...you can send it in and have it replaced FREE, plus a "modest shipping and handling charge"...
<sarcasam>
They already have that method in place. Shipping is FREE, and you don't even have to send in your original.
You just go down to the local CD store and pay the modest $19.95 'handling charge' when you pick out your replacement.
If the model you want is obsolete, or no longer in stock, you can choose a replacement of 'equal or greater value'.
</sarcasam>
...the same people who made their fortune because a patent expired are trying to extend copyrights for generations!
Of course! They're closing the 'loophole' to prevent anyone else from entering the market and competing!.
Using monopoly power to maintain the monopoly.
I agree with you that this case was an abuse of the DMCA, but by reading the bnetd_reply pdf, it is explained exactly why Blizzard couldn't use the DMCA. See section IV in the paragraph starting on page 14, where it says:
In
Skylink, the Court held that because the plaintiff Chamberlain had not placed any restrictions on the type of garage door openers its customers could use, there was no DMCA violation when using an alternative opener.
Followed a little further on by:
Like Chamberlain, Blizzard has placed
no restriction at all on what kind of matchmaking server its customers can use. Once customers have purchased the game, they have the "authority" to use whatever matchmaking server they prefer. Therefore, like Chaimberlain, Blizzard cannot sue purchasers who choose to use a different server.
From my reading, it looks like a simple rewording of the EULA might have been all that was needed to give Blizzard leverage with the DMCA.
Also a little further along Blizzard attempts to claim their software is only licensed and not sold, when (apparently) "...no less than ten times..." in court documents they described the software as 'sold'. It looks like if Blizzard's documents had been worded a little differently ('licensed' instead of 'sold') they might have had something there too.
There's also the part on page 11 where Blizzard failed to make good on the claim of copyright infringment on the icons, because they were lumped in with the rest of the game client as a whole, and that copying only the icons was de minimis. In that section, the document seems to imply that Blizzard might have had a case there had they bothered to register each icon individually.
So, I'm glad Blizzard lost, but the bnetd_reply document reads to me like a step by step HOW-TO (not make these mistakes again) document for lawyers.
If we redefine theft as the deprivation of potential wealth, then suddenly we have a world where you are a thief
if you choose to walk down a road other than the one where a hotdog vendor is waiting for customers.
Yes, well, we already have that going on right now, don't we? As in calling people who do not view pop-up ads
thieves, for example...
Finally, vehicles move. Even a speedy RFID tag that transmits at 12kbps takes 1/46th of a second to send a typical 256 bit message (serial number + checksum + overhead). It takes 5-6 times this in practice to power the tag, interrogate it, and receive a response, in which time the car has moved >10ft at 60MPH. So even if you could have an ultra-high-gain antenna, it'd have to be significantly steerable, too.
Most responses I've seen seem to expect that the sensor (transmitter/reciever) will be mounted at the roadside or overhead. It would not be difficult for a distributed sensor to be installed in the pavement, providing lane width coverage, about the length of a vehicle (15-20ft) up to a vertical height of 2-3ft. (tire height). This would eliminate the need for high gain, and reduce multiple responses to mostly the tires on the same vehicle, making vehicle identification significantly easier.
Just a drop the disc in the bucket next to the butter container and milk bottle.
I imagine they are recyclable... in theory.
I remember when juice boxes/pouches were introduced in the U.S (25? 30? years ago). In order to get consumers to accept the new packaging, part of the push in the advertising was how environmentally friendly they were because they were recyclable. When finished, you'd just toss them in the special "juice container recycle bin" at your school or wherever. Since those containers were introduced, I've NEVER seen a "juice container recycle bin" or any other recycle facility that will accept them. I also expect that if disposable DVDs are introduced, there will be few, if any places that accept them either.
Sample a 19.995 kHz signal at 80 kHz, and you will get a pulsation of the signal, since the sampling phase will slowly drift.
--snip--
Practically, even at 4X oversample, you will have problems reconstructing the signal.
The 'pulsation of the signal' is present in the raw sampled data because the samples describe both the desired signal and it's alias, and they are indistinguishable. At reconstruction time, you filter off the sampling component and the unwanted alias. The energy from the removed components isn't destroyed, the energy is returned to the signal and eliminates the 'pulsation'.
Actually, you could NOT encode a 22049 Hz signal on a CD, unless the signal lasts for more than 1 second.
You could encode the signal on a CD (with a computer), but what you hear on playback will be limited by the combined impulse response of the equipment... and your ears. Your ears have a finite bandwidth too.
Assuming no other distortions (HA!) such as amplitude, phase, harmonic, etc., as long as the impulse response of the complete record/playback system is significantly better than the impulse response of your ears, what you hear should sound the same as the original, whether the system is analog or digital.
If you take the google usenet archive link listed above, switch to thread mode and follow the thread, there is also a followup post by Alan Cox in there too!
I've had the same IP for 9 months, have never run any P2P client, and my firewall logs show 17 port 6346 connection attempts in the last 10 days alone. I suspect port scanning.
Re:currency tracking hardly needs rfids
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So much for remaining untraceable by paying cash. I think this is the most Big Brother-esque thing I've ever heard.
I agree. When individual bills can be traced, It will be difficult to keep any transaction anonymous.
If a single lightbulb doesn't radiate any more than a single wireless node, everything might work out. However, the way most rooms/houses/buildings are lit, there are likely to be 3 to 10 (maybe 100?) times as many lightbulbs as there are wireless nodes.
For example: in my immediate office area, there are 6 blocks of cubicles. Each block has 10 cubes. That's 60 people. To light that same area, there are 6 rows of light fixtures, with 11 fixtures per row. Each fixture has two flourescent bulbs.
11*6*2=132 bulbs
6*10=60 people
That's about a two to one bulb to people ratio, not counting individual desk lamps. If every cube had a wireless node, the bulbs would still easily outnumber the nodes.
Even if each bulb meets Part 15 requirements, the cumulative effect could still be devastating to the band. That's where the problem will be.
1984: Wow! Twenty megabytes! I'll never use all this space!
1988: Wow! Eighty megabytes! I'll never use all this space!
1994: Wow! A gigabyte! I'll never use all this space!
1999: Uh, wow. Twenty gigabytes? I don't think I'll ever use all this space.
2002: A hundred and twenty gigs? I... hm.
2005:... Ah, screw it.
How about... 2002: A hundred and twenty gigs. I wonder how soon before I'll have to upgrade again...
I don't know about anyone else, but I knew when I signed up for the lifetime subscription that it was for the life of the HARDWARE.
I made the judgement that TiVo expected the life of the hardware to be at least long enough for the cost of the monthly subscription to intersect with the fixed cost for the lifetime subscription. I expected the hardware to last at least that long, so my only gamble, in my opinion, was betting that TiVo, as a corporation would survive beyond that cost intersection.
I don't watch that much TV, but in the 16 months I've had it, I feel like I've already received my moneys worth. At least for me, a lifetime subscription was the right choice.
It was National. They had "Fast" and "Damn Fast" op amps. They started publishing those databooks in the late 70s and continued into the early 80s. I probably still have one of those databooks at home.
I think they also cross listed those op-amps in their Audio handbook. I still have my '78 edition of that book. I consider it irreplacable.
I imagine the record industry, if such a format was accepted, would put a very low quality version on the redbook CD part.
Brilliant. If the Red Book part is deliberately reduced quality, as long as the customers of new audio equipment don't know how badly the Red Book part is crippled, it will be a great selling tool to get everyone to upgrade. Just imagine the 'A-B' tests salespeople could show to prospective customers to demonstrate the superiority of the 'new' technology vs. the 'old' technology playing the SAME "CD"!
You watch, the Red Book part will either start out as deliberately restricted audio quality, or evole to that. Maybe something like the equivalent audio quality of a 128Kb, 64Kb, or $DEITY forbid 32Kb MP3. Eventually bad enough most people wouldn't want to use it, or ignore it if it was there.
What better way to phase out the unprotected format.
If you wanted your own daily radio show, Clear Channel would sell you the time for about $1,200 an hour.
...snip...
Clearchannel stations are by nature large-market ones, and if you picked a slot at like 3 or 4 pm, you would get kids after school and it would be before the "rush hour" slot that's so valuable.
I don't have any data to demonstrate otherwise, but I'd guess that "kids after school" would also represent a "valuable" target market for radio stations, and if you could even negotiate for that timeslot in a major market, it would probably cost more than $1200/hr.
However, at an off peak time like 4 AM you might have a chance.
Some day, I'll have that kind of bandwidth running to my home. And my ISP will still disallow my personal telnet server because of the strain it will put on the network.
...and they'll still cap you at 3GB/month, after which you're connection will be throttled to 28Kb/s, unless you pay more.
Unfortunately, the Bootlog link at the top of the article is broken, but some of the relevant boot messages have been copied in user posts. This is back from 2000.
Slashdot Mirror
Now there will only be 4 major labels
and...
That's like complaining that there's only four different types of manure. Any way you buy it, it's still crap.
Yes, but if there were enough types of manure, I could always find the right crap at the right price...
...you can send it in and have it replaced FREE, plus a "modest shipping and handling charge" ...
<sarcasam>
They already have that method in place. Shipping is FREE, and you don't even have to send in your original.
You just go down to the local CD store and pay the modest $19.95 'handling charge' when you pick out your replacement.
If the model you want is obsolete, or no longer in stock, you can choose a replacement of 'equal or greater value'.
</sarcasam>
...the same people who made their fortune because a patent expired are trying to extend copyrights for generations!
Of course! They're closing the 'loophole' to prevent anyone else from entering the market and competing!.
Using monopoly power to maintain the monopoly.
From my reading, it looks like a simple rewording of the EULA might have been all that was needed to give Blizzard leverage with the DMCA.
Also a little further along Blizzard attempts to claim their software is only licensed and not sold, when (apparently) "...no less than ten times..." in court documents they described the software as 'sold'. It looks like if Blizzard's documents had been worded a little differently ('licensed' instead of 'sold') they might have had something there too.
There's also the part on page 11 where Blizzard failed to make good on the claim of copyright infringment on the icons, because they were lumped in with the rest of the game client as a whole, and that copying only the icons was de minimis. In that section, the document seems to imply that Blizzard might have had a case there had they bothered to register each icon individually.
So, I'm glad Blizzard lost, but the bnetd_reply document reads to me like a step by step HOW-TO (not make these mistakes again) document for lawyers.
Maybe they could just distribute them from vending machines like gumballs... ;)
If we redefine theft as the deprivation of potential wealth, then suddenly we have a world where you are a thief
...or fast forward over commercials.
if you choose to walk down a road other than the one where a hotdog vendor is waiting for customers.
Yes, well, we already have that going on right now, don't we? As in calling people who do not view pop-up ads
thieves, for example...
Academia Waltz was also published in some other student newspapers at the time too. We got it in the SMU Daily Campus.
Then again, don't trust me. I never saw much of interest in "Bloom County" itself.
I do agree with you about Bloom County. I never liked it as much as Academia Waltz.
Finally, vehicles move. Even a speedy RFID tag that transmits at 12kbps takes 1/46th of a second to send a typical 256 bit message (serial number + checksum + overhead). It takes 5-6 times this in practice to power the tag, interrogate it, and receive a response, in which time the car has moved >10ft at 60MPH. So even if you could have an ultra-high-gain antenna, it'd have to be significantly steerable, too.
Most responses I've seen seem to expect that the sensor (transmitter/reciever) will be mounted at the roadside or overhead. It would not be difficult for a distributed sensor to be installed in the pavement, providing lane width coverage, about the length of a vehicle (15-20ft) up to a vertical height of 2-3ft. (tire height). This would eliminate the need for high gain, and reduce multiple responses to mostly the tires on the same vehicle, making vehicle identification significantly easier.
Just a drop the disc in the bucket next to the butter container and milk bottle.
I imagine they are recyclable... in theory.
I remember when juice boxes/pouches were introduced in the U.S (25? 30? years ago). In order to get consumers to accept the new packaging, part of the push in the advertising was how environmentally friendly they were because they were recyclable. When finished, you'd just toss them in the special "juice container recycle bin" at your school or wherever. Since those containers were introduced, I've NEVER seen a "juice container recycle bin" or any other recycle facility that will accept them. I also expect that if disposable DVDs are introduced, there will be few, if any places that accept them either.
Sample a 19.995 kHz signal at 80 kHz, and you will get a pulsation of the signal, since the sampling phase will slowly drift.
--snip--
Practically, even at 4X oversample, you will have problems reconstructing the signal.
The 'pulsation of the signal' is present in the raw sampled data because the samples describe both the desired signal and it's alias, and they are indistinguishable. At reconstruction time, you filter off the sampling component and the unwanted alias. The energy from the removed components isn't destroyed, the energy is returned to the signal and eliminates the 'pulsation'.
Actually, you could NOT encode a 22049 Hz signal on a CD, unless the signal lasts for more than 1 second.
You could encode the signal on a CD (with a computer), but what you hear on playback will be limited by the combined impulse response of the equipment... and your ears. Your ears have a finite bandwidth too.
Assuming no other distortions (HA!) such as amplitude, phase, harmonic, etc., as long as the impulse response of the complete record/playback system is significantly better than the impulse response of your ears, what you hear should sound the same as the original, whether the system is analog or digital.
What's that site running?
The site www.debrand.com is running Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_perl/1.27 mod_ssl/2.8.11
OpenSSL/0.9.6g PHP/4.2.3 on Linux.
Anonymous wrote:
> Here
If you take the google usenet archive link listed above, switch to thread mode and follow the thread, there is also a followup post by Alan Cox in there too!
I've had the same IP for 9 months, have never
run any P2P client, and my firewall logs show 17 port 6346 connection attempts in the last 10 days alone. I suspect port scanning.
So much for remaining untraceable by paying cash. I think this is the most Big Brother-esque thing I've ever heard.
I agree. When individual bills can be traced, It will be difficult to keep any transaction anonymous.
If a single lightbulb doesn't radiate any more than a single wireless node, everything might work out. However, the way most rooms/houses/buildings are lit, there are likely to be 3 to 10 (maybe 100?) times as many lightbulbs as there are wireless nodes.
For example: in my immediate office area, there are 6 blocks of cubicles. Each block has 10 cubes. That's 60 people. To light that same area, there are 6 rows of light fixtures, with 11 fixtures per row. Each fixture has two flourescent bulbs.
11*6*2=132 bulbs
6*10=60 people
That's about a two to one bulb to people ratio, not counting individual desk lamps. If every cube had a wireless node, the bulbs would still easily outnumber the nodes.
Even if each bulb meets Part 15 requirements, the cumulative effect could still be devastating to the band. That's where the problem will be.
1984: Wow! Twenty megabytes! I'll never use all this space! ... Ah, screw it.
1988: Wow! Eighty megabytes! I'll never use all this space!
1994: Wow! A gigabyte! I'll never use all this space!
1999: Uh, wow. Twenty gigabytes? I don't think I'll ever use all this space.
2002: A hundred and twenty gigs? I... hm.
2005:
How about...
2002: A hundred and twenty gigs. I wonder how soon before I'll have to upgrade again...
If you did't bother to switch it on it would be even more reliable and secure, and not much less useful. ;-)
;-P
How about still on the install media in the box? That way you couldn't even accidentally run it.
I don't know about anyone else, but I knew when I signed up for the lifetime subscription that it was for the life of the HARDWARE.
I made the judgement that TiVo expected the life of the hardware to be at least long enough for the cost of the monthly subscription to intersect with the fixed cost for the lifetime subscription. I expected the hardware to last at least that long, so my only gamble, in my opinion, was betting that TiVo, as a corporation would survive beyond that cost intersection.
I don't watch that much TV, but in the 16 months I've had it, I feel like I've already received my moneys worth. At least for me, a lifetime subscription was the right choice.
It was National. They had "Fast" and "Damn Fast" op amps. They started publishing those databooks in the late 70s and continued into the early 80s. I probably still have one of those databooks at home.
I think they also cross listed those op-amps in their Audio handbook. I still have my '78 edition of that book. I consider it irreplacable.
I imagine the record industry, if such a format was accepted, would put a very low quality version on the redbook CD part.
Brilliant. If the Red Book part is deliberately reduced quality, as long as the customers of new audio equipment don't know how badly the Red Book part is crippled, it will be a great selling tool to get everyone to upgrade. Just imagine the 'A-B' tests salespeople could show to prospective customers to demonstrate the superiority of the 'new' technology vs. the 'old' technology playing the SAME "CD"!
You watch, the Red Book part will either start out as deliberately restricted audio quality, or evole to that. Maybe something like the equivalent audio quality of a 128Kb, 64Kb, or $DEITY forbid 32Kb MP3. Eventually bad enough most people wouldn't want to use it, or ignore it if it was there.
What better way to phase out the unprotected format.
If you wanted your own daily radio show, Clear Channel would sell you the time for about $1,200 an hour.
...snip...
Clearchannel stations are by nature large-market ones, and if you picked a slot at like 3 or 4 pm, you would get kids after school and it would be before the "rush hour" slot that's so valuable.
I don't have any data to demonstrate otherwise, but I'd guess that "kids after school" would also represent a "valuable" target market for radio stations, and if you could even negotiate for that timeslot in a major market, it would probably cost more than $1200/hr.
However, at an off peak time like 4 AM you might have a chance.
Some day, I'll have that kind of bandwidth running to my home. And my ISP will still disallow my personal telnet server because of the strain it will put on the network.
...and they'll still cap you at 3GB/month, after which you're connection will be throttled to 28Kb/s, unless you pay more.
Err, you mean "zero if by LAN, one if by CD"
Maybe: "Zero if by LAN, one if buy CD."
Not exactly the same, but here is a machine
that might be in the neighborhood...
An Interesting Boot Log on Alpha;-)
Unfortunately, the Bootlog link at the top of the article is broken, but some of the relevant boot messages have been copied in user posts. This is back from 2000.