Well, but mozilla is not production software. It is barely alpha. So no one's really expecting it to be not-buggy. In fact, the mozilla team maintains that you shouldn't be using it yet unless you are a developer.
RCN is doing just this. They are laying fiber out to people's houses... I think the only copper part is between you and the box, and a single box only servers some 100 homes. I believe that each box gets 12 pairs of fiber.
They are going to provide a single solution for everything - TV, phones, internet, etc. It is expected to be very very fast.
I know this because they bought the company I was working for last summer (an ISP here in the SF Bay Area) and this is what they told us. But don't worry, they said it's fine to tell the world.:b
IIRC, this service is going to be availible here (in the bay area) as well as in the Boston area.
The numbers are misleading since you can freely distribute GNU/Linux. Here is the letter I sent to the author of the article:
Just read your article "Linux sales surge past competitors". I'd like to point out that it's really quite impossible to tell how many new linux installs there are, because the software can be freely distributed. So although 25% of the operating systems sold were linux, it's possible that the number of new linux installs is much greater -- potentially, even higher than NT.
Obviously I read your post.;) Some of us are set to 'newest first'.
I'd think that all one would have to do would be tcpdump -p "tcp port xxx", with xxx being of course the port that the flooding program was listening on. Though this might pick up portscans in addition.
Hmm, mabye the best solution then really would be to write 'fake' clients for all the popular flood network programs, that logs everything, and pretends to flood (but dosen't really.) That could be very useful. Some of them have a heirarchy, but others are flat. There have been in-depth discussions about these on bugtraq. You can read the logs at www.securityfocus.com.
Well, if you don't have internet access, you have to get the documentation somehow. One such way is by purchasing printed matter (O'reilley book) or generating your own (printing). Alternatively, you could save the material on your hard drive. And I believe red hat includes the then-current HOWTOs and other LDP stuff in their distro, although a poster further down pointed out that this is not always the case.
I agree with what you're saying, but I don't see any clear solution - the newbie should either print the page out first, or go get an O'reilley book. Or use a friend's computer.
I could forsee some wannabe terrorists purchasing an aerial map of a large metropolitan city in order to determine where to place a bomb for maximum impact and what to use as an escape route
Erhm, you could just as easily use the USGS for this purpose. And they don't change. Or search terraserver.
I could forsee this used in the corporate realm for espionage. As a prior poster mentioned jokingly, one could spy on movie screenings and car testings. However I wouldn't be surprised if some companies started investing in satelite pics to scout out the developments of competitors
Once again, you don't get to choose the exact time of day or night that the photograph gets taken. Just that it will happen sometime in the next three days. And it's not at all clear to me how you would be able to distinguish an SUV from a limo, let alone features of some new car model. Perhaps for aerospace, but not the auto industry.
I think eventually the technology would get better to the point that personal spying could occur. It doesn't seem realistic, but it is a potential threat to privacy. Imagine being able to spy on your neighbor's daily activities
Again, you don't get to choose the exact time. And considering the sattelite is moving through space at thousands of miles per hour, I don't think it would be feasible to track someone in real-time. Plus the one-meter resolution makes it difficult to identify an object the size of a person, let alone who it actually is.
Essentially, all the things you are afraid of can be accomplished by aeroplane already.
The right congressmen? Try _all_ the congressmen. This voting record shows that the bill was passed uninamously, with the exception of one congressman from New Hampshire abstaining.
The bill was passed in the house by a voice vote; that means there is no record of how each Representative voted.
But really, can you blame them? This is a non-issue to the public at large, and corporate interests were at stake. The only time they'll defy the corporations is over a large public issue, e.g. campaign finance reform.
Well, being optimized for the cluster, as far as I can tell, means splitting up the program into at least as many processes as there are processors, and at the same time minimizing the amount of IPC.
Well, they have to distribute the kernel sources. But it is OK to have closed-source kernel modules, so they could do that. But they'd have to distribute the sources to anything that is compiled-into the kernel.
They would _not_ have to distribute the sources to their UI, or any other 'user-space' apps, unless they were based on the kernel sources.
TiVo is a VCR that runs linux; they released their patched kernel sources, and some changes to the GNU fileutils, IIRC. Not really anything earth-shattering; the user-interface remains closed.
It dosen't make sense to make a beowulf-aware distributed.net client. Why not just run distributed.net on each of the machines?
Alternatively, if you already have your beowulf set up and want to use it for distributed.net, then just set the number of threads to the total number of processors in the cluster.
Well, actually the interoperability clause only applies to things that are protecting software. So while technically, you might be able to apply it to the games etc. that aro on the DVD, you still could probably not apply the exception to the movie itself.
Erhm, this has already been done. css-auth is the rewritten DVD decoder. But the problem is that it still uses the key from DeCSS, so the DVD-CCA still has the trade secret argument.
Besides this, however, there is the issue of the DMCA. The DMCA certainly applies to DeCSS; but whether or not it would apply to css-auth is slightly more arguable. According to the judge here, it would still apply.
What really needs to be done is to get the DMCA thrown out. It was voted in uninamously by the senate, so write your senators and make sure they know that this is an issue for their constituants!
Yup, but you would need to be the owner of content that is distributed on DVD in order to sue the Xing ppl. Since none of the content owners are going to do that, the xing ppl are safe.
Also, probably the DVD-CCA requires movie studios to hold harmless and imdenify DVD licensees against DMCA stuff.
he Copyright Office hasn't even decided what the Millenium Copyright Act actually legally means. How can the judge enforce a law that hasn't been finalised?
Unfortunately, the copyright office really dosen't have any say. They just thought they'd form an opinion for the hell of it. Some judges might listen to the copyright office, but they're not required to.
There is NOTHING in the Constitution which refers to "economic interests", which means that it is unconstitutional for a judge (or Congress) to use that as a pretext to override anything else in the Constitution. If you don't like the rules, get them changed. Legally. Pretending they say something they don't is not allowed. If the judge doesn't like that, tough.
Again, this is irrelevant. The DMCA, as written, applies to the lawsuit. And, in fact, the granting of a preliminary injunction requires that the plaintiff incur significant material harm if the injunction is not granted. So the economic interests are taken into account. It may be in the constitution, but it's still law.
Finally, DeCSS _can_ be used to pirate disks. For example, it can be used to convert the data stream into MPEG and traded on IRC. This is not possible without breaking the encryption.
No, the DMCA makes it illegal regardless of whether or not it was done in a cleanroom. You're confusing the MPAA lawsuit and the DVD-CCA lawsuit.
The MPAA lawsuit is under the DMCA, while the DVD-CCA lawsuit is under trade secret protection. The DVD-CCA can't sue under the DMCA, because they don't have any copyrighted works.
It is the purpose of the legal system to apply the law. It is the purpose of the legislature to write the law. The place to fight the DMCA is not in the courts, it is in the congress.
A judge's responsibility is to decide if the law has been broken, not if what was done is immoral. If tomorrow it becomes illegal to write software that does not work on Windows, a judge is supposed to decide a particular case in light of the law, not in light of what is just.
The only real exception to this is the case of determining constitutionality, but that is really just deciding that a higher law overrides a lower one.
That is the problem with the DMCA - it essentially cuts off fair use if the publisher uses some kind of protection mechanism, even if the mechanism isn't very good.:\
Both. They both circumvent the copy protection, and are thus covered by the DMCA. Under the DMCA, only the movie studios (or perhaps the DVD-CCA) can make DVD players.:\
Unfortunately, the judge is correct. DeCSS is not, however much we might like it to be, free speech. Sure, the comments inside the code might be, but the algorithm itself is not.
The fundamental problem here is that the DMCA is corrupt. It makes illegal things that we think should not be. However, it is not this judge's position to decide if the law is moral, only if this action violates it. And it does.
The real question is, how did we end up with elected officials that passed a law such as the DMCA? Keep this issue in mind when you vote this November, and encourage others to as well.
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Well, but mozilla is not production software. It is barely alpha. So no one's really expecting it to be not-buggy. In fact, the mozilla team maintains that you shouldn't be using it yet unless you are a developer.
I wouldn't know, my ext2 filesystem is self-defragmenting. ;)
RCN is doing just this. They are laying fiber out to people's houses... I think the only copper part is between you and the box, and a single box only servers some 100 homes. I believe that each box gets 12 pairs of fiber.
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They are going to provide a single solution for everything - TV, phones, internet, etc. It is expected to be very very fast.
I know this because they bought the company I was working for last summer (an ISP here in the SF Bay Area) and this is what they told us. But don't worry, they said it's fine to tell the world.
IIRC, this service is going to be availible here (in the bay area) as well as in the Boston area.
Just read your article "Linux sales surge past competitors". I'd like to point out that it's really quite impossible to tell how many new linux installs there are, because the software can be freely distributed. So although 25% of the operating systems sold were linux, it's possible that the number of new linux installs is much greater -- potentially, even higher than NT.
I'd think that all one would have to do would be tcpdump -p "tcp port xxx", with xxx being of course the port that the flooding program was listening on. Though this might pick up portscans in addition.
Hmm, mabye the best solution then really would be to write 'fake' clients for all the popular flood network programs, that logs everything, and pretends to flood (but dosen't really.) That could be very useful. Some of them have a heirarchy, but others are flat. There have been in-depth discussions about these on bugtraq. You can read the logs at www.securityfocus.com.
Well, if you don't have internet access, you have to get the documentation somehow. One such way is by purchasing printed matter (O'reilley book) or generating your own (printing). Alternatively, you could save the material on your hard drive. And I believe red hat includes the then-current HOWTOs and other LDP stuff in their distro, although a poster further down pointed out that this is not always the case.
I agree with what you're saying, but I don't see any clear solution - the newbie should either print the page out first, or go get an O'reilley book. Or use a friend's computer.
Erhm, you could just as easily use the USGS for this purpose. And they don't change. Or search terraserver.
I could forsee this used in the corporate realm for espionage. As a prior poster mentioned jokingly, one could spy on movie screenings and car testings. However I wouldn't be surprised if some companies started investing in satelite pics to scout out the developments of competitors
Once again, you don't get to choose the exact time of day or night that the photograph gets taken. Just that it will happen sometime in the next three days. And it's not at all clear to me how you would be able to distinguish an SUV from a limo, let alone features of some new car model. Perhaps for aerospace, but not the auto industry.
I think eventually the technology would get better to the point that personal spying could occur. It doesn't seem realistic, but it is a potential threat to privacy. Imagine being able to spy on your neighbor's daily activities
Again, you don't get to choose the exact time. And considering the sattelite is moving through space at thousands of miles per hour, I don't think it would be feasible to track someone in real-time. Plus the one-meter resolution makes it difficult to identify an object the size of a person, let alone who it actually is.
Essentially, all the things you are afraid of can be accomplished by aeroplane already.
Without a doubt, that would be GNU cat. ;)
What exactly does that mean... Mobile Version of linux? I can't find this option anywhere in make menuconfig...
The right congressmen? Try _all_ the congressmen. This voting record shows that the bill was passed uninamously, with the exception of one congressman from New Hampshire abstaining.
The bill was passed in the house by a voice vote; that means there is no record of how each Representative voted.
But really, can you blame them? This is a non-issue to the public at large, and corporate interests were at stake. The only time they'll defy the corporations is over a large public issue, e.g. campaign finance reform.
Well, being optimized for the cluster, as far as I can tell, means splitting up the program into at least as many processes as there are processors, and at the same time minimizing the amount of IPC.
Distributed.net does this already.
Well, they have to distribute the kernel sources. But it is OK to have closed-source kernel modules, so they could do that. But they'd have to distribute the sources to anything that is compiled-into the kernel.
They would _not_ have to distribute the sources to their UI, or any other 'user-space' apps, unless they were based on the kernel sources.
TiVo is a VCR that runs linux; they released their patched kernel sources, and some changes to the GNU fileutils, IIRC. Not really anything earth-shattering; the user-interface remains closed.
It dosen't make sense to make a beowulf-aware distributed.net client. Why not just run distributed.net on each of the machines?
Alternatively, if you already have your beowulf set up and want to use it for distributed.net, then just set the number of threads to the total number of processors in the cluster.
Given how effective the defense attorneys were in this case, perhaps it's time for a new defense team...
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presenting, SLASHDOT! Yes, we hook slashdot up to a text-to-speech program and have it present our arguments.
I can see it now! "First Post, your honor."
Well, actually the interoperability clause only applies to things that are protecting software. So while technically, you might be able to apply it to the games etc. that aro on the DVD, you still could probably not apply the exception to the movie itself.
Actually, the DMCA prohibits circumventing _access_ protection. So it applies equally to a player and to a copier.
Erhm, this has already been done. css-auth is the rewritten DVD decoder. But the problem is that it still uses the key from DeCSS, so the DVD-CCA still has the trade secret argument.
Besides this, however, there is the issue of the DMCA. The DMCA certainly applies to DeCSS; but whether or not it would apply to css-auth is slightly more arguable. According to the judge here, it would still apply.
What really needs to be done is to get the DMCA thrown out. It was voted in uninamously by the senate, so write your senators and make sure they know that this is an issue for their constituants!
Yup, but you would need to be the owner of content that is distributed on DVD in order to sue the Xing ppl. Since none of the content owners are going to do that, the xing ppl are safe.
Also, probably the DVD-CCA requires movie studios to hold harmless and imdenify DVD licensees against DMCA stuff.
Unfortunately, the copyright office really dosen't have any say. They just thought they'd form an opinion for the hell of it. Some judges might listen to the copyright office, but they're not required to.
There is NOTHING in the Constitution which refers to "economic interests", which means that it is unconstitutional for a judge (or Congress) to use that as a pretext to override anything else in the Constitution. If you don't like the rules, get them changed. Legally. Pretending they say something they don't is not allowed. If the judge doesn't like that, tough.
Again, this is irrelevant. The DMCA, as written, applies to the lawsuit. And, in fact, the granting of a preliminary injunction requires that the plaintiff incur significant material harm if the injunction is not granted. So the economic interests are taken into account. It may be in the constitution, but it's still law.
Finally, DeCSS _can_ be used to pirate disks. For example, it can be used to convert the data stream into MPEG and traded on IRC. This is not possible without breaking the encryption.
No, the DMCA makes it illegal regardless of whether or not it was done in a cleanroom. You're confusing the MPAA lawsuit and the DVD-CCA lawsuit.
The MPAA lawsuit is under the DMCA, while the DVD-CCA lawsuit is under trade secret protection. The DVD-CCA can't sue under the DMCA, because they don't have any copyrighted works.
It is the purpose of the legal system to apply the law. It is the purpose of the legislature to write the law. The place to fight the DMCA is not in the courts, it is in the congress.
A judge's responsibility is to decide if the law has been broken, not if what was done is immoral. If tomorrow it becomes illegal to write software that does not work on Windows, a judge is supposed to decide a particular case in light of the law, not in light of what is just.
The only real exception to this is the case of determining constitutionality, but that is really just deciding that a higher law overrides a lower one.
That is the problem with the DMCA - it essentially cuts off fair use if the publisher uses some kind of protection mechanism, even if the mechanism isn't very good. :\
Both. They both circumvent the copy protection, and are thus covered by the DMCA. Under the DMCA, only the movie studios (or perhaps the DVD-CCA) can make DVD players. :\
Unfortunately, the judge is correct. DeCSS is not, however much we might like it to be, free speech. Sure, the comments inside the code might be, but the algorithm itself is not.
The fundamental problem here is that the DMCA is corrupt. It makes illegal things that we think should not be. However, it is not this judge's position to decide if the law is moral, only if this action violates it. And it does.
The real question is, how did we end up with elected officials that passed a law such as the DMCA? Keep this issue in mind when you vote this November, and encourage others to as well.