Luckily in the US format shifting was found to be legal under the fair use provisions of the US Copyright. (Specifically, a precident was set in a court ruling that it is OK to record a TV program to a Videocasette for later viewing)
The real reason that some of the software modifications will not work after an update is that they are built to patch specific locations in memory, and that location will be different after the binaries are changed.
This is no evil plot, it is just the nature of software.
If you don't like Cingular/AT&T, don't buy an iPhone.... How hard is that to understand.
You are correct, the iPhone MAC address is not programmable by the end user...
-- I LOVE my iPhone... (Yes I'm an iPhone fanboy and if you aren't, just ask yourself if it is jealousy or anti-Apple-bigotry which pushes you to hate it)
You mention that this is an iPhone problem, but if the sorry excuse for Wireless Access Points that Cisco sells can be so simply crashed by simple ARP requests, then my friends we have a new - very simple - DoS attack that can easily exploited to bring down any Cisco Wireless network.
As an Open Source Developer, I know there are elements of patents awarded to large companies which were actually developed first by the Open Source community. Unfortunately, the OSS community rarely pursues patents on their inventions for 2 key reasons:
1) The nature of Open Source is contrary to the protectionism awarded by patents, and so there is a philosophical aversion to pursuit of Patents on OSS inventions.
2) Pursuit of Patents requires a large investment in time and money, and most OSS developers are short of both.
I honestly believe that a large number of software patents awarded to companies like Microsoft, may actually have an OSS implementation which pre-dates their "invention", but was not pursued.
So, let's put our collective wisdom together to provide evidence to void as many of these patents as possible..
Let's start with patent application # 20030125927, (Method and system for translating instant messages )
The application "Fire" released this functionality to the public prior to the filing date for the Microsoft Application.
Oh no!!!!! Since I am in the "Nuke the Whales" camp, I guess I have to throw away all my Apple computers and buy PCs to fit in with the rest of the people with no imagination:)
For you Exempt (Salaried) employees in the US, the current judicial interpretations of the labor laws do not allow employers to deduct Time Off hours for partial days worked.
In other words, a salaried employee cannot be docked 2 hours of vacation time for leaving early.
Technically if you do ANY work for the company on a day, they cannot force you to take vacation hours. (So while you are at Disneyland with the kids, send a few work emails each night....)
Your boss, however can give you grief (or fire you) for not completing the assigned tasks. - So don't abuse the privelige
So, let me understand... If someone disagrees with you, it is ok to rape them....
Or perhaps your use of that term demonstrates that you lack sufficient grasp of the English language to realize what you are saying.
In other words... Please mind your language. Profanity in forums such as this usually does little more than demonstrate a person's propensity to throw tantrums when logical discussion is beyond their reach.
As a devout Mormon and a follower of Science (and no that isn't an oxymoron), I find your closed minded hatred of something you don't understand to be deeply disturbing.
Not that I am trying to convert you, but you might be a bit happier in life if you attempted to open your mind to concepts, theories, and technologies which fell outside your currently accepted sphere of understanding...
Don't be afraid to learn and test new theories.. It doesn't make you naive/stupid/gullible.
By the way, as a friend of John Dougall (the bill's author) I do find the bill a little far-reaching and hard to enforce, but I appreciate the effort at bringing up the issues involved in creating an environment where our children can be protected from things we want them to avoid...
There are some sticky issues involved with regulation of behavior in a networked world, which need to be resolved in order to have the internet continue as a viable medium for communication and commerce.
1) It is internationally connected, so laws passed in one country can not touch content providers in another country
2) Who shoulders the burden of responsibility for protecting the populace of a country against foreign agression. (We have food inspectors/laws/embargos to protect against tainted food, and yet we have nothing to protect us from 300 personal daily spam messages and phishing sites from Russia.)
3) Individuals (and their Parents) ultimately shoulder the responsibility for what they choose to do, but what tools should be made available to them to make that job easier.... (My daughter ended up on a hardcore site while trying to get to the Virgin Mobile site to pay her Cell bill -- all because of a typo)
4) Technology will always lead legislation... This bill does not cover some of the favorite mechanisms for transmission of porn (irc, P2P, usenet) it only covers websites (http).
Whether or not this bill will actually accomplish the stated goal of forcing ISPs to provide a filtering solution is debatable, but I hope it encourages public dialog which expands beyond the filtering of pornography and into the realm of finding technical solutions to do things like
- Prevent Spam - Stoping Phishing - Improving protection against Identity Theft - More reliable mechanisms for filtering for those who wish it
Good can happen, and just because you hate Mormons and love Porn, doesn't mean that you can't benefit from the dialog established by efforts such as this which can result in technological advances which ultimately solve the problem better than any legislation will ever be able to accomplish.
--- Smile... (It makes people wonder what you've been up to)
Spoken like someone who reads way to much/. and hasn't ever used a TiVo...
I was hoping we could go a whole week without another TiVo is dead thread, but my hope was in vain.::Owner of 3 TiVos, and a happy customer since 1999::
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This wasn't so much a flop as much as a product killed by marketing, but I have a working Beta CD of "NetWare for PowerPC". Which took a perfectly good macintosh (Circa 1995) and turned it into a NetWare 4.1 server...
To think, I ported 2 million lines of code and it sits on the shelf....
Hey Sorry to burst your bubble, but I have had a TiVo since July 1999, and have NEVER had a software upgrade fail on any of my Three TiVos..
If you have, perhaps your hacks were not done correctly.
Who cares what the Board Meeting minutes say.... It is what is in the contract that matters... If the Novell executives and business development team were not smart enough to put it in the contract, it doesn't matter what their intent was. Novell did retain rights to the Unix patent library, but may not have properly covered their bases with respect to the copyrights to the source code.
Daryl McBride and company may not be on your Christmas Card list, but they have shown that the Open Source movement doesn't have very strong legs to stand on when it comes to proof that donated source code does not contain tainted IP. This is true whether or not it is ultimately shown that the linux kernel contains elements of the Unix source code.
As I don my asbestos suit in saying this, please note that I have contributed thousands of hours to open source development for the Macintosh, AIX, HP, and Sun platforms, but I have been careful to make sure that the code I contribute is done without violating agreements with my employers, and that I have not developed source code in areas which contain IP where it could be construed that I was relying upon trade secrets learned in the course of my employment.
However, there is no formal documentation mechanism in place for most Open Source projects (including mine) which creates a paper trail where contributors warrant that the IP is theirs to contribute (and is thus unencumbered). Besides which, for the assertion to have any legs to stand on, each developer contributing to the project would have to indemnify users (and subsequent developers) so that those using or expanding the source code would be protected against lawsuits from people like SCO, who are attempting to prove a claim of IP theft. (This fails because most of us don't have enough personal wealth to make any sort of meaningful warranty of indemnification.)
Unless the laws are changed, SCO or some future claimant will forever doom Open Source to the legal quagmire of lawsuits against individual developers, and thus force people out of the open source world.
I also worked closely with Chris Stone the first time he was at Novell, (before we was asked to "Pursue Other Interests" in 1997 when Eric Schmit came on board.
Was he technically astute - No, he just knows buzzwords
He tended to be a typical salesperson - Political, He was careful to make himself look good at the expense of the company.
Just my 2 cents.
(Just don't ask me what it was like to work with Jeff Merkey -- YUCK)
Fire has supported secure IM (GPG) for over 3 years, which works between two Fire clients. We are talking with the other IM providers (GAIM, Trillian, etc) to come up with a cross application one, but that will take some time because we have all used different mechanisms.
As it stands, the Jabber support does include SSL, which provides some level of privacy (although message contents can be seen by the server, just not on the wire.)
Yep, we are improving Jabber support in Fire as we speak...
And by the way, I have personally spent over 1000 hours on Fire development after iChat was available for Free... It's all about multi service support (And it's also fun to add cool features like automatic translation, profanity filtering, or whatever else I feel like doing that day....)
The Alternative clients are still alive and kicking:)
Fire http://fire.sf.net/ has supported Group chat (on AIM and Yahoo) for YEARS and now supports it on MSN and Jabber as well.
Also, when I finish the AV work I am doing, it will support Video for iChat/AIM/Yahoo. But that will take a bit more time... I am only about 600 hours into the AV project so far...
You will be happy to note that the imminent release of Fire 1.1 will include improved support for Jabber including Group Chat Support, and improved support for the challenge response authentication model.
Also, Fire will be 100% Tiger compatible when Tiger hits the streets... Testing for that is already underway... Including interoperability with the Jabber Server on Tiger
We are working on support for Jabber server-stored buddy lists, but that may have to wait until a future release. You can give the new version a trial run by downloading the alpha at http://fire.sf.net/Prerelease/snapshot.dmg
(BTW, we used the jabber libraries from Nitro, so hat's off to that team for the help.... Isn't open source great!!!)
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Luckily in the US format shifting was found to be legal under the fair use provisions of the US Copyright. (Specifically, a precident was set in a court ruling that it is OK to record a TV program to a Videocasette for later viewing)
The real reason that some of the software modifications will not work after an update is that they are built to patch specific locations in memory, and that location will be different after the binaries are changed.
This is no evil plot, it is just the nature of software.
If you don't like Cingular/AT&T, don't buy an iPhone.... How hard is that to understand.
- Happy iPhone owner & AT&T Customer
You are correct, the iPhone MAC address is not programmable by the end user...
--
I LOVE my iPhone... (Yes I'm an iPhone fanboy and if you aren't, just ask yourself if it is jealousy or anti-Apple-bigotry which pushes you to hate it)
Sorry the iPhone doesn't run AppleTalk (or the underlying DDP) but my Mac SE/30 did...
- Time to upgrade your knowledge and start using a calculator instead of an abacus.
You mention that this is an iPhone problem, but if the sorry excuse for Wireless Access Points that Cisco sells can be so simply crashed by simple ARP requests, then my friends we have a new - very simple - DoS attack that can easily exploited to bring down any Cisco Wireless network.
This one clearly lies in Cisco's camp to fix...
As an Open Source Developer, I know there are elements of patents awarded to large companies which were actually developed first by the Open Source community. Unfortunately, the OSS community rarely pursues patents on their inventions for 2 key reasons:
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1) The nature of Open Source is contrary to the protectionism awarded by patents, and so there is a philosophical aversion to pursuit of Patents on OSS inventions.
2) Pursuit of Patents requires a large investment in time and money, and most OSS developers are short of both.
I honestly believe that a large number of software patents awarded to companies like Microsoft, may actually have an OSS implementation which pre-dates their "invention", but was not pursued.
So, let's put our collective wisdom together to provide evidence to void as many of these patents as possible..
Let's start with patent application # 20030125927, (Method and system for translating instant messages )
The application "Fire" released this functionality to the public prior to the filing date for the Microsoft Application.
(See our mailing list discussion on this patent at: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thre
Just goes to show that the old axiom is true....
"Always practice safe computing.... Wear a write-protect tab"
Oh no!!!!! Since I am in the "Nuke the Whales" camp, I guess I have to throw away all my Apple computers and buy PCs to fit in with the rest of the people with no imagination :)
For you Exempt (Salaried) employees in the US, the current judicial interpretations of the labor laws do not allow employers to deduct Time Off hours for partial days worked.
In other words, a salaried employee cannot be docked 2 hours of vacation time for leaving early.
Technically if you do ANY work for the company on a day, they cannot force you to take vacation hours. (So while you are at Disneyland with the kids, send a few work emails each night....)
Your boss, however can give you grief (or fire you) for not completing the assigned tasks. - So don't abuse the privelige
Quote: If others can't take a joke, #$%^ them.
So, let me understand... If someone disagrees with you, it is ok to rape them....
Or perhaps your use of that term demonstrates that you lack sufficient grasp of the English language to realize what you are saying.
In other words... Please mind your language. Profanity in forums such as this usually does little more than demonstrate a person's propensity to throw tantrums when logical discussion is beyond their reach.
Ouch!
As a devout Mormon and a follower of Science (and no that isn't an oxymoron), I find your closed minded hatred of something you don't understand to be deeply disturbing.
Not that I am trying to convert you, but you might be a bit happier in life if you attempted to open your mind to concepts, theories, and technologies which fell outside your currently accepted sphere of understanding...
Don't be afraid to learn and test new theories.. It doesn't make you naive/stupid/gullible.
By the way, as a friend of John Dougall (the bill's author) I do find the bill a little far-reaching and hard to enforce, but I appreciate the effort at bringing up the issues involved in creating an environment where our children can be protected from things we want them to avoid...
There are some sticky issues involved with regulation of behavior in a networked world, which need to be resolved in order to have the internet continue as a viable medium for communication and commerce.
1) It is internationally connected, so laws passed in one country can not touch content providers in another country
2) Who shoulders the burden of responsibility for protecting the populace of a country against foreign agression. (We have food inspectors/laws/embargos to protect against tainted food, and yet we have nothing to protect us from 300 personal daily spam messages and phishing sites from Russia.)
3) Individuals (and their Parents) ultimately shoulder the responsibility for what they choose to do, but what tools should be made available to them to make that job easier.... (My daughter ended up on a hardcore site while trying to get to the Virgin Mobile site to pay her Cell bill -- all because of a typo)
4) Technology will always lead legislation... This bill does not cover some of the favorite mechanisms for transmission of porn (irc, P2P, usenet) it only covers websites (http).
Whether or not this bill will actually accomplish the stated goal of forcing ISPs to provide a filtering solution is debatable, but I hope it encourages public dialog which expands beyond the filtering of pornography and into the realm of finding technical solutions to do things like
- Prevent Spam
- Stoping Phishing
- Improving protection against Identity Theft
- More reliable mechanisms for filtering for those who wish it
Good can happen, and just because you hate Mormons and love Porn, doesn't mean that you can't benefit from the dialog established by efforts such as this which can result in technological advances which ultimately solve the problem better than any legislation will ever be able to accomplish.
---
Smile... (It makes people wonder what you've been up to)
Spoken like someone who reads way to much /. and hasn't ever used a TiVo...
I was hoping we could go a whole week without another TiVo is dead thread, but my hope was in vain. ::Owner of 3 TiVos, and a happy customer since 1999::
This wasn't so much a flop as much as a product killed by marketing, but I have a working Beta CD of "NetWare for PowerPC". Which took a perfectly good macintosh (Circa 1995) and turned it into a NetWare 4.1 server...
To think, I ported 2 million lines of code and it sits on the shelf....
Ah well....
Hey Sorry to burst your bubble, but I have had a TiVo since July 1999, and have NEVER had a software upgrade fail on any of my Three TiVos.. If you have, perhaps your hacks were not done correctly.
Who cares what the Board Meeting minutes say.... It is what is in the contract that matters... If the Novell executives and business development team were not smart enough to put it in the contract, it doesn't matter what their intent was. Novell did retain rights to the Unix patent library, but may not have properly covered their bases with respect to the copyrights to the source code.
Daryl McBride and company may not be on your Christmas Card list, but they have shown that the Open Source movement doesn't have very strong legs to stand on when it comes to proof that donated source code does not contain tainted IP. This is true whether or not it is ultimately shown that the linux kernel contains elements of the Unix source code.
As I don my asbestos suit in saying this, please note that I have contributed thousands of hours to open source development for the Macintosh, AIX, HP, and Sun platforms, but I have been careful to make sure that the code I contribute is done without violating agreements with my employers, and that I have not developed source code in areas which contain IP where it could be construed that I was relying upon trade secrets learned in the course of my employment.
However, there is no formal documentation mechanism in place for most Open Source projects (including mine) which creates a paper trail where contributors warrant that the IP is theirs to contribute (and is thus unencumbered). Besides which, for the assertion to have any legs to stand on, each developer contributing to the project would have to indemnify users (and subsequent developers) so that those using or expanding the source code would be protected against lawsuits from people like SCO, who are attempting to prove a claim of IP theft. (This fails because most of us don't have enough personal wealth to make any sort of meaningful warranty of indemnification.)
Unless the laws are changed, SCO or some future claimant will forever doom Open Source to the legal quagmire of lawsuits against individual developers, and thus force people out of the open source world.
Thoughts?
I also worked closely with Chris Stone the first time he was at Novell, (before we was asked to "Pursue Other Interests" in 1997 when Eric Schmit came on board.
Was he technically astute - No, he just knows buzzwords
He tended to be a typical salesperson - Political, He was careful to make himself look good at the expense of the company.
Just my 2 cents. (Just don't ask me what it was like to work with Jeff Merkey -- YUCK)
Ouch!.... :: Pulls dagger from chest ::
Make sure to post your crash logs if you haven't so we can fix them! (http://fire.sf.net/)
Also, if you haven't tried Fire 1.0.3 (or the 1.1 alpha) you really should.
Yes, this is a commercial ;). I spend hundreds of hours developing Fire, so I would like others to enjoy it...
Fire has supported secure IM (GPG) for over 3 years, which works between two Fire clients. We are talking with the other IM providers (GAIM, Trillian, etc) to come up with a cross application one, but that will take some time because we have all used different mechanisms.
As it stands, the Jabber support does include SSL, which provides some level of privacy (although message contents can be seen by the server, just not on the wire.)
Yep, we are improving Jabber support in Fire as we speak...
And by the way, I have personally spent over 1000 hours on Fire development after iChat was available for Free... It's all about multi service support (And it's also fun to add cool features like automatic translation, profanity filtering, or whatever else I feel like doing that day....)
The Alternative clients are still alive and kicking :)
Hey, come over to the dark side
Fire http://fire.sf.net/ has supported Group chat (on AIM and Yahoo) for YEARS and now supports it on MSN and Jabber as well.
Also, when I finish the AV work I am doing, it will support Video for iChat/AIM/Yahoo. But that will take a bit more time... I am only about 600 hours into the AV project so far...
I need a less time consuming-hobby...
You will be happy to note that the imminent release of Fire 1.1 will include improved support for Jabber including Group Chat Support, and improved support for the challenge response authentication model.
Also, Fire will be 100% Tiger compatible when Tiger hits the streets... Testing for that is already underway... Including interoperability with the Jabber Server on Tiger
We are working on support for Jabber server-stored buddy lists, but that may have to wait until a future release. You can give the new version a trial run by downloading the alpha at http://fire.sf.net/Prerelease/snapshot.dmg
(BTW, we used the jabber libraries from Nitro, so hat's off to that team for the help.... Isn't open source great!!!)