First of all they have to prove you had on the site it after they notified you in writing to remove it. (site indexed by google? do they really want to subpoena googles indexing records?)
California law may not even apply to you. ( i just read someone elses reply to your post stating that this is being files in federal court, so it may apply)
You ave to be notified in writing (Snail mail, probably registered).
The EFF's laywer(s) will be there. If this thing gets any bigger i'm betting they will volunteer to defend the everyone as a group (unless you wat your own legal counsel)
This is only an injunction or something like that to get them to force everyone to remove all traces of DeCSS from their sites. They will use it as backing for their next crusade if they succeed.(it may be that they are planning on building legal ruling upon legal ruling until they have case law that favors them for the final, costyl battle)
Oh, by the way, I am not a lawyer. I don't even know a lawyer.
They also have been designing the cars so that you have to purchase specialized tools to get at or work on specific parts of a car.
I had a friend who owned a body shop and he was bitching about this.
Basically they are trying to make it so expansive to gather all the tools that even smaller body shop / mechanic shop owners cannot fix your car (forcing us to use the manufacturer's licensed body shops/ mechanics).
Whatever happened to companies like Harley. All you needed to fix anything on one was a pair of pliers and an allen wrench.
Well, just the other day I picked up a DVD drive (Toshiba, under the IO Magic name) for $80 (on sale). The drivers for it don't work under my current configuration of Windows, so I am praying that the DeCSS stuff will help me to watch the few dvd movies I have already received and purchased. (Shit they already maed aout $80 of me alone on dvd purchases. I was planning on using my dvd drive under Linux.)
A beowulf cluster might be applicable in this case, unless you plan on using one machine per pilot, and have them analyse their own data.
The requirements are much less per machine (usually only a processor, memory, and sometimes a harddrive (depending on how much memory is required).
It almost looks like the intended use will be a virtual playback of the flight for general analasys/review.
I would probably reccommend consulting with VA Linux. They have experience with beowulf, server, single/multi processing systems, and they offer support (it can be helpful if you want to actually get things done, instead of learning in depth about the internals of linux.)
I have picked up handfulls (literally) of them secondhand and never had a problem (i have had problems with other cards tho). But considering the machine(s) and future expansion capabilities a pci 100Mbit card might be a better choice.
I think I have heard this tossed around before (something about an open source processor), but i'll mention it anyway.
What about open source hardware design?
It will need more people, but I think we may be reaching a stage where we as a collective would be capable of at the very least designing such a thing. (building it is another story)
The only thing getting in the way as best I can tell are a few good opensource development tools. Is anyone aware of any virtual simulation environments of real world devices that are available? Basically something that can be used to test designs (at least the mechanics).
Personally I think they should get the patent. An algorithm is innovative (noone else has done it yet, and the big search engines have been out long enough to come up with it on their own).
As best I can tell it fits into their business plan. They won't sell ads, but i'm betting they are planning to license their search technology. All they need is to license somehting unpatented and have someone reverse engineer it and sell it without paying licensing fees. This is just the thing that a patent is supposed to prevent.
Something new should be created to protect software. Hybrid copyright/trademark/other rules. None fit quite right.
Like AMD's IIRC amd's bus architecture was vastly different from Intels. Does this mean Intel is copying AMD? Wouldn't that make Intel the follower in the race?
If i get you correctly you are interpreting the name "e-speak" as a voice communications package for use over the web. Actually this product is a set of libraries to enable comunciations between businesses/users to conduct transactions of any sort.
P.S.- Have you looked into pgp phone? I don't have any experience with telephony, but other people seem to like it. (good speakers/microphones help)
What we are seeing is the almost overnight creation of a new empire. In a very short time brand new companies are coming up with capital comparable to the long time giants. If they utilize this chance they will be able to solidify their presence in the market. Kinda like building the inside of a structure after buildingthe shell first.
Keep in mind the NSA does not need to produce transcripts, just scan for keywords. When a keyword is found, the last couple of minutes and the rest of the conversation would be recorded, logged, and shipped off to the agents on duty at the time.
Without the need to have thousands of words in the recognition engine it would definitely be much faster, and possibly much more accurate than current state of the art systems.
Look at my other post in this series. There is a project to evolve 32,000 neural net modules containing up to about 1000 neurons each in an electronic brain of a robotic cat. The early stages are emulated in software, including the motions of the cat, gravity, limits of the motion. Later the evolved nets are transferred to FPGA's and placed in a physical robot to contiue the evolution. Here is the link again. LINK
What I worry about is the freedom of interpretation by cluless administrators and teachers.
What constitutes a "fascination" with Satanism? Being a cult member? Reading a book on it? Disagreeing with the Bible? Disagreeing with the personal opinions of a devout Christian? (remember Salem?, how about the Inquisition?) Playing a game dubbed Satanic by someone else?
Where does it end? Where does it begin? Many educators will have varying definitions and guidelines for this list. It will be abused and used as a tool in supplicating students. Angry parents will come into shool demanding answers. The principal will wave the FBI's checklist in front of their faces "It was to pretect the students.", they will say. Just watch. (or do something about it)
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California law may not even apply to you. ( i just read someone elses reply to your post stating that this is being files in federal court, so it may apply)
You ave to be notified in writing (Snail mail, probably registered).
The EFF's laywer(s) will be there. If this thing gets any bigger i'm betting they will volunteer to defend the everyone as a group (unless you wat your own legal counsel)
This is only an injunction or something like that to get them to force everyone to remove all traces of DeCSS from their sites. They will use it as backing for their next crusade if they succeed.(it may be that they are planning on building legal ruling upon legal ruling until they have case law that favors them for the final, costyl battle)
Oh, by the way, I am not a lawyer. I don't even know a lawyer.
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I blasted(kindly) the Boston Globe through their feedback form about their biased and erroneous article.
They did have it at one point in time, but from what I can tell it has since been removed.
I had a friend who owned a body shop and he was bitching about this.
Basically they are trying to make it so expansive to gather all the tools that even smaller body shop / mechanic shop owners cannot fix your car (forcing us to use the manufacturer's licensed body shops/ mechanics).
Whatever happened to companies like Harley. All you needed to fix anything on one was a pair of pliers and an allen wrench.
I already did this with the Bostin Globe. Don't forget to mention how their blatant biases and errors make you distrust everything they write.
Well, just the other day I picked up a DVD drive (Toshiba, under the IO Magic name) for $80 (on sale). The drivers for it don't work under my current configuration of Windows, so I am praying that the DeCSS stuff will help me to watch the few dvd movies I have already received and purchased. (Shit they already maed aout $80 of me alone on dvd purchases. I was planning on using my dvd drive under Linux.)
The requirements are much less per machine (usually only a processor, memory, and sometimes a harddrive (depending on how much memory is required).
It almost looks like the intended use will be a virtual playback of the flight for general analasys/review.
I would probably reccommend consulting with VA Linux. They have experience with beowulf, server, single/multi processing systems, and they offer support (it can be helpful if you want to actually get things done, instead of learning in depth about the internals of linux.)
I have picked up handfulls (literally) of them secondhand and never had a problem (i have had problems with other cards tho). But considering the machine(s) and future expansion capabilities a pci 100Mbit card might be a better choice.
Heinz
What about open source hardware design?
It will need more people, but I think we may be reaching a stage where we as a collective would be capable of at the very least designing such a thing. (building it is another story)
The only thing getting in the way as best I can tell are a few good opensource development tools. Is anyone aware of any virtual simulation environments of real world devices that are available? Basically something that can be used to test designs (at least the mechanics).
As best I can tell it fits into their business plan. They won't sell ads, but i'm betting they are planning to license their search technology. All they need is to license somehting unpatented and have someone reverse engineer it and sell it without paying licensing fees. This is just the thing that a patent is supposed to prevent.
Something new should be created to protect software. Hybrid copyright/trademark/other rules. None fit quite right.
Like AMD's IIRC amd's bus architecture was vastly different from Intels. Does this mean Intel is copying AMD? Wouldn't that make Intel the follower in the race?
P.S.- Have you looked into pgp phone? I don't have any experience with telephony, but other people seem to like it. (good speakers/microphones help)
What we are seeing is the almost overnight creation of a new empire. In a very short time brand new companies are coming up with capital comparable to the long time giants. If they utilize this chance they will be able to solidify their presence in the market. Kinda like building the inside of a structure after buildingthe shell first.
Without the need to have thousands of words in the recognition engine it would definitely be much faster, and possibly much more accurate than current state of the art systems.
And I thought Killer Tomatoes were bad.
Hmmmm...
I wonder what operating system(s) most employees use?
The technology combined with DeCSS should have RIAA scared straight.
Look at my other post in this series. There is a project to evolve 32,000 neural net modules containing up to about 1000 neurons each in an electronic brain of a robotic cat. The early stages are emulated in software, including the motions of the cat, gravity, limits of the motion. Later the evolved nets are transferred to FPGA's and placed in a physical robot to contiue the evolution. Here is the link again. LINK
You will have to wait a year or so, or purchase on on an online auction. Ebay and Yahoo will have them. They seem to be going for around $4000
Exactly what you ask for, but in a cat.
Rumor has it they plan on turing it into a consumer robot sometime in the next year or so.
Here are a few links that you might find interesting. Xrays of the dog. http://www.nnc.ne.jp/~as212/aibo/x-p.html Aibo disassembled. http://www.aibosite.com/index-s.html Aibo taken apart. (in japanese) http://web.kyoto-inet.or.j p/people/nktks/TEMP1/menu1.htm Robotic Cat - (evolved neural net) http://www.genobyte.com/robokoneko.html
The interview got it's numbers wrong. Only 15,000 have been sold, not 150,000.
What constitutes a "fascination" with Satanism?
Being a cult member?
Reading a book on it?
Disagreeing with the Bible?
Disagreeing with the personal opinions of a devout Christian? (remember Salem?, how about the Inquisition?)
Playing a game dubbed Satanic by someone else?
Where does it end? Where does it begin? Many educators will have varying definitions and guidelines for this list. It will be abused and used as a tool in supplicating students. Angry parents will come into shool demanding answers. The principal will wave the FBI's checklist in front of their faces "It was to pretect the students.", they will say. Just watch. (or do something about it)