In a vacuum, this idea makes sense. You take away whatever prejudice the soldier may have, whatever tendency to misbehave they might have, and replace them with killing machines whose only concern is to execute the mission at hand.
That being said, do we really want to remove the human heart from the equation? I concede that there are some soldiers who would treat non-combatants or enemy combatants out unfairly out of prejudice (although I question the stats quoted here), but what about errors made in the other direction? An instance where a soldiers training and everything he sees tells him to fire, but his heart tells him not too? An innocent that was spared when a computer might have executed him, because the intangibles are meaningless to it?
As horrible as war is, and as imperfect and biased as people and soldiers are, I want somebody with training, a brain, a heart and the wisdom to use all three in balance manning our weapons. That's the only thing that keeps war from being even more horrible than it is.
This is a ridiculous statement. Would they have really increased the number of activations from 3 to 5, and started work on a deactivation tool if it were only.2% that were upset?
EA is continuing to treat it's customers with a profound lack of respect, and they show no signs of humbling themselves. I don't care to pay them for that abuse. Sorry EA, I'm done. Come back when you actually appreciate my business.
(PS - What do you think the odds are that they only said they were doing a deactivation tool to placate the masses? That they're not doing a thing on it?)
...why we have a problem with their newest DRM model.
(Yes, I'm aware they claim they'll release a patch before they turn off the servers, but if they go bankrupt tomorrow and can't PAY anyone to develop said patch, then what?)
Yeah, ok, it'll be broken in 5 minutes. With y'all there.;)
But this is an interesting idea (if the industry is going to continue to insist upon DRM)... the only problem I have with it is whether a USB key for each movie would be too hard to manage and keep track of.
1) I would LOVE to see where he's getting that "99% of peer-to-peer is piracy" number. Sounds like something he came up with off the top of his head that we're just supposed to accept as common knowledge.
2) Even if that were true (and I doubt it... I'll give him that most peer-to-peer is probably illegal, but 99%...? Really?), is it still fair to punish the 1% of us that use Bittorrent for Linux ISO's, free software, or the odd WoW patch?
3) Even if ISPs did do away with / block bittorrent or other P2P traffic, you really think the geek thinktank that is the Internet wouldn't come up with something else? Hell, you really want to stop piracy, we oughtta do away with this "Interweb" thingy!
Give it up, gang. No matter what you do, somebody's gonna find a way to steal your crap. Deal with it, and move on. Quit punishing the rest of us for it.
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EU iz in ur hard drivez, searchin' 4 warez!
In all seriousness, this is Orwellian in nature. Part of me is terrified that we're heading down this road in the US as well.
In a vacuum, this idea makes sense. You take away whatever prejudice the soldier may have, whatever tendency to misbehave they might have, and replace them with killing machines whose only concern is to execute the mission at hand.
That being said, do we really want to remove the human heart from the equation? I concede that there are some soldiers who would treat non-combatants or enemy combatants out unfairly out of prejudice (although I question the stats quoted here), but what about errors made in the other direction? An instance where a soldiers training and everything he sees tells him to fire, but his heart tells him not too? An innocent that was spared when a computer might have executed him, because the intangibles are meaningless to it?
As horrible as war is, and as imperfect and biased as people and soldiers are, I want somebody with training, a brain, a heart and the wisdom to use all three in balance manning our weapons. That's the only thing that keeps war from being even more horrible than it is.
Oh, good. That's fixed then. NEXT!!!
... losing that 0.2% in revenue.
.2% that were upset?
This is a ridiculous statement. Would they have really increased the number of activations from 3 to 5, and started work on a deactivation tool if it were only
EA is continuing to treat it's customers with a profound lack of respect, and they show no signs of humbling themselves. I don't care to pay them for that abuse. Sorry EA, I'm done. Come back when you actually appreciate my business.
(PS - What do you think the odds are that they only said they were doing a deactivation tool to placate the masses? That they're not doing a thing on it?)
Good point... Never thought I'd be rooting for the pirates.
...why we have a problem with their newest DRM model.
(Yes, I'm aware they claim they'll release a patch before they turn off the servers, but if they go bankrupt tomorrow and can't PAY anyone to develop said patch, then what?)
...be playing video games or something?
Dude, we're already headed that way. All I'm wondering is if this is the INDUSTRY's last ditch attempt at DRM before abandoning it entirely.
Yeah, ok, it'll be broken in 5 minutes. With y'all there. ;)
But this is an interesting idea (if the industry is going to continue to insist upon DRM)... the only problem I have with it is whether a USB key for each movie would be too hard to manage and keep track of.
... that this is a joke. Anybody else REAAAAALLLY creeped out by this...?
1) I would LOVE to see where he's getting that "99% of peer-to-peer is piracy" number. Sounds like something he came up with off the top of his head that we're just supposed to accept as common knowledge.
2) Even if that were true (and I doubt it... I'll give him that most peer-to-peer is probably illegal, but 99%...? Really?), is it still fair to punish the 1% of us that use Bittorrent for Linux ISO's, free software, or the odd WoW patch?
3) Even if ISPs did do away with / block bittorrent or other P2P traffic, you really think the geek thinktank that is the Internet wouldn't come up with something else? Hell, you really want to stop piracy, we oughtta do away with this "Interweb" thingy!
Give it up, gang. No matter what you do, somebody's gonna find a way to steal your crap. Deal with it, and move on. Quit punishing the rest of us for it.