One album, Jethro Tull's "Songs from the Wood" took me two years to find
Great album (had it on vinyl since it came out). I've seen the CD in stores here in Germany, but my vinyl copy is still in good form. I'd recommend most of their other earlier stuff too: "Thick as a BricK", "Aqualung" - there's a long list.
An interesting advantage of this approach is that a player does not need to have DeCSS in it or even hooks that might be considered "suspicious". A player for unencryted disks is completely legal.
Unfortunately it would then make the kernel module illegal, possibly even the entire kernel if compiled-in. However, on my reading of the DMCA, I think the RIAA would have severe difficulty claiming that a DVD player with compiled-in decryption was a circumvention device - because that would make all players illegal, licensed or not. There's no mention of licensing in the DMCA as far as I can see.
Also a comment on the original story... Coming from a research background they could have some legal coverage to fight the RIAA in France.
They don't have to - it isn't illegal in France - yet. And I suspect (usual "NAL" disclaimer) that CSS could never be claimed to be an "effective technological measure" under laws implementing the EU directive, because under the directive the word "effective" retains its usual English meaning, and any alleged "effectiveness" was blown away long before the law was enacted. Same goes for SDMI.
So how does Apache handle the Windows (NT or whatever) filesystem. Last time I looked that was case-insensitive too. The code must be there already - just a compile time option perhaps? Or is this also a security hole waiting to be exploited?
If I publish something in Germany that's illegal in the US (say, DeCSS), and was then threatened with court action in the US over it, my course of action would be to obtain a declaratory judgement in Germany about the legality of DeCSS, which I would then expect to be upheld in a US court. So
what it comes down to is that the one with the fastest legal system wins.
I guess what I'm really asking for is that the readers of the future retain the ability to read earlier editions of books, so that I don't have to completely restock my library every time I have to upgrade my reader. And this should remain true at least until the books are out of copyright. I guess an open standard for file formats would suffice, but that would never wash with the publishers.
Also, let it cost nothing (my current paper book reader costs exactly that), let it be completely self-powered (my current paper-book reader does that - OK, I have to feed it from time to time, but it doesn't stop working just because the power supply is a bit low).
Let it not become obsolete in the next 1000 years.
(current paper book readers have been around at least that long, as have some of the books)
Let the electronic books give me exactly the same freedoms as the paper editions - freedom to lend it to friends, to read it as many times as I like without paying additional fees, freedom to copy parts for reference and or research, (and the ability to copy the whole thing when allowed by copyright). Oh, and the freedom to start and stop reading it whereever I choose, without having to skip past loads of adverts first.
Let it be as light as a single paper book, and not
stop working if I drop it, or if it gets slightly
wet, or if I accidentally sit on it. And if I should lose my reader, make sure that I don't lose my entire library along with it.
When electronic books can do all that, then, and only then, will they be the equivalent of paper books - and only then will I even consider buying one. And then they'll have to have a price advantage over the paper version.
1. Alpha Particles [...] since they're charged, it's easy to shield something from them
They're also rather large compared with the other types, so they're more likely to collide with, rather than pass through, the shield. Yes, they are highly damaging, but they tend not to penetrate very far. Unless you've inadvertently swallowed an alpha emitter... But you're right - they're not normally associated with cellphones.
2. Beta Particles [...]
Smaller than alpha particles, so they need thicker shielding. An individual beta particle won't cause as much damage as an alpha particle, but they penetrate further and hence are more likely to damage internal organs. Not usually given off by phones - except for the old BT Trimphones;-)
The gamma stuff has been commented on by someone else. You also forgot neutron radiation (again, not commonly associated with phones).
It may all be just a bunch of hooey I fabricated to confuse you.
I only ever use one finger, regardless which button. I'm left-handed, but I always use the "normal" right-handed button order, so I grip the
mouse between thumb & midddle finger and let the index finger do the clicking (all 3 buttons).
But I prefer to use the keyboard for most things, & hardly ever play games.
Only pain I ever got was back pain from having my chair too low, or monitor too high. These so-called "ergonomic" monitor stands are (literally) a pain in the neck.
[...] you could own your own cannon until 1932....(In the States.)
I believe in the UK you can own your own (working) cannon to this day. Cannons fire spherical shot, not bullets, and have straight smooth barrels (not rifled), so they are classified as shotguns, along with muskets, arquebusses, etc.
They're still strictly licensed and controlled, as is the gunpowder that's necessary to make them work. I'm not sure if you're allowed to actually fire the shot from the cannon, though. Most of the historical societies that fire them at battle reenactments use straw, horse manure, etc.
And all this is because some clerk way back then couldn't spell. What they actually said, as they took off their heavy jackets and rolled up their sleeves on that hot July day, was:
The presumption of innocence is an artifact of criminal law, and applies to the defendant. Defamation cases are civil cases, where this presumption doesn't hold - especially since the one who is alleged to have been naughty is the plaintiff, not the defendant.
Our client (a big bank...) went berserk and started talking about 'lack of support', especially since the management had already bought the other tool and paid $200K for it, so they didn't want to look stupid.
Here's the answer, you provided it yourself. They spent a lot of money on the tool and didn't want it to look like a complete waste of money to their PHBs - so they insisted that you used the expensive tools.
However, after discovering that the expensive tools really were a crock'o'shit, they decided to cut their losses and save on the (no doubt equally expensive) upgrade/maintenance treadmill.
Unfortunately, it actually takes a complete disaster before people with this kind of mindset will come to their senses - and sometimes even a disaster doesn't work. How many people do you know that expect the next version of [insert pet hate here] will somehow fix all their problems with the current version, despite the fact that all the previous versions haven't shown any likelihood of doing so? This is just the same optimism, but on a corporate scale.
> [...] "Last Chance to See" a non fiction naturalist sort of book that is just lovely.
Agreed. I borrowed it from my local library and loved it, so when it was on the clearance sale rack, I bought it. Cost me 75p (UK). First edition, too.
> DCMA states that if you own DeCSS Facilitates that you're a criminal.
Not true. Owning one is quite legal. It's the selling/trading/distributing that's illegal.
So how do you get one? Answer: you build one from individual machine instructions. And where do you get the plans? Right - the source code is the plans. Oh - wait.
You've missed the point. The companies don't mind that everyone says "xerox that" or whatever. You're right, it's probably good for business, and in practice there's very little they can do anyway.
But to keep their trademark, they have to defend it - so they must go after people who use the name "officially", so to speak, in publications etc. If they didn't do this, they'd lose the trademark and they wouldn't be able to sue if (say) Canon brought out their new Xerox-2000 photocopier.
By being publicly strict but privately tolerant, they get the best of both worlds.
... or James V.Fat, author of the VFAT file system. Or Sid Mips, who has a whole architecture
port named after him. Or Georg Keyboard, Enzo Tpqic02,... the list is endless.
I think you'll find MIPS is alive and well, living inside many of the little hand-held computers you can buy. You know, those that run Windows CE (or whatever it's called today).
The database rights apply to the database as a whole (or maybe "substantial portions"), not to the results of queries. So if you are supplied a small search result from this database, the database owner cannot claim copyright unless they separately own the copyright on the information supplied. Which would not appear to be the case in this instance.
A couple of choice quotes from further down the article (a bit off topic for the/. story, but here goes anyway...)
But an executive at a software company that does business with Sun said his experience was plagued by incompatibilities. "Anything we sent to them involved some kind of trauma," he said. "And the onus was on us to somehow prepare a file they could read."
Damn right it is, and it's just plain courteous to
make sure that you're using some kind of public, or at least commonly-agreed, standard. These people would soon kick up a fuss if I sent them documents in LaTeX format.
"I used to tell my girls, if your boyfriends come over and it's not a Ford product they're driving, they'd better park it in the street."
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Great album (had it on vinyl since it came out). I've seen the CD in stores here in Germany, but my vinyl copy is still in good form. I'd recommend most of their other earlier stuff too: "Thick as a BricK", "Aqualung" - there's a long list.
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Unfortunately it would then make the kernel module illegal, possibly even the entire kernel if compiled-in. However, on my reading of the DMCA, I think the RIAA would have severe difficulty claiming that a DVD player with compiled-in decryption was a circumvention device - because that would make all players illegal, licensed or not. There's no mention of licensing in the DMCA as far as I can see.
Also a comment on the original story ...
Coming from a research background they could have some legal coverage to fight the RIAA in France.
They don't have to - it isn't illegal in France - yet. And I suspect (usual "NAL" disclaimer) that CSS could never be claimed to be an "effective technological measure" under laws implementing the EU directive, because under the directive the word "effective" retains its usual English meaning, and any alleged "effectiveness" was blown away long before the law was enacted. Same goes for SDMI.
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My notepad & pencil (dead tree version) is faster than a PDA.
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So how does Apache handle the Windows (NT or whatever) filesystem. Last time I looked that was case-insensitive too. The code must be there already - just a compile time option perhaps? Or is this also a security hole waiting to be exploited?
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If I publish something in Germany that's illegal in the US (say, DeCSS), and was then threatened with court action in the US over it, my course of action would be to obtain a declaratory judgement in Germany about the legality of DeCSS, which I would then expect to be upheld in a US court. So what it comes down to is that the one with the fastest legal system wins.
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I can do that with the paper versions, if I feel so inclined.
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Also, let it cost nothing (my current paper book reader costs exactly that), let it be completely self-powered (my current paper-book reader does that - OK, I have to feed it from time to time, but it doesn't stop working just because the power supply is a bit low).
Let it not become obsolete in the next 1000 years.
(current paper book readers have been around at least that long, as have some of the books)
Let the electronic books give me exactly the same freedoms as the paper editions - freedom to lend it to friends, to read it as many times as I like without paying additional fees, freedom to copy parts for reference and or research, (and the ability to copy the whole thing when allowed by copyright). Oh, and the freedom to start and stop reading it whereever I choose, without having to skip past loads of adverts first.
Let it be as light as a single paper book, and not
stop working if I drop it, or if it gets slightly
wet, or if I accidentally sit on it. And if I should lose my reader, make sure that I don't lose my entire library along with it.
When electronic books can do all that, then, and only then, will they be the equivalent of paper books - and only then will I even consider buying one. And then they'll have to have a price advantage over the paper version.
Just let me know if it ever happens.
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They're also rather large compared with the other types, so they're more likely to collide with, rather than pass through, the shield. Yes, they are highly damaging, but they tend not to penetrate very far. Unless you've inadvertently swallowed an alpha emitter... But you're right - they're not normally associated with cellphones.
2. Beta Particles [...]
Smaller than alpha particles, so they need thicker shielding. An individual beta particle won't cause as much damage as an alpha particle, but they penetrate further and hence are more likely to damage internal organs. Not usually given off by phones - except for the old BT Trimphones ;-)
The gamma stuff has been commented on by someone else. You also forgot neutron radiation (again, not commonly associated with phones).
It may all be just a bunch of hooey I fabricated to confuse you.
Can't argue with that ;-)
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I only ever use one finger, regardless which button. I'm left-handed, but I always use the "normal" right-handed button order, so I grip the mouse between thumb & midddle finger and let the index finger do the clicking (all 3 buttons).
But I prefer to use the keyboard for most things, & hardly ever play games.
Only pain I ever got was back pain from having my chair too low, or monitor too high. These so-called "ergonomic" monitor stands are (literally) a pain in the neck.
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most stores mark up product about 50 percent right, so if a CD sells for $15 in the store, let's say they bought it for $7.50
That's 100% markup. 50% would give a buying price of $10.
let's say the distributor marks up 15-20%, so let's say the label sells it to the distributor for $6.
Even at the higer markup, that puts the distributor's buying price at around $8.33
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... where you can share all your favourite core dumps from Mozilla and other programs.
WARNING: sharing core dumps from proprietary programs might be an infringement of copyright.
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Easy:
...")
rpm -i ProperParanoia_0.1.rpm
(Sorry, I read the headline as "How to install
;-)
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I believe in the UK you can own your own (working) cannon to this day. Cannons fire spherical shot, not bullets, and have straight smooth barrels (not rifled), so they are classified as shotguns, along with muskets, arquebusses, etc.
They're still strictly licensed and controlled, as is the gunpowder that's necessary to make them work. I'm not sure if you're allowed to actually fire the shot from the cannon, though. Most of the historical societies that fire them at battle reenactments use straw, horse manure, etc.
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And all this is because some clerk way back then couldn't spell. What they actually said, as they took off their heavy jackets and rolled up their sleeves on that hot July day, was:
"Everyone has the right to bare arms."
;-)
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The presumption of innocence is an artifact of criminal law, and applies to the defendant. Defamation cases are civil cases, where this presumption doesn't hold - especially since the one who is alleged to have been naughty is the plaintiff, not the defendant.
--
Here's the answer, you provided it yourself. They spent a lot of money on the tool and didn't want it to look like a complete waste of money to their PHBs - so they insisted that you used the expensive tools.
However, after discovering that the expensive tools really were a crock'o'shit, they decided to cut their losses and save on the (no doubt equally expensive) upgrade/maintenance treadmill.
Unfortunately, it actually takes a complete disaster before people with this kind of mindset will come to their senses - and sometimes even a disaster doesn't work. How many people do you know that expect the next version of [insert pet hate here] will somehow fix all their problems with the current version, despite the fact that all the previous versions haven't shown any likelihood of doing so? This is just the same optimism, but on a corporate scale.
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> [...] "Last Chance to See" a non fiction naturalist sort of book that is just lovely.
Agreed. I borrowed it from my local library and loved it, so when it was on the clearance sale rack, I bought it. Cost me 75p (UK). First edition, too.
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> DCMA states that if you own DeCSS Facilitates that you're a criminal.
Not true. Owning one is quite legal. It's the selling/trading/distributing that's illegal.
So how do you get one? Answer: you build one from individual machine instructions. And where do you get the plans? Right - the source code is the plans. Oh - wait.
--
You've missed the point. The companies don't mind that everyone says "xerox that" or whatever. You're right, it's probably good for business, and in practice there's very little they can do anyway.
But to keep their trademark, they have to defend it - so they must go after people who use the name "officially", so to speak, in publications etc. If they didn't do this, they'd lose the trademark and they wouldn't be able to sue if (say) Canon brought out their new Xerox-2000 photocopier.
By being publicly strict but privately tolerant, they get the best of both worlds.
--
... or James V.Fat, author of the VFAT file system. Or Sid Mips, who has a whole architecture ... the list is endless.
port named after him. Or Georg Keyboard, Enzo Tpqic02,
I think you'll find MIPS is alive and well, living inside many of the little hand-held computers you can buy. You know, those that run Windows CE (or whatever it's called today).
> And the Word was with God
"with God"? Isn't that 2 words?
The database rights apply to the database as a whole (or maybe "substantial portions"), not to the results of queries. So if you are supplied a small search result from this database, the database owner cannot claim copyright unless they separately own the copyright on the information supplied. Which would not appear to be the case in this instance.
But an executive at a software company that does business with Sun said his experience was plagued by incompatibilities. "Anything we sent to them involved some kind of trauma," he said. "And the onus was on us to somehow prepare a file they could read."
Damn right it is, and it's just plain courteous to make sure that you're using some kind of public, or at least commonly-agreed, standard. These people would soon kick up a fuss if I sent them documents in LaTeX format.
"I used to tell my girls, if your boyfriends come over and it's not a Ford product they're driving, they'd better park it in the street."
Now that's just sad.