with all the complaining people do about Microsoft because they are a monopoly, they are ready to support and relish the idea that Apple could be a digital music monopolist just to "stick it" to Microsoft.
However, can you imagine if this was remotely true? People who downloaded gigs of music would be instant millionaries because of all the editing, advertising, payroll, and script costs that they've stolen right out of the hands of the MPAA. Oh what a fantasy you're entertaining.
Copyright infringment, regardless of how you feel about it, is not theft in any form. Perhaps people wouldn't be so tempted to download a movie off of a P2P network instead of paying $5-$10 a head to see it at a theater if Hollywood would come out with more than 3 decent movies in an entire damn year! It's evident with the iTunes success that many people would rather follow the law and pay money if the demands of the consumer are held above the greed of the companies.
A patent is indeed for covering inventions and ideas. Copyrights cover written works (and today, pretty much anything you've created, but not invented), and you do not have to register a copyright for it to be valid in court. All you need to do to protect anything you've ever written is be able to prove that you wrote it first. Thus, you can register with the Library of Congress if you like, but it is not required.
Well for many people, it comes down to having their wireless card work under NDISWRAPPER in Linux, or just scrapping Linux and using Windows. By having a "fallback option" to Windows instead of the wrapper, I think hardware makers will relax even more, which has been the case up until now.
British soldier: Cheerio chaps. Would you blokes help me and me mates tool-up?
Translator: You have big American penis. Can you hand myself and my troopers some guns so we might be able to fight alongside your battalion of big American penises?
American soldier: Uh.. sure, yeah. *Looks down, smiles*
I can't help but think that he is risking ruining his great work with the Lord of the Rings series by pushing it too far. I haven't personally read The Hobbit, but from what I've heard it isn't nearly as exciting as the Lord of the Rings series. I just hope Peter Jackson doesn't get to full of himself and pop out a Phantom Menace.
The difference is that there's a broad enough base in American Idle that the viewer has a high chance of finding someone who represents their own artistic taste
Or maybe it's just a hell of a lot easier to pick up a phone and dial a number than it is to register to vote, figure out where your supposed to go, and then actually go do it.
Remember, not only do enthusiasts buy the expensive ("development-cost recouping") equipment, they are also the ones their friends and families turn to for advice on what to buy and what not to buy. Withholding their willingness to purchase will almost certainly be enough to kill obnoxious new products... telling their family and friends not to buy obnoxious products will most certainly kill them dead.
Sorry, but we're not discussing a technology that "could be". We are discussing a technology that is and will be. If the manufacturer's all decide to include the broadcast flag in their hardware, then HDTVs will have the flag and life will go on. VCRs, DVD players, etc all have copy-protection built into them and that stops nobody (even videophiles) from buying them.
Your VCR cannot tune ATSC signals. If you were to received them, you'd either have to upgrade your VCR with a built-in or buy one of these HDTV tuners the article is talking about. Either way you're in the same boat.
"If enough other videophiles are informed enough and smart enough to do likewise"
Even if all of the videophiles in the nation united, it would not compare to the number of people who would buy them anyway because they just don't care.
Videophile: "Ma'am, don't you know that buying this HDTV with the broadcast flag on it can prohibit you from use digital recording devices to record your content and could allow unauthorized manipulation of the content you've recorded?"
Buyer: "Unauthorized digital what flag now?"
Exactly. OpenBSD 3.3 already came with this feature in May 2003.
"W^X (pronounced: "W xor X") on architectures capable of pure execute-bit support in the MMU (sparc, sparc64, alpha, hppa). This is a fine-grained memory permissions layout, ensuring that memory which can be written to by application programs can not be executable at the same time and vice versa. This raises the bar on potential buffer overflows and other attacks: as a result, an attacker is unable to write code anywhere in memory where it can be executed. (NOTE: i386 and powerpc do not support W^X in 3.3; however, 3.3-current already supports it on i386, and both these processors are expected to support this change in 3.4). "
Wraaaag! Why does everyone keep calling this a Microsoft bug?
From the article:
"AMD's Athlon-64 (for PCs) and Opteron (for servers) will protect against buffer overflows when used with a new version of Windows XP."
So either these chips will only work to protect against Microsoft bugs (in conjunction with software), or we'll have to wait until Linux can figure out how to use this feature.
Hopefully for the good, unless it creates a scenario where people think this chip protects them from everything and people update their software even less. Not all problems stem from overflows so if this technology is interpreted incorrectly, it could have negative implications.
Yeah, they should have just let the British build it. That way it would save everyone the embarassment by never even reaching space in the first place.
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with all the complaining people do about Microsoft because they are a monopoly, they are ready to support and relish the idea that Apple could be a digital music monopolist just to "stick it" to Microsoft.
Editing costs.
Nope.
Advertising costs.
Nope.
Employee wages.
Nope.
Script costs.
Nope.
However, can you imagine if this was remotely true? People who downloaded gigs of music would be instant millionaries because of all the editing, advertising, payroll, and script costs that they've stolen right out of the hands of the MPAA. Oh what a fantasy you're entertaining.
Copyright infringment, regardless of how you feel about it, is not theft in any form. Perhaps people wouldn't be so tempted to download a movie off of a P2P network instead of paying $5-$10 a head to see it at a theater if Hollywood would come out with more than 3 decent movies in an entire damn year! It's evident with the iTunes success that many people would rather follow the law and pay money if the demands of the consumer are held above the greed of the companies.
A patent is indeed for covering inventions and ideas. Copyrights cover written works (and today, pretty much anything you've created, but not invented), and you do not have to register a copyright for it to be valid in court. All you need to do to protect anything you've ever written is be able to prove that you wrote it first. Thus, you can register with the Library of Congress if you like, but it is not required.
;)
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I am waiting on 2.6.4.5.4.333a I hear there will be good things with that.
Ah, a Red Hat user, eh?
Whatever is the current law is the current law and has to be followed.
Or challenged.
Well for many people, it comes down to having their wireless card work under NDISWRAPPER in Linux, or just scrapping Linux and using Windows. By having a "fallback option" to Windows instead of the wrapper, I think hardware makers will relax even more, which has been the case up until now.
Well, it's the law, fair or unfair Apple needs to pay up.
Excellent. So we've just settled a lot of debates like gay marriage, the Patriot Act, DMCA, etc, etc.
After all, the law is the law.
Software can kill, just like any other stupid mistakes if left unchecked.
insert open source plug here
British soldier: Cheerio chaps. Would you blokes help me and me mates tool-up?
Translator: You have big American penis. Can you hand myself and my troopers some guns so we might be able to fight alongside your battalion of big American penises?
American soldier: Uh.. sure, yeah. *Looks down, smiles*
Get windows CD
Boot
Install
Get worm
Get Windows CD
Boot
Install
Reboot
Repeat as required.
I can't help but think that he is risking ruining his great work with the Lord of the Rings series by pushing it too far. I haven't personally read The Hobbit, but from what I've heard it isn't nearly as exciting as the Lord of the Rings series. I just hope Peter Jackson doesn't get to full of himself and pop out a Phantom Menace.
The difference is that there's a broad enough base in American Idle that the viewer has a high chance of finding someone who represents their own artistic taste
Or maybe it's just a hell of a lot easier to pick up a phone and dial a number than it is to register to vote, figure out where your supposed to go, and then actually go do it.
Not often you see 'joy' and 'MS Word' in the same sentence.
MS Word has taken all of the joy from sentences.
Remember, not only do enthusiasts buy the expensive ("development-cost recouping") equipment, they are also the ones their friends and families turn to for advice on what to buy and what not to buy. Withholding their willingness to purchase will almost certainly be enough to kill obnoxious new products ... telling their family and friends not to buy obnoxious products will most certainly kill them dead.
Sorry, but we're not discussing a technology that "could be". We are discussing a technology that is and will be. If the manufacturer's all decide to include the broadcast flag in their hardware, then HDTVs will have the flag and life will go on. VCRs, DVD players, etc all have copy-protection built into them and that stops nobody (even videophiles) from buying them.
Your VCR cannot tune ATSC signals. If you were to received them, you'd either have to upgrade your VCR with a built-in or buy one of these HDTV tuners the article is talking about. Either way you're in the same boat.
"If enough other videophiles are informed enough and smart enough to do likewise"
Even if all of the videophiles in the nation united, it would not compare to the number of people who would buy them anyway because they just don't care.
Videophile: "Ma'am, don't you know that buying this HDTV with the broadcast flag on it can prohibit you from use digital recording devices to record your content and could allow unauthorized manipulation of the content you've recorded?"
Buyer: "Unauthorized digital what flag now?"
You might find this graph very interesting.
Exactly. OpenBSD 3.3 already came with this feature in May 2003.
"W^X (pronounced: "W xor X") on architectures capable of pure execute-bit support in the MMU (sparc, sparc64, alpha, hppa). This is a fine-grained memory permissions layout, ensuring that memory which can be written to by application programs can not be executable at the same time and vice versa. This raises the bar on potential buffer overflows and other attacks: as a result, an attacker is unable to write code anywhere in memory where it can be executed. (NOTE: i386 and powerpc do not support W^X in 3.3; however, 3.3-current already supports it on i386, and both these processors are expected to support this change in 3.4). "
Wraaaag! Why does everyone keep calling this a Microsoft bug?
From the article:
"AMD's Athlon-64 (for PCs) and Opteron (for servers) will protect against buffer overflows when used with a new version of Windows XP."
So either these chips will only work to protect against Microsoft bugs (in conjunction with software), or we'll have to wait until Linux can figure out how to use this feature.
This will make a huge difference in security.
Hopefully for the good, unless it creates a scenario where people think this chip protects them from everything and people update their software even less. Not all problems stem from overflows so if this technology is interpreted incorrectly, it could have negative implications.
...they instead went with a company who has a solid, proven track record of being THE industry leader in online music distribution...
Wow, I didn't know it only took a few months to become THE industry leader with a solid and proven track record. That is an accomplishment.
source code downloads YOU!
If anything, that should be modded up as funny.
Does a Star Wars pun really rate that high of a mod?
Star Wars leads to quotes.. quotes lead to puns...
Puns lead to funny mods.
Much to learn, have you.
Yeah, they should have just let the British build it. That way it would save everyone the embarassment by never even reaching space in the first place.