The government are the ones who will take your money and give it to the plaintiff, fine you, and/or jail you and give you a felony conviction (with all that entails) for breaking DRM.
DRM has the full power of the government behind it - a programmer who write DRM code essentially writes laws/regulations that will be given the full faith and credit of the Federal government.
Repeal the DMCA and perhaps then your point will be on target.
Add the costs of investigation to the defendant's fines/restitution and it doesn't matter how much it costs - it is essentially free for the government/prosecution.
The Libertarian position is that if the government stopped acting like a crutch for society, then society would develop its own superior mechanisms for public benefit.
What it would come up with would likely be something like a quasi-government, with both a lot of government's benefits and problems.
Just as in anarchy, a government will eventually spontaneously form. Unfortunately it would almost certainly be far worse than that of most countries in the world today - might makes right makes for an unjust society.
Games should not be doing the kind of things that need Administrator privilege to do!
They have no business doing that, people without Admininstrator should be able to play, anything running as Administrator (or in that group) can do great damage (e.g. virus infections, file deletion, even destroy the BIOS), and doing things that require Administrator wrongly can also trash the system (accidently corrupting a DLL, locking up hardware, etc).
There is a RunAs on Windows, and it is useful for doing sys admin stuff only when needed. It would be nice if it could be configured that a browser run by Administrator (lets say to need to Google for a solution to a problem you are working on) would drop privs (but even Linux doesn't do that).
But my main point is games and other user programs should need Administrator.
There is probably a resistor one could bypass to fix this.
I have an Archos (USA) MP3 player, and it only goes to "100 db" but that is with its own crappy headphones.
I have better ones, but they have less volume (likely different impedance), so the "100 db" isn't enough to mask out the noise of the TVs in the exercise club when I workout.
Researchers also reported that eating too much sugar makes you fat, smoking can make you cough, and using Microsoft products can lead to security concerns.
Researchers have also reported eating too many carbs makes you fat, smoking can prevent ulcerative colitis, and using Linux can result in security concerns.
Next we'll be hearing headphones are riskier than earbuds, since you get more ambient noise and thus raise the volume to compensate.
If your enemies have access to your ISP or other intermediate hosts on the Internet, you have worse problems than just the possibility of them listening in. Like having really powerful enemies.
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you don't think that every single one of the tracks will end up on kazaa/limewire/alt.binaries.mp3 within about twenty seconds of being online?
As opposed to the DRM conten, which will be out there in 20 days.
The government are the ones who will take your money and give it to the plaintiff, fine you, and/or jail you and give you a felony conviction (with all that entails) for breaking DRM.
DRM has the full power of the government behind it - a programmer who write DRM code essentially writes laws/regulations that will be given the full faith and credit of the Federal government.
Repeal the DMCA and perhaps then your point will be on target.
Add the costs of investigation to the defendant's fines/restitution and it doesn't matter how much it costs - it is essentially free for the government/prosecution.
Look into scalar waves and quaternion formulations of Maxwell's laws.
Scalar electromagnetics -> gravity and temporal manipulation.
Macromedia has been bought out by Adobe.
(Allaire invented Cold Fusion and it was bought out by Macromedia).
Next step, Microsoft buying Adobe. (just kidding - I hope)
The Philadelphia Experiment used magnetism to achieve anomalous effects.
If the dollar is so worthless that gold is your only option - you'll have worse things to worry about than how to pay for stuff.
You'll have to worry about the bullets flying through your walls from the shooting from the urban warfare that will result when society collapses.
If you're that worried, get lots of non-perishable food and bulletproof your walls.
"sin" taxes
The Libertarian position is that if the government stopped acting like a crutch for society, then society would develop its own superior mechanisms for public benefit.
What it would come up with would likely be something like a quasi-government, with both a lot of government's benefits and problems.
Just as in anarchy, a government will eventually spontaneously form. Unfortunately it would almost certainly be far worse than that of most countries in the world today - might makes right makes for an unjust society.
After the first gallon of wine, even Nght Train will taste good. :)
Games should not be doing the kind of things that need Administrator privilege to do!
They have no business doing that, people without Admininstrator should be able to play, anything running as Administrator (or in that group) can do great damage (e.g. virus infections, file deletion, even destroy the BIOS), and doing things that require Administrator wrongly can also trash the system (accidently corrupting a DLL, locking up hardware, etc).
There is a RunAs on Windows, and it is useful for doing sys admin stuff only when needed. It would be nice if it could be configured that a browser run by Administrator (lets say to need to Google for a solution to a problem you are working on) would drop privs (but even Linux doesn't do that).
But my main point is games and other user programs should need Administrator.
That's rather fascist.
There is probably a resistor one could bypass to fix this.
I have an Archos (USA) MP3 player, and it only goes to "100 db" but that is with its own crappy headphones.
I have better ones, but they have less volume (likely different impedance), so the "100 db" isn't enough to mask out the noise of the TVs in the exercise club when I workout.
I was on a 3 engine Boeing (727 or 757 I think) seated as close to the rear engine as one could be put on a passenger flight.
That whole night I could hear in my mind the spinning up, spinning down, and thrust reversal sounds of the engine.
That 10 second ring is very likely to be the sound of a dying hair cell in your ear.
That's what they sound like when they die.
Most people can hear the horizonal scan frequency of 15750 Hz for quite a while in their lives. It is an annoying squeal if you can hear it.
Researchers also reported that eating too much sugar makes you fat, smoking can make you cough, and using Microsoft products can lead to security concerns.
Researchers have also reported eating too many carbs makes you fat, smoking can prevent ulcerative colitis, and using Linux can result in security concerns.
Next we'll be hearing headphones are riskier than earbuds, since you get more ambient noise and thus raise the volume to compensate.
Research often contradicts itself.
You probably have a really high power bill.
When can I have a yottawatt power supply?
If they sell it in Canada or Mexico you could buy one and drive it into the US.
If gas goes to $10/gallon, mass transit will be practical everywhere, because the only alternative would be staying put.
A business that creates tons of ill-will will lose customers and find it hard to get new ones and lose money as a result.
Pissing people off is not good business.
Unless you control 90+% of the world's desktops and 50+% of its servers and can get away with it.
add 1 more country to the list of illegal immigrants. heh, and they think they can keep suitcase nukes out.
Illegal immigrants aren't radioactive and don't give off gamma rays and neutrons.
People who bitch about the minimum wage betray their utter ignorance of basic high-school level economics.
That describes a whole political party in the US.
The French won that one?
Like the beer hall putsch?
If your enemies have access to your ISP or other intermediate hosts on the Internet, you have worse problems than just the possibility of them listening in. Like having really powerful enemies.