Frist off, digital piracy isn't that different from brick-and-mortar piracy -- sellers will always try to find ways to prevent theft, and those who want to pirate stuff will always find ways to circumvent the checks. This is human nature and the it'll probably never change.
Sorry, this is incorrect. I also have to take issue with using the term "piracy". You don't even "pirate" a car when you steal it. Using "Piracy" as a term used to describe copyright infringement is merely a public relations ploy (albeit a successful one) by the film industry and other large copyright holding corporations. The correct term is copyright violation. Copyright is not an ownership right, it is a limited monopoly created by law to give an incentive for people to author new works.
Second, while we (rightly) think that the RIAA could save itself a lot of effort by revamping its model, that argument doesn't scale to other media. For example, movies. Movies are expensive to make, and don't sell in the same volumes as songs. The RIAA might easily solve its problems by moving to an AllOfMp3-like model, and pricing structure. But the MPAA won't be able to do the same -- charging 10 cents a movie will mean that they need to sell about 150 times the volume to make similar profits. Charging even $4 a movie will be enough incentive for people to go back to bittorrent. So clearly, its a never-ending tug of war, and while we think the RIAA/MPAA should in good faith adjust it's pricing model etc. the MPAA (at least) can't rely on the same good faith from its customers.
The problem is that in economics you normally have supply and demand that will allow a price to be set for a commodity. The problem with seeing the actual copyrighted expression as property is that it is merely an artificial supply shortage created by laws to enable someone to maintain a legal monopoly on that item. Copyright violation is not stealing, the supreme court agreed when they asked the RIAA lawyer to stop using the term 'theft' as it was inappropriate confused the issue. Stealing from a brick and mortar store takes away from the supply a unit of a commodity that was produced and available for sale. If I bought a CD and took it home, then someone broke into my house and stole it, I would no longer have the CD to sell. If I shoplifted a CD from Best Buy, they would have already paid money for it I presume and then would not be able to sell that physical item.
The main problem that I have is that DCR ("Digital Copying Restrictions", Digital Rights Management is like saying prison guards "manage" inmates) interferes with my fair use rights. If I buy a tune online, I should be able to play it on any computer I own and any portable devices. My car (along with many others) has an MP3 CD player, letting you burn a CD with 10 hours of CD quality sound. When I buy an audio book from Audible, I have to run it through a third party program to remove the DCR so that I can burn the resulting MP3s to a CD. I don't let others copy them and I only use them myself, but DCR interferes with my right to do that. I could burn a twenty hour book to audio CDs, but that's 20 individual CDs I'd have to burn and then carry around. I would love to be able to get a new TiVo S3 and record high-definition channels, but the removable media and networking features are disabled due to TiVo's agreement with CABLECard. With the S2 you can watch shows on your computer or put them on mobile devices, not so with the S3. Hell, my CableCARD doesn't even work correctly when plugged into my TV. It's all a bunch of annoying bull. I have an HDHomeRun appliance that you plug into your network and antennas, and it makes unencrypted QAM and ATSC high-definition feeds available over your network. It'll never work with most high-def cable channels though since they are encrypted, even though I have every right to view them on my computer. I have every right to record them for later viewing, but DCR interferes with those rights.
Can you really hack the iPhone to add custom ringtones? If so, can you give a URL? I would love to buy an iPhone after trying it out in the Apple Store, but the SMS notification tone is unacceptable. I get automated SMS notifications at night for problems at work, which need to be able to wake me up from a drunken stupor. I had to replace some of the the default "message tones" on my last LG CU500 to make that happen. The iPhone doesn't even let you change the tone at all, and it's a short, quiet beep with about 1/2 second of vibration.
Each of their 4,000 servers cost $62,500 more than the equivalent VM running on a mainframe... How the heck do they get that figure? Is it support and maintenance costs? Over what time frame are we talking about saving $62,500 per computer. Many administrative tasks will still probably have to be done on the individual computers (back-ups, user administration, etc.), you would basically be saving costs with people having to work with the actual hardware. Having centralized administration can save some time, but $62,500 per year for each computer? I'm sure the 30 mainframes aren't cheap to buy or run themselves...
So what if you can't fully appreciate it, you can still enjoy the show. My wife loves the show (we TiVo all the episodes and she'll watch ones she's seen 3-4 times already), and she only meets your last criteria (plus she's seen pretty much all of ST:TNS but not TOS I think). She won't touch an Asimov book (no matter how hard I throw them at her), didn't go to college and doesn't know much about computers or American political history. You don't really need any of those qualities to appreciate Futurama.
Using "spare" computer cycles costs money. Hook up a power meter to your computer and check it out. My computer uses more than 50 extra watts during computation intensive tasks (not even graphics) than when the processor is idle. At 20 hours a day of extra processing cycles (if you would normally have your computer on but processor idle during those times) at 10 cents per kilowatt hour would be just about 10 cents per day, or $3 a month added to your electric bill. It would probably be more efficient for people to donate that money to Wikia so they can buy their own efficient servers, mine wastes a lot of energy on the power supply and hard drives for instance. The bandwidth might count for something also, but there are extra trips to deliver information back to Wikia also...
I would love to get an iPhone, but I can't for work-related reasons. My employer would even buy me one, but I get alerts at night when there's system trouble via text messages. The problem is that the iPhone has no way to change the tone for getting a text message, which is a short quiet beep and about 0.5 seconds of vibration. No way that can wake me from a drunken slumber... I had to hack my last phone (replacing a default message tone with my own mp3) in order to get a decent volume for text notifications. Am I the only person that thinks this is at all important? I don't text 100 times a day, and I want to be alerted of a text message if I'm asleep or in a loud bar or concert. Is that too much to ask?
I find it hard to believe also that you are stuck with the built-in tones for voice calls. Until I tried the iPhone at the local Apple store today, I had assumed that you could pick the ringtone from your music collection as simply as you can set your wallpaper. Start playing a song from your music collection, stretch your fingers around the section of the song you want for a ringtone and tap the screen a time or two to get it set. Instead, you have to go to settings and pick one of the built-in tones...
But bureaucracy is not an individual bureau. You said I probably deal with 12 bureaucracies a day. You are talking about the meaning of one definition, which would by definition mean that the entire government is a bureaucracy. Other definitions:
3. excessive multiplication of, and concentration of power in, administrative bureaus or administrators.
Excessive concentration in power of the administrators, causing...
4. administration characterized by excessive red tape and routine.
excessive red tape and routine. Excessive means unusual and improper by definition:
going beyond the usual, necessary, or proper limit or degree
Hmmm... Do you not understand that the "s" on the end of customers makes it plural? It does not say an individual customer. Distribution is handing multiple copies out to multiple customers individually. That differentiates it from multiple copies going to a single customer. And what part of loaning your phone to a friend so that they can make a call includes promoting, selling and shipping or delivering? Handing your phone to someone or even selling it to them is not distribution. It is not copying either, as there is still only one copy of the copyrighted material.
You probably deal with a dozen or more bureaucracies every day, without ever having a problem.
If I go down to the DMV to get my driver's license renewed, I am going to the bureau that handles license registration. Whether it is a bureaucracy or not has to be decided. Bureaucracy is when something like this becomes so large that people lose sight of the intended purpose in creating it, leading to all the red tape and routine you have to go through to get anything done.
But the program was on the phone! I've distributed it!
Distribution isn't handing one object to someone. I think the relevant definition for copyright is:
3. to promote, sell, and ship or deliver (an item or line of merchandise) to individual customers, esp. in a specified region or area.
When I loan a book to a friend I am not distributing copyrighted content, I am loaning my copy of the book to a friend. Distribution requires multiple copies and handing them out to multiple parties or for delivery to multiple parties.
Two of the definitions on dictionary dot com mention not just the bureaus, but the excessiveness of them that is the common use of the term. If you've ever played this game, I think you would agree.
But you are not copying or distributing the Program. Either the doctrine of first sale or fair use would be in effect. In addition, Fred would have no standing to sue unless he was an author of some of the code. It's not the people receiving the phones that can sue, but the authors of the code that is being copied without adhering to the GPL.
They had two options (under GPL v2) when they distributed the object code with their phone:
Accompany it with the source code
Accompany it with a written offer (valid for at least three years) to distribute the source code for no more than the cost of physically performing the source distribution
If they were only distributing their object code on internet however, they could have just made the source code available in the same place. That counts as distribution even if the user doesn't download the source code at the time. They could have downloaded the source code before the object code if they wished. If you do this, you can take the object code and source code off-line at any time and not be obligated to do anything further.
1) user submits his username.
2) site submits the back-password.
3) if back-password is correct, user submits his password.
Let's say this occurs with a spoofed site, this is what could happen:
1) user submits his username to spoofing site
2) spoofing site connects to actual site and submits user name
3) actual site submits the back-password to spoofing site
4) spoofing site submits back-password to user
5) user will see the same back-password he saw if he connected to the actual site
Why not just use SSL? How browsers guarantee a site using SSL is that there is a public and private key. Everyone has the public key but the private key is kept secret by the site. The public key can be used to validate that the corresponding private key was used to encrypt or sign data. Now you would think that a site could spoof SSL by generating their own public key and private key, and giving the user their public key instead of the actual site's public key. This is prevented by having certificate authorities. Sites submit a signing request to a certificate authority based on their public and private key. The certificate authority then uses their own private key to sign the request. The Certificate Authority's public key that the user uses to verify the signature is incorporated into your browser.
Basically, let's say John is talking to Mary. Mary goes to Andrew to vouch for her. John trusts Andrew, he's a good friend. Mary tells John who she is, and John verifies her identity with Andrew.
Visit joebob's page, which has javascript to steal your password
pwn3d
If you're on the site with the vulnerability, you probably already entered your master password to login, and you only have to do that once per session to use all of your passwords.
This isn't theft, it's liberation! Information (including passwords) wants to be free!
I assume you are making a dig at the anti-copyright crowd. The distinction you fail to see is that copyrighted works are published, letting recipients know exactly what is in them. It is merely the monopoly on copying and creation of derivative works that is protected by law in order to give the public an incentive to create new works. Passwords are opposite in that they are kept secret for a good reason. Also they probably cannot be given a copyright monopoly since there is not a modicum of expression in most passwords.
You don't put something in a specification and not define how it works. It has no place in the specification. That's the whole point.
If they weren't in the spec, it wouldn't be the complete OOXML spec used by by Office '07.
So here we have Microsoft working backwards. They take what they did and try to create a specification for it instead of creating a specification and then programming to it. Then they leave out parts of what is actually done in Office '07 so that other parties can never be compliant with the "specification". That would be akin to the TCP specification saying that bit 2 in byte 14 is a flag that says the checksum should be calculated like Windows 95 does it, without specifying how that is. This is just ridiculous. Do you not understand that some documents (probably all docs imported from Word 95 which I know is in the spec, I'm not sure about Word 97) WILL use this tag, and therefore anyone trying to comply with this specification will not be able to make the documents appear as they will in Office 2007? When importing a document from Word 95 or 97, Office 2007 should convert it completely to values defined in the specification, there should be no need for these tags for "backward compatibility".
If the specification has no way to make the spacing look the same, I would say that it is an incomplete specification (although it is 700+ pages). If there are certain quirks of Word 95 and Word 97 that would make the specification hard to understand, it doesn't matter. They should be defined exactly anyway so that ANYONE implementing the specification (and only the specification) will be able to produce documents that look the same.
Depending on how large a list of random numbers you need, just download 512 mb and use a 32 bit pseudo-random integer as the bit offset in the file for your random series. That'll produce 4 billion "true" random bits with the ability to reproduce the same list.
That is mostly correct. In fact, you have to register in order to bring suit, and you must register within five years of authorship in order to receive a legal presumption of ownership. If you don't have your copyright registered, the case can get thrown out. If you didn't register within five years of authoring the work, you must prove that you are the author.
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But the "crime" was committed in the USA. Let's say he traveled to the USA and robbed a bank while he was here. Should he still be tried in the UK?
Sorry, this is incorrect. I also have to take issue with using the term "piracy". You don't even "pirate" a car when you steal it. Using "Piracy" as a term used to describe copyright infringement is merely a public relations ploy (albeit a successful one) by the film industry and other large copyright holding corporations. The correct term is copyright violation. Copyright is not an ownership right, it is a limited monopoly created by law to give an incentive for people to author new works.
The problem is that in economics you normally have supply and demand that will allow a price to be set for a commodity. The problem with seeing the actual copyrighted expression as property is that it is merely an artificial supply shortage created by laws to enable someone to maintain a legal monopoly on that item. Copyright violation is not stealing, the supreme court agreed when they asked the RIAA lawyer to stop using the term 'theft' as it was inappropriate confused the issue. Stealing from a brick and mortar store takes away from the supply a unit of a commodity that was produced and available for sale. If I bought a CD and took it home, then someone broke into my house and stole it, I would no longer have the CD to sell. If I shoplifted a CD from Best Buy, they would have already paid money for it I presume and then would not be able to sell that physical item.
The main problem that I have is that DCR ("Digital Copying Restrictions", Digital Rights Management is like saying prison guards "manage" inmates) interferes with my fair use rights. If I buy a tune online, I should be able to play it on any computer I own and any portable devices. My car (along with many others) has an MP3 CD player, letting you burn a CD with 10 hours of CD quality sound. When I buy an audio book from Audible, I have to run it through a third party program to remove the DCR so that I can burn the resulting MP3s to a CD. I don't let others copy them and I only use them myself, but DCR interferes with my right to do that. I could burn a twenty hour book to audio CDs, but that's 20 individual CDs I'd have to burn and then carry around. I would love to be able to get a new TiVo S3 and record high-definition channels, but the removable media and networking features are disabled due to TiVo's agreement with CABLECard. With the S2 you can watch shows on your computer or put them on mobile devices, not so with the S3. Hell, my CableCARD doesn't even work correctly when plugged into my TV. It's all a bunch of annoying bull. I have an HDHomeRun appliance that you plug into your network and antennas, and it makes unencrypted QAM and ATSC high-definition feeds available over your network. It'll never work with most high-def cable channels though since they are encrypted, even though I have every right to view them on my computer. I have every right to record them for later viewing, but DCR interferes with those rights.
Can you really hack the iPhone to add custom ringtones? If so, can you give a URL? I would love to buy an iPhone after trying it out in the Apple Store, but the SMS notification tone is unacceptable. I get automated SMS notifications at night for problems at work, which need to be able to wake me up from a drunken stupor. I had to replace some of the the default "message tones" on my last LG CU500 to make that happen. The iPhone doesn't even let you change the tone at all, and it's a short, quiet beep with about 1/2 second of vibration.
Each of their 4,000 servers cost $62,500 more than the equivalent VM running on a mainframe... How the heck do they get that figure? Is it support and maintenance costs? Over what time frame are we talking about saving $62,500 per computer. Many administrative tasks will still probably have to be done on the individual computers (back-ups, user administration, etc.), you would basically be saving costs with people having to work with the actual hardware. Having centralized administration can save some time, but $62,500 per year for each computer? I'm sure the 30 mainframes aren't cheap to buy or run themselves...
So what if you can't fully appreciate it, you can still enjoy the show. My wife loves the show (we TiVo all the episodes and she'll watch ones she's seen 3-4 times already), and she only meets your last criteria (plus she's seen pretty much all of ST:TNS but not TOS I think). She won't touch an Asimov book (no matter how hard I throw them at her), didn't go to college and doesn't know much about computers or American political history. You don't really need any of those qualities to appreciate Futurama.
Using "spare" computer cycles costs money. Hook up a power meter to your computer and check it out. My computer uses more than 50 extra watts during computation intensive tasks (not even graphics) than when the processor is idle. At 20 hours a day of extra processing cycles (if you would normally have your computer on but processor idle during those times) at 10 cents per kilowatt hour would be just about 10 cents per day, or $3 a month added to your electric bill. It would probably be more efficient for people to donate that money to Wikia so they can buy their own efficient servers, mine wastes a lot of energy on the power supply and hard drives for instance. The bandwidth might count for something also, but there are extra trips to deliver information back to Wikia also...
I don't think anyone in the U.S.A. could stand to lose any weight...
I would love to get an iPhone, but I can't for work-related reasons. My employer would even buy me one, but I get alerts at night when there's system trouble via text messages. The problem is that the iPhone has no way to change the tone for getting a text message, which is a short quiet beep and about 0.5 seconds of vibration. No way that can wake me from a drunken slumber... I had to hack my last phone (replacing a default message tone with my own mp3) in order to get a decent volume for text notifications. Am I the only person that thinks this is at all important? I don't text 100 times a day, and I want to be alerted of a text message if I'm asleep or in a loud bar or concert. Is that too much to ask?
I find it hard to believe also that you are stuck with the built-in tones for voice calls. Until I tried the iPhone at the local Apple store today, I had assumed that you could pick the ringtone from your music collection as simply as you can set your wallpaper. Start playing a song from your music collection, stretch your fingers around the section of the song you want for a ringtone and tap the screen a time or two to get it set. Instead, you have to go to settings and pick one of the built-in tones...
But bureaucracy is not an individual bureau. You said I probably deal with 12 bureaucracies a day. You are talking about the meaning of one definition, which would by definition mean that the entire government is a bureaucracy. Other definitions:
Excessive concentration in power of the administrators, causing...excessive red tape and routine. Excessive means unusual and improper by definition:
Hmmm... Do you not understand that the "s" on the end of customers makes it plural? It does not say an individual customer. Distribution is handing multiple copies out to multiple customers individually. That differentiates it from multiple copies going to a single customer. And what part of loaning your phone to a friend so that they can make a call includes promoting, selling and shipping or delivering? Handing your phone to someone or even selling it to them is not distribution. It is not copying either, as there is still only one copy of the copyrighted material.
Scene where a shirtless archaeologist is digging in the sand: "Why's he burying his shirt?"
"Rock-n-roll truu-uuk!"
Mr. B. Natural: "Bad touch!"
If they attempt to connect the iPod to a computer it isn't paired with, the circuit can activate and prevent charging by any means at any later date.
If I go down to the DMV to get my driver's license renewed, I am going to the bureau that handles license registration. Whether it is a bureaucracy or not has to be decided. Bureaucracy is when something like this becomes so large that people lose sight of the intended purpose in creating it, leading to all the red tape and routine you have to go through to get anything done.
Two of the definitions on dictionary dot com mention not just the bureaus, but the excessiveness of them that is the common use of the term. If you've ever played this game, I think you would agree.
Yeah, who gives a fuck about Haiti or the other 170 countries with a lower population either...
But you are not copying or distributing the Program. Either the doctrine of first sale or fair use would be in effect. In addition, Fred would have no standing to sue unless he was an author of some of the code. It's not the people receiving the phones that can sue, but the authors of the code that is being copied without adhering to the GPL.
- Accompany it with the source code
- Accompany it with a written offer (valid for at least three years) to distribute the source code for no more than the cost of physically performing the source distribution
If they were only distributing their object code on internet however, they could have just made the source code available in the same place. That counts as distribution even if the user doesn't download the source code at the time. They could have downloaded the source code before the object code if they wished. If you do this, you can take the object code and source code off-line at any time and not be obligated to do anything further.Let's say this occurs with a spoofed site, this is what could happen:
1) user submits his username to spoofing site
2) spoofing site connects to actual site and submits user name
3) actual site submits the back-password to spoofing site
4) spoofing site submits back-password to user
5) user will see the same back-password he saw if he connected to the actual site
Why not just use SSL? How browsers guarantee a site using SSL is that there is a public and private key. Everyone has the public key but the private key is kept secret by the site. The public key can be used to validate that the corresponding private key was used to encrypt or sign data. Now you would think that a site could spoof SSL by generating their own public key and private key, and giving the user their public key instead of the actual site's public key. This is prevented by having certificate authorities. Sites submit a signing request to a certificate authority based on their public and private key. The certificate authority then uses their own private key to sign the request. The Certificate Authority's public key that the user uses to verify the signature is incorporated into your browser.
Basically, let's say John is talking to Mary. Mary goes to Andrew to vouch for her. John trusts Andrew, he's a good friend. Mary tells John who she is, and John verifies her identity with Andrew.
- Open browser
- Click on MySpace bookmark
- Enter master password to login to myspace
- Visit joebob's page, which has javascript to steal your password
- pwn3d
If you're on the site with the vulnerability, you probably already entered your master password to login, and you only have to do that once per session to use all of your passwords.You don't put something in a specification and not define how it works. It has no place in the specification. That's the whole point.
So here we have Microsoft working backwards. They take what they did and try to create a specification for it instead of creating a specification and then programming to it. Then they leave out parts of what is actually done in Office '07 so that other parties can never be compliant with the "specification". That would be akin to the TCP specification saying that bit 2 in byte 14 is a flag that says the checksum should be calculated like Windows 95 does it, without specifying how that is. This is just ridiculous. Do you not understand that some documents (probably all docs imported from Word 95 which I know is in the spec, I'm not sure about Word 97) WILL use this tag, and therefore anyone trying to comply with this specification will not be able to make the documents appear as they will in Office 2007? When importing a document from Word 95 or 97, Office 2007 should convert it completely to values defined in the specification, there should be no need for these tags for "backward compatibility".
If the specification has no way to make the spacing look the same, I would say that it is an incomplete specification (although it is 700+ pages). If there are certain quirks of Word 95 and Word 97 that would make the specification hard to understand, it doesn't matter. They should be defined exactly anyway so that ANYONE implementing the specification (and only the specification) will be able to produce documents that look the same.
Depending on how large a list of random numbers you need, just download 512 mb and use a 32 bit pseudo-random integer as the bit offset in the file for your random series. That'll produce 4 billion "true" random bits with the ability to reproduce the same list.
Wow, mine was a simple first degree polynomial...
That is mostly correct. In fact, you have to register in order to bring suit, and you must register within five years of authorship in order to receive a legal presumption of ownership. If you don't have your copyright registered, the case can get thrown out. If you didn't register within five years of authoring the work, you must prove that you are the author.