You just sound like you are trying to justify an absurd markup and a development process mired in more red tape then they have to deal with even at NASA.
This security expert has probably been hip deep in the problem. He's not just some random anonymous loser on some web forum posting from his mother's basement.
He's certainly not the first person to bring up this issue.
Guns just represent liberty and self-reliance. They are the start of the slippery slope that includes spray paint, decongestant, pressure cookers, and sharp kitchen knives.
The gun grabbing mentality preaches that we are all helpless and need to wait for the nanny state to sort things out should anything go wrong. It implies a contempt for the electorate that should be more obvious to more people.
...or someone who has modern machines in their local public library.
A system that requries IE6 in 2013 is a disgrace. It doesn't matter who is supposed to use it, or where, or how few people are actually expected to use it.
Your snark ignores the fact that this isn't just about Mac users. It's about ANY ONE that has a modern Windows configuration.
The last time someone tried to do the hard sell with the extended warranty with us, it gave us just enough time to reconsider our purchase. The price of the product with warranty was less than without. It really offended the inner Ferengi. Set off the old "too good to be true alarms". That ultimately caused us to reconsider the sale entirely.
When you can churn them out like sausages, you might not be so concerned about the wasteful aspects of the situation. Just make 500 more and throw them at the enemy.
Although it would make sense to make systems redundant whether that's at the pilot level or within the pilot itself.
> It could just have easily been that Cylon agents had been able to infiltrate all active starships, but they neglected to consider the BattleStar Galactica because she was decommissioned and being converted into an inactive museum ship.
BATTLESHIP!
Now that's a comparison that the neo-galactica fans won't like.
Although the "infiltration" bit overlooks the problem of only having a small number of physical variations. How can you actually infiltrate like that? It's bound to get noticed.
That would be the one where Baltar was reduced to a middle manager having waking wet dreams? The one where the level of tech made Baltar irrelevant despite all of his unwarranted guilt?
The one where they made their military systems extra vulnerable to computer attacks despite the fact that their last war was against robots?
The power of a Death Star main canon is nothing compared to stupidity of that magnitude.
The side that loses will be the one that breaks first. This is pretty much how it always goes. The vulnerability of your communications isn't nearly as important as how your troops will react when it inevitably fails.
Are your troops like the Ko-Dan armada or are they more like the IDF?
If you need to reserve your best troops to ensure that your average units remain on the line, then you are already at a severe disadvantage.
Except your analogy is total nonsense. Modern operating systems do in fact benefit from having a decent discrete GPU. Performance improves in ways you might not even expect.
Then there are the things that you would expect to be better with a good GPU. All of these things improve with a GPU that doesn't suck. You don't have to be some obsessive gamer to be in a position to see the benefit either.
Historically, Intel GPUs have sucked so bad that no one wanted to support them at all.
Or to put it in automotive terms: even a family car needs the ability to get onto the highway without being a threat to public safety.
Let's talk about prescription drugs that are 90% subsidized and trigger a cascade of side effects that mean you need to pop 5 or 6 of them regularly while they do who knows what to your insides.
"Just say No" isn't just for the drugs that the establishment likes to demonize.
Widespread and perfectly respectable middle class drug abuse is probably older than you are.
If it's not worth enough to go to the bother of registering it then it's not worth adding to the legal quagmire that is default copyright.
Although the notion of "personal papers" has been lost in this modern era where every worthless scrap of paper is treated like some masterpiece. That shouldn't be the case at all.
The current copyright regime really isn't useful for defending against the loss of personal data either.
> I'm just saying you're only looking at a small part of a big picture,
Nonsense. I am looking at far more of the big picture than you are. Part of that big picture includes my rights as a free citizen. Also, there is more to this than just the production of some very dispoable pop culture. That's true even of just the copyright aspect.
There is far more at stake here and the wannabe media moguls seem intent on hijacking the discussion to only consdier there very narrow needs.
Most people aren't even aware that you can be sued for downloading stuff. They are not like us people here on slashdot that pay attention to this stuff. No one else in the general public realize that a few somewhat high profile examples have been made.
The stories of pirate punishments are drowned out by all of the other more interesting things like crimes, disasters, and celebrity gossip.
> It's still used, despite the complaints, because it works.
Then explain the Pirate Bay. Explain the case against MegaUpload. It clearly does not work. You have to be a psychotic out of touch with reality to really claim otherwise.
Idiots think it work. Idiots hope it works. Jerks like the illusion of artistic megalomania.
Meanwhile, anyone that cares to can download anything they want.
1a: Some middleman buys the rights to publish the work from the original author. They pay the original author a pittance and then expect that author to do all of their own marketing.
You are confusing artists and publishers. They aren't the same by a long shot.
Industry professionals are far better pirates than we ever could be.
Art exists for it's own sake. This is something the bean counters forget when they try to distort copyright into some sort of land grab. The whole reason copyright exists is for the art. It is not for the artist.
Although the best stuff is created by those that are not motivated primarily by crass desires.
Strangely enough, this also applies to Doctors and teachers.
Too much of the "greed is good" mentality is ultimately counterproductive pretty much across the board.
> There are numerous business models involving temporary or restricted access that are in the interests of both creator and customer.
No. There are just TEMPORARY access methods that are in the interests of consumers.
The problem with DRM is that it turns everything into a rental. It doesn't matter if you've paid for a cheap subcription, a low unit cost, or a high unit cost. All of it is a glorified rental and most people don't realize this.
This especially true for any content that is tied to a particular service. The service goes away and so do your purchases.
DRM strips away your personal property rights. It prevents you from using that which you paid for. It prevents you from safeguarding your own personal property.
Corporate shills are so busy screaming about "artists" rights that they have forgotten that the rest of us have rights too.
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Even as physical media, CDs are way behind the curve. My previous car stereo from my previous car had an in-dash DVD player that decoded MP3.
DVDs are a pretty decent size in terms of capacity and splitting up a decent sized music collection.
Still just use the USB port on the current head unit though.
It's hard to argue against a single bit of media that can hold everything.
Nonsense. Sounds like a standard laptop.
You just sound like you are trying to justify an absurd markup and a development process mired in more red tape then they have to deal with even at NASA.
The car PC concept is very old news already.
This security expert has probably been hip deep in the problem. He's not just some random anonymous loser on some web forum posting from his mother's basement.
He's certainly not the first person to bring up this issue.
Guns just represent liberty and self-reliance. They are the start of the slippery slope that includes spray paint, decongestant, pressure cookers, and sharp kitchen knives.
The gun grabbing mentality preaches that we are all helpless and need to wait for the nanny state to sort things out should anything go wrong. It implies a contempt for the electorate that should be more obvious to more people.
...or someone who has modern machines in their local public library.
A system that requries IE6 in 2013 is a disgrace. It doesn't matter who is supposed to use it, or where, or how few people are actually expected to use it.
Your snark ignores the fact that this isn't just about Mac users. It's about ANY ONE that has a modern Windows configuration.
The last time someone tried to do the hard sell with the extended warranty with us, it gave us just enough time to reconsider our purchase. The price of the product with warranty was less than without. It really offended the inner Ferengi. Set off the old "too good to be true alarms". That ultimately caused us to reconsider the sale entirely.
No. The sign of a lasting product is a warranty that completely negates an extended warranty entirely.
Aftermarket warranties are usually scams. Like all forms of insurance, they tend to never cover your set of circumstances or they come with fees.
Modern extended warranties come with all manner of fees. So they're even more of a scam than the used to be.
When you can churn them out like sausages, you might not be so concerned about the wasteful aspects of the situation. Just make 500 more and throw them at the enemy.
Although it would make sense to make systems redundant whether that's at the pilot level or within the pilot itself.
> It could just have easily been that Cylon agents had been able to infiltrate all active starships, but they neglected to consider the BattleStar Galactica because she was decommissioned and being converted into an inactive museum ship.
BATTLESHIP!
Now that's a comparison that the neo-galactica fans won't like.
Although the "infiltration" bit overlooks the problem of only having a small number of physical variations. How can you actually infiltrate like that? It's bound to get noticed.
That would be the one where Baltar was reduced to a middle manager having waking wet dreams? The one where the level of tech made Baltar irrelevant despite all of his unwarranted guilt?
The one where they made their military systems extra vulnerable to computer attacks despite the fact that their last war was against robots?
The power of a Death Star main canon is nothing compared to stupidity of that magnitude.
The side that loses will be the one that breaks first. This is pretty much how it always goes. The vulnerability of your communications isn't nearly as important as how your troops will react when it inevitably fails.
Are your troops like the Ko-Dan armada or are they more like the IDF?
If you need to reserve your best troops to ensure that your average units remain on the line, then you are already at a severe disadvantage.
Except your analogy is total nonsense. Modern operating systems do in fact benefit from having a decent discrete GPU. Performance improves in ways you might not even expect.
Then there are the things that you would expect to be better with a good GPU. All of these things improve with a GPU that doesn't suck. You don't have to be some obsessive gamer to be in a position to see the benefit either.
Historically, Intel GPUs have sucked so bad that no one wanted to support them at all.
Or to put it in automotive terms: even a family car needs the ability to get onto the highway without being a threat to public safety.
Forget PCP.
Let's talk about prescription drugs that are 90% subsidized and trigger a cascade of side effects that mean you need to pop 5 or 6 of them regularly while they do who knows what to your insides.
"Just say No" isn't just for the drugs that the establishment likes to demonize.
Widespread and perfectly respectable middle class drug abuse is probably older than you are.
If it's not worth enough to go to the bother of registering it then it's not worth adding to the legal quagmire that is default copyright.
Although the notion of "personal papers" has been lost in this modern era where every worthless scrap of paper is treated like some masterpiece. That shouldn't be the case at all.
The current copyright regime really isn't useful for defending against the loss of personal data either.
> I'm just saying you're only looking at a small part of a big picture,
Nonsense. I am looking at far more of the big picture than you are. Part of that big picture includes my rights as a free citizen. Also, there is more to this than just the production of some very dispoable pop culture. That's true even of just the copyright aspect.
There is far more at stake here and the wannabe media moguls seem intent on hijacking the discussion to only consdier there very narrow needs.
> one of the most powerful is the right not to pay someone for access to their content on terms you don't like.
Great. The old "but you can buy a farm in Lancaster County" argument.
That is no choice at all.
> It does work, it does exactly what it's supposed to.
You keep on trying to repeat that but the truth is that more people see the hot new TV show through piracy then they do through legitimate channels.
Although that doesn't seem to have hurt sales too much (according to those that actually run thigns).
You're like some kind of Pentacostal trying to constantly repeat that the world is flat.
> No they won't. Certain segments of the population are technically astute to find cracks to bypass DRM, like sophisticated PC gamers,
Handbrake is one of the top Mac downloads. If those people are finding this stuff then it is hardly rocket science.
What risk? It's data.
Most people aren't even aware that you can be sued for downloading stuff. They are not like us people here on slashdot that pay attention to this stuff. No one else in the general public realize that a few somewhat high profile examples have been made.
The stories of pirate punishments are drowned out by all of the other more interesting things like crimes, disasters, and celebrity gossip.
To most people, there is no percieved risk.
> It's still used, despite the complaints, because it works.
Then explain the Pirate Bay. Explain the case against MegaUpload. It clearly does not work. You have to be a psychotic out of touch with reality to really claim otherwise.
Idiots think it work. Idiots hope it works. Jerks like the illusion of artistic megalomania.
Meanwhile, anyone that cares to can download anything they want.
That is an inescapable truth of our age.
Trying to pretend otherwise will do you no good. It will only annoy paying customers and those that may wish to be paying customers.
That is the problem with DRM. It assumes as true thing that are false.
You missed a step.
1a: Some middleman buys the rights to publish the work from the original author. They pay the original author a pittance and then expect that author to do all of their own marketing.
You are confusing artists and publishers. They aren't the same by a long shot.
Industry professionals are far better pirates than we ever could be.
> And most of the software that does incredibly boring things to help run businesses all over the world more efficiently.
You just ran off the rails there for sure.
Software gets built by businesses because stuff needs to get done. There you go with that "greed is good" mentality again. It's stupid and wrongful.
Avarice is not the mother of invention, necessity is.
You've got to be pretty retarded to try and claim that boring software won't be created on a site with a bunch of Linux users.
Even the rest of your claims are dubious at best. Even in the 80s, computing technology was making the process of "studio recordings" more accessable.
Art exists for it's own sake. This is something the bean counters forget when they try to distort copyright into some sort of land grab. The whole reason copyright exists is for the art. It is not for the artist.
Although the best stuff is created by those that are not motivated primarily by crass desires.
Strangely enough, this also applies to Doctors and teachers.
Too much of the "greed is good" mentality is ultimately counterproductive pretty much across the board.
Are you a ferret face?
> There are numerous business models involving temporary or restricted access that are in the interests of both creator and customer.
No. There are just TEMPORARY access methods that are in the interests of consumers.
The problem with DRM is that it turns everything into a rental. It doesn't matter if you've paid for a cheap subcription, a low unit cost, or a high unit cost. All of it is a glorified rental and most people don't realize this.
This especially true for any content that is tied to a particular service. The service goes away and so do your purchases.
DRM strips away your personal property rights. It prevents you from using that which you paid for. It prevents you from safeguarding your own personal property.
Corporate shills are so busy screaming about "artists" rights that they have forgotten that the rest of us have rights too.