. . . how this so-called "restriction" manager will recognize the compression/encryption method du jour. But if it gives the "content industry" a false sense of security and takes some of the legislative heat off of P2P and the general purpose computer, I'm all for it.
Because Nielsen has spent years earning trust, and TiVo is a recent startup, funded in part by *AA members, that's already shown the propensity to deliver stealth modifications that remove features and tie the subscriptions to "consent" for monitoring viewing habits?
If only you were right. However, in most cases of "sensitive" databases in the U.S. indexed on SSN, someone's only a four-figure bribe to an $8/hour clerk away from the information he seeks.
Ha. Kids have it so easy today.
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Back in my day, we had punch cards. We could use the 029 to make pictures with the holes. If by some rare good fortune we had access to the printer, we didn't have any ASCII art. We had EBCDIC art. And liked it.
that is a hack. Absolutely without a worthwhile purpose, an intellectual exercise that has taken something designed for one thing and perverted it for another purpose entirely. Five stars!
The compromise sounds good to me--I wasn't aware of it. This is similar to how the writers of Ghostview do things.
The Vivendi reference was in regard to the (originally) DMCA threat against the authors of bnetd, an open source program that faciliates multiplayer play of Blizzard games. (Vivendi is Blizzard's parent company.) Vivendi is using foundless claims of bnetd's use being primarily to circumvent copy protection in an attempt to make multiplayer possibly only on their service, battle.net. I suspect that if they're successful, the next step will be subscription fees for battle.net, which is what their suit is most likely about.
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I guess it'd have been circular had I been making the argument that laws are unfair because they're unenforceable.
My argument was an analogy to that old chestnut "posession is nine tenths of the law"--I wasn't addressing the fairness or unfairness of the laws in questions; I was only addressing their futility.
folks are not trying to get rich doing this either, since they only charge $5 a month ($60.00 a year) which is about the price of one good game.
That doesn't mean they're not trying to get rich--only that they're not charging a lot of money per individual. Of course, if I wanted to support the jackbooted DMCA-wielding thugs at Vivendi and do so under Linux and help someone commercially exploit WINE without giving back, I'd sign right up.
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but geeks simply don't have the authority to override the laws of sovereign nations.
But the authority doesn't matter. Only the ability does.
And Iomega has never, since even the 8" 10 MB Bernoulli Box cartridges, lowered the price of media to match the current value of that capacity. I don't expect them to start with Zip media.
If you bought it 5 days ago and Apple won't give you a free upgrade, return it to the place you bought it from for a refund. If they're smart, they'll just accept the return on paper, and resell you the same Mac--except that having bought it today, you'll now qualify for the free upgrade.
. . . that this was probably part of Apple's plan all along?
Since the forced registration (except for savvier users) in OSX probably was netting them a bunch of "Mr. Screw Apple," email "spamaway@apple.com" living at "1234 Privacy Lane" entries, what better way to fix that than to inflate the price of the upgrade to $129 and graciously offer $50 of it back through a mail-in rebate. And launder the offer through Amazon so it doesn't look like Apple's idea.
Of course, even $79 is too much to charge someone who already paid for the OS with the prices Apple charges for proprietized, two-year old, commodity hardware.
Then get smart and use a proxy filter like WebWasher.
Which nags you to let it check for updates that never come, except for the sooper-dooper deluxe enterprise gee-whiz version. Not that I'm not grateful for a free web filter, but if they're not going to publish any more updates, the least they could do is not nag me about it anymore.
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. . . how this so-called "restriction" manager will recognize the compression/encryption method du jour. But if it gives the "content industry" a false sense of security and takes some of the legislative heat off of P2P and the general purpose computer, I'm all for it.
In light of the published photographs, that takes on an entirely non-financial meaning.
Oh, that was a rhetorical question.
If only you were right. However, in most cases of "sensitive" databases in the U.S. indexed on SSN, someone's only a four-figure bribe to an $8/hour clerk away from the information he seeks.
Back in my day, we had punch cards. We could use the 029 to make pictures with the holes. If by some rare good fortune we had access to the printer, we didn't have any ASCII art. We had EBCDIC art. And liked it.
that is a hack. Absolutely without a worthwhile purpose, an intellectual exercise that has taken something designed for one thing and perverted it for another purpose entirely. Five stars!
The compromise sounds good to me--I wasn't aware of it. This is similar to how the writers of Ghostview do things.
The Vivendi reference was in regard to the (originally) DMCA threat against the authors of bnetd, an open source program that faciliates multiplayer play of Blizzard games. (Vivendi is Blizzard's parent company.) Vivendi is using foundless claims of bnetd's use being primarily to circumvent copy protection in an attempt to make multiplayer possibly only on their service, battle.net. I suspect that if they're successful, the next step will be subscription fees for battle.net, which is what their suit is most likely about.
My argument was an analogy to that old chestnut "posession is nine tenths of the law"--I wasn't addressing the fairness or unfairness of the laws in questions; I was only addressing their futility.
That doesn't mean they're not trying to get rich--only that they're not charging a lot of money per individual. Of course, if I wanted to support the jackbooted DMCA-wielding thugs at Vivendi and do so under Linux and help someone commercially exploit WINE without giving back, I'd sign right up.
But the authority doesn't matter. Only the ability does.
True old school types never use the words "old school" to describe themselves.
When they quit calling crackers hackers, copyright infringers pirates, and security specialists terrorists, I'll quit calling them fascists. Deal?
and its first post-merger PR disaster. May the HP way rest in peace.
And Iomega has never, since even the 8" 10 MB Bernoulli Box cartridges, lowered the price of media to match the current value of that capacity. I don't expect them to start with Zip media.
Oh. We're talking about disk drives? Uh, never mind.
XP Professional, the latest point release of Windows 2000, is a $199 "upgrade."
Heh, someone got it :). My day is made.
If you bought it 5 days ago and Apple won't give you a free upgrade, return it to the place you bought it from for a refund. If they're smart, they'll just accept the return on paper, and resell you the same Mac--except that having bought it today, you'll now qualify for the free upgrade.
Since the forced registration (except for savvier users) in OSX probably was netting them a bunch of "Mr. Screw Apple," email "spamaway@apple.com" living at "1234 Privacy Lane" entries, what better way to fix that than to inflate the price of the upgrade to $129 and graciously offer $50 of it back through a mail-in rebate. And launder the offer through Amazon so it doesn't look like Apple's idea.
Of course, even $79 is too much to charge someone who already paid for the OS with the prices Apple charges for proprietized, two-year old, commodity hardware.
Thanks--I've been playing with Privoxy in the meantime, but Proximitron looks promising for when running Windows.
Ah, but Free Software is lesser than them all.
Which nags you to let it check for updates that never come, except for the sooper-dooper deluxe enterprise gee-whiz version. Not that I'm not grateful for a free web filter, but if they're not going to publish any more updates, the least they could do is not nag me about it anymore.
I was thinking it was more like the Heaviside step function--zero until you install Windows, one thereafter.
. . . but there's a clause in the EULA that prohibits that.