Well, if any or all of the open source projects are any indication, someone will get that shitty game fuxracer ported to run on PS2 hardware by,....oh....2008? I guess you really think Sony gave away their costly proprietary devkits somehow in the joke that is PS2 linux. It's useless without the real, COSTLY kit.
You're right...linux does fall short in a LOT of places the zealots never mention. Keep in mind linux was put together by a hacker as a toy without any thought of the future. The childish responses from KDE are typical of the open source "community", they know much more than the rest of the folks and will tell you how wrong you are. And these are the same people who honestly believe linux has a chance in a real environment??
The old addage applies 100% here: You get what you pay for.
Oh PLEASE!!! My pants are pulled up to the kneecaps to wade through this shit. You actually think real people believe you don't buy discs because they're FRAGILE?? Oh my GOD, you must be a sight when you venture out in public if that's true. I know a guy who has severe obsessive compulsive disorder and even he doesn't act like that. He washes his discs regularly in the sink! Enough with the "copy the disc and put it away" bullshit...nobody in their right mind does any such thing.
Why don't you mind your own business? You have no say in MY country. Among other things you have no idea about - in case you never noticed, modchips are used 99.99999% for PIRACY. Give UP already on the "legal" uses for modchips, stallmans arguments don't hold any weight when applied to the real world. The debateable fact that 18 people in the world run loonix on the Xbox is irrelevant to the law.
Fact: Modchips are used for piracy only -.00001 percent of "legal" uses are bullshit and everyone knows it but pretends not to.
Fact: You have no idea how we do things in America so stop pretending you do. Therefore, you are standing on thin air when you bluster on about "governement is taking over people's right" (direct quote). If you don't live here, why worry about it? Oh wait...you have to make noise that masquerades as intelligent debate because that's the only way you feel better about yourself.
Fact: You couldn't counter the statements about replacing "data" with "clothing" because there is no response. Theft is theft, even in your country. You knew that, you just pretended not to so you look good to the moderators. And modchip/knife replacement analogy doesn't work, but you knew that too, so I won't elaborate.
Fact: You have no capacity for intelligent debate. The proof is the first sentence in your lovely post: "You obviously have no idea whatsoever what this thread is about, how about you go that gay pr0n site and masturbate." What kind of intellectual arguement is that supposed to be? Wait...you have none. You just pretended to be intellectual about the issue.
Fact: There is a lot of pretending going on at this website. Anyone notice that? I'll be the first to point it out. I keep hearing The Great Pretender in my head....pretending loonix is the cat's meow, pretending to be lawyers and intellectuals, pretending to live outside of Mom's house, the list goes on and on.
And finally....yes...I am full aware of what the original post was about. The Dept of Justice shut down a website as a condition of that guy's conviction. You completely ignored the facts presented in my informative post just like everyone else did, because facts mean nothing to blind hypocrites. Read the article, not the nonsense here, but the real one, and you'll find every word was true. Convicted in early December, website shut down in late February. That's almost 3 months. You people act like complete fools without even finding out the facts first. Then again, you may have read it but pretended otherwise so you could march in line with the rest of the blockheads.
Something struck me about all the copyright circumvention equipment and procedures you people adore so much....I believe that far less than one percent of the crowd who crows incessantly about them actually used them. That tells us that all the hot air and blustering about copyrighted electronic data theft is nothing more than an ideology, just like loonix. Get real - steal in the real world you go to jail. You knew that...you just pretend otherwise.
Of course, all the slushfuck morons jumped off the edge of the cliff before actually reading the articles. If you assholes would have read first, you would have seen that the website was taken down AS A RESULT OF HIS CONVICTION. He was convicted as a criminal for selling modchips, the site going down went along with his conviction. He was convicted in early December so why is this news? I know why..because the jerky boys who run this godawful site KNEW everyone would jump to conclusions and turn it into something it's not, just like loonix.
I wish I would've counted how many posts from absolute idiot morons I saw stating they are leaving the country because of this legitimate arrest/conviction/surrender of property. What assholes. No one seems to mind that drug dealers lose their cars, houses, cash, etc when they get convicted, so why the bullshit over a stupid website? Wait, I know! Because it's electronic. Somehow, everything electronic holds a special place in the universe for the jerkoffs that worship at this website. They think because it's electronic they can steal it, trade it, and do whatever they please with it. Well, it ain't so and you KNOW it's true.
The justification of theft that goes on at this site is absolutely appalling. I'd pay money to watch a team of the great minds at this site argue their theories and justifications of stealing electronic data against one law enforcement officer, then replace "data/media" in their speech with "pair of shoes", "shirt", etc. Wouldn't that be a riot to watch?? Stealing is stealing, no matter if it's digital or tangible. But you knew that already, you just want to pretend you don't so that you can fit in with others on this outdated shithole website.
Spike really didn't plan apocalypses...he helped stop Angel several times...most notably the episode where he left Sunnydale after helping thwart Angel. He drove off in a black car with the windows painted black. I laughed real hard at that one...theres something funny about vampires driving vehicles during the daytime.
The first of many, many boo-hoo crybaby tales to come. Of course, anyone with half a brain knows that anyone who complains about a product they do not own - "but I bought from their competitor instead, this year" has nothing to bitch about. That's comparable to complaining about your neighbor's TV set because it doesn't have features that you enjoy. Silly isn't it?
It's time that the last remaining holdouts from the "everything is free" era wake up and grow up. It won't be long until every piece of legitimate (i.e. - anything but loonyix) software has measures to stop piracy and there isn't one thing you can do about it. Sure you can go play with loonix and pretend you're superior so you can avoid it but you'll jump over to the Windows partition to do anything useful soon enough.
I found it funny that Mr. Support used these words at the outset of his email: "Feedback from customers like you is the best way for us....". Without you even knowing it he pushed your face into the dirt. Customers like you he said. In otherwords, customers like you who bitch and whine about our right to protect our product from being stolen. You didn't even realize he did it, even though he expounded on that idea in the next paragraph.
If you think about it...security/police will take you away for shoplifting a CD at the music store, leaving you with a criminal record and a fine to pay. If you steal software, nothing happens. Why isn't anything done about it? Well, the developers are taking matters into their own hands and protecting their merchandise by themselves. And all you loonix assholes can do is complain about it. Why be so concerned if you only run loonix to begin with? Hypocrite blowhards...
Finally, a post from someone who knows what they're talking about and it only gets a 1 score? After weeding through miles of garbage blaming the card companies and general slushdot stupidity, an informative post only gets a 1. Well, obviously no one here has any sense because they're too wrapped up in seeing conspiracies founded at Microsoft. Why else would there be posts wondering why there was a list of 2 million card numbers? Only a damn fool would say something like that. Say it with me: get your head out of your ass and get out of Mom's basement.
And yes, hacker DOES equal cracker today. No matter how loud you protest, no one hears it. Get over it because every normal person knows hacker=cracker. Words change meaning over time and nothing will ever change it.
Parent labeled insightful? Why??? Because he's towing the standard nightly news line on junk science. "Science falsely so called" said Paul to Timothy in the Bible. Look it up..you'll find it in 2nd Timothy in the King James Bible. That's what we're dealing with here. Anyone with their head on straight knows that the only reason "science" is marching on Mars is because they just have to prove there is water elsewhere than Earth (and comets). So they have to make things up that sound fantastic to wow the feeble minded... and they just eat it up - just look at em go here!
Heres a simple fact: The Lord put humans into the corner of the galaxy for a reason. He really don't want us screwing up the rest of His creation. Rest assured, we will never get outside of the solar system with anything, including humans. Don't plan on a Martian vacation anytime soon because it will get blown to bits before it happens.
And really, enough with the world is flat nonsense dig at those who don't fall for idiot science. We know what real science is because it can be proven over and over and over again. Like physics. Empirical science.
It is against the law to murder but what in hell does that have to do with the good old DMCA? Nothing. I love how these "thoughtful, intelligent" people on slushdot try to lump everything onto Microsoft and the DMCA. Get over the fact that it exists and nothing will ever change it. The facts are that everyone knows these jokers were intent on pirating DirecTV, the same way everyone knows Skylarov was going to pirate ebooks, and the same way everyone knows the DeCSS garbage was expressly for pirating DVDs. Right! Off you go, into the cell for THEFT, the same thing as swiping a jacket off the rack and walking out of the store. THEFT.
The BSA sends nasty letters to scare and harass businesses under some pretense of being authoritative. Jesse Jackson and his band of merry thieves go around to large businesses and count the number of minorities working there. If the said business tells Jesse to go fuck himself, all of a sudden he's on the news blasting away at the company, boycotting, etc etc. Generally making life miserable. Now on the other hand, if that company slides Jesse a nice fat check, he won't mention the "problem" again. The name of the game is extortion..the Mafia's been using it for years, now it's gone legit. How else does a man who never worked in his life become wealthy enough to pay off his illegitimate child and mistress?? Heh.
Actually...I believe only the company that produces the software has the right to check licenses, not the extortion group pandering for cash. The case that sticks in my mind is the City of VA Beach....MS did an audit and found they had hundreds of unlicenced copies of stuff. I don't believe the BSA had anything to do with that...
If you wipe Microsoft (note the spelling) off of your computer, you'll find out how good 'ol Microsoft really is when you can't run anything without editing a config file 14 times.
Here it is one more time for all the eggheads out there:
THE ONLY REASON YOU SUPPORT DECSS AND THAT PUNK KID IS BECAUSE LINUX HAS NO DVD PLAYER. IT HAS NO PLAYER BECAUSE NO ONE WILL PAY FOR THE LEGAL DECODER NEEDED TO CREATE SUCH AN APPLICATION.
Read the above sentences over and over and over again until it sinks in. You have no arguement with Hollywood whatsoever, that's just a straw dummy. You see, 99% of the world (Macs included) have no problem at all watching DVDs on their machines. All you have to do is boot into Windows to watch your discs...all of you Linux morons have a Windows partition because you do have to get some work done sometime.
Again: THE ONLY REASON YOU SUPPORT THIS GARBAGE IS BECAUSE LINUX HAS NO DVD PLAYER.
This legislation affects no ones civil liberties and YOU PEOPLE KNOW IT. All this pissing and moaning you people do has to do with one thing - there are no software (or hardware) DVD decoders for linux. Look hard and deep inside of yourselves....you know it's really true but you can't admit it because Stall-head and Raymond have you fooled right now. Every company or person on the face of this earth has the right to protect THEIR FUCKING PROPERTY any way they want and YOU HAVE NO SAY IN THE MATTER.
By the way, the EFF, wrong as they are on most issues, are at least consistent in their views. They don't put up straw dummies like the DMCA and pretend the earth is slowing it's rotation because of it. Stop lying to yourselves and admit the truth. THE ONLY REASON THE SO-CALLED LINUX COMMUNITY HATES THE DMCA IS BECAUSE THERE ARE NO DVD DECODERS FOR THEIR OS. If that is not a true and factual statement, why isn't the rest of the world up in arms about it? I'm speaking of the real world, not the server room or anywhere else linuxheads hang out. We know the truth...you just can't handle it.
And I still do not. Neither do you assholes. Most people who blather on and on about this DEAD AS A FUCKING DOORNAIL issue know nothing about it. Lookie here all you chicken littles: the world didn't end, the sky didn't fall, and your little linux machine is still running after 4 years under the iron fist rule of the DMCA. Only a linux moron would be so concerned over something like this because they have no software DVD decoders for linux. Why? Because no one wants to throw their money down the tubes creating one. Duh.
Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. Peter Sellers played 3 roles - the President, Strangelove and Mandrake. Great movie....loved it when George C. Scott fell and kept on talking. That was an actual screwup, he wasn't supposed to fall.
Hey that's funny - how is it that no "Linux" companies aren't on that list????? I know! I know! THERE'S NO MONEY TO BE MADE GIVING SOMETHING AWAY. Read that sentence again and again and again. It will make sense to you eventually. I did, however, notice that Adobe and Microsoft were on the list. Hmmm. They make money selling software. Ohhhhhhhhhhh...that's right, I forgot. It's not ethical to SELL software, but it's perfectly OK to copy Windows or Photoshop and give it away to your 2 friends. Isn't that a hoot???
This means nothing to the law abiding US citizen. All it means is that the Norwegian courts are out of their minds. Don't even think the lawyers here will give up because they will not. Everyone knows that his little program was specifically written to rip DVD content so that it could be copied elsewhere. And don't give us that standard line of horseshit about doing what you want with your stuff either. If he wanted to watch his little DVD, he could use a set-top box like 99% of the public or use Windows, like 99% of the public. It's not as though there isn't an easy method of viewing DVDs.
Get over your bullshit attitude about stealing every piece of electronic media. Just because it's electronic or digital does not mean it's yours for the taking. Remember - in the real world, we pay for the things we own because that is how things work. We also don't give a shit that we legally cannot make 25 copies of Spider-man to give out to our friends. We just pay the nice man at the register $15 and walk out. Just WAIT until all you little college kiddies get out of school...wait until you have to pay back the $50,000 it cost. Wait! Here's a suggestion: because obviously everything you learned in college isn't useful, just tell the bank you will only pay them for the parts you found useful. Then college will only cost $1000...fuck them! Go ahead, try it!!! I bet it would work...why not...it always works in the slashdot/linux world.
Linux is dead in less than 3 years - an afterthought on a page of history.
Yes, you are failing to understand the use. Call, write or fax ANY game developer who develops PC games and Xbox games. Ask them how "computer-like" the Xbox is. Listen in amazement as they debunk every lie ever spouted on this website. But then again, slashdot is known worldwide for their expertise in everything known to mankind, so of course "the developer would lie about the truth".
It's been over a year since the Xbox debut and the pro-communist OS crowd is still trying to lie and confuse a non-issue. Real world folks do not care and are buying Xboxes to play games. Don't believe me? Read this and see what you think.
BZZZT! It doesn't matter where they lose money because they have LOTS to lose. As a matter of fact, the Xbox is already ahead of the GameCube. Check out this link on IGN for the straight scoop. What do they care if they're still losing cash only after 1 year on the market and have taken over 2nd place? Game Informer magazine printed a strong rumor that 3rd party developers are pulling GameCube projects left and right because they don't sell. Very reminicent of the N64.
It's pretty obvious that the majority of the crowd here are nothing but Linux fanboys blind to reality. They pretend to be great legal minds, wonderful security experts and fantastic coders all because of a niche OS. The real world is quite different than the one portrayed by Stallhead and that bunch of leftover hippies.
It's time to wake up and realize Microsoft and the DMCA are not the antichrist, and no one cares if Microsoft is losing money on each Xbox sold. That is a meaningless statement to the people who live in the real world. We (those who live in the real world) enjoy playing games on every console, the manufacturer does not matter one bit. Just keep the narrow pinpoint focus and watch where it takes you - right into a pit. And before anyone starts calling me a Microsoft stooge or something like that, I own all 3 consoles and enjoy each one because I don't care who makes them.
It's only worth a look if you want to run to your computer after every game, search for a new one, start it, then run back to your console. No thanks...way too complicated...just like Linux. Three trips around the globe to accomplish the same thing as using 2 mouse clicks in Windows. Furthermore, once Live gets established whole heartedly, MS will probably kill those "alternative" methods.
Just use Live because it's much easier and saves running all about the house.
You are correct sir...why? Because Microsoft is what the real world uses. Mac know-how is useless when you sit down behind Windows. Furthermore, if the whole damn country of Denmark uses Linux, why is that important?.......... That's what I thought. It means Denmark will be perpetually behind the curve when it comes to PCs.
I didn't say it was laundering money. It's just kinda funny that now the everyday average person can get a writeoff by donating, just like the big companies. And don't make the mistake of thinking that all that cash IBM, Sun, etc. are throwing at Red Hat and the like is not being written off. Only a fool would let that amount of money go to waste.
Contribute to gnome and get a tax deduction. Sun, IBM and others contribute (rather CARRY) this project and they get a tax deduction for appearing to help out "those less fortunate". That's funny. Gnome almost seems to be a charity organization when those items are brought to light but they are not...and no the.org doesn't count.
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Well, if any or all of the open source projects are any indication, someone will get that shitty game fuxracer ported to run on PS2 hardware by,....oh....2008? I guess you really think Sony gave away their costly proprietary devkits somehow in the joke that is PS2 linux. It's useless without the real, COSTLY kit.
You're right...linux does fall short in a LOT of places the zealots never mention. Keep in mind linux was put together by a hacker as a toy without any thought of the future. The childish responses from KDE are typical of the open source "community", they know much more than the rest of the folks and will tell you how wrong you are. And these are the same people who honestly believe linux has a chance in a real environment??
The old addage applies 100% here: You get what you pay for.
Oh PLEASE!!! My pants are pulled up to the kneecaps to wade through this shit. You actually think real people believe you don't buy discs because they're FRAGILE?? Oh my GOD, you must be a sight when you venture out in public if that's true. I know a guy who has severe obsessive compulsive disorder and even he doesn't act like that. He washes his discs regularly in the sink! Enough with the "copy the disc and put it away" bullshit...nobody in their right mind does any such thing.
Why don't you mind your own business? You have no say in MY country. Among other things you have no idea about - in case you never noticed, modchips are used 99.99999% for PIRACY. Give UP already on the "legal" uses for modchips, stallmans arguments don't hold any weight when applied to the real world. The debateable fact that 18 people in the world run loonix on the Xbox is irrelevant to the law.
.00001 percent of "legal" uses are bullshit and everyone knows it but pretends not to.
Fact: Modchips are used for piracy only -
Fact: You have no idea how we do things in America so stop pretending you do. Therefore, you are standing on thin air when you bluster on about "governement is taking over people's right" (direct quote). If you don't live here, why worry about it? Oh wait...you have to make noise that masquerades as intelligent debate because that's the only way you feel better about yourself.
Fact: You couldn't counter the statements about replacing "data" with "clothing" because there is no response. Theft is theft, even in your country. You knew that, you just pretended not to so you look good to the moderators. And modchip/knife replacement analogy doesn't work, but you knew that too, so I won't elaborate.
Fact: You have no capacity for intelligent debate. The proof is the first sentence in your lovely post: "You obviously have no idea whatsoever what this thread is about, how about you go that gay pr0n site and masturbate." What kind of intellectual arguement is that supposed to be? Wait...you have none. You just pretended to be intellectual about the issue.
Fact: There is a lot of pretending going on at this website. Anyone notice that? I'll be the first to point it out. I keep hearing The Great Pretender in my head....pretending loonix is the cat's meow, pretending to be lawyers and intellectuals, pretending to live outside of Mom's house, the list goes on and on.
And finally....yes...I am full aware of what the original post was about. The Dept of Justice shut down a website as a condition of that guy's conviction. You completely ignored the facts presented in my informative post just like everyone else did, because facts mean nothing to blind hypocrites. Read the article, not the nonsense here, but the real one, and you'll find every word was true. Convicted in early December, website shut down in late February. That's almost 3 months. You people act like complete fools without even finding out the facts first. Then again, you may have read it but pretended otherwise so you could march in line with the rest of the blockheads.
Something struck me about all the copyright circumvention equipment and procedures you people adore so much....I believe that far less than one percent of the crowd who crows incessantly about them actually used them. That tells us that all the hot air and blustering about copyrighted electronic data theft is nothing more than an ideology, just like loonix. Get real - steal in the real world you go to jail. You knew that...you just pretend otherwise.
Of course, all the slushfuck morons jumped off the edge of the cliff before actually reading the articles. If you assholes would have read first, you would have seen that the website was taken down AS A RESULT OF HIS CONVICTION. He was convicted as a criminal for selling modchips, the site going down went along with his conviction. He was convicted in early December so why is this news? I know why..because the jerky boys who run this godawful site KNEW everyone would jump to conclusions and turn it into something it's not, just like loonix.
I wish I would've counted how many posts from absolute idiot morons I saw stating they are leaving the country because of this legitimate arrest/conviction/surrender of property. What assholes. No one seems to mind that drug dealers lose their cars, houses, cash, etc when they get convicted, so why the bullshit over a stupid website? Wait, I know! Because it's electronic. Somehow, everything electronic holds a special place in the universe for the jerkoffs that worship at this website. They think because it's electronic they can steal it, trade it, and do whatever they please with it. Well, it ain't so and you KNOW it's true.
The justification of theft that goes on at this site is absolutely appalling. I'd pay money to watch a team of the great minds at this site argue their theories and justifications of stealing electronic data against one law enforcement officer, then replace "data/media" in their speech with "pair of shoes", "shirt", etc. Wouldn't that be a riot to watch?? Stealing is stealing, no matter if it's digital or tangible. But you knew that already, you just want to pretend you don't so that you can fit in with others on this outdated shithole website.
Spike really didn't plan apocalypses...he helped stop Angel several times...most notably the episode where he left Sunnydale after helping thwart Angel. He drove off in a black car with the windows painted black. I laughed real hard at that one...theres something funny about vampires driving vehicles during the daytime.
The first of many, many boo-hoo crybaby tales to come. Of course, anyone with half a brain knows that anyone who complains about a product they do not own - "but I bought from their competitor instead, this year" has nothing to bitch about. That's comparable to complaining about your neighbor's TV set because it doesn't have features that you enjoy. Silly isn't it?
....". Without you even knowing it he pushed your face into the dirt. Customers like you he said. In otherwords, customers like you who bitch and whine about our right to protect our product from being stolen. You didn't even realize he did it, even though he expounded on that idea in the next paragraph.
It's time that the last remaining holdouts from the "everything is free" era wake up and grow up. It won't be long until every piece of legitimate (i.e. - anything but loonyix) software has measures to stop piracy and there isn't one thing you can do about it. Sure you can go play with loonix and pretend you're superior so you can avoid it but you'll jump over to the Windows partition to do anything useful soon enough.
I found it funny that Mr. Support used these words at the outset of his email: "Feedback from customers like you is the best way for us
If you think about it...security/police will take you away for shoplifting a CD at the music store, leaving you with a criminal record and a fine to pay. If you steal software, nothing happens. Why isn't anything done about it? Well, the developers are taking matters into their own hands and protecting their merchandise by themselves. And all you loonix assholes can do is complain about it. Why be so concerned if you only run loonix to begin with? Hypocrite blowhards...
Finally, a post from someone who knows what they're talking about and it only gets a 1 score? After weeding through miles of garbage blaming the card companies and general slushdot stupidity, an informative post only gets a 1. Well, obviously no one here has any sense because they're too wrapped up in seeing conspiracies founded at Microsoft. Why else would there be posts wondering why there was a list of 2 million card numbers? Only a damn fool would say something like that. Say it with me: get your head out of your ass and get out of Mom's basement.
And yes, hacker DOES equal cracker today. No matter how loud you protest, no one hears it. Get over it because every normal person knows hacker=cracker. Words change meaning over time and nothing will ever change it.
Parent labeled insightful? Why??? Because he's towing the standard nightly news line on junk science. "Science falsely so called" said Paul to Timothy in the Bible. Look it up..you'll find it in 2nd Timothy in the King James Bible. That's what we're dealing with here. Anyone with their head on straight knows that the only reason "science" is marching on Mars is because they just have to prove there is water elsewhere than Earth (and comets). So they have to make things up that sound fantastic to wow the feeble minded... and they just eat it up - just look at em go here!
Heres a simple fact: The Lord put humans into the corner of the galaxy for a reason. He really don't want us screwing up the rest of His creation. Rest assured, we will never get outside of the solar system with anything, including humans. Don't plan on a Martian vacation anytime soon because it will get blown to bits before it happens.
And really, enough with the world is flat nonsense dig at those who don't fall for idiot science. We know what real science is because it can be proven over and over and over again. Like physics. Empirical science.
It is against the law to murder but what in hell does that have to do with the good old DMCA? Nothing. I love how these "thoughtful, intelligent" people on slushdot try to lump everything onto Microsoft and the DMCA. Get over the fact that it exists and nothing will ever change it. The facts are that everyone knows these jokers were intent on pirating DirecTV, the same way everyone knows Skylarov was going to pirate ebooks, and the same way everyone knows the DeCSS garbage was expressly for pirating DVDs. Right! Off you go, into the cell for THEFT, the same thing as swiping a jacket off the rack and walking out of the store. THEFT.
The BSA sends nasty letters to scare and harass businesses under some pretense of being authoritative. Jesse Jackson and his band of merry thieves go around to large businesses and count the number of minorities working there. If the said business tells Jesse to go fuck himself, all of a sudden he's on the news blasting away at the company, boycotting, etc etc. Generally making life miserable. Now on the other hand, if that company slides Jesse a nice fat check, he won't mention the "problem" again. The name of the game is extortion..the Mafia's been using it for years, now it's gone legit. How else does a man who never worked in his life become wealthy enough to pay off his illegitimate child and mistress?? Heh.
Actually...I believe only the company that produces the software has the right to check licenses, not the extortion group pandering for cash. The case that sticks in my mind is the City of VA Beach....MS did an audit and found they had hundreds of unlicenced copies of stuff. I don't believe the BSA had anything to do with that...
If you wipe Microsoft (note the spelling) off of your computer, you'll find out how good 'ol Microsoft really is when you can't run anything without editing a config file 14 times.
Here it is one more time for all the eggheads out there:
THE ONLY REASON YOU SUPPORT DECSS AND THAT PUNK KID IS BECAUSE LINUX HAS NO DVD PLAYER. IT HAS NO PLAYER BECAUSE NO ONE WILL PAY FOR THE LEGAL DECODER NEEDED TO CREATE SUCH AN APPLICATION.
Read the above sentences over and over and over again until it sinks in. You have no arguement with Hollywood whatsoever, that's just a straw dummy. You see, 99% of the world (Macs included) have no problem at all watching DVDs on their machines. All you have to do is boot into Windows to watch your discs...all of you Linux morons have a Windows partition because you do have to get some work done sometime.
Again: THE ONLY REASON YOU SUPPORT THIS GARBAGE IS BECAUSE LINUX HAS NO DVD PLAYER.
This legislation affects no ones civil liberties and YOU PEOPLE KNOW IT. All this pissing and moaning you people do has to do with one thing - there are no software (or hardware) DVD decoders for linux. Look hard and deep inside of yourselves....you know it's really true but you can't admit it because Stall-head and Raymond have you fooled right now. Every company or person on the face of this earth has the right to protect THEIR FUCKING PROPERTY any way they want and YOU HAVE NO SAY IN THE MATTER.
By the way, the EFF, wrong as they are on most issues, are at least consistent in their views. They don't put up straw dummies like the DMCA and pretend the earth is slowing it's rotation because of it. Stop lying to yourselves and admit the truth. THE ONLY REASON THE SO-CALLED LINUX COMMUNITY HATES THE DMCA IS BECAUSE THERE ARE NO DVD DECODERS FOR THEIR OS. If that is not a true and factual statement, why isn't the rest of the world up in arms about it? I'm speaking of the real world, not the server room or anywhere else linuxheads hang out. We know the truth...you just can't handle it.
And I still do not. Neither do you assholes. Most people who blather on and on about this DEAD AS A FUCKING DOORNAIL issue know nothing about it. Lookie here all you chicken littles: the world didn't end, the sky didn't fall, and your little linux machine is still running after 4 years under the iron fist rule of the DMCA. Only a linux moron would be so concerned over something like this because they have no software DVD decoders for linux. Why? Because no one wants to throw their money down the tubes creating one. Duh.
Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. Peter Sellers played 3 roles - the President, Strangelove and Mandrake. Great movie....loved it when George C. Scott fell and kept on talking. That was an actual screwup, he wasn't supposed to fall.
Hey that's funny - how is it that no "Linux" companies aren't on that list????? I know! I know! THERE'S NO MONEY TO BE MADE GIVING SOMETHING AWAY. Read that sentence again and again and again. It will make sense to you eventually. I did, however, notice that Adobe and Microsoft were on the list. Hmmm. They make money selling software. Ohhhhhhhhhhh...that's right, I forgot. It's not ethical to SELL software, but it's perfectly OK to copy Windows or Photoshop and give it away to your 2 friends. Isn't that a hoot???
This means nothing to the law abiding US citizen. All it means is that the Norwegian courts are out of their minds. Don't even think the lawyers here will give up because they will not. Everyone knows that his little program was specifically written to rip DVD content so that it could be copied elsewhere. And don't give us that standard line of horseshit about doing what you want with your stuff either. If he wanted to watch his little DVD, he could use a set-top box like 99% of the public or use Windows, like 99% of the public. It's not as though there isn't an easy method of viewing DVDs.
Get over your bullshit attitude about stealing every piece of electronic media. Just because it's electronic or digital does not mean it's yours for the taking. Remember - in the real world, we pay for the things we own because that is how things work. We also don't give a shit that we legally cannot make 25 copies of Spider-man to give out to our friends. We just pay the nice man at the register $15 and walk out. Just WAIT until all you little college kiddies get out of school...wait until you have to pay back the $50,000 it cost. Wait! Here's a suggestion: because obviously everything you learned in college isn't useful, just tell the bank you will only pay them for the parts you found useful. Then college will only cost $1000...fuck them! Go ahead, try it!!! I bet it would work...why not...it always works in the slashdot/linux world.
Linux is dead in less than 3 years - an afterthought on a page of history.
Yes, you are failing to understand the use. Call, write or fax ANY game developer who develops PC games and Xbox games. Ask them how "computer-like" the Xbox is. Listen in amazement as they debunk every lie ever spouted on this website. But then again, slashdot is known worldwide for their expertise in everything known to mankind, so of course "the developer would lie about the truth".
It's been over a year since the Xbox debut and the pro-communist OS crowd is still trying to lie and confuse a non-issue. Real world folks do not care and are buying Xboxes to play games. Don't believe me? Read this and see what you think.
BZZZT! It doesn't matter where they lose money because they have LOTS to lose. As a matter of fact, the Xbox is already ahead of the GameCube. Check out this link on IGN for the straight scoop. What do they care if they're still losing cash only after 1 year on the market and have taken over 2nd place? Game Informer magazine printed a strong rumor that 3rd party developers are pulling GameCube projects left and right because they don't sell. Very reminicent of the N64.
It's pretty obvious that the majority of the crowd here are nothing but Linux fanboys blind to reality. They pretend to be great legal minds, wonderful security experts and fantastic coders all because of a niche OS. The real world is quite different than the one portrayed by Stallhead and that bunch of leftover hippies.
It's time to wake up and realize Microsoft and the DMCA are not the antichrist, and no one cares if Microsoft is losing money on each Xbox sold. That is a meaningless statement to the people who live in the real world. We (those who live in the real world) enjoy playing games on every console, the manufacturer does not matter one bit. Just keep the narrow pinpoint focus and watch where it takes you - right into a pit. And before anyone starts calling me a Microsoft stooge or something like that, I own all 3 consoles and enjoy each one because I don't care who makes them.
So what now.....are you saying you're going to blow up every credit company to level the playing field? Crybaby genXers.
It's only worth a look if you want to run to your computer after every game, search for a new one, start it, then run back to your console. No thanks...way too complicated...just like Linux. Three trips around the globe to accomplish the same thing as using 2 mouse clicks in Windows. Furthermore, once Live gets established whole heartedly, MS will probably kill those "alternative" methods.
Just use Live because it's much easier and saves running all about the house.
You are correct sir...why? Because Microsoft is what the real world uses. Mac know-how is useless when you sit down behind Windows. Furthermore, if the whole damn country of Denmark uses Linux, why is that important? .......... That's what I thought. It means Denmark will be perpetually behind the curve when it comes to PCs.
I didn't say it was laundering money. It's just kinda funny that now the everyday average person can get a writeoff by donating, just like the big companies. And don't make the mistake of thinking that all that cash IBM, Sun, etc. are throwing at Red Hat and the like is not being written off. Only a fool would let that amount of money go to waste.
Contribute to gnome and get a tax deduction. Sun, IBM and others contribute (rather CARRY) this project and they get a tax deduction for appearing to help out "those less fortunate". That's funny. Gnome almost seems to be a charity organization when those items are brought to light but they are not...and no the .org doesn't count.