I go to RH's javascript bugzilla page and check for these 2000 bugs for Red Hat Linux ver 7.0. I double check to make sure it is looking for all the bugs with no time limits and get everything be it closed or reopened or whatever. My query gets 258 bug reports ranging from that stupid "Red Hat 7.0 should be recalled" and one re: a missing man page to some about not being able to install.
38 of these are listed as "not a bug". ~58 of those listed are duplicates.
Maybe I'm not doing a proper query. Where is this bugzilla report coming from anyway?
Now what I want to know is how it performs. With 31 cpus, 8 nics and a boatload of I/O, this is a great opprotunity to get some hard data on a variety of issues and figure out how to make the kernel better.
imo, what it can do well is less important than what it can't. To paraphrase Limp Bizkit, "Let's break some sh**."
I agree that this treaty needs to be handled carefully and has the potential to restrict legitimate uses but I wouldn't file it in the the this-is-really-bad dept just on the basis of this article.
Ummm, can we say WIPO treaty and the birth of the DMCA?
Recent history has shown that lawmakers will fly off the handle to enact far-reaching legislation without one thought behind if they should when it comes to the Internet. Can you imagine what our congress-critters are going to do with the following from the article?
The draft calls on signatories to pass legislation against illegally accessing a computer, intercepting computer data or interfering with computer systems. It also would ban the sale, purchase, import and distribution of devices used for hacking, and requires passage of laws against computer-related fraud or forgery and child pornography. Signatories also would be required to provide law enforcement authorities with the ability to conduct computer searches and seize computer data.
We already have laws to cover most, hell, all of this. In a recent article in my local paper they arrested tried and sentenced a person distributing child porn over the internet giving him the maximum sentence. Ban the sale of what? A compiler if you dont have a degree? Will I be arrested if I download gcc. Heck the feds will have proof of it because they have my ISP's logs showing I went to the GNU ftp site? Oh and now I pay $100 a month because of all the storage the ISP requires to retain logs for a year.
They say it will require proof of intent but when I examine Jon Johansen's testimony at the 2600 trial and then look at what Kaplan has to say about it I wonder just how much proof Reno and her CyberROTC troops will have to get to prove that I'm "hacking." "Your honor just look at all the source code and RFC documentation he has on his hard drive! This must be a criminal."
On a lighter note, the only good thing I see coming out of this is a world-wide ban on VBScript.
Some vcrs have the ability to scan codes to program taping shows. It'd be interesting to see what someone with a video capture board and a CueCat could do. Heck toss in a IRport and have it so the CueCat scans a few barcode, waits until the show is on, changes the channel, saves the program, then changes to a new channel to save the next show.
And who will be better? Bush? Go to www.rnc.org and read the bits they have on IP and technology. Pretty much they talk about protecting American (i.e. corporate) IP.
Harry Brown? Sorry folks, I have read the libertarian party's web site. I'd rather vote for a right-wing, Christian Coalition, Republican than I would for a Libertarian. This "let's get government out of people's lives" is a point but they take it way too far.
The Reform Party seems to be in shambles and I wouldn't vote for Pat anyway.
Nader and the Green Party. I'm looking into it and if I like what I see I'll probably vote for them.
But as for the canidates who are likely to win, Bush is certainly not going to do any better on these issues than Gore.
No. The point is these events were avoidable if the companies involved had relied upon being responsible instead of bean counting the cost of doing it right vs. the cost of litigation.
There is a difference between an unforseen bad thing and a calculated, hope it doesn't come back to haunt you but do it anyway bad thing.
IANAL. You used to work for the company. You have an agreement with them to sign away any invention you worked on while employeed by them. They want you to endorse a patent application.
Never having been involved in such a thing I have to ask if the two items are tied. If they aren't then I'd sign away on the work and refuse to sign the patent application. You fulfill your legal obligation but keep your conscious clear.
If the two are tied together I wonder if it would be possible to sign off but claim you don't consider the patent unique.
And these agencies have failed in their mission. By ignoring the Internet and wasting time in establishing a presence on it they have allowed other companies to fulfill consumer demand. Instead of leadership, agencies like the RIAA, have only wanked off in some futile effort to create a business where they have 100% control.
Where can I make my $10 payment and get my quota of downloaded music?
Worse yet, because they refuse to take the risk and/or initiative the RIAA has lost the ability to train their consumer base to whatever hypothetical business model they rollout. They waited too long and now people are used to Napster and MyMP3.com. The only option to buy some precious time which doesn't exist anymore is to litigate.
So instead of saying, "we screwed up and did nothing while other companies came in and established themselves" they instead say that these businesses are havens for piracy which are taking food from artists' mouths. What I want to know is when will the RIAA rollout "legit" music distribution over the Internet. Or better yet, when will the music industry allow artists the freedom to work with these new companies for the artists' benefit.
The fact that other companies tried to fill this void is an example of capitalism in action. If this was any other industry people would be saying that the movie and music establishments deserved to die as they obviously cannot adapt.
I suggest you go to www.rnc.org and check out the Republican's stance on IP and technology. They would have written the same damn thing that the Clinton administration did.
Your knee-jerk reaction to blame this on the "liberals" is unfounded.
Screw it. I'd rather retort than waste my moderator points on stuff like this.
The fact is, without seeing the code or any open discussion on development the opinion that MS writes good/proper code because they pay people for it can only be based on a great deal of trust. I simply do not feel comfortable placing the same amount of trust you so obviously devote to a company that has a just as bad if not worse record of issues with their software as linux/GNOME/KDE/ what-have-you has.
The fact that linux is bad due to it being free is a fallacy. You neglect the fact that people do get paid to work on it. Alan Cox for one. You also neglect the linux companies which pay programmers to work on free/oss projects. Linux/Gnome/etc do not only benefit from a purely volunteer effort. And your assumption that people who do not get paid for working on it have little time produce slapdash code is an assumption which you have provided little evidence to support.
Oh, btw, there is no kernel higher than 2.4 atm. There is no 2.4 kernel out yet. Those are test kernels which will lead up to 2.4. I guess the -test and -pre suffixes must have confused you.
As for your assertion that the developers only try to produce something that works instead of works well I can only say that you are talking out of ignorance. Try reading Kernel Traffic every now and then.
From where I sit, free and oss is doing fine. I have a great deal more confidence in a product where I can see the code and monitor its development. I am not even a programmer but can testify to the benefits from this model from personal experience. Merely reading the comments in ghostscript gave me a much better perspective on why my deskjet 970Cse printed better in Windows than under linux. Hint: It has nothing to do with some programmer getting paid.
Unless you can provide something better than blind belief in capitalism your comments are fundamentally flawed.
The media is pretty diverse. Hell, Slashdot and 2600 are part of the media. Personally I'd love to see some tech site get ahold of the canidates/campaign managers/whoever and get the scoop on these issues. Even if it was some vague comment or look at out party's platform on this issue here would be interesting to know.
Okay, so total damages were $3mil reduced to just over a half mil due to her being partly at fault. I guess I now have a dollar figure for how much it costs to be clueless.
imho, I think Kaplan chose to ignore the hows and whys behind MORE's re efforts. From what I've read he completely disregarded the fact that having the program run on Windows and copying the vob files to the hd were felt to be neccessary for proof of concept.
I wonder. I am not a programmer, nor do I understand the technical side of making a DVD player but what if the algorithms were simply put into a library? CSS encoded files go in with a decoded stream coming out. Nothing more. Would this have been legal in Kaplan's opinion? DeCSS in that form would not have been functional for copying vob files. While I assume it would be trivial for someone to write code to get this hypothetical library to copy the decrypted files the library itself couldn't.
No, you can't photocopy it but in Windows you can do a Alt-PrintScrn for each page then copy it into something like Word. Save a bunch of money but run the risk of carpal-tunnel.
Damn, looks like I just posted how to circumvent a protection scheme. Guess, I'll wait for that DMCA lawsuit to be served on me now.
I love how you are judge and jury and supremely more educated than all of congress in your instant pronouncment that the DMCA is guilty of violating the constitution. I'm sure that all of congress is completely ignorant of case law and the constitution and it takes/. readers to spot the obvious (only after their "we want it all for free" *rights* are threatened) for them. What gall. What audacity. You supose to understand the constitution and copyright law better than everyone in congress.
Sorry, but I've taken the time to read the DMCA. I've taken the time to read pieces that go over the history of how the DMCA went through legislation. I have read the statements from President Clinton when he signed the DMCA into law that effectively said that this thing will get hammered out in court. I have taken the time to keep up with the lawsuits.
To the best of my ability I have kept myself informed. That gives me a right to an opinion that IMNSHO is as valid as any member of Congress. That is not gall nor audacity. What? Sonny Bono, musician and actor, had more of a right to an opinion on legislation simply because he was popular and got elected?
Hint, these people get into office because we vote them into office. They pitch a platform and we vote for the people who we think best reflect our opinions on issues we consider important. When we feel they have broken faith on those platforms society in general votes them out. Your assertion that people shouldn't have a dissenting opinion is ignorant and quite frankly bassackwards in the extreme.
AND, get your facts right, linux dvd players, according the the livid logs, began before DeCSS - but weren't going anywhere cause they couldn't get around CSS until someone took advantage of a mistake Xing made. Remember, the MPAA isn't denying anyone a way to play DVDs. Sigma Designs applied and received a license to decrypt CSS and is producing a linux DVD player - a legal one. Too bad the guys from livid aren't interested in doing it the legal way. All anyone asked of the linux programmers is that they followed the law and paid for a license, JUST LIKE EVERY SINGLE DVD PLAYER MAKE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE DOES. WHy do you think linux should get a free exemption? How elitist.!
The people doing the RE did not originally know that Xing's implementation was faulty. They withheld source to DeCSS in an effort to keep Xing from losing their key and in the end there is still very little info on what measures have been taken against Xing for obviously violating their license agreement with the DVDCCA. And no, the MPAA isn't denying anyone. That is what the DVDCCA does. They control the keys and they control the licensing agreements.
As for your rant regarding linux users, you may say "How elitist!" but I feel equally justified in saying "Too bad." Fair use can, and should, imply interoperability. The DMCA allows for RE to implement this. If a group of linux developers have the initiative and spunk to do it on their own at a time no one else was it is a mistake on the manufacturers part for not exploiting a market. The DVDCCA case in California is a trade secret case btw and the law is clear imo. If you RE a trade secret it is no longer a trade secret. I personally despise the fact that the MPAA is using the DMCA to impose copywrite protections to a trade secret which they do not own. It is pathetic that the MPAA filed this suit. Why aren't they reaming the DVDCCA for not holding up their end of the bargin?
btw, what prevents the Windows and Mac and BeOS and developers from developing their own "free exemption?" It is silly to think this is a linux only thing. The drivers being developed will be of benefit to a variety of other operating systems that would never have had a chance of obtaining closed source drivers from the manufacturer.
You are right. Navigator does not render it properly. However, IE does not render it as well as Mozilla. I used all three and compared it against the reference gif. Of all three, Mozilla does the best job imo.
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38 of these are listed as "not a bug". ~58 of those listed are duplicates.
Maybe I'm not doing a proper query. Where is this bugzilla report coming from anyway?
imo, what it can do well is less important than what it can't. To paraphrase Limp Bizkit, "Let's break some sh**."
Ummm, can we say WIPO treaty and the birth of the DMCA?
Recent history has shown that lawmakers will fly off the handle to enact far-reaching legislation without one thought behind if they should when it comes to the Internet. Can you imagine what our congress-critters are going to do with the following from the article?
We already have laws to cover most, hell, all of this. In a recent article in my local paper they arrested tried and sentenced a person distributing child porn over the internet giving him the maximum sentence. Ban the sale of what? A compiler if you dont have a degree? Will I be arrested if I download gcc. Heck the feds will have proof of it because they have my ISP's logs showing I went to the GNU ftp site? Oh and now I pay $100 a month because of all the storage the ISP requires to retain logs for a year.
They say it will require proof of intent but when I examine Jon Johansen's testimony at the 2600 trial and then look at what Kaplan has to say about it I wonder just how much proof Reno and her CyberROTC troops will have to get to prove that I'm "hacking." "Your honor just look at all the source code and RFC documentation he has on his hard drive! This must be a criminal."
On a lighter note, the only good thing I see coming out of this is a world-wide ban on VBScript.
Some vcrs have the ability to scan codes to program taping shows. It'd be interesting to see what someone with a video capture board and a CueCat could do. Heck toss in a IRport and have it so the CueCat scans a few barcode, waits until the show is on, changes the channel, saves the program, then changes to a new channel to save the next show.
Just an idea.
Anybody know if UWM has made a decision regarding the c&d request they received?
A well written and in-depth piece on on-line music and the recording industry. Worth the read.
Having the right to vote makes one responsible to vote. What one does with that vote is their choice but not voting is a poor decision.
fwiw, The court would hold you in contempt. Fine or jail until you submit the keys. Then you go trial and get found guilty. :)
Harry Brown? Sorry folks, I have read the libertarian party's web site. I'd rather vote for a right-wing, Christian Coalition, Republican than I would for a Libertarian. This "let's get government out of people's lives" is a point but they take it way too far.
The Reform Party seems to be in shambles and I wouldn't vote for Pat anyway.
Nader and the Green Party. I'm looking into it and if I like what I see I'll probably vote for them.
But as for the canidates who are likely to win, Bush is certainly not going to do any better on these issues than Gore.
There is a difference between an unforseen bad thing and a calculated, hope it doesn't come back to haunt you but do it anyway bad thing.
And I suppose Love Canal was a Hollywood exaggeration? Or how about Firestone?
Never having been involved in such a thing I have to ask if the two items are tied. If they aren't then I'd sign away on the work and refuse to sign the patent application. You fulfill your legal obligation but keep your conscious clear.
If the two are tied together I wonder if it would be possible to sign off but claim you don't consider the patent unique.
Either way, it would be best to contact a lawyer.
Where can I make my $10 payment and get my quota of downloaded music?
Worse yet, because they refuse to take the risk and/or initiative the RIAA has lost the ability to train their consumer base to whatever hypothetical business model they rollout. They waited too long and now people are used to Napster and MyMP3.com. The only option to buy some precious time which doesn't exist anymore is to litigate.
So instead of saying, "we screwed up and did nothing while other companies came in and established themselves" they instead say that these businesses are havens for piracy which are taking food from artists' mouths. What I want to know is when will the RIAA rollout "legit" music distribution over the Internet. Or better yet, when will the music industry allow artists the freedom to work with these new companies for the artists' benefit.
The fact that other companies tried to fill this void is an example of capitalism in action. If this was any other industry people would be saying that the movie and music establishments deserved to die as they obviously cannot adapt.
Your knee-jerk reaction to blame this on the "liberals" is unfounded.
The fact is, without seeing the code or any open discussion on development the opinion that MS writes good/proper code because they pay people for it can only be based on a great deal of trust. I simply do not feel comfortable placing the same amount of trust you so obviously devote to a company that has a just as bad if not worse record of issues with their software as linux/GNOME/KDE/ what-have-you has.
The fact that linux is bad due to it being free is a fallacy. You neglect the fact that people do get paid to work on it. Alan Cox for one. You also neglect the linux companies which pay programmers to work on free/oss projects. Linux/Gnome/etc do not only benefit from a purely volunteer effort. And your assumption that people who do not get paid for working on it have little time produce slapdash code is an assumption which you have provided little evidence to support.
Oh, btw, there is no kernel higher than 2.4 atm. There is no 2.4 kernel out yet. Those are test kernels which will lead up to 2.4. I guess the -test and -pre suffixes must have confused you.
As for your assertion that the developers only try to produce something that works instead of works well I can only say that you are talking out of ignorance. Try reading Kernel Traffic every now and then.
From where I sit, free and oss is doing fine. I have a great deal more confidence in a product where I can see the code and monitor its development. I am not even a programmer but can testify to the benefits from this model from personal experience. Merely reading the comments in ghostscript gave me a much better perspective on why my deskjet 970Cse printed better in Windows than under linux. Hint: It has nothing to do with some programmer getting paid.
Unless you can provide something better than blind belief in capitalism your comments are fundamentally flawed.
I totally agree with this idea.
I'm more inclined to believe that the success of RSA has more to do with it being unfettered for use in Europe than being patented in the US.
There are three DeCSS cases currently in the US. 1 in NY, 1 in CT iirc, and 1 in CA. The one in CA is filed by the DVD-CCA and is a trade secret suit.
The media is pretty diverse. Hell, Slashdot and 2600 are part of the media. Personally I'd love to see some tech site get ahold of the canidates/campaign managers/whoever and get the scoop on these issues. Even if it was some vague comment or look at out party's platform on this issue here would be interesting to know.
boodoo*bweeep* We're sorry your swipe cannot be processed at this time. Please open your magazine and swipe again....
Okay, so total damages were $3mil reduced to just over a half mil due to her being partly at fault. I guess I now have a dollar figure for how much it costs to be clueless.
I wonder. I am not a programmer, nor do I understand the technical side of making a DVD player but what if the algorithms were simply put into a library? CSS encoded files go in with a decoded stream coming out. Nothing more. Would this have been legal in Kaplan's opinion? DeCSS in that form would not have been functional for copying vob files. While I assume it would be trivial for someone to write code to get this hypothetical library to copy the decrypted files the library itself couldn't.
Damn, looks like I just posted how to circumvent a protection scheme. Guess, I'll wait for that DMCA lawsuit to be served on me now.
Sorry, but I've taken the time to read the DMCA. I've taken the time to read pieces that go over the history of how the DMCA went through legislation. I have read the statements from President Clinton when he signed the DMCA into law that effectively said that this thing will get hammered out in court. I have taken the time to keep up with the lawsuits.
To the best of my ability I have kept myself informed. That gives me a right to an opinion that IMNSHO is as valid as any member of Congress. That is not gall nor audacity.
What? Sonny Bono, musician and actor, had more of a right to an opinion on legislation simply because he was popular and got elected?
Hint, these people get into office because we vote them into office. They pitch a platform and we vote for the people who we think best reflect our opinions on issues we consider important. When we feel they have broken faith on those platforms society in general votes them out. Your assertion that people shouldn't have a dissenting opinion is ignorant and quite frankly bassackwards in the extreme.
The people doing the RE did not originally know that Xing's implementation was faulty. They withheld source to DeCSS in an effort to keep Xing from losing their key and in the end there is still very little info on what measures have been taken against Xing for obviously violating their license agreement with the DVDCCA. And no, the MPAA isn't denying anyone. That is what the DVDCCA does. They control the keys and they control the licensing agreements.
As for your rant regarding linux users, you may say "How elitist!" but I feel equally justified in saying "Too bad." Fair use can, and should, imply interoperability. The DMCA allows for RE to implement this. If a group of linux developers have the initiative and spunk to do it on their own at a time no one else was it is a mistake on the manufacturers part for not exploiting a market. The DVDCCA case in California is a trade secret case btw and the law is clear imo. If you RE a trade secret it is no longer a trade secret. I personally despise the fact that the MPAA is using the DMCA to impose copywrite protections to a trade secret which they do not own. It is pathetic that the MPAA filed this suit. Why aren't they reaming the DVDCCA for not holding up their end of the bargin?
btw, what prevents the Windows and Mac and BeOS and developers from developing their own "free exemption?" It is silly to think this is a linux only thing. The drivers being developed will be of benefit to a variety of other operating systems that would never have had a chance of obtaining closed source drivers from the manufacturer.
You are right. Navigator does not render it properly. However, IE does not render it as well as Mozilla. I used all three and compared it against the reference gif. Of all three, Mozilla does the best job imo.