What's worse, it doesn't merely fail to prevent piracy, it actually encourages it, since no sane person would want to voluntarily shackle themselves with this broken crap technology. If you have to crack DRM and rip to a non-crippled format just to guarantee yourself troublefree playback, what's the point in doing things "legally" as the copyright industry wants you to? There's zero incentive for me to put myself through this. I'll either pirate, or more likely, not even want to bother with watching movies anymore. I'll take up a hobby like model airplanes or hiking in the great outdoors. It's probably better for my health as well as my wallet and sanity.
What's worse, we've all been warned not to trust anyone over 30, haven't we learned ANYTHING from the 1960's? This is exactly the wrong class of people to be given access to this evil soul-corrupting software!
Are you sure about that? I thought all cell phones were required to have GPS transmitters. Maybe the complaints are that the phone's user can't use the GPS for navigation? But perhaps big brother can? I'd be curious to find a definitive answer to this.
I don't really see this working too well. iPhone will be eminently lo-jackable. It's got the cell phone's GPS, and is a closed platform meaning that the thief probably won't be able to disable it. Steal it, and you're inviting the cops to come pick you up.
I'm waiting for the/. article in which it's announced that some school board has declared that Moore's "Law" is really only a Theory, and should be taught alongside "intelligent design" courses which demonstrate how highly specialized researchers and engineers colloqually known as "gods of tech" design and build denser integrated circuit chips using computer assisted methodologies. These things don't manifest out of the ether, and they don't evolve themselves, people.
How much do you want to bet that Apple Legal said "Yep, you can go ahead and release this patch for free." and then when Apple looked at the bill from Legal for this advice, decided that they needed to charge $5/download just to cover the consultation fees.
150 years plus the life of the author (who is? Jobs?) ahead on skins.
Man, no other companies are ever going to be able to catch up after Apple's done owning the market for over a century with this skin-based monopoly. Boy do I wish I had some of their stock.
Waste of energy? That's a funny thing to call the lives of the organisms that populate a tiered food chain. We're talking about biodiversity, here, if you think about it. If you had a monoculture of only the most efficient life forms directly converting energy into their life-cycle, and nothing else, would that "efficiency" in energy use be an improvement?
In this case, by fake I mean you download a file that is named %movie title%, and has other characteristics, such as the file size, type, etc. that would suggest that it is likely the movie named in the filename, but when you play the file back, it does not play %movie title%.
It doesn't matter whether the "fake" file is copyrighted. If the downloader believes that the file they are downloading is a copyrighted work, then that establishes intent to download a copyrighted file. Intent to download a copyrighted work shows probable cause that other copyrighted works likely have been downloaded. Any good lawyer ought to be able to use that as grounds for a subpoena or warrant. If the cops raid you and pull your hard drive and find copyrighted stuff on the hard drive that the copyright holder did not authorize to be there, then you've got problems.
The only question left open is did the distributor (ie, the host the file was downloaded from) have the rights to distribute the file?
No, downloading a fake copyrighted work is not a crime... but it shows intent to download a real copyrighted work, which gives a lawyer enough to show probable cause that downloading of actual copyrighted works likely has also taken place, and get a warrant or subpoena for the hard drive so that forensics can look for evidence.
Yeah, but who set up your aunt? I'm talking about people who don't have a resident family IT guy who'll be around to provide setup and support. If you don't have anyone, you have no choice but to educate yourself and get good at it.
The people offering this "advice" have got to be idiots. True, it might cost more to pay someone else to de-own your PC and train you on how to avoid problems in the future than the cost of replacing the hardware. That doesn't mean that educating yourself isn't the right answer though. What does buying a new machine do to make you more secure? Buy a $400 brand spankin' new bottom of the line Dell, throw it up on the net, and get owned in under 20 minutes. Does anyone make the $1200/hr it would take to keep a steady supply of new bottom of the line bot-to-be PC's flowing into the households of idiot users who can't be bothered with learning fundamental literacy?
Being proficient with a computer is not optional if you want to own and use a computer. Learn about TCP/IP. Learn about NAT. Learn about not trusting everything. Learn about understanding how things work at least a little bit before you try to run. You don't need to be a security guru, but you can't get by thinking you can just use a computer and never have to learn anything more about it than that. Casual users on the internet are presently walking through the worst parts of town with $100 bills sticking out of their pockets, and until they can figure out that this isn't smart and why and what to do better, they're going to continue to get themselves in trouble and drag down the community by feeding the predators that eat away at it.
I remember when the Pentium III came out, and everybody freaked out because it had built-in serial number identification that were supposed to destroy your privacy. Now "They" will know where you are, but since it's Apple, slashdot puts a nice happy spin on it. Do they make tinfoil iPod cases?
Eh, close enough. Who's really going to miss that missing 69GB, anyway? That's barely, like a small shelf of DVD movies. A pittance barely worth mentioning. I routinely lose 69GB in the wash. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a guy wearing sneakers and cargo pants with a buttload of flash drives!
Oh, yeah? That's nothing, I got an Airbus 440, which I ordered from Michael's Computers, and it can transport 700 passengers 13,000 miles, as compared to the paltry 555 people for 8000 miles.
AND it comes with a 5-year warranty. Let's see Airbus or even Alienware beat that!
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What's worse, it doesn't merely fail to prevent piracy, it actually encourages it, since no sane person would want to voluntarily shackle themselves with this broken crap technology. If you have to crack DRM and rip to a non-crippled format just to guarantee yourself troublefree playback, what's the point in doing things "legally" as the copyright industry wants you to? There's zero incentive for me to put myself through this. I'll either pirate, or more likely, not even want to bother with watching movies anymore. I'll take up a hobby like model airplanes or hiking in the great outdoors. It's probably better for my health as well as my wallet and sanity.
What's worse, we've all been warned not to trust anyone over 30, haven't we learned ANYTHING from the 1960's? This is exactly the wrong class of people to be given access to this evil soul-corrupting software!
Are you sure about that? I thought all cell phones were required to have GPS transmitters. Maybe the complaints are that the phone's user can't use the GPS for navigation? But perhaps big brother can? I'd be curious to find a definitive answer to this.
I don't really see this working too well. iPhone will be eminently lo-jackable. It's got the cell phone's GPS, and is a closed platform meaning that the thief probably won't be able to disable it. Steal it, and you're inviting the cops to come pick you up.
I'm waiting for the /. article in which it's announced that some school board has declared that Moore's "Law" is really only a Theory, and should be taught alongside "intelligent design" courses which demonstrate how highly specialized researchers and engineers colloqually known as "gods of tech" design and build denser integrated circuit chips using computer assisted methodologies. These things don't manifest out of the ether, and they don't evolve themselves, people.
Yup, humor was intended. Glad it didn't escape everyone:)
How much do you want to bet that Apple Legal said "Yep, you can go ahead and release this patch for free." and then when Apple looked at the bill from Legal for this advice, decided that they needed to charge $5/download just to cover the consultation fees.
150 years plus the life of the author (who is? Jobs?) ahead on skins.
Man, no other companies are ever going to be able to catch up after Apple's done owning the market for over a century with this skin-based monopoly. Boy do I wish I had some of their stock.
I like how that implies that they're not yet already there. Denial is aparrently the Thames now, not a river in Egypt.
Waste of energy? That's a funny thing to call the lives of the organisms that populate a tiered food chain. We're talking about biodiversity, here, if you think about it. If you had a monoculture of only the most efficient life forms directly converting energy into their life-cycle, and nothing else, would that "efficiency" in energy use be an improvement?
On the other hand, if 19 people do something bad with box cutters, we all don't even get perfume or nail clippers. The law's fucking insane.
In this case, by fake I mean you download a file that is named %movie title%, and has other characteristics, such as the file size, type, etc. that would suggest that it is likely the movie named in the filename, but when you play the file back, it does not play %movie title%.
It doesn't matter whether the "fake" file is copyrighted. If the downloader believes that the file they are downloading is a copyrighted work, then that establishes intent to download a copyrighted file. Intent to download a copyrighted work shows probable cause that other copyrighted works likely have been downloaded. Any good lawyer ought to be able to use that as grounds for a subpoena or warrant. If the cops raid you and pull your hard drive and find copyrighted stuff on the hard drive that the copyright holder did not authorize to be there, then you've got problems.
The only question left open is did the distributor (ie, the host the file was downloaded from) have the rights to distribute the file?
No, downloading a fake copyrighted work is not a crime... but it shows intent to download a real copyrighted work, which gives a lawyer enough to show probable cause that downloading of actual copyrighted works likely has also taken place, and get a warrant or subpoena for the hard drive so that forensics can look for evidence.
Like I said... ;)
That Ando is one bad Momo--Shut yo mouth!
Now open it and put some ramen in there!
Yeah, but who set up your aunt? I'm talking about people who don't have a resident family IT guy who'll be around to provide setup and support. If you don't have anyone, you have no choice but to educate yourself and get good at it.
unless you know how to secure it and maintain it.
The people offering this "advice" have got to be idiots. True, it might cost more to pay someone else to de-own your PC and train you on how to avoid problems in the future than the cost of replacing the hardware. That doesn't mean that educating yourself isn't the right answer though. What does buying a new machine do to make you more secure? Buy a $400 brand spankin' new bottom of the line Dell, throw it up on the net, and get owned in under 20 minutes. Does anyone make the $1200/hr it would take to keep a steady supply of new bottom of the line bot-to-be PC's flowing into the households of idiot users who can't be bothered with learning fundamental literacy?
Being proficient with a computer is not optional if you want to own and use a computer. Learn about TCP/IP. Learn about NAT. Learn about not trusting everything. Learn about understanding how things work at least a little bit before you try to run. You don't need to be a security guru, but you can't get by thinking you can just use a computer and never have to learn anything more about it than that. Casual users on the internet are presently walking through the worst parts of town with $100 bills sticking out of their pockets, and until they can figure out that this isn't smart and why and what to do better, they're going to continue to get themselves in trouble and drag down the community by feeding the predators that eat away at it.
I remember when the Pentium III came out, and everybody freaked out because it had built-in serial number identification that were supposed to destroy your privacy. Now "They" will know where you are, but since it's Apple, slashdot puts a nice happy spin on it. Do they make tinfoil iPod cases?
So THAT'S where I left that thing, I'd been looking all over for it!
Eh, close enough. Who's really going to miss that missing 69GB, anyway? That's barely, like a small shelf of DVD movies. A pittance barely worth mentioning. I routinely lose 69GB in the wash. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a guy wearing sneakers and cargo pants with a buttload of flash drives!
or by the regular HD/Blueray (delete as appropriate)
Do we not remember the word "or"? Would have saved you 21 keystrokes...
I'm not so surprised that Bush is claiming he can read mail without a warrant as I am that he can read at all.
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So that's where all that NYE confetti comes from! I always wondered. Thanks, Feds! Party on!
Oh, yeah? That's nothing, I got an Airbus 440, which I ordered from Michael's Computers, and it can transport 700 passengers 13,000 miles, as compared to the paltry 555 people for 8000 miles.
AND it comes with a 5-year warranty. Let's see Airbus or even Alienware beat that!