It's an easy library to get into. I was able to play around with basic OpenGL, and the program was cross-platform without needing any #ifdef statements. What's amazing to me is how Laurent basically writes it and runs the website by himself (as far as I can tell).
It isn't immediately obvious to me that DMCA applies to jailbreaking a device; has it been confirmed to apply? I understand it applies to breaking access control measures on copyrighted materials but it seems to be a stretch to apply it to jailbreaking in general.
Some of the code on the device is no doubt a copyrighted work, eg the main Glass APK and such. You can't dump some parts of Android without being root, and getting root would count as circumvention.
I'm sure they wouldn't pursue it... but it's shitty enough that they could.
But the measures that jailbreaking circumvents aren't intended to function as copy protection - they're doing something else entirely.
And even if those measures are protecting copyright in addition to locking down the device, has any court ever ruled on whether circumventing those measures without intending to breach copyright is a violation?
If a car manufacturer decided to lock the hoods of the cars they sell so that only authorized mechanics could access the engine, could they use the DMCA to outlaw users from circumventing the hood-locks on their own cars merely by printing some copyrighted text on the inside of the hood, and call it a copy-protection measure?
There was the DeCSS case, other than Sony's autorun CDs I think that would be the most trivial "DRM" but was still ruled a violation to circumvent.
Auto manufacturers, along with printer manufacturers, are already using IP in the on board diagnostics and printer cartridges to claim copyright violations when people adjust or replace parts "without authorisation."
Because the CSS code was there for the purpose of preventing unauthorized duplication of content, not to restrict people's ability to control the functioning of their DVD players.
Regarding printer cartridges, there have already been court rulings [1] that have determined that "jailbreaking" them isn't a violation of the DMCA, making the distinction specifically on the basis of whether the the element of the product being protected is "creative" or "functional". So we already know from case law that the DMCA doesn't actually prohibit people from circumventing functional lock-outs.
Paypal would do very well buying and selling Bitcoins. Buying bitcoins with Paypal is a very common request, which most sellers won't do because Paypal makes it very easy to rip off the seller.
>Buying bitcoins with Paypal is a very common request, which most sellers won't do because Paypal makes it very easy to rip off the seller.
Where are you observing that it's a common request? Could it be a common request because it's easy to rip off the seller, in the same way that assistance transferring a dead relative's funds out of Nigeria is a common request?
Go on any Bitcoin forum and the newbie section will be filled with people wanting to buy Bitcoin with credit cards, usually via Paypal. Some of those will be scammers but not all of them.
Also, Dropbox is user friendly. I can recommend it to my family members, and they have a referral program to encourage me to do it. What does BitTorrent Sync do that rsync cannot?
On the other side of the argument, I bet BitTorrent Sync will become as friendly as Dropbox, and perhaps third-party backup services will offer what Dropbox does. At that point, rsync's only advantage would be an open-source license.
It seems to overcome NAT and dynamic addressing very well. All you need is to distribute the small shared secret once (for example, offline via USB, paper, or via the first letter of every headline in consecutive college newspaper publications), and you have the ability to transfer files (and do anything that can be boiled down to that; ex: chat, perform backups, publish videos of cats among your friends, distribute mostly static data between front-facing servers, etc...) without further coordination (for example, constantly renewing a DNS record, overcoming NAT, and keeping SSH or FTP permissions in order). Sure it may not be the best experience for all use-cases from a UX standpoint, but it is very general and, being serverless, it is better from other perspectives. I'm not boxing with you, only responding to your "?" and advocating for more such software.
Imagine my surprise, getting out of college and trying to use this at my job, when the compiler told me it was invalid! It wasn't obscure to me, but apparently was to the Sun Studio C++ compiler.
Provo, Utah has about 100k population. There are about 250 US cities with at least 100k people. If Google doubles the number of cities they serve every year, and starts with the smallest cities, that's 7 more years to reach the largest cities.
Most people assume they'll stop when AT&T + Verizon start investing in land lines again, but who can say if Google will have the desired effect.
