I am waiting for the time comes when i purchase a movie, place it in my dvd player (flash upgrade) or in my computer and it will auto-install tracking software.
This reminds me of that Audio CD (or DVD, can't remember) protection scheme which just used windows autorun feature to install a driver on the machine that would prevent the cd from being copied. All you had to do to "circumvent" it was to hold the shift key while inserting the CD. I remember reading that some college student put up a web page on how to circumvent this and got sued or something. But I don't remember properly, don't take my word for it.
Lately I've begun to see My-Job-Worse comments on slashdot where posters just make up bad stuff about their jobs to blend in with their peers. I saw a comment on how the posters company was even worse in abusing marketing buzzwords in response to a story about marketing jargon. The comment was promptly ripped off from a page on the GNAA website.
Linux kernel now supports foriegn binaries. IIRC, some patches are available to enable support for PE binaries (Windows native binaries). If dependencies are kept low, with some clever programming, virii that run on multiple platforms are possible without something like wine or java.
...Or for that matter, any cameras without this "feature".
Yes, if we have the option. This has just been patented and there is a long time before this is actually implemented (read: invented) and make it to the market.
But the fear is that once this becomes viable to be implemented in every camera, the goverment might pass a law that every camera must contain this "feature". Then you'll have to buy a restrictionless camera from the guy in the trenchcoat down the street corner.
Or the companies might start self-regulating themselves and introduce this in all their cameras. They might form some industry alliance so that companies will either have to become members and implement this restriction OR not be able to have good films for their cameras (due to patents) or not be able to make cameras compatible with most computer interfaces (due to patents). Yeah, this is unlikely to happen but it all depends on whether the companies can make a shit load of money by putting this "feature". Then you'll either have to buy a freedomless camera OR a crappy camera that's not as good as others and is not compatible with most films/computers.
Yes, this is paranoid, but it's (remotely) possible. How many people would have believed you if you had said 20 years ago that TODO lists will be patented?
Why is the patent being ignored in this discussion? After taking a brief look at the patent, it seems like HP hasn't patented an implementation of the idea but instead has patented the very idea of blocking a photo itself. That means if someone aactually invents an ingenious camera blocking/face blurring device in the next 20 years, he will have to pay HP. Now come on, many of us have thought about blocking a photo or jamming a camera. Patent laws of all the countries I know of state that patents are for innovative ideas only and a patent should not be granted for something that is common sense.
OK, on reading the article again, it looks like even the second set of games were NOT banned. No games were banned. Some games were pirated so the pirated copies were banned. And then illegal copies of other games from foriegn countries were being sold so the foriegn copies were banned.
China did NOT ban The Sims 2 and FIFA 2005. Please, AT LEAST the editors should RTFA. The news item reports two things:
Pirated copies of the following games are banned: Age of Mythology: the Titans, The Sims 2, Manhunt, FIFA 2005, Battlefield Vietnam and Painkiller: Battle out of Hell. PIRATED copies. Much to the delight of the makers of those games. They can still be legally sold and obtained in China.
These games were illegal in China (they weren't allowed to be sold -- banned): Conflict Vietnam, Vietcong: Fist Alpha and Devastation. But, presumably, people sold them anyway and therefore they have been banned. Let me repeat, only the following games have been completely banned from China: Conflict Vietnam, Vietcong: Fist Alpha and Devastation.
First slashdot reports an urban legend as true and now this.
<ranting about how incompetent news posters are and how careless slashdot editors have become>
Re:Sounds like a piracy crackdown, not a ban.
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If Al qaida released a game showing the WTC attackers as the good guys, then I'm sure USA will do something to stop it from entering USA. This might not seem like the right analogy for you, but it certaily does to Chinese and a lot of people outside USA.
You didn't get it, did you? I'll explain at the expense of getting modded as redundant. Anal sex works of both genders but you don't like anal sex at all. So it doesn't matter if it works on both genders, it's just not desirable. In the same way, it doesn't matter if Java runs on all platforms. Java is just bad and unuseable (at least according to grand parent).
Umm, Linux companies don't represent the Linux "community". Linux companies represent Linux companies. And yes, Linux companies are indeed greedy. They try to make money by not doing any work themselves and just selling stuff that's already available for free. The same nature continues when it comes to putting links to charity organisations on their web pages. The hard truth is, Linux companies are worse than Non-Free Software companies.
Idiots call global warming an opinion while it's a fact. Some guy comes on slashdot and tells the truth. He gets modded as flamebait while the idiots get modded +5 interesting. I'm convinced, there is no place for truth on slashdot. [I've never heard a non-american say that global warming is not happening.]
Co-creator? FireFox is derived from the Mozilla code base, with a few changes. The creators of Mozilla are the real creators of FireFox. It's wrong to give any amount of credit for the creation of FireFox to someone who just added some little features and optimized it a bit. The media just likes to make the "story" more interesting by saying a 19 year old "kid" created something used by millions. I can see a new media sweet-heart in the making. Like Linus Torvalds. Yes, he started a good kernel and gave a major kick to Free Software development, but it seems like the media just loves project as if he created every program we use on a Linux distro today and tends to forget the fact there people/groups of people who have done as much as or even more than him.
All software patents, including ones for very ingenious, non-obvious algorithms, are wrong (bad). Software patents are just patents for mathematical truths. A patent, or the right of a person to restrict the use of his invention, has always been for an actualy/physical invention, not for a theory or a mathematical truth. I recommend you to read literature related to software patents on the GNU website.
The video had been on that site for many years. So now that some random guy came across the video, he puts it on slashdot and it makes it to the front page. What's the need? Slashdot is a *news* site.
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I am waiting for the time comes when i purchase a movie, place it in my dvd player (flash upgrade) or in my computer and it will auto-install tracking software.
This reminds me of that Audio CD (or DVD, can't remember) protection scheme which just used windows autorun feature to install a driver on the machine that would prevent the cd from being copied. All you had to do to "circumvent" it was to hold the shift key while inserting the CD. I remember reading that some college student put up a web page on how to circumvent this and got sued or something. But I don't remember properly, don't take my word for it.
I'd like to see how Apple is going sue The Register on this one.
Lately I've begun to see My-Job-Worse comments on slashdot where posters just make up bad stuff about their jobs to blend in with their peers. I saw a comment on how the posters company was even worse in abusing marketing buzzwords in response to a story about marketing jargon. The comment was promptly ripped off from a page on the GNAA website.
*phew* Finally, someone states the fact that the Internet is not a big scary netherworld full of monsters like some would like to have us believe.
Linux kernel now supports foriegn binaries. IIRC, some patches are available to enable support for PE binaries (Windows native binaries). If dependencies are kept low, with some clever programming, virii that run on multiple platforms are possible without something like wine or java.
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Yes, if we have the option. This has just been patented and there is a long time before this is actually implemented (read: invented) and make it to the market.
But the fear is that once this becomes viable to be implemented in every camera, the goverment might pass a law that every camera must contain this "feature". Then you'll have to buy a restrictionless camera from the guy in the trenchcoat down the street corner.
Or the companies might start self-regulating themselves and introduce this in all their cameras. They might form some industry alliance so that companies will either have to become members and implement this restriction OR not be able to have good films for their cameras (due to patents) or not be able to make cameras compatible with most computer interfaces (due to patents). Yeah, this is unlikely to happen but it all depends on whether the companies can make a shit load of money by putting this "feature". Then you'll either have to buy a freedomless camera OR a crappy camera that's not as good as others and is not compatible with most films/computers.
Yes, this is paranoid, but it's (remotely) possible. How many people would have believed you if you had said 20 years ago that TODO lists will be patented?
Why is the patent being ignored in this discussion? After taking a brief look at the patent, it seems like HP hasn't patented an implementation of the idea but instead has patented the very idea of blocking a photo itself. That means if someone aactually invents an ingenious camera blocking/face blurring device in the next 20 years, he will have to pay HP. Now come on, many of us have thought about blocking a photo or jamming a camera. Patent laws of all the countries I know of state that patents are for innovative ideas only and a patent should not be granted for something that is common sense.
Interesting point. And less badwidth used by malware == lesser costs for Speakeasy.
C'mon it's not even close. We're talking about international politics/issues here. Kennedy was killed by an American.
If I'm not seriously mistaken, MPEG-4 is only good for high resolution videos and not so good for 320x240 videos.
OK, on reading the article again, it looks like even the second set of games were NOT banned. No games were banned. Some games were pirated so the pirated copies were banned. And then illegal copies of other games from foriegn countries were being sold so the foriegn copies were banned.
- Pirated copies of the following games are banned: Age of Mythology: the Titans, The Sims 2, Manhunt, FIFA 2005, Battlefield Vietnam and Painkiller: Battle out of Hell. PIRATED copies. Much to the delight of the makers of those games. They can still be legally sold and obtained in China.
- These games were illegal in China (they weren't allowed to be sold -- banned): Conflict Vietnam, Vietcong: Fist Alpha and Devastation. But, presumably, people sold them anyway and therefore they have been banned. Let me repeat, only the following games have been completely banned from China: Conflict Vietnam, Vietcong: Fist Alpha and Devastation.
First slashdot reports an urban legend as true and now this.<ranting about how incompetent news posters are and how careless slashdot editors have become>
If Al qaida released a game showing the WTC attackers as the good guys, then I'm sure USA will do something to stop it from entering USA. This might not seem like the right analogy for you, but it certaily does to Chinese and a lot of people outside USA.
Two words: Licence incompatibility.
"The art of getting modded up on slashdot by making comments that don't mean anything but appear to mean a lot - for dummies" ISBN-B4D
You didn't get it, did you? I'll explain at the expense of getting modded as redundant. Anal sex works of both genders but you don't like anal sex at all. So it doesn't matter if it works on both genders, it's just not desirable. In the same way, it doesn't matter if Java runs on all platforms. Java is just bad and unuseable (at least according to grand parent).
WTF doesn parent post mean and Who modded it as Insightful?? It just looks like a poor attempt at humour or a poor attempt at humour by a dyslexic.
Umm, Linux companies don't represent the Linux "community". Linux companies represent Linux companies. And yes, Linux companies are indeed greedy. They try to make money by not doing any work themselves and just selling stuff that's already available for free. The same nature continues when it comes to putting links to charity organisations on their web pages. The hard truth is, Linux companies are worse than Non-Free Software companies.
multitude of other OS's. (emphasis mine)
Slashdot Episode 2: Attack of the Patent Attorneys.
Watch as parent post goes down is flames as it gets modded down as troll/flamebait because it told the truth and discomforted the capitalists.
Idiots call global warming an opinion while it's a fact. Some guy comes on slashdot and tells the truth. He gets modded as flamebait while the idiots get modded +5 interesting. I'm convinced, there is no place for truth on slashdot. [I've never heard a non-american say that global warming is not happening.]
Co-creator? FireFox is derived from the Mozilla code base, with a few changes. The creators of Mozilla are the real creators of FireFox. It's wrong to give any amount of credit for the creation of FireFox to someone who just added some little features and optimized it a bit. The media just likes to make the "story" more interesting by saying a 19 year old "kid" created something used by millions. I can see a new media sweet-heart in the making. Like Linus Torvalds. Yes, he started a good kernel and gave a major kick to Free Software development, but it seems like the media just loves project as if he created every program we use on a Linux distro today and tends to forget the fact there people/groups of people who have done as much as or even more than him.
All software patents, including ones for very ingenious, non-obvious algorithms, are wrong (bad). Software patents are just patents for mathematical truths. A patent, or the right of a person to restrict the use of his invention, has always been for an actualy/physical invention, not for a theory or a mathematical truth. I recommend you to read literature related to software patents on the GNU website.
The video had been on that site for many years. So now that some random guy came across the video, he puts it on slashdot and it makes it to the front page. What's the need? Slashdot is a *news* site.