I guess that depends on your intentions. If you just want others to be able to use their own legally purcased version installed on their own harddisk, it should be legal.
I didn't actually do this with a TSR program, but it was slightly similar. I just hooked the BIOS call, then called the program and on return unhooked the BIOS call. It is so much easier to clean up that way, and you avoid side effects to other software running later.
never mind looking up word 5, page 45 paragraph 2....
How do they distinguish illegal copies from legal copies. (Don't claim all copies are illegal, in my country we have laws legalizing backup copies no matter what the company selling the software says. And BTW some years ago I read about a company in my country that claimed to be able to do exactly the same.)
What prevents legit users from modifying the software on the disc so it doesn't check for the keys anymore?
I have a floppy with an old program that contained some kind of copy protection. Even when installed on the harddisk, the program could not run without the floppy in the drive. But when the floppydrive stopped working I had to do something. Actually I didn't modify the program, instead I just modified the floppydriver to return the values expected by the program.
I don't even think this is illegal. (If I thought so I wouldn't be talking loud about it on slashdot.)
Why not just patent spam. There is enough of it to still make a lot of money. You are not going to annoy nearly as many people. And if you are actually able to collect all the money you will be made a hero.
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And for exactly that reason it is not infinite. I said for any finite number, you must go beyond this finite number. That means this also applies to the number 4. So to approach infinity you must eventually get numbers larger than 4. A prefix of the digits of pi is never larger than 4, so it does not approach infinity. (But it does approach pi as the number of digits approach infinity.)
I'll just be keeping the mp3 player from another distribution. I was anoyed the day I found mpg321 on my newly installed system instead of mpg123, but I just installed the other from an earlier distribution and now I have both. So where is the problem?
I'd go even further and say, that in a few areas it is still the best. The audio and image sync you can do on the Amiga is not beaten by any other system, and few systems can actually match the Amiga in this area. Second the removable media handling is great. And I also like the mouse input hardware. But with no development in aproximately ten years, it is of course falling behind ind most other areas.
If infinity is infinitely huge, how can you possibly approach it?
By definition approaching infinity means that for any finite number you are eventually going beyond that number, and never going back bellow it again. Of course when you go beyond x there will be some larger number y, which you have not yet reached. But you will eventually reach y and never go back bellow.
As long as they don't log in as root, they shouldn't be able to make any major damage in the first case. In that case the recovery procedure just has to do something like this:
Because they'd make a hell of a lot more money from ISPs.
That is scarry but true. An ISP is providing network access. Nobody says the network has to be used to browse hypertext. The network can be used for a lot of other purposes. The actual providing of hypertext and browser is not done by the ISP. If they could actually win a case against an ISP it would be very scarry.
I think the only place were a lawsuit would fit, would be against companies selling software using the technology. Now the question is, which software does include hyperlinking technology? A webserver doesn't, it just provides files for download with whatever content they have. The software for designing webpages might, but it doesn't have to. I write all my HTML files in a texteditor. So they couldn't sue the people behind the texteditor, and suing every person ever writing <A HREF= would be kind of overkill.
Of course there is a major piece of software left, that I did not yet mention: The browser. If BT could sue MS and get money for every copy of IE, it could be quite a lot of money. Of course in that case MS is not the only company to sue, but it might be the only one that actually makes money. If that had been BTs strategy, I wonder what test case they would have choosen? Perhaps Netscape or Opera?
The script would basically delete the local/home/guest directory, mount the NFS volume, copy the root-owned guest folder into/home, unmount the NFS share, and finally give the new/home/guest directory the correct ownership with "chown -R guest.guest/home/guest".
Why only do this at boot? I'd rather do it before every login. When the user press CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE, the following should happen:
The Xserver is restarted.
A new session is started.
All his processes gets killed.
All his files are deleted.
The user is deleted with userdel.
The user is recreated with useradd.
KDE is now started as the new user.
This also takes care of the recreation of the users home, it will make a copy of/etc/skel.
This feature might be older than Windows. The feature actually exist in the BIOS on my over 10 year old 286. Windows just has a reimplementation of this feature, and for good reason, it is a nice feature. This is something XFree86 should also have, it cannot be hard to implement.
Sorry, but the numbers being bandied about were KILOHertz, not Hertz. 30kHz is very much not 30Hz.
The horisontal frequency is 30kHz. I was talking about the vertical frequency which is always far lower. The comment said 30fps which should match the vertical frequency in order to achieve good quality.
30Hz certainly sounds too small to me. I hope this is not really the case, and that the reality is 60Hz interlaced. Now I know some people thinks this is the same, but it isn't. If you take 30Hz motion and display in 60Hz interlaced there will be visible steps rather than smooth movement. (Doing the oposite and displaying a 60Hz interlaced motion at 30Hz is going to produce even worse artifacts.)
Hmm... wouldn't that get your IP number on some blacklists as being an open relay?
Maybe it does, but how would that hurt me? I don't send any important email from this computer, if I am about to send anything important I use an ssh connection to the university network.
But notice that you don't make it any harder for the spammers to get that idea.
Now that we are talking about those addresses I'd like to mention that 29% of the addresses are on hotmail.com and 15% of the addresses are on msn.com.
1200 lines on the screen at 75Hz is at very least a 90kHz line frequency. However both PAL and NTSC use a 15kHz line frequency. Rendering six times as many lines as you can possibly show is plain waste of processing power.
I have an SMTP honeypot on my computer. Last week it captured more than six million copies of the same spam mail. The spammer thought my computer would relay them, but it didn't. That is six million less spammails, yet there is a long way to go to get rid of them all.
I don't understand why that posting got rated Troll, except from the slightly offensive language it is a very insightful comment.
By placing the security model in the language rather than the OS design you will get some disadvantages. You will either have to limit yourself to applications written in this single language or loose the security. Of course some kinds of frontends can get other languages compiled into something running on the system. But this is likely to give you some penalty in performance and perhaps other areas as well.
The language is probably usable on other OSes as well, if anybody care to write the necessary compiler and libraries. But you might not get the full benefits from the language.
However the main idea isn't new. Some people seriously believe JavaOS has a future. Generally you get a uniform security model all the way from OS core through library layers all the way up to the applications. You get runtime typechecking, boundary checking, and garbage collection. You prevent half of the possible security problems. And people believe that good JIT compilers can be faster than compiled C code in some areas where runtime code analysis can be used to do optimizations not possible at compile time.
Sure, you are absolutely right about that. And if he sees a computer without monitor, he thinks it is a harddisk. And if he sees just a harddisk, he has no idea what it is.
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DMCA is that something I should know about? Or is it just an American phenomenon?
it is illegal to provide the tools to others.
I guess that depends on your intentions. If you just want others to be able to use their own legally purcased version installed on their own harddisk, it should be legal.
I didn't actually do this with a TSR program, but it was slightly similar. I just hooked the BIOS call, then called the program and on return unhooked the BIOS call. It is so much easier to clean up that way, and you avoid side effects to other software running later.
never mind looking up word 5, page 45 paragraph 2....
They forgot to copy protect the manuals.
Try to start it up in an un-modded playstation.
How large is the market for un-modded playstations?
thus thwarting illegal duplication
How do they distinguish illegal copies from legal copies. (Don't claim all copies are illegal, in my country we have laws legalizing backup copies no matter what the company selling the software says. And BTW some years ago I read about a company in my country that claimed to be able to do exactly the same.)
it's there to annoy legit users
What prevents legit users from modifying the software on the disc so it doesn't check for the keys anymore?
I have a floppy with an old program that contained some kind of copy protection. Even when installed on the harddisk, the program could not run without the floppy in the drive. But when the floppydrive stopped working I had to do something. Actually I didn't modify the program, instead I just modified the floppydriver to return the values expected by the program.
I don't even think this is illegal. (If I thought so I wouldn't be talking loud about it on slashdot.)
Someone is going to patent email
Why not just patent spam. There is enough of it to still make a lot of money. You are not going to annoy nearly as many people. And if you are actually able to collect all the money you will be made a hero.
Its value will always be smaller than 4
. And for exactly that reason it is not infinite. I said for any finite number, you must go beyond this finite number. That means this also applies to the number 4. So to approach infinity you must eventually get numbers larger than 4. A prefix of the digits of pi is never larger than 4, so it does not approach infinity. (But it does approach pi as the number of digits approach infinity.)
I'll just be keeping the mp3 player from another distribution. I was anoyed the day I found mpg321 on my newly installed system instead of mpg123, but I just installed the other from an earlier distribution and now I have both. So where is the problem?
It was the best consumer product at the time.
I'd go even further and say, that in a few areas it is still the best. The audio and image sync you can do on the Amiga is not beaten by any other system, and few systems can actually match the Amiga in this area. Second the removable media handling is great. And I also like the mouse input hardware. But with no development in aproximately ten years, it is of course falling behind ind most other areas.
What the hell is this guy bellowing about?
I don't know how to do the correct mathematical notation in HTML. But there is an image here.
If infinity is infinitely huge, how can you possibly approach it?
By definition approaching infinity means that for any finite number you are eventually going beyond that number, and never going back bellow it again. Of course when you go beyond x there will be some larger number y, which you have not yet reached. But you will eventually reach y and never go back bellow.
This is for less tech-savvy people.
/home /etc/skel luser
As long as they don't log in as root, they shouldn't be able to make any major damage in the first case. In that case the recovery procedure just has to do something like this:
cd
mv luser oldfiles
cp -a
chown luser:luser -R luser
mv oldfiles luser
It plays just fine in xanim. IIRC the source for xanim is available.
Because they'd make a hell of a lot more money from ISPs.
That is scarry but true. An ISP is providing network access. Nobody says the network has to be used to browse hypertext. The network can be used for a lot of other purposes. The actual providing of hypertext and browser is not done by the ISP. If they could actually win a case against an ISP it would be very scarry.
I think the only place were a lawsuit would fit, would be against companies selling software using the technology. Now the question is, which software does include hyperlinking technology? A webserver doesn't, it just provides files for download with whatever content they have. The software for designing webpages might, but it doesn't have to. I write all my HTML files in a texteditor. So they couldn't sue the people behind the texteditor, and suing every person ever writing <A HREF= would be kind of overkill.
Of course there is a major piece of software left, that I did not yet mention: The browser. If BT could sue MS and get money for every copy of IE, it could be quite a lot of money. Of course in that case MS is not the only company to sue, but it might be the only one that actually makes money. If that had been BTs strategy, I wonder what test case they would have choosen? Perhaps Netscape or Opera?
Why only do this at boot? I'd rather do it before every login. When the user press CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE, the following should happen:
- The Xserver is restarted.
- A new session is started.
- All his processes gets killed.
- All his files are deleted.
- The user is deleted with userdel.
- The user is recreated with useradd.
- KDE is now started as the new user.
This also takes care of the recreation of the users home, it will make a copy ofI can type "é" in Windows by typing ALT-130.
This feature might be older than Windows. The feature actually exist in the BIOS on my over 10 year old 286. Windows just has a reimplementation of this feature, and for good reason, it is a nice feature. This is something XFree86 should also have, it cannot be hard to implement.
Sorry, but the numbers being bandied about were KILOHertz, not Hertz. 30kHz is very much not 30Hz.
The horisontal frequency is 30kHz. I was talking about the vertical frequency which is always far lower. The comment said 30fps which should match the vertical frequency in order to achieve good quality.
1040 lines * 30 fps is a little over 30 kHz.
30Hz certainly sounds too small to me. I hope this is not really the case, and that the reality is 60Hz interlaced. Now I know some people thinks this is the same, but it isn't. If you take 30Hz motion and display in 60Hz interlaced there will be visible steps rather than smooth movement. (Doing the oposite and displaying a 60Hz interlaced motion at 30Hz is going to produce even worse artifacts.)
Hmm... wouldn't that get your IP number on some blacklists as being an open relay?
Maybe it does, but how would that hurt me? I don't send any important email from this computer, if I am about to send anything important I use an ssh connection to the university network.
Ooooops, I should have thought about that.
But notice that you don't make it any harder for the spammers to get that idea.
Now that we are talking about those addresses I'd like to mention that 29% of the addresses are on hotmail.com and 15% of the addresses are on msn.com.
1200 lines on the screen at 75Hz is at very least a 90kHz line frequency. However both PAL and NTSC use a 15kHz line frequency. Rendering six times as many lines as you can possibly show is plain waste of processing power.
I have an SMTP honeypot on my computer. Last week it captured more than six million copies of the same spam mail. The spammer thought my computer would relay them, but it didn't. That is six million less spammails, yet there is a long way to go to get rid of them all.
The moderation of the comment has changed, now it got:
Moderation Totals: Troll=1, Insightful=1, Funny=1, Overrated=1, Underrated=1, Total=5.
And BTW I didn't get offended, it takes more to offend me.
I don't understand why that posting got rated Troll, except from the slightly offensive language it is a very insightful comment.
By placing the security model in the language rather than the OS design you will get some disadvantages. You will either have to limit yourself to applications written in this single language or loose the security. Of course some kinds of frontends can get other languages compiled into something running on the system. But this is likely to give you some penalty in performance and perhaps other areas as well.
The language is probably usable on other OSes as well, if anybody care to write the necessary compiler and libraries. But you might not get the full benefits from the language.
However the main idea isn't new. Some people seriously believe JavaOS has a future. Generally you get a uniform security model all the way from OS core through library layers all the way up to the applications. You get runtime typechecking, boundary checking, and garbage collection. You prevent half of the possible security problems. And people believe that good JIT compilers can be faster than compiled C code in some areas where runtime code analysis can be used to do optimizations not possible at compile time.
Sure, you are absolutely right about that. And if he sees a computer without monitor, he thinks it is a harddisk. And if he sees just a harddisk, he has no idea what it is.