Much has been said about the DMCA and its effect on the future of IP. Do you think that IPv6 solves any of the problems brought up by this legislation, specifically, do you think 128 bits of address space should be enough?
Matt Cutts is not found by the Oracle of Bacon at Virginia, but it suggests "Dale Cutts" who might be related. And Dale Cutts was in Cyborg Cop II with Ken Gampy, who was in Air Up There with... Kevin Bacon.
That means that the NSA is only 4 degrees away from Kevin Bacon!
Scary...
--Joe
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>>if your boss uses it to find out you are not >>sick and actually going to see Star Wars 3, >>then you'll hate it.
>Leave your phone at home?
Leave your phone at work.
--Joe
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In addition to sending the current votes to a centralized database, the system should print a "ballot" on the locally-attached printer.
The "ballot" should look like (in an OCR-able font): Office1: Representative for XXXXX: Joe Candidate Office2: Commisioner of XXXXX: No Vote Issue1: Tax increase for YYYYYY: Against
The voter deposits the "ballot" into the voting box.
Initial counts are handled from the computer database, recounts can be handled by an OCR scanner, or by a human reading the ballot.
Anything less than this makes the system too easy to abuse by the programmers.
He's not looking for advice on writing the driver. He's looking for advice on LICENSING the driver.
In general, do not take advice on how to license a device driver from a programmer. Or, if he/she insists, invite them to be sued. Pay only if they win.
Well, take Mr. Valenti at his word. If this bill passes, we have been given permission to download all the movies (up to a million per day) we want, and there will be no penalty for it.
Not only can a quantum crypto stream not be broken, but it can detect when somebody attempts to listen in.
Not really. A quantum-encoded message (what you refer to as a "quantum crypto stream") can not be observed by a third party without destroying the message.
An analogous real-world situation would be where you write a message across the "tear here" strip on an envelope. An interceptor can open the message, but destroys it in the process.
I'd much prefer to make it clear that some forms of dynamic linking and server-izing (as with CORBA) do create derivative works. I think the key concept of a derivative work in software has nothing to do with linking, and everything to do with the span of the thread of control in a computer program.
However, this moves a major burden to the USER of the software, who is supposed to be free from restrictions on the use of the GPL-licensed software.
By including dynamic linking (or CORBA) into the definition of derived works, the user must be aware of all code that may be imported into the application. A GPL program may be legal to use on one system (a linux system with a GPL'd corba instance) but not on another (a linux system with a GPL-incompatible corba system). Even if these corba implementations are indistinguishable from the application's point of view.
Another example, would installing a non-free libc.a (with the same function prototypes, but not a derived work of GNU libc) on a linux system violate the license of all GPL software on that system? Any GPLd program which (dynamically) links with/usr/lib/libc.a would be combined (in memory at least) with something that can not be distributed under the GPL.
Read their "State Piracy Study", particularly page 5 where they define their statistical methods.
About their estimate of the "demand" for software:
"PC shipments by state were estimated from a detailed review of the employment and population of each state and market research that surveyed the PC penetration rate of each state."
"These estimates of software applications [...] were allowed to vary slightly by state. They were then applied to the state PC shipment estimates to form state-specific software demand estimates."
About their estimate of the "supply" of software:
"This data was compiled only for software applications that were studied in the "2000 BSA Global Software Piracy Study". [...] The resulting shipment data was uplifted to reflect shipments for the entire software industry."
The difference between "supply" and "demand" is defined to be the "piracy".
For the retail value of the software (the larger number often quoted by the media) they added 22% on top of that.
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Great, now we're going to have to put an audio file on all our Linux CDs of Darl McBride saying "I'm Darl, and I pronounce SCO as SCO."
--Joe
Simple, they just run all of it on .NET
Haven't you seen the commercials?
--Joe
I had one of those. It used an RJ15 connector, not RJ11. RJ15 is the smaller connector that is on the telephone handset, not the phone base.
It was electrically compatible with the standard DIN-5 (I put together an adapter to keep the keyboard on my new 386DX40)
--Joe
Oh yeah, that one will be real successful..
--Joe
MSNbotox - Your webpage is younger-looking but unexpressive
MSNbotulism - An (usually fatal) illness
--Joe
Prof. Felten,
Much has been said about the DMCA and its effect on the future of IP. Do you think that IPv6 solves any of the problems brought up by this legislation, specifically, do you think 128 bits of address space should be enough?
--Joe
That's gonna get metamoderated to oblivion...
--Joe
I can't believe it's not Piracy
Share and Enjoy
--Joe
What PA-RISC systems? HP has discontinued the PA-RISC processor in favor of itanium.
--Joe
You put a cage over the biometric reader so the user can only put one finger in at a time, duh.
--Joe
Yes, how much extraneous crap do programmers write just for kicks?
--Joe
IBM's RS/6000 uses openfirmware.
I learned how to boot an RS/6000 from the network from the OFW ok> prompt by reading an Apple document, and it works the same way on a Sparc system.
--Joe
Or worse...
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20011227
Matt Cutts is not found by the Oracle of Bacon at Virginia, but it suggests "Dale Cutts" who might be related. And Dale Cutts was in Cyborg Cop II with Ken Gampy, who was in Air Up There with... Kevin Bacon.
That means that the NSA is only 4 degrees away from Kevin Bacon!
Scary...
--Joe
>>if your boss uses it to find out you are not
>>sick and actually going to see Star Wars 3,
>>then you'll hate it.
>Leave your phone at home?
Leave your phone at work.
--Joe
In addition to sending the current votes to a centralized database, the system should print a "ballot" on the locally-attached printer.
The "ballot" should look like (in an OCR-able font):
Office1: Representative for XXXXX: Joe Candidate
Office2: Commisioner of XXXXX: No Vote
Issue1: Tax increase for YYYYYY: Against
The voter deposits the "ballot" into the voting box.
Initial counts are handled from the computer database, recounts can be handled by an OCR scanner, or by a human reading the ballot.
Anything less than this makes the system too easy to abuse by the programmers.
--Joe
He's not looking for advice on writing the driver. He's looking for advice on LICENSING the driver.
In general, do not take advice on how to license a device driver from a programmer. Or, if he/she insists, invite them to be sued. Pay only if they win.
You've left out some punctuation there.
The correct response is:
What the fuck? Were you thinking?, mister glue-sniffing moron?
--Joe
The big bad evil monopolist of the time was AT&T.
GNU predated both Microsoft and SUN.
--Joe
Well, take Mr. Valenti at his word. If this bill passes, we have been given permission to download all the movies (up to a million per day) we want, and there will be no penalty for it.
--Joe
An analogous real-world situation would be where you write a message across the "tear here" strip on an envelope. An interceptor can open the message, but destroys it in the process.
--Joe
Yeah, but this time they'll have enough CPU power for color.
The reason there weren't any aliens the first time? Little green men don't render well in black and white.
--Joe
- a digital image means for creating a digital image of a good for sale;
- a user interface for receiving textual information from a user;
- a bar code scanner;
- a bar code printer;
Unless ebay has been holding back their digital camera from me, I'd say there's no infringement.The reason ebay dropped out of the licensing talks is probably because they realized there's no infringement.
--Joe
By including dynamic linking (or CORBA) into the definition of derived works, the user must be aware of all code that may be imported into the application. A GPL program may be legal to use on one system (a linux system with a GPL'd corba instance) but not on another (a linux system with a GPL-incompatible corba system). Even if these corba implementations are indistinguishable from the application's point of view.
Another example, would installing a non-free libc.a (with the same function prototypes, but not a derived work of GNU libc) on a linux system violate the license of all GPL software on that system? Any GPLd program which (dynamically) links with /usr/lib/libc.a would be combined (in memory at least) with something that can not be distributed under the GPL.
--Joe
About their estimate of the "demand" for software:
- "PC shipments by state were estimated from a detailed review of the employment and population of each state and market research that surveyed the PC penetration rate of each state."
- "These estimates of software applications [...] were allowed to vary slightly by state. They were then applied to the state PC shipment estimates to form state-specific software demand estimates."
About their estimate of the "supply" of software:- "This data was compiled only for software applications that were studied in the "2000 BSA Global Software Piracy Study". [...] The resulting shipment data was uplifted to reflect shipments for the entire software industry."
The difference between "supply" and "demand" is defined to be the "piracy".For the retail value of the software (the larger number often quoted by the media) they added 22% on top of that.