Imagine the convenience of having your genetic makeup automatically forwarded to your bank and insurance industry, so they don't have to ask those intrusive, embarrasing health questions on applications. They can set your interest/insurance rates on the basis of data the purchased from your government. Now that's service to the people (if you happened to grow up on a farm, you know what I mean).
It's not mandatory yet. This is the same sort of thing insurance companies are going to use to get GPS-based "black box" recording devices into your car. It'll start out as a "discount" against the premium for those who agree. The "good drivers" with "nothing to hide" who don't drive fast, run lights, or hang out in "questionable" parts of town will readily agree to save a few bucks.
.It may never even become technically "mandatory"--it's just that insurance premiums for those who don't "agree" will be 10 times the premiums for those who do.
I'm sure they'd just point out the paragraph buried in the Terms of Service that say you agreed to allow them to eavesdrop and do whatever the heck else they wanted.
for some among us, including myself, to say that technology should result in shorter copyrights--acknowledging the quick obsolesence of digital media (e.g. 8 bit game ROMs, C-64 software) while simultaneously demanding new rights against discovery because a particular medium (e.g. email) happens to be digital.
While different in scale, this idea sounds to me a bit like a law that would disallow introduction into evidence of a written plan for a murder, because the defendant had attempted to burn it. And if it was burned, it should stay burned.
I've been really sick of hearing that from Robert Metcalfe just about every month, too. I'm no economist, but I know intuitively that charging by the byte (or connect minute for those fans of circuit switching) would be the surest way to kill the golden goose known as the Internet.
I was just thinking the same thing--that the media industry just might be trying to spread some FUD along the lines of "there's nothing out there, so don't bother trying it" to the uninitiated.
If the challenge to Amazon's patent is successful, what has Apple lost?
True. Anyone offended by frivolous, immoral legal action is already boycotting Apple over their harassment of others over:
design (eMachines), look and feel (M$), reporting of news (news sites and its own employees), and a theme site (themes.org) over an Enlightenment Aqua theme.
May they and Amazon suffer a quick decline at the hands of open standards and be featured f-d companies (also a target of frivolous legal action by corporate jackbooted thugs).
Actually, Manzi of Lotus made the crack about wanting to perform cashectomy on Borland. (IMHO, Borland should have stuck with compilers--they might not be the empty, burned out husk of their former selves they are today if they had.)
I also live in the Kansas City area and have DSL with cable availability coming soon. I will likely stick with DSL because I've noticed a stark absence of reports of people being dumped by DSL providers for running "unauthorized servers" or "excessive bandwidth usage", as opposed to cable companies, who have explicit policies against using SSH or PPTP. I think the "phone company" understands what it means to be a common carrier, and to not interfere with customer's traffic (and thus avoid liability for it), while the cable companies will continue to tighten the noose and make their service a barely interactive, pretty much one-way force-feed of media drivel.
The nicely digitally signed, DRM compliant SB driver in Windows ME will output quite nicely to the virtual SB, the PCM from which will travel to the real sound card on the Linux machine, from which its PCM stream will be copied to disk.
Have you considered using a proxy to change your user agent string so that you look to their server as if you're running Windows or MacOS?
And how does this relate to DeCSS? Ah! The proxy's just a means for bypassing a device (their JavaScript) that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work (Toronto Dominion's web page).
Nope, they'll be paying multi-million dollar judgements to Nintendo and Sega for appropriating the idea of horizontal scrolling games in the Commander Keen series:>.
Actually, it was Lotus v. Borland, and Lotus won the battle. (Quattro Pro had to be modified to remove the Lotus menu structure, copies of Quattro Pro were pulled from the shelves, and Borland is now a shell of its former self (of course this happened when they stopped concentrating on their great compilers, but I digress.)). The decision was later overturned on appeal (thank Bob), but too late for Quattro Pro.
Fair enough--they may not have copied the code for the games, but they've still just made second rate clones trading on the familiarity of the classics. IMO, Hasbro could have used their efforts making games, rather than bothering with what was likely a near-zero dent in their corporate wallet.
This should probably be addressed with trademark law rather than copyright law, but (here it comes) IANAL.
Whether they're improvements or not is a matter of opinion, but Hasbro has released updates of Pong, Battlezone, Asteroids, Missile Command, and others.
The people making the knockoffs were probably just small-time profiteers that didn't create anything--slime that are best driven out of business anyway.
Amen to that. Telecommunications and games were the motivators that caused my generation to learn the basics of telecommunications and how computers operated. Not implicating myself, but low level knowledge of how computers operate is necessary to have any hope of cracking protection schemes.
A concerted court ordered attack on multiple Freedom Server Operators, could result in a nym's privacy being compromised. If multiple server operators were forced to reveal their keys, it would be possible to determine a particular nym's e-mail address or IP address. In addition, a sufficiently powerful organization could, if so desired, retrieve the informational content of mail sent to regular Internet users by monitoring Internet network access points around the world. Significant resources would be required to mount such attacks, and they would also require that third-party Freedom Server Operators be forced to reveal the keys that they control. For more details regarding the strength of Freedom's privacy implementation, see the Freedom Papers.
IOW, while Freedom is really cool, I wouldn't rely on it alone to protect me if I were to become an (forgive me for the cliché) enemy of the state or of a well-funded corporation.
But if he votes for one of the major parties, both of whom are equivalent to him, then will he have still not wasted his vote? And have sent no message to the winner, either (if Nader gets >=5%, the Green voters will be pandered to somehow by whatever party does win come 2004). And he will have helped assure things will not change in the forseeable future. If one can vote for Nader rather than Bore or Gush on issues important to him/her, why not?
And you can specify the low order digits of the MAC address in VMWare. However, there is no (supported) way to change the higher order bytes that indicate the manufacturer.
Also, don't use a copy of Win* you've registered. Period. And don't connect the VM to the network. (In fact, if one's doing a compile like this, I don't think it would be too paranoid to unplug the ethernet and/or telephone jacks).
And think of everything you'd try if you were analyzing a file to see where it came from. (e.g. slack space)
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I wonder what the max score is. Are the scripts wf & bc available?
It stopped right about the time they started wanting to use common carrier status as a shield against being sued for every piece of {pirated software|porno|subersive political material} that travels over their wires.
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Sorry! I wasn't trying to be condescending at all, just humorous. If I liked emoticons more, I would have used one.
Imagine the convenience of having your genetic makeup automatically forwarded to your bank and insurance industry, so they don't have to ask those intrusive, embarrasing health questions on applications. They can set your interest/insurance rates on the basis of data the purchased from your government. Now that's service to the people (if you happened to grow up on a farm, you know what I mean).
Yes, along with Charles Petzold :>.
It's not mandatory yet. This is the same sort of thing insurance companies are going to use to get GPS-based "black box" recording devices into your car. It'll start out as a "discount" against the premium for those who agree. The "good drivers" with "nothing to hide" who don't drive fast, run lights, or hang out in "questionable" parts of town will readily agree to save a few bucks.
.It may never even become technically "mandatory"--it's just that insurance premiums for those who don't "agree" will be 10 times the premiums for those who do.
I'm sure they'd just point out the paragraph buried in the Terms of Service that say you agreed to allow them to eavesdrop and do whatever the heck else they wanted.
for some among us, including myself, to say that technology should result in shorter copyrights--acknowledging the quick obsolesence of digital media (e.g. 8 bit game ROMs, C-64 software) while simultaneously demanding new rights against discovery because a particular medium (e.g. email) happens to be digital.
While different in scale, this idea sounds to me a bit like a law that would disallow introduction into evidence of a written plan for a murder, because the defendant had attempted to burn it. And if it was burned, it should stay burned.
claimed that per-packet charging was inevitable
I've been really sick of hearing that from Robert Metcalfe just about every month, too. I'm no economist, but I know intuitively that charging by the byte (or connect minute for those fans of circuit switching) would be the surest way to kill the golden goose known as the Internet.
Hey, it got posted just as soon as the first person was interested in buying a Mac and saw it. Not /.'s fault it took a week.
I was just thinking the same thing--that the media industry just might be trying to spread some FUD along the lines of "there's nothing out there, so don't bother trying it" to the uninitiated.
If the challenge to Amazon's patent is successful, what has Apple lost?
True. Anyone offended by frivolous, immoral legal action is already boycotting Apple over their harassment of others over:
design (eMachines),
look and feel (M$),
reporting of news (news sites and its own employees),
and a theme site (themes.org) over an Enlightenment Aqua theme.
May they and Amazon suffer a quick decline at the hands of open standards and be featured f-d companies (also a target of frivolous legal action by corporate jackbooted thugs).
Actually, Manzi of Lotus made the crack about wanting to perform cashectomy on Borland. (IMHO, Borland should have stuck with compilers--they might not be the empty, burned out husk of their former selves they are today if they had.)
I also live in the Kansas City area and have DSL with cable availability coming soon. I will likely stick with DSL because I've noticed a stark absence of reports of people being dumped by DSL providers for running "unauthorized servers" or "excessive bandwidth usage", as opposed to cable companies, who have explicit policies against using SSH or PPTP. I think the "phone company" understands what it means to be a common carrier, and to not interfere with customer's traffic (and thus avoid liability for it), while the cable companies will continue to tighten the noose and make their service a barely interactive, pretty much one-way force-feed of media drivel.
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The nicely digitally signed, DRM compliant SB driver in Windows ME will output quite nicely to the virtual SB, the PCM from which will travel to the real sound card on the Linux machine, from which its PCM stream will be copied to disk.
Have you considered using a proxy to change your user agent string so that you look to their server as if you're running Windows or MacOS?
And how does this relate to DeCSS? Ah! The proxy's just a means for bypassing a device (their JavaScript) that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work (Toronto Dominion's web page).
Thanks--that's in the post :> (last sentence, first paragraph) except for the lost the war part).
Nope, they'll be paying multi-million dollar judgements to Nintendo and Sega for appropriating the idea of horizontal scrolling games in the Commander Keen series :>.
If only that were true. However, that only works with trademarks. (IANAL, yadda yadda yadda.)
Actually, it was Lotus v. Borland, and Lotus won the battle. (Quattro Pro had to be modified to remove the Lotus menu structure, copies of Quattro Pro were pulled from the shelves, and Borland is now a shell of its former self (of course this happened when they stopped concentrating on their great compilers, but I digress.)). The decision was later overturned on appeal (thank Bob), but too late for Quattro Pro.
Fair enough--they may not have copied the code for the games, but they've still just made second rate clones trading on the familiarity of the classics. IMO, Hasbro could have used their efforts making games, rather than bothering with what was likely a near-zero dent in their corporate wallet.
This should probably be addressed with trademark law rather than copyright law, but (here it comes) IANAL.
Whether they're improvements or not is a matter of opinion, but Hasbro has released updates of Pong, Battlezone, Asteroids, Missile Command, and others.
The people making the knockoffs were probably just small-time profiteers that didn't create anything--slime that are best driven out of business anyway.
Amen to that. Telecommunications and games were the motivators that caused my generation to learn the basics of telecommunications and how computers operated. Not implicating myself, but low level knowledge of how computers operate is necessary to have any hope of cracking protection schemes.
From the Freedom FAQ:
A concerted court ordered attack on multiple Freedom Server Operators, could result in a nym's privacy being compromised. If multiple server operators were forced to reveal their keys, it would be possible to determine a particular nym's e-mail address or IP address. In addition, a sufficiently powerful organization could, if so desired, retrieve the informational content of mail sent to regular Internet users by monitoring Internet network access points around the world. Significant resources would be required to mount such attacks, and they would also require that third-party Freedom Server Operators be forced to reveal the keys that they control. For more details regarding the strength of Freedom's privacy implementation, see the Freedom Papers.
IOW, while Freedom is really cool, I wouldn't rely on it alone to protect me if I were to become an (forgive me for the cliché) enemy of the state or of a well-funded corporation.
But if he votes for one of the major parties, both of whom are equivalent to him, then will he have still not wasted his vote? And have sent no message to the winner, either (if Nader gets >=5%, the Green voters will be pandered to somehow by whatever party does win come 2004). And he will have helped assure things will not change in the forseeable future. If one can vote for Nader rather than Bore or Gush on issues important to him/her, why not?
And you can specify the low order digits of the MAC address in VMWare. However, there is no (supported) way to change the higher order bytes that indicate the manufacturer.
Also, don't use a copy of Win* you've registered. Period. And don't connect the VM to the network. (In fact, if one's doing a compile like this, I don't think it would be too paranoid to unplug the ethernet and/or telephone jacks).
And think of everything you'd try if you were analyzing a file to see where it came from. (e.g. slack space)
This is cool. The following:
Make money fast selling credit card merchant accounts to young shaving teens via our innovative network marketing program, while losing weight and earning a degree from a prestigious offshore institution of higher learning at the same time!
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Total spam score: 16466
Word count: 60
Spam Quotient: 274.43
It is almost certain that this message is a spam.
I wonder what the max score is. Are the scripts wf & bc available?
It stopped right about the time they started wanting to use common carrier status as a shield against being sued for every piece of {pirated software|porno|subersive political material} that travels over their wires.