Even when I understand that as people grow older it gets harder due to circumstances of life, why don't you move somewhere where your talents are needed, appreciated and paid for?
You are only partially right. You can have an arbitrarily large password created by the system, which is used to encrypt the disk, and the system accepts different passwords according to some parameters (time of day, location, colour of light received at sensor, speed, etc.) to decrypt that password. You could even make so that if the system is booted after X times/Y incorrect passwords/Z location, to flip a couple of bits in the disk, rendering it unusable.
If you have the need/resources to worry about the cops getting to the disk itself, change the firmware of the disk to flip those bits directly. Bonus points if you write DEADBEEF101 to the platters when only read commands have been used for X time units. I know, you nor I will do that, but we aren't the kind of people that need such protections either.
You want something you could do? Get your soldering iron out, strip open your notebook and USB drives. Change the power lines for the data lines (fix length of connectors, there is a reason + and GND are longer), and remove any resistors that are there to prevent the chips from blowing up. Voilà, you now have blow in your face USB drives.
Since December 2010 you can do a Native Code Only Android application (revision 5 of the NDK). Basically, the only thing you are pointing towards as a show stopper for you hasn't existed on new/upgradable phones for 8 months now, and has never existed in Android's tablet OS, 3.x.
It doesn't matter how often it happens. A shark attack can't be prevented just by dismantling an massive government organization that's yet to show any results/benefits after a decade, the unnecessary groping of the whole flying populace can.
But you are conflating stealing a couch, depriving the store of one unit, just because you "lost" the one you had bought, and keeping using backed up data, which you licensed for use. I still don't understand what you think back-ups are for.
I've got games that I bought years ago that keep in a hard drive, original media long gone. Am I a criminal in your opinion?
If I backup a CD to my computer, and those CDs are rendered unusable for any reason, I expect to be morally and legally in the clear to keep using the backed up data. Otherwise, why would I back them up in the first place?
I find it tiresome how people think that if you criticize one person, you must love its opponent. Or how somehow attacking one opponent somehow exonerates the other one. If that's your only defense (not talking necessarily about you, although I do find the Republicans that can be seen from abroad disgusting), them being only good because the other guys did worse, you should rethink why you supported them on the first place.
I believe that there is a difference between a ".NET shop" and a ".NET developer". One is a company for which everything is a.NAIL, while the second is a person that knows.NET in and out and can be employed in both.NET shops and generalist shops for its.NET products/projects.
What I posit is that you don't really need USD200,000,000 to make a good movie. If you can do a good movie for USD250,000 and nets you USD1,000,000, that is a 4x return on investment. The ones that I see complaining for the loss of potential profit due to piracy are the big studios.
Have you ever heard of somebody going broke due to piracy? What about due to obscurity?
I think that applying laws written a long time ago to solve the problem of for-profit copyright infringement to individuals, is fucked up, but may be that's just me.
If you restore copyright to works that where previously in the public domain, you are in effect revoking rights retroactively, something which no lawful nation can allow.
The US has Hulu. The rest of the world doesn't. That would be enough to cut a lot of TV series pirates. Movies? I've realized that I'm looking less and less American films as time passes, and the best movies I've seen have consistently been not blockbusters. Also, I'll never feel bad for copying a movie made and paid for before I was born a quarter of century ago.
Have you ever stopped to think that there is more to gaming than the Xbox? My last console was an SNES, yet I buy and play games regularly, although not as many as I could because most seem way too dull.
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Even when I understand that as people grow older it gets harder due to circumstances of life, why don't you move somewhere where your talents are needed, appreciated and paid for?
Japanese animation, also known as Anime. Fads are different in different places :)
It is like saying that since Up! was such a succesfull movie, every movie must now be 3D rendered.
What was the last 2D animated movie that you saw?
You are only partially right. You can have an arbitrarily large password created by the system, which is used to encrypt the disk, and the system accepts different passwords according to some parameters (time of day, location, colour of light received at sensor, speed, etc.) to decrypt that password. You could even make so that if the system is booted after X times/Y incorrect passwords/Z location, to flip a couple of bits in the disk, rendering it unusable.
If you have the need/resources to worry about the cops getting to the disk itself, change the firmware of the disk to flip those bits directly. Bonus points if you write DEADBEEF101 to the platters when only read commands have been used for X time units. I know, you nor I will do that, but we aren't the kind of people that need such protections either.
You want something you could do? Get your soldering iron out, strip open your notebook and USB drives. Change the power lines for the data lines (fix length of connectors, there is a reason + and GND are longer), and remove any resistors that are there to prevent the chips from blowing up. Voilà, you now have blow in your face USB drives.
Since December 2010 you can do a Native Code Only Android application (revision 5 of the NDK). Basically, the only thing you are pointing towards as a show stopper for you hasn't existed on new/upgradable phones for 8 months now, and has never existed in Android's tablet OS, 3.x.
The Galaxy Tab (7") doesn't, it is a tablet device that came out quite a while before honeycomb where released.
The Galaxy Tab 10.1 does run honeycomb.
No-one had foreseen a certain-suicide attack in which the intention was not to hold the plane hostage but to use it as a missile.
Really?
:D Linux == Big Smiles :D
Linux / Big Smiles == :D / :D
Linux / Big Smiles == 1
Wait, what?
It doesn't matter how often it happens. A shark attack can't be prevented just by dismantling an massive government organization that's yet to show any results/benefits after a decade, the unnecessary groping of the whole flying populace can.
There are no innocent people.
"I believe in karma! It means that I can do mean things to people ALL DAY and assume they deserve it! - Dogbert
How have you managed to flood /. on a daily basis?
Then use a binary packages rolling release distro like Arch :)
But you are conflating stealing a couch, depriving the store of one unit, just because you "lost" the one you had bought, and keeping using backed up data, which you licensed for use. I still don't understand what you think back-ups are for.
I've got games that I bought years ago that keep in a hard drive, original media long gone. Am I a criminal in your opinion?
If I backup a CD to my computer, and those CDs are rendered unusable for any reason, I expect to be morally and legally in the clear to keep using the backed up data. Otherwise, why would I back them up in the first place?
I find it tiresome how people think that if you criticize one person, you must love its opponent. Or how somehow attacking one opponent somehow exonerates the other one. If that's your only defense (not talking necessarily about you, although I do find the Republicans that can be seen from abroad disgusting), them being only good because the other guys did worse, you should rethink why you supported them on the first place.
They'll ban butterflies too.
Ghostscript.
I believe that there is a difference between a ".NET shop" and a ".NET developer". One is a company for which everything is a .NAIL, while the second is a person that knows .NET in and out and can be employed in both .NET shops and generalist shops for its .NET products/projects.
For instance, she should under no circumstances ask Kivan about what happened to his girlfriend.
I've been wanting to play it for quite some time now. Than you for intriguing me enough to finally start playing.
What I posit is that you don't really need USD200,000,000 to make a good movie. If you can do a good movie for USD250,000 and nets you USD1,000,000, that is a 4x return on investment. The ones that I see complaining for the loss of potential profit due to piracy are the big studios.
Have you ever heard of somebody going broke due to piracy? What about due to obscurity?
I think that applying laws written a long time ago to solve the problem of for-profit copyright infringement to individuals, is fucked up, but may be that's just me.
If you restore copyright to works that where previously in the public domain, you are in effect revoking rights retroactively, something which no lawful nation can allow.
The US has Hulu. The rest of the world doesn't. That would be enough to cut a lot of TV series pirates. Movies? I've realized that I'm looking less and less American films as time passes, and the best movies I've seen have consistently been not blockbusters. Also, I'll never feel bad for copying a movie made and paid for before I was born a quarter of century ago.
Simple, I only buy low budget, excellent movies (The Man From Earth, [REC] and [REC]2, Primer, Moon, Ink, Tambien la lluvia, El Secreto de sus Ojos — not so low budget, 9 Reinas, El Aura, L'auberge espagnole, Russian Dolls, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, Monsters, most things from Woody Allen, The Blair Witch Project... I could go on) and don't buy nor go to the cinema to eat over expensive popcorn and endure awful blockbuster shit (Michael Bay, I shit in your general direction).
Have you ever stopped to think that there is more to gaming than the Xbox? My last console was an SNES, yet I buy and play games regularly, although not as many as I could because most seem way too dull.
Of course! It should read The Artist Formerly Known as Prince.