I'm sorry, I'm having a little trouble feeling sorry for people who support DRM (those who bought the game). They paid for it. They got what they wanted.
Actually, the proper term is Digital Restrictions Management. DRM only exists to restrict, period. Any use of "Digital Rights Management" is due to marketing.
I lost absolutely any remaining respect for Pop Sci when they posted "The Man Who Was Allergic to Radio Waves" on their front page. Absolutely no testing, research, or proof about this man's fantastic story wasn't just all in his head (which it is).
Shame on you Pop Sci. I used to subscribe to this crap.
About a dozen states â" Oregon, Arizona, California and Iowa, among others â" have call centers in state and federal prisons, underscoring a push to employ inmates in telemarketing jobs that might otherwise go to low-wage countries such as India and the Philippines. Arizona prisoners make business calls, as do inmates in Oklahoma. A call center for the DMV is run out of an all-female prison in Oregon. Other companies are keeping manufacturing jobs in the USA. More than 150 inmates in a Virginia federal prison build car parts for Delco Remy International. Previously, some of those jobs were overseas.
At least 2,000 inmates nationwide work in call centers, and that number is rising as companies seek cheap labor without incurring the wrath of politicians and unions. At the same time, prison populations are ballooning, offering U.S. companies another way to slash costs.
>>Distilling your idea: Setup cell phone towers in prisons. The phones will connect to these towers since they are the strongest. Make these towers "dead" cells".
>Better yet, eavesdrop on these!
You probably couldn't without a court order. Actually, that's a pretty interesting legal question. Any lawyers?
Distilling your idea: Setup cell phone towers in prisons. The phones will connect to these towers since they are the strongest. Make these towers "dead" cells".
I guess as long as you set them up inside the prison blocks of solid concrete walls and steel it could work. *shrug*
How can a local entity possibly have the technical expertise and know how to operate any kind of jamming equipment safely? There's a reason they are illegal for the public and even rarely used in the fed government: They are freaking dangerous and jarring to law-abiding citizens.
> Not to troll, but as far as I'm concerned anyone who pirates software deserves it...
Agreed. Viruses and malware are one of the excepted risks when going through the back alleys. It's the same with real-life criminals. When you're dealing with scum, you're likely to get stabbed in the back by scum, too.
> All the hysteria over genetic engineering is ridiculous. Quit trying to regulate everything. Genetic Engineering is the only field where your "mistake" can make more little "mistakes"
Except for TiVo there still remains no replacement for VHS's ease of use. Pop in a tape, hit record. I know that there are DVD recorders that can do this but at least a year ago you still had to worry about DVD type, ending a track, etc.
A large portion of the populace does not have a TiVo or a DVD recorder - meaning they lost functionality.
>> The interesting thing is that most of the animals aren't killed by impacts, but by massive internal bleeding from decompression as they get caught in the low pressure zone behind the blade.
What the hell does that even mean? "Low pressure zone behind the blade" kills animals? I'm calling bullshit.
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I'm sorry, I'm having a little trouble feeling sorry for people who support DRM (those who bought the game).
They paid for it. They got what they wanted.
Find someone else's sholder to cry on.
Actually, the proper term is Digital Restrictions Management.
DRM only exists to restrict, period. Any use of "Digital Rights Management" is due to marketing.
I lost absolutely any remaining respect for Pop Sci when they posted "The Man Who Was Allergic to Radio Waves" on their front page.
Absolutely no testing, research, or proof about this man's fantastic story wasn't just all in his head (which it is).
Shame on you Pop Sci. I used to subscribe to this crap.
The only people I see get called names aren't actually gay.
Except polygamy hurts society, especially men in general.
It's better for a woman to have 1/16th of a rich man than all of a poor one.
Gay guys who just want to be with eachother doesn't hurt anyone.
Marriage to objects or animals doesn't make sense since they're not human.
This is a SPECIAL "vaccine" court specially convened for this kind of thing.
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Yes, but you would have to make 100% sure it was impossible for you to pick up other peoples calls. Then again, who's watching? Who would know?
About a dozen states â" Oregon, Arizona, California and Iowa, among others â" have call centers in state and federal prisons, underscoring a push to employ inmates in telemarketing jobs that might otherwise go to low-wage countries such as India and the Philippines. Arizona prisoners make business calls, as do inmates in Oklahoma. A call center for the DMV is run out of an all-female prison in Oregon. Other companies are keeping manufacturing jobs in the USA. More than 150 inmates in a Virginia federal prison build car parts for Delco Remy International. Previously, some of those jobs were overseas. At least 2,000 inmates nationwide work in call centers, and that number is rising as companies seek cheap labor without incurring the wrath of politicians and unions. At the same time, prison populations are ballooning, offering U.S. companies another way to slash costs.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2004-07-06-call-center_x.htm
And they work for $200 dollars. A month. I'm glad that the prisoners get to do something productive...but it feels kind of weird/prison-industrial complexish. =0
>>Distilling your idea: Setup cell phone towers in prisons. The phones will connect to these towers since they are the strongest. Make these towers "dead" cells".
>Better yet, eavesdrop on these!
You probably couldn't without a court order. Actually, that's a pretty interesting legal question. Any lawyers?
> have one of the inmates smuggle in a jammer with the help of the warden/prison officials in exchange for access to the library or internet
Actually the private prisons have some internet access. They also use the prisoners as call center employees. I think 60 Minutes had a program on it.
Distilling your idea: Setup cell phone towers in prisons. The phones will connect to these towers since they are the strongest. Make these towers "dead" cells".
I guess as long as you set them up inside the prison blocks of solid concrete walls and steel it could work. *shrug*
How can a local entity possibly have the technical expertise and know how to operate any kind of jamming equipment safely? There's a reason they are illegal for the public and even rarely used in the fed government: They are freaking dangerous and jarring to law-abiding citizens.
Am I wrong?
Question: How the hell do you smuggle a cell phone into prison?
Answer: You don't. You bribe/threaten a guard.
One of the most hardcore insults I've ever read on Slashdot.
Great news to start off 1/27/09. Your world is ending, and there is nothing you can do about it.
I think a lot of us felt it would turn out this way.
Hope I look stupid in 50 years. I probably won't though.
> Not to troll, but as far as I'm concerned anyone who pirates software deserves it...
Agreed. Viruses and malware are one of the excepted risks when going through the back alleys. It's the same with real-life criminals. When you're dealing with scum, you're likely to get stabbed in the back by scum, too.
I used to use a lot of cracked programs.
> In the old days, computers would ask for a code when you wanted to decrypt something -- no caching necessary.
*slaps AC* Approaches like TrueCrypt REQUIRE that the password remain in memory. How else are you supposed to even browse the files?
CHAN NOW FILTERS TO SLASH
> All the hysteria over genetic engineering is ridiculous. Quit trying to regulate everything.
Genetic Engineering is the only field where your "mistake" can make more little "mistakes"
What about these guys? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/
Except for TiVo there still remains no replacement for VHS's ease of use. Pop in a tape, hit record. I know that there are DVD recorders that can do this but at least a year ago you still had to worry about DVD type, ending a track, etc.
A large portion of the populace does not have a TiVo or a DVD recorder - meaning they lost functionality.
Epic, here's a pro-tip on how to connect people:
SYN
SYN-ACK
ACK
>> The interesting thing is that most of the animals aren't killed by impacts, but by massive internal bleeding from decompression as they get caught in the low pressure zone behind the blade.
What the hell does that even mean? "Low pressure zone behind the blade" kills animals? I'm calling bullshit.