Given the choice between enforcing fair play with a conrtract and a lawyer and doing it with a non-copy bit, I think the vast majority of/.ers will follow the `don't try and use technology against a social problem' rule.
A quick google would seem to indicate that anyone who wanted to could print a no-print PDF with about 5 minutes work.
Just the same way that copyright law stopped anyone from exchanging MP3 files on Napster.
Just like DRM stops people playing iTunes sourced music on non-iPods?
There were a few USB models, but he didn't want the extra cables the external device would require.
Unless he's going to be doing video capture every day, this seems a strange argument. The inconvinience of having 1 extra podule for an hour or three vs the inconvinience of having to open up the machine is an easy choice for me.
No, because it could stop being a monopoly, while remaining a cooperative. Then you would not have to remain part of it, even though it still remained a cooperative.
I thought everyone knew that a trajan is a piece of malware which placates the user with pointers to cheap online food retailers and violent computer games while exploiting their network connection to attack PCs in Germany and the Middle East.
So, they will be installing an "easy backup" application, potentially in a mission critical environment, that will expire at a predefined date.
Best that these people get to make this kind of decision as soon as possible so they can be sacked and can go on to a career they are more suited to, for instance burger flipping.
Installing beta test backup software on production systems?
I'd just jump on the bus and the defective unit in my bag and go and get a new one.
I forgot to include: How many people can find proof of purchase for a cheap purchase a couple of years ago?
If I tried to keep every recipt for every 20 quid purchase, I'd be crushed to death under a landslide of paper long before I was likely to need one of them.
I get my money back from the retailer, who will in turn presumably get their money back from the manufacturer.
We can expect the HD DVD players to quickly follow the DVD players to the position where they are all but giving them away free with cornflakes.
How much effort are you going to put into returning a cheap bit of tat you bought 2 years ago? How much effort are ASDA/Walmart going to put into getting their much smaller amount of money back from the manufacturer for those few where the customer made the effort?
They might not realize it, but someone who knows might put a card in that they need.
Like what? The only card a normal user is likely to ever have a use for is a fast video card for games, and PCI is no use for that. Everything else they migh conceavably need even for quite exotic uses, from gigabit networking to a raid controller, is likely to be built into the motherboard these days.
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I love how liberals have just regurgitated the meme that Fox News is biased that they don't even have any examples to offer for it.
Er, if you think only `liberals' (whatever you have mentally redefined that word to mean this week) have a problem with Murdoch owned `news' outlets, you must be getting all your information about the world from Murdoch owned... er... well, yes, I see your problem here.
If you look outside your bunker for a while you will note that Murdoch's media outlets which pretend to do news are in fact purely marketing channels for News International.
The most blatent example in recent times has been the treatment of China, with Murdoch needing to keep the chinese government sweet and so his outlets beig very careful to whitewash all chinese news.
Of course, only `liberals' have problems with the chinese government. Those dirty anti-communist `liberals'!
In the US, Murdoch's outlets are crafted to provide support for those politicians he sees as being most likely to shovel money his way, as it happens that is those on the right. If his evaluation changed FOX would swing behind the democrats at the drop of a hat, as the Murdoch outlets in the UK swapped from Conservative to Labour in '97.
In Europe, the Murdoch outputs are not really targetted left or right, but anti-EU, which might mean giving exposure to loonie right wing conspiracy theories one day, and to hard line old fashoned socialists the next. This is because Murdoch sees the EU as a problem for his future plans.
If you are going to publicise a price target, don't pick a currency which is collapsing. If hey had stated their target price in Euors, for instance, I think that the echange rate changes would more or less covered the drif up from $200 to $240.
Real beer will never kill Budweiser and Tennants Export. Doesn't make a bit of difference to anyone sane. The important issue is to have the option to drink beer, not that you don't have the option to drink what you wouldn't want to drink anyway.
Imagine you head a physics magazine - not a scientific journal, a magazine. A well-known historian submits an article about history of science. You don't really know what he's talking about[...]
You can stop at that point. I send it to some people who should understand. If they can't understand it I reject it as it is at the very least amazingly badly written.
It is dishonest in the sense that the content (or "content") of the paper was not offered in good faith.
As you say with your quotes, there was no content. I'm not sure there can be good or bad faith in a null statement. In any case, the action was so extremely and obviously satirical that there is no real issue any ore than there is with the comic strips in a newspaper. If someone can't tell the comic strips from the news, its silly to blame the cartoonists.
Except that the author claims the material as historical fact.
After it became clear there were a significant number of idiots assuming it was. It's not nice behaviour I admit, but no one with working brain cells believes he believes it.
The hard and honest way is to write something to rebut the vacuous drivel.
It is incredably hard to rebut vacuous drivel. By definition it has no content and so there is nothing to rebut.
Consider the analogous problem of proving that the following program, which is written in a language no one has a compiler or formal definition for, and for which there is no given specification, is incorrect.
12 w a dsdfsdf =21 sad#sa123 %&^1 sa;'asd !
However, if you could show that I would have been happy to put any random line noise into that blockquote, then you can claim to have at least undermined my claim that the above is a program to do something useful.
[True CS nerds will at this point be lineing up to say that the above is indeed a program to do something useful. Indeed, it is any program we might want it to be for a suitable language definition. Very post-modern.]
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Given the choice between enforcing fair play with a conrtract and a lawyer and doing it with a non-copy bit, I think the vast majority of /.ers will follow the `don't try and use technology against a social problem' rule.
A quick google would seem to indicate that anyone who wanted to could print a no-print PDF with about 5 minutes work.
Just the same way that copyright law stopped anyone from exchanging MP3 files on Napster.
Just like DRM stops people playing iTunes sourced music on non-iPods?
Unless he's going to be doing video capture every day, this seems a strange argument. The inconvinience of having 1 extra podule for an hour or three vs the inconvinience of having to open up the machine is an easy choice for me.
No, because it could stop being a monopoly, while remaining a cooperative. Then you would not have to remain part of it, even though it still remained a cooperative.
That is not a feature of it being a cooperative, but of it being an enforced monopoly. The two are completely separate issues.
I thought everyone knew that a trajan is a piece of malware which placates the user with pointers to cheap online food retailers and violent computer games while exploiting their network connection to attack PCs in Germany and the Middle East.
Best that these people get to make this kind of decision as soon as possible so they can be sacked and can go on to a career they are more suited to, for instance burger flipping.
Installing beta test backup software on production systems?
I forgot to include: How many people can find proof of purchase for a cheap purchase a couple of years ago?
If I tried to keep every recipt for every 20 quid purchase, I'd be crushed to death under a landslide of paper long before I was likely to need one of them.
Nerver more will you have to endure those painful minutes between rebuilding your system and getting re-infected.
We can expect the HD DVD players to quickly follow the DVD players to the position where they are all but giving them away free with cornflakes.
How much effort are you going to put into returning a cheap bit of tat you bought 2 years ago? How much effort are ASDA/Walmart going to put into getting their much smaller amount of money back from the manufacturer for those few where the customer made the effort?
You never heard of planned obsolescence?
Like what? The only card a normal user is likely to ever have a use for is a fast video card for games, and PCI is no use for that. Everything else they migh conceavably need even for quite exotic uses, from gigabit networking to a raid controller, is likely to be built into the motherboard these days.
Er, if you think only `liberals' (whatever you have mentally redefined that word to mean this week) have a problem with Murdoch owned `news' outlets, you must be getting all your information about the world from Murdoch owned... er... well, yes, I see your problem here.
If you look outside your bunker for a while you will note that Murdoch's media outlets which pretend to do news are in fact purely marketing channels for News International.
The most blatent example in recent times has been the treatment of China, with Murdoch needing to keep the chinese government sweet and so his outlets beig very careful to whitewash all chinese news.
Of course, only `liberals' have problems with the chinese government. Those dirty anti-communist `liberals'!
In the US, Murdoch's outlets are crafted to provide support for those politicians he sees as being most likely to shovel money his way, as it happens that is those on the right. If his evaluation changed FOX would swing behind the democrats at the drop of a hat, as the Murdoch outlets in the UK swapped from Conservative to Labour in '97.
In Europe, the Murdoch outputs are not really targetted left or right, but anti-EU, which might mean giving exposure to loonie right wing conspiracy theories one day, and to hard line old fashoned socialists the next. This is because Murdoch sees the EU as a problem for his future plans.
How many times have you fitted PCI cards in your laptop?
I just installed a fanless firewall machine with no internal expansion slots, but 4 usb ports.
My Zarus talks USB, but I have no idea why I might want a PCI slot in it.
By that measure /. never had it.
If you are going to publicise a price target, don't pick a currency which is collapsing. If hey had stated their target price in Euors, for instance, I think that the echange rate changes would more or less covered the drif up from $200 to $240.
I see you aren't gifted with a working knowledge of English.
Shouldn't you get them to sign a contract before you do the work?
You don't know the people who serve you in shops personally, yet I suspect you hand them your credit card.
Real beer will never kill Budweiser and Tennants Export. Doesn't make a bit of difference to anyone sane. The important issue is to have the option to drink beer, not that you don't have the option to drink what you wouldn't want to drink anyway.
Why are you doing business with crooks?
You can stop at that point. I send it to some people who should understand. If they can't understand it I reject it as it is at the very least amazingly badly written.
As you say with your quotes, there was no content. I'm not sure there can be good or bad faith in a null statement. In any case, the action was so extremely and obviously satirical that there is no real issue any ore than there is with the comic strips in a newspaper. If someone can't tell the comic strips from the news, its silly to blame the cartoonists.
After it became clear there were a significant number of idiots assuming it was. It's not nice behaviour I admit, but no one with working brain cells believes he believes it.
It is incredably hard to rebut vacuous drivel. By definition it has no content and so there is nothing to rebut.
Consider the analogous problem of proving that the following program, which is written in a language no one has a compiler or formal definition for, and for which there is no given specification, is incorrect.
However, if you could show that I would have been happy to put any random line noise into that blockquote, then you can claim to have at least undermined my claim that the above is a program to do something useful.
[True CS nerds will at this point be lineing up to say that the above is indeed a program to do something useful. Indeed, it is any program we might want it to be for a suitable language definition. Very post-modern.]
What is it about the subjunctive that some people find so hard to cope with.