It is important because the DMCA from what I read authorizes "reverse engineering" only if the
copyrighted materials were being used legally.
You've forgotten that Jon Johansen was in Norway at the time, and presumably the "German member"
was in Germany. The DMCA has absolutely no
meaning in either of those countries (other than
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I can't see any problems with publishing. I don't think there are any access control devices publicly available using this mechanism, and even if there are, where is the material that's allegedly protected by it?
You can't circumvent a device that doesn't exist.
What about talk? Been around much longer. My Linux here (SuSE) has the client and man-page, but the daemon isn't running. It works on the Solaris box though.
AFAIK clients also exist for WinXX.
Advantage is that it doesn't need a central server at all (true peer-to-peer), but you need to know the address of the host where your intended victim is logged in.
Disadvantage: anyone can talk to you - great for DOS attacks:-(... how does IM prevent that? --
Commercial applications likely remain years away, depending on when scientists can shrink the control mechanism and eliminate the need for a PC to guide the motor.
If they can use a PC to guide the motor, I'm sure they could find something much smaller right now that's capable of doing the job.
Apart from that, sounds like there could be many applications in the control systems area - and I don't mean gaming systems, although a healthy mass-market will help to push the costs down. --
Slashdot Mirror
Find it here
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You've forgotten that Jon Johansen was in Norway at the time, and presumably the "German member" was in Germany. The DMCA has absolutely no meaning in either of those countries (other than perhaps as an example of bad legislation).
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... just slashdotted ;-)
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You can't circumvent a device that doesn't exist.
However, IANAL. In particular IANAL in the US.
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What about talk? Been around much longer. My Linux here (SuSE) has the client and man-page, but the daemon isn't running. It works on the Solaris box though. :-( ... how does IM prevent that?
AFAIK clients also exist for WinXX.
Advantage is that it doesn't need a central server at all (true peer-to-peer), but you need to know the address of the host where your intended victim is logged in.
Disadvantage: anyone can talk to you - great for DOS attacks
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Interesting that the nice Mr. Gates should be clamouring for open standards to be enforced by the FCC. Whatever next?
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Yes, it's a firewall. Can somebody mirror/cache the video please (or post a "real" URL)?
Thanks.
PS. Posting from Tennenlohe, and I've been awake for _ages_. Miles from California (Hint: it's 13:12 here now)
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http://khazad_dum0.tripod.com
Is that URL correct - my proxy complains about
the underscore. Other attempts to guess the URL
get me an error redirect from tripod.
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Commercial applications likely remain years away, depending on when scientists can shrink the control mechanism and eliminate the need for a PC to guide the motor.
If they can use a PC to guide the motor, I'm sure they could find something much smaller right now that's capable of doing the job. Apart from that, sounds like there could be many applications in the control systems area - and I don't mean gaming systems, although a healthy mass-market will help to push the costs down.
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Sorry to be pedantic, but ...
If it's going to be reusable and extensible, it'll
have to be
virtual void cat(long);
;-)
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