Shouldn't the Library of Congress (USA) maintain a Usenet archive? Anybody know if Congress has ever asked the LoC to do so? If not, why not? I would consider it a gross negligence of their duty if they're not.
Also remember that there are two ways to change a law: get the legislature to change it or have a judge overturn it. In the case of DeCSS, the legislature was already bought and paid for and isn't about to change its mind.
I wouldn't give up on the legislature just yet. They're more than happy to give up the goodies when nobody is watching (as they did with DMCA). But if you get enough registered voters to care, then the legislators will turn right around (witness Orin Hatch's remarks at the recent Napster hearings.)
Isn't there a convention that (big) K is 10^3 and (little) k is 2^10? Shouldn't there be some convention here, so that those of us who think in binary don't always miscommunicate with those who think in decimal?
But how many 320 pound linemen could really earn that much money in another sport? (I don't know how much Sumo pays, but 320 pounds is probably a little light for that.)
I gather from the article that each DVD-player licensee has their own key. Every DVD title then has it's own discreet key for unlocking its contents. The DVD also has some sort of table where the DVD-specific key is encrypted using each one of the licensee keys.
Once one of the licensee keys was found, it was possible to perform a plaintext attack against all of the other licensee keys. If just one licensee key was broken, DVD encryption could still stand because new DVDs could remove that one licensee from their table. But since the encryption was so weak, all of the other licensee keys are exposed now too, and any change to the system would break every DVD player in existance. Let's hope the DVD consortium doesn't feel the need to go that far.
After I read the Macintouch article I called Apple to see if they were really going to uncancel my order (placed early last month.) They weren't sure, but said I might be one of the "lucky ones" whose orders had already been sent into production.
Doesn't sound like much of a reversal to me, if everybody who ordered after mid-September is still sh!t out of luck.
You're making an awfully big assumption about this not standing up in court in Korea. Do you Have any idea what trademark law is like in Korea? (This is an honest question, I certainly don't know.)
I just took a look at the press release about the settlement of trademark dispute in the United States. The guy who tried to trademark Linux here at least had his filing fees returned, and since the rest of the details of the settlement were not disclosed, he may even have earned some cash on the whole deal.
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I would bet that more than 50% of devices on planes are already left on for takeoff and landing. The only thing being turned off is the screen.
Shouldn't the Library of Congress (USA) maintain a Usenet archive? Anybody know if Congress has ever asked the LoC to do so? If not, why not? I would consider it a gross negligence of their duty if they're not.
I wouldn't give up on the legislature just yet. They're more than happy to give up the goodies when nobody is watching (as they did with DMCA). But if you get enough registered voters to care, then the legislators will turn right around (witness Orin Hatch's remarks at the recent Napster hearings.)
'nuff said.
Isn't there a convention that (big) K is 10^3 and (little) k is 2^10? Shouldn't there be some convention here, so that those of us who think in binary don't always miscommunicate with those who think in decimal?
You mean sticking them in the ground and throwing water on them? ;>
While the USPTO might grant that patent, I think it would be eventually overturned based on prior art :-)
But how many 320 pound linemen could really earn that much money in another sport? (I don't know how much Sumo pays, but 320 pounds is probably a little light for that.)
Once one of the licensee keys was found, it was possible to perform a plaintext attack against all of the other licensee keys. If just one licensee key was broken, DVD encryption could still stand because new DVDs could remove that one licensee from their table. But since the encryption was so weak, all of the other licensee keys are exposed now too, and any change to the system would break every DVD player in existance. Let's hope the DVD consortium doesn't feel the need to go that far.
After I read the Macintouch article I called Apple to see if they were really going to uncancel my order (placed early last month.) They weren't sure, but said I might be one of the "lucky ones" whose orders had already been sent into production.
Doesn't sound like much of a reversal to me, if everybody who ordered after mid-September is still sh!t out of luck.
You're making an awfully big assumption about this not standing up in court in Korea. Do you Have any idea what trademark law is like in Korea? (This is an honest question, I certainly don't know.)
I just took a look at the press release about the settlement of trademark dispute in the United States. The guy who tried to trademark Linux here at least had his filing fees returned, and since the rest of the details of the settlement were not disclosed, he may even have earned some cash on the whole deal.