Or more to the point, it's almost certainly what the judge is going to do.
The basis for the judge's ruling in granting the temporary injunction was that not doing so would cause great harm to the DVD group, while doing so wouldn't cause great harm to the DeCSS group (he probably had no role in and no knowledge of the police's action in Norway.) So if he's consistent, he'll order those records sealed. If the case is won by the DeCSS guys, they'll be unsealed, and the code widely available anyway.
As Dan says, save the big guns for the actual case.
Oh, and note that your Slashdot comments are being used in court. To all parties concerned: I have no interest in making illegal copies of DVDs. I am almost certainly going to be spending significant amounts of money buying them in future. I just want to be able to bypass the cncryption so I can view my legal DVDs with whatever software and hardware I choose to do so.
...we need a web page. With summaries of each company's existing support (and non-support), the structure of this support (closed driver vs. published specs vs. open source driver), and announced plans. That web site could then have a weekly news report of new announcements.
I know Slashdot sometimes posts stories that are a little old, but 1980? Sheesh, you guys need to be a little more careful about posting out of date stories.
My main objection to DIVX was the fact that the world does not need more landfills overflowing with millions of non-biodegradable polycarbonate plastic disks.
True, but on the other hand the world does not need you popping in your SUV and burning hydrocarbon fuel to get to the video store to return the movie either. Netflix is probably the most environmentally benign way to rent movies, since the mailman is coming by your house anyway; the only negative is that you have to order disks in advance.
Why make it that hard... just create a username and password and pass it out to all 1000 of your friends.
... and mp3.com would disable accounts where more than one person tries to use it at once (possibly just for a limited time.)
Gonna fake the CDs? Not so easy. MP3.com could keep a database of (say) 1000 checksums for each CD, each for sequences of bits on different parts of the CD and of different sizes. When you add a CD, it requests the checksum of one of those those sequences. Unless you know the exact 1000 checksums mp3.com is storing, you'll have to have the entire CD's data available -- which rather defeats the purpose of trying to steal the data.
Open source, closed source... Blah! Isn't it up to people and their skills and abilities to be able to fix (properly!) bugs?
The issue is not the difference in programmers, it's the effect open/closedness has on development. I have no doubt that M$ engineers working on an open source project could fix bugs quite quickly. On the other hand, there's a whole lot more closed-source software produced for public consumption (take games, for example.)
Open source has several advantages. Releases can be early and often, there's little financial incentive to group feature enhancement into a single upgrade. Users who are experiencing the problem may come up with the fix themselves, as opposed to closed-sourcers who may not even have the hardware/software setup that causes problems. Open source programs usually try to do a limited set of things and do it well, so the problems are usually more localized. Programming tends to be a meritocracy, not orders from on-high, so better designs tend to take prominence, especially since the cost of switching to a better version is lower and there's no file-format lock-in and the like. Source code is the most accurate documentation, so working with available source libraries is better than closed ones.
Against all this, closed source has the huge advantage of a reasonable expectation of earnings, and thus programmers working on the code full-time or more.
It's an interesting battle. Right now I'd give closed source the upper hand, but open source is making a major play...
I doubt it was anything to do with the atmosphere, I mean they've landed several probes already I think they know what to expect, and the landing type wasn't new either. Right, but one possible scenario was a separation failure, which would probably mean that the heat shield wouldn't protect the Lander. My question is whether it's possible that the Lander could have left no wreckage at all.
Such an object would burn up in Earth's atmosphere without a properly-placed heat shield. Would Mars' thinner atmosphere and lower gravity mean that things of the size of the Lander wouldn't generally burn up?
All I hear these days about cable modems is that they are really slow, and people are constantly getting hacked.
I just got a cable modem. If the speed I'm getting is slow, the other connection speeds must be mind-boggling. It's fast enough that the bottleneck is usually at the other end of the pipe.
Okay, maybe this is over the top, but something needs to be changed.
I just don't see how UTICA will change that. It makes the licensing terms more strict, but your problem customers are ignoring them anyway. And I think the stricter the terms, the more people are going to decide you're unreasonable jerks who deserve the piracy.
Don't just say "something must be done!" without considering the implications of what you are doing.
I don't think Bill even cares about the future of MS. I'll bet he's selling off shares as we speak, quietly.
It can't be done. As a company exec, his Microsoft stock transactions are reported to and by the SEC. Gate's last major sales were 7/23/99-7/26/99, when he sold approximately 20 million of his ~1 billion shares.
No mention of the GRE, huh? So is that your standard?:-)
those "Ask Miriam" fans are going to flame me
So are the "Ask Marilyn" (vos Savant) ones...
ah hemicube at times can be dreadful oversimplication
True, but that's true about just about any large-scale simulation of physics. The key issue is visual quality relative to computational requirements. My research is a little out of date, but some combination of importance-based evaluation, shadow boundary-cut patches, and Monte Carlo methods probably would rate the best in this regard. Unfortunately, little of this parallelizes well, unlike hemicube calculations. (Or hemisphere. I worked on a project in grad school where we had a massively parallel machine -- Pixel-Planes 5 -- that was capable of solving quadratic expressions in parallel, so we rendered to a hemisphere instead (weighting each pixel based on an approximation of its coverage percentage. For moderately simple models, I was able to recalculate the first few iterations in a shooting approach in less than a second.)
I choose to base my friendships 100% on intelligence and intriguingness.
One of my best friends is functionally illiterate. (On the other hand, he *is* my five-year-old son:-) While a certain level of intelligence is good, I have to say I value compassion, humor, dependability, and determination quite highly.
P.S. Let's forget about dating
Man, women are *always* saying this to me!
I dunno, maybe it has to do with my being married...:-)
Hmm, I don't know that you really want to eliminate flirting, unless you're going to pick your mates on the basis of SAT/GRE/IQ scores. Flirting is really a way of saying "I'm interested", without saying how much, or committing to anything, and making rejection easy and painless. Unless you're totally without ego, straight-up rejection isn't a comfortable thing -- even if it's because you're not comfortable with the mathematics for generating a radiosity hemicube.
In a rejected submission for Slashdot, I provided a link to a Q&A period with Judge Jackson (author of the Findings of Fact in this case.) In his responses, the Judge said he did not think breaking up Microsoft was the appropriate legal action to take. He also thought Linux had a bright future 2-3 years hence, but wasn't a true Windows competitor now, at least not for the market at issue.
Unfortunately, I've lost the link. (I think it was linked to by Ars Technica, but their search engine isn't functioning at the moment.)
But even more important, IMHO, is that you don't want to find romance at work. If something goes wrong, not only will you have the usual pressures at work, but now you've got that former someone there to just make life harder.
Note that here, geeks often have an advantage: job mobility. Change jobs, and not only do you usually get a decent raise, but you have contacts back in the old company and the potential for dating without the awkwardness.
Of course, the new company probably has the same awkward ratio, so maybe it's not that wonderful.
Personnal I believe it is wrong to change the image in that way. An advertiser pays money to have their advert in a location, particularly in sports stadiums, and they pay an high price based on the fact that their sign will be shown in media broadcasts.
If the advertiser cannot control whether their image will appear on TV, the price will go down. Since the stadiums are part of the whole contractual system by which TV rights of sporting events are sold on TV, it will almost certainly be part of those contracts that certain ads must be displayed in all local broadcasts, all national broadcasts, or not at all, with different rates for different levels of exposure.
It would only be blank if you didn't precache the television show... This would require tons of memory, but I think a couple of the televison servers have the capacity to record a prime time telecast..
Tivo and ReplayTV can both do this, and you can even watch while it records. Start watching a half-hour after a two hour show starts, and you'll probably finish watching at exactly the time the show normally ends.
I do agree that our laws need to be looked at, but I disagree that we need to throw them out willy-nilly. We can have laws on the books that aren't actively enforced, but if you show up in court with at problem that arises from the breaking of said law you'll get smacked.
This *invariably* creates an opportunity for people in positions of power to abuse those who aren't. The "problem" that gets you smacked isn't inconvenience you cause society, but something you won't do that the person in power wants you to do. We've seen this against blacks in the pre-Civil Rights days, we see it in the War on Drugs, and so on.
You might at least try to create a scenario where those old laws would help. You've vaguely linked adultery with kids born out of wedlock, but that's a foolish link -- the kids born out of wedlock are almost invariably born to people who aren't married at all.
Well, the $50 max liability rule isn't made by the credit card companies. It's Federal law.
Recently similar Federal laws were passed giving similar protection to debit card holders. According to this site, there's a$50 or $500 limit depending on when you report the theft.
And yet, objectively, women score about 2% higher on the math SATs than men.
Sorry, not even close. Women tend to get better grades in high-school math, but from http://www.fairtest.org/satscr97.htm come the following stats: Verbal Math Total Males 507 530 1037 Females 503 494 997
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Let 'em reseal it. It's the *right* thing to do.
Or more to the point, it's almost certainly what the judge is going to do.
The basis for the judge's ruling in granting the temporary injunction was that not doing so would cause great harm to the DVD group, while doing so wouldn't cause great harm to the DeCSS group (he probably had no role in and no knowledge of the police's action in Norway.) So if he's consistent, he'll order those records sealed. If the case is won by the DeCSS guys, they'll be unsealed, and the code widely available anyway.
As Dan says, save the big guns for the actual case.
Oh, and note that your Slashdot comments are being used in court. To all parties concerned: I have no interest in making illegal copies of DVDs. I am almost certainly going to be spending significant amounts of money buying them in future. I just want to be able to bypass the cncryption so I can view my legal DVDs with whatever software and hardware I choose to do so.
...we need a web page. With summaries of each company's existing support (and non-support), the structure of this support (closed driver vs. published specs vs. open source driver), and announced plans. That web site could then have a weekly news report of new announcements.
I know Slashdot sometimes posts stories that are a little old, but 1980? Sheesh, you guys need to be a little more careful about posting out of date stories.
My main objection to DIVX was the fact that the world does not need more landfills overflowing with millions of non-biodegradable polycarbonate plastic disks.
True, but on the other hand the world does not need you popping in your SUV and burning hydrocarbon fuel to get to the video store to return the movie either. Netflix is probably the most environmentally benign way to rent movies, since the mailman is coming by your house anyway; the only negative is that you have to order disks in advance.
Why make it that hard ... just create a username and password and pass it out to all 1000 of your friends.
... and mp3.com would disable accounts where more than one person tries to use it at once (possibly just for a limited time.)
Gonna fake the CDs? Not so easy. MP3.com could keep a database of (say) 1000 checksums for each CD, each for sequences of bits on different parts of the CD and of different sizes. When you add a CD, it requests the checksum of one of those those sequences. Unless you know the exact 1000 checksums mp3.com is storing, you'll have to have the entire CD's data available -- which rather defeats the purpose of trying to steal the data.
Open source, closed source... Blah!
Isn't it up to people and their skills and abilities to be able to fix (properly!) bugs?
The issue is not the difference in programmers, it's the effect open/closedness has on development. I have no doubt that M$ engineers working on an open source project could fix bugs quite quickly. On the other hand, there's a whole lot more closed-source software produced for public consumption (take games, for example.)
Open source has several advantages. Releases can be early and often, there's little financial incentive to group feature enhancement into a single upgrade. Users who are experiencing the problem may come up with the fix themselves, as opposed to closed-sourcers who may not even have the hardware/software setup that causes problems. Open source programs usually try to do a limited set of things and do it well, so the problems are usually more localized. Programming tends to be a meritocracy, not orders from on-high, so better designs tend to take prominence, especially since the cost of switching to a better version is lower and there's no file-format lock-in and the like. Source code is the most accurate documentation, so working with available source libraries is better than closed ones.
Against all this, closed source has the huge advantage of a reasonable expectation of earnings, and thus programmers working on the code full-time or more.
It's an interesting battle. Right now I'd give closed source the upper hand, but open source is making a major play...
I doubt it was anything to do with the atmosphere, I mean they've landed several probes already I think they know what to expect, and the landing type wasn't new either. Right, but one possible scenario was a separation failure, which would probably mean that the heat shield wouldn't protect the Lander. My question is whether it's possible that the Lander could have left no wreckage at all.
Such an object would burn up in Earth's atmosphere without a properly-placed heat shield. Would Mars' thinner atmosphere and lower gravity mean that things of the size of the Lander wouldn't generally burn up?
It'd better not be me. But then, I'm not that regular.
Have you tried prunes?
All I hear these days about cable modems is that they are really slow, and people are constantly getting hacked.
I just got a cable modem. If the speed I'm getting is slow, the other connection speeds must be mind-boggling. It's fast enough that the bottleneck is usually at the other end of the pipe.
Okay, maybe this is over the top, but something needs to be changed.
I just don't see how UTICA will change that. It makes the licensing terms more strict, but your problem customers are ignoring them anyway. And I think the stricter the terms, the more people are going to decide you're unreasonable jerks who deserve the piracy.
Don't just say "something must be done!" without considering the implications of what you are doing.
I don't think Bill even cares about the future of MS. I'll bet he's selling off shares as we speak, quietly.
It can't be done. As a company exec, his Microsoft stock transactions are reported to and by the SEC. Gate's last major sales were 7/23/99-7/26/99, when he sold approximately 20 million of his ~1 billion shares.
No mention of the GRE, huh? So is that your standard? :-)
:-) While a certain level of intelligence is good, I have to say I value compassion, humor, dependability, and determination quite highly.
those "Ask Miriam" fans are going to flame me
So are the "Ask Marilyn" (vos Savant) ones...
ah hemicube at times can be dreadful oversimplication
True, but that's true about just about any large-scale simulation of physics. The key issue is visual quality relative to computational requirements. My research is a little out of date, but some combination of importance-based evaluation, shadow boundary-cut patches, and Monte Carlo methods probably would rate the best in this regard. Unfortunately, little of this parallelizes well, unlike hemicube calculations. (Or hemisphere. I worked on a project in grad school where we had a massively parallel machine -- Pixel-Planes 5 -- that was capable of solving quadratic expressions in parallel, so we rendered to a hemisphere instead (weighting each pixel based on an approximation of its coverage percentage. For moderately simple models, I was able to recalculate the first few iterations in a shooting approach in less than a second.)
I choose to base my friendships 100% on intelligence and intriguingness.
One of my best friends is functionally illiterate. (On the other hand, he *is* my five-year-old son
P.S. Let's forget about dating
Man, women are *always* saying this to me!
I dunno, maybe it has to do with my being married...:-)
Removes/eliminates insincerity, flirting, double entendre
Hmm, I don't know that you really want to eliminate flirting, unless you're going to pick your mates on the basis of SAT/GRE/IQ scores. Flirting is really a way of saying "I'm interested", without saying how much, or committing to anything, and making rejection easy and painless. Unless you're totally without ego, straight-up rejection isn't a comfortable thing -- even if it's because you're not comfortable with the mathematics for generating a radiosity hemicube.
In a rejected submission for Slashdot, I provided a link to a Q&A period with Judge Jackson (author of the Findings of Fact in this case.) In his responses, the Judge said he did not think breaking up Microsoft was the appropriate legal action to take. He also thought Linux had a bright future 2-3 years hence, but wasn't a true Windows competitor now, at least not for the market at issue.
Unfortunately, I've lost the link. (I think it was linked to by Ars Technica, but their search engine isn't functioning at the moment.)
Most of them actually wear clothes, too. And not just swimsuits and leather gear...
Of course, the new company probably has the same awkward ratio
That should read "all those companies probably have the same awful M/F ratio".
But even more important, IMHO, is that you don't want to find romance at work. If something goes wrong, not only will you have the usual pressures at work, but now you've got that former someone there to just make life harder.
Note that here, geeks often have an advantage: job mobility. Change jobs, and not only do you usually get a decent raise, but you have contacts back in the old company and the potential for dating without the awkwardness.
Of course, the new company probably has the same awkward ratio, so maybe it's not that wonderful.
Personnal I believe it is wrong to change the image in that way. An advertiser pays money to have their advert in a location, particularly in sports stadiums, and they pay an high price based on the fact that their sign will be shown in media broadcasts.
If the advertiser cannot control whether their image will appear on TV, the price will go down. Since the stadiums are part of the whole contractual system by which TV rights of sporting events are sold on TV, it will almost certainly be part of those contracts that certain ads must be displayed in all local broadcasts, all national broadcasts, or not at all, with different rates for different levels of exposure.
It would only be blank if you didn't precache the television show... This would require tons of memory, but I think a couple of the televison servers have the capacity to record a prime time telecast..
Tivo and ReplayTV can both do this, and you can even watch while it records. Start watching a half-hour after a two hour show starts, and you'll probably finish watching at exactly the time the show normally ends.
I do agree that our laws need to be looked at, but I disagree that we need to throw them out willy-nilly. We can have laws on the books that aren't actively enforced, but if you show up in court with at problem that arises from the breaking of said law you'll get smacked.
This *invariably* creates an opportunity for people in positions of power to abuse those who aren't. The "problem" that gets you smacked isn't inconvenience you cause society, but something you won't do that the person in power wants you to do. We've seen this against blacks in the pre-Civil Rights days, we see it in the War on Drugs, and so on.
You might at least try to create a scenario where those old laws would help. You've vaguely linked adultery with kids born out of wedlock, but that's a foolish link -- the kids born out of wedlock are almost invariably born to people who aren't married at all.
Adrian J. is a he.
:-)
Given the use of "he" right after mentioning his name, I think that was fairly obvious.
Just in case you are salivating.
Well I might be, reading *your* bio. A woman who does 3-D graphics engine programming? Yeah, Baby!
The number VI is apparently not used because it clashes with a naughty word in English.
So they considered calling it the PalmEmacs then?
Well, the $50 max liability rule isn't made by the credit card companies. It's Federal law.
Recently similar Federal laws were passed giving similar protection to debit card holders. According to this site, there's a$50 or $500 limit depending on when you report the theft.
And yet, objectively, women score about 2% higher on the math SATs than men.
Sorry, not even close. Women tend to get better grades in high-school math, but from
http://www.fairtest.org/satscr97.htm
come the following stats:
Verbal Math Total
Males 507 530 1037
Females 503 494 997