The way this problem will ultimately be solved is by routing around it. Zimbabwe and other states of its ilk will find themselves cut off from the internet as customers demand that ISPs not route packets to jurisdictions that may prosecute based on their contents. We already do this for spam. It won't take many convictions before tyrant-blocking black hole lists start to appear and ISPs start marketing them as a feature.
Eventually (but don't hold your breath waiting) these repressive regimes will either bow to internal economic pressure or so impoverish themselves as to lose the means of maintaining their power.
I've met Dan Egnor, and this isn't the only cool thing he's done. He's the author of Iocaine powder, the world champion rock-paper-scissors program. He's also the proprieter of sweetcode
a web log devoted to innovative open source projects (i.e. projects that don't just clone or tweak existing software.) But his best hack (not described on line, as far as I know) is a version of Pac Man that runs on a PDA and uses a GPS for a user interface -- if you run around an open field carrying the GPS+PDA, the pacman correspondingly runs around the maze chasing Blinky, Stinky and Dinky (or whatever their names are.)
The first time I heard of aftermarket ROMs (for the fuel injection computer) the car in question was the 1984 Pontiac Fiero, GM's short-lived (1984-1988, I think) mid-engined sports car.
Off the top of my head
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Quicksort The Unification Algorithm Skip Lists Conjugate Gradients Karmarkar's linear programming algorithm Knuth-Morris-Pratt string matching Multidimensional scaling The Kernighan-Lin TSP & graph-partitioning methods Lempel-Ziv compression Fast Fourier Transform Quine-McCluskey optimization Celine/Gosper/Zeilberger/Wilf algorithm for hypergeometric identities Fast Multipole method
"Pirate", being not in any dictionary acception what someone who copies a song or a software is
This is simply untrue. For example, Webster's 7th New Collegiate Dictionary contains:
pi.ra.cy ('p{i-}-r*-s{e-}) ... 2) n, the unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or
conception esp. in infringement of a copyright
If you consult the OED, you'll see that the first recorded use of piracy in this sense is hundreds of years ago, only a few years after Britain enacted its first copyright laws. The idea that anyone today is trying to evoke brigandage on the high seas when they use piracy to refer to unauthorised reproduction of copyright material is not very credible.
The first time I heard this was in the Unix Room at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, on January 2, 1984 (or some day later that week), right after Bjarne walked in and said that he'd just decided to call his new language C++. I don't remember who said it, but I am the one that pointed out the connection to Newspeak, in which ++ is used to mark superlatives. Bjarne certainly remembers this, as he has retailed it in at least one of his books.
This facility is called checkpoint/restart. It was a feature of OS/360 and other operating systems in the 1960s. In some very early versions of Unix, core files were restartable. Usually it's pretty easy for programs to save enough state to be restartable on a case by case basis, except when it's just about impossible (like when networks reconfigure) so it's not a popular system feature these days (hard to implement in a general way, doesn't do a very good job in the cases that can be handled easily.)
A friend of mine (Hugh Redelmeier) ran a very long (~400 day) computation on a PDP-11 in the mid-1970s. The program ran stand-alone, and part of the test plan involved flipping the power switch on and off a few times -- very amusing to watch the program keep on running right through power failures. (Main memory on the machine in question was magnetic cores, which are non-volatile.)
Nyquist formulated the sampling theorem in 1928, but never proved it. Shannon provided the first proof in 1949.
Re:Unfortunately, an end to wars
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how many times in history have a people won their independence through peaceful means?
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the list goes on and on.
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The citizens of a democracy have a need to know what actions their government takes on their behalf, and the outcome of those actions; otherwise they are wrongfully denied their right to elect a government that behaves in accordance with their desires.
The argument that some things cannot be done except in secret is not an argument for secrecy, but an argument that there are things that government cannot do. (For example, secret kangaroo court military tribunals in violation of due process.)
> Gibson realized that, for the [Pong]
> players, the world behind the screen
> was just a real as a tennis court is to
> a tennis player. So Gibson pursued this
> "world behind the screen" metaphor
> and produced a striking, immersive
> world based an ubiquitous computers
> communicated via a world-wide standard
> network.
And published it about 10 years after
Ted Nelson described the idea (which
he called Fantic Space, by analogy
with the filmic space that cinema
theorists talk about) in his book Dream
Machines/Computer Lib.
You already own kdhx.org, and if that's not enough, neither kdhxradio88.org nor kdhxradio.org nor kdhx88.org is currently registered. You don't really need kdhxfm88.org, so if you forget it, the squatter will have wasted his money.
(I see that he's put a porn pointer at the address . Is that what you're really upset about? That's a different question than the one you asked. If you're a nonprofit and you can't afford a lawyer, find out what `pro bono' means.)
I think the first movie done by what would become Pixar is Star Wars, they did computer readouts of the Death Star.
As someone else pointed out, Larry Cuba did this. The first movie work done by the Lucasfilm Computer division (later Pixar) was the Genesis demo in Star Trek II. The simulated Death Star display in Return of the Jedi was their second job. (I have first-hand knowledge of both of these.)
This proposal is about civil disputes, in which the notion of guilt (a concept of criminal law) never arises. Liability and guilt are two different things as far as the law is concerned.
I think there are plenty of 100% listener-supported stations in the US. The best-known is probably KPFA in Berkeley, the nation's first public radio station. The Pacifica Foundation, which owns KPFA, also operates four other stations around the country, including WBAI in New York.
Another well-known all listener-supported station is WFMU in New Jersey, whose coverage area includes all of Manhattan.
I was an undergraduate in 1974, and pocket calculators were still controversial -- professors railed against allowing them to be used on exams, etc. -- so kept using my slide rule (it's on a shelf not 10 feet from where I sit, covered in dust.) That year, I got my first account on a UNIX box, which came with dc and bc, and I've never since been tempted to buy a pocket calculator.
I don't think the law hinders that many people to kill one another. If they really want to, they'll do it anyway.
Ok. If it's not working let's scratch it off the books then.
Remarkably, Nature doesn't appear to have talked to Andrew Odlyzko, who, over the last 5 years or so, has written a large pile of the best papers on the subject of the future of scientific publishing.
Mass-market music is what you get if you just don't care enough to avoid being led around by the nose. If you want something better, you have to actively support it. Personally, I go for weird skronking noise-music that never will have a mass audience, and to try to ensure that I can get my fix when I need it, I (and some friends) organize a concert series. Putting on two concerts a month takes about 16 hours of my time -- 5 hours, twice a month, supervising the shows and about 6 hours doing organizational work. (Also, we lose small amounts of money doing this, but a lot less than many hobbyists spend.) This is about as much time as I spend on my Open Source hobby, and has many of the same rewards -- I'm working to make a world that has stuff in it (software or music) that's what I want, not what Microsoft or MCI want me to want.
It's not a requirement to sue that you have solid evidence of infringement. (For that matter, it's not even a requirement that you think they have.) If AT&T thinks MS might be infringing, they can sue and then find out -- civil litigants are required to make full disclosure of relevant information.
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Can you quote a legitimate study that shows this? Or are you just retailing your opinion as fact?
The way this problem will ultimately be solved is by routing around it. Zimbabwe and other states of its ilk will find themselves cut off from the internet as customers demand that ISPs not route packets to jurisdictions that may prosecute based on their contents. We already do this for spam. It won't take many convictions before tyrant-blocking black hole lists start to appear and ISPs start marketing them as a feature.
Eventually (but don't hold your breath waiting) these repressive regimes will either bow to internal economic pressure or so impoverish themselves as to lose the means of maintaining their power.
I've met Dan Egnor, and this isn't the only cool thing he's done. He's the author of Iocaine powder, the world champion rock-paper-scissors program. He's also the proprieter of sweetcode a web log devoted to innovative open source projects (i.e. projects that don't just clone or tweak existing software.) But his best hack (not described on line, as far as I know) is a version of Pac Man that runs on a PDA and uses a GPS for a user interface -- if you run around an open field carrying the GPS+PDA, the pacman correspondingly runs around the maze chasing Blinky, Stinky and Dinky (or whatever their names are.)
The first time I heard of aftermarket ROMs (for the fuel injection computer) the car in question was the 1984 Pontiac Fiero, GM's short-lived (1984-1988, I think) mid-engined sports car.
Quicksort
The Unification Algorithm
Skip Lists
Conjugate Gradients
Karmarkar's linear programming algorithm
Knuth-Morris-Pratt string matching
Multidimensional scaling
The Kernighan-Lin TSP & graph-partitioning methods
Lempel-Ziv compression
Fast Fourier Transform
Quine-McCluskey optimization
Celine/Gosper/Zeilberger/Wilf algorithm for hypergeometric identities
Fast Multipole method
"Pirate", being not in any dictionary acception what someone who copies a song or a software is
This is simply untrue. For example, Webster's 7th New Collegiate Dictionary contains:
pi.ra.cy
('p{i-}-r*-s{e-})
...
2) n, the unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or
conception esp. in infringement of a copyright
If you consult the OED, you'll see that the first recorded use of piracy in this sense is hundreds of years ago, only a few years after Britain enacted its first copyright laws. The idea that anyone today is trying to evoke brigandage on the high seas when they use piracy to refer to unauthorised reproduction of copyright material is not very credible.
The first time I heard this was in the Unix Room at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, on January 2, 1984 (or some day later that week), right after Bjarne walked in and said that he'd just decided to call his new language C++. I don't remember who said it, but I am the one that pointed out the connection to Newspeak, in which ++ is used to mark superlatives. Bjarne certainly remembers this, as he has retailed it in at least one of his books.
You've never watched a two-year-old be attacked by a dog, have you?
I made a version of the same program and reran it a few years ago on an SGI Octane. It took about 8 days.
This facility is called checkpoint/restart. It was a feature of OS/360 and other operating systems in the 1960s. In some very early versions of Unix, core files were restartable. Usually it's pretty easy for programs to save enough state to be restartable on a case by case basis, except when it's just about impossible (like when networks reconfigure) so it's not a popular system feature these days (hard to implement in a general way, doesn't do a very good job in the cases that can be handled easily.)
A friend of mine (Hugh Redelmeier) ran a very long (~400 day) computation on a PDP-11 in the mid-1970s. The program ran stand-alone, and part of the test plan involved flipping the power switch on and off a few times -- very amusing to watch the program keep on running right through power failures. (Main memory on the machine in question was magnetic cores, which are non-volatile.)
Nyquist formulated the sampling theorem in 1928, but never proved it. Shannon provided the first proof in 1949.
how many times in history have a people won their independence through peaceful means?
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the list goes on and on.
The citizens of a democracy have a need to know what actions their government takes on their behalf, and the outcome of those actions; otherwise they are wrongfully denied their right to elect a government that behaves in accordance with their desires.
The argument that some things cannot be done except in secret is not an argument for secrecy, but an argument that there are things that government cannot do. (For example, secret kangaroo court military tribunals in violation of due process.)
> Gibson realized that, for the [Pong]
> players, the world behind the screen
> was just a real as a tennis court is to
> a tennis player. So Gibson pursued this
> "world behind the screen" metaphor
> and produced a striking, immersive
> world based an ubiquitous computers
> communicated via a world-wide standard
> network.
And published it about 10 years after
Ted Nelson described the idea (which
he called Fantic Space, by analogy
with the filmic space that cinema
theorists talk about) in his book Dream
Machines/Computer Lib.
You already own kdhx.org, and if that's not enough, neither kdhxradio88.org nor kdhxradio.org nor kdhx88.org is currently registered. You don't really need kdhxfm88.org, so if you forget it, the squatter will have wasted his money.
(I see that he's put a porn pointer at the address . Is that what you're really upset about? That's a different question than the one you asked. If you're a nonprofit and you can't afford a lawyer, find out what `pro bono' means.)
Any genre (not just SF!), alive today:
Umberto Eco
Don Knuth
Saul Kripke
Martin Gardner
(puzzle books have ungodly staying power)
John Cage
(oops, dead)
I think the first movie done by what would become Pixar is Star Wars, they did computer readouts of the Death Star.
As someone else pointed out, Larry Cuba did this. The first movie work done by the Lucasfilm Computer division (later Pixar) was the Genesis demo in Star Trek II. The simulated Death Star display in Return of the Jedi was their second job. (I have first-hand knowledge of both of these.)
This proposal is about civil disputes, in which the notion of guilt (a concept of criminal law) never arises. Liability and guilt are two different things as far as the law is concerned.
That's like the very old joke:
Q: How many DEC repairmen does it take to fix a flat tire?
A: Five -- four to lift the car and one to swap tires until they find the one that's flat.
Q: How long does it take them to do it?
A: Depends on how many flats they brought with them.
I think there are plenty of 100% listener-supported stations in the US. The best-known is probably KPFA in Berkeley, the nation's first public radio station. The Pacifica Foundation, which owns KPFA, also operates four other stations around the country, including WBAI in New York.
Another well-known all listener-supported station is WFMU in New Jersey, whose coverage area includes all of Manhattan.
I was an undergraduate in 1974, and pocket calculators were still controversial -- professors railed against allowing them to be used on exams, etc. -- so kept using my slide rule (it's on a shelf not 10 feet from where I sit, covered in dust.) That year, I got my first account on a UNIX box, which came with dc and bc, and I've never since been tempted to buy a pocket calculator.
I don't think the law hinders that many people to kill one another. If they really want to, they'll do it anyway.
Ok. If it's not working let's scratch it off the books then.
Remarkably, Nature doesn't appear to have talked to Andrew Odlyzko, who, over the last 5 years or so, has written a large pile of the best papers on the subject of the future of scientific publishing.
Mass-market music is what you get if you just don't care enough to avoid being led around by the nose. If you want something better, you have to actively support it. Personally, I go for weird skronking noise-music that never will have a mass audience, and to try to ensure that I can get my fix when I need it, I (and some friends) organize a concert series. Putting on two concerts a month takes about 16 hours of my time -- 5 hours, twice a month, supervising the shows and about 6 hours doing organizational work. (Also, we lose small amounts of money doing this, but a lot less than many hobbyists spend.) This is about as much time as I spend on my Open Source hobby, and has many of the same rewards -- I'm working to make a world that has stuff in it (software or music) that's what I want, not what Microsoft or MCI want me to want.
It's not a requirement to sue that you have solid evidence of infringement. (For that matter, it's not even a requirement that you think they have.) If AT&T thinks MS might be infringing, they can sue and then find out -- civil litigants are required to make full disclosure of relevant information.