If it won't let you change the channel, what's to keep a person from power-cycling the set (with either the on/off switch or if that doesn't work, the plug)?
"I wonder if there's some sort of cautionary tale that should make people skeptical of organizations that attempt to re-define emotionally charged terms..."
Two I can think of off the top of my head: [1] "1984", George Orwell [2] Republican party, years 2000, 2004
Actually, something a little more down home might work. I don't know if this has been mentioned, but WiFi works in the same frequency band that microwave ovens do. All you would have to do is take the door off a microwave and turn it on; all WiFi for about 5 miles out would be blitzed. Not necessarily wrecked, simply jammed.
Other wireless devices accessible to the public also work on similar, very restricted bands; all of which could be jammed with equally simple equipment.
So that satifies one prong of "denying the enemy access".
"How about a jumper as an inhibitor then, so that the BIOS can only be flashed if it's absent?"
Personally, I would prefer that the jumper be PRESENT to reflash the BIOS and absent otherwise. (they tend to get lost when you're monkeying around with the innards of the machine.)
Yup. My expression of my freedom to worship as I choose apparently makes me an idiot in the eyes of many, including a decent portion of the Slashdot crowd.
Here's where I stand. I am an atheist, pure and simple. I also realise that people believe in goofy stuff like religion. Furthermore, I mostly do not care what people believe in as long as they do not use it as an excuse to interfere with my life or to impose thier values on others through the legal system. When that happens, I become very upset and let it be known.
I also know that to some religious people, the existance of people who do not share thier beliefs constitutes a threat that must be somehow dealt with. Here in America, that is probably 40% of the [religious] population, and when, like myself, you are a member of an unpopular minority (7% ~ 13% depending on who you want to believe), that can be a serious danger to your physical well-being in some parts of the country.
Another poster pointed out that here in the States, churches are big business. That is definitely true. Entire law practices are based around maintaining the tax-free status of churches. Making churches tax-free entities is tantamount to government support of religion, although in this particular case, ALL religion, not just a particular faith. I for one think this should be abolished unless the church can show detailed accounting records of the charitable work that it is doing, and that that charitable work represents at least 50% of the church's profits.
And one other thing. Paedophile priests should get the death penalty. Hell, speaking as a parent, all paedophiles should fry.
"Expect a flurry of new, draconian laws protecting "Content Ownership" to be written and enacted during the boom phase. And we'll be stuck with these laws, even after this particular bubble bursts."
And expect people to ignore them like they always do when a bad law is passed.
The prognosis is not good if this is the case. Google it up and read about it. It is scarey to say the least.
"Point taken on the sacking and stupid perjury. I thought impeachment was an auto-sacking (forced election). At the time of the blow job scandal I was distracted by my wife leaving to give someone else a blow job."
Kythe (4779) wrote: "Artists are already discovering that they can afford home studios and to self-publish their songs online, which (as recent studies indicate) helps market the small-time bands. I'm thinking that within 10-20 years, the RIAA companies will either be defunct or will have gotten out of the business."
Third possibility: Aggressive lobbying and under the table political contributions result in the creation of an agency under whose supervision and involvement all music business must be carried out. Making, selling, listening, etc.
This is an example of where the law is so wrong that it should be ignored altogether. Just dive in, find the malware and make the tools to defeat it, and disseminate with care.
> I actually tried to file a complaint with the FCC. The only thing > they allow you to report is nudity and off color language.
Here's an idea. Complain to the FCC that there is NOT ENOUGH nudity and off-colour (real things that real people say) language. Get a whole bunch of people to complain that there is not enough nudity and off-colour language.
> I personally find religious fanatism much > more offensive than depictions of consenting > adults having a some fun together. So if > it's open season for restricting everything > that anybody in the world finds offensive, > let's make sure that we add religion to the > restricted list as well.
Amen, preach it brother. The religicos offer nothing and want all, and whine like spoiled rotton children when they don't get thier way. When they're not blowing people and things up, that is.
> Or to put it differntly: Considering that most > of middle America was originally built by > people who came there from Europe to escape > religiously inspired persecution, how come > they are so keen to reinstate it now, just > because they think they have a chance to make > it their particular flavor of intolerance?
That's only partly true. A lot of the religious zealots who got sent over to the (future) USA were tossed out of thier own countries for being even more intolerant bigoted assholes than the people who did the tossing. The religious bullshit we see in this country has been festering for the last 250 years and it's all starting to come to a head.
Add that to all the guns in this country and you have the ingredients for a civil war even nastier than the last one.
> If you want to make the web safe for impressionable > people, then create a.kids domain that is heavily > censored (expensive to register a subdomain, money > goes to policing it) and only allow children who > are likely to be traumatised by seeing sex / violence > / social commentary / intelligent conversation / > whatever to browse that, at their parents discression.
The funny part of this is that most of the "children" who seem to be traumatised by sex/violence/etc seem to be OVER the age of 18. Go figure.
>>But: unlike most people I don't think politicians >> are evil assholes, suck-ups or idiots.
>That's because you live in Norway. Try living here >to the US sometime, you'll change your opinion >very quickly, since it's precisely the type of >politicians we seem to get.
Only because they are a reflection of the masses who elect them.
"I was reading somewhere the other day...Hasn't a work around for the new DRM already been done...for the rootkit as well? All they're doing is making life more difficult for those they supposedly want to sell to, while the people that are in the business of pirating en masse are going to figure out a way in (probably less than) days after any new technoolgy comes out."
My understanding of how the commercial pirates do it is to make bit-accurate copies of whatever they're trying to clone. This means music, DRM, and all. They don't have to "break" or "crack" anything.
13. (appropriately enough) Believing in any religion other the official government-sanctioned and approved one. 14. Not believing in religion or god at all. 15. Speaking out against religion, religious figures, religious leaders, deities, concepts, practices, etc. 16. Not attending the state-sponsored / approved church when instructed to. 17. Doing business on Sunday. 18. Teaching any kind of critical thought process.
This would be a jeezoid's most secret wet-dream come true.
Today, to establish monopolies on entire fields of knowledge and commerce. To make the barriers to entry by would-be competitors too high to contemplate. To parcel out, on a fee basis, knowledge and culture in driblets and drablets, with restrictions on how that knowledge or culture can be used. To ultimately licence knowledge itself, with the end result being the reinstatement of the medieval guild system.
All of this backed by the full force and power of a government that is as corrupt as the system it is backing up. That enough reason?
Religious fucknuts put Bush in the whitehouse. As a resident of Texas, I had a chance to get a preview of what George Worthless Bush (as governor at the time) would be like as a president and so voted for Gore the first time and Kerry the second.
It is a good thing that a president can only serve two terms.
Precisely why the jesus junkies are pushing like hell to get "intelligent design" (I call it "assinine design")into science class. For the express purpose of undermining attempts to teach the kiddies how to REALLY think - clearly, critically, and logically. Stuporstition cannot stand up to science on any terms other than the use of force, so this is just what the stuporstitionists are doing. Force of law, force of public opinion, sometimes even physical force. (right now limited to rare bouts of fisticuffs, but that could change for the worse later.)
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If it won't let you change the channel, what's to keep a person from power-cycling the set (with either the on/off switch or if that doesn't work, the plug)?
The "inhaling partially burnt hydrocarbons from any plant" problem has been solved. Here is one of many solutions: https://www.vapolutionvaporizers.com/cgi-bin/ccp51 /cp-app.cgi
"I wonder if there's some sort of cautionary tale that should make people skeptical of organizations that attempt to re-define emotionally charged terms..."
Two I can think of off the top of my head:
[1] "1984", George Orwell
[2] Republican party, years 2000, 2004
Actually, something a little more down home might work. I don't know if this has been mentioned, but WiFi works in the same frequency band that microwave ovens do. All you would have to do is take the door off a microwave and turn it on; all WiFi for about 5 miles out would be blitzed. Not necessarily wrecked, simply jammed.
Other wireless devices accessible to the public also work on similar, very restricted bands; all of which could be jammed with equally simple equipment.
So that satifies one prong of "denying the enemy access".
"How about a jumper as an inhibitor then, so that the BIOS can only be flashed if it's absent?"
Personally, I would prefer that the jumper be PRESENT to reflash the BIOS and absent otherwise. (they tend to get lost when you're monkeying around with the innards of the machine.)
Yup. My expression of my freedom to worship as I choose apparently makes me an idiot in the eyes of many, including a decent portion of the Slashdot crowd.
Here's where I stand. I am an atheist, pure and simple. I also realise that people believe in goofy stuff like religion. Furthermore, I mostly do not care what people believe in as long as they do not use it as an excuse to interfere with my life or to impose thier values on others through the legal system. When that happens, I become very upset and let it be known.
I also know that to some religious people, the existance of people who do not share thier beliefs constitutes a threat that must be somehow dealt with. Here in America, that is probably 40% of the [religious] population, and when, like myself, you are a member of an unpopular minority (7% ~ 13% depending on who you want to believe), that can be a serious danger to your physical well-being in some parts of the country.
Another poster pointed out that here in the States, churches are big business. That is definitely true. Entire law practices are based around maintaining the tax-free status of churches. Making churches tax-free entities is tantamount to government support of religion, although in this particular case, ALL religion, not just a particular faith. I for one think this should be abolished unless the church can show detailed accounting records of the charitable work that it is doing, and that that charitable work represents at least 50% of the church's profits.
And one other thing. Paedophile priests should get the death penalty. Hell, speaking as a parent, all paedophiles should fry.
mattwarden (699984) wrote: "Oh don't you worry. The lawmakers would come up with something."
I'm sure they will. The question is how will the law be enforced? Will such a law even be enforceable?
"Expect a flurry of new, draconian laws protecting "Content Ownership" to be written and enacted during the boom phase. And we'll be stuck with these laws, even after this particular bubble bursts."
And expect people to ignore them like they always do when a bad law is passed.
TapeCutter (624760) said:
1 240.shtml
;-)
"So what would it take to get the current mob to answer questions under oath?"
I seriously doubt that. I have an increasing suspicion that BushCo (and other places) is full of psychopaths like those described here: http://www.psychopath-research.com/ or here:
http://www.geocities.com/lycium7/
And not just in the whitehouse, either:
http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_1
The prognosis is not good if this is the case. Google it up and read about it. It is scarey to say the least.
"Point taken on the sacking and stupid perjury. I thought impeachment was an auto-sacking (forced election). At the time of the blow job scandal I was distracted by my wife leaving to give someone else a blow job."
Was her name Monica by any chance?
Kythe (4779) wrote: "Artists are already discovering that they can afford home studios and to self-publish their songs online, which (as recent studies indicate) helps market the small-time bands. I'm thinking that within 10-20 years, the RIAA companies will either be defunct or will have gotten out of the business."
Third possibility: Aggressive lobbying and under the table political contributions result in the creation of an agency under whose supervision and involvement all music business must be carried out. Making, selling, listening, etc.
" Wow. Does this mean the thread is over before it's even started???"
No, it just points out that the only thing Nazis are good for is trashing stuff and hurting people.
Don't sweat it. Kids are a work-in-progress. The vast majority of them will grow up.
This is an example of where the law is so wrong that it should be ignored altogether. Just dive in, find the malware and make the tools to defeat it, and disseminate with care.
> I actually tried to file a complaint with the FCC. The only thing
> they allow you to report is nudity and off color language.
Here's an idea. Complain to the FCC that there is NOT ENOUGH nudity and off-colour (real things that real people say) language. Get a whole bunch of people to complain that there is not enough nudity and off-colour language.
It would be interesting to see what happens.
> I personally find religious fanatism much
> more offensive than depictions of consenting
> adults having a some fun together. So if
> it's open season for restricting everything
> that anybody in the world finds offensive,
> let's make sure that we add religion to the
> restricted list as well.
Amen, preach it brother. The religicos offer nothing and want all, and
whine like spoiled rotton children when they don't get thier way. When they're not blowing people and things up, that is.
> Or to put it differntly: Considering that most
> of middle America was originally built by
> people who came there from Europe to escape
> religiously inspired persecution, how come
> they are so keen to reinstate it now, just
> because they think they have a chance to make
> it their particular flavor of intolerance?
That's only partly true. A lot of the religious zealots who got sent over to the (future) USA were tossed out of thier own countries for being even more intolerant bigoted assholes than the people who did the tossing. The religious bullshit we see in this country has been festering for the last 250 years and it's all starting to come to a head.
Add that to all the guns in this country and you have the ingredients for a civil war even nastier than the last one.
> If you want to make the web safe for impressionable .kids domain that is heavily
> people, then create a
> censored (expensive to register a subdomain, money
> goes to policing it) and only allow children who
> are likely to be traumatised by seeing sex / violence
> / social commentary / intelligent conversation /
> whatever to browse that, at their parents discression.
The funny part of this is that most of the "children" who
seem to be traumatised by sex/violence/etc seem to be OVER
the age of 18. Go figure.
>>But: unlike most people I don't think politicians
>> are evil assholes, suck-ups or idiots.
>That's because you live in Norway. Try living here
>to the US sometime, you'll change your opinion
>very quickly, since it's precisely the type of
>politicians we seem to get.
Only because they are a reflection of the masses who
elect them.
Already been done. Company I'm no longer working for did this for the longest. Still at it AFAIK.
Koil (786141) wrote:
"I was reading somewhere the other day...Hasn't a work around for the new DRM already been done...for the rootkit as well? All they're doing is making life more difficult for those they supposedly want to sell to, while the people that are in the business of pirating en masse are going to figure out a way in (probably less than) days after any new technoolgy comes out."
My understanding of how the commercial pirates do it is to make bit-accurate copies of whatever they're trying to clone. This means music, DRM, and all. They don't have to "break" or "crack" anything.
Let's add some more:
13. (appropriately enough) Believing in any religion other the official government-sanctioned and approved one.
14. Not believing in religion or god at all.
15. Speaking out against religion, religious figures, religious leaders, deities, concepts, practices, etc.
16. Not attending the state-sponsored / approved church when instructed to.
17. Doing business on Sunday.
18. Teaching any kind of critical thought process.
This would be a jeezoid's most secret wet-dream come true.
How can they patent something people have been doing for years?
deroby (568773) wrote:
"Such splendid use of the word "CAPITALism" =)"
But what Sony has done might be called CRAPitalism.
Today, to establish monopolies on entire fields of knowledge and commerce. To make the barriers to entry by would-be competitors too high to contemplate. To parcel out, on a fee basis, knowledge and culture in driblets and drablets, with restrictions on how that knowledge or culture can be used. To ultimately licence knowledge itself, with the end result being the reinstatement of the medieval guild system.
All of this backed by the full force and power of a government that is as corrupt as the system it is backing up. That enough reason?
Welcome to the new serfdom.
Religious fucknuts put Bush in the whitehouse. As a resident of Texas, I had a chance to get a preview of what George Worthless Bush (as governor at the time) would be like as a president and so voted for Gore the first time and Kerry the second.
It is a good thing that a president can only serve two terms.
Precisely why the jesus junkies are pushing like hell to get "intelligent design" (I call it "assinine design")into science class. For the express purpose of undermining attempts to teach the kiddies how to REALLY think - clearly, critically, and logically. Stuporstition cannot stand up to science on any terms other than the use of force, so this is just what the stuporstitionists are doing. Force of law, force of public opinion, sometimes even physical force. (right now limited to rare bouts of fisticuffs, but that could change for the worse later.)