I never understood the problem either. They spend years arguing about something completely pointless, then eventaully do nothing about it. But they hardy mentioned MSFT's licence agreements that made sure no OEM would pre-install any OS but Windows, not even as a 'dual-boot' option.
Yeahbut... there's also a good reason why iTunes is called iTunes and not the Apple Music Store. And Apple Corps could never market a personal computer for the same reason.
If they're following the usual forensic procedure they won't be relying on any software on the computer. They'll bring their own live CD which will probably be linux-based and something fairly similar to backtrack. And they'll make a complete dump of the disk contents so they can go looking at previously deleted data, access times (hint; mount your filesystem noatime ;) and so on..
Also if you plan to zero-wipe, remember it takes a long time and you may only have seconds. Full disk encryption helps here, you only need seconds to erase the keys at the start of the volume and the rest of the disk is irrecoverable (even if they force you to disclose the password)
Where to store them? Get an old microwave oven from a thrift shop, the sort with the analog timer. Have it set up on a solid state relay under computer control.
Then all you need is a Big Red Button with Molly-guard over it for when they break down your door; Total and irrecoverable destruction of your flash media in less than a second.
You might want to look into the history of the internet just a little.
"The Internet" only exists because of open standards. Standards that were not protected by patents, and that were made available for anyone to copy and implement without needing permission or payment.
And most services on the internet (particularly the older or most critical services) are provided by Free software; things like the root name-servers run BIND on BSD. Almost all email is passed around by sendmail, courier or postfix.
And as for 'patents' contributing to the growth of the computing industry; "If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today." -- Bill Gates, back in 1991
"You can get paid to write free software, but most of what's on my computer was created just for the sake of creating it"
That is an equally ignorant statement; I think you'll find that the large majority of FOSS contributions are written by paid programmers as part of their job.
The difference is that in most cases the software or improvements to existing software are written because some employer needs that specific piece of software or that specific feature for their own ends. They pay the programmers, they get the software or feature, and once the work has been done there is no harm to them if others benefit from the work too. There may even be a benefit if other users fix bugs or add features of their own, and share those improvements back.
NASA have similar restrictions; the photos themselves are public domain, but you may not use them in a way that implies endorsement by NASA (a trademark infringement)
And in the case of photos featuring identifiable people, you also need a 'model release' from the subject of the photo for some uses.
I don't have a DVR, and I watch almost no TV at all.
I'd almost certainly watch more if I had a DVR, since there's a lot of stuff I'd actually like to watch and for various reasons it's just not convenient to watch it at the time it's broadcast. And TVNZ's on-demand site is basically horrible, can't download so the quality is limited to what can stream, and they force you to watch ads (I'm sure more fewquently than the broadcast ones) plus I pay for bandwidth so it's not 'free' for me at all. Basically it sucks on every level.
I want a grainy, sepia-tone silent movie interview with John Philip Sousa. These infernal talking machines are going to bring to an end musical development of the entire country!
I'd be happer if the article said "Onstar first had to contact the owners and ask them to provide the 10-digit security code (set by and known only to the owner) that would allow them to disable the vehicle.
All I can see on youtube is short clips, generally less than 2 minutes. Big fucking whoopee.
If I follow the link for watching full programs I get the following message:
This service is not currently available in your area.
Click here to access our help section.
And I can tell you right now it is NOT my internet provider in New Zealand blocking this. It's channel4.com refusing to give me anything. In fact if I click on the "Click here" link it tells me this:
Can I watch 4oD in another country?
Rights agreements mean that our 4oD service is only available in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, (although C4 does not always have rights for programmes in ROI). Even if you are a citizen of the UK or ROI you cannot access the service from abroad.
Sorry Mike, why am I supposed to be impressed with this? It doesn't seem the slightest bit different from Hulu to me.
This argument doesn't make any more sense than the original.
We can make all the food we want for free, but we're arguing about how to make sure most people don't get fed.
Why?
Because while we have people willing to package and distribute that food for free, we want to stop them from doing that so that they have to pay the no-longer-required packaging and distributing people to do it for them.
To expand a little on Mike's answer, I'll quote a bit from wikipedia (and you can follow up to references for that for that if you're really interested)
"Traffic engineers may rely on the 85th percentile rule[13][14] to establish speed limits. The speed limit should be set to the speed that separates the bottom 85% of vehicle speeds from the top 15%. The 85th percentile is slightly greater than a speed that is one standard deviation (SD) above the mean of a normal distribution.
"The theory is that traffic laws that reflect the behavior of the majority of motorists may have better compliance than laws that arbitrarily criminalize the majority of motorists and encourage violations. The latter kinds of laws lack public support and often fail to bring about desirable changes in driving behavior. An example is United States's old 55 mph (88 km/h) speed limit that was removed in part because of notoriously low compliance."
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Re: Re: (as zcat)
I never understood the problem either. They spend years arguing about something completely pointless, then eventaully do nothing about it. But they hardy mentioned MSFT's licence agreements that made sure no OEM would pre-install any OS but Windows, not even as a 'dual-boot' option.
Re: Abundant examples (as zcat)
Yeahbut... there's also a good reason why iTunes is called iTunes and not the Apple Music Store. And Apple Corps could never market a personal computer for the same reason.
Re: (as zcat)
..and patented traditional natural remedies. If someone had managed to take out a patent on red yeast rice already it'd be a whole different story.
Re: (as zcat)
"our society ironically treats limited resources as endless, and endless resources as limited."
Not mine, not even sure where it came from, but it's totally true.
Re: Re: Look At The Evidence (as zcat)
I think the mysql people might be taking a pretty optimistic view of what constitutes a 'derivative work'.
Re: Re: Copies (as zcat)
http://xkcd.com/378/
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: (as zcat)
If they're following the usual forensic procedure they won't be relying on any software on the computer. They'll bring their own live CD which will probably be linux-based and something fairly similar to backtrack. And they'll make a complete dump of the disk contents so they can go looking at previously deleted data, access times (hint; mount your filesystem noatime ;) and so on..
Also if you plan to zero-wipe, remember it takes a long time and you may only have seconds. Full disk encryption helps here, you only need seconds to erase the keys at the start of the volume and the rest of the disk is irrecoverable (even if they force you to disclose the password)
Re: Re: (as zcat)
LOLWHUT?
Flash drives, yes.
Where to store them? Get an old microwave oven from a thrift shop, the sort with the analog timer. Have it set up on a solid state relay under computer control.
Then all you need is a Big Red Button with Molly-guard over it for when they break down your door; Total and irrecoverable destruction of your flash media in less than a second.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: (as zcat)
You might want to look into the history of the internet just a little.
"The Internet" only exists because of open standards. Standards that were not protected by patents, and that were made available for anyone to copy and implement without needing permission or payment.
And most services on the internet (particularly the older or most critical services) are provided by Free software; things like the root name-servers run BIND on BSD. Almost all email is passed around by sendmail, courier or postfix.
And as for 'patents' contributing to the growth of the computing industry; "If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today." -- Bill Gates, back in 1991
Re: Re: Re: (as zcat)
"You can get paid to write free software, but most of what's on my computer was created just for the sake of creating it"
That is an equally ignorant statement; I think you'll find that the large majority of FOSS contributions are written by paid programmers as part of their job.
The difference is that in most cases the software or improvements to existing software are written because some employer needs that specific piece of software or that specific feature for their own ends. They pay the programmers, they get the software or feature, and once the work has been done there is no harm to them if others benefit from the work too. There may even be a benefit if other users fix bugs or add features of their own, and share those improvements back.
Or perhaps copyright isn't the only right involved? (as zcat)
NASA have similar restrictions; the photos themselves are public domain, but you may not use them in a way that implies endorsement by NASA (a trademark infringement)
And in the case of photos featuring identifiable people, you also need a 'model release' from the subject of the photo for some uses.
And this all has nothing to do with copyright.
(as zcat)
I don't have a DVR, and I watch almost no TV at all.
I'd almost certainly watch more if I had a DVR, since there's a lot of stuff I'd actually like to watch and for various reasons it's just not convenient to watch it at the time it's broadcast. And TVNZ's on-demand site is basically horrible, can't download so the quality is limited to what can stream, and they force you to watch ads (I'm sure more fewquently than the broadcast ones) plus I pay for bandwidth so it's not 'free' for me at all. Basically it sucks on every level.
(as zcat)
"26.3% of his net income from just 40 hard-core fans."
And then there's the long tail, folks. I'm betting it takes about 960 less hard-core fans to make up the other 73.7% of his income..
(as zcat)
Next step, blipverts and exploding TV viewers.
"I just invent the bomb, I don't drop it"
(as zcat)
They could have gone further.
I want a grainy, sepia-tone silent movie interview with John Philip Sousa. These infernal talking machines are going to bring to an end musical development of the entire country!
Re: Missing info (as zcat)
But not because they had to.
I'd be happer if the article said "Onstar first had to contact the owners and ask them to provide the 10-digit security code (set by and known only to the owner) that would allow them to disable the vehicle.
Re: MPAA: Spokespeople for dead people (as zcat)
Valenti's dead, right?
No, he lobbied congress to extend his lifetime by another twenty years.
(as zcat)
All I can see on youtube is short clips, generally less than 2 minutes. Big fucking whoopee.
If I follow the link for watching full programs I get the following message:
This service is not currently available in your area.
Click here to access our help section.
And I can tell you right now it is NOT my internet provider in New Zealand blocking this. It's channel4.com refusing to give me anything. In fact if I click on the "Click here" link it tells me this:
Can I watch 4oD in another country?
Rights agreements mean that our 4oD service is only available in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, (although C4 does not always have rights for programmes in ROI). Even if you are a citizen of the UK or ROI you cannot access the service from abroad.
Sorry Mike, why am I supposed to be impressed with this? It doesn't seem the slightest bit different from Hulu to me.
Re: I think this analogy is off (as zcat)
This argument doesn't make any more sense than the original.
We can make all the food we want for free, but we're arguing about how to make sure most people don't get fed.
Why?
Because while we have people willing to package and distribute that food for free, we want to stop them from doing that so that they have to pay the no-longer-required packaging and distributing people to do it for them.
Re: Re: (as zcat)
To expand a little on Mike's answer, I'll quote a bit from wikipedia (and you can follow up to references for that for that if you're really interested)
"Traffic engineers may rely on the 85th percentile rule[13][14] to establish speed limits. The speed limit should be set to the speed that separates the bottom 85% of vehicle speeds from the top 15%. The 85th percentile is slightly greater than a speed that is one standard deviation (SD) above the mean of a normal distribution.
"The theory is that traffic laws that reflect the behavior of the majority of motorists may have better compliance than laws that arbitrarily criminalize the majority of motorists and encourage violations. The latter kinds of laws lack public support and often fail to bring about desirable changes in driving behavior. An example is United States's old 55 mph (88 km/h) speed limit that was removed in part because of notoriously low compliance."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limit
So in short; YES. If significantly more that 15% of the population are routinely breaking the speed limit, that speed limit is probably too low.