January 6, 1897 Music protected against unauthorized public performance.
Google harder next time.
It's been on the books since sheet music days. It just wasnt spelled out 'music recording', and would have classified as any other piece of written work.
God, why do people mod this stuff up? Just because you spell Microsoft with a dollar sign?
By your logic, virtually every peice of software written for windows belongs to microsoft, as it uses their libraries. And a book report on Cujo belongs to Stephen King because his work is quoted and listed in the bibliography.
Making calls to a library that already exists on a system does not make a derivative work. IMO static vs dynamic linking should be a non-issue as well.
This is where the GPL turns to shit.
I write and maintain one app where I work, which uses proprietary libraries to generate maps. I know going in if a specific client wants to use the mapping features, he/she must either buy the mapping component seperately, or through me.
Never is there any notion that the company creating the 3rd party libraries I use gets any rights at all to my software. Yet, if the library was GPL'ed tomorrow, all of a sudden my work should be free?
Enable macrovision on the analog out... insta copy protection.
How long until you see devices capable of capturing a DVI stream, and software capable of reencoding it? DVI-recorders will be everywhere, and will be well below the radar until some joker decides to sell them as 'Pay Per View Copying Toolz'
You'll always be able to record your stuff. But theres no rule that says they have to make it easy for you.
If theres nothing in the home of any sort of value, go ahead. The only reason abandoned/condemned buildings are locked is due to liability.
If you live in a shack in the moutains with only a shitstained pair of cover-alls made from roadkill, do you really think you need to barricade the front door?
The average home computer is the dilapidated shack with shitstained coveralls.
That's not an exploit, the backdoor mirc 'bots' are delivered via trojan horses.
Ever join a chatroom and get mass autosends of crap like 'HoTCHICKandDOG.vbs'? Your girlfriend accepted and ran one of them. (Or maybe through an e-mail or a website or whatever)
So it's not what this article is about. Unless you consider user incompetence a security hole. And then, I don't know what you expect MSFT to do about it.
Aside from pissing off the odd script kiddy in IRC or on some online game, why would anyone feel the need to hack or exploit my PC? There's nothing there of any import. And I doubt there is on 99.9% of all home PCs out there.
What are they gonna do? Edit someones Sims save file to make them 6 year old girls? I've been DDOS'd and had various exploits tried against me in the past. The worst they could do is annoy me.
I mean, rock-solid security on your OS is all fine and good.. But I don't wear a bulletproof vest either, and it's ok, because I hardly ever get shot at.
I just wrote it. I hope to see widespread adoption, as it sums up how the rank and file approaches this issue. Not only that, it's full of funny swears.
--- START OF "WGAS" LICENSE ---
Section 1: Preamble
Who gives a shit?
Section 2: Definitions
Really, who gives a flying fuck?
Section 3: Scope and Limitations
I could give two shits what you do with this. Knock yourself out, chimpie.
See, here's some programmers clearly overthinking the problem, and not understanding how the stuff is employed in the real world. This is why this stuff is best left to UI designers.
They're viewing the forward/back as popping and pulling off of a stack. Your average nontechie has no grasp of what that means, to them, forward/back is analagous to the path you took to get there.
This morning, I left my home and drove on the highway (1), and half asleep took the wrong exit (2). I went back to (1) and continued to work (3). Later when I reverse my route (by going 'back'), I dont want to go to 2 again. The path I took is (1)-(3), the reverse of that is (3)-(1)
The back/forward analogy is perfect as it is.
What these guys describe is (in english) a previous/next or earlier/later feature, not significantly different from the history menu/bar.
And Up/Down is navigating a fixed tree structure (going Up from slashdot.org/yro yields slashdot.org).
Right now, if your at site A, then click to site B, click to site C, then click back twice, you end up at A, and you'll be able to go forward twice back to C.
But, if you go back to A, then click to site D, then go back, forward will take you to D, and B and C are lost in the back-forward scheme. As they should be, IMO.
Basically, they'd just use the already existing history feature, and back/forward would just be tied to the time you visited that site. So you'd go back to A, forward to B, C and then D.
Whats needed is to redesign the 'Scroll Lock' button. What the hell does it do? It looks so important - it even makes a light go on on the keyboard to indicate its state! Yet it does nothing!
brighter than LCDs, yes (liquid crystal displays, like in your watch), brighter than LEDs (light emitting diodes, like in a cheap alarm clock) depends. There are LEDs bright enough to blind you.
An LED you can dim by just varying the voltage to it, like a dimmer switch on an incandescent lightbulb. A VFD is pretty much a miniature flourescent lamp, and you cant dim it by adjusting the voltage. It could be designed from the ground up to have 2 'brightness' settings.
I'm surprised SliMP3 uses VFD, it has to be putting a good dent in the profit margins, and most wouldnt know a VFD from LED display. Perhaps longevity was a factor (because like the incandescent v flourescent lamp analogy, VFDs are much less likely to burn out)
VFDs really arent easier to read than your everyday LED based display, though.
They are, however, more tolerant of extreme heat/cold/humidity - which is what their niche is, displays on industrial equipment.
So you could spend $5 or so on an LED based readout, or $100+ on one of these. They'd look pretty much the same, but the VFD would be more durable. The LED would be dimmable to boot, as not to annoy you at night.
With a new age of people building media PCs to hook directly to the TV, or other headless boxes, this kind of thing gets pretty useful.
I'm currently planning a little media PC, with a LCD matrix in the front with an auxiliary keypad, so I can display DVD positions, etc, and use the keypad for navigation. No keyboard/mouse/monitor at all. I'm going to have to write much of the interface myself, which is where I'm at, but there's a lot of code to work with out there..
Of course, the eye candy factor is big too. An LCD displaying your fragging stats on the side of your case is pretty cool at a LAN party (and somewhat functional, I guess).
The CPU temp and fan RPM stuff seems irrelevant to me.. I'll typically watch that stuff for a week or two after a build and then safely assume that it's running within spec. HDD space is another useless piece of info, it's not something I generally need updated in real time. It doesn't take long to type 'df' or look in the status bar of Explorer.
Anyhow. Little lightbulbs that make letters. What an age. I'm glad we have slashdot to find out about these things.
VFDs are expensive as hell, and IMO they look like the kind of crap you'd see in a 1960s sci-fi flick. Mebbe if you want that 'industrial' look or something (or actually use the PC in an industrial setting - data acquisition on the factory floor or some such)
I've seen 4 character units for $100+. Of course thats w/o any sort of controller.
For half the cost, a quality backlit color LCD matrix looks much nicer and does more.
Of course, people will want one of these just to show off how much money they had to piss away.
I've had trouble explaining to people how 129$ up front and 75$ a year from there on in is "Free" software.
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- A shelf full of 'technical references' in my office makes untechnical bosses think you know more than you do.
- Many absolutely hate trying to read (let alone find) information on the web.
- No workstation in the crapper, just a dumpsite.
- Cheaper than the time/money/hassle involved in finding all the info online, printing it out, and binding it in some sort of conveniently readable manual. A hundred 8.5x11 printouts stapled together is an unweildly read.
I'd pay 20 bucks for book that consisted of nothing but all the HOWTOs and docs floating around, just stuck together in one easily readable format.
>> I think a lot of people treat their weblogs as diaries
Then they're idiots. A weblog is on a public forum. Do they think they're the only people on the internet? Is anyone that dense to think that the WWW is a private sanctuary for them? No. They want to be heard, thats why they do it in the first place.
>> Conceptually, whats the difference between leaving my diary on an http server, than in leaving it in the photocopy room at my work.
If its on an http server it's been explicitly made public. Just like if you thumbtacked it onto a bulliten board in town square.
That wasnt the point of the article. The article was about a guy who posted details about a project he worked on, violating an NDA he signed.
If he published it in a book, wrote it on the mens room wall, or told his neighbours niece, it would result in the same consequences.
Theres no big shocker in this article, you have the same free speech on the web as you do in print, but this guy broke a binding agreement that he'd signed.
The line's already been drawn, and fairly clearly too.
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>> I invest heavily in the tech and communications sectors so this seems like pretty good news for my portfolio.
What porfolio? You need to sit down and have a chat with your broker.
You'll probably be wearing an old wine-barrel and boiling a shoe you found on the highway for dinner.
January 6, 1897
Music protected against unauthorized public performance.
Google harder next time.
It's been on the books since sheet music days. It just wasnt spelled out 'music recording', and would have classified as any other piece of written work.
God, why do people mod this stuff up? Just because you spell Microsoft with a dollar sign?
By your logic, virtually every peice of software written for windows belongs to microsoft, as it uses their libraries. And a book report on Cujo belongs to Stephen King because his work is quoted and listed in the bibliography.
Making calls to a library that already exists on a system does not make a derivative work. IMO static vs dynamic linking should be a non-issue as well.
This is where the GPL turns to shit.
I write and maintain one app where I work, which uses proprietary libraries to generate maps. I know going in if a specific client wants to use the mapping features, he/she must either buy the mapping component seperately, or through me.
Never is there any notion that the company creating the 3rd party libraries I use gets any rights at all to my software. Yet, if the library was GPL'ed tomorrow, all of a sudden my work should be free?
Enable macrovision on the analog out... insta copy protection.
How long until you see devices capable of capturing a DVI stream, and software capable of reencoding it? DVI-recorders will be everywhere, and will be well below the radar until some joker decides to sell them as 'Pay Per View Copying Toolz'
You'll always be able to record your stuff. But theres no rule that says they have to make it easy for you.
The 9700 Pro has been out for months... This is news?
If theres nothing in the home of any sort of value, go ahead. The only reason abandoned/condemned buildings are locked is due to liability.
If you live in a shack in the moutains with only a shitstained pair of cover-alls made from roadkill, do you really think you need to barricade the front door?
The average home computer is the dilapidated shack with shitstained coveralls.
That's not an exploit, the backdoor mirc 'bots' are delivered via trojan horses.
Ever join a chatroom and get mass autosends of crap like 'HoTCHICKandDOG.vbs'? Your girlfriend accepted and ran one of them. (Or maybe through an e-mail or a website or whatever)
So it's not what this article is about. Unless you consider user incompetence a security hole. And then, I don't know what you expect MSFT to do about it.
Aside from pissing off the odd script kiddy in IRC or on some online game, why would anyone feel the need to hack or exploit my PC? There's nothing there of any import. And I doubt there is on 99.9% of all home PCs out there.
What are they gonna do? Edit someones Sims save file to make them 6 year old girls? I've been DDOS'd and had various exploits tried against me in the past. The worst they could do is annoy me.
I mean, rock-solid security on your OS is all fine and good.. But I don't wear a bulletproof vest either, and it's ok, because I hardly ever get shot at.
I just wrote it. I hope to see widespread adoption, as it sums up how the rank and file approaches this issue. Not only that, it's full of funny swears.
--- START OF "WGAS" LICENSE ---
Section 1: Preamble
Who gives a shit?
Section 2: Definitions
Really, who gives a flying fuck?
Section 3: Scope and Limitations
I could give two shits what you do with this. Knock yourself out, chimpie.
Section 4: Warrantees and conflict resolution
Go fuck yourself.
---- END LICENSE ----
See, here's some programmers clearly overthinking the problem, and not understanding how the stuff is employed in the real world. This is why this stuff is best left to UI designers.
They're viewing the forward/back as popping and pulling off of a stack. Your average nontechie has no grasp of what that means, to them, forward/back is analagous to the path you took to get there.
This morning, I left my home and drove on the highway (1), and half asleep took the wrong exit (2). I went back to (1) and continued to work (3). Later when I reverse my route (by going 'back'), I dont want to go to 2 again. The path I took is (1)-(3), the reverse of that is (3)-(1)
The back/forward analogy is perfect as it is.
What these guys describe is (in english) a previous/next or earlier/later feature, not significantly different from the history menu/bar.
And Up/Down is navigating a fixed tree structure (going Up from slashdot.org/yro yields slashdot.org).
Nah, this is what they're doing..
Right now, if your at site A, then click to site B, click to site C, then click back twice, you end up at A, and you'll be able to go forward twice back to C.
But, if you go back to A, then click to site D, then go back, forward will take you to D, and B and C are lost in the back-forward scheme. As they should be, IMO.
Basically, they'd just use the already existing history feature, and back/forward would just be tied to the time you visited that site. So you'd go back to A, forward to B, C and then D.
Whats needed is to redesign the 'Scroll Lock' button. What the hell does it do? It looks so important - it even makes a light go on on the keyboard to indicate its state! Yet it does nothing!
This team of 'scientists' wants to replace the Back button with the History tree?
Brilliant. Abso-Fucking-lutely brilliant.
You kiwis keep the hell away from my desktop.
>> The men of power behind Microsoft are just looking to increase their wealth and power (period).
Imagine that! In a publically traded for-profit corporation, no less! I'm shocked and appalled!
MSFT will declare bankruptcy any day now!
brighter than LCDs, yes (liquid crystal displays, like in your watch), brighter than LEDs (light emitting diodes, like in a cheap alarm clock) depends. There are LEDs bright enough to blind you.
An LED you can dim by just varying the voltage to it, like a dimmer switch on an incandescent lightbulb. A VFD is pretty much a miniature flourescent lamp, and you cant dim it by adjusting the voltage. It could be designed from the ground up to have 2 'brightness' settings.
I'm surprised SliMP3 uses VFD, it has to be putting a good dent in the profit margins, and most wouldnt know a VFD from LED display. Perhaps longevity was a factor (because like the incandescent v flourescent lamp analogy, VFDs are much less likely to burn out)
VFDs really arent easier to read than your everyday LED based display, though.
They are, however, more tolerant of extreme heat/cold/humidity - which is what their niche is, displays on industrial equipment.
So you could spend $5 or so on an LED based readout, or $100+ on one of these. They'd look pretty much the same, but the VFD would be more durable. The LED would be dimmable to boot, as not to annoy you at night.
With a new age of people building media PCs to hook directly to the TV, or other headless boxes, this kind of thing gets pretty useful.
I'm currently planning a little media PC, with a LCD matrix in the front with an auxiliary keypad, so I can display DVD positions, etc, and use the keypad for navigation. No keyboard/mouse/monitor at all. I'm going to have to write much of the interface myself, which is where I'm at, but there's a lot of code to work with out there..
Of course, the eye candy factor is big too. An LCD displaying your fragging stats on the side of your case is pretty cool at a LAN party (and somewhat functional, I guess).
The CPU temp and fan RPM stuff seems irrelevant to me.. I'll typically watch that stuff for a week or two after a build and then safely assume that it's running within spec. HDD space is another useless piece of info, it's not something I generally need updated in real time. It doesn't take long to type 'df' or look in the status bar of Explorer.
Anyhow. Little lightbulbs that make letters. What an age. I'm glad we have slashdot to find out about these things.
VFDs are expensive as hell, and IMO they look like the kind of crap you'd see in a 1960s sci-fi flick. Mebbe if you want that 'industrial' look or something (or actually use the PC in an industrial setting - data acquisition on the factory floor or some such)
I've seen 4 character units for $100+. Of course thats w/o any sort of controller.
For half the cost, a quality backlit color LCD matrix looks much nicer and does more.
Of course, people will want one of these just to show off how much money they had to piss away.
My grandfather, the other day, was asking me about Lindows after he saw it on the cheapo K-mart machines.
He assumed it meant 'Light Windows' and that's why the machines were so cheap.
It's not just the name. The look and feel are all designed to look like Windows.
I see a deliberate attempt to mislead customers, myself.
I've had trouble explaining to people how 129$ up front and 75$ a year from there on in is "Free" software.
- A shelf full of 'technical references' in my office makes untechnical bosses think you know more than you do.
- Many absolutely hate trying to read (let alone find) information on the web.
- No workstation in the crapper, just a dumpsite.
- Cheaper than the time/money/hassle involved in finding all the info online, printing it out, and binding it in some sort of conveniently readable manual. A hundred 8.5x11 printouts stapled together is an unweildly read.
I'd pay 20 bucks for book that consisted of nothing but all the HOWTOs and docs floating around, just stuck together in one easily readable format.
>> It is almost like suing someone for using a video camera to record a rented movie on TV it *is* illegal.
But do you sue the maker of the video camera?
Which is their whole problem. Stuff like this enables casual piracy. If its a hassle at all, most people will just rent from blockbuster, or buy it.
When it becomes just as easy (or easier - hence the big bug up their ass when it comes to P2P) as buying originals, piracy hits their radar bigtime.
Not that piracy is the only use for this software. Lots of people like to backup what they buy (yea right)
If he shared it with someone else, yes.
Non-DISCLOSURE. You cant tell anyone in any way.
>> I think a lot of people treat their weblogs as diaries
Then they're idiots. A weblog is on a public forum. Do they think they're the only people on the internet? Is anyone that dense to think that the WWW is a private sanctuary for them? No. They want to be heard, thats why they do it in the first place.
>> Conceptually, whats the difference between leaving my diary on an http server, than in leaving it in the photocopy room at my work.
If its on an http server it's been explicitly made public. Just like if you thumbtacked it onto a bulliten board in town square.
That wasnt the point of the article. The article was about a guy who posted details about a project he worked on, violating an NDA he signed.
If he published it in a book, wrote it on the mens room wall, or told his neighbours niece, it would result in the same consequences.
Theres no big shocker in this article, you have the same free speech on the web as you do in print, but this guy broke a binding agreement that he'd signed.
The line's already been drawn, and fairly clearly too.