..and if you look at the headers, it still shows the IP address of the host used to send the forged email. The originating host (or ISP rather) is still easily determined.
unless the email has been forwarded thru an 0wn3d server in China/etc.
No, imagine for a second what would happen if they actually were to get their injunction requiring each and every copy of AIX to be collected and destroyed. The National Weather Service is using AIX...
That's an easy one. Congress can just use eminant domain, and nationalize all rights to *nix as a public right-of-way. Same as what they do for any roadways deemed necessary for the public safety, national infrastructure, etc.
Such a decision would obviously also apply to people who distibute binaries. For example, you can download full versions of any Oracle product from thier website, do you think a court is going to rule that they no longer have any copyright protection?
If a court found problems with enforcing copyrights after openly distributing under the GPL, then it would depend on how much the Oracle license under which they were distributing software from their website resembled those provisions of the GPL which supported the courts reasoning.
If they win and the GPL is declared uninforceable then standard copyright law takes precedence
The way for them to win is to get a court to rule that openly distributing your code under the GPL makes any copyright restriction no longer strongly or selectively enforceable. Then the GPL itself will become defacto unenforceable, since there will no longer be any penalty for any user who does not accept all of its terms. The GPL already fools a lot of people into thinking that the so licensed code is equivalent to public domain.
80. Any software licensed under the GPL (including Linux) must, by its terms, not be held proprietary or confidential, and may not be claimed by any party as a trade secret or copyright property.
It would certainly be interesting for the FSF/Stallman if a court actually agreed with this reasoning. Openly giving source code away worldwide (including countries with no copyright laws) and then trying to press strange performance claims only against certain parties might be ruled unenforceable in some legal sense. It's also possible for MS lobbyist to get some legislation inserted into some random bill which would indirectly aid this kind of legal ruling... under the guise of allowing them to safely gift more software to the LOC, or some such.
If your child is too young to be viewing pornographic material and you provide them with their own unsupervised e-mail address, you should be held liable by state law.
If you walk your underage child into a regular neighborhood grocery store to buy bread and milk, and some unknown grocer store checker shows them porno mags or sells them beer while your back is turned, the grocerer is currently liable under state law, not the parent.
Are these attributions digitally signed with the signature key traceable back to a unique individual? Or are these attributions as reliable as the email "From" headers in the daily spam.
Same problem when downloading any linux software with a GPL license.
The GPL is a license granted by the copyright holder. How do you know who is the actual copyright holder for every line of code in linux? How do you know that that copyright holder actually put his/her/it's lines of code under the GPL? In some jurisdictions a minor might not have the right to grant legal licenses (for code they've uploaded or submitted) because only their parents of guardians have that right. Adults under some employment contracts also may not have the right to either owning the copyright itself, or the right to grant any license, without the approval of the corporate legal department. Just because a item of code is aggregated with a license does not mean that a license was granted by someone with the legal right to do so. Does anyone have written (or other evidence admissible in court) for every line in the GPL-ware they distribute?
The GPL applies to copying. You must agree to the GPL when making a copy (modified or not), regardless of whether you distribute it. See the 3rd word of GPL section 3, and the 4th word of GPL section 4.
Stallman's privacy clause. You can make all the copies you want without any restrictions, as long at you don't distribute any of those copies.
Once its released to a website, if even ONE person downloads it, the license takes effect.
If what you say is true, Nullsoft, AOL, etc could say "oops, we released Winamp 3.0 by mistake, please destroy your copies, your license is invalid."
This is in fact a real risk if you do not, in fact, have a signed contract from the copyright owner(s) or other representative with proper legal standing. A text file on a website may or may not be a binding contract, whether or not anyone downloads it. The GPL is a license grant from the copyright holder. If someone sues you for distributing code, you may have to prove that the legal copyright holder actually agreed to granting you a license under the GPL. Whether or not a Google cache of a text file is legally admissible evidence of an enforceable contract has not been tested in court.
Telling the nice officer that honest looking person gave you this stolen car, and here are the photocopies of some (forged) papers to prove it, isn't likely to keep you from spending a night in the slammer... (but IANAL)
Do a search on google for "microsoft tiger video on demand server" and you'll see they had this out in 1995, years before they filed the patent. Sorry, it's in the public domain, microsnot.
And Microsoft's VOD experiments postdated the fully operational SGI Time-Warner Orlando VOD system, as well as losing in a VOD "bake-off" to an SGI VOD-over-fiber system in an NTT trial near Tokyo Disneyworld.
On an amiga 500 the movement of the mouse cursor is actuelly timed to the screen update
Original Mac's could also update the mouse cursor during VBL. It was a complaint that some game designers had with the Apple II/II+ design, no reasonable way to sync to refresh for the smoothest animation with single-digit MHz CPU's. That's where we got some of our ideas when we were designing the Amiga architecture.
The UMA (unified memory architecture) also has a heritage from the Apple II, to the Mac, to the Amiga; and SGI used it in some of their later workstations and the N64 chipset. Of course the bandwidths needed these days requires a different solution.
A court might rule that they have to GPL their code, or the copyright holder might insist on it, with going to court having negative enough results that they are effectively compelled to do so.
Also likely (but IANAL) is that the court will just assess monetary damages for copyright infringement, maybe even treble damages. Let's see... GPL requires you to give away the source for free, to first approximation, for anyone to recompile;
I run a number of mailing lists and on a good day can send out a million messages. This is all for community support with no profit at all on my side. A law like this would kill me and every other community supporter who supplies such a service.
I would gladly pay a penny a week, or a penny a day to the non-profit email lists which I value, especially if was part of a process that significantly decreased the amount of spam that needed to be filtered out of my email inbox. It's not a big amount compared to my typical monthly ISP and web hosting fees.
It would be even better if there were a way to whitelist specific non-profits of my choosing so they could email me for free.
SGI and Time Warner installed a mpeg VOD over cable system in Orlando, way back in 1994 (Scientific Atlanta did the cable modems). SGI later helped design and build a VOD over fiber-direct-to-the-home system for NTT near Tokyo in 1996. This was back when supercomputer CPU's clocked slower than some of today PDA's, so the set-top boxes were pretty pricey.
Then Mosaic got too popular and distracted everybody.
The airlines are paranoid alright. But not of interference (their excuse), but of the trying to prove that it wasn't interference when taken to court by some big-name contingency lawyer after the next random crash.
They also don't like to have lots of passenger with things stuck in their ears and not listening to the flight crew, or holding heavy object with glass and metal parts which could go flying about the cabin, during the slighly more bouncy/risky take-off and landing phases. The FAA and FCC regs are very useful for these unintended purposes.
And as all people who have taken advanced math knows: Sound can be described with equal precision in the time-domain and in the frequency-domain.
This is true for the analysis of linear systems. The codecs use a non-linear process, which renders frequency-domain only analysis useless for certain kinds of signals (ones the encoder thinks are completely masked, for instance.)
A major stumbling block for Ogg is that until fairly recently it was necessary to use a floating point processor to play the format. In the arena of portable devices, only PDAs have floating point capability, which is why you can play Ogg files on your Zaurus and not on your iPod.
Palm OS 5 PDAs (Zire 71, Tungsten T) only have integer ARM CPU's, and they play Ogg files just fine (running AeroPlayer or PocketTunes). And the Apple iPod uses a very similar ARM CPU core.
I don't really believe that would be as big an issue as you imply. Spammers' Achilllies Heel is that they (or those who use them) *must* provide some tracable contact information in order to get your money.
But they don't always have to ask for the money to be sent to them. If they mix random victims addresses in with their own send-me-money addresses, they'll get lots of citizens screaming to vote down this law as harrassment.
Probably OK, but depends on the definition of "usually" agreed upon with your listener.
Females are better at english than math.
Incorrect, because this time you left off a modifier such as "usually" or "on average". Counter-examples abound, even though the a statistical restatement might have strong validity, depending on the qualifiers.
Reading and writing memory is an expensive operation in terms of power (often far more expensive than CPU cycles). open() usually requires a file system, a level of indirection thay may require touching more memory. read() usually involves a copy, which costs power. read() is also usually missing a specified timeout parameter, which means either the UI may not be responsive, or separate thread must remain active to watch for activity. And thread switches usually impact cache locality, which again costs in power due to memory writes in flushing and memory reads in refilling the cache.
The notion that something like the Tungsten T is a dainty little machine that is too delicate to UNIX/Linux is just ridiculous. I mean, were you born yesterday? The T|T has more CPU power and memory than UNIX workstations from the early 1990s.
The UNIX API's are not suitable for PDA purposes because they do not take into consideration the power constraints.
On handhelds, the CPU MHz, the percentage of time the CPU needs to run vs. napping, the cache footprint and memory bandwidth required by running applications, the number and depth of pixels that need to be refreshed, and the number of bytes of DRAM that need to be refreshed, all directly affect the useful battery life.
Just because the CPU performance and the amount of DRAM of a PalmOS 5/6 handheld is greater than that of high-end workstations of a few years back, doesn't mean the battery amp-hours have also scaled to match.
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So they sue spammers (that's good) but spam my postal mail box with CD's and they think it's ok?
One major difference is that postal spammers pay postage, which partially subsidizes the costs of my sending and receiving 1st class mail. This economic subsidy to me from paper spammers automatically limits how much gets sent on average. The problem with email spam is that there is no such economic limiter.
The other important difference is that postal spammers usually can spell correctly.
The feds will get an even bigger chuckle while you rot in jail for contempt if you conveniently "forget" the password they can't just double-click the image file and unlock it. In situations like that, encryption is worse than useless without deniability.
I'm in BIG trouble then. I've got a few old encrypted files and disk images on various archival backups for which I've forgotten the passwords long ago.
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unless the email has been forwarded thru an 0wn3d server in China/etc.
That's an easy one. Congress can just use eminant domain, and nationalize all rights to *nix as a public right-of-way. Same as what they do for any roadways deemed necessary for the public safety, national infrastructure, etc.
If a court found problems with enforcing copyrights after openly distributing under the GPL, then it would depend on how much the Oracle license under which they were distributing software from their website resembled those provisions of the GPL which supported the courts reasoning.
[aol]IANAL.[/aol]
The way for them to win is to get a court to rule that openly distributing your code under the GPL makes any copyright restriction no longer strongly or selectively enforceable. Then the GPL itself will become defacto unenforceable, since there will no longer be any penalty for any user who does not accept all of its terms. The GPL already fools a lot of people into thinking that the so licensed code is equivalent to public domain.
It would certainly be interesting for the FSF/Stallman if a court actually agreed with this reasoning. Openly giving source code away worldwide (including countries with no copyright laws) and then trying to press strange performance claims only against certain parties might be ruled unenforceable in some legal sense. It's also possible for MS lobbyist to get some legislation inserted into some random bill which would indirectly aid this kind of legal ruling... under the guise of allowing them to safely gift more software to the LOC, or some such.
[aol]IANAL[/aol]
If you walk your underage child into a regular neighborhood grocery store to buy bread and milk, and some unknown grocer store checker shows them porno mags or sells them beer while your back is turned, the grocerer is currently liable under state law, not the parent.
Are these attributions digitally signed with the signature key traceable back to a unique individual? Or are these attributions as reliable as the email "From" headers in the daily spam.
The GPL is a license granted by the copyright holder. How do you know who is the actual copyright holder for every line of code in linux? How do you know that that copyright holder actually put his/her/it's lines of code under the GPL? In some jurisdictions a minor might not have the right to grant legal licenses (for code they've uploaded or submitted) because only their parents of guardians have that right. Adults under some employment contracts also may not have the right to either owning the copyright itself, or the right to grant any license, without the approval of the corporate legal department. Just because a item of code is aggregated with a license does not mean that a license was granted by someone with the legal right to do so. Does anyone have written (or other evidence admissible in court) for every line in the GPL-ware they distribute?
Stallman's privacy clause. You can make all the copies you want without any restrictions, as long at you don't distribute any of those copies.
If what you say is true, Nullsoft, AOL, etc could say "oops, we released Winamp 3.0 by mistake, please destroy your copies, your license is invalid."
This is in fact a real risk if you do not, in fact, have a signed contract from the copyright owner(s) or other representative with proper legal standing. A text file on a website may or may not be a binding contract, whether or not anyone downloads it. The GPL is a license grant from the copyright holder. If someone sues you for distributing code, you may have to prove that the legal copyright holder actually agreed to granting you a license under the GPL. Whether or not a Google cache of a text file is legally admissible evidence of an enforceable contract has not been tested in court.
Telling the nice officer that honest looking person gave you this stolen car, and here are the photocopies of some (forged) papers to prove it, isn't likely to keep you from spending a night in the slammer... (but IANAL)
And Microsoft's VOD experiments postdated the fully operational SGI Time-Warner Orlando VOD system, as well as losing in a VOD "bake-off" to an SGI VOD-over-fiber system in an NTT trial near Tokyo Disneyworld.
Original Mac's could also update the mouse cursor during VBL. It was a complaint that some game designers had with the Apple II/II+ design, no reasonable way to sync to refresh for the smoothest animation with single-digit MHz CPU's. That's where we got some of our ideas when we were designing the Amiga architecture.
The UMA (unified memory architecture) also has a heritage from the Apple II, to the Mac, to the Amiga; and SGI used it in some of their later workstations and the N64 chipset. Of course the bandwidths needed these days requires a different solution.
Also likely (but IANAL) is that the court will just assess monetary damages for copyright infringement, maybe even treble damages. Let's see... GPL requires you to give away the source for free, to first approximation, for anyone to recompile;
and 3 times 0 is 0 ...
I would gladly pay a penny a week, or a penny a day to the non-profit email lists which I value, especially if was part of a process that significantly decreased the amount of spam that needed to be filtered out of my email inbox. It's not a big amount compared to my typical monthly ISP and web hosting fees.
It would be even better if there were a way to whitelist specific non-profits of my choosing so they could email me for free.
Who cares? When you cut a deal directly with the 5 major record labels, you've almost completely cut the RIAA out of the loop.
SGI and Time Warner installed a mpeg VOD over cable system in Orlando, way back in 1994 (Scientific Atlanta did the cable modems). SGI later helped design and build a VOD over fiber-direct-to-the-home system for NTT near Tokyo in 1996. This was back when supercomputer CPU's clocked slower than some of today PDA's, so the set-top boxes were pretty pricey.
Then Mosaic got too popular and distracted everybody.
They also don't like to have lots of passenger with things stuck in their ears and not listening to the flight crew, or holding heavy object with glass and metal parts which could go flying about the cabin, during the slighly more bouncy/risky take-off and landing phases. The FAA and FCC regs are very useful for these unintended purposes.
This is true for the analysis of linear systems. The codecs use a non-linear process, which renders frequency-domain only analysis useless for certain kinds of signals (ones the encoder thinks are completely masked, for instance.)
Palm OS 5 PDAs (Zire 71, Tungsten T) only have integer ARM CPU's, and they play Ogg files just fine (running AeroPlayer or PocketTunes). And the Apple iPod uses a very similar ARM CPU core.
But they don't always have to ask for the money to be sent to them. If they mix random victims addresses in with their own send-me-money addresses, they'll get lots of citizens screaming to vote down this law as harrassment.
Probably OK, but depends on the definition of "usually" agreed upon with your listener.
Females are better at english than math.
Incorrect, because this time you left off a modifier such as "usually" or "on average". Counter-examples abound, even though the a statistical restatement might have strong validity, depending on the qualifiers.
Reading and writing memory is an expensive operation in terms of power (often far more expensive than CPU cycles). open() usually requires a file system, a level of indirection thay may require touching more memory. read() usually involves a copy, which costs power. read() is also usually missing a specified timeout parameter, which means either the UI may not be responsive, or separate thread must remain active to watch for activity. And thread switches usually impact cache locality, which again costs in power due to memory writes in flushing and memory reads in refilling the cache.
The UNIX API's are not suitable for PDA purposes because they do not take into consideration the power constraints.
On handhelds, the CPU MHz, the percentage of time the CPU needs to run vs. napping, the cache footprint and memory bandwidth required by running applications, the number and depth of pixels that need to be refreshed, and the number of bytes of DRAM that need to be refreshed, all directly affect the useful battery life.
Just because the CPU performance and the amount of DRAM of a PalmOS 5/6 handheld is greater than that of high-end workstations of a few years back, doesn't mean the battery amp-hours have also scaled to match.
One major difference is that postal spammers pay postage, which partially subsidizes the costs of my sending and receiving 1st class mail. This economic subsidy to me from paper spammers automatically limits how much gets sent on average. The problem with email spam is that there is no such economic limiter.
The other important difference is that postal spammers usually can spell correctly.
I'm in BIG trouble then. I've got a few old encrypted files and disk images on various archival backups for which I've forgotten the passwords long ago.