Just a friendly note: assuming you meant "C and C" to mean "Commander and Chief", it's actually Commander in Chief, so you might want to make sure to get that right next time you are trying to argue about politics. That's a pretty huge mistake. I am on your side; I'm just trying to make sure people on my side don't make silly mistakes that will allow them to be easily torn apart by more experienced debators, who will jump on a simple mistake as proof that their opponent has no idea what they are talking about.
I clicked on the links with Opera in Windows XP, it launched Adobe Acrobat Reader as it should have, and then...nothing. Neither of the exploit demos were successful on my setup (Opera-XP-Acrobat Reader). Does this mean it's an IE-only exploit? (Note: my default browser is Opera as well)
This was EXACTLY my experience at The University of Texas, where CS is really applied mathematics, with a focus on AI. I just wanted to learn to code cool shit.
This was EXACTLY my experience at Architect School, where architecture is really applied mathematics and physics. I just wanted to learn to build cool shit.
Then learn to be a construction worker, not an architect! Coding is not what college is about. You can learn to code C in your spare time. A university-level CS degree ought to teach you new ways of thinking, not technical skills; that is what a trade school is for!
Fair use is not a right. It is an affirmative defense to charges brought against you concerning copyright infringement. Meaning: you do not have a "right" to fair use; merely, if you are sued for copyright infringement, you can use "fair use" as a defense. Similarly, you do not have a right to possess two images of child pornography, but possessing only two images (provided you told the cops, and gave them access to view them) is an affirmative defense to charges of sexual exploitation of minors. See US Code 18,2252(c)(1),(2)(a). This is an accurate legal analogy, criminal charge versus civil charge notwithstanding.
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II, act 4, scene 2
I know someone else already posted a good response, but I want to reiterate this: stop quoting this out of context, people! The speaker wants to set up a totalitarian state, and is advised that, in order to do this, he must kill all the lawyers. In other words, for this man to become a dictator, he must remove those who would safeguard the nation against his unilateral authority: lawyers. In other words:
Lawyers are the line of defense against dictatorships.
This is the most accurate comment I've read for this article. What no one seems to be taking into account is that these guys could be open for malpractice if they go into too much detail, because then it could be argued that an implicit contract was made between the readers of Slashdot and the lawyers for legal services.
Sure, Lucas could have remastered the OT's picture and sound, made it anamorphic, and left out all the Special Edition changes.
No, you don't seem to understand. In order to make the Special Edition, he already had an anamorphic, remastered OT. He then proceeded to do one of two things for this release:
Delete the good, remastered version of the OT, which would make him a gigantic dumbass, OR
Purposefully give us a shitter version than he had on file, which makes him a gigantic fucking douchebag
Your post got me thinking: does this even break the DRM? I mean, putting a microphone next to a speaker and recording the output isn't breaking DRM, and this is just a digital version of this: iTunes is doing the decrypting. The metaphorical microphone is QTFairUse, and the metaphorical speaker is the memory address of the decrypted AAC frame(s). This may not even violate the DMCA, as it does not seem to actually be a direct circumvention of DRM any more than recording the output from my speakers is!
First year law student here, so IANAL (yet). However, the Uniform Commercial Code in the US does make certain stipulations about contracts; chiefly among them is that a contract that makes some super-ridiculous (called "unconscionable") assertion upon one party may be struck down as an invalid contract because of the unconscionability of it. I am of the opinion that signing away one's rights to fair use is enough to make the contract invalid. Of course, I doubt courts would see it my way, but if enough people believe this, perhaps the culture in the US will change enough that courts will start to agree to this line of argument (after all, courts are subject to the sway of public opinion).
For example, see UCC 2-302 - Unconscionable Contract or Clause Definition of "unconscionable"
The robustness of this hack (update is easy as it is merely a response to a changed memory address), combined with the originality of it (catch the decrypted AAC packets as they are sent from the "decrypt" function to the "play" function (note: I make this explanation loosely) make this the most amazing hack I've seen since the ipodlinux guys (Nils Schneider, leachbj, and DavidC_) did a dump of the flash ROM by reading the memory off to a piezo transducer, recording the subsequent noise generated by the transducer, converting it back into useful information, and using that to figure out how to make Linux work on it.
I'm a first year law student taking a course in Civil Procedure and we've been covering the "long arm" theories, and I'd be curious from any lawyers or law students out there who might know (of course, I can always ask my professors, but it'd be cool to get some of this up on Slashdot for knowledge's sake) if it would be possible to say something back like:
"If you sue me for breach of oral contract, you'll have to do it in the United States, and then due to your usage of the court system in the US, you will be liable for breaking the Do Not Call list law (or whatever it is called)."
I mean, it's not like their threat holds any water, but I'm curious about this, since it is germane to my current studies.
The problem is that eating human feces is extremely hazardous (even deadly) to one's health. Thus, the analogy still holds: if you cannot get to Wikipedia, you know something is wrong. If you can get to Wikipedia, and read that only 200 people died in Tienanman Square, then you not only are worse off than if you knew nothing, but you don't even know you are worse off!
I don't know what you're talking about. Plug a microphone into a full-sized iPod and you can record. It's a great way to tape lectures if you're in college.
I guess this means the era in which I'm jealous of the 5-digit users is over, and the era in which I get to be the proud owner of a directly-obtained (not purchased) 6-digit account number is at hand!
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: What would you like to see most in electoral-vote.com? Summary: small poll for my new poll-tracking system Message-ID: Date: 7 Sep 06 20:57:08 GMT Organization: University of Helsinki
Hello everybody out there using electoral-vote.com -
I'm doing a (free) poll-tracking system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like Gallop) for the US. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in electoral-vote.com, as my website resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the map (due to practical reasons) among other things).
I've currently ported the poll-grepping code, and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few days, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them:-)
Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
PS. Yes - it's free of any electoral-vote.com code, and it has a multi- threaded fs. It is NOT protable (uses Firefox XUL etc), and it probably never will support anything other than Firefox, as that's all I have:-(.
Bully for Business Week! I also have been trying to relable it; I'm the "go to" guy for computers and tech in my circles of friends. I always, when asked about things like this, refer to it as Digital Restrictions Management. I think the original idea came from DVD Jon, or at least maybe that's where I got the idea from a few years ago.
Wikipedia states that the first DVD players sold in Europe appeared in 1998. DeCSS came out in October of 1999. Does this mean we can expect a similar timetable for a reverse engineering of HDDVD and Blu-Ray? Does this mean we'll (well, I don't plan on using the technologies for video playback, so maybe it should be "you'll") have to wait twice as long, since there are 2 competing formats? Will DVD Jon's immigration to the US affect the release of the tools (seeing as how he has played a central role in various DRM-removing technologies in the past 6 years)? We know there are still two anonymous German circumventionists somewhere out there who worked on DeCSS. Will they be involved? This is all so exciting to me as a bystander in the drive-by shootings that are the DRM wars.
Correction: It is like all of your friends that you have authorized to view such material receiving notice of changes. This is the best thing to happen to Facebook in a long time, in my opinion. For someone like me, a grad student with little time to piss away on Facebook, it is an opportunity to keep up with my friends who seem to spend so little time doing things other than Facebook and partying that phone calls and such don't work anymore.
Steve Irwin lived his life for nature, and for that he should be commended; as many have said already, he placed much of his earnings into buying up land for conservation purposes. Young people today should look up to him as a role model for living life with honor in his heart. My first thought upon reading of his death nearly 24 hours ago was, "Holy shit, no." It's a testament to how influential he was that everyone I know has been reeling from his death today. It's such a tragic occurrence, and I'm sorry that he had to go before he'd done more good than he already had (which was a great deal) -- I am in fact getting a little misty-eyed as I write this.
I have a list of deceased people that I wish I could have met, and would go back in time to meet if I could; I'm adding Mr Irwin to that list.
Finally, because I need a little laughter right now, I have to do it: And in other news, Jeff Corwin has been arrested on charges of conspiracy with a stingray...
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I clicked on the links with Opera in Windows XP, it launched Adobe Acrobat Reader as it should have, and then...nothing. Neither of the exploit demos were successful on my setup (Opera-XP-Acrobat Reader). Does this mean it's an IE-only exploit? (Note: my default browser is Opera as well)
This was EXACTLY my experience at Architect School, where architecture is really applied mathematics and physics. I just wanted to learn to build cool shit.
Then learn to be a construction worker, not an architect!
Coding is not what college is about. You can learn to code C in your spare time. A university-level CS degree ought to teach you new ways of thinking, not technical skills; that is what a trade school is for!
Fair use is not a right. It is an affirmative defense to charges brought against you concerning copyright infringement. Meaning: you do not have a "right" to fair use; merely, if you are sued for copyright infringement, you can use "fair use" as a defense. Similarly, you do not have a right to possess two images of child pornography, but possessing only two images (provided you told the cops, and gave them access to view them) is an affirmative defense to charges of sexual exploitation of minors. See US Code 18,2252(c)(1),(2)(a). This is an accurate legal analogy, criminal charge versus civil charge notwithstanding.
Lawyers are the line of defense against dictatorships.
Now is that really what you were trying to say?
This is the most accurate comment I've read for this article. What no one seems to be taking into account is that these guys could be open for malpractice if they go into too much detail, because then it could be argued that an implicit contract was made between the readers of Slashdot and the lawyers for legal services.
Your post got me thinking: does this even break the DRM? I mean, putting a microphone next to a speaker and recording the output isn't breaking DRM, and this is just a digital version of this: iTunes is doing the decrypting. The metaphorical microphone is QTFairUse, and the metaphorical speaker is the memory address of the decrypted AAC frame(s). This may not even violate the DMCA, as it does not seem to actually be a direct circumvention of DRM any more than recording the output from my speakers is!
First year law student here, so IANAL (yet). However, the Uniform Commercial Code in the US does make certain stipulations about contracts; chiefly among them is that a contract that makes some super-ridiculous (called "unconscionable") assertion upon one party may be struck down as an invalid contract because of the unconscionability of it. I am of the opinion that signing away one's rights to fair use is enough to make the contract invalid. Of course, I doubt courts would see it my way, but if enough people believe this, perhaps the culture in the US will change enough that courts will start to agree to this line of argument (after all, courts are subject to the sway of public opinion).
For example, see UCC 2-302 - Unconscionable Contract or Clause
Definition of "unconscionable"
The robustness of this hack (update is easy as it is merely a response to a changed memory address), combined with the originality of it (catch the decrypted AAC packets as they are sent from the "decrypt" function to the "play" function (note: I make this explanation loosely) make this the most amazing hack I've seen since the ipodlinux guys (Nils Schneider, leachbj, and DavidC_) did a dump of the flash ROM by reading the memory off to a piezo transducer, recording the subsequent noise generated by the transducer, converting it back into useful information, and using that to figure out how to make Linux work on it.
1337, guys. Simply 1337.
I'm a first year law student taking a course in Civil Procedure and we've been covering the "long arm" theories, and I'd be curious from any lawyers or law students out there who might know (of course, I can always ask my professors, but it'd be cool to get some of this up on Slashdot for knowledge's sake) if it would be possible to say something back like:
"If you sue me for breach of oral contract, you'll have to do it in the United States, and then due to your usage of the court system in the US, you will be liable for breaking the Do Not Call list law (or whatever it is called)."
I mean, it's not like their threat holds any water, but I'm curious about this, since it is germane to my current studies.
The problem is that eating human feces is extremely hazardous (even deadly) to one's health. Thus, the analogy still holds: if you cannot get to Wikipedia, you know something is wrong. If you can get to Wikipedia, and read that only 200 people died in Tienanman Square, then you not only are worse off than if you knew nothing, but you don't even know you are worse off!
I don't know what you're talking about. Plug a microphone into a full-sized iPod and you can record. It's a great way to tape lectures if you're in college.
I guess this means the era in which I'm jealous of the 5-digit users is over, and the era in which I get to be the proud owner of a directly-obtained (not purchased) 6-digit account number is at hand!
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
:-)
:-(.
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: What would you like to see most in electoral-vote.com?
Summary: small poll for my new poll-tracking system
Message-ID:
Date: 7 Sep 06 20:57:08 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki
Hello everybody out there using electoral-vote.com -
I'm doing a (free) poll-tracking system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like Gallop) for the US. This has been brewing since april,
and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people
like/dislike in electoral-vote.com, as my website resembles it somewhat
(same physical layout of the map (due to practical reasons) among other
things).
I've currently ported the poll-grepping code, and things seem to work.
This implies that I'll get something practical within a few days, and
I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions
are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them
Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
PS. Yes - it's free of any electoral-vote.com code, and it has a multi-
threaded fs. It is NOT protable (uses Firefox XUL etc), and it probably
never will support anything other than Firefox, as that's all I have
Bully for Business Week! I also have been trying to relable it; I'm the "go to" guy for computers and tech in my circles of friends. I always, when asked about things like this, refer to it as Digital Restrictions Management. I think the original idea came from DVD Jon, or at least maybe that's where I got the idea from a few years ago.
Wikipedia states that the first DVD players sold in Europe appeared in 1998. DeCSS came out in October of 1999. Does this mean we can expect a similar timetable for a reverse engineering of HDDVD and Blu-Ray? Does this mean we'll (well, I don't plan on using the technologies for video playback, so maybe it should be "you'll") have to wait twice as long, since there are 2 competing formats? Will DVD Jon's immigration to the US affect the release of the tools (seeing as how he has played a central role in various DRM-removing technologies in the past 6 years)? We know there are still two anonymous German circumventionists somewhere out there who worked on DeCSS. Will they be involved? This is all so exciting to me as a bystander in the drive-by shootings that are the DRM wars.
Yes - just locate C:\WINDOWS\System32 and delete its contents.
You sir are the Steve Wozniak of the using-Amigas-to-pirate-movies scene.
Correction: It is like all of your friends that you have authorized to view such material receiving notice of changes. This is the best thing to happen to Facebook in a long time, in my opinion. For someone like me, a grad student with little time to piss away on Facebook, it is an opportunity to keep up with my friends who seem to spend so little time doing things other than Facebook and partying that phone calls and such don't work anymore.
Steve Irwin lived his life for nature, and for that he should be commended; as many have said already, he placed much of his earnings into buying up land for conservation purposes. Young people today should look up to him as a role model for living life with honor in his heart. My first thought upon reading of his death nearly 24 hours ago was, "Holy shit, no." It's a testament to how influential he was that everyone I know has been reeling from his death today. It's such a tragic occurrence, and I'm sorry that he had to go before he'd done more good than he already had (which was a great deal) -- I am in fact getting a little misty-eyed as I write this.
I have a list of deceased people that I wish I could have met, and would go back in time to meet if I could; I'm adding Mr Irwin to that list.
Finally, because I need a little laughter right now, I have to do it:
And in other news, Jeff Corwin has been arrested on charges of conspiracy with a stingray...
C:\>cd media
C:\MEDIA\>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is DC5C-6B41
Directory of C:\Media
03/13/2002 05:18p <DIR> .
03/13/2002 05:18p <DIR>
03/13/2002 05:18p <DIR> Music
0 File(s) 0 bytes
3 Dir(s) 71,568,355,840 bytes free
C:\MEDIA\>