The source is out there, but DEEP underground. I.e., don't even think about releasing any software with your name on it that uses it. It has been driven into the semi-criminal twilight zone populated by virus-writing toolkits and pirate MP3 sites.
Yes, the code is out, but with the industry's reaction, it's not usable. If anybody puts their name to it, uses it or releases it, the lawyers go after them and hammer them until they give up. This code has essentially been driven deep underground; it now has the same status as virus-writing toolkits or war3z.
In short, here's no hope in hell that the CSS code is going to end up within a parsec of a legitimate Linux distribution without the studios and industry giving some manner of assent, and mirroring it in "offshore data havens" is not going to get that assent. (I rather highly doubt if the IP barons of Hollywood are any more likely to relent and give those Linux troublemakers any quarter than Microsoft is to GPL Windows 2000.)
The only way the US will sue for peace with Cuba is if Cuba pays back the value of confiscated US assets including inflation. This is an order of magnitude more than the total value of all of Cuba's assets. Therefore, post-Castro Cuba may go into liquidation (in all but name), becoming the world's first wholly corporate-owned state, managed by representatives of its debtors.
In any case, Cuba (without a USSR-like patron) is in no position to thumb its nose at the US.
Most people are short-sighted; the fact that the environment will be horribly polluted by their habits in half a century pales into insignificance next to short-term gratification. After all, one person's use of disposable electronics or gas-guzzling mega-SUVs by itself has negligible impact, and everybody else is happily polluting the planet to hell, so why can't we?
How far are we from being able to run IE on Wine? Has anyone given it a try? Is it doable in any sense?
An IE-on-Wine HOWTO would be good once it's viable; running a commercially supported Windows browsing environment in an emulated sandbox would be a lot better than putting up with AOL's bloated, crash-prone browser. (Netscape for UNIX has gone down the toilet as far as usability goes. So much so that at home I use NS 3, as it crashes less often.)
That's because there's no other browser, save for Lynx (which doesn't do graphics). Most distributions come with Lynx as well though.
Other than Netscape what would they use? NCSA Mosaic from about 1995 or so, which can't do tables properly? One of those hobbyist-made browsers which implements about 10% of HTML? Granted, the commercial ones could bulk-buy Opera, though it would add to the cost.
Netscape 5 has slipped a bit too much. Since its purchase by AOL (only interested in increasing its service revenues, hence the "Shop" button where the "Stop" button used to be), they seem to have stopped caring about competing. All the best engineers have since left, leaving a skeleton staff.
Netscape has conceded defeat, by its actions if not by words. They are no longer a competitor to Microsoft, who now all but own the HTML standard. Like it or not, the commercial desktop world is now a one-browser environment.
Hopefully the post-judgment Microsoft won't be able to "de-commoditise" HTML too much.
Which means that he's the one they're going to try and drive into the ground. You can't sue John Doe for tens of millions of dollars in Mitnickesque damages if you can't identify him. Fawcus was the one sufficiently trusting/unparanoid/naive to put his name anywhere near this thing, which means it's his name on the lawsuits.
Would he be facing extradition to the U.S.? Is jail time a possibility?
I wouldn't be so sure he'll be OK. With Hollywood and the zaibatsus siccing their legions of lawyers on him, even if no damages are awarded, this will cost him years of hard struggle and hundreds of thousands of dollars of legal costs. And you can bet they're going to want to crucify the guy, so that his tarred corpse on the gibbet may serve as a warning to future reverse engineers.
It's kind of like that religion popular with all those Hollywood celebrities, which tends to sue critics for the purpose of harrassing them, rather than winning.
The reason why the media (which is ~90% owned by two or three giant corporations) has been quiet may have something to do with the bill putting small content providers out of business (due to excessive legal and criminal liabilities) and handing the online content industry on a silver platter to the only companies which can afford to hire armies of censors -- i.e., Packer, Murdoch and the likes.
OK, Saving Private Ryan may not have been ET-level commercialism, but it had the same sort of infantile simplisticity about it. Spielberg's films never challenge, but merely reinforce accepted beliefs, telling the consumers what they already think, whether it's the folksy wisdom of innocent children or the predictable evilness of a German soldier.
Spielberg is a masterful craftsman, and an exemplary marketer, but that doesn't make him an artist.
Good luck. Sonic Foundry are in bed with Microsoft in a big way (they did much of the work behind the Windows Media format, for example). As such, their software is written around Microsoft's proprietary APIs and they don't even have Macintosh ports. (A sore point with me, as I have a Mac I run Cubase on, and would like to try ACiD on it.)
Not sure whether MS owns a large chunk of Sonic Foundry, though I'd say it's not unlikely. This does look rather like an offensive to make Windows systems required equipment for music, much in the same way that Avid's dumping of QuickTime (under coercion by Microsoft) was designed to capture the video editing market.
Unless, of course, you're a sociopath with a gift for seamlessly lying and telling people what they want to hear, in which case you'll slip under the radar unnoticed.
You'll long for the days of classical d00dzp3ak when you see the new version, with added pseudo-Ebonics via gangsta rap records. As in "I 0wn y00r 4ss b1tch!1"
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I wouldn't be so sure. People have done much more to capture the attention of that special someone.
The legality is a biggy - but the current feeling is now that its out there, its going to take a fair bit to stop it now.
Yes and no. The code is out of the bag, and cannot be put back. However, if it violates copyright (or is perceived to), incorporating it in any application would be the kiss of death as far as distribution goes. If Red Hat or someone was to ship a DVD player containing "liberated" code, they would be opening themselves up to massive legal liability. As such, any code with such a pedigree will remain firmly in the underground, away from the eye of the general public.
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The source is out there, but DEEP underground. I.e., don't even think about releasing any software with your name on it that uses it. It has been driven into the semi-criminal twilight zone populated by virus-writing toolkits and pirate MP3 sites.
Yes, the code is out, but with the industry's reaction, it's not usable. If anybody puts their name to it, uses it or releases it, the lawyers go after them and hammer them until they give up. This code has essentially been driven deep underground; it now has the same status as virus-writing toolkits or war3z.
In short, here's no hope in hell that the CSS code is going to end up within a parsec of a legitimate Linux distribution without the studios and industry giving some manner of assent, and mirroring it in "offshore data havens" is not going to get that assent. (I rather highly doubt if the IP barons of Hollywood are any more likely to relent and give those Linux troublemakers any quarter than Microsoft is to GPL Windows 2000.)
The only way the US will sue for peace with Cuba is if Cuba pays back the value of confiscated US assets including inflation. This is an order of magnitude more than the total value of all of Cuba's assets. Therefore, post-Castro Cuba may go into liquidation (in all but name), becoming the world's first wholly corporate-owned state, managed by representatives of its debtors.
In any case, Cuba (without a USSR-like patron) is in no position to thumb its nose at the US.
Or a numberless line-of-sight infrared phone system for communicating to neighboring cars.
..yet they're selling like hotcakes.
Most people are short-sighted; the fact that the environment will be horribly polluted by their habits in half a century pales into insignificance next to short-term gratification. After all, one person's use of disposable electronics or gas-guzzling mega-SUVs by itself has negligible impact, and everybody else is happily polluting the planet to hell, so why can't we?
And so, the environment goes down the toilet.
How far are we from being able to run IE on Wine?
Has anyone given it a try? Is it doable in any sense?
An IE-on-Wine HOWTO would be good once it's viable; running a commercially supported Windows browsing environment in an emulated sandbox would be a lot better than putting up with AOL's bloated, crash-prone browser. (Netscape for UNIX has gone down the toilet as far as usability goes. So much so that at home I use NS 3, as it crashes less often.)
Someone moderate it up.
That's because there's no other browser, save for Lynx (which doesn't do graphics). Most distributions come with Lynx as well though.
Other than Netscape what would they use? NCSA Mosaic from about 1995 or so, which can't do tables properly? One of those hobbyist-made browsers which implements about 10% of HTML? Granted, the commercial ones could bulk-buy Opera, though it would add to the cost.
A month from prime time? I doubt it.
It's anyone's guess whether Mozilla, the GNU Hurd or Xanadu will make it out the door first. Or possibly Freedows.
Netscape 5 has slipped a bit too much. Since its purchase by AOL (only interested in increasing its service revenues, hence the "Shop" button where the "Stop" button used to be), they seem to have stopped caring about competing. All the best engineers have since left, leaving a skeleton staff.
Netscape has conceded defeat, by its actions if not by words. They are no longer a competitor to Microsoft, who now all but own the HTML standard. Like it or not, the commercial desktop world is now a one-browser environment.
Hopefully the post-judgment Microsoft won't be able to "de-commoditise" HTML too much.
Which means that he's the one they're going to try and drive into the ground. You can't sue John Doe for tens of millions of dollars in Mitnickesque damages if you can't identify him. Fawcus was the one sufficiently trusting/unparanoid/naive to put his name anywhere near this thing, which means it's his name on the lawsuits.
Would he be facing extradition to the U.S.? Is jail time a possibility?
I wouldn't be so sure he'll be OK. With Hollywood and the zaibatsus siccing their legions of lawyers on him, even if no damages are awarded, this will cost him years of hard struggle and hundreds of thousands of dollars of legal costs. And you can bet they're going to want to crucify the guy, so that his tarred corpse on the gibbet may serve as a warning to future reverse engineers.
It's kind of like that religion popular with all those Hollywood celebrities, which tends to sue critics for the purpose of harrassing them, rather than winning.
The reason why the media (which is ~90% owned by two or three giant corporations) has been quiet may have something to do with the bill putting small content providers out of business (due to excessive legal and criminal liabilities) and handing the online content industry on a silver platter to the only companies which can afford to hire armies of censors -- i.e., Packer, Murdoch and the likes.
...if the SlugBot's control logic was an artificial neural network made from slug neurons.
OK, Saving Private Ryan may not have been ET-level commercialism, but it had the same sort of infantile simplisticity about it. Spielberg's films never challenge, but merely reinforce accepted beliefs, telling the consumers what they already think, whether it's the folksy wisdom of innocent children or the predictable evilness of a German soldier.
Spielberg is a masterful craftsman, and an exemplary marketer, but that doesn't make him an artist.
AFAIK, Aardman is from Bristol, which is in the south-west of England (near the Welsh border).
Good luck. Sonic Foundry are in bed with Microsoft in a big way (they did much of the work behind the Windows Media format, for example). As such, their software is written around Microsoft's proprietary APIs and they don't even have Macintosh ports. (A sore point with me, as I have a Mac I run Cubase on, and would like to try ACiD on it.)
Not sure whether MS owns a large chunk of Sonic Foundry, though I'd say it's not unlikely. This does look rather like an offensive to make Windows systems required equipment for music, much in the same way that Avid's dumping of QuickTime (under coercion by Microsoft) was designed to capture the video editing market.
Now all we need is Civilization for the PalmPilot; then productivity can go completely down the drain.
You must have only seen some of the early Sandman issues, with the rather unfortunate superhero subplot.
It gets much better than that.
Unless, of course, you're a sociopath with a gift for seamlessly lying and telling people what they want to hear, in which case you'll slip under the radar unnoticed.
I personally like 'e' and 'hir'. Though I don't use these words unless I'm confident that the other person knows what I mean.
An alternative is 've' and 'vis'/'ver', as used to describe sexless transhumans in Greg Egan's Distress.
To some people, anybody to the left of the Promise Keepers is a militant feminist.
You'll long for the days of classical d00dzp3ak when you see the new version, with added pseudo-Ebonics via gangsta rap records. As in "I 0wn y00r 4ss b1tch!1"
I wouldn't be so sure. People have done much more to capture the attention of that special someone.
The legality is a biggy - but the current feeling is now that its out there, its going to take a fair bit to stop it now.
Yes and no. The code is out of the bag, and cannot be put back. However, if it violates copyright (or is perceived to), incorporating it in any application would be the kiss of death as far as distribution goes. If Red Hat or someone was to ship a DVD player containing "liberated" code, they would be opening themselves up to massive legal liability. As such, any code with such a pedigree will remain firmly in the underground, away from the eye of the general public.