Try ripping using your CD writer drive. I have a
CD that has a small visible blemish that causes one track to be unplayable on most CD players, and
caused my PC's DVD drive to go apeshit. However,
ripping from the CD writer using cdparanoia and
the ide-scsi emulation produced an error-free copy.
Defines terrorist activities but makes exceptions for people who have innocent contacts to non-certified terrorist organizations
Hey, all you terrorists out there. All you need to do is to create a non-certified terrorist organisation and get an innocent contact with it
(like an agreement to supply coffee), then you can do what you like and it isn't a terrorist activity.
The only thing about X is it's chattyness on a network.
It isn't X that's chatty - it's the apps that use it. Some years ago I developed a couple of simple applications to display some statistics graphically in (pseudo) real-time. Over a SLIP connection on a 14400 modem, one of them worked but the other one
didn't. The one that didn't had a little bug that I'd never noticed on a local machine or even over ethernet. The bug was that it redrew the graph elements even when it didn't need to.
So don't go blaming X for things over which it has no control. OK, so maybe its network model isn't suitable for video players or arcade games - but don't write it off because of that.
... that's not so widely known about Charles Babbage is his cryptanalysis expertise. It was he who first cracked the Vigenere polyalphabetic substitution cipher (previously considered to be
uncrackable).
For some reason he didn't publish his results. Some believe that he was told not to by the British government, so that they could use his discovery during the Crimean war. Babbage's work on this subject was discovered in his notebooks after his death.
If you use my patented mail filter all spam will be a thing of the past. The filter installs itself
as a device in your Unix or Linux/dev directory.
The filter is called mailfilter and you just direct all incoming mail to this device to get rid
of spam. Simply type this command to install the
device:
cd/dev; ln -s null mailfilter
While today *some* Arabs may be our "enemies" (and Afgans aren't Arabs, BTW), yesterday Russians were the enemies and tomorrow it may be the Chinese.
That sounds even more like Orwell's 1984 than I'd like to think. (Hint: Oceania is in a permanent state of war with,... well,... someone.)
Now lets see who profits from this disaster....
The US Govt of course:
1. They get a nice recession to knock down pay - can't let the proles get too rich now. Didn't you notice that Bush's little recession wasn't getting deep enough before this.
2. They get an excuse to bring in a whole load of privacy-invading surveillance legislation. Gotta get rid of that nasty encryption.
3. They get a nice little war to use up some of that munitions stockpile that's been gathering since Desert Storm blew over. Keeps the defence industry moguls sweet, too.
4. And if course it diverts attention from a whole load of other controversial stuff (SSSCA,
DMCA, Dmitry Sklyarov, etc.) and adds a stack of
points to Bush's popularity ratings.
Now, who else could benefit from this? Well, err... Ideas, anyone?
Sorry, I'm at just about my most paraniod at the moment. I don't really believe this. Or do I?
Comparing Kylix and gcc is like comparing (plucking some names out of the air) emacs and LaTeX for document creation. Both tools are used to help with the same job, but they do different things.
Furthermore, I suspect (from my experiences with Delphi in a previous life) that gcc will be much faster for certain types of applications. Like those with no GUI, for example. Horses for courses.
And therein lies the problem. The basic concept of
"unrestricted use" of something that you buy is so
fundamental to human society that there isn't even a word for it. It comes down to basic expectations: "I bought this DVD/E-Book/Whatever, and I'll do what I damn well please with it."
Copyright laws have restricted certain things that you might like to do with these objects, and "fair use" is an accepted defence to some acts of copyright infringement. But the new laws do more than restrict "fair" use - they restrict basic use in an underhand and indirect way. If these restrictions had been written into the laws, there would have been outrage and no-one with any shred of self-respect would have voted for the laws. However, the "anti-circumvention-device" clauses effectively allow publishers to write their own copyright laws. That's what's wrong.
But, yeah, that's a good point. Full text searching.
As long as the reader for the format you have has
a search feature. And provided the publisher didn't disable it.
My point being that with restricted-use formats, the features you get are precisely those that the reader manufacture thought you might like, limited by what the publisher decided to deny. And if you try to get a 3rd-party reader with the features you want, well, sorry, it's a circumvention device.
The WIPO Treaties (yes, there's more than one) call for the outlawing of the act of circumvention when performed for unlawful purposes. But it doesn't call for an outright ban on circumvention devices. That's a result of intense lobbying by the entertainment "industry". You can be Russia (also a WIPO "contracting party") won't be getting a DMCA.
Maybe you'd end up with fewer lawsuits if the legislators were forced to act lawfully.
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Re:That's like MSFT saying it won't ship free brow
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Adobe Backs Down
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So even if Adobe doesn't officially back the charges, they've already given the feds all the data to prosecute him
Quite right - this isn't a civil case, it's a criminal one. And while Adobe's complaint did trigger it off, the FBI are the real bad guys here. They didn't check the facts of the case - like whether all of the statements made in the complaint were true (some of them weren't), and whether any illegal action actually took place on US soil, and if so, whether the person they arrested actually performed those actions. There's something seriously wrong with a law enforcement system that can make arrests based on unsubstantiated complaints.
I've written to the US Consol General in Munich (my local consulate) to express my outrage at the FBI's actions, and I hope all slashdot readers will do so, preferably by snail mail, even if Dmitry is release immediately with a full apology. It's time the US was made aware that it's laws don't extend beyond its territory. If anyone wants a copy of the letter I can make it available (LaTeX format) --- email me at the address on my user.pl page, not at altavista.com.
Can I make a small observation here. Slightly off-topic I know, but relevant all the same. You
said: "I think 10% of technical infractions (and I'll argue that they are the visible, obvious, easy to detect infractions) of both the GPL and DCMA misuse constitutes 90% of the loss for both licences/acts."
Violations of the DMCA (or at least the currently highly visible alleged violations) account for precisely zero loss to copyright holders. The (alleged) losses (if in fact there are any at all) are incurred when people make and distribute unlawful copies of copyrighted works. To do this they have to violate
other laws that were in place long before the DMCA ever raised its ugly head.
The various companies will create an encription scheme to protect their IP. Only with a licence will you be able to build a decryptor. Anyone else building such a device would likely be in violation of patent law and the DMCA.
To get around this, first reverse engineer the encryption and the decryption. Make sure that you copyright your reverse engineered code. Encrypt your tarball with the encryption software. You are now legally entitled to distribute the decryption software to anyone you like.
The only problem I forsee with this scheme is the patent system. However, I'm sure you can work around that with a bit of stealth and cunning. And if all else fails, try to negotiate royalty terms with the patent holder and see what happens;-)
If the encryption scheme is patented, you shouldn't need to reverse engineer - if there isn't enough detail in the patent for you to build an encryption/decryption device, the patent shouldn't be valid.
Oh, and if you end up being sued for millions, remember: I never told you this;-)
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Try ripping using your CD writer drive. I have a CD that has a small visible blemish that causes one track to be unplayable on most CD players, and caused my PC's DVD drive to go apeshit. However, ripping from the CD writer using cdparanoia and the ide-scsi emulation produced an error-free copy.
Don't forget to put your public key on there too.
Hey, all you terrorists out there. All you need to do is to create a non-certified terrorist organisation and get an innocent contact with it (like an agreement to supply coffee), then you can do what you like and it isn't a terrorist activity.
It isn't X that's chatty - it's the apps that use it. Some years ago I developed a couple of simple applications to display some statistics graphically in (pseudo) real-time. Over a SLIP connection on a 14400 modem, one of them worked but the other one didn't. The one that didn't had a little bug that I'd never noticed on a local machine or even over ethernet. The bug was that it redrew the graph elements even when it didn't need to.
So don't go blaming X for things over which it has no control. OK, so maybe its network model isn't suitable for video players or arcade games - but don't write it off because of that.
Yeah, it was going just fine till he came along ... ;-)
"... I looked up the bios if[sic] those people..."
But the average person doesn't have a BIOS ...
Oh, sorry, biographies
For some reason he didn't publish his results. Some believe that he was told not to by the British government, so that they could use his discovery during the Crimean war. Babbage's work on this subject was discovered in his notebooks after his death.
Does that mean we can make a declaration of independence?
cd
It is indeed a harsh punishment to remove the privacy and liberty from people who have committed no crime.
ROFL
I'd mod you up if I hadn't already posted.
That sounds even more like Orwell's 1984 than I'd like to think. (Hint: Oceania is in a permanent state of war with,... well, ... someone.)
Now lets see who profits from this disaster....
The US Govt of course:
1. They get a nice recession to knock down pay - can't let the proles get too rich now. Didn't you notice that Bush's little recession wasn't getting deep enough before this.
2. They get an excuse to bring in a whole load of privacy-invading surveillance legislation. Gotta get rid of that nasty encryption.
3. They get a nice little war to use up some of that munitions stockpile that's been gathering since Desert Storm blew over. Keeps the defence industry moguls sweet, too.
4. And if course it diverts attention from a whole load of other controversial stuff (SSSCA, DMCA, Dmitry Sklyarov, etc.) and adds a stack of points to Bush's popularity ratings.
Now, who else could benefit from this? Well, err... Ideas, anyone?
Sorry, I'm at just about my most paraniod at the moment. I don't really believe this. Or do I?
Let me turn that around: What leads YOU to believe that giving up these liberties would provide ANY benefit, temporary or otherwise?
I fully expect that to start happenning soon ...
Furthermore, I suspect (from my experiences with Delphi in a previous life) that gcc will be much faster for certain types of applications. Like those with no GUI, for example. Horses for courses.
Copyright laws have restricted certain things that you might like to do with these objects, and "fair use" is an accepted defence to some acts of copyright infringement. But the new laws do more than restrict "fair" use - they restrict basic use in an underhand and indirect way. If these restrictions had been written into the laws, there would have been outrage and no-one with any shred of self-respect would have voted for the laws. However, the "anti-circumvention-device" clauses effectively allow publishers to write their own copyright laws. That's what's wrong.
www.anti-dmca.org
eurorights.org
As long as the reader for the format you have has a search feature. And provided the publisher didn't disable it.
My point being that with restricted-use formats, the features you get are precisely those that the reader manufacture thought you might like, limited by what the publisher decided to deny. And if you try to get a 3rd-party reader with the features you want, well, sorry, it's a circumvention device.
The WIPO Treaties (yes, there's more than one) call for the outlawing of the act of circumvention when performed for unlawful purposes. But it doesn't call for an outright ban on circumvention devices. That's a result of intense lobbying by the entertainment "industry". You can be Russia (also a WIPO "contracting party") won't be getting a DMCA.
Maybe you'd end up with fewer lawsuits if the legislators were forced to act lawfully.
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Quite right - this isn't a civil case, it's a criminal one. And while Adobe's complaint did trigger it off, the FBI are the real bad guys here. They didn't check the facts of the case - like whether all of the statements made in the complaint were true (some of them weren't), and whether any illegal action actually took place on US soil, and if so, whether the person they arrested actually performed those actions. There's something seriously wrong with a law enforcement system that can make arrests based on unsubstantiated complaints.
I've written to the US Consol General in Munich (my local consulate) to express my outrage at the FBI's actions, and I hope all slashdot readers will do so, preferably by snail mail, even if Dmitry is release immediately with a full apology. It's time the US was made aware that it's laws don't extend beyond its territory. If anyone wants a copy of the letter I can make it available (LaTeX format) --- email me at the address on my user.pl page, not at altavista.com.
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The first line of a random .ps file on my system:
%!PS-Adobe-2.0
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Haven't they?
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"I think 10% of technical infractions (and I'll argue that they are the visible, obvious, easy to detect infractions) of both the GPL and DCMA misuse constitutes 90% of the loss for both licences/acts."
Violations of the DMCA (or at least the currently highly visible alleged violations) account for precisely zero loss to copyright holders. The (alleged) losses (if in fact there are any at all) are incurred when people make and distribute unlawful copies of copyrighted works. To do this they have to violate other laws that were in place long before the DMCA ever raised its ugly head.
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To get around this, first reverse engineer the encryption and the decryption. Make sure that you copyright your reverse engineered code. Encrypt your tarball with the encryption software. You are now legally entitled to distribute the decryption software to anyone you like.
The only problem I forsee with this scheme is the patent system. However, I'm sure you can work around that with a bit of stealth and cunning. And if all else fails, try to negotiate royalty terms with the patent holder and see what happens ;-)
If the encryption scheme is patented, you shouldn't need to reverse engineer - if there isn't enough detail in the patent for you to build an encryption/decryption device, the patent shouldn't be valid.
Oh, and if you end up being sued for millions, remember: I never told you this ;-)
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