Is it just my imagination (or my outlook changing) or has the quality of writing in the (even so called quality) newspapers been declining over the past 20 (or so) years?
Re:Ask not for whom the bell tolls...
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And now they are recommending socket 370 rather than slot-1 motherboards to cater for FCPGA chips.
Re:Spread the message, brothers
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The default for copyright (as per international treaties) is that Joe Public is not allowed to use it unless they get permission.
Surely this is not right. The default as far as international copyright treaties is that Joe Public is allowed to use something. Copyright only prevents (or makes it illegal) him copying it. Using a copyrighted item for its intended purpose must surely be "fair use" under almost any copyright rules. That the use of the material may be subject to other restrictions/legislation has nothing to with copyright.
Should html linking not be treated (legally) in the same way as references and citations are in printed books and journals?
Re:The Internet may end governments and taxes.
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So maybe the tax methodologies need to be re-examined. It may be difficult to tax the actual exchanges, but most people will be using credit/debit cards and will need accounts with financial institutions. I am sure that it would not be beyond the capabilities of governments to tax the trade via the financial institutions rather than directly from the point of sale.
One way that it could be enforced would be if all of the ISPs followed the lead of some "always" on suppliers who, "to protect the customer", filter all incoming TCP connections (ie packets with the SYN but not ACK bits set) from their customers. That way customers will not be able to directly connect with other customers, but only with "central" sites. This would break the gnutella (and other) modes of operation. This is not common now, but who is to say what may happen in the next few years?
How do we get the message to the movie/entertainment industry that they are not the only producers of material for recording/playback devices? If I remember correctly, when DAT recorders first became available there was some hardware/software device which prevented the re-recording of recordings. This was, of course, intended to prevent the piracy of pre-recorded music. However, the birdwatchers, train spotters, amateur musicians etc, who wanted to distribute their own recordings were very angry at this.
For DVD etc, there is considerable potential (probably even bigger than that for playback of entertainment material) for use in software archiving and distribution. Should we allow the entertainment industry to make the technology unusable by others, simply for their own selfish motives?
Why are grey imports not allowed? It cannot be for copyright reasons as the copying is done where the CD is mastered, importing does not involve copying.
I have looked on 3 different mirrors and cannot find it. There is a v2.4 directory, but this just contains the README-2.4 file. The latest I can see in the testing directory is 2.3.99pre10-3. So where is 2.4.0-test1 kernel source?
In the case of software, what you have purchased is a licence to use the software. So, if the (copy protected) media fails at any time then the copyright holder should be made to have a legal obligation to replace the failed media so that you may continue to exercise your rights under the licence. Similarly for videos and music, if the copyright holder does not allow you to take steps to preserve the 'data' then they should be obliged to provide replacements (possibly for a reasonable charge) throughout the period of the copyright.
With 'physical' works of art, it is common for paintings, sculptures etc to be restored and preserved. So similar activities should be allowed for works of art held on magnetic (or other) media.
One way of regulating it would be for the ISPs to firewall all (non-commercial) customer connections so that no incoming calls are presented to the customer.
In theory any search engine should be a superset of the filtering software. Filtering software works only a small number of criteria, but it would be nice to be able to define a search based on the user's criteria. Having filters (both positive and negative) on such things as
mailing list archives
Sites where the items matching the search key may be purchased.
Online product manuals
Text is in meta tags, <Hn> tags, or the page body.
One problem area about which the primer seems to have nothing to say is that where companies in different areas (either different areas of trade or geographical) have the same trademark.
True that the phone number will be logged, but that will not help in tracing you. These phones are available in many stores, and if you pay cash then the purchase is anonymous. If you then use the phone once, and never again then it will very hard to trace who made the call. If you use the phone more than once (or make calls to more than one number) then it will make it easier to associate the phone usage with the user.
Re:DeCSS & CPHack aren't illegal until October!
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Is CPHack a device for circumventing a copyright protection system? The site list is encrypted, but I don't think that this encryption is a copyright protection system. Surely the reason it is encrypted is to stop anyone from altering the list,
The offending article was not even posted to Demon's server. It was posted somewhere else and ended on Demon's servers by way of the normal NNTP 'flood fill' distribution.
Patches, rather than complete re-issue of code, might be a good idea. Back in the days when I was a mainframe system programmer one of the most common methods for the supplier (ICL) to provide bug fixes was by issuing patches. These were applied against the executable file, and were typically only 20 or 30 lines in length.
This technique does not seem to have become very popular with smaller systems. The only current example I can of is fortify.net who provide patches for 128bit security for Netscape (not needed so much now that Netscape are allowed to export the 128bit versions.)
There is no way that they can force you to watch the commercials. They can prevent you from skipping/fast forwarding past them, but (assuming the same format as VHS tapes with advertisments prior to the main movie) cannot prevent you from leaving the room (making a coffee, using the toilet or whatever) while the commercials are playing.
My question to all of this, is why discriminate on the grounds of where the viewer of the information is located? It is one thing for juristictions to have differing decency laws etc, but why should the provider be concerned about where the material is being seen/received? The wired world is global, so why cannot the information/entertainment providers allow their output to be disseminated globally?
Frequently entertainment series are released in one country (often the USA) before being seen in the rest of the world. It can both be frustrating and detract from the enjoyment when the episode is eventually seen to see discussion or information on usenet or the web about the latest episode of a series when your country is months (or even years) behind.
Slashdot Mirror
Is it just my imagination (or my outlook changing) or has the quality of writing in the (even so called quality) newspapers been declining over the past 20 (or so) years?
And now they are recommending socket 370 rather than slot-1 motherboards to cater for FCPGA chips.
Surely this is not right. The default as far as international copyright treaties is that Joe Public is allowed to use something. Copyright only prevents (or makes it illegal) him copying it. Using a copyrighted item for its intended purpose must surely be "fair use" under almost any copyright rules. That the use of the material may be subject to other restrictions/legislation has nothing to with copyright.
It sounds more like a Trojan Horse (a tempting 'gift' left outside the city gates) but that term has already been taken.
Should html linking not be treated (legally) in the same way as references and citations are in printed books and journals?
So maybe the tax methodologies need to be re-examined. It may be difficult to tax the actual exchanges, but most people will be using credit/debit cards and will need accounts with financial institutions. I am sure that it would not be beyond the capabilities of governments to tax the trade via the financial institutions rather than directly from the point of sale.
One way that it could be enforced would be if all of the ISPs followed the lead of some "always" on suppliers who, "to protect the customer", filter all incoming TCP connections (ie packets with the SYN but not ACK bits set) from their customers. That way customers will not be able to directly connect with other customers, but only with "central" sites. This would break the gnutella (and other) modes of operation. This is not common now, but who is to say what may happen in the next few years?
Not just the players, but how much of the recorded media supports, for example, multiple sub-title, language tracks and camera angles?
How do we get the message to the movie/entertainment industry that they are not the only producers of material for recording/playback devices? If I remember correctly, when DAT recorders first became available there was some hardware/software device which prevented the re-recording of recordings. This was, of course, intended to prevent the piracy of pre-recorded music. However, the birdwatchers, train spotters, amateur musicians etc, who wanted to distribute their own recordings were very angry at this.
For DVD etc, there is considerable potential (probably even bigger than that for playback of entertainment material) for use in software archiving and distribution. Should we allow the entertainment industry to make the technology unusable by others, simply for their own selfish motives?
Why are grey imports not allowed? It cannot be for copyright reasons as the copying is done where the CD is mastered, importing does not involve copying.
The file you should be editting is the top level kernel Makefile. You have to remove the comment at the start of the line
#export INSTALL_PATH=/boot
Is there not a gnu parted which does this?
I have looked on 3 different mirrors and cannot find it. There is a v2.4 directory, but this just contains the README-2.4 file. The latest I can see in the testing directory is 2.3.99pre10-3. So where is 2.4.0-test1 kernel source?
In the case of software, what you have purchased is a licence to use the software. So, if the (copy protected) media fails at any time then the copyright holder should be made to have a legal obligation to replace the failed media so that you may continue to exercise your rights under the licence. Similarly for videos and music, if the copyright holder does not allow you to take steps to preserve the 'data' then they should be obliged to provide replacements (possibly for a reasonable charge) throughout the period of the copyright.
With 'physical' works of art, it is common for paintings, sculptures etc to be restored and preserved. So similar activities should be allowed for works of art held on magnetic (or other) media.
One way of regulating it would be for the ISPs to firewall all (non-commercial) customer connections so that no incoming calls are presented to the customer.
This would not be a welcome move.
- mailing list archives
- Sites where the items matching the search key may be purchased.
- Online product manuals
- Text is in meta tags, <Hn> tags, or the page body.
could be very useful.One problem area about which the primer seems to have nothing to say is that where companies in different areas (either different areas of trade or geographical) have the same trademark.
True that the phone number will be logged, but that will not help in tracing you. These phones are available in many stores, and if you pay cash then the purchase is anonymous. If you then use the phone once, and never again then it will very hard to trace who made the call. If you use the phone more than once (or make calls to more than one number) then it will make it easier to associate the phone usage with the user.
Is CPHack a device for circumventing a copyright protection system? The site list is encrypted, but I don't think that this encryption is a copyright protection system. Surely the reason it is encrypted is to stop anyone from altering the list,
The offending article was not even posted to Demon's server. It was posted somewhere else and ended on Demon's servers by way of the normal NNTP 'flood fill' distribution.
How much of that spam actually originated at AOL, and how much had forged headers to make it seem to come from AOL?
Patches, rather than complete re-issue of code, might be a good idea. Back in the days when I was a mainframe system programmer one of the most common methods for the supplier (ICL) to provide bug fixes was by issuing patches. These were applied against the executable file, and were typically only 20 or 30 lines in length.
This technique does not seem to have become very popular with smaller systems. The only current example I can of is fortify.net who provide patches for 128bit security for Netscape (not needed so much now that Netscape are allowed to export the 128bit versions.)
But haven't you already paid that when you purchase/rent the DVD movie?
There is no way that they can force you to watch the commercials. They can prevent you from skipping/fast forwarding past them, but (assuming the same format as VHS tapes with advertisments prior to the main movie) cannot prevent you from leaving the room (making a coffee, using the toilet or whatever) while the commercials are playing.
My question to all of this, is why discriminate on the grounds of where the viewer of the information is located? It is one thing for juristictions to have differing decency laws etc, but why should the provider be concerned about where the material is being seen/received? The wired world is global, so why cannot the information/entertainment providers allow their output to be disseminated globally?
Frequently entertainment series are released in one country (often the USA) before being seen in the rest of the world. It can both be frustrating and detract from the enjoyment when the episode is eventually seen to see discussion or information on usenet or the web about the latest episode of a series when your country is months (or even years) behind.