Actually this has even further implications because of its blind garden
hose sprayer approach.
Keep in mind that Pantone has copyrighted just about every currently
printable color there is. I take a photo of a Pantone color chart and
send it to you, you print it getting the output exactly right
colorwise. Will I and the printer manufacturers be sued under the act
because you can print a color that Pantone has put a name on?
Jerry
The example is not that far extreme, the act does go a long way towards
making it easily possible to quickly criminalize large segments of the
population (those that own vcrs, computers, stereos, etc..
On Jul 07, 2004, at 10:04 PM, Andy Arnold wrote:
> I don't know how much of a threat this proposed legislation really is
> to the
> iPod, but you might want to check it out, it only takes 20 seconds
>
> http://savetheipod.com/index1.php
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:live data: /n./ 1. Data that is written to be interpreted and takes
over program flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such as
viewing it. One use of such hacks is to break security. For example,
some smart terminals have commands that allow one to download strings
to program keys; this can be used to write live data that, when listed
to the terminal, infects it with a security-breaking {virus} that is
triggered the next time a hapless user strikes that key. For another,
there are some well-known bugs in {vi} that allow certain texts to send
arbitrary commands back to the machine when they are simply viewed.
2. In C code, data that includes pointers to function {hook}s
(executable code).
3. An object, such as a {trampoline}, that is constructed on the fly by
a program and intended to be executed as code.
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