The way things have been pushed with the DMCA, it seems that in a few years reverse engineering any technology will be illegal. These people don't do it to make any kind of monetary gain, but do it out of the interest that drives all engineers. If you can't buy something and figure out how it works, then how will you learn about engineering. I know most of myself and most of my engineer friends had much interest tinkering around with electronic toys when we were growing up. Now if no kid can take apart his latest toy he got two months ago because Sony or anyone else will sue him, then how will kids gain an interest and some initial experience in engineering, then what will the nation do in thirty years when there aren't enough engineers to solve problems.
Seriously: It *can* improve the quality of software delivered on windoze, because not every redneck cracker will be able to spread his buggy code.
The software that tends to crash most people's computers and slow them down are produced by Microsoft and other companies that have gobs of money that could be used to properly engineer software but don't choose to. The only reason that the smaller developer software is buggy is because MS sells crippled compilers compared to the ones Microsoft uses and they don't get the same development tools and documentation the larger developers get.
So it might be a good idea for commercial solutions, where businesses actually can afford and want to pay for the software they use.
I guess this means that businesses will have to purchase all their software and never have the option of writing even any of it because they'll have to pay extremely high licensing fees just to develop.
I guess that the security community refers to the hackers and the IT people who have to deal with these problems. And they're to blame. Come on Microsoft. You have developed a simple, yet uneccesarily powerful (from a "how much access it has to your system" perspective) scripting language that is so easy to learn that 8 year old kids who barely know how to turn a computer on can modify a few lines in one of the many worms that have gone around (and blame outlook for the wide distribution for the source of these worms) and there is a whole new virus.
If Microsoft wants to eliminate all the email worms, they should do the obvious solution and remove VBScript from Outlook. Completely. I really don't need flashy buttons and pop-up boxes to ask where to have lunch today. And yes, I use outlook because my company has an exchange server. But only on my company email accounts.
It doesn't seem that this generates HTML based on templates like you would in MS Frontpage or other HTML authoring software, but that it generates the code on the server based on what the user's browser is capable of. At least that's the way it seems after reading the first few pages of the patent. Now I'm trying to remember when the first sites that could detect if you were using Netscape or IE came around.
This patent could potentially be very useful because web pages could be generated based on preferences that you specify. If you don't like having Java enabled then perhaps a CGI version of a web app is available, and the server will generate HTML code for this, with little hassle to the user. This could also be used for viewing a news website on your PDA or PC with little hassle to the webmaster. Just one story put up on the website, and voila, everyone on every platform can view the story.
It seems to me that the RIAA (and others) are using anti-terrorism legislation to promote their own personal agenda. This is not only a slimy tactic but keeps real anti-terrorism provisions that are in the bill from becoming law quickly because there will need to be debate on these issues. The terrorists could seize the moment while every evil political group in America is trying to cash in on the flurry of anti-terrorism legislation. Let the real anti-terrorist action begin now and fight your own battles using more appropriate legislation.
I know most of this is going to be a little offtopic, but bear with me.
For most artists, very little of CD sales go to them. The artists make most of their money on touring. It's the producer that makes money on the CDs.
However, it used to be hard for an artist to distribute music without a producer. Things changed in the late '90's with Napster and MP3.com. Sure the sites were cutting into CD sales, but the real threat was the fact that with these music sharing services artists could distribute music without even going through a record producer. The real threat of MP3's to the producers was not that they'd get less money from CD's, but that they'd be out of a job.
MP3 distribution for the artist has quite an opposite effect as it does to the producer. A new artist can now distribute music to a much larger audience at a fraction of a cost, compared to finding a record producer and paying several thousand to produce CD's, that may not even sell. It becomes less risky for the artists now, plus I can put the music on my computer and listen to it whenever I want, and play it and give it to my friends. If I find out the band is on tour, I can go see their show, and that is how they make their money.
Well, I know from here that ads can be disable in AIM. Is there a similar feature in the actual AOL client? Of course, this ad disableing will be taken out in the next version of the client, if I so choose to upgrade.
I'm not an astronomer, but I'm familiar with many concepts. How do they determine how far away an extragalactic object is? I assume it has something to do with redshift and the Hubble constant. And a better question would be what is the margin of error for this? We know the basics of how the universe operates now, but how can we be sure once we go back a few billion years. Could someone who knows more about astronomy please answer this for me?
Suppose that a law gets passed, or has been passed, that most likely shouldn't have been passed for constitutional reasons. How educated is the Supreme Court on technical issues and have lobby groups prepared lawyers to argue such issues in front of the Supreme Court?
It seems that acts such as the DMCA will most likely have to go before the Supreme Court sometim in the future. How these cases turn out will have a significant impact on our lives, due to the fact that these will become the legal precedents.
It's good to see that the UK's postal system is able to implement this kind of technology. America's postal service is still trying to figure out a way to guarantee that your letter gets to where you send it.
Given that there are at least 100billion combinations, and the weight of paper is about 1 pound per hundred sheets, we're talking about a billion pounds of paperwork filed, assuming one sheet per copyright. And according to CNN, the mass of the debris of the WTC is 2 billion pounds. So we're talking about the mass of one of the towers worth of paperwork. This obviously is a fraud and even if they were to start work printing paperwork at 1000 pages/minute, it would take 100million minutes, which is just over 190 years. So I think we're safe for now, at least until they get your phone number filed.
If this is true, I guess its illegal to hum or whistle a copyrighted song. In fact, it would be illegal to sing along with a song in your car. I guess I can't do that any more either. And I had just got through being able to speed-whistle all my friends phone numbers.
Is it possible to copyright all your personal info such that if it gets distributed to someone such as people who send out annoying mail and email without your permission, you can charge a royalty. It's time we get paid for our own personal information, not someone else.
Maybe Microsoft has intentionally slowed down the pipes for any developer except for Microsoft. Perhaps Microsoft has got the keys to unlock the faster IPC but won't let any other company use it for fear of losing market share in any of their monopolized software products. Therefore, any other office suite will poke along while Office moves much faster by comparison.
Yeah, but then to restart the heart all you have to do is warm him back up. But then again the doctor won't be able to have fun and use the paddles. Awww...
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The way things have been pushed with the DMCA, it seems that in a few years reverse engineering any technology will be illegal. These people don't do it to make any kind of monetary gain, but do it out of the interest that drives all engineers. If you can't buy something and figure out how it works, then how will you learn about engineering. I know most of myself and most of my engineer friends had much interest tinkering around with electronic toys when we were growing up. Now if no kid can take apart his latest toy he got two months ago because Sony or anyone else will sue him, then how will kids gain an interest and some initial experience in engineering, then what will the nation do in thirty years when there aren't enough engineers to solve problems.
Just something to think about.
Yeah, but they'll have to work 2 weeks of overtime a year to pay for Windows.
Seriously: It *can* improve the quality of software delivered on windoze, because not every redneck cracker will be able to spread his buggy code.
The software that tends to crash most people's computers and slow them down are produced by Microsoft and other companies that have gobs of money that could be used to properly engineer software but don't choose to. The only reason that the smaller developer software is buggy is because MS sells crippled compilers compared to the ones Microsoft uses and they don't get the same development tools and documentation the larger developers get.
So it might be a good idea for commercial solutions, where businesses actually can afford and want to pay for the software they use.
I guess this means that businesses will have to purchase all their software and never have the option of writing even any of it because they'll have to pay extremely high licensing fees just to develop.
Maybe with some hacking it could really be a fun car
I assume you mean porting linux over to it.
Hey, I saw on CNN that Anthrax is in the soil. Next week, we'll see wannabe terrorists throwing clumps of dirt at each other.
I guess that the security community refers to the hackers and the IT people who have to deal with these problems. And they're to blame. Come on Microsoft. You have developed a simple, yet uneccesarily powerful (from a "how much access it has to your system" perspective) scripting language that is so easy to learn that 8 year old kids who barely know how to turn a computer on can modify a few lines in one of the many worms that have gone around (and blame outlook for the wide distribution for the source of these worms) and there is a whole new virus.
If Microsoft wants to eliminate all the email worms, they should do the obvious solution and remove VBScript from Outlook. Completely. I really don't need flashy buttons and pop-up boxes to ask where to have lunch today. And yes, I use outlook because my company has an exchange server. But only on my company email accounts.
It doesn't seem that this generates HTML based on templates like you would in MS Frontpage or other HTML authoring software, but that it generates the code on the server based on what the user's browser is capable of. At least that's the way it seems after reading the first few pages of the patent. Now I'm trying to remember when the first sites that could detect if you were using Netscape or IE came around.
This patent could potentially be very useful because web pages could be generated based on preferences that you specify. If you don't like having Java enabled then perhaps a CGI version of a web app is available, and the server will generate HTML code for this, with little hassle to the user. This could also be used for viewing a news website on your PDA or PC with little hassle to the webmaster. Just one story put up on the website, and voila, everyone on every platform can view the story.
Yeah, she probably caught ya snapping pictures. The worst part is that the pics are probably going to be worse quality than most pr0n thumbnails.
They probably check to see if you're sending out 300 copies of the latest email worm.
I can see it now...
The new Mortal Kombat X.
With new character Cybergates, and his finishing move, The BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!!
What was your favorite episode of TNG to act in? Which is your favorite to watch?
It seems to me that the RIAA (and others) are using anti-terrorism legislation to promote their own personal agenda. This is not only a slimy tactic but keeps real anti-terrorism provisions that are in the bill from becoming law quickly because there will need to be debate on these issues. The terrorists could seize the moment while every evil political group in America is trying to cash in on the flurry of anti-terrorism legislation. Let the real anti-terrorist action begin now and fight your own battles using more appropriate legislation.
You should try to implement RFC 2549 (updates RFC 1149). It'd be a good field test for the technology.
Just watch out for hunting season. Then you'll get several network timeout errors.
I know most of this is going to be a little offtopic, but bear with me.
For most artists, very little of CD sales go to them. The artists make most of their money on touring. It's the producer that makes money on the CDs.
However, it used to be hard for an artist to distribute music without a producer. Things changed in the late '90's with Napster and MP3.com. Sure the sites were cutting into CD sales, but the real threat was the fact that with these music sharing services artists could distribute music without even going through a record producer. The real threat of MP3's to the producers was not that they'd get less money from CD's, but that they'd be out of a job.
MP3 distribution for the artist has quite an opposite effect as it does to the producer. A new artist can now distribute music to a much larger audience at a fraction of a cost, compared to finding a record producer and paying several thousand to produce CD's, that may not even sell. It becomes less risky for the artists now, plus I can put the music on my computer and listen to it whenever I want, and play it and give it to my friends. If I find out the band is on tour, I can go see their show, and that is how they make their money.
Well, I know from here that ads can be disable in AIM. Is there a similar feature in the actual AOL client? Of course, this ad disableing will be taken out in the next version of the client, if I so choose to upgrade.
I'm not an astronomer, but I'm familiar with many concepts. How do they determine how far away an extragalactic object is? I assume it has something to do with redshift and the Hubble constant. And a better question would be what is the margin of error for this? We know the basics of how the universe operates now, but how can we be sure once we go back a few billion years. Could someone who knows more about astronomy please answer this for me?
Suppose that a law gets passed, or has been passed, that most likely shouldn't have been passed for constitutional reasons. How educated is the Supreme Court on technical issues and have lobby groups prepared lawyers to argue such issues in front of the Supreme Court?
It seems that acts such as the DMCA will most likely have to go before the Supreme Court sometim in the future. How these cases turn out will have a significant impact on our lives, due to the fact that these will become the legal precedents.
It's good to see that the UK's postal system is able to implement this kind of technology. America's postal service is still trying to figure out a way to guarantee that your letter gets to where you send it.
Given that there are at least 100billion combinations, and the weight of paper is about 1 pound per hundred sheets, we're talking about a billion pounds of paperwork filed, assuming one sheet per copyright. And according to CNN, the mass of the debris of the WTC is 2 billion pounds. So we're talking about the mass of one of the towers worth of paperwork. This obviously is a fraud and even if they were to start work printing paperwork at 1000 pages/minute, it would take 100million minutes, which is just over 190 years. So I think we're safe for now, at least until they get your phone number filed.
If this is true, I guess its illegal to hum or whistle a copyrighted song. In fact, it would be illegal to sing along with a song in your car. I guess I can't do that any more either. And I had just got through being able to speed-whistle all my friends phone numbers.
Is it possible to copyright all your personal info such that if it gets distributed to someone such as people who send out annoying mail and email without your permission, you can charge a royalty. It's time we get paid for our own personal information, not someone else.
Maybe Microsoft has intentionally slowed down the pipes for any developer except for Microsoft. Perhaps Microsoft has got the keys to unlock the faster IPC but won't let any other company use it for fear of losing market share in any of their monopolized software products. Therefore, any other office suite will poke along while Office moves much faster by comparison.
Well I guess thats one way to make Unix insecure.
Leave it to Microsoft to finally make Unix insecure. Congrats to the IE team on this one.
Maybe you could give it the one fingered salute and it would have the same effect. Also could be used for dismissing those M$ EULAs.
Yeah, but then to restart the heart all you have to do is warm him back up. But then again the doctor won't be able to have fun and use the paddles. Awww...