I knew this happened with razors (try purchasing "sensor" brand razors sometime) but did not know the technique had moved up so far! Very cool... if you live in the UK and want a Xerrox printer.
Why has it taken so long for a manufacturer to address this huge market opportunity? Anyone with a VCR can now print instead of tape, no that doesn't make sense. Anyone without a VCR can now buy a TV printer... no that doesn't make sense either; VCRs are $60 now at Walmart. Why is HP doing this again?
Seems to me Napster passes every test in your summary: 1. Users initiate their own transfers. 2. Transmission is not controlled by the server. 3. The user selects the recipient. 4. What intermediate copies? The server is not involved. 5. Content is not modified.
The only thing stored/accumulated by the Napster servers is list of songs and machine statistics. There is nothing illegal about that. I agree with the poster that said our system is F^cked up. We can thank the lawyers for that.
In a perfect world, the agreement is on the box or on the site for reading before purchase. Then you get what you paid for. In that same perfect world, not making the agreement available before purchase should imply you can get a refund if you do not agree. That is just common sense. It always amazes me when I find software you cannot get refunded that hides the agreement inside the box. That is crazy. (Has anyone explored canceling a credit card payment through the card company for "not getting what they thought they were being sold" after purchasing software and finding an unacceptabley restrictive agreement tucked inside?)
In any case, I'm for anything practical that takes the "lawyer incentive" out of the equation. Where there are huge lawsuit settlements to be had, lawyers like sharks will gather. It makes sense to prevent that possibility by applying "buyer beware logic" and leaving it at that. period.
Wouldn't a clear plastic case make amaturish tampering like the one described here less easy to hide? Is AMD listening? As long as the case is solid black, bums can stick anything they want inside and expect the "warantee void if opened" sticker to keep their secret for a long while.
AMD should consider burning the rated CPU speed into a custom instruction too. All CPU vendors should have started doing that a long time ago. (Intel got burned by folks scratching off the real speed and painting on a higher one a few years ago.)
The real privacy *danger* does not come from business. As told in the article, legitimate _businesses want to put their products in your face, not blackmail or embarass you or steel your identity!
The danger is that those few persons out there that would like to do these subversive things can now do it much easier than ever before.
Lets not forget that history also shows wherever there is a new business oportunity to be exploited, someone will. We probably can't imagine all the _new_ and unwonderful things to come from all this personal detail.
Just as Sun pulled back from releasing Java to 3rd party standards control when they realized it would weaken shareholder leverage; MS will pull away from release of Windows source before it actually happens.
you buy it, you agree to it. period. i like to keep things damn simple.
if you want a garantee, buy something from someone that sells you one. Everything has a price. Don't cry if software good enough for a mars mission (oops bad choice), moon shot, costs much more than a few hundred bucks.
Lawyers make whining way too adult an excersize.
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Is there an analogy here: Robotic politicians running open-source operating systems = democracy Robotic politicians running proprietary operating systems = iron curtain I'm with the comment that Windows would be easier to hack. Fits the analogy well... friends from former USSR tell that manipulating the system was commonplace. wayathinkaboutthat?
Tip of the iceberg. I hope we technology geeks are not on the Titanic. It certainly seems like lawyers are at the helm and have no F^Kin idea what they are doing. Some of my pals are very smart lawyers. However, they have no clue how ignorant they are on the subject of patent law's impact in the very delicate area of technical creativity.
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Am I the only one that sees the development of robotic snakes as one step closer to creating the first wave of robotic politicians?
Z Microsof vill nefer bozer. So z Frensh vill jus haf to use ze LINUX! But zey vill have to use z linux vitout z StarOffice suite! Z frensh are stupid CrAzY!
I believe this works using the "Xerox coupled colander-helmet" technology pioneered by police interrogators. I did not realize, when first reading about the breakthrough, that IBM was also involved.
Judging by success of ZIP clones like WinZip, seemed like PKWare fell behind and was no longer profiting from its algorithm. I'm sadly curious to know the rest of the story... was the company failing, did that drive him to drink?:(
Listen Mr Foot-In-Mouth, my comment still stands. You think a person will somehow save money or have better technology if they "burn mp3s" to CD and then play them on a hybrid player? Let me think this one out loud: 1. Need to replace current CD player with this hybrid that reads MP3 from the disk (this costs $$ for player and electric motors are ultra inefficient) + 2. Will now burn MP3s to disk (disks cost $ per disk + cant just load up in 5 minutes with ad-hoc tunes). Why would anyone buying a new peice of equipement buy one that uses up more battery power (spin a disk vs read the RAM) and will cost as much or more than a pure MP3 player that loads straight from your PC? How about you shut your foot sucker now?
I've already patented the "wait for lawsuits" business process. I will not sue not-for-profits and schools, but will vigorously defend my intellectual property in all other circumstances.
This would be like carrying a horse in a sports car because you might need the horse sometime. CD + MP3 in one portable unit is garanteed to be landfill within a year or two. Home unit, thats a different story. There was a time when vinyl players existed in the den with cd players.
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1. Users initiate their own transfers.
2. Transmission is not controlled by the server.
3. The user selects the recipient.
4. What intermediate copies? The server is not involved.
5. Content is not modified.
The only thing stored/accumulated by the Napster servers is list of songs and machine statistics. There is nothing illegal about that.
I agree with the poster that said our system is F^cked up. We can thank the lawyers for that.
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In any case, I'm for anything practical that takes the "lawyer incentive" out of the equation. Where there are huge lawsuit settlements to be had, lawyers like sharks will gather. It makes sense to prevent that possibility by applying "buyer beware logic" and leaving it at that. period.
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AMD should consider burning the rated CPU speed into a custom instruction too. All CPU vendors should have started doing that a long time ago. (Intel got burned by folks scratching off the real speed and painting on a higher one a few years ago.)
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The danger is that those few persons out there that would like to do these subversive things can now do it much easier than ever before.
Lets not forget that history also shows wherever there is a new business oportunity to be exploited, someone will. We probably can't imagine all the _new_ and unwonderful things to come from all this personal detail.
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if you want a garantee, buy something from someone that sells you one. Everything has a price. Don't cry if software good enough for a mars mission (oops bad choice), moon shot, costs much more than a few hundred bucks.
Lawyers make whining way too adult an excersize.
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Robotic politicians running open-source operating systems = democracy
Robotic politicians running proprietary operating systems = iron curtain
I'm with the comment that Windows would be easier to hack. Fits the analogy well
wayathinkaboutthat?
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Z Microsof vill nefer bozer. So z Frensh vill jus haf to use ze LINUX! But zey vill have to use z linux vitout z StarOffice suite! Z frensh are stupid CrAzY!
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I believe this works using the "Xerox coupled colander-helmet" technology pioneered by police interrogators. I did not realize, when first reading about the breakthrough, that IBM was also involved.
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Judging by success of ZIP clones like WinZip, seemed like PKWare fell behind and was no longer profiting from its algorithm. I'm sadly curious to know the rest of the story ... was the company failing, did that drive him to drink? :(
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Listen Mr Foot-In-Mouth, my comment still stands. You think a person will somehow save money or have better technology if they "burn mp3s" to CD and then play them on a hybrid player? Let me think this one out loud: 1. Need to replace current CD player with this hybrid that reads MP3 from the disk (this costs $$ for player and electric motors are ultra inefficient) + 2. Will now burn MP3s to disk (disks cost $ per disk + cant just load up in 5 minutes with ad-hoc tunes). Why would anyone buying a new peice of equipement buy one that uses up more battery power (spin a disk vs read the RAM) and will cost as much or more than a pure MP3 player that loads straight from your PC? How about you shut your foot sucker now?
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I've already patented the "wait for lawsuits" business process. I will not sue not-for-profits and schools, but will vigorously defend my intellectual property in all other circumstances.
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This would be like carrying a horse in a sports car because you might need the horse sometime. CD + MP3 in one portable unit is garanteed to be landfill within a year or two. Home unit, thats a different story. There was a time when vinyl players existed in the den with cd players.
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