Actually, I guess I shouldn't have tried to interpret the spirit of the lawmakers. I think there's two spirits - the one they tried to show to the public when they were arguing for the law, and the spirit that was 100% paid for by doners.
I was referring to the first spirit, but I fully believe that the second one (the one that you're using) exists, too. And it's probably the real spirit of the law.
Yeah, I reworded that sentence carefully. Originally, it sounded like I thought that he had rendered a morally correct judgement and that I totally agreed with the DMCA. But then I rephrased it to mean that I thought he had followed the spirit and letter of the law -- my minimum standard for judges.
That was just the copyright office's opinion. If you read what the judge in case wrote during his preliminary injunction ruling, it's very different - he took every one of Lexmark's arguments hook-line-and-sinker. I'm waiting for the judge to make the correct ruling. Even then, SCC has been unable to sell their product for 9 months and has had to support a substantial legal case... I'd really like to see Lexmark have to pay punitive damages in order to prevent future companies from trying to use the DMCA as a tool of abuse.
I am pretty happy with the Chamberlain garage door opener case, though - they agreed on the facts of the case, so there wasn't a lot of lawyers' court-room arguments. They asked for just a simple ruling from the judge, and he interpreted the DMCA correctly.
The Heathkit Hero 2000 cost as much as a Yugo, but available with an optional arm and wireless terminal, it got a lot of students into robots. I remember writing a simple wall-following algorithm that ran on real hardware -- a lot more complexity than with Karel The Robot.
OBD was introduced in 1988, but I'm not sure when it became mandatory. (OBD II was adopted in '96). I know my 1989 car didn't have the standardized connector.
Actually, I was wrong - sorry. I'm just starting OS X programming, and thought that I had read this a few nights earlier. It seems that PackageMaker only allows install scripts for automated installs, but not uninstalls... But, I guess the idea is that since the application is really a directory, you can keep most stuff needed for install there, so that it can be deleted cleanly. But plugins, which need to be in specific directories, could get left behind.
When I use my mac in coffeeshops, I'll often get a message offering to connect to someone's phone. I don't think I've seen a bluetooth headset yet, and none of my friends have a bluetooth phone.
good advice. I just wish it was automatic & that more people knew they were vulnerable. I live on a quiet street and run kismac every so often, so I'm hoping my isolation will protect me... but I haven't tried a high-gain antenna yet!
I do that, too (hi neighbors who are sniffing my packets!), but I worry that my laptop is behind my firewall and that it's open to hacking... I really want a hardware firewall, but it wouldn't be feasible to sticking it on with doublesided tape to the back of my screen - kinda defeats the whole portability benefit.
Good point. I had trouble googling for historical life expectancies, so I didn't find a good source, but I did find one that mentioned the high infant mortality rate.. that should have raised a red flag for me.
No, coppermine wasn't about using metal on gates. It was an all-aluminum (go figure!) interconnect scheme that used a low-k dielectric and thick wires for faster speeds. Only later did copper get used (and then again, only for the interconnects, not the gates)
Uninstallation service for installed programs: no. Most programs can be deleted by dragging files to the trash. This may leave files in the system folder or other locations.
Actually, dragging an application to the trash starts an uninstall script -- same thing happens on install. Maybe they thought they were deleting a single file, but most applications are actually directories that contain the "other locations" that they were probably thinking about.
There's a certain beauty in things just working and not bothering the user; I guess the reviewers expected to be hassled.
lucent stock up 8% on Russo's comments, so it looks like she did something right. To summerize her quote: "we intend to make money this year, not lose money like last year". Too bad people fall for this garbage, and too bad the media reports it as something interesting.
They did use a SHA-1 hash and that was broken... I don't know how exactly.
The major problem in the case was that the printer downloaded a 37-byte message... SCC thought it was a constant, Lex says its a program written in a secret intrepreted language. Supposedly it had an 8-bit checksum in it, so variations that SCC tried didn't work & therefore concluded it was a non-copyrightable constant. The eff points out in their brief that reverse-engineers don't have to go to extraordinary lengths to see if what appears to be a constant really is or if some other strong-crypto value could also possibly work. In that case scc could say that "nope, that's not a constant. The other factor of this 200-digit number would also work, if you could ever figure it out"
Well, personally, I'm kindof looking forward to the "128 Petabyte barrier" at 48 bits.
But, seriously, if a drive was formatted at over 137GB, and then mounted with a system that can't read that much, then, at best, there will be data that can't be accessed. At worst, the computer will try to write to that area and roll over the address and overright the start of the drive (I did this with a 3 gig drive and a 2 gig limit).
It's not just lawyer bills... The injunction has halted the sale of SCC's smartek chips since feb 8... Nine months of lost sales for SCC and the cartridge remanufacturers who buy SCC's chips.
What kills me is that, in granting the preliminary injunction the judge had to consider the potential for damages (page 48)... he found that Lexmark would suffer "irreparable harm" in terms of lost sales and money. Excuse me, but I think those can be repaired with money. On the other hand, if SCC had been put out of business under a load of bogus legal bills it couldn't survive, I think it would have suffered irreparable harm.
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Too late! Ritz bought Wolf. And Kits. And quite a few others. And boater's world. It's a big company.
Actually, I guess I shouldn't have tried to interpret the spirit of the lawmakers. I think there's two spirits - the one they tried to show to the public when they were arguing for the law, and the spirit that was 100% paid for by doners.
I was referring to the first spirit, but I fully believe that the second one (the one that you're using) exists, too. And it's probably the real spirit of the law.
Yeah, I reworded that sentence carefully. Originally, it sounded like I thought that he had rendered a morally correct judgement and that I totally agreed with the DMCA. But then I rephrased it to mean that I thought he had followed the spirit and letter of the law -- my minimum standard for judges.
That was just the copyright office's opinion. If you read what the judge in case wrote during his preliminary injunction ruling, it's very different - he took every one of Lexmark's arguments hook-line-and-sinker. I'm waiting for the judge to make the correct ruling. Even then, SCC has been unable to sell their product for 9 months and has had to support a substantial legal case... I'd really like to see Lexmark have to pay punitive damages in order to prevent future companies from trying to use the DMCA as a tool of abuse.
I am pretty happy with the Chamberlain garage door opener case, though - they agreed on the facts of the case, so there wasn't a lot of lawyers' court-room arguments. They asked for just a simple ruling from the judge, and he interpreted the DMCA correctly.
On march 28th, italy implemented the EU copyright directive, which is modeled after the DMCA, but with fewer exemptions. All 15 EU members were supposed to adopt this by last december, but only a handful of countries have done it yet. The UK just became the sixth to adopt.
How did I get so interested in the DMCA? I recently interfaced the Ritz disposable digital camera to my computer, and didn't like how the DMCA has been used to stifle competition.
Text of the EUCD (eu copyright directive)
The Heathkit Hero 2000 cost as much as a Yugo, but available with an optional arm and wireless terminal, it got a lot of students into robots. I remember writing a simple wall-following algorithm that ran on real hardware -- a lot more complexity than with Karel The Robot.
OBD was introduced in 1988, but I'm not sure when it became mandatory. (OBD II was adopted in '96). I know my 1989 car didn't have the standardized connector.
Actually, I was wrong - sorry. I'm just starting OS X programming, and thought that I had read this a few nights earlier. It seems that PackageMaker only allows install scripts for automated installs, but not uninstalls... But, I guess the idea is that since the application is really a directory, you can keep most stuff needed for install there, so that it can be deleted cleanly. But plugins, which need to be in specific directories, could get left behind.
When I use my mac in coffeeshops, I'll often get a message offering to connect to someone's phone. I don't think I've seen a bluetooth headset yet, and none of my friends have a bluetooth phone.
Actually, if you can stomach the oxymoron, they ported Windows Media Player for OS X. They'll probably do the same for sparkle.
But I think my linux boxen will be left out in the cold my ms.
good advice. I just wish it was automatic & that more people knew they were vulnerable. I live on a quiet street and run kismac every so often, so I'm hoping my isolation will protect me... but I haven't tried a high-gain antenna yet!
I do that, too (hi neighbors who are sniffing my packets!), but I worry that my laptop is behind my firewall and that it's open to hacking... I really want a hardware firewall, but it wouldn't be feasible to sticking it on with doublesided tape to the back of my screen - kinda defeats the whole portability benefit.
Good point. I had trouble googling for historical life expectancies, so I didn't find a good source, but I did find one that mentioned the high infant mortality rate.. that should have raised a red flag for me.
I should have looked for age distributions.
So a few old goats in Florida don't know their right from their left... ...would have plagued the voting system since John Adams was elected president.
In the 1800's, life expectancy was around 45; now it is about 74. There were no old goats back in John Adams' day.
No, coppermine wasn't about using metal on gates. It was an all-aluminum (go figure!) interconnect scheme that used a low-k dielectric and thick wires for faster speeds. Only later did copper get used (and then again, only for the interconnects, not the gates)
For OS X, they said:
Uninstallation service for installed programs: no. Most programs can be deleted by dragging files to the trash. This may leave files in the system folder or other locations.
Actually, dragging an application to the trash starts an uninstall script -- same thing happens on install. Maybe they thought they were deleting a single file, but most applications are actually directories that contain the "other locations" that they were probably thinking about.
There's a certain beauty in things just working and not bothering the user; I guess the reviewers expected to be hassled.
Not the best fidelity, but still...
You were wanting CD-quality? Or maybe cassette quality?
lucent stock up 8% on Russo's comments, so it looks like she did something right. To summerize her quote: "we intend to make money this year, not lose money like last year". Too bad people fall for this garbage, and too bad the media reports it as something interesting.
They did use a SHA-1 hash and that was broken... I don't know how exactly.
The major problem in the case was that the printer downloaded a 37-byte message... SCC thought it was a constant, Lex says its a program written in a secret intrepreted language. Supposedly it had an 8-bit checksum in it, so variations that SCC tried didn't work & therefore concluded it was a non-copyrightable constant. The eff points out in their brief that reverse-engineers don't have to go to extraordinary lengths to see if what appears to be a constant really is or if some other strong-crypto value could also possibly work. In that case scc could say that "nope, that's not a constant. The other factor of this 200-digit number would also work, if you could ever figure it out"
Ahh, you're completely right! Thanks!
I was just going from memory, and I had misread this quick summary by the EFF.
Darn.
Well, personally, I'm kindof looking forward to the "128 Petabyte barrier" at 48 bits.
But, seriously, if a drive was formatted at over 137GB, and then mounted with a system that can't read that much, then, at best, there will be data that can't be accessed. At worst, the computer will try to write to that area and roll over the address and overright the start of the drive (I did this with a 3 gig drive and a 2 gig limit).
It's not just lawyer bills... The injunction has halted the sale of SCC's smartek chips since feb 8... Nine months of lost sales for SCC and the cartridge remanufacturers who buy SCC's chips.
What kills me is that, in granting the preliminary injunction the judge had to consider the potential for damages (page 48)... he found that Lexmark would suffer "irreparable harm" in terms of lost sales and money. Excuse me, but I think those can be repaired with money. On the other hand, if SCC had been put out of business under a load of bogus legal bills it couldn't survive, I think it would have suffered irreparable harm.
Here's SCC's webpage on the case. They have a Press Release (pdf) and a link to the official ruling site (but I don't see the ruling there yet).
I've been watching this case closely, and I'm glad it's been thrown out like the Garage door opener case!
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or to blow up your car's engine by overreving it (assume you haven't screwed with the rev limiter)
1. Get on the highway and rev it up to the limit in 3rd gear.
2. Shift down to second.
3. Pro.. uh, kaboom!