What if your DVD movies wouldn't work if you took them away from where you are supposed to use them... Oh wait, they do.
Honestly, this technology could be used for many other things. Military electronics and the such could be set to self destruct over time, so that things like The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy can't take place when terrorists find things lying around. However, this technology should stay out of the civilian area.
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Simple prevention: Gnaw on them. As Scott Adams said, "A few bite marks can be more effective than The Club at preventing theft." That's why nobody steals my 88 Festiva even though the doors are rarely locked and the key is in the car.
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There are probably many forms of sarcasm... I'm sure he didn't really make that request except to attack Nike and its' policy of using cheap sweatshop labor.
I'm also pretty sure he didn't send a donation.:)
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If I had the money to buy Nikes, I would. Still, the fact that Nike would not put 'Sweatshop' on the side of their shoes is hilarious, given that they heavily advertise the ability for a customer to get anything they want on the side of their shoes.
That last request, though, was a bit sarcastic, and I cannot blame Nike for not following up his request for the picture of a downtrodden underage sweatshop worker.
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That anime thing - too late. Once every seventh grader at the middle school next to my school had a DBZ shirt, we knew that DBZ was old and lame, mostly because nobody with any self-respect watches the same TV show as middle schoolers.
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Tired of AIM ads? Then you should use the AIMazing WinAmp plugin that covers them up with oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers. Haven't you been reading your/.?
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If everybody stopped selling the Memory Stick Walkman, and caused its' price to drop as low as you predict, where would we buy it?
On a different note, it really is demand that controls how much we pay for supply, and what gets supplied to us. If you want to timeshift digital TV, would there be a tuner that you can pull an analog signal out of for your analog VCR, or would there have to be some sort of masquerading device that you can put between your 'bad' VCR to make it look like a valid recorder?
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That Orwell can sure write, and Animal Farm is one of my favorite books. However, your view on how the War on Drugs and the War on Piracy work is a bit too much of an abstraction. The drugs that the US government is trying so hard to stop are destructive, causing people to turn into crooks, wife-beaters, and murderous theves. The stealing of intellectual property is just creating additional copies of valuable information.
At school, I asked a professor to borrow a CD of Jazz music. He asked why, because I am not in any of his jazz classes, and I replied that I wanted to put it on Napster (because I did). Eventually, I went through his sizable collection of rare CDs, creating redundant copies so that the recording will be less likely to disappear.
The point is, distributing information to reduce the likelihood of its disappearance is generally good, as it reduces redundant research and creation, which takes more time than simple duplication. The modern study of Science depends on research being shared and experiments repeated. Nobody is trying to figure out how to clone sheep, because it is already done. They may be trying to figure out how to clone humans, but that's an entirely different topic.
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There's no way that HD copy protection will survive, AFAIK. Once you sell the user the hardware, you can basically kiss it goodbye. It's far easier to control software that can contact the mothership through the OS it requires than it is to control hardware that can run any OS. I suppose they could try the 'License to store data on this hardware' approach, but that's silly and hard to control.
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Doesn't the vaio come with Windows? Hell, I just spent all morning trying to dual boot Windows 2000 and ME, so obviously Microsoft also has something against interoperability.
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Oddly enough, you hit on the point that almost every critic of the GPL uses.
If there was not a patent system, then companies and inventors would have no motive to innovate, because they would be unnable to exploit their inventions.
The famous quote "Necessity is the mother of invention" still holds true. Freetype was written not for money, but to be able to show TrueType fonts without paying Apple money to use their interpreter. Oh, I'm typing this comment for money, so feel free to pay me, Lover's Arrival, because I want to exploit it...
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when they failed to deliver their much-touted Voodoo 3 card after nVidia released the TNT2, which is superior in all aspects, except for Glide compatibility. Considering that 3dfx never really was able to recover from this folly, and their purchase of STB allowing them to stop shipping mass amounts of cheap chips to other card manufacturers, they were the cause of their own demise.
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I put up a mirror on hypermart (yes, they'll probably terminate my account for/. traffic, good thing I never use it anymore) at http://lpisystems.hypermart.net/linux-2.2.18.tar.g z so a couple of you can grab it there.
Also, if you have a win32 box nearby, you can try downloading it with FlashGet and opening up 10 sessions getting different sections of the file. I'm not saying that's good for all the mirrors if everybody opens up 10 connections, I'm just saying that you can get an unfair advantage over the single-connection people once the server starts restricting bandwidth to individual connections. I used it to get Red Hat 7 and CounterStrike 1.0, and it works damn well.
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As Linux seems to have the most ground as a server OS, shouldn't Linus be shooting for stability with the new cutting edge version, instead of pushing it out to please everyone? Sure, he could please a lot of people that way, but do you think he released 2.2.18 to hold out us kernel junkies until 2.4.0 is stable and bug-free? Yes, I like shiny new software as much as the next person, but sometimes the old stuff is better for other reasons. Linux 2.4 takes time to collect bug reports and get cleaned up so it can have year-long uptimes, with its multitude of new features. Backporting a now-stable part of 2.4 (yes, USB was the first thing in 2.4 to get stable, AFAIK) to 2.2 is a heck of a lot easier than cleaning up all of 2.4 for a release.
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Are the creative ones better than the kernel ones? I never figured out if it was like W2k drivers, when the new OEM drivers are better than the new M$ drivers in terms of speed while remaining stable, or like W9x drivers, when the stinkin' nVidia Detonator 3s made my TNT2 dish out corrupted video in tfc and made me wish I was on the M$ drivers.
If they are better, though, I'll be sure to get them to improve my xmms performance.
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The reason the 2.4 usb support is being backported is because users want it *now*. Our silly win9x-bound relatives send us USB stuff to use, and we can't because it doesn't work in Linux. So, USB support is a high-demand backport. Backporting stuff that isn't high-demand is silly, because nobody will appreciate it. The Linux kernel folks (Linux included) have to obey politics, too, even if it is among a group of presumably understanding Linux hackers. (Hackers meaning intelligent users, not h4x0rz.)
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Linux updates are for different reasons than IE. If you think of your software as a ship, IE updates repair holes where the builders forgot to put huge metal panels to keep the h4x0r-infested water out, encrypted morse-code transmitters, and things essential to the safety of the ship's contents. Linux updates add useful things like cannons, extra rudder support, and other things that make sailing more enjoyable. The updates (at least ones ending with even numbers and not beta versions) don't really fix many security problems because those all get taken care of before release.
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Honestly, this technology could be used for many other things. Military electronics and the such could be set to self destruct over time, so that things like The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy can't take place when terrorists find things lying around. However, this technology should stay out of the civilian area.
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I'm also pretty sure he didn't send a donation. :)
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That last request, though, was a bit sarcastic, and I cannot blame Nike for not following up his request for the picture of a downtrodden underage sweatshop worker.
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Does anybody else remember the computer game? I never played it, but I heard it was good?
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On a different note, it really is demand that controls how much we pay for supply, and what gets supplied to us. If you want to timeshift digital TV, would there be a tuner that you can pull an analog signal out of for your analog VCR, or would there have to be some sort of masquerading device that you can put between your 'bad' VCR to make it look like a valid recorder?
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At school, I asked a professor to borrow a CD of Jazz music. He asked why, because I am not in any of his jazz classes, and I replied that I wanted to put it on Napster (because I did). Eventually, I went through his sizable collection of rare CDs, creating redundant copies so that the recording will be less likely to disappear.
The point is, distributing information to reduce the likelihood of its disappearance is generally good, as it reduces redundant research and creation, which takes more time than simple duplication. The modern study of Science depends on research being shared and experiments repeated. Nobody is trying to figure out how to clone sheep, because it is already done. They may be trying to figure out how to clone humans, but that's an entirely different topic.
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Partition new drive
Install win2k
Wait several months, using computer whole time
Install ME
Curse
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If there was not a patent system, then companies and inventors would have no motive to innovate, because they would be unnable to exploit their inventions.
The famous quote "Necessity is the mother of invention" still holds true. Freetype was written not for money, but to be able to show TrueType fonts without paying Apple money to use their interpreter. Oh, I'm typing this comment for money, so feel free to pay me, Lover's Arrival, because I want to exploit it...
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Also, if you have a win32 box nearby, you can try downloading it with FlashGet and opening up 10 sessions getting different sections of the file. I'm not saying that's good for all the mirrors if everybody opens up 10 connections, I'm just saying that you can get an unfair advantage over the single-connection people once the server starts restricting bandwidth to individual connections. I used it to get Red Hat 7 and CounterStrike 1.0, and it works damn well.
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If they are better, though, I'll be sure to get them to improve my xmms performance.
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