The 'model letter' said "we will expect your clients to be prepared to dismiss all claims with prejudice. The pleadings may be e-filed from my office the same day. Although dismissal will not avoid your clients' exposure to attorneys' fees". What the RIAA has filed here is a notice of voluntary dismissal 'without prejudice'. This is not the same thing at all.
IANAL, so I turn to wikipedia: "In law, the phrase without prejudice means that a claim, lawsuit, or proceeding has been brought to a temporary end but that no legal rights or privileges have been determined, waived, or lost by the result. For example, if a party brings a lawsuit in small claims court but discovers that the claim is greater than the amount for that court to have jurisdiction, the lawsuit can be dismissed "without prejudice". This means that the dismissal is no bar to bringing a new lawsuit in a court that does have jurisdiction.
By contrast with prejudice means that a party's legal rights have in fact been determined and lost. To continue the same example, if instead the court had jurisdiction, but the plaintiff did not appear for the trial, the court would dismiss the case "with prejudice". That dismissal is a judgment against the plaintiff "on the merits" of the case, and extinguishes the claim that was being sued over. However, this does not prevent an appeal or a trial de novo if ordered by a higher court."
In other words the RIAA are reserving the right to sue again. Anyone know what happens about fees in the 'without prejudice' case?
my fault, assuming you are using an alpha or nightly build. There are still a bunch of font bugs in cairo, in particular when the text is scaled. Most of those were fixed in cairo 1.4.2, they should land in the mozilla soonish, and hopefully the next release will look a lot better. Mac fonts on cairo trunk are now pretty much up to par with the other platforms, and Robert O'Callahan, Vlad, etc have done great stuff making it all perform well too.
I for one welcome our new domain squatting masters.
No, really, I do. The consolidation of the domain squatting market makes it possible to do interesting stuff like NEVER go to their sites - eg a firefox plugin to check who's behind 'direct navigation' site names and, if its a squatter, take me to google instead. (I love how they say direct navigation like its something that users just started doing, that they might patent)
There is also a purely software-based solution that doesn't lose quality: QEMU. Install this emulator, instal Windows inside there...
Vista, doesn't permit access to DRM'd content if you run it virtualized. At least, thats the license requirement, and there is a a suggestion that they use red pill techniques to detect virtualization for runtime checks. (I don't use vista, and I don't own any DRM'd content, so I'm not commenting from personal experience)
I know its less usable, but its not difficult to create individually watermarked handouts (say). I don't mean just adding text into a pdf, thats far to easy to remove - I mean a multipage tiff with the watermark text is burned into the image, or the pdf equivalent. That way if someone passes on a copy, you know who did it. You can also include the eurion constellation in the watermark to make it harder for people to mess with the image in tools (or with printers/scanners)
I'm not sure its worth protecting slides much more than this - if your course is so chalk & talk that the slides capture everything, the bad reputation you'll gain will cost you more than piracy.
So you're going to manufacture and handle the OLPC in less than one hour?
He said refurbishmed PCs require, for the sake of argument, "one hour of human attention to refurbish, reload, and handle". A new PC may take more than an hour to manufacture in total, but component assembly on a production line is the true comparison. Dell, for example, make 650 PCs/hour per production line, which works out somewhere like 10-20 custom PCs per hour per worker. So yes, they're going to manufacture it in less than an hour. Way, way less.
That feature is seriously screwed up. Microsoft are *still* trying to sell people on the idea that its ok to share around the editable document, when in reality its hardly ever ok. All it takes is for one person to forget to remove hidden data and you're on the news.
Look at the list of Office products it integrates with - there's one missing. Outlook. Why isn't outlook set up to prompt you to ask if it should strip the documents before sending? Why is there no feature on exchange to block emails leaving the domain with unstripped attachments? Why doesn't iis block access to unstripped files? Now those would make it a feature worth having.
Stepping back from MS for a moment, the same problem actually exists in many other file types - even html (meta tags and comments). Its why the microformats movement thinks metadata should be presentable and parsable rather than hidden in 'document properties'. Their solution isn't complete though - we need to separate the notions of 'Save As' and 'Publish'. One way to achieve this in a corporate/government environment would be for servers to require digital signatures on outgoing documents - this would introduce publication into a document lifecycle for the purpose of integrity, at which point we can hook in 'strip doc' wizards to minimize risk.
Simple, first kidnap you and your kids. Then slowly torture one of your kids to death to prove I am serious. After that you would do anything, even give up the key/passphrase to save your other kid. I am sure you can come up with several other methods that would work for people without children.
I keep one of the twins, Alice, in the firesafe to prevent this kind of attack. Bob is kept offsite as a backup.
Thats an interesting question. One definition of ID: "The theory of intelligent design (ID) holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection."
That doesn't quite imply a creator, just an abandonment of Occam's Razor. Some alternative possibilities consistent with that description:
- we're living in a simulation, as in the Matrix. We're thus unable to formulate theories about the 'real world', in which Xena and the Gods may well still be about, or evolution may be at play.
- those features which look designed were just put there by something inside our universe and subject to physical laws, eg, a grey, bug-eyed, spindly alien. The alien may be subject to evolution, but he's designed bits of what we see. Like, say, fjords.
and for an example of what it's NOT: - the solipsist approach: its not a simulation, just an illusion. Reality is a figment of your imagination. Worse, reality may be subjective and while we live in a rational world, the advocates of ID may well live in a mythic universe. (the only difference between this and the other two is the absence of a designer)
While these are somewhat ludicrous theories, the fact is they might be true, and scientists wouldn't deny this. But they are really philosophical positions, and effectively anti-science, since it amounts to a claim that we cannot determine causal relationships between observed phenomena, ie all empirical science is rubbish...
That's nothing. Where I live, grids are non-existent any distance from the town centre due to a city ordinance banning Euclid's 5th axiom. House numbering is similarly vague, using only irrational numbers. And taxi drivers know where everywhere is, but due to our discrete topology, can't take you there.
The one that makes me want to throw things at the telly is where the girl says she'll make an album about breaking up with her boyfriend. With "a world of windows compatible software and devices", apparently.
This is clearly a swipe at GarageBand, but er... nothing like that comes bundled with windows.
I think her breakup has made her flip out into a fantasyland. I blame the boyfriend.
The "maths cures cancer" research said that most(?) cancers don't grow exponentially (ie throughout their volume), but the dividing cells are just the outer layer of the cancer; presumably the inner cells are starved of resources.
Hence, the old growth-directed chemo was only tackling the outer layer of the cancer, giving time for the remaining cells to develop drug resistance, etc.
The new approach sounds like it's still only tackling the outer layer, but at least it should keep the drugs effective while they shrink the tumour.
NanoGator: The original Star Trek series, for example, wasn't all that popular. Years after it ended, the 'space race' happened, and suddenly there was interest again.
Bishop923: Actually The original series ran from 1966-1969, during the final 3 years of the "Space Race"
He wasn't talking about our space race, dude. It was the one on Vulcan.
It strikes me the JSON version would be *much* larger for non-western languages. It can only include non-ascii characters in the data via the use of unicode escapes, which are 6 bytes long (\uXXXX), as compared to 2 in XML using an appropriate charset. It also lacks object references, so can't be made as compact as an arbitrary JS program.
JSON-RPC doesn't seem to be intended for use in interchange, but for websites, since it relies on browser security for the 'efficiency' of being able to use eval() in its JS implementation. That being the case, I can't see why you'd choose to use this rather than return arbitrary javascript to the browser.
Public fears over young people carrying knives in school and on the street could prompt new government restrictions, the Home Office says...They include raising the age at which teenagers can buy a knife to 18 and introducing searches in schools.
Anyone else read the judgement? They quote this breathtaking line from Eldred vs Ashcroft:
'the profit motive is the engine that ensures the progress of science'
A sentence that will make most (underpaid) scientists jaws drop. Whats even more bizarre is the argument they hang on this shaky peg. It appears in the section discussing the lack of copyright registration, which IA argue makes it hard to gain a license. At present, there's a jack-in-the-box system, where if you use apparently abandoned material, the author may pop up and sue - fear of which, IA argue, is a 'chilling effect' on free speech.
The court uses the supreme court quote above to say that authors have a financial incentive to register material to make it easy for potential licensees to find them.
Yeah, right. So, every schoolkid writing an essay should contact the LoC and register it, because ONE DAY they will make back their costs? Or speaking more directly to this case: authors of material orphaned in the late 60's - who had EVERY EXPECTATION that their work would be PD by now - should jump out of their graves and file their work?
That doesn't even begin to make sense. And then theres the actual grounds for dismissal:
"As plaintiffs do not allege any alterations to the "traditional contours of copyright protection," no further First Amendment analysis is necessary"
But that is exactly what they/do/ allege: "Plaintiffs assert that "[w]hereas the traditional contours of a conditional copyright regime [are narrow], an unconditional regime guarantees [wider protection]" (my elisions, p6 line 9, and following lines).
6. Linking to Sony Sites You must not link to any Sony Site without first obtaining the prior written consent of Sony and such consent must be signed by Sony's Director of Business Affairs to be valid.
(to which I say: ok, lets wipe you off the face of the internet)...Oh shit now I've done it too: 2...no part of the content of this site may be reproduced in any form without the written consent of Sony...
While individual images may be low res, you can get better definition from combining a sequence of low res images. I can't find the exact papers showing examples but I've seen this done in Steve Mann's work: http://wearcam.org/research.htm
However as security cameras often don't even capture continuous images, even this won't help - so you're pretty much right.
The dragon in the Saint George legend is described as and 'poisonous', not fire-breathing. (the Legenda Aurea is where it was written down in the 13th century). The original latin describes it as draco pestifer (= "destructive snake").
The 11th century Beowulf story mentions dragons and fire, but the dragon isn't breathing it: there's a stream of fire from the burial mound the dragon defends, and the dragon is apparently enveloped in flame.
I'm not sure what you mean by the Revelation of St Peter - theres an Apocalypse of Peter (which doesnt mention a dragon) and the Revelation of St John? In that, the dragon and the beast are separate things, and the dragon breathes a river, not fire (chapter 12). There's horses that breathe fire though (9:17). In any case in its original greek 'drakon' meant snake.
BTW I don't really know all this stuff - when I read your reply I vaguely remembered that Beowulf's dragon was fire-breathing and George's wasn't - I was just curious enough to check.
"...you'll crash the only program that gets the test case, making it difficult to send it in with a bug report."
Not entirely true. While you have to do some work to get to a crash report, you want to generate the fuzz pseudo-randomly from a seed, always pushing the code that will fetch the next random page, with the seed as a parameter of the URL. With this setup, it should be possible to easily spot and reproduce crashes from the logs (the last URL served to each client crashed; since its only pseudo-random you can reproduce the test).
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The 'model letter' said "we will expect your clients to be prepared to dismiss all claims with prejudice. The pleadings may be e-filed from my office the same day. Although dismissal will not avoid your clients' exposure to attorneys' fees". What the RIAA has filed here is a notice of voluntary dismissal 'without prejudice'. This is not the same thing at all.
IANAL, so I turn to wikipedia:
"In law, the phrase without prejudice means that a claim, lawsuit, or proceeding has been brought to a temporary end but that no legal rights or privileges have been determined, waived, or lost by the result. For example, if a party brings a lawsuit in small claims court but discovers that the claim is greater than the amount for that court to have jurisdiction, the lawsuit can be dismissed "without prejudice". This means that the dismissal is no bar to bringing a new lawsuit in a court that does have jurisdiction.
By contrast with prejudice means that a party's legal rights have in fact been determined and lost. To continue the same example, if instead the court had jurisdiction, but the plaintiff did not appear for the trial, the court would dismiss the case "with prejudice". That dismissal is a judgment against the plaintiff "on the merits" of the case, and extinguishes the claim that was being sued over. However, this does not prevent an appeal or a trial de novo if ordered by a higher court."
In other words the RIAA are reserving the right to sue again. Anyone know what happens about fees in the 'without prejudice' case?
*Holds up hand*
my fault, assuming you are using an alpha or nightly build. There are still a bunch of font bugs in cairo, in particular when the text is scaled. Most of those were fixed in cairo 1.4.2, they should land in the mozilla soonish, and hopefully the next release will look a lot better. Mac fonts on cairo trunk are now pretty much up to par with the other platforms, and Robert O'Callahan, Vlad, etc have done great stuff making it all perform well too.
-Baz (maintaining mac font stuff in cairo)
I for one welcome our new domain squatting masters.
No, really, I do. The consolidation of the domain squatting market makes it possible to do interesting stuff like NEVER go to their sites - eg a firefox plugin to check who's behind 'direct navigation' site names and, if its a squatter, take me to google instead. (I love how they say direct navigation like its something that users just started doing, that they might patent)
Sorry, it had to be said.
There is also a purely software-based solution that doesn't lose quality: QEMU. Install this emulator, instal Windows inside there...
Vista, doesn't permit access to DRM'd content if you run it virtualized. At least, thats the license requirement, and there is a a suggestion that they use red pill techniques to detect virtualization for runtime checks. (I don't use vista, and I don't own any DRM'd content, so I'm not commenting from personal experience)
I know its less usable, but its not difficult to create individually watermarked handouts (say). I don't mean just adding text into a pdf, thats far to easy to remove - I mean a multipage tiff with the watermark text is burned into the image, or the pdf equivalent. That way if someone passes on a copy, you know who did it. You can also include the eurion constellation in the watermark to make it harder for people to mess with the image in tools (or with printers/scanners)
I'm not sure its worth protecting slides much more than this - if your course is so chalk & talk that the slides capture everything, the bad reputation you'll gain will cost you more than piracy.
So you're going to manufacture and handle the OLPC in less than one hour?
He said refurbishmed PCs require, for the sake of argument, "one hour of human attention to refurbish, reload, and handle". A new PC may take more than an hour to manufacture in total, but component assembly on a production line is the true comparison. Dell, for example, make 650 PCs/hour per production line, which works out somewhere like 10-20 custom PCs per hour per worker. So yes, they're going to manufacture it in less than an hour. Way, way less.
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That feature is seriously screwed up. Microsoft are *still* trying to sell people on the idea that its ok to share around the editable document, when in reality its hardly ever ok. All it takes is for one person to forget to remove hidden data and you're on the news.
Look at the list of Office products it integrates with - there's one missing. Outlook. Why isn't outlook set up to prompt you to ask if it should strip the documents before sending? Why is there no feature on exchange to block emails leaving the domain with unstripped attachments? Why doesn't iis block access to unstripped files? Now those would make it a feature worth having.
Stepping back from MS for a moment, the same problem actually exists in many other file types - even html (meta tags and comments). Its why the microformats movement thinks metadata should be presentable and parsable rather than hidden in 'document properties'. Their solution isn't complete though - we need to separate the notions of 'Save As' and 'Publish'. One way to achieve this in a corporate/government environment would be for servers to require digital signatures on outgoing documents - this would introduce publication into a document lifecycle for the purpose of integrity, at which point we can hook in 'strip doc' wizards to minimize risk.
Just thinking out loud.
For the tour though cyclingfans.com was essential - an eye-hurting mess of a website but it had links to all the live streams of the coverage.
One big disadvantage of PDF is that one has to receive the entire file before printing begins -- the index of the pages is at the end of the file.
Nonsense. Google for linearized PDF (its in an appendix of the PDF spec).
Simple, first kidnap you and your kids. Then slowly torture one of your kids to death to prove I am serious. After that you would do anything, even give up the key/passphrase to save your other kid. I am sure you can come up with several other methods that would work for people without children.
I keep one of the twins, Alice, in the firesafe to prevent this kind of attack. Bob is kept offsite as a backup.
Thats an interesting question. One definition of ID:
"The theory of intelligent design (ID) holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection."
(this is from http://www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org/ )
That doesn't quite imply a creator, just an abandonment of Occam's Razor. Some alternative possibilities consistent with that description:
- we're living in a simulation, as in the Matrix. We're thus unable to formulate theories about the 'real world', in which Xena and the Gods may well still be about, or evolution may be at play.
- those features which look designed were just put there by something inside our universe and subject to physical laws, eg, a grey, bug-eyed, spindly alien. The alien may be subject to evolution, but he's designed bits of what we see. Like, say, fjords.
and for an example of what it's NOT:
- the solipsist approach: its not a simulation, just an illusion. Reality is a figment of your imagination. Worse, reality may be subjective and while we live in a rational world, the advocates of ID may well live in a mythic universe. (the only difference between this and the other two is the absence of a designer)
While these are somewhat ludicrous theories, the fact is they might be true, and scientists wouldn't deny this. But they are really philosophical positions, and effectively anti-science, since it amounts to a claim that we cannot determine causal relationships between observed phenomena, ie all empirical science is rubbish...
Use Inkscape rather than potrace directly - you get all the potrace goodness, plus you can edit the results. very nifty.i ng.html
http://www.inkscape.org/doc/tracing/tutorial-trac
That's nothing. Where I live, grids are non-existent any distance from the town centre due to a city ordinance banning Euclid's 5th axiom. House numbering is similarly vague, using only irrational numbers. And taxi drivers know where everywhere is, but due to our discrete topology, can't take you there.
The one that makes me want to throw things at the telly is where the girl says she'll make an album about breaking up with her boyfriend. With "a world of windows compatible software and devices", apparently.
This is clearly a swipe at GarageBand, but er... nothing like that comes bundled with windows.
I think her breakup has made her flip out into a fantasyland. I blame the boyfriend.
Doesn't this previous article point out a flaw in that plan?
The "maths cures cancer" research said that most(?) cancers don't grow exponentially (ie throughout their volume), but the dividing cells are just the outer layer of the cancer; presumably the inner cells are starved of resources.
Hence, the old growth-directed chemo was only tackling the outer layer of the cancer, giving time for the remaining cells to develop drug resistance, etc.
The new approach sounds like it's still only tackling the outer layer, but at least it should keep the drugs effective while they shrink the tumour.
NanoGator: The original Star Trek series, for example, wasn't all that popular. Years after it ended, the 'space race' happened, and suddenly there was interest again.
Bishop923: Actually The original series ran from 1966-1969, during the final 3 years of the "Space Race"
He wasn't talking about our space race, dude. It was the one on Vulcan.
... and boy was that intriguing! can't wait to see whats coming in Episode 4!
It strikes me the JSON version would be *much* larger for non-western languages. It can only include non-ascii characters in the data via the use of unicode escapes, which are 6 bytes long (\uXXXX), as compared to 2 in XML using an appropriate charset. It also lacks object references, so can't be made as compact as an arbitrary JS program.
JSON-RPC doesn't seem to be intended for use in interchange, but for websites, since it relies on browser security for the 'efficiency' of being able to use eval() in its JS implementation. That being the case, I can't see why you'd choose to use this rather than return arbitrary javascript to the browser.
You may be kidding but that one is actually true.
Public fears over young people carrying knives in school and on the street could prompt new government restrictions, the Home Office says...They include raising the age at which teenagers can buy a knife to 18 and introducing searches in schools.
Anyone else read the judgement? They quote this breathtaking line from Eldred vs Ashcroft:
/do/ allege:
'the profit motive is the engine that ensures the progress of science'
A sentence that will make most (underpaid) scientists jaws drop. Whats even more bizarre is the argument they hang on this shaky peg. It appears in the section discussing the lack of copyright registration, which IA argue makes it hard to gain a license. At present, there's a jack-in-the-box system, where if you use apparently abandoned material, the author may pop up and sue - fear of which, IA argue, is a 'chilling effect' on free speech.
The court uses the supreme court quote above to say that authors have a financial incentive to register material to make it easy for potential licensees to find them.
Yeah, right. So, every schoolkid writing an essay should contact the LoC and register it, because ONE DAY they will make back their costs? Or speaking more directly to this case: authors of material orphaned in the late 60's - who had EVERY EXPECTATION that their work would be PD by now - should jump out of their graves and file their work?
That doesn't even begin to make sense. And then theres the actual grounds for dismissal:
"As plaintiffs do not allege any alterations to the "traditional contours of copyright
protection," no further First Amendment analysis is necessary"
But that is exactly what they
"Plaintiffs assert that "[w]hereas the traditional contours of a conditional copyright
regime [are narrow], an unconditional regime
guarantees [wider protection]" (my elisions, p6 line 9, and following lines).
WTF???
6. Linking to Sony Sites
You must not link to any Sony Site without first obtaining the prior written consent of Sony and such consent must be signed by Sony's Director of Business Affairs to be valid.
(to which I say: ok, lets wipe you off the face of the internet)...Oh shit now I've done it too: 2...no part of the content of this site may be reproduced in any form without the written consent of Sony...
While individual images may be low res, you can get better definition from combining a sequence of low res images. I can't find the exact papers showing examples but I've seen this done in Steve Mann's work:
http://wearcam.org/research.htm
However as security cameras often don't even capture continuous images, even this won't help - so you're pretty much right.
The dragon in the Saint George legend is described as and 'poisonous', not fire-breathing. (the Legenda Aurea is where it was written down in the 13th century). The original latin describes it as draco pestifer (= "destructive snake").
The 11th century Beowulf story mentions dragons and fire, but the dragon isn't breathing it: there's a stream of fire from the burial mound the dragon defends, and the dragon is apparently enveloped in flame.
I'm not sure what you mean by the Revelation of St Peter - theres an Apocalypse of Peter (which doesnt mention a dragon) and the Revelation of St John? In that, the dragon and the beast are separate things, and the dragon breathes a river, not fire (chapter 12). There's horses that breathe fire though (9:17). In any case in its original greek 'drakon' meant snake.
BTW I don't really know all this stuff - when I read your reply I vaguely remembered that Beowulf's dragon was fire-breathing and George's wasn't - I was just curious enough to check.
-Baz
"...you'll crash the only program that gets the test case, making it difficult to send it in with a bug report."
Not entirely true. While you have to do some work to get to a crash report, you want to generate the fuzz pseudo-randomly from a seed, always pushing the code that will fetch the next random page, with the seed as a parameter of the URL. With this setup, it should be possible to easily spot and reproduce crashes from the logs (the last URL served to each client crashed; since its only pseudo-random you can reproduce the test).