Given that the hard drives would likely have Windows on them, due to the numerous security holes I'd say it'd be at best no different than them not being there at all.
Don't think for a minute that just because you pirated Windows that you don't deserve compensation for the time spent downloading it. Sue for what you make per hour delivering pizzas times however long it took to download Windows. We're talking FORTUNE, baby!
"The only problem, of course, is that they don't know it. All the images are recorded in an obsolete digital format, JPEG, and nobody knows how to unscramble the data."
I'm doing my part to make sure that the porn images of the Internet don't meet this similar fate. I have recorded my voice describing each of the images in my collection, and encoded it into the open-source OGG format. Much of the recording has consisted of little more than "Mmmmmmmmmmm, yeah baby", but I think that speaks volumes.
It'd be just as easy to avoid the Lindows crap by putting together a similar workstation and use Knoppix. Heck, you can use compact flash storage to keep your Knoppix config files in a persistant home directory, so that would seem like the better alternative.
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The model over at IDOT can be configured to have a 20 gig hard drive for only $67, so it wouldn't be that much more to put a hard drive in there.
"We expect a price somewhere between a Porsche and a Ferrari."
Great. Another toy that won't do shit for the market. I'm far more interested in the Tango at $20k, and think that it will do far more for the electric scene.
Sure it's neat-o, but why blow half of their R&D budget on bandwidth? Just look at the pictures in the article, move your head really fast towards the monitor, and go "ZZZZZZZZZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM".
I took a look at Torrentse.cx the other day when someone linked to it in a/. comment. The whole thing was pretty much full of illegally-traded software, movies, music, the whole 9 yards.
Bittorrent is a great application for those situations when large downloads like the Red Hat ISOs are hard to get through the normal servers. Piracy is piracy, and it should be shut down. End of story.
Good point. Instead, put those files on a CO-WORKER'S PC, and monitor your bosses email traffic looking for the termination directives for that co-worker. No biggie, as he was behind in his tithing payments anyway.
...why would Joe User consider buying an Ogg portable player? I just pulled up my Netjuke and it says that I have 189 mp3-encoded albums in there, encoded that way because I have a portable mp3 player. I sure don't want to go through the bother of re-encoding my music. Why would any user want to go through the bother of a) re-encoding all of their CDs in Ogg format when they won't notice the difference with their crappy Walkman headphones, or b) re-pirating all of those songs that they like in Ogg format (as if they would find them)?
I just don't see a compelling reason for the portable music crowd to want to do this, and I don't think that there are enough./ fanatics to make it financially viable for a company to produce.
"A new bill proposed in Congress on Wednesday would land a person in prison for five years and impose a fine of $250,000 for uploading a single file to a peer-to-peer network.
Oh thanks goodness! I never have less than 5 uploads going at a time, and I think that my download max is about a dozen, which I hit all the time.
No shit. As they're ordered now it would be CBN, and then we'd have to weather a storm of jokes about Christian Broadcasting Network instead of the current storm of jokes about National Broadcast Corporation.
"But the race to the bottom can happen at all levels of employment..."
Oh really? So when did corporations start outsourcing their outrageously-paid executives to India?
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If we did steal the book, would Crown Publishing Group start printing up versions of the book with the lone phrase "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" printed repeatedly in it?
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Ah yes, WoW. Where the men are men, and so are half of the women.
Three Gorges? Damn.
I don't think that you could you have possibly chosen a more obscure analogy for the /. crowd.
I guess that maybe the "OMG P0N13S" stories from April Fools Day weren't so tongue-in-cheek.
Given that the hard drives would likely have Windows on them, due to the numerous security holes I'd say it'd be at best no different than them not being there at all.
Yes, especially when they join forces and become what is called a "law firm".
Thanks for that *reaching for paper towel to clean monitor screen of Pepsi and corn chip particulates*.
Don't think for a minute that just because you pirated Windows that you don't deserve compensation for the time spent downloading it. Sue for what you make per hour delivering pizzas times however long it took to download Windows. We're talking FORTUNE, baby!
What did the judge say after the guy said that he installed Linux? I tried reading your entire post, but...oh look! A shiny!
"The only problem, of course, is that they don't know it. All the images are recorded in an obsolete digital format, JPEG, and nobody knows how to unscramble the data."
I'm doing my part to make sure that the porn images of the Internet don't meet this similar fate. I have recorded my voice describing each of the images in my collection, and encoded it into the open-source OGG format. Much of the recording has consisted of little more than "Mmmmmmmmmmm, yeah baby", but I think that speaks volumes.
That not enough people cared.
It'd be just as easy to avoid the Lindows crap by putting together a similar workstation and use Knoppix. Heck, you can use compact flash storage to keep your Knoppix config files in a persistant home directory, so that would seem like the better alternative.
The model over at IDOT can be configured to have a 20 gig hard drive for only $67, so it wouldn't be that much more to put a hard drive in there.
"We expect a price somewhere between a Porsche and a Ferrari."
Great. Another toy that won't do shit for the market. I'm far more interested in the Tango at $20k, and think that it will do far more for the electric scene.
Sure it's neat-o, but why blow half of their R&D budget on bandwidth? Just look at the pictures in the article, move your head really fast towards the monitor, and go "ZZZZZZZZZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM".
I took a look at Torrentse.cx the other day when someone linked to it in a /. comment. The whole thing was pretty much full of illegally-traded software, movies, music, the whole 9 yards.
Bittorrent is a great application for those situations when large downloads like the Red Hat ISOs are hard to get through the normal servers. Piracy is piracy, and it should be shut down. End of story.
Good point. Instead, put those files on a CO-WORKER'S PC, and monitor your bosses email traffic looking for the termination directives for that co-worker. No biggie, as he was behind in his tithing payments anyway.
...why would Joe User consider buying an Ogg portable player? I just pulled up my Netjuke and it says that I have 189 mp3-encoded albums in there, encoded that way because I have a portable mp3 player. I sure don't want to go through the bother of re-encoding my music. Why would any user want to go through the bother of a) re-encoding all of their CDs in Ogg format when they won't notice the difference with their crappy Walkman headphones, or b) re-pirating all of those songs that they like in Ogg format (as if they would find them)?
./ fanatics to make it financially viable for a company to produce.
I just don't see a compelling reason for the portable music crowd to want to do this, and I don't think that there are enough
"A new bill proposed in Congress on Wednesday would land a person in prison for five years and impose a fine of $250,000 for uploading a single file to a peer-to-peer network.
Oh thanks goodness! I never have less than 5 uploads going at a time, and I think that my download max is about a dozen, which I hit all the time.
No shit. As they're ordered now it would be CBN, and then we'd have to weather a storm of jokes about Christian Broadcasting Network instead of the current storm of jokes about National Broadcast Corporation.
Aye, the terrorists have already won.
According to their 2000 census, about 126,549,976 others.
"Anyways, it sucks that this "space plane" still needs a big buttload of fuel tank and booster rockets to get off."
Based on how this rocket looks, I'd say that they could have just avoided the whole fuel issue if they had designed the ISS to look more vaginal.
"But the race to the bottom can happen at all levels of employment..."
Oh really? So when did corporations start outsourcing their outrageously-paid executives to India?
If we did steal the book, would Crown Publishing Group start printing up versions of the book with the lone phrase "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" printed repeatedly in it?