Look at them! They're all the current generation, and the backs of them still look quite shiney. Brand new iPods, probably purchased for filler, like the tip jar of a worthless cashier having a few dollar bills in it.
This move also introduces Viewing Vouchers, an enhanced feature of DRM. The user will be provided not only with a disc containing the movie, but two vouchers for viewing the movie itself. Each movie comes with a Solo Voucher, for a single, non pausable, private viewing of the movie.
As a bonus, the package includes one Party Voucher (tm), allowing the viewer, and up to three approved friends, to view the movie simultaneously from one screen. If the user has no friends, the Party Voucher may be converted to a Solo Voucher for a small fee. This allows the user to get two viewings from one disc, essentially buying one movie and getting the second viewing free.
If the municipal wireless is anything like home wireless, then somebody has to go around and reboot all the wireless routers every day. Wifi is one of those technologies that just doesn't seem to be maturing at all. It's like an open source game, they got it 60% working and were too busy playing it to finish it and fix the bugs.
When I can pay $100 for wi-fi in the city, which is quite spotty, or simply pick up Ma Kettle's unsecured router from her apartment on the third floor for free, I'll pick the latter. This also shields me from government snooping, MAFIAA lawsuits, and the like.
If I post a comment that's likely to make me the blunt end of harassment, be it about Scientology or Dow Chemicals, or if I download a song that was just broadcast over the radio for everyone to tape, Ma Kettle will have to fight the lunatics while I'm off posting from somewhere else. This has an even better side effect, since lawsuits against completely innocent people get more media attention and help bring about laws to protect citizens rather than corporations.
> If you read the article right through you'd find the official stats on 2004 election showed 3 million "challenged" (and over one million invalidated) votes. Not sure if that's the typical number under other governments, but it sure does sound like a huge number - using the government's own numbers.... and that still has very little to do with the headline or the summary. What company received the emails?
The article reads like a tongue-in-cheek joke with no facts. After reading that particular quote, with no text supporting it, I'm of the assumption that it was a joke. No national media is picking up on it just like no national media is picking up on the latest Doonesbury comic. Seriously, read the article. Does anyone else think that a mock play between Kevin Bacon and Tom Cruise can be considered a reputable source of news?
This article was written as a joke, and it appears that someone pulled out a choice quote and submitted it as news. What's next, The Onion?
I ca 't wa t f r th en ire worl to be o c ll lar te eph nes. he ell lar s rvic an ca l q ali y ha gr dual y g tte wor e to th po nt t at m st of the ente ce ust e gu ssed ro c ntext.
I look forward to guessing the meaning of all my calls in the future
Luckily this hack isn't for the ordinary Linux user. The hack requires WPA encryption to be activated. As anyone who uses Linux knows, WPA requires recompiling the kernel, compiling wireless tools, compiling wpasupplicant, recompiling both when you find that the default configuration for wpasupplicant is to not use WPA (wtf?), and finally modifying a handful of cryptic configuration files. Once that's done, WPA is still not likely to work with a particular kernel, hardware, and wireless card combination.
Once again, Linux is safe from such a common attack because only seven people have successfully set up WPA. If this had been a Windows flaw, where every machine natively understands WPA and no work at the command prompt is needed, this would be disastrous.
This shows that Linux has been taking the right stand. By making the machine difficult to get running, it's unlikely that the machine will be able to connect to anything and become infected. Windows made the mistake of making the machine easy to use, allowing for simply network connection and ease of ownership (OWN3D).
Has anyone else tried Godfather for the Wii? You can invert which way the camera rotates when you press left on the nunchuck, but nobody bothered seeing what else that changes. As you aim your gun crosshairs to the right side of the screen the system pans left, causing you to aim further right to hit your target. As you aim further right the system scrolls left FASTER. Good beta testing, too bad I can't download a patch to fix it.
If you don't like it, don't play. Blizzard gets away with this because people pay money to keep playing the game. Thus, they're voting, with their money, to keep these kinds of activities alive. It's their software, and you enter into all kinds of agreements by using it.
So I repeat; If you don't like it, don't play.... and take a shower since you're getting up anyways.
He's not riding on the Vomet Comet, he's riding on an imitation by some tourist startup out of Ft. Lauderdale. Check the wikipedia article on Vomit Comet.
This is similar to what CDRWIN did back in the 90s. CDRWIN, which consisted of GPL software with a windows GUI sold for a profit, which had a similar anti-piracy feature. It would behave normally for a few days before the trojan kicked in. Once activated, it would abort mid-burn and fill the hard drive with randomly named files.
This had an unfortunate side effect of occasionally blowing up when a proper license key was entered, resulting in some rather unhappy customers. The author eventually dumped the malware from his software and instead just went to failing to burn disks properly if it detected a pirated version.
I've sent take down notices for websites of people I don't like. They weren't infringing anything, but the ISP gets so many of them they don't have time so investigate each one. It's easier to just pull the plug and wait for the customer to bitch.
What they should be doing is taxing bandwidth. If your cable company offers "up to 3gbit/s of bandwidth", you should be able to download up to that much of pirated music per second. So it would make more sense to tax the bandwidth! The math comes out as...
3gbit = 375 megabytes of data per second
I saw a quote of $0.30 per CD, which comes out to $0.16 cents per second, or roughly $414,720 per month in piracy taxes.
Anyone else here actually live in New York City? The peds control the road. Jaywalking is illegal, but you can't stop it. Watch any intersection in New York and you'll watch mobs of people jaywalk. Try watching around Times Square in the evening. Once the stream of cars has passed you'll easily find a hundred people jaywalking AT ONCE.
The problem with New York is that the traffic laws are merely optional. Driving up on a sidewalk and driving the wrong way down a one way street are not likely to get you a ticket, nor is double parking or driving through a red light.
The fix is simple. Create a perl bot to parse through youtube and generate a letter claiming that every video on youtube is a violation of your copyright. Poof, youtube ceases to exist in a cloud of DMCA lawsuits.
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> I know more people with Archos products (2) than Zunes (1). That's statistically significant. 1/sqrt(N) is your signal to noise.
No clunky moving wheel, no fourth generation touch-sensitive buttons, they're all click-wheel.
Look at them! They're all the current generation, and the backs of them still look quite shiney. Brand new iPods, probably purchased for filler, like the tip jar of a worthless cashier having a few dollar bills in it.
This move also introduces Viewing Vouchers, an enhanced feature of DRM. The user will be provided not only with a disc containing the movie, but two vouchers for viewing the movie itself. Each movie comes with a Solo Voucher, for a single, non pausable, private viewing of the movie.
As a bonus, the package includes one Party Voucher (tm), allowing the viewer, and up to three approved friends, to view the movie simultaneously from one screen. If the user has no friends, the Party Voucher may be converted to a Solo Voucher for a small fee. This allows the user to get two viewings from one disc, essentially buying one movie and getting the second viewing free.
This offer is for a limited time only.
If the municipal wireless is anything like home wireless, then somebody has to go around and reboot all the wireless routers every day. Wifi is one of those technologies that just doesn't seem to be maturing at all. It's like an open source game, they got it 60% working and were too busy playing it to finish it and fix the bugs.
When I can pay $100 for wi-fi in the city, which is quite spotty, or simply pick up Ma Kettle's unsecured router from her apartment on the third floor for free, I'll pick the latter. This also shields me from government snooping, MAFIAA lawsuits, and the like.
If I post a comment that's likely to make me the blunt end of harassment, be it about Scientology or Dow Chemicals, or if I download a song that was just broadcast over the radio for everyone to tape, Ma Kettle will have to fight the lunatics while I'm off posting from somewhere else. This has an even better side effect, since lawsuits against completely innocent people get more media attention and help bring about laws to protect citizens rather than corporations.
Wait, were we talking about wifi?
BLONDS? :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rNfZxgkH7k
"What avout the price?"
Oi! What avout it?
> If you read the article right through you'd find the official stats on 2004 election showed 3 million "challenged" (and over one million invalidated) votes. Not sure if that's the typical number under other governments, but it sure does sound like a huge number - using the government's own numbers. ... and that still has very little to do with the headline or the summary. What company received the emails?
The article reads like a tongue-in-cheek joke with no facts. After reading that particular quote, with no text supporting it, I'm of the assumption that it was a joke. No national media is picking up on it just like no national media is picking up on the latest Doonesbury comic. Seriously, read the article. Does anyone else think that a mock play between Kevin Bacon and Tom Cruise can be considered a reputable source of news?
This article was written as a joke, and it appears that someone pulled out a choice quote and submitted it as news. What's next, The Onion?
I ca 't wa t f r th en ire worl to be o c ll lar te eph nes. he ell lar s rvic an ca l q ali y ha gr dual y g tte wor e to th po nt t at m st of the ente ce ust e gu ssed ro c ntext.
I look forward to guessing the meaning of all my calls in the future
No Jukebox Hero?
I felt a great disturbance in the market, as if millions of speculators suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
The QuickCam software breaks Cygwin also.
Once again, Linux is safe from such a common attack because only seven people have successfully set up WPA. If this had been a Windows flaw, where every machine natively understands WPA and no work at the command prompt is needed, this would be disastrous.
This shows that Linux has been taking the right stand. By making the machine difficult to get running, it's unlikely that the machine will be able to connect to anything and become infected. Windows made the mistake of making the machine easy to use, allowing for simply network connection and ease of ownership (OWN3D).
Has anyone else tried Godfather for the Wii? You can invert which way the camera rotates when you press left on the nunchuck, but nobody bothered seeing what else that changes. As you aim your gun crosshairs to the right side of the screen the system pans left, causing you to aim further right to hit your target. As you aim further right the system scrolls left FASTER. Good beta testing, too bad I can't download a patch to fix it.
If you don't like it, don't play. Blizzard gets away with this because people pay money to keep playing the game. Thus, they're voting, with their money, to keep these kinds of activities alive. It's their software, and you enter into all kinds of agreements by using it.
... and take a shower since you're getting up anyways.
So I repeat; If you don't like it, don't play.
Does that mean Kirk shoots first?
Patriot Day? Was this some stipulation of the Patriot Act?
He's not riding on the Vomet Comet, he's riding on an imitation by some tourist startup out of Ft. Lauderdale. Check the wikipedia article on Vomit Comet.
This is similar to what CDRWIN did back in the 90s. CDRWIN, which consisted of GPL software with a windows GUI sold for a profit, which had a similar anti-piracy feature. It would behave normally for a few days before the trojan kicked in. Once activated, it would abort mid-burn and fill the hard drive with randomly named files.
This had an unfortunate side effect of occasionally blowing up when a proper license key was entered, resulting in some rather unhappy customers. The author eventually dumped the malware from his software and instead just went to failing to burn disks properly if it detected a pirated version.
You missed the point, IT DOESN'T MATTER!
I've sent take down notices for websites of people I don't like. They weren't infringing anything, but the ISP gets so many of them they don't have time so investigate each one. It's easier to just pull the plug and wait for the customer to bitch.
Simply send a DMCA take down notice to their ISP requesting that the site be taken down because it is infringing.
What they should be doing is taxing bandwidth. If your cable company offers "up to 3gbit/s of bandwidth", you should be able to download up to that much of pirated music per second. So it would make more sense to tax the bandwidth! The math comes out as...
3gbit = 375 megabytes of data per second
I saw a quote of $0.30 per CD, which comes out to $0.16 cents per second, or roughly $414,720 per month in piracy taxes.
Anyone else here actually live in New York City? The peds control the road. Jaywalking is illegal, but you can't stop it. Watch any intersection in New York and you'll watch mobs of people jaywalk. Try watching around Times Square in the evening. Once the stream of cars has passed you'll easily find a hundred people jaywalking AT ONCE.
The problem with New York is that the traffic laws are merely optional. Driving up on a sidewalk and driving the wrong way down a one way street are not likely to get you a ticket, nor is double parking or driving through a red light.
I say we ban pedestrians. That'll teach the city.
The fix is simple. Create a perl bot to parse through youtube and generate a letter claiming that every video on youtube is a violation of your copyright. Poof, youtube ceases to exist in a cloud of DMCA lawsuits.