As the guy who invented them (Terry Nation) died in 1997, the rights would be owned by his heirs. Or maybe the BBC themselves own the rights as the Daleks were created for a BBC show.
Or River. Did she not say in a past episode that the reason she is in prison is because she killed a very good man. We know that her timeline and the Doctor's are running in opposite directions, so maybe the Doctor is the man she killed.
However. if you have established a distinctive online identity, probably on multiple systems, and gained a (presumably positive) reputation with that identity, and one of those systems takes the identity from you and allocates it to someone else, could the recipient of the identity not be guilty of "passing off'"?
Also 'homeland' is a bit of a misnomer as the USA is a land of immigrant settlement (apart for those who used to called 'Red Indians'), so for each 'group' their homeland is where the settlers originally came from.
Not forgetting "Freedom of the Press". Should publishing web pages not be the modern day equivalent to the 'press' in the days when the 1st amendment was written. In those days the 'press' did not consist of multi-national media conglomerate (as it largely does today), but lots of small local Mon 'n' Pop outfits with printing presses.
I wouldn't trust my financial information to a connection using a new, never seen before, self-signed certificate, however they do introduce security benefits over plain HTTP. The fact that self-signed certificates lead to Firefox to issue scary warnings when unencrypted connections don't is ridiculous.
What would be better for financial institutions would be if they did self-sign, or run their own CA, and present the CA certificate to customers over the counter in the branch when the account is opened and have it available, on demand over the counter, for anyone to collect. ie promulgate the certificate using an out-of-band mechanism which gives some measure of assurance to the customer.
Yes, you have to trust the certificate authority, but the same applies to the many CAs which are accepted by default by the (major) browsers. How have these many CAs demonstrated to 'Joe Sixpack' user that he should trust them?
You're ignoring the fact that tapwater is used for needs other than directly drinking it. I'd wager that today MOST of the tapwater goes into showers, bathtubs, dishwashers and washing machines and only a very small fraction of that is used for actual consumption, save directly drinking it.
While I think you are right that most tap water is not consumed, I believe that more 'tap' water is used for flushing toilets than for any other purpose.
Believe me when I say that is absolutely the LAST problem Sony wants considered by the court. Insofar as they are concerned, their EULA expressly forbids such modification, and by coming within 50 feet of a PS3, he agreed to that.
Maybe there is an even more fundamental question. The PS3 is a physical piece of hardware which is purchased not rented or licensed. Therefore, from where did Sony obtain the right to (try to) impose an EULA?
Even the PSTN is contended. While each subscriber has their own copper line to the exchange (the same as each DSL subscriber has a dedicated connection to the DSLAM), neither the switching facilities in the exchange (certainly with electromechanical exchanges) nor the number of 'trunk' lines from the exchange could support every subscriber being on a call at the same time. However the PSTN is well enough provisioned such that it is very rare for a call to fail because there are insufficient resources to handle it.
You can encrypt the port numbers, but not the IP packet. We need a good encrypted transport protocol that encrypts everything except the IP header and maybe a session id (so each session can use its own keys). ISPs will know what computer each packet is going to, but not the content, port number, sequence number, etc.
Such a protocol already exists. It is called IPSec using ESP in transport mode.
When did it become Digital Restrictions Management? It always used to be Digital Rights Management. But as it ignored the rights of the owner/recipient of the DRM protected 'copy' and only enforced those of the copyright owner, I suppose that they had to change the acronym.
BSD licensed software would be banned under the "iii) redistributable at no charge." clause. While BSD (as with GPL) does not mandate that the software be redistributable at no charge, someone receiving a BSD licensed work is at liberty to redistribute it free of charge.
Not such suckers at that point. OS/2 ran Windows 3 applications better than 'real' Windows did. It was not until Microsoft introduced Windows 95 that OS/2 ceased to be 'a better Windows than Windows'.
And it would be nice, having requested more comments if there was some way of navigating to, or at least highlighting, the new comments. In a threaded system, if a new comment is made to a thread then it is not easy to detect the new comments amongst the (potentially 100s of) comments already read.
If there were enough of a market, the bare machines would be available. The fact that they aren't strongly suggests that there isn't much of a market for bare metal machines.
Cue the old joke about the customer service desk in a department store. "You are the tenth person today whom I have told that we do not stock bare metal machines because there is no demand for them"
So maybe the solution is go back to how IBM PCs were originally sold (when there was a choice of PC-DOS, CP/M86 or UCSD p-system) and to have to purchase the hardware and OS separately. Then dealers could, if they wanted, add an extra charge to install the OS for the purchaser.
So why do they not tell people to be alert and attentive and discourage people from leaning back (in the upright seat) and closing their eyes/dozing or from reading a book?
Except nowadays the local staff, even those calling themselves 'bank managers', have no digression. It is a case of "the computer says NO!" (or yes) and that decision cannot be overridden..
Not forgetting that Broadband indicates the technology used to deliver the data not the speed. So the opposite of Broadband is Baseband, not narrowband. So any ADSL is broadband but 1000BaseT is not.
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As the guy who invented them (Terry Nation) died in 1997, the rights would be owned by his heirs. Or maybe the BBC themselves own the rights as the Daleks were created for a BBC show.
Or River. Did she not say in a past episode that the reason she is in prison is because she killed a very good man. We know that her timeline and the Doctor's are running in opposite directions, so maybe the Doctor is the man she killed.
However. if you have established a distinctive online identity, probably on multiple systems, and gained a (presumably positive) reputation with that identity, and one of those systems takes the identity from you and allocates it to someone else, could the recipient of the identity not be guilty of "passing off'"?
Also 'homeland' is a bit of a misnomer as the USA is a land of immigrant settlement (apart for those who used to called 'Red Indians'), so for each 'group' their homeland is where the settlers originally came from.
Not forgetting "Freedom of the Press". Should publishing web pages not be the modern day equivalent to the 'press' in the days when the 1st amendment was written. In those days the 'press' did not consist of multi-national media conglomerate (as it largely does today), but lots of small local Mon 'n' Pop outfits with printing presses.
I wouldn't trust my financial information to a connection using a new, never seen before, self-signed certificate, however they do introduce security benefits over plain HTTP. The fact that self-signed certificates lead to Firefox to issue scary warnings when unencrypted connections don't is ridiculous.
What would be better for financial institutions would be if they did self-sign, or run their own CA, and present the CA certificate to customers over the counter in the branch when the account is opened and have it available, on demand over the counter, for anyone to collect. ie promulgate the certificate using an out-of-band mechanism which gives some measure of assurance to the customer.
Yes, you have to trust the certificate authority, but the same applies to the many CAs which are accepted by default by the (major) browsers. How have these many CAs demonstrated to 'Joe Sixpack' user that he should trust them?
How long will it be until they start intercepting all traffic on port 53 and sending it to their own DNS servers?
Is that not one the things which DNSSEC is designed to prevent?
You're ignoring the fact that tapwater is used for needs other than directly drinking it. I'd wager that today MOST of the tapwater goes into showers, bathtubs, dishwashers and washing machines and only a very small fraction of that is used for actual consumption, save directly drinking it.
While I think you are right that most tap water is not consumed, I believe that more 'tap' water is used for flushing toilets than for any other purpose.
Believe me when I say that is absolutely the LAST problem Sony wants considered by the court. Insofar as they are concerned, their EULA expressly forbids such modification, and by coming within 50 feet of a PS3, he agreed to that.
Maybe there is an even more fundamental question. The PS3 is a physical piece of hardware which is purchased not rented or licensed. Therefore, from where did Sony obtain the right to (try to) impose an EULA?
Even the PSTN is contended. While each subscriber has their own copper line to the exchange (the same as each DSL subscriber has a dedicated connection to the DSLAM), neither the switching facilities in the exchange (certainly with electromechanical exchanges) nor the number of 'trunk' lines from the exchange could support every subscriber being on a call at the same time. However the PSTN is well enough provisioned such that it is very rare for a call to fail because there are insufficient resources to handle it.
You can encrypt the port numbers, but not the IP packet. We need a good encrypted transport protocol that encrypts everything except the IP header and maybe a session id (so each session can use its own keys). ISPs will know what computer each packet is going to, but not the content, port number, sequence number, etc.
Such a protocol already exists. It is called IPSec using ESP in transport mode.
Hence the suggestion that after using online banking, you close the browser not just log out of the session. Or would this not help with this malware?
When did it become Digital Restrictions Management? It always used to be Digital Rights Management. But as it ignored the rights of the owner/recipient of the DRM protected 'copy' and only enforced those of the copyright owner, I suppose that they had to change the acronym.
No, there is also the option for direct bank transfer
You'd just public domain your work. There's nothing in this against that..
Yes there is. A public domain work is redistributable at no cost, and therefore excluded.
BSD licensed software would be banned under the "iii) redistributable at no charge." clause. While BSD (as with GPL) does not mandate that the software be redistributable at no charge, someone receiving a BSD licensed work is at liberty to redistribute it free of charge.
The issue is that people apparently see iPhone games for $1 and think "oh, games are cheap, why would I spend $40 on a Nintendo game then?"
Simple: the Nintendo game will have well over 40 times the content and 40 times the replay value.
And games like Chess, Nethack and the various roguelikes have considerable replay value and are available free of charge.
Not such suckers at that point. OS/2 ran Windows 3 applications better than 'real' Windows did. It was not until Microsoft introduced Windows 95 that OS/2 ceased to be 'a better Windows than Windows'.
And it would be nice, having requested more comments if there was some way of navigating to, or at least highlighting, the new comments. In a threaded system, if a new comment is made to a thread then it is not easy to detect the new comments amongst the (potentially 100s of) comments already read.
If there were enough of a market, the bare machines would be available. The fact that they aren't strongly suggests that there isn't much of a market for bare metal machines.
Cue the old joke about the customer service desk in a department store. "You are the tenth person today whom I have told that we do not stock bare metal machines because there is no demand for them"
So maybe the solution is go back to how IBM PCs were originally sold (when there was a choice of PC-DOS, CP/M86 or UCSD p-system) and to have to purchase the hardware and OS separately. Then dealers could, if they wanted, add an extra charge to install the OS for the purchaser.
So why do they not tell people to be alert and attentive and discourage people from leaning back (in the upright seat) and closing their eyes/dozing or from reading a book?
Except nowadays the local staff, even those calling themselves 'bank managers', have no digression. It is a case of "the computer says NO!" (or yes) and that decision cannot be overridden..
Not forgetting that Broadband indicates the technology used to deliver the data not the speed. So the opposite of Broadband is Baseband, not narrowband. So any ADSL is broadband but 1000BaseT is not.