Honestly, do we really need more laws... I think this comes down to common sense.. If the police lie about something like this to get a phone turned on then they are going to have said case tossed out of court because of it...
We don't need anymore laws... we need some common sense people...
It's not like he's poisoning his body with drugs or alcohol
People do die from doing this sort of thing... sitting all day with almost no movement tends to lead to blood cloting in the legs and when he finally does get up those clots can break loose and head stright to his brain killing him.
I've only really heard of it happing in asian countries but they tend to play their games in public computer bar type places so that is probably why. ae
Well that is all well and good and I can respect that intent matters in Sweden. And yes the pirate bay people act like total asses toward people who disagree with them, no argument there.
But when the government of any country doesn't follow it's own laws and/or doesn't provide defendants with fair trial's, regardless of their alleged crime I have a problem with that and so I support these people in their cause even if they are just in it for the fame or money or whatever. That doesn't really mater to me, it just maters that someone somewhere is willing to stand up and fight. Something I think we lost in this country a long time ago, examples; AIG, big business bailouts, etc... Everyone I know is pissed but it doesn't mean they would ever DO anything about it...
I mostly use isohunt by-the-way...
I think anyone who is smart knows why the USA is putting mad presure on the rest of the world over copyright... The only thing we really make anymore is movies and music...It's just sad really... Not to mention how many people here in this country are in jail...
"land of the free as long as you do what you're told..." ae
Well yes "they" might be breaking a US law but "they" where well within "their" rights in "their" own country and because of pressure from the US.of. asses (i live in NC, USA btw) "their" own country decided to set aside the "rule of law" on several different occasions to try and ruin them.
Instead of doing the standard thing and going and hiding in the corner they have been fighting back.
Regardless if you agree with what "they" are doing you have to give them props for standing up for "their" rights under "their" countries laws which are not being "honored" in "their" own country.
As far as someone not posting here anymore that is "their" right... So let them go eat cake.... Yellow cake...
The internet is... is... full of utter crap! I mean... I knew it was bad. Bad as in monkey porn bad... but but this... my god....
I can now truthfully say that I indeed look forward to the zombie uprising of 2012. There is no reason why their should ever be a wiki page about this sort of thing.
Man! Someone hates you... Every post I've seen from you in the last few days has been modded down. Even a few decent ones. O and I personally thought the haunted retirement post was pretty funny...
But anyway which game are you talking about? I played a ghostbusters game on my Commodore 64 which was pretty decent?
Also I thought the first movie was good, second not so good, a third? I donno, this might turn out to be a batman type thing where they are all wearing purple plastic suits with molded nipples... I really hope not but things don't look good at this point..
A great lawyer makes sure the client never goes to court in the first place
Did he work for the mob or something?
"I'll wack off, those son's of b*ch's over at FSF if they try and drag us to court over this!"
Slightly more on topic. I was really shocked to learn that "they" have lawyers over at the FSF. I was under the impression they where all a bunch of hippies and cultist sitting in a dark basement somewhere... Who knew... Kudo's to FSF!
{O well, back to loading Debian and mumbling to myself in the IT closet}
Wait... so it really doesn't matter to you then? Did I miss something here?
Anyhow, I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this but no one gets treated fairly anymore.. My 401K money is gone gone gone... My house is worth half what it was when I got the loan... etc, etc, etc...
Have you thought about maybe doing something with what you know? maybe teaching about it or something?
The least you could do would be to upload your own torrents with a link to your website and have a paypal link that says "Please, I am a good guy so donate me a buck" or something...
>You're paid to create it, are you not? In which case your employer owns it. When I do web development of some kind, my client, my employer, is given the copyright. When I do development of products to sell myself, I retain the copyright.
That is correct, and artist work for the MPAA and/or RIAA by proxy of some big production company and thus my point still stands...
>Because they are paid to create it. If you wish to have copyright on your creations, don't work for somebody else.
Sorry, still no change..
>If you are seriously equating being paid to do something, and thus surrendering copyright on it, and doing it yourself and retaining the copyright, I would hope you would never work for a company I do business with: because you are incompetent.
He shoots and he scores... Yes you're right I am really totally incompetent which is why I install windows ME on every computer I can find. I get off on it because it's better...
Regardless of your silly non-sense as I have already stated I don't care about your copyright.. Most people in the world don't care. Hell It might be totally immoral and wrong but I take my queues from big business and how they make money now days. They sure aren't honest or provide what they say or offer you a warranty now do they?.
If you read half the stuff up on/. you will notice that people are murdered by big pharm and nothing is done, ripped off when they BUY digital music because of its DRM that requires a server to exist for "the rest of time" or god forbid sony is involved with their secret rootkit. Did you spend a bunch of money for a ebook reader because it has text to speech? Ahh Nope sorry, magically gets turned off.. Do you have a reason why text to speak is so dangerous that it needs to be disabled? I sure don't...
Heck, I still remember when the big deal with DVDs was you could skip ahead with no waiting for the tape... WOW, that's totally not true now is it. I also remember when I was told that CDs would last 100 years but hey CDs from the 80s are going bad due to disk rot...
You have a point there.. bu remember most people aren't very bright and Microsoft has lots of money for TV ad's....
I'd never underestimate Microsoft's abilities at breaking things that shouldn't be able to be broke....
Time will tell, ae
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Umm ok then, fry everything on the motherboard, rma, rinse, & repeat....
But anyhow, I would hope the BIOS section of the chip would not have to be updated if you wished to just update the Linux section. Lots of BIOS's over the years didn't bother to update parts that had not changed.
If it really makes you afraid gigabyte motherboards have dual BIOS's for backup or you could just hot swap a bad chip, Or, I guess that would still work.... ummm... yeah I'd think so... drop to single user mode in linux and hot swap, then flash the broke chippy... Requires a backup chip but with motherboards so cheap buy two and make your grandpa update his system so you know you have a spare if you hose your chippy.
I've flashed hundreds of mobo's and have only ever had a problem a few times back in the day when you had to use a floppy and no one bothered to crc check the bios before trying to load it. I think that was on some pc-chips mobo or something crappy like that..
I will never buy anything with DRM in it. Sorry guys but your servers get shutdown after 2 years or so and guess what? I'm not stupid enough to fall for it... I never did and I make sure to tell everyone I know to never support companies that use DRM. I support fair use and the original purpose of copyright which no longer really means anything unless you are talking about some guy in china making bootlegs...
Why anyone would really be fooled by all this propaganda is beyond me...
O and I don't goto movies anymore ether.. sue me... ae
No one cares man... get over it.. I work in the IT field and i write code all the time and I don't get some nice 200 year "it's mine" law....
It doesn't mater how much you complain about how wrong it is... no one cares... no one will ever care... you can sue everyone you like and take their Dr. pepper and pizza money but it isn't going to make any difference..
Normal people work and never get a right to demand that what they create is theirs..
Times have changed and you can cry and moan but no one cares,
All of these devices are going to use CELL signaling for the most part so they shouldn't be hard to detect or disrupt. Blocking the device while in your position is no problem at all.
My friend bought a cell phone blocking device for about $100 US. It worked well enough to keep my cell from working in his house and he though it was pretty funny to go out to dinner and bring it along and watch everyone try and use their cell phones.. It's really good for dating too..
Anyhow, I can think of lots of fun stuff a person could do if they find such a device on their car...
Take said device and - Attach it to an undercover cop car (go ahead and attach a "I love WEED!" magnet bumper sticker too) Attach device to a judge/lawyers car. Leave note saying. "I parked next to you and noticed GPS tracking device under your car" Use Nikola Tesla's secret amplifier technology and burn down every cell tower you drive past. Attach said device to 100 red balloons and let them go. Then wonder what the police are thinking. Mail the device to iraq (Hey I didn't do it, someone must have found it and took it) Mail the device to the white house with white powder. (see above) Attach said device to the space station using your alien friends ship that runs off Nikola Tesla's antigravity technology. Drop said device down a old well.
Form a action group on facebook and equip everyone with cheap detectors, gather all devices, have a old fashion nazi book burning but without the books. Or better yet sell them to pay for the detection equipment and make a profit.
Disclaimer for the stupid/.'er -
A. This message is mostly one huge joke so don't bother responding with the standard "but.. but.. but". B. Just because something is illegal doesn't mean you can't do it and get away with it. C. If you get caught it doesn't mean you will make the police look really bad and you can always ask for a jury trail. D. Teenagers don't think or care as much about crime since everything they do on the internet is illegal. Q. I am 31 years old and ran a warez BBS when a teen using a 14.4bps modem on telegard and Desqview (proving D. hopefully) Z. I don't care about the other letters...
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Honestly, do we really need more laws... I think this comes down to common sense.. If the police lie about something like this to get a phone turned on then they are going to have said case tossed out of court because of it...
We don't need anymore laws... we need some common sense people...
Activities include browsing, gaming, running Matlab (although small
whooh! I read this as "running a methlab"
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Only reason I can think of is that they have really high level characters with lots of gold and things to sell on ebay for real money.
Who knows maybe this guy has a job.. People do make money diggin for gold in these crazy games... He probably doesn't though...
It's not like he's poisoning his body with drugs or alcohol
People do die from doing this sort of thing... sitting all day with almost no movement tends to lead to blood cloting in the legs and when he finally does get up those clots can break loose and head stright to his brain killing him.
I've only really heard of it happing in asian countries but they tend to play their games in public computer bar type places so that is probably why.
ae
Well that is all well and good and I can respect that intent matters in Sweden. And yes the pirate bay people act like total asses toward people who disagree with them, no argument there.
But when the government of any country doesn't follow it's own laws and/or doesn't provide defendants with fair trial's, regardless of their alleged crime I have a problem with that and so I support these people in their cause even if they are just in it for the fame or money or whatever. That doesn't really mater to me, it just maters that someone somewhere is willing to stand up and fight. Something I think we lost in this country a long time ago, examples; AIG, big business bailouts, etc... Everyone I know is pissed but it doesn't mean they would ever DO anything about it...
I mostly use isohunt by-the-way...
I think anyone who is smart knows why the USA is putting mad presure on the rest of the world over copyright... The only thing we really make anymore is movies and music...It's just sad really... Not to mention how many people here in this country are in jail...
"land of the free as long as you do what you're told..."
ae
Well yes "they" might be breaking a US law but "they" where well within "their" rights in "their" own country and because of pressure from the US.of. asses (i live in NC, USA btw) "their" own country decided to set aside the "rule of law" on several different occasions to try and ruin them.
Instead of doing the standard thing and going and hiding in the corner they have been fighting back.
Regardless if you agree with what "they" are doing you have to give them props for standing up for "their" rights under "their" countries laws which are not being "honored" in "their" own country.
As far as someone not posting here anymore that is "their" right... So let them go eat cake.... Yellow cake...
ae
My god Man...
The internet is... is... full of utter crap! I mean... I knew it was bad. Bad as in monkey porn bad... but but this... my god....
I can now truthfully say that I indeed look forward to the zombie uprising of 2012. There is no reason why their should ever be a wiki page about this sort of thing.
ae
Man! Someone hates you... Every post I've seen from you in the last few days has been modded down. Even a few decent ones. O and I personally thought the haunted retirement post was pretty funny...
But anyway which game are you talking about? I played a ghostbusters game on my Commodore 64 which was pretty decent?
Also I thought the first movie was good, second not so good, a third? I donno, this might turn out to be a batman type thing where they are all wearing purple plastic suits with molded nipples... I really hope not but things don't look good at this point..
ae
Sadly no! Just did a google and... well... I guess I've really only kept up with the darkside of computer lawsuits and lawyer types...
Guess I should be ashamed,
ae
Sorry we evoke the state secret's act and can not comment on that...
A great lawyer makes sure the client never goes to court in the first place
Did he work for the mob or something?
"I'll wack off, those son's of b*ch's over at FSF if they try and drag us to court over this!"
Slightly more on topic. I was really shocked to learn that "they" have lawyers over at the FSF. I was under the impression they where all a bunch of hippies and cultist sitting in a dark basement somewhere... Who knew... Kudo's to FSF!
{O well, back to loading Debian and mumbling to myself in the IT closet}
Well this will probably get modded down but frak it.. I got karma to burn...
I for one support our new pee drinking over...........lords.
ae
besides, this is Slashdot, there needs to be some techie information or link, such as, how did they determine that currency has traces of drugs?
Duh man, they smoked it... how else would you suggest they go about figuring it out...
That's really not true... Virginia's slogin is "Virginia is for LOVERS" I think it's pretty damn funny.
>In the end, my needs are inconsequential.
Wait... so it really doesn't matter to you then? Did I miss something here?
Anyhow, I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this but no one gets treated fairly anymore.. My 401K money is gone gone gone... My house is worth half what it was when I got the loan... etc, etc, etc...
Have you thought about maybe doing something with what you know? maybe teaching about it or something?
The least you could do would be to upload your own torrents with a link to your website and have a paypal link that says "Please, I am a good guy so donate me a buck" or something...
ae
>You're paid to create it, are you not? In which case your employer owns it. When I do web development of some kind, my client, my employer, is given the copyright. When I do development of products to sell myself, I retain the copyright.
That is correct, and artist work for the MPAA and/or RIAA by proxy of some big production company and thus my point still stands...
>Because they are paid to create it. If you wish to have copyright on your creations, don't work for somebody else.
Sorry, still no change..
>If you are seriously equating being paid to do something, and thus surrendering copyright on it, and doing it yourself and retaining the copyright, I would hope you would never work for a company I do business with: because you are incompetent.
He shoots and he scores... Yes you're right I am really totally incompetent which is why I install windows ME on every computer I can find. I get off on it because it's better...
Regardless of your silly non-sense as I have already stated I don't care about your copyright.. Most people in the world don't care. Hell It might be totally immoral and wrong but I take my queues from big business and how they make money now days. They sure aren't honest or provide what they say or offer you a warranty now do they?.
If you read half the stuff up on /. you will notice that people are murdered by big pharm and nothing is done, ripped off when they BUY digital music because of its DRM that requires a server to exist for "the rest of time" or god forbid sony is involved with their secret rootkit. Did you spend a bunch of money for a ebook reader because it has text to speech? Ahh Nope sorry, magically gets turned off.. Do you have a reason why text to speak is so dangerous that it needs to be disabled? I sure don't...
Heck, I still remember when the big deal with DVDs was you could skip ahead with no waiting for the tape... WOW, that's totally not true now is it. I also remember when I was told that CDs would last 100 years but hey CDs from the 80s are going bad due to disk rot...
When these companies play fair I will too...
ae
You have a point there.. bu remember most people aren't very bright and Microsoft has lots of money for TV ad's....
I'd never underestimate Microsoft's abilities at breaking things that shouldn't be able to be broke....
Time will tell,
ae
Umm ok then, fry everything on the motherboard, rma, rinse, & repeat....
But anyhow, I would hope the BIOS section of the chip would not have to be updated if you wished to just update the Linux section. Lots of BIOS's over the years didn't bother to update parts that had not changed.
If it really makes you afraid gigabyte motherboards have dual BIOS's for backup or you could just hot swap a bad chip, Or, I guess that would still work.... ummm... yeah I'd think so... drop to single user mode in linux and hot swap, then flash the broke chippy... Requires a backup chip but with motherboards so cheap buy two and make your grandpa update his system so you know you have a spare if you hose your chippy.
I've flashed hundreds of mobo's and have only ever had a problem a few times back in the day when you had to use a floppy and no one bothered to crc check the bios before trying to load it. I think that was on some pc-chips mobo or something crappy like that..
ae
Anyone wanna place a wager than Microsoft will find ways to break things in their "security updates" just to keep people away from all of this?
ae
If you do not have a 30 buck UPS by now then you really NEED to LEAVE...
I will never buy anything with DRM in it. Sorry guys but your servers get shutdown after 2 years or so and guess what? I'm not stupid enough to fall for it... I never did and I make sure to tell everyone I know to never support companies that use DRM. I support fair use and the original purpose of copyright which no longer really means anything unless you are talking about some guy in china making bootlegs...
Why anyone would really be fooled by all this propaganda is beyond me...
O and I don't goto movies anymore ether.. sue me...
ae
No one cares man... get over it..
I work in the IT field and i write code all the time and I don't get some nice 200 year "it's mine" law....
It doesn't mater how much you complain about how wrong it is... no one cares... no one will ever care... you can sue everyone you like and take their Dr. pepper and pizza money but it isn't going to make any difference..
Normal people work and never get a right to demand that what they create is theirs..
Times have changed and you can cry and moan but no one cares,
Thank You,
ae
All of these devices are going to use CELL signaling for the most part so they shouldn't be hard to detect or disrupt. Blocking the device while in your position is no problem at all.
My friend bought a cell phone blocking device for about $100 US. It worked well enough to keep my cell from working in his house and he though it was pretty funny to go out to dinner and bring it along and watch everyone try and use their cell phones.. It's really good for dating too..
Anyhow, I can think of lots of fun stuff a person could do if they find such a device on their car...
Take said device and -
Attach it to an undercover cop car (go ahead and attach a "I love WEED!" magnet bumper sticker too)
Attach device to a judge/lawyers car. Leave note saying. "I parked next to you and noticed GPS tracking device under your car"
Use Nikola Tesla's secret amplifier technology and burn down every cell tower you drive past.
Attach said device to 100 red balloons and let them go. Then wonder what the police are thinking.
Mail the device to iraq (Hey I didn't do it, someone must have found it and took it)
Mail the device to the white house with white powder. (see above)
Attach said device to the space station using your alien friends ship that runs off Nikola Tesla's antigravity technology.
Drop said device down a old well.
Form a action group on facebook and equip everyone with cheap detectors, gather all devices, have a old fashion nazi book burning but without the books. Or better yet sell them to pay for the detection equipment and make a profit.
Disclaimer for the stupid /.'er -
A. This message is mostly one huge joke so don't bother responding with the standard "but.. but.. but".
B. Just because something is illegal doesn't mean you can't do it and get away with it.
C. If you get caught it doesn't mean you will make the police look really bad and you can always ask for a jury trail.
D. Teenagers don't think or care as much about crime since everything they do on the internet is illegal.
Q. I am 31 years old and ran a warez BBS when a teen using a 14.4bps modem on telegard and Desqview (proving D. hopefully)
Z. I don't care about the other letters...
ae
They knew the market they were getting into, and they knew the advantage the BBC had, so they can't really complain about it.
Heheh... silly human... of coarse they can complain about it.. that's their thing.. that's what they do... Have you learned nothing?
G... but what about the MPAA/RIAA... Aren't they our overloads already?
There will have to be some sort of battle for who has the right to dump on all of us for there can be only one.
ae