Go read the Communications Act of 1934 and all of the ammendments to date.
The Communications Act is the enabling piece of legislation that created the FCC. It is what allows radio transmissions to occur legally at all and implicitely denies property owners any sort of tort of tresspass for wireless signals. It also states that you can listen ("monitor") any communication you wish, but had a "secrecy of communications" clause that forbids disclosure of the contents of any wireless communication to 3rd parties or use for gain of monitored communications unless they are directed specifically to you, or are transmitted by a broadcaster, a station in disstress (as later ammended, Amateurs and CB were also exempted from the secrecy section).
In the 70s, HBO started up. As explained here, the courts have ruled that putting a pay TV signal on your TV so you can watch it amounts to "publishing" it. In addition, HBO got the secrecy of communications section (Section 705) ammended to forbid decrypting satellite downlink signals if those signals represent programming that is available for subscription.
So in short, it is the Communications Act that allows broadcasters (and non-broadcasters as well, including your next door neighbor's garage door opener and cordless phone) to send signals over your property without paying you anything. And you aren't allowed to decrypt encrypted satellite-to-ground communications that are available for subscription without the authorization of the sender because of the ammendments to section 705.
Oh, and the satellite broadcasters do pay fees. Pretty damn hefty ones. They're called license fees. The FCC collects them and they go into the US Treasury. More than anything else, that's what gives them the right to beam encrypted signals across your property without paying (specifically) you.
The concept of digital broadcasting having strings attached is both morally repugnant and stupid, but you at least have to put forward a reasonable argument as to why rather than just making shit up, dude.
minor correction: OS X 10.4 comes with Java 1.4, but a download is available to add 1.5. Even with the download, however, 1.4 remains the default (as in java -version from the command prompt) JRE. You can either add the 1.5 JRE bin dir explicitely to your path or change the "CurrentJDK" symlink in/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.Framework/Versio ns .
But the outcome with its disincentives for improvement is very much the same as what you see in socialism. Are you somehow incapable of comprehending that?
Socialism is when the state pays for medical care, with tax money.
Go re-read what I wrote. I didn't say it was socialism. I said it was very close.
I trust you're not saying that people should have to pay for medical care out-of-pocket.
As things are now? Certainly not. Why not? Because there is no market pressure brought on providers to reduce prices. But suppose we were in a world where it was commonplace that you paid for medical care the same way you paid for shoes. It is for damn sure that the cost of health care would go sharply down as the market rewards those who can provide health care solutions of equal effectiveness for less money. We've seen the same sort of market encouragement of innovation in countless other industries (anyone remember what computers used to cost in the 70s?). Why should health care be any different?
Doctors are the only field that doesn't compete on either price or quality
This is because, for better or worse, the people paying aren't the same people receiving the services.
If you paid for your own medical care, the same way you paid for your food, clothing, car and home, you would have a much more obvious incentive to seek value for money than when you pay a $10 office-visit co-pay regardless of who you see. By the same token, since the doctor gets paid the same amount by the insurance company whether he's Gregory House M.D. or a McDoctor, he has very little incentive to do a really good job. His only real incentive is to avoid doing a bad enough job that he gets sued.
The situation is as close to socialism as you can get and still be in the U.S.
Actually, since we're talking about CISC vs RISC architectures, you should find that the x86 binaries will be a bit smaller than the PPC ones. So perhaps the code portions will wind up being 175% the original size. But a sizable portion of a typical Cocoa app consist of the NIBs and other non-executable resources, so you might find that a fat executable may take only an additional 50% or maybe even 25% on the disk.
Of course all of this applies only to Cocoa (will they even support Carbon-based Intel binaries? I believe they've already said they won't support Classic on Intel). Java apps won't care at all what CPU is running them.
You have greatly misunderstood the purpose of the bill of rights.
The BoR forbids the government from restricting the rights you enumerate. But when you agree to be employed by someone else, you agree to whatever employment terms you mutually negotiate (so long as those terms are lawful). It's not that your boss has forbidden you from speaking freely (as it were), you have agreed not to do so in return for a paycheck. That's a far cry from the government saying that you may not speak freely on pain of death.
The first time Apple did this, the OS looked at a few certain bytes of ROM, and if they didn't say "APPLE ][", it wouldn't run.
This led to the Apple v. Franklin lawsuit, which Apple lost.
The concept behind the final decision was that you could not use a copyright to "gate" a monopoly position in another market. More recently, this decision was a foundation for the recent decision concerning the company making chips to put in aftermarket ink and toner cartridges. The printer manufacturer (I don't remember the name) was not allowed to claim infringement because the copyrighted material was used to effectively grant a monopoly on cartridge manufacturing to the printer company despite the fact that there was no other barrier to interoperability.
My parents own one of those same SMCs. I was trying to transition them away from dialup by hooking the modem up to the serial port so that they'd at least no longer have to manually dial up anymore (plus there's the shared printer port).
Alas, I tried a bunch of different modems and never got one to actually dial with the thing. It just never worked. In the end I finally just convinced them to try a cable modem for a few months and they were instantly sold on the speed with which they could fetch their mail (!!) compared to the dialup links.
Ok, I will rephrase. You must leave a phone line plugged into the TiVo for the crypto card to make its once-a-month call if you have local channels, sports packages or exhaust your PPV credit limit.
If you're willing to ignore software updates and the nag messages, you don't have to do the PPP connection either. But it's easy and geeky-fun.
No 'contemporary' Beatles albums are available from the U.S. ITMS (that is, albums made by the Beatles when they were the Beatles). Perhaps they are available from the U.K. ITMS only? That may explain the comparison with the Beeb.
Actually, you can set up the local call over serial port networking without voiding the warranty. I've actually done it over serial-over-bluetooth to avoid having to run wires to the server. Works perfectly.
You still must leave a phone line plugged into the Tivo for the crypto card to make it's once-a-month call home, but THAT call can happen over Vonage without any trouble.
Before anyone hits 'reply' too quickly, I am aware that he is talking about an HD DirecTivo. I am aware that the USB ports are placebos. This technique is different.
You can get your TiVo to use your broadband connection if you're willing to hack things a bit.
You make a special DB91/8" stereo plug and plug one end into your TiVo's "remote out" jack, which is really just an RS-232 port in disguise. You connect the other end into a serial port set for 115200 bps on a computer running a PPP daemon. Set your TiVo dialing prefix to,#211. Your TiVo will now use PPP over the serial port to do its TiVo related calls. I can confirm that software updates can be fetched in this manner, as well as everything else.
You still must leave the phone line connected so that the crypto card can make its own phone calls, but THOSE calls will work just fine over Vonage (the modem bank they call into is 9600 bps). The only calls that have trouble are the V.90 ones into TiVo, and those are the ones that can be diverted with this technique.
In my case, I actually plug the serial port into a bluetooth-to-serial module, and have a virtual BT serial port on my mac doing the PPP server duties. Works perfectly and doesn't require running a cable.
There's an opportunity here: Someone should make a SCO "wanted deck" of playing cards like they did for Saddam's buddies and sell them on ThinkGeek. Clearly Darl should be the Ace of Spades. The trouble is, I'm not sure there are 52 culprits. Still...
Ok, everyone for whom the IANAL bit is set to false... Is there really any expectation of privacy for your packets once they transition out of your LAN (in the case of public WIFI, out of your machine)?
If you have no expectation of privacy, then they wouldn't even need a warrant, would they?
Please note that "expectation of privacy" is a specific legal term, not just a statement of angsty desire.
Departing briefly from the legal arena, I personally have no expectation that my packets cannot be inspected by any random BOFH after they leave my house, which is why I encrypt them as much as possible. I suspect I am not alone in this manner of thinking.
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Go read the Communications Act of 1934 and all of the ammendments to date.
The Communications Act is the enabling piece of legislation that created the FCC. It is what allows radio transmissions to occur legally at all and implicitely denies property owners any sort of tort of tresspass for wireless signals. It also states that you can listen ("monitor") any communication you wish, but had a "secrecy of communications" clause that forbids disclosure of the contents of any wireless communication to 3rd parties or use for gain of monitored communications unless they are directed specifically to you, or are transmitted by a broadcaster, a station in disstress (as later ammended, Amateurs and CB were also exempted from the secrecy section).
In the 70s, HBO started up. As explained here, the courts have ruled that putting a pay TV signal on your TV so you can watch it amounts to "publishing" it. In addition, HBO got the secrecy of communications section (Section 705) ammended to forbid decrypting satellite downlink signals if those signals represent programming that is available for subscription.
So in short, it is the Communications Act that allows broadcasters (and non-broadcasters as well, including your next door neighbor's garage door opener and cordless phone) to send signals over your property without paying you anything. And you aren't allowed to decrypt encrypted satellite-to-ground communications that are available for subscription without the authorization of the sender because of the ammendments to section 705.
Oh, and the satellite broadcasters do pay fees. Pretty damn hefty ones. They're called license fees. The FCC collects them and they go into the US Treasury. More than anything else, that's what gives them the right to beam encrypted signals across your property without paying (specifically) you.
The concept of digital broadcasting having strings attached is both morally repugnant and stupid, but you at least have to put forward a reasonable argument as to why rather than just making shit up, dude.
minor correction: OS X 10.4 comes with Java 1.4, but a download is available to add 1.5. Even with the download, however, 1.4 remains the default (as in java -version from the command prompt) JRE. You can either add the 1.5 JRE bin dir explicitely to your path or change the "CurrentJDK" symlink in /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.Framework/Versio ns .
But the outcome with its disincentives for improvement is very much the same as what you see in socialism. Are you somehow incapable of comprehending that?
Go re-read what I wrote. I didn't say it was socialism. I said it was very close.
I trust you're not saying that people should have to pay for medical care out-of-pocket.
As things are now? Certainly not. Why not? Because there is no market pressure brought on providers to reduce prices. But suppose we were in a world where it was commonplace that you paid for medical care the same way you paid for shoes. It is for damn sure that the cost of health care would go sharply down as the market rewards those who can provide health care solutions of equal effectiveness for less money. We've seen the same sort of market encouragement of innovation in countless other industries (anyone remember what computers used to cost in the 70s?). Why should health care be any different?
Shenanigans, btw.
Let he who spells it right cast the first spelling flame.
This is because, for better or worse, the people paying aren't the same people receiving the services.
If you paid for your own medical care, the same way you paid for your food, clothing, car and home, you would have a much more obvious incentive to seek value for money than when you pay a $10 office-visit co-pay regardless of who you see. By the same token, since the doctor gets paid the same amount by the insurance company whether he's Gregory House M.D. or a McDoctor, he has very little incentive to do a really good job. His only real incentive is to avoid doing a bad enough job that he gets sued.
The situation is as close to socialism as you can get and still be in the U.S.
No, but that was a PPC app running in Rosetta. Not what we're talking about.
Actually, since we're talking about CISC vs RISC architectures, you should find that the x86 binaries will be a bit smaller than the PPC ones. So perhaps the code portions will wind up being 175% the original size. But a sizable portion of a typical Cocoa app consist of the NIBs and other non-executable resources, so you might find that a fat executable may take only an additional 50% or maybe even 25% on the disk.
Of course all of this applies only to Cocoa (will they even support Carbon-based Intel binaries? I believe they've already said they won't support Classic on Intel). Java apps won't care at all what CPU is running them.
They haven't solved the horrible interference problems caused by BPL yet, have they?
But they're not actually circumventing FairPlay.
FairPlay protects songs. It doesn't protect iPods.
Not anymore.
The BoR forbids the government from restricting the rights you enumerate. But when you agree to be employed by someone else, you agree to whatever employment terms you mutually negotiate (so long as those terms are lawful). It's not that your boss has forbidden you from speaking freely (as it were), you have agreed not to do so in return for a paycheck. That's a far cry from the government saying that you may not speak freely on pain of death.
This led to the Apple v. Franklin lawsuit, which Apple lost.
The concept behind the final decision was that you could not use a copyright to "gate" a monopoly position in another market. More recently, this decision was a foundation for the recent decision concerning the company making chips to put in aftermarket ink and toner cartridges. The printer manufacturer (I don't remember the name) was not allowed to claim infringement because the copyrighted material was used to effectively grant a monopoly on cartridge manufacturing to the printer company despite the fact that there was no other barrier to interoperability.
No, they're doing their best to prevent anyone else from successfully selling a better one. That's not quite the same thing.
Let's not forget that they have already been convicted once of violating federal law in the furtherance of this goal.
Ahem.
Open Firmware!!!!!!
Thank you.
My parents own one of those same SMCs. I was trying to transition them away from dialup by hooking the modem up to the serial port so that they'd at least no longer have to manually dial up anymore (plus there's the shared printer port).
Alas, I tried a bunch of different modems and never got one to actually dial with the thing. It just never worked. In the end I finally just convinced them to try a cable modem for a few months and they were instantly sold on the speed with which they could fetch their mail (!!) compared to the dialup links.
WTF, is it suddenly 1999 again?
Ok, I will rephrase. You must leave a phone line plugged into the TiVo for the crypto card to make its once-a-month call if you have local channels, sports packages or exhaust your PPV credit limit.
If you're willing to ignore software updates and the nag messages, you don't have to do the PPP connection either. But it's easy and geeky-fun.
No 'contemporary' Beatles albums are available from the U.S. ITMS (that is, albums made by the Beatles when they were the Beatles). Perhaps they are available from the U.K. ITMS only? That may explain the comparison with the Beeb.
Actually, you can set up the local call over serial port networking without voiding the warranty. I've actually done it over serial-over-bluetooth to avoid having to run wires to the server. Works perfectly.
You still must leave a phone line plugged into the Tivo for the crypto card to make it's once-a-month call home, but THAT call can happen over Vonage without any trouble.
He said it was an HD Tivo. That means it's from DirecTV. Those TiVos do not have their USB ports activated.
You can still use serial port networking, but it is a bit more hacking and a custom cable to do it.
Before anyone hits 'reply' too quickly, I am aware that he is talking about an HD DirecTivo. I am aware that the USB ports are placebos. This technique is different.
,#211. Your TiVo will now use PPP over the serial port to do its TiVo related calls. I can confirm that software updates can be fetched in this manner, as well as everything else.
You can get your TiVo to use your broadband connection if you're willing to hack things a bit.
You make a special DB91/8" stereo plug and plug one end into your TiVo's "remote out" jack, which is really just an RS-232 port in disguise. You connect the other end into a serial port set for 115200 bps on a computer running a PPP daemon. Set your TiVo dialing prefix to
You still must leave the phone line connected so that the crypto card can make its own phone calls, but THOSE calls will work just fine over Vonage (the modem bank they call into is 9600 bps). The only calls that have trouble are the V.90 ones into TiVo, and those are the ones that can be diverted with this technique.
In my case, I actually plug the serial port into a bluetooth-to-serial module, and have a virtual BT serial port on my mac doing the PPP server duties. Works perfectly and doesn't require running a cable.
There's an opportunity here: Someone should make a SCO "wanted deck" of playing cards like they did for Saddam's buddies and sell them on ThinkGeek. Clearly Darl should be the Ace of Spades. The trouble is, I'm not sure there are 52 culprits. Still...
If you have no expectation of privacy, then they wouldn't even need a warrant, would they?
Please note that "expectation of privacy" is a specific legal term, not just a statement of angsty desire.
Departing briefly from the legal arena, I personally have no expectation that my packets cannot be inspected by any random BOFH after they leave my house, which is why I encrypt them as much as possible. I suspect I am not alone in this manner of thinking.