1.Companies who release software (usually embedded into a hardware device) and then claim "we are working on releasing the source code but its going to take time"
2.Build systems where one "master makefile" builds the entire project (usually with a "master config file" that selects which model you are building for, what features are turned off and on etc)
3.Companies who use a version of GCC and/or binutils that isn't publicly available and then dont release source code or binaries for that version, thus making it harder to recreate the binaries they are shipping (I wonder if creating a CPU with a new or altered instruction set, porting Linux to this CPU and then releasing kernel source but not GCC or binutils would be a GPL violation or not...)
4.Companies who release source code for one firmware revision and then dont release source code for other firmware revisions (*cough*Motorola Z6*cough*)
and 5.Companies who claim a need to "sanitize" GPL code before its released (this most likely includes removing any comments that reference internal intranet email addresses, web URLs, machine names, internal processes etc but may also include removal of pieces that are used only by or removal of comments/changing of code of pieces related to proprietary hardware so as not to release any more hardware details than they have to. Will likely also include removing anything embarrassing such as swear words)
The answer is to charge everyone and as part of that you get, say, 10GB of transfer or 20GB of transfer (the number would vary depending on the plan, as would the speed you get). If you go over that amount, you pay per GB or part thereof. The file sharing fanatics who are downloading video content 500 times faster than they could ever watch it all would pay more but normal users would continue to pay as they always have. And there would be no need to throttle.
The way to get this installed is for big websites (Google for example) to use the same drive-by-download used by spyware to install these plugins. The clueless "internet == blue E" people are most likely to just say "yes" to such drive by downloads without bothering to check what it says and those who know better will be likely to install it too (especially if e.g. Google says "install this plugin to get a better experience with Google Maps")
This blog http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/ is written by one of the people working on the linux version of Flash and explains some stuff about working on Flash (somewhere in the archives is an explanation of why there is no 64 bit native Flash player yet IIRC)
Whilst its impossible (given the broken nature of patent law) to declare OGG Vorbis 100% free, when OGG Vorbis support was added to WinAmp, the legal team at AOL Time Warner did a through due diligence to look for anything that could be an issue for the format. If the legal team of one of the largest media companies on the planet says the format is free, thats about as good as its ever going to get.
In the ideal system, everyones vote would be treated equally (and everyone would be required to vote) and government would do what the majority wants instead of listening to minorities like sugar farmers, Cuban ex pats, Conservatives who think that Janet Jackson should be locked up for what happened on the Super-Bowl or whoever else.
No more "I am in a marginal seat/district/area so the politicians are more likely to care about what I want" vs "I am in a safe seat/district/area so the politicians are less likely to care about what I want". No more "Because decided to support , I am going to get a bunch of people who dont normally give a rats ass about politics to vote for the other guy" type action groups (the compulsory voting would make one-issue-voting-groups a lot less effective)
The first series of lawsuits by SCO are the ones that are to answer the question of whether linux, BSD or contain code from the real UNIX code (i.e. code originally created by AT&T) The second set of lawsuits (mostly being fought between SCO and Novell) is to answer the question of who owns the UNIX copyrights, who has what rights to them and which of the deals done over the code are valid and which aren't as well as who owes who how much money
The embargo exists because if the embargo was lifted, there are a lot of Cuban ex pats in Florida and elsewhere that would vote the other way as a result. And because the system in the US is so screwed, those votes are enough to change the outcome of elections.
I cant name 5 patents but I CAN name one very important one. Try making and selling Nickel Metal Hydride batteries suitable for electric cars and see how far you get. You will likely be sued by a company you haven't heard of called Cobasys for violation of their patent on NiMH battery tech. What the lawyers probably WONT tell you is that Cobasys (and the NiMH battery patent) is actually controlled by Chevron (not the largest oil company but big enough).
Chevron makes a lot of noise about how they aren't just an oil company any more, they are an "energy company" but all the work they are doing is just replacing one fuel source (crude oil) with another fuel source (hydrogen, tar sands, oil shale, coal liquefaction/gasification, gas-to-liquids etc)
Big Oil doesn't care if its gasoline, diesel, LPG, natural gas, corn ethanol, biodiesel, hydrogen, liquid coal or whatever else. They just care that the worlds cars continue to run on fuel of some kind (fuel that they can continue to sell from their station forecourts). Plug-in vehicles threaten that monopoly as the provider of the source of energy for our cars.
What Comcast is doing is NOT QoS. QoS is like having a 5 lane highway and giving ambulances first priority and then giving cars and then cargo trucks. Traffic shaping of BitTorrent is like restricting the cargo trucks to one lane only and not allowing them to use the other lanes no matter if there is or isn't traffic in those lanes.
Remember though that right now the big interest in biofuels is in corn ethanol. If something comes along that replaces oil as a fuel and makes gas cheaper, the voters will like it. But if that same thing makes all those corn ethanol plants currently sprouting up all over the corn belt go out of business and makes the price of corn go down, the corn farmers (who have a lot of voting power) wont like it and will want congress to do something about it to protect their income.
Part of the problem with hardware accelerated video decoding on Linux is that because Windows uses the accelerated video decoding to play back DRM protected media, the hardware companies cannot reveal how the video decoding part works (since it would presumably allow someone to grab the unencrypted-but-compressed video for various DRM protected video files by writing a windows driver or something)
For nuclear to work we need the government to get over the irrational fear that some terrorist is going to waltz into a nuclear reprocessing plant or waste storage facility and walk out of there with the fixings for a nuclear bomb and overturn the ban on reprocessing. Then we move to nuclear reactor designs that extract a lot closer to 100% of the energy from the input fuel than the current 50s/60s era pressurized water reactor designs. (breeder reactors for example)
If a spy sattelite (or any other sattelite) needs to go up, heavy boosters such as the Delta or Atlas will be used. If its an old one that needs to be dealt with, they would probably just shoot it out of the sky like they did last time.
Write whichever politician represents you and say that you do NOT want them to support the efforts by the copyright cartels to shut down legitimate content distribution in the name of fighting piracy. Tell them that you do NOT support piracy and the illegal copying of other peoples content without permission but that the law and court system should be used to find the people who violate copyright law and that ISPs should NOT be force to block
Tell them that if they support legislation that blocks legitimate uses of the internet in the name of fighting piracy, you will vote for someone else who does not support such legislation.
Thats the point, the big copyright cartels want to shut down anything that is being used to distribute content thats outside of their control (be it content they own or content they dont own)
Could this be the Aurora, the "triangular shaped" airplane with the "donuts on a rope" contrail that various people have reported seeing over the years? (I saw something on discovery channel about it)
Signed kernel modules would not just stop malware but it would stop some of the hacked (and custom written) kernel modules being used to get OSX to run on non apple machines (or being used to make the experience of using OSX on those machines better)
All the code in the world is useless until I can actually change the software on my phone and make it do what I want and not what some phone company thinks I should and shouldn't be able to do.
Which is why the OpenMoko Neo FreeRunner is so good. Decent hardware for a phone (including touch screen, GPS, tri-band GSM, WiFi and Bluetooth) with almost all of the source for the phone being 100% open (and replaceable). The only closed bits are the GSM stack (which runs on a seperate baseband processor and talks to the host CPU via 100% documented open standards, all the stuff you need to know to talk to the baseband is documented and open), the driver for the GPS chip (people are reverse engineering it and making an open source replacement) and some of the fancy stuff to do with the GPU.
And with regards to the GPU (which is aparently being dropped from the next model), the only closed thing is the official docs and specs provided to the OpenMoko team from the GPU vendor. The GPU vendor is quite happy for the OpenMoko team to produce and open source a driver for the GPU (and even a new set of specs for it), they just dont want any code or specs created by THEM being released publicly (having everything that goes public created by a 3rd party helps with legal issues I guess)
The hardware is as open as they can legally go too. For example, they have released the same CAD drawings for the case and such as they themselves used to produce the molds for it. So if you want to make a new case in a color (or material) they dont offer (such as a rubber case so it can survive being dropped on the ground), the info is there.
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1.Companies who release software (usually embedded into a hardware device) and then claim "we are working on releasing the source code but its going to take time"
2.Build systems where one "master makefile" builds the entire project (usually with a "master config file" that selects which model you are building for, what features are turned off and on etc)
3.Companies who use a version of GCC and/or binutils that isn't publicly available and then dont release source code or binaries for that version, thus making it harder to recreate the binaries they are shipping (I wonder if creating a CPU with a new or altered instruction set, porting Linux to this CPU and then releasing kernel source but not GCC or binutils would be a GPL violation or not...)
4.Companies who release source code for one firmware revision and then dont release source code for other firmware revisions (*cough*Motorola Z6*cough*)
and 5.Companies who claim a need to "sanitize" GPL code before its released (this most likely includes removing any comments that reference internal intranet email addresses, web URLs, machine names, internal processes etc but may also include removal of pieces that are used only by or removal of comments/changing of code of pieces related to proprietary hardware so as not to release any more hardware details than they have to. Will likely also include removing anything embarrassing such as swear words)
The answer is to charge everyone and as part of that you get, say, 10GB of transfer or 20GB of transfer (the number would vary depending on the plan, as would the speed you get). If you go over that amount, you pay per GB or part thereof. The file sharing fanatics who are downloading video content 500 times faster than they could ever watch it all would pay more but normal users would continue to pay as they always have. And there would be no need to throttle.
The way to get this installed is for big websites (Google for example) to use the same drive-by-download used by spyware to install these plugins. The clueless "internet == blue E" people are most likely to just say
"yes" to such drive by downloads without bothering to check what it says and those who know better will be likely to install it too (especially if e.g. Google says "install this plugin to get a better experience with Google Maps")
The question is, is there any way to fix the broken system that does not involve replacing the cards and/or equipment (which would be big $$$).
More than likely Activision did not want to spend the $$$ it would have taken to get the Guitar Hero guitar certified by the Bluetooth standards body.
This blog http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/ is written by one of the people working on the linux version of Flash and explains some stuff about working on Flash (somewhere in the archives is an explanation of why there is no 64 bit native Flash player yet IIRC)
At my Uni, the rule (when I was there, it may have changed since) was "Calculator. No QWERTY Keyboard."
I used my Casio CFX-9850G (with some programs on it) in at least one course.
No amount of money could buy a license for, say, MPEG-4 which would be GPL compatible.
Whilst its impossible (given the broken nature of patent law) to declare OGG Vorbis 100% free, when OGG Vorbis support was added to WinAmp, the legal team at AOL Time Warner did a through due diligence to look for anything that could be an issue for the format. If the legal team of one of the largest media companies on the planet says the format is free, thats about as good as its ever going to get.
I have owned 3 different Motorola phones and all 3 have had problems where the battery meter never indicated the actual value of the battery.
if the books they found (and based their religion on) was "the collected works of George Lucas"
In the ideal system, everyones vote would be treated equally (and everyone would be required to vote) and government would do what the majority wants instead of listening to minorities like sugar farmers, Cuban ex pats, Conservatives who think that Janet Jackson should be locked up for what happened on the Super-Bowl or whoever else.
No more "I am in a marginal seat/district/area so the politicians are more likely to care about what I want" vs "I am in a safe seat/district/area so the politicians are less likely to care about what I want". No more "Because decided to support , I am going to get a bunch of people who dont normally give a rats ass about politics to vote for the other guy" type action groups (the compulsory voting would make one-issue-voting-groups a lot less effective)
The first series of lawsuits by SCO are the ones that are to answer the question of whether linux, BSD or contain code from the real UNIX code (i.e. code originally created by AT&T)
The second set of lawsuits (mostly being fought between SCO and Novell) is to answer the question of who owns the UNIX copyrights, who has what rights to them and which of the deals done over the code are valid and which aren't as well as who owes who how much money
The embargo exists because if the embargo was lifted, there are a lot of Cuban ex pats in Florida and elsewhere that would vote the other way as a result. And because the system in the US is so screwed, those votes are enough to change the outcome of elections.
I cant name 5 patents but I CAN name one very important one. Try making and selling Nickel Metal Hydride batteries suitable for electric cars and see how far you get. You will likely be sued by a company you haven't heard of called Cobasys for violation of their patent on NiMH battery tech. What the lawyers probably WONT tell you is that Cobasys (and the NiMH battery patent) is actually controlled by Chevron (not the largest oil company but big enough).
Chevron makes a lot of noise about how they aren't just an oil company any more, they are an "energy company" but all the work they are doing is just replacing one fuel source (crude oil) with another fuel source (hydrogen, tar sands, oil shale, coal liquefaction/gasification, gas-to-liquids etc)
Big Oil doesn't care if its gasoline, diesel, LPG, natural gas, corn ethanol, biodiesel, hydrogen, liquid coal or whatever else. They just care that the worlds cars continue to run on fuel of some kind (fuel that they can continue to sell from their station forecourts). Plug-in vehicles threaten that monopoly as the provider of the source of energy for our cars.
What Comcast is doing is NOT QoS. QoS is like having a 5 lane highway and giving ambulances first priority and then giving cars and then cargo trucks. Traffic shaping of BitTorrent is like restricting the cargo trucks to one lane only and not allowing them to use the other lanes no matter if there is or isn't traffic in those lanes.
Remember though that right now the big interest in biofuels is in corn ethanol. If something comes along that replaces oil as a fuel and makes gas cheaper, the voters will like it. But if that same thing makes all those corn ethanol plants currently sprouting up all over the corn belt go out of business and makes the price of corn go down, the corn farmers (who have a lot of voting power) wont like it and will want congress to do something about it to protect their income.
Part of the problem with hardware accelerated video decoding on Linux is that because Windows uses the accelerated video decoding to play back DRM protected media, the hardware companies cannot reveal how the video decoding part works (since it would presumably allow someone to grab the unencrypted-but-compressed video for various DRM protected video files by writing a windows driver or something)
For nuclear to work we need the government to get over the irrational fear that some terrorist is going to waltz into a nuclear reprocessing plant or waste storage facility and walk out of there with the fixings for a nuclear bomb and overturn the ban on reprocessing. Then we move to nuclear reactor designs that extract a lot closer to 100% of the energy from the input fuel than the current 50s/60s era pressurized water reactor designs. (breeder reactors for example)
If a spy sattelite (or any other sattelite) needs to go up, heavy boosters such as the Delta or Atlas will be used. If its an old one that needs to be dealt with, they would probably just shoot it out of the sky like they did last time.
Write whichever politician represents you and say that you do NOT want them to support the efforts by the copyright cartels to shut down legitimate content distribution in the name of fighting piracy. Tell them that you do NOT support piracy and the illegal copying of other peoples content without permission but that the law and court system should be used to find the people who violate copyright law and that ISPs should NOT be force to block
Tell them that if they support legislation that blocks legitimate uses of the internet in the name of fighting piracy, you will vote for someone else who does not support such legislation.
Thats the point, the big copyright cartels want to shut down anything that is being used to distribute content thats outside of their control (be it content they own or content they dont own)
Could this be the Aurora, the "triangular shaped" airplane with the "donuts on a rope" contrail that various people have reported seeing over the years? (I saw something on discovery channel about it)
Signed kernel modules would not just stop malware but it would stop some of the hacked (and custom written) kernel modules being used to get OSX to run on non apple machines (or being used to make the experience of using OSX on those machines better)
All the code in the world is useless until I can actually change the software on my phone and make it do what I want and not what some phone company thinks I should and shouldn't be able to do.
Which is why the OpenMoko Neo FreeRunner is so good. Decent hardware for a phone (including touch screen, GPS, tri-band GSM, WiFi and Bluetooth) with almost all of the source for the phone being 100% open (and replaceable).
The only closed bits are the GSM stack (which runs on a seperate baseband processor and talks to the host CPU via 100% documented open standards, all the stuff you need to know to talk to the baseband is documented and open), the driver for the GPS chip (people are reverse engineering it and making an open source replacement) and some of the fancy stuff to do with the GPU.
And with regards to the GPU (which is aparently being dropped from the next model), the only closed thing is the official docs and specs provided to the OpenMoko team from the GPU vendor. The GPU vendor is quite happy for the OpenMoko team to produce and open source a driver for the GPU (and even a new set of specs for it), they just dont want any code or specs created by THEM being released publicly (having everything that goes public created by a 3rd party helps with legal issues I guess)
The hardware is as open as they can legally go too. For example, they have released the same CAD drawings for the case and such as they themselves used to produce the molds for it. So if you want to make a new case in a color (or material) they dont offer (such as a rubber case so it can survive being dropped on the ground), the info is there.