Stupid and overzealous? Are all you people insane?
A real lawyer, (i.e. not some AC posting on slashdot) has told him that if he publishes this there's a slim but real chance he could do *#!%ing Federal jail time! Prison!
Sorry for shouting, but for goodness sake, if anyone thinks it's worth the risk, great, you post a possible DCMA violation and see what happens to you. And remember, if you drop your soap in the showers, don't bend over to pick it up.
It's easy to see how it is relevant. The DCMA does not mention cryptography:
Say you have copyrighted material on your PC. I can't get them because my account has not permission to access those files. Nothing fancy here: standard Unix permissions. So, what stops me from getting at those copyrighted materials is the standard linux permissions system. The DMCA, then, could be interpreted to consider the standard linux perms system to be a device to prevent me stealing copyrighted material, and providing information that allows me to circumvent that protection is a violation.
So, if Alan tells us "you cannot use method X to circumvent the protection in the new kernel" then the DCMA could interpret this as "method X circumvents the protection in older kernels". Bingo, Alan goes to jail, does not pass Go, and does not collect £200.
Mr C. appears to have taken legal advice in this matter that has told him the safest thing is not to tell anybody what method X was. Until there has been some more prosecutions and there is more precedent, this is the best advice he could recieve.
Firstly, it's the first time one of these phone/pda combo's has been made by a PDA company. Everything else has been made by a mobile phone company.
Secondly is that they appear to have a clear perception of the seperate phone and PDA market requirements. That's why it's been made smaller - to make it fit your hand more like a phone. The missing springboard slot is probably related - it's size issue. Also I suspect that this is similar internally to the visorphone, so there might have been hardware conflicts if they tried to put a slot in. The keyboard is also a nod to mobile phone users, who expect an un-useable keyboard instead of graffitti.;-)
It's interesting, but will it hold up against the Pocket-pc equivelants like that BT O2 thing (again, made by a mobile phone company, not a PDA company).
Yes, in Exchange2K it's built in and works very neatly. In Exchange 5.5 it's a clever web front end. 2K also offers a feature where the mail store is exposed as if it were a file system so you can do all sorts of things with that.
Indeed, any phone you expect to sell into the UK teenager market (the high end of which is where this is aimed) must concentrate a lot on SMS messaging.
Either that or the engineers who build life imitate Star Trek, but anyhow, let's see what they use...
Very good NLP, and buttons.
Physical buttons in TOS; touch panels subsequently. They have pointers but seem to only use them for signatures.
Hmmm... Of course they don't seem to have taken account of the fact that you can't use an upright touch panel for more than a few minutes before your arms felel like they're going to drop off.
Synopsis:
MS abuse their monopoly because they make changing File Associations difficult. (Contrary to Napoleon's example, the author attributes this to malice, rather than incompetence). Example: No point the DoJ forcing MS to bundel realplayer if joe public has Media Player load automatically when he double-clicks a content file
No comentator seems to have pointed out that this is surely a dig at Clinton's military excursions. Probably a justified dig, as that's what he did.
It's understandable though that the US initially target Taliban Military installations. They probably see the only way to get the T's is to walk in there and get them; if they do that they can expect hotile response from the Taliban; hence they knock out their military infrastructure (hooray for cruise missiles!)beforehand, particilarly thier air capability.
Eh? As a long-time Psion user, I have to say that thumb-typing is perfect on the 5MX.
The 5's have the best PDA keyboards there are. (Of course, I can't get one with color, or a big fat fast processor, etc.etc., hence my current bout of "new PDA lust".)
Causing an obstruction to a public highway is in fact a British criminal offence. Hence that popular Dixon of Dock Green phrase "move along now, sir".
Any fellow brits remember Esther Rantzen getting done for it ages ago?
Any Americans with the faintest idea of what I'm wittering on about? No? Good.
One problem with the cameras here in the UK is that while they are, as so many of you point out, extremely dodgy from a civil liberty point, they appear to be working, which is a problem.
Example: I was in a (minor) car accident on Friday at a spot I happen to know is bristling with cameras (it's the main access road to Heathrow Airport). Within one minute the cops were there to check we were OK and get the road clear of our obstruction.
So that is good, but at the same time I don't like the fact that I get watched going past there twice a day.
It boils down to a simple point: as citizens we put a lot of power into the hands of government. It then becomes necessary to put limits on that power - something the americans do very well, much better than we do in Britain. I certainly am very disturbed by the lack of concern Tony Blair has for what our legislature cares about what to do, something George Bush can't do because they hold his wallet. If the FBI used Ecehelon, Carnivore, Tempest, etc. etc. purely to cath terrorists, we'd all approve. And perhaps 80% of what they do with it is for these correct motives. It's jsut the other 20%, ain't it.
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XP in fact adds a pile of extra commands for the command line.
Built-in task list and killing, for example.
Stupid and overzealous? Are all you people insane?
A real lawyer, (i.e. not some AC posting on slashdot) has told him that if he publishes this there's a slim but real chance he could do *#!%ing Federal jail time! Prison!
Sorry for shouting, but for goodness sake, if anyone thinks it's worth the risk, great, you post a possible DCMA violation and see what happens to you. And remember, if you drop your soap in the showers, don't bend over to pick it up.
It's easy to see how it is relevant. The DCMA does not mention cryptography:
Say you have copyrighted material on your PC. I can't get them because my account has not permission to access those files. Nothing fancy here: standard Unix permissions. So, what stops me from getting at those copyrighted materials is the standard linux permissions system. The DMCA, then, could be interpreted to consider the standard linux perms system to be a device to prevent me stealing copyrighted material, and providing information that allows me to circumvent that protection is a violation.
So, if Alan tells us "you cannot use method X to circumvent the protection in the new kernel" then the DCMA could interpret this as "method X circumvents the protection in older kernels". Bingo, Alan goes to jail, does not pass Go, and does not collect £200.
Mr C. appears to have taken legal advice in this matter that has told him the safest thing is not to tell anybody what method X was. Until there has been some more prosecutions and there is more precedent, this is the best advice he could recieve.
that there is some big secret apple product announcement this week.
Hmm. Sounds like some sort of home CD/MP3 Player device.
Curse you, why weren't you first post? I spent ages hunting out a conversion chart with google.
Perhaps one of those Intel microsocopes that you run from your PC? (I don't know if the intel is any good - anyone got a better suggestion?)
Or, on the more macro scale, one of those telescopes that are similarly ran int he same way.
We have that killer app in Europe - SMS - short emssaging service. Every teenager in the country uses it!
There's two intersting things about the Treo.
;-)
Firstly, it's the first time one of these phone/pda combo's has been made by a PDA company. Everything else has been made by a mobile phone company.
Secondly is that they appear to have a clear perception of the seperate phone and PDA market requirements. That's why it's been made smaller - to make it fit your hand more like a phone. The missing springboard slot is probably related - it's size issue. Also I suspect that this is similar internally to the visorphone, so there might have been hardware conflicts if they tried to put a slot in. The keyboard is also a nod to mobile phone users, who expect an un-useable keyboard instead of graffitti.
It's interesting, but will it hold up against the Pocket-pc equivelants like that BT O2 thing (again, made by a mobile phone company, not a PDA company).
Damn those fools at Handspring, will they never realise that only offering 4 weeks of use as a mirror is ridiculously short!
Yes, in Exchange2K it's built in and works very neatly. In Exchange 5.5 it's a clever web front end. 2K also offers a feature where the mail store is exposed as if it were a file system so you can do all sorts of things with that.
Good points. I'd add one more thing: if I were a terrorist, guess what? I'd use a one-time pad.
When will it end? What do you mean, when will it end? Are the kernel people meant to stop until everything catches up?
At least in Linux there's an understanding that you can use 2.2 kernels and have a perfectly good machine.
Keep your machines in Potato if you like.
Unless you have one with a backup battery like on a Psion 5Mx (my current pda) or the Jornada 56x (lust drool lust drool)
Indeed, any phone you expect to sell into the UK teenager market (the high end of which is where this is aimed) must concentrate a lot on SMS messaging.
Perhaps a better comparison would be between St Paul and Luke, actually.
I wanna know why no-one put down Sith! Come on in, the dark side's lovely!
This never happened when Scotty used to reverse the polarity....
Either that or the engineers who build life imitate Star Trek, but anyhow, let's see what they use...
Very good NLP, and buttons.
Physical buttons in TOS; touch panels subsequently. They have pointers but seem to only use them for signatures.
Hmmm... Of course they don't seem to have taken account of the fact that you can't use an upright touch panel for more than a few minutes before your arms felel like they're going to drop off.
Well, of course using a different language to talk to the computer from what you use to talk to other people would help prevent crosstalk. ;-)
Synopsis:
MS abuse their monopoly because they make changing File Associations difficult. (Contrary to Napoleon's example, the author attributes this to malice, rather than incompetence). Example: No point the DoJ forcing MS to bundel realplayer if joe public has Media Player load automatically when he double-clicks a content file
No comentator seems to have pointed out that this is surely a dig at Clinton's military excursions. Probably a justified dig, as that's what he did.
It's understandable though that the US initially target Taliban Military installations. They probably see the only way to get the T's is to walk in there and get them; if they do that they can expect hotile response from the Taliban; hence they knock out their military infrastructure (hooray for cruise missiles!)beforehand, particilarly thier air capability.
Eh? As a long-time Psion user, I have to say that thumb-typing is perfect on the 5MX.
The 5's have the best PDA keyboards there are. (Of course, I can't get one with color, or a big fat fast processor, etc.etc., hence my current bout of "new PDA lust".)
Causing an obstruction to a public highway is in fact a British criminal offence. Hence that popular Dixon of Dock Green phrase "move along now, sir".
Any fellow brits remember Esther Rantzen getting done for it ages ago?
Any Americans with the faintest idea of what I'm wittering on about? No? Good.
One problem with the cameras here in the UK is that while they are, as so many of you point out, extremely dodgy from a civil liberty point, they appear to be working, which is a problem.
Example: I was in a (minor) car accident on Friday at a spot I happen to know is bristling with cameras (it's the main access road to Heathrow Airport). Within one minute the cops were there to check we were OK and get the road clear of our obstruction.
So that is good, but at the same time I don't like the fact that I get watched going past there twice a day.
It boils down to a simple point: as citizens we put a lot of power into the hands of government. It then becomes necessary to put limits on that power - something the americans do very well, much better than we do in Britain. I certainly am very disturbed by the lack of concern Tony Blair has for what our legislature cares about what to do, something George Bush can't do because they hold his wallet. If the FBI used Ecehelon, Carnivore, Tempest, etc. etc. purely to cath terrorists, we'd all approve. And perhaps 80% of what they do with it is for these correct motives. It's jsut the other 20%, ain't it.
...people reading MAxim for the articles ;-)
Only 8Mb or RAM, seems a little stingy, although I'm sure you'd fill the sd slot quickly.
It's a bit odd isn't it that it sez it's color but all the photos and screen shots are mono?
Re-reading my post, perhaps I should lie down in a darkened room for a while, yes, that's the ticket.
What is it with you americans and out teeth? We don't go on about how insanely fat you all are!
Besides, since we invented stamps, we can put whatever we flippin well want on them! So there!
Hmmm... now if we'd patented the idea, we could claim 20$ for every mail posted. we're rich! rich!