I don't see how anyone can fault Mr. Cox for taking action to insure that he does not get tossed into jail in the USA the next time he visits there, He's checked with a lawyer and been advised that there is a risk; he chooses not to take that risk.
No, he's just using his position of power to make a political point... and while there's nothing wrong with that, it's disingenuous to pretend otherwise.
Is he, though? The two reasons aren't mutually exclusive. How is it disingenuous if you realize you can try to drive home a valid point while doing a bit of CYA?
I love Neil Gaiman. It pains me to speak ill of him, but AG left a really horrible taste in my mouth. It went pretty smoothly right up until after Wednesday's vigil, and it just seemed like Gaiman got there, got a phone call along the lines of 'Hey, man, wanna catch a movie?', and banged out a quick ending so that he could catch the matinee.
Don't get me wrong, Neverwhere and Smoke & Mirrors were excellent, but American Gods I just don't think will mark his transition out of the 'quick and tidy ending' zone of Sandman.
Drop all of your access cards, take the U shaped bar, hold it over the crevice in Admin Corridor South. Use the key to unlock the padlock in the kitchen area, take the ladder, extend it, and put it across the rift. Walk across the ladder, and utter a joyous cry of "Foo!" as you find the plethora of new access cards in the desks.
And don't shoot Floyd. He gets his ass kicked enough in this game.;)
Actually, it has everything to do with the DMCA. If you can make the case for your computer's file system security being a form of protection for data on the system, which it is, then printing the security patches in the changelog would be discussing ways to circumvent that security. (Oh, there's a buffer overflow! w00t!)
And that could put it straight in the headlights of the DMCA, if someone wants to look at it like that. Throw in a technically unclued judge/jury, and problems could be on the rise.
The code wouldn't be breaking the law. The problem with the changelog is that it describes (or doesn't describe, in this case) what was fixed. Ergo, any system that's running without this patch would then have a list of possible security exploits, simply because the changelog would read 'Fixed foo', 'Fixed bar'.
I'm kinda suprised to not see it mentioned already, so does anyone remember Electronic Art's two games, Starflight, and SF2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula? They were the two that sucked the greatest portion of my childhood away. (If for nothing else, the first game is great for the moment of sick horror when you realize that Endurium, which you've been using to power spaceships for centuries, is actually a race of crystalline entities that just haven't been able to communicate)
Another that I used to play like there was no tomorrow was Star Saga, though they were a bitch, since all the text of the games was in a stack of booklets that came with the disks.
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No, he's just using his position of power to make a political point... and while there's nothing wrong with that, it's disingenuous to pretend otherwise.
Is he, though? The two reasons aren't mutually exclusive. How is it disingenuous if you realize you can try to drive home a valid point while doing a bit of CYA?
Actually, according to Stallman, shouldn't it be pronounced 'guh-newspeak'?
I love Neil Gaiman. It pains me to speak ill of him, but AG left a really horrible taste in my mouth. It went pretty smoothly right up until after Wednesday's vigil, and it just seemed like Gaiman got there, got a phone call along the lines of 'Hey, man, wanna catch a movie?', and banged out a quick ending so that he could catch the matinee.
Don't get me wrong, Neverwhere and Smoke & Mirrors were excellent, but American Gods I just don't think will mark his transition out of the 'quick and tidy ending' zone of Sandman.
Drop all of your access cards, take the U shaped bar, hold it over the crevice in Admin Corridor South. Use the key to unlock the padlock in the kitchen area, take the ladder, extend it, and put it across the rift. Walk across the ladder, and utter a joyous cry of "Foo!" as you find the plethora of new access cards in the desks.
;)
And don't shoot Floyd. He gets his ass kicked enough in this game.
Actually, it has everything to do with the DMCA. If you can make the case for your computer's file system security being a form of protection for data on the system, which it is, then printing the security patches in the changelog would be discussing ways to circumvent that security. (Oh, there's a buffer overflow! w00t!)
And that could put it straight in the headlights of the DMCA, if someone wants to look at it like that. Throw in a technically unclued judge/jury, and problems could be on the rise.
The code wouldn't be breaking the law. The problem with the changelog is that it describes (or doesn't describe, in this case) what was fixed. Ergo, any system that's running without this patch would then have a list of possible security exploits, simply because the changelog would read 'Fixed foo', 'Fixed bar'.
I'm kinda suprised to not see it mentioned already, so does anyone remember Electronic Art's two games, Starflight, and SF2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula? They were the two that sucked the greatest portion of my childhood away. (If for nothing else, the first game is great for the moment of sick horror when you realize that Endurium, which you've been using to power spaceships for centuries, is actually a race of crystalline entities that just haven't been able to communicate)
Another that I used to play like there was no tomorrow was Star Saga, though they were a bitch, since all the text of the games was in a stack of booklets that came with the disks.