Don't kid yourself - this has nothing to do with "American Arrogance". We'd have the same problem if this were Canada and UK, or Germany and Switzerland. The problem is that we have an international network, and no international laws. That's precisely what we need. And if we can't get international laws on the internet, then we'll have to use national laws, and nationalize the network. This is precisely what Geographic screening does.
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First of all, nobody ever has to sue themselves. But more importantly, it's up to a judge to decide whether or not the device in question not only aids in the circumvention of copyrights, but does so almost exclusively. Clearly you'd be hard pressed to copy a DVD without a DVD player to read it with, but that does not make a DVD player an assisting device in the piracy process. Why? Because the primary, and overwhelming function of the player is to *PLAY* the DVDs. The use of it in piracy is an incidental purpose.
To the effect of DeCSS, it is a program that has only one use: To circumvent the DVD copy-protection scheme. It's irrelevent what the purpose of doing so was (to watch it under Linux or to pirate it over the internet), because the crime here is the actual act of circumvention
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This from the same guy who told us to help underage kids get into R-rated movies.
Sorry, but I think this Loss-of-Freedom spiel is getting old. Yeah, this sort of thing could "balkanize" the Internet; I admit the possibility. However, in cases such as the iCraveTV suit, some sort of geographical restrictions are necessary.
The "Enter your Canadian Area Code:" prompt at iCraveTV's website was a joke. Any US retard with 5 minutes on his hands could get around this protection, and while a lot of us may like it that way, it's breaking laws. Canada may allow rebroadcasting, but the US does not.
Clearly this is going to be an issue that comes up more and more frequently in the future: How do national laws apply to an international network? There are already some precedents made, but it's obvious that we're not finished by a long shot. Until we see an international set of laws regarding internet content and liabilities, I think geographical restrictions may be the way to go.
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Yes as a matter of fact, Microsoft will be sponsoring RSI in 2001. They're going to pass out really lousy keyboards and square mice to all the participants and see how long it takes for them to get CTS.
It's all a big plot to sell more Microsoft Natural keyboards:)
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This is hardly an improper software patent. If it was so obvious, we'd all be using this sort of technology in our web-browsers right now. Now, you may not want to see it patented -- so that everyone can use it freely -- but that doesn't make it "improper". This is the very heart of what patent's are about.
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I just got off the phone with Jake Turner from NVidia, and he has informed me of some interesting developments in the DRI aspect of XFree 4.0
But that's not what I want to talk about right now. As it turns out, CowboyNeal is really fat. That's all I have to say. Further bulletins as events warrant.
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I really like Garfinkle's work. Especially his "Plugged In" column in the Boston Globe, which actually was the first thing to get me interested in free software (FreeBSD initially). My only problem is...
What the fuck is up with his name? Does anyone else see a striking similarity to "Simon & Garfunkle" -- is it a pen name?? Because if it is, someone should tell him that they broke up.
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I wonder if they'll move cdrom.com over to BSDi? More imporatantly, I wonder if BSDi can handle the load that FreeBSD does. My guess is that is probably can. This should be interesting.
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That's just simply not true. An MS distribution would have to include the source to all GPL'ed software, but there's nothing that prevents Microsoft from adding their own proprietary software to the distro. And the Linux-version of Office could depend on this being present. With some decent crypto work, it would be very hard to reverse engineer.
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It's not awful. Abiword is awful; Office2000 is just sort of sour.
As an end user, I don't give a damn about how they do their file format. It would be nice if it played well with other processors, but it's not the end of the world. Besides, it's not like Corel and Sun are writing books on how to read *their* formats.
No, I don't like all those buttons. Fortunately, it's customizable and I get rid of only the ones I don't use.
I don't buy software based on the hair, do you?
Turn the paperclip off -- it's not that hard.
Maybe we can do this ourselves... I don't see anything remotely approaching Office 2000's level of usefulness. KWord isn't that great. I'll give it some time, but I'm not going to hold my breath on this one.
Yeah, go back to the CD player... After all, we don't have enough of those on freshmeat, do we?
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Quick buck? Yeah right. If MS *ever* ported Office to Linux is would be made to run only on an MS distribution. Or, it would be made to run so badly that people would think "Wow, this Linux is a piece of crap". Something along those lines, but don't expect them to release an Office2000 quality version any time soon.
Although, they do have a Mac version, don't they?
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No no, it was neither flamebait nor trolling. I am a fan of the GPL. I use GPL software and have often released source code under the GPL. Lately I have taken a personal liking to the BSDL, but I still appreciate the GPL's position.
My comment may have been off-the-cuff; I was trying to drive the point home. Although it may not apply to you, many people here on/. find it very convenient to break IP laws when it suits them (read: MP3s), but still scream bloody murder when a company like Corel commits an infraction of the GPL. I'm simply trying to say that you can't have it both ways, so if you're going to throw other people's IP out the window, keep that in mind when they start kicking around yours.
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Ah yes, it's a degree and I was thinking "course". Wow, that almost makes it worse. Of course, a BA in game programming would be a legitimate degree, whereas a degree in just simple Quake programming would basically be garbage, but I digress.
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Well you could just as easily re-nice DOSEMU to a lower priority, but that wouldn't do it alone. If DOSEMU was the only application that was really digging for CPU time, it would still get free cycles, and it would still run too fast.
I would think that, as an emulator, DOSEMU would have a provision for controlling how much CPU time it uses, and what sort of psuedo-CPU is represents itself as. Couldn't you rework the timing sequence in the emulation system to allow this sort of thing?
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Yeah, I've heard that before too. I hear it all the time, whenever the subject of "common carrier" comes up here on Slashdot. It's totally unfounded.
Slashdot does excercise control over what gets posted. Not through moderation, either. You can only post once every 90 seconds, and you can be banned from posting at all (for a limited time, but the point remains). The latter point, more than the first, makes them a discriminating carrier. Telephone systems are common carriers: you can talk all you want (it costs you, but you can do it) and no matter what, the telco cannot take away your line for something you've said on it. So yes, truly indifferent boards can be considered common-carriers, but I hardly think Slashdot qualifies as one of these.
In any case, this is beside the point -- posting copyrighted material (which was the concern of my previous post) is illegal, and infringes on the intellectual property rights of others. If you don't respect other people's IP rights, how can you expect them to respect yours? (read: the ever-precious GPL).
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You know, there is a reason that Slashdot doesn't mirror the links. It's called "copyright", you might have heard of it.
Seriously, this sort of thing should not get moderated up. It's the soul of redundancy, and it infringes on Helix's IP rights. Maybe they wouldn't mind. Maybe they would. I know a lot of sites that would. Helix probably isn't one of them, but that's hardly the point. You could actually be opening Slashdot up to liability by posting illegally. Just because there's a disclaimer at the bottom of the page, doesn't mean it's true -- Slashdot is not a common-carrier.
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What would the Quake source code (in C) teach students? How to program in C? Well, that would be silly (for obvious reasons of complexity). How to program? No, most universities are teaching intro programming with object-oriented languages like C++ and Java now. Maybe how to program Quake? Yeah, that's about all I could think of.
Seriously, you couldn't cover the entire depth of a complex system like Quake in one semester. Could you do it in two? You'd still be pressed. And the individual aspects of the game (skin modelling) would be better taught with applications and systems that were built for doing just that, not ones that do it out of incidence for appearance like quake.
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Considering that the PSX2 hasn't been released in the US, I think it's pretty silly to just assume that it's going to revolutionize the gaming market. Sure, it's an incredible system, and I'll bet lots of people will buy it, but I think you might be buying into the hype a little bit too early in the game.
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To the effect of DeCSS, it is a program that has only one use: To circumvent the DVD copy-protection scheme. It's irrelevent what the purpose of doing so was (to watch it under Linux or to pirate it over the internet), because the crime here is the actual act of circumvention
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Sorry, but I think this Loss-of-Freedom spiel is getting old. Yeah, this sort of thing could "balkanize" the Internet; I admit the possibility. However, in cases such as the iCraveTV suit, some sort of geographical restrictions are necessary.
The "Enter your Canadian Area Code:" prompt at iCraveTV's website was a joke. Any US retard with 5 minutes on his hands could get around this protection, and while a lot of us may like it that way, it's breaking laws. Canada may allow rebroadcasting, but the US does not.
Clearly this is going to be an issue that comes up more and more frequently in the future: How do national laws apply to an international network? There are already some precedents made, but it's obvious that we're not finished by a long shot. Until we see an international set of laws regarding internet content and liabilities, I think geographical restrictions may be the way to go.
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It's all a big plot to sell more Microsoft Natural keyboards :)
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But that's not what I want to talk about right now. As it turns out, CowboyNeal is really fat. That's all I have to say. Further bulletins as events warrant.
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What the fuck is up with his name? Does anyone else see a striking similarity to "Simon & Garfunkle" -- is it a pen name?? Because if it is, someone should tell him that they broke up.
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As an end user, I don't give a damn about how they do their file format. It would be nice if it played well with other processors, but it's not the end of the world. Besides, it's not like Corel and Sun are writing books on how to read *their* formats.
No, I don't like all those buttons. Fortunately, it's customizable and I get rid of only the ones I don't use.
I don't buy software based on the hair, do you?
Turn the paperclip off -- it's not that hard.
Maybe we can do this ourselves... I don't see anything remotely approaching Office 2000's level of usefulness. KWord isn't that great. I'll give it some time, but I'm not going to hold my breath on this one.
Yeah, go back to the CD player... After all, we don't have enough of those on freshmeat, do we?
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Although, they do have a Mac version, don't they?
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My comment may have been off-the-cuff; I was trying to drive the point home. Although it may not apply to you, many people here on /. find it very convenient to break IP laws when it suits them (read: MP3s), but still scream bloody murder when a company like Corel commits an infraction of the GPL. I'm simply trying to say that you can't have it both ways, so if you're going to throw other people's IP out the window, keep that in mind when they start kicking around yours.
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I would think that, as an emulator, DOSEMU would have a provision for controlling how much CPU time it uses, and what sort of psuedo-CPU is represents itself as. Couldn't you rework the timing sequence in the emulation system to allow this sort of thing?
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Slashdot does excercise control over what gets posted. Not through moderation, either. You can only post once every 90 seconds, and you can be banned from posting at all (for a limited time, but the point remains). The latter point, more than the first, makes them a discriminating carrier. Telephone systems are common carriers: you can talk all you want (it costs you, but you can do it) and no matter what, the telco cannot take away your line for something you've said on it. So yes, truly indifferent boards can be considered common-carriers, but I hardly think Slashdot qualifies as one of these.
In any case, this is beside the point -- posting copyrighted material (which was the concern of my previous post) is illegal, and infringes on the intellectual property rights of others. If you don't respect other people's IP rights, how can you expect them to respect yours? (read: the ever-precious GPL).
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Seriously, this sort of thing should not get moderated up. It's the soul of redundancy, and it infringes on Helix's IP rights. Maybe they wouldn't mind. Maybe they would. I know a lot of sites that would. Helix probably isn't one of them, but that's hardly the point. You could actually be opening Slashdot up to liability by posting illegally. Just because there's a disclaimer at the bottom of the page, doesn't mean it's true -- Slashdot is not a common-carrier.
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Seriously, you couldn't cover the entire depth of a complex system like Quake in one semester. Could you do it in two? You'd still be pressed. And the individual aspects of the game (skin modelling) would be better taught with applications and systems that were built for doing just that, not ones that do it out of incidence for appearance like quake.
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