USB-IF can't persist in this if they don't want to have an anti-trust suit.
The antitrust exemption would have to be judged as invalid:
4302. Rule of reason standard In any action under the antitrust laws, or under any State law similar to the antitrust laws, the conduct of-- (1) any person in making or performing a contract to carry out a joint venture, or (2) a standards development organization while engaged in a standards development ac- tivity, shall not be deemed illegal per se; such conduct shall be judged on the basis of its reasonable- ness, taking into account all relevant factors af- fecting competition, including, but not limited to, effects on competition in properly defined, relevant research, development, product, proc- ess, and service markets. For the purpose of de- termining a properly defined, relevant market, worldwide capacity shall be considered to the extent that it may be appropriate in the circum-
The comment was about "IP Crime" in general, not video game copy protection circumvention.
The health and safety risks are from counterfeit drugs and Underwriter's Laboratories stickers. Food full of melamine with Purina or Kraft on it that consumers trust. Lawnmowers with Honda labels and deadman levers that fail unsafe or leak gas.
Conflating trademark infringement/counterfeiting with copyright infringement (or in this case facilitating but not inducing or committing) is pretty lame, though ultimately, it seems that technical measures such as forging a digital signature could lead to risks such as Therac-25. For instance counterfeit Bosch ABS units that even appear to have Bosch firmware.
splices are the worst possible idea in any situation: they are the worst electrical and physical connection you could make. Soldering takes so little time and looks so much better.
I used to believe that, but it turns out that splices using crimping connectors can be better physically because solder running up a stranded wire makes it more brittle. Solder covers the joint to prevent corrosion, but some crimps mechanically cut through surface grunk (possibly better than the cleaning effect of flux) and may have enough force to keep the metals pressed together & keep gasses out. The phone wire connectors that have goop inside that seals around the crimp probably do even better than that.
Frankly, either way I hope they get laughed out of court.
I hope they don't. I hope the DMCA is applied as broadly and as liberally as possible so we can see how silly it is.
Chamberlin vs. Skylink advanced a new theory of interpretation of the DMCA that actually made some sense: the code that actuates the motor is the protected IP and Skylink's openers bypasses the protection. The judge didn't throw it out because the theory was too far a reach, but because he didn't think Chamberlin should be able to control customers' access to their own garages, which was a Luddite decsision that happened to find *against* a DMCA-abuser.
For Chumby, 2, 3 and 5 are open in some way or another. You don't have to write in Flash, it's just that they don't want you to distribute binary apps or anything that doesn't talk only to their network. Their ability to enforce this is hampered by US intellectual property law still having some limits though.
On a PC running Linux, the silicon RTL and board-level design and possibly some of the silicon programming details (video, wireless) aren't open, but people are still happy developing open windowing systems and open applications on it.
Sure, you can open source hardware, but only in a BSD-style way. Chumby is trying to share-alike their hardware design, but that doesn't work as well as GPL for software or CC Share Alike for something like a work of fiction because while a schematic or PCB can be copyrighted, the netlist implied therin cannot be protected. With dense ASICs/SoCs where most of the design complexity is on-die rather than in the connections on the PCB and the registers in the chip are freely documeted, reverse-engineering isn't hard.
OK, I know what PVC conduit & armored & EMT are, but what's interduct? It seems to be a rare term in the US for small-scale use of what appears to be flexible raceway. Most refs I found on google are for large diameter runs, not residential use. smarthome has something they call resi-gard. Looks harder to pull through than smooth-walled conduit.
A more important question is how big a hole can you blow in joists without weakening them excessively? The shop behind my garage is framed with 2x4s. It was cheesy-panelled with surface-mounted EMT AC. I've gutted it & plan to drywall & re-floor it & insulate the ceiling (flat roof).
If I had space above the ceiling, I could run big raceway up there & run smaller pieces down the bays between joists, but I'm going to have to bore horizontal holes through joists unless I get creative with the sleepers used to space the drywall away from the ceiling to accomodate the insulation.
Modern houses are usually framed with 2x6s, so I guess this isn't a common concern.
I record NPR and PRI shows via RealAudio streams to.m4b (bookmarkable AAC) using Audio Hijack Pro on a Mac mini. I used to use Total Recorder Pro on Windows. TRP worked, but AHP has better auto-naming facilities so I can be lazy about deleting old stuff & still find the new. It also is able to "hijack" just RealPlayer's PCM output so I can use the computer for other audio stuff. TRP pretends to be a soundcard driver, so any other audio is recorded too.
Finding a stream with a high enough bitrate to sound good that stays up during a popular show like Car Talk is tricky, but doable.
I'll be switching to an FM tuner with an outdoor Winegard PR-6000 aimed at KQED and an Edirol UA-1A (out of production so I've linked the similar UA-1EX).
Outdoor antennas are cheap. A good chimney mount is going to double my cost, but the total is still cheaper than an indoor Terk & it'll actually work. If the PR-6000 or PR-5030 can't pull in that distant station Antenna Performance Specialties makes what many claim are the best around. $219 for the APS-13 might seem like a lot, but compared to an Audible.com or Sirius subscription, it's not too bad & a good strong FM signal sounds pretty good below 15kHz. I'm tempted to get one of these just for pure outrageousness of a 200" boom, but it's overkill for KQED from Santa Cruz-- need a rotor to really justify it.
I'll be using a cool 70's brushed-aluminum-faceplate Kenwood KT-5300 with analog "big knob" tuning that I got for $30 before I found the crazy FM DXers page that reviews every old radio & has info or links on tweaking them for better selectivity.
I work in embedded systems & if I wasn't trying to find relief from that in my spare time computer noodling by trying Python, I'd be hacking a Zaurus. ARM seems stronger in embedded, at least in battery-powerable consumer electronics stuff, than PPC. Last devices I saw w/ PPC are my Series 1 TiVo and a prototype Scientific-Atlanta digital cable box (the real box ended up with SPARClite).
A few years ago Ford was interested in PPC for engine management. Any other big design wins?
I did just get a Mac mini, but that's to tide me over until an intel PowerBook comes out. Without the switch, I'd be getting a PowerMac this fall.
If circumvention is legal then it's not so much of a problem, but the current situation seems to be that it is not legal.
The Librarian of Congress has made four exceptions to circumvention prohibition:
(1) Compilations consisting of lists of Internet locations blocked by commercially marketed filtering software applications that are intended to prevent access to domains, websites or portions of websites, but not including lists of Internet locations blocked by software applications that operate exclusively to protect against damage to a computer or computer network or lists of Internet locations blocked by software applications that operate exclusively to prevent receipt of email.
(2) Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete.
(3) Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.
(4) Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling of the ebook's read-aloud function and that prevent the enabling of screen readers to render the text into a specialized format.
About the only advantages I could see getting from it is not having to make your developers learn Objective-C and being able to work in a garbage-collected environment.
C# anyone?
Interface Builder/Obj-C/Cocoa's supposed advantage is building first-class applications (native look-and-feel) in a "modern" environment (not raw C with Pascal-interface APIs).
"Modern" (moving away from the solution domain towards the problem domain and letting the coder ignore details like memory management that the computer can handle itself) is evolving to mean garbage collection, dynamically typing and higher-order functions for some people.
I'd like to use Python to write a Mac app that has preferences in the right place (BitTorrent's and iPodder-Lemon's wxWidgets interfaces have a few glaring Mac UI violations), but PyObjC seemed like a kludgey mess (though I didn't give it much of a chance).
I thought Java would be worth looking at as it seemed that there might be a real Java-centric version of the app framework (PyObjC requires you to write ObjC-looking code in Python), but now it's going away. I thought I'd look at Jython if Java->Cocoa was good.
Java is a nice language period. You don't have to use the supposedly portability features. You can implement the model in portable Java & make the controller/view be platform-specific. It's nicer to have all three be in the same language rather than having to jump through a native-interface hoop that make it easy to present a C-like interface but hard to keep things object oriented across the bridge.
If C# makes first-class app development faster because you don't have to track down memory leaks (and it doesn't require Universal Binaries), and it comes with a better app framework (Avalon, WinFX, mebbe?) than Win32/MFC/whatever, it might chip away at one of the big advantages Cocoa supposedly has.
This evidence of intent to profit from infringement seems to be what lost the case for them.
While I'm no fan of adware, how is its use related to intent?
What about software that like BitTorrent has infringing and non-infringing uses, and is not promoted for its infringing uses, but is commercial and makes more money with more users and more users are attracted my more content (network effect).
With software, if you do not put DRM on it, then you have not made the effort to protect your IP it risks becoming more or less public domain.
No, that's trademark. And as it turns out, even trademark isn't that much of a burden on the holder.
This essay from an actual IP lawyer (your employer ought to get one before making decisions based on ignorance) at Copyfight describes why copyright maximalism isn't necessary:
all too often, we see a perspective like Tshaka's, where the argument is made that if you don't enforce your rights, you lose them.
Nothing could be further from the truth in this context, even for trademarks (i.e. the only time you lose your trademark is if it becomes generic for the class of goods you sell; no one would ever start calling cartoons "Doras" and birthday cakes aren't even in the same class of goods).
One more thing I'm compelled to comment on:
Sure the source is copy protected
You're a developer? Surely you must know that the source is locked away on the company's version control system? While this is literally "copy protection," the term generally means distributing something to the public with some kind of access control and the source should never leave the building.
as on-line distribution with thin margins becomes the dominant form of music sale, the record labels actually are going to start losing money.
But "The Record Labels" is not some monolithic beast. While there are the big five^H^H^H^H four that seemed to be profitable selling CDs through brick-and-mortar stores, there are many small labels that have trouble getting distribution and finding their way on to the shelves of the Wherehouse and Sam Goody.
"The Long Tail" describes a scenario where on-line sales combined with grassroots promotion (word of mouth and end-user reviews) can support a vibrant culture of micro-labels or book micro-publishers.
Hungarian folk influenced death metal might not sell a lot of units in the Tower in San Francisco, but there might be a "diaspora" of fans spread out in little pockets all over the world that are enough to keep the bands in Top Ramen.
The first link of googling for linux ipod only mentions ephpod on wine and gtkpod, but the 2nd link mentions the command-line (therefore faster to port, but less popular) gnupod. The second link mentions gnupod.
If you search for ipod linux instead of linux ipod, you'll get two links about running linux on an ipod first, but the third link is helpful.
non-mac user people I know still have PS2 keyboards and often PS2 mice
I got a KVM that uses PS/2 keyboard & mouse & connects to the computers via USB. (iBook & PC @ home, G4 MDD tower & PC @ work)
If my Expert "Mouse" trackball goes nuts or gets unplugged I can power-cycle the KVM by unplugging it instead of rebooting the computer.
Also, you can use Screen Spanning Doctor to run displays at higher than built-in display resolution from iBooks and eMacs. Now that you can get SuperDrives in iBooks, they look pretty nice.
Cars like Lamborghini have a huge influence on the style of cars, but Lamborghini sells hardly any cars compared to mainstream automakers.
Lambo might be quite successfull in their market segment. They are selling high margin, high priced cars so they don't need to sell as many to make a US$1billion as Ford does Focuses.
Apple should sell more Mac minis than 2.5GHz dual G5 PowerMacs but I hope there's a lot more margin in the tower. Both can be "successfull" even if the mini outsells the tower by 50:1.
Back to cars, Lambo has stayed around, though they were bought by VWAG to survive. Maserati almost went away. They & Ferrarri are owned by Fiat (a large volume, lower margin mfg.) to survive.
On the gripping hand, is high-end car design's influence on mass-produced cars a good thing anyway? Look at the Hyundai Tiburon and Chevy Cobalt.
Look at the niche U.K. sports car market & you'll find companies coming & going with wild designs that don't sell well even for hand-built cars that don't seem to have much influence. I'm thinking Strathcarron, that carbon fiber-framed, aluminum-skinned thing & the motorcycle-car tricycle thing with almost no body; even more esoteric than TVR & Morgan.
The iMac did not sell very well compared to computers such as Dell, HP, and Gateway
Which one? I think the CRT iMac did pretty well for a small computer manufacturer with mostly contracted manufacturing. The G4 LCD iMac supposedly didn't sell well & seems to have had no influence. The G5 iMac is too new to tell, but seems succesful and has had an influence (though all-in-one LCD PCs were available before it).
Even Canon has given up on CompactFlash for tiny cameras. The first "digital elphs" used CF, but the SDxxx and Axxx cameras all use SD. The Sxxx, Axx and Sxx cameras still use CF, but only the Sxx (fast & >4mpix higher-end) and Axx (AA-powered bulky low-end) lines are getting new models with CF slots.
S410 and S500 are 3.43 x 2.24 x 1.09 in. SD200 and SD300 are 3.38 x 2.10 x 0.83 in.
CF cards are 36.4mm x 42.8mm x 3.3mm or 1.43 inches tall, so it would seem the SDxxx-sized cameras (2.10 inches tall) could fit a CF card, but looking a picture of an S400, it's getting pretty tight.
6- and 8- in 1 card readers are cheap now- there's one built-in to my HP 8450 printer so I don't mind a couple of card types floating around the house, but while SD cards use fewer, faster signal lines than CF (a good idea), they waste part of their storage on secure key storage for DRM.
You can't use that space for ordinary storage even if you don't use DRM and though the spec doesn't require secure storage, no one's built a card without it yet.
This bill is sponsored/written by the same guy that brought us SB1506 which has been approved by California Senate & Assembly and Governor Arnold and became law 19 days ago.
To the non-technical (who don't understand that the entire internet is p2p and ftp is just as guilty as Morpheus), that bill was more bizzare than SB 96, so expect it to pass unless strongly opposed.
It took SB1506 from Feb 9 to Sept 21 2004 to work its way through the CA Legislature.
Bills need three readings & one month after the first before they can move too far. Feb 17th is the earliest that this one can be heard in committee.
SB 1506 went to the Sen. committees on Judiciary and Public Safety first. SB 96 is currently in Rules, but all bills go there for re-assignment.
I'll write to my reps Simitian and Laird today. They stream RealAudio of the hearings.
This one got caught early. Let's work to kill it NOW.
I'm planning to write an sftp "browser" front end in python
Thanks for the pointers to existing sftp front-ends.
I want to write my first Python GUI app & this seemed like a fun reason.
I also want this to be able to run on Windows XP. I figure a group of sharers might have some members capable of running an OpenBSD or Linux server, but the rest just want to share their collection & sample others'.
For my friend & I, just rsync could work.
Part of the reason I wanted to do sftp instead of another protocol over an encrypted tunnel is that I don't want all server users having login privileges. I should look into restricted shells, tho....
Thanks again for all the responses. I'm going to look at WASTE, too. Didn't know it could do garbage chatter.
I would think they'd just use freenet, tor or i2p and be done with it?
Or how about just sftp? The original "darknet" paper and articles suggested that filesharing would turn into from large anonymous groups to small groups of people that knew each other and were suspicious of newcomers
I remember discussions of ftp servers used for small sharing "clubs" and I can't figure out why sftp isn't used for this. Knowing how to set up OpenSSH properly is a widely held skill that has value outside "piracy." Use DSA authentication instead of passwords for a start.
It should be nearly impossible for outsiders to gain net access to the server. The mere presence of a secured box shouldn't be enough for court ordered physical accesss. While it's also possible to have encrypted filesystems, if they can get my box out of my house, I fscking give up.
I'm planning to write an sftp "browser" front end in python or maybe just figure out how to use rsync over an ssh tunnel.
Traffic analysis in the absence of IP "bouncing" (whatever that is) could reveal who's in the network, but not what they're trading. A "chatter" app that keeps the channels full of noise (or files- who's to know?) could make traffic analysis more difficult. I'd be willing to sacrifice download time so my real downloads can be hidden in an always-on 16kbps stream. I'm trying to share my 20GB of rock with a friend who has 50GB of jazz. If it takes a couple of weeks to exchange collections, that's OK.
Maybe we should just FedEx hard drives to each other.
Mmmm... I thought the purpose of the INDUCE (IICA) act was to add vicarious liability to copyright law, implying that it doesn't have such a thing now. Sony v. Universal (Betamax case) theorized contributory infringement, but the test is much narrower and Sony and Diamond (v. RIAA) won.
One of the arguments against INDUCE was that it wasn't narrowly constructed like the vicarious liability provisions in patent law.
those sub-Saharan Africans will be ready to shell out the big bucks
But when the kids (which are the gross majority of the population in many developing countries) grow up and specify computers for business & government, the seed will have been planted. The market for high-margin products in target countries might be small now, but it has huge potential for growth. Developed countries have most of the computers they need & only replace them every few years.
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USB-IF can't persist in this if they don't want to have an anti-trust suit.
The antitrust exemption would have to be judged as invalid:
4302. Rule of reason standard
In any action under the antitrust laws, or under any State law similar to the antitrust laws, the conduct of--
(1) any person in making or performing a contract to carry out a joint venture, or
(2) a standards development organization while engaged in a standards development ac- tivity,
shall not be deemed illegal per se; such conduct shall be judged on the basis of its reasonable- ness, taking into account all relevant factors af- fecting competition, including, but not limited to, effects on competition in properly defined, relevant research, development, product, proc- ess, and service markets. For the purpose of de- termining a properly defined, relevant market, worldwide capacity shall be considered to the extent that it may be appropriate in the circum-
they like to do that sort of thing when they get a chance to fuck over people who have started to depend on such 'unsupported' features.
not unsupported, though not exactly documented either. The DTD just points to the one for Property Lists.
The comment was about "IP Crime" in general, not video game copy protection circumvention.
The health and safety risks are from counterfeit drugs and Underwriter's Laboratories stickers. Food full of melamine with Purina or Kraft on it that consumers trust. Lawnmowers with Honda labels and deadman levers that fail unsafe or leak gas.
Conflating trademark infringement/counterfeiting with copyright infringement (or in this case facilitating but not inducing or committing) is pretty lame, though ultimately, it seems that technical measures such as forging a digital signature could lead to risks such as Therac-25. For instance counterfeit Bosch ABS units that even appear to have Bosch firmware.
splices are the worst possible idea in any situation: they are the worst electrical and physical connection you could make. Soldering takes so little time and looks so much better.
I used to believe that, but it turns out that splices using crimping connectors can be better physically because solder running up a stranded wire makes it more brittle. Solder covers the joint to prevent corrosion, but some crimps mechanically cut through surface grunk (possibly better than the cleaning effect of flux) and may have enough force to keep the metals pressed together & keep gasses out. The phone wire connectors that have goop inside that seals around the crimp probably do even better than that.
Frankly, either way I hope they get laughed out of court.
I hope they don't. I hope the DMCA is applied as broadly and as liberally as possible so we can see how silly it is.
Chamberlin vs. Skylink advanced a new theory of interpretation of the DMCA that actually made some sense: the code that actuates the motor is the protected IP and Skylink's openers bypasses the protection. The judge didn't throw it out because the theory was too far a reach, but because he didn't think Chamberlin should be able to control customers' access to their own garages, which was a Luddite decsision that happened to find *against* a DMCA-abuser.
1) SoC (MX.21)
2) Board-level design
3) OS (Linux (or probably ucLinux))
4) "Middleware" (Flash interpreter)
5) Applications
For Chumby, 2, 3 and 5 are open in some way or another. You don't have to write in Flash, it's just that they don't want you to distribute binary apps or anything that doesn't talk only to their network. Their ability to enforce this is hampered by US intellectual property law still having some limits though.
On a PC running Linux, the silicon RTL and board-level design and possibly some of the silicon programming details (video, wireless) aren't open, but people are still happy developing open windowing systems and open applications on it.
Sure, you can open source hardware, but only in a BSD-style way. Chumby is trying to share-alike their hardware design, but that doesn't work as well as GPL for software or CC Share Alike for something like a work of fiction because while a schematic or PCB can be copyrighted, the netlist implied therin cannot be protected. With dense ASICs/SoCs where most of the design complexity is on-die rather than in the connections on the PCB and the registers in the chip are freely documeted, reverse-engineering isn't hard.
Chumby's response to this is (parphrasing) "fine hook stuff up to the chumbilical by looking at the MX.21 reference design and tracing connections and you won't be subject to our hardware license," but I wonder if they'll really be hands-off if an accessory developed without agreeing to their hardware developers' license is commercially successful. They're selling the hardware at slim margins and hoping to make profit on the service.
OK, I know what PVC conduit & armored & EMT are, but what's interduct? It seems to be a rare term in the US for small-scale use of what appears to be flexible raceway. Most refs I found on google are for large diameter runs, not residential use. smarthome has something they call resi-gard. Looks harder to pull through than smooth-walled conduit.
A more important question is how big a hole can you blow in joists without weakening them excessively? The shop behind my garage is framed with 2x4s. It was cheesy-panelled with surface-mounted EMT AC. I've gutted it & plan to drywall & re-floor it & insulate the ceiling (flat roof).
If I had space above the ceiling, I could run big raceway up there & run smaller pieces down the bays between joists, but I'm going to have to bore horizontal holes through joists unless I get creative with the sleepers used to space the drywall away from the ceiling to accomodate the insulation.
Modern houses are usually framed with 2x6s, so I guess this isn't a common concern.
I record NPR and PRI shows via RealAudio streams to .m4b (bookmarkable AAC) using Audio Hijack Pro on a Mac mini. I used to use Total Recorder Pro on Windows. TRP worked, but AHP has better auto-naming facilities so I can be lazy about deleting old stuff & still find the new. It also is able to "hijack" just RealPlayer's PCM output so I can use the computer for other audio stuff. TRP pretends to be a soundcard driver, so any other audio is recorded too.
Finding a stream with a high enough bitrate to sound good that stays up during a popular show like Car Talk is tricky, but doable.
I'll be switching to an FM tuner with an outdoor Winegard PR-6000 aimed at KQED and an Edirol UA-1A (out of production so I've linked the similar UA-1EX).
Outdoor antennas are cheap. A good chimney mount is going to double my cost, but the total is still cheaper than an indoor Terk & it'll actually work. If the PR-6000 or PR-5030 can't pull in that distant station Antenna Performance Specialties makes what many claim are the best around. $219 for the APS-13 might seem like a lot, but compared to an Audible.com or Sirius subscription, it's not too bad & a good strong FM signal sounds pretty good below 15kHz. I'm tempted to get one of these just for pure outrageousness of a 200" boom, but it's overkill for KQED from Santa Cruz-- need a rotor to really justify it.
I'll be using a cool 70's brushed-aluminum-faceplate Kenwood KT-5300 with analog "big knob" tuning that I got for $30 before I found the crazy FM DXers page that reviews every old radio & has info or links on tweaking them for better selectivity.
If I end up wanting to record another station, rather than getting a Radio Shark and hacking on an external antenna connector, I plan to just get more tuners & switch them with a repurposed Keyspan USB->serial adapter and some relays.
I work in embedded systems & if I wasn't trying to find relief from that in my spare time computer noodling by trying Python, I'd be hacking a Zaurus. ARM seems stronger in embedded, at least in battery-powerable consumer electronics stuff, than PPC. Last devices I saw w/ PPC are my Series 1 TiVo and a prototype Scientific-Atlanta digital cable box (the real box ended up with SPARClite).
A few years ago Ford was interested in PPC for engine management. Any other big design wins?
I did just get a Mac mini, but that's to tide me over until an intel PowerBook comes out. Without the switch, I'd be getting a PowerMac this fall.
The Librarian of Congress has made four exceptions to circumvention prohibition:
C# anyone?
Interface Builder/Obj-C/Cocoa's supposed advantage is building first-class applications (native look-and-feel) in a "modern" environment (not raw C with Pascal-interface APIs).
"Modern" (moving away from the solution domain towards the problem domain and letting the coder ignore details like memory management that the computer can handle itself) is evolving to mean garbage collection, dynamically typing and higher-order functions for some people.
I'd like to use Python to write a Mac app that has preferences in the right place (BitTorrent's and iPodder-Lemon's wxWidgets interfaces have a few glaring Mac UI violations), but PyObjC seemed like a kludgey mess (though I didn't give it much of a chance).
I thought Java would be worth looking at as it seemed that there might be a real Java-centric version of the app framework (PyObjC requires you to write ObjC-looking code in Python), but now it's going away. I thought I'd look at Jython if Java->Cocoa was good.
Java is a nice language period. You don't have to use the supposedly portability features. You can implement the model in portable Java & make the controller/view be platform-specific. It's nicer to have all three be in the same language rather than having to jump through a native-interface hoop that make it easy to present a C-like interface but hard to keep things object oriented across the bridge.
If C# makes first-class app development faster because you don't have to track down memory leaks (and it doesn't require Universal Binaries), and it comes with a better app framework (Avalon, WinFX, mebbe?) than Win32/MFC/whatever, it might chip away at one of the big advantages Cocoa supposedly has.
This evidence of intent to profit from infringement seems to be what lost the case for them.
While I'm no fan of adware, how is its use related to intent?
What about software that like BitTorrent has infringing and non-infringing uses, and is not promoted for its infringing uses, but is commercial and makes more money with more users and more users are attracted my more content (network effect).
Imagine an ad-supported version of Bits on Wheels or Transmit.
The opinion in some places is well-focussed on intent, but in others it drifts down a slippery slope to including any for-profit copy-enabling code.
No, that's trademark. And as it turns out, even trademark isn't that much of a burden on the holder.
This essay from an actual IP lawyer (your employer ought to get one before making decisions based on ignorance) at Copyfight describes why copyright maximalism isn't necessary:
One more thing I'm compelled to comment on:
Sure the source is copy protected
You're a developer? Surely you must know that the source is locked away on the company's version control system? While this is literally "copy protection," the term generally means distributing something to the public with some kind of access control and the source should never leave the building.
as on-line distribution with thin margins becomes the dominant form of music sale, the record labels actually are going to start losing money.
But "The Record Labels" is not some monolithic beast. While there are the big five^H^H^H^H four that seemed to be profitable selling CDs through brick-and-mortar stores, there are many small labels that have trouble getting distribution and finding their way on to the shelves of the Wherehouse and Sam Goody.
"The Long Tail" describes a scenario where on-line sales combined with grassroots promotion (word of mouth and end-user reviews) can support a vibrant culture of micro-labels or book micro-publishers.
Hungarian folk influenced death metal might not sell a lot of units in the Tower in San Francisco, but there might be a "diaspora" of fans spread out in little pockets all over the world that are enough to keep the bands in Top Ramen.
Version 0.98rc of gnupod supports the iPod shuffle
The first link of googling for linux ipod only mentions ephpod on wine and gtkpod, but the 2nd link mentions the command-line (therefore faster to port, but less popular) gnupod. The second link mentions gnupod.
If you search for ipod linux instead of linux ipod, you'll get two links about running linux on an ipod first, but the third link is helpful.
non-mac user people I know still have PS2 keyboards and often PS2 mice
I got a KVM that uses PS/2 keyboard & mouse & connects to the computers via USB. (iBook & PC @ home, G4 MDD tower & PC @ work)
If my Expert "Mouse" trackball goes nuts or gets unplugged I can power-cycle the KVM by unplugging it instead of rebooting the computer.
Also, you can use Screen Spanning Doctor to run displays at higher than built-in display resolution from iBooks and eMacs. Now that you can get SuperDrives in iBooks, they look pretty nice.
Cars like Lamborghini have a huge influence on the style of cars, but Lamborghini sells hardly any cars compared to mainstream automakers.
Lambo might be quite successfull in their market segment. They are selling high margin, high priced cars so they don't need to sell as many to make a US$1billion as Ford does Focuses.
Apple should sell more Mac minis than 2.5GHz dual G5 PowerMacs but I hope there's a lot more margin in the tower. Both can be "successfull" even if the mini outsells the tower by 50:1.
Back to cars, Lambo has stayed around, though they were bought by VWAG to survive. Maserati almost went away. They & Ferrarri are owned by Fiat (a large volume, lower margin mfg.) to survive.
On the gripping hand, is high-end car design's influence on mass-produced cars a good thing anyway? Look at the Hyundai Tiburon and Chevy Cobalt.
Look at the niche U.K. sports car market & you'll find companies coming & going with wild designs that don't sell well even for hand-built cars that don't seem to have much influence. I'm thinking Strathcarron, that carbon fiber-framed, aluminum-skinned thing & the motorcycle-car tricycle thing with almost no body; even more esoteric than TVR & Morgan.
The iMac did not sell very well compared to computers such as Dell, HP, and Gateway
Which one? I think the CRT iMac did pretty well for a small computer manufacturer with mostly contracted manufacturing. The G4 LCD iMac supposedly didn't sell well & seems to have had no influence. The G5 iMac is too new to tell, but seems succesful and has had an influence (though all-in-one LCD PCs were available before it).
No, they don't. MMC cards use a 1-bit interface and SD can be 4-bit and run much much faster.
Even Canon has given up on CompactFlash for tiny cameras. The first "digital elphs" used CF, but the SDxxx and Axxx cameras all use SD. The Sxxx, Axx and Sxx cameras still use CF, but only the Sxx (fast & >4mpix higher-end) and Axx (AA-powered bulky low-end) lines are getting new models with CF slots.
S410 and S500 are 3.43 x 2.24 x 1.09 in.
SD200 and SD300 are 3.38 x 2.10 x 0.83 in.
CF cards are 36.4mm x 42.8mm x 3.3mm or 1.43 inches tall, so it would seem the SDxxx-sized cameras (2.10 inches tall) could fit a CF card, but looking a picture of an S400, it's getting pretty tight.
6- and 8- in 1 card readers are cheap now- there's one built-in to my HP 8450 printer so I don't mind a couple of card types floating around the house, but while SD cards use fewer, faster signal lines than CF (a good idea), they waste part of their storage on secure key storage for DRM.
You can't use that space for ordinary storage even if you don't use DRM and though the spec doesn't require secure storage, no one's built a card without it yet.
This bill is sponsored/written by the same guy that brought us SB1506 which has been approved by California Senate & Assembly and Governor Arnold and became law 19 days ago.
To the non-technical (who don't understand that the entire internet is p2p and ftp is just as guilty as Morpheus), that bill was more bizzare than SB 96, so expect it to pass unless strongly opposed.
It took SB1506 from Feb 9 to Sept 21 2004 to work its way through the CA Legislature.
Bills need three readings & one month after the first before they can move too far. Feb 17th is the earliest that this one can be heard in committee.
SB 1506 went to the Sen. committees on Judiciary and Public Safety first. SB 96 is currently in Rules, but all bills go there for re-assignment.
I'll write to my reps Simitian and Laird today. They stream RealAudio of the hearings.
This one got caught early. Let's work to kill it NOW.
I'm planning to write an sftp "browser" front end in python Thanks for the pointers to existing sftp front-ends. I want to write my first Python GUI app & this seemed like a fun reason. I also want this to be able to run on Windows XP. I figure a group of sharers might have some members capable of running an OpenBSD or Linux server, but the rest just want to share their collection & sample others'. For my friend & I, just rsync could work. Part of the reason I wanted to do sftp instead of another protocol over an encrypted tunnel is that I don't want all server users having login privileges. I should look into restricted shells, tho.... Thanks again for all the responses. I'm going to look at WASTE, too. Didn't know it could do garbage chatter.
I would think they'd just use freenet, tor or i2p and be done with it?
Or how about just sftp? The original "darknet" paper and articles suggested that filesharing would turn into from large anonymous groups to small groups of people that knew each other and were suspicious of newcomers
I remember discussions of ftp servers used for small sharing "clubs" and I can't figure out why sftp isn't used for this. Knowing how to set up OpenSSH properly is a widely held skill that has value outside "piracy." Use DSA authentication instead of passwords for a start.
It should be nearly impossible for outsiders to gain net access to the server. The mere presence of a secured box shouldn't be enough for court ordered physical accesss. While it's also possible to have encrypted filesystems, if they can get my box out of my house, I fscking give up.
I'm planning to write an sftp "browser" front end in python or maybe just figure out how to use rsync over an ssh tunnel.
Traffic analysis in the absence of IP "bouncing" (whatever that is) could reveal who's in the network, but not what they're trading. A "chatter" app that keeps the channels full of noise (or files- who's to know?) could make traffic analysis more difficult. I'd be willing to sacrifice download time so my real downloads can be hidden in an always-on 16kbps stream. I'm trying to share my 20GB of rock with a friend who has 50GB of jazz. If it takes a couple of weeks to exchange collections, that's OK.
Maybe we should just FedEx hard drives to each other.
Mmmm... I thought the purpose of the INDUCE (IICA) act was to add vicarious liability to copyright law, implying that it doesn't have such a thing now. Sony v. Universal (Betamax case) theorized contributory infringement, but the test is much narrower and Sony and Diamond (v. RIAA) won.
One of the arguments against INDUCE was that it wasn't narrowly constructed like the vicarious liability provisions in patent law.
Hmmm... where was that?
Ah! patent law requires specific intent to induce infringement of a specific patent
those sub-Saharan Africans will be ready to shell out the big bucks
But when the kids (which are the gross majority of the population in many developing countries) grow up and specify computers for business & government, the seed will have been planted. The market for high-margin products in target countries might be small now, but it has huge potential for growth. Developed countries have most of the computers they need & only replace them every few years.
Think long term....