Is that "content" enough for you? Would you prefer the term "entertainment", or "art"?
Please don't tell me that you're one of those people who insists that we can't "provide" or "produce" anything intangible, because the so-called distinction is so artificial and transient that "a line in the sand" barely suffices.
Content implies the medium contains something, like information (eg, to examine the contents of a box, the box must contain something to be examined). The fucking garbage that spews out of these studios en masse can hardly be considered substantive.
There is still such a thing as art and entertainment. Yes, it's nice when people communicating with each other choose meaningful words. "Content providers" provide nothing but commercialization and indoctrination into the world of force fed capitalism, which IMHO lacks "substance."
Perhaps it's time to get back to the basics of running a business: when your model fails to meet public acceptance AND projected revenue, CHANGE YOUR BUSINESS MODEL! The whole concept of controlling the consumer is fundamentally flawed, especially when you start talking about taking over control of privately owned devices, not leased and licensed devices...
Imagine a world in which people stop buying food in the typical way (at the local Big Brand Name grocery store). How logical is it for Big Brand Name grocers to devise a method of spoiling your food remotely as a way to increase their revenue, rather than changing their business model to cater to the consumers new needs? It would be absurd, and that's exactly what the Movie/Television/Recording studios are. Absurd.
Prepare the standard CYA documentation noting all the licensing discrepancies. Also put in your personal comments about the questionable ethics of company policy.
If you feel the company/position is at risk, update your resume accordingly and seek work with a more ethical employer. During the interview process, remember it's a two-way street and you can ask questions too (for your example, what is their current policy on software licensing and when was the last time they did an audit?).
Good to see some people with guns and brains still exist out there!
Personally, I think everyone should be issued a powerful handgun at birth and be required to carry it as an adult. I am quite sure that after 1 generation, the violent criminals testicular fortitude in committing violent crimes would be completely castrated. It would be nice to live in a world where rapists and murders feared being shot to death by every single one of their potential victims, etc. Rock on people!
I will then use multiple computers/servers spread around the globe to pirate every fucking thing I can get my grubby ex-consumer neo-pirate hands on, even if it means going to jail.
Doesn't work like that I'm afraid. Piracy damages your demand. If you have no demand, then you're doing no significant damage. Stick with the previous steps, and you'll do just as much hurt to those producers.
"content providers" (I really fucking hate political incorrectness...)
Out of curiosity, if "content providers" is politically correct, then what would you call them? I say "content providers" because saying "movie studios, movie makers, recording labels, recording artists, authors, book publishers, visual artists, etc" is far too long-winded, and leaves out so many categories.
Show me the content and I'll reverse my position on usage of that term.
I'll give two examples from the history of the United States: General George Washington == lawbreaker. Underground Railroad during slavery era == lawbreakers.
Which US Law did George Washington break? Also, while the underground railroad freed a few slaves, I'm fairly certain Martin Luther King Jr.'s death did a lot more.
With the exception of Fritz or Rybka, there hasn't been a single instance of AI that I personally have been unable to overcome in a matter of seconds, if not minutes.
Well, I wrote some Game AI that you cannot overcome. It didn't cheat at all. It simply used my strategy to win. Unbeatable!.
I find your ideas fascinating, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter
Citation needed! All for growing a spine and a brain? Or all for basically making guns illegal by exploiting and manipulating people without spines and brains?
You know, I'm not even going to waste my time with a rebuttal because I despise your post style. I will, however, applaud your mastery of the perception of the obvious.
But it goes both ways.
It'd be easier to argue that they stopped providing Wifi to stop illegal activity (In good faith)
than it would be to argue that they were providing Wifi (In Good Faith) knowing that it was helping someone perform illegal downloading.
So will this set precedence for cities refusing to sell gun dealers a license in their town? You know, because one could argue "that they were providing guns (In Good Faith) knowing that they were helping someone perform illegal murders/robberies."
Please try to grow a spine, and a brain to sit atop it.
You said you own a Blu-ray player and the HDMI TV to work with it? Congratulations, you own at least two kill-switched devices. Look up HDCP revocation lists some time if you want blood to shoot from your eyes.
I understand HDCP disables output sometimes, however, it's not doing it remotely. I think the real concern is that the movie studios want the ability to do this during their over the air, cable, or satellite transmissions.
However, I empathize with people like commodore64 who only have analog screens and simply require those outputs to remain unlocked to receive any sort of basic functionality.
FYI, anyone using a laptop with HDCP/HDMI with a Blu-Ray player I have some tips on how to possibly avoid having to use anti-HDCP software like Anydvd-HD. Requires no 3rd party apps, no hacks, very simple but effective.
I just wish everyone would stop calling what we actually have running in today's world with today's commodity computers "artificial intelligence."
With the exception of Fritz or Rybka, there hasn't been a single instance of AI that I personally have been unable to overcome in a matter of seconds, if not minutes. This has lead me to many a dissatisfaction in modern gaming as an adult. As a child, I believe my senses were overwhelmed by the ambiance and graphics, and I didn't think about AI, which I guess made AI work.
I vote for renaming it "Artificial Stupidity." Simply for the reason that it can't learn, and I can. Once I learn it, it is no longer a challenge. It never learns to capitalize on my mistakes, no matter what kind of statistical analysis trickery is happening behind the scenes.
Really, the FCC has no business interfering with my usage of my communications technology until that usage interferes with some medium they regulate.
Without the FCC's interference, "content providers" would already be able to use the communications technology that you willfully purchased that supports their disabling the analog out on your devices at the providers' whim.
It's the FCC saving you from the providers. You already surrendered to them.
Really? I would have to investigate further, my HDTV is a Sony Bravia XBR6. There is nothing on the box or the in-box literature denoting "Now including built-in kill-switch from Universal Studios/Sony Pictures/Fox." I do not believe I willfully purchased any kill-switch enabled device in my entire lifetime, as I am adamantly opposed to such things.
Also, I am fairly certain it runs on Linux. Perhaps someone can tell me a) if my XBR6 *does* have this kill-switch, and b) if it really is running linux, can I modify the source, recompile, and kill the kill-switch?
For the person who chooses not to consume pirated content, the ideal is a world where producers are maximized
However, the way to maximize producers isn't necessarily a broader scope of copyright. Without a meaningful right and ability to make fair use and other unregulated uses of a copyrighted work, a lot of producers can't produce due to copyright restrictions on derivative works.
At the point when "content providers" (I really fucking hate political incorrectness...) reach into my home, and disable features on a device which I own; I feel compelled to wish someone would kill them until they are dead.
Really, the FCC has no business interfering with my usage of my communications technology until that usage interferes with some medium they regulate.
Universal Studios, Sony Pictures, etc, can kiss my fucking ass if they ever get the power to do this, I will stop buying DVD/Blu-Ray releases, cancel my subscription to DirectTV and Comcast, smash my HDTV on the doorstep of the local BestBuy and take a shit on it. I will then use multiple computers/servers spread around the globe to pirate every fucking thing I can get my grubby ex-consumer neo-pirate hands on, even if it means going to jail.
Some causes require martyrdom to see the goals come to fruition.
I can't help but think this is just a ploy by AT&T to attempt to avoid customer loss after the new year. I think the anticipation of the Verizon Palm Pre, as well as the recent Android phone arrivals has AT&T and Apple shaking in their boots.
Some may argue the iPhone is superior to the Pre, and that may be so. I personally think they are both great phones that offer similar features. However, combining the Pre with Verizon's coverage is going to make AT&T hurt in a bad way, and these commercials highlighting the significant difference in 3G coverage has already hurt them.
I don't think they want a man in the loop simply because you would have a weapon system that could be subverted by the enemy.
At worst, a robot weapon system run amok is a hazard (like a minefield) and can be dealt with.
That's fine I guess, if you think children or peasants blowing their legs off can be considered "being dealt with." How many areas in the third world are verboten because they are littered with mines? How many areas in the world could become verboten because the evil robotic overlords have run amok?
Oh, and how European is it to assume her fright is solely because of her alleged illegal activity? FFS comments like these make me hate Europeans regardless if the poster is actually European. Please, please come take away our guns and please tell me that my fear is caused by my non-compliance with the established laws. I will be one of the dead men that you will be prying a gun from my cold hands.
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Okaay. How about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U40xBSz6Dc
Is that "content" enough for you? Would you prefer the term "entertainment", or "art"?
Please don't tell me that you're one of those people who insists that we can't "provide" or "produce" anything intangible, because the so-called distinction is so artificial and transient that "a line in the sand" barely suffices.
Content implies the medium contains something, like information (eg, to examine the contents of a box, the box must contain something to be examined). The fucking garbage that spews out of these studios en masse can hardly be considered substantive.
There is still such a thing as art and entertainment. Yes, it's nice when people communicating with each other choose meaningful words. "Content providers" provide nothing but commercialization and indoctrination into the world of force fed capitalism, which IMHO lacks "substance."
Perhaps it's time to get back to the basics of running a business: when your model fails to meet public acceptance AND projected revenue, CHANGE YOUR BUSINESS MODEL! The whole concept of controlling the consumer is fundamentally flawed, especially when you start talking about taking over control of privately owned devices, not leased and licensed devices...
Imagine a world in which people stop buying food in the typical way (at the local Big Brand Name grocery store). How logical is it for Big Brand Name grocers to devise a method of spoiling your food remotely as a way to increase their revenue, rather than changing their business model to cater to the consumers new needs? It would be absurd, and that's exactly what the Movie/Television/Recording studios are. Absurd.
Which US Law did George Washington break?
George Washington broke British law by rebelling against Great Britain, the sovereign state with an internationally recognized claim to the land.
As I'm sure you are aware, their claim was invalid, and through several wars our own sovereignty was proven.
Our (USA) current nuclear powered air craft carriers use catapults to launch fighters... You are correct, they are not medieval technology based.
I can't remember but they are either hydraulic or steam catapults.
Prepare the standard CYA documentation noting all the licensing discrepancies. Also put in your personal comments about the questionable ethics of company policy.
If you feel the company/position is at risk, update your resume accordingly and seek work with a more ethical employer. During the interview process, remember it's a two-way street and you can ask questions too (for your example, what is their current policy on software licensing and when was the last time they did an audit?).
Good to see some people with guns and brains still exist out there!
Personally, I think everyone should be issued a powerful handgun at birth and be required to carry it as an adult. I am quite sure that after 1 generation, the violent criminals testicular fortitude in committing violent crimes would be completely castrated. It would be nice to live in a world where rapists and murders feared being shot to death by every single one of their potential victims, etc. Rock on people!
Doesn't work like that I'm afraid. Piracy damages your demand. If you have no demand, then you're doing no significant damage. Stick with the previous steps, and you'll do just as much hurt to those producers.
Out of curiosity, if "content providers" is politically correct, then what would you call them? I say "content providers" because saying "movie studios, movie makers, recording labels, recording artists, authors, book publishers, visual artists, etc" is far too long-winded, and leaves out so many categories.
Show me the content and I'll reverse my position on usage of that term.
I'll give two examples from the history of the United States: General George Washington == lawbreaker. Underground Railroad during slavery era == lawbreakers.
Which US Law did George Washington break? Also, while the underground railroad freed a few slaves, I'm fairly certain Martin Luther King Jr.'s death did a lot more.
Well, I wrote some Game AI that you cannot overcome. It didn't cheat at all. It simply used my strategy to win. Unbeatable!.
I find your ideas fascinating, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter
The freedoms we enjoy today came from lawbreakers, and lots of 'em, not martyrs.
I can think of a long list of martyrs, I can't even think of a single lawbreaker... Ok, Rosa Parks, but seriously though...
I would be all for that, actually.
Citation needed! All for growing a spine and a brain? Or all for basically making guns illegal by exploiting and manipulating people without spines and brains?
You know, I'm not even going to waste my time with a rebuttal because I despise your post style. I will, however, applaud your mastery of the perception of the obvious.
Good day sir!
But it goes both ways. It'd be easier to argue that they stopped providing Wifi to stop illegal activity (In good faith) than it would be to argue that they were providing Wifi (In Good Faith) knowing that it was helping someone perform illegal downloading.
So will this set precedence for cities refusing to sell gun dealers a license in their town? You know, because one could argue "that they were providing guns (In Good Faith) knowing that they were helping someone perform illegal murders/robberies."
Please try to grow a spine, and a brain to sit atop it.
You said you own a Blu-ray player and the HDMI TV to work with it? Congratulations, you own at least two kill-switched devices. Look up HDCP revocation lists some time if you want blood to shoot from your eyes.
I understand HDCP disables output sometimes, however, it's not doing it remotely. I think the real concern is that the movie studios want the ability to do this during their over the air, cable, or satellite transmissions.
However, I empathize with people like commodore64 who only have analog screens and simply require those outputs to remain unlocked to receive any sort of basic functionality. FYI, anyone using a laptop with HDCP/HDMI with a Blu-Ray player I have some tips on how to possibly avoid having to use anti-HDCP software like Anydvd-HD. Requires no 3rd party apps, no hacks, very simple but effective.
I just wish everyone would stop calling what we actually have running in today's world with today's commodity computers "artificial intelligence."
With the exception of Fritz or Rybka, there hasn't been a single instance of AI that I personally have been unable to overcome in a matter of seconds, if not minutes. This has lead me to many a dissatisfaction in modern gaming as an adult. As a child, I believe my senses were overwhelmed by the ambiance and graphics, and I didn't think about AI, which I guess made AI work.
I vote for renaming it "Artificial Stupidity." Simply for the reason that it can't learn, and I can. Once I learn it, it is no longer a challenge. It never learns to capitalize on my mistakes, no matter what kind of statistical analysis trickery is happening behind the scenes.
Definitely, brutally... Artificial Stupidity.
Really, the FCC has no business interfering with my usage of my communications technology until that usage interferes with some medium they regulate.
Without the FCC's interference, "content providers" would already be able to use the communications technology that you willfully purchased that supports their disabling the analog out on your devices at the providers' whim.
It's the FCC saving you from the providers. You already surrendered to them.
Really? I would have to investigate further, my HDTV is a Sony Bravia XBR6. There is nothing on the box or the in-box literature denoting "Now including built-in kill-switch from Universal Studios/Sony Pictures/Fox." I do not believe I willfully purchased any kill-switch enabled device in my entire lifetime, as I am adamantly opposed to such things.
Also, I am fairly certain it runs on Linux. Perhaps someone can tell me a) if my XBR6 *does* have this kill-switch, and b) if it really is running linux, can I modify the source, recompile, and kill the kill-switch?
For the person who chooses not to consume pirated content, the ideal is a world where producers are maximized
However, the way to maximize producers isn't necessarily a broader scope of copyright. Without a meaningful right and ability to make fair use and other unregulated uses of a copyrighted work, a lot of producers can't produce due to copyright restrictions on derivative works.
At the point when "content providers" (I really fucking hate political incorrectness...) reach into my home, and disable features on a device which I own; I feel compelled to wish someone would kill them until they are dead.
Really, the FCC has no business interfering with my usage of my communications technology until that usage interferes with some medium they regulate.
Universal Studios, Sony Pictures, etc, can kiss my fucking ass if they ever get the power to do this, I will stop buying DVD/Blu-Ray releases, cancel my subscription to DirectTV and Comcast, smash my HDTV on the doorstep of the local BestBuy and take a shit on it. I will then use multiple computers/servers spread around the globe to pirate every fucking thing I can get my grubby ex-consumer neo-pirate hands on, even if it means going to jail.
Some causes require martyrdom to see the goals come to fruition.
Join the Mobile Infantry and save the Galaxy. Service guarantees citizenship. Would you like to know more?
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I can't help but think this is just a ploy by AT&T to attempt to avoid customer loss after the new year. I think the anticipation of the Verizon Palm Pre, as well as the recent Android phone arrivals has AT&T and Apple shaking in their boots.
Some may argue the iPhone is superior to the Pre, and that may be so. I personally think they are both great phones that offer similar features. However, combining the Pre with Verizon's coverage is going to make AT&T hurt in a bad way, and these commercials highlighting the significant difference in 3G coverage has already hurt them.
I don't think they want a man in the loop simply because you would have a weapon system that could be subverted by the enemy.
At worst, a robot weapon system run amok is a hazard (like a minefield) and can be dealt with.
That's fine I guess, if you think children or peasants blowing their legs off can be considered "being dealt with." How many areas in the third world are verboten because they are littered with mines? How many areas in the world could become verboten because the evil robotic overlords have run amok?
Oh, and the passengers who can't talk because of the glass coating, well, tough shit. They could talk to one another.
Thanks for your instructions Mr Dictator. I would not know what to do without them.
... people will have problems using cell phones while driving?
Oh darn. That's just horrible.
... people will have problems using cell phones after being critically injured in a car accident? Oh darn. That is just horrible.
Oh, and GP is facetious totalitarian prick.
For reals.
So, life figured out a form of a Hilbert Curve for storing data? Cool!
Oh, and how European is it to assume her fright is solely because of her alleged illegal activity? FFS comments like these make me hate Europeans regardless if the poster is actually European. Please, please come take away our guns and please tell me that my fear is caused by my non-compliance with the established laws. I will be one of the dead men that you will be prying a gun from my cold hands.