Actually, the clumsy translation seems to say that you'll be able to mark points in a show and create chapters and playlists. Presumably you'd be able to edit out the commercials before burning. Tres cool.
I learned that my humor was not always appropriate when I was in a VAX/VMS environment - we used redundant HSC's (disk controllers) and I named one pair "READ" and "WRITE", and my poor sysadmin had trouble communicating with field service about them ("Sir [bozo], either one can do reads or writes..."). I did similar damage naming a pair "NI" and "BI" - ex-VMS'ers will be slightly amused, it's not funny enough to explain to everyone else, though.
Let's see now - how can we argue that the war on terrorism and the Axis of Evil requires Hollywood to put aside it's interest in infinitely extending copyrights and preventing the consumer from using their product in any way behind their narrow ideas ? Troop moral requires the use of Mickey Mouse in porn cartoons ? Troops need to be able to sample records for instant deployment without arranging for licensing ?
Or perhaps Bill Gates will see that Microsoft should become a government department (hmmm, he could become Secretary of Information...).
True or False: you can only infringe on a patent if you are using it to make money ? That's my (limited) understanding of patent protection - that it only prevents anyone from using your patent in a commercial manner.
If so, then the target of lawsuits would be
1. linux distributors ? Red Hat, etc.
2. commercial linux users
IBM Haifa has developed iBoot, which does this. Unfortunately, it's not open source. See here
What would it take for an OSS solution ? iBoot runs over iSCSI which will eventually be common. iSCSI would require a TCP/IP stack plus iSCSI BIOS extensions.
But maybe someday that will all be part of standard BIOS, and will work with motherboard ethernet. This is cool stuff, at least I think so (I submitted an iBoot story several weeks ago, but it wasn't accepted).
The original poster specifically mentioned "Could such a traffic shaper be built using low powered computers? If so, how would you build and configure it so it would maintain compatibility for the single Windows machine, behind it?"
So (most of) the recommendations of a linux box are for the shaper itself.
I thought that patents prevent other people from making money off your ideas ? That would imply that non-revenue implementations would be safe from lawuits ? Anyone ?
Why is this inquiry/challenge for the context modded up as insightful? Please, the problem may occur to "good guys" and "bad guys" both, and often there will be wide disparity of opinion as to whom(who?) is which. Just as the ACLU finds itself defending people that would axe the 1st amendment if they ever got power, it seems fair to answer/discuss the question without means testing.
Just because a binary file is certified doesn't make it a GPL violation. Yes, the binary has to be distributed, but if you can also distribute the source, anyone can validate the binary you distribute by building a clone of it, right ?
Are there are any true legal forms of IP, other than trade secrets and patents ?
If the prior work wasn't patented, and was not a closely held secret, then reimplementation seems fair. In my career (logic/chip design), I've done many things I like to think were clever, but they wouldn't be novel enough to patent - instead they should be considered good practices. I don't see anything wrong with recycling lessons learned.
Of course, "trade secrets" seems like a vague term to me - in the logic/chip business, patents are the main form of IP, but I expect there is a whole body of precedents in that regard.
There could be a benefit to GPS - if cell phones continuously sent location and signal strength, carriers could map out their poor coverage areas without sending CanYouHearMe guys into the field.
Throughout New England, we are consistent. Signs are only there to assure natives that they are going the right way. So, on the Mass Turnpike, we have exact change tollbooths that say just "Cars Only"; we have ambiguous Y intersections followed only 50 yards further by a route number sign to confirm your correct choice, towns are required to name streets that cross townlines without knowing the choices of the other town, etc.
We finally have gotten our revenge on the cows that laid out our streets - now even they would get lost.
Um. This is part of their program to help out the little guy. Your sense of scale is a little off here.
I thought little guy implied someone who uses Ebay to clean out their basement. Even $1K/month is someone spending a lot of time on Ebay, probably acquiring items specifically to offer on Ebay.
Software also sux because they get credit that is due to the HW guys.
Software has NOT gotten faster, if anything, the opposite.
HW has gotten faster. And it doesn't crash anywhere near as often.
I still have a S-100 blank wire wrap board. Maybe I can sell it on Ebay for $50 now...
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I said there were alternatives to copyright which sufficed in the past, and that we should at least be looking at alternatives and not assuming copyright is the only, much less the best, way to insure artists are compensated.
You don't suggest any specific alternatives, but your examples imply mainly aristocracy patronage. Most of us would view that as a poor structure for the advancement of art - your examples are exceptions that stand out from a background of much more mediocre work. What other alternatives did you have in mind? I can't infer any others from your example, except perhaps just fame and performance wages, both of which are not enough to feed a family in most cases.
I might guess: having the government give money to artists in a socialism style ? That is fraught with problems as well - the NEA debacles of recent years show how unlikely it is for those $ to be without strings attached as would money from aristocrats. (The best kinds of sponsorship, without strings, are rare). And taxpayers get unhappy because some artists will be seen as ripping them off, etc.
I'm as disgusted as you probably are about extending copyrights to protect industries such as Steamboat Willie. But the idea of a reasonable term for copyrights to allow an artist to reap reward commercially seems fair to me.
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All of the historical composers you mentioned were not creating great works out of the goodness of their heart, though. They may not have had copyright law and royalties, but instead they had the patronage (meaning $$) of the aristocracy.
I'm not sure what great work Ulysees or Ulysses created though - you are either referring to Homer or James Joyce ? We know nothing about Homer's sources of income, but perhaps someone else might be able to comment on the state of royalties for James Joyce ? Or for Shakespeare ?
The situation with sheet music in the late 19th and early 20th century is an interesting comparison - I've heard that Gilbert and Sullivan did not publish their sheet music, and tried to crack down on pirates that transcribed what they heard at the theatre and sold them on the black market...
If clandestine video-taping is allowed in public places, does that alter any existing laws that prohibit audio-taping in public places ? Many states don't allow it. (If I'm stopped by a cop, is that a public place? Can I tape it ? I think I've heard that cops would refuse to allow that. Can the cop audio tape it? Many police cars do have video cameras - not sure whether the audio is usually there.)
Specifically - in NH, I think it's illegal to audio tape someone without consent. There was a brouhaha about an attempt to get a local candidate to comment and tape his remarks (god forbid that a politician go on the record... well, give the guy a break, the tapers were probably trying to get him to say something they could use out of context).
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Actually, the clumsy translation seems to say that you'll be able to mark points in a show and create chapters and playlists. Presumably you'd be able to edit out the commercials before burning. Tres cool.
I learned that my humor was not always appropriate when I was in a VAX/VMS environment - we used redundant HSC's (disk controllers) and I named one pair "READ" and "WRITE", and my poor sysadmin had trouble communicating with field service about them ("Sir [bozo], either one can do reads or writes..."). I did similar damage naming a pair "NI" and "BI" - ex-VMS'ers will be slightly amused, it's not funny enough to explain to everyone else, though.
Quick - search the Dragon instruction set for the MB (memory barrier) instruciton !
Or perhaps Bill Gates will see that Microsoft should become a government department (hmmm, he could become Secretary of Information...).
If so, then the target of lawsuits would be
1. linux distributors ? Red Hat, etc.
2. commercial linux users
What would it take for an OSS solution ? iBoot runs over iSCSI which will eventually be common. iSCSI would require a TCP/IP stack plus iSCSI BIOS extensions.
But maybe someday that will all be part of standard BIOS, and will work with motherboard ethernet. This is cool stuff, at least I think so (I submitted an iBoot story several weeks ago, but it wasn't accepted).
So (most of) the recommendations of a linux box are for the shaper itself.
I thought that patents prevent other people from making money off your ideas ? That would imply that non-revenue implementations would be safe from lawuits ? Anyone ?
Why is this inquiry/challenge for the context modded up as insightful? Please, the problem may occur to "good guys" and "bad guys" both, and often there will be wide disparity of opinion as to whom(who?) is which. Just as the ACLU finds itself defending people that would axe the 1st amendment if they ever got power, it seems fair to answer/discuss the question without means testing.
Let's all vote for who we want to send to Mars!
One of these days, Alice, Pow! Straight to the Moon^h^h^hars...
The Gnutella TTL may be distinct from the IP TTL, can anyone report on whether that is so ?
If so, then just the IP TTL is decremented at each hop.
Just because a binary file is certified doesn't make it a GPL violation. Yes, the binary has to be distributed, but if you can also distribute the source, anyone can validate the binary you distribute by building a clone of it, right ?
If the prior work wasn't patented, and was not a closely held secret, then reimplementation seems fair. In my career (logic/chip design), I've done many things I like to think were clever, but they wouldn't be novel enough to patent - instead they should be considered good practices. I don't see anything wrong with recycling lessons learned.
Of course, "trade secrets" seems like a vague term to me - in the logic/chip business, patents are the main form of IP, but I expect there is a whole body of precedents in that regard.
There could be a benefit to GPS - if cell phones continuously sent location and signal strength, carriers could map out their poor coverage areas without sending CanYouHearMe guys into the field.
We finally have gotten our revenge on the cows that laid out our streets - now even they would get lost.
Um. This is part of their program to help out the little guy. Your sense of scale is a little off here. I thought little guy implied someone who uses Ebay to clean out their basement. Even $1K/month is someone spending a lot of time on Ebay, probably acquiring items specifically to offer on Ebay.
Maybe Ebay will have to start filing 1099's !
Software also sux because they get credit that is due to the HW guys.
Software has NOT gotten faster, if anything, the opposite.
HW has gotten faster. And it doesn't crash anywhere near as often.
The term PLA itself is archaic at best, is there a worm hole for email somewhere ?
I still have a S-100 blank wire wrap board.
Maybe I can sell it on Ebay for $50 now...
I said there were alternatives to copyright which sufficed in the past, and that we should at least be looking at alternatives and not assuming copyright is the only, much less the best, way to insure artists are compensated.
You don't suggest any specific alternatives, but your examples imply mainly aristocracy patronage. Most of us would view that as a poor structure for the advancement of art - your examples are exceptions that stand out from a background of much more mediocre work. What other alternatives did you have in mind? I can't infer any others from your example, except perhaps just fame and performance wages, both of which are not enough to feed a family in most cases.
I might guess: having the government give money to artists in a socialism style ? That is fraught with problems as well - the NEA debacles of recent years show how unlikely it is for those $ to be without strings attached as would money from aristocrats. (The best kinds of sponsorship, without strings, are rare). And taxpayers get unhappy because some artists will be seen as ripping them off, etc.
I'm as disgusted as you probably are about extending copyrights to protect industries such as Steamboat Willie. But the idea of a reasonable term for copyrights to allow an artist to reap reward commercially seems fair to me.
All of the historical composers you mentioned were not creating great works out of the goodness of their heart, though. They may not have had copyright law and royalties, but instead they had the patronage (meaning $$) of the aristocracy.
I'm not sure what great work Ulysees or Ulysses created though - you are either referring to Homer or James Joyce ? We know nothing about Homer's sources of income, but perhaps someone else might be able to comment on the state of royalties for James Joyce ? Or for Shakespeare ?
The situation with sheet music in the late 19th and early 20th century is an interesting comparison - I've heard that Gilbert and Sullivan did not publish their sheet music, and tried to crack down on pirates that transcribed what they heard at the theatre and sold them on the black market...
If clandestine video-taping is allowed in public places, does that alter any existing laws that prohibit audio-taping in public places ? Many states don't allow it. (If I'm stopped by a cop, is that a public place? Can I tape it ? I think I've heard that cops would refuse to allow that. Can the cop audio tape it? Many police cars do have video cameras - not sure whether the audio is usually there.)
Specifically - in NH, I think it's illegal to audio tape someone without consent. There was a brouhaha about an attempt to get a local candidate to comment and tape his remarks (god forbid that a politician go on the record... well, give the guy a break, the tapers were probably trying to get him to say something they could use out of context).
> Why don't I just patent you take a pill and it reverses aging?
The trick is that you have to hit the right window - if no one comes up with one in 17 years, your patent expires and you're SOL.