I have a cat allergy that just gives me severe sinus headaches for that day and the day after and spent 5 hours on a flight next to a woman whose blanket clearly was Catted. This I call inconvenient.
Peanut is the most common lethal allergy, and quite often being in the same room is sufficient to cause them to go into anaphylactic shock. I have a cousin who can't eat any nuts and can't be around peanut consumption. Just sitting in a bowl won't hurt him if he doesn't touch.
I've never heard of cases where other nuts set off a peanut person just from being same room.
In case you're wondering, the same room thing is more to do with people eating them and breathing/talking than just sitting there)
There are roughly that many people at Google who have access to unsanitized data. And all that access is heavily, heavily logged. Translation: It would take Google wanting to spy on you, not just a highly placed disgruntled employee.
Well, depends on the corporate. Media companies love neutrality because then they don't have to pay ISPs to get full speed. ISPs hate it becuase they don't want to be dumb content providers, and want more money.
Consumer interest is pretty obviously on the neutrality side*, but there are corporate interests on both sides. Think Google.
* The real solution is actual competition on the part of ISPs but that'll be a cold day in Hell before it happens in the US.
I could be way off but I believe net neutrality did go through recently. That said, it wasn't in place at the time, and since it isn't legalizing criminal invasions of privacy this means it isn't retroactive.
I would want to be awake honestly; the anesthesia disturbs me more than the thought of being sliced open and possibly killed. It really is a personal preference.
Also keep in mind that, while not for open heart surgery, for many operations the anesthesia is the riskiest part of the procedure; the brain isn't built to be turned on and off at will.
I'm usually a year behind, so I consider all options. Until blueray takes over and I'm forced to pirate just to watch movies, services like Netflix are great.
I also like the Amazon service; I don't really care if it's DRMed to hell if it's just a rental that I'm going to watch once.
That would be if they had diplomatic immunity, which they don't. Basically it means we can't tax them, can't seize their records, and they don't have to pay social security. They're still subject to criminal law. Article summary is very misleading and alarmist.
Hardware is often easier to make resistant to reverse engineering. For example, one way to get the secret keys from software is just to look at it in a hex editor or dis-assembly. This isn't easy, don't get me wrong, but it's a lot easier than using a SEM and a tiny drill to open a smartcard without setting off the self destruct. And if you screw up, you don't need to buy a new one to try again.
It also lets you close the screencap hole: with a cracked OS you can just capture everything that appears. Now if the OS just renders a black rectangle and passes off instructions to the video card to fill it with delicious, delicious content, then this is more difficult. Note that this has advantages as well, in that the graphical processing is offloaded to the graphics card with minimal CPU load.
StarForce can break some drives/hardware/, parent had SecuROM break/software/ (drivers). I've never heard of this before, but I believe it inserts itself as a CD driver to prevent some things, so a small bug could easily ruin a driver stack and require a reinstall.
One of the many dangers of trusting legal, properly licensed software. Kind of sad that you can trust scene hackers more than legit content providers; I've found trojans in both but the former is by far cleaner.
Navigate expensive confusing forest of legal media that just might play in your player without locking up every few seconds if it isn't installing a trojan, or downgraded video quality or download faster, cheaper, safer, illegal copy online......you decide!
But seriously, when will they realize they're competing with free, and that means added value, not subtracted?
The problem is that I don't see a way to stop piracy without trampling all over many other rights as well (as Bono advocates). If I could stamp out child porn with no negative effects I would, but we have to ask ourselves if the price is worth it.
I think the real solution is to provide people features along with the DRM, such as Steam. In exchange for having your game tied to internet activation (bad) you get to play it on any computer and redownload if you lose it or reformat (good). Of course this is far more applicable to video games than music or movies.
Similar to how home taping killed the television industry after VCRs came out. Good to see such a prominent musician rallying us all to the banner of anti-piracy by any means necessary.
Sounds like it's time to Liberate canada. We have far too many soldiers with nothing to do,with the crushing US victories in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea, and it only makes sense to liberate those poor Canadians from unjust laws that protect their interests. USA! USA!
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Call me when it kills you, until thean deal with it like I do my cat allergy that makes me sick for a day or two when people take them on flights.
I have a cat allergy that just gives me severe sinus headaches for that day and the day after and spent 5 hours on a flight next to a woman whose blanket clearly was Catted. This I call inconvenient.
Peanut is the most common lethal allergy, and quite often being in the same room is sufficient to cause them to go into anaphylactic shock. I have a cousin who can't eat any nuts and can't be around peanut consumption. Just sitting in a bowl won't hurt him if he doesn't touch.
I've never heard of cases where other nuts set off a peanut person just from being same room.
In case you're wondering, the same room thing is more to do with people eating them and breathing/talking than just sitting there)
Sure, if the lack of leg room causes you to swell up and die.
Pet allergies are far more rarely fatal than nut allergies.
>> Really, not a joke, modest proposal
Fixed that for you.
There are roughly that many people at Google who have access to unsanitized data. And all that access is heavily, heavily logged. Translation: It would take Google wanting to spy on you, not just a highly placed disgruntled employee.
Well, depends on the corporate. Media companies love neutrality because then they don't have to pay ISPs to get full speed. ISPs hate it becuase they don't want to be dumb content providers, and want more money.
Consumer interest is pretty obviously on the neutrality side*, but there are corporate interests on both sides. Think Google.
* The real solution is actual competition on the part of ISPs but that'll be a cold day in Hell before it happens in the US.
I could be way off but I believe net neutrality did go through recently. That said, it wasn't in place at the time, and since it isn't legalizing criminal invasions of privacy this means it isn't retroactive.
Well I'm assuming powerful painkillers here, and a screen so I don't have to see it. But honestly yes.
Again, would I like to be cut open? No. But given it must happen, I'd rather be around for it.
I would want to be awake honestly; the anesthesia disturbs me more than the thought of being sliced open and possibly killed. It really is a personal preference.
Also keep in mind that, while not for open heart surgery, for many operations the anesthesia is the riskiest part of the procedure; the brain isn't built to be turned on and off at will.
Well when you get down to it, all copyright is artificial scarcity. When supply is infinite...
I'm usually a year behind, so I consider all options. Until blueray takes over and I'm forced to pirate just to watch movies, services like Netflix are great.
I also like the Amazon service; I don't really care if it's DRMed to hell if it's just a rental that I'm going to watch once.
Apologize for incompetence? They're running unit tests on production servers? This is airline security, not facebook!
Yeah I read TFA after commenting. It costs more than my room. So screw that;)
but if it came time to give up luxuries, it would be one of the first to go.
It involves a predictable post with the same predictable replies all the time...sort of like Fox news, or slashdot;)
Alternatively, instead of challenge-response it's greeting-response.
That would be if they had diplomatic immunity, which they don't. Basically it means we can't tax them, can't seize their records, and they don't have to pay social security. They're still subject to criminal law. Article summary is very misleading and alarmist.
And the security theatre keeps economy of scale up, thus ticket prices down, benefiting even those who see through the sham.
Hardware is often easier to make resistant to reverse engineering. For example, one way to get the secret keys from software is just to look at it in a hex editor or dis-assembly. This isn't easy, don't get me wrong, but it's a lot easier than using a SEM and a tiny drill to open a smartcard without setting off the self destruct. And if you screw up, you don't need to buy a new one to try again.
It also lets you close the screencap hole: with a cracked OS you can just capture everything that appears. Now if the OS just renders a black rectangle and passes off instructions to the video card to fill it with delicious, delicious content, then this is more difficult. Note that this has advantages as well, in that the graphical processing is offloaded to the graphics card with minimal CPU load.
StarForce can break some drives /hardware/, parent had SecuROM break /software/ (drivers). I've never heard of this before, but I believe it inserts itself as a CD driver to prevent some things, so a small bug could easily ruin a driver stack and require a reinstall.
One of the many dangers of trusting legal, properly licensed software. Kind of sad that you can trust scene hackers more than legit content providers; I've found trojans in both but the former is by far cleaner.
Navigate expensive confusing forest of legal media that just might play in your player without locking up every few seconds if it isn't installing a trojan, or downgraded video quality or download faster, cheaper, safer, illegal copy online... ...you decide!
But seriously, when will they realize they're competing with free, and that means added value, not subtracted?
The problem is that I don't see a way to stop piracy without trampling all over many other rights as well (as Bono advocates). If I could stamp out child porn with no negative effects I would, but we have to ask ourselves if the price is worth it.
I think the real solution is to provide people features along with the DRM, such as Steam. In exchange for having your game tied to internet activation (bad) you get to play it on any computer and redownload if you lose it or reformat (good). Of course this is far more applicable to video games than music or movies.
Similar to how home taping killed the television industry after VCRs came out. Good to see such a prominent musician rallying us all to the banner of anti-piracy by any means necessary.
I should clarify I'm mostly interested in nonfiction and textbooks. But I'd heard of a few of those actually.
Sounds like it's time to Liberate canada. We have far too many soldiers with nothing to do,with the crushing US victories in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea, and it only makes sense to liberate those poor Canadians from unjust laws that protect their interests. USA! USA!