Ink cartridges from the original manufacturer don't have any protection against printing plagiarized copies of works, either. Therefore, the DMCA wouldn't apply because no one reversed-engineered anything with the purpose of getting around an engineered blockade to content duplication.
Depending on the abilities of the device, this MAY be a little different, but since the iTunes software itself doesn't let you sync from iPod->iTunes, I think everyone is OK on that front.
This isn't a hack. This would be like changing your Firefox UA string to read as IE. Wow, that was a clever little hack there!
...except that it's against USB spec to do this, according to peripheral compliance (PDF link, as others have mentioned). Use your own Vendor ID, or don't develop for USB.
While it might not technically be illegal so far as anything Apple can do about it, it may be a breach of contract with the USB Consortium. It's certainly out-of-spec. While web users are used to all the garbage out there (content AND protocol), the hardware guys are a little more gung-ho about making sure it works as designed, and with good reason!
I've heard these kinds of excuses time and time again, and on every occasion I've asked the IT admin staff responsible to give me some solid examples of where the problems lie (i.e. actual apps/code that moving to IE7/8, Firefox, Chrome or whatever would break and couldn't be fixed within minutes). Never seen a single example yet. They don't even know because they don't have a clue.
At my old company (name withheld), the problem was Java; they "claimed" (and I cannot back this up; I've never worked with Java before) that since their Java applets which ran, say the HR website, where created with an older version of the JDK, they needed specific Java Runtime libraries to be installed (1.4, perhaps? I can't remember) or else they wouldn't work. I proved this true once by clicking on the "Update your Java Runtime!" balloon that came up every morning, and lo and behold they hadn't blocked it (another, shoddy application we used required Admin access to our local machines. NICE and secure) and the application broke. The catch: They said the older libraries don't work with newer versions of IE.
Many forms also did a submit via JavaScript, which I understand was a bit different in IE6 than what is normal; another employee installed Firefox and nothing worked at all. (Needless to say, they also flew off the handle about "possibly insecure software" being installed. Meanwhile, we run IE6)
You do realize that the reason it cannot be uninstalled is because Firefox (securely) does not do privilege escalation and the extension was installed by Windows Update for all users; in which case the extension is located by reading en entry from the registry instead of your own individual Mozilla profile.
I agree with the statement there should be some type of warning when new plug-ins are installed. OH WAIT, there are warnings. Doesn't the add-on window pop up and say "1 new extension installed"? That's right.
The REAL fault here is with Microsoft not telling users it was MODIFYING THE SOFTWARE OF ANOTHER VENDOR, but apparently we're STILL going to blame the other vendor (Mozilla), even though we know the real story.
I sure liked technology more back when only smart people pretended to understand it.
I guess this goes back to the initial arguments against microtransations on pc/console games: "If you can be arsed to make the model and skin it, why are you withholding it from my "Full Game" which I purchased?"
Because it took time and effort which you haven't paid for yet.
"If you can be arsed to design the RAM and manufacture it, why are you withholding it from my 'Motherboard' which I purchased?"
I.E. Why buy a coat for a character that you will play on a plane flight and never again? Especially if the only way that people will see it is if you show them the character on your iphone. ("Oh, that's nice, you paid extra for him to be lime green!").
One of two things will happen. Either people are dumb enough to do it and make it profitable, or game companies will find out quickly that it's the Apple App Store, not the PS3 Network where 12 year olds kick and scream until their parents let them download the MGS1 DLC Pack for LittleBigPlanet for $1.99.
If you hear DLC and you think "Oh, that must mean they're going to sell minimal games and then charge for every little piece of the full game and that's it" then it's a good thing you're not a game developer, because your customers would buy your games exactly once and be done with you. Now, I'm sure we'll see this happen to SOME extent, but people aren't stupid - we don't like screens littered with advertisements, we don't like paying by the minute (even though you can't DO that very well with micropayments - it's not auto-pay you know) if there is a similar application that is a one-time purchase, and if you want us to subscribe to something it better be freakin' phenomenal.
1. You are warned everytime an App charges you. I don't understand the people acting like "micropayments" means "happens automatically without your knowledge".
2. If you don't like the payment model a certain App uses, vote with your wallet. Stop using it. Developers are only going to make money nickel-and-diming you all if you LET THEM.
3. Free Apps will not go away. It isn't like people said "Oh gee, I wish we could only charge $0.50 for this. I guess we'll give it away instead of making any money". Those Apps are free because whoever made them had the ability and desire to release them that way.
If a fact collecting service is misrecording the facts, its customers would cease doing business with it and move to a more reputable service.
Assuming they knew the facts where being misrepresented. How much damage could someone do before they where caught? How much of that damage couldn't be undone?
If I was a journalist going to record an event, I want my own camera and my own mic. Just because you think it looks "silly" and "outdated" to have a cluster of microphones in front of someone doesn't mean we should stop doing it, it means you should start thinking about the repercussions of NOT doing it. I mean, it's not like the technology hasn't existed since, well, the INVENTION OF THE MICROPHONE to use just one microphone and split it 10 ways; it's just that in order to guarantee unbiased capture of an event, you shouldn't trust anyone's equipment but your own.
I agree completely with your post, except for the fact that there is no internet in North Korea. That is, Kim Jong Il probably has it, but their citizens don't even have cell phones. Their state websites are run from mainland China.
Lumping a category of unquestionably controversial content into a single TLD is just begging for complete and total censorship. Porn companies can live under.com or.movies or.entertainment, or whatever.
That's like saying "All websites regarding government criticism should be forced to use.dissent"
So, the easiest solution is to simply leave things the way they are. It's not ideal, but it's the best we have for now, until a ship of highly intelligent, politically neutral aliens lands and offers to run our internet for us in a completely unbiased way in exchange for some basil.
I'll do it for some fresh basil pizzas and a sweet paycheck.
Yes because there are absolutely no legitimate complaints anyone can make about the United States. Any critic is clearly just a freedom-hating, terrorist-lover. *rolls eyes*
Name one global superpower that you can't complain about.
For all the crap the US government has pulled, it could have been a lot worse. We're not Nazi Germany!
Fines. Very large fines. Verizon sounds here like they would have complied with the request had the bill been paid. Hell, if I was a Verizon tech and I knew the request was legitimate, I'd have paid the damn $20 to get the system to activate the phone, if that's what it took.
Verizon should have to forfeit to the government all profit their shareholders would have received in dividends or share increases for 3 months. We'll see if they ever pull this shit again. Someone's fucking life was at stake! Who cares if the guy was crazy, or an asshole, of owed them money - dead men can't pay bills! Help your customer survive to outlive that service contract, if for no better reason such as, you know, saving someone's life! Fucking idiots.
I don't understand this unwritten law that telcos must all act like they have some kind of mental handicap.
a "golden record", which is technology long since obsolete here on earth
Tell that to the audiophiles.
Vinyl for DJs really didn't stop being common until just before the current recession hit. I just received what may be my last shipment of (new) records today, as my favorite online record store just went out of business after 13 years.
That being said, even though the digital distribution method is pretty nice, it takes away some of the authenticity of watching someone play a set; turntablism may become an unfortunate lost art. I invite you to watch Kid Koala to see what I mean about it being an art.
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Ink cartridges from the original manufacturer don't have any protection against printing plagiarized copies of works, either. Therefore, the DMCA wouldn't apply because no one reversed-engineered anything with the purpose of getting around an engineered blockade to content duplication.
Depending on the abilities of the device, this MAY be a little different, but since the iTunes software itself doesn't let you sync from iPod->iTunes, I think everyone is OK on that front.
This isn't a hack. This would be like changing your Firefox UA string to read as IE. Wow, that was a clever little hack there!
...except that it's against USB spec to do this, according to peripheral compliance (PDF link, as others have mentioned). Use your own Vendor ID, or don't develop for USB.
While it might not technically be illegal so far as anything Apple can do about it, it may be a breach of contract with the USB Consortium. It's certainly out-of-spec. While web users are used to all the garbage out there (content AND protocol), the hardware guys are a little more gung-ho about making sure it works as designed, and with good reason!
While I doubt that they just left it there, it must have been great for itches.
THAT's two-things-ism!!!
I'm an Apple fanboy and even I'm sick of this.
If they're not careful, pretty soon the PSP Go App Store is going to be the one making all the money. Hey Sony, PSPhone in the works?
I've heard these kinds of excuses time and time again, and on every occasion I've asked the IT admin staff responsible to give me some solid examples of where the problems lie (i.e. actual apps/code that moving to IE7/8, Firefox, Chrome or whatever would break and couldn't be fixed within minutes). Never seen a single example yet. They don't even know because they don't have a clue.
At my old company (name withheld), the problem was Java; they "claimed" (and I cannot back this up; I've never worked with Java before) that since their Java applets which ran, say the HR website, where created with an older version of the JDK, they needed specific Java Runtime libraries to be installed (1.4, perhaps? I can't remember) or else they wouldn't work. I proved this true once by clicking on the "Update your Java Runtime!" balloon that came up every morning, and lo and behold they hadn't blocked it (another, shoddy application we used required Admin access to our local machines. NICE and secure) and the application broke. The catch: They said the older libraries don't work with newer versions of IE.
Many forms also did a submit via JavaScript, which I understand was a bit different in IE6 than what is normal; another employee installed Firefox and nothing worked at all. (Needless to say, they also flew off the handle about "possibly insecure software" being installed. Meanwhile, we run IE6)
Or, it could even be based on how you are moving, using GPS to calculate that.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't you be able to determine your orientation from the GPS signal alone?
You do realize that the reason it cannot be uninstalled is because Firefox (securely) does not do privilege escalation and the extension was installed by Windows Update for all users; in which case the extension is located by reading en entry from the registry instead of your own individual Mozilla profile.
I agree with the statement there should be some type of warning when new plug-ins are installed. OH WAIT, there are warnings. Doesn't the add-on window pop up and say "1 new extension installed"? That's right.
The REAL fault here is with Microsoft not telling users it was MODIFYING THE SOFTWARE OF ANOTHER VENDOR, but apparently we're STILL going to blame the other vendor (Mozilla), even though we know the real story.
I sure liked technology more back when only smart people pretended to understand it.
I guess this goes back to the initial arguments against microtransations on pc/console games: "If you can be arsed to make the model and skin it, why are you withholding it from my "Full Game" which I purchased?"
Because it took time and effort which you haven't paid for yet.
"If you can be arsed to design the RAM and manufacture it, why are you withholding it from my 'Motherboard' which I purchased?"
I.E. Why buy a coat for a character that you will play on a plane flight and never again? Especially if the only way that people will see it is if you show them the character on your iphone. ("Oh, that's nice, you paid extra for him to be lime green!").
One of two things will happen. Either people are dumb enough to do it and make it profitable, or game companies will find out quickly that it's the Apple App Store, not the PS3 Network where 12 year olds kick and scream until their parents let them download the MGS1 DLC Pack for LittleBigPlanet for $1.99.
If you hear DLC and you think "Oh, that must mean they're going to sell minimal games and then charge for every little piece of the full game and that's it" then it's a good thing you're not a game developer, because your customers would buy your games exactly once and be done with you. Now, I'm sure we'll see this happen to SOME extent, but people aren't stupid - we don't like screens littered with advertisements, we don't like paying by the minute (even though you can't DO that very well with micropayments - it's not auto-pay you know) if there is a similar application that is a one-time purchase, and if you want us to subscribe to something it better be freakin' phenomenal.
1. You are warned everytime an App charges you. I don't understand the people acting like "micropayments" means "happens automatically without your knowledge".
2. If you don't like the payment model a certain App uses, vote with your wallet. Stop using it. Developers are only going to make money nickel-and-diming you all if you LET THEM.
3. Free Apps will not go away. It isn't like people said "Oh gee, I wish we could only charge $0.50 for this. I guess we'll give it away instead of making any money". Those Apps are free because whoever made them had the ability and desire to release them that way.
So, calm the fuck down.
There's space... missing... on the 3rd floor?
The entrance to John Malkovitch's head is up there.
Not gonna lie, I'm logged into ICQ right now. It's not my original number, though, and NO ONE ever uses it.
If a fact collecting service is misrecording the facts, its customers would cease doing business with it and move to a more reputable service.
Assuming they knew the facts where being misrepresented. How much damage could someone do before they where caught? How much of that damage couldn't be undone?
If I was a journalist going to record an event, I want my own camera and my own mic. Just because you think it looks "silly" and "outdated" to have a cluster of microphones in front of someone doesn't mean we should stop doing it, it means you should start thinking about the repercussions of NOT doing it. I mean, it's not like the technology hasn't existed since, well, the INVENTION OF THE MICROPHONE to use just one microphone and split it 10 ways; it's just that in order to guarantee unbiased capture of an event, you shouldn't trust anyone's equipment but your own.
Don't forget, they're still running all the netscape.net email accounts!
I can't believe that this has not been tagged as skynet yet.
That's because the first thing an X-Box would do if it became self-aware is commit suicide.
I agree completely with your post, except for the fact that there is no internet in North Korea. That is, Kim Jong Il probably has it, but their citizens don't even have cell phones. Their state websites are run from mainland China.
Wouldn't be much of a punishment.
Lumping a category of unquestionably controversial content into a single TLD is just begging for complete and total censorship. Porn companies can live under .com or .movies or .entertainment, or whatever.
That's like saying "All websites regarding government criticism should be forced to use .dissent"
So, the easiest solution is to simply leave things the way they are. It's not ideal, but it's the best we have for now, until a ship of highly intelligent, politically neutral aliens lands and offers to run our internet for us in a completely unbiased way in exchange for some basil.
I'll do it for some fresh basil pizzas and a sweet paycheck.
Yes because there are absolutely no legitimate complaints anyone can make about the United States. Any critic is clearly just a freedom-hating, terrorist-lover. *rolls eyes*
Name one global superpower that you can't complain about.
For all the crap the US government has pulled, it could have been a lot worse. We're not Nazi Germany!
(Godwin's law; thread over)
Not that we'll ever get that far as humans
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Fines. Very large fines. Verizon sounds here like they would have complied with the request had the bill been paid. Hell, if I was a Verizon tech and I knew the request was legitimate, I'd have paid the damn $20 to get the system to activate the phone, if that's what it took.
Verizon should have to forfeit to the government all profit their shareholders would have received in dividends or share increases for 3 months. We'll see if they ever pull this shit again. Someone's fucking life was at stake! Who cares if the guy was crazy, or an asshole, of owed them money - dead men can't pay bills! Help your customer survive to outlive that service contract, if for no better reason such as, you know, saving someone's life! Fucking idiots.
I don't understand this unwritten law that telcos must all act like they have some kind of mental handicap.
I'd prefer we aviod making Replicaters, thankyouverymuch.
Tell that to the audiophiles.
Vinyl for DJs really didn't stop being common until just before the current recession hit. I just received what may be my last shipment of (new) records today, as my favorite online record store just went out of business after 13 years.
That being said, even though the digital distribution method is pretty nice, it takes away some of the authenticity of watching someone play a set; turntablism may become an unfortunate lost art. I invite you to watch Kid Koala to see what I mean about it being an art.
So now I can have a badly coded addon that spans 5 horizontal widths, has tons of flash advertisements, and a <blink> tag?
THATS GREAT!!!
You see, the reason it's an add-on is because it's OPTIONAL!!!
Idiot.