>You guys in the US should revolt. It is disgusting that both caller and receiver should have to pay for a conversation.
And I said the same about europe when someone in the UK told me that connecting to a BBS next door 24/7 would cost them thousands of dollars (remember, this was back in the late 80s / early 90s).
I think I'll stick with free local calling at fixed rate prices (which are already far cheaper than your European line lease rates), TYVM.
>True or not, I do know that the company was in some level of loan trouble
Then your brother should consider it a godsend he got out of that company before it sunk.
If a company has to get bank loans so huge that the bank requires wacky clauses like non-compete agreements, they must be tanking.
Best to get going while the going is good. That way when the company tanks your brother will have a job while hundreds of others are all clawing for the scraps that are left.
>Here is a simple fix... get a real welfare system... you may have been told its to expensive, but the truth is far poorer countries look after the unemployed with fare more respect.
Thanks for proving why not to implement welfare.
For the logic impaired, he just explained:
Poorer countries use "Real" welfare systems.
Therefore, by simple analysis, to avoid being a poorer country, don't implement a "Real" welfare system.
>Remember 100% employment is a delusion!!!!
Of course it is. There are always lazy fucks who don't deserve to eat. That's their problem. Best we weed the lazy gene from the pool sooner rather than later.
>But if your grandmother hired an architect to design and draw the plans for the house, and received a copy of those plans, she would not automatically have the right to re-use or sell those plans to someone looking to build another house.
Bingo.
This happened to us with our custom home. Watch that, if you want your home to be "one of a kind", you get a written contract with the architect stating he will never copy/alter the design for anyone else.
As it stands, our blueprints were copyrighted, but the architect simply made a few changes, and shortly similar (but slightly mis-shapen) houses were popping up all over the neighbourhood, all designed by the same architect.
The opposite of "Tivo is not for you, it's for the more profitable and larger audience of non-techies." is "If Tivo is for you, you are more profitable/less-techie than those who it isn't for", which is a sly way of saying "People who don't by Tivo do so because they're broke".
BTW: You might just want to check your sig... it could be out of date.:)
>but I mean you should see how disassembling and modifying the BIOS is a clear violation under IP/copyright..
Okay, I see what you're talking about now, no problem.
I am still pretty sure that modifying software you own to do what you want is legal in some places (definately not the US). I know that, for example, EULAs generally don't hold up to a judge's scrutiny in Canada (the computer company I worked at was sued for not following EULAs closely, but wasn't convicted), as unsigned contracts don't really mean all that much here. Whether that gives you the right to modify the software to your own ends, well, I don't know. I would think so if you had a legitimate reason (such as installing X-Box linux), and I know many Canadian companies who have been investigated by the RCMP for "possibly" breaking the law but never did get in any trouble for selling X-Box modchips [usually pre-flashed] (generally the places that do that also sell satellite hacking hardware, which is illegal [the hacking, not the hardware] in Canada).
>That post has got to be the most incoherent, non-sequitorious attempt at an honest 'rebuttal' I've ever seen on slashdot, and my UID is below 5000.
Great, a full search of slashdot (ask Malda for the archives) will show I've been here 2 years longer than you, that is if you're basing dick size on how long you've used slashdot.
>Out of the box, which is how at least 75% of Tivo owners will operate their systems for as long as they own their system (or live, which is as long as most Tivo owners I know say they'll be Tivo owners), you merely connect it to your TV, phone and tuner box and go.
No, they'll operate it as long as their subscription service holds out. As soon as TiVO does a DivX, bye-bye usefulness, hello expensive VCR.
>Setup is braindead simple, on par with Apple, and that is a magically glorious and wonderful thing, something to be cherished and adored.
No problems with that here. I just have a problem with buying something where the most useful features require the company to stay in business, that's all.
>You pull 'arguments' out of your ass that are not really 'arguments' at all, but instead are testaments to the flexibility and goodness of Tivo.
The question is, is there a linux box that does Tivo? I proved there was. You doubt that box I linked to exists? You doubt it is easy to install? I don't own one, so I can't disprove you on that, but I can assure you the company exists.
> Tivo uses linux, but my mom or joe blow would NEVER know that except by reading the back of one of the manuals, where you will find the entire text of GPL v2 printed. That's a Good Thing(tm). You can expand and hack your Tivo (and btw series 2 uses USB instead of PCI for network capability, and IIRC doesn't have a PCI slot) but you don't HAVE to. It's a CHOICE. Choice is GOOD.
I didn't complain about that. But to make the Tivo as useful as a homebrew/pre-bought linux alternative (to Tivo linux) you have to modify the box, as far as I can tell (let me know if I'm wrong).
Go ahead and buy a Tivo! I don't care! It's your money! Personally, I refuse to pay for a TV Guide when I get it for free as is, but if that's your choice, have at it!
>Tivo is not for you, it's for the more profitable and larger audience of non-techies.
Nice ad-hominem attack there. Impressive. Not.
>The fact that it's so hackable and uses Linux merely reduces naysayer count further, into privacy crank and ignorant geek territory.
And more ad-hominem attacks. If I'm an ignorant geek, then you'd be an ignorant debater. At least that means I can convince people of my points.
Apologize or be added to my (ever growing) foes list.
>if you were to gain access to the other 31 processors via some form of legal hardware modification as in soldering on a pic or ten then that does not violate standard ip/copyright laws.. it is only when modification of SOFTWARE is involved, not hardware
Why? What, because EEs aren't as respected as CS profs?
I have no moral problems with hacking software I paid for to do what I want. It gets murky when the stuff is given to you, but if it's paid for? No moral qualms at all.
In fact, up until a few years ago, there were even US companies providing cracking services to people who were fed up with hardware locks, 100% legal.
It all depends on wether your country supports copyright law or unsigned contract law. In the US, the unsigned contract is paramount, whereas in most other countries, if the unsigned contract is at all unreasonable, it's ignored.
Now, if you are a proper company and sign a deal and break it, that's a different question. 'Till then, hacking an X-Box at home is no different from writing notes in a book in most countries.
>vob files, what the fuck are you talking about? this is not MY case.. this is GENERAL LAW..
You were suggesting that if the authors take pains to hide something from the user, that it is illegal/immoral for the user to use it. A vob file (for the uninitiated, that's a video/audio stream for a DVD) that isn't linked to a menu (or elsewhere in the DVD) is effectively hidden unless hacked out by playing it on a computer.
This is no different from buying a mainframe and hacking it so you can use the other 31 processors.
Sure, you get no support (which, in the case of a mainframe, makes it useless), but if you bought it, you do what the hell you like with it.
If you have features in a product, and for whatever reason you don't want me to use them, then DON'T SELL THEM TO ME! (And by sell, I don't me ethereal BS "I don't want you to do X with this" crap, I mean don't sell me media that contains those features).
Next thing you know it'll be immoral to use unleaded gas in a leaded gas car because the sticker on your dash says "Leaded gas only". Yeesh.
Heck, in your case watching vob files not linked to menus on your DVD is immoral. Give me a break.
So, basically, with an electric car you can never leave your city without an overnight stay somewhere.
That sucks.
I rarely drive outside my city, save for about 8 times a year. The cost of either renting a gas powered vehicle those 8 times, or spending the night in a hotel FAR outweighs any potential saving an electric car will give me, from what I can tell.
Considering that electric cars are still more expensive than gas powered cars, I see no benefit to them. And yes, I really don't give a rats ass about what greenpeace (et al) has to tell me. I quit listening to them nuts years ago, along with just about everyone else.
Well, you mentioned battery swaps. Ain't gonna happen. We've had propane powered mods available for vehicles where I live for at least a couple of decades (maybe more). The chances of finding a gas station that'll fill you up on the highway with propane is nearly nil. At that rate I'll be too old to drive safely by the time battery swap stations are common.
Uhh... Kenmore doesn't actually make anything, eh?
They're like today's HP. Buy it from a cheap Taiwanese factory and slap a Kenmore sticker on it (okay, okay, not that bad, but a lot of it is actually made by Amana -- at least for fridges).
What does suck is that sometimes lower quality parts are subbed in. A good friend who once sold power tools told me that if I was to buy Black and Decker (which, in his opinion, sucked anyways) never to buy them at Sears, as the Sears versions often used lesser-rated parts.
But I might be totally wrong on all this. You should really check into it yourself.:-)
BTW: I have $5 that says your Kenmore A/C is a Frigidaire OEM.;-)
You certainly should have the choice to buy risky, uncertified equipment if you want. And I'm serious about that. It's up to you to decide at what price point you're willing to gamble your life for mobility, not some faceless insurance company.
If, for example, you'd feel comfortable using a cheap wheelchair that has never been tested for the results of shorting out the battery (which would probably set the unit on fire) then it ain't my business to change your mind.
>"I wish I could sit all day" >Fuck you buddy
Woah there! Diff'rent stroke for Diff'rent folks! You might want to run all day, but Ebert just wants to sit there and watch movies all day. That doesn't make either of you bad, but it does mean you're the one with the big loss, unfortunately.
I find it neat, though, that you went from being Head of New Technology Research at SEGA straight to being Head of New Technology Research at Nintendo. More amazing, though, is that both companies have exactly the same departments!
More interesting:
<sgupta@research.sega.jp>: Sorry, I couldn't find any host named research.sega.jp. (#5.1.2)
Look, provide me a page at nintendo.co.jp with your name on it, and everything will be sorted out.
>While I must admit I'm sort of biased:-), we believe that our GameCube makes a superior clustering platform compared to the PS2, computationally (higher CPU speed), physically (its smaller size and form factor, less heat dissapation) and financially (lower unit cost).
Lower unit cost, eh?
For who? You or the buyer?
My bets are on the buyer, 'cause I'm still pretty sure the proprietary drive and decent graphics/cpu inside those boxes are losing you money per sale at current prices.
If any clustering abilities were found for the GC and were made public, I think the reaction from Nintendo would be even more negative than the MANY other times Nintendo has sued other companies for releasing compatible ideas/hardware to improve Nintendo's consoles (remember Camerica and Tengen, anyone?)
>I doubt if you could get a PC that could handle graphics as well as a PS2 for under $400.
You can. IIRC, my Radeon original (now worth about $45) outperforms the PS2. Heck, the PS2 often chokes in games like Vice City, giving me frame rates that I am guessing are about 2 or 3 fps when there's "too much" action going on. I doubt anyone sells a PC that bad anymore...
>You pay the cable company for the connection to them and using them.
Then why do some commercial supported channels cost more than other commercial supported channels?
And, seriously, it isn't that expensive to get a connection to the uplink. Heck, I can do it with consumer parts for under $50 these days (people are just trashing their old C-Band systems... so sad, really). For a cable company, I'd say no more than $5000 per satellite, and $2000 per channel. At current rates most cable co's should have all the stations paid for in a month.
The fact is you don't just pay for the connection / upkeep of the connection, you actually have to pay for the already commercial supported channels. It's sad, really.
Honestly, they are 1/4 the price of any of these machines, and do a much better job of archiving shows, as they record the raw MPEG-2 stream from the satellite.
That and most of the companies keep all their specs and libraries open.
Oh, and they usually work in Linux, too. Plus there's PVR software for them, and I don't think the authors are about to remove features like ReplayTV.
>Someone attacks me, I fight back with all the means and methods at my disposal.
Then you become the agressor, and go to jail.
Go ahead and try one day. Unless you kill your "opponent", you'll go to jail. If you do, you'd damn well better have a stone constitution, and leave nary a trace.
I can't think of any first world countries where you get to kill non-violent criminals in self-defense. Perhaps if you live in Nigeria...
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>You guys in the US should revolt. It is disgusting that both caller and receiver should have to pay for a conversation.
And I said the same about europe when someone in the UK told me that connecting to a BBS next door 24/7 would cost them thousands of dollars (remember, this was back in the late 80s / early 90s).
I think I'll stick with free local calling at fixed rate prices (which are already far cheaper than your European line lease rates), TYVM.
>True or not, I do know that the company was in some level of loan trouble
Then your brother should consider it a godsend he got out of that company before it sunk.
If a company has to get bank loans so huge that the bank requires wacky clauses like non-compete agreements, they must be tanking.
Best to get going while the going is good. That way when the company tanks your brother will have a job while hundreds of others are all clawing for the scraps that are left.
>Here is a simple fix... get a real welfare system... you may have been told its to expensive, but the truth is far poorer countries look after the unemployed with fare more respect.
Thanks for proving why not to implement welfare.
For the logic impaired, he just explained:
Poorer countries use "Real" welfare systems.
Therefore, by simple analysis, to avoid being a poorer country, don't implement a "Real" welfare system.
>Remember 100% employment is a delusion!!!!
Of course it is. There are always lazy fucks who don't deserve to eat. That's their problem. Best we weed the lazy gene from the pool sooner rather than later.
>But if your grandmother hired an architect to design and draw the plans for the house, and received a copy of those plans, she would not automatically have the right to re-use or sell those plans to someone looking to build another house.
Bingo.
This happened to us with our custom home. Watch that, if you want your home to be "one of a kind", you get a written contract with the architect stating he will never copy/alter the design for anyone else.
As it stands, our blueprints were copyrighted, but the architect simply made a few changes, and shortly similar (but slightly mis-shapen) houses were popping up all over the neighbourhood, all designed by the same architect.
Watch that this doesn't happen to you!
I thought you worked as Head of New Technology Research for Nintendo.
.sig did change from:
Did you all of a sudden get fired or something? I mean your
Dr. SAMIR GUPTA, Ph. D
Head, Nintendo New Technology Research Department
Kyoto, Japan
To just "Samir Gupta, PhD".
Enquiring minds want to know!
Thanks!
--
Bill Gates
>Being called a techie is an ad-hominem attack?
:)
No, it's what wasn't said that's louder.
The opposite of "Tivo is not for you, it's for the more profitable and larger audience of non-techies." is "If Tivo is for you, you are more profitable/less-techie than those who it isn't for", which is a sly way of saying "People who don't by Tivo do so because they're broke".
BTW: You might just want to check your sig... it could be out of date.
>but I mean you should see how disassembling and modifying the BIOS is a clear violation under IP/copyright..
Okay, I see what you're talking about now, no problem.
I am still pretty sure that modifying software you own to do what you want is legal in some places (definately not the US). I know that, for example, EULAs generally don't hold up to a judge's scrutiny in Canada (the computer company I worked at was sued for not following EULAs closely, but wasn't convicted), as unsigned contracts don't really mean all that much here. Whether that gives you the right to modify the software to your own ends, well, I don't know. I would think so if you had a legitimate reason (such as installing X-Box linux), and I know many Canadian companies who have been investigated by the RCMP for "possibly" breaking the law but never did get in any trouble for selling X-Box modchips [usually pre-flashed] (generally the places that do that also sell satellite hacking hardware, which is illegal [the hacking, not the hardware] in Canada).
>That post has got to be the most incoherent, non-sequitorious attempt at an honest 'rebuttal' I've ever seen on slashdot, and my UID is below 5000.
Great, a full search of slashdot (ask Malda for the archives) will show I've been here 2 years longer than you, that is if you're basing dick size on how long you've used slashdot.
>Out of the box, which is how at least 75% of Tivo owners will operate their systems for as long as they own their system (or live, which is as long as most Tivo owners I know say they'll be Tivo owners), you merely connect it to your TV, phone and tuner box and go.
No, they'll operate it as long as their subscription service holds out. As soon as TiVO does a DivX, bye-bye usefulness, hello expensive VCR.
>Setup is braindead simple, on par with Apple, and that is a magically glorious and wonderful thing, something to be cherished and adored.
No problems with that here. I just have a problem with buying something where the most useful features require the company to stay in business, that's all.
>You pull 'arguments' out of your ass that are not really 'arguments' at all, but instead are testaments to the flexibility and goodness of Tivo.
The question is, is there a linux box that does Tivo? I proved there was. You doubt that box I linked to exists? You doubt it is easy to install? I don't own one, so I can't disprove you on that, but I can assure you the company exists.
> Tivo uses linux, but my mom or joe blow would NEVER know that except by reading the back of one of the manuals, where you will find the entire text of GPL v2 printed. That's a Good Thing(tm). You can expand and hack your Tivo (and btw series 2 uses USB instead of PCI for network capability, and IIRC doesn't have a PCI slot) but you don't HAVE to. It's a CHOICE. Choice is GOOD.
I didn't complain about that. But to make the Tivo as useful as a homebrew/pre-bought linux alternative (to Tivo linux) you have to modify the box, as far as I can tell (let me know if I'm wrong).
Go ahead and buy a Tivo! I don't care! It's your money! Personally, I refuse to pay for a TV Guide when I get it for free as is, but if that's your choice, have at it!
>Tivo is not for you, it's for the more profitable and larger audience of non-techies.
Nice ad-hominem attack there. Impressive. Not.
>The fact that it's so hackable and uses Linux merely reduces naysayer count further, into privacy crank and ignorant geek territory.
And more ad-hominem attacks. If I'm an ignorant geek, then you'd be an ignorant debater. At least that means I can convince people of my points.
Apologize or be added to my (ever growing) foes list.
TTFN.
>if you were to gain access to the other 31 processors via some form of legal hardware modification as in soldering on a pic or ten then that does not violate standard ip/copyright laws.. it is only when modification of SOFTWARE is involved, not hardware
Why? What, because EEs aren't as respected as CS profs?
I have no moral problems with hacking software I paid for to do what I want. It gets murky when the stuff is given to you, but if it's paid for? No moral qualms at all.
In fact, up until a few years ago, there were even US companies providing cracking services to people who were fed up with hardware locks, 100% legal.
It all depends on wether your country supports copyright law or unsigned contract law. In the US, the unsigned contract is paramount, whereas in most other countries, if the unsigned contract is at all unreasonable, it's ignored.
Now, if you are a proper company and sign a deal and break it, that's a different question. 'Till then, hacking an X-Box at home is no different from writing notes in a book in most countries.
>vob files, what the fuck are you talking about? this is not MY case.. this is GENERAL LAW..
You were suggesting that if the authors take pains to hide something from the user, that it is illegal/immoral for the user to use it. A vob file (for the uninitiated, that's a video/audio stream for a DVD) that isn't linked to a menu (or elsewhere in the DVD) is effectively hidden unless hacked out by playing it on a computer.
Yes.
This is no different from buying a mainframe and hacking it so you can use the other 31 processors.
Sure, you get no support (which, in the case of a mainframe, makes it useless), but if you bought it, you do what the hell you like with it.
If you have features in a product, and for whatever reason you don't want me to use them, then DON'T SELL THEM TO ME! (And by sell, I don't me ethereal BS "I don't want you to do X with this" crap, I mean don't sell me media that contains those features).
Next thing you know it'll be immoral to use unleaded gas in a leaded gas car because the sticker on your dash says "Leaded gas only". Yeesh.
Heck, in your case watching vob files not linked to menus on your DVD is immoral. Give me a break.
So, basically, with an electric car you can never leave your city without an overnight stay somewhere.
That sucks.
I rarely drive outside my city, save for about 8 times a year. The cost of either renting a gas powered vehicle those 8 times, or spending the night in a hotel FAR outweighs any potential saving an electric car will give me, from what I can tell.
Considering that electric cars are still more expensive than gas powered cars, I see no benefit to them. And yes, I really don't give a rats ass about what greenpeace (et al) has to tell me. I quit listening to them nuts years ago, along with just about everyone else.
Well, you mentioned battery swaps. Ain't gonna happen. We've had propane powered mods available for vehicles where I live for at least a couple of decades (maybe more). The chances of finding a gas station that'll fill you up on the highway with propane is nearly nil. At that rate I'll be too old to drive safely by the time battery swap stations are common.
>Isn't a no-name brand
:-)
;-)
Uhh... Kenmore doesn't actually make anything, eh?
They're like today's HP. Buy it from a cheap Taiwanese factory and slap a Kenmore sticker on it (okay, okay, not that bad, but a lot of it is actually made by Amana -- at least for fridges).
What does suck is that sometimes lower quality parts are subbed in. A good friend who once sold power tools told me that if I was to buy Black and Decker (which, in his opinion, sucked anyways) never to buy them at Sears, as the Sears versions often used lesser-rated parts.
But I might be totally wrong on all this. You should really check into it yourself.
BTW: I have $5 that says your Kenmore A/C is a Frigidaire OEM.
And that, my friend, is why I'm libertarian.
You certainly should have the choice to buy risky, uncertified equipment if you want. And I'm serious about that. It's up to you to decide at what price point you're willing to gamble your life for mobility, not some faceless insurance company.
If, for example, you'd feel comfortable using a cheap wheelchair that has never been tested for the results of shorting out the battery (which would probably set the unit on fire) then it ain't my business to change your mind.
>"I wish I could sit all day"
>Fuck you buddy
Woah there! Diff'rent stroke for Diff'rent folks! You might want to run all day, but Ebert just wants to sit there and watch movies all day. That doesn't make either of you bad, but it does mean you're the one with the big loss, unfortunately.
At least not on the internet.
Nein for google.
One EXTREMELY LAME hit from deja. Surprisingly, the sig is identical.
Until you show some credentials (as in a link to nintendo's site, with a page with AT LEAST your name on it), you don't exist.
In fact, it appears your department doesn't exist.
Heck, where's your thesis, at least?
I find it neat, though, that you went from being Head of New Technology Research at SEGA straight to being Head of New Technology Research at Nintendo. More amazing, though, is that both companies have exactly the same departments!
More interesting:
<sgupta@research.sega.jp>:
Sorry, I couldn't find any host named research.sega.jp. (#5.1.2)
Look, provide me a page at nintendo.co.jp with your name on it, and everything will be sorted out.
Otherwise, this is:
Bill Gates,
Microsoft Founder
Redmond
Signing off.
>While I must admit I'm sort of biased :-), we believe that our GameCube makes a superior clustering platform compared to the PS2, computationally (higher CPU speed), physically (its smaller size and form factor, less heat dissapation) and financially (lower unit cost).
Lower unit cost, eh?
For who? You or the buyer?
My bets are on the buyer, 'cause I'm still pretty sure the proprietary drive and decent graphics/cpu inside those boxes are losing you money per sale at current prices.
If any clustering abilities were found for the GC and were made public, I think the reaction from Nintendo would be even more negative than the MANY other times Nintendo has sued other companies for releasing compatible ideas/hardware to improve Nintendo's consoles (remember Camerica and Tengen, anyone?)
>I doubt if you could get a PC that could handle graphics as well as a PS2 for under $400.
You can. IIRC, my Radeon original (now worth about $45) outperforms the PS2. Heck, the PS2 often chokes in games like Vice City, giving me frame rates that I am guessing are about 2 or 3 fps when there's "too much" action going on. I doubt anyone sells a PC that bad anymore...
Well, of course my PS2 is modded. :-)
Is it possible to boot it with just the GNU disc and a modchip? Or do I still have to buy the kit if I want to avoid pirating anything?
Just wondering... Thanks!
Hopefully this won't be too offtopic:
Anyone know where to buy/download PS2 linux without buying another HDD/network adapter?
Those of us with the HDD & Network adapters would love to know...
Or do we have to buy a special HDD to get this to work?
I'd love to show all the X-Box modders that the PS2 can still be just as useful.
>$39.95 for full copy of Windows XP... something like that anyway.
Where did you see that?
I have dealer price lists, and at that price, I'd like to buy a couple thousand copies.
Windows Policies could be handy for this.
I seem to recall being able to restrict what programs can/can't be executed with that tool...
Sure, it isn't exactly unbeatable security, but I've never seen an "average" user manage to outwit it.
This might get you started.
>- No install of Linux, software, libraries
Run that by me again, I seem to be misunderstanding...
>- no install of cards
uhhhuhhh...
>- Customer support if you cant figure out how to plug it into your TV (the truely braindead)
And RedHat doesn't offer any?
>- Comes with all the cables
So does a computer with a TV Capture board pre-installed...
You can buy a computer setup already for the brain-dead. I never really did get the TiVO thing... especially the monthly subscription deal. Blech!
>You pay the cable company for the connection to them and using them.
Then why do some commercial supported channels cost more than other commercial supported channels?
And, seriously, it isn't that expensive to get a connection to the uplink. Heck, I can do it with consumer parts for under $50 these days (people are just trashing their old C-Band systems... so sad, really). For a cable company, I'd say no more than $5000 per satellite, and $2000 per channel. At current rates most cable co's should have all the stations paid for in a month.
The fact is you don't just pay for the connection / upkeep of the connection, you actually have to pay for the already commercial supported channels. It's sad, really.
Honestly, they are 1/4 the price of any of these machines, and do a much better job of archiving shows, as they record the raw MPEG-2 stream from the satellite.
That and most of the companies keep all their specs and libraries open.
Oh, and they usually work in Linux, too. Plus there's PVR software for them, and I don't think the authors are about to remove features like ReplayTV.
Something to think about...
The solution.
Also available at your local walmart and home depot (or currys, or tesco, or whatever hardware/electronics store you have in your country).
Test one first. Normally the foam adhesive is VERY easy to remove (almost too easy), and doesn't damage most surfaces (apart from drywall).
Note: Use white cable for best effect.
Shouldn't cost you more than $20 or $30.
Solution #2.
HTH!
>Someone attacks me, I fight back with all the means and methods at my disposal.
Then you become the agressor, and go to jail.
Go ahead and try one day. Unless you kill your "opponent", you'll go to jail. If you do, you'd damn well better have a stone constitution, and leave nary a trace.
I can't think of any first world countries where you get to kill non-violent criminals in self-defense. Perhaps if you live in Nigeria...