Seems like Jack's the kind of person that needs the instructions read to him and interrupts you every 10 seconds to reiterate his own mistaken understanding of what you just said.
Why haven't you lazy Open Sores bitches reverse-engineered the architecture and implemented your own goddamned Open Sores drivers?!!! THAT WOULD SHOW THEM! It's not like you care a whit about protecting ATI's trade secrets or anything.
A high-placed source at Sony BMG has emailed me with some interesting information about the ongoing rootkit DRM fiasco. My source says,
Some of the top Sony BMG artists who had XCP placed on their CDs are complaining directly to the label heads, furious that it will hurt their relationship to their fans and their sales as they go into the massively important Christmas season. Add that to rising number of anti-DRM voices within in the company who have been against DRM as only hurting "the people that are doing the right thing and buying our music." This all means that some of the label heads are finally starting to believe that DRM is just bad for business.
Now they are starting to stand up to the corporate leaders who are pushing DRM as the solution to their sliding revenue, particularly Thomas Hesse who notoriously said "Most people don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
At least of the label heads has threatened never to allow another CD to go out with DRM again.
I've been chasing down several accounts of government agencies, companies, educational institutions and others banning the use of Sony CDs on their PCs, due to the security risks of having Sony's rootkit DRM infecting their PCs. One government ministry, Alberta Agriculture, has banned the use of music CDs altogether, since Sony is hardly the only music company crippling its CDs with sneaky, malicious software. Here are a couple examples:
It has been brought to our attention that there is significant risk to the security and the operation of UC computers in using Sony BMG produced CDs. For this reason, the use of Sony BMG produced CDs in University of Canberra computers is prohibited.
Here I thought this would only happen for "secure" workplaces. Sorta makes you feel sorry for SCO, they can't get anyone to even look at the crazy they're selling when Sony's got such a superior line of insane self-destructiveness.
I just gotta say that laptop is mad '133t! He's even got an enormous 16 mega-byte gragantuan on that puppy! (What is the total size of all the Atari SW ever written? Would it fit on a CD? Or would you need a whole DVD?)
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But we can't put a man on the moon!
What people really want to know is "does it run the Sony rootkit?"
I thought the Mayflower was a sailing ship, not a steamer.
Seems like Jack's the kind of person that needs the instructions read to him and interrupts you every 10 seconds to reiterate his own mistaken understanding of what you just said.
Now we just need to devise a way to use such occult knowledge to take advantage of the ignorant...
Now you know how I feel when the idiotic ::Cue::Cat stories were superceded by idiotic SCO stories!
Can you really blow up a building with a sack of flour and two .22 bullets?
Is the renowned "Terrorists' Handbook" actually salted with errors by the CIA so that anyone trying certain formulas will blow themselves up?
Or maybe Archimedes Plutonium.
heh, just kiddin'!
It the Goatse guy for real, or a myth, like the great pumpkin?
How about the old James Bond one from "Goldfinger" -- if you cover every inch of somebody's skin with paint, they'll suffocate.
FREE as in "stick it to TEH MAN!!!"
Why on Earth would you erroneously infer that writing unmaintainable code violates company development practices?
Crap. I guess that ploy would only work if I sent people a CD of something they'd actually want to play.
A high-placed source at Sony BMG has emailed me with some interesting information about the ongoing rootkit DRM fiasco. My source says,
Don't let the Gorn bite your ass when you beam off the ship."
Get AOL to foll Rogers' lead, and maybe September will finally come to an end!
Just what we need, a revolution by the grammar NAZI's! Then they can implenent their final solution against bad spelers.
In a landmark decision that is believed to have wide-ranging implications for trademark law, the Supreme Court of Canada today dismissed Lego's claim against Montreal-based rival Mega Bloks.
This is /., this crowd would be better served if the laptop was recharged with a device that comnbines this with this!
I've been chasing down several accounts of government agencies, companies, educational institutions and others banning the use of Sony CDs on their PCs, due to the security risks of having Sony's rootkit DRM infecting their PCs. One government ministry, Alberta Agriculture, has banned the use of music CDs altogether, since Sony is hardly the only music company crippling its CDs with sneaky, malicious software. Here are a couple examples:
Here I thought this would only happen for "secure" workplaces. Sorta makes you feel sorry for SCO, they can't get anyone to even look at the crazy they're selling when Sony's got such a superior line of insane self-destructiveness.
Actually, that's just Ben's website accurately reproducing that genuine old-skool experience with a NTSC-o-vision(tm) website plugin applet.
I doubt you'll get any of these to run on it, though.
You lucky sumbitch.
I just gotta say that laptop is mad '133t! He's even got an enormous 16 mega-byte gragantuan on that puppy! (What is the total size of all the Atari SW ever written? Would it fit on a CD? Or would you need a whole DVD?)