At almost every credit card company, bank, and stock broker I have ever belonged, I have found them using a very simple set of data to identify callers as "legitimate":
Name (of course)
SSN (even though they are not supposed to, and variously the full number or just the last 4, which can vary between calls to the same company)
Mother's maiden name
address
zip code
phone number
Only my last broker has taken the additional step of asking me what my major current holdings were...
The problem, of course, is that everyone in my immediate family knows all of this information about me, including my SSN. So do all of my doctors/dentists, etc. In fact, a number of genealogical sites can find out almost all of that, too. Also, anyone intercepting my paper mail can find out from brokerage mailings what my holdings are. However, getting these people to add another form of ID to the accounts is always either impossible or very difficult.
Anyone else notice this problem, and have other suggestions or comments? I feel like lying on my mother's maiden name line from now on, and putting a password in it.
Actually, most of that time was spenth replying to slashdot posts. I copy the entire message by hand first before I begin to write. You'd be amazed what you're capable of when you don't try to spellcheck, grammar check, or anything-proof your typing.
How many times have you been asked what's so magic? =)
What?!? I was buying LEDs from Radio Shack about 20 years ago, when I was discovering "neat stuff" - I think a pack of 15 or 20 assorted LEDs was around $2.25 back then... (I'm sure my dad knew better than to ask why a 10 year old was wasting his allowance on stuff like that, because he probably bought vacuum tubes as a kid)
Does anybody still have Real Player installed? And actually use it for a general player and not just for when certain cites require it for video clips?
I've got it installed, but just because a friend of mine gave me some files in that format. It's incredibly bloated software, and I have ZoneAlarm totally blocking it from the internet, because I caught it trying to get on several times a day, even when it was supposedly not running. Unfortunately, Quicktime looks to be getting almost as bad with the bloat, though it does behave when I tell it not to check for updates.
It's not the layout that bugs me (it looks like it has been there a while, but the front page a new site will be up shortly), it's the fact that the first sentence is incomplete:
Considerable interest has been expressed in the views of the JPEG committee concerning claims made by Forgent Networks Inc on their web site that intellectual property that they have obtained through their acquisition of Compression Labs Inc.
If they can't proofread text for a website, it makes me worry about them proofreading other documents... such as standards, or the fine print that says "we own the IP we're touting in these proposals."
accepts your payment, for free software.... for free software....
Free as in, I need this done, I'm willing to pay for it, but you can give it away to anyone else out there, so that they don't have to reinvent the wheel.
It's kinda like a church. Generally, churches need some sort of place to hold worship services in, and buildings don't get built unless people give money. However, after they get built, they're free and open to all members and guests, including those who haven't given any money. (Yes, I know there are exceptions, but you get the point)
If you don't like that analogy, think of PBS. Certain foundations want shows made to deal with certain topics, and they pay for their production and later may subsidize their broadcast. That's how a lot of the shows get paid for. You don't have to pay to watch PBS, either.
at least with me. The last I heard of them was when I bought copies of TurboLinux Workstation 3 and Corel Linux (unknown version) because rebates promised they would end up being free-or-almost, and I wanted more distros to play with. However, neither company ever sent rebate checks. I assumed the worst, and decided not to bother uninstalling SuSE (6?) for testing. Turned out to be a good decision - I'm currently on 8.0 Pro, and SuSE will be my only *nix distro for my PCs (I use Open BSD on my SPARC) and my main *nix environment until I get a Mac.
I found it scary the one of the ID software guys said people were using hooks in their software they didn't know existed. Either he doesn't know what he's talking about, or ID needs some code review.
Since the guy in question is John Romero, the quote certainly is interesting. I'd say he probably knows what he's talking about.
It's too bad the history of "modding" didn't make it into the article. I remember when a hacked version of Gauntlet came out, that was x-rated and had little genitalia running around instead of the usual dungeon monsters. It was called "Cuntlet" and was a favorite amongst those of us who were BBSing and just hitting puberty... =)
The original "crop circles" were later admitted to be a hoax. However, when I tried to run a search for that information to show it here, I couldn't find it among the deluge of sites like this one which claims that "most serious researchers" believe that they are from "supernatural intelligence" and give quasi-religious defense for that... Where is the Amazing Randi when I need him?
Unfortunately, while I think it would be great for BeOS to rise up from the bitbucket, the fact of the matter is many of us who owned licenses for the operating system felt like we were "donating" since R3. My cd sets date from DP2 to 5Pro, and driver support for a lot of things was still DIY in that final version.
I'll miss it, and the promise of the insanely fast, streamlined media server on even average hardware, but for me the "batmobile"(to quote Neal Stephenson) has been mothballed. After I get my next job, I'm going to buy a Mac (something I've wanted since I saw the first one in junior high school, but could never afford) and pin my hopes on OSX's BSD kernel keeping developers interested.
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You prefer.MP3, which stands for "hi, I'm an idiot; I don't know it's an MPEG2 file" then?
We've got.mpg,.mpeg,.mp2,.mp3, and probably several other file extensions for THE SAME STANDARD and you can't think of anything better to bitch about than the fact that ALL OGG FILES (audio, video, what have you) will have the SAME EXTENSION? Sheesh.
Actually, it's MPEG II Layer 3, and is used specifically for audio (have you ever seen an MP3 video?), while.mpg,.mpeg, and.mp2 have all been used for video. And, yes, it's quite confusing to have mixed media formats using the same extension, when not all Ogg players will recognize all media types. Does the WinAmp plugin for Ogg Vorbis have support for the video Oggs, and anything else that may come out? This is going to slow acceptance of the Vorbis format.
I've looked at BestCrypt, Scramdisk, and DiskCrypt. What have you found that works for you?
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I guess you are the geek. I have no idea what "fantasy character" OGG is named after (I believe you, it is just that you would have to be a geek to realize that it is a fantasy character).
Well, I'm geek enough to read Slashdot, which has mentioned in past articles that "Ogg Vorbis" has something to do with Terry Pratchett. I just looked up the FAQ at the Vorbis website, which pointed me to this page that confirms that Vorbis is from a character in one of his books, and Ogg is from the old game Netrek.
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Nifty. It's got a plugin for WinAmp, at least =)
However, there is a problem with the format not being widespread, yet. There's only codecs for Windows, Linux, and Solaris, so far. But thanks, I'll keep an eye on this =)
This almost sounds like Barney's little movie in the Simpsons episode where they are doing a local film festival. It was something like "Don't cry for me, I'm already dead". I wish I could find that video.
Certainly, if you mean "almost" in the sense of nothing much like, actually, except it made me sniffle, too =) When they made that episode, I think they embraced more than parodied "art" films with it, and it worked really well.
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If you are curious to know which hardware vendor has public beta testing. Heheh, I'm not telling.
Yah, I get the emails from those people, too, only my notice came over a week ago =) Notice how the first questions they ask are about whether you want something that looks good with lots of colors, or something with lots of features? My guess is that since this is a beta step, they've already decided which way the hardware will be, and this is actually a way to cut people from consideration. Also, ironically, they probably only want people for the solid state player who have already got one, based upon their questions... which doesn't make sense. Should they be going after the small segment of the market that already owns players, when they'd have to find some way of convincing them that what they already have sucks, or should they go after the large segment of people who haven't yet found something that appeals to them?
Oh, and to get this back to topic: I picked only MP3, because there should always be MP3 players around, so that's the format I'm storing everything in. I have lots of gigabytes of space, so I don't care about the best compression. I've already had problems some AVI codecs no longer being supported, and don't get me started on the whole Quicktime for Windows not playing some MOV files mess. =) MP3 is a standard standard, with the only real question being whether a player will support high-rate VBR, which I prefer. Now, if you could get me totally lossless compression of sound, then I'll consider switching...
OT: Ogg is such a crappy name for a format, anyway. OGG stands for "hi, I'm a geek, I'm going to name what I create after fantasy characters."
You are correct. Various types of air cooling and conditioning have been in use for thousands of years. Here is a brief list of some of the types of air conditioning methods used in the history of Texas for the last few hundred years. It is worth noting that many large buildings still use the ice-chiller system to cool air, and it's being used in new construction, as well. "Refrigerated air" is simply not terribly efficient in large spaces.
I don't think most of us in the United States will ever see the best commercials there are - in every compilation of international commercials I have seen, the Europeans trump us easily, especially when it comes to "public service announcement" type ads. Since these compilations get shown every year at film festivals, it would make perfect sense for AdCritic to offer them as a pay feature.
I wouldn't say it's the best one, but one of the ones I remember best from these annual shows was one that only ever played at one theater in England, for a reason that will be obvious: it was a PSA, and showed a homeless (drug addicted? alcoholic?) person, the quiet kind most ignore unless they are causing trouble, only in this ad you hear not only about the man, but from the man himself. The PSA turned out to be for a local charity that assisted people like him, and at the end of the part where he talks about how they helped him, he says they even gave him a job. The commercial ends with the charity saying that besides just helping him, they hired him to collect donations... and he's the guy everyone outside that theater in England just all passed by and probably ignored on their way inside, as he sat on the ground outside the theater. If I remember correctly, it closes with a shot of him there, waiting.
I think most people in the theater watching the compilation with me were crying at the end of that one, and we were a few thousand miles away. It was... very effective in getting people to care about someone, flipping it back around to point out that they may think they care, but they have ignored obvious opportunities to help, and then pretty much pushing them directly back towards that opportunity.
I'm sure I've really mangled the content, and you can't possibly really get the full effect from what I said - which is precisely why AdCritic should be showing foreign ads, as well. There's a lot of powerful stuff out there, and we should be able to access it online.
Not really. Microsoft's monopoly power in the software market is mostly due to the barriers-to-entry, and not due to the ability to undercut pricing by taking a loss on manufacturing. Current barriers include (but are not limited to):
startup costs - it costs a lot of money and time to develop a software "product." Remember that "Open Source != "free." It also takes money to set up for packaging and pressing disks and advertising, to get sufficient product to market and in the public eye while it's still "fresh."
currently installed user base - users already familiar with and using one product will prefer it to other products unless they are substantially "better," because of the learning curve and capital already invested. "Better" can be either a) same functionality at a lower price, or b) higher functionality, at a price determined by user experience with current products.
If Microsoft was really using their monopoly power to undercut pricing by "dumping" - that is, buy selling at a loss, they would be charging less than the couple of bucks for cds and books that it costs them to make and ship a product now, assuming they've already recovered their development expenses. And before you try to counter with the idea that OEMs get some products (OS, maybe some productivity tools) for almost free, remember that MS probably ships them 1 or 2 copies of the products, in CD or data tapes or whatever form, for them to pre-install on their systems, and then also charges them for "backup" media for each machine, unless the OEMs are licensed to make their own backup media, etc.
And its also possible that we're the result of such a colonization project and everyone forgot about it, or were dumped here without knowing to begin with. Or maybe they knew and simply never passed it on. Its not like a lot of folklore has lasted for 30K years.
I don't think this is really something to put much stock in, considering the fossil record. Given the evidence that seems to support the idea that our species' evolution has taken millions of years from proto-hominid to today, there's not a lot of room for the idea that we are a lost colony.
Even if someone did settle this planet millions of years ago, something quite catastrophic would have had to happen in order to wipe out any fossil record of more advanced creatures than what we have seen so far. Which means we'd not be real descendants of theirs, anyway.
Without you, the world would have been stuck with its adiction to Pac-Man sequels and clones, at least until Solitaire got packaged with MS Windows...
(Speaking of which, can anyone give a good accounting for the history of MS Solitaire? I know xsol and other solitaire games came out way before, but wasn't this the first computer game put in the hands of so many people at once?)
The anime was the best! I loved the ragtime soundtrack. They didn't even credit Fritzy though:(
That's because the anime was actually an adaptation of a Japanese comic book, and not a reincarnation of Fritz Lang's masterpiece. Here is a handy link, if you want to learn more about the anime, or get trailers, etc.
But try getting hold of just this material. If you already had a VHS copy you've paid twice for the movie. Also quite a lot of this material is very cheap for the publisher to add.
The fact that it's cheap for the publisher doesn't diminish their right to claim compensation for it. The people who work in diamond mines make a pittance, but I dare you to go to a De Beers warehouse, scoop up a handful of uncut gems, and attempt to walk out with them, using that as a reason.
Your moral recourse is to sell or give away your old copy (if you don't want two copies) and buy the new copy, or do without the new material. Anything else is stealing.
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- Name (of course)
- SSN (even though they are not supposed to, and variously the full number or just the last 4, which can vary between calls to the same company)
- Mother's maiden name
- address
- zip code
- phone number
Only my last broker has taken the additional step of asking me what my major current holdings were...The problem, of course, is that everyone in my immediate family knows all of this information about me, including my SSN. So do all of my doctors/dentists, etc. In fact, a number of genealogical sites can find out almost all of that, too. Also, anyone intercepting my paper mail can find out from brokerage mailings what my holdings are. However, getting these people to add another form of ID to the accounts is always either impossible or very difficult.
Anyone else notice this problem, and have other suggestions or comments? I feel like lying on my mother's maiden name line from now on, and putting a password in it.
Actually, most of that time was spenth replying to slashdot posts. I copy the entire message by hand first before I begin to write. You'd be amazed what you're capable of when you don't try to spellcheck, grammar check, or anything-proof your typing.
How many times have you been asked what's so magic? =)
LED's haven't been mainstream for 10 years really
What?!? I was buying LEDs from Radio Shack about 20 years ago, when I was discovering "neat stuff" - I think a pack of 15 or 20 assorted LEDs was around $2.25 back then... (I'm sure my dad knew better than to ask why a 10 year old was wasting his allowance on stuff like that, because he probably bought vacuum tubes as a kid)
Does anybody still have Real Player installed? And actually use it for a general player and not just for when certain cites require it for video clips?
I've got it installed, but just because a friend of mine gave me some files in that format. It's incredibly bloated software, and I have ZoneAlarm totally blocking it from the internet, because I caught it trying to get on several times a day, even when it was supposedly not running. Unfortunately, Quicktime looks to be getting almost as bad with the bloat, though it does behave when I tell it not to check for updates.
I run a skeptic-oriented search engine called Skeptic Planet
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I also run a Slash-based news site called Skeptic News...
Cool. Haven't played with them, yet, but they're bookmarked now =) Definitely relevant to the topic under discussion.
It's not the layout that bugs me (it looks like it has been there a while, but the front page a new site will be up shortly), it's the fact that the first sentence is incomplete:
Considerable interest has been expressed in the views of the JPEG committee concerning claims made by Forgent Networks Inc on their web site that intellectual property that they have obtained through their acquisition of Compression Labs Inc.
If they can't proofread text for a website, it makes me worry about them proofreading other documents... such as standards, or the fine print that says "we own the IP we're touting in these proposals."
accepts your payment, for free software.... for free software....
Free as in, I need this done, I'm willing to pay for it, but you can give it away to anyone else out there, so that they don't have to reinvent the wheel.
It's kinda like a church. Generally, churches need some sort of place to hold worship services in, and buildings don't get built unless people give money. However, after they get built, they're free and open to all members and guests, including those who haven't given any money. (Yes, I know there are exceptions, but you get the point)
If you don't like that analogy, think of PBS. Certain foundations want shows made to deal with certain topics, and they pay for their production and later may subsidize their broadcast. That's how a lot of the shows get paid for. You don't have to pay to watch PBS, either.
at least with me. The last I heard of them was when I bought copies of TurboLinux Workstation 3 and Corel Linux (unknown version) because rebates promised they would end up being free-or-almost, and I wanted more distros to play with. However, neither company ever sent rebate checks. I assumed the worst, and decided not to bother uninstalling SuSE (6?) for testing. Turned out to be a good decision - I'm currently on 8.0 Pro, and SuSE will be my only *nix distro for my PCs (I use Open BSD on my SPARC) and my main *nix environment until I get a Mac.
I found it scary the one of the ID software guys said people were using hooks in their software they didn't know existed. Either he doesn't know what he's talking about, or ID needs some code review.
Since the guy in question is John Romero, the quote certainly is interesting. I'd say he probably knows what he's talking about.
It's too bad the history of "modding" didn't make it into the article. I remember when a hacked version of Gauntlet came out, that was x-rated and had little genitalia running around instead of the usual dungeon monsters. It was called "Cuntlet" and was a favorite amongst those of us who were BBSing and just hitting puberty... =)
The original "crop circles" were later admitted to be a hoax. However, when I tried to run a search for that information to show it here, I couldn't find it among the deluge of sites like this one which claims that "most serious researchers" believe that they are from "supernatural intelligence" and give quasi-religious defense for that... Where is the Amazing Randi when I need him?
Unfortunately, while I think it would be great for BeOS to rise up from the bitbucket, the fact of the matter is many of us who owned licenses for the operating system felt like we were "donating" since R3. My cd sets date from DP2 to 5Pro, and driver support for a lot of things was still DIY in that final version.
I'll miss it, and the promise of the insanely fast, streamlined media server on even average hardware, but for me the "batmobile"(to quote Neal Stephenson) has been mothballed. After I get my next job, I'm going to buy a Mac (something I've wanted since I saw the first one in junior high school, but could never afford) and pin my hopes on OSX's BSD kernel keeping developers interested.
You prefer .MP3, which stands for "hi, I'm an idiot; I don't know it's an MPEG2 file" then?
.mpg, .mpeg, .mp2, .mp3, and probably several other file extensions for THE SAME STANDARD and you can't think of anything better to bitch about than the fact that ALL OGG FILES (audio, video, what have you) will have the SAME EXTENSION? Sheesh.
.mpg, .mpeg, and .mp2 have all been used for video. And, yes, it's quite confusing to have mixed media formats using the same extension, when not all Ogg players will recognize all media types. Does the WinAmp plugin for Ogg Vorbis have support for the video Oggs, and anything else that may come out? This is going to slow acceptance of the Vorbis format.
We've got
Actually, it's MPEG II Layer 3, and is used specifically for audio (have you ever seen an MP3 video?), while
I've looked at BestCrypt, Scramdisk, and DiskCrypt.
What have you found that works for you?
I guess you are the geek. I have no idea what "fantasy character" OGG is named after (I believe you, it is just that you would have to be a geek to realize that it is a fantasy character).
Well, I'm geek enough to read Slashdot, which has mentioned in past articles that "Ogg Vorbis" has something to do with Terry Pratchett. I just looked up the FAQ at the Vorbis website, which pointed me to this page that confirms that Vorbis is from a character in one of his books, and Ogg is from the old game Netrek.
Nifty. It's got a plugin for WinAmp, at least =)
However, there is a problem with the format not being widespread, yet. There's only codecs for Windows, Linux, and Solaris, so far. But thanks, I'll keep an eye on this =)
This almost sounds like Barney's little movie in the Simpsons episode where they are doing a local film festival. It was something like "Don't cry for me, I'm already dead". I wish I could find that video.
Certainly, if you mean "almost" in the sense of nothing much like, actually, except it made me sniffle, too =) When they made that episode, I think they embraced more than parodied "art" films with it, and it worked really well.
If you are curious to know which hardware vendor has public beta testing. Heheh, I'm not telling.
Yah, I get the emails from those people, too, only my notice came over a week ago =) Notice how the first questions they ask are about whether you want something that looks good with lots of colors, or something with lots of features? My guess is that since this is a beta step, they've already decided which way the hardware will be, and this is actually a way to cut people from consideration. Also, ironically, they probably only want people for the solid state player who have already got one, based upon their questions... which doesn't make sense. Should they be going after the small segment of the market that already owns players, when they'd have to find some way of convincing them that what they already have sucks, or should they go after the large segment of people who haven't yet found something that appeals to them?
Oh, and to get this back to topic: I picked only MP3, because there should always be MP3 players around, so that's the format I'm storing everything in. I have lots of gigabytes of space, so I don't care about the best compression. I've already had problems some AVI codecs no longer being supported, and don't get me started on the whole Quicktime for Windows not playing some MOV files mess. =) MP3 is a standard standard, with the only real question being whether a player will support high-rate VBR, which I prefer. Now, if you could get me totally lossless compression of sound, then I'll consider switching...
OT: Ogg is such a crappy name for a format, anyway. OGG stands for "hi, I'm a geek, I'm going to name what I create after fantasy characters."
You are correct. Various types of air cooling and conditioning have been in use for thousands of years. Here is a brief list of some of the types of air conditioning methods used in the history of Texas for the last few hundred years. It is worth noting that many large buildings still use the ice-chiller system to cool air, and it's being used in new construction, as well. "Refrigerated air" is simply not terribly efficient in large spaces.
I don't think most of us in the United States will ever see the best commercials there are - in every compilation of international commercials I have seen, the Europeans trump us easily, especially when it comes to "public service announcement" type ads. Since these compilations get shown every year at film festivals, it would make perfect sense for AdCritic to offer them as a pay feature.
I wouldn't say it's the best one, but one of the ones I remember best from these annual shows was one that only ever played at one theater in England, for a reason that will be obvious: it was a PSA, and showed a homeless (drug addicted? alcoholic?) person, the quiet kind most ignore unless they are causing trouble, only in this ad you hear not only about the man, but from the man himself. The PSA turned out to be for a local charity that assisted people like him, and at the end of the part where he talks about how they helped him, he says they even gave him a job. The commercial ends with the charity saying that besides just helping him, they hired him to collect donations... and he's the guy everyone outside that theater in England just all passed by and probably ignored on their way inside, as he sat on the ground outside the theater. If I remember correctly, it closes with a shot of him there, waiting.
I think most people in the theater watching the compilation with me were crying at the end of that one, and we were a few thousand miles away. It was... very effective in getting people to care about someone, flipping it back around to point out that they may think they care, but they have ignored obvious opportunities to help, and then pretty much pushing them directly back towards that opportunity.
I'm sure I've really mangled the content, and you can't possibly really get the full effect from what I said - which is precisely why AdCritic should be showing foreign ads, as well. There's a lot of powerful stuff out there, and we should be able to access it online.
Yah! It was gonna be called Freon!
Strangely, the idea got a very chilly reception, though everyone complained when it eventually got banned.
Not really. Microsoft's monopoly power in the software market is mostly due to the barriers-to-entry, and not due to the ability to undercut pricing by taking a loss on manufacturing. Current barriers include (but are not limited to):
- startup costs - it costs a lot of money and time to develop a software "product." Remember that "Open Source != "free." It also takes money to set up for packaging and pressing disks and advertising, to get sufficient product to market and in the public eye while it's still "fresh."
- currently installed user base - users already familiar with and using one product will prefer it to other products unless they are substantially "better," because of the learning curve and capital already invested. "Better" can be either a) same functionality at a lower price, or b) higher functionality, at a price determined by user experience with current products.
If Microsoft was really using their monopoly power to undercut pricing by "dumping" - that is, buy selling at a loss, they would be charging less than the couple of bucks for cds and books that it costs them to make and ship a product now, assuming they've already recovered their development expenses. And before you try to counter with the idea that OEMs get some products (OS, maybe some productivity tools) for almost free, remember that MS probably ships them 1 or 2 copies of the products, in CD or data tapes or whatever form, for them to pre-install on their systems, and then also charges them for "backup" media for each machine, unless the OEMs are licensed to make their own backup media, etc.And its also possible that we're the result of such a colonization project and everyone forgot about it, or were dumped here without knowing to begin with. Or maybe they knew and simply never passed it on. Its not like a lot of folklore has lasted for 30K years.
I don't think this is really something to put much stock in, considering the fossil record. Given the evidence that seems to support the idea that our species' evolution has taken millions of years from proto-hominid to today, there's not a lot of room for the idea that we are a lost colony.
Even if someone did settle this planet millions of years ago, something quite catastrophic would have had to happen in order to wipe out any fossil record of more advanced creatures than what we have seen so far. Which means we'd not be real descendants of theirs, anyway.
Without you, the world would have been stuck with its adiction to Pac-Man sequels and clones, at least until Solitaire got packaged with MS Windows...
(Speaking of which, can anyone give a good accounting for the history of MS Solitaire? I know xsol and other solitaire games came out way before, but wasn't this the first computer game put in the hands of so many people at once?)
The anime was the best! I loved the ragtime soundtrack. They didn't even credit Fritzy though :(
That's because the anime was actually an adaptation of a Japanese comic book, and not a reincarnation of Fritz Lang's masterpiece. Here is a handy link, if you want to learn more about the anime, or get trailers, etc.
The fact that it's cheap for the publisher doesn't diminish their right to claim compensation for it. The people who work in diamond mines make a pittance, but I dare you to go to a De Beers warehouse, scoop up a handful of uncut gems, and attempt to walk out with them, using that as a reason.
Your moral recourse is to sell or give away your old copy (if you don't want two copies) and buy the new copy, or do without the new material. Anything else is stealing.