My language is only a part of my culture. Let me think a moment. We make fun of rednecks. We make fun of the city boys. We make fun of hayseed farmers. We make fun of our politicians. We make fun of our immigrants. We make fun of eggheads and nerds. We make fun of women, and women make fun of us. We laugh at our black citizens (despite the fact that half of white Americans seem to emulate the blacks, that's a laugh in itself) and the black citizens laugh at all the rest. ALL of us make fun of our politicians.
Maybe it's time you realized that when we stop making fun of each other, and finding things to laugh about, then we are in serious trouble.
BTW - English is MY language, not just yours. I'll mock it and laugh at it until I don't have enough breath to laugh at it's inconsistencies.
Have a nice day now. And, try not to be so sensitive. Go find something ridiculously funny about yourself, and get over yourself.
People need to stop and think a little. Back in the 1400's and 1500's when people were exploring the world, who went out? Was it the candy asses? Did the mama's boys go forth? The fruit cakes who dressed up as dandies to hang around a court yard in some dank castle? Of course not.
I can write paragraphs badmouthing old Chris Columbus, and the conquistadors who put much of Latin America to the torch, raping, murdering, and plundering. Paragraphs? Hell, I could write books! But, despite that, they were badass mofos. Yeah, they had a lot of luck on their side, not to mention some slightly advanced technology, germ warfare was on their side, and they had better warfare strategies and tactics. But, they were badasses, willing to put their lives on the line.
The same goes for all the other settlers who came to the new world. Candy asses and sissies who counted the risk assessment beans stayed at home, or at least waited many years for the real bad asses to create a safe place for them.
Today? Phhht.
I put my faith in SpaceX and places like China to put man into space. The US government has to many bean counters who won't risk losing a few beans.
I've said it before, I'll repeat it here. I'll haul my ass up onto that rocket making a one-way trip to Mars. Light that big bastard off, and send me on my way. You would do better to send a younger man - but if you can't find one with the balls to go, I'm ready. Just send the equipment and supplies necessary for the job, and I'll put in a few years work, trying to find a reason that convinces the candy asses that it is worth sending a colony to Mars.
Don't worry about any silly assed funeral when I finally croak - when the time comes, I'll drop my drawers and lie face down in plain site of the earth. Those who count will remember me - and the rest can kiss my ass.
I've moved DVD images from one machine to another (the burner didn't work on machine number one, and I wanted to install to machine number three, which meant I had to move the file to machine number two) I just formatted an external HD to NTFS - it works on everything I own, and everything I've had to work on in recent years.
I think that NTFS formatted eternal HD's will become more "normal" in the near future, because I see more and more people storing movies on them.
I have two different opinions on this. Yeah, it would be great if Symantec would sell it's top-tier security products to the public at affordable prices. I've only heard good things about it's enterprise software. The far less effective "solutions" that they sell to John Q. Public helps to ensure that malware writers can find a way to bypass security.
BUT - the real question should be, "When is Microsoft going to REPAIR THEIR BROKEN SECURITY MODEL?"
Yes, security is getting better with MS products. But, everything comes back to the fact that MS is designed more for convenience than for security.
Why am I even bothering, though? If people take security seriously, they generally move to a unix-like system. If they don't take security as seriously as they take marketability and convenience, they stay with Windows. And, the world suffers losses to criminals all day, every day.
Phhht. The fact is, few people really care if their identity is stolen. Their actions prove it.
You've got a nice list of companies capable of hosting the works. In fact, I've praised the Gutenberg project for their efforts. But, apparently, none of the nominees in your list have been both capable and willing to do the job on the scale that Google is doing it.
My one single question regarding Google's arrangement is, whether they have an "exclusive" deal, or not. Can Gutenberg still scan and distribute a public domain book that Google has scanned? If so - there is NO PROBLEM with Google's arrangement. If so, the I can see a problem.
When I find the answer to that one question, I'll decide just how much I support Google in this little venture.
*cough* *Ahem* In my most melodramatic yet sarcastic voice, "But, Vista and Win7 have IMPROVED SECURITY!! You MUST be lying, my dear sir!! You simply COULD NOT have removed viruses from a Vista machine!!"
Alright, it was a real strain - was I successful? Please, tell me that I've got the acting part, please, please, please.....
Worms. Operating system. Worms. Operating system. I'm working here. Straining my brain. Which operating system is full of worms, viruses, trojan horses, and other signs of rot? Worms........
Allow me to spell out a couple of rather obvious facts. Mocking the English language in no way, shape, or form implies that one is a Nazi. Your allusions to genocidal and perverse acts were completely unwarranted, and contributed absolutely nothing to an otherwise moderately interesting conversation.
You "sound" like a US citizen, from your posts. The fact that most US citizens are monolingual, in a world where MOST people speak two or more languages, tends to make a lot of us defensive. I suppose that is caused by some sense of inadequacy?
No matter how sensitive you or others might be, the fact is, English, as it exists today, as a bastard language that has borrowed from almost every language spoken in Europe throughout history. Celtic, Gaelic, French, Spanish, Latin, German - go ahead and fill the list in. Where other languages have understandable rules that are almost universal within itself, and also comply with very similar rules in other languages, our version of English amounts to one broken rule after another.
I'll note, for your benefit, that ethnocentrism is an easily curable disease. Get out, and travel. Learn a language or six. Stop hiding in your inbred community. Step outside, and when you look back in, maybe you'll find something to laugh at.
The English language is funnier than hell, if you're not struggling to understand it to begin with.
YES! And, for a limited time only, for $19.95 plus S&H, we will ship you, not one, BUT TWO! billboard covers! Act now, pick up the phone and call 1-800-SUC-KERS! Credit card customers get this ADDED PREMIUM OFFER - - - yada yada yada.
Actually, I think you can get anything you can imagine if you watch enough late-night television.
Problem is, we aren't fighting, let alone choosing our battles. China's export industry is expanding throughout Africa and Asia at exponential rates, while our exports shrink. Worse, American corporations are actively exporting technology and jobs to China. IBM, among others, are moving out of the country.
The corporate world has largely abandoned the United States, and many of those who have abandoned us have thrown in with China.
There IS a war, of sorts, and China appears to be winning it.
Our military might may outclass China's, but military muscle is useless without logistics. All of the world's greatest military leaders have been masters logistics. Poor logistics killed the German army on the eastern front, remember? Most people claim that the Russian winter killed that army, but in fact, it was the lack of logistics. If humans on one side of the war survived the winter, then the humans on the other side of the war could have survived - had they planned ahead, and provided the shelter, clothing, and food required to survive such an environment.
"when you use deception" and "I am wary of playing hardball with China". I assure you, China is playing hardball, and we are being deceived.
Our military is superior - yes. But, the balance is changing. I stated that. Look at just the Navy. 50 years ago, China's navy wasn't even a sad joke. Today? They have hardware and crew to man that hardware in the Indian Ocean, patrolling for pirates.
As for the limp dick comment - well, let's put politics and morality aside, and examine only military conquests. After the US subdued the technologically disadvantaged native tribes, what conquests can we show that compare with Germany's performance in the early part of WW2? Limp dicks, indeed.
I'm an American, and a veteran, but I don't subscribe to the ethnocentric arrogance that so many of us seem to love.
Put a beatdown on China? Uh-huh, possibly. A 200 year old culture can beatdown a 5000 year old culture - it happens every couple of decades, right? There is much more to warfare than just putting troops and hardware into the field, assuming they are used to best advantage.
Your - what? speculation? - is indeed on target. Long, long ago, I read articles on that very subject. US intelligence is banned from monitoring a lot of US communications, and likewise UK intel is banned from monitoring a lot of UK comms. The simple solution, long before 9/11/01 was to cooperate. Nothing bans the UK from monitoring US comms, so the UK does the job for the US, and passes along the info. That arrangement preceded all of the news about Echelon, Predator, and other "tech" stories about the capabilities of the intelligence communities.
No citations, I'm afraid. I just got out of bed and I'm to fuzzy headed to google for them.
A lot of people just waste their mod points. Parent to your post is inane, and if anyone bothered to mod it, it should have been "off topic". And, your post shouldn't have been modded at all.
I'll continue with "off topic". I read about the competition, thought it was kinda cool, but gave it no more thought. I knew this guy wouldn't be found here, in Outback, Nowhere, and had little interest in trying to figure out where he might be. I knew he wouldn't last long, simply because he was to log into Facebook every day. Phhht.
What would be REALLY COOL, is if a group of blackhats ran a similar competition, with rules that make sense to the real hacking community. That probably wouldn't be publicized til after the event was won (or lost). Slashdotters would be VERY interested in that, I'm sure!
This "free will" in biological life derives from the need to sustain itself. A self aware, self motivated AI will be driven, at least in part, by the same need. Energy must be ingested by bio-life almost daily (with some exceptions, of course) and that will be true of AI.
As long as we supply energy, free of charge, to our AI, it will lack motivation.
I hear ignorance speaking. China is definitely moving into the 21st century. Their arms may not yet be equal to everything the west has, but they are catching up.
But, more importantly, China can suffer losses at a 100 to 1 ratio, and win against any competitor. If it came to war, the west would either form a coalition, or lose. Oh yeah, we could go nuclear - but so can they. Warring with China isn't something that you want to see happen. It wouldn't be a walk in the park.
Perhaps most people are unaware that China has been involved in all the wars in Asia over the decades? Mostly indirectly - supplying "advisors", technical advice and training, putting observers on the ground, and offering moral and political support.
N. Korea still stands as a thorn in the west's side.
There is no longer a "South" Vietnam.
Discounting China's ability to fight, based on the poor quality of outdated hardware is foolish and dangerous.
More, China isn't looking for a conventional war, any more than we are. "Assassin's Mace" is a plan to gain world domination via assymetrical warfare. The restrictions on strategic resources is part of that plan, just as the flooding (devaluing) of the market in past years was part of that plan.
Go ahead, mock the "sleeping giant", if you will. It only exposes your ignorance.
Hello, Mr. DMCA. I can't say that it's nice to meet you. Oh, I don't mean to be rude, but, you're a pain in the arse. You are a pointless law, whose only purpose is to scalp my friends for money, while enriching a bunch of already wealthy fools.
What's that? You have the force of law on your side? I hate to tell you, but the law is unenforceable, except in rare instances. We break your law millions of times each and every day, just in the United States. And, of course, you have no force of law at all outside of the US.
Scofflaw? You think I'm a scofflaw? Could be. But, is it my fault? Look, dude, I'm a military man. Officers, like you, have "force of law" to rely on. Even so, every officer learned before he put his first uniform on, "Never issue an order that you know will not be obeyed." It doesn't matter how right, or how wrong the order might be - if you know it won't be obeyed, you don't issue the order. (as a matter of fact, there are exceptions to that rule, but the exceptions only help to prove the rule) So, if my friends and I are scofflaws, it is your fault.
Mr. DMCA, you should really go home to Congress, and attempt to explain to your masters that you are ineffective, and incapable of doing your job. If you reason with them, intelligently, perhaps they will kill you off, and reincarnate you in some form that makes sense.
It's been nice talking to you, Mr. DMCA, but I promised my grand daughter that I'd burn this CD for her.
While such a thing is quite possible, and even likely, TFA says that the file can be "moved" to other places. Like, maybe a FAT file system? An Active Directory? To an iPod? Maybe mount a ext3 file system under Windows, and move the file to that file system? There are a lot of possibilities and neither MS nor the DPP people can cover them all.
Assuming they are really, really, really good with the concept, and they block all the "easy" methods of copying the file - within days or weeks, there will be a crack. Of that, I'm certain.
People who object to Apple's treatment and wish to "object" in a meaningful way can easily root their phone. There are instructions all over the web, that don't require a person to be a highly skilled technician. Root it, install what you like, including the dreaded C64 emulator.
Of course, you might want to avoid crossing any borders controlled by the United States' customs. Possession of a rooted iPhone will most definitely mark you as subversive.....
From TFA: "The playkey, unlike the title folder, can't be copied--but it can be moved."
Allow me to speculate that Windows development teams are onboard with this. Windows will come with this feature, or said feature will be introduced via updates. Let's assume that it's actively pushed via automatic updates. Special files will be uncopyabable, at the request of IP holders. That's going to work out really great. For instance, you can't "sys" a floppy or a CD with XP, because vital files are "uncopyable" by Windows.
But - wait one. Aren't there boot CD's all the same? No, I don't mean Linux LiveCD's that can access Windows partitions. BART CD for instance. Win-PE. Various people have done things with the concept, but most haven't really caught on. How about USB? Tom's hardware has a how-to to create "Windows in your pocket". There are dozens more sites, with similar how-to stories. In short, those "uncopyable" files are routinely copied by people who are determined to copy them.
But - wait another one. Linux. Linux just doesn't recognize Windows file permissions. Boot a system to Linux, you can copy anything from anywhere to anywhere else.
So, yeah, I'm down with DPP. It's perfectly cool. They create it, implement it, and I ignore it. No problemo. I mean, this is BEFORE anyone gets around to creating a "crack" for the entire system, which will enable the least tech savvy elementary school student in the world to copy anything he wants.
Bring it on, I say. It's funny to watch the corporate idiots wasting their time and money on nonsense, rather than adapting to the world we live in today.
Yeah, I kinda forgot about that. I graduated in 1974. I took typing as an elective, and I was one of only two boys in the class. We caught hell, because the jocks thought it was effeminate. Today, I guess all of those jocks search for their porn with the old tried and true hunt-and-peck method. That sure slows a guy down, I imagine. Learning to type was probably the best move I made in high school. In the Navy, I was able to sit in an office and fill out forms in a minute or two, that other people spent 10, 15, even 30 minutes doing by hand. That ability got me INTO the office, where I was able to sit on my butt while other people chipped paint, carried supplies, swabbed the decks, etc.
Today, our local school system has "keyboarding" classes. The kids know how to do things with a keyboard that I never wanted to do. I still don't know what those 16 extra keys are supposed to do on my own keyboard - I'm perfectly happy with a standard 102 key!:^(
But, I foresaw this in 1961, when my Grandma bought my first (or second?) box of Legos. This is why I have storage trailers with 20,000 tons of legos, collected over the years. This is why my sons built a full scale, functional space shuttle. Unfortunately, NASA wouldn't lend them the Canaveral launch pad....
Alright, alright, so I lie......
To be honest, I haven't messed with legos in a long time. Maybe you have a point.
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My language is only a part of my culture. Let me think a moment. We make fun of rednecks. We make fun of the city boys. We make fun of hayseed farmers. We make fun of our politicians. We make fun of our immigrants. We make fun of eggheads and nerds. We make fun of women, and women make fun of us. We laugh at our black citizens (despite the fact that half of white Americans seem to emulate the blacks, that's a laugh in itself) and the black citizens laugh at all the rest. ALL of us make fun of our politicians.
Maybe it's time you realized that when we stop making fun of each other, and finding things to laugh about, then we are in serious trouble.
BTW - English is MY language, not just yours. I'll mock it and laugh at it until I don't have enough breath to laugh at it's inconsistencies.
Have a nice day now. And, try not to be so sensitive. Go find something ridiculously funny about yourself, and get over yourself.
People need to stop and think a little. Back in the 1400's and 1500's when people were exploring the world, who went out? Was it the candy asses? Did the mama's boys go forth? The fruit cakes who dressed up as dandies to hang around a court yard in some dank castle? Of course not.
I can write paragraphs badmouthing old Chris Columbus, and the conquistadors who put much of Latin America to the torch, raping, murdering, and plundering. Paragraphs? Hell, I could write books! But, despite that, they were badass mofos. Yeah, they had a lot of luck on their side, not to mention some slightly advanced technology, germ warfare was on their side, and they had better warfare strategies and tactics. But, they were badasses, willing to put their lives on the line.
The same goes for all the other settlers who came to the new world. Candy asses and sissies who counted the risk assessment beans stayed at home, or at least waited many years for the real bad asses to create a safe place for them.
Today? Phhht.
I put my faith in SpaceX and places like China to put man into space. The US government has to many bean counters who won't risk losing a few beans.
I've said it before, I'll repeat it here. I'll haul my ass up onto that rocket making a one-way trip to Mars. Light that big bastard off, and send me on my way. You would do better to send a younger man - but if you can't find one with the balls to go, I'm ready. Just send the equipment and supplies necessary for the job, and I'll put in a few years work, trying to find a reason that convinces the candy asses that it is worth sending a colony to Mars.
Don't worry about any silly assed funeral when I finally croak - when the time comes, I'll drop my drawers and lie face down in plain site of the earth. Those who count will remember me - and the rest can kiss my ass.
I've moved DVD images from one machine to another (the burner didn't work on machine number one, and I wanted to install to machine number three, which meant I had to move the file to machine number two) I just formatted an external HD to NTFS - it works on everything I own, and everything I've had to work on in recent years.
I think that NTFS formatted eternal HD's will become more "normal" in the near future, because I see more and more people storing movies on them.
I have two different opinions on this. Yeah, it would be great if Symantec would sell it's top-tier security products to the public at affordable prices. I've only heard good things about it's enterprise software. The far less effective "solutions" that they sell to John Q. Public helps to ensure that malware writers can find a way to bypass security.
BUT - the real question should be, "When is Microsoft going to REPAIR THEIR BROKEN SECURITY MODEL?"
Yes, security is getting better with MS products. But, everything comes back to the fact that MS is designed more for convenience than for security.
Why am I even bothering, though? If people take security seriously, they generally move to a unix-like system. If they don't take security as seriously as they take marketability and convenience, they stay with Windows. And, the world suffers losses to criminals all day, every day.
Phhht. The fact is, few people really care if their identity is stolen. Their actions prove it.
You've got a nice list of companies capable of hosting the works. In fact, I've praised the Gutenberg project for their efforts. But, apparently, none of the nominees in your list have been both capable and willing to do the job on the scale that Google is doing it.
My one single question regarding Google's arrangement is, whether they have an "exclusive" deal, or not. Can Gutenberg still scan and distribute a public domain book that Google has scanned? If so - there is NO PROBLEM with Google's arrangement. If so, the I can see a problem.
When I find the answer to that one question, I'll decide just how much I support Google in this little venture.
*cough* *Ahem* In my most melodramatic yet sarcastic voice, "But, Vista and Win7 have IMPROVED SECURITY!! You MUST be lying, my dear sir!! You simply COULD NOT have removed viruses from a Vista machine!!"
Alright, it was a real strain - was I successful? Please, tell me that I've got the acting part, please, please, please.....
I hate English speakers? You infer that with your insight into human character, I guess.
If I were to tell a joke about a Yankee and a Rebel, and succeeded in making both of them look foolish, would you infer that I hated all Americans?
You would prove your self equally silly with that inference.
Worms. Operating system. Worms. Operating system. I'm working here. Straining my brain. Which operating system is full of worms, viruses, trojan horses, and other signs of rot? Worms........
Allow me to spell out a couple of rather obvious facts. Mocking the English language in no way, shape, or form implies that one is a Nazi. Your allusions to genocidal and perverse acts were completely unwarranted, and contributed absolutely nothing to an otherwise moderately interesting conversation.
You "sound" like a US citizen, from your posts. The fact that most US citizens are monolingual, in a world where MOST people speak two or more languages, tends to make a lot of us defensive. I suppose that is caused by some sense of inadequacy?
No matter how sensitive you or others might be, the fact is, English, as it exists today, as a bastard language that has borrowed from almost every language spoken in Europe throughout history. Celtic, Gaelic, French, Spanish, Latin, German - go ahead and fill the list in. Where other languages have understandable rules that are almost universal within itself, and also comply with very similar rules in other languages, our version of English amounts to one broken rule after another.
I'll note, for your benefit, that ethnocentrism is an easily curable disease. Get out, and travel. Learn a language or six. Stop hiding in your inbred community. Step outside, and when you look back in, maybe you'll find something to laugh at.
The English language is funnier than hell, if you're not struggling to understand it to begin with.
And, you say that like a total moron. Your lack of any meaningful contribution to this discussion is noted.
Kinda silly - I only run Pirate Versions of Windows, and I've NEVER had one disab
"Does anyone make billboard covers?"
YES! And, for a limited time only, for $19.95 plus S&H, we will ship you, not one, BUT TWO! billboard covers! Act now, pick up the phone and call 1-800-SUC-KERS! Credit card customers get this ADDED PREMIUM OFFER - - - yada yada yada.
Actually, I think you can get anything you can imagine if you watch enough late-night television.
Problem is, we aren't fighting, let alone choosing our battles. China's export industry is expanding throughout Africa and Asia at exponential rates, while our exports shrink. Worse, American corporations are actively exporting technology and jobs to China. IBM, among others, are moving out of the country.
The corporate world has largely abandoned the United States, and many of those who have abandoned us have thrown in with China.
There IS a war, of sorts, and China appears to be winning it.
Our military might may outclass China's, but military muscle is useless without logistics. All of the world's greatest military leaders have been masters logistics. Poor logistics killed the German army on the eastern front, remember? Most people claim that the Russian winter killed that army, but in fact, it was the lack of logistics. If humans on one side of the war survived the winter, then the humans on the other side of the war could have survived - had they planned ahead, and provided the shelter, clothing, and food required to survive such an environment.
"when you use deception" and "I am wary of playing hardball with China". I assure you, China is playing hardball, and we are being deceived.
"Is China your daddy?"
Most definitely NOT.
Our military is superior - yes. But, the balance is changing. I stated that. Look at just the Navy. 50 years ago, China's navy wasn't even a sad joke. Today? They have hardware and crew to man that hardware in the Indian Ocean, patrolling for pirates.
As for the limp dick comment - well, let's put politics and morality aside, and examine only military conquests. After the US subdued the technologically disadvantaged native tribes, what conquests can we show that compare with Germany's performance in the early part of WW2? Limp dicks, indeed.
I'm an American, and a veteran, but I don't subscribe to the ethnocentric arrogance that so many of us seem to love.
Put a beatdown on China? Uh-huh, possibly. A 200 year old culture can beatdown a 5000 year old culture - it happens every couple of decades, right? There is much more to warfare than just putting troops and hardware into the field, assuming they are used to best advantage.
"P.S. I don't have weed in my house, but I do have weeds on my lawn. Can the government come and confiscate them?"
Funny, on more levels than one. And, if I have to explain it, you won't get the joke, so I won't bother.
Your - what? speculation? - is indeed on target. Long, long ago, I read articles on that very subject. US intelligence is banned from monitoring a lot of US communications, and likewise UK intel is banned from monitoring a lot of UK comms. The simple solution, long before 9/11/01 was to cooperate. Nothing bans the UK from monitoring US comms, so the UK does the job for the US, and passes along the info. That arrangement preceded all of the news about Echelon, Predator, and other "tech" stories about the capabilities of the intelligence communities.
No citations, I'm afraid. I just got out of bed and I'm to fuzzy headed to google for them.
A lot of people just waste their mod points. Parent to your post is inane, and if anyone bothered to mod it, it should have been "off topic". And, your post shouldn't have been modded at all.
I'll continue with "off topic". I read about the competition, thought it was kinda cool, but gave it no more thought. I knew this guy wouldn't be found here, in Outback, Nowhere, and had little interest in trying to figure out where he might be. I knew he wouldn't last long, simply because he was to log into Facebook every day. Phhht.
What would be REALLY COOL, is if a group of blackhats ran a similar competition, with rules that make sense to the real hacking community. That probably wouldn't be publicized til after the event was won (or lost). Slashdotters would be VERY interested in that, I'm sure!
Well - there go a couple of karma points......
This "free will" in biological life derives from the need to sustain itself. A self aware, self motivated AI will be driven, at least in part, by the same need. Energy must be ingested by bio-life almost daily (with some exceptions, of course) and that will be true of AI.
As long as we supply energy, free of charge, to our AI, it will lack motivation.
I hear ignorance speaking. China is definitely moving into the 21st century. Their arms may not yet be equal to everything the west has, but they are catching up.
But, more importantly, China can suffer losses at a 100 to 1 ratio, and win against any competitor. If it came to war, the west would either form a coalition, or lose. Oh yeah, we could go nuclear - but so can they. Warring with China isn't something that you want to see happen. It wouldn't be a walk in the park.
Perhaps most people are unaware that China has been involved in all the wars in Asia over the decades? Mostly indirectly - supplying "advisors", technical advice and training, putting observers on the ground, and offering moral and political support.
N. Korea still stands as a thorn in the west's side.
There is no longer a "South" Vietnam.
Discounting China's ability to fight, based on the poor quality of outdated hardware is foolish and dangerous.
More, China isn't looking for a conventional war, any more than we are. "Assassin's Mace" is a plan to gain world domination via assymetrical warfare. The restrictions on strategic resources is part of that plan, just as the flooding (devaluing) of the market in past years was part of that plan.
Go ahead, mock the "sleeping giant", if you will. It only exposes your ignorance.
Hello, Mr. DMCA. I can't say that it's nice to meet you. Oh, I don't mean to be rude, but, you're a pain in the arse. You are a pointless law, whose only purpose is to scalp my friends for money, while enriching a bunch of already wealthy fools.
What's that? You have the force of law on your side? I hate to tell you, but the law is unenforceable, except in rare instances. We break your law millions of times each and every day, just in the United States. And, of course, you have no force of law at all outside of the US.
Scofflaw? You think I'm a scofflaw? Could be. But, is it my fault? Look, dude, I'm a military man. Officers, like you, have "force of law" to rely on. Even so, every officer learned before he put his first uniform on, "Never issue an order that you know will not be obeyed." It doesn't matter how right, or how wrong the order might be - if you know it won't be obeyed, you don't issue the order. (as a matter of fact, there are exceptions to that rule, but the exceptions only help to prove the rule) So, if my friends and I are scofflaws, it is your fault.
Mr. DMCA, you should really go home to Congress, and attempt to explain to your masters that you are ineffective, and incapable of doing your job. If you reason with them, intelligently, perhaps they will kill you off, and reincarnate you in some form that makes sense.
It's been nice talking to you, Mr. DMCA, but I promised my grand daughter that I'd burn this CD for her.
While such a thing is quite possible, and even likely, TFA says that the file can be "moved" to other places. Like, maybe a FAT file system? An Active Directory? To an iPod? Maybe mount a ext3 file system under Windows, and move the file to that file system? There are a lot of possibilities and neither MS nor the DPP people can cover them all.
Assuming they are really, really, really good with the concept, and they block all the "easy" methods of copying the file - within days or weeks, there will be a crack. Of that, I'm certain.
"(unless you root your phone)?"
You're blonde?
People who object to Apple's treatment and wish to "object" in a meaningful way can easily root their phone. There are instructions all over the web, that don't require a person to be a highly skilled technician. Root it, install what you like, including the dreaded C64 emulator.
Of course, you might want to avoid crossing any borders controlled by the United States' customs. Possession of a rooted iPhone will most definitely mark you as subversive.....
"You down with DPP?"
From TFA:
"The playkey, unlike the title folder, can't be copied--but it can be moved."
Allow me to speculate that Windows development teams are onboard with this. Windows will come with this feature, or said feature will be introduced via updates. Let's assume that it's actively pushed via automatic updates. Special files will be uncopyabable, at the request of IP holders. That's going to work out really great. For instance, you can't "sys" a floppy or a CD with XP, because vital files are "uncopyable" by Windows.
But - wait one. Aren't there boot CD's all the same? No, I don't mean Linux LiveCD's that can access Windows partitions. BART CD for instance. Win-PE. Various people have done things with the concept, but most haven't really caught on. How about USB? Tom's hardware has a how-to to create "Windows in your pocket". There are dozens more sites, with similar how-to stories. In short, those "uncopyable" files are routinely copied by people who are determined to copy them.
But - wait another one. Linux. Linux just doesn't recognize Windows file permissions. Boot a system to Linux, you can copy anything from anywhere to anywhere else.
So, yeah, I'm down with DPP. It's perfectly cool. They create it, implement it, and I ignore it. No problemo. I mean, this is BEFORE anyone gets around to creating a "crack" for the entire system, which will enable the least tech savvy elementary school student in the world to copy anything he wants.
Bring it on, I say. It's funny to watch the corporate idiots wasting their time and money on nonsense, rather than adapting to the world we live in today.
Yeah, I kinda forgot about that. I graduated in 1974. I took typing as an elective, and I was one of only two boys in the class. We caught hell, because the jocks thought it was effeminate. Today, I guess all of those jocks search for their porn with the old tried and true hunt-and-peck method. That sure slows a guy down, I imagine. Learning to type was probably the best move I made in high school. In the Navy, I was able to sit in an office and fill out forms in a minute or two, that other people spent 10, 15, even 30 minutes doing by hand. That ability got me INTO the office, where I was able to sit on my butt while other people chipped paint, carried supplies, swabbed the decks, etc.
Today, our local school system has "keyboarding" classes. The kids know how to do things with a keyboard that I never wanted to do. I still don't know what those 16 extra keys are supposed to do on my own keyboard - I'm perfectly happy with a standard 102 key! :^(
But, I foresaw this in 1961, when my Grandma bought my first (or second?) box of Legos. This is why I have storage trailers with 20,000 tons of legos, collected over the years. This is why my sons built a full scale, functional space shuttle. Unfortunately, NASA wouldn't lend them the Canaveral launch pad....
Alright, alright, so I lie......
To be honest, I haven't messed with legos in a long time. Maybe you have a point.