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SonicBlue Ordered to Spy on ReplayTV Viewers
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Got outrage? According to a story on SiliconValley.com, a federal magistrate has ordered SonicBlue to track ReplayTV users' every click to see what they're watching, recording, skipping (commercials) and e-mailing to friends. The info is to be given to the entertainment industry control freaks who are suing SonicBlue for allegedly abetting copyright violations."
show us your hot grits
Anyone who mods up Klerck is probably heading for a moderation banning...
The above post is too narrow. You suck, Klerck.
-spiralx
I don't want to be modded as Flamebait, but I have a real example of how microsoft is not that bad, and I hope this can spark an intelligent discussion about my valid points (valid b/c they are based on expierence).
It does not make sense to me why linux receives all of the die-hard praise that it does. I was willing to go on the linix bandwagon i excitedly bought Corel Linux Delux with Wordperfect for 79.99 at CompUSA, and I was ready to join the open source revoultion, this is where my problems began.
The installation was brutal, it took me 3-6 hours to get LILO to work, and even then it did not auto-detect any of my hardware. I was forced to look at 640X480 resoultion on my $199.99 Voodoo3 while in Win98 I was using 1024X68. My problems were further compounded by the fact that my modem was not detected. Someone told me that winmodems do not work, so I spent 129.99 on a US Robitics 56K and realized that the AOL's cd does not work with Linux. I called AOL to have them send me a Linux version and after dealing with their computer illeterate reps they told me a Linux version was not available (they did not even know what linux was!!!). My friend helped me out and let me get access to his dialup account from a local provider, I managed to get connected. Corel does not bundle Internet Explorer with Linux so I had to resort to an OOLLLDD version of netscape. I never realized how much I appreciated true type Microsoft fonts until looking at this thing, it was unreadable! I was willing to bear with this, but then the lame copy of Word Perfect that comes with it did not read any of my important documents, everything looked all messed up. Also, I could not print. When I tried to add a printer to Linux there was maybe 5 choices, I tried them all, but I got nothing by garbage to print out (smiley faces, harts, and other messed up characters) $300.00 laser printer down the drain.
With microsoft I have none of these problems happen. The hardware is transparent to me . . . I was out this $$
Linux 79.99
Printer 300.00
Modem 129.99
Voodoo3 199.99
potentail new dial up (replace AOL): approx 19.95 a month
versuses;
A new copy of Win 200 XP; 199.99
My other gripe with this was that I had to actually "buy" a copy of this software. Doesn't open source mean "free to all"? I realize that the point of OSDN is to get the software out to people for free, but how are we supposed to get it without "paying" some company like Corel . . . if I have to pay Corel, to use their OS, than how different are they from microsoft, how can Corel honestly sell something to me that was developed Open Source, they did not code Linux, that is like me downloading copies of it, burning it on a CD and selling it for 79.99? Yeah, people have said that it is free because yiou can download it from their web site, but how am I going to do that without an OS to begin with? It is kind of the chicken or the egg problem all over again, what am I going to download it with . . . ossmosis? So in some sense, I just don't see the difference between Microsoft and Red Hat and Corel, they both need me to pay them for their software, making the concept of information being free to all a farce.
Microsoft made a standard, and it prevented me from the hassles of Linux and hardware, maybe the OSDN should work on Plug and Play in the OS, then it would be more accessable to the average user, I consider my self pretty savvy as far as computer users go, so if I can;t get it working how is the average joe?
w00t I agree !!!!
BOYCOT DISNEY!!!!
I especially think we should boycot them because they are half the source of the liberalization of the nation... They are the types who promote things like Black History month, which I have no problem with except this: where is the white history month? White men get the shortest end of the stick... and usually have to work the hardest having to loose their jobs to less-qualified people because of the bullshit "Equal Opportunity Laws." Again.. I have no problem with most of it... just tone it down assholes... we no longer live with racism against blacks or asians... we live in a nation of whites where the racism is against whites!!!!!
Erutangis ym si siht.
First Disney sponsors Hollings bill. Then Disney does this to SonicBlue users.BOYCOTT DISNEY.
Don't buy Disney products. Don't go to DisneyWorld, Don't go to Disney flicks.
The above is not "off-topic" as it was so moderated. In fact, it is probably one of the more intelligent posts that we will see.
It is especially no mistake that a penis goes into a vagina.. not an ass attached to another penis... and it is certianly another human error that a vagina bumps against another rather than being filled.... Lesbianism is just as bad a faggotism.. no matter how many pervs get turned on by it!!!
Erutangis ym si siht.
when was the last time you fucked your sister? you filthy goddamned rednecked shitforbrains piece of stinking scum...
*THUD*
(The sound of me laughing so hard I fall out of my chair)
That has to be one of the funniest posts I have EVER read on Slashdot. I could point out all of the obviously ridiculous errors and silliness in this post, but I'm fairly sure this was written as a joke, and to dissect it in a serious manner would destroy its novelty.
If this is real, then I pity you with all of my heart, and can only say that there is a peace in death that life cannot provide for you.
Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Romans 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
In A.D. 2002 ...
Idiocy was beginning
Homer: What happen?
Lisa: Somebody set us up the bomb
Bart: We get no program signal
Homer: What !
Bart: TV screen turn on
Homer: It's you !!
Studio: How are you gentlemen !!
Studio: All your PVR are belong to us
Studio: You are on the way to destruction
Homer: What you say !!
Studio: You have no chance to survive make your time
Studio: HA HA HA HA
Homer: Take off every 'ad'
Homer: You know what you doing
Homer: Remove 'ad'
Homer: For Duff and donuts
Don't try to pretend to be spiralx. You got the sig wrong for a start.
Oooh... BURN!
Godwin!
And you're the fourth. Capitalist Pig.
You forgot to include Jack Valenti.
whereas you do know about it, as you spell it so perfectly.....
fucktard
Another great example. There's a Miss Black America pagent that gets lots of press and publicity. Try starting a Miss White America contest and see what happens.
Anonymous because there's no proper racial purity standard for moderators.
Who is the master of page-widening?
After exhaustive research, I have determined that Klerck is: