It uses patented technology
Prove it. It may be based loosly on the MPEG-4 standard, but it is decidedly not MPEG-4.
which needs per-copy license fees which haven't been paid by anyone Hunh? No patent, no fees. If they were walking on someone else, you better bet they'd have been sued by now.
got with replacing all of Microsoft They never had Microsoft's code. It was a binary hack that killed some quality issues. Also, that was another version.
and MoMuSys's code Which was a sample implementation, free for all to look at and play with. Just like the sample code that started LAME.
Methinks you should start paying attention, mukund.
Your reference to 'screens' makes me think you're running what amounts to a terminal interface from an AS/400..
In that case, you'd do well with a simple GUI wrapper. Seagull Software sells a decent one. The newer stuff supports what people call a 'web-based' interface, as opposed to just a guified wrapper. The end interface can be as flexible and different as you like, with the capability for users to fall back to the regular old interface when it suits them.
Try http://www.as400.ibm.com/developer/tools/web.html# group4 for a reasonably complete list of 'wrappers'
Obviously you've been buying el cheapo consumer x86.
I do stuff like this all the time. Granted, it's usually a remote xterm and not VNC, but I have used VNC. The other day I brought a Linux x86 box down, changed the BIOS to enable SCSI, and rebooted it twice. I wasn't even in the same county. I do it constantly with a myriad of Sun/Digital/IBM.
If he'd just given his crack away, I'm not sure he'd have been prosecutable. But he sold it. Profiting from a crime. However we might feel about the constitutional validity of the DMCA, right now it's a law. Breaking it is a crime.
Doesn't matter. This is a criminal action against an employee of ElcomSoft. ElcomSoft paid him to do programming for the eBook processor. He did not place the program on a US server, he did not engage a US company to handle credit card orders, he did not sell the product. He just wrote code.
Think about it this way; I, in the normal course of my employment, am instructed to make a program to aid the mastering of an inhouse DVD/VCD video product. As part of the program, I write a decryption algo to reduce our pre-mastered DVD discs to plain files so they can me shuffled, re-encoded, etc. The company finds this acceptable, and in fact good enough it thinks it can get some of its partners to use the software for a fee.
What I did, as a programmer, was legal. Even if I had knowledge that the company may decide to sell it as a commercial product, the burden is on them to acquire the relevant permission. Licensing for sale the CSS IP, the MPEG encoder, etc. Their problem. Not mine. If they are called up on the carpet for IP violations, contributory infringement, DMCA violation, etc, only the company and its officers are legally responsible. Not me.
Same with ElcomSoft. They are liable if their sale of the product violated law, not DS..
and think "The Matrix" is some lame Bill and Ted rip-off of "Tron."
You're trying to tell me it wasn't?
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Perhaps you should do the same..
According to my firewall logs, code red *is* unpatched on thousands of systems. Sure, there's a patch. But that doesn't make the hole, or the thousands of unpatched boxes banging away at port 80, excusable.
Unless you're Katherine Harris and authoring your own election results
She might as well have.. Florida was so crocked that any little hesitance or slip she might have shown to the Gore camp, the Gore lawyers, or the Broward County election committee could have very well written it in her bosses favor. Her boss being, of course, Jeb Bush.
Nice try, but the storage capacity of CDs is tied to the surface area, not the diameter.. Now try to remember that 'pi r squared' thing from high school, and do the math again..
MCA wasn't the 'let's make things proprietary' grab everyone treats it as these days.
Let's face it, ISA was the standard, and it sucked. Here's IBM, with this comparably great, well tested, well documented bus they've been using for years, that the vendors are comfortable with, and PCI and VLB are dragging ass.. They said 'We need a better, faster bus'. So instead of fucking around, they went MCA.
The stream has original material, no? For example, this post, travelling over a WEP encrypted connection, which I assume will keep others from reading what I am typing, is protected under the DMCA.
You are forcably removing the copyright protection (the encryption wrapper) and pirating my intellectual property. You have not paid me to view it, I have not granted you a license, you are a pirate.
Just wait.. Next thing you'll know, they'll have him up on 'Theft of Trade Secret' charges too because some dumbass at Adobe Sircamed him a copy of their new and improved eBook encryption spec..
LAME. It supports both ogg and mp3. Run the same file at the same bitrate, once as an ogg and once as mp3. Grab the newest ogg libs and the newest version of LAME.
BladeEnc has a nasty, nasty habit of distorting the sound.
What he's saying is if you want superior sound, buy a cheap three year old card, such as his suggestions, that supports digital coaxial output, and then use the really nice DAC in your receiver. Moving to an outboard DAC and using cards such as these that are insulated for transient noise produces much better sound..
Slap in an old SB16 ISA in a 486, crank the mixer, and run updatedb. You'll hear the noises he's referring to.
What is the point of having access levels when any ordinary user process can usurp ring-0 with code MS has known about since pre-SP1 and still functions today with minor modification?
Having security that doesn't work is no security at all.
Same with Windows.. Just installed NT4 on a development machine.. The updates for the OS were 70M, the updates to Office were 80M, the new browser was another 30M, and the updates to Visual Studio were another 200M.
I'll be patching IIS, SQL server, and Exchange later, that's another 270M total..
I'm now 350M over the d/l limit, and a few megs over what'll fit on a CD..
This is how it should be handled.. All he wanted was to keep his email address.. He tells mega-conglom this, that they can have it for a pittance if they let him keep his email address. Mega-conglom, who thinks there is no way but theirs, sues anyway, and because of their inability to 'play nice' they lose any chance at the domain..
I subscribe to a mailing list with some of the people that made it to the show (I wish the picture of the DEC lappy had managed to show the sticker that said "Digital Prototype #6"), and an Apple IIC is nothing to them in terms of age. A recent 'dicksize war' had most of them ponying up machines made in the sixties, or mechanicals made in the forties, or punchcard machines back to the early teens..
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and they've never had any problems with terrorism on this scale
Yeah, but for the Brits, one car bomb and a dozen dead a week in downtown London is an acceptable loss. Who are you trying to kid?
UA is now reporting flight 175 as crashed.
Two hours? Geez. And here I thought I was meta-trolling..
Hi, nagaxen..
*hugs, and c'ya on IRC in a couple hours.*
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It uses patented technology
Prove it. It may be based loosly on the MPEG-4 standard, but it is decidedly not MPEG-4.
which needs per-copy license fees which haven't been paid by anyone
Hunh? No patent, no fees. If they were walking on someone else, you better bet they'd have been sued by now.
got with replacing all of Microsoft
They never had Microsoft's code. It was a binary hack that killed some quality issues. Also, that was another version.
and MoMuSys's code
Which was a sample implementation, free for all to look at and play with. Just like the sample code that started LAME.
Methinks you should start paying attention, mukund.
Your reference to 'screens' makes me think you're running what amounts to a terminal interface from an AS/400..
# group4 for a reasonably complete list of 'wrappers'
In that case, you'd do well with a simple GUI wrapper. Seagull Software sells a decent one. The newer stuff supports what people call a 'web-based' interface, as opposed to just a guified wrapper. The end interface can be as flexible and different as you like, with the capability for users to fall back to the regular old interface when it suits them. Try http://www.as400.ibm.com/developer/tools/web.html
It isn't?
Obviously you've been buying el cheapo consumer x86.
I do stuff like this all the time. Granted, it's usually a remote xterm and not VNC, but I have used VNC. The other day I brought a Linux x86 box down, changed the BIOS to enable SCSI, and rebooted it twice. I wasn't even in the same county. I do it constantly with a myriad of Sun/Digital/IBM.
'KLOC': One K-line of code, or one thousand lines of code.
If he'd just given his crack away, I'm not sure he'd have been prosecutable. But he sold it. Profiting from a crime. However we might feel about the constitutional validity of the DMCA, right now it's a law. Breaking it is a crime.
Doesn't matter. This is a criminal action against an employee of ElcomSoft. ElcomSoft paid him to do programming for the eBook processor. He did not place the program on a US server, he did not engage a US company to handle credit card orders, he did not sell the product. He just wrote code.
Think about it this way; I, in the normal course of my employment, am instructed to make a program to aid the mastering of an inhouse DVD/VCD video product. As part of the program, I write a decryption algo to reduce our pre-mastered DVD discs to plain files so they can me shuffled, re-encoded, etc. The company finds this acceptable, and in fact good enough it thinks it can get some of its partners to use the software for a fee.
What I did, as a programmer, was legal. Even if I had knowledge that the company may decide to sell it as a commercial product, the burden is on them to acquire the relevant permission. Licensing for sale the CSS IP, the MPEG encoder, etc. Their problem. Not mine. If they are called up on the carpet for IP violations, contributory infringement, DMCA violation, etc, only the company and its officers are legally responsible. Not me.
Same with ElcomSoft. They are liable if their sale of the product violated law, not DS..
and think "The Matrix" is some lame Bill and Ted rip-off of "Tron."
You're trying to tell me it wasn't?
Perhaps you should do the same..
According to my firewall logs, code red *is* unpatched on thousands of systems. Sure, there's a patch. But that doesn't make the hole, or the thousands of unpatched boxes banging away at port 80, excusable.
Unless you're Katherine Harris and authoring your own election results
She might as well have.. Florida was so crocked that any little hesitance or slip she might have shown to the Gore camp, the Gore lawyers, or the Broward County election committee could have very well written it in her bosses favor. Her boss being, of course, Jeb Bush.
Full size DVD-R: 4,700 megs
Full size CD-R: 650 megs
3 inch CD-R: 180 megs
A quick ratio gives the result that a 3 inch DVD would hold about 1300 megs, twice the capacity of a full size CD..
Nice try, but the storage capacity of CDs is tied to the surface area, not the diameter.. Now try to remember that 'pi r squared' thing from high school, and do the math again..
Well, I wouldn't mind the Apache lead developers being jailed, so long as they snag the developers of IIS too..
We'll have Microsoft's high paid lawyers defending Apache, in a way..
Umm, you're forgetting that all 16-bit ISA makers were already paying royalties to IBM..
MCA wasn't the 'let's make things proprietary' grab everyone treats it as these days.
Let's face it, ISA was the standard, and it sucked. Here's IBM, with this comparably great, well tested, well documented bus they've been using for years, that the vendors are comfortable with, and PCI and VLB are dragging ass.. They said 'We need a better, faster bus'. So instead of fucking around, they went MCA.
Whaddya gonna do?
The stream has original material, no? For example, this post, travelling over a WEP encrypted connection, which I assume will keep others from reading what I am typing, is protected under the DMCA.
You are forcably removing the copyright protection (the encryption wrapper) and pirating my intellectual property. You have not paid me to view it, I have not granted you a license, you are a pirate.
Scary, isn't it??
Just wait.. Next thing you'll know, they'll have him up on 'Theft of Trade Secret' charges too because some dumbass at Adobe Sircamed him a copy of their new and improved eBook encryption spec..
LAME. It supports both ogg and mp3. Run the same file at the same bitrate, once as an ogg and once as mp3. Grab the newest ogg libs and the newest version of LAME.
BladeEnc has a nasty, nasty habit of distorting the sound.
What he's saying is if you want superior sound, buy a cheap three year old card, such as his suggestions, that supports digital coaxial output, and then use the really nice DAC in your receiver. Moving to an outboard DAC and using cards such as these that are insulated for transient noise produces much better sound..
Slap in an old SB16 ISA in a 486, crank the mixer, and run updatedb. You'll hear the noises he's referring to.
What is the point of having access levels when any ordinary user process can usurp ring-0 with code MS has known about since pre-SP1 and still functions today with minor modification?
Having security that doesn't work is no security at all.
Same with Windows.. Just installed NT4 on a development machine.. The updates for the OS were 70M, the updates to Office were 80M, the new browser was another 30M, and the updates to Visual Studio were another 200M.
I'll be patching IIS, SQL server, and Exchange later, that's another 270M total..
I'm now 350M over the d/l limit, and a few megs over what'll fit on a CD..
This is how it should be handled.. All he wanted was to keep his email address.. He tells mega-conglom this, that they can have it for a pittance if they let him keep his email address. Mega-conglom, who thinks there is no way but theirs, sues anyway, and because of their inability to 'play nice' they lose any chance at the domain..
Cool for you, Mr. Mani..
Not to be cruel, but you need a refresher..
BASIC, as you knew it, was an interpreted language.. You were LOAD".."'ing, were you not?
Oh, and the 386 never hit 66.. That was a 486.
If you ever want to try your hand at Linux on it, might drop me a line. I've done it a couple times..
I subscribe to a mailing list with some of the people that made it to the show (I wish the picture of the DEC lappy had managed to show the sticker that said "Digital Prototype #6"), and an Apple IIC is nothing to them in terms of age. A recent 'dicksize war' had most of them ponying up machines made in the sixties, or mechanicals made in the forties, or punchcard machines back to the early teens..
BTW, RT-11 is *not* BASIC-like..