Parallel devices that are IEEE1284 compliant have an identification string that can be used to automatically load modules. Serial devices have no standardized method of byte-wise bidirectional communication so such a scheme is impossible for a standard RS232 serial port. You will find that in Windows, the only "Plug&Play" serial devices are modems, and the reason why is that modems have identification strings, built into the modem firmware and accessed via the Hayes command set (ATI*), that can be used to identify them.
Most libertarians wouldn't. For them, if it involves force, it is wrong, and any perceptions of public good are wrong too.
You have confused, or conflated, libertarianism with anarchism.
That *does* include piracy. Going on the high seas, taking a ship (or causing it to break up on a reef with false lighthouses) is taking that which is not yours.
Likewise, going around the law to copy a DVD which is named as someone else's is also theft. It is taking for yourself that which belongs to someone else.
Again, it seems like you are purposely leaving out the reasons why theft is considered wrong. It is not because you are receiving something you are not entitled to. It is because the other person is deprived. If the other person is not deprived, what harm has been done? The only harm caused by making an unauthorized clone of something can be market dilution, and that is far more difficult to justify than depriving someone of property that they built or paid for.
That position is very short-sighted. It isn't "theft" to extend copyright laws.
It is when the public is paying to enforce those laws on a perpetual basis. Physical property deteriorates or is destroyed and eventually has no value. A copyright is artificially injected with value according to the term of copyright, and never deteriorates. Because of that, the copyrighted pool of works is a cumulative base.
Continuing to make copyright perpetual and infringement criminal only ensures that we will spend a more and more disproportionate amount of public money on its enforcement compared to real property. It also ensures that companies will lock away culture by refusing to sell copyrighted works because the business case doesn't make sense, but at the same time relying on the force of law to sue and jail those who would.
If you're going to argue for perpetual, criminal copyright, you have got to make some exceptions for abandoned works, nonprofit copying, and fair use upon which consumer rights can be exercised and new works such as parodies, documentaries, and homages can be created.
I read your explanation, and I fail to see how it isn't a serious potential security hole.
I fail to see why you would use the client-mapped vesrion of the data instead of memcpy'ing it into a private buffer on the server. memcpy is FAR less expensive than a CoW fault.
You know, you can call setrlimit() yourself if you want to self-limit your memory usage. There is no need to rely on the system administrator to do this.
If you're trying to make a point, you're doing a poor job of it. A recipe for anthrax cannot be used to victimize someone without an intermediary manufacturing step. CC info can be directly used to victimize someone.
Think about it this way. You want something from somebody. If you threaten them by saying you have their CC info, they are going to need to take action to prevent you from making use of it, which you could do at any time. If you threaten someone with a recipe for anthrax, they laugh and tell you to call them when you've got the process perfected and haven't managed to kill yourself in the meantime, and notify the police of the call.
Giving out CC info is equivalent to giving out an item that can directly be used to threaten someone. A recipe for anthrax cannot be used to directly threaten someone.
Using GNU autoconf can actually help here. In this case, it would transform #ifdef BSD, #ifdef QNX, etc etc into #if HAVE_FEATURE_FOO, cleaning up the code tremendously.
The formula for anthrax cannot do damage, it can only do damage when manufactured, at which point it becomes a threat. You clearly already have the formula to commit credit card fraud, but you are asking him to provide you with the remaining pieces that would convert mere knowledge into an actual threat. He did not advocate giving manufactured anthrax to people, only that suppressing the formula is a security-by-obscurity strategy.
Sure, if you can get the NRC to clear you, since mishandling an atom bomb could have far-reaching consequences. Just like you must have CDC clearance to own anthrax. Most non-nuclear weapons, on the other hand, if handled incompetently, won't do much more than grenade yourself and your house.
They clearly were not interesting in the men that worked for them, or the women they married, just the ability of the elite group to get rich.
That's funny, because John Adams pushed for a strong executive specifically to overcome a tyranny of the elite, i.e. an ivory tower legislature composed of rich, well-connected individuals.
You can EASILY do this in your own programs by implementing your own resolver. Microsoft cannot and does not prevent you from doing this.
Yeah, I write a resolver for all of my programs... did you miss the point of a library? Implementing an RFC-correct resolver is NOT "easy" by any means.
Creates civil asset forfeiture penalties for anything used in copyright piracy. Computers or other equipment seized must be "destroyed" or otherwise disposed of, for instance at a government auction. Criminal asset forfeiture will be done following the rules established by federal drug laws.
In case you are not aware, these rules allow your property to be seized, without hope of return, for no other reason than being suspected of the crime.
This part is great too:
Amends existing law to permit criminal enforcement of copyright violations even if the work was not registered with the U.S. Copyright Office.
Just imagine the workload the police will have when people use computers to generate random crap, and can send the police after any new Google hits that pop up, at NO COST to the complainer.
Smith is clearly confused. Anticircumvention tools would be copy protection tools. Isn't it great to know that the person pushing the bill has no idea what he is talking about in terms of the nomenclature?
Yes, many "telephone line interface cards" have free software that can manipulate the phone line. However, V.90, the modulation protocol is patented, as all ITU-T 'standards' are. Feel free to implement it and pray the lawyers don't come after you. Nobody else has been that bold yet since real hardware modems still exist.
It is possible that some of the patents on the older standards (like Bell XXX and V.22) have expired by now though, so those may be a reasonable place to start playing around in this area. (The stack of modem modulation and compression protocols could be rebuilt one by one in the order they were invented, as the patents expire one by one...)
Oh please. Point me to an open source V.90 implementation, please. Hint: none exists. So there are no open source "Linmodem" drivers as you claim, or at least none both open source and functional enough to connect to an ISP.
Right, and in the rush to ban them nobody bothered to check if they worked. Please. I suppose next you're going to tell me the initial buzz from the first drink of the night is a placebo, since according to you absorbing alcohol in vapor form is not possible. Have you ever looked at the MSDS for ethanol and noted the uncanny resemblance of the inhalation effects to being drunk? And no, I haven't tried one since they were banned in my state from day one as a save-the-children measure (hemp-flavored candy came next).
I did not claim it is easy to understand, but that nothing is hidden. You can easily take registry snapshots before and after installing a program and restore the backup if necessary. (You can use the registry editor or write a program using the registry API to walk the registry.) But that's a pretty clumsy way to rollback a corrupt system to a working state - registry changeset management would be interesting...
You say "worked" - did you quit or did they go out of business/get shutdown?
BTW, we are talking about average potency of a set of random samples. If it came across that I was claiming that having 30% or more THC in a cherry-picked sample is impossible, that is not what I meant. But I see how it could be read that way.
some studies have shown it does more damage to your lungs than smoking a pack of cigarrettes.
Oh, and would you look at this! Remember Donald Tashkin, the UCLA researcher whose early 90's speculation that marijuana smoking caused cancer was repeated over and over again and passed off as fact by government propagandists? Well, it looks like he thoroughly refuted his own hypothesis as of last year.
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Parallel devices that are IEEE1284 compliant have an identification string that can be used to automatically load modules. Serial devices have no standardized method of byte-wise bidirectional communication so such a scheme is impossible for a standard RS232 serial port. You will find that in Windows, the only "Plug&Play" serial devices are modems, and the reason why is that modems have identification strings, built into the modem firmware and accessed via the Hayes command set (ATI*), that can be used to identify them.
Continuing to make copyright perpetual and infringement criminal only ensures that we will spend a more and more disproportionate amount of public money on its enforcement compared to real property. It also ensures that companies will lock away culture by refusing to sell copyrighted works because the business case doesn't make sense, but at the same time relying on the force of law to sue and jail those who would.
If you're going to argue for perpetual, criminal copyright, you have got to make some exceptions for abandoned works, nonprofit copying, and fair use upon which consumer rights can be exercised and new works such as parodies, documentaries, and homages can be created.
You know, you can call setrlimit() yourself if you want to self-limit your memory usage. There is no need to rely on the system administrator to do this.
Think about it this way. You want something from somebody. If you threaten them by saying you have their CC info, they are going to need to take action to prevent you from making use of it, which you could do at any time. If you threaten someone with a recipe for anthrax, they laugh and tell you to call them when you've got the process perfected and haven't managed to kill yourself in the meantime, and notify the police of the call.
Giving out CC info is equivalent to giving out an item that can directly be used to threaten someone. A recipe for anthrax cannot be used to directly threaten someone.
32-big: SPARC
64-big: Alpha
32-little: IA-32
64-little: EM64T
Using GNU autoconf can actually help here. In this case, it would transform #ifdef BSD, #ifdef QNX, etc etc into #if HAVE_FEATURE_FOO, cleaning up the code tremendously.
The formula for anthrax cannot do damage, it can only do damage when manufactured, at which point it becomes a threat. You clearly already have the formula to commit credit card fraud, but you are asking him to provide you with the remaining pieces that would convert mere knowledge into an actual threat. He did not advocate giving manufactured anthrax to people, only that suppressing the formula is a security-by-obscurity strategy.
Uh, hate to break it to you, but sysenter and sysexit are only supported on P6 and above. It is unlikely that int 0x80 is going away anytime soon.
Sure, if you can get the NRC to clear you, since mishandling an atom bomb could have far-reaching consequences. Just like you must have CDC clearance to own anthrax. Most non-nuclear weapons, on the other hand, if handled incompetently, won't do much more than grenade yourself and your house.
No, not just "their government", but any group wielding unelected and unaccountable power.
Of course, you'll have to talk to the NRC first, and they don't exactly go around handing out permits willy-nilly.
This part is great too:
Just imagine the workload the police will have when people use computers to generate random crap, and can send the police after any new Google hits that pop up, at NO COST to the complainer.Smith is clearly confused. Anticircumvention tools would be copy protection tools. Isn't it great to know that the person pushing the bill has no idea what he is talking about in terms of the nomenclature?
It is possible that some of the patents on the older standards (like Bell XXX and V.22) have expired by now though, so those may be a reasonable place to start playing around in this area. (The stack of modem modulation and compression protocols could be rebuilt one by one in the order they were invented, as the patents expire one by one...)
Oh please. Point me to an open source V.90 implementation, please. Hint: none exists. So there are no open source "Linmodem" drivers as you claim, or at least none both open source and functional enough to connect to an ISP.
Uh, no. CDE and Motif showed everyone that people do not want CDE and Motif. That's all.
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I did not claim it is easy to understand, but that nothing is hidden. You can easily take registry snapshots before and after installing a program and restore the backup if necessary. (You can use the registry editor or write a program using the registry API to walk the registry.) But that's a pretty clumsy way to rollback a corrupt system to a working state - registry changeset management would be interesting...
BTW, we are talking about average potency of a set of random samples. If it came across that I was claiming that having 30% or more THC in a cherry-picked sample is impossible, that is not what I meant. But I see how it could be read that way.