Several DRM schemes have only involked a reaction in the tech community such as slashdot while the general public carried on not caring.
This shambles has made it painfully obvious to the masses of the dangers of DRM.
The 45 page thread is evidence of it and is quickly filling up with hatred. Comments such as "I'll never buy from you again" which usually tend to be hyperbole this time ring true.
Hopefully the end result of this is that the public won't have a short attention span and make true on their threats of not buying from them again.
Like many here I find web ads annoying but I have previously considered whether I should disable adblock for "the sake of the web".
I came to the following conclusion. My girlfriend doesn't run adblock on her laptop and since she spends all my money anyway, their targeted advertising should probably target her.
Not only that, these brute force attempts tend to be dictionary attacks. So unless your 8 character alphanumeric password somehow lands on a real word, your going to be pretty safe.
This gives me an idea, how about faking authentication and displaying an ascii version of goatse as the motd.
I would love to think I'm some chinese arsehole an erm... arsehole.
When not backed up by peer reviewed research they remain highly suspect.
For example from here:
Out of hundreds of "probiotic" strains of bacteria under consideration, not one was shown to improve gut health or immunity. Taurine, the amino acid added to energy and sports drinks, was not found to boost energy. Nor was there evidence to support the claim that glucosamine is beneficial for joints, although it is widely marketed as such.
The benefits of vitamins and minerals on the other hand do have evidence backing them up, but members of the alt-med community goes so far as claiming that they cure AIDs.
Except that this already has happended in the UK and he was carrying a lot less than planted explosives. A coat was enough for Jean Charles de Menezes to be shot seven times in the head.
And yet the reports into the shooting of an innocent men found no members of the police guilty and security measures in the UK have continued to become more invasive.
You are exactly right. Before 9/11 and before Iraq and Afghanistan I remember reading a post titled "Why do people hate Americans?" Hundreds chimed in, with as much passion as today's critics, but with different complaints. The biggest complaint, by far, was that Americans call themselves Americans (how arrogant) instead of USians. Next on the list was how we didn't finish the first Gulf War and let our allies be murdered by Saddam. People will hate Americans and America as long as we shall live.
Your post in itself is an example of why people hate Americans. You create a straw man saying that the prime reason that people hate Americans is that they don't call themselves USians. Wtf? Do you really think Palestinians give a shit what you call yourself when your country supplies the weapons that kill members of their family?
Do you think the Northern Irish who endured decades of violence while Americans supplied money and arms to the IRA hate them because of anything to do with the first gulf war?
Wilful ignorance like you are showing is a real reason people hate Americans.
Reminds me of this.
"Since a road closure, dozens of drivers have blithely followed directions from their satellite navigation systems, not realising that the recommended route goes through the ford.
Normally the water — the start of the River Avon — is about 2ft deep but it can swiftly double in depth after heavy rain.
Every day since the main B4040 was closed after a wall collapsed on April 8 one or two motorists have been towed out, having either failed to notice or ignored warning signs. Some farmers have been charging £25 to give a tow with tractors."
And in case anyone outside the US is wondering, the big dipper is Ursa Major otherwise known as the plough.
I'm also not from the states and am at a loss as to why it's called the bigger dipper. Could anyone inform me?
Or even weirder, say having MPs on the board of private companies whose modus operandi directly conflicts with protecting the public... oh wait that does happen. Patricia Hewitt et al.
It's a lot more simple and just as effective to do something like,
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda
Even just zeroing the drive is beyond pretty much all data recovery efforts.
Except that is not how error measurements work, they are statistical and not exact.
Its more reasonable to say that if the speed limit is 60 and the error is +-5mph, then if you are >2x the error over the speed limit then you are probably speeding (>95% chance).
Sucks for those 5%, but I'm pretty sure their margin of error should be smaller than +-5
And yet no one gives it the credit it deserves.
See b3ta for the newsletter it starred in.
All hail b3ta (and this b3tan), forever spreading virals without acknowledgement.
This reminds me of the book by Jeff Noon.
In it Alice (of Alice in wonderland fame) travels to an alternate reality in which she has shrunk to the same size as some termites.
The termites are running around frantically while she follows. It turns out she was caught in a mathematical calculation where the termites movements could be used to solve complex problems.
Quite fun really, I recommend Vurt if you want an introduction to Jeff Noon.
Actually you've got something there except instead of protecting against bombs use it as shown in the video, by protecting homes against being destroyed by wrecking balls.
The thousands of homes destroyed on the west bank in violation of UN law could have done with some of this wall paper. Though I don't know if even this stuff can stand up to the bulldozers Israel use against civilians.
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Several DRM schemes have only involked a reaction in the tech community such as slashdot while the general public carried on not caring.
This shambles has made it painfully obvious to the masses of the dangers of DRM.
The 45 page thread is evidence of it and is quickly filling up with hatred. Comments such as "I'll never buy from you again" which usually tend to be hyperbole this time ring true.
Hopefully the end result of this is that the public won't have a short attention span and make true on their threats of not buying from them again.
I don't see any reason to touch type, I hunt and peck fast enough.
Like many here I find web ads annoying but I have previously considered whether I should disable adblock for "the sake of the web".
I came to the following conclusion. My girlfriend doesn't run adblock on her laptop and since she spends all my money anyway, their targeted advertising should probably target her.
Not only that, these brute force attempts tend to be dictionary attacks. So unless your 8 character alphanumeric password somehow lands on a real word, your going to be pretty safe.
This gives me an idea, how about faking authentication and displaying an ascii version of goatse as the motd.
I would love to think I'm some chinese arsehole an erm... arsehole.
Considering my girlfriends work still uses IE 5, suggesting IE 6 is dead is wishful thinking.
For example from here:
Out of hundreds of "probiotic" strains of bacteria under consideration, not one was shown to improve gut health or immunity. Taurine, the amino acid added to energy and sports drinks, was not found to boost energy. Nor was there evidence to support the claim that glucosamine is beneficial for joints, although it is widely marketed as such.
The benefits of vitamins and minerals on the other hand do have evidence backing them up, but members of the alt-med community goes so far as claiming that they cure AIDs.
Ben Goldacre for stopping this lunacy. His weekly Bad Science column and website have been invaluable in combating woo.
Their imagination is their only limit If MP3s were the cassette, MusicDNA will be the CD."
Lets hope this crashes and burns.
Except that this already has happended in the UK and he was carrying a lot less than planted explosives. A coat was enough for Jean Charles de Menezes to be shot seven times in the head.
And yet the reports into the shooting of an innocent men found no members of the police guilty and security measures in the UK have continued to become more invasive.
Be careful what you wish for.
You are exactly right. Before 9/11 and before Iraq and Afghanistan I remember reading a post titled "Why do people hate Americans?" Hundreds chimed in, with as much passion as today's critics, but with different complaints. The biggest complaint, by far, was that Americans call themselves Americans (how arrogant) instead of USians. Next on the list was how we didn't finish the first Gulf War and let our allies be murdered by Saddam. People will hate Americans and America as long as we shall live.
Your post in itself is an example of why people hate Americans.
You create a straw man saying that the prime reason that people hate Americans is that they don't call themselves USians. Wtf? Do you really think Palestinians give a shit what you call yourself when your country supplies the weapons that kill members of their family?
Do you think the Northern Irish who endured decades of violence while Americans supplied money and arms to the IRA hate them because of anything to do with the first gulf war?
Wilful ignorance like you are showing is a real reason people hate Americans.
Very bad;
"As you probably noticed, your copy of DECAF no longer works. We have disabled every copy of DECAF."
They left the ability in to remotely control how the software behaves. Anyone who installed this let this be a lesson for you.
Reminds me of this.
"Since a road closure, dozens of drivers have blithely followed directions from their satellite navigation systems, not realising that the recommended route goes through the ford.
Normally the water — the start of the River Avon — is about 2ft deep but it can swiftly double in depth after heavy rain.
Every day since the main B4040 was closed after a wall collapsed on April 8 one or two motorists have been towed out, having either failed to notice or ignored warning signs. Some farmers have been charging £25 to give a tow with tractors."
You fight like a dairy farmer!
And in case anyone outside the US is wondering, the big dipper is Ursa Major otherwise known as the plough.
I'm also not from the states and am at a loss as to why it's called the bigger dipper. Could anyone inform me?
I also have a girlfriend who bitches when I place wires all round the house. Doesn't stop me doing it though.
The LHC becomes the first particle accelerator to collide protons at energies twice the speed of the tevatron!
As much as I despise how Israel behaves as a nation, do not mistake the actions of it's government for that of it's scientists.
Or even weirder, say having MPs on the board of private companies whose modus operandi directly conflicts with protecting the public... oh wait that does happen. Patricia Hewitt et al.
Someone has been watching too much csi....
It's a shame this isn't true in the uk, we can be jailed here for not talking to the police.
It's a lot more simple and just as effective to do something like,
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda
Even just zeroing the drive is beyond pretty much all data recovery efforts.
Except that is not how error measurements work, they are statistical and not exact.
Its more reasonable to say that if the speed limit is 60 and the error is +-5mph, then if you are >2x the error over the speed limit then you are probably speeding (>95% chance).
Sucks for those 5%, but I'm pretty sure their margin of error should be smaller than +-5
And yet no one gives it the credit it deserves. See b3ta for the newsletter it starred in. All hail b3ta (and this b3tan), forever spreading virals without acknowledgement.
This reminds me of the book by Jeff Noon. In it Alice (of Alice in wonderland fame) travels to an alternate reality in which she has shrunk to the same size as some termites.
The termites are running around frantically while she follows. It turns out she was caught in a mathematical calculation where the termites movements could be used to solve complex problems.
Quite fun really, I recommend Vurt if you want an introduction to Jeff Noon.
Actually you've got something there except instead of protecting against bombs use it as shown in the video, by protecting homes against being destroyed by wrecking balls.
The thousands of homes destroyed on the west bank in violation of UN law could have done with some of this wall paper. Though I don't know if even this stuff can stand up to the bulldozers Israel use against civilians.