The GPL is a grant of additional rights, that you the user has. It in no way restricts the original copyright owner from exercising their right to exploit their copyright in other ways. So long as no-one else contributed to the current code base, the fact that prior versions were GPL is irrelevant.
"Linux is
the long-term threat against our core business. Never forget that!" Microsoft Windows Division Veep Brian Valentine exclaims in a confidential memo to his Sales Brownshirts obtained by The Register. (our emphasis)
A red filter has to filter out all wavelengths except for red (green, blue, violet, etc.) but let through red-ish frequencies. Red light goes through virtually unaffected, but orange light is partially blocked, and yellow light a little more so. Green filters have to filter out red and blue, and partially filter out yellow, lime, cyan, etc. This represents two frequency bands, on either side of green, which is in the middle of the visible spectrum. I was just expressing surprise that the wavelengths that are blocked doesn't cover the infra-red, that's all.
One case was thrown out due to first amendment concerns. I think 2600 are still injunctioned, but this precedent may help their supreme court appeal (is that still happening? checks... yes, it is, here's a quite from this article:
The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals will likely decide soon a separate case in which EFF appealed an injunction barring 2600 Magazine's Editor-in-Chief Emmanuel Goldstein from publishing or linking to DeCSS under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's anti-circumvention provisions. Dean Kathleen Sullivan of Stanford Law School argued that case on behalf of the EFF in May 2001.
While I was succesfully filtering out red, green, and blue light, infrared light was still reaching the lens of the camera.
A "red" filter should filter out everything except red, likewise "blue" filters filter out everything except bluie, etc. - so how come the infrared was getting through? Okay I know that all filters have limits, for example covering your radio in green cellophane won't stop you getting decent reception. I am surprised that IR was getting through, though.
I've got one of these little beauties in my machine. A bay with a removable cartridge that holds the 2.5" drive, and a PCMCIA card and cable that connects to the same cartridge. The only snag is that the cartridge is powered from a PS2 keyboard wedge when external, and my Vaio C1 doesn't have a keyboard port!
Can we not prevail upon Britain to honor current extradition treaties for crimes of this stature?
Certainly not! If hacking is an act of terrorism, and terrorism carries the death penalty, then we won't extradite him! (I know, it doesn't always, but stretching it allowed me to make the point). If Osama bin Laden arrived in Britain, we would not extradite him for this reason. Okay, we probably would, because sometimes rules like this get overlooked in extreme circumstances. Even if the death penalty itself were not the problem, death row would be (think "cruel and unusual").
You know, some people here have their own opinions, and like a diversity of news stories. If CmdrTaco announces that Slashdot was boycotting Sony (sorry, SONY) there would be an uproar. I have a Vaio. I oppose the DMCA and SSSCA. I am interested in PS2 stories. Yes this could be described as contradictory. Deal with it.
`(A) to `circumvent a technological measure' means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner; and
`(B) a technological measure `effectively controls access to a work' if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.
If a "copyright owner" (such as me, for instance) runs a Linux system in which the permissions system is used to control access to copyrighted works, then I suppose posting vulnerabilities on a kernel mailing list could constitute trafficking in circumvention measures. Encryption research is specifically allowed, but this isn't really encryption. Hang on, here it is:
`(j) SECURITY TESTING-
`(4) USE OF TECHNOLOGICAL MEANS FOR SECURITY TESTING- Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(2), it is not a violation of that subsection for a person to develop, produce, distribute or employ technological means for the sole purpose of performing the acts of security testing described in subsection (2), provided such technological means does not otherwise violate section (a)(2).
"Security testing" is a bit vague, but I guess patches and changelogs would be covered, unless the judge was particularly wrong-headed.
http://promo.net/pg/ Useful for older texts, so no cutting-edge genetics or nanotech here, but this collection would round off your education in general, especially the classics if you're that way inclined.
Heck yeah. I also need to find a Beeb emulator that will run Elite,
Email me, and I'll tell you where to find BBasic, as it's not quite ready for prime-time. As to emulation, I use Horizon, which has disappeared from the web unfortunately. Try Ian Bell's home page. I've just started running "Elite- the New Kind" which is at http://www.newkind.co.uk which is a complete port of BBC Elite to the PC. It's fantastic.
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There's no funky name like "linmodem" that's appropriate for BSD.
The GPL is a grant of additional rights, that you the user has. It in no way restricts the original copyright owner from exercising their right to exploit their copyright in other ways. So long as no-one else contributed to the current code base, the fact that prior versions were GPL is irrelevant.
I can't wait to see a PC in an art gallery running Quake Done Quick in a loop.
A red filter has to filter out all wavelengths except for red (green, blue, violet, etc.) but let through red-ish frequencies. Red light goes through virtually unaffected, but orange light is partially blocked, and yellow light a little more so. Green filters have to filter out red and blue, and partially filter out yellow, lime, cyan, etc. This represents two frequency bands, on either side of green, which is in the middle of the visible spectrum. I was just expressing surprise that the wavelengths that are blocked doesn't cover the infra-red, that's all.
That would be the Total Perspective Vortex.
Dammit, the link worked in preview! Here's the mirror.
You sick, twisted pervert! Here's a mirror of the pictures for you to enjoy!
If you're a cat lover looking for something else to get upset about, there's the Cat Cam project.
I've got one of these little beauties in my machine. A bay with a removable cartridge that holds the 2.5" drive, and a PCMCIA card and cable that connects to the same cartridge. The only snag is that the cartridge is powered from a PS2 keyboard wedge when external, and my Vaio C1 doesn't have a keyboard port!
from a quick look at the settlement that the DoJ is basically saying "You know all those laws you broke? Um... please stop breaking them."
Oops, my mistake.
They're still supporting the SSSCA
These things really drain the old grey matter of it's retentive capacity.
You know, some people here have their own opinions, and like a diversity of news stories. If CmdrTaco announces that Slashdot was boycotting Sony (sorry, SONY) there would be an uproar. I have a Vaio. I oppose the DMCA and SSSCA. I am interested in PS2 stories. Yes this could be described as contradictory. Deal with it.
If a "copyright owner" (such as me, for instance) runs a Linux system in which the permissions system is used to control access to copyrighted works, then I suppose posting vulnerabilities on a kernel mailing list could constitute trafficking in circumvention measures. Encryption research is specifically allowed, but this isn't really encryption. Hang on, here it is:
"Security testing" is a bit vague, but I guess patches and changelogs would be covered, unless the judge was particularly wrong-headed.
http://promo.net/pg/
Useful for older texts, so no cutting-edge genetics or nanotech here, but this collection would round off your education in general, especially the classics if you're that way inclined.
So read the DMCA, the EFF have a copy. Look for 1201(a). As I read it, the interoperaility exception does allow the creation of tools.