and there are claims (refuted by MS) that some of them are in the public domain (by which I suspect they mistakenly include open source solutions like Samba).
It could very well be that many of those protocols are in fact public domain, but they were included because MS "extended" (read: broke) them in its implementation (see HTML).
Once they are comfortable with Javascript you can move them on to writing full-feldged Java applets (of course all of this coding can be done in notepad (or your favorite syntax-highlighting text editor))
For Java, I like to use Programmer's Notepad if I just want a notepad-esqe interface with basic highlighting. However, BlueJ is a decent, albeit quite limited, IDE if you prefer that instead. For any real heavy GUI work, though... you'd want to spring some money for a full-blown IDE.
For a consumer to detect a tag is pretty obvious, they are not that small, plus, all RFID technologies I am aware of require an antennae which would be a give away even if the tag was somehow incorporated inside the product with a small antannae sticking out. Researchers at Motorola have been investigating doing away with the need for an antennae however, maybe they have overcome this issue.
RFID's can be printed on a near-paper-thin sticker. You've probably seen them by now. The most common products I've seen with them are DVDs.
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no, i think it's the fact that the issue i bring up is that if your purchases retain the rfid function upon leaving the store, they become useful to the entity that decides to listen and track them: wal-mart's clothing aisle that insists that this pair of pants will match that shirt your wearing...
Welcome to the future: DRM'ed clothing. Wear a non-matching shirt and pair of pants and you go to jail.
there are licensed players for linux (though i haven't seen any in a while).
Name one.
The only player I can think of off the top of my head was LinDVD, and as far as I can remember, it was swept under the rug before release (or shortly after).
If somehow you can come up with one - great - I would love to check it out.
US - Land of the Free
Canada - Land of the Too Free
I get this warm, fuzzy feeling about our leadership when they start admonishing other countries for placing too much importance on trivial things like civil liberties.
The RIAA never ceases to amaze with their stupid antics. Within a couple of days of the successful iTunes deployment, they leak this bit of lunacy. I can not think of another industry doing so much to alienate its customers, all the more amazing given that a CD is a totally discretionary purchase. How long before they cross the line and get hit with a general boycott?
I'm waiting to see the headlines when someone purchases a few albums on iTunes and subsequently gets wiped out by one of the RIAA's anti-piracy measures.
The Internet was begun as a government project, not a corporate one. Rest assured, if the Internet were the creation of a corporation, we would not be here posting on/. right now. Likely, the licensing fees alone would keep most of us offline, if not the relatively small and heavily policed environment that would exist. Free speech would be a pipe dream, as private institutions are not bound by the First Amendment. You would likely see several DMCA lawsuits against people attempting to connect with unauthorized web browsers.
I mean, they killed the automotive-- er..
As an automobile isn't a piece of information that can fit on a CD or a hard drive, IP law does not apply. Specific car designs are probably protected under IP law, but the idea of slapping seats, wheels, a steering mechanism and an engine together is free for anyone to use. Luckily, cars were invented back when copyrights weren't measured in geological time.
Sure, the Ralsky attack is funny and ironic and all, but imagine if it happened to you.
When I start sending around 1 billion spam emails a day, I would hope people do this to me.
This guy became a millionaire at the expense of ISPs and internet users across the globe. He represents the worst aspects of humanity, and deserves what he gets.
Construction company X makes a standard fault for its bank customers.
One day you go to the bank to make a deposit. The teller takes longer than usual, so you look around, trying to avoid boredom. As you glance across the bank vault, you notice that the hinges on the vault can be easily taken off from the outside. Just then, the teller walks up with your receipt, breaking your train of thought, so you never mention the problem to the bank itself.
A week later, you are visiting another bank. Your elderly mother needed to withdraw some money, and she asked you to go because she doesn't like leaving the house alone. Of course, you can't help but look around while you wait. Once again, you notice the vault hinges can be taken off from the outside with little trouble. This sparks some interest. You decide to research the issue.
Fast forward a bit. After visiting several dozen banks, you've concluded two things: a) every vault was made by company x and b) every vault has the same security flaw. You decide to bring the problem up with company x. As could be expected, you get a "it would cost too much to do anything about it" routine.
Now... what do you do? Should you keep your mouth shut, or hold a security conference for banks, explaining the security issue to those banks that have the problem?
MABYE THE RIAA SHOULD FOCUS ON MAKING A PRODUCT PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO PAY FOR?? if someone wouldnt buy a cd anyway how the FUCK does it hurt the artist if they download teh cd?
Because the artist makes royalties off of the sale of the CD.
So, instead of getting 8% of $0.00, the artist gets 0% of $0.00
Your logic is faulty, as it misses the expressed point of the parent - if people have no intention of buying a CD, regardless of whether or not they download mp3s from that CD, there is no income. You cannot deprive the artist of money that doesn't exist. You can only say that downloading music deprives the artist of income if you can successfully prove that a person would buy the music in the absence of free mp3s.
The problem is that we are not dealing with tangible objects. Stealing a song in the form of an mp3 only harms an artist/label as much as the money a person would spend buying the song. If the person would never buy the song, there is no loss. If you were to steal a CD, though... there would be a loss. The artist/label would have lost the cost of the CDR used to make the CD, as well as the jewel case and printed material. Thus, stealing a CD is a bit different than stealing a CD's worth of mp3s.
But, that's beside the point. The ethics lie not in the loss that theft incurs, but in the basic idea that you *should* pay money for music you enjoy. The artists and labels choose to distribute their music through sales of various media, and it's only because someone chose to disrespect and circumvent those distribution channels that you are able to get songs for free online. The moral obligation here is to either pay for a song (buy a CD/tape/record/etc) or not listen to it. Artists ought to be compensated for their work.
On the other hand, if you honestly believe that the big problem in the music industry is lost income for artists, your primary objective probably should be the dissolution of the RIAA.
1. The only good thing about a monopoly is the standard that it establishes. The article talks says the J2EE suite has
"80 percent of the Office functionality most people use".
There would now be a possibility for a doc file developed in MS Office to look different on these IBM systems. Imagine your resume getting rejected because of that !
Of course, we all know that every version of MS Office produces documents that are compatible with the others...
Yeah it is... a Turbo costs me $(some about that I don't have) while the supplies I need to overclock (Fan, Artic Silver, etc...) are pretty cheap. I wish putting a turbo in my 4-cylinder was as easy as overclocking... I could take my 110hp 120mph top speed beast and make it a super duper highway demon in one afternoon for less than a hundred bucks...
How do the relative costs compare, though? Cars generally cost tens(or hundreds) of thousands of dollars, vs hundreds(or less) for a processor. Are the costs of modifications proportional? If you look at the cooling solutions some people use, they end up spending anywhere from maybe 10-100+% the cost of the chip.
2.5 Give comprehensive and thorough evaluations of computer systems and their impacts, including analysis of possible risks.
Computer professionals must strive to be perceptive, thorough, and objective when evaluating, recommending, and presenting system descriptions and alternatives. Computer professionals are in a position of special trust, and therefore have a special responsibility to provide objective, credible evaluations to employers, clients, users, and the public. When providing evaluations the professional must also identify any relevant conflicts of interest, as stated in imperative 1.3.
As noted in the discussion of principle 1.2 on avoiding harm, any signs of danger from systems must be reported to those who have opportunity and/or responsibility to resolve them. See the guidelines for imperative 1.2 for more details concerning harm,including the reporting of professional violations.
2.6 Honor contracts, agreements, and assigned responsibilities.
Honoring one's commitments is a matter of integrity and honesty.For the computer professional this includes ensuring that system elements perform as intended. Also, when one contracts for work with another party, one has an obligation to keep that party properly informed about progress toward completing that work.
A computing professional has a responsibility to request a change in any assignment that he or she feels cannot be completed as defined. Only after serious consideration and with full disclosure of risks and concerns to the employer or client, should one accept the assignment. The major underlying principle here is the obligation to accept personal accountability for professional work. On some occasions other ethical principles may take greater priority.
A judgment that a specific assignment should not be performed may not be accepted. Having clearly identified one's concerns and reasons for that judgment, but failing to procure a change in that assignment, one may yet be obligated, by contract or by law, to proceed as directed. The computing professional's ethical judgment should be the final guide in deciding whether or not to proceed. Regardless of the decision, one must accept the responsibility for the consequences.
However, performing assignments "against one's own judgment" does not relieve the professional of responsibility for any negative consequences.
As much as I would like to agree with you, i think that companies do have the right to protect their copyrights.
I'm curious - what does reverse engineering a program/device allow you to do, infringement-wise, that isn't already covered under older copyright law? IANAL, but it would seem logical that taking a program/device, reverse engineering it, then selling a slightly modified version would be breaking older copyright law, much like paraphrasing a research paper or article without giving credit is plagiarism. What's the main reason to criminalize the act of reverse engineering itself (as is done in the DMCA)?
More importantly - how would a student reverse engineering filtering software to discover its ban list pose a threat to the company's copyright?
That still doesn't negate the point that there is zero chance 4 students caused the RIAA to lose $97.8 billion in sales. The RIAA could perhaps have stretched it to make $97.8 million reasonable with some good lawyers and bullshit artists but certainly not this amount.
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and there are claims (refuted by MS) that some of them are in the public domain (by which I suspect they mistakenly include open source solutions like Samba).
It could very well be that many of those protocols are in fact public domain, but they were included because MS "extended" (read: broke) them in its implementation (see HTML).
Once they are comfortable with Javascript you can move them on to writing full-feldged Java applets (of course all of this coding can be done in notepad (or your favorite syntax-highlighting text editor))
For Java, I like to use Programmer's Notepad if I just want a notepad-esqe interface with basic highlighting. However, BlueJ is a decent, albeit quite limited, IDE if you prefer that instead. For any real heavy GUI work, though... you'd want to spring some money for a full-blown IDE.
For a consumer to detect a tag is pretty obvious, they are not that small, plus, all RFID technologies I am aware of require an antennae which would be a give away even if the tag was somehow incorporated inside the product with a small antannae sticking out. Researchers at Motorola have been investigating doing away with the need for an antennae however, maybe they have overcome this issue.
RFID's can be printed on a near-paper-thin sticker. You've probably seen them by now. The most common products I've seen with them are DVDs.
no, i think it's the fact that the issue i bring up is that if your purchases retain the rfid function upon leaving the store, they become useful to the entity that decides to listen and track them: wal-mart's clothing aisle that insists that this pair of pants will match that shirt your wearing...
Welcome to the future: DRM'ed clothing. Wear a non-matching shirt and pair of pants and you go to jail.
Fashion police! Come out with your khakis up!
Instead of spending $30k on a single toilet seat, why not simply buy 300 of the HomeSpot $100 special seats, so you have 299 spares?
18,000 people dying a year overweighs the extinction problems.
Because, as we know, the human race is on the brink of extinction itself and cannot sustain such losses.
there are licensed players for linux (though i haven't seen any in a while).
Name one.
The only player I can think of off the top of my head was LinDVD, and as far as I can remember, it was swept under the rug before release (or shortly after).
If somehow you can come up with one - great - I would love to check it out.
Funny. I've been using XP for over half a year now both at work and at home, and haven't seen a BSOD yet.
Change your settings so that the machine gives you the bluescreen instead of rebooting automatically.
US - Land of the Free
Canada - Land of the Too Free
I get this warm, fuzzy feeling about our leadership when they start admonishing other countries for placing too much importance on trivial things like civil liberties.
The RIAA never ceases to amaze with their stupid antics. Within a couple of days of the successful iTunes deployment, they leak this bit of lunacy. I can not think of another industry doing so much to alienate its customers, all the more amazing given that a CD is a totally discretionary purchase. How long before they cross the line and get hit with a general boycott?
I'm waiting to see the headlines when someone purchases a few albums on iTunes and subsequently gets wiped out by one of the RIAA's anti-piracy measures.
It might not be such a big deal if IE wasn't embedded into Windows so deeply...
:)
We would probably hear much more about bugs/exploits in Mozilla if it gave root-level access to the machine
They kept the internet from--
/. right now. Likely, the licensing fees alone would keep most of us offline, if not the relatively small and heavily policed environment that would exist. Free speech would be a pipe dream, as private institutions are not bound by the First Amendment. You would likely see several DMCA lawsuits against people attempting to connect with unauthorized web browsers.
The Internet was begun as a government project, not a corporate one. Rest assured, if the Internet were the creation of a corporation, we would not be here posting on
I mean, they killed the automotive-- er..
As an automobile isn't a piece of information that can fit on a CD or a hard drive, IP law does not apply. Specific car designs are probably protected under IP law, but the idea of slapping seats, wheels, a steering mechanism and an engine together is free for anyone to use. Luckily, cars were invented back when copyrights weren't measured in geological time.
Perhaps OSS would blossom if MS failed... you know... to piss on the grave.
Why not a music file?
When you pirate mp3's, you're downloading communism.
Looking at that image, I'm left wondering: when you pay for CDs, are you paying for Communism?
Corporations are people and pay taxes just like we do.
Not if they give out enough stock options to employees.
Sure, the Ralsky attack is funny and ironic and all, but imagine if it happened to you.
When I start sending around 1 billion spam emails a day, I would hope people do this to me.
This guy became a millionaire at the expense of ISPs and internet users across the globe. He represents the worst aspects of humanity, and deserves what he gets.
Construction company X makes a standard fault for its bank customers.
One day you go to the bank to make a deposit. The teller takes longer than usual, so you look around, trying to avoid boredom. As you glance across the bank vault, you notice that the hinges on the vault can be easily taken off from the outside. Just then, the teller walks up with your receipt, breaking your train of thought, so you never mention the problem to the bank itself.
A week later, you are visiting another bank. Your elderly mother needed to withdraw some money, and she asked you to go because she doesn't like leaving the house alone. Of course, you can't help but look around while you wait. Once again, you notice the vault hinges can be taken off from the outside with little trouble. This sparks some interest. You decide to research the issue.
Fast forward a bit. After visiting several dozen banks, you've concluded two things: a) every vault was made by company x and b) every vault has the same security flaw. You decide to bring the problem up with company x. As could be expected, you get a "it would cost too much to do anything about it" routine.
Now... what do you do? Should you keep your mouth shut, or hold a security conference for banks, explaining the security issue to those banks that have the problem?
MABYE THE RIAA SHOULD FOCUS ON MAKING A PRODUCT PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO PAY FOR?? if someone wouldnt buy a cd anyway how the FUCK does it hurt the artist if they download teh cd?
Because the artist makes royalties off of the sale of the CD.
So, instead of getting 8% of $0.00, the artist gets 0% of $0.00
Your logic is faulty, as it misses the expressed point of the parent - if people have no intention of buying a CD, regardless of whether or not they download mp3s from that CD, there is no income. You cannot deprive the artist of money that doesn't exist. You can only say that downloading music deprives the artist of income if you can successfully prove that a person would buy the music in the absence of free mp3s.
The problem is that we are not dealing with tangible objects. Stealing a song in the form of an mp3 only harms an artist/label as much as the money a person would spend buying the song. If the person would never buy the song, there is no loss. If you were to steal a CD, though... there would be a loss. The artist/label would have lost the cost of the CDR used to make the CD, as well as the jewel case and printed material. Thus, stealing a CD is a bit different than stealing a CD's worth of mp3s.
But, that's beside the point. The ethics lie not in the loss that theft incurs, but in the basic idea that you *should* pay money for music you enjoy. The artists and labels choose to distribute their music through sales of various media, and it's only because someone chose to disrespect and circumvent those distribution channels that you are able to get songs for free online. The moral obligation here is to either pay for a song (buy a CD/tape/record/etc) or not listen to it. Artists ought to be compensated for their work.
On the other hand, if you honestly believe that the big problem in the music industry is lost income for artists, your primary objective probably should be the dissolution of the RIAA.
1. The only good thing about a monopoly is the standard that it establishes. The article talks says the J2EE suite has "80 percent of the Office functionality most people use". There would now be a possibility for a doc file developed in MS Office to look different on these IBM systems. Imagine your resume getting rejected because of that !
Of course, we all know that every version of MS Office produces documents that are compatible with the others...
Yeah it is... a Turbo costs me $(some about that I don't have) while the supplies I need to overclock (Fan, Artic Silver, etc...) are pretty cheap. I wish putting a turbo in my 4-cylinder was as easy as overclocking... I could take my 110hp 120mph top speed beast and make it a super duper highway demon in one afternoon for less than a hundred bucks...
How do the relative costs compare, though? Cars generally cost tens(or hundreds) of thousands of dollars, vs hundreds(or less) for a processor. Are the costs of modifications proportional? If you look at the cooling solutions some people use, they end up spending anywhere from maybe 10-100+% the cost of the chip.
"Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." -- Aaron Levenstein
Do you mean this?
2.5 Give comprehensive and thorough evaluations of computer systems and their impacts, including analysis of possible risks.
Computer professionals must strive to be perceptive, thorough, and objective when evaluating, recommending, and presenting system descriptions and alternatives. Computer professionals are in a position of special trust, and therefore have a special responsibility to provide objective, credible evaluations to employers, clients, users, and the public. When providing evaluations the professional must also identify any relevant conflicts of interest, as stated in imperative 1.3.
As noted in the discussion of principle 1.2 on avoiding harm, any signs of danger from systems must be reported to those who have opportunity and/or responsibility to resolve them. See the guidelines for imperative 1.2 for more details concerning harm,including the reporting of professional violations.
2.6 Honor contracts, agreements, and assigned responsibilities.
Honoring one's commitments is a matter of integrity and honesty.For the computer professional this includes ensuring that system elements perform as intended. Also, when one contracts for work with another party, one has an obligation to keep that party properly informed about progress toward completing that work.
A computing professional has a responsibility to request a change in any assignment that he or she feels cannot be completed as defined. Only after serious consideration and with full disclosure of risks and concerns to the employer or client, should one accept the assignment. The major underlying principle here is the obligation to accept personal accountability for professional work. On some occasions other ethical principles may take greater priority.
A judgment that a specific assignment should not be performed may not be accepted. Having clearly identified one's concerns and reasons for that judgment, but failing to procure a change in that assignment, one may yet be obligated, by contract or by law, to proceed as directed. The computing professional's ethical judgment should be the final guide in deciding whether or not to proceed. Regardless of the decision, one must accept the responsibility for the consequences.
However, performing assignments "against one's own judgment" does not relieve the professional of responsibility for any negative consequences.
As much as I would like to agree with you, i think that companies do have the right to protect their copyrights.
I'm curious - what does reverse engineering a program/device allow you to do, infringement-wise, that isn't already covered under older copyright law? IANAL, but it would seem logical that taking a program/device, reverse engineering it, then selling a slightly modified version would be breaking older copyright law, much like paraphrasing a research paper or article without giving credit is plagiarism. What's the main reason to criminalize the act of reverse engineering itself (as is done in the DMCA)?
More importantly - how would a student reverse engineering filtering software to discover its ban list pose a threat to the company's copyright?
That still doesn't negate the point that there is zero chance 4 students caused the RIAA to lose $97.8 billion in sales. The RIAA could perhaps have stretched it to make $97.8 million reasonable with some good lawyers and bullshit artists but certainly not this amount.