So we now live in a world where the effective copyright term is the maximum anywhere in the world? Do this transfer to other parts of the justice system also, as long as we add "on the internet"? What kind of nonsensical idiocy is this? Say the Taliban make it punishable by death use the internet, should we now honor their requests for people to be killed in the West, and if not, why do we honor requests from fucktards from the "why produce when we can live on the work of someone who's been dead 69 years."?
Can't wait for the Copyright Elite to buy a copyright extension to one BILLION years, retroactively somewhere, and then going around using the WIPO and whatever to enforce it against people under the threat of expensive litigation.
Some day this corporate greed will make people feel so powerless, so fucking fed up, that we'll see the rise of domestic terrorism like we've never seen it before.
I'll support them when they support me (=us gamers). Tit for tat. I have already cooperated first, and that didn't remove the silly copy-prevention mechanisms (and please don't say the word 'publishers', I'm not an idiot). I'm all out of cooperation.
Maybe it's the start of customers demanding an actual INTERNET Service Provider and not a Web Access provider, which most so called "ISPs" try for today. Subset-Internet Provider. Shit, SIP is taken too. Oh, well.
For fun I downloaded an application where I suspected the "keygen" was trojanized. I was correct; the real keygen had been bundled with some, as it would turn out, Off The Shelf trojan. However, I didn't know what trojan so I scanned with F-Secure's online-engine, which didn't detect anything (neither did my active AVG installation). So I sent in the exectuable as a sample, explained what little I had to say; where I found the file, that it was pecompact2'ed, that their online scan didn't detect it. The process of submitting a file req. you to attach the scanner log.
Got the reply that "The file you submitted was found to be malicious, and is already detected as Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Delf.asz using the latest virus definitions." and "Please update your virus definition databases to properly detect the file".
Remember, I had scanned it using their latest online scanner and provided the log where the trojan was NOT detected.
So, maybe an extra warning for online scanning engines.
PS.
Shortly after I had submitted the file to f-prot, AVG started detecting it.
>There is a saying amongst psychologists that at some point, each must come up with a reason why humans are fundamentally different from the other animals, only for someone to eventually prove them wrong.
I accept your challenge!
"Humans are fundamentally different from other animals, because we can travel into space using only tools we built."
I doubt you can get real tamper-resistant Flash for anything close to "$79 for a megabyte". So not only does self-destruction make almost no sense (the data is safely encrypted, no?), it likely "works" as patheticly bad as on that earlier product mentioned. You can't have self-destruction without tamper-resistance in the memory itself, because then you can always remove the memory and read it out off-device. And of course, for tamper-resistance to make sense, you can't just hand out bytes two anyone fondling your pins either... so, not knowing anything more than what's given in the blurb, I'll designate this a potentially shiny turd.
I know enough to know that Ebert doesn't get to take ownership of the expressions "art", "high art", "great art" with his definitions. Why can't he make up a couple of words instead, and say that games can't be those?
I follow the GCC list (you know, where all significant contributors hang around), and the only thing I've seen discussed is what should happen to the old branches when GCC goes GPLv3, and if the change should come with a version change. The thread starts here.
My editor provides a virtual or word-wrap line down the page at a user specified column, I checked and I too have it at 110 characters. My longest line in the currently edited file is 106: " GAME_WARNING("Texture '%s' height %d not power-of-2, expanding to %d\n", filename, tmp->h, texture_h);"
I could see the sense in using 120 or even 132, since there are common SVGA text-modes for these IIRC.
The FSF only want infringers to stop infringing / seize distribution, they're not in it for punitive damages. Companies are happy to comply, because their lawyers tell them "if this goes to court, we're fucked beyond belief". HTH.
>If you don't want DRM then stop pirating, you can't have it both ways.
I don't want DRM so I stopped buying. Solved the problem for me, but I don't see how it helps sound engineers exactly. Maybe they should stop fucking up CDs with compression too. That might help.
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WD's got one in their series named for german scheisse-pr0n: Caviar GP. 4W idle, capacities up to 1TB.
>It just sucks that the only player out there that has a decent interface doesn't play Ogg
My Cowon D2 plays Vorbis just fine, thank you very much. I have it loaded up on 80kbps vorbises (~400 songs per GB).
So we now live in a world where the effective copyright term is the maximum anywhere in the world? Do this transfer to other parts of the justice system also, as long as we add "on the internet"? What kind of nonsensical idiocy is this? Say the Taliban make it punishable by death use the internet, should we now honor their requests for people to be killed in the West, and if not, why do we honor requests from fucktards from the "why produce when we can live on the work of someone who's been dead 69 years."?
Can't wait for the Copyright Elite to buy a copyright extension to one BILLION years, retroactively somewhere, and then going around using the WIPO and whatever to enforce it against people under the threat of expensive litigation.
Some day this corporate greed will make people feel so powerless, so fucking fed up, that we'll see the rise of domestic terrorism like we've never seen it before.
Boycott Microsoft for... er... Microsoft. That'll show them!
And this joke isn't funny even if it were.
If so I suggest "Awkwardly Anal Anaconda"
> We NEED to support games like this.
I'll support them when they support me (=us gamers). Tit for tat. I have already cooperated first, and that didn't remove the silly copy-prevention mechanisms (and please don't say the word 'publishers', I'm not an idiot). I'm all out of cooperation.
See you in the bargain bin.
Maybe it's the start of customers demanding an actual INTERNET Service Provider and not a Web Access provider, which most so called "ISPs" try for today. Subset-Internet Provider. Shit, SIP is taken too. Oh, well.
One can dream.
For fun I downloaded an application where I suspected the "keygen" was trojanized. I was correct; the real keygen had been bundled with some, as it would turn out, Off The Shelf trojan. However, I didn't know what trojan so I scanned with F-Secure's online-engine, which didn't detect anything (neither did my active AVG installation). So I sent in the exectuable as a sample, explained what little I had to say; where I found the file, that it was pecompact2'ed, that their online scan didn't detect it. The process of submitting a file req. you to attach the scanner log.
Got the reply that "The file you submitted was found to be malicious, and is already detected as Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Delf.asz using the latest virus definitions." and "Please update your virus definition databases to properly detect the file".
Remember, I had scanned it using their latest online scanner and provided the log where the trojan was NOT detected.
So, maybe an extra warning for online scanning engines.
PS.
Shortly after I had submitted the file to f-prot, AVG started detecting it.
>There is a saying amongst psychologists that at some point, each must come up with a reason why humans are fundamentally different from the other animals, only for someone to eventually prove them wrong.
I accept your challenge!
"Humans are fundamentally different from other animals, because we can travel into space using only tools we built."
I doubt you can get real tamper-resistant Flash for anything close to "$79 for a megabyte". So not only does self-destruction make almost no sense (the data is safely encrypted, no?), it likely "works" as patheticly bad as on that earlier product mentioned. You can't have self-destruction without tamper-resistance in the memory itself, because then you can always remove the memory and read it out off-device. And of course, for tamper-resistance to make sense, you can't just hand out bytes two anyone fondling your pins either... so, not knowing anything more than what's given in the blurb, I'll designate this a potentially shiny turd.
I know enough to know that Ebert doesn't get to take ownership of the expressions "art", "high art", "great art" with his definitions. Why can't he make up a couple of words instead, and say that games can't be those?
I follow the GCC list (you know, where all significant contributors hang around), and the only thing I've seen discussed is what should happen to the old branches when GCC goes GPLv3, and if the change should come with a version change. The thread starts here.
Me thinks someone is on crack.
>The machine was buggy, the people knew it, they need to return the money when asked.
If the machine was buggy and paid out too little, would the casino track people down and offter them money back?
20mg/100ml (bought in Sweden, bottled in The Netherlands)
My editor provides a virtual or word-wrap line down the page at a user specified column, I checked and I too have it at 110 characters. My longest line in the currently edited file is 106: " GAME_WARNING("Texture '%s' height %d not power-of-2, expanding to %d\n", filename, tmp->h, texture_h);"
I could see the sense in using 120 or even 132, since there are common SVGA text-modes for these IIRC.
>Have you ever SEEN decompiled code?
Yes.
>It is assembly language, for one thing.
That would make it disassembled code, decompiled typically implies a higher level abstraction/language.
That's like saying that until someone blows you up with a hydrogen bomb, a hydrogen bomb is a totally ineffective control mechanism.
The FSF only want infringers to stop infringing / seize distribution, they're not in it for punitive damages. Companies are happy to comply, because their lawyers tell them "if this goes to court, we're fucked beyond belief". HTH.
See, this is why I run loop-AES with keyscrubbing. When they come for the RAM, there'll be nothing residual there. And people call me paranoid. Pffft.
(yes, I'm aware that's not what the order is about, but if they get the RAM, they can analyze it!)
Well.. I CALLED IT!! Let loose the balloons! WOHOoo I Called it!
(episode aired 2007-06-13)
Honestly, unleashing that kind of easy remote-control power on the unwashed masses seems like security hell waiting to happen.
>If you don't want DRM then stop pirating, you can't have it both ways.
I don't want DRM so I stopped buying. Solved the problem for me, but I don't see how it helps sound engineers exactly. Maybe they should stop fucking up CDs with compression too. That might help.
That my friend, took a LOT of fucking. :-)
Robotic Bears?! Threatdown #1 for sure!