From the story: which Google and MySpace supplied to the FBI therefore referred to the Italian computers. In order to trace the perpetrator, the FBI sent the CIPAV via Google Mail or MySpace after receiving a search warrant from the authorities so that the spyware could install itself as more threats were sent. Use of the CIPAV was granted by the judge with the stipulation that the software was only to transmit its IP data between 6:00 and 22:00. However, it was permitted to log IP addresses round the clock.
- Content meant for broadcasting For this the same array of techniques used in real world broadcasting (e.g., filters, broadcast delays) coudl be used
- Content for local consumption Local content I already own, could be used in-game for my consumption, but would not be sent out. For example, my digital TV tuner run as an in-game TV stations. Or the game could continually scan it and try to build video snippets by matching teletext information to the game storyline.
Another example, ingame radio stations could stream FM audio from my installed TV/radio tuner card, or stream music that I own on disk (MP3s, Itunes API or Windows Media Player APIs... ), or stream internet radio, or mix these sources.
Games could accept VoIP calls, then play it live (or slightly delayed) as in-game talk radio (in multiplayer or even single player games). Ditto, for submitted video or picture content (sourced from webcams or home videos). -- they could be ingame TV or content, or even textures for characters or NPCs.
Hmmm.... maybe Internet radio stations being threatended by RIAA royalties have a new niche for... ingame radio stations, paid for by gamer subscriptions. Since the multiplayers games companies already charge the users credit card, they could be the intermediary for digital content.
Also, it could work the other way around. Video games that streamed content from my digital TV/radio tuner or digital music collection, as in-game content (e.g., TV or music stations)
And unlike music publishers, videogame publishers haven't _had_ to publish non-copyprotected games on plain CDs to cater to a massive installed base of PCs and consoles that cannot do decryption.
Nor can we 'capture' a video game while playing it by plugging 'video-out' of our PCs into a 'video-in' port; then put it on P2P networks for others to play the 'captured' game for free.
I had a look. The controversial anti-DRM clause seems to be in part #3 of the license:
No covered work shall be deemed part of an effective technological measure under any applicable law fulfilling obligations under article 11 of the WIPO copyright treaty adopted on 20 December 1996, or similar laws prohibiting or restricting circumvention of such measures.
When you convey a covered work, you waive any legal power to forbid circumvention of technical measures to the extent such circumvention is effected by exercising rights under this License with respect to the covered work, and you disclaim any intention to limit operation or modification of the work as a means of enforcing, against the work's users, your or third parties' legal rights to forbid circumvention of technical measures.
The definition of "convey": To "convey" a work means any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies, excluding sublicensing. Mere interaction with a user through a computer network, with no transfer of a copy, is not conveying.
"And if the government has the power to document the members of every rival political movement as it is forming, including all the other activities of the members, then they have the power to intimidate and crush it."
In the US, The Government != a political movement which wants to squelch all rivals.
Also, you have laws and a judiciary to protect you from abuse.
From the article. === At Carnegie Mellon, Ralph Gross says that among other efforts, he and his colleagues have been "involved with local DMVs in order to scan images for driver's licenses. I've gotten reports from the state level to say that, using face-recognition technology, they caught quite a number of people who applied for licenses in either different states or in the same state under a different name because their previous license got suspended." It's a growing trend. States using such technology include Massachusetts, Illinois, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Colorado, North and Southern Carolina, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Arkansas, and Mississippi. ===
As another poster says further down the thread: === Only if the observer has the power to impose their will on you. I can stand on a street corner and say I hate the government as loudly as I want, and I don't care if they have a camera watching me. The moment they get the power to lock me up for saying I hate them is the moment that the freedom goes away, not when they put the camera up. ===
"Blah blah greasy fingerprints on monitors" Yeah, anyone with half a brain can think of 10 reasons why this is dumb. But it's the crazy guy in the back of the auditorium who's going to figure out how to get rich off of it, and in doing so will make the standard transition from 'crazy wacked out goofball' to 'eccentric visionary'.
Rather than touchscreens, it would be better to have multi-touch, pressure and torsion-sensitive, curved touchsurfaces - for eg., one on either side of the keyboard. The ghostly impressions of fingertips & hands would be superimposed on the display, and pressure and torque sensing would allow 3D manipulation.
The problem is you're willing to let an illegal act remain hidden, in fear that some of the information uncovered may be misused. The flaw in your argument is there are laws against this misuse.
> The point is they cannot determine who is and is not committing illegal acts > until AFTER they have invaded the privacy of people. Which means, by definition, > they must invade the privacy of innocent people in order to determine who > is committing the illegal acts.
The police don't just go on a fishing trip - they obtain warrants to search material likely to help their investigation.
> However, they might also decide to do stuff to the innocent people they have > compromised. Say they find out you wear women's underwear. The officer involved > decides to blackmail you with this info.. it's not illegal, just embarrassing.
Such blackmail is illegal, and there are laws to protect you against it.
If it was your head that a police officer (illegally) cracked, and your co-protestor refused to release the tape of the incident to the court hearing your case?
> getting random data to a phone is no problem either.
if a phone has no data connection, perhaps the java client could "listen in" (Don't know whether it's possible) on DTMF codes transmitted at a certain point in the normal phone call between the user and the bank's phone server?
> Will I get a replacement battery? Yes, for an old laptop, that could be a bad idea.:-)
My experience: I sourced a replacement battery for a 5 year old Fujitsu laptop direct from Fujitsu who had it stocked all these years. Even though the new battery was virgin, it had deteriorated in storage.
> they've developed this "I don't care what anyone else thinks, > I'm me and I'm pursuing happiness" attitude.
Not being selfish, not yet too mindful of what others _think_, but to actively _love_ others... From the Bible: "Owe no man any thing but to love one another for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law"
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the glue chipset would take a fair bit of power :)
From the story:
which Google and MySpace supplied to the FBI therefore referred to the Italian computers. In order to trace the perpetrator, the FBI sent the CIPAV via Google Mail or MySpace after receiving a search warrant from the authorities so that the spyware could install itself as more threats were sent. Use of the CIPAV was granted by the judge with the stipulation that the software was only to transmit its IP data between 6:00 and 22:00. However, it was permitted to log IP addresses round the clock.
There's a similar project named 'Open Single System Image'
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ssic-linux
Valid points.
... ), or stream internet radio, or mix these sources.
Content could be seperated into two rough areas:
- Content meant for broadcasting
For this the same array of techniques used in real world broadcasting (e.g., filters, broadcast delays) coudl be used
- Content for local consumption
Local content I already own, could be used in-game for my consumption, but would not be sent out. For example, my digital TV tuner run as an in-game TV stations. Or the game could continually scan it and try to build video snippets by matching teletext information to the game storyline.
Another example, ingame radio stations could stream FM audio from my installed TV/radio tuner card, or stream music that I own on disk (MP3s, Itunes API or Windows Media Player APIs
Games could accept VoIP calls, then play it live (or slightly delayed) as in-game talk radio (in multiplayer or even single player games). Ditto, for submitted video or picture content (sourced from webcams or home videos). -- they could be ingame TV or content, or even textures for characters or NPCs.
... ingame radio stations, paid for by gamer subscriptions. Since the multiplayers games companies already charge the users credit card, they could be the intermediary for digital content.
Hmmm.... maybe Internet radio stations being threatended by RIAA royalties have a new niche for
Also, it could work the other way around. Video games that streamed content from my digital TV/radio tuner or digital music collection, as in-game content (e.g., TV or music stations)
> People who support "open source" and don't like RMS should stop using the GPL (any version).
Write that into the license
Now that's an idea that's already revolutionized ... something!... browsing Slashdot.
Yes, video game piracy is simply harder.
And unlike music publishers, videogame publishers haven't _had_ to publish non-copyprotected games on plain CDs to cater to a massive installed base of PCs and consoles that cannot do decryption.
Nor can we 'capture' a video game while playing it by plugging 'video-out' of our PCs into a 'video-in' port; then put it on P2P networks for others to play the 'captured' game for free.
...and see how our speling turned out. ;-)
What if the FSF is controlled by Microsoft one day, or radical environmentalists, or ... ?
Heheh... the XBox360 is feels a bit like this too... public key crypto, CPU Efuses, mandatory updates....
Aha, so the stargate series were onto something!
I had a look. The controversial anti-DRM clause seems to be in part #3 of the license:
No covered work shall be deemed part of an effective technological measure under any applicable law fulfilling obligations under article 11 of the WIPO copyright treaty adopted on 20 December 1996, or similar laws prohibiting or restricting circumvention of such measures.
When you convey a covered work, you waive any legal power to forbid circumvention of technical measures to the extent such circumvention is effected by exercising rights under this License with respect to the covered work, and you disclaim any intention to limit operation or modification of the work as a means of enforcing, against the work's users, your or third parties' legal rights to forbid circumvention of technical measures.
The definition of "convey":
To "convey" a work means any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies, excluding sublicensing. Mere interaction with a user through a computer network, with no transfer of a copy, is not conveying.
... But not this one.
"And if the government has the power to document the members of every rival political movement as it is forming, including all the other activities of the members, then they have the power to intimidate and crush it."
In the US, The Government != a political movement which wants to squelch all rivals.
Also, you have laws and a judiciary to protect you from abuse.
From the article.
===
At Carnegie Mellon, Ralph Gross says that among other efforts, he and his colleagues have been "involved with local DMVs in order to scan images for driver's licenses. I've gotten reports from the state level to say that, using face-recognition technology, they caught quite a number of people who applied for licenses in either different states or in the same state under a different name because their previous license got suspended." It's a growing trend. States using such technology include Massachusetts, Illinois, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Colorado, North and Southern Carolina, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Arkansas, and Mississippi.
===
As another poster says further down the thread:
===
Only if the observer has the power to impose their will on you. I can stand on a street corner and say I hate the government as loudly as I want, and I don't care if they have a camera watching me. The moment they get the power to lock me up for saying I hate them is the moment that the freedom goes away, not when they put the camera up.
===
They infringe copyright.
g ement_frankfurt.html
Just like these people:
http://gpl-violations.org/news/20060922-dlink-jud
"Blah blah greasy fingerprints on monitors" Yeah, anyone with half a brain can think of 10 reasons why this is dumb. But it's the crazy guy in the back of the auditorium who's going to figure out how to get rich off of it, and in doing so will make the standard transition from 'crazy wacked out goofball' to 'eccentric visionary'.
Rather than touchscreens, it would be better to have multi-touch, pressure and torsion-sensitive, curved touchsurfaces - for eg., one on either side of the keyboard. The ghostly impressions of fingertips & hands would be superimposed on the display, and pressure and torque sensing would allow 3D manipulation.
The problem is you're willing to let an illegal act remain hidden, in fear that some of the information uncovered may be misused. The flaw in your argument is there are laws against this misuse.
> The point is they cannot determine who is and is not committing illegal acts
> until AFTER they have invaded the privacy of people. Which means, by definition,
> they must invade the privacy of innocent people in order to determine who
> is committing the illegal acts.
The police don't just go on a fishing trip - they obtain warrants to search material likely to help their investigation.
> However, they might also decide to do stuff to the innocent people they have
> compromised. Say they find out you wear women's underwear. The officer involved
> decides to blackmail you with this info.. it's not illegal, just embarrassing.
Such blackmail is illegal, and there are laws to protect you against it.
If it was your head that a police officer (illegally) cracked, and your co-protestor refused to release the tape of the incident to the court hearing your case?
:D
in soviet russia, slashdot soviet russia jokes make you
> getting random data to a phone is no problem either.
if a phone has no data connection, perhaps the java client could "listen in" (Don't know whether it's possible) on DTMF codes transmitted at a certain point in the normal phone call between the user and the bank's phone server?
As long as they do not take over Nasa WorldWind. http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
Hey, this justification is wrong - try applying it to paper currency... :-)
> Tell that to Apple Computer which is doing pretty well with it's proprietary format and proprietary hardware.
... USB (in addition) ... ethernet ... PCI
Proprietary hardware?
G4/G5... Intel
Firewire
Apple Talk
(something else.. NuBus?)
(Some propietary display bus)... DVI / Dsub
> Will I get a replacement battery? :-)
e ry )
Yes, for an old laptop, that could be a bad idea.
My experience: I sourced a replacement battery for a 5 year old Fujitsu laptop direct from Fujitsu who had it stocked all these years. Even though the new battery was virgin, it had deteriorated in storage.
Instead, repack your battery ( http://www.google.com/search?q=repack+laptop+batt
Get a developer key and search for both terms. :-)
> they've developed this "I don't care what anyone else thinks,
> I'm me and I'm pursuing happiness" attitude.
Not being selfish, not yet too mindful of what others _think_, but to actively _love_ others...
From the Bible:
"Owe no man any thing but to love one another for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law"
http://scripturetext.com/romans/13-8.htm