Tell me I'm not the only one who wishes he could buy the place, bring some guns and washing machines down there (and an Apple IIe), play Mama Cass's "Make Your Own Kind of Music" every morning... and setup a system of telescopes and mirrors so I could see if anyone was coming inside.
They didn't mention in the article how this would be done... some sort of DRM (new format) or is the disc itself made out of some material that will corrupt the data shortly after being read by the laser?
From the article: "Showing a video of himself dressed in a sailor suit pretending to audition for the blockbuster Titanic, Gates pitched Hollywood with the proposition that only Microsoft could solve its piracy problem"
Is there a pirated video of this available anywhere?
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Let the torrent of lame Soylent Green jokes commence.
Hey now, let's leave Tito and his Neverland Ranch fantasties out of this.
A slashdot geek and Evangelline? If there's an all-out nuclear exchange, the surface will be habitable long before that happens.
Tell me I'm not the only one who wishes he could buy the place, bring some guns and washing machines down there (and an Apple IIe), play Mama Cass's "Make Your Own Kind of Music" every morning... and setup a system of telescopes and mirrors so I could see if anyone was coming inside.
1. I call someone... while it's connecting me I have to wait 60 seconds to listen to an ad...
2. Other person picks up the phone... they have to listen to a 60 second ad just to talk to me.
3. Oops, it's a wrong number. So I have to go back to step one and waste another 60 seconds.
4. ???
5. Profit!
They didn't mention in the article how this would be done... some sort of DRM (new format) or is the disc itself made out of some material that will corrupt the data shortly after being read by the laser?
From the article: "Showing a video of himself dressed in a sailor suit pretending to audition for the blockbuster Titanic, Gates pitched Hollywood with the proposition that only Microsoft could solve its piracy problem"
Is there a pirated video of this available anywhere?