You see, anything that's classified, theoretically can be UN-classified by the FOI act.
I fail to see how this makes Open Source programs worse than closed source. If the program is classified to begin with, some schmuck writing in saying, "Can I have the code to project BeefCakes" is just going to get back a reply, "The information you've requested has been reviewed and has been found to be properly classified as SUPER DUPER SECRET."
Besides, if the code was available to the world, why get it from the FBI or whoever else? If it's because they've added stuff to it, they can just black that out and you'd only get the freely available stuff anyway.
Ready, lets get rid of the bullets and read the sentences together. Title 17, Section 1201(a) (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 is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
You see why they seperate it like they do now, huh?
If you got lost trying to read it together, it's this: (2)+(A) = first clause ";" (2)+(B)+(C) = second clause.
And we all know what the DMCA says about tools for circumventing copy protection.
What you mean is, "*I* pretend to know what the DMCA says..."
I thought the DMCA only stipulates laws for devices designed specifically copyright violation? A marker pen clearly doesn't fall into this category. Otherwise they could have outlawed CD burners, photocopiers and who knows what else by now.
Based on the rulings provided in the case of US v. Elcomsoft Co., the DMCA forbids:
Congress did not ban the act of circumventing the use restrictions. Instead, Congress banned only the trafficking in and marketing of devices primarily designed to circumvent the use restriction protective technologies. Congress did not prohibit the act of circumvention because it sought to preserve the fair use rights of persons who had lawfully acquired a work.
So, it isn't that the device is specifically designed for copyright violation, but that it's primary purpose it to circumvent copyright protections. This is why a photocopier is okay but the Advanced eBook Processor isn't.
Yeah, the Linux version is going to be released next week with a GPL'ed game engine running on the XFree4 architecture. Of course it's much better than the Windows version and can run with only 4MB of ram, and only takes 50k of harddrive space. If you don't want to buy it though, just ftp to their main site, ftp.rockstargames.com/gta3/linux or one of the mirrors (ftp.download.com/linux/gta3/ ftp.piratez.com/l1nux/gta3/, or others listed in the root of the main ftp site.)
"The shop teacher called and told me he made a banana launcher in woodshop and was using it to lob bananas across the street. Lazlo, life doesn't have a reset button."
The Supreme Court. They had a ruling against them in US Fedral Court, and now the US Court of Appeals has rejected their request. The only once that's left is the one in Washington DC.
Get a life and stop using the stupid "DMCA" buzzword. It's tiring.
Read the law. It is illegal to traffic circumvention devices or to deliberately disable copyright protection to exploit the material. You can yank your DVD player apart, reprogram everything in it so that *you* can watch movies whenever you want. You can't mess with the DVD player and redistribute it or use it to rip DVD movies.
Yanking the BIOS chip and replacing it with your own, reformatting, installing, and generally fscking with the Xbox will void your warrantee, but you will not get arrested.
XBOX uses a modified Win2000 kernel, the executables are encrypted and the BIOS is specifically designed to only work with the XBOX kernel.
There are a couple of projects out there to re-socket a new BIOS chip but nothing finalized.
Most of the R&D is focusing on how to make the executable work with the XBOX OS. This is because the XBOX OS is the most stable of the entire Windows product line and is already optimized for the hardware.
Still, it would be fun to see how an XBOX Linux distribution compares to the current Sony Linux.
Where are the posts about how the RIAA sucks and this will be great for the little guy/artists/pr0n lovers/whoever. I want to see some flames, and *lots* more troll posts. This is boring...
Linux on the other hand is a nice OS, but lacks some of the features of Darwin, the most important that comes to mind is pre-emptive muti-tasking...
What are you smoking and why aren't you sharing? Linux does indeed have pre-emptive multitasking. All OSes that mean anything today can do it. I mean, give me a break. The Intel (and PPC) chipset support this kind of thing in hardware.
ROFLMAO. This is, by far, the greatest post so far. Kudos to you.
I can picture it now. A nice 9 year old walks up to the snack bench and ponders buying a pack of cookies or the next episode of "Poke-a-mon: The day Prick-a-chu evolves!"
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Those are some lovely parting gifts. Trolls are so giving, and the CLIT is so very lovable!
Distributed denial of service attack. Much better than a single point to point.
I don't know. The battle room in that was pretty damned cool.
That, and I doubt that "down" is toward the enemy's gate in this one.
Not the first post...
You see, anything that's classified, theoretically can be UN-classified by the FOI act.
I fail to see how this makes Open Source programs worse than closed source. If the program is classified to begin with, some schmuck writing in saying, "Can I have the code to project BeefCakes" is just going to get back a reply, "The information you've requested has been reviewed and has been found to be properly classified as SUPER DUPER SECRET."
Besides, if the code was available to the world, why get it from the FBI or whoever else? If it's because they've added stuff to it, they can just black that out and you'd only get the freely available stuff anyway.
Actually, have you read the US Code? It's not that bad. Lawyers are paid to translate that into "legalease" in order to intimidate the others.
..."
They take:
"Title 17, Copyright, Section 1001,
and make it:
"As perscribed by US Code 1001..."
Yeah, if they haven't been ruled against a few times already, or if the device was concieved in order to do any type of circumvention.
Yeah...it's called "English".
Ready, lets get rid of the bullets and read the sentences together.
Title 17, Section 1201(a)
(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 is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
You see why they seperate it like they do now, huh?
If you got lost trying to read it together, it's this: (2)+(A) = first clause ";" (2)+(B)+(C) = second clause.
I believe you're looking for the judge's order on the dismissal of the case requested by Elcomsoft. The /. story is here and the ruling is here.
And we all know what the DMCA says about tools for circumventing copy protection.
What you mean is, "*I* pretend to know what the DMCA says..."
I thought the DMCA only stipulates laws for devices designed specifically copyright violation? A marker pen clearly doesn't fall into this category. Otherwise they could have outlawed CD burners, photocopiers and who knows what else by now.
Based on the rulings provided in the case of US v. Elcomsoft Co., the DMCA forbids:
Congress did not ban the act of circumventing the use restrictions. Instead, Congress banned only the trafficking in and marketing of devices primarily designed to circumvent the use restriction protective technologies. Congress did not prohibit the act of circumvention because it sought to preserve the fair use rights of persons who had lawfully acquired a work.
So, it isn't that the device is specifically designed for copyright violation, but that it's primary purpose it to circumvent copyright protections. This is why a photocopier is okay but the Advanced eBook Processor isn't.
Yeah, the Linux version is going to be released next week with a GPL'ed game engine running on the XFree4 architecture. Of course it's much better than the Windows version and can run with only 4MB of ram, and only takes 50k of harddrive space. If you don't want to buy it though, just ftp to their main site, ftp.rockstargames.com/gta3/linux or one of the mirrors (ftp.download.com/linux/gta3/ ftp.piratez.com/l1nux/gta3/, or others listed in the root of the main ftp site.)
The mac version is also coming out next week.
"The shop teacher called and told me he made a banana launcher in woodshop and was using it to lob bananas across the street. Lazlo, life doesn't have a reset button."
"No, but this show does. I love that button."
Of course it's still a state. The motto, "Come any fsckin' closer and I'll turn *you* into a superfund site!"
The Supreme Court. They had a ruling against them in US Fedral Court, and now the US Court of Appeals has rejected their request. The only once that's left is the one in Washington DC.
Get a life and stop using the stupid "DMCA" buzzword. It's tiring.
Read the law. It is illegal to traffic circumvention devices or to deliberately disable copyright protection to exploit the material. You can yank your DVD player apart, reprogram everything in it so that *you* can watch movies whenever you want. You can't mess with the DVD player and redistribute it or use it to rip DVD movies.
Yanking the BIOS chip and replacing it with your own, reformatting, installing, and generally fscking with the Xbox will void your warrantee, but you will not get arrested.
Now, go and stop being such an alarmist. Shesh.
XBOX uses a modified Win2000 kernel, the executables are encrypted and the BIOS is specifically designed to only work with the XBOX kernel.
There are a couple of projects out there to re-socket a new BIOS chip but nothing finalized.
Most of the R&D is focusing on how to make the executable work with the XBOX OS. This is because the XBOX OS is the most stable of the entire Windows product line and is already optimized for the hardware.
Still, it would be fun to see how an XBOX Linux distribution compares to the current Sony Linux.
Oh, that's too bad. You have to use octal to interface with my ass.
Where are the posts about how the RIAA sucks and this will be great for the little guy/artists/pr0n lovers/whoever. I want to see some flames, and *lots* more troll posts. This is boring...
Sorry... only second.
Nope, I haven't had any problems accessing any*cingular: express yourself* so it must be a mistake.
haha. You are such a stupid shit I'm not even going to bother explaining why you're wrong.
You did give me a good laugh, though.
Fucking Apple cultist. ROFLMAO!
But, you see, the problem here is that he faints, and his girlfriend screams when she finds out that he is, indeed, a 12 year old girl.
Linux on the other hand is a nice OS, but lacks some of the features of Darwin, the most important that comes to mind is pre-emptive muti-tasking...
What are you smoking and why aren't you sharing? Linux does indeed have pre-emptive multitasking. All OSes that mean anything today can do it. I mean, give me a break. The Intel (and PPC) chipset support this kind of thing in hardware.
Sheesh.
While this conference sounds like it's a good thing and that it was handled quite well, does anyone ELSE notice that they're begging a HUGE question?
How, pray tell, are they begging this question?
Stop using phrases just because everyone around you does. Say what you really mean:
While this conference sounds like it's a good thing and that it was handled quite well, does anyone ELSE notice that DANCING AROUND THE REAL ISSUE?...
Stop the "question begging"! It's stupid and is hardly ever used correctly. Damn!.... -_-
ROFLMAO. This is, by far, the greatest post so far. Kudos to you.
I can picture it now. A nice 9 year old walks up to the snack bench and ponders buying a pack of cookies or the next episode of "Poke-a-mon: The day Prick-a-chu evolves!"