No, it's not a trap. "Innocent infringement" mean you just remove the infringing lines, and damages are severely limited or none at all. It would certainly mean SCO would NOT be getting their "3 BILLION dollars! [evil laugh]".
Don't mud wrestle with a pig. Not only will you lose, but the pig will enjoy it! Oh, and that's spelt "Mormon", not "moron"... and counter to popular opinion, there IS a difference!
Get the toy manufacturers involved... if they can make a talking teddy bear for under $10, they should be able to make an unmanned drone that costs an order of magnitude more to shoot down than it does to produce -- thus effectively either successfully spying on everything our opponents do, or driving them into bankruptcy.
Desktops, yes. But most embedded development toolchains etc. are for-pay. Think about something like AutoCad; there simply are no free versions available, and the licenses cost upwards of $1000/year. Do you think Chinese and Indian companies actually pay for a license for every employee using it?
Automatically billed by ISP? This should really piss off my next-door neighbor, who has left his 802.11b router unencrypted, allowing anybody access though his cable modem... but seriously, how are libraries etc. that want to provide free internet service going to block this?
Ironic that the places that big US corps are outsourcing software development are also the biggest software pirates
This is not a coincidence! Imagine how much cheaper software development can be if you don't have to pay several thousand dollars per seat for software tools! This is what the BSA is succeeding in doing - driving work to places where that have no enforcement. I'd like to see the figures -- exactly how many copies of Visual C++ have those hundreds of thousands of Indian software developers purchased, Mr. Gates?
Looks to me like SunnComm stock started plummeting at the beginning of September, and lost more than half it's value long before anybody pointed out that the Emporer had no clothes. But let's blame this student anyway! He must be the cause of all our troubles! Yeah... that's the ticket!
The problem is that the intersection of the set of people that have a clue about software quality with the set of people that are signing the checks is a null set.
I stand corrected. 2.4 Ghz is not the resonant frequency of water. However, it is a frequency range that tends to be absorbed by H20 molecules, resulting in conversion to heat. This is why it is the frequency used in microwaves, and why it is less then perfectly usefull for outdoor communication, especially when it is raining (which here in Oregon is almost all of the time. So please don't move here. No, really -- we have too many software engineers here already!)
Good theory, but how did they get BMG to buy into this scheme by using it on a commercial CD? Pictures of BMG's CEO in a compromising position, say... bribing radio station executives?
Yep, microwaves, newer cordless phones, and even baby monitors are all in 2.4 Ghz range... the resonant frequency of water, so it's useless for outdoor communication. (Older cordless phones may be 960 MHz.)
that these same parents never use baby monitors, cell phones, cordless phones, microwave ovens, or cathode ray tubes, as these all emit radio waves which pose a risk to their children? And that their houses are also sheilded against stray RF from power lines, the Sun, and even outer space? In other words, they must live in caves with only a wood fire for heat and light?
... under the DMCA for distributing a copy-protection circumvention device? Never mind that the software was written years BEFORE the copy protection scheme, so you'd expect the copy-protection implementors to have thought of it... basically, I don't think the mechanism is designed to prevent ripping CDs at all; it is designed to make ripping CDs a clear violation of the DMCA. This violates one of my rules: "Never use a legal solution for a problem more easily and completely solved by a technical solution."
Obviously, since every dealer has a "slip-stick" for every car they sell, and instructions on how to use it, as do the all the AAA towtruck drivers, the cars ARE designed to be opened with them. It's just supposed to take a while.
As far as the easily-defeated "copy protection", I think we're seeing the wrong lawsuit year. Obviously the record company was sold a bill of goods (a pig in a poke, or what have you) and THEY should be suing SunnComm!
...should work just about as well for biological agents as it does for software -- i.e. not at all. Once the knowledge escapes from Pandora's box, you can't force it back in, short of lobotimizing everybody in the world... hmmm, maybe Bush is working on that -- then he might actually be one of the brightest minds left.
Shouldn't we be monitoring spam anyway, building a list of source IPs, and notifying the ISPs responsible for those IPs to pass along a message to their customers to either a) stop sending spam or b) fix the holes in their machines, or c) they will be cut off from the 'net...
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No, it's not a trap. "Innocent infringement" mean you just remove the infringing lines, and damages are severely limited or none at all. It would certainly mean SCO would NOT be getting their "3 BILLION dollars! [evil laugh]".
She's been playing mind-games for years!
Don't mud wrestle with a pig. Not only will you lose, but the pig will enjoy it! Oh, and that's spelt "Mormon", not "moron"... and counter to popular opinion, there IS a difference!
Just picture Dr. Evil putting his pinky to his mouth and saying it: "Irrevocable? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm." See, it fits perfectly, doesn't it?
Get the toy manufacturers involved... if they can make a talking teddy bear for under $10, they should be able to make an unmanned drone that costs an order of magnitude more to shoot down than it does to produce -- thus effectively either successfully spying on everything our opponents do, or driving them into bankruptcy.
Desktops, yes. But most embedded development toolchains etc. are for-pay. Think about something like AutoCad; there simply are no free versions available, and the licenses cost upwards of $1000/year. Do you think Chinese and Indian companies actually pay for a license for every employee using it?
Automatically billed by ISP? This should really piss off my next-door neighbor, who has left his 802.11b router unencrypted, allowing anybody access though his cable modem... but seriously, how are libraries etc. that want to provide free internet service going to block this?
This is not a coincidence! Imagine how much cheaper software development can be if you don't have to pay several thousand dollars per seat for software tools! This is what the BSA is succeeding in doing - driving work to places where that have no enforcement. I'd like to see the figures -- exactly how many copies of Visual C++ have those hundreds of thousands of Indian software developers purchased, Mr. Gates?
Looks to me like SunnComm stock started plummeting at the beginning of September, and lost more than half it's value long before anybody pointed out that the Emporer had no clothes. But let's blame this student anyway! He must be the cause of all our troubles! Yeah... that's the ticket!
have they solved the problem of you to get the non-stick surface to stick to the frying pan?
The problem is that the intersection of the set of people that have a clue about software quality with the set of people that are signing the checks is a null set.
... the captain of the Titanic bragging about it's unsinkability?
I stand corrected. 2.4 Ghz is not the resonant frequency of water. However, it is a frequency range that tends to be absorbed by H20 molecules, resulting in conversion to heat. This is why it is the frequency used in microwaves, and why it is less then perfectly usefull for outdoor communication, especially when it is raining (which here in Oregon is almost all of the time. So please don't move here. No, really -- we have too many software engineers here already!)
Wi-Fi: Intermittent 35mW output, several feet away.
Which would you go after first, if you thought RF was harmful?
Turn your damn computer off when you're not using it!!!
Would you still be complaining if they invited you?
Good theory, but how did they get BMG to buy into this scheme by using it on a commercial CD? Pictures of BMG's CEO in a compromising position, say... bribing radio station executives?
Yep, microwaves, newer cordless phones, and even baby monitors are all in 2.4 Ghz range... the resonant frequency of water, so it's useless for outdoor communication. (Older cordless phones may be 960 MHz.)
that these same parents never use baby monitors, cell phones, cordless phones, microwave ovens, or cathode ray tubes, as these all emit radio waves which pose a risk to their children? And that their houses are also sheilded against stray RF from power lines, the Sun, and even outer space? In other words, they must live in caves with only a wood fire for heat and light?
... under the DMCA for distributing a copy-protection circumvention device? Never mind that the software was written years BEFORE the copy protection scheme, so you'd expect the copy-protection implementors to have thought of it... basically, I don't think the mechanism is designed to prevent ripping CDs at all; it is designed to make ripping CDs a clear violation of the DMCA. This violates one of my rules: "Never use a legal solution for a problem more easily and completely solved by a technical solution."
As far as the easily-defeated "copy protection", I think we're seeing the wrong lawsuit year. Obviously the record company was sold a bill of goods (a pig in a poke, or what have you) and THEY should be suing SunnComm!
...should work just about as well for biological agents as it does for software -- i.e. not at all. Once the knowledge escapes from Pandora's box, you can't force it back in, short of lobotimizing everybody in the world... hmmm, maybe Bush is working on that -- then he might actually be one of the brightest minds left.
The DRM support is more bulletproof on XP/2000.
Shouldn't we be monitoring spam anyway, building a list of source IPs, and notifying the ISPs responsible for those IPs to pass along a message to their customers to either a) stop sending spam or b) fix the holes in their machines, or c) they will be cut off from the 'net...
If the spammer's father had used a Trojan, we wouldn't be having these problems now...