now, now, rules must have exceptions, and there are levels to the game.
it was not enough to be a tenure-track berkeley math professor, supposedly the perfect job for a postdoc studying boundary functions. but oh no, our man theodore just had to get in touch with a truer calling, a better "job fit" than what continuing education could provide.
Re:Mac OS X (Mach SysV roots)
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My Visit to SCO
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· Score: 1
as for apple's offering, it mightn't be so much the freebsd exposure (despite dickinson debevoise's dicta) as the history of mach, which shows the influence of system five in various geneologies.
let's wax nostalgic for the pre-berne convention days (1988) where, given usenet, at nasa ames we never asked for management permission.
at least that's how 'fastfind' (1983) (now the new-fangled 'slocate'), 'compress' (1984), and '[ef]?grep' (1986) snuck out of there.
copyright scholars note that when the states adopted berne, things became instantly copyrighted "when fixed in a tangible medium of expression". before that, actual registration was necessary to preserve rights, so few managements and even fewer programmers bothered.
most famously, r. crumb saw his "keep on truckin'" art get converted to rubberized 18-wheeler mudflaps this way...
ames!jaw
p.s. hey, sorry for all that trouble with sperry/unisys!
as a side effect within that missive, we set a priority date of April 1, 1993 on this oft-re-invented technique of "ASCII invisible ink".
applying
snow | gzip -d
to the above webpage yields hannum's DeCSS precisely.
as noted noted before in the august pages of slashdot, encoding copyrighted scientology "scripture" is possibly more subversive. professor touretzky has been there, too...
as well, if the R&D didn't reflect the umbrella of stem-cell research, stanford might risk losing billionaire clark's funding...
from news at biospace (expired 8/31/01 via reuters):
"Netscape founder Jim Clark is withholding
$60 million of his $150 million contribution
toward a biomedical research center at Stanford
University in protest of federal restrictions
on stem cell research. The billionaire
entrepreneur made his startling announcement
in an opinion piece published in this
morning's New York Times. Stanford University
President John Hennessy, who was told in
advance of Clark's decision, alerted his
faculty late yesterday. The university has
already broken ground on the center, which
will marry several science and engineering
disciplines to develop new cures for disease.
The center is named in Clark's honor."
referenced from www.mpegla.com, this is a nexus essential to both quicktime and.mp4.
now if only "container" compatibility quirks were overcome, so that things like supposedly legal.mp4 bitstreams from the codecs of 3ivx/divx could interoperate with bare quicktime without explicit installation.
...besides "what good are laurels if you can't rest on them" that he quit satire when henry kissinger won the nobel peace prize, "[because you just can't beat that for real satire]" (or something to that effect).
naturally, lehrer understands ('cuz he's not dead!) that satire is an entirely different animal than parody. i think our good man passes this test.
it is tres apropos that slashdot is an archival medium.
bananaslug speaks truth. tom lookabaugh's p.h.d. thesis may also be relevant -- prof. bernd girod would know more.
wen chen's cli philosophy circumscribed the notion that (paraphrasing) "standards are useful because they are free/cheap", although "proprietary is better but comes at a cost", so that customers can make their own tradeoff judgments. for video teleconferencing, it appears h.263 won out.
nowadays, standards participants (rambus for high-throughput memory, mpegla for.mp4) try to have it both ways, ingratiating for-profit patent encumbrance into a standard.
excerpt, from robin williamson's "rab's last wollen testament":
Water is the strong stuff It carries whales and ships But water is the wrong stuff Don't let it get past your lips It rots your books It wets your suits Puts aches in all your bones Dilute the stuff with whisky Aye, or leave it well alone
pdf/ps form also allows "vector" steganography
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· Score: 3, Informative
years ago, ed mccreight of adobe mentioned off-handedly to me that font data can easily be overspecified (as floating-point), yet compatible with standard decoders. naturally, this admits the possibility of subliminal messages in ordinary-looking acrobat format.
further, even plain ASCII emailable text (e.g. slashdot messages, legal briefs, C code, email to be archived at the u.s. whitehouse, intelligence-gathering agencies, etc.) can be (or already has been!) subjected to this simple appearance-preserving treatment. for further elucidation, see:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=114 89&cid=314165
not too long ago i wanted to obtain the final
report on a government-sponsored project
(about whether magnesium hydride could substitute
for NiMH in rechargeable batteries at ambient
temperature/pressure).
no go, because the research was *partially*
funded by a private enterprise (s. ovshinsky's
company ENER). the grant overseers steered
me towards verbiage like:
http://www.atp.nist.gov/atp/kit-00/cahpt1.htm
whereby, even given u.s. govt. "cost-sharing",
a private contributor can retain *all*
patent/publication rights.
this struck me as a bit different than my days
working for the space agency, when all sorts
of private-sector contractors, participants from
academia, etc. could contribute towards a very public effort.
yes, many NASA contractors made derivatives of govt.-funded
work become eventually proprietary,
but at least the initial results could be
publicly inspected to see what
the taxpayer helped to fund.
wherein, the Court slapped down a court of appeals argument positing that commercial gain is only
one of several copyright act section 107 factors.
if code == speech, some code could be parody.
for DeCSS, methinks that the obfuscated versions
in C and perl fit the analogy, as would most
things in touretzky's stego wing at his
gallery of descramblers website.
admittedly, it would be a stretch for
unwatermarked songs to be considered parody,
although whether they undermine or re-inforce
the potential market of the "originals" is
still subject to debate.
the opposite is also true: "Regardless of what you think about the First Amendment, the concept of Fair Use,
or any other evil principle, the simple fact is that 2600 upheld the law
by posting and linking to DeCSS. Granted, that law might be a bit democratic,
and it may have been passed due to far-reaching vision by our Forefathers,
but it's a law regardless, and 2600 proudly showcased that law.
What 2600 did was noble, and they now must face the consequences of their actions.
Don't like the Constitution? Fine. Post an article criticizing it's validity,
write a letter to your representative, and let everyone you
know what's happening so that they too will know the truth.
That is the responsible solution, not blatantly respecting everything the
RIAA and DMCA represents. You can't fight the system with these
guerilla tactics and corporate mentality, and expect to be immune to the consequences.
The Constitution is WRONG, but let's take our fights
to the halls of legislation, not the thoroughfares of
the Internet. Justice will prevail."
the math/c.s./engineering professor
unicycle juggling tradition migrated westward
where cal berkeley's elwyn r. berlekamp
was doing four hatchets riding a unicycle
in cory hall.
berlekamp co-authored with shannon
as well as with ron graham of bell labs,
an inveterate 7-ball artiste also with
low erdos/shannon number.
to connect these triple-threat propeller-heads
back to open source, it is of minor note that
e.r.b. was unix co-inventor ken thompson's
master's project adviser.
further background at http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~berlek/
when and how did the IP you reference become free?
that is, the e.e. times piece states that *most* (but possibly not all) of [the involved] companies offer licensing at no cost.
does this include IBM for arithmetic coding which seems integral to the standard? (tom lane's independent JPEG group had to yank arithmetic coding because of IBM)?
and where has AT&T, crucial contributor to wavelet theory, disclaimed their rights, especially after selling wavelet-based DJVU to lizardtech, mentioned as a principal on p. 204 in the "patent statement" in annex L of fcd15444-1.pdf at the JP2K site? this annex, part of the official standard, does not disclaim for-profit licensing rights!
clearer statements from the standards body going beyond the mere requirement that licensing need only be "non-discriminatory" are needed to interest mavens of open software.
ah, but law is not like a code optimizer, which can hoist instructions (the 2nd-order questions of law) out of a loop for possible elimination, in favor of cutting to the chase on the primary decision.
whereas we (or branch predictors) are trained to make the default the most common pathway, this would take all the fun away from the Supremes, who decide the big stuff!
e.g. if the opposite were true, the world might have been spared all the clinton impeachment bile, by adjudicating things like the linda tripp tape legality *first*...
Slashdot Mirror
go bears! (probabilistic proof of alma mater.)
now, now, rules must have exceptions, and
there are levels to the game.
it was not enough to be a tenure-track berkeley
math professor, supposedly the perfect job
for a postdoc studying boundary functions. but
oh no, our man theodore just had to get in touch
with a truer calling, a better "job fit" than
what continuing education could provide.
as for apple's offering,
it mightn't be so much the freebsd exposure
(despite dickinson debevoise's dicta)
as the history of mach, which shows the
influence of system five in various geneologies.
...at digital fountain:
www.digitalfountain.com/products/tf/faqs.cfm
wherein error-checking is replaced by
forward error correction with no ACKs, over UDP.
other terms: erasure codes, tornado codes.
a disadvantage: encapsulated into special head-end hardware, for now.
let's wax nostalgic for the pre-berne convention
days (1988) where, given usenet, at nasa ames
we never asked for management permission.
at least that's how 'fastfind' (1983) (now the
new-fangled 'slocate'), 'compress' (1984),
and '[ef]?grep' (1986) snuck out of there.
copyright scholars note that when the
states adopted berne, things became instantly
copyrighted "when fixed in a tangible medium
of expression". before that, actual registration
was necessary to preserve rights, so few
managements and even fewer programmers bothered.
most famously, r. crumb saw his "keep on truckin'"
art get converted to rubberized 18-wheeler
mudflaps this way...
ames!jaw
p.s. hey, sorry for all that trouble with sperry/unisys!
see also http://
home.earthlink.net/~retiarius/email.touretzky
as a side effect within that missive,
we set a priority date of April 1, 1993
on this oft-re-invented technique of
"ASCII invisible ink".
applying
snow | gzip -d
to the above webpage yields hannum's DeCSS
precisely.
as noted noted before in the august pages
of slashdot, encoding copyrighted
scientology "scripture" is possibly
more subversive. professor touretzky has
been there, too...
as well, if the R&D didn't reflect the
umbrella of stem-cell research, stanford
might risk losing billionaire clark's funding...
from news at biospace (expired 8/31/01 via
reuters):
"Netscape founder Jim Clark is withholding
$60 million of his $150 million contribution
toward a biomedical research center at Stanford
University in protest of federal restrictions
on stem cell research. The billionaire
entrepreneur made his startling announcement
in an opinion piece published in this
morning's New York Times. Stanford University
President John Hennessy, who was told in
advance of Clark's decision, alerted his
faculty late yesterday. The university has
already broken ground on the center, which
will marry several science and engineering
disciplines to develop new cures for disease.
The center is named in Clark's honor."
so, did the sixty million ever come through?
referenced from www.mpegla.com, this is .mp4.
.mp4 bitstreams from the
a nexus essential to both quicktime and
now if only "container" compatibility
quirks were overcome, so that things like
supposedly legal
codecs of 3ivx/divx could interoperate with
bare quicktime without explicit installation.
...besides "what good are laurels if
you can't rest on them" that he quit satire
when henry kissinger won the nobel peace prize,
"[because you just can't beat that for
real satire]" (or something to that effect).
naturally, lehrer understands ('cuz he's not dead!)
that satire is an entirely different
animal than parody. i think our good man
passes this test.
ah, but lenstra & pomerance are in the
acknowledgements as reviewers.
if they're not up to snuff, try the ghost
of ramanujan.
this is an old victor borge joke.
(same routine as the pseudo-germanic "i wonder who's kissing[h]er now".
or was it the numerological riff "any two five eleven-is?",
within same equivalence class as
"any zero three nine-is?"...)
it is tres apropos that slashdot is an archival medium.
.mp4)
bananaslug speaks truth.
tom lookabaugh's p.h.d. thesis may also be relevant -- prof. bernd girod would know more.
wen chen's cli philosophy circumscribed the notion that (paraphrasing) "standards are useful because they are free/cheap", although "proprietary is better but comes at a cost", so that customers can make their own tradeoff judgments. for video teleconferencing, it appears h.263 won out.
nowadays, standards participants (rambus for high-throughput memory, mpegla for
try to have it both ways, ingratiating for-profit patent encumbrance into a standard.
excerpt, from robin williamson's
"rab's last wollen testament":
Water is the strong stuff
It carries whales and ships
But water is the wrong stuff
Don't let it get past your lips
It rots your books
It wets your suits
Puts aches in all your bones
Dilute the stuff with whisky
Aye, or leave it well alone
years ago, ed mccreight of adobe mentioned
4 89&cid=314165
off-handedly to me that font data can easily
be overspecified (as floating-point),
yet compatible with standard decoders.
naturally, this admits the possibility
of subliminal messages in ordinary-looking
acrobat format.
further, even plain ASCII emailable text
(e.g. slashdot messages, legal briefs, C code,
email to be archived at the u.s. whitehouse,
intelligence-gathering agencies, etc.) can be
(or already has been!) subjected to this
simple appearance-preserving treatment.
for further elucidation, see:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11
http://www.atp.nist.gov/atp/kit-00/chapt1.htm
not too long ago i wanted to obtain the final
report on a government-sponsored project
(about whether magnesium hydride could substitute
for NiMH in rechargeable batteries at ambient
temperature/pressure).
no go, because the research was *partially*
funded by a private enterprise (s. ovshinsky's
company ENER). the grant overseers steered
me towards verbiage like:
http://www.atp.nist.gov/atp/kit-00/cahpt1.htm
whereby, even given u.s. govt. "cost-sharing",
a private contributor can retain *all*
patent/publication rights.
this struck me as a bit different than my days
working for the space agency, when all sorts
of private-sector contractors, participants from
academia, etc. could contribute towards a very public effort.
yes, many NASA contractors made derivatives of govt.-funded
work become eventually proprietary,
but at least the initial results could be
publicly inspected to see what
the taxpayer helped to fund.
the supremes would not necessarily look unkindly
l ?c ourt=US&vol=000&invol=U10426&linkurl=http://fairus e.stanford.edu
upon commercial gain as the determinitive factor,
at least for cases on fair use.
the infamous campbell v. acuff-rose parody
dustup points this out:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.p
wherein, the Court slapped down a court of appeals argument positing that commercial gain is only
one of several copyright act section 107 factors.
if code == speech, some code could be parody.
for DeCSS, methinks that the obfuscated versions
in C and perl fit the analogy, as would most
things in touretzky's stego wing at his
gallery of descramblers website.
admittedly, it would be a stretch for
unwatermarked songs to be considered parody,
although whether they undermine or re-inforce
the potential market of the "originals" is
still subject to debate.
...is the best read on collage since
barnsley's theorem. negativland was there
way before the web and its interpreters
samuelson and lessig.
(but then, so was m. duchamp and l.h.o.o.q.)
the opposite is also true: "Regardless of what you think about the First Amendment, the concept of Fair Use, or any other evil principle, the simple fact is that 2600 upheld the law by posting and linking to DeCSS. Granted, that law might be a bit democratic, and it may have been passed due to far-reaching vision by our Forefathers, but it's a law regardless, and 2600 proudly showcased that law. What 2600 did was noble, and they now must face the consequences of their actions. Don't like the Constitution? Fine. Post an article criticizing it's validity, write a letter to your representative, and let everyone you know what's happening so that they too will know the truth. That is the responsible solution, not blatantly respecting everything the RIAA and DMCA represents. You can't fight the system with these guerilla tactics and corporate mentality, and expect to be immune to the consequences. The Constitution is WRONG, but let's take our fights to the halls of legislation, not the thoroughfares of the Internet. Justice will prevail."
ala the companion technique, allowing for emailable,
but not printable, subrosa material. see
http://home.earthlink.net/~retiarius
for further elucidation. embedding scientology
"scripture" within slashdot archives also comes
to mind...
ditto for the youth crowd, meaning
my six-year-olds, who are ituning X
into the digital jukebox replacement for
cumbersome audiovisual equipment.
neither generation cares if ars technoids
get all twisted up using such simple stuff.
but since you can get as geeky as
u wanna be with unix, it'll suit them
even finer when schools, govt., and business
get with new procurement cycles.
the math/c.s./engineering professor
unicycle juggling tradition migrated westward
where cal berkeley's elwyn r. berlekamp
was doing four hatchets riding a unicycle
in cory hall.
berlekamp co-authored with shannon
as well as with ron graham of bell labs,
an inveterate 7-ball artiste also with
low erdos/shannon number.
to connect these triple-threat propeller-heads
back to open source, it is of minor note that
e.r.b. was unix co-inventor ken thompson's
master's project adviser.
further background at http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~berlek/
great (new?) resume objective -- a desire to
partake of "a scenario where politics doesn't
get in the way of getting Real Work done", from:
http://www.mit.edu/people/wsanchez/resume/
was this goal added post-apple but pre-knownow?
when and how did the IP you reference become free?
that is, the e.e. times piece states that *most*
(but possibly not all) of [the involved]
companies offer licensing at no cost.
does this include IBM for arithmetic coding
which seems integral to the standard?
(tom lane's independent JPEG group had to
yank arithmetic coding because of IBM)?
and where has AT&T, crucial contributor
to wavelet theory, disclaimed their rights,
especially after selling wavelet-based DJVU
to lizardtech, mentioned as a principal on
p. 204 in the "patent statement" in annex L
of fcd15444-1.pdf at the JP2K site?
this annex, part of the official standard,
does not disclaim for-profit licensing rights!
clearer statements from the standards body
going beyond the mere requirement that licensing
need only be "non-discriminatory" are needed
to interest mavens of open software.
ah, but law is not like a code optimizer,
which can hoist instructions (the 2nd-order
questions of law) out of a loop for possible
elimination, in favor of cutting to the chase
on the primary decision.
whereas we (or branch predictors) are trained to
make the default the most common pathway, this
would take all the fun away from the Supremes,
who decide the big stuff!
e.g. if the opposite were true, the world might
have been spared all the clinton impeachment
bile, by adjudicating things like the linda tripp
tape legality *first*...
regarding "Particularly when they've done nothing to ensure that minors, and others who cannot
consent to a license at all, download this [....]" --
this is precisely why i keep a small child or
two around the house, ready to click "I Agree"
at a moment's notice.