IMATEC was a little different story... as soon as they filed suit and Apple was served, they started going after END USERS of the technology. A few large print houses, graphic design firms, and 3rd pary vendors that use colorsync in their products (Adobe, Quark and, yes, Microsoft as IE on the Mac can read embedded ColorSync profiles) received nasty letters threatening to sue them for contributory damages or something along that lines. It'd be like Amazon threatening to sue any B&N customer who used B&N's 1-click method before Amazon forced them to shut it down.
Furthermore, IMATEC was/is basically a F*ckedCompany prior to the suits. Hemmoraging cash and employees, no salvation in sight. Most people in the industry (color prepress, that is) viewed the suit as a pr stunt and a last ditch effort to infuse the company with cash.
Don't trust ZD entirely. I haven't played with a DP of MacOS X, but I do recall seeing a screenshot somewhere of a translucent contextual menu rendered in full Aqua glory.
What I'm saddest about, though, is the apparent removal of pop-up windows. Truly useful feature that seems to be gone.
Can anyone who is in the know comment on these? I know Apple's locked down with NDA's, but an ADC can surely say, "Yes there is|is not support for contextual menus", etc. without breaking NDA.
massive decoy effort? Seriously. One of the best ways to secure pretty much anything is to provide a very tempting decoy. So the U.S government sets-up a few boxes which are intentionally open enough to allow the script kiddies in and have a bit of fun, while protecting the actual machines from a full frontal assault.
It could happen. Remember you're dealing with a government that said they weren't planning to invade cuba, and then did. That said that the entire Iran-contra thing was pure fantasy---and then we found out that they weren't exactly truthful.
Premise: a kill b.
Action: Make a illegal.
Result: a can't kill b anymore!
a=Napster
b=files
c=people
Premise: a copies b illegally.
Action: Make a ilegal.
Result: c can't copy b illegally anymore!
They're not equal arguments.
Specifically the lawsuit wasn't filed with the intent of keeping people from copying files. It was filed with the intent of keeping people from using Napster to copy files. Yes, there are other ways of accomplishing the same task, but Napster is likely the current most common method of copying mp3s.
Is this a fair analogy? maps is to email what Consumer Reports is to consumer products. Both simply advise an invidual of "products", pointing out aspects that the individual may not like. Faulty wiring in a washing machine, don't buy it or you'll zap yourself. Email from a known spammer? Filter it.
I do hope their transmitters are correctly and properly grounded. On thing that one does not want around grain elevators is faulty wiring. Grain dust is extremely volatile stuff.
My cell phone does something similiar with my computer speakers. They're obviously video shielded, but apparently the cell operates at a frequency unaffected by the shielding. Get these weird, morse code like pulsings. Strange.
To me this looks like a harbinger of what has happened in the United States with teen drinking, smoking, etc. In high school it seemed to me that many of my peers were smoking, drinking, etc. well under the legal age limits as a right of passage to gain status. Doing an act that was reserved for an older age group was seen as a way of either gaining entry into that age group or elevating yourself relative to others your own age for having the moxy to engage in some mysterious illicit act.
So -- now violent video games have the same mystique. Sounds to me like the mommanazis are attempting to give their children yet another means to create arbitrary differences within the age group which can be worked and exploited in popularity struggles. Lovely lessons to teach your children, not?
Want a harder pencil? Go to a stationery or art supply store and simply buy #4s instead of the trusty #3s. Slightly harder pencil lead means for sharper pencils, but also pencils that break more frequently (more brittle).
For farm animals. Until the past few years, most farmers/ranchers wrote numbers and letters onto the eartags using a long-lasting paint of sort. It has about the consistency of india ink and is a pain in the ass to work with as it's quite permanent on most everything. (It'll dye formica countertops, etc.)
Now they've switched over to a sandwiched rubber system. A layer of black rubber sandwiched between two outer layers of colored rubber. One simply takes a dremel type tool and etches the number out. The tags last a lot longer, have more contrast, and are far easier to work with.
And hey, it's not even in Polish. A legal threat which mightn't be executed because of a language barrier. That's kinda' like... oh...wearing a DeCSS t-shirt amongst non-programmers?
Is anyone else wondering if this desk thing is like the oft-repeated Ozzy and M&Ms story? He put the bullshit requirment in his contract to ensure that it was actually read?
I've never worked with something like this, but couldn't one create a custom distro of Linux specifically for rendering farm use? Strip out large chunks of the OS (i.e., security features, as it'll be behind a firewall) and optimizie, optimize, optimize?
At least, I know if a bunch of Hollywood lawyers called a press conference to accuse freakin' IBM of actively encouraging criminal activity, seismographs on the other side of the planet would be able to detect the rumbling herd of bulk-cloned attorneys pouring from the sluice gates of the vast monolith that is Big Blue.
I'm getting images of blue-flannel suit clad lawyers being shot out of torpedo tubes.
Just buying my fall semester books, and I was forced to pickup one book through our Barnes & Noble operated campus bookstore. Graphic design book, no supplements, CDs, etc---but it's shrink wrapped. I want to thrumb through the book to see if it's moot to me, but I can't, because it's shrink wrapped. And I can't return it after its opened becuase... it's shrinkwrapped.
Going to complain to the president's office.
Thanks to Sudderth for the moderation nomination. Jinkies man, Jinkies.
Now onto the meat. Here's a short excerpt from the story I was talking about. Fair use citation, of course:
[Talking about the acquisitions and their hoped impact on corporate philosophy]What emerged instead was a corporate version of the Holy Roman Empire: a loose confederation of fiefdoms that are as likely to be at war with one another as with outsiders. "The internecine warefare is a meat-grinder," says a time Warner executive who's watched the battling for years.
Fairly accurate, huh? Just remember that this article is in the September 2000 issue of Wired, meaning it was likely finalized and approved at least a month ago, before the final DeCSS verdict and the ensuing maelsturm.
I'm just waiting till the AOL-Time-Warner merger is truly official and the corporations have borg'd each other out. Then the music division can sue the AOL and RoadRunner Cable divisions for providing unfettered conduits which can be used to download digitall encoded copyrighted material!
Has a really great article on the AOL-Time-Warner merger that specifically discusses Time-Warner's coporate culture of basically ongoing civil warfare between the departments. The crux of the issue is that it's gotten so damned big relatively quickly---even without the added factor of AOL---that its internal sectors might as well be separate companies. Lots of power struggles and penis measuring contests, apparently.
Exactly. It represents, to me, a reversal of prior judicial opinion on free speech. When someone links to DeCSS, they could be saying, "Hey, here's DeCSS. This is a shoddy way to encrypt digital content, especially when you accidentally leave a public key in!" They're NOT telling you to go and use it for what are, currently, nefarious purposes. The act of linking is not inciting an immediate illegal act.
Of course this position only makes sense if you hold that the code itself is a form of tool, and object, and not a protected piece of speech. Inthis case, it'd be like if some guy asked you where to buy a gun, you say, "WalMart, next to the car batteries" (non-Americans: I'm not kidding) and he buys a gun and kills someone. It'd be a very fucked up world indeed if a court found you liable as an accessory to murder. the same Analogy would hold true for a car dealership selling someone an otherwise good car, and then they go out and get sloshed and kill someone on their wobbly drive home. It's not their fault what another invidiual does with the tool.
Quite often I use my graphics tablet for things other than Photoshop. The pen tracks just like a mouse, but it's far less strenuous to use for extended periods of time as you're moving a little under an ounce instead of several ounces like a standard mouse. I've got mine setup so, in IE 5.0 (for Mac), one of the buttons on the pen is command allow me to command drag with the pen to scoll. Quite cool and much easier than mousing about.
Generally sound, but your argument about technically inept judges falls flat on its face. Supreme Court Justices usually have been older, at the very least in their 50s, and that generation is not exactly the most wired generation.
It's equally likely that Gore would appoint justices in the same age bracket. HOWEVER, you are right that a Gore court would be far more liberally minded than a Bush court, and that liberal position will obviously factor into every case they hear.
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IMATEC was a little different story... as soon as they filed suit and Apple was served, they started going after END USERS of the technology. A few large print houses, graphic design firms, and 3rd pary vendors that use colorsync in their products (Adobe, Quark and, yes, Microsoft as IE on the Mac can read embedded ColorSync profiles) received nasty letters threatening to sue them for contributory damages or something along that lines. It'd be like Amazon threatening to sue any B&N customer who used B&N's 1-click method before Amazon forced them to shut it down.
Furthermore, IMATEC was/is basically a F*ckedCompany prior to the suits. Hemmoraging cash and employees, no salvation in sight. Most people in the industry (color prepress, that is) viewed the suit as a pr stunt and a last ditch effort to infuse the company with cash.
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Don't trust ZD entirely. I haven't played with a DP of MacOS X, but I do recall seeing a screenshot somewhere of a translucent contextual menu rendered in full Aqua glory.
What I'm saddest about, though, is the apparent removal of pop-up windows. Truly useful feature that seems to be gone.
Can anyone who is in the know comment on these? I know Apple's locked down with NDA's, but an ADC can surely say, "Yes there is|is not support for contextual menus", etc. without breaking NDA.
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massive decoy effort? Seriously. One of the best ways to secure pretty much anything is to provide a very tempting decoy. So the U.S government sets-up a few boxes which are intentionally open enough to allow the script kiddies in and have a bit of fun, while protecting the actual machines from a full frontal assault.
It could happen. Remember you're dealing with a government that said they weren't planning to invade cuba, and then did. That said that the entire Iran-contra thing was pure fantasy---and then we found out that they weren't exactly truthful.
Possible, yes. Plausible? Perhaps.
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a=guns
b=people
Premise: a kill b.
Action: Make a illegal.
Result: a can't kill b anymore!
a=Napster
b=files
c=people
Premise: a copies b illegally.
Action: Make a ilegal.
Result: c can't copy b illegally anymore!
They're not equal arguments.
Specifically the lawsuit wasn't filed with the intent of keeping people from copying files. It was filed with the intent of keeping people from using Napster to copy files. Yes, there are other ways of accomplishing the same task, but Napster is likely the current most common method of copying mp3s.
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Is this a fair analogy? maps is to email what Consumer Reports is to consumer products. Both simply advise an invidual of "products", pointing out aspects that the individual may not like. Faulty wiring in a washing machine, don't buy it or you'll zap yourself. Email from a known spammer? Filter it.
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I do hope their transmitters are correctly and properly grounded. On thing that one does not want around grain elevators is faulty wiring. Grain dust is extremely volatile stuff.
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My cell phone does something similiar with my computer speakers. They're obviously video shielded, but apparently the cell operates at a frequency unaffected by the shielding. Get these weird, morse code like pulsings. Strange.
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To me this looks like a harbinger of what has happened in the United States with teen drinking, smoking, etc. In high school it seemed to me that many of my peers were smoking, drinking, etc. well under the legal age limits as a right of passage to gain status. Doing an act that was reserved for an older age group was seen as a way of either gaining entry into that age group or elevating yourself relative to others your own age for having the moxy to engage in some mysterious illicit act.
So -- now violent video games have the same mystique. Sounds to me like the mommanazis are attempting to give their children yet another means to create arbitrary differences within the age group which can be worked and exploited in popularity struggles. Lovely lessons to teach your children, not?
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Want a harder pencil? Go to a stationery or art supply store and simply buy #4s instead of the trusty #3s. Slightly harder pencil lead means for sharper pencils, but also pencils that break more frequently (more brittle).
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For farm animals. Until the past few years, most farmers/ranchers wrote numbers and letters onto the eartags using a long-lasting paint of sort. It has about the consistency of india ink and is a pain in the ass to work with as it's quite permanent on most everything. (It'll dye formica countertops, etc.)
Now they've switched over to a sandwiched rubber system. A layer of black rubber sandwiched between two outer layers of colored rubber. One simply takes a dremel type tool and etches the number out. The tags last a lot longer, have more contrast, and are far easier to work with.
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And hey, it's not even in Polish. A legal threat which mightn't be executed because of a language barrier. That's kinda' like... oh...wearing a DeCSS t-shirt amongst non-programmers?
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Weeeeel... since we've got a pretty good human genetic map, why doesn't someone just find a way to remap DeCSS to human chromosones?
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Is anyone else wondering if this desk thing is like the oft-repeated Ozzy and M&Ms story? He put the bullshit requirment in his contract to ensure that it was actually read?
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I've never worked with something like this, but couldn't one create a custom distro of Linux specifically for rendering farm use? Strip out large chunks of the OS (i.e., security features, as it'll be behind a firewall) and optimizie, optimize, optimize?
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But is that beer free as in beer or free as in speach?
;-)
Couldn't resist
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At least, I know if a bunch of Hollywood lawyers called a press conference to accuse freakin' IBM of actively encouraging criminal activity, seismographs on the other side of the planet would be able to detect the rumbling herd of bulk-cloned attorneys pouring from the sluice gates of the vast monolith that is Big Blue. I'm getting images of blue-flannel suit clad lawyers being shot out of torpedo tubes.
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Just buying my fall semester books, and I was forced to pickup one book through our Barnes & Noble operated campus bookstore. Graphic design book, no supplements, CDs, etc---but it's shrink wrapped. I want to thrumb through the book to see if it's moot to me, but I can't, because it's shrink wrapped. And I can't return it after its opened becuase... it's shrinkwrapped. Going to complain to the president's office.
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Thanks to Sudderth for the moderation nomination. Jinkies man, Jinkies.
Now onto the meat. Here's a short excerpt from the story I was talking about. Fair use citation, of course:
Fairly accurate, huh? Just remember that this article is in the September 2000 issue of Wired, meaning it was likely finalized and approved at least a month ago, before the final DeCSS verdict and the ensuing maelsturm.
I'm just waiting till the AOL-Time-Warner merger is truly official and the corporations have borg'd each other out. Then the music division can sue the AOL and RoadRunner Cable divisions for providing unfettered conduits which can be used to download digitall encoded copyrighted material!
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Has a really great article on the AOL-Time-Warner merger that specifically discusses Time-Warner's coporate culture of basically ongoing civil warfare between the departments. The crux of the issue is that it's gotten so damned big relatively quickly---even without the added factor of AOL---that its internal sectors might as well be separate companies. Lots of power struggles and penis measuring contests, apparently.
Good read. Not online yet, as Wired doesn't post current magazine content, but for posterity, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.09/ Definitely pick it up off the newstand for a bit of insight into intracorporate warfare.
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You have to be from the upper midwest to truly appreciate it. To us the satire is far closer to reality.
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Exactly. It represents, to me, a reversal of prior judicial opinion on free speech. When someone links to DeCSS, they could be saying, "Hey, here's DeCSS. This is a shoddy way to encrypt digital content, especially when you accidentally leave a public key in!" They're NOT telling you to go and use it for what are, currently, nefarious purposes. The act of linking is not inciting an immediate illegal act.
Of course this position only makes sense if you hold that the code itself is a form of tool, and object, and not a protected piece of speech. Inthis case, it'd be like if some guy asked you where to buy a gun, you say, "WalMart, next to the car batteries" (non-Americans: I'm not kidding) and he buys a gun and kills someone. It'd be a very fucked up world indeed if a court found you liable as an accessory to murder. the same Analogy would hold true for a car dealership selling someone an otherwise good car, and then they go out and get sloshed and kill someone on their wobbly drive home. It's not their fault what another invidiual does with the tool.
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Quite often I use my graphics tablet for things other than Photoshop. The pen tracks just like a mouse, but it's far less strenuous to use for extended periods of time as you're moving a little under an ounce instead of several ounces like a standard mouse. I've got mine setup so, in IE 5.0 (for Mac), one of the buttons on the pen is command allow me to command drag with the pen to scoll. Quite cool and much easier than mousing about.
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True ;-) When I work per hour for clients, I usually charge $50-$60/hour. At my high end, that's $1.00 per link :-)
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Generally sound, but your argument about technically inept judges falls flat on its face. Supreme Court Justices usually have been older, at the very least in their 50s, and that generation is not exactly the most wired generation. It's equally likely that Gore would appoint justices in the same age bracket. HOWEVER, you are right that a Gore court would be far more liberally minded than a Bush court, and that liberal position will obviously factor into every case they hear.
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And furthermore, it's not illegal to know the combination to a vault which you OWN.
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