In related news, a local terrorist was arrested today, after he pointed out to the bank that their safe had a huge gaping hole leading to a back alley. He is charged with causing $50,000 worth of damage, the cost of repairing the hole.
I did a bit more research, and found this article. Some quotes:
Since copyright law prohibits the substantial use of a copyrighted work without permission of the copyright owner, and because such permission is highly unlikely when the use is to create a parody, it may be necessary for the parodist to rely on the fair-use defense to forestall any liability for copyright infringement. However, the fair-use defense if successful will only be successful when the newly created work that purports itself to be parody is a valid parody.
...
The courts have continually struggled with parody cases when ascertaining whether a particular parody falls within the parameters of fair use or is instead copyright infringement. The fair use section of the Copyright Act specifically enumerates criticism as one of the purposes for which the fair use defense was contemplated, but should this imply that a parody should have more extensive latitude than other types of creative works when the fair-use defense is invoked?
And this was supposed to be on my previous message, but I messed it up: #include <IANAL.h>
Parody is a protected form of speech. Get legal advice, but most likely the cease and desist letters don't have much legal footing. From the Chilling Effects website:
Even though the Constitution guarantees freedom of expression, trademark and copyright owners have rights, that may or may not be violated by the name or content of a web site you have dedicated to protest, criticism or parody.
... on another page...
Question: What is "parody"?
Answer: The courts have defined the word parody in the context of an Internet site. Here's what some of the cases have to say: A "parody" is a "simple form of entertainment conveyed by juxtaposing the irreverent representation of the trademark with the idealized image created by the mark's owner." A parody must "convey two simultaneous--and contradictory--messages: that it is the original, but also that it is not the original and is instead a parody. To the extent that an alleged parody conveys only the first message, "it is...vulnerable under trademark law, since the customer will be confused." While a parody necessarily must engender some intial confusion, an effective parody will diminish the risk of consumer confusion "by conveying [only] just enough of the original design to allow the consumer to appreciate the point of parody."
SSL and crypto in general is all about trust. Would you trust someone who engages in deceptive marketing? Then again, so does Verisign, with their domain stuff. Are there any good certificate issuers?
I think you misremembered that. It's actually,
A ^= B
B ^= A
A ^= B
For example,
A = 1100
B = 1010
And to prove it:
A^B= 0110 =1100^1010
B^A= 1100 =1010^0110
A^B= 1010 =0110^1100
It's simple enough for people who understand bits, but there are a LOT of people out there who don't understand bits and logical operators. Most people write a loop that does it one bit at a time.
True enough. The subroutine thing requires too much actual work for me to try my hand at right now. I'd end up looking up the month in an array, getting the number of days passed so far this year, adding 1 if leap year and (month>2), then add year and some constant, and mod by 7.
Here's a fun one. Without using any temporary variables, how would you exchange the values of two variables?
Hint: There are at least two ways to do it in three basic instructions.
Dr. Wallace, If humanity succeeds in creating a concious AI, what rights do you think it should have? What kind of morality is there in turning off the computer it's running on? Or in deleting its files?
Good review of the survey, but they seem to have missed a point.
Some 74% of 12-17-year-olds answered in the negative when asked if "there is anything morally wrong about downloading music for free off the Internet."
This strikes me as an odd statement. They seem to be assuming that all music downloaded off the Internet is illegal. Not some. Not the vast majority. Not almost all. All. Is there anything morally wrong with downloading a song off the internet that the artist put there? The question was phrased wrong.
This is further supported by: The majority of music downloaders do have "some reservations" about artists' and labels' not being compensated but download music for free anyway.
We had a server that would start playing some kind of song immediately on power up. Couldn't figure out why. Boss thought it was a virus. Eventually figured out it was designed to do that when it overheated.
Then there's the "wait fifteen minutes, and then you hear 11 beeps, and that tells you it's a memory problem, but only if you leave the computer on for 15 minutes, and stay in the same room." problem.
That can be done with standard DNS easily enough, but the problem is DNS caching. When you request a DNS record, it gets cached for an amount of time, as set by the SOA record. Setting this to five minutes means that your DNS servers are going to be pounded pretty hard, as anyone viewing your website(for example), has to rerequest the DNS info every five minutes. Not to mention, it slows down their browsing experience, as they have to wait for the DNS resolution every five minutes. Setting it to 24 hours means that your DNS servers don't get as much traffic, but any changes you make to the DNS record can take up to 24 hours to propogate to anyone who may have the DNS info cached.
Don't open them, or you void the warranty, but we promise that none of our employees have secret backdoors installed that let them modify the poll results. Why don't I trust these things?
You should have seen Usenet a few years back. Most of the nanau-ites decided to stop their spamfighting activity for a set period of time, to prove the point. And it certainly did say a lot, even though the most prolific spam canceller decided not to go along with it.
Feb 20, 2042 - The day that the first true sentient artificial intelligence is created. Feb 21, 2042 - The day it gets converted into a Perl one-liner.
Yes, your honor, my plaintext was AIRDHG)($%QWJKSADLFKM
I encrypted a few bytes off of/dev/srandom, as a traffic analysis countermeasure. If you'd like, here is the key I used.
(Generate a random key first, then decrypt the cyphertext with it. I wonder if that would hold up in court.)
I'm not sure how closely this relates, but Crossfire is a nice open source online CRPG. And being open source, it has an open source mapmaking utility or two. ObDisclaimer: I'm more than just a player, but not a full-fledged developer.
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In related news, a local terrorist was arrested today, after he pointed out to the bank that their safe had a huge gaping hole leading to a back alley. He is charged with causing $50,000 worth of damage, the cost of repairing the hole.
I did a bit more research, and found this article. Some quotes:
Since copyright law prohibits the substantial use of a copyrighted work without permission of the copyright owner, and because such permission is highly unlikely when the use is to create a parody, it may be necessary for the parodist to rely on the fair-use defense to forestall any liability for copyright infringement. However, the fair-use defense if successful will only be successful when the newly created work that purports itself to be parody is a valid parody.
The courts have continually struggled with parody cases when ascertaining whether a particular parody falls within the parameters of fair use or is instead copyright infringement. The fair use section of the Copyright Act specifically enumerates criticism as one of the purposes for which the fair use defense was contemplated, but should this imply that a parody should have more extensive latitude than other types of creative works when the fair-use defense is invoked?
And this was supposed to be on my previous message, but I messed it up:
#include <IANAL.h>
Parody is a protected form of speech. Get legal advice, but most likely the cease and desist letters don't have much legal footing. From the Chilling Effects website:
Even though the Constitution guarantees freedom of expression, trademark and copyright owners have rights, that may or may not be violated by the name or content of a web site you have dedicated to protest, criticism or parody.
Question: What is "parody"?
Answer: The courts have defined the word parody in the context of an Internet site. Here's what some of the cases have to say: A "parody" is a "simple form of entertainment conveyed by juxtaposing the irreverent representation of the trademark with the idealized image created by the mark's owner." A parody must "convey two simultaneous--and contradictory--messages: that it is the original, but also that it is not the original and is instead a parody. To the extent that an alleged parody conveys only the first message, "it is...vulnerable under trademark law, since the customer will be confused." While a parody necessarily must engender some intial confusion, an effective parody will diminish the risk of consumer confusion "by conveying [only] just enough of the original design to allow the consumer to appreciate the point of parody."
#include
Take a look at GNUNet. I've been studying it for a while now, and it looks extremely good. (Not perfect, but pretty damn close.)
FYI, Verisign is in South Africa.
Wow, we must have switched on the same day.
SSL and crypto in general is all about trust. Would you trust someone who engages in deceptive marketing? Then again, so does Verisign, with their domain stuff. Are there any good certificate issuers?
heh. You're right, of course. oops.
Oops, forgot to post as "Plain Old Text"
I think you misremembered that. It's actually,
A ^= B
B ^= A
A ^= B
For example,
A = 1100
B = 1010
And to prove it:
A^B= 0110 =1100^1010
B^A= 1100 =1010^0110
A^B= 1010 =0110^1100
The other solution is:
A=A+B
B=B-A
A=A-B
I think you misremembered that. It's actually, A ^= B B ^= A A ^= B For example, A = 1100 B = 1010 And to prove it: A^B= 0110 =1100^1010 B^A= 1100 =1010^0110 A^B= 1010 =0110^1100
It's simple enough for people who understand bits, but there are a LOT of people out there who don't understand bits and logical operators. Most people write a loop that does it one bit at a time.
True enough. The subroutine thing requires too much actual work for me to try my hand at right now. I'd end up looking up the month in an array, getting the number of days passed so far this year, adding 1 if leap year and (month>2), then add year and some constant, and mod by 7.
Here's a fun one. Without using any temporary variables, how would you exchange the values of two variables?
Hint: There are at least two ways to do it in three basic instructions.
That seems simple enough.
(A & B) | (B & C) | (A & C)
If any two agree that the bit is 1, then it gets ORed in.
Dr. Wallace,
If humanity succeeds in creating a concious AI, what rights do you think it should have? What kind of morality is there in turning off the computer it's running on? Or in deleting its files?
Good review of the survey, but they seem to have missed a point.
Some 74% of 12-17-year-olds answered in the negative when asked if "there is anything morally wrong about downloading music for free off the Internet."
This strikes me as an odd statement. They seem to be assuming that all music downloaded off the Internet is illegal. Not some. Not the vast majority. Not almost all. All. Is there anything morally wrong with downloading a song off the internet that the artist put there? The question was phrased wrong.
This is further supported by: The majority of music downloaders do have "some reservations" about artists' and labels' not being compensated but download music for free anyway.
My "randomizer"
foreach field
value{field} = value{field} xor 3
Apply again at the server side, and you get the user's actual input data back.
We had a server that would start playing some kind of song immediately on power up. Couldn't figure out why. Boss thought it was a virus. Eventually figured out it was designed to do that when it overheated.
Then there's the "wait fifteen minutes, and then you hear 11 beeps, and that tells you it's a memory problem, but only if you leave the computer on for 15 minutes, and stay in the same room." problem.
s/move/accelerate/; and you're right. Otherwise Newton applies. An object in motion...
(Blah friction blah blah interstellar hydrogen blah)
That can be done with standard DNS easily enough, but the problem is DNS caching. When you request a DNS record, it gets cached for an amount of time, as set by the SOA record. Setting this to five minutes means that your DNS servers are going to be pounded pretty hard, as anyone viewing your website(for example), has to rerequest the DNS info every five minutes. Not to mention, it slows down their browsing experience, as they have to wait for the DNS resolution every five minutes. Setting it to 24 hours means that your DNS servers don't get as much traffic, but any changes you make to the DNS record can take up to 24 hours to propogate to anyone who may have the DNS info cached.
Don't open them, or you void the warranty, but we promise that none of our employees have secret backdoors installed that let them modify the poll results.
Why don't I trust these things?
You should have seen Usenet a few years back. Most of the nanau-ites decided to stop their spamfighting activity for a set period of time, to prove the point. And it certainly did say a lot, even though the most prolific spam canceller decided not to go along with it.
Feb 20, 2042 - The day that the first true sentient artificial intelligence is created.
Feb 21, 2042 - The day it gets converted into a Perl one-liner.
Me and countless others are wondering. We've got to know. What program?
My guess is BO.
Yes, your honor, my plaintext was AIRDHG)($%QWJKSADLFKM I encrypted a few bytes off of /dev/srandom, as a traffic analysis countermeasure. If you'd like, here is the key I used.
(Generate a random key first, then decrypt the cyphertext with it. I wonder if that would hold up in court.)
I'm not sure how closely this relates, but Crossfire is a nice open source online CRPG. And being open source, it has an open source mapmaking utility or two.
ObDisclaimer: I'm more than just a player, but not a full-fledged developer.
ALpha 2? And it was noted here two years ago?
When's it going to be finished. The next apocalypse?
Actually, Larry Wall has been releasing those at a pretty steady clip.