While we all know that it is trivial to just torrent the video, most of us are geeks and home users just "don't get" most P2P apps like torrent software. The point of DRM isn't to make it impossible, just make it a PITA for Joe average
The problem with your scenario and the scenario imagined by so many DRM apologists is that all "Joe Average" needs to do is have at least one geek friend who is capable and suddenly that PITA goes away...;)
Imagine if your doctor, after years of telling you to get your cholesterol under control, decided to amputate a leg because you didn't take his admonitions with the seriousness and "respect" he felt that you owed him.
You mean like former nutritionist Jon Basso? He got so tired of patients ignoring his advice on healthy eating he opened up the Heart Attack Grill to give them exactly what they're asking for--an early trip to the grave!,p>Not excusing hwt this woman has done or what Basso does, but there are consequences to being ignored when you give good advice. Do it often enough and people might start giving you what you're asking for, not what you need.
[B]ecause he *was* in Britain and because he has deliberately made himself known to the authorities ever since arriving, when an international arrest warrant comes through from a friendly EU country with good human rights record we are absolutely legally obliged to follow it to the letter - so much so that we sent the last one back that they sent the UK police the other week because it wasn't filled in properly.
Oh I see. So you were only following orders? I guess that makes everything alright then...
What would make me truly respect them is if they came up with something like BeOS, or QNX (Haiku)
I'm sorry but Haiku and QNX have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Haiku is a clean room implementation of BeOS. Two entirely different things. The only thing Haiku and QNX have in common is that they are both alternative Operating Systems.
I read this statement as: "[...]We are not going to try to figure out who is doing this and ban them from XBox Live."
So? The kinds of people who are interested in using this stuff are not necessarily the kinds of people who play games--they see the hacking itself as the game--Microsoft knows there is no point in trying to lock them out of an account they don't even have a membership in.
I myself, someone who has never owned an xbox was tempted to buy one of these when the hack was announced in hopes of seeing an open source "surface" application made cheap, or in hopes of seeing the "Minority Report interface" running on my home desktop.
What good would blacklisting me or those who only bought the kinect for use in home robotics do? Microsoft is still making money on these things last I heard and doesn't need to recap anything in the sale of bundled games. Bottom line? The bottom line is the bottom line here. Doing nothing costs them nothing and may in fact reap good will and positive PR benefits later down the line. And if someone figures out how to do something cool or marketable with the kinect, Microsoft will be first in line to file patents on it...
If airlines see their bank accounts turn red with no hope of them being profitable unless the TSA is removed,
they'll hit us up for some more bail out money because everyone knows in Corporate America companies can capitalize the profits and socialize the losses.
This will do about as good as refusing to buy music from the RIAA, you're a pirate no matter how primly you refuse to buy their products or download their albums.
Most people can't grasp the fact that if you put a random employee in place of the CEO in the company, the company will most likely grind to a halt or even disintegrate.
And this is a problem how? Golden Parachutes for the win, baby!
Face it the CEO doesn't know how to run the company either, they're just better equipped to abandon ship before the consequence of their mistakes has time to bite them on the ass.
Really? Because last I checked over half the country had decided to vote with their feet and walk away from the whole debacle. Whether you like it or not that counts as a vote too. A vote of no confidence.
Every election that percentage seems to get smaller as people wise up and consider the lack of real change an indication of a rigged game. If the game is rigged or useless like those crosswalk buttons, then why play? As the trend continues to accelerate and less and less people buy into the joke our political process has become the percentages of people refusing to vote will continue to grow.
How low of a voter turn out does there have to be before the game ends for lack of players?
One thing to remember - our bank gets and stays profitable because it pushes a lot of IT outside to third-parties (offshore developers are *much* cheaper than in London and NewYork)
Fuck your offshore developers and fuck your bank for reducing the local standard of living by that much more. Local programmers in both London and New York gotta eat too you know...
Old ??...only if you're under twentyseven and a half. Else "Forbidden Planet" is an old movie... and if you've seen that, when it came out AND you're on FB, well then... oh hell, words fail me...
Dad? Is that you? I knew you had gotten a Facebook account with your iPhone but I had no idea you'd be on Slashdot too!
It's like requesting that the US make Catholicism the official national religion. It's never going to happen, not for any religion (such a thing would violate the Constitution), and it is bizarre to even ask.
But some how the Muslims think that Islam will be exempt from that prohibition regarding respecting or establishing an official religion in the United States and that Sharia must be respected in place of the Constitution...
The movie theatre isn't some government organization - vote with your wallet. Simply boycott the theatres that want to engage in this kind of activity.
This just in--The MPAA is announcing record losses and the shuttering of nearly half of all movie theaters in the next fiscal quarter. In a completely unrelated note, Piracy levels have been estimated to be nearly double the previous accepted estimates and the heads of the major movie studios are enroute to Washington D.C. to meet with Congress to see what can be done about this perplexing problem....
Somehow I think there is a flaw in your cunning plan. Can't quite put my finger on what it is though...
My guess is they will see little, if any, sales difference after the shutdown.
Well that's where you'd be wrong. My bet is on sales going down now that less people will be exposed to new music. Then within a few weeks it will climb back up as friends learn from friends about this new thing called...
The problem with a no-confidence plebiscite is the resolution. Historically, when an election provides the option of returning no winner, like many parliaments have or once implemented, you'd end up with a situation where the body went months or years without a leader [...]
I'm really not seeing an issue with that to be honest.
A government that can't meet is also one that can't pass bills and confiscate people's property. If there is a need for government (because of an attack or war time circumstance) there are already safeguards put into place for that and people can vote then. Otherwise a vote of no confidence should be seen as just that--a vote for no action or governmental interference!
Oh no. The window controls moved from the right top of the window to the left top of the window, some icons look slightly different, and the default theme is a slightly different shade of brown. My world, she is rent asunder.
Why don't you go and fsck yourself?
I'm getting so sick and tired of this meme that anyone who has a gripe about Ubuntu is complaining about the fscking window controls. Give it up already! There are legitimate issues with some of the changes in Ubuntu and pretending otherwise and nattering on about window controls like this borders on trolling!
For instance the stupidity in trying to disable the battstat applet in Ubuntu--what is the point in forcing people to use Gnome-powermanagement if it doesn't work for them? At the very least if you're going to disable or otherwise break an applet, take it out of the listing of included applets in Synaptic!
Another annoyance was the stupidity in chaining several important notification applets together, so that if you removed one (that %$#& envelope) you ended up losing your volume controls and system tray. Seriously was that just brain dead thinking or what?
Note this isn't even addressing the changes made to the notification area that completely screwed up the ability to theme the Gnome Panels. There was a huge thread over at launchpad about it for months in advance of Lucid's release and in that time Canonical studiously spent their time carefully inserting their thumbs up their rectums...
Should I even mention all the trouble people had with the buggy and broken Grub2 and Plymouth releases? The way two finger middleclicking in Firefox was broken? Notice that I have yet to bring up the fscking window controls?
Still now that it's been brought up, do understand that muscle memory is a real thing--people automatically move their mouse to where they think the controls are. Even that is less a big deal as much as it was the way Caonical went out of their way to make this difficult to change to the user's preference. It never bothered me so much as I actually prefer my window controls to be on left, but I can understand the annoyance for people who have always used their controls on the right. It creates a mental dissonance that costs you time every attempt to close a window when you go to do so and have to recalibrate when you find it isn't there.
So yeah... There are all kinds of issues with Canonical's arbitrarily deciding to change things that have nothing to do with the window controls and it's insulting for you to pretend otherwise.
Keep this kind of thing up and don't be surprised if people start jumping ship soon...
STOP GIVING THEM IDEAS!
Hasn't it become abundantly clear by now that these types of asswipes don't know the difference between parody, satire and reality? In the UK they've happily spent the last decade using 1984 as a HOWTO for crissakes!
"Hell, one lady I was dating said I didn't act like a boyfriend, I guess I should have slapped her around some, but I don't need that kind of relationship."
Allow me to interpret. What she really was saying was, "You're bad at sex, and not attentive enough to my moods to make me forgive you for it." Mystery solved.
Nice bit of shaming language you did there, unfortunately we're wise to that kind of thing now....
The Catalogue of Anti-Male Shaming Tactics:
Charge of Unattractiveness (Code Tan) – The Ugly Tan Charge
Discussion: The target is accused of having no romantic potential as far as women are concerned. Examples:
* “I bet you are fat and ugly.”
* “You can’t get laid!”
* “Creep!”
* “Loser!”
* “Have you thought about the problem being you?”
Response: This is another example of “circumstantial ad hominem.” The target’s romantic potential ultimately does not reflect on the merit of his arguments.
No the "lady" in question wasn't talking about the guy, she was admitting she's a typical bitch in search of another "bad boy" who is willing to slap her around. Most real men aren't desperate enough to do that sort of thing and find it repulsive. They walk away.
The same thing that seems to be happening with Sony come to think of it...
...of the lawyer who convinced "Officer Bubbles" to file this lawsuit. This is taking being a magnificant bastard to all new heights! What better way to mock "Officer Bubbles" than by ensuring the video clip he wants most to disappear gets spread all over the world? How better to screw over the asshole than by racking up legal fees you know will accomplish the very opposite of what was promised?
Intel should be seriously worried about their creep into netbooks.
Ahh...you....
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Heh...heh... And..and..any day now there will be smartbooks everywhere!
--bornagainpenguin
PS:Wake me up when they FINALLY release these things in a smartbook device about the size of the HP Jordana hand held PCs...then maybe I'll be interested, otherwise this is just more vaporware.
The RIAA has decried Harper as 'vexatious,' because of her relentless legal jockeying.
Since the advent of these cases it has been clear that the intent was to bury people financially and for the **AA to use the courts as a bludgeon to scare the rest of the populace--not the pursuit of justice. Now they're upset because someone with nothing to lose (ruinous legal judgments that cannot reasonably be paid back by an individual tends to create that mentality) has decided to use their own strategy against them? Tough $#@! **AA. Bed. Made. Lie.
How do you like this taste of your own medicine? Hopefully this kind of thing will catch on and more people will choose to drag their cases out for as long as possible and this will cost the **AA so much more than they anticipated.
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The problem with your scenario and the scenario imagined by so many DRM apologists is that all "Joe Average" needs to do is have at least one geek friend who is capable and suddenly that PITA goes away... ;)
There is so much irony in your signature I really don't know where to begin...
You mean like former nutritionist Jon Basso? He got so tired of patients ignoring his advice on healthy eating he opened up the Heart Attack Grill to give them exactly what they're asking for--an early trip to the grave!,p>Not excusing hwt this woman has done or what Basso does, but there are consequences to being ignored when you give good advice. Do it often enough and people might start giving you what you're asking for, not what you need.
Oh I see. So you were only following orders? I guess that makes everything alright then...
I'm sorry but Haiku and QNX have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Haiku is a clean room implementation of BeOS. Two entirely different things. The only thing Haiku and QNX have in common is that they are both alternative Operating Systems.
So? The kinds of people who are interested in using this stuff are not necessarily the kinds of people who play games--they see the hacking itself as the game--Microsoft knows there is no point in trying to lock them out of an account they don't even have a membership in.
I myself, someone who has never owned an xbox was tempted to buy one of these when the hack was announced in hopes of seeing an open source "surface" application made cheap, or in hopes of seeing the "Minority Report interface" running on my home desktop.
What good would blacklisting me or those who only bought the kinect for use in home robotics do? Microsoft is still making money on these things last I heard and doesn't need to recap anything in the sale of bundled games. Bottom line? The bottom line is the bottom line here. Doing nothing costs them nothing and may in fact reap good will and positive PR benefits later down the line. And if someone figures out how to do something cool or marketable with the kinect, Microsoft will be first in line to file patents on it...
I never said they stopped being evil after all.
Bwhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha..*chokegaspwheeze*..heh... heh...heh...hehehahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Oh...oh...hehe...heh...heh... Oh!
Good one! There is no public domain; it is our society's answer to Emmanuel Goldstein ala 1984. Enjoy your serfdom.
they'll hit us up for some more bail out money because everyone knows in Corporate America companies can capitalize the profits and socialize the losses.
This will do about as good as refusing to buy music from the RIAA, you're a pirate no matter how primly you refuse to buy their products or download their albums.
Dammit, where are Mike and Mary Callahan when you need 'em?
And this is a problem how? Golden Parachutes for the win, baby!
Face it the CEO doesn't know how to run the company either, they're just better equipped to abandon ship before the consequence of their mistakes has time to bite them on the ass.
Really? Because last I checked over half the country had decided to vote with their feet and walk away from the whole debacle. Whether you like it or not that counts as a vote too. A vote of no confidence.
Every election that percentage seems to get smaller as people wise up and consider the lack of real change an indication of a rigged game. If the game is rigged or useless like those crosswalk buttons, then why play? As the trend continues to accelerate and less and less people buy into the joke our political process has become the percentages of people refusing to vote will continue to grow.
How low of a voter turn out does there have to be before the game ends for lack of players?
Fuck your offshore developers and fuck your bank for reducing the local standard of living by that much more. Local programmers in both London and New York gotta eat too you know...
Dad? Is that you? I knew you had gotten a Facebook account with your iPhone but I had no idea you'd be on Slashdot too!
But some how the Muslims think that Islam will be exempt from that prohibition regarding respecting or establishing an official religion in the United States and that Sharia must be respected in place of the Constitution...
This just in--The MPAA is announcing record losses and the shuttering of nearly half of all movie theaters in the next fiscal quarter. In a completely unrelated note, Piracy levels have been estimated to be nearly double the previous accepted estimates and the heads of the major movie studios are enroute to Washington D.C. to meet with Congress to see what can be done about this perplexing problem....
Somehow I think there is a flaw in your cunning plan. Can't quite put my finger on what it is though...
Well that's where you'd be wrong. My bet is on sales going down now that less people will be exposed to new music. Then within a few weeks it will climb back up as friends learn from friends about this new thing called...
I'm really not seeing an issue with that to be honest.
A government that can't meet is also one that can't pass bills and confiscate people's property. If there is a need for government (because of an attack or war time circumstance) there are already safeguards put into place for that and people can vote then. Otherwise a vote of no confidence should be seen as just that--a vote for no action or governmental interference!
Why don't you go and fsck yourself?
I'm getting so sick and tired of this meme that anyone who has a gripe about Ubuntu is complaining about the fscking window controls. Give it up already! There are legitimate issues with some of the changes in Ubuntu and pretending otherwise and nattering on about window controls like this borders on trolling!
For instance the stupidity in trying to disable the battstat applet in Ubuntu--what is the point in forcing people to use Gnome-powermanagement if it doesn't work for them? At the very least if you're going to disable or otherwise break an applet, take it out of the listing of included applets in Synaptic!
Another annoyance was the stupidity in chaining several important notification applets together, so that if you removed one (that %$#& envelope) you ended up losing your volume controls and system tray. Seriously was that just brain dead thinking or what?
Note this isn't even addressing the changes made to the notification area that completely screwed up the ability to theme the Gnome Panels. There was a huge thread over at launchpad about it for months in advance of Lucid's release and in that time Canonical studiously spent their time carefully inserting their thumbs up their rectums...
Should I even mention all the trouble people had with the buggy and broken Grub2 and Plymouth releases? The way two finger middleclicking in Firefox was broken? Notice that I have yet to bring up the fscking window controls?
Still now that it's been brought up, do understand that muscle memory is a real thing--people automatically move their mouse to where they think the controls are. Even that is less a big deal as much as it was the way Caonical went out of their way to make this difficult to change to the user's preference. It never bothered me so much as I actually prefer my window controls to be on left, but I can understand the annoyance for people who have always used their controls on the right. It creates a mental dissonance that costs you time every attempt to close a window when you go to do so and have to recalibrate when you find it isn't there.
So yeah... There are all kinds of issues with Canonical's arbitrarily deciding to change things that have nothing to do with the window controls and it's insulting for you to pretend otherwise.
Keep this kind of thing up and don't be surprised if people start jumping ship soon...
STOP GIVING THEM IDEAS! Hasn't it become abundantly clear by now that these types of asswipes don't know the difference between parody, satire and reality? In the UK they've happily spent the last decade using 1984 as a HOWTO for crissakes!
Nice bit of shaming language you did there, unfortunately we're wise to that kind of thing now....
The Catalogue of Anti-Male Shaming Tactics:
Charge of Unattractiveness (Code Tan) – The Ugly Tan Charge
Discussion: The target is accused of having no romantic potential as far as women are concerned. Examples:
* “I bet you are fat and ugly.”
* “You can’t get laid!”
* “Creep!”
* “Loser!”
* “Have you thought about the problem being you?”
Response: This is another example of “circumstantial ad hominem.” The target’s romantic potential ultimately does not reflect on the merit of his arguments.
No the "lady" in question wasn't talking about the guy, she was admitting she's a typical bitch in search of another "bad boy" who is willing to slap her around. Most real men aren't desperate enough to do that sort of thing and find it repulsive. They walk away.
The same thing that seems to be happening with Sony come to think of it...
...of the lawyer who convinced "Officer Bubbles" to file this lawsuit. This is taking being a magnificant bastard to all new heights! What better way to mock "Officer Bubbles" than by ensuring the video clip he wants most to disappear gets spread all over the world? How better to screw over the asshole than by racking up legal fees you know will accomplish the very opposite of what was promised?
This is great!
I see what you did there...and I approve ! ;)
I just worry this is like invoking Godwin's law and could backfire on us somehow...
--bornagainpenguin
Dang. Well you can't blame me for trying can you? I hope your sister is having fun with them!
--bornagainpenguin
Ahh...you....
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Heh...heh... And ..and..any day now there will be smartbooks everywhere!
--bornagainpenguin
PS:Wake me up when they FINALLY release these things in a smartbook device about the size of the HP Jordana hand held PCs...then maybe I'll be interested, otherwise this is just more vaporware.
Since the advent of these cases it has been clear that the intent was to bury people financially and for the **AA to use the courts as a bludgeon to scare the rest of the populace--not the pursuit of justice. Now they're upset because someone with nothing to lose (ruinous legal judgments that cannot reasonably be paid back by an individual tends to create that mentality) has decided to use their own strategy against them? Tough $#@! **AA. Bed. Made. Lie.
How do you like this taste of your own medicine? Hopefully this kind of thing will catch on and more people will choose to drag their cases out for as long as possible and this will cost the **AA so much more than they anticipated.
--bornagainpenguin