Not the whole app. Just the translations you wrote.
You would have to distribute the translations on their own and let each individual user pair it up with their copy of the MS application. It would just be a curly situation for MS if your translations became a 'defacto standard', then MS decided it wanted to officially distribute its own translated application. (Or if MS, or a local distributor, mistakenly distributed a copy of your translations with their application.)
It almost sounds like the begginings of a 'bazaar' development model (albeit a miniscule step in that direction).
So, what license is to be used for these translations, written by third parties? Will Microsoft try and demand ownership, or at least commandeer a right to unlimited use of the translation?
If it is legally possible, it would be a really interesting experiment to write a translation and release it under the GPL, then sit back and watch the reaction.
If it's really required that this guy get 24 hour
notification (as opposed to something he did as a gee-whiz application or to feel empowered), they'll cough up the money no problem.
You have a naive faith in the business process. Read more Dilbert.
If the ebooks are encrypted, isn't this a valid reason to possess an ebook encryption cracker? It's primary purpose would not be to crack the encryption on copyrighted works, but to crack the encryption on public domain works.
The parent has a valid point. But the problem is not with allowing people to create their own certificates.
When you
inspect a certicicate with MS Internet Explorer,
it says the certificate is 'okay'. Most users
would interpret this to mean 'everything is 'hunky dorey', and continue on with their transaction.
In reality, 'okay', in the context it is used, means that the certificate is internally consistent. It doesn't say anything about whether the user is being scammed. Shouldn't the message wording be changed to reflect the fact that it doesn't actually relate to everything being 'okay'?
Perhaps the problem is a user interface one? Typically, a user will interpret a 'lock' to mean security. Wouldn't the solution be to only display the lock when the link is actually encrypted (plain text doesn't count as encryption)? Alternatively, replace the 'binary' lock with an analog scale indicating an effective key length (in bits) as an indicator of security level. Perhaps have the bar change colour when it passes a level of security strong enough to be considerd as 'encrypted'?
I presume the second half of the problem in that MS Internet Explorer allows (is this fixed?) a site to misrepresent its address in the address bar? That way the user cannot be sure that the address displayed matches that in the certificate.
Personally, I've never understood the mentality of allowing a web page to modify ANYTHING outside the boundaries of its frame. Doesn't this break the whole 'object orientedness' of a windowing display?
Under the Instrument Description section, it says the cameras are 'vidcons' (also user by mariner). That is, they use television cameras, as you said, but the cameras collect photons directly, without an intermediate film stage.
It sounds like an "electronic camera" to me! Also, the space craft have on board digital storage (presumably magnetic core?) and used compression
for the Uranus flyby in 1986. An electronic camera and digital storage were paired well before the craft's launch in 1977. Compression, was used for the 1986 fly by of Uranus, so a combination of 'electronic camera, digital storage and compression' had no doubt been designed and tested well before 1986.
I'll bet similar systems were also in place on earth bound telescopes.
I'm not saying Dinh's actions compare to those of a suicide bomber. Just that they both come across to me as being motived by extremism.
The fact that it was the Republican party Dinh joined is irrelevant. It is relevant that his motivation for joining a group (be it Democrat or Republica) was hate.
Take the following quotes from the introduction to Dinh's background:
The youngest of seven children born in Vietnam, he was 7 years old when communists took over the country and imprisoned his father, a city councilman, for "reeducation."
...he was drawn to the Republican Party because of his hatred for communism.
Couldn't these statements be turned into the following?
The youngest of seven children born in Palestine, he was 7 years old when Isaelis took over the country and imprisoned his father, a city councilman, for "reeducation."
...he was drawn to Hamas because of his hatred for Americanism.
Now he sounds more like a Palestinian suicide bomber.
I *DO NOT* write this in opposition to Israelis or in support of Palestinians, or vice versa. That is merely the example I chose. Substitute the name of whatever nation and suicide bombers you want.
My point is that this person cites the fact that, as a young child, he saw bad things done to has parents, and the resulting hatred, as major influences in his life. This hardly seems to be the person to make objective assessments then write an act such as PATRIOT. By my reading of the article, he is a fanatic and an extremist, the very disease he claims to be fighting.
Hold on a minute while I just write a tax refund to myself into the code....:-) Only joking! Like any other self respecting free software user, I presume the tax office will buy their software from a source which conducts reliable source code audits.
As I read it, the issue isn't whether VoIP
should provide access to 911, but whether the
operators of 911 should be able to pinpoint where on Earth a VoIP call is coming from.
This seems like a thinly veiled excuse for police and 'homeland security' to be able to track down calls. Wouldn't the location of callers, for 911 purposes, be just as well handled by asking the caller where they are, or having a 'send my location' button for when the caller is lost or incapacitated (similar to a satellite distress beacon)?
So the obvious pairing is the Earth simulator with wireless sensor networks ('smart dust'). In that way the fake Earth can be made to mirror the real Earth. Intelligence gathering then becomes a matter of observing the fake Earth (provided the sensors can be trusted).
No doubt the temptation will then be to build robotic weapons that take their orders from the fake Earth. That way soldiers can fight from the safety of the fake Earth while real people get killed on the real battle field.
Not that I think SCO actually has more chance than a snowball in hell, but *IF* SCO happened to win, the the case would extended the definition of a derivative work to an extent never seen before.
This could open an avalanche for copyleft. It would mean any code which has ever been *near* any copylefted code would be owned by copyleft. Removing the copylefted code would be no remedy. The FSF would have field day chasing down all past GPL violators and any company which has even looked at GPL code (the majority, even if they won't admit it or actually used it?). The opportunity for retribution against the Darl McBrides of this world would be fantastic, and make others wish the SCO case had never happened.
How long before we see open source projects
to replace the processing elements of peripherals?
For example, with a printer, something along the lines of a microcontroller (running embedded linux) which connects to the print head, print head drive circuits and paper drive circuits. The existing printer is used only toprovide a mechanical chassis.
It might even make financial sense. Buy that entry level printer, which uses similar mechanical components to that high end printer, and end up with an 'open source' solution that exceeds the capabilities of the high end printer but costs less. Alternatively, don't throw out that obsolete printer but reuse the chassis and convert it into a state-of-the-art printer.
Imagine the size and speed gains we would get if we could have lots of states per bit. Ummm..., I've just reinvented the analog computer...
I think you will find the whole point of binary is that the increased noise margins of having two states means the speed can generally be increased in a way that more than makes up for the reduced information capacity of two states, compared to multiple states. (Multi-level memory cells are actually low speed / duty cycle devices.)
A 'bit' is a mathematical abstraction. In reality, a 'bit' is an analog pulse who's signal-to-noise ratio is just enough to discern two states (read up on eye diagrams).
Yes, I meant to say 1000 letterboxes per region. My mistake. 2 people per letterbox was a conservative estimate.
Ideally someone could cover the remote spots, but failing that the most important thing is to cover as many people as possible.
As for paragraph 3, that is exactly what the campaign is trying to achieve! Wish us luck (or better still join in).
Hopefully anyone motivated enough to letterbox drop will also be motivated enough to write the letters you mention. The idea is that letterbox dropping will contact people what haven't even considered the issue before and might be inspired to write their own letters, spread the message even further or just get an appreciation that the issue may be important.
The acquisition of property
on just terms from any State or person for any purpose in respect of which the Parliament has power to make laws:
As an Australian citizen, aren't I entitled to 'just terms' (ie. compensation) for those public domain items which the governmet is going to try and steal from me?
Who is interested in trying to letter box drop Australia, in an attempt to block this move and make it a serious elecion issue?
The whole country could divided into regions, each consisting of 1000 people. That makes around 10,000 regions to cover all letterboxes in the country. We need to find 10,000 Internet connected sympathisers, one living in each region. These people join a mailing list. Material to be dropped is sent to this list (digitally signed for verification). Each person prints 1000 copies at their expense and delivers promptly to all 1000 letterboxes in their region.
The hardest thing will be to agree on the material to be distributed. It should not be extreme, but plainly and simply put forward, in an irrefutable way, that extentions to copyright are not in Australia's interest. Try to keep party politics out of it and keep to the issue.
I don't have the resources or know how to run such a mailing list. Any volunteers (preferably based in Australia)? I'm in Sydney. If lots of people step forward, it will be light work. I don't hae much time, but even if I help get this kick started, by prompting people to come forward, then step away (I'm going to try not to) from it I'll have done my bit.
If interested send mail to copyrightaustralia@yahoo.com.
Ideally the people who run this will not be into party politics, but will care passionately about copyright, IP and Australia's well being.
Apologies for the typos, but I am trying to get this out early to attract Slashdot's attention.
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You would have to distribute the translations on their own and let each individual user pair it up with their copy of the MS application. It would just be a curly situation for MS if your translations became a 'defacto standard', then MS decided it wanted to officially distribute its own translated application. (Or if MS, or a local distributor, mistakenly distributed a copy of your translations with their application.)
So, what license is to be used for these translations, written by third parties? Will Microsoft try and demand ownership, or at least commandeer a right to unlimited use of the translation?
If it is legally possible, it would be a really interesting experiment to write a translation and release it under the GPL, then sit back and watch the reaction.
You have a naive faith in the business process. Read more Dilbert.
If the ebooks are encrypted, isn't this a valid reason to possess an ebook encryption cracker? It's primary purpose would not be to crack the encryption on copyrighted works, but to crack the encryption on public domain works.
The HTML Writers Guild is translating Project Gutenberg texts into HTML.
When you inspect a certicicate with MS Internet Explorer, it says the certificate is 'okay'. Most users would interpret this to mean 'everything is 'hunky dorey', and continue on with their transaction.
In reality, 'okay', in the context it is used, means that the certificate is internally consistent. It doesn't say anything about whether the user is being scammed. Shouldn't the message wording be changed to reflect the fact that it doesn't actually relate to everything being 'okay'?
I presume the second half of the problem in that MS Internet Explorer allows (is this fixed?) a site to misrepresent its address in the address bar? That way the user cannot be sure that the address displayed matches that in the certificate.
Personally, I've never understood the mentality of allowing a web page to modify ANYTHING outside the boundaries of its frame. Doesn't this break the whole 'object orientedness' of a windowing display?
Under the Instrument Description section, it says the cameras are 'vidcons' (also user by mariner). That is, they use television cameras, as you said, but the cameras collect photons directly, without an intermediate film stage.
It sounds like an "electronic camera" to me! Also, the space craft have on board digital storage (presumably magnetic core?) and used compression for the Uranus flyby in 1986. An electronic camera and digital storage were paired well before the craft's launch in 1977. Compression, was used for the 1986 fly by of Uranus, so a combination of 'electronic camera, digital storage and compression' had no doubt been designed and tested well before 1986.
I'll bet similar systems were also in place on earth bound telescopes.
Don't the voyager space craft have digital cameras onboard?
Credit for the phrase "Preferential Trade Agreement" must go to Ross Gittins, a columnist with the Sydney Morning Herald.
The fact that it was the Republican party Dinh joined is irrelevant. It is relevant that his motivation for joining a group (be it Democrat or Republica) was hate.
Couldn't these statements be turned into the following?
Now he sounds more like a Palestinian suicide bomber.
I *DO NOT* write this in opposition to Israelis or in support of Palestinians, or vice versa. That is merely the example I chose. Substitute the name of whatever nation and suicide bombers you want.
My point is that this person cites the fact that, as a young child, he saw bad things done to has parents, and the resulting hatred, as major influences in his life. This hardly seems to be the person to make objective assessments then write an act such as PATRIOT. By my reading of the article, he is a fanatic and an extremist, the very disease he claims to be fighting.
Hold on a minute while I just write a tax refund to myself into the code.... :-) Only joking! Like any other self respecting free software user, I presume the tax office will buy their software from a source which conducts reliable source code audits.
This seems like a thinly veiled excuse for police and 'homeland security' to be able to track down calls. Wouldn't the location of callers, for 911 purposes, be just as well handled by asking the caller where they are, or having a 'send my location' button for when the caller is lost or incapacitated (similar to a satellite distress beacon)?
No doubt the temptation will then be to build robotic weapons that take their orders from the fake Earth. That way soldiers can fight from the safety of the fake Earth while real people get killed on the real battle field.
This could open an avalanche for copyleft. It would mean any code which has ever been *near* any copylefted code would be owned by copyleft. Removing the copylefted code would be no remedy. The FSF would have field day chasing down all past GPL violators and any company which has even looked at GPL code (the majority, even if they won't admit it or actually used it?). The opportunity for retribution against the Darl McBrides of this world would be fantastic, and make others wish the SCO case had never happened.
Paper money was invented by the Chinese, well before Benjamin Franklin, or even the US, existed.
For example, with a printer, something along the lines of a microcontroller (running embedded linux) which connects to the print head, print head drive circuits and paper drive circuits. The existing printer is used only toprovide a mechanical chassis.
It might even make financial sense. Buy that entry level printer, which uses similar mechanical components to that high end printer, and end up with an 'open source' solution that exceeds the capabilities of the high end printer but costs less. Alternatively, don't throw out that obsolete printer but reuse the chassis and convert it into a state-of-the-art printer.
I think you will find the whole point of binary is that the increased noise margins of having two states means the speed can generally be increased in a way that more than makes up for the reduced information capacity of two states, compared to multiple states. (Multi-level memory cells are actually low speed / duty cycle devices.)
A 'bit' is a mathematical abstraction. In reality, a 'bit' is an analog pulse who's signal-to-noise ratio is just enough to discern two states (read up on eye diagrams).
To post: copyrightaustralia@yahoogroups.com
Webpage: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/copyrightaustralia/
Ideally someone could cover the remote spots, but failing that the most important thing is to cover as many people as possible.
As for paragraph 3, that is exactly what the campaign is trying to achieve! Wish us luck (or better still join in).
Hopefully anyone motivated enough to letterbox drop will also be motivated enough to write the letters you mention. The idea is that letterbox dropping will contact people what haven't even considered the issue before and might be inspired to write their own letters, spread the message even further or just get an appreciation that the issue may be important.
Section 51xxxi of the constitution says
As an Australian citizen, aren't I entitled to 'just terms' (ie. compensation) for those public domain items which the governmet is going to try and steal from me?
The whole country could divided into regions, each consisting of 1000 people. That makes around 10,000 regions to cover all letterboxes in the country. We need to find 10,000 Internet connected sympathisers, one living in each region. These people join a mailing list. Material to be dropped is sent to this list (digitally signed for verification). Each person prints 1000 copies at their expense and delivers promptly to all 1000 letterboxes in their region.
The hardest thing will be to agree on the material to be distributed. It should not be extreme, but plainly and simply put forward, in an irrefutable way, that extentions to copyright are not in Australia's interest. Try to keep party politics out of it and keep to the issue.
I don't have the resources or know how to run such a mailing list. Any volunteers (preferably based in Australia)? I'm in Sydney. If lots of people step forward, it will be light work. I don't hae much time, but even if I help get this kick started, by prompting people to come forward, then step away (I'm going to try not to) from it I'll have done my bit.
If interested send mail to copyrightaustralia@yahoo.com. Ideally the people who run this will not be into party politics, but will care passionately about copyright, IP and Australia's well being.
Apologies for the typos, but I am trying to get this out early to attract Slashdot's attention.
Addresses here. Don't forget the senate as Greens and Labor together may defeat any required legislation.
Don't be abusive, but explain the problem clearly. Most pollies probably aren't even aware of how dangerous such moves are to Australia's well being.
The belly button lint one's been pretty well solved!