They probably didn't really think it was that diffrent from finding insecure relays or proxies. Honestly, a lot of what Spammers do could be considered hacking (port scanning for open relays/proxies, a lot of which may be already infected with viruses or hax0red).
Lets not forget that in other countries, the power limitation imposed in the US doesn't exist. And it's possible to use much more powerful wifi equipment that covers far greater areas. Sure, you can use a directed antenna here, but directed antenna + power boost is a lot more effective.
especially in small countries, is that the government can and do control everything. They can regulate spectrum how they want, and USE how they want.
Heh, it's not like that isn't the case here. After all, all of this came about because someone at the FCC though "Hey, lets take this 2.4 ghz band and let people use it for stuff like garage door openers and cordless phones! (and whatever else they can think up)" It would be just as illegal here to try to setup wifi on the 2.2 ghz band or the 2.5 as it is for him to to use 2.4 over there without paying.
as far as I know, there are no treates dealing with signal use. In fact, one of the things Clear Channel does is broadcast from mexico so that they can circumvent limits on how many radio stations they own.
Anyway, asside from a few windows, all radio spectrum is regulated in the US. Wifi was created to work in those windows, not the other way around. It would be sensible for other countries to have the same windows, but not you can't act like america is better if they don't.
Linking that to the RIAA-hates-file-sharing, no one at RIAA bitched when people were trading tapes, but they get their panties in a wad over trading high-quality rips and copies. Maybe if everyone swapped 96k MP3s they wouldn't bitch as much... or maybe they would anyway.
hahaha, they bitched like lunatics man. Hillary Rosen was out there screeming (figuratively) that the music industry was going to die, etc. Eventualy, they got laws passed where you have to pay the record companies every time you buy a tape. It's insipid.
mp3.com has a legal license to stream or do whatever with all of the music on it's site. And you can still download the files and listen to them on your own computer.
Sure, bandwidth price is going down (Thanks mr. Super genius Hemos) but if the price goes down faster then your revenue it doesn't help anything. Besides, it's still money in the whole. Would you rather send a file to someone a hundred times, each time they listen to it, or just once. Someone probably looked at where their bandwidth expenses were coming from, and realized that their policies were hadn't adapted to the "not drowning in money dot-com era" era.
Really, what diffrence does it make what kernel ran their graphics software? I mean, this is a good victory for OSS, but it dosn't really help anyone of us.
And notice that the article dosn't mention what software the actual animators used. Sure, I suppose they could have drawn each character on cells and scanned them, but I find that doubtfull.
No, it'll be big news when a movie is produced entirely with Open Source (or at least cheap) software like the movie gimp and other tools.
Vote with your dollars people! These days it's all about Special Interests. The solution is to join a special interest. Groups like the NRA and ALCU are comprised of individuals concerned about their rights and liberties.
To start with, donate to the EEF. I'd also like to see a PAC who's 'special interest' is preserving the freedom of p2p, etc. I suppose there's digitalconsumer.org, but they seem more interested in hardware rights.
Democracy costs money people. Don't bitch about it, pay up.
Yup, doing a puzzle is not interesting at all. We should immediately burn all puzzles and brainteasers immediately. In fact, even reading a book is a waste of time. So we should burn those too. And movies, television.
It's clear that human time is to precious to waste on anything. We must endeavor to eradicate time wasting from existence, in order to concentrate on important things. Like insulting people on the internet.
I'm pretty sure the bugs are in tomcat itself, not the VM. I'm using sun's VM for windows (not microsoft's, obviously). The glitches are weird things like not setting more then one cookie at once and the http request object getting corruped.
told him how to get a particular graphic to work properly. He replied that in that instance, I had done nothing wrong that algorithms are free to share. I was absolved (the plagiarism was different).
I know a guy who got accused of cheating because he left his assignments on an open share, and someone found them and turned 'em in as their own. What does this have to do with anything? Nothing at all.
The academic world has nothing to do with IP law. If you paid me to write an essay for you and you turn it in, it's called cheating. If you pay me to write an essay, and you print it and sell it, it's called publishing. If I let people copy my source code for their homework, it's cheating. If I let them copy my source code for their real work, it's called 'free software'.
Well, I don't really know if the courts would claim 'you agree' if software is automaticaly downloaded to your computer.
If it were up to me, there would be a government standard set for what you can and can't do with software you buy (under a certan price, say $10,000). No haggling, no bullshit EULAs.
If you havn't noticed, here in the US you can patent anything. This is also the country that orgionated the GPL and Free Software. Free software has been around for over 20 years in this environment, and there's no reason to suspect it will die in europe under much more sensible patent laws that do allow software patents.
It looks as though, despite widespread and deep criticism, the report will be adopted. And this will probably mean a shift of power from small software companies and the open source community to large multi-national corporations.
OK, this is laughable. Two reasons. 1) Corporations already have the power, and 2) Without patent law, individuals and small companies would have more power over huge corps. Anyone can file a patent, it only costs a few hundred dollars. And believe it or not individuals can and do prevail in court over large companies in patent disputes.
Without patents, anyone can sell tools that do the same things. Who ever has the most resources wins. If, without patents I thought up an innovative software tool, Microsoft could implement it and throw it into windows. With patents, they can't.
I do think patent mania has gone a little too far, but acting like they are pure evil is just stupid.
Hey, at least it's not 1.9 billion or trillion or whatever the RIAA tried to get out of those collage students.
Anyway, This still seems ridiculous. I'm guessing that the $180 million figure was what would have happened if every single person who has DSS right now switched to the illegal free system. That's like Eli Lilly suing a company that made Ecstasy, based on the argument that everyone taking Prozac might switch to Ecstasy. The only way that they would have lost all of that money is if the DMCA had been repealed (although, I think decrypting satellite data may have been illegal before the DMCA, not sure though) and the devices were made legal.
Even then, they could have simply switched to a new encryption standard. Just mail out new access cards and that would be it.
(btw, I wonder how these systems work. I have a friend who's been getting free DSS TV for a couple years now, the feild is intresting)
I haven't had any trouble with the following components: Windows2000, SQL server, and Apache. I am having trouble with the following things: Apache tomcat 4 (never had a problem with 3, oh well) and (where almost all the problems come up) software that I wrote myself. Tomcat is written in java, and so is the code I wrote. It wouldn't take me more then a couple hours to switch all that stuff from Windows to Linux or any other OS. I really doubt it would make things any more stable.
I freely admit that I wrote is buggy. I'm not claming that it's "Crashing the K6" when my software goes down, and it's ridiculous for Wolfram Research to claim that their software "Crashes the Xeon". You don't just 'crash' CPUs like that. These CPUs are extreemly well tested and rather simple in structure. Bugs are very rare, and often result in a CPU recal.
There's already some kind of spam filter upstream of me. I geet all these strange headers like 'perlmx-spamgauge: 67%' and a bunch of 'triggers' for the system, but it dosn't do me much good on Outlook (yeah, I know it's virusbait, but it's right there... : P)
outlooks built in spam 'filters' suck ass. it gives tons of false positives.
They were still allowed to have text URLs that pointed to copies, as I understand it.
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Somehow, I think this book is more about hacking hiding under the ruse of helping the disabled than the other way around like the review implies.
The book has nothing to do with the handycapped. The reviewer was trying to make a joke and failed.
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No, the traslation is
Officaly, I am an idiot who knows nothing about Intelecual Property law and the DMCA. I remembered that one of the arguments made by Elcomsoft's protected-acrobat cracker was that it allowed the blind to access protected PDFs. It also let you do other things, like copy the files far and wide. But I ignored that and came to the asinine conclusion that helping the handicapped was illegal under the DMCA.
Now, I'm going to try, and fail, to use sarcasm to make a point about how helping people who are handicapped is illegal by saying that this book is not 'Officaly' about helping the handicapped because if it was about helping the handicapped it would be illegal. In fact, the book has absolutely nothing to do with helping the handicapped. That was a joke. Unfortunately, rather then laugh, everyone got confused.
In conclusion. The book has nothing to do with helping the handicapped. I am an idiot. I am not funny.
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They probably didn't really think it was that diffrent from finding insecure relays or proxies. Honestly, a lot of what Spammers do could be considered hacking (port scanning for open relays/proxies, a lot of which may be already infected with viruses or hax0red).
I hope they give 'em the chair!
Lets not forget that in other countries, the power limitation imposed in the US doesn't exist. And it's possible to use much more powerful wifi equipment that covers far greater areas. Sure, you can use a directed antenna here, but directed antenna + power boost is a lot more effective.
especially in small countries, is that the government can and do control everything. They can regulate spectrum how they want, and USE how they want.
Heh, it's not like that isn't the case here. After all, all of this came about because someone at the FCC though "Hey, lets take this 2.4 ghz band and let people use it for stuff like garage door openers and cordless phones! (and whatever else they can think up)" It would be just as illegal here to try to setup wifi on the 2.2 ghz band or the 2.5 as it is for him to to use 2.4 over there without paying.
as far as I know, there are no treates dealing with signal use. In fact, one of the things Clear Channel does is broadcast from mexico so that they can circumvent limits on how many radio stations they own.
Anyway, asside from a few windows, all radio spectrum is regulated in the US. Wifi was created to work in those windows, not the other way around. It would be sensible for other countries to have the same windows, but not you can't act like america is better if they don't.
Linking that to the RIAA-hates-file-sharing, no one at RIAA bitched when people were trading tapes, but they get their panties in a wad over trading high-quality rips and copies. Maybe if everyone swapped 96k MP3s they wouldn't bitch as much... or maybe they would anyway.
hahaha, they bitched like lunatics man. Hillary Rosen was out there screeming (figuratively) that the music industry was going to die, etc. Eventualy, they got laws passed where you have to pay the record companies every time you buy a tape. It's insipid.
mp3.com has a legal license to stream or do whatever with all of the music on it's site. And you can still download the files and listen to them on your own computer.
Sure, bandwidth price is going down (Thanks mr. Super genius Hemos) but if the price goes down faster then your revenue it doesn't help anything. Besides, it's still money in the whole. Would you rather send a file to someone a hundred times, each time they listen to it, or just once. Someone probably looked at where their bandwidth expenses were coming from, and realized that their policies were hadn't adapted to the "not drowning in money dot-com era" era.
Oh God no! With my name, address, and sales history, someone might be able to write me a letter!
Or drive to your house and TP it. (or kill you, whatever)
Really, what diffrence does it make what kernel ran their graphics software? I mean, this is a good victory for OSS, but it dosn't really help anyone of us.
And notice that the article dosn't mention what software the actual animators used. Sure, I suppose they could have drawn each character on cells and scanned them, but I find that doubtfull.
No, it'll be big news when a movie is produced entirely with Open Source (or at least cheap) software like the movie gimp and other tools.
People should be responsible for poor security they implement.
Vote with your dollars people! These days it's all about Special Interests. The solution is to join a special interest. Groups like the NRA and ALCU are comprised of individuals concerned about their rights and liberties.
To start with, donate to the EEF. I'd also like to see a PAC who's 'special interest' is preserving the freedom of p2p, etc. I suppose there's digitalconsumer.org, but they seem more interested in hardware rights.
Democracy costs money people. Don't bitch about it, pay up.
Actualy, it was an idiographic language, meant to reveal ideas, rather then hide them.
Yup, doing a puzzle is not interesting at all. We should immediately burn all puzzles and brainteasers immediately. In fact, even reading a book is a waste of time. So we should burn those too. And movies, television.
It's clear that human time is to precious to waste on anything. We must endeavor to eradicate time wasting from existence, in order to concentrate on important things. Like insulting people on the internet.
slashdotted already. Anyone got a mirror?
I'm pretty sure the bugs are in tomcat itself, not the VM. I'm using sun's VM for windows (not microsoft's, obviously). The glitches are weird things like not setting more then one cookie at once and the http request object getting corruped.
told him how to get a particular graphic to work properly. He replied that in that instance, I had done nothing wrong that algorithms are free to share. I was absolved (the plagiarism was different).
I know a guy who got accused of cheating because he left his assignments on an open share, and someone found them and turned 'em in as their own. What does this have to do with anything? Nothing at all.
The academic world has nothing to do with IP law. If you paid me to write an essay for you and you turn it in, it's called cheating. If you pay me to write an essay, and you print it and sell it, it's called publishing. If I let people copy my source code for their homework, it's cheating. If I let them copy my source code for their real work, it's called 'free software'.
Well, I don't really know if the courts would claim 'you agree' if software is automaticaly downloaded to your computer. If it were up to me, there would be a government standard set for what you can and can't do with software you buy (under a certan price, say $10,000). No haggling, no bullshit EULAs.
If you havn't noticed, here in the US you can patent anything. This is also the country that orgionated the GPL and Free Software. Free software has been around for over 20 years in this environment, and there's no reason to suspect it will die in europe under much more sensible patent laws that do allow software patents.
It looks as though, despite widespread and deep criticism, the report will be adopted. And this will probably mean a shift of power from small software companies and the open source community to large multi-national corporations.
OK, this is laughable. Two reasons. 1) Corporations already have the power, and 2) Without patent law, individuals and small companies would have more power over huge corps. Anyone can file a patent, it only costs a few hundred dollars. And believe it or not individuals can and do prevail in court over large companies in patent disputes.
Without patents, anyone can sell tools that do the same things. Who ever has the most resources wins. If, without patents I thought up an innovative software tool, Microsoft could implement it and throw it into windows. With patents, they can't.
I do think patent mania has gone a little too far, but acting like they are pure evil is just stupid.
Movies, music, video games. For the most part once you work out the system, you can copy digital and desimate far and wide.
:P
Books, on the other hand, require you to tediously scan or retype each page by hand, making them one of the most difficult to pirate forms of media
Hey, at least it's not 1.9 billion or trillion or whatever the RIAA tried to get out of those collage students.
Anyway, This still seems ridiculous. I'm guessing that the $180 million figure was what would have happened if every single person who has DSS right now switched to the illegal free system. That's like Eli Lilly suing a company that made Ecstasy, based on the argument that everyone taking Prozac might switch to Ecstasy. The only way that they would have lost all of that money is if the DMCA had been repealed (although, I think decrypting satellite data may have been illegal before the DMCA, not sure though) and the devices were made legal.
Even then, they could have simply switched to a new encryption standard. Just mail out new access cards and that would be it.
(btw, I wonder how these systems work. I have a friend who's been getting free DSS TV for a couple years now, the feild is intresting)
I haven't had any trouble with the following components: Windows2000, SQL server, and Apache. I am having trouble with the following things: Apache tomcat 4 (never had a problem with 3, oh well) and (where almost all the problems come up) software that I wrote myself. Tomcat is written in java, and so is the code I wrote. It wouldn't take me more then a couple hours to switch all that stuff from Windows to Linux or any other OS. I really doubt it would make things any more stable.
I freely admit that I wrote is buggy. I'm not claming that it's "Crashing the K6" when my software goes down, and it's ridiculous for Wolfram Research to claim that their software "Crashes the Xeon". You don't just 'crash' CPUs like that. These CPUs are extreemly well tested and rather simple in structure. Bugs are very rare, and often result in a CPU recal.
Almost all software, on the other hand, is buggy.
I assure you autopr0n.com works perfictly well on most browsers and OSs!
There's already some kind of spam filter upstream of me. I geet all these strange headers like 'perlmx-spamgauge: 67%' and a bunch of 'triggers' for the system, but it dosn't do me much good on Outlook (yeah, I know it's virusbait, but it's right there... : P) outlooks built in spam 'filters' suck ass. it gives tons of false positives.
They were still allowed to have text URLs that pointed to copies, as I understand it.
Somehow, I think this book is more about hacking hiding under the ruse of helping the disabled than the other way around like the review implies.
The book has nothing to do with the handycapped. The reviewer was trying to make a joke and failed.
No, the traslation is
Officaly, I am an idiot who knows nothing about Intelecual Property law and the DMCA. I remembered that one of the arguments made by Elcomsoft's protected-acrobat cracker was that it allowed the blind to access protected PDFs. It also let you do other things, like copy the files far and wide. But I ignored that and came to the asinine conclusion that helping the handicapped was illegal under the DMCA.
Now, I'm going to try, and fail, to use sarcasm to make a point about how helping people who are handicapped is illegal by saying that this book is not 'Officaly' about helping the handicapped because if it was about helping the handicapped it would be illegal. In fact, the book has absolutely nothing to do with helping the handicapped. That was a joke. Unfortunately, rather then laugh, everyone got confused.
In conclusion. The book has nothing to do with helping the handicapped. I am an idiot. I am not funny.
I think that about sums it up.