But the GPL basically says you must make the source available if you distribute binaries. This situation doesn't really apply to Python scripts, since there are no binaries.
Bah... if they really cared they should not have saved the unencrypted stream to disk.
Besides, how does it matter if you extract video from a DirecTiVo rather than a stand-alone TiVo hooked to a DirecTV receiver? It's the same content, and the same copyright holders. Distributing extracted video would be copyright infringement either way.
There's no way that the serial port on that smart card has enough bandwidth to decrypt a DirecTV video stream. It is likely that the card is decrypting the key that is necessary to decrypt the stream, and it provides this key to some decryption chip that is built into the receiver.
Still, I think you a probably right that TiVo doesn't know much about the DirecTV encryption scheme.
There was a color version of the original Clie that was released in Japan but not the US. It has a reflective screen. I managed to get a look at it at PalmSource in December, and man was it ugly. It needed very bright light overhead to see anything.
It is interesting to note that Sony wasn't showing this off at their booth. It was another booth where another company was showing their software on the device.
Verisign receives part of your registration fee, no matter what registrar you use. I think it's something like $7 per year per domain, which is probably mostly profit for Verisign.
Trademarks, unlike patents, DO NOT NEED TO BE FILED FOR! They do have to be maintained, though, and I'd say Blizzard can't maintain their trademark without making a movie called Diablo. So, I'd be somewhat surprised (though no not all that surprised, considering our screwed up courts) if Blizzard won.
I take issue with your assertion that C and C++ are "lame." Sure, you have to be diligent to ensure that your code does not allow for overflow exploits. But the added freedom lets you make your code tighter and faster. I'll certainly take C/C++ over Java any day.
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It's in plain view.
Please, this post is at most slightly funny. Certainly not funny enough for a score of 5!
But the GPL basically says you must make the source available if you distribute binaries. This situation doesn't really apply to Python scripts, since there are no binaries.
Bah... if they really cared they should not have saved the unencrypted stream to disk.
Besides, how does it matter if you extract video from a DirecTiVo rather than a stand-alone TiVo hooked to a DirecTV receiver? It's the same content, and the same copyright holders. Distributing extracted video would be copyright infringement either way.
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/04/16/1352255.shtm l#98
There's no way that the serial port on that smart card has enough bandwidth to decrypt a DirecTV video stream. It is likely that the card is decrypting the key that is necessary to decrypt the stream, and it provides this key to some decryption chip that is built into the receiver.
Still, I think you a probably right that TiVo doesn't know much about the DirecTV encryption scheme.
There was a color version of the original Clie that was released in Japan but not the US. It has a reflective screen. I managed to get a look at it at PalmSource in December, and man was it ugly. It needed very bright light overhead to see anything.
It is interesting to note that Sony wasn't showing this off at their booth. It was another booth where another company was showing their software on the device.
"Sure" is not straight forward enough???
Verisign receives part of your registration fee, no matter what registrar you use. I think it's something like $7 per year per domain, which is probably mostly profit for Verisign.
Trademarks, unlike patents, DO NOT NEED TO BE FILED FOR! They do have to be maintained, though, and I'd say Blizzard can't maintain their trademark without making a movie called Diablo. So, I'd be somewhat surprised (though no not all that surprised, considering our screwed up courts) if Blizzard won.
Blizzard tried to stop me when I created Bnetd, but they had to back off after the story was posted here at Slashdot. (http://slashdot.org/articles/ older/980411091225.shtml)
-Mark
Well, it's true. If you can't figure something like that out, you really shouldn't be taking an OS class.
That's what I did. I just dragged that EXE over to a WinZip window, and extracted the PDF. So, as far as I know, there is no license agreement.
It's okay to use an excerpt from the article, as long as you use quotation marks. Otherwise, it's just plagiarism.
I take issue with your assertion that C and C++ are "lame." Sure, you have to be diligent to ensure that your code does not allow for overflow exploits. But the added freedom lets you make your code tighter and faster. I'll certainly take C/C++ over Java any day.
> Do journalist double-check any facts anymore?
Nope.