In real life you have the exact same mentality in lots of places, at least where I come from. If you have a long education (have spend alot of time on it) you are automatically given a higher salary (more time -> "deserve reward"). It does not matter if another person is more skilled than the person with a long education, in the same job the one with the longer education gets more. The one who may just have a natural talent for that type of job and perhaps is alot better than the guy with a long education, is "not deserving of a reward" and thus gets a lower salary. That is not true of all types of jobs, but it is true of alot of jobtypes that I know.
I have tickets to see it in Copenhagen on the night between march 18th and 19th. And it's being shown in the biggest theatre available in Copenhagen! It is a part of the countdown to the nightfilms festival.
I only have Linux machines and I was able to download the updates from Microsofts own security advisary pages without any problems (links found through earlier slashdot story). I have then made CDs containing Symantecs Sasser removal tool and the hotfix for both Windows 2000 and XP and made copies to pass around to friends and family that still run Windows. So even if Windows Update requires a valid key for Windows XP users, the updates are still readily available. Albeit, not quite as easy as Windows Update, but if you run pirated software, you deserve to suffer just a bit.
Normally a lanparty webcam runs on the internet connection present at the site - and now that URL has been slashdotted.. geez that's nasty, now there will be almost no connectivity for the participants.. unless they use a seperate connection of course. To slashdot a 4 day lanparty connection is an evil thing to do!
Actually APG is like the BSA - it is an organization formed by the copyright holders to enforce their rights. The real problem is in their methods - they have been known to trample people whom they have visited to take away their computers as evidence.
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In real life you have the exact same mentality in lots of places, at least where I come from. If you have a long education (have spend alot of time on it) you are automatically given a higher salary (more time -> "deserve reward"). It does not matter if another person is more skilled than the person with a long education, in the same job the one with the longer education gets more. The one who may just have a natural talent for that type of job and perhaps is alot better than the guy with a long education, is "not deserving of a reward" and thus gets a lower salary. That is not true of all types of jobs, but it is true of alot of jobtypes that I know.
I have tickets to see it in Copenhagen on the night between march 18th and 19th. And it's being shown in the biggest theatre available in Copenhagen! It is a part of the countdown to the nightfilms festival.
I only have Linux machines and I was able to download the updates from Microsofts own security advisary pages without any problems (links found through earlier slashdot story).
I have then made CDs containing Symantecs Sasser removal tool and the hotfix for both Windows 2000 and XP and made copies to pass around to friends and family that still run Windows.
So even if Windows Update requires a valid key for Windows XP users, the updates are still readily available. Albeit, not quite as easy as Windows Update, but if you run pirated software, you deserve to suffer just a bit.
Normally a lanparty webcam runs on the internet connection present at the site - and now that URL has been slashdotted.. geez that's nasty, now there will be almost no connectivity for the participants.. unless they use a seperate connection of course.
To slashdot a 4 day lanparty connection is an evil thing to do!
But it's true... if you don't like being reminded, how about not visiting this site?
Actually APG is like the BSA - it is an organization formed by the copyright holders to enforce their rights.
The real problem is in their methods - they have been known to trample people whom they have visited to take away their computers as evidence.