The problem is, this isn't Capitalism or a free market. This is a monopoly where the government wont allow competitors to come in and install their own networks.
I dont know if its changed but one thing Cedega was better at was support for copy protection used on games (the binary builds of Cedega include stuff licenced from the makers of those copy protection technologies)
IIRC Wine developers were reluctant to try to support these technologies because of concerns over the DMCA and lawsuits from DRM manufacturers.
AMD have said that the open source drivers are unlikely to support the dedicated video decoding silicon due to DRM issues but that work to decode video using shader programs was being carried out.
You cant always blame the retailer. Sometimes its the local wholesaler/importer who is gouging the Aussie market. Take for example Burton snowboarding gear. Its much more expensive to walk into a store and buy here (even after accounting for GST and freight costs) than it is to walk into a store in the US and buy the same product. Same thing with LEGO sets. I can walk into a store in the US and buy the latest LEGO police station for US$100 (or even less if I was to buy from a US online retailer or find it from somewhere selling on sale or below MSRP). The same set is available from a number of Australian retailers (as well as the LEGO online store) for AU$150. The only reason I cant buy from these stores is because they cant/wont sell to Australians.
I am sure that K-Mart, Big W, MYER, Target etc would LOVE to be paying similar wholesale prices to what Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, Target USA, K-Mart USA and other US retailers are paying.
All the cars I have seen with key fobs require you to press a button on the fob to open the doors. So even if you have a relay attack going on, you cant get it working unless you can get the victim to press the "door open" button when they are far enough away from the car not to notice that someone is standing near it ready to get in and steal it.
Although I havent had any experience with these "keyless start" cars where you just need to have the fob in your pocket and press the "start engine" button to start the car so those may be different.
There is no reason this has to be so complicated or proprietary. All you need is a secret in the keyfob and the same secret in the car. There are published cryptographic protocols that exist that allow 2 endpoints to verify that both of them have a matching secret but in a way that does not allow someone listening in to steal the secret. (and since these are published they have presumably been exposed to more analysis by people looking for flaws than the proprietary solutions).
Not only does Blizzard have plenty of potential prior art for this (although how applicable this potential prior art is depends on exactly what the patent claims say and not just what the abstract says) but they have an army of lawyers at their disposal and are not afraid to use them.
If you read https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AmWh9I5NKgNddE5NcnlxdHk3Nm9IYVR3djItTE9FT3c&hl=en_GB&output=html all the appldr keys for all firmware versions are right there, private keys included. There is no reason the pirates cant simply take ANY current PS3 game, decrypt the executable, modify the "media types this game is allowed to run from" flags to say "all media types allowed" instead of "pressed disks only", re-sign the executable with the appldr keys and build an ISO containing the new executable, ready to burn to a BD-R and play.
Very surprised that Intel (who are normally VERY good with their in-house-developed GPUs on Linux) are not supporting a feature as cool and as nifty as hardware video encoding on Linux.
They have a similar system (with the lights) at a major shopping center here in Australia. Arrows on the ceiling indicate "dont go this way, no free parks" or "go this way, x parking spots free" and direct people to the nearest free space. Also has special indicators for wheelchair parking spots.
The "all debts public and private" line on US currency doesn't apply since the purchase of food from American Airlines is not a debt.
If your power company refused to take cash for payment of your power bill, that would be considered a debt and the relavent law about legal tender would apply. But not in this case.
The lawyer friend could write some stuff that spells out the legal requirements for companies when it comes to the GPL and other open source licences in different situations as well as what to do to prevent the situation where a company cant comply with the GPL without violating an NDA with a hardware vendor and other related open source licence complience issues.
Also related to this would be documentation on how copyright holders can pursue GPL violations and particularly stuff that can be used to target repeat offenders who consistantly violate the GPL with every device they sell and only release the source code weeks or months after the device is released *cough*HTC*cough*
Firstly is the old-guard content producers who want to use a non-neutral internet to shut down all the newfangled content distribution methods (both piracy and alternatives to old-guard content)
Secondly is the ISPs who want to use a non-neutral internet so they can extract far more money than they would if they simply charged customers more for the bandwidth they use (i.e. charging google for preferential treatment) as well as locking out alternatives to things ISPs sell that they charge more for (e.g. cable companies trying to lock out web video and phone companies trying to lock out VoIP)
And thirdly are politicians and government types who want to use a non-neutral internet to shut down things that are embarrassing them or threatening their power like WikiLeaks and The Pirate Party.
US copyright law says nothing about personal import. What it does say is that the anyone who imports a product and then sells it can only legally do so if they have permission from the local copyright holder to import the work.
Costco can't legally sell Omega watches containing the copyrighted logo unless those watches have been imported with permission from Omega.
The point here is that CostCo did not have permission from the local copyright holder (Omega USA) to import the watches into the US. No deal was done between CostCo and Omega USA, CostCo bought the watches from a foriegn Omega supplier.
It has nothing to do with the value of the watches, its simply the fact that Omega USA was missing out on profit on watches imported into the US without permission from Omega USA.
The argument being made by Omega in this case is that goods imported into the US without permission of the local copyright holder (regardless of where they came from originally) should not get first sale protection.
Personally I think that the whole "paralell import" BS should stop and the government should make it 100% legal for someone to buy legal copies of a copyrighted work overseas and resell them (we had a similar argument here in Australia regrding paralell importation of books where the government decided not to make it legal). If the local copyright holder doesnt like that, tough, they should lower their prices to compete with the legitimate overseas supplier.
Blame the studios for the lack of a Linux client. Their insistance on DRM is why there is no Linux client as it would be very difficult to produce a client for Linux that runs on any setup (including open source graphics drivers, selfbuilt kernel etc) and still protects the content enough to satisfy the studios.
Windows has "protected media path" and other OS level protection and I believe OSX has OS level protection as well (for one thing it refuses to let you debug or trace iTunes IIRC) Linux has none of that.
With the new GoldenEye Wii and the fact that Sony (as owner of the Bond films) isn't exactly the most friendly when it comes to mis-use of their IP, expect this to be hit with a C&D as soon as the Sony lawyers find out it exists.
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The problem is, this isn't Capitalism or a free market.
This is a monopoly where the government wont allow competitors to come in and install their own networks.
With the previous OLPC laptops, a lot of effort (IIRC) went into finding hardware chips from manufacturers willing to provide open drivers.
Will the same thing apply to this new OLPC? Or are they abandoning the idea of openness?
I dont know if its changed but one thing Cedega was better at was support for copy protection used on games (the binary builds of Cedega include stuff licenced from the makers of those copy protection technologies)
IIRC Wine developers were reluctant to try to support these technologies because of concerns over the DMCA and lawsuits from DRM manufacturers.
AMD have said that the open source drivers are unlikely to support the dedicated video decoding silicon due to DRM issues but that work to decode video using shader programs was being carried out.
You cant always blame the retailer. Sometimes its the local wholesaler/importer who is gouging the Aussie market.
Take for example Burton snowboarding gear. Its much more expensive to walk into a store and buy here (even after accounting for GST and freight costs) than it is to walk into a store in the US and buy the same product.
Same thing with LEGO sets. I can walk into a store in the US and buy the latest LEGO police station for US$100 (or even less if I was to buy from a US online retailer or find it from somewhere selling on sale or below MSRP). The same set is available from a number of Australian retailers (as well as the LEGO online store) for AU$150.
The only reason I cant buy from these stores is because they cant/wont sell to Australians.
I am sure that K-Mart, Big W, MYER, Target etc would LOVE to be paying similar wholesale prices to what Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, Target USA, K-Mart USA and other US retailers are paying.
All the cars I have seen with key fobs require you to press a button on the fob to open the doors. So even if you have a relay attack going on, you cant get it working unless you can get the victim to press the "door open" button when they are far enough away from the car not to notice that someone is standing near it ready to get in and steal it.
Although I havent had any experience with these "keyless start" cars where you just need to have the fob in your pocket and press the "start engine" button to start the car so those may be different.
There is no reason this has to be so complicated or proprietary.
All you need is a secret in the keyfob and the same secret in the car. There are published cryptographic protocols that exist that allow 2 endpoints to verify that both of them have a matching secret but in a way that does not allow someone listening in to steal the secret. (and since these are published they have presumably been exposed to more analysis by people looking for flaws than the proprietary solutions).
Not only does Blizzard have plenty of potential prior art for this (although how applicable this potential prior art is depends on exactly what the patent claims say and not just what the abstract says) but they have an army of lawyers at their disposal and are not afraid to use them.
I am sure someone will port Noveau to PS3 once the right bits are figured out.
If you read https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AmWh9I5NKgNddE5NcnlxdHk3Nm9IYVR3djItTE9FT3c&hl=en_GB&output=html all the appldr keys for all firmware versions are right there, private keys included.
There is no reason the pirates cant simply take ANY current PS3 game, decrypt the executable, modify the "media types this game is allowed to run from" flags to say "all media types allowed" instead of "pressed disks only", re-sign the executable with the appldr keys and build an ISO containing the new executable, ready to burn to a BD-R and play.
Very surprised that Intel (who are normally VERY good with their in-house-developed GPUs on Linux) are not supporting a feature as cool and as nifty as hardware video encoding on Linux.
They have a similar system (with the lights) at a major shopping center here in Australia. Arrows on the ceiling indicate "dont go this way, no free parks" or "go this way, x parking spots free" and direct people to the nearest free space. Also has special indicators for wheelchair parking spots.
The "all debts public and private" line on US currency doesn't apply since the purchase of food from American Airlines is not a debt.
If your power company refused to take cash for payment of your power bill, that would be considered a debt and the relavent law about legal tender would apply. But not in this case.
The right answer is to change the law so that refusing a breath test is illegal and they dont need to get a warrant to carry out the tests.
Then they dont need judges on the streets at all and the "slippery slope" argument of what elese "street judges" may be used for goes away.
The lawyer friend could write some stuff that spells out the legal requirements for companies when it comes to the GPL and other open source licences in different situations as well as what to do to prevent the situation where a company cant comply with the GPL without violating an NDA with a hardware vendor and other related open source licence complience issues.
Also related to this would be documentation on how copyright holders can pursue GPL violations and particularly stuff that can be used to target repeat offenders who consistantly violate the GPL with every device they sell and only release the source code weeks or months after the device is released *cough*HTC*cough*
Firstly is the old-guard content producers who want to use a non-neutral internet to shut down all the newfangled content distribution methods (both piracy and alternatives to old-guard content)
Secondly is the ISPs who want to use a non-neutral internet so they can extract far more money than
they would if they simply charged customers more for the bandwidth they use (i.e. charging google for preferential treatment) as well as locking out alternatives to things ISPs sell that they charge more for (e.g. cable companies trying to lock out web video and phone companies trying to lock out VoIP)
And thirdly are politicians and government types who want to use a non-neutral internet to shut down things that are embarrassing them or threatening their power like WikiLeaks and The Pirate Party.
You arent writing a new system in COBOL. You are adding to an existing system.
The OPs point was that the only reason to write new COBOL code is if you have existing COBOL code you need to work with.
US copyright law says nothing about personal import.
What it does say is that the anyone who imports a product and then sells it can only legally do so if they have permission from the local copyright holder to import the work.
Costco can't legally sell Omega watches containing the copyrighted logo unless those watches have been imported with permission from Omega.
The BIOS and firmware on those apple PCs is already (C) Apple. No need to add anything extra.
The point here is that CostCo did not have permission from the local copyright holder (Omega USA) to import the watches into the US. No deal was done between CostCo and Omega USA, CostCo bought the watches from a foriegn Omega supplier.
It has nothing to do with the value of the watches, its simply the fact that Omega USA was missing out on profit on watches imported into the US without permission from Omega USA.
the "authorized distributor" is anyone authorized by the local copyright holder to import the copyrighted work.
The argument being made by Omega in this case is that goods imported into the US without permission of the local copyright holder (regardless of where they came from originally) should not get first sale protection.
Personally I think that the whole "paralell import" BS should stop and the government should make it 100% legal for someone to buy legal copies of a copyrighted work overseas and resell them (we had a similar argument here in Australia regrding paralell importation of books where the government decided not to make it legal). If the local copyright holder doesnt like that, tough, they should lower their prices to compete with the legitimate overseas supplier.
Blame the studios for the lack of a Linux client. Their insistance on DRM is why there is no Linux client as it would be very difficult to produce a client for Linux that runs on any setup (including open source graphics drivers, selfbuilt kernel etc) and still protects the content enough to satisfy the studios.
Windows has "protected media path" and other OS level protection and I believe OSX has OS level protection as well (for one thing it refuses to let you debug or trace iTunes IIRC)
Linux has none of that.
With the new GoldenEye Wii and the fact that Sony (as owner of the Bond films) isn't exactly the most friendly when it comes to mis-use of their IP, expect this to be hit with a C&D as soon as the Sony lawyers find out it exists.
I hope NASA keeps listening to Voyager 1 until it either dies and cant talk anymore or it gets too far away for even the biggest antenna to pick up.