In fact, theorists say one variety of wormhole wraps back onto itself, so that it leads not to another universe, but back to its own entrance.
I'm expecting others to beat me to referencing The Black Hole and Dr. Hans Reinhardt's line, "In, through, and beyond," or even Farscape and Rigel's bored, "Wormhole. Normal space. Wormhole." So instead, and considering slashdot's current technical problems, how about something more obscure.
Wasn't this an episode of the original The Tomorrow People, except that transit time felt like it took much longer than it really did, whereas the reality of time dilation would likely be the reverse?
You've missed the point that, while circumvention is permitted to exercise fair use, the trafficking in the tools necessary to do that circumvention is illegal under the DMCA. Effectively, you can circumvent only if you develop your own tools. This bars most people from the very ability to exercise fair use.
Do the MPAA or DVDCCA have standing to legally distribute a tool that circumvents CSS protections on independent films?
That's an easy question, and has nothing to do with the DMCA. Copyright law as it stands has never allowed you to make copies of a protected work in your possession just to keep around.
Drop the word "protected" or replace it with "copyrighted". And it has long been legal before the DMCA to make a copy of a work in your permanent possession, such as making a single archive copy for backup purposes. It was even legal to remove copy protections in order to achieve functional copies. (See "Copy ][ Plus" and related software, which was even legally distributed with title-specific protection cracks, be they custom parameters for reading unusual disk structures or even modifying object code.)
It's the same law that's always applied when you check out a book from the library -- feel free to read it as much as you want while you have it, and place-shift/format-shift all day, but keeping a copy after you've turned the book back in isn't remotely close to fair use.
Which is why people with eidetic memory have to be registered and are barred from utilizing any library services, and why photocopiers are also barred from being installed on library property, and why possession of a hand-held print scanner is illegal.
Oh wait, that's right: they aren't.
Some people will go on about time-shifting of broadcast works, but that area of law has never applied to physically-distributed works.
Never hyphenate with an adverb.
Only because it is a natural extension of the time shifting right. What makes broadcast (or cable, including premium cable) so different that the rights deemed fair with them are not deemed fair with anything else?
Granted retaining a library of broadcast television indefinitely is outside the approved time-shifting fair use, as it would be for any borrowed or rented work. But then, if people didn't do it anyway, some broadcast works would have completely ceased to exist. As would have many printed works if not for the efforts of monastic scribes reproducing entire ancient texts with painstaken exactness.
No, that's the point. They want to add DRM to portable video players and home media servers, and they want to release software that respects adds that DRM when ripping. If they are the ones that license the DRM-full ripping software, then using that software to rip into those devices would be ok.
Exactly. They'll cross that bridge only after they've burned the existing free and open ones and built one of their own secure toll bridges.
And clearly they're only talking about it now after losing to Kaleidescape. It already secures its copies. It just doesn't do it using technology the DVD CCA controls. So they want to invent their own and mandate its use in future licenses so that they can force everyone else to pay them to license it.
Damn, dude, at least finish reading the rest of my comment! Oh, I did. It just got in the way of my intended Funny.
Besides, I agree with checking the candidate's record (when it exists), but there's never an ideal candidate. You're still left with voting for the least objectionable candidate.
"Hmm... I don't agree with his Bart-killing policy, but I do approve of his Selma-killing policy."
"Well, he framed me for armed robbery, but man, I'm aching for that upper-class tax cut."
can read both blue-laser formats, but only writes to Blu-ray or standard DVDs and CDs.
I can see Apple going for Blu-Ray burners due to the lack of HD-DVD burner availability, but I also remember that Apple used to ship Macs with DVD-RAM drives.
It would be nice to have Blu-Ray support in DVD Studio Pro, but just don't drop the HD-DVD support.
Well, I've read reports that the Leopard builds do support the version of UDF necessary to read HD-DVD and Blu-Ray disks. Under Tiger you need something like ReadDVD!. (I'm currently looking for reviews of that software with an eye toward using it with the XBOX 360 HD-DVD drive.)
DVD Studio Pro lets you build HD-DVDs, but at present burning them only to DVD recordable media in a readable file system, or to a directory on a hard drive. Apple's DVD Player will play them or play from a readable directory. I'm going to try that out this weekend.
What exactly is a centrist? The right has fought a successful campaign over the last 30 years or so to move the center to the right. What was once moderate left is now considered far left. What was moderate right is now considered centrist. What was far right is now right, and what was once considered bug-fuck insane is now simply far right.
And politics wholly resides in Lineland, never knowing the alternatives available in Flatland.
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper [(candle)] at mine, receives light without darkening me.
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Isaac McPherson, 13 August 1813
That is the basis of both "information wants to be free" and "copyright infringement is not theft [in the literal sense]".
Jefferson's works make me wish Amnesty International hadn't already appropriated the candle-and-barbed-wire logo for themselves.
I suppose it's the same as with people who need to purchase every season of a show they like so they can see every last episode.
As such a person, it is more that I want to see every single second of the episodes as opposed to the edited-for-more-commercials-in-syndication versions. I also like culture-referential humor, and my DVD collection is my reference material.
Having moved to Firefox, I miss the instant HTML validation of iCab, but I miss more the OmniWeb ability to edit the markup of a page and then redisplay it as if it had come from the website that way. That feature in OmniWeb has allowed me to submit forms on sites that were broken as well as quickly reorganize a web page's graphics to make it suitable as a DVD menu without resorting to compositing in Photoshop.
Exception Relating to Security- Nothing in this Act shall apply to--
(1) any monitoring of, or interaction with, a subscriber's Internet or other network connection or service, or a protected computer, by a... software provider... for the detection or prevention of fraudulent activities;
OK, your ISP can do network trouble shooting. Your HW / SW vendor can provide on-line tech support. Seems reasonable to me.
(2) a discrete interaction with a protected computer by a provider of computer software solely to determine whether the user of the computer is authorized to use such software, that occurs upon -- (A) initialization of the software;
Microsoft can run their "Genuine Advantage" crap. Not thrilled about it, but not surprised.
I don't see anything to get terribly alarmed about. What am I missing?
You're letting intervening words distract you. See my excerpts in the quotation above.
So even if you have never installed, for example, Adobe software, Adobe can monitor your computer to determine if you ever run an illegal installation of Photoshop. No sunset on the monitoring; they can continually probe your machine in suspicion of piracy. That'll degrade your bandwidth. And not just Adobe will be permitted to do it, but every software vendor out there. They don't have to be your provider, just a provider.
Also "initialization" is a nebulous term. Are you sure you know how the law defines it? It could easily be phoning home with every launch, or perhaps with every forked process. A perverted vendor could treat it as initialization of any variable, constantly phoning home to make sure every thing you do does not violate their EULA.
Meanwhile, Windows Genuine Advantage has had a not insignificant number of false detections of installations as non-genuine. A little hiccup in an algorithm and they'll cripple the software. Better hope its use wasn't essential to your business. BTW, the EULA makes it clear it should never be used for any essential purpose and disclaims any liability for failure to operate.
Next, read the full text of the act for the prohibited behaviors and realize that with these exceptions it gives those entities license to do every one of them to you whenever and however often they'd like with impunity.
TRIPS (obligatory back-formation given in the article)
Is that to make people RTFA (Read The F[ine] Article), or because "Tera-op, Reliable, Intelligently adaptive Processing System" was 13 more characters than the submitter wanted to copy and paste?
Wait.. there are patents in the porn industry? Well if you can patent swinging sideways, then you can also patent swinging sideways (provided a novel definition).
Kryptonite was initially harmless for normal humans. In a later continuity long-term exposure caused cancer.
You realize that the two terms are not mutually exclusive. The passage of time in a single continuity can change "initially harmless" to "initially believed to be harmless".
However I am not fully versed in the latest and various canon. Is it a carcinogen or just radioactive?
That's like complaining about the US Federal Government. Yeah, it may suck, but the alternative--50 independent nation states on the US continent--would suck even more.
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Oh, right: porn.
Wasn't this an episode of the original The Tomorrow People, except that transit time felt like it took much longer than it really did, whereas the reality of time dilation would likely be the reverse?
I'll say one thing nice about Jack Valenti: I like his cheeks.
You never want to engage in modem warfare with NO CARRIER.
You've missed the point that, while circumvention is permitted to exercise fair use, the trafficking in the tools necessary to do that circumvention is illegal under the DMCA. Effectively, you can circumvent only if you develop your own tools. This bars most people from the very ability to exercise fair use.
Do the MPAA or DVDCCA have standing to legally distribute a tool that circumvents CSS protections on independent films?
Oh wait, that's right: they aren't. Never hyphenate with an adverb.
Only because it is a natural extension of the time shifting right. What makes broadcast (or cable, including premium cable) so different that the rights deemed fair with them are not deemed fair with anything else?
Granted retaining a library of broadcast television indefinitely is outside the approved time-shifting fair use, as it would be for any borrowed or rented work. But then, if people didn't do it anyway, some broadcast works would have completely ceased to exist. As would have many printed works if not for the efforts of monastic scribes reproducing entire ancient texts with painstaken exactness.
And clearly they're only talking about it now after losing to Kaleidescape. It already secures its copies. It just doesn't do it using technology the DVD CCA controls. So they want to invent their own and mandate its use in future licenses so that they can force everyone else to pay them to license it.
Besides, I agree with checking the candidate's record (when it exists), but there's never an ideal candidate. You're still left with voting for the least objectionable candidate.
"Hmm... I don't agree with his Bart-killing policy, but I do approve of his Selma-killing policy."
"Well, he framed me for armed robbery, but man, I'm aching for that upper-class tax cut."
It would be nice to have Blu-Ray support in DVD Studio Pro, but just don't drop the HD-DVD support.
Well, I've read reports that the Leopard builds do support the version of UDF necessary to read HD-DVD and Blu-Ray disks. Under Tiger you need something like ReadDVD!. (I'm currently looking for reviews of that software with an eye toward using it with the XBOX 360 HD-DVD drive.)
DVD Studio Pro lets you build HD-DVDs, but at present burning them only to DVD recordable media in a readable file system, or to a directory on a hard drive. Apple's DVD Player will play them or play from a readable directory. I'm going to try that out this weekend.
That is the basis of both "information wants to be free" and "copyright infringement is not theft [in the literal sense]".
Jefferson's works make me wish Amnesty International hadn't already appropriated the candle-and-barbed-wire logo for themselves.
But I don't play WoW or similar games.
Having moved to Firefox, I miss the instant HTML validation of iCab, but I miss more the OmniWeb ability to edit the markup of a page and then redisplay it as if it had come from the website that way. That feature in OmniWeb has allowed me to submit forms on sites that were broken as well as quickly reorganize a web page's graphics to make it suitable as a DVD menu without resorting to compositing in Photoshop.
"Oh, we got both kinds. We got country and western."
So even if you have never installed, for example, Adobe software, Adobe can monitor your computer to determine if you ever run an illegal installation of Photoshop. No sunset on the monitoring; they can continually probe your machine in suspicion of piracy. That'll degrade your bandwidth. And not just Adobe will be permitted to do it, but every software vendor out there. They don't have to be your provider, just a provider.
Also "initialization" is a nebulous term. Are you sure you know how the law defines it? It could easily be phoning home with every launch, or perhaps with every forked process. A perverted vendor could treat it as initialization of any variable, constantly phoning home to make sure every thing you do does not violate their EULA.
Meanwhile, Windows Genuine Advantage has had a not insignificant number of false detections of installations as non-genuine. A little hiccup in an algorithm and they'll cripple the software. Better hope its use wasn't essential to your business. BTW, the EULA makes it clear it should never be used for any essential purpose and disclaims any liability for failure to operate.
Next, read the full text of the act for the prohibited behaviors and realize that with these exceptions it gives those entities license to do every one of them to you whenever and however often they'd like with impunity.
I still haven't decided if I'm going to see it.
However I am not fully versed in the latest and various canon. Is it a carcinogen or just radioactive?