Either the DVD was not protected by DeCSS (some Harry Potter DVDs are a rare example) or the copy is still encrypted and the player applies its own DeCSS. Of course, that should have read:
Either the DVD was not protected by CSS (some Harry Potter DVDs are a rare example) or the copy is still encrypted and the player applies its own DeCSS.
Oh? How do the other ones do it without circumventing the copy protection? Either the DVD was not protected by DeCSS (some Harry Potter DVDs are a rare example) or the copy is still encrypted and the player applies its own DeCSS.
Yes, Virginia, it is possible to create a DVD player that will play encrypted copies of DVDs where the key is not included on the disk. Then the copied disks will not violate the DMCA; only the player does.
(A third option is that the encrypted disk image also contains the key. Just because you can't burn a key onto a DVD-R doesn't mean it can't be present in an image file.)
Wait, so if they can break the encryption and see what I'm typing, does that also mean they can spoof my keyboard and welcome datacomp inject keystrokes into my computer?
may be detained for the duration of an armed conflict What will be the duration of the current "armed conflict"? Current estimates have it continuing for about 70 years after the last architect of the war is dead.
Though that figure is expected to be periodically revised.
So I should expect there to be a microphone in every lamp post and park bench, recording every public conversation on the street, in a public and searchable database? Yawn -- a ridiculous straw man. It was intended as a sad commentary on the state of privacy in the real world today. Especially in the UK, I wouldn't be surprised if each and every one of those surveillance cameras aren't also recording audio. Aren't they already emitting their own verbal warnings to people now?
Too bad you didn't go the route of asserting verbal speech has more protection than other forms. I would have liked to point out that such elevation of protection is discriminatory against the disabled, specifically the deaf who must communicate in forms that are not afforded the same legal protection. (There are too many interests wanting video surveillance to remain legal, so the only (slightly) acceptable equitable solution would be to make audio recording legal in all the same situations.)
Anyway it's more like a room at a sci-fi convention and someone is transcribing everything. Even if the convention is free attendance, a guest speaker may well object to someone transcribing his speech and making it available for free after the fact without compensation. Celebrity speakers still need to be paid (even if from memorabilia sales). Someone on an IRC channel could have some expectation that the venue is somewhat cloistered. (I've seen channels where people clam up when an outsider joins the channel. People like that seem to expect some privacy on IRC. And some people know how to monitor channel content unseen.)
You can be well assured that other venues where communication is one-to-many, recording devices are strictly prohibited, such as a concert performance. Even in areas not inside the paid venue but also near enough to it to be heard can you expect enforcement. Also, transcriptions of speeches get taken down because the speech was printed before it was intoned and as such enjoys copyright.
All that said, compare my signature: "A work that expires before its copyright never enters the public domain and thus enjoys eternal copyright protection." From that you could deduce a different position: if these published conversations do fall into the ether without being recorded, they will enjoy unconstitutional eternal copyright protection as they will not exist to become available in the public domain. (Copyright law even says if a work is lost and then restored, its copyright still endures as if it were never lost.)
Still, their publication to third parties would infringe copyright until the time that they do enter the public domain. As such, they should be embargoed from publication until their copyright expires. And conversations made even in a public venue to a presumptive limited audience are far more deserving of the lifetime-plus protection currently enjoyed by the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons published to the world. Tit for tat, if you want to publish it, it's your responsibility to verify that everyone so recorded has been sufficiently dead.
So I'm not against all copyright. I'm for reasonable copyright terms. Further, I'm for terms to depend on the nature of the work, especially on its ability to endure beyond its copyright term. I'd concede granting publishing of otherwise ephemeral IRC communications as public domain if copyright concedes their abusive terms of protection beyond the work's reasonable durability.
Absent equitable copyright for all, they can just sit on those logs for the duration of the life of the human with the longest longevity ever recorded plus 70(++) years. Equal protection or equal violation. Fair's fair.
Og has mammoth license. Is written on cave wall. This is a dog license with the word 'dog' crossed out and 'mammoth' written in in charcoal. And 'mammoth' is spelled wrong.
So I should expect there to be a microphone in every lamp post and park bench, recording every public conversation on the street, in a public and searchable database?
I'd like to chime in here and mention that I have used Google to read a story that had been dropped from a news site. Google didn't provide a cache link, the site refused to acknowledge that it had ever published the story (they sent it down the memory hole), but I had a couple phrases quoted elsewhere that I wanted to check context against.
So I did multiple Google searches looking for phrase segments, each one getting me one or two more words before or after the phrase. Eventually I was able to reconstruct two or three paragraphs. It took a few more searches to determine their proper order.
I'm wary of giving any site the ability to prevent such Google forensics automatically.
Can we have one for confirmed cheaters? and then a address listing and google map link? And an icon consisting of a torch and pitchfork? Maybe a noose as well?
And then can we charge Microsoft for incitement to commit murder?
What I'd like to see are some relevant tags, like team-killer. I don't care how you play the game in a single player mode, it's up to you. But in multi-player games, it would be nice to know what behavior we're likely to see. Yes, but who hasn't accidentally killed a team member in a game? Or just ganged up on a griefer that joined your team? Should one mistake brand your gamer tag as a Team Killer forever? ("That's not a target; that's Church!")
And it makes griefing worse: they could deliberately jump into your line of fire so as to ruin the reputation of your gamer tag. Should they be able to force you to give up a prepaid year of service to dissociate yourself from that tag and get another to restore your ability to play?
Some spammers will stoop to signing up for shell accounts at ISPs to harvest e-mail addresses. A lot of information can be learned just with that access. Not just compiling the results of ls ~/.. to a host name, but also harvesting cat ~/../*/.forward. The contents of a.forward file can also be disclosed via finger if your host still allows outside access.
It could also be that a relay between your mail server and gmail may be snooping on e-mail packets looking for active addresses @gmail and selling them to spammers.
Over the last week I've switched some filter rules from logging to not-logging, but I don't think for a moment that means the spammers have stopped trying. If I were to turn logging back on, I'm sure I'd get to watch the tail running on the log grow rapidly with each filter like a bugs hitting the zapper.
I do wish there was an option for egrep -i -f blacklist where instead of returning the line that matched a rule in the blacklist file, it would return the rule in the blacklist file that matched the line. It would make it a lot easier to diagnose problem rules. The closest I can get to that is the -o option.
`It seems that you've been living two lives. One life, you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number, pay your taxes, and you... help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias "Neo" and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not.'
Does this mean Weird Al will be banned from performing in Canada? Maybe they're unhappy with his Green Day parody.
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Canadian Idiot
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Straight Outta Lynwood
(Parody to tune of "American Idiot" by Green Day)
Don't wanna be a Canadian idiot Don't wanna be some beer swillin' hockey nut And do I look like some frostbitten hose-head? I never learned my alphabet from A to Zed
They all live on donuts and moose meat
And they leave the house without packin' heat
Never even bring their guns to the mall
And you know what else is too funny?
Their stupid Monopoly money
Can't take 'em seriously at all
Well maple syrup and snow's what they export They treat curling just like it's a real sport They think their silly accent is so cute Can't understand a thing they're talkin' aboot
Sure they got their national health care
Cheaper meds, low crime rates and clean air
Then again well they got Celine Dion
Eat their weight in Kraft macaroni
And dream of drivin' a Zamboni
All over Saskatchewan
Don't wanna be a Canadian idiot Won't figure out their temperature in Celsius See the map, they're hoverin' right over us Tell you the truth, it makes me kinda nervous
Always hear the same kind of story
Break their nose and they'll just say "sorry"
Tell me what kind of freaks are that polite?
It's gotta mean they're all up to somethin'
So quick, before they see it comin'
Time for a pre-emptive strike!
...are about as effective as a one legged man in a butt-kicking contest
I'd think the one guy with legs would be quite effective at kicking the butts of all the other contestants without legs, their butts already being at foot level and their having nothing to kick with. Seems a bit of a one-sided contest to me.
Oh if only the expanded context equated the one legged man as Microsoft dominating over the legless Google, Firefox and Web 2.0 instead. Then it would have made sense.
Maybe it receives super ESP powers, creation of matter, exertion of force at a distance, every mental god-like power except for being able to correctly guess someone's middle initial.
Gee, was it only ten years ago when UNL switched everyone, faculty and students, from normal e-mail to Lotus Notes? No, I think it had to be longer than that.
At it seems they still are using it, at least 10 years later. (Even some of the old pages still exist.) Most recent news: attachment size limit has been scaled back to 120 MB "to increase productivity and reliablity". If I hadn't linked it, you could have found it by searching for that misspelling (and two other hits for the phrase, sadly).
In Australia, 911 is a valid prefix to an ordinary phone number, so there is no feasible way that 911 could be routed to the emergency number. Not even as a guard-spaced number, where if nothing follows it in 5 seconds it is considered a complete dialing?
I've used phone services where if you ended your dialing with # it would ring through faster, as it was used as a signal that you had finished dialing. DTMF signals sent after # would be ignored by the general phone system. (This was a US system that didn't require dialing the full prefix, only the last digit of the prefix (8 in this case) and the last four digits (the first of the last four always odd, but never 1, and 3 and 9 were equivalent). If you dialed 888 followed by the last four digits, it would trigger a ringback when you hung up (I typically used it on my own number to busy it out without an alarm). It would also gladly let you keep hitting 8s to infinity and never complain. That system was eventually replaced.)
But, back to the subject a signal to identify you're calling 911: what's next? Is the FCC going to mandate that once during every 15 minutes of a call the number you're connected to must be verbally identified (like station identification for broadcast channels)? Or a perpetually repeating DTMF signal behind the conversation, like the on-screen TV bugs? (A sibling of mine had a friend whose phone number was the tune of "Mary had a little lamb". Now that would drive you insane hearing it play over and over again during a phone call.)
Surely the RIAA sycophants wont protest a democratic approach, or attempt corrupt illegal practices to block it's process. See their education initiatives to brainwash grade school children that there never was such a thing as fair use.
The software is not in and of itself bad - recently it was used to locate a mother and child attending a concert to let them know that a transplant donor had been located for the child and to get to the hospital. Gee, I wonder how the next matching child on the recipients list felt about that, and if that child ever got the donor organ he/she required.
But have there been games where a level has been as short as some books' chapters?
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, Chapter ??: Nothing much else happened that night. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, Vardaman Chapter: My mother is a fish. Gremlins by George Gipe, Chapter 11: Pete forgot.
That sounds much like what Douglas Adams wrote, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", Chapter 30:
Ford and Arthur continued their journey through the wood. A few hundred yards past the clearing they suddenly came upon a small pile of fruit lying in their path -- berries that looked remarkably like raspberries and blackberries, and pulpy, green skinned fruit that looked remarkably like pears.
So far they had steered clear of the fruit and berries they had seen, though the trees and bushes were laden with them.
"Look at it this way," Ford Prefect had said, "fruit and berries on strange planets either make you live or make you die. Therefore the point at which to start toying with them is when you're going to die if you don't. That way you stay ahead. The secret of healthy hitch-hiking is to eat junk food."
They looked at the pile that lay in their path with suspicion. It looked so good it made them almost dizzy with hunger.
"Look at it this way," said Ford, "er..."
"Yes?" said Arthur.
"I'm trying to think of a way of looking at it which means we get to eat it," said Ford.
The leaf-dappled sun gleamed on the pulp skins of the things which looked like pears. The things which looked like raspberries and strawberries were fatter and riper than any Arthur had ever seen, even in ice cream commercials.
"Why don't we eat them and think about it afterwards?" he said.
"Maybe that's what they want us to do."
"Alright, look at it this way..."
"Sounds good so far."
"It's there for us to eat. Either it's good or it's bad, either they want to feed us or to poison us. If it's poisonous and we don't eat it they'll just attack us some other way. If we don't eat, we lose out either way."
"I like the way you're thinking," said Ford, "Now eat one."
Hesitantly, Arthur picked up one of those things that looked like pears.
"I always thought that about the Garden of Eden story," said Ford.
"Eh?"
"Garden of Eden. Tree. Apple. That bit, remember?"
"Yes of course I do."
"Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says do what you like guys, oh, but don't eat the apple. Surprise surprise, they eat it and he leaps out from behind a bush shouting 'Gotcha'. It wouldn't have made any difference if they hadn't eaten it."
"Why not?"
"Because if you're dealing with somebody who has the sort of mentality which likes leaving hats on the pavement with bricks under them you know perfectly well they won't give up. They'll get you in the end."
"What are you talking about?"
"Never mind, eat the fruit."
"You know, this place almost looks like the Garden of Eden."
"Eat the fruit."
"Sounds quite like it too."
Arthur took a bite from the thing which looked like a pear.
"It's a pear," he said.
A few moments later, when they had eaten the lot, Ford Prefect turned round and called out.
"Thank you. Thank you very much," he called, "you're very kind."
They went on their way.
For the next fifty miles of their journey eastward they kept on finding the occasional gift of fruit lying in their path, and though they once or twice had a quick glimpse of a native man-creature amongst the trees, they never again made direct contact. They decided they rather liked a race of people who made it clear that they were grateful simply to be left alone.
The fruit and berries stopped after fifty miles, because that was where the sea started.
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Yes, Virginia, it is possible to create a DVD player that will play encrypted copies of DVDs where the key is not included on the disk. Then the copied disks will not violate the DMCA; only the player does.
(A third option is that the encrypted disk image also contains the key. Just because you can't burn a key onto a DVD-R doesn't mean it can't be present in an image file.)
Wait, so if they can break the encryption and see what I'm typing, does that also mean they can spoof my keyboard and welcome datacomp inject keystrokes into my computer?
You use your teeth, after first leveraging the wolf's mouth away with a knee to the chin.
Or so Dwight Schrute told me.
Though that figure is expected to be periodically revised.
Too bad you didn't go the route of asserting verbal speech has more protection than other forms. I would have liked to point out that such elevation of protection is discriminatory against the disabled, specifically the deaf who must communicate in forms that are not afforded the same legal protection. (There are too many interests wanting video surveillance to remain legal, so the only (slightly) acceptable equitable solution would be to make audio recording legal in all the same situations.)
Anyway it's more like a room at a sci-fi convention and someone is transcribing everything. Even if the convention is free attendance, a guest speaker may well object to someone transcribing his speech and making it available for free after the fact without compensation. Celebrity speakers still need to be paid (even if from memorabilia sales). Someone on an IRC channel could have some expectation that the venue is somewhat cloistered. (I've seen channels where people clam up when an outsider joins the channel. People like that seem to expect some privacy on IRC. And some people know how to monitor channel content unseen.)
You can be well assured that other venues where communication is one-to-many, recording devices are strictly prohibited, such as a concert performance. Even in areas not inside the paid venue but also near enough to it to be heard can you expect enforcement. Also, transcriptions of speeches get taken down because the speech was printed before it was intoned and as such enjoys copyright.
All that said, compare my signature: "A work that expires before its copyright never enters the public domain and thus enjoys eternal copyright protection." From that you could deduce a different position: if these published conversations do fall into the ether without being recorded, they will enjoy unconstitutional eternal copyright protection as they will not exist to become available in the public domain. (Copyright law even says if a work is lost and then restored, its copyright still endures as if it were never lost.)
Still, their publication to third parties would infringe copyright until the time that they do enter the public domain. As such, they should be embargoed from publication until their copyright expires. And conversations made even in a public venue to a presumptive limited audience are far more deserving of the lifetime-plus protection currently enjoyed by the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons published to the world. Tit for tat, if you want to publish it, it's your responsibility to verify that everyone so recorded has been sufficiently dead.
So I'm not against all copyright. I'm for reasonable copyright terms. Further, I'm for terms to depend on the nature of the work, especially on its ability to endure beyond its copyright term. I'd concede granting publishing of otherwise ephemeral IRC communications as public domain if copyright concedes their abusive terms of protection beyond the work's reasonable durability.
Absent equitable copyright for all, they can just sit on those logs for the duration of the life of the human with the longest longevity ever recorded plus 70(++) years. Equal protection or equal violation. Fair's fair.
(Og name him Joe Mamath.)
So I should expect there to be a microphone in every lamp post and park bench, recording every public conversation on the street, in a public and searchable database?
I'd like to chime in here and mention that I have used Google to read a story that had been dropped from a news site. Google didn't provide a cache link, the site refused to acknowledge that it had ever published the story (they sent it down the memory hole), but I had a couple phrases quoted elsewhere that I wanted to check context against.
So I did multiple Google searches looking for phrase segments, each one getting me one or two more words before or after the phrase. Eventually I was able to reconstruct two or three paragraphs. It took a few more searches to determine their proper order.
I'm wary of giving any site the ability to prevent such Google forensics automatically.
And then can we charge Microsoft for incitement to commit murder?
And it makes griefing worse: they could deliberately jump into your line of fire so as to ruin the reputation of your gamer tag. Should they be able to force you to give up a prepaid year of service to dissociate yourself from that tag and get another to restore your ability to play?
But what if one of the tags was Team Killer?
Some spammers will stoop to signing up for shell accounts at ISPs to harvest e-mail addresses. A lot of information can be learned just with that access. Not just compiling the results of ls ~/.. to a host name, but also harvesting cat ~/../*/.forward. The contents of a .forward file can also be disclosed via finger if your host still allows outside access.
It could also be that a relay between your mail server and gmail may be snooping on e-mail packets looking for active addresses @gmail and selling them to spammers.
Over the last week I've switched some filter rules from logging to not-logging, but I don't think for a moment that means the spammers have stopped trying. If I were to turn logging back on, I'm sure I'd get to watch the tail running on the log grow rapidly with each filter like a bugs hitting the zapper.
I do wish there was an option for egrep -i -f blacklist where instead of returning the line that matched a rule in the blacklist file, it would return the rule in the blacklist file that matched the line. It would make it a lot easier to diagnose problem rules. The closest I can get to that is the -o option.
`It seems that you've been living two lives. One life, you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number, pay your taxes, and you... help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias "Neo" and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not.'
I'd think the one guy with legs would be quite effective at kicking the butts of all the other contestants without legs, their butts already being at foot level and their having nothing to kick with. Seems a bit of a one-sided contest to me.
Oh if only the expanded context equated the one legged man as Microsoft dominating over the legless Google, Firefox and Web 2.0 instead. Then it would have made sense.
What a difference an omitted hyphen can make.
Maybe it receives super ESP powers, creation of matter, exertion of force at a distance, every mental god-like power except for being able to correctly guess someone's middle initial.
Gee, was it only ten years ago when UNL switched everyone, faculty and students, from normal e-mail to Lotus Notes? No, I think it had to be longer than that.
At it seems they still are using it, at least 10 years later. (Even some of the old pages still exist.) Most recent news: attachment size limit has been scaled back to 120 MB "to increase productivity and reliablity". If I hadn't linked it, you could have found it by searching for that misspelling (and two other hits for the phrase, sadly).
I've used phone services where if you ended your dialing with # it would ring through faster, as it was used as a signal that you had finished dialing. DTMF signals sent after # would be ignored by the general phone system. (This was a US system that didn't require dialing the full prefix, only the last digit of the prefix (8 in this case) and the last four digits (the first of the last four always odd, but never 1, and 3 and 9 were equivalent). If you dialed 888 followed by the last four digits, it would trigger a ringback when you hung up (I typically used it on my own number to busy it out without an alarm). It would also gladly let you keep hitting 8s to infinity and never complain. That system was eventually replaced.)
But, back to the subject a signal to identify you're calling 911: what's next? Is the FCC going to mandate that once during every 15 minutes of a call the number you're connected to must be verbally identified (like station identification for broadcast channels)? Or a perpetually repeating DTMF signal behind the conversation, like the on-screen TV bugs? (A sibling of mine had a friend whose phone number was the tune of "Mary had a little lamb". Now that would drive you insane hearing it play over and over again during a phone call.)
But have there been games where a level has been as short as some books' chapters?
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, Chapter ??: Nothing much else happened that night.
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, Vardaman Chapter: My mother is a fish.
Gremlins by George Gipe, Chapter 11: Pete forgot.