Maybe microsoft is trying to "infect" the GPL codebase with copyrighted work? Afterall, Microsoft fears it's codebase getting "infected" by GPL'd code.
That has always been the "what-if" about the GPL. What if copyrighted work gets into the codebase? We already know what happens when gpl'd code gets into copyrighted work.
I do believe that in the United States, in order to keep your legal copyright, you must try within your means to protect it when it's violation is in question. If you don't, you lose copyright claims.
Does SCO have to go after every linux distrubutor? Legally, yes, if that's their arguement. But, As Perens has already pointed out, SCO's entire arguement is ruined due to the fact that SCO is itself a linux distributor, so if GPL'd code is violating SCO's copyright, then SCO is also violating the GPL'd code's copyright, because by distrubuting linux they agreed to linux's copyright terms.
In any event, for the amount of linux servers that are going to be lost to windows servers due to the FUD that all of this has generated, microsoft has already won. This whole open source hacker thing is scary enough for corporate america. There already is no liability for them using it. Add on top of that the fact they they may potentially get sued and people start going for the "safe" (*gasp hack macro virus's in 2003 how*) windows servers.
Even better, just use the window manager that comes with X, twm.
With enough "config" changes, you can make twm do anything the other window managers do. Of course, "config" means writing scripts that implement in twm what the other window managers do natively, but still...
They had to charge the sphere first. Doing so created a current in the sphere until it reached capacity. So for a moment, between no charge and full charge, the sphere had a current in it, therefore a magnetic field was created. Whether or not that fact was taken into account is not entirely clear.
And that's only one of many possible explainations besides 'electrostatic rotation'.
Uhg. They even confuse the topic of quantum mechanical spin with rotation. Geeks, quantum spin is NOT spin. Back in the day they didn't know what to call it, so it got the name "spin" because that was the closest way they could describe what they were seeing. It could have easily been called "temperature", "phase", "color" or whatever, but it got the name spin. It's not really spinning. It's actually another dimension of space. Besides knowing x,y,z and time, you need to also know 'spin' in order to uniquely identify said matter, as defined by the pauli exlusion principle. As an example, you can have two electrons in the same x,y,z coordinates at the same time as long as one is spin up and the other spin down.
Mirrors won't save you. If you read the PDF It's basically a CO2 laser. The wavelength of CO2 lasers is hard to reflect. CO2 lasers used in industry require special mirrors made out of volatile materials (galium arsenic?) to reflect the light.
CO2 lasers can cut shiny metal with no problems. I want one!
"None of it has worked yet"
It depends on your definition of "worked". There is no way to keep intellectual property off of p2p networks. No DRM scheme will ever succeed if that is the goal. The record companies understand this.
What you can do however is make it less accessable to the point of it not being worth it to steal. It's a numbers game, like insurance.
If Sega had the same proection as the PS2 or the Xbox, they might still be around. Sure you can mod ps2's and xbox's, but it's sooo easy to burn a boot disc for the dreamcast. no soldering or risk of banishment from xbox live for using modded hardware...it's as easy as downloading mp3s and buring cds...
Even though the ps2 and xbox protection can be bypassed, it still serves it's purpose.
Copy protection does not mean no fair use. If you believe that you know nothing of copy protection.
NOBODY in the copy protection business wants to take away fair use. That's the last thing they want. Any copy protection business trying to take away fair use will FAIL. If you do some research sunncomm isn't doing that.
Copy protection is about protecting the artists rights given by copyright, not taking away the consumers fair use rights. Intellectual property is property. There is nothing wrong with protecting copyright. Even if the copyright laws are horribly broken, we still need copyright to encourage innovation. You'd think a bunch of people touting the GPL would want copyright protected. Copyright is the only thing that gives the GPL strength, hence the term copyleft.
Imagine a program that scours the internet looking for proprietary commercial binaries that may have GPL'd code linked in and reports the violation to the FSF. Is that taking away fair use? Nope. It's just enforcing the FSF's rights.
Everybody's problem with copy protection is that the concept of intellectual property always leads to a monopoly, and nobody wants to protect the rights of the big 5 record companies or microsoft of aol time warner, etc.
Hopefully a new business model will emerge linking artists directly with thier fans, and the monopolies will fail.
Here is a link to the DeCSS program, defined as a prime number.
DeCSS is illegal under the DMCA. Is the prime number that defines it then also illegal? How is a number illegal, exactly? Do you have to skip it when you are counting and if you don't you get arrested under the DMCA?
Of all the arguements I've heard, this one is the most obvious to me on how broken the DMCA is. It's lunacy. I think I'm breaking the law just linking to the program.
Do you really think ALL of Bush's tech advisors missed this glaring flaw in the hydrogen car plan? Converting electricity to hydrogen then back again is a waste of energy, and anybody who's taken high school physics knows that. Law of entropy, anybody?
The Bush family has heavy ties to the power industry. Coincidence? I think not.
IIRC the NES version of The Legend Of Zelda is 32K. That's all the levels, both quests, all the text, everything. Upon reverse engineering, it's been discovered that parts of the executable code are sent to the sound device to produce sounds. You might have also noticed that all of the levels fit neatly into a rectangle.
In an old/. comment, somebody made the suggestion that GNU standardize on safe libc functions. If you want to use the latest GNU libc, and want to use strcpy() instead of strncpy(), you have to include .
At least it will be obvious which programs need updating. Granted problems like buffer overflows occur in more places than libc, but it's a start.
It's not theft. It's a copyright violation. Theft IS the process of removing something physical without consent. Somebody loses something in order for somebody else to gain it.
Don't get me wrong, intellectual property IS property, it's just that it's not supposed to remain your property until 90 years after your death. At some point you are supposed to share so the rest of society as a whole can benefit. That's when it falls into the public domain. Unfortunately that never happens because copyright law is broken. Copyright law was supposed to help society as a whole, in part by giving incentive for creating IP, at the same time relinquishing that control after the original artist had made some money or something from it. That timeframe was originally supposed to be 30 years.
If copyright law wasn't broken, their wouldn't be so many virtual monopolies in the IP business. Microsoft, the Big 5 record companies, AOL-Time-Warner, MSNBC, etc. They own it all because it never expires. It's the reason copyleft came about, to subvert the broken copyright laws.
The only reason they own the music is because copyright law is horribly broken. No matter how you argue it, information is a concept, not a substance. It's not stealing. It's breaking copyright law. There is a big difference.
Knowing how horribly broken copyright law is, I don't feel so bad pirating. I should be able to download Elvis for free. It's been long enough. It should be in the public domain by now. But it's not. Copyright used to last 30 years. Now it's been lobbied all the way to 90 years past the artist's death.
I bet you break laws all the time without worry because you know the laws are morally wrong anyway. Seat belt laws anybody? The DMCA reverse engineering clause? People break that one all the time. Jay-walking?
I'm also a software developer. I used to think my livelyhood depended on copyright law and IP in general. With the internet, IP has almost no value due to piracy. That includes software. Why buy that $9000 graphics program when I can warez it for free?
Software isn't really my livelyhood. It's actually my software development skills that are my livelyhood. Even if software is worthless, people still need new software written, and they get charged for the service of software development.
The big picture is that the only reason DRM exists in the first place is because copyright law is broken. Since copyright law's conception, no copyright has ever expired. The length of copyright has been extended by lobbyists over the years, mainly by people like Walt Disney (in his day) and by groups like the RIAA and MPAA. Walt Disney actually had a trust setup before his death to pay for more lobbying from beyond the grave.
It was supposed to be 30 years, but has been extended to "90 years past the artist's death." This is horribly broken.
The only way to fix DRM is to fix copyright law. Then there won't be anything to control. Information is a concept, not a substance to package into neat little, sellable DRM packages.
Copyright law was originally intended to be 30 years of protection for the copyright holder. Way back in the day, Walt Disney was horrified to know that Mickey Mouse was going to become public domain, so he lobbied washington, and won, to extend copyright law to 50 years. And when the 50 years limit was approaching, he lobbied again and won. Knowing that he'd always have this problem, he set up a trust fund to protect his IP, even after his death. Years later, after his death, Disney has successfully lobbied copyright law all they way to "90 years after the death of the artist". Woohoo. Yeah Ted Turner needs to make MORE money off of Mickey Mouse.
That timeframe is what is fundamentally wrong with copyright law today. It hinders the progress of society as a whole. There is a balance that needs to be found in order to protect IP creators while not slowing down the rest of society.
Just look at the MPAA, RIAA, Disney, etc and it's easy to see how unbalanced the situation is.
If copyright law wasn't so fucked up you'd be able to swap Elvis mp3s all day. He should be in the public domain by now, but he's not.
The patent system is only broken because the patent office is swamped. Instead of researching each patent application and then accepting or declining it, the patent office instead grants most patents that it doesn't understand. This way the patent office doesn't have to do the research that it can't afford. Instead the private sector ends up doing it, and you end up with the misc patent lawsuits that you have today.
Actually the speed the electrons travel is directly related to the voltage. Roughly, at 1 volt an electron will travel 1 mm/sec on a copper conductor.
Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with the speed an electronic signal travels. By your logic I would need to actually recieve the electron (which would require huge DC power) that you send in order for me to get your signal. If the internet worked this way your ping times would be measured in months.
An electron is charged. When it moves, the electron next to it moves out of it's way (like charges repel). The time it takes from when one electron moves and the other 'feels' it is equal to how long it takes light to travel between the two electrons. In essence, the force between electrons moves at the speed of light. They don't call it electromagnetism for nothin!
AFAIK you can still allocate ring 3 descriptors via windows DPMI calls, change them to ring 0 descriptors via an LDT mapping (which is legal in pmode the way windows sets things up), then execute any code in your program as ring 0. Woohoo. That *feature* has been around for at least 6 years.
Well, the video card is negligable. It just needs good 2D and TV out. The CPU isn't negligable, howerver. Have you tried to play Strider or Street Fighter II:CE on MAME?
Doing a function call to emulate every instruction is painful. A 1 clock tick instruction may take 40 to emulate. So 3 MHZ chip needs 120 MHZ to emulate. Compound that by the fact that a lot of those old games used multiple CPUs... Also, a lot of chip emulators use exuberant amounts of ram to do flat memory maps for increased speed and to simplify the emulator design.
It might be overkill to play something like asteroids, but not some of the later 16 bit games. They need the speed.
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He's not cheating. He just realized that he is "The One".
Maybe microsoft is trying to "infect" the GPL codebase with copyrighted work? Afterall, Microsoft fears it's codebase getting "infected" by GPL'd code.
That has always been the "what-if" about the GPL. What if copyrighted work gets into the codebase? We already know what happens when gpl'd code gets into copyrighted work.
I do believe that in the United States, in order to keep your legal copyright, you must try within your means to protect it when it's violation is in question. If you don't, you lose copyright claims.
Does SCO have to go after every linux distrubutor? Legally, yes, if that's their arguement. But, As Perens has already pointed out, SCO's entire arguement is ruined due to the fact that SCO is itself a linux distributor, so if GPL'd code is violating SCO's copyright, then SCO is also violating the GPL'd code's copyright, because by distrubuting linux they agreed to linux's copyright terms.
In any event, for the amount of linux servers that are going to be lost to windows servers due to the FUD that all of this has generated, microsoft has already won. This whole open source hacker thing is scary enough for corporate america. There already is no liability for them using it. Add on top of that the fact they they may potentially get sued and people start going for the "safe" (*gasp hack macro virus's in 2003 how*) windows servers.
Sure. X could have included a window manager, but the folks that write it realize that different folks prefer different types of window managers
FYI X does come with a window manager, the best window manager: twm. With enough scripting, you can make twm do anything the other window managers do.
Even better, just use the window manager that comes with X, twm. With enough "config" changes, you can make twm do anything the other window managers do. Of course, "config" means writing scripts that implement in twm what the other window managers do natively, but still...
In volume, pressed CDs cost US $0.28/disc to manufacture. With labels, packaging, art, shrink wrap, etc, it's around $1.80/disc.
My coworker came into work today with a cat-o-nine tails whip made out of CAT5 cables. Sweetness...
They had to charge the sphere first. Doing so created a current in the sphere until it reached capacity. So for a moment, between no charge and full charge, the sphere had a current in it, therefore a magnetic field was created. Whether or not that fact was taken into account is not entirely clear.
And that's only one of many possible explainations besides 'electrostatic rotation'.
Uhg. They even confuse the topic of quantum mechanical spin with rotation. Geeks, quantum spin is NOT spin. Back in the day they didn't know what to call it, so it got the name "spin" because that was the closest way they could describe what they were seeing. It could have easily been called "temperature", "phase", "color" or whatever, but it got the name spin. It's not really spinning. It's actually another dimension of space. Besides knowing x,y,z and time, you need to also know 'spin' in order to uniquely identify said matter, as defined by the pauli exlusion principle. As an example, you can have two electrons in the same x,y,z coordinates at the same time as long as one is spin up and the other spin down.
Mirrors won't save you. If you read the PDF It's basically a CO2 laser. The wavelength of CO2 lasers is hard to reflect. CO2 lasers used in industry require special mirrors made out of volatile materials (galium arsenic?) to reflect the light. CO2 lasers can cut shiny metal with no problems. I want one!
Uhm, Discovery has an april fool's joke like this every year.
The bit is not so much evil as just generally disagreeable.
"None of it has worked yet" It depends on your definition of "worked". There is no way to keep intellectual property off of p2p networks. No DRM scheme will ever succeed if that is the goal. The record companies understand this.
What you can do however is make it less accessable to the point of it not being worth it to steal. It's a numbers game, like insurance.
If Sega had the same proection as the PS2 or the Xbox, they might still be around. Sure you can mod ps2's and xbox's, but it's sooo easy to burn a boot disc for the dreamcast. no soldering or risk of banishment from xbox live for using modded hardware...it's as easy as downloading mp3s and buring cds...
Even though the ps2 and xbox protection can be bypassed, it still serves it's purpose.
Copy protection does not mean no fair use. If you believe that you know nothing of copy protection.
NOBODY in the copy protection business wants to take away fair use. That's the last thing they want. Any copy protection business trying to take away fair use will FAIL. If you do some research sunncomm isn't doing that.
Copy protection is about protecting the artists rights given by copyright, not taking away the consumers fair use rights. Intellectual property is property. There is nothing wrong with protecting copyright. Even if the copyright laws are horribly broken, we still need copyright to encourage innovation. You'd think a bunch of people touting the GPL would want copyright protected. Copyright is the only thing that gives the GPL strength, hence the term copyleft.
Imagine a program that scours the internet looking for proprietary commercial binaries that may have GPL'd code linked in and reports the violation to the FSF. Is that taking away fair use? Nope. It's just enforcing the FSF's rights.
Everybody's problem with copy protection is that the concept of intellectual property always leads to a monopoly, and nobody wants to protect the rights of the big 5 record companies or microsoft of aol time warner, etc.
Hopefully a new business model will emerge linking artists directly with thier fans, and the monopolies will fail.
Here is a link to the DeCSS program, defined as a prime number.
DeCSS is illegal under the DMCA. Is the prime number that defines it then also illegal? How is a number illegal, exactly? Do you have to skip it when you are counting and if you don't you get arrested under the DMCA?
Of all the arguements I've heard, this one is the most obvious to me on how broken the DMCA is. It's lunacy. I think I'm breaking the law just linking to the program.
Do you really think ALL of Bush's tech advisors missed this glaring flaw in the hydrogen car plan? Converting electricity to hydrogen then back again is a waste of energy, and anybody who's taken high school physics knows that. Law of entropy, anybody? The Bush family has heavy ties to the power industry. Coincidence? I think not.
IIRC the NES version of The Legend Of Zelda is 32K. That's all the levels, both quests, all the text, everything. Upon reverse engineering, it's been discovered that parts of the executable code are sent to the sound device to produce sounds. You might have also noticed that all of the levels fit neatly into a rectangle.
In an old /. comment, somebody made the suggestion that GNU standardize on safe libc functions. If you want to use the latest GNU libc, and want to use strcpy() instead of strncpy(), you have to include .
At least it will be obvious which programs need updating. Granted problems like buffer overflows occur in more places than libc, but it's a start.
It's not theft. It's a copyright violation. Theft IS the process of removing something physical without consent. Somebody loses something in order for somebody else to gain it.
Don't get me wrong, intellectual property IS property, it's just that it's not supposed to remain your property until 90 years after your death. At some point you are supposed to share so the rest of society as a whole can benefit. That's when it falls into the public domain. Unfortunately that never happens because copyright law is broken. Copyright law was supposed to help society as a whole, in part by giving incentive for creating IP, at the same time relinquishing that control after the original artist had made some money or something from it. That timeframe was originally supposed to be 30 years.
If copyright law wasn't broken, their wouldn't be so many virtual monopolies in the IP business. Microsoft, the Big 5 record companies, AOL-Time-Warner, MSNBC, etc. They own it all because it never expires. It's the reason copyleft came about, to subvert the broken copyright laws.
The only reason they own the music is because copyright law is horribly broken. No matter how you argue it, information is a concept, not a substance. It's not stealing. It's breaking copyright law. There is a big difference.
Knowing how horribly broken copyright law is, I don't feel so bad pirating. I should be able to download Elvis for free. It's been long enough. It should be in the public domain by now. But it's not. Copyright used to last 30 years. Now it's been lobbied all the way to 90 years past the artist's death.
I bet you break laws all the time without worry because you know the laws are morally wrong anyway. Seat belt laws anybody? The DMCA reverse engineering clause? People break that one all the time. Jay-walking?
I'm also a software developer. I used to think my livelyhood depended on copyright law and IP in general. With the internet, IP has almost no value due to piracy. That includes software. Why buy that $9000 graphics program when I can warez it for free?
Software isn't really my livelyhood. It's actually my software development skills that are my livelyhood. Even if software is worthless, people still need new software written, and they get charged for the service of software development.
It's better than printing money. It's more like having direct deposit.
The big picture is that the only reason DRM exists in the first place is because copyright law is broken. Since copyright law's conception, no copyright has ever expired. The length of copyright has been extended by lobbyists over the years, mainly by people like Walt Disney (in his day) and by groups like the RIAA and MPAA. Walt Disney actually had a trust setup before his death to pay for more lobbying from beyond the grave.
It was supposed to be 30 years, but has been extended to "90 years past the artist's death." This is horribly broken.
The only way to fix DRM is to fix copyright law. Then there won't be anything to control. Information is a concept, not a substance to package into neat little, sellable DRM packages.
Copyright law was originally intended to be 30 years of protection for the copyright holder. Way back in the day, Walt Disney was horrified to know that Mickey Mouse was going to become public domain, so he lobbied washington, and won, to extend copyright law to 50 years. And when the 50 years limit was approaching, he lobbied again and won. Knowing that he'd always have this problem, he set up a trust fund to protect his IP, even after his death. Years later, after his death, Disney has successfully lobbied copyright law all they way to "90 years after the death of the artist". Woohoo. Yeah Ted Turner needs to make MORE money off of Mickey Mouse.
That timeframe is what is fundamentally wrong with copyright law today. It hinders the progress of society as a whole. There is a balance that needs to be found in order to protect IP creators while not slowing down the rest of society. Just look at the MPAA, RIAA, Disney, etc and it's easy to see how unbalanced the situation is. If copyright law wasn't so fucked up you'd be able to swap Elvis mp3s all day. He should be in the public domain by now, but he's not. The patent system is only broken because the patent office is swamped. Instead of researching each patent application and then accepting or declining it, the patent office instead grants most patents that it doesn't understand. This way the patent office doesn't have to do the research that it can't afford. Instead the private sector ends up doing it, and you end up with the misc patent lawsuits that you have today.
Actually the speed the electrons travel is directly related to the voltage. Roughly, at 1 volt an electron will travel 1 mm/sec on a copper conductor. Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with the speed an electronic signal travels. By your logic I would need to actually recieve the electron (which would require huge DC power) that you send in order for me to get your signal. If the internet worked this way your ping times would be measured in months. An electron is charged. When it moves, the electron next to it moves out of it's way (like charges repel). The time it takes from when one electron moves and the other 'feels' it is equal to how long it takes light to travel between the two electrons. In essence, the force between electrons moves at the speed of light. They don't call it electromagnetism for nothin!
AFAIK you can still allocate ring 3 descriptors via windows DPMI calls, change them to ring 0 descriptors via an LDT mapping (which is legal in pmode the way windows sets things up), then execute any code in your program as ring 0. Woohoo. That *feature* has been around for at least 6 years.
If that is A.L.I.C.E answering, then alice smokes some mad chronic.
Well, the video card is negligable. It just needs good 2D and TV out. The CPU isn't negligable, howerver. Have you tried to play Strider or Street Fighter II:CE on MAME? Doing a function call to emulate every instruction is painful. A 1 clock tick instruction may take 40 to emulate. So 3 MHZ chip needs 120 MHZ to emulate. Compound that by the fact that a lot of those old games used multiple CPUs... Also, a lot of chip emulators use exuberant amounts of ram to do flat memory maps for increased speed and to simplify the emulator design. It might be overkill to play something like asteroids, but not some of the later 16 bit games. They need the speed.