mild article. it doesnt yell out - TAKE ACTION YOU DOLTS. more mainstream press coverage of this and the DMCA would be a lot more helpful (NYTimes and Wall Street Journal anyone?).
Re:Well everyone must be thinking (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 03, @03:20PM EST (#202) Finally, and most important, the legislative history makes it abundantly clear that Section 1201(f) permits reverse engineering of copyrighted computer programs only and does not authorize circumvention of technological systems that control access to other copyrighted works, such as movies.21 In consequence, the reverse engineering exception does not apply.
But what about this text ? Has it no legislative value ? Remarks of Chairman Bliley from the Congressional Record
Mr. BLILEY. Mr. Speaker, as Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, I want to make some additional comments. Specifically, given that the Conference Report contains several new provisions, I want to supplement the legislative history for this legislation to clarify the Conferees' intent, aswell as make clear the constitutional bases for our action. Given the inherent page and time limitations of spelling everything out in a conference report, I wanted to share our perspective with our colleagues before they vote on this important legislation. Moreover, given the unfortunate proclivity of some in our society to file spurious lawsuits, I don't want there to be any misunderstanding about the scope of this legislation, especially the very limited scope of the device provisions in Title I and the very broad scope of the exceptions to section 1201(a)(1).
[...]
As advances in technology occur, consumers will enjoy additional benefits if devices are able to interact, and share information. Achieving interoperability in the consumer electronics environment will be a critical factor in the growth of electronic commerce. Companies are already designing operating systems and networks that connect devices in the home and workplace. In the Committee's view, manufacturers, consumers, retailers, and professional servicers should not be prevented from correcting an interoperability problem or other adverse effect resulting from a technological measure causing one or more devices in the home or in a business to fail to interoperate with other technologies. Given the multiplicity of ways in which products will interoperate, it seems probable that some technological measures or copyright management information systems might cause playability problems. To encourage the affected industries to work together with the goal of avoiding potential playability problems in advance to the extent possible, the Committee emphasized in its report and I made clear in my floor statement that a manufacturer of a product or device (to which 1201 would otherwise apply) may lawfully design or modify the product or device to the extent necessary to mitigate a frequently occurring and noticeable adverse effect on the authorized performance or display of a work that is caused by a technological measure in the ordinary course of its design and operation. Similarly, recognizing that a technological measure may cause a playability problem with a particular device, or combination of devices, used by a consumer, the Committee also emphasized that a retailer, professional servicer, or individual consumer lawfully could modify a product or device solely to the extent necessary to mitigate a playability problem caused by a technological measure in the ordinary course of its design and operation. The conferees made clear in their report that they shared these views on playability.
dont worry. the 2 hour install all the patches thing followed by the 2 hour install the useful stuff thing will leave you plenty o time to whip out redhat 6.1/sparc and install it.download the 650m iso image from metalab.unc.edu and burn to cd..boot and you'll be all set.
not sure i agree..most of the books i read (well..ok..i read three) came with the APIs for motif,Xt & Xlib together bundled as one. reading one of the x/motif programming books covering all three saves a helluva lot of time. want to search for a function ? simple..look in the glossary.
hmm..lesstif is a pretty good motif clone.most applications will compile out of the box with lesstif. GTK is pretty close to MOTIF..i was able to get up to speed on it without bothering to read anything except the FAQ. It seems that whoever wrote GTK was also a MOTIF fan...which is *great* from the point of view of all of us old unix diehards.
yep. the UK data protection act is one helluva law - the US should copy it. it gives a LOT of rights to people and most banks/universities/phone companies etc have a tiny checkbox on their forms which entitles you to block all access to information.
yes it is. but not for the reason you mentioned. Have a look at : http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cil/v-source.html All the source is there including : BrainTech's Odysee Development Studio - Commercial program - A drag-and-drop environment for vision system prototyping and testing (a la Wit, Vision Blox, Khoros, etc.). It is also an open architecture so that one can import their own C/C++ functions. (by Ajay Sidda / Odysee / BrainTech) Camera Calibration - Routines for calibrating using Roger Tsai's perspective projection camera model. (by Reg Willson / CMU) Convex grouping algorithm - Robustly locates salient convex collections of line segments in an image. Edge list approximation code - From Nonparametric segmentation of curves into various representations, PAMI 1995 pp 1140-1153. by Paul Rosin and Geoff West. GSnake - Contour modeling, extraction, detection, and classification. Hidden Markov Model routines - Implementation of Forward, Backward, Viterbi and Baum-Welch algorithms. The code follows Rabiner and Juang notation. Written in c. (by Tapas Kanungo / Center for Automation Research / University of Maryland, College Park) Intel Video Capture Card Libraries for Linux - Research libraries for the Intel Create & Share Camera Pack and the Smart Video Recorder III to be used with C, Matlab, or Java on a Linux system Facilitates high speed image capture into Matlab and C, and slower capture into Java. (by Jeff Norris / Learning and Vision Group / MIT) KLT - An implementation of the Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi feature tracker. (by Stan Birchfield / Stanford Vision Lab / Stanford University) Logical/Linear Operators (by Lee Iverson) MMach - A Mathematical Morphology Toolbox for the Khoros System Maximum-Flow Stereo Algorithm - Code for the maximum-flow formulation of the N camera stereo correspondence problem. (by Sebastien Roy / NEC Research Institute) MeasTex - A framework for quantitative measurement of image texture classification algorithms. MegaWave - Wavelet, Snake and Segmentation source code. Microsoft Easy Camera Calibration Tool - a flexible camera calibration technique, which only requires the camera to observe a planar pattern shown at a few (at least two) different (unknown) orientations. (by Zhengyou Zhang / Vision Technology Group / Microsoft Corp.) NIST Handwriting OCR Testbed - OCR software and datasets for UNIX systems. Perceptual Organization Software Performance of Optical Flow Techniques - Implementations of a number of optical flow algorithms as well as test data and results. These programs are described in John Barron, David Fleet and Steven Beauchemin, Queen's University Tech Report RPL-TR-9107, July 1992 (revised July 1993). SAMPLEX Color Classifier - Demos and software (requires licensing) (Purdue University) SRI Stereo Engine Software - fast stereo software for PCs. It performs disparity calculations and filtering in real time on images up to 320x240 in size. ( SRI Artificial Intelligence Center / SRI International) SUSAN - Low-level image processing. SUSAN is an acronym for Smallest Univalue Segment Assimilating Nucleus. The SUSAN algorithms cover image noise filtering, edge finding and corner finding. (by Steve Smith / Oxford University) SatherVision - An object oriented framework for artificial vision. Includes low-level operations (FFTs, convolutions), pipes, Tk widgets, stereo and optical flow modules. Segmentation of Skin-Cancer Images - Implementation of an algorithm for segmenting images of skin cancer and other pigmented lesions (see Image and Vision Computing, January 1999, pp. 65-74). An automatic method for segmention of images of skin cancer and other pigmented lesions is implemented. This method first reduces a color image into an intensity image and approximately segments the image by intensity thresholding. Then, it refines the segmentation using image edges. Double thresholding is used to focus on an image area where a lesion boundary potentially exists. Image edges are then used to localize the boundary in that area. A closed elastic curve is fitted to the initial boundary and is locally shrunk or expanded to approximate edges in its neighborhood in the area of focus. Segmentation results from twenty randomly selected images show an average error that is about the same as that obtained by four experts manually segmenting the images. (by L. Xu, M. Jackowski, A. Goshtasby, C. Yu, D. Roseman, S. Bines, A. Dhawan, A. Huntley / Intelligent Systems Laboratory / Wright State University) SketchUp - A demo package for recognizing hand-drawn sketches through Size Functions. ( Vision Mathematics group / University of Bologna) Steerable Pyramid Check Eero's home page for a tar file. (by Eero Simoncelli) TargetJr - A C++ Computer Vision Environment - C++ programing environment with libraries to support: image processing; image segmentation; camera modeling; 2-d and 3-d geometry; a graphical user interface based on FRESCO. TargetJr has been developed over the last 10 years, starting at GE's Corporate R&D Center. Currently TargetJr is used by a number of vision research groups with emaphasis on geometric algorithms and object recognition. TargetJr is written in C++ and organized into a number of libraries including: numerics; spatial objects; image; image processing; segmentation; computational geometry; 3-d modeling; and user interface. (by Joseph Mundy, William Hoffman, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Peter Vanroose and Rupert Curwen / GE Corp. R&D, Oxford University, University of Leuven) ToolDiag - Pattern recognition of multivariate numerical data. UNL Fourier Features (UFF) - An implementation of a general purpose 2-D shape description method. (by Thomas Rauber) University of Calgary vision software - Includes chain code, Hough transform, and others. ZipPack Polygon Mesh Zippering - Combines several range images into a polygonal mesh.
uuh. prevent piracy ? aint gonna happen. CSS is NOT for preventing pirates. those pirates can make copies of the disc without deCSS. hell..you can mount the disk in your linux box, copy the VOB files onto another DVD and voila - youre all set. pirates have commercial quality equipment. they can do a helluva better job at it.
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uuh...in space human muscles tend to degenerate. hence the need for excercise cycles and such. plus youre gonna need rad shielding for all thos high energy particles. people cant survive in space at this time - at least not for years.
i have been recieving upto 8 attacks (average 4) per day on my linux boxes and no one has managed to get in. fact is - any decent UNIX is secure if its admin know what the hell theyre doing. i can easily install any OpenBSD box with an old sendmail and hve it cracked in seconds. ipchains and assorted firewalling *will* stop most attacks. whether youre using openbsd or linux doesnt really matter.
no. it was a genuine question by a newbie. and you called him an *idiot* ?? Fact is FreeBSD isnt sold in stores and can be downloaded from the internet. but in doing so you have to put up with this sort of an attitude. BSD developers liek you are morons. hostility towards anyone new trying your software isnt anything you should be proud of.
uuh..no. root *can* rm -rf/* your drive even if he is jail()ed. read the documentation. the only thing you cant do is add new device drivers and networking routes seem to be fixed.
using something that you can trust working 100% is far better than getting with it. grow up - using a stable compiler is far better than an experimental one...just what did you think the e in egcs stood for anyway ?
UNICOS is a unix like system running on crays. i suspect that the NSAs cray hardware runs it. anyway, the NSA/military basically leave air gaps on their secure hardware. you cant make electrons jump free space and you sure as hell cant hack into a facility with armed guards and 6 foot thick concrete walls with no connection to any public systems.
damn im impressed. you seem to have skipped the whole NeXT machine line tho..adding those to your existing collection would be kewl. besides, i could use the pictures.:)
you can use AfterStep on solaris - the first thing i did was to wipe CDE off my box, whack AfterStep on and voila - instant NeXT desktop with around twice the performance of CDE and 16 virtual desktops. BTW, you gotta start the session with safemode barebones X to run AfterStep. didnt figure that out for a while.
hmm..i thought shoutcast or icecast or whatever that thing is, did streaming video. Anyway, the one and only problem i can see with video being streamed is compatibility with QT/MS video. Its fairly straightforward to write a protocol to stream, the MPEG and MJPEG video stuff is already there..its just the compatibility problem.
nobody said linux was perfect or any distro was perfect. however, win2k was touted as "perfect" by M$..check on M$'s site for the appropriate pr fluff. besides, as everyone knows, its a helluva lot easier to lock down a unix box than any shit from m$. BTW, that story also contains a reference to connlogd a TCP/UDP connection logger. i'd recommend downloading and using it - really kewl.
why doesnt freshmeat simply mirror all fm entries locally on it sown server ? i would think that would be more helpful than simply adding another "we host yer project free" site to it.
i think this was covered a bit in the mac os x rollout story. anyway in case someone missed it here's the real place to look for critiques on apple's UI and the OS in general. see: http://forum.appleinsider.com/ ubb/Forum2/HTML/001104.html
Slashdot Mirror
mild article. it doesnt yell out - TAKE ACTION YOU DOLTS. more mainstream press coverage of this and the DMCA would be a lot more helpful (NYTimes and Wall Street Journal anyone?).
genetic algorithms ? hell..you can crack those keys in seconds with brute force on a pii-300. its only 2^16 combos.
moderate the previous comment UP !
Re:Well everyone must be thinking (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 03, @03:20PM EST (#202)
Finally, and most important, the legislative history makes it abundantly clear that Section 1201(f) permits reverse engineering of copyrighted
computer programs only and does not authorize circumvention of technological systems that control access to other copyrighted works, such
as movies.21 In consequence, the reverse engineering exception does not apply.
But what about this text ? Has it no legislative value ? Remarks of Chairman Bliley from the Congressional Record
Mr. BLILEY. Mr. Speaker, as Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, I want to make some additional comments. Specifically, given that the
Conference Report contains several new provisions, I want to supplement the legislative history for this legislation to clarify the Conferees' intent, aswell as make clear the constitutional bases for our action. Given the inherent page and time limitations of spelling everything out in a conference report, I wanted to share our perspective with our colleagues before they vote on this important legislation. Moreover, given the unfortunate proclivity of some in our society to file spurious lawsuits, I don't want there to be any misunderstanding about the scope of this legislation, especially the very limited scope of
the device provisions in Title I and the very broad scope of the exceptions to section 1201(a)(1).
[...]
As advances in technology occur, consumers will enjoy additional benefits if devices are able to interact, and share information. Achieving interoperability in the consumer electronics environment will be a critical factor in the growth of electronic commerce. Companies are already designing
operating systems and networks that connect devices in the home and workplace. In the Committee's view, manufacturers, consumers, retailers, and professional servicers should not be prevented from correcting an interoperability problem or other adverse effect resulting from a technological measure causing one or more devices in the home or in a business to fail to interoperate with other technologies. Given the multiplicity of ways in which products
will interoperate, it seems probable that some technological measures or copyright management information systems might cause playability problems. To encourage the affected industries to work together with the goal of avoiding potential playability problems in advance to the extent possible, the Committee emphasized in its report and I made clear in my floor statement that a manufacturer of a product or device (to which 1201 would otherwise apply) may lawfully design or modify the product or device to the extent necessary to mitigate a frequently occurring and noticeable adverse effect on the authorized performance or display of a work that is caused by a technological measure in the ordinary course of its design and operation. Similarly, recognizing that a technological measure may cause a playability problem with a particular device, or combination of devices, used by a consumer, the
Committee also emphasized that a retailer, professional servicer, or individual consumer lawfully could modify a product or device solely to the extent necessary to mitigate a playability problem caused by a technological measure in the ordinary course of its design and operation. The conferees made clear in their report that they shared these views on playability.
yes. transparent metals are being worked on at DARPA.
dont worry. the 2 hour install all the patches thing followed by the 2 hour install the useful stuff thing will leave you plenty o time to whip out redhat 6.1/sparc and install it.download the 650m iso image from metalab.unc.edu and burn to cd..boot and you'll be all set.
not sure i agree..most of the books i read (well..ok..i read three) came with the APIs for motif,Xt & Xlib together bundled as one. reading one of the x/motif programming books covering all three saves a helluva lot of time. want to search for a function ? simple..look in the glossary.
hmm..lesstif is a pretty good motif clone.most applications will compile out of the box with lesstif. GTK is pretty close to MOTIF ..i was able to get up to speed on it without bothering to read anything except the FAQ. It seems that whoever wrote GTK was also a MOTIF fan...which is *great* from the point of view of all of us old unix diehards.
yep. the UK data protection act is one helluva law - the US should copy it. it gives a LOT of rights to people and most banks/universities/phone companies etc have a tiny checkbox on their forms which entitles you to block all access to information.
yes it is. but not for the reason you mentioned.
Have a look at :
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cil/v-source.html
All the source is there including :
BrainTech's Odysee Development Studio - Commercial program - A drag-and-drop environment for vision system prototyping and testing (a la Wit,
Vision Blox, Khoros, etc.). It is also an open architecture so that one can import their own C/C++ functions. (by Ajay Sidda / Odysee / BrainTech)
Camera Calibration - Routines for calibrating using Roger Tsai's perspective projection camera model. (by Reg Willson / CMU)
Convex grouping algorithm - Robustly locates salient convex collections of line segments in an image.
Edge list approximation code - From Nonparametric segmentation of curves into various representations, PAMI 1995 pp 1140-1153. by Paul Rosin and
Geoff West.
GSnake - Contour modeling, extraction, detection, and classification.
Hidden Markov Model routines - Implementation of Forward, Backward, Viterbi and Baum-Welch algorithms. The code follows Rabiner and Juang
notation. Written in c. (by Tapas Kanungo / Center for Automation Research / University of Maryland, College Park)
Intel Video Capture Card Libraries for Linux - Research libraries for the Intel Create & Share Camera Pack and the Smart Video Recorder III to be
used with C, Matlab, or Java on a Linux system
Facilitates high speed image capture into Matlab and C, and slower capture into Java. (by Jeff Norris / Learning and Vision Group / MIT)
KLT - An implementation of the Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi feature tracker. (by Stan Birchfield / Stanford Vision Lab / Stanford University)
Logical/Linear Operators (by Lee Iverson)
MMach - A Mathematical Morphology Toolbox for the Khoros System
Maximum-Flow Stereo Algorithm - Code for the maximum-flow formulation of the N camera stereo correspondence problem. (by Sebastien Roy / NEC
Research Institute)
MeasTex - A framework for quantitative measurement of image texture classification algorithms.
MegaWave - Wavelet, Snake and Segmentation source code.
Microsoft Easy Camera Calibration Tool - a flexible camera calibration technique, which only requires the camera to observe a planar pattern shown at a
few (at least two) different (unknown) orientations. (by Zhengyou Zhang / Vision Technology Group / Microsoft Corp.)
NIST Handwriting OCR Testbed - OCR software and datasets for UNIX systems.
Perceptual Organization Software
Performance of Optical Flow Techniques - Implementations of a number of optical flow algorithms as well as test data and results.
These programs are described in John Barron, David Fleet and Steven Beauchemin, Queen's University Tech Report RPL-TR-9107, July 1992 (revised July
1993).
SAMPLEX Color Classifier - Demos and software (requires licensing) (Purdue University)
SRI Stereo Engine Software - fast stereo software for PCs. It performs disparity calculations and filtering in real time on images up to 320x240 in size. (
SRI Artificial Intelligence Center / SRI International)
SUSAN - Low-level image processing.
SUSAN is an acronym for Smallest Univalue Segment Assimilating Nucleus. The SUSAN algorithms cover image noise filtering, edge finding and corner
finding. (by Steve Smith / Oxford University)
SatherVision - An object oriented framework for artificial vision.
Includes low-level operations (FFTs, convolutions), pipes, Tk widgets, stereo and optical flow modules.
Segmentation of Skin-Cancer Images - Implementation of an algorithm for segmenting images of skin cancer and other pigmented lesions (see Image and
Vision Computing, January 1999, pp. 65-74).
An automatic method for segmention of images of skin cancer and other pigmented lesions is implemented. This method first reduces a color image into an
intensity image and approximately segments the image by intensity thresholding. Then, it refines the segmentation using image edges. Double thresholding
is used to focus on an image area where a lesion boundary potentially exists. Image edges are then used to localize the boundary in that area. A closed elastic
curve is fitted to the initial boundary and is locally shrunk or expanded to approximate edges in its neighborhood in the area of focus. Segmentation results
from twenty randomly selected images show an average error that is about the same as that obtained by four experts manually segmenting the images. (by L.
Xu, M. Jackowski, A. Goshtasby, C. Yu, D. Roseman, S. Bines, A. Dhawan, A. Huntley / Intelligent Systems Laboratory / Wright State University)
SketchUp - A demo package for recognizing hand-drawn sketches through Size Functions. ( Vision Mathematics group / University of Bologna)
Steerable Pyramid
Check Eero's home page for a tar file. (by Eero Simoncelli)
TargetJr - A C++ Computer Vision Environment - C++ programing environment with libraries to support: image processing; image segmentation;
camera modeling; 2-d and 3-d geometry; a graphical user interface based on FRESCO.
TargetJr has been developed over the last 10 years, starting at GE's Corporate R&D Center. Currently TargetJr is used by a number of vision research
groups with emaphasis on geometric algorithms and object recognition. TargetJr is written in C++ and organized into a number of libraries including:
numerics; spatial objects; image; image processing; segmentation; computational geometry; 3-d modeling; and user interface. (by Joseph Mundy, William
Hoffman, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Peter Vanroose and Rupert Curwen / GE Corp. R&D, Oxford University, University of Leuven)
ToolDiag - Pattern recognition of multivariate numerical data.
UNL Fourier Features (UFF) - An implementation of a general purpose 2-D shape description method. (by Thomas Rauber)
University of Calgary vision software - Includes chain code, Hough transform, and others.
ZipPack Polygon Mesh Zippering - Combines several range images into a polygonal mesh.
uuh. prevent piracy ? aint gonna happen. CSS is NOT for preventing pirates. those pirates can make copies of the disc without deCSS. hell..you can mount the disk in your linux box, copy the VOB files onto another DVD and voila - youre all set. pirates have commercial quality equipment. they can do a helluva better job at it.
uuh...in space human muscles tend to degenerate. hence the need for excercise cycles and such. plus youre gonna need rad shielding for all thos high energy particles. people cant survive in space at this time - at least not for years.
i have been recieving upto 8 attacks (average 4) per day on my linux boxes and no one has managed to get in. fact is - any decent UNIX is secure if its admin know what the hell theyre doing. i can easily install any OpenBSD box with an old sendmail and hve it cracked in seconds. ipchains and assorted firewalling *will* stop most attacks. whether youre using openbsd or linux doesnt really matter.
no. it was a genuine question by a newbie. and you called him an *idiot* ?? Fact is FreeBSD isnt sold in stores and can be downloaded from the internet. but in doing so you have to put up with this sort of an attitude. BSD developers liek you are morons. hostility towards anyone new trying your software isnt anything you should be proud of.
uuh..no. root *can* rm -rf /* your drive even if he is jail()ed. read the documentation. the only thing you cant do is add new device drivers and networking routes seem to be fixed.
using something that you can trust working 100% is far better than getting with it. grow up - using a stable compiler is far better than an experimental one...just what did you think the e in egcs stood for anyway ?
UNICOS is a unix like system running on crays. i suspect that the NSAs cray hardware runs it. anyway, the NSA/military basically leave air gaps on their secure hardware. you cant make electrons jump free space and you sure as hell cant hack into a facility with armed guards and 6 foot thick concrete walls with no connection to any public systems.
damn im impressed. you seem to have skipped the whole NeXT machine line tho..adding those to your existing collection would be kewl. besides, i could use the pictures. :)
you can use AfterStep on solaris - the first thing i did was to wipe CDE off my box, whack AfterStep on and voila - instant NeXT desktop with around twice the performance of CDE and 16 virtual desktops. BTW, you gotta start the session with safemode barebones X to run AfterStep. didnt figure that out for a while.
hmm..i thought shoutcast or icecast or whatever that thing is, did streaming video. Anyway, the one and only problem i can see with video being streamed is compatibility with QT/MS video. Its fairly straightforward to write a protocol to stream, the MPEG and MJPEG video stuff is already there..its just the compatibility problem.
actually this is the best place to start.
nah..int 19h traps were far more fun. ahh..the joys of TSR's.
nobody said linux was perfect or any distro was perfect. however, win2k was touted as "perfect" by M$..check on M$'s site for the appropriate pr fluff. besides, as everyone knows, its a helluva lot easier to lock down a unix box than any shit from m$.
BTW, that story also contains a reference to connlogd a TCP/UDP connection logger. i'd recommend downloading and using it - really kewl.
why doesnt freshmeat simply mirror all fm entries locally on it sown server ? i would think that would be more helpful than simply adding another "we host yer project free" site to it.
i think this was covered a bit in the mac os x rollout story. anyway in case someone missed it here's the real place to look for critiques on apple's UI and the OS in general. see:
http://forum.appleinsider.com/ ubb/Forum2/HTML/001104.html
no they didnt. this has been debated quite extensively. its fairly simple to do it. *hint* check my previous postings on the subject.