Use the micorsoft approach. Take a pre-existing product with substantial non-infinging uses (hell, make it unrelated). Add the ability to rip cds to it. In court claim that it can't be removed without crippling the product. (Then watch the judge take a thick envelope from the opposition's lawyers and throw you in jail laughing).
actually the investment of deposits is a smaller part than you would imagine. fees for the accounts are a much bigger part as are the interest charges on loans.
ever wonder why it costs $2 to use a foreign mac machine and then the local bank changes an additional $.75? the transactions on the mac network take pennies, and they are fees for the provider of the network and interconnect charges.
If the DMCA makes circumventing copy control devices illegal and the SSSCA makes it illegal to manufacture devices without copy control what do you end up with?
(At least then the Disney won't be trying (or need ) to indefinitely increase the copyright duration anymore.)
The SSSCA combined with the DMCA will make traditional copyright laws pointless.
If the DMCA makes it a criminal offense to bypass copy control protections, and the SSSCA requires that all devices use copy control protections the copyright is effectively made permanent. Even when/if the copyright expires, it will be illegal to transfer the content from the originally purchased media. And illegal to use anything but legally produced players.
Add to that expiring media or players that refuse to play content out of copyright and corporations can basically maintain absolute control over the content.
Actually ftl communications is possible. The problem is this. Once the 2 particles are entangled, they must be stored in separate devices. The devices must be separated over a measurably long distance. Now you can gain the benefits of ftl communication. With non-destructive modification/measurements of the particles (which happens instantaneously) you can transmit bits. The rest should be elementary.
Admittedly, alot of science has to be created to support such an application, but it will happen.
What i'm waiting for is a method of entangling 2 particles that don't happen to be anywhere near each other. That will enable all sorts of dangerous things.
Remember that mp3 gained ground and became a standard from people picking it up, using it, and passing it around. It was a grassroots thing that made mp3 succeed (and linux) and that same will help with this.
Then again, i'm not sure it becomes a standard. As long as it does a good job, I will use it instead of mp3.
I'll bet the will purposely not choose a university with a formidable research team. I'll also b3et alot of universities don't want to touch the thing for fear of PR repurcussions(sp?).
On another note, what will the criteria be for the study? Will that be public?
Will they hand back a good/bad one word report?
Will the explain how it works? Who determines the study criteria?
Will they even be able to see all the code?
Someone needs to FOI the FBI into submission.
(I just how the university gets lots of government money to make the FOI act a possibility.)
Actually if you look at it from my perspective, someone did destroy my library. I no longer have access to it, so effectively it is gone. (same with almost all other readers)
The repairing(time+energy) of the site would be akin to repurchasing the entire library of books.
If I remember from my childhood first I liked destroying things because that was all I could do. Once I matured a bit I began to prefer building things. (and still do)
By guess is that the scriptkiddy ran into some developmental problems growing up and is now trapped with a childs mentality.
I am an american (not the AC) and from what I can see there is a disturbing amount of "prudes, moralists, and thought police" here. Whats worse is they are normally two faced and hypocrites to boot.
Most americans are content to let almost anyone tell them how to live their lives. All you need to do is prime the audience with a properly prepared emotional dispaly and they are ready to crucify who/what is the target of the attack. I watched this happen the other day on tv. They started with something about how the children were injured and someone who was watching the show with me instantly said the the person should be put into jail... No trial, no other side. A child was injured and someone had to pay. It's total bullshit.
Fortunately you sound like you are surrounded by people with their own thoughts/ideas/beliefs. If only those people could help to wake the rest of the population up.
We shouldn't paint all americans with the same brush, but most of them could be. Its a shame, but true. What do you think the great melting pot was for? (Hint: it wasn't about making everyone different)
Then again, Canada is worse. I spent some time up there recently and read about and overheard some disturbing things about the police up there (of course it could be just isolated incidents). A local police department had raided a store and confiscated 10,000 toy guns. Held a press conference applauding themselves for their "zero tolerance gun policy" and left it at that. No trial, no charges, no return of the guns. Also no legal recourse against the police. The other thing I heard dealt with two women being mugged by a group of men. They eventually got to a payphone called the police, and were given a herd time! Eventually the police showed up, but after the muggers caught up with them and restarted their assault. The police began treating the women like te criminals (a man had tried to come to their help before the police arrived). The police supposedly never tried to do anything about it. Then theres the multiple stories about people getting hit by cars and the police asking if the pedestrian was jaywalking and then ignoring them (even if they got the plate number of the car)
I always found the finder to be one of the worst things about a mac. (Then again I haven't used macs since 93). It was always far up in the corner, never where I needed it and hard to click on / select. It's like disjointing the application from it's true location.
The feature I do like alot is the windows that collpse into the title bar. (I use that in E all the time.)
I'm thinking, what percentage of Linux users could do something as simple as have find delete all file in the home directory that hadn't been accessed in more than 90 days? How many would know where to look?
That's easy. Open you favorite file manager, sort by date, select a bunch and delete.
Why did this guy get +4,Insightful for bringing up location?
4 separate people thought it was insightful.
The rest thought it was obvious. Many people won't go to a trade show just for the show. After hours, they want to go to clubs, bars, see famous sights, etc... I dont know much about the midwest, but "excting" isn't what pops into my mind. Sure it's great to have a conference close by (I still missed YAPC), but if I am going to tavel a long way, I want to _know_ that there is going to plenty of things to do if the show is boring. Unfortunately I and probably alot of other people don't knwo much about the goings-on of the midwest.
Well founded concerns. One thing that may be of use, is the fact that since it is such a new protocol there is no established base to fight against.
Whats to stop us from taking the protocol, removing te things we hate, modify the apache release(due end of year) to match, and distributing that? Modify the Mozilla sources to support the altered protocol. Build more apps quicker that support it (the altered protocol).
If we get it out faster and wider and everyone uses the modified version first, that should go a long way to making it the defacto standard. (Almost like an inverse msft/kerberos thing, excpet we probably won't care if we can call it bxxp or not.)
Actually from my experience, (and I have tried it) 128kbps is roughly the same quality as a brand new store bought audio tape of an album. (Slightly different problems, but the same end quality)
256kbps (what I use for all my recordings) is almost a cd quality, but still has noticable problems once in a while.
The biggest reason noone notices is that most people don't have their mp3 player hooked up to a high quality stereo. (Apex AD600A / component system / etc...).
Gee, this sounds alot like the legislation passed to protect our children "COPA".
As best I can tell it has saved no children, and caused a number of sites to stop providing serivces and news to children, outraging hundreds, if not thousands of parents. (And it hasn't even gone in to effect yet? (i think)).
Perhaps we should use this analogy when attempting to help people see the light.
If things like the DMCA continue to crop up I think we will begin to see an entire subculture for the creation and distribution of free content.
With tools like digital video cameras and videoediting software movies can be made on a shoestring budget that have the potential to rival anything made 25 years ago. (storyline not included). Obviously software is there, hardware is just getting started. (I'll be eventually contributing robotics design). As content in other areas begins to come at too high a price free versions will be made.
One thing that worries me is the possibility that the corporations have identified this as a threat to their bottom line, and are working on ways to discretely destroy the movement as we speak.
I have been tossing that idea around for a while, and have been wondering. Does anyone have any ideas what it would take to create a "central repository" (perhaps via gnutella). Of free content. Imagine what would happen if we could amass such a large body of work that the Corps (much smaller in terms of creative peoples) would have to come to us to make a movie, publish a book, publish software, etc... At the very least, if we have record that it was created by us first, they could not then prevent us from continuing to use it(mabey a gpl style license could govern the content, the big thing is having a consistent and easy to use interface to access the content). (Mabey we should send 1*10^90 chimps into a room with typewriters, and publish the results.)
which I need to compile and run the decss program to decode my DVD's so that I can play them under Linux
Does that mean that Microsoft could be held liable in the DeCSS thing? Visual Studio was needed to compile DeCSS. Wouldn't that make it a tool to help circumvent copy protections? (DeCSS won't run when it's not compiled)
Think of it as linking to a site with the offending content (or a link to a link). "Auxiliary offender".
If they own the domain names registered through them, does that mean that when your registration is up they still own it???
Does that mean that the other registrars can't register it?
Think about it. Since they are the oldest, they have most of the good, short names. That's worth a fortune. Perhaps they're trying to recreate the good old days when they were the only one.
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Use the micorsoft approach. Take a pre-existing product with substantial non-infinging uses (hell, make it unrelated). Add the ability to rip cds to it. In court claim that it can't be removed without crippling the product. (Then watch the judge take a thick envelope from the opposition's lawyers and throw you in jail laughing).
actually the investment of deposits is a smaller part than you would imagine. fees for the accounts are a much bigger part as are the interest charges on loans.
ever wonder why it costs $2 to use a foreign mac machine and then the local bank changes an additional $.75? the transactions on the mac network take pennies, and they are fees for the provider of the network and interconnect charges.
If the DMCA makes circumventing copy control devices illegal and the SSSCA makes it illegal to manufacture devices without copy control what do you end up with?
(At least then the Disney won't be trying (or need ) to indefinitely increase the copyright duration anymore.)
The SSSCA combined with the DMCA will make traditional copyright laws pointless.
If the DMCA makes it a criminal offense to bypass copy control protections, and the SSSCA requires that all devices use copy control protections the copyright is effectively made permanent. Even when/if the copyright expires, it will be illegal to transfer the content from the originally purchased media. And illegal to use anything but legally produced players.
Add to that expiring media or players that refuse to play content out of copyright and corporations can basically maintain absolute control over the content.
Actually ftl communications is possible. The problem is this. Once the 2 particles are entangled, they must be stored in separate devices. The devices must be separated over a measurably long distance. Now you can gain the benefits of ftl communication. With non-destructive modification/measurements of the particles (which happens instantaneously) you can transmit bits. The rest should be elementary.
Admittedly, alot of science has to be created to support such an application, but it will happen.
What i'm waiting for is a method of entangling 2 particles that don't happen to be anywhere near each other. That will enable all sorts of dangerous things.
Then again, i'm not sure it becomes a standard. As long as it does a good job, I will use it instead of mp3.
On another note, what will the criteria be for the study? Will that be public?
Will they hand back a good/bad one word report?
Will the explain how it works? Who determines the study criteria?
Will they even be able to see all the code?
Someone needs to FOI the FBI into submission.
(I just how the university gets lots of government money to make the FOI act a possibility.)
america is stupid
They arent mentally capable of refuting his points due to their truth and eloquence. It makes people jealous.
The repairing(time+energy) of the site would be akin to repurchasing the entire library of books.
By guess is that the scriptkiddy ran into some developmental problems growing up and is now trapped with a childs mentality.
Even if everyone was the same, you would only have to look into the past for the ugliness.
Most americans are content to let almost anyone tell them how to live their lives. All you need to do is prime the audience with a properly prepared emotional dispaly and they are ready to crucify who/what is the target of the attack. I watched this happen the other day on tv. They started with something about how the children were injured and someone who was watching the show with me instantly said the the person should be put into jail... No trial, no other side. A child was injured and someone had to pay. It's total bullshit.
Fortunately you sound like you are surrounded by people with their own thoughts/ideas/beliefs. If only those people could help to wake the rest of the population up.
We shouldn't paint all americans with the same brush, but most of them could be. Its a shame, but true. What do you think the great melting pot was for? (Hint: it wasn't about making everyone different)
Then again, Canada is worse. I spent some time up there recently and read about and overheard some disturbing things about the police up there (of course it could be just isolated incidents). A local police department had raided a store and confiscated 10,000 toy guns. Held a press conference applauding themselves for their "zero tolerance gun policy" and left it at that. No trial, no charges, no return of the guns. Also no legal recourse against the police. The other thing I heard dealt with two women being mugged by a group of men. They eventually got to a payphone called the police, and were given a herd time! Eventually the police showed up, but after the muggers caught up with them and restarted their assault. The police began treating the women like te criminals (a man had tried to come to their help before the police arrived). The police supposedly never tried to do anything about it. Then theres the multiple stories about people getting hit by cars and the police asking if the pedestrian was jaywalking and then ignoring them (even if they got the plate number of the car)
The feature I do like alot is the windows that collpse into the title bar. (I use that in E all the time.)
A Plan9 derivative.
That's easy. Open you favorite file manager, sort by date, select a bunch and delete.
Whats so hard about that?
4 separate people thought it was insightful.
The rest thought it was obvious. Many people won't go to a trade show just for the show. After hours, they want to go to clubs, bars, see famous sights, etc... I dont know much about the midwest, but "excting" isn't what pops into my mind. Sure it's great to have a conference close by (I still missed YAPC), but if I am going to tavel a long way, I want to _know_ that there is going to plenty of things to do if the show is boring. Unfortunately I and probably alot of other people don't knwo much about the goings-on of the midwest.
It looks a bit out of date, but its comprehensive.
Whats to stop us from taking the protocol, removing te things we hate, modify the apache release(due end of year) to match, and distributing that? Modify the Mozilla sources to support the altered protocol. Build more apps quicker that support it (the altered protocol).
If we get it out faster and wider and everyone uses the modified version first, that should go a long way to making it the defacto standard. (Almost like an inverse msft/kerberos thing, excpet we probably won't care if we can call it bxxp or not.)
Similar incidents have occurred in the past.
similar incidents have occurred...
To whom?
How similar?
How long ago? (before this whole thing started?)
How many times?
It's like a limbo... How low can you go?
256kbps (what I use for all my recordings) is almost a cd quality, but still has noticable problems once in a while.
The biggest reason noone notices is that most people don't have their mp3 player hooked up to a high quality stereo. (Apex AD600A / component system / etc...).
As best I can tell it has saved no children, and caused a number of sites to stop providing serivces and news to children, outraging hundreds, if not thousands of parents. (And it hasn't even gone in to effect yet? (i think)).
Perhaps we should use this analogy when attempting to help people see the light.
With tools like digital video cameras and videoediting software movies can be made on a shoestring budget that have the potential to rival anything made 25 years ago. (storyline not included). Obviously software is there, hardware is just getting started. (I'll be eventually contributing robotics design). As content in other areas begins to come at too high a price free versions will be made.
One thing that worries me is the possibility that the corporations have identified this as a threat to their bottom line, and are working on ways to discretely destroy the movement as we speak.
I have been tossing that idea around for a while, and have been wondering. Does anyone have any ideas what it would take to create a "central repository" (perhaps via gnutella). Of free content. Imagine what would happen if we could amass such a large body of work that the Corps (much smaller in terms of creative peoples) would have to come to us to make a movie, publish a book, publish software, etc... At the very least, if we have record that it was created by us first, they could not then prevent us from continuing to use it(mabey a gpl style license could govern the content, the big thing is having a consistent and easy to use interface to access the content). (Mabey we should send 1*10^90 chimps into a room with typewriters, and publish the results.)
Perhaps i'm dreaming, but what a dream.
Does that mean that Microsoft could be held liable in the DeCSS thing? Visual Studio was needed to compile DeCSS. Wouldn't that make it a tool to help circumvent copy protections? (DeCSS won't run when it's not compiled)
Think of it as linking to a site with the offending content (or a link to a link). "Auxiliary offender".
Does that mean that the other registrars can't register it?
Think about it. Since they are the oldest, they have most of the good, short names. That's worth a fortune. Perhaps they're trying to recreate the good old days when they were the only one.