Actually, the text of the DMCA is fairly clear that Halderman's paper doesn't violate the law.
`(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that--
`(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;
In my opinion, MediaMax isn't even an effective method of copy prevention, as it wouldn't work on any of my PCs. (It wouldn't work on Linux, and autoplay is disabled on my XP machine)
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It seems that SunnComm is now copying SCO's business strategy:
1.) Write crappy software
2.) Litigate instead of writing decent software.
and... get this...
3.) Profit?
<crappy slashdot joke>
Are you sure it wasn't one of the "cigarette burn" (Tyler Durden terminology, heh) marks that are used to cue the projectionist that it's time to change film reels?
They're usually a dark brown with a yellow-ish border, quite large, and in the upper right corner of the screen.
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Well, as far as Doom goes, there is a Windows port of LSDLDoom that uses LibSDL for graphics.
Everything except for Midi (because I'm too lazy to get it to work) works great under WinXP. As an added bonus, you're not limited to the 320x240 that the original Dos version had.
I worked at Wal-Mart about four or five years ago. At the time, our store used barcode scanners manufactured by Telxon for inventory and pricing purposes. They ran some variation of MS-DOS with drivers for the wireless networking. It was kinda neat to be able to break out of its autoexec.bat and force them into a command prompt. I wonder if Telxon switched over to Linux as well since I left.
I agree. Older cartoons did keep adult audiences in mind by including humour that kids don't get. Cartoons became more targeted toward children once Hanna-Barbara started making cartoons.
Compared to classic Warner Bros. cartoons, the shows created by H-B were bad. The animation quality is lower, the characters are almost interchangable, (e.g. the plot/sight gags of a Yogi Bear cartoon could easily be done using Huckleberry Hound) and the humour was often shallow.
I'd speculate that these cartoons became "popular" because they're cheaper to produce than other types of childrens' programming. The plots don't require great writers, the animation is somewhat crude, and I believe one guy did a large number of the voices.
Eventually, cartoons became accepted as entertainment "for kids." Some recent cartoons also have some adult-oriented content, like Animaniacs, which has many jokes that I didn't get as a kid (e.g. the "Goodfeathers" being a direct rip on Goodfellas).
I'm glad that anime is finally beginning to overcome the "for kids" stigma.
Of course it was invalid code. However, it is good software testing practice to test your code using a variety of inputs to verify that all possible paths in the code are working correctly. This includes invalid input.
Sure, that'll work, at least until Windows file protection slaps you upside the head, and quietly "restores" the files back to the way that they were. Under XP, at least, mplayer2 and wmplayer (media player 8 and 6.4, respectively) are both under WMP's "protection."
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You mean this Unix Hater's Handbook?
<crappy slashdot joke>
It seems that SunnComm is now copying SCO's business strategy:
1.) Write crappy software
2.) Litigate instead of writing decent software.
and... get this...
3.) Profit?
<crappy slashdot joke>
Are you sure it wasn't one of the "cigarette burn" (Tyler Durden terminology, heh) marks that are used to cue the projectionist that it's time to change film reels? They're usually a dark brown with a yellow-ish border, quite large, and in the upper right corner of the screen.
Well, as far as Doom goes, there is a Windows port of LSDLDoom that uses LibSDL for graphics. Everything except for Midi (because I'm too lazy to get it to work) works great under WinXP. As an added bonus, you're not limited to the 320x240 that the original Dos version had.
So.. I guess he's a terrorist, too?
It's not nearly as redundant as your post. ;-)
Obligatory response: You must be new here.
I worked at Wal-Mart about four or five years ago. At the time, our store used barcode scanners manufactured by Telxon for inventory and pricing purposes. They ran some variation of MS-DOS with drivers for the wireless networking. It was kinda neat to be able to break out of its autoexec.bat and force them into a command prompt. I wonder if Telxon switched over to Linux as well since I left.
An Usher CD and T-Shirt in "appreciation of his understanding" sounds more like a punishment than an apology.
I agree. Older cartoons did keep adult audiences in mind by including humour that kids don't get. Cartoons became more targeted toward children once Hanna-Barbara started making cartoons.
Compared to classic Warner Bros. cartoons, the shows created by H-B were bad. The animation quality is lower, the characters are almost interchangable, (e.g. the plot/sight gags of a Yogi Bear cartoon could easily be done using Huckleberry Hound) and the humour was often shallow.
I'd speculate that these cartoons became "popular" because they're cheaper to produce than other types of childrens' programming. The plots don't require great writers, the animation is somewhat crude, and I believe one guy did a large number of the voices.
Eventually, cartoons became accepted as entertainment "for kids." Some recent cartoons also have some adult-oriented content, like Animaniacs, which has many jokes that I didn't get as a kid (e.g. the "Goodfeathers" being a direct rip on Goodfellas).
I'm glad that anime is finally beginning to overcome the "for kids" stigma.
Of course it was invalid code. However, it is good software testing practice to test your code using a variety of inputs to verify that all possible paths in the code are working correctly. This includes invalid input.
I haven't decided which is worse... The fact that such a silly bug exists, or the fact that it went undetected for six years.
Sure, that'll work, at least until Windows file protection slaps you upside the head, and quietly "restores" the files back to the way that they were. Under XP, at least, mplayer2 and wmplayer (media player 8 and 6.4, respectively) are both under WMP's "protection."