Coming up with your own ideas instead of cloning everyone else's?
Xerox called and offered you a job to speak out against Microsoft and Apple for stealing all their really good ideas. I told them you thought that stealing their money for something you do for free would be stealing... They said they fully understood and also welcomed me to something called the 'Tautology club'.... I'm not sure if I'm sure about what that word really means...
Oh, this was back in '88. I was Air Force/B-52 Crew Chief.
O yeah? I don't believe you... Prove IT by answering these simple questions!
B52G or H?, What was its maximum speed?, Combat Radius?, Ferry Range?, Service Ceiling?, Rate of Climb?, How many 20mm M61 Vulcan cannons?, and lastly Mr Gilmoure if that really is your real name, what are the arming codes for the AGM-86B Air Launched NUCLEAR Cruise Missile with 150kt payload...
Hurry now.... simple questions Mr Gilmoure, whats the hold up comrad, er I mean... friend..
What? no no, The God Mars isn't into that crap! Zeus is planing to fuck up Silverstein's concert this coming 15th down at the Jersey shore. You know, the post-hardcore band with that song, The Ides of March? It's track #3 on their full length studio album, Discovering the Waterfront. Mars really digs them, loves to get totally wasted, get in brutal fights and steal lose women from their punk-ass boyfriends while at their shows...
Haven't you been keeping up with all this? We're talking about the Gods for Gods sake!
Of the sites you mention, I read one of them. A lot of my friends read zero of them. We're not all internet nerds. I am, you are, other people like playing video games.
So, what's up over on 4chan these days? Goatse still the in thing or have they moved on yet?
is Ubisoft the sort of company who would poison their own executable or their enemy's? Now, a clever company would put the poison in their own executable, because they would know that only a great fool would download a cracked executable. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the cracked exes from Reloaded or Skid-Row. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the executable from Ubisoft... Now, where was I?
Something about getting involved in a land war in Asia not being a good idea wasn't it?
Do you honestly think that companies would invest money to create DRM if piracy had not become so widespread? See what I did there?
God damnit I'm sick of these motherfucking shills on this motherfucking site...
How many more times am I going to have to fucking tell you to SHUT THE FUCK UP. You are a pathetic piece of shit who clearly doesn't fucking understand how shit works in the really real world.
D.R.M stands for Digital Rights Management those words answer your fucking question.
Without pirates no DRM would be needed. Your line of reasoning still proves exactly what I said: pirates are the original problem, not the companies.
What is your fucking problem? Someone somewhere is ALWAYS going to pirate so shut the fuck up and move out of your parents basement already.
And I can promise you even in your fairy tail omg ponnies world where no one ever pirated a game there would still be DRM. Please fucking note D.R.M. stands for Digital Rights Management and not Pirate Control Management. Theses companies don't want to sell a product they want to rent one for a limited time but at the same fucking price.
Please for the love of god just shut the fuck up already you fucking moron...
WOW! I think I just got trolled by a Jedi Master... I mean it really made me angry for a moment. Now if this isn't a troll then it really explains a lot... Just wow...
It's ok... My Karma already goes to 11. I get 15 mod points every 3 to 5 days which is rather sad since half of my posts are trolls or add nothing of value to this site...
that some people still have time to waste at work. On the other hand, they got some free publicity out of it.
and what the hell are you doing right now Mr ClosedSource? Shouldn't you be working on patching that buffer overflow exploit in your recursive malloc function that some nice researcher reported free of charge 8 months ago?
Spinrite may "write" 00000000 to a specific location on the disk, but that 00000000 is actually encoded as something else when it is written to the disk to maintain a minimum number of bit transitions. In the Telecom world, B8ZS is commonly used for encoding. AFAIK, the HDD manufacturer's algorithms are proprietary.
I think this is what the post was trying to get at but he should have been more precise. What a hard drive writes/reads isn't the same as what you write/read from the drive. In fact what the drive writes might be totally different from what it reads back before the on-drive controller rebuilds/decrypts and corrects for errors.
To do what he is asking one would have to create a custom firmware, maybe even replace the on-drive controller completely. You could never get remotely close to the areal density of a modern drive without storing ECC data some place although I guess you could store it on another device.
Then again if you created a virtual drive simulation program (ask/steal the required data from the manufacturer) you might be able to feed it data until you got the pattern you where trying to write but that's still not going to give you bit level control. Plus without changing the firmware the drive will write a lot of ECC data blocks so you end up back at plan A unless you are OK with that.
But really if you turn that ECC stuff off then you got yourself a pretty useless paper weight.
I guess you could take the drive apart and use some sort of laser like EM device to write to the platters but then you really don't have a hard drive anymore.
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Coming up with your own ideas instead of cloning everyone else's?
Xerox called and offered you a job to speak out against Microsoft and Apple for stealing all their really good ideas. I told them you thought that stealing their money for something you do for free would be stealing... They said they fully understood and also welcomed me to something called the 'Tautology club'.... I'm not sure if I'm sure about what that word really means...
Oh, this was back in '88. I was Air Force/B-52 Crew Chief.
O yeah? I don't believe you... Prove IT by answering these simple questions!
B52G or H?, What was its maximum speed?, Combat Radius?, Ferry Range?, Service Ceiling?, Rate of Climb?, How many 20mm M61 Vulcan cannons?, and lastly Mr Gilmoure if that really is your real name, what are the arming codes for the AGM-86B Air Launched NUCLEAR Cruise Missile with 150kt payload...
Hurry now.... simple questions Mr Gilmoure, whats the hold up comrad, er I mean... friend..
and I broke his child's bed.
Mr Hannity would like you to have a seat over there and explain exactly what you where doing in this child's bed.
Let me put it on Wikipeda, using this as a citation!
The Alternate Reality Alliance
-- "Changing reality, one edit at a time!"
You can try but you know we exist and will cancel your edits out... VIOLENTLY if necessary!
The Alternate Anti-Reality Alliance
-- "Maintaining the false reality for profit, one citation per chrono-interval!"
(Towed the car back to base, pulled
Wait a second...
You're trying to trick us!
You're in the damn military!
You gotta cite which branch, whether you'd just got back from the gulf and most importantly how many shots you did before this crash...
I got my eye on you.
These guys? Ye gods! Help us!
What? no no, The God Mars isn't into that crap! Zeus is planing to fuck up Silverstein's concert this coming 15th down at the Jersey shore. You know, the post-hardcore band with that song, The Ides of March? It's track #3 on their full length studio album, Discovering the Waterfront. Mars really digs them, loves to get totally wasted, get in brutal fights and steal lose women from their punk-ass boyfriends while at their shows...
Haven't you been keeping up with all this? We're talking about the Gods for Gods sake!
When the gods are at war it is us, mere mortals who suffer because of it. Ye best beware the Ides of March will soon be upon us!
yup that was Richard Stallman in drag.
My god... He's Right...
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means...
So wait, I'm not the babies daddy then?
Of the sites you mention, I read one of them. A lot of my friends read zero of them. We're not all internet nerds. I am, you are, other people like playing video games.
So, what's up over on 4chan these days? Goatse still the in thing or have they moved on yet?
is Ubisoft the sort of company who would poison their own executable or their enemy's? Now, a clever company would put the poison in their own executable, because they would know that only a great fool would download a cracked executable. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the cracked exes from Reloaded or Skid-Row. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the executable from Ubisoft... Now, where was I?
Something about getting involved in a land war in Asia not being a good idea wasn't it?
This entire planet is mad, you know.
Well yes but mostly harmless.
How about I called it, as (I assume) did anyone who gave the entire stupid scheme more than a moment's thought.
Same here, I wonder who is right? http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1565564&cid=31298688
Do you honestly think that companies would invest money to create DRM if piracy had not become so widespread? See what I did there?
God damnit I'm sick of these motherfucking shills on this motherfucking site...
How many more times am I going to have to fucking tell you to SHUT THE FUCK UP. You are a pathetic piece of shit who clearly doesn't fucking understand how shit works in the really real world.
D.R.M stands for Digital Rights Management those words answer your fucking question.
Without pirates no DRM would be needed. Your line of reasoning still proves exactly what I said: pirates are the original problem, not the companies.
What is your fucking problem? Someone somewhere is ALWAYS going to pirate so shut the fuck up and move out of your parents basement already.
And I can promise you even in your fairy tail omg ponnies world where no one ever pirated a game there would still be DRM. Please fucking note D.R.M. stands for Digital Rights Management and not Pirate Control Management. Theses companies don't want to sell a product they want to rent one for a limited time but at the same fucking price.
Please for the love of god just shut the fuck up already you fucking moron...
WOW! I think I just got trolled by a Jedi Master... I mean it really made me angry for a moment. Now if this isn't a troll then it really explains a lot... Just wow...
I wish I could mod you up for that
It's ok... My Karma already goes to 11. I get 15 mod points every 3 to 5 days which is rather sad since half of my posts are trolls or add nothing of value to this site...
that some people still have time to waste at work. On the other hand, they got some free publicity out of it.
and what the hell are you doing right now Mr ClosedSource? Shouldn't you be working on patching that buffer overflow exploit in your recursive malloc function that some nice researcher reported free of charge 8 months ago?
and she is really a he but she'll never admit to that....
continue a sensible discussion?
Excuse me sir this is slashdot. I think you're looking for digg. Down the hall first door on the left.
Over 1 million members on facebook!
off his comfy chair?
well I have to say, the chair is rather nice. I wasn't expecting that...
Classical music is quite enjoyable.
Depends... ever hear it played on a pc-speaker?
Spinrite may "write" 00000000 to a specific location on the disk, but that 00000000 is actually encoded as something else when it is written to the disk to maintain a minimum number of bit transitions. In the Telecom world, B8ZS is commonly used for encoding. AFAIK, the HDD manufacturer's algorithms are proprietary.
I think this is what the post was trying to get at but he should have been more precise. What a hard drive writes/reads isn't the same as what you write/read from the drive. In fact what the drive writes might be totally different from what it reads back before the on-drive controller rebuilds/decrypts and corrects for errors.
To do what he is asking one would have to create a custom firmware, maybe even replace the on-drive controller completely. You could never get remotely close to the areal density of a modern drive without storing ECC data some place although I guess you could store it on another device.
Then again if you created a virtual drive simulation program (ask/steal the required data from the manufacturer) you might be able to feed it data until you got the pattern you where trying to write but that's still not going to give you bit level control. Plus without changing the firmware the drive will write a lot of ECC data blocks so you end up back at plan A unless you are OK with that.
But really if you turn that ECC stuff off then you got yourself a pretty useless paper weight.
I guess you could take the drive apart and use some sort of laser like EM device to write to the platters but then you really don't have a hard drive anymore.
But I run windows??? I never need to press a key to get a kernel panic...
Troll Really? Fuck you Microsoft fanboys... go press your F1 key a couple times...