This is a big ole smack in the face for the RIAA and other stupid members of the record industry who wish to keep overcharging for something that should be free. Creative is gonna have a killing in the market too, why drop $17 bucks for a cd when you could buy a portable mp3 player, and then just download the songs off the net for free?
Of course this does open up all sorts of legal issues, there will probably be injunctions to prevent Creative from selling this equipment( much the same as Sony attempting to prevent Connectix from selling their Playstation Emulator). But once again the demand will take over, and who knows, maybe the suits will jump in on this one cuz all they need to see is those beautiful dollar signs.
While this is probably true, that someone could take out our computers during time of war or some other critical time, but I see this as a terrific example of how we have become too reliant upon our machines. People used to win wars by using their skill and cunning to attempt to outsmart the enemy, now it just a matter of locking on your missles from thousands of miles away and pushing the little red button while getting head from an intern.
There was a good article in Wired about a year ago that outlined what could happen in the future if a so called "Cyberwar" were to happen, and perhaps this bullshitting by the government is just one of the first steps in an already thought out war, with no casualities, no battles, just 1's and 0's flying at each other over copper and fiber.
It's always been this way. Ever since WWII the United States has needed to continue the great war machine and to keep funding coming in. Without any actual war taking place, they needed to come up with bullshit like so to keep the funds rolling in. You also have to think about who this article is targeted at. Many a person will cringe at the word "hacker", yet they don't really understand what it implies. All this publicity surrounding attacks on pentagon computers is just obvious fund raising, too bad we can't send in Ken Starr.
come on now, even though its 21+, do you honestly expect to see "really cute and possibly sexually promiscuous" at an opensource "party". If the drinks were free, then you would see flocks of scantly clad women flooding the halls!
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This is a big ole smack in the face for the RIAA and other stupid members of the record industry who wish to keep overcharging for something that should be free. Creative is gonna have a killing in the market too, why drop $17 bucks for a cd when you could buy a portable mp3 player, and then just download the songs off the net for free?
Of course this does open up all sorts of legal issues, there will probably be injunctions to prevent Creative from selling this equipment( much the same as Sony attempting to prevent Connectix from selling their Playstation Emulator). But once again the demand will take over, and who knows, maybe the suits will jump in on this one cuz all they need to see is those beautiful dollar signs.
While this is probably true, that someone could take out our computers during time of war or some other critical time, but I see this as a terrific example of how we have become too reliant upon our machines. People used to win wars by using their skill and cunning to attempt to outsmart the enemy, now it just a matter of locking on your missles from thousands of miles away and pushing the little red button while getting head from an intern.
There was a good article in Wired about a year ago that outlined what could happen in the future if a so called "Cyberwar" were to happen, and perhaps this bullshitting by the government is just one of the first steps in an already thought out war, with no casualities, no battles, just 1's and 0's flying at each other over copper and fiber.
It's always been this way. Ever since WWII the United States has needed to continue the great war machine and to keep funding coming in. Without any actual war taking place, they needed to come up with bullshit like so to keep the funds rolling in. You also have to think about who this article is targeted at. Many a person will cringe at the word "hacker", yet they don't really understand what it implies. All this publicity surrounding attacks on pentagon computers is just obvious fund raising, too bad we can't send in Ken Starr.
come on now, even though its 21+, do you honestly expect to see "really cute and possibly sexually promiscuous" at an opensource "party". If the drinks were free, then you would see flocks of scantly clad women flooding the halls!