In an effort to discredit the DMCA, how about looking for ways that it can be misused? Here's a few examples:
Crowbars should be declared circumvention devices and be banned, since they can be used to pry open a door which is protecting copyrighted material
Airport x-ray devices can be used to see through solid materials and discover copyrighted materials within a briefcase, for example. Thus, x-ray devices circumvent a protection mechanism.
Virtual PC lets me copy and paste between Windows and Mac environments.
That's because you're emulating another operating system within an operating system and you can bring up, for example, the Windows environment on your Mac. I could be wrong, but I suspect that since you're not running an OS within another OS (rather, alongside it) this wouldn't be supported.
OTOH, I guess there's a really easy way to find out! ISO just finished downloading...:)
Clearly this won't be possible. The operating system is running as if it were on a separate machine, so it would be like trying to copy and paste from one isolated PC to another by pressing Ctrl+C on keyboard A and then hitting Ctrl+V on keyboard B. Aint gonna happen.
Clipboard operations are done within the operating system itself, so unless you have some kind of clipboard daemon running which other OSes can connect to and poll your clipboard contents, you're SOL on this one. Stick to something like VNC, ssh, telnet, etc. which allow for this kind of thing.
Integration is all good, but as for integrating functions into clothing I believe it can be at the expense of flexibility. I would much rather have a lot of functions integrated in my mobile, and be able to bring those functions with me in situations that I might choose another attire.
On the other hand, as computers get smaller and cheaper, eventually the kind of functionality people would want embedded into their clothing could be put into tons of different things.
Think RFID tags -- when the price gets low enough, why not embed it into everything? All you would need is a central repository which you could snap into place, or have your shirt/jacket/sarong/whatever pick up the info wirelessly.
Combine this with "paper" displays and you might eventually be able to check your schedule on your shirt sleeve, update it, and wirelessly transmit the changes to a server where it gets distributed to people who have subscribed to your calendar.
Presently, you're right. It's far too bulky to be considered for anyone but die-hard geeks. Similar to someone hundreds of years ago considering lugging around a grandfather clock on their wrist. Or thinking of carrying a phone in your pocket thirty years ago. Eventually, it becomes cheap enough and small enough where it makes sense.
Qualified candidates must be professional bounty hunters with verifiable experience and verifiable references.
Yes, my name is Boba Fett and I worked for a Hut called Jabba -- this was a long time ago and in a remote galaxy. During my tenure with Jabba, I successfully tracked and captured Han Solo, wanted for failure to pay back a sizable loan.
I'm fully familiar with the use of various weaponry, grappling hooks, and personal rocket packs. I have also done consulting work for Mr. Vader, a well known businessman who spearheaded the creation of a large spherical space station.
How about the Open Source community just hire Dan Bernstein to code up all the software. Sure, it might not be quite as free as RMS would like, but if every product had the same number of security flaws that have been discovered in qmail (for those sleeping at the back of the class: zero), I could certainly live with the trade-offs.
Now what's really interesting is that the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act specifies the damages for such cybersquatting:
(b) STATUTORY DAMAGES- Section 35 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1117) is amended by adding at the end the following: `(d) In a case involving a violation of section 43(d)(1), the plaintiff may elect, at any time before final judgment is rendered by the trial court, to recover, instead of actual damages and profits, an award of statutory damages in the amount of not less than $1,000 and not more than $100,000 per domain name, as the court considers just.'
Let's take the minimum $1000 per domain fine. Thus, we have a fine of:
Ah, shit... ignore my other post. I thought you had replied to mine directly. I guess that's the hazard of not reading at -1... the thread isn't always obvious.
Not all stories are posted on the front page. Each sections has stories that have never seen the front page. They only post about 12 stories a day on the front page, but many more that are listed only within that given section.
I know you're trying to be helpful, but this story was indeed posted on the front page (at least initially, perhaps it was "demoted" later). I'm aware of those other sections, thanks.
Don't like it, don't agree with it, but acknowledge their right to use the service they faught for and won. If you can't take it, fight the fight to give them (better) competition, instead of filing some frivolous lawsuit.
Yes, thank you Ayn Rand. And how do you give them competition? Ask them to relinquish control of their root servers and institute yours in their place? Or maybe start a whole new internet? Yeah, that's going to work.
Let's face it. Verisign broke the rules (ie: RFCs) which were designed to govern how the internet infrastructure works. Rules which they implicitly agreed to in attaining their position of power.
However, perhaps you're right. They 'fought' for their position, so anything is within their rights. Why, if they suddenly decided to randomly redirect people's existing websites to a Verisign information page, I guess that's ok. After all, one can always fight to give them better competition by creating one's own separate internet.
But the truth is most women find bigger is better.
Yes I would know.
There are treatments available now to correct this embarassing problem you have. Talk to your doctor -- you don't need to be shy anymore! Or I can send you 8,437 spams which claim to help in that department.:)
They had a prize of a lifetime supply of macadamias if you could get a nut out of a shell without using a saw. I tried smashing it with a rock with no luck. Apparently, no one had ever collected the prize.
Too easy. Just take it to Soviet Russia, where... ouch!
Just using a random IP wouldn't be the point, since I'm guessing the idea is to ddos the verisign servers...
Well, if a worm is specifically created to do this, then it would make sense. I had (perhaps incorrectly) assumed that the original post was referring to existing worms, which don't spread to other random IP addresses by doing a DNS query.
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- Crowbars should be declared circumvention devices and be banned, since they can be used to pry open a door which is protecting copyrighted material
- Airport x-ray devices can be used to see through solid materials and discover copyrighted materials within a briefcase, for example. Thus, x-ray devices circumvent a protection mechanism.
Any others?Virtual PC lets me copy and paste between Windows and Mac environments.
:)
That's because you're emulating another operating system within an operating system and you can bring up, for example, the Windows environment on your Mac. I could be wrong, but I suspect that since you're not running an OS within another OS (rather, alongside it) this wouldn't be supported.
OTOH, I guess there's a really easy way to find out! ISO just finished downloading...
Clearly this won't be possible. The operating system is running as if it were on a separate machine, so it would be like trying to copy and paste from one isolated PC to another by pressing Ctrl+C on keyboard A and then hitting Ctrl+V on keyboard B. Aint gonna happen.
Clipboard operations are done within the operating system itself, so unless you have some kind of clipboard daemon running which other OSes can connect to and poll your clipboard contents, you're SOL on this one. Stick to something like VNC, ssh, telnet, etc. which allow for this kind of thing.
sounds like the old "bliptos" are back
You mean "blipverts".
Personally, I think the best thing a Uni student will ever own is a variable speed notetaker.
:)
Also known as a pen?
Integration is all good, but as for integrating functions into clothing I believe it can be at the expense of flexibility. I would much rather have a lot of functions integrated in my mobile, and be able to bring those functions with me in situations that I might choose another attire.
On the other hand, as computers get smaller and cheaper, eventually the kind of functionality people would want embedded into their clothing could be put into tons of different things.
Think RFID tags -- when the price gets low enough, why not embed it into everything? All you would need is a central repository which you could snap into place, or have your shirt/jacket/sarong/whatever pick up the info wirelessly.
Combine this with "paper" displays and you might eventually be able to check your schedule on your shirt sleeve, update it, and wirelessly transmit the changes to a server where it gets distributed to people who have subscribed to your calendar.
Presently, you're right. It's far too bulky to be considered for anyone but die-hard geeks. Similar to someone hundreds of years ago considering lugging around a grandfather clock on their wrist. Or thinking of carrying a phone in your pocket thirty years ago. Eventually, it becomes cheap enough and small enough where it makes sense.
Qualified candidates must be professional bounty hunters with verifiable experience and verifiable references.
Yes, my name is Boba Fett and I worked for a Hut called Jabba -- this was a long time ago and in a remote galaxy. During my tenure with Jabba, I successfully tracked and captured Han Solo, wanted for failure to pay back a sizable loan.
I'm fully familiar with the use of various weaponry, grappling hooks, and personal rocket packs. I have also done consulting work for Mr. Vader, a well known businessman who spearheaded the creation of a large spherical space station.
References available upon request.
...citing savings of about EUR 20 Mio compared with a Windows-based solution.
Is that 20 M Euros or 20 Mibi-Euros? Either 20.000.000 EUR or 20.971.520 EUR. It's important to know these things.
How about the Open Source community just hire Dan Bernstein to code up all the software. Sure, it might not be quite as free as RMS would like, but if every product had the same number of security flaws that have been discovered in qmail (for those sleeping at the back of the class: zero), I could certainly live with the trade-offs.
Between MS worms, SSH, and this I am throwing down my keyboard...
Oh wait is that a new slashdot article?
I might be able to get first post...
Well, I guess you'll have to settle for frosty piss instead.
Wouldn't it more accurately be called a trojan virus?
Well, you're a little bit off.
.com or .net. So this gives us 60 characters for the part before .com. In other words:
.com and .net .com and .net)
6 563169518968401054359580664411777805840944721
, 50 5,017,038,096,526,563,169,518,968,401,054,359,580, 664,411,777,805,840,944,721,000.00
:)
a-z = 26 characters
0-9 = 10 characters
hyphen = 1 character
Total: 37 characters
Domain names can be up to 64 characters long, including the
37 ^ 60 possibilities per
Total is then 2 * 37 ^ 60 - (number of existing domains in
Let's be easy on them and say that 10% of those are already registered. Thus, we have the number of infringing domains at:
2 * 37 ^ 60 * 0.9 = 2225235342901498200933982154620592350501703809652
Now what's really interesting is that the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act specifies the damages for such cybersquatting:
(b) STATUTORY DAMAGES- Section 35 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1117) is amended by adding at the end the following: `(d) In a case involving a violation of section 43(d)(1), the plaintiff may elect, at any time before final judgment is rendered by the trial court, to recover, instead of actual damages and profits, an award of statutory damages in the amount of not less than $1,000 and not more than $100,000 per domain name, as the court considers just.'
Let's take the minimum $1000 per domain fine. Thus, we have a fine of:
$22,252,353,429,014,982,009,339,821,546,205,923
Bonus points if you can spell out that number.
So what should we assume about the "PBS X" channel, considering all the other pr0n related channels carried....
You're obviously referring to the Pubic Broadcasting Service.
Ah, shit... ignore my other post. I thought you had replied to mine directly. I guess that's the hazard of not reading at -1... the thread isn't always obvious.
Not all stories are posted on the front page. Each sections has stories that have never seen the front page. They only post about 12 stories a day on the front page, but many more that are listed only within that given section.
I know you're trying to be helpful, but this story was indeed posted on the front page (at least initially, perhaps it was "demoted" later). I'm aware of those other sections, thanks.
"They're using our own satellites against us!"
- Jeff Goldblum in Independence Day
Nothing to worry about. I hear those evil aliens run systems which are Mac compatible and they forgot to set the root password.
Don't like it, don't agree with it, but acknowledge their right to use the service they faught for and won. If you can't take it, fight the fight to give them (better) competition, instead of filing some frivolous lawsuit.
Yes, thank you Ayn Rand. And how do you give them competition? Ask them to relinquish control of their root servers and institute yours in their place? Or maybe start a whole new internet? Yeah, that's going to work.
Let's face it. Verisign broke the rules (ie: RFCs) which were designed to govern how the internet infrastructure works. Rules which they implicitly agreed to in attaining their position of power.
However, perhaps you're right. They 'fought' for their position, so anything is within their rights. Why, if they suddenly decided to randomly redirect people's existing websites to a Verisign information page, I guess that's ok. After all, one can always fight to give them better competition by creating one's own separate internet.
But the truth is most women find bigger is better.
:)
Yes I would know.
There are treatments available now to correct this embarassing problem you have. Talk to your doctor -- you don't need to be shy anymore! Or I can send you 8,437 spams which claim to help in that department.
All this with a computer that is old enough to drink.
Am I the only person who has no idea just what in the hell that is supposed to mean?
Nobody has quoted Douglas Adams yet on this one?
Ford Prefect: "It's rather unpleasant -- much like being drunk."
Arthur: "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
Ford: "You ask a glass of water."
P.s. If you think the G5 "Looks nice" you must have just had a stroke.
Hey man, what have you got agaist cheese graters?
The new G5 features the Remington Microscreen. Apparently, Steve Jobs was so impressed, he bought the company!
- The G5 processor runs really hot
- Notebooks don't like heat
- It'll be tough to get the G5 in a PowerBook
How did this made the front page?They had a prize of a lifetime supply of macadamias if you could get a nut out of a shell without using a saw. I tried smashing it with a rock with no luck. Apparently, no one had ever collected the prize.
Too easy. Just take it to Soviet Russia, where... ouch!
Money talks, bullshit walks. With Microsoft you get both.
So that would be... expensive talking bullshit?
"Any reason this is in the Apache section? "
The editor forgot to hit preview.
At least Timmy didn't archive this one too.
Just using a random IP wouldn't be the point, since I'm guessing the idea is to ddos the verisign servers...
Well, if a worm is specifically created to do this, then it would make sense. I had (perhaps incorrectly) assumed that the original post was referring to existing worms, which don't spread to other random IP addresses by doing a DNS query.