> They'll break you. Don't think for a second you can win against the government. With any "good" secure internet communications, breaking you wouldn't provide any evidence against you. I mean even if they have a log of all your encrypted activity from your ISP, it does them no good to have your password, unless they happen to grab your kit while your session is still active.
Basically you only know the password used to start the session, the password actually used to encrypt the data sent would be nearly impossible to re-create, and unless still in your computers cache, just as impossible to retrieve. So they could coerce you into giving up the info you sent/received, but that would likely be in-admissible in court (against yourself anyway.) And they could force you to give up a key, so they could use that to contact the other party, and maybe get them to fess-up.
but the secure communications you sent previously should still be secure.
well, for a laptop, cheaper would not be my key, the space savings. IE you have a 15" screen, a 15" mirror. It collapses down to a 15" form factor for transport, but you have a 30" (ok well 15" + 15*sin(45) = 26") widescreen monitor. (or just use a 17" mirror.)
but your viewpoint would have to be absolultly fixed in relation to the computer for the mirrored screen to be affective.
>system in which cars connect to electric lines along the highways
would work for me, I already wondered how to be a free-loader on the ultra-high voltage powerlines. Just need a flexibile input voltage charger, and some metal filiment fishing line, oh and a good faraday cage for the driver. just shoot a arrow/kite over the existing power line trailing the wire, ground just enough to charge, when your done you ground your end of the line, and poof one lightning bolt evaporates the charging line.
now this is extreamly wastefull if your paying the electric bill, but if your cost is just a $0.50 kite, and $1 per 100' of fishing line...
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I have six ports, and only the two in front are powered... have a solid piece of plastic behind them
you got it good, The front USB ports in my case were all powered and stick out, accidently hit the bottom of the case, shorts out the motherboard, reboot. now I have a loose conection, any contact, reboots.
Seams like a additional security risk for public PC's to me, got a exposed port, works as a reboot button, and bootable device in one. Defeats the purpose of bios lockouts for power buttons (ya physical access... but searching for power plugs, etc draws attention, plug in a shorted USB cable, plug in a USB device, own PC.)
Then again in this day of 0 day XP exploits, all you need to have is internet explorer, enter your web site, PC is owned.
Across 60 tanks of gas, which is admittedly a small number, I get better mileage from Shell and BP. I don't have enough to actually say that they sell better gas, but I have enough to say it is worth looking at.
All the gas comes from the same pipeline, so starts out the same. The only difference then, is what additives the stations add locally, and things like quanity of gas they go through (any contamination, water, etc in their local tank will work out sooner.) I used a APP in my PDA, and I noticed a significant difference in winter, and summer mileage on my carburated motor cycle, then I noticed switching station eliminated that. Then I noticed the low MPG station (winter), said they added up to 10% ethonal during Sept-Mar. So I am guessing the lower energy density of ethonol was significant to the carburated vehicle.
I did not see the same corelation in my fuel injected pickup, was this due to the automatic emissions compensation in the fuel injection??? (FYI, this is AZ, so driving moto in winter months is ok.)
So you can add to your concens, the environment, are you wiling to burn the lower Energy Ethonol, which doesn't pollute (locally) as much?
It actually takes zero time to do since you're driving past all the big price signs on the way to and from work every day. well I will first dispute it takes 0 effort, to target the lowest price gas generally means you can't fill-up at the most convienent moment, and (for me) means planning a route that will take me by the cheap gas stations occasionaly.
now when $.05 a gallon * 20 gallons = $1 is what your trying to save, I look at it as more of a helping society to shop for gas. After all if no one comparision shopped for gas, then their would be no incentive for any station to have a lower cost than another station, and then the prices/profit gradually increases for the station owners, etc. So although it isn't worth the thought/effort I put in for $1-$5 a week in savings over just buying the most convient stations, I justify that it helps keep a low priced station in business, which keeps all the stations a little more honest.
>A support agreement for a single phone is pretty cheap (around $10 I think), but you also need to buy a license to use the SIP software where did you get the idea of a required SIP license? I paid the $10 service fee on one phone, they sent me the sip image, I looked for license issues, and saw nothing. so I paid the $10 once, now have the image on 20 phones. The Cisco updates take some messing each time you get a older version from ebay, I have had to look at the tftp logs, to see the exact file name requested (sometimes have to rename the SIP image to a short name, change the extension, etc to get the first update to take.)
The national do-not-call list will help keep the legit soliciters at bay. But the bad guys...well...international law is a bitch.
thats why I don't understand the DirectMarketing Assoc being such pigs about many many rules to help the legit. I mean make it as harsh of a offense (say federal offense like mail) for all fraud. Require ways to verify the legit, ie a working caller-id, and all telemarketers requiring a legit caller-id number...
As is, you can't trust a thing on the phone, because although the fines do occur for those they find, the DMA seams to ga out of their way to kill traceabilty.
the problem I see is that it probably doesn't take much to lose the ability to ever go anonymous again. IE once they have a online profile, then you start trying to hide, if they already know my slashdot id, my yahoo id, my google id, and my work id, etc and have started watching me closely, I can't escape using anonymity software, and still use any of those "contaminated" logins.
and as far as the anonymity proxys, what % does the government really need to own/takeover before they get to track you their also?
I pay money for them to pick up my trash right? I have to pay for electricity. So, I'm basically paying to have my trash back? WTF?
because you spent all your money on taxes to build their plasma plant, and now can't afford your own (or was it that all the investment money that should be available to build our own plants was spent on the war in IRAQ, so you could have more expensive oil.)
In school, I wanted a scanner to test different marks. IE as clear of lead mark that would trigger the reader, and a non lead marker that looked like a pencil mark. IE on a question that I knew it was A) or C), I mark C to be read by the machine, I mark A to be read by a human, you get the results back if the correct answer was A, then you protest the machine grading, and get it corrected to right. Of course if C was right, the machine would have read only it, and just hope no one double checked the scoring on that question.
only Voting condition I could think of to take advantage of this, would require thousands of people to double mark the same precint, demand a recount their, throw into doubt all counts, could cause havock...
You made the best argument for why profiling is necessary
The flaw is that the attacker can always avoid the profile you're trying to detect. For example, if I profile for young Muslim men with turbans the attacker can simply pick disaffected white middle-class women. Sure, such people are hard to come by but it is fool-hardy to suggest that they do not exist.
the goal is to make it as difficult for the bad guy, with as small of impact and effort as possible. You just pointed out the profiling does that, it is more difficult for al queda to come by a american they trust, which means it is much more practical to at least do some profiling, to increase their difficulty. It doesn't mean you don't look at white americans. well unless thats what you want them to recruit, so that it is easier for us to infiltrate with a spy, because thats what we have best access to...
Profiling by race and religion flies in the face of everything we've struggled to achieve in the last century.
I saw no mention of profiling on race or religion in the story, was that your fabrication? And profiling to what extent? You sure are wasting your time setting up a coffee shop in a all mormon neighborhood, if you want to be succesfull you better do some research, and that sure does include religion, which often defines what people are allowed to do. When a majority of Musilims do not denounce the delibert profiling of so called muslim clerics, in attacking white americans, they do open themselves up to some extra scrutiny. I agree the government needs to be very carefull in where profiling is allowed, and to what degree. ex: Profiling Jewish people as suspects for using drugs because the president isn't jewish would be wrong. Profling middle easteren Muslims on planes, because middle east muslims are trying to blow up planes, and have in the past, just makes sense to me.
> they seem to have adopted a "buyer beware" policy, which makes it unlikely the perp will be punished. However unfair that may be, not to mention lots of illegal acts are performed in games. Isn't killing universally banned in the real world, but isn't that the point of these games, to kill for game money. Who cares if someone decided it would be more fun to get the money with a little decit, instead of the game designers plans, for you to (gasp) kill for money? the problem ultimately isn't a matter for the courts. problem? is it a problem if you use monopoly money to play poker? is it a problem to give money to free parking in Monopoly, when thats against the game rules? I fail to see adding another category within the game to be a problem, when it isn't even against the terms of use.
>There's a name for a law that declares someone guilty of some offense and then punishes them for it without a trial I strongly oppose this legislation, but I understand the intent. They do lock people in jail until they have had their day in court, I would much rather be ostersized with public humiliation than locked in jail, assuming all relating to the humiliation was successfully expunged quickly, for the innocent. The intent would be to track down the serial offenders quicker, so getting the information distributed would help with building cases by finding all their victims. Unfortunately this isn't worth the risk. A guy in Iowa was recently jailed, lost his job, had his life ruined because the offender looked just like him, but his picture was the one in the book for taking a leak at 2 am at the side of a rural road. Lucky for him the original offender couldn't control himself and repeated his acts.
>hoist something up the tube, the distribution of mass shifts again, and thus the applied drag for one example of a fix for all you concerns, google "Space Tethers" simply make that whip a semiconductor, and use the electricity generated in one section of the cord to power a force against the earths magnetic field in another section, and you could in theory manipulate a object up the line, without the line tension 100 feet away from the object changing at all.
> Early adopters like new technology when it's new and improved, and are willing to pay for it. The early adapters (me and those around me) have jumped on the HDTV's, but also things like MythTV, with streaming DivX, or HD-Tivos, etc. (I have the HD tivo, and the streaming DIVX player)
The convenience of the DRM stripped DVD is now out of the box, as you said the new DRM prevents me from simply moving forward from where I am. I have to take 2 steps back, or add another box to my already full shelf. The HDTivo has the content, the nice menu to select it, the expandability of higher capacity (and the breakable DRM if I want it on my PC.) The step from 1080i to 1080p, with the $10 PPV vs $50 HD Disk leave nothing to be desired from this early adapter.
ya, sim card is the proper term, thanks. my understanding is that all CDMA compatabile handsets must use the same SIM card (doesn't have to be easily removed though.) Again, my understanding (whoping success rate of 1 success out of 1 attempt) is if you got any CDMA capable handset from VZW, that can be placed into any other CDMA phone, and your number goes with it (compatible network blah blah blah)
That choclate phone is really pretty (and linux, whatever), but with only a 128mb of shared memory, I am not about to trade in my stereo mp3 playing VX8100 with a 512MB compact-sd for less than $150 (picked phone up on ebay for total price of $85 + $10 shipping + $50 for 512 MB sim card, no contract required...)
That interpretation disregards the "work for hire" principle of copyright.
no, I tried to word that carefully. GPL has absolutly nothing to do with having to provide sourcecode in the case of a work for hire. Their is no exclusion either that I see, either the derivitive work falls under ALL the GPL requirements or it doesn't at all. If I produce a derivitive work for my employer, and I let all my co-workers use it, or even if my employer hires a 100 testers to test the binary, I am under no obligation to provide any source code to them, or anyone else, unless asked to by someone with that authority from the I.P. rights holder.
Now, if I provide that binary to someone outside the umbrella of my company, and it is not then realeased under a GPL compatible license, then that is a violation. Even then it is only a GPL violation if I released it with the proper authority (since the IP is not mine to release) it would more likely be a copyright violation by me, against my employer.
(your private key is generated and stored in the sound card and can't be retrieved) the generated part is what might make this work, but not mass sell-able. IE, the music must be encrypted for your private key, if anyone's private key works for all downloaded music, then once one person cracks one sound card, all the music ever drm'd for anyone with that key could immediatly be freed of DRM.
If you encrypt every file for every individual player, at purchase, then it truly only works on one player, thats got to be too much for most of your music purchasing crowds.
Seams to me for DRM to truly "win", it needs to displace all easily reproducable content for sale, which means selling to the IPOD crowd is a fun example for the industry to play with/look at, but not a way to use DRM to stomp piracy. In my opinion the only thing the IPOD drm does is lock the itunes store to the IPOD, by making all other players more difficult to use Itunes with. IF Itunes reduces piracy, I think DRM has nothing to do with it, it has to do with giving a really easy/fun way to get find and get reliable music. Perhaps making it non-trival to share your ipod collection reduces sharing among ipod users, but has no effect on the amount of music available for download.
Can I transfer them over for free? My experience with VZW tells me that I probably can't my VZW LG vx8100 also unlocks mp3 with "menu 0000", and has a miny SD card, either a SD card reader, and the adapter that comes with most minysd cards to dump mp3's, or the USB adapter, and the free bitpim you can solder this connection and add this card or maybe I was just lucky, I bought a phone from ebay, pulled the cdma card located under the battery (pops right out) shoved it into the new phone (pops right in), then started calling.
You never, under any circumstances have to give changes back to the original project or for that matter, anyone that didnt recieve the binary That was my understanding also, but the article states otherwise (under some circumstances.) My interpertation of item 8, is that if the program can escape to the public, you must make the source available to "anyone else who might be interested in the source code." So once the modified program is given back to you, you must also be given the right to distribute that application under the GPL. If you distribute the program, then it is your obligation to provide the source to everyone...
so basically you must maintain a GPL compatible license, the moment it leaves the control of the owner. This means to me: He can only legaly give you a copy of that mixed IP binary, if you are either the owner of the IP, or if you fall under some form of Non Disclosure agreement with the owner of the I.P.
>reverse-engineer the digital datapaths till you find the DAC If there's a better argument for why DRM does work, I've yet to hear it.
well if (s)he had stoped at "reverse-engineer the digital datapaths" The problem with trusted computing, DRM, etc as I see it. Is that they are generaly relying on shipping the same content to everyone, and everyone having the same key, but that key to decrypt is well enough hidden that no one will find it.
After any one person publishes a key (that everyone must have in their devices) then a tool that decrypts all released content using that DRM is easily produced.
Now HD-DVD/BlueRay seams to be trying is to make the keys revokable. So once a tool is produced that breaks all existing content, they switch keys on new content, then any device with all keys revoked, would have to have updated firmware to still play anything new. All new content would again be protected, until the new key was broken...
Similar method worked (eventually) for satalite TV, however their advantage is obvious, all their devices were constantly downloading from a satalite, so the time to revoke all keys, and issue new ones was days, not months or years like a DVD player (DirecTV required Hardware updates that took a year, but that was likely a early design mistake.)
their is a good quote in that WiKi. "If any secret piece of information constitutes another point of potential compromise, then fewer secrets makes a more secure system."
basically all security is through obscurity, but the more easily changeable, and the fewer items those be (and the more obscure they can be) then the more secure the system.
but exposing them is still reducing security (unless it actually prompts change.)
I found it funny MS recommends putting swap on it's own partition, then simply says it's due to fragmentation if it expands, on the shared partition.
Was this advice written by partition magic? you can't resize partitions with microsoft utilities, so if you happen to need more swap later, your screwed with the separate partition, if not need then they state no other advantage.
"When you put a paging file on its own partition, the paging file does not become fragmented, and this counts as another definite advantage. If a paging file resides on a partition that contains other data, it may experience fragmentation as it expands"
DRM does not limit your rights. Just like Macrovision, SafeDisc, etc., do not limit your rights.
I understand your point. but then you prove yourself wrong. it doesn't matter if they are 2 different laws. DMCA was meant to strengthen copyright laws, so yes thanks to DMCA, DRM (as currently applied to music) does indeed limit your rights to backup your content. If you can't legaly purchase the tools/media, and bring them into the US to strip DRM. Then music with DRM applied does indeed remove the rights we would otherwise have on non DRM music (and solely because of the DRM, because the contracts you speak of, have when chalanged been ruled invalid, when they limit your rights as already guarnteed under law.) Since the same people who added DRM to our music, are also those responsible for the inactment of the DMCA, it is clearly the same issue.
Now, I am all for using DRM to insure I get what I paid for. It is fine being illegal to break DRM. However when I have paid for the rights to listen to DRM'd content, I (should have) bought the rights to decrypt that content, and it certainly shouldn't be illegal for me to decrypt that content with os/device A and legal with OS/device B. Basically (I think) DRM should be used, so I know I indeed bought my content from Studio XYZ, and I am listing to that producers content that I intended. and not some other knock off/concert recording, etc.
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> They'll break you. Don't think for a second you can win against the government.
With any "good" secure internet communications, breaking you wouldn't provide any evidence against you. I mean even if they have a log of all your encrypted activity from your ISP, it does them no good to have your password, unless they happen to grab your kit while your session is still active.
Basically you only know the password used to start the session, the password actually used to encrypt the data sent would be nearly impossible to re-create, and unless still in your computers cache, just as impossible to retrieve.
So they could coerce you into giving up the info you sent/received, but that would likely be in-admissible in court (against yourself anyway.) And they could force you to give up a key, so they could use that to contact the other party, and maybe get them to fess-up.
but the secure communications you sent previously should still be secure.
well, for a laptop, cheaper would not be my key, the space savings.
IE you have a 15" screen, a 15" mirror. It collapses down to a 15" form factor for transport, but you have a 30" (ok well 15" + 15*sin(45) = 26") widescreen monitor.
(or just use a 17" mirror.)
but your viewpoint would have to be absolultly fixed in relation to the computer for the mirrored screen to be affective.
>system in which cars connect to electric lines along the highways
would work for me, I already wondered how to be a free-loader on the ultra-high voltage powerlines. Just need a flexibile input voltage charger, and some metal filiment fishing line, oh and a good faraday cage for the driver. just shoot a arrow/kite over the existing power line trailing the wire, ground just enough to charge, when your done you ground your end of the line, and poof one lightning bolt evaporates the charging line.
now this is extreamly wastefull if your paying the electric bill, but if your cost is just a $0.50 kite, and $1 per 100' of fishing line...
you got it good, The front USB ports in my case were all powered and stick out, accidently hit the bottom of the case, shorts out the motherboard, reboot. now I have a loose conection, any contact, reboots.
Seams like a additional security risk for public PC's to me, got a exposed port, works as a reboot button, and bootable device in one. Defeats the purpose of bios lockouts for power buttons (ya physical access... but searching for power plugs, etc draws attention, plug in a shorted USB cable, plug in a USB device, own PC.)
Then again in this day of 0 day XP exploits, all you need to have is internet explorer, enter your web site, PC is owned.
Across 60 tanks of gas, which is admittedly a small number, I get better mileage from Shell and BP. I don't have enough to actually say that they sell better gas, but I have enough to say it is worth looking at.
All the gas comes from the same pipeline, so starts out the same. The only difference then, is what additives the stations add locally, and things like quanity of gas they go through (any contamination, water, etc in their local tank will work out sooner.)
I used a APP in my PDA, and I noticed a significant difference in winter, and summer mileage on my carburated motor cycle, then I noticed switching station eliminated that. Then I noticed the low MPG station (winter), said they added up to 10% ethonal during Sept-Mar. So I am guessing the lower energy density of ethonol was significant to the carburated vehicle.
I did not see the same corelation in my fuel injected pickup, was this due to the automatic emissions compensation in the fuel injection???
(FYI, this is AZ, so driving moto in winter months is ok.)
So you can add to your concens, the environment, are you wiling to burn the lower Energy Ethonol, which doesn't pollute (locally) as much?
It actually takes zero time to do since you're driving past all the big price signs on the way to and from work every day.
well I will first dispute it takes 0 effort, to target the lowest price gas generally means you can't fill-up at the most convienent moment, and (for me) means planning a route that will take me by the cheap gas stations occasionaly.
now when $.05 a gallon * 20 gallons = $1 is what your trying to save, I look at it as more of a helping society to shop for gas. After all if no one comparision shopped for gas, then their would be no incentive for any station to have a lower cost than another station, and then the prices/profit gradually increases for the station owners, etc. So although it isn't worth the thought/effort I put in for $1-$5 a week in savings over just buying the most convient stations, I justify that it helps keep a low priced station in business, which keeps all the stations a little more honest.
>A support agreement for a single phone is pretty cheap (around $10 I think), but you also need to buy a license to use the SIP software
where did you get the idea of a required SIP license?
I paid the $10 service fee on one phone, they sent me the sip image, I looked for license issues, and saw nothing. so I paid the $10 once, now have the image on 20 phones. The Cisco updates take some messing each time you get a older version from ebay, I have had to look at the tftp logs, to see the exact file name requested (sometimes have to rename the SIP image to a short name, change the extension, etc to get the first update to take.)
thats why I don't understand the DirectMarketing Assoc being such pigs about many many rules to help the legit. I mean make it as harsh of a offense (say federal offense like mail) for all fraud. Require ways to verify the legit, ie a working caller-id, and all telemarketers requiring a legit caller-id number...
As is, you can't trust a thing on the phone, because although the fines do occur for those they find, the DMA seams to ga out of their way to kill traceabilty.
the problem I see is that it probably doesn't take much to lose the ability to ever go anonymous again.
IE once they have a online profile, then you start trying to hide, if they already know my slashdot id, my yahoo id, my google id, and my work id, etc and have started watching me closely, I can't escape using anonymity software, and still use any of those "contaminated" logins.
and as far as the anonymity proxys, what % does the government really need to own/takeover before they get to track you their also?
because you spent all your money on taxes to build their plasma plant, and now can't afford your own (or was it that all the investment money that should be available to build our own plants was spent on the war in IRAQ, so you could have more expensive oil.)
option to spoil a recount?
In school, I wanted a scanner to test different marks. IE as clear of lead mark that would trigger the reader, and a non lead marker that looked like a pencil mark. IE on a question that I knew it was A) or C), I mark C to be read by the machine, I mark A to be read by a human, you get the results back if the correct answer was A, then you protest the machine grading, and get it corrected to right. Of course if C was right, the machine would have read only it, and just hope no one double checked the scoring on that question.
only Voting condition I could think of to take advantage of this, would require thousands of people to double mark the same precint, demand a recount their, throw into doubt all counts, could cause havock...
the goal is to make it as difficult for the bad guy, with as small of impact and effort as possible. You just pointed out the profiling does that, it is more difficult for al queda to come by a american they trust, which means it is much more practical to at least do some profiling, to increase their difficulty. It doesn't mean you don't look at white americans. well unless thats what you want them to recruit, so that it is easier for us to infiltrate with a spy, because thats what we have best access to...
I saw no mention of profiling on race or religion in the story, was that your fabrication?
And profiling to what extent? You sure are wasting your time setting up a coffee shop in a all mormon neighborhood, if you want to be succesfull you better do some research, and that sure does include religion, which often defines what people are allowed to do. When a majority of Musilims do not denounce the delibert profiling of so called muslim clerics, in attacking white americans, they do open themselves up to some extra scrutiny.
I agree the government needs to be very carefull in where profiling is allowed, and to what degree. ex: Profiling Jewish people as suspects for using drugs because the president isn't jewish would be wrong. Profling middle easteren Muslims on planes, because middle east muslims are trying to blow up planes, and have in the past, just makes sense to me.
> they seem to have adopted a "buyer beware" policy, which makes it unlikely the perp will be punished. However unfair that may be,
not to mention lots of illegal acts are performed in games. Isn't killing universally banned in the real world, but isn't that the point of these games, to kill for game money. Who cares if someone decided it would be more fun to get the money with a little decit, instead of the game designers plans, for you to (gasp) kill for money?
the problem ultimately isn't a matter for the courts.
problem? is it a problem if you use monopoly money to play poker? is it a problem to give money to free parking in Monopoly, when thats against the game rules? I fail to see adding another category within the game to be a problem, when it isn't even against the terms of use.
>There's a name for a law that declares someone guilty of some offense and then punishes them for it without a trial
I strongly oppose this legislation, but I understand the intent.
They do lock people in jail until they have had their day in court, I would much rather be ostersized with public humiliation than locked in jail, assuming all relating to the humiliation was successfully expunged quickly, for the innocent.
The intent would be to track down the serial offenders quicker, so getting the information distributed would help with building cases by finding all their victims.
Unfortunately this isn't worth the risk. A guy in Iowa was recently jailed, lost his job, had his life ruined because the offender looked just like him, but his picture was the one in the book for taking a leak at 2 am at the side of a rural road. Lucky for him the original offender couldn't control himself and repeated his acts.
>hoist something up the tube, the distribution of mass shifts again, and thus the applied drag
for one example of a fix for all you concerns, google "Space Tethers" simply make that whip a semiconductor, and use the electricity generated in one section of the cord to power a force against the earths magnetic field in another section, and you could in theory manipulate a object up the line, without the line tension 100 feet away from the object changing at all.
> Early adopters like new technology when it's new and improved, and are willing to pay for it.
The early adapters (me and those around me) have jumped on the HDTV's, but also things like MythTV, with streaming DivX, or HD-Tivos, etc. (I have the HD tivo, and the streaming DIVX player)
The convenience of the DRM stripped DVD is now out of the box, as you said the new DRM prevents me from simply moving forward from where I am. I have to take 2 steps back, or add another box to my already full shelf. The HDTivo has the content, the nice menu to select it, the expandability of higher capacity (and the breakable DRM if I want it on my PC.) The step from 1080i to 1080p, with the $10 PPV vs $50 HD Disk leave nothing to be desired from this early adapter.
ya, sim card is the proper term, thanks.
my understanding is that all CDMA compatabile handsets must use the same SIM card (doesn't have to be easily removed though.)
Again, my understanding (whoping success rate of 1 success out of 1 attempt) is if you got any CDMA capable handset from VZW, that can be placed into any other CDMA phone, and your number goes with it (compatible network blah blah blah)
That choclate phone is really pretty (and linux, whatever), but with only a 128mb of shared memory, I am not about to trade in my stereo mp3 playing VX8100 with a 512MB compact-sd for less than $150 (picked phone up on ebay for total price of $85 + $10 shipping + $50 for 512 MB sim card, no contract required...)
no, I tried to word that carefully. GPL has absolutly nothing to do with having to provide sourcecode in the case of a work for hire. Their is no exclusion either that I see, either the derivitive work falls under ALL the GPL requirements or it doesn't at all. If I produce a derivitive work for my employer, and I let all my co-workers use it, or even if my employer hires a 100 testers to test the binary, I am under no obligation to provide any source code to them, or anyone else, unless asked to by someone with that authority from the I.P. rights holder.
Now, if I provide that binary to someone outside the umbrella of my company, and it is not then realeased under a GPL compatible license, then that is a violation. Even then it is only a GPL violation if I released it with the proper authority (since the IP is not mine to release) it would more likely be a copyright violation by me, against my employer.
Can I transfer them over for free? My experience with VZW tells me that I probably can't
my VZW LG vx8100 also unlocks mp3 with "menu 0000", and has a miny SD card, either a SD card reader, and the adapter that comes with most minysd cards to dump mp3's, or the USB adapter, and the free bitpim
you can solder this connection and add this card or
maybe I was just lucky, I bought a phone from ebay, pulled the cdma card located under the battery (pops right out) shoved it into the new phone (pops right in), then started calling.
You never, under any circumstances have to give changes back to the original project or for that matter, anyone that didnt recieve the binary
That was my understanding also, but the article states otherwise (under some circumstances.) My interpertation of item 8, is that if the program can escape to the public, you must make the source available to "anyone else who might be interested in the source code."
So once the modified program is given back to you, you must also be given the right to distribute that application under the GPL. If you distribute the program, then it is your obligation to provide the source to everyone...
so basically you must maintain a GPL compatible license, the moment it leaves the control of the owner.
This means to me: He can only legaly give you a copy of that mixed IP binary, if you are either the owner of the IP, or if you fall under some form of Non Disclosure agreement with the owner of the I.P.
well if (s)he had stoped at "reverse-engineer the digital datapaths"
The problem with trusted computing, DRM, etc as I see it.
Is that they are generaly relying on shipping the same content to everyone, and everyone having the same key, but that key to decrypt is well enough hidden that no one will find it.
After any one person publishes a key (that everyone must have in their devices) then a tool that decrypts all released content using that DRM is easily produced.
Now HD-DVD/BlueRay seams to be trying is to make the keys revokable. So once a tool is produced that breaks all existing content, they switch keys on new content, then any device with all keys revoked, would have to have updated firmware to still play anything new. All new content would again be protected, until the new key was broken...
Similar method worked (eventually) for satalite TV, however their advantage is obvious, all their devices were constantly downloading from a satalite, so the time to revoke all keys, and issue new ones was days, not months or years like a DVD player (DirecTV required Hardware updates that took a year, but that was likely a early design mistake.)
their is a good quote in that WiKi.
"If any secret piece of information constitutes another point of potential compromise, then fewer secrets makes a more secure system."
basically all security is through obscurity, but the more easily changeable, and the fewer items those be (and the more obscure they can be) then the more secure the system.
but exposing them is still reducing security (unless it actually prompts change.)
I found it funny MS recommends putting swap on it's own partition, then simply says it's due to fragmentation if it expands, on the shared partition.
Was this advice written by partition magic? you can't resize partitions with microsoft utilities, so if you happen to need more swap later, your screwed with the separate partition, if not need then they state no other advantage.
"When you put a paging file on its own partition, the paging file does not become fragmented, and this counts as another definite advantage. If a paging file resides on a partition that contains other data, it may experience fragmentation as it expands"
I understand your point. but then you prove yourself wrong. it doesn't matter if they are 2 different laws. DMCA was meant to strengthen copyright laws, so yes thanks to DMCA, DRM (as currently applied to music) does indeed limit your rights to backup your content. If you can't legaly purchase the tools/media, and bring them into the US to strip DRM. Then music with DRM applied does indeed remove the rights we would otherwise have on non DRM music (and solely because of the DRM, because the contracts you speak of, have when chalanged been ruled invalid, when they limit your rights as already guarnteed under law.)
Since the same people who added DRM to our music, are also those responsible for the inactment of the DMCA, it is clearly the same issue.
Now, I am all for using DRM to insure I get what I paid for. It is fine being illegal to break DRM. However when I have paid for the rights to listen to DRM'd content, I (should have) bought the rights to decrypt that content, and it certainly shouldn't be illegal for me to decrypt that content with os/device A and legal with OS/device B. Basically (I think) DRM should be used, so I know I indeed bought my content from Studio XYZ, and I am listing to that producers content that I intended. and not some other knock off/concert recording, etc.