> If the law says "thou shalt not make a product that can copy money", then Adobe would be exhibiting gross negligence (at the very least) if their product was in fact able to produce lifelike copies of money.
The law says you can't kill people. But we still have guns. Obviously gun makrs are exhibiting gross negligence by making such deadly products. And knife makers. And spoon makers. And car makers. And everything else.
It's not up to a company to enforce laws. For one thing, everything has an illegal use. Also, what's illegal here may not be illegal elsewhere. Go to Iran and see if anyone stops you from counterfieting US $$$. They won't, and Photoshop shouldn't.
But you know what? All these restrictions in proprietary software are great. They just encourage people not to use them. I know that I can make counterfiet money (as an aside, photoshop + printer can't print color changing ink and microprinting, etc. so why does anyone care!?)
I'm considering it. I don't speak any languages other than Japanese, Chinese, or English, so I need to learn another before I can go to a decent country:) (I like Japan, actually. May end up living there...)
I use an Antec TruePower 430; it has fan outputs that slow down/speed up based on temperature. My box is nice and cool, and quite quiet when I slow my CPU fan down.
I'm looking at getting a nice Thermalright heatsink, thought. A slow 92mm fan would do much better for cooling and noise than my 60mm fan with shit heatsink that I have now. (I wrote a small script to throttle the CPU fan based on temperature. lm_sensors includes a similar script)
Slashcode does that (inserts spaces) to prevent you from posting something like XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx and widening the page:) [note that I didn't type space, that was one long string of XXXX's]
When the first link [site.com] thing came out, someone found that they could link to XXXX[snip]XXXX.com and the page would widen. It sucked:)
Microsoft Word is the best product ever. It's the only text format that can carry viruses, and now it isn't even secure. Can anyone say digital signature?
You can't forge those without a supercomputer or two. Geez.
It really looks like M$ goes out of their way to be stupid. I mean I could come up with a better document encryption scheme, and I'm still in high school.
Here it is: digitally sign the document if you don't want people modifying it. If you do modify it, digitally sign the diffs. Easy. To prevent people from reading it, encrypt it. It's simple, really. We have tools available for this, anyway. Just type your quote "I'll give you 3000 of model xyz for $31337. OK?" and feed it to gpg. Done. No need for proprietary formats, no need to shell out $500 for Office. It's done more securely, simply, and cost-effectively. I don't understand why people use M$ garbage!
(And I know I'm going to get a reply like "How do you write papers without Word, smartass." LaTeX. Look at this essay for an example.:)
I think 16/44.1 or 16/48 is more common. Cheap soundcards can only do 16/48 (like the shit integrated VIA8235 on my mobo). But apple hardware is usually good, so I don't know.
Before you know it, they're going to sell ads at the top of the page that come up when you type keywords. Then they're going to add some to the side of the results pages! Then everyone will stop using google because it sucks so much.
Oh wait. They did that, and it works wonderfully. Google is already profitable. They don't need to (and won't) screw themselves with fake results (*):)
(*) Actually sometimes the results are pretty bad because of annoying people link-spamming things. Like getting Bush's Bio to be the #1 result for miserable failure. Not that I like Bush or anything, but they should have made an I'm feeling lucky search of "George W Bush" go to this site instead. (SAFE FOR WORK, heh)
Did you mistype if or do you really mean iff? If this is true, that's pretty interesting. You can't use the software (look at it? read the code? what?) if you haven't bought a film.
And I hate to mention it to the MPAA, but the pirated movies dont' come from Ohio. See the Chinese subtitles? Movies in Ohio don't have Chinese subtitles.
Oh no. The MPAA can't enforce their laws in China, and China's connected to `teh interweb'. People download i113g41 m0v13z off of the Internet.
Boo fucking hoo. Frankly, I admire China for telling US corporations to fuck off. They need a good telling-off once in a while.
What's next? Six months in jail for making fun of the President?
Simple solution to avoid that. Don't make fun of the President.
What's next? Six months in jail for voting for someone other than the incumbent?
Simple solution to avoid that. Just take what you're given. That's right, you're all morons. We know best.
My point is that the law seems to be misguided these days. It's bad to kill people. You can't do that. You SHOULDN'T tape movies in theatres, but you're not hurting anyone. Depriving them of money, maybe. But I could say the same thing about my classmates. They're smart engineers (or whatever). The more of them there are, the less I'll get paid. They're depriving me of MY money. I want a law passed against them.
Now doesn't that sound stupid?
This law makes me want to buy a weapon and use it on goverment officials. How else can we stop this insanity (oh I know, a bribe. that's legal now I guess)?
Oh god. I'm so tired of posts like the parent. Slashdot's advertising is those banners at the top.
Not story placement.
Everytime someone mentions some comercial entity on slashdot some AC or troll thinks it's not an ad. ITS NOT AN AD. The editors posted this story because they thought we'd think it was interesting. And it is.
Also, if you don't like slashdot, you can leave. We won't be crying:)
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You're saying that I can't "broadcaast" (IP Multicast) my voice (as a talk show) without a license? Yeah right... when did that law get passed.
apt-get install module-init-tools
it's not modutils anymore
> If the law says "thou shalt not make a product that can copy money", then Adobe would be exhibiting gross negligence (at the very least) if their product was in fact able to produce lifelike copies of money.
The law says you can't kill people. But we still have guns. Obviously gun makrs are exhibiting gross negligence by making such deadly products. And knife makers. And spoon makers. And car makers. And everything else.
It's not up to a company to enforce laws. For one thing, everything has an illegal use. Also, what's illegal here may not be illegal elsewhere. Go to Iran and see if anyone stops you from counterfieting US $$$. They won't, and Photoshop shouldn't.
But you know what? All these restrictions in proprietary software are great. They just encourage people not to use them. I know that I can make counterfiet money (as an aside, photoshop + printer can't print color changing ink and microprinting, etc. so why does anyone care!?)
Windows helps you break the law by allowing you to use Kazaa. So what's your fucking point?
IBM endorses Open Source, buddy. Not a lot of people that can tell IBM to fuck off. Hell, the government would even have a hard time.
Here is another XOR algorithm.
Not basic arithmetic, the pigeon-hole principle.
I'm considering it. I don't speak any languages other than Japanese, Chinese, or English, so I need to learn another before I can go to a decent country :) (I like Japan, actually. May end up living there...)
Any (other) suggestions?
I use an Antec TruePower 430; it has fan outputs that slow down/speed up based on temperature. My box is nice and cool, and quite quiet when I slow my CPU fan down.
I'm looking at getting a nice Thermalright heatsink, thought. A slow 92mm fan would do much better for cooling and noise than my 60mm fan with shit heatsink that I have now. (I wrote a small script to throttle the CPU fan based on temperature. lm_sensors includes a similar script)
Yeah it runs on Linux aka OSX. Oh wait. OSX isn't linux. It's OSX which does have a quicktime player :)
Slashcode does that (inserts spaces) to prevent you from posting something like XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx :) [note that I didn't type space, that was one long string of XXXX's]
:)
and widening the page
When the first link [site.com] thing came out, someone found that they could link to XXXX[snip]XXXX.com and the page would widen. It sucked
Microsoft Word is the best product ever. It's the only text format that can carry viruses, and now it isn't even secure. Can anyone say digital signature?
:)
You can't forge those without a supercomputer or two. Geez.
It really looks like M$ goes out of their way to be stupid. I mean I could come up with a better document encryption scheme, and I'm still in high school.
Here it is: digitally sign the document if you don't want people modifying it. If you do modify it, digitally sign the diffs. Easy. To prevent people from reading it, encrypt it. It's simple, really. We have tools available for this, anyway. Just type your quote "I'll give you 3000 of model xyz for $31337. OK?" and feed it to gpg. Done. No need for proprietary formats, no need to shell out $500 for Office. It's done more securely, simply, and cost-effectively. I don't understand why people use M$ garbage!
(And I know I'm going to get a reply like "How do you write papers without Word, smartass." LaTeX. Look at this essay for an example.
Don't worry, morons will turn it on after their daily pr0n/e-cards don't work anymore.
Can you do something like i.times {} if you have a variable i?
Umm, you don't *have* to listen to ClearChannel, ya know. Ever hear of NPR? They still have good programming, IMO.
Investors are STUPID. They don't know that SCO is full of shit. So they buy SCO stock and get rich!
> it's like comparing gimp to photoshop
No it's not like that. Comparing gimp to photoshop is like comparing your computer to shit. The computer is obviously better. Just like the gimp.
Gimp also costs $800 less than photoshop. That $800 is a new computer with 1G of RAM!
I think 16/44.1 or 16/48 is more common. Cheap soundcards can only do 16/48 (like the shit integrated VIA8235 on my mobo). But apple hardware is usually good, so I don't know.
Before you know it, they're going to sell ads at the top of the page that come up when you type keywords. Then they're going to add some to the side of the results pages! Then everyone will stop using google because it sucks so much.
:)
Oh wait. They did that, and it works wonderfully. Google is already profitable. They don't need to (and won't) screw themselves with fake results (*)
(*) Actually sometimes the results are pretty bad because of annoying people link-spamming things. Like getting Bush's Bio to be the #1 result for miserable failure. Not that I like Bush or anything, but they should have made an I'm feeling lucky search of "George W Bush" go to this site instead. (SAFE FOR WORK, heh)
Wish I had _any_ girlfriend! *hint hint* AIM sn is Rockman5517 :)
> the software was legal iff you bought the film
Did you mistype if or do you really mean iff? If this is true, that's pretty interesting. You can't use the software (look at it? read the code? what?) if you haven't bought a film.
Anyone care to elaborate?
And I hate to mention it to the MPAA, but the pirated movies dont' come from Ohio. See the Chinese subtitles? Movies in Ohio don't have Chinese subtitles.
Oh no. The MPAA can't enforce their laws in China, and China's connected to `teh interweb'. People download i113g41 m0v13z off of the Internet.
Boo fucking hoo. Frankly, I admire China for telling US corporations to fuck off. They need a good telling-off once in a while.
What's next? Six months in jail for making fun of the President?
Simple solution to avoid that. Don't make fun of the President.
What's next? Six months in jail for voting for someone other than the incumbent?
Simple solution to avoid that. Just take what you're given. That's right, you're all morons. We know best.
My point is that the law seems to be misguided these days. It's bad to kill people. You can't do that. You SHOULDN'T tape movies in theatres, but you're not hurting anyone. Depriving them of money, maybe. But I could say the same thing about my classmates. They're smart engineers (or whatever). The more of them there are, the less I'll get paid. They're depriving me of MY money. I want a law passed against them.
Now doesn't that sound stupid?
This law makes me want to buy a weapon and use it on goverment officials. How else can we stop this insanity (oh I know, a bribe. that's legal now I guess)?
Oh god. I'm so tired of posts like the parent. Slashdot's advertising is those banners at the top.
:)
Not story placement.
Everytime someone mentions some comercial entity on slashdot some AC or troll thinks it's not an ad. ITS NOT AN AD. The editors posted this story because they thought we'd think it was interesting. And it is.
Also, if you don't like slashdot, you can leave. We won't be crying
I add/remove program'd MSN messenger on windows and now windows won't boot :)
I agree with you. I'd much rather go for a cup of coffee. I don't *want* to subdue the outside world, thank you very much. I LIKE TO BE HYPER!
...
Also, people shouldn't drink when coding. I ran across this gem while trying to get something to compile last night:
int function(int, int, int *, int);
err = function(1, 2, 3, 4);
Now that's a bit paraphrased (to protect the innocent), but come on! That 3 in there ruined the whole program. (Compiler warning? Ahh fuck it. Ship!)