I mean, seriously. Prions are fastinating and terrifying at the same time. If one security protocol fails this thing could make it out into the wild and...um...I forget what I was going to say.
They've always been closed, proprietary, predatory and litigious.
They were not closed in the days of the Apple ][. The manuals used to have the contents of the ROM listed in them. You can't get much more open than that.
real is trying to steal something they don't have any rights to. this is not hacking!
WHAT? How is it stealing to create a competing product? Was GM "stealing" when they created the Camaro? Ford's Mustang was THE affordable sports car until GM stole the idea and took a competing product to market.
This is a righteous hack by Real. Apple didn't want to let Real play in their sandbox, Real took some measurements and built their own.
Why shouldn't people be able to play music files that they have purchased, on a piece of hardware that they've purchased? The files are Real, the hardware is Apple. Why isn't that "cool"?
Because the Apple Zealots don't like anything that Apple doesn't like. This isn't about piracy, harmony allows you to copy files that you have bought from Real on a piece of hardware that you have bought from Apple.
If iTMS gets big enough, Apple WILL drop support for MP3 and unencoded AAC files from the iPod because that would force people to get all of their portable music from iTMS.
What many people don't get is that Apple is just a business. No more, no less. The fact that they don't understand that the "ethics of a hacker" and the "ethics of a business" are not incompatible says it all.
BTW, don't believe me about the Apple Zealots, just watch what they do to this post with moderation.
You seem to be missing the point my friend. This is all about money. It's a shakedown. Hollywood isn't passing around enough campaign funds. Congress will threaten regulation, a flood of campaign funds will flow in and the call for regulation will be forgotten.
This is just like every other argument, it isn't to protect the "average" person. It's to protect the morons who are too stupid to learn how to change the channel. And especially those people who are too stupid to use "The V Chip" that congress mandated be included in all new TV sets. Remember when they told us that they were mandating that so "parents" would be empowered to control the television viewing habits of their children? All of a sudden, that's not enough. MORE HAS TO BE DONE! I call bullshit. It's a smokescreen and a sham. This is about legal extortion, nothing more and nothing less.
It's strategy, going with a murder 2 charge puts the prosecutor in a better position to finesse a plea bargain, and if it goes to trial the prosecutor knows that it's not murder, but a jury may choose manslaughter as a compromise verdict.
Anyone can "get out of" jury duty. It's just that some of us view it as a responsibility. I am a citizen, I am a voter, I am a member of the jury pool. I served on a jury once. I would do it again. It's a responsibility that goes along with citizenship and voting.
unless they can read the "no DVD players in cars" law themselves, they won't convict.
BS. People will convict on this, all the prosecutor needs to do is remind them that it could have been THEM on that road. It could have been their mother, father, sister, brother, husband, wife or child that was killed because someone was too busy watching a movie to pay attention to the road.
If the prosecutor fails to get a manslaughter conviction in this case, that prosecutor needs to get fired.
Don't you fear that the FBI will use the Patriot act to raid the conference ?
I'd bet that a good 10% of the attendees in previous years were either FBI agents or informants. Since not too much unsavory activity goes on at these kinds of cons, I doubt that they're all that busy.
Oh, and back when yahoo had a 4 meg limit, my throway's account would gather up spam and it would stop me at 5 megs, or 125% of the limit. No idea what happens now that it's 100 megs.
Ha! I fart in your general direction. I'm so old school, my yahoo account had the 6MB limit.
Plutonium is far more toxic than radioactive (as far as hazards go). What I mean by that is that it takes fall less PU to kill you by poisioning than required to cook you with radiation.
That is an accurate, but misleading statement. Sure less Plutonium is needed to kill with its toxicity than is needed to prove fatal with radiation. However, ricin and botulism toxin are far more toxic than is Plutonium. Two naturally occuring toxins are far more efficient killers than Plutonium.
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I mean, seriously. Prions are fastinating and terrifying at the same time. If one security protocol fails this thing could make it out into the wild and...um...I forget what I was going to say.
LK
Would you like it if someone made a joke about breast cancer?
Rape is simply NOT FUNNY.
LK
For most users, these devices will be powerful enough to toss their PCs for good.
Except for that 1.5" screen, right?
LK
As in the enemy of my enemy is my friend?
No. As in The Woz used to be one of the top dogs.
They've always been closed, proprietary, predatory and litigious.
They were not closed in the days of the Apple ][. The manuals used to have the contents of the ROM listed in them. You can't get much more open than that.
LK
It would be the only fitting tribute.
LK
But how do you back it up?
LK
"A witty saying proves nothing." --Voltaire
"Voltaire can suck on my balls."
-The Finchmeister
"I'm gonna hang out with my wang out. I'm gonna rock out with my cock out."
-Steve Stiffler
LK
real is trying to steal something they don't have any rights to. this is not hacking!
WHAT? How is it stealing to create a competing product? Was GM "stealing" when they created the Camaro? Ford's Mustang was THE affordable sports car until GM stole the idea and took a competing product to market.
This is a righteous hack by Real. Apple didn't want to let Real play in their sandbox, Real took some measurements and built their own.
LK
I thought they were the good guys?
Exactly. They WERE the good guys.
LK
Many US states have similar legal skeletons lurking in the closet.
In my state, PA, until the early 1990s it wasn't possible to charge a man with rape if he was living with or married to the victim.
LK
Why shouldn't people be able to play music files that they have purchased, on a piece of hardware that they've purchased? The files are Real, the hardware is Apple. Why isn't that "cool"?
Because the Apple Zealots don't like anything that Apple doesn't like. This isn't about piracy, harmony allows you to copy files that you have bought from Real on a piece of hardware that you have bought from Apple.
If iTMS gets big enough, Apple WILL drop support for MP3 and unencoded AAC files from the iPod because that would force people to get all of their portable music from iTMS.
What many people don't get is that Apple is just a business. No more, no less. The fact that they don't understand that the "ethics of a hacker" and the "ethics of a business" are not incompatible says it all.
BTW, don't believe me about the Apple Zealots, just watch what they do to this post with moderation.
LK
You seem to be missing the point my friend. This is all about money. It's a shakedown. Hollywood isn't passing around enough campaign funds. Congress will threaten regulation, a flood of campaign funds will flow in and the call for regulation will be forgotten.
This is just like every other argument, it isn't to protect the "average" person. It's to protect the morons who are too stupid to learn how to change the channel. And especially those people who are too stupid to use "The V Chip" that congress mandated be included in all new TV sets. Remember when they told us that they were mandating that so "parents" would be empowered to control the television viewing habits of their children? All of a sudden, that's not enough. MORE HAS TO BE DONE! I call bullshit. It's a smokescreen and a sham. This is about legal extortion, nothing more and nothing less.
LK
Redheads are overrated.
As long as they're not bald, they're all the same.
LK
It was a script kiddie act but I amused myself with access to some of the websites I found, lol.
Well, a script kiddie probably wouldn't do this unless there was a tool for it. If you came up with the idea on your own, it was a righteous hack.
LK
It's strategy, going with a murder 2 charge puts the prosecutor in a better position to finesse a plea bargain, and if it goes to trial the prosecutor knows that it's not murder, but a jury may choose manslaughter as a compromise verdict.
LK
Anyone can "get out of" jury duty. It's just that some of us view it as a responsibility. I am a citizen, I am a voter, I am a member of the jury pool. I served on a jury once. I would do it again. It's a responsibility that goes along with citizenship and voting.
If you want to get out of jury duty, wear this shirt from www.tshirthell.com.
LK
unless they can read the "no DVD players in cars" law themselves, they won't convict.
BS. People will convict on this, all the prosecutor needs to do is remind them that it could have been THEM on that road. It could have been their mother, father, sister, brother, husband, wife or child that was killed because someone was too busy watching a movie to pay attention to the road.
If the prosecutor fails to get a manslaughter conviction in this case, that prosecutor needs to get fired.
LK
Don't you fear that the FBI will use the Patriot act to raid the conference ?
I'd bet that a good 10% of the attendees in previous years were either FBI agents or informants. Since not too much unsavory activity goes on at these kinds of cons, I doubt that they're all that busy.
LK
Oh, and back when yahoo had a 4 meg limit, my throway's account would gather up spam and it would stop me at 5 megs, or 125% of the limit. No idea what happens now that it's 100 megs.
Ha! I fart in your general direction. I'm so old school, my yahoo account had the 6MB limit.
LK
The only thing not covered here are reel to reels and turntables, and that's probably only because those don't have remotes.
I remember seeing turntables that did use remote controls. It was fairly simple "Start" and "Stop" no track control, but they still used remotes.
LK
In Japan? What did he get shot with? A spitball?
LK
Not to mention the extra time the driver of the emoticar is spending trying to get the right emotion to display...
Next, they'll need voice recognition.
"Pissed!"
"That chick's hot, WINK! WINK!"
"Fuck, that cop is going to pull me over. CRY!"
LK
Wow, that was really underwealming. I think I would rather you were just a pervert who wanted that 16 year old weightlifter chick.
But, at least now I know.
Thanks
LK
Plutonium is far more toxic than radioactive (as far as hazards go). What I mean by that is that it takes fall less PU to kill you by poisioning than required to cook you with radiation.
That is an accurate, but misleading statement. Sure less Plutonium is needed to kill with its toxicity than is needed to prove fatal with radiation. However, ricin and botulism toxin are far more toxic than is Plutonium. Two naturally occuring toxins are far more efficient killers than Plutonium.
LK
Maybe it's intentional. Someone looking to get rich off of the Google IPO?
LK