// To compromise national security, uncomment the following // // enable GlobalThermonuclearWar; // // Then reboot and access the interface through the Global Thermonuclear War(TM) Control Panel
I'm too young to remember it, but I'm told that the music industry went ape when DAT came out and cassette tapes as well because they would cause rampant piracy resulting in an industry collapse.
They went apeshit even with cassette tapes; I still remember the ads they took out in the backs of magazines trying to convince people that taping records was theft. The US Congress Office of Technology Assessment actually studied the effect of home taping on the recording industry in 1989 and concluded that it actually benefited the industry to let people tape records. Here's the study. It actually dealt with and answered most of the arguments the RIAA raised again with regard to P2P. (If you're interested, this study of the future of copyright and the music industry is a must read too).
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Or, perhaps, they were just lying in Court, and in fact the source code to Windows actually isn't a threat to national security?
Extortionists.
It is some old man. A very wealthy one.
If everyone would simply get on the same page and interpret FREEDOM the way I tell you to, then advocacy of freedom will be so much more effective.
Yeah.
Quit trying to post to slashdot and get back to work.
--your boss
Of course, that higher level of consciousness is provided by a Beowulf cluster.
Imagine a single processor, isolated from the cluster, working all by itself!
Does using the cluster to gain notoriety on slashdot count as something important?
Why would you even want one instance of all those Democrats?
How did OO make PC emulation a non-issue? OO is an Office suite, isn't it?
Yes, but UCITA basically turns those license agreements into law. At least without UCITA you have the option of contesting unreasonable license terms.
They already tried that.
Are you saying that someone suggested Apple ship computers with Dvorak keyboards?
But RIAA and Apple are working together here.
Your identity is "Kjella." And I didn't even have to get a court order to figure that out.
Actually the paperclip gives the floppy help when the floppy needs to write a letter.
click here.
I can't even understand what you're talking about without reading the article first.
They went apeshit even with cassette tapes; I still remember the ads they took out in the backs of magazines trying to convince people that taping records was theft. The US Congress Office of Technology Assessment actually studied the effect of home taping on the recording industry in 1989 and concluded that it actually benefited the industry to let people tape records. Here's the study. It actually dealt with and answered most of the arguments the RIAA raised again with regard to P2P. (If you're interested, this study of the future of copyright and the music industry is a must read too).
Does that mean if you are observing the crime, then you are committing it yourself?
I'm not certain.
iDon'tKnow
You'll be able to play eight-track tapes on it.
Actually, they're going to be releasing this chip with Duke Nukem Forever pre-installed.
Underage Russian girls in schoolgirl skirts making out with each other on stage. What more do you need to know?