Why are the feds not realizing: This is MY hardware. I gave THEM money to produce it for ME. I could plug it in and play games with it. I could also throw it down to a valey, put it in my kitchen sink and pour water on it. I could take a big SUV and drive over it the whole night long, and if I'm courious I take the sledge hammer and set everything on fire when I'm finished. I can do all that because it is MY hardware.
And now they are going to tell me, that I must not alter the firmware (which I also bought) which is an integral part of the hardware?
Thankfully I'm in Europe (we have different issues here), but this DMCA is just !'%(#!=/&!!!
Stop beating the hackers (and I definitely mean hackers not crackers!). All that technology filly-willy-blinky stuff we need and use today would not exist without the work from great and honourable hackers from the past!
cheers
nomike
How could a device which is made for war safe lifes?
Only a device made for ending or preventing wars would be able to save lifes, but I don't think that such a device is ever invented. And it doesn't produce money, doesn't it?;-)
nomike
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Why are the feds not realizing: This is MY hardware. I gave THEM money to produce it for ME. I could plug it in and play games with it. I could also throw it down to a valey, put it in my kitchen sink and pour water on it. I could take a big SUV and drive over it the whole night long, and if I'm courious I take the sledge hammer and set everything on fire when I'm finished. I can do all that because it is MY hardware. And now they are going to tell me, that I must not alter the firmware (which I also bought) which is an integral part of the hardware? Thankfully I'm in Europe (we have different issues here), but this DMCA is just !'%(#!=/&!!! Stop beating the hackers (and I definitely mean hackers not crackers!). All that technology filly-willy-blinky stuff we need and use today would not exist without the work from great and honourable hackers from the past! cheers nomike
You could still buy "OS/2" but it is now manufactured by a different vendor (IBM sold the rights) and is called "eComStation".
How could a device which is made for war safe lifes? Only a device made for ending or preventing wars would be able to save lifes, but I don't think that such a device is ever invented. And it doesn't produce money, doesn't it? ;-)
nomike