I wonder how much bandwidth they are going to allocate to a phone call once it's pure VoIP? and will it change according to load? what will be the effect on modem/fax data?
can someone who is a lawyer tell me if we have a right to fair use or is it merely a thing that we've enjoyed because copyright holders couldn't ever get such a firm grip on it enough to effectively control it
IANAL, but that's not hard one - it is not a right, but an exception to laws defining the crime. This means that they can't sue you, but you can't force them to allow it either.
At least that used to be the situation. Note that efforts were made to alter this state in both directions (outlaw fair use/enforce fair use on the companies), and might have been successful in some jurisdictions.
We cannot play both sides of the fence here.
Until microsoft owns the content creator you mean.
I think you meant crude oil, which is true (or at least was the last time I checked), about beer - highly unlikely, both because of the economics based on how it is made and the fact many traditional muslims don't even drink alcoholic beverages.
That's a legitimate concern. Not because of featurism (legitimate too), but because of shifting standards, if you rely on a protocol or file format (for interoperability with something), and that protocol or format is a moving target, you want to know that it will be supported in the next version. The same goes for bug fixes.
However, I find it to be a strong argument in favour of OSS - who knows where MS will be by then, and if it will still support that protocol (because of it's own interests change), with OSS, you can always do it yourself, or rely on the community - and that never goes away if there is a need.
patent taken out on use, probably no way around that one depending on for broad or narrow the patent is.
Well, unless they invented something new (which they didn't if they just 'take bacteria, apply bacteria'), they can't patent it, you can't patent anything which isn't an invention . If they did, and that's the only way of using it, they deserve it.
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There are a few product to do just that, such as bestcrypt .
Giving Rivest some credit, I guess he doesn't plan to do a PayPal with a gimmick as is apparent from the article.
I guess that he means that the token is random on both sides (also on the consumer side), which is a good idea when the token value is never more than a few dollars, but I doubt this would easily be accepted due to obvious reasons.
Watch as ICBM blows up asteroid.
Watch as world get bombarded by all the astroid's debris. Watch as instead of one continent/city (depending on size) gets destroyed, all world is obliterated.
Copyright law does not allow this, if they want to they can look at the source code and imitate (which is much more than a proprietary OS would give them - forcing them to reverse engineer), but copying anything is not legal.
Fair use means they can publish an article which contain quotes from the code, not that they can use it in their products without permission.
At a 100 Euro limit, even the lamest implementation, if moderatly resistant to hacking and with better resistance to a constant charge hack is better than paper money which can be printed en-masse.
AFAIK and IMHO and IANAL. You can't patent information, there must be an invention, and patenting detecting or sequencing a gene does not carry an inventive step (i.e. is not non-obvious).
To me the fact that such patents were ever granted is disturbing.
I also think that once their use is detected, patenting them is still questionable, as no inventive step occured. Only new and innovative uses (e.g. curing a disease, in a manner not occuring in nature etc.) can be considered an invention.
It comes from the name of an unrelated tribe - the plishtim (in English - Philistines), those were actually invaders from overseas, the Roman part is true though.
There was so much interest and so few details, that everyone was on the internet, the sites just crashed because of the load.
And in any case, the information on the web was just plain wrong, they said that a helicopter was downed, a general was killed, etc.
BTW, when something is really secret, publishing it is a crimianl offence (especially when a court has ordered so, and in the cases of the identity of rape victims and underage criminals). The Israeli sites wouldn't risk that.
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GCC has an exception, compiled code have no strings attached.
You don't have to distribute the changes, only give them to your clients (but with no NDA about the code).
I won't even comment about the fairness of shared source, or GPL being draconian.
And BTW, GPL is not General Protective License, it is General Public License.
I wonder how much bandwidth they are going to allocate to a phone call once it's pure VoIP? and will it change according to load? what will be the effect on modem/fax data?
It is still costly (take the fuel all the way there), but much less.
IANAL, but that's not hard one - it is not a right, but an exception to laws defining the crime. This means that they can't sue you, but you can't force them to allow it either.
At least that used to be the situation. Note that efforts were made to alter this state in both directions (outlaw fair use/enforce fair use on the companies), and might have been successful in some jurisdictions.
We cannot play both sides of the fence here.
Until microsoft owns the content creator you mean.
appropriate copyright notice does not means GPL - it means who owns the copyright. So you must retain this info.
I think you meant crude oil, which is true (or at least was the last time I checked), about beer - highly unlikely, both because of the economics based on how it is made and the fact many traditional muslims don't even drink alcoholic beverages.
The article says GNU/Linux...
However, I find it to be a strong argument in favour of OSS - who knows where MS will be by then, and if it will still support that protocol (because of it's own interests change), with OSS, you can always do it yourself, or rely on the community - and that never goes away if there is a need.
If they patent it, they have to disclose the invention (make it public knowledge). I think that would have to include this secret .
Well, unless they invented something new (which they didn't if they just 'take bacteria, apply bacteria'), they can't patent it, you can't patent anything which isn't an invention . If they did, and that's the only way of using it, they deserve it.
There are a few product to do just that, such as bestcrypt .
BTW, I agree with you here, makes no sense at all.
I guess that he means that the token is random on both sides (also on the consumer side), which is a good idea when the token value is never more than a few dollars, but I doubt this would easily be accepted due to obvious reasons.
Watch as ICBM blows up asteroid.
Watch as world get bombarded by all the astroid's debris.
Watch as instead of one continent/city (depending on size) gets destroyed, all world is obliterated.
I hardly think RIAA is even remotly interested in anything artistic. Maybe they would do it to kill off all private labels though.
IANAL, but as far as I understand Israeli law this would be a criminal offence (election bribary).
Fair use means they can publish an article which contain quotes from the code, not that they can use it in their products without permission.
At a 100 Euro limit, even the lamest implementation, if moderatly resistant to hacking and with better resistance to a constant charge hack is better than paper money which can be printed en-masse.
To me the fact that such patents were ever granted is disturbing.
I also think that once their use is detected, patenting them is still questionable, as no inventive step occured. Only new and innovative uses (e.g. curing a disease, in a manner not occuring in nature etc.) can be considered an invention.
We should really have something like a '-1 paranoid', or should that be +1? Can't be sure these days.
I never said it was wrong, just that the name went through another stage in the way, being the name of a tribe.
It comes from the name of an unrelated tribe - the plishtim (in English - Philistines), those were actually invaders from overseas, the Roman part is true though.
And in any case, the information on the web was just plain wrong, they said that a helicopter was downed, a general was killed, etc.
BTW, when something is really secret, publishing it is a crimianl offence (especially when a court has ordered so, and in the cases of the identity of rape victims and underage criminals). The Israeli sites wouldn't risk that.
I hope somebody goes through the link before posting their reply, the grafitti it points to is about site defacement.
It is a federal court after all.