True, but I think that the person I was replying to was referring to being innocent or guilty of violationg university policy, in which case the rules of criminal courts are irrelevant.
And that's why I don't care about degrees when evaluating prospective employees. I don't care how well you memorize things and work without reference materials.
Depends on your goals. If you're looking to play day trader then yes, you have to worry about what the other day traders will think about what Alan Greenspan said this week.
However, if you're looking to grow your money over 10-30 years, then the portion of your cash you put into stocks can be invested without worrying about the weekly or even monthly functuations. You can just play the dollar cost averaging game on solid companies you expect to last that long.
You're not really missing much of importance, but there is one thing to consider: You're thinking in the long run. Many, many people on Wall Street are very short sighted.
Where does the product webpage claim to stop internet distribution of cracked copies? Nowhere that I see.
Clearly these companies think that friends sharing with friends directly, and businesses sharing within the office are the biggest threats. Or, at least the biggest threats they're capable of stopping.
What you seem to be suggesting is that because copy protection can't stop all threats it is therefore worthless. I see copy protection systems as like kevlar vests. They won't stop bullets to the head, but they have saved many lives. Likewise the thinking of the game publishers is that these limited copy protection systems are driving more customers their way, even if they aren't perfect.
Read the StarForce webpage. Their goal isn't to stop determined experts, since that's impossible to do when the code runs on the adversary's computer. Their goals are to stop "industrial software piracy" (read: businesses buying one CD for all the computers in the office) and "casual copying" (read: Joe Teenager giving a copy to his friend Fred Teenager).
If these people are thwarted then their mission is accomplished.
I agree with your first sentence, but tagging a tarball doesn't make a legitimate user's installation, use, or backup of his software any more difficult or inconvenient or annoying.
The only thing made inconvenient is the unlicensed redistribution of that tarball.
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"The more and more they isolate themselves with proprietary technologies the more they cut their own throats."
Isn't that what Leia said just before millions died on Alderaan?
Plus, for filesystems, there *is* a definition: Mandatory Access Controls are a published NIST standard.
When you're being paid by the military and being told what their needs are, you can say military all you want.
True, but I think that the person I was replying to was referring to being innocent or guilty of violationg university policy, in which case the rules of criminal courts are irrelevant.
Transparency wasn't the attribute he asked for. The strength to hold all that water was.
"The student is still innocent until proven guilty."
If he kills his teacher, yes. If he submits someone else's work in his own name, no.
But what's the point in paying a university thousands of dollars for them to give you a list of things to memorize?
And that's why I don't care about degrees when evaluating prospective employees. I don't care how well you memorize things and work without reference materials.
Your local army recruiter might have some tips...
Depends on your goals. If you're looking to play day trader then yes, you have to worry about what the other day traders will think about what Alan Greenspan said this week.
However, if you're looking to grow your money over 10-30 years, then the portion of your cash you put into stocks can be invested without worrying about the weekly or even monthly functuations. You can just play the dollar cost averaging game on solid companies you expect to last that long.
You're not really missing much of importance, but there is one thing to consider: You're thinking in the long run. Many, many people on Wall Street are very short sighted.
Nice demonstration of two forms of fallacy. You knock down a straw man, then you go ad hominem with the "troll" stuff.
I'm not the one who said the original poster was prone to becoming a criminal. He's the one who said it about himself.
Burglary is a law enforcement issue, too, but I still have locks on my doors.
You forgot Hercules.
The sound system choice was simple, too:
1 - None
2 - Speaker
3 - Soundblaster
Where does the product webpage claim to stop internet distribution of cracked copies? Nowhere that I see.
Clearly these companies think that friends sharing with friends directly, and businesses sharing within the office are the biggest threats. Or, at least the biggest threats they're capable of stopping.
What you seem to be suggesting is that because copy protection can't stop all threats it is therefore worthless. I see copy protection systems as like kevlar vests. They won't stop bullets to the head, but they have saved many lives. Likewise the thinking of the game publishers is that these limited copy protection systems are driving more customers their way, even if they aren't perfect.
Usenet doesn't fit in the categories of "industrial piracy" and "casual copying". Clearly this copy protection system isn't designed to attack it.
Yup, the big-budget "gaming" publishers do not reward originality. That's why I'd rather see them go away.
They missed nothing.
Read the StarForce webpage. Their goal isn't to stop determined experts, since that's impossible to do when the code runs on the adversary's computer. Their goals are to stop "industrial software piracy" (read: businesses buying one CD for all the computers in the office) and "casual copying" (read: Joe Teenager giving a copy to his friend Fred Teenager).
If these people are thwarted then their mission is accomplished.
People so easily turned into criminals *should* be watched carefully.
I hope the big publishers all get run off of the computer game industry, and all the people who like "gaming" instead of computer games go with them.
Then those of us who prefer good games to good graphics will have computer games to ourselves again.
Bring back the games on floppies in little plastic bags!
You could have bought the unedited LD version, you know. I did and am glad I did.
Right. Mosaic gave us the WWW. Netscape polluted it with javascript, cookies, and non-standard HTML.
Let Netscape rot.
Anyone who disagrees with you fails to understand? Uh huh.
Sounds more like inadequate Gentoo packaging than anything.
This company can't help that Gentoo's packagers didn't keep up to date.
I agree with your first sentence, but tagging a tarball doesn't make a legitimate user's installation, use, or backup of his software any more difficult or inconvenient or annoying.
The only thing made inconvenient is the unlicensed redistribution of that tarball.