I thought serious websites were supposed to store passwords as a hash, not as plaintext. So you can't just "look up" someone's password even if you have access to the database. This story is poorly concocted fiction.
Actually, the DMCA created the current internet radio music royalties system, whose rising royalty rates are liable to put internet radio out of business. It has very much to do with the RIAA.
Also, the RIAA uses plenty of DRM--ever heard of the iTunes Music Store? All "legitimate" music services depend on the DMCA to protect their wares. If it wasn't for the DMCA, we would be seeing tons more (unlicensed) consumer products that interoperated with the various music services.
Its called diminishing returns. Also, that 6x improvement only works for people with brand new multi-thousand dollar televisions. Most people don't even know what 1080p means, let alone care about it.
Well a lot (if not most) of the labels on there are actually owned by the Big 4, but there were a few that surprised me (Absolutely Kosher, how could you?). In any case, this is a nice site: http://www.riaaradar.com/ as one can type in an artist, album, or label and find out its affiliation with the RIAA.
Wrong. Legally all internet music broadcasters are required to pay SoundExchange license fees, irrespective of who made the music. The alternative is to get (written) permission from each and every copyright holder whose music the broadcaster plays, which for most radio stations is impossible.
I think background radiation will be one of its main reasons it will fail for a CPU and RAM. With a structure 1 atom thick there is no room for failure. Either an atom exists or it doesn't. Knock an atom out of place then it fails. With a conventional transistor as its bulk material all that happens is it degrades its performance but it can take it (most of the time).
Can't that be managed with error correction? If you can run these redundantly 1000 times, still be faster and smaller than silicon, and have similar error rates, then thats a pretty nice gain.
The FSF (or any other GPL-program-copyright-holder) cannot prevent Novell from distributing their programs currently, but they can sue Novell for breach of contract if and when Novell starts distributing versions of GPL-protected programs modified to include MS-IP-protected changes.
IANAL but the GPL is not a contract, its a license for distribution. In other words the FSF et al. would want to sue for copyright violation, not breach of contract (there is no contract to breach).
One cool thing about California is that according to their vehicle code, or at least the DMV booklet I read when I was learning to drive, there are "invisible" crosswalks at every street intersection. Of course, as far as excessive driving and urban sprawl goes, California is public enemy number one...
If you don't mind getting your feet wet with some programming, ChucK is a Java-like audio programming language that can interact with MIDI devices, and is a nice alternative to Csound and Pd for people who want to do sequencing programmatically.
Hard links anyone? They've been around for nearly 40 years. But I guess most desktop file browsers don't really expose that functionality though, and its a pain to drop into the command line just to make a few links. And Windows doesn't offer them at all.
The PERFORM Act will require streaming radio to be DRM'd, too. In fact that's really what it applies to - the fact that it might affect podcasting is just a side effect.
The stupid thing about this bill is that it, according to Feinstein, "would require the use of readily available and cost-effective technology to prevent music theft". What readily available and cost-effective DRM technology works with streaming broadcasts? None that I know of, not even from the usual suspects (Microsoft, Real). So, until someone comes around and writes this magic software, this part of the bill won't mean anything.
Apple holds the copyright to Darwin and can use it however they want.
Not quite. Darwin is hybrid between FreeBSD, Mach, and some extras that Apple developed, and Apple definitely does not hold the copyright for the first two. FreeBSD's license would allow a closed source derivative, but from what little Ive gleaned off of CMU's Mach webpage, CMU would not be happy about a completely closed source kernel derived from Mach.
Not quite... InputManager only works with Cocoa applications, as the CocoaDev page you cited mentions, and class posing will only work with parts of applications written using Objective-C classes.
APE uses mach_inject and mach_override to actually patch new code into applications loaded into memory. This works at the kernel level and thus is framework and language agnostic.
That's a very interesting point. But, thinking outloud here (i am not a lawyer of course), couldn't a small Linux outfit create a "derivative work" of Novell's distro (or at least the GPLed parts), sell or distribute that, and be protected from Microsoft? If any sort of legal obstacle or patent licensing requirement hindered this small time distro from distributing, that would automatically prevent Novell from distributing SUSE by way of GPLv2 section 7, since they received their copy directly from Novell. If Microsoft successfully sues the customers of the small time distro, then Novell can also no longer distribute because those customers recieved their linux distribution indirectly from Novell.
If this kind of argument holds any water, the next Ubuntu/Debian/Red Hat/etc. could potentially be a "derivate work" of SUSE but just happen to look exactly like Ubuntu/Debian/Red Hat/etc., and they would be protected.
Despite Novell's sneaky FAQ responses, I'm still not totally convinced that they won't get blown out of the water the minute a legitimate legal threat confronts the Linux distros who haven't paid off Microsoft.
They give Novell a wad of cash and gave Suse and Mono MS's blessing. MS will allow a handful of Linux distros to operate (read: suse, rh) and send cease and desist letters to every other distro because Linux and its various popular applications infringe on 326,038 MS-owned software patents.
You seem to be forgetting section 7 of the GPL, which illegitimizes the entire Novell deal. Section 7 of the GPL says that we all sink together. If patents, contracts, legal rulings, etc. prevent modification and usage (within the limits of the GPL) of GPLed software by end users, then neither Novell nor any other big Linux distro gets to distribute that software. The second there is any real legal obstacle for small distros to continue distributing linux and other GPL software, expect the bigger linux-friendly players to come at Novell for GPL (ie copyright) violations.
This would not work at all, because someone could easily intercept your mail at the mailbox, post office, etc. Sending plaintext by snail mail is just as secure as sending plaintext over the net, i.e. its not.
For this to be secure you would probably have to go and pick up your private key at the bank yourself.
Not just possible, but really easy. Unless DRM is built into the hardware (eg TPM, Palladium), its all just bits on a disk. Expect cracks for this real soon.
There's no such thing as a "proprietary form" of Linux
Yes there is.
any derivations/modifications must be released under the GPL
Uh, not quite. Only if you release/distribute your changes in source or binary form.
Google, Amazon, and many other big players use a proprietary Linux kernel, but because they don't distribute it outside their organization they don't have to release it under the GPL. But obviously, in Nintendo's case, releasing a non-GPL kernel in the Wii would be a big copyright violation.
Would it really matter if a society like 18th century Europe gave any info to a foe as advanced as the current US military? The technology difference is so massive that there's no hope. A single armour division would probably be sufficient to crush whole armies.
Of course, this completely ignores the possibility that alien cultures might have a completely different notion of war technology. For example, aliens on a planet with lighter gravity may also have weaker constitutions, so their weapons would be better tailored for those conditions. Whereas against us their weapons might feel like geting hit with a ping pong ball. And besides, look at War of the Worlds--the aliens in that film were susceptible to common bacterial illnesses.
Your example compares basically the same technology in a different stage of evolution; obviously the more evolved form would destroy the less evolved form. However, comparing alien warfare to that of ours is comparing two lines of technology that have evolved in complete isolation from each other, so there is little grounds for such a comparison.
The signal is not transmitted by electrons--if it was like a tube of marbles, it would take minutes to turn on a light switch and seconds to get a single byte off of an external hard drive, which is obviously not the case. The signal is transmitted by voltage differences, which do change and propagate at a rate very close to c.
Matador Records is one of the biggest labels in non-RIAA music (Pavement, Yo La Tengo, Belle and Sebastien, Brightblack Morning Light and Cat Power are all popular indie bands on Matador)
Merge Records is pretty huge in terms of independent rock music. They have bands like Spoon (they're pretty popular, even in the mainstream--they were on a car commercial), The Arcade Fire (they were on the cover of rolling stone), Destroyer, and The Magnetic Fields.
For electronic music, Warp Records is pretty awesome.
Fat Cat is a pretty good one. They put out records by Animal Collective (touted by the New York Times) and Sigur Ros.
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Well... not an intra-filesystem move, which involves no real data transfer, just moving the inode pointer to another place...
I thought serious websites were supposed to store passwords as a hash, not as plaintext. So you can't just "look up" someone's password even if you have access to the database. This story is poorly concocted fiction.
Actually, the DMCA created the current internet radio music royalties system, whose rising royalty rates are liable to put internet radio out of business. It has very much to do with the RIAA.
Also, the RIAA uses plenty of DRM--ever heard of the iTunes Music Store? All "legitimate" music services depend on the DMCA to protect their wares. If it wasn't for the DMCA, we would be seeing tons more (unlicensed) consumer products that interoperated with the various music services.
Its called diminishing returns. Also, that 6x improvement only works for people with brand new multi-thousand dollar televisions. Most people don't even know what 1080p means, let alone care about it.
Well a lot (if not most) of the labels on there are actually owned by the Big 4, but there were a few that surprised me (Absolutely Kosher, how could you?). In any case, this is a nice site: http://www.riaaradar.com/ as one can type in an artist, album, or label and find out its affiliation with the RIAA.
Wrong. Legally all internet music broadcasters are required to pay SoundExchange license fees, irrespective of who made the music. The alternative is to get (written) permission from each and every copyright holder whose music the broadcaster plays, which for most radio stations is impossible.
I think background radiation will be one of its main reasons it will fail for a CPU and RAM. With a structure 1 atom thick there is no room for failure. Either an atom exists or it doesn't. Knock an atom out of place then it fails. With a conventional transistor as its bulk material all that happens is it degrades its performance but it can take it (most of the time).
Can't that be managed with error correction? If you can run these redundantly 1000 times, still be faster and smaller than silicon, and have similar error rates, then thats a pretty nice gain.
Yeah, even Linux ISOs are full of copyrighted stuff...
1) The DMCA is not an organization, it is a law. Laws get enforced. They don't go around doing the enforcing.
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You want to be pedantic, then get it right. The headline is grammatically correct (but most likely factually incorrect, as you pointed out).
The FSF (or any other GPL-program-copyright-holder) cannot prevent Novell from distributing their programs currently, but they can sue Novell for breach of contract if and when Novell starts distributing versions of GPL-protected programs modified to include MS-IP-protected changes.
IANAL but the GPL is not a contract, its a license for distribution. In other words the FSF et al. would want to sue for copyright violation, not breach of contract (there is no contract to breach).
One cool thing about California is that according to their vehicle code, or at least the DMV booklet I read when I was learning to drive, there are "invisible" crosswalks at every street intersection. Of course, as far as excessive driving and urban sprawl goes, California is public enemy number one...
If you don't mind getting your feet wet with some programming, ChucK is a Java-like audio programming language that can interact with MIDI devices, and is a nice alternative to Csound and Pd for people who want to do sequencing programmatically.
Hard links anyone? They've been around for nearly 40 years. But I guess most desktop file browsers don't really expose that functionality though, and its a pain to drop into the command line just to make a few links. And Windows doesn't offer them at all.
The PERFORM Act will require streaming radio to be DRM'd, too. In fact that's really what it applies to - the fact that it might affect podcasting is just a side effect.
The stupid thing about this bill is that it, according to Feinstein, "would require the use of readily available and cost-effective technology to prevent music theft". What readily available and cost-effective DRM technology works with streaming broadcasts? None that I know of, not even from the usual suspects (Microsoft, Real). So, until someone comes around and writes this magic software, this part of the bill won't mean anything.
Apple holds the copyright to Darwin and can use it however they want.
Not quite. Darwin is hybrid between FreeBSD, Mach, and some extras that Apple developed, and Apple definitely does not hold the copyright for the first two. FreeBSD's license would allow a closed source derivative, but from what little Ive gleaned off of CMU's Mach webpage, CMU would not be happy about a completely closed source kernel derived from Mach.
Not quite... InputManager only works with Cocoa applications, as the CocoaDev page you cited mentions, and class posing will only work with parts of applications written using Objective-C classes.
APE uses mach_inject and mach_override to actually patch new code into applications loaded into memory. This works at the kernel level and thus is framework and language agnostic.
That's a very interesting point. But, thinking outloud here (i am not a lawyer of course), couldn't a small Linux outfit create a "derivative work" of Novell's distro (or at least the GPLed parts), sell or distribute that, and be protected from Microsoft? If any sort of legal obstacle or patent licensing requirement hindered this small time distro from distributing, that would automatically prevent Novell from distributing SUSE by way of GPLv2 section 7, since they received their copy directly from Novell. If Microsoft successfully sues the customers of the small time distro, then Novell can also no longer distribute because those customers recieved their linux distribution indirectly from Novell.
If this kind of argument holds any water, the next Ubuntu/Debian/Red Hat/etc. could potentially be a "derivate work" of SUSE but just happen to look exactly like Ubuntu/Debian/Red Hat/etc., and they would be protected.
Despite Novell's sneaky FAQ responses, I'm still not totally convinced that they won't get blown out of the water the minute a legitimate legal threat confronts the Linux distros who haven't paid off Microsoft.
They give Novell a wad of cash and gave Suse and Mono MS's blessing. MS will allow a handful of Linux distros to operate (read: suse, rh) and send cease and desist letters to every other distro because Linux and its various popular applications infringe on 326,038 MS-owned software patents.
You seem to be forgetting section 7 of the GPL, which illegitimizes the entire Novell deal. Section 7 of the GPL says that we all sink together. If patents, contracts, legal rulings, etc. prevent modification and usage (within the limits of the GPL) of GPLed software by end users, then neither Novell nor any other big Linux distro gets to distribute that software. The second there is any real legal obstacle for small distros to continue distributing linux and other GPL software, expect the bigger linux-friendly players to come at Novell for GPL (ie copyright) violations.
would need to [paper] mail you a private key
This would not work at all, because someone could easily intercept your mail at the mailbox, post office, etc. Sending plaintext by snail mail is just as secure as sending plaintext over the net, i.e. its not.
For this to be secure you would probably have to go and pick up your private key at the bank yourself.
1 and 2 are possible
Not just possible, but really easy. Unless DRM is built into the hardware (eg TPM, Palladium), its all just bits on a disk. Expect cracks for this real soon.
There's no such thing as a "proprietary form" of Linux
Yes there is.
any derivations/modifications must be released under the GPL
Uh, not quite. Only if you release/distribute your changes in source or binary form.
Google, Amazon, and many other big players use a proprietary Linux kernel, but because they don't distribute it outside their organization they don't have to release it under the GPL. But obviously, in Nintendo's case, releasing a non-GPL kernel in the Wii would be a big copyright violation.
Would it really matter if a society like 18th century Europe gave any info to a foe as advanced as the current US military? The technology difference is so massive that there's no hope. A single armour division would probably be sufficient to crush whole armies.
Of course, this completely ignores the possibility that alien cultures might have a completely different notion of war technology. For example, aliens on a planet with lighter gravity may also have weaker constitutions, so their weapons would be better tailored for those conditions. Whereas against us their weapons might feel like geting hit with a ping pong ball. And besides, look at War of the Worlds--the aliens in that film were susceptible to common bacterial illnesses.
Your example compares basically the same technology in a different stage of evolution; obviously the more evolved form would destroy the less evolved form. However, comparing alien warfare to that of ours is comparing two lines of technology that have evolved in complete isolation from each other, so there is little grounds for such a comparison.
The signal is not transmitted by electrons--if it was like a tube of marbles, it would take minutes to turn on a light switch and seconds to get a single byte off of an external hard drive, which is obviously not the case. The signal is transmitted by voltage differences, which do change and propagate at a rate very close to c.
Serve me up some Freedom Waffles, Americans have had enough of those snooty Belgians!
Matador Records is one of the biggest labels in non-RIAA music (Pavement, Yo La Tengo, Belle and Sebastien, Brightblack Morning Light and Cat Power are all popular indie bands on Matador)
Merge Records is pretty huge in terms of independent rock music. They have bands like Spoon (they're pretty popular, even in the mainstream--they were on a car commercial), The Arcade Fire (they were on the cover of rolling stone), Destroyer, and The Magnetic Fields.
For electronic music, Warp Records is pretty awesome.
Fat Cat is a pretty good one. They put out records by Animal Collective (touted by the New York Times) and Sigur Ros.
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