I can see it being perfectly resonable to do that on work station at a business. The bad news is it won't make sense to do on a home PC. But try locking down windows PCs in a small or medium size shop where peoples job functions require a wide range of software. Chances are there is something every organization job function in that business requres that WONT run right on a hardened windows box.
There is just to much legacy on windows, period. The security architecture is probably *OK* now if best practices are employed. The trouble being because of all that legacy and history of not doing things right, best practices are often impractical on Windows. The only way we will ever see is if people switch platforms en mass. They need to switch to something with either a good legacy or something new and designed for the modern networked world from the ground up. Microsoft would be doing everyone a big favor if they followed Apples lead a disposed of that legacy. They could provide an emulator to run older software, rather then a layer like WOW wich is not a full sandbox and does little to actualy remove the risks.
Coca-Cola registering Pepsi.com and redirecting it to Coke.com. That is EXACTLY whats wrong with ICANN, and why we should band together and set up our own FAIR DNS. FairDNS should sell domain names for whatever they think is a reasonable price and a reasonable time period with the right to renew. When ever someone requests to register a name it should be place up for auction and adverties on a central page some place for 30 days, it should be silent IE you can't see what the current bid is, highest bidder wins and pays $0.01 over the second highest offer. That should be the END OF IT. If Pepsi decices a year later they need to be online too and want the name they should HAVE TO PAY WHATEVER Coke wants for it. Its Cokes domain and they should be able to name any price they like, resonable or not. If its not reasonable then it does not sell and they keep it.
There is nothing wrong with Coca-Cola buying Pepsi.com and redirecting it. Its a market, if Coca-Cola is willing to pay more and thinks they get more value from doing that then Pepsi thinks they might get from owning the domain and won't out bid Coke so frigging what? Its like if I am selling a house and I know you reall love it and would be willing to pay more then any one else on the market then its not wrong from me to name an high price. You can take it or leave it. Don't want pay maybe no transaction happens. If I really want to sell, then you'll pay more then whatever my next best offer was. Thats how domains should work.
It makes perfect sense and its not entirely unfair. They have set up the business model such that you essentially getting the phone on credit and paying for it by paying a more then they otherwise would charge for the service each month. If you want to leave you have to pay off the loan.
What's unfair is,
1. They don't give you much of a price break if you do own your phone or pay full price for it.
2. The early termination fee is not discounted in anyway over time, they charge the same if you cancel a day early as if you cancel a year early.
3. The early termination fee is often in great excess of the original value of the phone.
I don't have a complaint against the business model. I think its as good an approach as any. My complaints is with the implementation they chose. If they did something to address / fix these things then I would say its pretty fair.
I realize that SAP is complex, and that payroll is complex. You apparently don't realize that at all. I have spent most of my short career working with ERP systems or doing work very tightly coupled to ERP systems like activity based costing. If you every start doing that sort of work and talk to business folk behind it you will be amazed at how often you find yourself saying "You must be kidding" when they start explaining all the rules and exceptional cases to you. Then you run in to the legacy issues, and how the old system they used in the eighties stored time in 27ths of a second and for that reason you have if not store at least present data that way because those of the numbers the desk workers are used to seeing and it has the tie out with the data wharehouse which has always be loaded that way.
Oh and payroll is something you can't get wrong. Quite possibly more so then any other business function has to be right the first time. Fixing mistakes is hard and extreemly costly, and that is before any legal exposure is considered. You will also find your self working with the group of business people who are the least trusting, and first to loose confidence, for very good reasons.
If you think ERP is anything like a database and some spread sheets you have never been close to ERP. I admint its not climate modeling, or interstellar navigation but its not simple.
TCP/UDP is very important but they too can be discarded and the network will still ferry packets back and forth. Will it really just about every router in the world is playing in the layer 4 space now and they all talk TCP and UDP. While you and I might argue a router that won't route a IP packet with some non tcp/udp many along important paths don't. Try running not TCP or UDP data over the net from your home DSL/cable lately. Its a no go on lots of networks.
I have not tried anything from our MPLS link at the office but I would not be surprised if that was a no go as well.
Well, it would have been funny, but Moses parted the Red Sea not Jesus. Its also not funny becasuse this only works with distiled water the NaCl in sea water would prevent this from working. Sorry still a miracle...but keep trying I am sure God finds your ignorance a pleasant diversion.
I do think creaters often deserve compensation. We can argue over the means and method of that all day. I also think that DRM is wrong and evil. Just because you left your radio out on the beach blanket while you take a swim does not make it ok for me to take your radio, not DRMing your content does not give other a right to infrige on your copyright.
Copyright infringement and DRM are really not tightly coupled. The content industry would like us to think about it that way but its not true. DRM is NOT about preventing infringement. Its never worked, and any rational person can see that its not likely to ever work. There are enough people with a vested intrest in removing your protection and once they do the content is out there for all the people who think its ok to flaunt the law. That is the reality of DRM as it relates to copyright infringement. There is just no more to the story.
What DRM is really about is getting honest customers to pay twice, or more. Its perfectly fair for me to want to play a movie on my notebook without the dvd drive connected. Its not right that its been made extra difficult for me to do so by preventing my from easily dumping the disk to the harddrive. The content industry would love for me to buy the movie twice, once of dvd to watch at home and again in some download format for watching on the plane. They hope I will because they make that eaiser. Ripping off the customer and makeing it excessively difficult for them to use content in ways they are otherwise allowed to under copyright law is what DRM is really about and nothing else.
I don't infringe on your copyrights and I don't serve as enabler for others to do so, I MIGHT AS WELL DO THAT THOUGH BECAUSE YOU THE CONTENT PRODUCERS ARE BREAKING, at least in spirit, YOUR END OF THE SOCIAL CONTRACT we call copyright. I don't do that though. You had the moral high ground when people were infrining on your rights and you were complaining, many would have been willing to listen. You lost any claim to that high ground when you started useing DRM. So no I don't feel bad for you or anyone who produces content for a living that is being infringed upon, the second I find out you have ever profited by DRM. Two wrongs don't make abusing people with DRM is not forgiveable just becuase you were perhaps being abused by a minority of people out there.
If you have an alternative way to reference the direct election of senators amendment that is shorter then what I just typed here I will be happy to use it thanks
Yes, but arguably DNS is a services you expect your ISP to provide. I know I do. I rather like my ISPs DNS server, its fast and near to me in terms of hops. Its a great forward DNS server for the DNS server on my personal network.
I expect my ISP to provide me with correct DNS loopup results. If they don't then they would not be providing me with part of the service I understand I am paying them for. They would hear from me about it pretty quickly and more then likely loose my business over it. There are after all lots of ISPs out there.
If you can't provide internet service to somebody without having the customer read you an arcane 32 bit number in hexadecimal, perhaps there something you as a company could be doing better. Talk about prespective, you are kidding my right. Seriously the customer does have some onus to understand what they are buying and how its supposed to work. I would NEVER call techsupport without first checking the provided documentation with a product for instance. If I expect a vendor to be good to me then I should be a good customer.
We are not talking about a carton of eggs here, we are talking internet service. Someone with the equipment and interest to utilize broadband service should be able to read a number off the bottom of a modem for crying out load. I mean its not like they need to understand what that number is used for or means or anything like that they just need to be able to FIND the number and read it off.
Read what you wrote and then read this, you tell me how what you said is any more rational:
If you can't return a phone call to somebody without having the customer read you an arcane seven digit number in decimal, perhaps there something you as a company could be doing better. Really expecting a customer to beable to converse in plain english(provided you are in America, England or other English speaking place) and read of string of numbers and digits, is not expecting to much. I mean most FIRST GRADERS in this country could do that! What use is the internet to someone who has such a low level of literacy that they cant complete that anyway?
Can you say "entrapment" boys and girls? I knew you could. I doubt it would be entrapment in,
First off the *IAA is not a government agent or acting as one.
Second, they are not leading these people to commit the crime. They are just holding the door open. Its like a cop(male or female) can dress as a girl and walk down dark steets at night. If (s)he called out "Come on just try and snatch my purse," to everyone who passed by that might be entrapment, now if you just jump her because she looks like an easy target (s)he can bust your ass and you ARE going to jail.
To the second point, does putting something on a webserver constitue proffering it, or is it just leaving the door open. This is an interesting question because it gets back to who is responsible of distribution when copyrighted material does change hands, the person hosting the file or the person doing the downloading?
I know most slashdot'ers look at it the other way but I have always thought that hosting the files is not the issue, that person has done nothing. The downloader is the one actually making the copy, writing out a new file. This is likely the wrong leagal position though because it would seem contray to most recent laws like the DMCA, the take down notice would make no sense if the above is true. I don't know what if any case law might clarify but the current understanding of legislators seems to be contrary to my view.
Also 7-11 is a well know and generally well thought of brands. Most advertisers would consider elevating any trademark to the level of recognition the 7-11 has a huge success. Until you know that people would rather shop at Kwik-E-Mart why would you abandon a valuable asset like the 7-11 mark? Also 7-11 is in may ways part of our popular culture as well, if you simply make it go away all at once on day people might be resentful of that.
That's right say it with me people:
The computer is not a substitute for a good teacher and an even poorer substitute for a good teacher the knows the subject they are teaching.
Its not the internet or Technology though, its just the bad teachers.
Primary education needs to be directed because kids need to develop a sense of the pattern of learning and obtain some background in various subjects to serve as a frame of reference for future learning which they might do on their own.
I had the luxory of getting a good deal of my early education before the public Internet and after that well lets face it is was not until the later 90's there was little content that anyone could sugest using in primary education out there.
I did go to one of those wealthy districts that had stuff though. We had this huge media-center. Loads of books on just about anyhting. We even had a Computer (IBM PC-AT) with an exteral cdrom driver and decades of various publications (in plain text IIRC) on CDs stacked next to it.
I also remember lots of teachers from grade one all the way to eight thinking that they could just march us all down there hand us some 3x5" cards tell us to research something and then expect us to learn from this.
Most of this media was books and periodicals, with the exception of the IBM PC-AT. That is media that has existed for centuries. I think it was for the most part as big a waste as all this Internet time for students is today. Kids need good teachers with materials to cover what is directly part of the curiculum, and a small library for some on their own but ASSIGNED research projects.
If a school is employing much of its budget to do anything other then hire the best most dedicated teachers in adequate numbers, and to provide them with the most basic facility and tools they require to do their jobs, that school is miss using its budget.
That's an extremely common view (as said in your comment title), but it's not true. Bob is your television, and you are Jack. I don't care how much cybernetics has progressed, we're not televisions yet, and we as human beings can't assimilate, store, and regurgitate digital content with any kind of quality. No this is where you are wrong, you and your television are the same person because its your hardware and you control it. If the content industry somehow could actually keep people out of the hardware you might have a point, but so far they can't.
Even with things like HDCP at some point it still has to get decrypteded. Hell you can scrape the image off the VRAM chip as it does screen updates if you have to do it that way.
Let me remind you how this actually works anyway:
1. Joe1337 figures out how to connect to the bus in the TV/DVD/BDPlayer/Whatever and grab the decrypted data. He can do this because he has losts of time knowlege and nobody can tell what he is doing to his TV in his basement. Joe1337 makes it work and posts anonymously to some usenet group.
2. N00b sees it and understands only what it does not how it does it or how to do it. He writes it up as OMG *IAA IS FOOBAR and publishis it to his crapy hardware review site.
3. John51|\/|1337 finds sees the review and finds the original post. He did not know enough to do the original work but has enough electronics knowlege to follow it, and repeat the process. He discovers it actally works and write a better howto that other mortals could follow.
4. A few hundred mortals see John51|\/|1337's better howto that he posted to N00b's message board. They build the things and then begain sticking their ripps on pirate bay.
5. Bob CLUESS and Everyone else in the world gets access.
I have to agree a true innovation is not useful in anyway; until it is applied. Applied innovation is a product. The internal combustion engine, or even the stream engine for that matter are prefect examples.
They were both at the time innonvative ways to rotate a mass. You can't do a darn thing with either one though. Both are large masses of meatal that make noise until you connectect them to a car, saw blade, railroad track, airframe etc. True innonvations rarely if maybe never let us do something that could not have been done before, though sometimes they make what was once impractical practical for the frist time.
We could since the dawn of time transport things on platform. It was hardwork because you had to drag it. The someone inovated put logs under it, pick up the ones behind and move them to the front. Wow things can be move in larger qantity more quickly and with fewer people. Hey the logs work becuase they role, what if hmm wheel! Even better now you just push. Skip some centuries stap and engine to the thing and you have flatbed truck etc etc. We can move things around in ways that never would have made sense before.
We could fly before too and people did lots of experiments with gliders before powered flight. flying was not really practical though. You had to drag the thing up a hill then you could only fly down it, but you could fly.
We could build massive structures hundreds of feet high. Few did because well it made little sense, it required generations of sacrifice and the labor of thousands? Now it makes sense to build all sorts of tall buildings because we have innovated.
What do people really do anyway? Almost everything comes down to eat, sleep, indulge our curiosity and procreate. All things we have always been able to do. We just do it a lot better then we ever did before.
I doubt I'm unique and there are probably scores of people doing the same thing. I am sure there are lots of people myself included that maintain a few "identities" on the net. But maintaining completely fake blogs, and managing the levels of typo and other errors per identity that is a whole special kind of paranoia.
Unless you are tring to evade some agency, I doubt there are people scrapeing the net for posts and comparing them to the degree required to determine different psudonyms are the same person.
Relax, speak your mind, keep two or three of those IDs, discard the rest stop wasteing engery on the fake blogs and use the free time for something fun like encoraging youg women to remove their clothing or even better let you do it.
If true, this guy just obsoleted the submarine. But by the same token, I don't think we'd be hearing about it if it were true. Any number of security agencies would have pounced on him by now. Umm, No he just obsoleted some uses of the submarine. Just because you can find it without one does not mean you still don't have to use one to go get to it.
"Way to shaft all the people who bet their business on your software, bub, by changing the license terms. And the/. crowd complain about Microsoft licensing practices."
Cut the crap with half truths alright. The GPL2 has no terms of expiration. Anyone useing anything GPLv2 is free and clear forever. Nobody is taking ANYTHING away from them that they already have.
Basically waht is being done here is that organizations Tivo has been the favorite example for heaven's sake have been exploiting a hole in the old license agreement. The KNEW it was a hole too because anyone who did any research on that license would know it was intended to protect the rights of downstream recipients to tinker and modify. So the community, which if you are using the GPL you basically are represented by the FSF, is saying "We don't like what you're doing, we are going to change the terms on the new stuff so you can't use it that way any more. You should give something back and you are not."
These organizations are being treated much better then if they were useing some commerical software. With the GPL2 stuff they can still use the code and turn out units as much as they like. What if they ran these things on Win2k? So some years later Vista comes out, M$ licenses it under terms that Tivo does not like, and stops issuing Win2k licenses. They would be totally screwed! What the FSF is doing here probablly amounts to one of the most evenhanded and kind resolutions to a contract dispute in HISTORY.
The judgements are wrong. Tivo should provide no method of export for recordings. They should put some strong language in the documentation that explains that copying off the recordings by any method and distributing them to any one but individual friends and family members in accordance with Fair Use Rights is almost certainly in violation of the content producers copyright.
If they did those things no sane person could claim a Tivo is a tool for infrigement any more then a dvdrw drive is or a good old fashion VCR. The fact that the explain certain actions would be illegal and that the end user must alter the device or at least its software should be enough to protect them.
If thats not enough to protect them then the content producers have way to much power and they should take the case public. Find some layers to make a show trial of it. Get the public up in arms.
Actually this article proves the Lib solution would work perfectly.
Try this, don't pass laws a bunch of laws to make it illegal to reverse engineer things.
Without the DMCA, DRM does not work period.
I say let the media organizations put as much DRM into their products as they like, we let any other manufacture build the products they want.
Then I say let the consume do whatever they want with their purchases that they like. Maytag did not beat my door down with an army of layers when I decided that the motor from my old electric dryer might be better suited to a small electric go kart. Sony should have no rite to beat down my door if the stream of bits they sold me on their little plastic disk would better suit me on a harddrive.
I say they can make that as difficult as they like, but all they will accomplish is biasing me and likely my firends AGAINST their other products. Sony has made me hate them so much I won't by something just because they manufacture it. I don't care if it is the best and least expensive item foo out there. I have come to feel so abused by them I will take my business else where. I don't don't buy music by bands on their lables, I don't buy tickets to movies they produce, I don't rent them on DVD, and I dismiss all their hardware without a look. I bet more people would do the same to manufactures and producers if they felt they could actually get away from the abuse.
Man NC17 that must have been one old Star Cruzier I mean hell they were already up to NC1701 in the seriess. Thats like 1684 ships prior to Enterprise.
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I can see it being perfectly resonable to do that on work station at a business. The bad news is it won't make sense to do on a home PC. But try locking down windows PCs in a small or medium size shop where peoples job functions require a wide range of software. Chances are there is something every organization job function in that business requres that WONT run right on a hardened windows box.
There is just to much legacy on windows, period. The security architecture is probably *OK* now if best practices are employed. The trouble being because of all that legacy and history of not doing things right, best practices are often impractical on Windows. The only way we will ever see is if people switch platforms en mass. They need to switch to something with either a good legacy or something new and designed for the modern networked world from the ground up. Microsoft would be doing everyone a big favor if they followed Apples lead a disposed of that legacy. They could provide an emulator to run older software, rather then a layer like WOW wich is not a full sandbox and does little to actualy remove the risks.
There is nothing wrong with Coca-Cola buying Pepsi.com and redirecting it. Its a market, if Coca-Cola is willing to pay more and thinks they get more value from doing that then Pepsi thinks they might get from owning the domain and won't out bid Coke so frigging what? Its like if I am selling a house and I know you reall love it and would be willing to pay more then any one else on the market then its not wrong from me to name an high price. You can take it or leave it. Don't want pay maybe no transaction happens. If I really want to sell, then you'll pay more then whatever my next best offer was. Thats how domains should work.
It makes perfect sense and its not entirely unfair. They have set up the business model such that you essentially getting the phone on credit and paying for it by paying a more then they otherwise would charge for the service each month. If you want to leave you have to pay off the loan.
What's unfair is,
1. They don't give you much of a price break if you do own your phone or pay full price for it.
2. The early termination fee is not discounted in anyway over time, they charge the same if you cancel a day early as if you cancel a year early.
3. The early termination fee is often in great excess of the original value of the phone.
I don't have a complaint against the business model. I think its as good an approach as any. My complaints is with the implementation they chose. If they did something to address / fix these things then I would say its pretty fair.
Oh and payroll is something you can't get wrong. Quite possibly more so then any other business function has to be right the first time. Fixing mistakes is hard and extreemly costly, and that is before any legal exposure is considered. You will also find your self working with the group of business people who are the least trusting, and first to loose confidence, for very good reasons.
If you think ERP is anything like a database and some spread sheets you have never been close to ERP. I admint its not climate modeling, or interstellar navigation but its not simple.
I have not tried anything from our MPLS link at the office but I would not be surprised if that was a no go as well.
yes, I know the www is not the internet but this is still the first thing I thought of,
he internet appeared very upset upon hearing this news and responded as it often does:
550 Go F*** yourself.
Well, it would have been funny, but Moses parted the Red Sea not Jesus. Its also not funny becasuse this only works with distiled water the NaCl in sea water would prevent this from working. Sorry still a miracle...but keep trying I am sure God finds your ignorance a pleasant diversion.
I do think creaters often deserve compensation. We can argue over the means and method of that all day. I also think that DRM is wrong and evil. Just because you left your radio out on the beach blanket while you take a swim does not make it ok for me to take your radio, not DRMing your content does not give other a right to infrige on your copyright.
Copyright infringement and DRM are really not tightly coupled. The content industry would like us to think about it that way but its not true. DRM is NOT about preventing infringement. Its never worked, and any rational person can see that its not likely to ever work. There are enough people with a vested intrest in removing your protection and once they do the content is out there for all the people who think its ok to flaunt the law. That is the reality of DRM as it relates to copyright infringement. There is just no more to the story.
What DRM is really about is getting honest customers to pay twice, or more. Its perfectly fair for me to want to play a movie on my notebook without the dvd drive connected. Its not right that its been made extra difficult for me to do so by preventing my from easily dumping the disk to the harddrive. The content industry would love for me to buy the movie twice, once of dvd to watch at home and again in some download format for watching on the plane. They hope I will because they make that eaiser. Ripping off the customer and makeing it excessively difficult for them to use content in ways they are otherwise allowed to under copyright law is what DRM is really about and nothing else.
I don't infringe on your copyrights and I don't serve as enabler for others to do so, I MIGHT AS WELL DO THAT THOUGH BECAUSE YOU THE CONTENT PRODUCERS ARE BREAKING, at least in spirit, YOUR END OF THE SOCIAL CONTRACT we call copyright. I don't do that though. You had the moral high ground when people were infrining on your rights and you were complaining, many would have been willing to listen. You lost any claim to that high ground when you started useing DRM. So no I don't feel bad for you or anyone who produces content for a living that is being infringed upon, the second I find out you have ever profited by DRM. Two wrongs don't make abusing people with DRM is not forgiveable just becuase you were perhaps being abused by a minority of people out there.
If you have an alternative way to reference the direct election of senators amendment that is shorter then what I just typed here I will be happy to use it thanks
What if you found a gateway to a parallel universe where you the same but everything else is different...I found the gateway
Yes, but arguably DNS is a services you expect your ISP to provide. I know I do. I rather like my ISPs DNS server, its fast and near to me in terms of hops. Its a great forward DNS server for the DNS server on my personal network.
I expect my ISP to provide me with correct DNS loopup results. If they don't then they would not be providing me with part of the service I understand I am paying them for. They would hear from me about it pretty quickly and more then likely loose my business over it. There are after all lots of ISPs out there.
First there were CLI editors like ed and they were bad
Then came the came the command sequence editor like vi and they were Ok
Then came the hot key editors like WordStar and they were Wonderful
Then came the full on GUI ediors and they are All flash and no dash
Next the hot key editors returned in the form of Joe and others and they are Ideal
We are not talking about a carton of eggs here, we are talking internet service. Someone with the equipment and interest to utilize broadband service should be able to read a number off the bottom of a modem for crying out load. I mean its not like they need to understand what that number is used for or means or anything like that they just need to be able to FIND the number and read it off.
Read what you wrote and then read this, you tell me how what you said is any more rational: If you can't return a phone call to somebody without having the customer read you an arcane seven digit number in decimal, perhaps there something you as a company could be doing better. Really expecting a customer to beable to converse in plain english(provided you are in America, England or other English speaking place) and read of string of numbers and digits, is not expecting to much. I mean most FIRST GRADERS in this country could do that! What use is the internet to someone who has such a low level of literacy that they cant complete that anyway?
First off the *IAA is not a government agent or acting as one.
Second, they are not leading these people to commit the crime. They are just holding the door open. Its like a cop(male or female) can dress as a girl and walk down dark steets at night. If (s)he called out "Come on just try and snatch my purse," to everyone who passed by that might be entrapment, now if you just jump her because she looks like an easy target (s)he can bust your ass and you ARE going to jail.
To the second point, does putting something on a webserver constitue proffering it, or is it just leaving the door open. This is an interesting question because it gets back to who is responsible of distribution when copyrighted material does change hands, the person hosting the file or the person doing the downloading?
I know most slashdot'ers look at it the other way but I have always thought that hosting the files is not the issue, that person has done nothing. The downloader is the one actually making the copy, writing out a new file. This is likely the wrong leagal position though because it would seem contray to most recent laws like the DMCA, the take down notice would make no sense if the above is true. I don't know what if any case law might clarify but the current understanding of legislators seems to be contrary to my view.
Also 7-11 is a well know and generally well thought of brands. Most advertisers would consider elevating any trademark to the level of recognition the 7-11 has a huge success. Until you know that people would rather shop at Kwik-E-Mart why would you abandon a valuable asset like the 7-11 mark? Also 7-11 is in may ways part of our popular culture as well, if you simply make it go away all at once on day people might be resentful of that.
Its not the internet or Technology though, its just the bad teachers.
Primary education needs to be directed because kids need to develop a sense of the pattern of learning and obtain some background in various subjects to serve as a frame of reference for future learning which they might do on their own.
I had the luxory of getting a good deal of my early education before the public Internet and after that well lets face it is was not until the later 90's there was little content that anyone could sugest using in primary education out there.
I did go to one of those wealthy districts that had stuff though. We had this huge media-center. Loads of books on just about anyhting. We even had a Computer (IBM PC-AT) with an exteral cdrom driver and decades of various publications (in plain text IIRC) on CDs stacked next to it.
I also remember lots of teachers from grade one all the way to eight thinking that they could just march us all down there hand us some 3x5" cards tell us to research something and then expect us to learn from this.
Most of this media was books and periodicals, with the exception of the IBM PC-AT. That is media that has existed for centuries. I think it was for the most part as big a waste as all this Internet time for students is today. Kids need good teachers with materials to cover what is directly part of the curiculum, and a small library for some on their own but ASSIGNED research projects.
If a school is employing much of its budget to do anything other then hire the best most dedicated teachers in adequate numbers, and to provide them with the most basic facility and tools they require to do their jobs, that school is miss using its budget.
Even with things like HDCP at some point it still has to get decrypteded. Hell you can scrape the image off the VRAM chip as it does screen updates if you have to do it that way.
Let me remind you how this actually works anyway:
1. Joe1337 figures out how to connect to the bus in the TV/DVD/BDPlayer/Whatever and grab the decrypted data. He can do this because he has losts of time knowlege and nobody can tell what he is doing to his TV in his basement. Joe1337 makes it work and posts anonymously to some usenet group.
2. N00b sees it and understands only what it does not how it does it or how to do it. He writes it up as OMG *IAA IS FOOBAR and publishis it to his crapy hardware review site.
3. John51|\/|1337 finds sees the review and finds the original post. He did not know enough to do the original work but has enough electronics knowlege to follow it, and repeat the process. He discovers it actally works and write a better howto that other mortals could follow.
4. A few hundred mortals see John51|\/|1337's better howto that he posted to N00b's message board. They build the things and then begain sticking their ripps on pirate bay.
5. Bob CLUESS and Everyone else in the world gets access.
I have to agree a true innovation is not useful in anyway; until it is applied. Applied innovation is a product. The internal combustion engine, or even the stream engine for that matter are prefect examples.
They were both at the time innonvative ways to rotate a mass. You can't do a darn thing with either one though. Both are large masses of meatal that make noise until you connectect them to a car, saw blade, railroad track, airframe etc. True innonvations rarely if maybe never let us do something that could not have been done before, though sometimes they make what was once impractical practical for the frist time.
We could since the dawn of time transport things on platform. It was hardwork because you had to drag it. The someone inovated put logs under it, pick up the ones behind and move them to the front. Wow things can be move in larger qantity more quickly and with fewer people. Hey the logs work becuase they role, what if hmm wheel! Even better now you just push. Skip some centuries stap and engine to the thing and you have flatbed truck etc etc. We can move things around in ways that never would have made sense before.
We could fly before too and people did lots of experiments with gliders before powered flight. flying was not really practical though. You had to drag the thing up a hill then you could only fly down it, but you could fly.
We could build massive structures hundreds of feet high. Few did because well it made little sense, it required generations of sacrifice and the labor of thousands? Now it makes sense to build all sorts of tall buildings because we have innovated.
What do people really do anyway? Almost everything comes down to eat, sleep, indulge our curiosity and procreate. All things we have always been able to do. We just do it a lot better then we ever did before.
Unless you are tring to evade some agency, I doubt there are people scrapeing the net for posts and comparing them to the degree required to determine different psudonyms are the same person.
Relax, speak your mind, keep two or three of those IDs, discard the rest stop wasteing engery on the fake blogs and use the free time for something fun like encoraging youg women to remove their clothing or even better let you do it.
"Way to shaft all the people who bet their business on your software, bub, by changing the license terms. And the /. crowd complain about Microsoft licensing practices."
Cut the crap with half truths alright. The GPL2 has no terms of expiration. Anyone useing anything GPLv2 is free and clear forever. Nobody is taking ANYTHING away from them that they already have.
Basically waht is being done here is that organizations Tivo has been the favorite example for heaven's sake have been exploiting a hole in the old license agreement. The KNEW it was a hole too because anyone who did any research on that license would know it was intended to protect the rights of downstream recipients to tinker and modify. So the community, which if you are using the GPL you basically are represented by the FSF, is saying "We don't like what you're doing, we are going to change the terms on the new stuff so you can't use it that way any more. You should give something back and you are not."
These organizations are being treated much better then if they were useing some commerical software. With the GPL2 stuff they can still use the code and turn out units as much as they like. What if they ran these things on Win2k? So some years later Vista comes out, M$ licenses it under terms that Tivo does not like, and stops issuing Win2k licenses. They would be totally screwed! What the FSF is doing here probablly amounts to one of the most evenhanded and kind resolutions to a contract dispute in HISTORY.
The judgements are wrong. Tivo should provide no method of export for recordings. They should put some strong language in the documentation that explains that copying off the recordings by any method and distributing them to any one but individual friends and family members in accordance with Fair Use Rights is almost certainly in violation of the content producers copyright.
If they did those things no sane person could claim a Tivo is a tool for infrigement any more then a dvdrw drive is or a good old fashion VCR. The fact that the explain certain actions would be illegal and that the end user must alter the device or at least its software should be enough to protect them.
If thats not enough to protect them then the content producers have way to much power and they should take the case public. Find some layers to make a show trial of it. Get the public up in arms.
Actually this article proves the Lib solution would work perfectly.
Try this, don't pass laws a bunch of laws to make it illegal to reverse engineer things.
Without the DMCA, DRM does not work period.
I say let the media organizations put as much DRM into their products as they like, we let any other manufacture build the products they want.
Then I say let the consume do whatever they want with their purchases that they like. Maytag did not beat my door down with an army of layers when I decided that the motor from my old electric dryer might be better suited to a small electric go kart. Sony should have no rite to beat down my door if the stream of bits they sold me on their little plastic disk would better suit me on a harddrive.
I say they can make that as difficult as they like, but all they will accomplish is biasing me and likely my firends AGAINST their other products. Sony has made me hate them so much I won't by something just because they manufacture it. I don't care if it is the best and least expensive item foo out there. I have come to feel so abused by them I will take my business else where. I don't don't buy music by bands on their lables, I don't buy tickets to movies they produce, I don't rent them on DVD, and I dismiss all their hardware without a look. I bet more people would do the same to manufactures and producers if they felt they could actually get away from the abuse.
Man NC17 that must have been one old Star Cruzier I mean hell they were already up to NC1701 in the seriess. Thats like 1684 ships prior to Enterprise.