Good show, the above should be repeated loud and long. Please don't mod these as "Redundant", as it obviously still needs saying. However, I disagree on the interoperability clause, I don't think that applies here, but IANAL.
"Access" and "use" have always been clearly defined and distinct in copyright law. "Access" is acquisition, "use" is obviously use. So, breaking the lock on a video store is illegal, but DeCSS isn't, IMO. IANAL.
I don't see that that's relevant, there is a very important principle at stake here. You don't jeopardise principles like this just because in this case they are "just scr1pt k1dd1e hax0rz"
Except that any temporary copies will still be there, it'll still be in your swap file, and your password (or at least, most people's) is probably easier to crack than than using magnetoresistive microscopy.
If you're up against the kind of resources that can and will do this sort of thing to get your data, then you'll have to resort to more drastic means, like sticking the hard drive in a really hot furnace. That should do the trick.
... Kenneth Starr's subpeona of Lewinsky's book purchase records...
I never knew that! What the hell is the US legal system doing prying into that kind of thing? One of these days it'll be illegal to buy books without some kind of ID.
Are they, though? I don't think that's clear from what they said. If you have a system that automatically maps networks, then surely the only way that it is going to even *know* that there is a firewall there is when it hits it. AIUI, they just want this to not hit off any alarms, that's all. Note: I know next to nothing about the technical side of this issue. CMIIW.
They don't care about the people or their complaints; they just care about getting caught.
But most of the complaints have simply been that Quova set off the alarms. If this kind of mapping can be done without setting off alarms, and no harm is being done, what's the problem?
This is why child porn is prohibited in Sealand; they don't want to get the US or UK authorities riled up.
No, I think that's more likely a PR decision, and maybe also a personal morality decision of the HavenCo personnel. It's be nice to think that some corporate bigwigs somewhere had morals.
Humanity won't be wiped out by an ice age, it wasn't the last twenty times, and it'll take a good few million years for any current non-hominid to evolve into something capable of reading nanotext on a little disk of nickel. There are some however who believe that an extensive human civilisation was wiped out in the last ice age leaving almost no trace of its passing. I don't want that to happen to us, but I think this rosetta disk doesn't answer all of the problems. ps. I love the "rosetta boot disk" comment, DrPsycho!
If we have another ice age, and our civilisation fails to survive it, then 10,000 years from now there may be nobody able to read these neat little disks. We therefore also need to leave an intermediate record of how to kick-start a civilisation from scratch.
I don't see this as a general-purpose "lets clean up all of space" device, but I can see it being usefut for sweeping particular orbits, say, clearing out anything that's likely to come close to the ISS.
It would be simplicity itself to demonstrate that you do not have the crypto keys. AIUI, they can only get you on RIP if they can demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt that you have the crypto key. I don't think RIP is as bad as it has been made out to be.
Bitmaps captured from laptop screens with cleartype are going to be messed up if you view them on a different kind of monitor, but I guess this isn't as much of an issue for PocketPCs. They should, however, consider having cleartype rendering being optional so that people can get useful screen captures for web sites etc.
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I remember when i got my IBM Craptiva... in order for the disk to work, it verifies that the bios from the box i was using is the same as the one registered on the disk
My housemate had the same problem, and when we came to recover, it said that the BIOS wasn't valid. We hadn't done anything to the machine other than replace the graphics card with a shiny new Matrox Mistake^h^h^h^h^h^hystique card. It took us 4 days of phoning their tech support to persuade them to just email us the 1 file we needed.
Why is everyone talking about throwing in development tools with applications? That's utterly ridiculous! VC++ belongs firmly in the OS company. There's no way an applications company should have control over the API for an operating system, which VC++ does. VC++ isn't a cross-platform dev tool, and I would never expect it to be. If the apps company wants to develop for other platforms, they'll use appropriate tools for it, or do their own x-plat tool.
The open source guidelines specify that there has to be no discrimination against a particular area or endeavor of work
It amuses me that, because the GPL discriminates against the production of closed-source commercial software, it should fail to qualify as an "Open Source" licence.
Relative to not being able to hold a dissenting opinion, to not being able to walk the streets safely for fear of being caught in crossfire, to not being able to wear a bikini on the beach without being flogged, etc. The problems that you mention, which I don't deny, are recent and minor. I was talking about the feeling of safety that a thousand years of peace brings to a population. The encryption thing has been blown out of proportion, it's no more harsh than the police's right to search your home with a warrant. In my opinion, the European Court of Human Rights is more than enough defence against abuse of power, I'm shocked at some of the things that they have upheld.
It's pretty easy to say that free speech should not be anonymous so as not to avoid responsibility when one's life and property aren't at stake.
True, I have to keep reminding myself that I come from a society that has enjoyed a thousand years of excellent national security, and relatively good freedom and opportunity for prosperity.
I don't think he's skulking off, AFAICT he just doesn't want the ISP pulling the plug at the first sniff of a defamation or copyright lawsuit against themselves.
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They've got "What is the DVD-CCA?" in there twice. I guess it's an important question.
Good show, the above should be repeated loud and long. Please don't mod these as "Redundant", as it obviously still needs saying. However, I disagree on the interoperability clause, I don't think that applies here, but IANAL.
"Access" and "use" have always been clearly defined and distinct in copyright law. "Access" is acquisition, "use" is obviously use. So, breaking the lock on a video store is illegal, but DeCSS isn't, IMO. IANAL.
I don't see that that's relevant, there is a very important principle at stake here. You don't jeopardise principles like this just because in this case they are "just scr1pt k1dd1e hax0rz"
... and ".rocks".
Except that any temporary copies will still be there, it'll still be in your swap file, and your password (or at least, most people's) is probably easier to crack than than using magnetoresistive microscopy.
If you're up against the kind of resources that can and will do this sort of thing to get your data, then you'll have to resort to more drastic means, like sticking the hard drive in a really hot furnace. That should do the trick.
I never knew that! What the hell is the US legal system doing prying into that kind of thing? One of these days it'll be illegal to buy books without some kind of ID.
Are they, though? I don't think that's clear from what they said. If you have a system that automatically maps networks, then surely the only way that it is going to even *know* that there is a firewall there is when it hits it. AIUI, they just want this to not hit off any alarms, that's all. Note: I know next to nothing about the technical side of this issue. CMIIW.
But most of the complaints have simply been that Quova set off the alarms. If this kind of mapping can be done without setting off alarms, and no harm is being done, what's the problem?
"Pass me a slice of that pie, vicar, yes, that's it, the humble one."
Post natal gene therapy doesn't work. I defy anyone to find an example of post natal gene therapy that has had any demonstrable positive result.
No, I think that's more likely a PR decision, and maybe also a personal morality decision of the HavenCo personnel. It's be nice to think that some corporate bigwigs somewhere had morals.
Humanity won't be wiped out by an ice age, it wasn't the last twenty times, and it'll take a good few million years for any current non-hominid to evolve into something capable of reading nanotext on a little disk of nickel. There are some however who believe that an extensive human civilisation was wiped out in the last ice age leaving almost no trace of its passing. I don't want that to happen to us, but I think this rosetta disk doesn't answer all of the problems. ps. I love the "rosetta boot disk" comment, DrPsycho!
If we have another ice age, and our civilisation fails to survive it, then 10,000 years from now there may be nobody able to read these neat little disks. We therefore also need to leave an intermediate record of how to kick-start a civilisation from scratch.
I don't see this as a general-purpose "lets clean up all of space" device, but I can see it being usefut for sweeping particular orbits, say, clearing out anything that's likely to come close to the ISS.
Let's hope they don't just all start latching on to each other ...
It would be simplicity itself to demonstrate that you do not have the crypto keys. AIUI, they can only get you on RIP if they can demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt that you have the crypto key. I don't think RIP is as bad as it has been made out to be.
Bitmaps captured from laptop screens with cleartype are going to be messed up if you view them on a different kind of monitor, but I guess this isn't as much of an issue for PocketPCs. They should, however, consider having cleartype rendering being optional so that people can get useful screen captures for web sites etc.
My housemate had the same problem, and when we came to recover, it said that the BIOS wasn't valid. We hadn't done anything to the machine other than replace the graphics card with a shiny new Matrox Mistake^h^h^h^h^h^hystique card. It took us 4 days of phoning their tech support to persuade them to just email us the 1 file we needed.
Why is everyone talking about throwing in development tools with applications? That's utterly ridiculous! VC++ belongs firmly in the OS company. There's no way an applications company should have control over the API for an operating system, which VC++ does. VC++ isn't a cross-platform dev tool, and I would never expect it to be. If the apps company wants to develop for other platforms, they'll use appropriate tools for it, or do their own x-plat tool.
It amuses me that, because the GPL discriminates against the production of closed-source commercial software, it should fail to qualify as an "Open Source" licence.
Relative to not being able to hold a dissenting opinion, to not being able to walk the streets safely for fear of being caught in crossfire, to not being able to wear a bikini on the beach without being flogged, etc. The problems that you mention, which I don't deny, are recent and minor. I was talking about the feeling of safety that a thousand years of peace brings to a population. The encryption thing has been blown out of proportion, it's no more harsh than the police's right to search your home with a warrant. In my opinion, the European Court of Human Rights is more than enough defence against abuse of power, I'm shocked at some of the things that they have upheld.
True, I have to keep reminding myself that I come from a society that has enjoyed a thousand years of excellent national security, and relatively good freedom and opportunity for prosperity.
I don't think he's skulking off, AFAICT he just doesn't want the ISP pulling the plug at the first sniff of a defamation or copyright lawsuit against themselves.