True. But as others mentioned, Norway is a member of the EEA. Which binds Norway to implement certain EU directives, including the EUCD. Compliance with implementation of directives are done by the EU Commission for EU members, and by the EFTA Surveillance Authority for EEA members.
Which makes this more like grandstanding by the Liberal Party, little more is likely to come of this than some media coverage. Changing Norwegian copyright law to the extent they propose would require changes to EU copyright directives and the international Berne/WIPO copyright treaties.
In a sense I'm a bit surprised that nobody has thought of the application of redundancy to chip manufacture before now.
They already do.
RAM and Flash chips typically have a few redundant memory banks.
Graphics chips with faulty modules are sold as lower performing parts (example - the Nvidia 6800 LE and the 6800 Ultra both have the NV40 chip, but the LE has 8 pixel pipelines and 2 vertex shaders disabled).
True, but they seem to be playing on the proverbial greased incline. Some of which isn't really Google's fault but is more a result of them being so big and having to make choices between evils. e.g. China
If I remember correctly, the player will keep a version of the revocation keys. So from what I've understood, once you put in a disc which says "Hey, you're supposed to be revoked" that player will stop working until you get an upgrade.
Ouch. Imagine all the damage an enterprising anti-DRM vigilante can do if revocation lists can be faked. Or a SNAFU in the manufacturing plant.
Why did we get DRM in the first place? Because music pirating was taking place
That's an interesting viewpoint, as the international treaties that lead to the law-protection of DRM came several years before Napster (WCT, WPPT and the 1994 white/green papers on the NII).
DRM does pretty much nothing to stop 'unprotected' copies from finding their way to P2P networks, so as an anti-piracy measure it is and has always been a dismal failure. But then again, piracy was just an excuse. DRM and law-protection of DRM was about market control and protecting old business models.
Apple doesn't have to license. The iPods do AAC decoding in hardware, and Apple doesn't make that hardware themselves. If you look at that list again, you will find many companies that make chips and/or software libraries for [en|de]coding AAC. Including Portalplayer.
Keep in mind that this is about criminal sanctions, not about civil sanctions. The government can't throw in jail or fine someone for P2P'ing, but the MPAA can still bring a civil suit asking for damages.
It seems like there is some confusion regarding criminal law vs civil law. IAAlsoNAL, I just play one on/.
Civil law is about conflicts between individuals, for example contracts or tort. One person (or organization) suing another. e.g., MPAA sues Joe Filesharer for $50000 in damages.
Criminal law is about conflicts between the state and individuals, for example speeding or murder. The state's prosecutor sues a person. e.g., State of Maine sues Bob DrunkDriver for $10000 in fines and 60 days of jail time.
From what I gather, this directive is about harmonizing the criminal law sanctions for copyright infringement. Since non-commercial is excluded, it means that the state can't prosecute and throw you in jail or fine you for P2P'ing. However, this doesn't change civil law remedies so Metallica can still go after you in a civil lawsuit and ask for damages.
I don't know about European Copyright law, but here in Canada (and I believe the US), I've been explicitly allowed to make a copy of an album to give to a family member or a friend forever.
As far as I recall, that is also legal in many of the European countries. It certainly is for all of Scandinavia.
What isn't legal is making copies and give them away to people that are not close friends or family.
Anyway, this directive doesn't touch the legality of P2P. You can still be the target of a civil suit for sharing Metallica on ED2K (Metallica or their record label can sue you for damages). What this directive does is add criminal charges for commercial piracy (i.e., the district attorney can sue you and fine you or throw you in jail).
The intro to Sigler's Ancestor is a remote research lab where a chimera goes wrong and a disease jumps species. Luckily, it is in an isolated remote region and the US drops a bomb on the compound. The US moves to crack down on other companies working on related biotech, and one of them goes underground. The company in question isn't working on a chimera, but is trying to recreate our common ancestor. The bulk of the book is about their work and what happens when they succeed. So the book isn't primarily about chimeras and disease.
I can't find registered ECC DDR2 faster than 667 MHz. Why?
ECC is pretty much only used on servers, and server types are generally more concerned about stability, uptime and low heat than cutting edge speed.
Anyway, looks like Kingston has some PC6400 DDR2. The part numbers I found were KVR800D2E5 and KVR800D2D8P5. Their website seems to have problems, so can't provide direct links.
You bought a product for use with 1 liscense at a time.
Depends. If he bought Windows pre-installed it is most likely an OEM license, which tends to be bound to that particular PC (by checking a BIOS signature, I believe). By the looks of it, the Vista license / OEM binding will be even harder.
You also see that with other OEM software. For example Nero bundled with a DVD burner will only work with that model/brand.
What MS should do is add a 'home' or 'household' license.
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Universalizing also risks having people plug the wrong thing into the wrong place
Oh what fun it is to find an unlabeled RJ45 wall socket. POTS, ISDN, Ethernet, PoE or (very rarely) RS-232?
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I was under the impression that the SATA standard always supported hotplugging (e.g., both 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0). However, due to cost-cutting at least early implementations of consumer SATA drives and controllers didn't support it. Especially with regards to the early controllers, which pretty much were PATA controllers with simple PATA to SATA converters.
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Norway is not part of the European Union
True. But as others mentioned, Norway is a member of the EEA. Which binds Norway to implement certain EU directives, including the EUCD. Compliance with implementation of directives are done by the EU Commission for EU members, and by the EFTA Surveillance Authority for EEA members.
Which makes this more like grandstanding by the Liberal Party, little more is likely to come of this than some media coverage. Changing Norwegian copyright law to the extent they propose would require changes to EU copyright directives and the international Berne/WIPO copyright treaties.
..or the new Newton. Time will tell.
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
YKYBNerdingTLW you know this is a Usenet reference. Oh, and don't forget Kibo.
Check the Jargon file
In a sense I'm a bit surprised that nobody has thought of the application of redundancy to chip manufacture before now.
They already do.
RAM and Flash chips typically have a few redundant memory banks.
Graphics chips with faulty modules are sold as lower performing parts (example - the Nvidia 6800 LE and the 6800 Ultra both have the NV40 chip, but the LE has 8 pixel pipelines and 2 vertex shaders disabled).
It's not gotten to that point yet.
True, but they seem to be playing on the proverbial greased incline. Some of which isn't really Google's fault but is more a result of them being so big and having to make choices between evils. e.g. China
This reminds me of Animal Farm and how the commandments on the barn wall changed.
The people outside looked from Google to MS, and from MS to Google, and from Google to MS again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
If I remember correctly, the player will keep a version of the revocation keys. So from what I've understood, once you put in a disc which says "Hey, you're supposed to be revoked" that player will stop working until you get an upgrade.
Ouch. Imagine all the damage an enterprising anti-DRM vigilante can do if revocation lists can be faked. Or a SNAFU in the manufacturing plant.
..and is based on a microkernel instead of being already obsolete? ;-)
Why did we get DRM in the first place? Because music pirating was taking place
That's an interesting viewpoint, as the international treaties that lead to the law-protection of DRM came several years before Napster (WCT, WPPT and the 1994 white/green papers on the NII).
DRM does pretty much nothing to stop 'unprotected' copies from finding their way to P2P networks, so as an anti-piracy measure it is and has always been a dismal failure. But then again, piracy was just an excuse. DRM and law-protection of DRM was about market control and protecting old business models.
Apple doesn't have to license. The iPods do AAC decoding in hardware, and Apple doesn't make that hardware themselves. If you look at that list again, you will find many companies that make chips and/or software libraries for [en|de]coding AAC. Including Portalplayer.
Keep in mind that this is about criminal sanctions, not about civil sanctions. The government can't throw in jail or fine someone for P2P'ing, but the MPAA can still bring a civil suit asking for damages.
It seems like there is some confusion regarding criminal law vs civil law. IAAlsoNAL, I just play one on /.
Civil law is about conflicts between individuals, for example contracts or tort. One person (or organization) suing another. e.g., MPAA sues Joe Filesharer for $50000 in damages.
Criminal law is about conflicts between the state and individuals, for example speeding or murder. The state's prosecutor sues a person. e.g., State of Maine sues Bob DrunkDriver for $10000 in fines and 60 days of jail time.
From what I gather, this directive is about harmonizing the criminal law sanctions for copyright infringement. Since non-commercial is excluded, it means that the state can't prosecute and throw you in jail or fine you for P2P'ing. However, this doesn't change civil law remedies so Metallica can still go after you in a civil lawsuit and ask for damages.
I don't know about European Copyright law, but here in Canada (and I believe the US), I've been explicitly allowed to make a copy of an album to give to a family member or a friend forever.
As far as I recall, that is also legal in many of the European countries. It certainly is for all of Scandinavia.
What isn't legal is making copies and give them away to people that are not close friends or family.
Anyway, this directive doesn't touch the legality of P2P. You can still be the target of a civil suit for sharing Metallica on ED2K (Metallica or their record label can sue you for damages). What this directive does is add criminal charges for commercial piracy (i.e., the district attorney can sue you and fine you or throw you in jail).
That message is produced by the IBM BIOS, and not MS-DOS. While I love to point fingers at BillG, IBM is to blame for this one.
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The intro to Sigler's Ancestor is a remote research lab where a chimera goes wrong and a disease jumps species. Luckily, it is in an isolated remote region and the US drops a bomb on the compound. The US moves to crack down on other companies working on related biotech, and one of them goes underground. The company in question isn't working on a chimera, but is trying to recreate our common ancestor. The bulk of the book is about their work and what happens when they succeed. So the book isn't primarily about chimeras and disease.
Anyway, Sigler is cool and has made his book freely available both as a podiobook and as a pdf.
http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=
http://scottsigler.podshow.com/2007/03/19/ancesto
That is also such a marvelous example of the high moral standard of the Jedi.
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that would be the 'AARD' code.
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I can't find registered ECC DDR2 faster than 667 MHz. Why?
ECC is pretty much only used on servers, and server types are generally more concerned about stability, uptime and low heat than cutting edge speed.
Anyway, looks like Kingston has some PC6400 DDR2. The part numbers I found were KVR800D2E5 and KVR800D2D8P5. Their website seems to have problems, so can't provide direct links.
You bought a product for use with 1 liscense at a time.
Depends. If he bought Windows pre-installed it is most likely an OEM license, which tends to be bound to that particular PC (by checking a BIOS signature, I believe). By the looks of it, the Vista license / OEM binding will be even harder.
You also see that with other OEM software. For example Nero bundled with a DVD burner will only work with that model/brand.
What MS should do is add a 'home' or 'household' license.
..and of the lawyer.
Universalizing also risks having people plug the wrong thing into the wrong place
Oh what fun it is to find an unlabeled RJ45 wall socket. POTS, ISDN, Ethernet, PoE or (very rarely) RS-232?
I was under the impression that the SATA standard always supported hotplugging (e.g., both 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0). However, due to cost-cutting at least early implementations of consumer SATA drives and controllers didn't support it. Especially with regards to the early controllers, which pretty much were PATA controllers with simple PATA to SATA converters.