chapter 12 of the DMCA provides for the reverse engineering of "software" to create compatibility with other software (I.E. to allow word perfect to read MS word files).
If DVDs are software, as WB claims, then they ruin the merit of their lawsuits against the distributers, publishers, and creators of DeCSS "software"
I would use mathematica... but if you wanted to win all it would take is a humungus beowolf cluster and mathematica running under linux (it is capable of striping algebraic problems such as this).
You could build one out of dual 1.3 ghz thunderbirds and 100mb eathernet with a buncha matrix switches for about 200,000 dollars, and finish the problems in a few months
"...but it would mean we might have to set up our own Jabber servers to really get the level of service we want."
Hmmm.. I remember AOL trying to get rid of jabber... and to some extent being successful... asfar as interoprability with AIM
I say let them give it away. I don't think it iwll severely affect the market, considering the requirements for the URL, with all the dots. and blah blah blah.blahblahblah.blah.mass.us and whatnot will be desirable for large corperations.
They will be most desired by people who don't want to spend the 10-30 bucks, who most likely won't take away much market
thats nice to hear... does it mean i can claim to have merrit in what i say? i wish they would do the same thing for windows (find some people who have never touched it) and see what GUI comes out ahead.
Keep it mind, what he did in his country was not illegal there; It was only illegal here, where he did nothing but talk about it.
In my opinion this person didn't break any online laws, and if more people were made aware of the lagistics of what actually happened, they would feel the same way.
/. must've run out of usefull stuff to say;-)
anyway,
I think if they did some really in-depth research, they would find that the ads that did the best were some type of semantic response to what the user was actually viewing. As I was saying, before i deleted it and wrote this, i don't care about some banner add on micro squish xp, or new nail polish, I care about what i came to that site to read/learn about./. advertising is several notches up on my list, because the stuff is stuff i care about, like "o'reilly's Open Source Convention" (not the best example, but still better then hearing about making those tuff stains go away).
One i remember seeing screen shot'ed for a PC MAGAZINE was after searching for "gambling addiction" on Amazon, a banner advertising online gambling appearing at the top of the screen. Although they published this for its irony, I found that when entering in the search engine gambling alone it produced the same result. Maybe not entirely AI, but it was still a good response all and all.
does anybody still have a link to the original software? i remember that the conglomerates started sueing, so/. pulled them all. If its gonna be a legal liability/trouble for anyone, don't post it, but if this has been resolved, post away!
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I get your point/feeling. The issue i was trying to look at was what would have to be done to convince the blank (whoever might try to force me to shut down my network) that the network configuration would allow for apropriate actions to be taken should it be found a user is doing something inapropriate. THis may be holding someone accountable, it may be simply the ability to disable them
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my bad, but proccessor serial numbers still aply, they just require a client app that peals it off and sends it out. if it wasn't this thread i talked about that in it was in another, click my user number doohicky link and it'll show you whatever i've posted
like i've said, encryption, accounts, tracking, registration, mac addresses, processor serial numbers.
if they try flooding it only affects one relay station (hub/wireless doohicky), and doesn't affect any others, because it locks out the relay.
if you care about where i said it click my user #blah blah info link and see the rest of the posts i've made
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remember, at one point they talked like that about the interenet. Another thread mentioned ip conflicts.
the best way i see around this is distribution based on mac address, which never ever ever changes unless you change the adapter. If you do this, then the federalies could impliment some kind of forced registration. I also mentioned incryption and permissions in something else i mentioned.-In order to get rid of disreputible people and big pains, you do some form of encryption and accont control, and lock these people out. They won't be able to access the network unless they have the permissions, and if they try they will only affect the local access point (1) and no more.
I know youll talk about accounts being traded, but as soon as someone is spoted just lock them out
and if it was realy a big issue you could lock the mac address out- in which case they would have to buy a new nic every time. Or even more complex, a client app that gets the proccessor serial number, and logs it, and requires that information to get on.
the truth is there is always a solution.
while, if it were made a little exclusive as aposed to completely inclusive, they could use some encryption and permissions, so if someone was flooding data it would only affect the imidiate wireless relay, and not make it to any of the others.
I wish the web was like gnutella, infact, what's beeing talked about in this thread is such a thing, I think ? while if it wasn't it should be, because that's where it's all at.
Given: The limitation of a 2.4 ghz eathernet is 300 feet through walls, 1000 feet Line of site.
situation: I live in a house, which has the nearest house is 400 feet away, and the closest person within verizons limitation(15,000 feet, those bastards, dsl is capable of 50,000) is 4 houses away, with no house more than 300 feet from the other.
Although i can not make it directly to the house with dsl using a wireless eathernet, if i use my "Peers" as channels of trafic i can leap from wireless station to wirelessstaiton.
One otherthing, i live on the high point for a 5 or 6 mile radius... maybe i should put up a small tower (just to reach the tree line) then put an omni directional antena, and use some form of brodcasting (like ricochette), and be able to reach someone i know with a T1, and then redistribute it to my neighborhood with a small surcharge....
Don't forget that 5ghz wireless is being released later this summer, and it's suposidly going to be cheap. It's capable of 70 something mbs, even if they do limit it to only 50 something. This will make 2.4ghz wireless even more economical by driving the prices down, not to mention if you wanted to you could spike up to 5ghz and do larger relay networks with higher capacity.
I think it is perfectly clear to everyone what has happened. Someone has been arrested for a crime commited in another country, that in that other country is not a crime (Unless of course they are planning on charging him for what he SAID in the us, having purely said and done nothing more, in which case it should be promptly dismissed). This comparable to someone being arrested for buying fireworks and using them in new hampshire, when they came back to massachusetts. In all situations it seems unlikely to me that any judge that has passed the bar, and thus read the constitution and all of its amendments, aswhile as gained a large understanding of the copyright system and the rest of corporate law, would not see how clearly iligitimate the charges being brought against him are, and put the case where it belongs, in nothing more than records.
I think you will find that with any and all software, unless you've got big bucks, or little software. you are licensed use of software, not sold the actual software. A license has restrictions, for example you have to be a student, or it is for one system, or one site (street address), or one person. If you are sold the actual software, it emplies you have complete rights, including distributing/modifying.
Hey, i just realized, drive technology has changed A LOT!
There was once a time when disk drives were the size of washing machines, and if you had a drive failure you had to be weary of shrapnal. Now, drive parts don't rip through your leg if your not careful, with the right technology, you get a friendly message that says you need to replace the drive, and it will be rebuilt without affecting the current operations.
PS, the scaled analogy of drive platters and drive heads is a 747 flying an inch above the ground. Think of that...
As far as this device goes for being a major laptop device, i think they would benafit from making another model that bumped the storage up to a type 3 (two type 2s). Based on what i've seen of the architecture for the drive,the difference in casing would make it possible to dump 3 platters in there.
I am aware of the microspacing and the drive heads and all the stuff that could be used as an example of a limiting factor, but FACE IT, who has a 20 gig drive in their laptop?, Have you ever dropped it? did it still work? how many heads did it have? how many platers?, what was the spacing?
Precision manufacturing has gotten to the point where the drives would be pretty reliable.
I wan't my ultimate PDA to use electron spin proccessing, and have a cold fusion power source that will run it for a year off an ounce of water, and be able to comunicate wirelessly with every other device on the planet, not using slugish-high latency-satelite-stuff, and have a terabite harddrive, and ooh ooh it should be waterproof down to 1000M
its possible if the machine is willing. depending on how old the laptops are though, they may not support that large a drive.
before you rush out and buy one, ask yourself weather or not it is worth 400 bucks to buy a drive to fix a laptop that probably isn't worth that much.
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chapter 12 of the DMCA provides for the reverse engineering of "software" to create compatibility with other software (I.E. to allow word perfect to read MS word files).
If DVDs are software, as WB claims, then they ruin the merit of their lawsuits against the distributers, publishers, and creators of DeCSS "software"
you drive over stuff, that is part of the fun... Like my cat.
my 10,000 seccond wait for reply before fail request, just timed out. ----- sig disabled
I would use mathematica... but if you wanted to win all it would take is a humungus beowolf cluster and mathematica running under linux (it is capable of striping algebraic problems such as this). You could build one out of dual 1.3 ghz thunderbirds and 100mb eathernet with a buncha matrix switches for about 200,000 dollars, and finish the problems in a few months
"...but it would mean we might have to set up our own Jabber servers to really get the level of service we want." Hmmm.. I remember AOL trying to get rid of jabber... and to some extent being successful... asfar as interoprability with AIM
I wounder which backdoors are included...
I say let them give it away. I don't think it iwll severely affect the market, considering the requirements for the URL, with all the dots. and blah blah blah.blahblahblah.blah.mass.us and whatnot will be desirable for large corperations. They will be most desired by people who don't want to spend the 10-30 bucks, who most likely won't take away much market
thats nice to hear... does it mean i can claim to have merrit in what i say? i wish they would do the same thing for windows (find some people who have never touched it) and see what GUI comes out ahead.
In my opinion this person didn't break any online laws, and if more people were made aware of the lagistics of what actually happened, they would feel the same way.
a small pack of vicious lawyers agreed with me.
/. must've run out of usefull stuff to say ;-)
anyway,
I think if they did some really in-depth research, they would find that the ads that did the best were some type of semantic response to what the user was actually viewing. As I was saying, before i deleted it and wrote this, i don't care about some banner add on micro squish xp, or new nail polish, I care about what i came to that site to read/learn about. /. advertising is several notches up on my list, because the stuff is stuff i care about, like "o'reilly's Open Source Convention" (not the best example, but still better then hearing about making those tuff stains go away).
One i remember seeing screen shot'ed for a PC MAGAZINE was after searching for "gambling addiction" on Amazon, a banner advertising online gambling appearing at the top of the screen. Although they published this for its irony, I found that when entering in the search engine gambling alone it produced the same result. Maybe not entirely AI, but it was still a good response all and all.
its been sed sevral times... sevral times two offten.
does anybody still have a link to the original software? i remember that the conglomerates started sueing, so /. pulled them all. If its gonna be a legal liability/trouble for anyone, don't post it, but if this has been resolved, post away!
I get your point/feeling. The issue i was trying to look at was what would have to be done to convince the blank (whoever might try to force me to shut down my network) that the network configuration would allow for apropriate actions to be taken should it be found a user is doing something inapropriate. THis may be holding someone accountable, it may be simply the ability to disable them
my bad, but proccessor serial numbers still aply, they just require a client app that peals it off and sends it out. if it wasn't this thread i talked about that in it was in another, click my user number doohicky link and it'll show you whatever i've posted
like i've said, encryption, accounts, tracking, registration, mac addresses, processor serial numbers. if they try flooding it only affects one relay station (hub/wireless doohicky), and doesn't affect any others, because it locks out the relay. if you care about where i said it click my user #blah blah info link and see the rest of the posts i've made
remember, at one point they talked like that about the interenet. Another thread mentioned ip conflicts. the best way i see around this is distribution based on mac address, which never ever ever changes unless you change the adapter. If you do this, then the federalies could impliment some kind of forced registration. I also mentioned incryption and permissions in something else i mentioned.-In order to get rid of disreputible people and big pains, you do some form of encryption and accont control, and lock these people out. They won't be able to access the network unless they have the permissions, and if they try they will only affect the local access point (1) and no more. I know youll talk about accounts being traded, but as soon as someone is spoted just lock them out and if it was realy a big issue you could lock the mac address out- in which case they would have to buy a new nic every time. Or even more complex, a client app that gets the proccessor serial number, and logs it, and requires that information to get on. the truth is there is always a solution.
while, if it were made a little exclusive as aposed to completely inclusive, they could use some encryption and permissions, so if someone was flooding data it would only affect the imidiate wireless relay, and not make it to any of the others.
I wish the web was like gnutella, infact, what's beeing talked about in this thread is such a thing, I think ? while if it wasn't it should be, because that's where it's all at. Given: The limitation of a 2.4 ghz eathernet is 300 feet through walls, 1000 feet Line of site. situation: I live in a house, which has the nearest house is 400 feet away, and the closest person within verizons limitation(15,000 feet, those bastards, dsl is capable of 50,000) is 4 houses away, with no house more than 300 feet from the other. Although i can not make it directly to the house with dsl using a wireless eathernet, if i use my "Peers" as channels of trafic i can leap from wireless station to wirelessstaiton. One otherthing, i live on the high point for a 5 or 6 mile radius... maybe i should put up a small tower (just to reach the tree line) then put an omni directional antena, and use some form of brodcasting (like ricochette), and be able to reach someone i know with a T1, and then redistribute it to my neighborhood with a small surcharge....
Don't forget that 5ghz wireless is being released later this summer, and it's suposidly going to be cheap. It's capable of 70 something mbs, even if they do limit it to only 50 something. This will make 2.4ghz wireless even more economical by driving the prices down, not to mention if you wanted to you could spike up to 5ghz and do larger relay networks with higher capacity.
I think it is perfectly clear to everyone what has happened. Someone has been arrested for a crime commited in another country, that in that other country is not a crime (Unless of course they are planning on charging him for what he SAID in the us, having purely said and done nothing more, in which case it should be promptly dismissed). This comparable to someone being arrested for buying fireworks and using them in new hampshire, when they came back to massachusetts. In all situations it seems unlikely to me that any judge that has passed the bar, and thus read the constitution and all of its amendments, aswhile as gained a large understanding of the copyright system and the rest of corporate law, would not see how clearly iligitimate the charges being brought against him are, and put the case where it belongs, in nothing more than records.
I think you will find that with any and all software, unless you've got big bucks, or little software. you are licensed use of software, not sold the actual software. A license has restrictions, for example you have to be a student, or it is for one system, or one site (street address), or one person. If you are sold the actual software, it emplies you have complete rights, including distributing/modifying.
Hey, i just realized, drive technology has changed A LOT! There was once a time when disk drives were the size of washing machines, and if you had a drive failure you had to be weary of shrapnal. Now, drive parts don't rip through your leg if your not careful, with the right technology, you get a friendly message that says you need to replace the drive, and it will be rebuilt without affecting the current operations. PS, the scaled analogy of drive platters and drive heads is a 747 flying an inch above the ground. Think of that...
As far as this device goes for being a major laptop device, i think they would benafit from making another model that bumped the storage up to a type 3 (two type 2s). Based on what i've seen of the architecture for the drive,the difference in casing would make it possible to dump 3 platters in there. I am aware of the microspacing and the drive heads and all the stuff that could be used as an example of a limiting factor, but FACE IT, who has a 20 gig drive in their laptop?, Have you ever dropped it? did it still work? how many heads did it have? how many platers?, what was the spacing? Precision manufacturing has gotten to the point where the drives would be pretty reliable.
I wan't my ultimate PDA to use electron spin proccessing, and have a cold fusion power source that will run it for a year off an ounce of water, and be able to comunicate wirelessly with every other device on the planet, not using slugish-high latency-satelite-stuff, and have a terabite harddrive, and ooh ooh it should be waterproof down to 1000M
its possible if the machine is willing. depending on how old the laptops are though, they may not support that large a drive. before you rush out and buy one, ask yourself weather or not it is worth 400 bucks to buy a drive to fix a laptop that probably isn't worth that much.