I'm reminded of the Apex DVD player in which the engineers "forgot" to remove the "loopholes" menu which enabled switching NTSC/PAL, setting region, and disabling Macrovision. I immediately bought one.
Don't forget to divide the cost of the development kit by the number of potential sales. Then the cost of the Microsoft kit approaced zero, while Apple's stayed, well, at about $12K.
Don't mind me, just burning off some karma (and if challenging the Apple apologists won't do it nothing will). Nothing to see here.
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I know! How about you get Delaware to secede from the Union in protest, then both problems will be solved without Taco having to do anything!
Don't mind me, just burning off some karma. Nothing to see here.
If the choice is being able to play some stupid copy protected, commercial game or having open source code, I'll take the latter, thank you very much. If I want to play a copy protected game, and that's damn unlikely, mind you, I'll have no ethical problem seeking out an unemcumbered (aka cracked) copy of the product I rightfully own.
That, and if the code is GPL, other people already have the right to distribute it anyway. So it doesn't get the code out of circulation, but makes the coder look spineless. I suspect there's more here at stake than the abstract threat of a DMCA per/prosecution, though.
What's the last tarball with the code?
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I have to add a copy to my "suppressed" directory tree. This is just what the WINE project needs. A fork to a non-U.S. (and probably non-E.U., eventually) nation brought on by the mere implied threat of legal action from evil "intellectual" "property" barons.
I didn't get such an early start, but I owe the fact that I'm not living in a cardboard box drinking cheap wine to the interest in computers I picked up about 23 years ago, starting with terminals at school in 7th grade and progressing on to micros, first at places like Radio Shack where the Model I was on display and independent stores with Commodore PETs and such. Eventually, my parents scraped together enough money to get me an Ohio Scientific C4P, and I was on my way.
Even my high school part time job in retail was selling the Commies and Atari XL series, and paid a little more than the standard minimum wage at the time.
Congrats to both your sons--particularly the one in the commissioning program. Those are very selective. A shame Admiral Boorda had to kill himself, but the restoration of that program is probably the legacy he would have wanted.
It's quite possible that the real reason you were modded down is because you were being an asshole. You're lucky I don't have points right now, or I would have slapped you down 5 myself. Your condescension to the original poster was completely unnecessary.
Seriously: I would love to see someone write a '2084' that would show what the world would be like if all this copyright and consumer rights stuff got out of hand, and fell into the hands of the corporations...
Richard Stallman's already made a pretty good start at one, at least with respect to electronic books. I would like to think he's had a significant role (along with Adobe shooting themselves in the foot) in preventing that evil fair-use disabled crap from catching on.
How about a War on Trolls? We can appoint a, hmm . . . Troll Czar. Mutha!
In no time flat, there won't be any Trolls, there won't be any "bad" posters mucking things up, and we can play in the fields of Malda (a.k.a. Slashdot) in our underwear while listening to heavy metal (but not Metallica, because they'll all have been executed).
Seriously, nice diversion from the real issue with the spectre of eeeevil government. Government regulation is exactly what's needed here--and is what happens when one mere individual posts spyware--it's labeled a trojan, and he goes to jail if caught. All I want is parity for our corporate masters.
But in the Bush-Enron republic, how likely is that?
Or, we could find the programmers that are writing that spyware crap, who have betrayed their fellow man and the society that enabled them to learn the skills they're abusing to do it and:
kind and gentle: try them for crimes against humanity at the Hague
or
not so kind and gentle: rip open their chests and stuff their still beating hearts down their throats
Please don't mod this up--I'm capped, and some dickless coward will no doubt come after with an "Overrated"--please feel free to mod it down, though.
But if you start a business based on another company's product, please don't turn to legislation or lawsuits when they change their architecture to protect their profits.
I also violently agree. But only if the printer companies haven't colluded. If they have colluded to not compete in this space by using these devices and pricing similarly, then they should be smacked down with extreme prejudice.
Please don't mod this up. I'm capped, and some dickless coward will use an "Overrated" on it. Feel free to mod it down, though.
I don't disagree with your statement that if the ink really causes damage, then the warranty can be voided. But printer companies try to cause insecurity by implying that the mere act of using a third party cartridge voids the warranty, which is not true. In this case, a warranty provider that refused service would lose in court. And blaming the manufacturer wouldn't fly with a judge, since the warranty provider represents the manufacturer in that instance. Hell, it'd be better to name both parties and make them send reps and spend a thou or so in employee salary defending themselves. (There's no "loser pays" in small claims.)
Again, I only advocate this tactic in the case where blaming third party refills is abused, not when the refill really was the cause of the failure.
Jesus H. Christ. You sound just like the apologists for the manufacturer of the iOpener, etc. that made the mistake of using a razor blade business model when other people can make the blades.
To turn your argument around a little, once I've bought the printer, where's the manufacturer's God-given right to tell me what I may and may not do with it? Once I buy it, it's mine. And if I find a way to refill their evil, proprietary, page-counting, rent-a-printer cartridges, I guess it sucks to be them.
That said, I've never bought a printer for which I couldn't second source supplies, and if I found that I had inadvertently purchased a printer with "chipped" cartridges that were non-refillable and/or refused to work after printing some fixed n number of pages, regardless of the ink/toner left in them, I would immediately return it. If the return were refused, I would dispute the charge with my credit card company (costing the store some money and sending a message about that manufacturer's gear, whether or not the chargeback is successful).
Please don't mod this up. I'm capped, and some dickless coward will us an "Overrated" on it. Feel free to mod it down, though.
Long live Compaquard Bell./me observes a moment of silence for Digital Equipment Corporation and the old HP, both of which made quality products before being pimped out.
No infringement at all. So long as there's law prohibiting the presentation of such an ID being required for commerce of any kind (e.g. cashing a check, checking into a hotel, renting a car, borrowing a book) and that it carries sufficient civil penalties (7 figures) to be an effective deterrent.
Not that it isn't enough to fear the government, but the real threat is from the capitalist kleptocracy that really runs the country.
. . . that there are already a number of people here on Slashdot with experience in conducting video and audio documentation of, um, mating behavior. Applying that experience to fruit flies might take a little work, though.
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Remember to put the stylus back in before you wipe!
And you wasted that post on one of your troll IDs, why?
Did you read the story? They can't violate an NDA if they didn't sign one. And they didn't.
I'm reminded of the Apex DVD player in which the engineers "forgot" to remove the "loopholes" menu which enabled switching NTSC/PAL, setting region, and disabling Macrovision. I immediately bought one.
Don't mind me, just burning off some karma (and if challenging the Apple apologists won't do it nothing will). Nothing to see here.
Don't mind me, just burning off some karma. Nothing to see here.
You're not fooling anyone, mister. It's turtles all the way down!
If the choice is being able to play some stupid copy protected, commercial game or having open source code, I'll take the latter, thank you very much. If I want to play a copy protected game, and that's damn unlikely, mind you, I'll have no ethical problem seeking out an unemcumbered (aka cracked) copy of the product I rightfully own.
That, and if the code is GPL, other people already have the right to distribute it anyway. So it doesn't get the code out of circulation, but makes the coder look spineless. I suspect there's more here at stake than the abstract threat of a DMCA per/prosecution, though.
I have to add a copy to my "suppressed" directory tree. This is just what the WINE project needs. A fork to a non-U.S. (and probably non-E.U., eventually) nation brought on by the mere implied threat of legal action from evil "intellectual" "property" barons.
Don't mind me, just burning off some karma. Nothing to see here.
I didn't get such an early start, but I owe the fact that I'm not living in a cardboard box drinking cheap wine to the interest in computers I picked up about 23 years ago, starting with terminals at school in 7th grade and progressing on to micros, first at places like Radio Shack where the Model I was on display and independent stores with Commodore PETs and such. Eventually, my parents scraped together enough money to get me an Ohio Scientific C4P, and I was on my way.
Even my high school part time job in retail was selling the Commies and Atari XL series, and paid a little more than the standard minimum wage at the time.
Congrats to both your sons--particularly the one in the commissioning program. Those are very selective. A shame Admiral Boorda had to kill himself, but the restoration of that program is probably the legacy he would have wanted.
They just wanted to use a metaphor that their overpaid potential customers could relate to in their real lives.
And to think I had my heart set on cointel.pro.
I'm capped. Bring it on.
Richard Stallman's already made a pretty good start at one, at least with respect to electronic books. I would like to think he's had a significant role (along with Adobe shooting themselves in the foot) in preventing that evil fair-use disabled crap from catching on.
In no time flat, there won't be any Trolls, there won't be any "bad" posters mucking things up, and we can play in the fields of Malda (a.k.a. Slashdot) in our underwear while listening to heavy metal (but not Metallica, because they'll all have been executed).
Seriously, nice diversion from the real issue with the spectre of eeeevil government. Government regulation is exactly what's needed here--and is what happens when one mere individual posts spyware--it's labeled a trojan, and he goes to jail if caught. All I want is parity for our corporate masters.
But in the Bush-Enron republic, how likely is that?
Please don't mod this up--I'm capped, and some dickless coward will no doubt come after with an "Overrated"--please feel free to mod it down, though.
which has just given me a great idea for that Interplak that's been gathering dust!
I also violently agree. But only if the printer companies haven't colluded. If they have colluded to not compete in this space by using these devices and pricing similarly, then they should be smacked down with extreme prejudice.
Please don't mod this up. I'm capped, and some dickless coward will use an "Overrated" on it. Feel free to mod it down, though.
Again, I only advocate this tactic in the case where blaming third party refills is abused, not when the refill really was the cause of the failure.
To turn your argument around a little, once I've bought the printer, where's the manufacturer's God-given right to tell me what I may and may not do with it? Once I buy it, it's mine. And if I find a way to refill their evil, proprietary, page-counting, rent-a-printer cartridges, I guess it sucks to be them.
That said, I've never bought a printer for which I couldn't second source supplies, and if I found that I had inadvertently purchased a printer with "chipped" cartridges that were non-refillable and/or refused to work after printing some fixed n number of pages, regardless of the ink/toner left in them, I would immediately return it. If the return were refused, I would dispute the charge with my credit card company (costing the store some money and sending a message about that manufacturer's gear, whether or not the chargeback is successful).
Please don't mod this up. I'm capped, and some dickless coward will us an "Overrated" on it. Feel free to mod it down, though.
Long live Compaquard Bell. /me observes a moment of silence for Digital Equipment Corporation and the old HP, both of which made quality products before being pimped out.
Not that it isn't enough to fear the government, but the real threat is from the capitalist kleptocracy that really runs the country.
You might start here for equipment.