They recently had my friend's dorm-connection yanked by the power's that be because he downloaded a Michael Jackson song from a file sharing network. He already owned the CD.
What? Is that "friend" actually "some guy my buddy knows about"? I can't believe Sony would be spending any amount of time or money cracking down on one guy who downloads one song, whether he owns the CD or not.
The technical reason for the decision being based upon the fact that a game that is run without permission makes a copy of copyright material in memory, this copy is 'infringing' because it is an unauthorized copy argued Sony.
Does anyone have a license agreement from a Sony game that specifically allows the "copy in memory"? I've certainly never seen that on other software license agreements. This is a great argument for not letting judges who know nothing about technology sit on tech cases, because it's too easy for companies to hoodwink them into believing something ridiculous.
A "copy" should be defined as something that someone else could take and use on another system, not the loading of the code into memory on the same system. By that argument, proxy servers and browser caches are illegal too.
"the inventor says that once powered-up, his device can run indefinitely -- or at least until the parts wear out, adding that he has supplied all his own domestic power needs free for 17 months."
If fuel is a part that wears out, then hey, it all makes sense... the batteries for starting it initially (electric start), the parts that wear out and need replacing to keep it running... this guy's invented the Honda generator!
It just goes to show, if you drink too much Guinness, you'll believe anything those voices in your head tell you. Hmmm, maybe it runs on Guinness...
It's a box with a lightbulb connected to something I bought at the grocery store named "Duracell". It has been running for 3 hours so far with no sign of dimming!
If that's not proof of perpetual energy, I don't know what is.
I mean it's been what, only about 2 years since just about every tech company has had to start cutting back. They should count themselves lucky they still get any corporate sponsorship at all.
It amazes me that companies cut jobs, but still give huge amounts of money to "media labs" and such, but I'm glad they do (although I wouldn't be glad if I was one of those that had my job cut).
There has to be some responsibility somewhere for how the money is spent, and if it means the employees/students can't take advantage of it with free meals and first-class flights, so be it.
$8.75 though, if that's per hour, is a pretty damn low rate for just about any job.
Isn't the purpose of an internet cafe to provide internet-connected computers for travellers and/or people who otherwise don't have computers/internet connections?
So why have they somehow transformed into glorified arcades? If the owners of such cafes have games on the computers, then they need to be licensed in the same manner as arcades. If they don't want to be an arcade, then they shouldn't have the games, they shouldn't rent time to kids to play games, and they should market themselves as a serious service for people who need it.
If I went into an internet cafe needing to check my email while travelling, and it was full of kids playing Quake and horsing around, I wouldn't be a particularly happy customer.
As the owner of two pieces of MS abandonware (Cordless Phone, Sidewinder 3D Pro joystick), I count myself lucky that I didn't buy more (well, other than a sucky Intellimouse Explorer). I'd love an X-Box-like-system if it could do everything I want an AV component to do... that means play DVDs, record and time-shift video, control my satellite receiver, play MP3s via ethernet from my server in the basement, show off digital photos (also from the server), rip CDs, and uh, maybe play a few games too.
Problem is, even if the next version of the Xbox did all this, it would have to be damn hot for me to plunk down the dough to risk MS turning around the following year dropping all support for it because they're now pushing "the next big thing".
Steve Gibson was able to deal with a DoS and it didn't put him out of business, so surely an ISP could too.
Unless of course, it was a mom-and-pop shop ISP who didn't know an ethernet jack from a phone jack (hey, I only did that once!), and I've certainly seen plenty of those...
Who's to say they have to use images anyway? I've seen plenty of those annoying nonsense messages in newsgroups that look like they were written by Eliza. There are all kinds of things that evildoers could be doing to hide messages in plain old usenet text that to anyone else would just look like spam.
And as far as dictionary attacks, whose to say they haven't created their own simple language to use in such messages? No dictionary attack, simple or complex, would work against that.
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They recently had my friend's dorm-connection yanked by the power's that be because he downloaded a Michael Jackson song from a file sharing network. He already owned the CD.
What? Is that "friend" actually "some guy my buddy knows about"? I can't believe Sony would be spending any amount of time or money cracking down on one guy who downloads one song, whether he owns the CD or not.
The technical reason for the decision being based upon the fact that a game that is run without permission makes a copy of copyright material in memory, this copy is 'infringing' because it is an unauthorized copy argued Sony.
Does anyone have a license agreement from a Sony game that specifically allows the "copy in memory"? I've certainly never seen that on other software license agreements. This is a great argument for not letting judges who know nothing about technology sit on tech cases, because it's too easy for companies to hoodwink them into believing something ridiculous.
A "copy" should be defined as something that someone else could take and use on another system, not the loading of the code into memory on the same system. By that argument, proxy servers and browser caches are illegal too.
If fuel is a part that wears out, then hey, it all makes sense... the batteries for starting it initially (electric start), the parts that wear out and need replacing to keep it running... this guy's invented the Honda generator!
It just goes to show, if you drink too much Guinness, you'll believe anything those voices in your head tell you. Hmmm, maybe it runs on Guinness...
It's a box with a lightbulb connected to something I bought at the grocery store named "Duracell". It has been running for 3 hours so far with no sign of dimming!
If that's not proof of perpetual energy, I don't know what is.
I mean it's been what, only about 2 years since just about every tech company has had to start cutting back. They should count themselves lucky they still get any corporate sponsorship at all.
It amazes me that companies cut jobs, but still give huge amounts of money to "media labs" and such, but I'm glad they do (although I wouldn't be glad if I was one of those that had my job cut).
There has to be some responsibility somewhere for how the money is spent, and if it means the employees/students can't take advantage of it with free meals and first-class flights, so be it.
$8.75 though, if that's per hour, is a pretty damn low rate for just about any job.
Isn't the purpose of an internet cafe to provide internet-connected computers for travellers and/or people who otherwise don't have computers/internet connections?
So why have they somehow transformed into glorified arcades? If the owners of such cafes have games on the computers, then they need to be licensed in the same manner as arcades. If they don't want to be an arcade, then they shouldn't have the games, they shouldn't rent time to kids to play games, and they should market themselves as a serious service for people who need it.
If I went into an internet cafe needing to check my email while travelling, and it was full of kids playing Quake and horsing around, I wouldn't be a particularly happy customer.
As the owner of two pieces of MS abandonware (Cordless Phone, Sidewinder 3D Pro joystick), I count myself lucky that I didn't buy more (well, other than a sucky Intellimouse Explorer). I'd love an X-Box-like-system if it could do everything I want an AV component to do... that means play DVDs, record and time-shift video, control my satellite receiver, play MP3s via ethernet from my server in the basement, show off digital photos (also from the server), rip CDs, and uh, maybe play a few games too. Problem is, even if the next version of the Xbox did all this, it would have to be damn hot for me to plunk down the dough to risk MS turning around the following year dropping all support for it because they're now pushing "the next big thing".
Steve Gibson was able to deal with a DoS and it didn't put him out of business, so surely an ISP could too.
Unless of course, it was a mom-and-pop shop ISP who didn't know an ethernet jack from a phone jack (hey, I only did that once!), and I've certainly seen plenty of those...
Check the date at the bottom of the page: September, 2001. So now 4-month old PC Magazine blurbs are news? Stand back, I've got some posting to do!
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Who's to say they have to use images anyway? I've seen plenty of those annoying nonsense messages in newsgroups that look like they were written by Eliza. There are all kinds of things that evildoers could be doing to hide messages in plain old usenet text that to anyone else would just look like spam.
And as far as dictionary attacks, whose to say they haven't created their own simple language to use in such messages? No dictionary attack, simple or complex, would work against that.