2002, OJW. This program may be considered public-domain after 20 May 2012"
The copyright owner can release it into the public domain at any time, even retroactively. However, once released there is no way to change your mind.
Same goes with licenses, you cannot retroactively restrict a license, but you can loosen it. BSD -> GPL is definitely a restriction, so it can only apply to future releases.
Does it also mean, if I strip a GPL'd piece of software of the GNU license that I don't have to abide by it either?
That's correct, you do not have to abide by the license you do have to abide by copyright law
Since the GPL gives you rights over and above copyright law, and restricts nothing granted you by copyright law I don't personally see much point in the exercise.
Yes, the article in question elaborates on the issue. Specifically, only single walled tubes that are bunched together catch fire. Multiple walled tubes do not.
Although the RIAA applauded the creation of CHIP, it said it is concerned that CHIP's main focus will be on computer hacking and not on intellectual property. The RIAA requested in its testimony that these CHIP units make intellectual property a top priority.
Not only do they demand (and get!) laws strictly in their benefit, but now they want to reprioritize and increase the funding for a law enforcement agency for their sole benefit.
The only solution is to penalize congresspeople who swallow this. Fat election funds won't do congresspeople anygood when nobody will vote for them.
As open source Ogg Vorbis is released under the GPL/LGPL. However doesn't this prevent companies to integrate the sources into their software ?
Except... Ogg Vorbis isn't released under the GPL/LGPL. The license is basically BSD in form, but different wording.
To quote Jack, which wouldn't be necessary if you had read the linked message:
It's actually Free-er than most Free Software in some ways, siince we chose to prioritize adoption rather than require everyone buy into the LGPL. In essence by giving up a few freedoms with the more lax license, we are preserving freedom because the world will adopt Ogg, the only audio codec right now of it's kind that can be freely implemented.
You can go so far as to get a site pulled, but to remove it from Google's web cache is a whole 'nother legal fight.
That's because for the most part, getting a site pulled is no legal battle at all. ISPs, at least within the US, cancel accounts at the mere mention of "legal team." Only sites hosting themselves are any difficulty at all, and thats just a matter of requiring more pressure on bandwidth providers.
Except Google. Not only do they purchase significant bandwidth, making providers want to keep them happy, but doing anything to harm them would make the provider the sworn enemy of every clued-in person on the net.
Scientology of course is -already- the enemy of every clued-in person on the net. Or anywhere else.
It takes about 2 seconds for them to configure their webserver to check Referrer headers and deny deep link requests from another site.
Almost nobody does this, and for good reason. Corporate firewalls regularly strip Referrer headers as such headers can easily be for an internal link. In fact checking referrer is so uncommon that only a couple sites (free hosting, generally) make a stink about referrer being stripped.
Every corporate site I have been at, will block port 22 outbound.
I've never encountered this, and even when I'm in the position of power to cause this to happen it has never come up as a desired reality.
Besides, anybody smart enough to have a SSH server up (which is pretty limited if you think about it) is smart enough to put it on a different port. Say, 29747, or perhaps 12948, maybe even 80.
and renews the copyrights on all of his works whenever they are due to expire
This is now nonsensical as copyrights are no longer "renewed." The only way to get extensions is to to buy numerous congresspeople and get law passed. However, in 1963, the failure to renew several of his copyrights did place major works into the public domain. As he's been dead for 52 years, any item copyrighted in 1923 or earlier has also expired.
The balance is public domain by Australian law, and is available at Gutenberg Australia
This appears to even affect my aim traffic, as the AIM transport on the server does the actual relaying of messages.
Realize, of course, that the jabber server knows your AIM login information as well. This expands the situation from "Somebody may be sniffing my traffic -right-now-" to "I hope the server doesn't log my AIM login information so they can't login as me anytime"
Irrelevant if you run your own Jabber server, but that's not so common.
It's not our (generic our) problem if M$ can't "work with the Open Source community, leverage its resources, and still make a buck" The fact that M$ "doesn't have a service arm" and "non-service related business models haven't fared very well" isn't our problem either. They don't need to make a profit from every area of the computer industry, and I certainly don't have any desire to help them do so.
Microsoft doesn't have a guarantee to be profitable. They can open up a service area, if they're so desperate to make a buck off open source.
I could see an advantage to Morpheus when it was on the fasttrak network. Not enough of one for me to install it, but I could understand why others would. Now that it's running on Gnutella (With Gnucleus specifically as it's client base) why would anybody install it?
Personally, I have Gnucleus up pretty much all the time, even when not downloading anything. High speed network, I can at least serve as a somewhat stable connection. However, since Morpehus invaded it's gone from bad, to abysmal. Gnutella has been hurting for a long time, but the 10k (or whatever) users added recently pretty much killed it.
How much does your company benefit from researching a problem on the net? I can't even count the number of times I've hit google and found an answer while on hold with a vendor, or asked a friend on jabber and gotten a response and had a problem fixed before getting a callback "within your service contract"
I don't know what the cost is for random secretaries emailing goatse.cx urls around, but my use of the net has always helped a company far in excess of any time wasted checking my personal email.
b) You simply cannot match the features (and AI) currently offered by the TiVo service by attempting to hack into various online listing databases..
These features of the "service" are in fact features of the software already on the box at time of purchase. All the TiVo "service" does is download the tv listing for your area and television service.
This is obvious with a DirecTiVo. An unhacked, never opened box fully subscribed can be unplugged from the phone line. After 30 days, it will complain that it hasn't verified your continued service and will shut off, but until that time you will have full guide data, which it gets off the dish, and the full scheduling service.
Furthermore, no hacking of "various online listing databases" is needed, you can purchase the data for between $20-30 a year. The only difficulty is getting the data into the TiVo itself. Of course that's only necessary with the standalone units.
Of course, TiVo service is what makes a TiVo more attractive than a plain recorder anyhow.
What service is that exactly? TV Guide? The one I get free off the satellite dish? Even on the standalone boxes (of which I still own one) you can get TV guide date for $20-30 a year. The only "service" received from TiVo is based in their blocking my choice of where to get TV guide data from. In other words: In support of a poor business plan. I only paid for one year of service with my nearly new DirecTiVo, on the assumption that the company will go out of business and I will lose my already limited reluctance to use the existing hacks to avoid paying for the DTiVo.
If I got twice as much per week for twice as long as the maximum benefit, I'd still have paid about 10 times into the unemployment insurance as I took out. Not that I was asked to pay in, and if I had, I wouldn't have.
Can anybody suggest a Wishlist to grab the occasional anime movie that comes up, without also getting "Scooby Doo on Zombie Island" and "Race for your life charlie brown" as well? Movie/Animated doesn't cut it, and there's no "Animated/Non-children" bleh
Encore runs 2-3 anime movies a week, and it appears the only way to catch them is to go through the schedule every week or so.
Treaties don't contain punishment for offenders, laws do. Me, an individual citizen of the US, who breaks RandomTreaty#10283 ratified by the US which has no enforcement law in the US has little to nothing to worry about.
That's why there is the DMCA. It exists to enforce a treaty and supply punishment.
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IIRC Consoles are generally sold at a loss, it is generally accepted that the real money in the console market is in the games
This is a myth.
I wonder if this "reserved space" is the same thing as the space that some people lost when upgrading from version 1 to 2? If so, then saying that this was without cost to the user, is pretty slimey.
Yes, it is. The reserved space isn't a set amount of space, but rather a percentage of the overall diskspace. Users, like me, who purchased a 12hour Tivo and upgraded it with an 80gig drive still only have the space reserved for the 12 hour unit. Not what TiVo deemed "acceptable" for the larger units. With the upgrade to 2.0, additional space was reserved to match TiVo's worldview.
While I now demand a PVR as part of my TV watching and that PVR currently happens to be a TiVo, that's not likely to stay so for long. This is just the latest in a list of activity by Tivo that has lost them at least two more sales, when I decided not to upgrade my standalone to a DirecTV unit, and when I didn't buy one for my parents.
The servers which give the user their initial contact?
This is fundamentally how Gnutella works as well. General operation is to connect to a set of servers to seed the clients list of nodes (connect1.gnutella.net...connect4. Bearshare and Limewire also have their own private servers to do the same thing. Gnucleus can also seed this information off IRC)
If this is grounds to sue the servers for Kazaa then it would be equal grounds to sue the servers for Gnutella. Since that hasn't happened yet, I suspect it's for a good reason.
"Copyright 2002, OJW. This program may be considered public-domain after 20 May 2012"
The copyright owner can release it into the public domain at any time, even retroactively. However, once released there is no way to change your mind.
Same goes with licenses, you cannot retroactively restrict a license, but you can loosen it. BSD -> GPL is definitely a restriction, so it can only apply to future releases.
are there any elected officials who are not members of either the Democratic or Republican parties?
Duh. Of course there are.
One solitary House member. One Solitary Senate member.
Corporate citizens are nothing more than a legal fiction, and as such do not deserve the rights and privledges of an individual citizen.
Does it also mean, if I strip a GPL'd piece of software of the GNU license that I don't have to abide by it either?
That's correct, you do not have to abide by the license you do have to abide by copyright law
Since the GPL gives you rights over and above copyright law, and restricts nothing granted you by copyright law I don't personally see much point in the exercise.
Yes, the article in question elaborates on the issue. Specifically, only single walled tubes that are bunched together catch fire. Multiple walled tubes do not.
Although the RIAA applauded the creation of CHIP, it said it is concerned that CHIP's main focus will be on computer hacking and not on intellectual property. The RIAA requested in its testimony that these CHIP units make intellectual property a top priority.
Not only do they demand (and get!) laws strictly in their benefit, but now they want to reprioritize and increase the funding for a law enforcement agency for their sole benefit.
The only solution is to penalize congresspeople who swallow this. Fat election funds won't do congresspeople anygood when nobody will vote for them.
As open source Ogg Vorbis is released under the GPL/LGPL. However doesn't this prevent companies to integrate the sources into their software ?
Except... Ogg Vorbis isn't released under the GPL/LGPL. The license is basically BSD in form, but different wording.
To quote Jack, which wouldn't be necessary if you had read the linked message:
It's actually Free-er than most Free Software in some ways, siince we chose to prioritize adoption rather than require everyone buy into the LGPL. In essence by giving up a few freedoms with the more lax license, we are preserving freedom because the world will adopt Ogg, the only audio codec right now of it's kind that can be freely implemented.
You can go so far as to get a site pulled, but to remove it from Google's web cache is a whole 'nother legal fight.
That's because for the most part, getting a site pulled is no legal battle at all. ISPs, at least within the US, cancel accounts at the mere mention of "legal team." Only sites hosting themselves are any difficulty at all, and thats just a matter of requiring more pressure on bandwidth providers.
Except Google. Not only do they purchase significant bandwidth, making providers want to keep them happy, but doing anything to harm them would make the provider the sworn enemy of every clued-in person on the net.
Scientology of course is -already- the enemy of every clued-in person on the net. Or anywhere else.
It takes about 2 seconds for them to configure their webserver to check Referrer headers and deny deep link requests from another site.
Almost nobody does this, and for good reason. Corporate firewalls regularly strip Referrer headers as such headers can easily be for an internal link. In fact checking referrer is so uncommon that only a couple sites (free hosting, generally) make a stink about referrer being stripped.
Every corporate site I have been at, will block port 22 outbound.
I've never encountered this, and even when I'm in the position of power to cause this to happen it has never come up as a desired reality.
Besides, anybody smart enough to have a SSH server up (which is pretty limited if you think about it) is smart enough to put it on a different port. Say, 29747, or perhaps 12948, maybe even 80.
and renews the copyrights on all of his works whenever they are due to expire
This is now nonsensical as copyrights are no longer "renewed." The only way to get extensions is to to buy numerous congresspeople and get law passed. However, in 1963, the failure to renew several of his copyrights did place major works into the public domain. As he's been dead for 52 years, any item copyrighted in 1923 or earlier has also expired.
The balance is public domain by Australian law, and is available at Gutenberg Australia
This appears to even affect my aim traffic, as the AIM transport on the server does the actual relaying of messages.
Realize, of course, that the jabber server knows your AIM login information as well. This expands the situation from "Somebody may be sniffing my traffic -right-now-" to "I hope the server doesn't log my AIM login information so they can't login as me anytime"
Irrelevant if you run your own Jabber server, but that's not so common.
It's not our (generic our) problem if M$ can't "work with the Open Source community, leverage its resources, and still make a buck" The fact that M$ "doesn't have a service arm" and "non-service related business models haven't fared very well" isn't our problem either. They don't need to make a profit from every area of the computer industry, and I certainly don't have any desire to help them do so.
Microsoft doesn't have a guarantee to be profitable. They can open up a service area, if they're so desperate to make a buck off open source.
I could see an advantage to Morpheus when it was on the fasttrak network. Not enough of one for me to install it, but I could understand why others would. Now that it's running on Gnutella (With Gnucleus specifically as it's client base) why would anybody install it?
Personally, I have Gnucleus up pretty much all the time, even when not downloading anything. High speed network, I can at least serve as a somewhat stable connection. However, since Morpehus invaded it's gone from bad, to abysmal. Gnutella has been hurting for a long time, but the 10k (or whatever) users added recently pretty much killed it.
How much does your company benefit from researching a problem on the net? I can't even count the number of times I've hit google and found an answer while on hold with a vendor, or asked a friend on jabber and gotten a response and had a problem fixed before getting a callback "within your service contract"
I don't know what the cost is for random secretaries emailing goatse.cx urls around, but my use of the net has always helped a company far in excess of any time wasted checking my personal email.
Would the AI module be sophisticated enough to post sarcastic comments to slashdot?
b) You simply cannot match the features (and AI) currently offered by the TiVo service by attempting to hack into various online listing databases..
These features of the "service" are in fact features of the software already on the box at time of purchase. All the TiVo "service" does is download the tv listing for your area and television service.
This is obvious with a DirecTiVo. An unhacked, never opened box fully subscribed can be unplugged from the phone line. After 30 days, it will complain that it hasn't verified your continued service and will shut off, but until that time you will have full guide data, which it gets off the dish, and the full scheduling service.
Furthermore, no hacking of "various online listing databases" is needed, you can purchase the data for between $20-30 a year. The only difficulty is getting the data into the TiVo itself. Of course that's only necessary with the standalone units.
Of course, TiVo service is what makes a TiVo more attractive than a plain recorder anyhow.
What service is that exactly? TV Guide? The one I get free off the satellite dish? Even on the standalone boxes (of which I still own one) you can get TV guide date for $20-30 a year. The only "service" received from TiVo is based in their blocking my choice of where to get TV guide data from. In other words: In support of a poor business plan. I only paid for one year of service with my nearly new DirecTiVo, on the assumption that the company will go out of business and I will lose my already limited reluctance to use the existing hacks to avoid paying for the DTiVo.
Showtime is showing the first episode three times. With DirecTV I get both east and west coast showtimes, so a total of six showings.
All six are conflicted. Coincidence, or a purposeful attempt to make me go buy a dualduner PVR?
2. Able people who file for unemployment
If I got twice as much per week for twice as long as the maximum benefit, I'd still have paid about 10 times into the unemployment insurance as I took out. Not that I was asked to pay in, and if I had, I wouldn't have.
So, take your whines elsewhere.
Can anybody suggest a Wishlist to grab the occasional anime movie that comes up, without also getting "Scooby Doo on Zombie Island" and "Race for your life charlie brown" as well? Movie/Animated doesn't cut it, and there's no "Animated/Non-children" bleh
Encore runs 2-3 anime movies a week, and it appears the only way to catch them is to go through the schedule every week or so.
Treaties don't contain punishment for offenders, laws do. Me, an individual citizen of the US, who breaks RandomTreaty#10283 ratified by the US which has no enforcement law in the US has little to nothing to worry about.
That's why there is the DMCA. It exists to enforce a treaty and supply punishment.