The game wasn't remotely disabled. Because he bought it from EA's online store, and because the download/installation requires account authentication, he couldn't download/install it because he account was temporarily disabled... If he had already installed the game before being an asshat on the forums, he would be happily playing it right now. Sounds more like a possible bug than an evil corporation trying to strip everyone of their rights to electronic entertainment if you ask me.
The security by obscurity bullshit constantly spewed as a counter argument whenever someone claims OSX or Linux is more secure is tiring. Security through obscurity doesn't work, and the argument falls flat on its face when you look at the rate of exploit of *NIX servers vs. Windows servers or Apache vs. IIS, the former being more widespread in both cases, but having fewer exploits compared to the latter.
Or better yet, let's be actual humans and talk. my number is 555-555-5555. Call me!"
Am I the only one who finds statements like this funny? Holding up "talking on the telephone" as being "actual human", but writing off instant messengers as if it's in some way inferior?
Don't get me wrong, different forms of communications have their place, but the idea that hearing someone's voice is inherently superior to reading what someone writes makes me imagine luddites in the time when telephones were just becoming wide-spread saying something like "Let's be actual humans and talk face-to-face. Directions to my house are..." and yet people like the parent now hold up the telephone as if it's an "actual" way to communicate.
Maybe for some people a technology isn't "real" or "valid" unless they grew up with it.
IT'S "DON'T BE EVIL" NOT "DO NO EVIL" FOR FUCK'S SAKE.
Also, they're not stopping anyone from using it. What they're doing by patenting, which just means that those that want to use it can pay a licensing fee, or wait until the patent runs out.
Unless you actual read anything at all about the event. The guy was tweeting about the event still being on, even after it was canceled (in order to draw even more people in to an already bad situation), so the officers asked him tweet again to tell those who had seen his tweets before that it was actually canceled... That's not the main reason he was arrested, but it contributed.
By the way, anyone who actually think the headlines or summaries on Slashdot are even remotely accurate, as you and the GP seem to, is definitely new here.
What if he doesn't use twitter? Do they expect him to make an account, get everyone in the crowd to subscribe (assuming they don't have some massive aversion to it like my self and refuse to go) and then update the twitter telling everyone to beat it?
This also some how assumes every single person in the crowd has some mobile twitter solution configured as well which is entirely ignorant. If the law officers don't understand anything even a little they shouldn't be allowed to take actions based on their ignorance. Thus they should be relieved of their duties as they cant possibly do their job by making such obtuse assumptions. What the hell is this? The dark ages?
The fact that he was promoting the event on Twitter, even after it was canceled (making a bad situation worse), might have gave the police an inkling.
Ones where you have to agree to an end user license agree that states " IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT INSTALL, COPY, OR USE THE SOFTWARE; YOU MAY RETURN IT TO YOUR PLACE OF PURCHASE FOR A FULL REFUND, IF APPLICABLE." Windows XP EULA Surely Microsoft's license doesn't apply to all the components, but it specifically says you can get a refund from where you purchased the software. Companies don't want to honor the Windows EULA? Don't sell computers with Windows.
When you buy a car, you don't have to agree to a separate license to use your engine, a license which restricts your freedom and that was not made available to you before you purchased your car.
Negligible benefit? Then why have so many police agencies abandoned the 9mm in favor of other calibers? Why did the Federal government settle on the.357 SIG (for the USSS) and.40S&W (for the FBI) instead of the cheaper and more commonly available 9mm? Most law enforcement agencies don't issue.45s but the fact that they've abandoned the 9mm in such large numbers ought to tell you something.
You realize appeal to authority is a fallacy, not a real argument, right?
If all of our taxes came from taxation on businesses
we'd see a serious push for more competition and innovation that would drive our economy forward.
But, since there would be a huge tax burden on businesses, no one would be able to enter the market and there would be no competition except among already established players. Excellent plan!
Seriously, that's exactly the kind of knee-jerk plan that comes from someone who wants to harm "big business" without thinking through the consequences for "mom and pop". Not to mention, you're basically calling for the government to steal money just the same as they do now but with the ability to obfuscate exactly how much they're screwing us all.
Or is it that non-commercial violations of copyrights aren't that upsetting, but commercial violations are?
I don't remember a great many people rushing to the defense of the guy trying to sell Beatle's music by violating copyrights, even though he was going against a big label.
Car analogy.
You go to the gas station. You go inside and pay for $20 in gas. You go back to the pump, and modify it to give you $40 in gas instead.
Utility analogy.
The water company installs a meter at your house, to keep track of the water you use and charge you for it. You modify the meter to only report half of what you use.
Really, if you're going to use bad analogies, at least try to make them remotely accurate.
Google Wave is actually all three of those forms. I've had instant-messenger style chats on Wave between me and my boss. We've started using it to replace email in some situations (something that will open up once there are other Wave clients.) And, of course, you can broadcast the communication out to anyone in Wave, and even outside of it with certain robots.
The only thing that will raise that number (or cause them to upgrade infrastructure allowing them to raise it) is if they see their average monthly consumption getting to close to that number.
I think you're confusing Comcast with a reasonable company. Increasing bandwidth caps would be a reasonable response to your scenario. With Comcast, it's more likely that they'll just burn down his house.
XP didn't exactly push me to Linux--I just tried Linux on a lark, and found it so much better than XP I switched over fully. I went without Windows at all for about three years.
Then, about a year ago, I bought a new laptop that came with Vista. My plan was just to install Linux over it, but the more I used Vista the more I came to appreciate that Microsoft had finally made decent operating system (I didn't use Vista back when it had a lot of trouble, pre-Service Pack 1, so I don't have the negative experiences a lot of people have.)
Vista didn't exactly make me switch back (I still run Linux on everything, but I use Vista quite a bit on my laptop), but I'd take it over any other version of Windows out there.
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The game wasn't remotely disabled. Because he bought it from EA's online store, and because the download/installation requires account authentication, he couldn't download/install it because he account was temporarily disabled... If he had already installed the game before being an asshat on the forums, he would be happily playing it right now. Sounds more like a possible bug than an evil corporation trying to strip everyone of their rights to electronic entertainment if you ask me.
The security by obscurity bullshit constantly spewed as a counter argument whenever someone claims OSX or Linux is more secure is tiring. Security through obscurity doesn't work, and the argument falls flat on its face when you look at the rate of exploit of *NIX servers vs. Windows servers or Apache vs. IIS, the former being more widespread in both cases, but having fewer exploits compared to the latter.
Or better yet, let's be actual humans and talk. my number is 555-555-5555. Call me!"
Am I the only one who finds statements like this funny? Holding up "talking on the telephone" as being "actual human", but writing off instant messengers as if it's in some way inferior?
Don't get me wrong, different forms of communications have their place, but the idea that hearing someone's voice is inherently superior to reading what someone writes makes me imagine luddites in the time when telephones were just becoming wide-spread saying something like "Let's be actual humans and talk face-to-face. Directions to my house are..." and yet people like the parent now hold up the telephone as if it's an "actual" way to communicate.
Maybe for some people a technology isn't "real" or "valid" unless they grew up with it.
Not in Australia. They willingly surrendered most of their firearms quite some time ago as I understand it.
Well, I don't want a bunch of criminals carrying firearms, anyway!
IT'S "DON'T BE EVIL" NOT "DO NO EVIL" FOR FUCK'S SAKE.
Also, they're not stopping anyone from using it. What they're doing by patenting, which just means that those that want to use it can pay a licensing fee, or wait until the patent runs out.
Subject is spot on!
Unless you actual read anything at all about the event. The guy was tweeting about the event still being on, even after it was canceled (in order to draw even more people in to an already bad situation), so the officers asked him tweet again to tell those who had seen his tweets before that it was actually canceled... That's not the main reason he was arrested, but it contributed.
By the way, anyone who actually think the headlines or summaries on Slashdot are even remotely accurate, as you and the GP seem to, is definitely new here.
What if he doesn't use twitter? Do they expect him to make an account, get everyone in the crowd to subscribe (assuming they don't have some massive aversion to it like my self and refuse to go) and then update the twitter telling everyone to beat it? This also some how assumes every single person in the crowd has some mobile twitter solution configured as well which is entirely ignorant. If the law officers don't understand anything even a little they shouldn't be allowed to take actions based on their ignorance. Thus they should be relieved of their duties as they cant possibly do their job by making such obtuse assumptions. What the hell is this? The dark ages?
The fact that he was promoting the event on Twitter, even after it was canceled (making a bad situation worse), might have gave the police an inkling.
at least those that pay taxes
So what you're saying is Microsoft isn't the bad guy for once?
Ones where you have to agree to an end user license agree that states " IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT INSTALL, COPY, OR USE THE SOFTWARE; YOU MAY RETURN IT TO YOUR PLACE OF PURCHASE FOR A FULL REFUND, IF APPLICABLE." Windows XP EULA
Surely Microsoft's license doesn't apply to all the components, but it specifically says you can get a refund from where you purchased the software. Companies don't want to honor the Windows EULA? Don't sell computers with Windows.
When you buy a car, you don't have to agree to a separate license to use your engine, a license which restricts your freedom and that was not made available to you before you purchased your car.
Starting sentences with "Hell, comma" makes you look like a high school student.
And ad hominem makes you look like a politician.
Because you must be new here?
Negligible benefit? Then why have so many police agencies abandoned the 9mm in favor of other calibers? Why did the Federal government settle on the .357 SIG (for the USSS) and .40S&W (for the FBI) instead of the cheaper and more commonly available 9mm? Most law enforcement agencies don't issue .45s but the fact that they've abandoned the 9mm in such large numbers ought to tell you something.
You realize appeal to authority is a fallacy, not a real argument, right?
Irregardless, I could care less about your head explosions.
If all of our taxes came from taxation on businesses
we'd see a serious push for more competition and innovation that would drive our economy forward.
But, since there would be a huge tax burden on businesses, no one would be able to enter the market and there would be no competition except among already established players. Excellent plan!
Seriously, that's exactly the kind of knee-jerk plan that comes from someone who wants to harm "big business" without thinking through the consequences for "mom and pop". Not to mention, you're basically calling for the government to steal money just the same as they do now but with the ability to obfuscate exactly how much they're screwing us all.
If it did, patent trolling wouldn't be a problem.
URLs in tweets are automatically converted to bit.ly URLs if they over a certain amount of characters.
And that concludes this showing of Slashdot's bash.org theater.
As Henry Ford said, "If I asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse."
Or is it that non-commercial violations of copyrights aren't that upsetting, but commercial violations are?
I don't remember a great many people rushing to the defense of the guy trying to sell Beatle's music by violating copyrights, even though he was going against a big label.
More accurately:
Car analogy.
You go to the gas station. You go inside and pay for $20 in gas. You go back to the pump, and modify it to give you $40 in gas instead.
Utility analogy.
The water company installs a meter at your house, to keep track of the water you use and charge you for it. You modify the meter to only report half of what you use.
Really, if you're going to use bad analogies, at least try to make them remotely accurate.
Bullshit. If five-star restaurants are so good, why are people eating at McDonalds 10x as much?
Bullshit. If Mac OSX is so good, why are people buying 10x as many Windows PCs?
Ad infinitum.
Google Wave is actually all three of those forms. I've had instant-messenger style chats on Wave between me and my boss. We've started using it to replace email in some situations (something that will open up once there are other Wave clients.) And, of course, you can broadcast the communication out to anyone in Wave, and even outside of it with certain robots.
The only thing that will raise that number (or cause them to upgrade infrastructure allowing them to raise it) is if they see their average monthly consumption getting to close to that number.
I think you're confusing Comcast with a reasonable company. Increasing bandwidth caps would be a reasonable response to your scenario. With Comcast, it's more likely that they'll just burn down his house.
XP didn't exactly push me to Linux--I just tried Linux on a lark, and found it so much better than XP I switched over fully. I went without Windows at all for about three years.
Then, about a year ago, I bought a new laptop that came with Vista. My plan was just to install Linux over it, but the more I used Vista the more I came to appreciate that Microsoft had finally made decent operating system (I didn't use Vista back when it had a lot of trouble, pre-Service Pack 1, so I don't have the negative experiences a lot of people have.)
Vista didn't exactly make me switch back (I still run Linux on everything, but I use Vista quite a bit on my laptop), but I'd take it over any other version of Windows out there.