Back in the 80s it was perfectly legal to use the wireless Rabbit (remember those?) to transmit TV signals from the living room to the bedroom. This went for broadcast, rented movies, etc. Heck, you can even legally transmit on the FM 88-108 MHz band as long as it follows FCC Part 15 (no external antenna, and under a certain wattage... 100mw I think). Considering that these allowances were made for home-based Fair Use usage, I would consider this a clear-cut violation of Fair Use rights just like copy protected CDs. If you want to make *public* broadcast over 802.11 illegal... Well it already is. Just like it would have been illegal to use the Rabbit back in the 80s to re-transmit cable for the whole neighborhood.
1. When you type in a password, and someone is looking over your shoulder, all they'll see is ***** or XXXXX. Protecting from someone looking over your shoulder with this new system will be much harder.
2. Wouldn't gesture based passwords be better for applications where #1 is not a problem?
Being a construction company, we have recently upgraded from an AS/400 (which was emulating a System/36 to run our old System/36 software) to an RS/6000 running AIX and a package called COINS (COnstruction INdustry Software) by New York based Shaker Computer. This software is based on a Progress database engine, and is a closed-source software package. We went live less than two months ago, so no verdict yet, but so far the server has never crashed once. I just wish we had a more standard flavor or Linux than AIX. Some of the new commands are disorienting.
Losing access to your music would be inevitable
on
Rent Music Over the Net
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
Even if I wanted to continue to pay $9.99 a month to listen to my music forever, what happens when the company goes under? My music would be as worthless as a Circuit City DIVX player.
Fant additionally proposes replacing the conventional system of digital logic with what he calls "null convention logic," a scheme that identifies not only "yes" and "no," but also "no answer yet"
Sounds useful for reducing the manufacturing cost of Magic 8-Balls.
Last I checked, people hate Microsoft not because it's a monopoly, but because it abuses monopoly power to maintain it's position, which hurts consumers. Also, legally a monopoly is not illegal, only abusing that monopoly power is (AFAIK and IANAL, etc...) That said, the chances of the non-existant IP holder of open source being able to abuse that power is about as high as someone shutting down the non-existant single point of failure in the Internet.
Yes we know lots of people are needlessly going in for nasal swabs and some are panicking every time they see a white substance, but this is a very small percentage of people. Stop and think, how many people have you personally met that are going hysterical? Most people know better than to believe eveything media and politicians say, and we all commonly underestimate the intelligence of the other guy. And we can still count the number of confirmed anthrax cases on our fingers and toes.
How much thought do they give to disabled people when they put in a staircase? None... They just put in an elevator or ramp next to the stairs. By the same token, if a disabled person cannot use this phone, they will buy a traditional phone! Gimme a break...
"U.S. officials and militant Muslim groups say terrorists began using encryption -- which scrambles data and then hides the data in existing images -- about five years ago."
This is not the definition of encryption. This is called steganography. Lawmakers and other politicians do not get their information out of thin air. A lot of their information probably comes from the press. If the press can't get terminology right, is it any wonder that we're breeding a nation of clueless politicians?
Couldn't you put a screen or louver of some sort in front of the turbine? Sure it would probably reduce efficiency a bit but the lack of shredded bird is bonus.
Thought those of you who are sick of looking at the images of the destruction of the glorious World Trade Center might like this unusual one I took of the World Trade Center in July... Little did I know it would fall two months later. If you use the image, please give me the credit.
http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/garage/6249/wor ldtrade.html
--sh0x
It looks like a kamikaze terrorist attack to me. I was watching it on TV, and two planes hit, one on each tower, about 18 minutes apart, in crystal clear visbility. This was not an accident.
The technology does require a battery to program it, but I believe you can then remove the power source and the pages will remain static, according to an earlier Slashdot article on this subject, whose location I can't find at the moment. An interesting issue I hadn't considered before is, is this ink affected by magnetism?
IANAL either, but what I think they're saying is not that they might be sued by a competing software company, but that they might be sued by someone who uses their software and sustains financial damage if the software should not work properly.
It's just as nervewracking of a reason, though. When it comes down to it, it's because they're afraid of a lawsuit, even though they disclaim responsibility. Why else do good things ever come to an end, except fear of lawsuit in the face of all logic? Read the snippet below again carefully (it took me a few times too!)
"the distribution of Broadcast 2000 enhanced to unacceptable levels the risk of an individual experiencing significant financial damage due to the extremely expensive nature of high end video production and the high risk inherent in professional video business marketing."
Slashdot Mirror
Back in the 80s it was perfectly legal to use the wireless Rabbit (remember those?) to transmit TV signals from the living room to the bedroom. This went for broadcast, rented movies, etc. Heck, you can even legally transmit on the FM 88-108 MHz band as long as it follows FCC Part 15 (no external antenna, and under a certain wattage... 100mw I think). Considering that these allowances were made for home-based Fair Use usage, I would consider this a clear-cut violation of Fair Use rights just like copy protected CDs. If you want to make *public* broadcast over 802.11 illegal... Well it already is. Just like it would have been illegal to use the Rabbit back in the 80s to re-transmit cable for the whole neighborhood.
1. When you type in a password, and someone is looking over your shoulder, all they'll see is ***** or XXXXX. Protecting from someone looking over your shoulder with this new system will be much harder. 2. Wouldn't gesture based passwords be better for applications where #1 is not a problem?
Being a construction company, we have recently upgraded from an AS/400 (which was emulating a System/36 to run our old System/36 software) to an RS/6000 running AIX and a package called COINS (COnstruction INdustry Software) by New York based Shaker Computer. This software is based on a Progress database engine, and is a closed-source software package. We went live less than two months ago, so no verdict yet, but so far the server has never crashed once. I just wish we had a more standard flavor or Linux than AIX. Some of the new commands are disorienting.
Even if I wanted to continue to pay $9.99 a month to listen to my music forever, what happens when the company goes under? My music would be as worthless as a Circuit City DIVX player.
Fant additionally proposes replacing the conventional system of digital logic with what he calls "null convention logic," a scheme that identifies not only "yes" and "no," but also "no answer yet"
Sounds useful for reducing the manufacturing cost of Magic 8-Balls.
Last I checked, people hate Microsoft not because it's a monopoly, but because it abuses monopoly power to maintain it's position, which hurts consumers. Also, legally a monopoly is not illegal, only abusing that monopoly power is (AFAIK and IANAL, etc...) That said, the chances of the non-existant IP holder of open source being able to abuse that power is about as high as someone shutting down the non-existant single point of failure in the Internet.
Yes we know lots of people are needlessly going in for nasal swabs and some are panicking every time they see a white substance, but this is a very small percentage of people. Stop and think, how many people have you personally met that are going hysterical? Most people know better than to believe eveything media and politicians say, and we all commonly underestimate the intelligence of the other guy. And we can still count the number of confirmed anthrax cases on our fingers and toes.
And remember, this applies to credit cards, but not debit cards. My Visa debit card offers me no such protection.
How much thought do they give to disabled people when they put in a staircase? None... They just put in an elevator or ramp next to the stairs. By the same token, if a disabled person cannot use this phone, they will buy a traditional phone! Gimme a break...
"U.S. officials and militant Muslim groups say terrorists began using encryption -- which scrambles data and then hides the data in existing images -- about five years ago." This is not the definition of encryption. This is called steganography. Lawmakers and other politicians do not get their information out of thin air. A lot of their information probably comes from the press. If the press can't get terminology right, is it any wonder that we're breeding a nation of clueless politicians?
Couldn't you put a screen or louver of some sort in front of the turbine? Sure it would probably reduce efficiency a bit but the lack of shredded bird is bonus.
Thought those of you who are sick of looking at the images of the destruction of the glorious World Trade Center might like this unusual one I took of the World Trade Center in July... Little did I know it would fall two months later. If you use the image, please give me the credit. http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/garage/6249/wor ldtrade.html
--sh0x
It looks like a kamikaze terrorist attack to me. I was watching it on TV, and two planes hit, one on each tower, about 18 minutes apart, in crystal clear visbility. This was not an accident.
The technology does require a battery to program it, but I believe you can then remove the power source and the pages will remain static, according to an earlier Slashdot article on this subject, whose location I can't find at the moment. An interesting issue I hadn't considered before is, is this ink affected by magnetism?
IANAL either, but what I think they're saying is not that they might be sued by a competing software company, but that they might be sued by someone who uses their software and sustains financial damage if the software should not work properly.
It's just as nervewracking of a reason, though. When it comes down to it, it's because they're afraid of a lawsuit, even though they disclaim responsibility. Why else do good things ever come to an end, except fear of lawsuit in the face of all logic? Read the snippet below again carefully (it took me a few times too!)
"the distribution of Broadcast 2000 enhanced to unacceptable levels the risk of an individual experiencing significant financial damage due to the extremely expensive nature of high end video production and the high risk inherent in professional video business marketing."