June 3rd, 2003:Compaq today announced that as from this coming August, all their PC's will ship with a DMCA compliant USB keyboard, making them fully Windows XXIV compatible.
The keyboard works by plugging into a phoneline and comparing any words entered to an international database of copyrighted works. If no phoneline is detected, the keyboard refuses to work.
If a match of more than five sequential words is found against copyrighted material, the keyboard will switch into anti-word-theif mode, exploding and embedding shards of plastic and keys into the offending user's hands, face and torso.
That being said, the act of publishing *professionally* is usually going to alter this default copyright structure. Since 1978, part of every American recording label...
Unless the 1978 Copyright Agreement was an international affair, how does this compare against the other 95% of the world's population* ??
So far it's being assumed that every creation that is listed in the CDDB was American produced, in exactly the same way that congress assumes that the internet is an American only network.
World population estimation for July 1st 1999 = 5,996,215,340
U.S. population for July 1st 1999 = 272,878,000
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census
[Steve]
It's funny how many times you have to show your I.D. in the U.S. ...at times it feels like Germany, 1942.
Bill Gates: "I know...let's make it more difficult for admins to find out about bugs in our OS - if they don't know about the bug, then it doesn't exist, right?"
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Maybe there's a chance I could sue MP3.com for allowing me to listen to copyrighted music that was crap??
Had they not made it freely available for my feeble fingers to click on, my ears wouldn't have been subjected to such abuse.
I still suffer mental trauma from accidently listening to Britney Spears!
[Steve]
Any piece of software is a device to process data.
Surely a patent for a device should contain details on the processing it performs, rather than just saying "this thing does stuff".
June 3rd, 2003: Compaq today announced that as from this coming August, all their PC's will ship with a DMCA compliant USB keyboard, making them fully Windows XXIV compatible.
The keyboard works by plugging into a phoneline and comparing any words entered to an international database of copyrighted works. If no phoneline is detected, the keyboard refuses to work.
If a match of more than five sequential words is found against copyrighted material, the keyboard will switch into anti-word-theif mode, exploding and embedding shards of plastic and keys into the offending user's hands, face and torso.
Could we get a refund if an off-topic/repeat story was posted? :-P
That being said, the act of publishing *professionally* is usually going to alter this default copyright structure. Since 1978, part of every American recording label...
Unless the 1978 Copyright Agreement was an international affair, how does this compare against the other 95% of the world's population* ??
So far it's being assumed that every creation that is listed in the CDDB was American produced, in exactly the same way that congress assumes that the internet is an American only network.
World population estimation for July 1st 1999 = 5,996,215,340
U.S. population for July 1st 1999 = 272,878,000
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census
[Steve]
It's funny how many times you have to show your I.D. in the U.S.
...at times it feels like Germany, 1942.
Currently (4:51pm CST) there's no link to the full story about the IP agreement.
Personally, I'd just walk away from the kind of employer that wants to dominate and control outside of working hours.
In the long run they're going to find that anyone worth their salt will do the same, and those that do sign haven't got much to offer.
Steve
Next step...
Microsoft states that Open Source software is a communist led movement, because of Linux' take-up by the Chinese government.
They're sounding more paranoid and desperate each passing day.
Steve
Can you say "Digging their own grave" ?
Bill Gates: "I know...let's make it more difficult for admins to find out about bugs in our OS - if they don't know about the bug, then it doesn't exist, right?"
[Steve]
What has always puzzled me is why is the American spelling of Aluminium missing the second "i"??
hmmm
Steve
What does this mean for XFree86 development?
Does it mean that the whole of the XFree code can be opened, so allowing more developers to work on it.
...I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for an anti-aliasing font renderer to appear one day.
Steve