This is what things were like already 500 years ago, with the Holy Church agreeing or disagreeing with the finds of science. The finds that were Christian enough were good, those which were not were... flogged or burnt or take your pick.
Nothing is new under the sun. Tell you what, I even think that "Christian enough" still holds.:-/
Everyone has certain rights (such as anonymity) until they commit a crime.
That's the whole point. Nobody is established to have committed a crime until they are convicted of it.
Suspects are not convicts, and are not without rights (such as anonymity). Especially not when they only exist as "suspects" in a non-law-enforcement organization.
Control yourself a bit. He admitted to have the INTENT TO HAVE SEX WITH A MINOR.
I will be adamant on this position: Intending to have (willful) sex with a 17-year-old woman is NOT the same thing as raping children, which you imply quite harshly.
What do you mean, "only Americans"? China is as much a state in the United States of America as is Kentucky, Luxemburg, Texas, and Europe? The F in FTC (as in Federal...) makes sure it covers all states, from China to Alaska.
I don't understand this "different countries" stuff. It's like some people think American laws don't apply to them.
You're obviously not watching your DivX:es (with AC3 sound, no bloody downmix) on a 10-feet-wide projection cloth in your living room (BIG SCREEN, dolby surround, comfier sofa, popcorn, single malt, a fuzzy blanket, and whatever the hell I like to wear in my own home).
Why did I get that equipment? Because I got tired of watching movies on a 19" computer screen.
Your employment contract probably says you should work 40 hours a week for x amount of dollars. That's a contract that works both ways.
When you buy a house, do you give the seller 500k if the contract says 350k?
When you rent a car, do you give the company twice the money that the contract says, just because you feel you should?
Like hell you do.
So why do you feel obliged to give more than agreed in writing in the work contract? The employer isn't going to give you any more than what's written down. It's just stupid to give your time away for free. Your employer is just a business partner, and you shouldn't give them the most valuable thing you have - your time - for free.
Always take care of yourself first, because no one else is.
DVD burners are slow on uptake because there are different standards, you say?
Gee. Here was I, thinking the reason I didn't buy a DVD burner was primarily the cost of the media, compared to CD-R. As long as I don't need to master a DVD, but just need data backup, CD-Rs come at 35 cents a gig, whereas DVD-Rs are around a dollar a gig still.
So my question to myself is "Would I pay three times the money for a disc burner, and three times the price for the media, to get them on DVD format instead of CD?". My answer to that question is "no".
I don't care too much about the competing standards - both DVD-R and DVD+R can be read in a regular DVD reader, and as long as that's the case, the media format would be a non-issue when selecting a DVD burner, as far as compatibility goes.
I cannot imagine I am the only human on Earth to reason this way.
There is no correct spelling of this guy's name in Latin letters, only in Cyrillic letters. I'd be interested in how it's spelled in Cyrillic if somebody knows and would like to post... (and Slashdot speaks Unicode...)
Where did you get the USB dongle, and where did you get the templates for drivers to use it? I've been looking for a solution like this but been unable to locate any.
(Yeah, yeah, I know, it'll be cracked from here to eternity etc. I'm counting on that. Speaking of that, what's your experience with the USB dongle in that regard?)
Further, I agree with your analysis that games are going networked and have all the protection they need through that. High-end apps will continue to use dongles (preferably USB). Mass-market apps like Office can't require the CD to be in the drive. End of story.:-)
There's a key difference between e-mail spam and anonymous SMS. Where anon SMS can be used for, say, flirting or a number of social events, it cannot be used in bulk without putting a plentitude of nickels on the cashier's desk.
Spam costs relatively nothing, SMS still costs a nickel or two to send. Do you really think a spammer will shell out $100k to reach a million mobile subs with his "Enlarge your penis now!!" message?
I don't see the danger of misuse for spam as that high - I see the pros outweighing that risk.
(However, I still think Europe has a better charging model where the initiating party always pays in full for the telecom transaction - you never pay to receive in Europe, except in a few special circumstances which you are always aware of when they occur and have to deliberately initiate. But that's another story altogether.)
Silly, silly, silly.
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Ok, so for all intents and purposes, this is a dongle. It's an active piece of the CD that contains hardware that can be used for challenge/response mechanisms used for copy protection.
Has anybody ever heard of cracks for dongle-protected software? (insert roaring laughter here).
Silly fools. Marketing anything as "uncrackable" is going to shoot you in the foot. This is no more secure than SafeDisc, it just requires a patch to the binaries (don't check that disc) and you're good to go.
I tried going to Innovatek's website but was completely lost as to where to order one of these (the kit featured on Tom's Hardware). Just found indivudual components, and not all components I needed. Do you have a URL for ordering the kit (230V)?
I mean, the social punishment for leaving your phone turned on (and it happens to ring) is extreme already, in the ballpark of lighting a cigarette in the theater. Does anybody really think that making it illegal will be an additional deterrent?
The NIC (as in Network Interface Card this time) already has this feature, and has had for as long as I can remember the industry (which is about two decades). The MAC address on your computer's network card is unique and on a piece of hardware.
In addition, that hardware exposes its number intrinsically to the network.
But.. can't you then just turn the disc upside down?
No, you use a technique known as double recording. Put two "-" discs in the "+" recorder simultaneously. The two discs will cancel each other out to the "+" format and work as expected.
As a side bonus, you get two copies of whatever you wanted to write to the disc.
Now all we need is that Reason software, which was written right after that whacko wrote the program to play his company's quarterly results in D minor...
There are quite a few different kinds of paper. While 451 deg is a great meme, in reality it's lower for household paper (such as newspapers). It's higher for book-quality color prints.
Besides, most of this is hypothetical. I wouldn't worry about the CPU igniting newspapers:-)
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This is what things were like already 500 years ago, with the Holy Church agreeing or disagreeing with the finds of science. The finds that were Christian enough were good, those which were not were... flogged or burnt or take your pick.
:-/
Nothing is new under the sun. Tell you what, I even think that "Christian enough" still holds.
Everyone has certain rights (such as anonymity) until they commit a crime.
That's the whole point. Nobody is established to have committed a crime until they are convicted of it.
Suspects are not convicts, and are not without rights (such as anonymity). Especially not when they only exist as "suspects" in a non-law-enforcement organization.
This was moderated Funny for some reason. I don't find it funny at all, just depressingly true and insightful. :-/
17 is minor in the US, which is where this happened.
:-) Vi har träffats, men jag vet inte om du minns mig...
Jag vet hur det är i Sverige, Troed.
Control yourself a bit. He admitted to have the INTENT TO HAVE SEX WITH A MINOR.
I will be adamant on this position: Intending to have (willful) sex with a 17-year-old woman is NOT the same thing as raping children, which you imply quite harshly.
What do you mean, "only Americans"? China is as much a state in the United States of America as is Kentucky, Luxemburg, Texas, and Europe? The F in FTC (as in Federal...) makes sure it covers all states, from China to Alaska.
I don't understand this "different countries" stuff. It's like some people think American laws don't apply to them.
You're obviously not watching your DivX:es (with AC3 sound, no bloody downmix) on a 10-feet-wide projection cloth in your living room (BIG SCREEN, dolby surround, comfier sofa, popcorn, single malt, a fuzzy blanket, and whatever the hell I like to wear in my own home).
Why did I get that equipment? Because I got tired of watching movies on a 19" computer screen.
Your employment contract probably says you should work 40 hours a week for x amount of dollars. That's a contract that works both ways.
When you buy a house, do you give the seller 500k if the contract says 350k?
When you rent a car, do you give the company twice the money that the contract says, just because you feel you should?
Like hell you do.
So why do you feel obliged to give more than agreed in writing in the work contract? The employer isn't going to give you any more than what's written down. It's just stupid to give your time away for free. Your employer is just a business partner, and you shouldn't give them the most valuable thing you have - your time - for free.
Always take care of yourself first, because no one else is.
DVD burners are slow on uptake because there are different standards, you say?
Gee. Here was I, thinking the reason I didn't buy a DVD burner was primarily the cost of the media, compared to CD-R. As long as I don't need to master a DVD, but just need data backup, CD-Rs come at 35 cents a gig, whereas DVD-Rs are around a dollar a gig still.
So my question to myself is "Would I pay three times the money for a disc burner, and three times the price for the media, to get them on DVD format instead of CD?". My answer to that question is "no".
I don't care too much about the competing standards - both DVD-R and DVD+R can be read in a regular DVD reader, and as long as that's the case, the media format would be a non-issue when selecting a DVD burner, as far as compatibility goes.
I cannot imagine I am the only human on Earth to reason this way.
There is no correct spelling of this guy's name in Latin letters, only in Cyrillic letters. I'd be interested in how it's spelled in Cyrillic if somebody knows and would like to post... (and Slashdot speaks Unicode...)
You're rambling a lot of stuff that apparently has you very emotional, but I don't understand a word of it. What are you trying to say?
Where did you get the USB dongle, and where did you get the templates for drivers to use it? I've been looking for a solution like this but been unable to locate any.
:-)
(Yeah, yeah, I know, it'll be cracked from here to eternity etc. I'm counting on that. Speaking of that, what's your experience with the USB dongle in that regard?)
Further, I agree with your analysis that games are going networked and have all the protection they need through that. High-end apps will continue to use dongles (preferably USB). Mass-market apps like Office can't require the CD to be in the drive. End of story.
Interesting link. Pity it's not backed by more facts or written in a more analytical fashion.
(For the record, I agree with most of it.)
Ah, ok. That does change things a bit. And do you pay a fixed fee for the ability to receive these, or do you pay to receive each message?
There's a key difference between e-mail spam and anonymous SMS. Where anon SMS can be used for, say, flirting or a number of social events, it cannot be used in bulk without putting a plentitude of nickels on the cashier's desk.
Spam costs relatively nothing, SMS still costs a nickel or two to send. Do you really think a spammer will shell out $100k to reach a million mobile subs with his "Enlarge your penis now!!" message?
I don't see the danger of misuse for spam as that high - I see the pros outweighing that risk.
(However, I still think Europe has a better charging model where the initiating party always pays in full for the telecom transaction - you never pay to receive in Europe, except in a few special circumstances which you are always aware of when they occur and have to deliberately initiate. But that's another story altogether.)
Ok, so for all intents and purposes, this is a dongle. It's an active piece of the CD that contains hardware that can be used for challenge/response mechanisms used for copy protection.
Has anybody ever heard of cracks for dongle-protected software? (insert roaring laughter here).
Silly fools. Marketing anything as "uncrackable" is going to shoot you in the foot. This is no more secure than SafeDisc, it just requires a patch to the binaries (don't check that disc) and you're good to go.
If a computer can read it, it can be cracked.
I tried going to Innovatek's website but was completely lost as to where to order one of these (the kit featured on Tom's Hardware). Just found indivudual components, and not all components I needed. Do you have a URL for ordering the kit (230V)?
Thanks in advance.
I mean, the social punishment for leaving your phone turned on (and it happens to ring) is extreme already, in the ballpark of lighting a cigarette in the theater. Does anybody really think that making it illegal will be an additional deterrent?
From the article;
The mower was developed in collaboration with lawnmower and chainsaw company Husqvarna, part of the Sweden-based AB Electrolux home appliance maker.
The next step is an automatic vacuum cleaner, Bright said.
Husqvarna has sold a self-propelled, self-navigating autonomous lawnmower for YEARS.
The automatic vacuum cleaner (also fully autonomous, fully self-navigating) was introduced over a year ago.
(Linked pages are in Swedish, sorry about that. I did not find an English page at these companies' sites.)
The NIC (as in Network Interface Card this time) already has this feature, and has had for as long as I can remember the industry (which is about two decades). The MAC address on your computer's network card is unique and on a piece of hardware.
In addition, that hardware exposes its number intrinsically to the network.
No, I mean something else entirely. You need to read Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. :-)
But.. can't you then just turn the disc upside down?
No, you use a technique known as double recording. Put two "-" discs in the "+" recorder simultaneously. The two discs will cancel each other out to the "+" format and work as expected.
As a side bonus, you get two copies of whatever you wanted to write to the disc.
Now all we need is that Reason software, which was written right after that whacko wrote the program to play his company's quarterly results in D minor...
(or was it confiscated by the Pentagon already?)
Can't see the negative in this comment... at least deserves a +1 Funny, IMNSHO.
There are quite a few different kinds of paper. While 451 deg is a great meme, in reality it's lower for household paper (such as newspapers). It's higher for book-quality color prints.
:-)
Besides, most of this is hypothetical. I wouldn't worry about the CPU igniting newspapers