I've met many, most, but not all, are directly involved in producing software or content, and therefore have a lot of empathy for anyone who wishes their work not to be taken without fair payment, if payment is desired.
Patent #6,816,972, owned by Sony, 'DRM software that could prevent PlayStation 3's from playing used or borrowed games'
They own this patent as I discovered in a comment earlier, I wouldn't put much past them with regards to heavy handed, anti-fair-use consumer restrictions.
Your rather jumping to conclusions, he could run a business that sells goods that could have included Sony products if they hadn't annoyed him, he could just be responsible for purchases for a company he works for, he could simply mean he also convinced friends/family.
Or he could just mean he's loaded and decided not to buy AIBO's for all the grandkids;oD
there are 10mw green lasers available for $139.99 (70 gbp) so I don't think my comment was baseless at all, especially as I never claimed it was scything through cups in fractions of a second light a lightsabre or anythign:)
I should have said I meant a couple of those half size coke cans though, or a large hand torch, back then they were about that size.
Presentation pointers are red, very low powered, you can't see the beam without some kind of mist, you can get them for under five pounds in the UK all over the place, normally smaller than a pen, but thicker.
Green lasers are more powerful, you can see the beam in clear conditions, they cost an awful lot more ( somewhere between 100 - 200), are much larger, closer to say, a couple of coke cans stood on end, and can cut through a polystyrene cup....
Or at least that was the case the last time I looked maybe a year ago, I just took the first google hit that caught my eye and unsurprisingly they've got smaller and cheaper now : http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5a47/
heh, the thinkgeek page even specifically points out "Warning: Green lasers are very powerful. Pointing at aircraft may land you in jail. Without a Monopoly card to get you back out. Use it wisely."
I was surprised so checked it out too, that's a nasty regression from PRE beta2 nightly, and all the pre-beta 3 nightly builds:o(
and really rather unfortunate timing for it to happen to with this story.
I hadn't seen a nightly build that failed acid2 in ages (admittedly I didn't test all), beta builds branch off the nightly trunk for a while before release though.
Your last comments rather redundant though isn't it.
Obviously whatever OS you run once you're hacked, you're hacked but the whole point is that if an OS has more vulnerabilities then it's more likely to happen in the first place.
Though they have changed a little for Vista, pushing games compatibility updates occasionally, and generally pushing it as a gaming platform, that's never really been the issue driving their determination to maintain backwards compatibility, it's always been about the business software.
All XP updates could have been done on 2k, all 2k updates could have been done on NT4, heck even full 32bit support could have been added into a significant win98se update!
You might as well say that no software company should ever release a new version, and any improvements that they EVER want to make can just be added to the current version no matter how much work!
In many ways this is more the fault of proprietary software, though of course you can always say Microsoft encourage proprietary software so it's still their fault.
OSS software either gets fixed for updated OS's (/kernels), or simply someone that needs it does it themselves if no-one else already has done, that just doesn't happen with closed source software.
This is also a clear example of why software patents are a terrible idea, fantastically useful software can die completely after it's maker closes, but someone somewhere will crawl out of the woodwork to sue if someone else tries to update it later to make it work with a new OS.
Learn legal speak.
It's intentionally misleading/vague, but it's a fact it'll be interpreted by the RIAA lawyers the more restrictive way when it comes to suit them later on, (especially if pushing for precedent) and that's intentional.
this post earlier sums this up accurately imo.
"Any computer or network hardware used to "facilitate" a copyright crime could be seized by the Justice Department and auctioned off. The proceeds would be funneled to the agency's budget. The process is called civil asset forfeiture, and typically the owner does not need to be found guilty of a crime for his property to be taken. "
So what's in place to stop ANY possibility of 'grab anything you can with any excuse to fatten up our budgets' seeing as these seizures will sidestepping due process.
It is rather odd/worrying in light of the recent article on the great Chinese firewall also being used to cripple foreign web business in order to promote Chinese sites instead (Google and Baidu being a cited example if I remember correctly)
8.5 million infringements? the RIAA would be pursuing a HELL of a lot more than a mere $5 million.
Standard RIAA charge is $750.00 per infringement, so $6,375,000,000 if this was about MP3's and not sensitive personal information.
It stinks, just one of these records in the wrong hands could in theory ruin someone's life (cleaned out bank account, credit blacklist, who knows if they fall for a phishing attack), an infringed MP3 actually only costs the rights holder less than 99c.
...is with a 6 year development gap a huge number of casual users have forgotten what it is to upgrade/install a web browser, or simply never known, and don't see it as something they ever need to think about.
Russia's abstinence for Dmitry Sklyarov?
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Anyone think maybe Russia abstained as a cheeky protest against the arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov in 2001? Seeing it's an Adobe product, and PDF in particular.
He was arrested by the FBI in the US for DMCA Violation (which does not apply in Russia obviously), after Adobe complained about his production of AEBR for ElcomSoft, which cracks PDF passwords. No violation was committed on US soil.
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I've met many, most, but not all, are directly involved in producing software or content, and therefore have a lot of empathy for anyone who wishes their work not to be taken without fair payment, if payment is desired.
Patent #6,816,972, owned by Sony, 'DRM software that could prevent PlayStation 3's from playing used or borrowed games'
They own this patent as I discovered in a comment earlier, I wouldn't put much past them with regards to heavy handed, anti-fair-use consumer restrictions.
"You're" dammit, just barely waking up :-/
Your rather jumping to conclusions, he could run a business that sells goods that could have included Sony products if they hadn't annoyed him, he could just be responsible for purchases for a company he works for, he could simply mean he also convinced friends/family.
;oD
Or he could just mean he's loaded and decided not to buy AIBO's for all the grandkids
It's nice to see some judges can realise that a data set is not a program, I wonder how the previous decision really came about.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=395320&cid=21770170
My examples were from memory, I saw a site selling a green laser that had a video of the cup being cut on it.
:)
I don't know the power of the laser in question but it was under $400 (200 gbp), the prices I gave were in GBP.
Here's a vid of a 75mw green laser carving a foam cup for you : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLJwlL6h90U
Here's a 50mw green laser burning a match http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVVTxwVpe6s&feature=related
there are 10mw green lasers available for $139.99 (70 gbp) so I don't think my comment was baseless at all, especially as I never claimed it was scything through cups in fractions of a second light a lightsabre or anythign
I should have said I meant a couple of those half size coke cans though, or a large hand torch, back then they were about that size.
These are generalisations but :
Presentation pointers are red, very low powered, you can't see the beam without some kind of mist, you can get them for under five pounds in the UK all over the place, normally smaller than a pen, but thicker.
Green lasers are more powerful, you can see the beam in clear conditions, they cost an awful lot more ( somewhere between 100 - 200), are much larger, closer to say, a couple of coke cans stood on end, and can cut through a polystyrene cup....
Or at least that was the case the last time I looked maybe a year ago, I just took the first google hit that caught my eye and unsurprisingly they've got smaller and cheaper now : http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5a47/
heh, the thinkgeek page even specifically points out "Warning: Green lasers are very powerful. Pointing at aircraft may land you in jail. Without a Monopoly card to get you back out. Use it wisely."
Phantom guys are not actually SHIPPING the lapboard yet, bit premature for that on your list ;)
FF2 - fail
FF 3 nightly - lots before the beta2 release (which was a branch) pass, I'd expect current and future nightly builds to be fine too.
sad but true! :(
:o(
I was surprised so checked it out too, that's a nasty regression from PRE beta2 nightly, and all the pre-beta 3 nightly builds
and really rather unfortunate timing for it to happen to with this story.
I hadn't seen a nightly build that failed acid2 in ages (admittedly I didn't test all), beta builds branch off the nightly trunk for a while before release though.
Your last comments rather redundant though isn't it.
Obviously whatever OS you run once you're hacked, you're hacked but the whole point is that if an OS has more vulnerabilities then it's more likely to happen in the first place.
Though they have changed a little for Vista, pushing games compatibility updates occasionally, and generally pushing it as a gaming platform, that's never really been the issue driving their determination to maintain backwards compatibility, it's always been about the business software.
That is not to in any way imply that I don't agree with your un-numbered points about DRM and VLK activation however.
All XP updates could have been done on 2k, all 2k updates could have been done on NT4, heck even full 32bit support could have been added into a significant win98se update!
You might as well say that no software company should ever release a new version, and any improvements that they EVER want to make can just be added to the current version no matter how much work!
In many ways this is more the fault of proprietary software, though of course you can always say Microsoft encourage proprietary software so it's still their fault.
OSS software either gets fixed for updated OS's (/kernels), or simply someone that needs it does it themselves if no-one else already has done, that just doesn't happen with closed source software.
This is also a clear example of why software patents are a terrible idea, fantastically useful software can die completely after it's maker closes, but someone somewhere will crawl out of the woodwork to sue if someone else tries to update it later to make it work with a new OS.
Gran Paradiso (Firefox 3 for those who don't follow pre release news) has passed Acid2 on win32 for quite some time now.
How is that any different to when XP was released, other than they've had a few more years to get rooted into their old OS's ways?
Learn legal speak.
It's intentionally misleading/vague, but it's a fact it'll be interpreted by the RIAA lawyers the more restrictive way when it comes to suit them later on, (especially if pushing for precedent) and that's intentional. this post earlier sums this up accurately imo.
"Any computer or network hardware used to "facilitate" a copyright crime could be seized by the Justice Department and auctioned off. The proceeds would be funneled to the agency's budget. The process is called civil asset forfeiture, and typically the owner does not need to be found guilty of a crime for his property to be taken. "
So what's in place to stop ANY possibility of 'grab anything you can with any excuse to fatten up our budgets' seeing as these seizures will sidestepping due process.
It is rather odd/worrying in light of the recent article on the great Chinese firewall also being used to cripple foreign web business in order to promote Chinese sites instead (Google and Baidu being a cited example if I remember correctly)
All the data was uploaded and made available 1.39am UTC : http://www.swivel.com/data_sets/show/1010698
The stats were all done using swivel (probably after you commented admittedly), not livejoural, LJ is just the site he posted them.
8.5 million infringements? the RIAA would be pursuing a HELL of a lot more than a mere $5 million.
Standard RIAA charge is $750.00 per infringement, so $6,375,000,000 if this was about MP3's and not sensitive personal information.
It stinks, just one of these records in the wrong hands could in theory ruin someone's life (cleaned out bank account, credit blacklist, who knows if they fall for a phishing attack), an infringed MP3 actually only costs the rights holder less than 99c.
...is with a 6 year development gap a huge number of casual users have forgotten what it is to upgrade/install a web browser, or simply never known, and don't see it as something they ever need to think about.
Anyone think maybe Russia abstained as a cheeky protest against the arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov in 2001? Seeing it's an Adobe product, and PDF in particular.
He was arrested by the FBI in the US for DMCA Violation (which does not apply in Russia obviously), after Adobe complained about his production of AEBR for ElcomSoft, which cracks PDF passwords. No violation was committed on US soil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Sklyarov