In fact, one of the first thoughts that entered my head last Tuesday morning was the possibility this whole thing might have been engineered by some element within our own government in order to increase the scope of its power in the backlash.
"There ought to be limits to, uh, to freedom."
— George W. Bush, in response to a perfectly legal parody site.
The mildly paranoid will also only use compilers they have compiled themselves
But what will they use to compile the compilers they're using to compile the compilers they compiled themselves? And how will they compile the compilers they're using to compile the compilers they're using to compile the compilers they compiled themselves? And you have to wonder how they're going to compile the compilers they're using to compile the compilers they're using to compile the compilers they're using to compile the compilers they compiled themselves! Not to mention-
* head explodes *
Uh, sorry about that. Hand me that eyeball, will you?
Make that reallyhugeAmericancompanies. Anyone who messes with them is obviously some sort of evil, communist, hippie anarchist hacker bent on economic terrorism! And I bet they drown puppies and stomp on flowers, too! But don't worry, your friends at AOL/Time Warner/Microsoft/AT&T/Sprint/Verizon/Hewlett Packard Bell will save you!
Not true, governments have guns. I doubt seriously any business is going to be able to fight that.
Yeah, that'll work real well. They go in, with big guns, and drag the newscasters off in handcuffs on live TV. Great PR move. I'm sure the people will love it.
CNN Newscaster: "Oh my god, ladies and gentlemen, there's a tank outside! Your tyrannical government is trying to take us, your wonderful, impartial, informative newscasters, off the air! Oh my god, armed men are storming in! This must be stopped, ladies and gentlemen! This is a violation of the first amendment! Tyrrany! Communism! You must protest!! Can't you see they're repressing me?!?!?" [is handcuffed, dragged off]
Netscape, CNN, E! Online, Time magazine, Life magazine, Time Life Books, People magazine, Newsweek magazine, Sports Illustrated, Fortune magazine, Money magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Warner Communications, Warner Bros, Warner Music International, Atlantic Records, Elektra Records,
HBO, Cinemax, New Line Cinema, TNT, TBS, TCM, Cartoon Network, Time Warner Cable, MTV, and Nullsoft, plus enough congresscritters to earn them a bulk discount.
"Hello, my name is S.L. Ashdot. And you are...?"
"Gregory Oatse."
"Alfred Ol."
"Matthew Paa."
"Richard Iaa."
"Stephen D. Mi."
"Yossem Ahoo."
"George E. O'Cities."
"Nathan Etscape."
"Michael O'Zilla."
"Theodore H. Inkgeek."
"Nice to meet you all."
I've always thought it would be more likely for the corps to just buy a politician or ten and have home PCs outlawed in favor of dumb media appliances and gaming consoles.
All they'd have to do is get someone to argue that nobody really needs that much processing power except for registered business users, spread their side of the story over the major media outlets (Which, apart from Ziff-Davis, the BBC, and possibly the non-MS bits of NBC, are almost all owned by **AA/BSA/etc. members.), take a cue from Pepsi/Coke and buy some propaganda space in schools, and viola, no more 16-year-old hackers.
Maybe you guys should try asking the site maintainers for permission before posting direct links in your news posts!
[Scene: CmdrTaco, standing in front of a mirror.]
Mirror: >CRACK<
[Scene: Andux, staring at his user info, speaking in the third person, watching his karma slowly trickle away...]
Andux: Um... No offense, Taco!
[Scene: Back at the mirror.]
CmdrTaco:...I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!
Oh, hey, I was wondering, do I mind if I link to Banjo on Slashdot?
Oh, sure, go ahead!
Really? Wow, thanks, me! ...hey, who are those guys in white coats over there...?
Actually, according to the timeline at the beginning of the new books, Empire Strikes Back was set 3 years after A New Hope, and Return of the Jedi a year after that. Episode I is set 32 years before ANH, Episode II is 22 years (so Anakin will be 20), and Episode III is 2 years after that, leaving a gap you could stuff a Hutt through.
I doubt he'd have much freedom to make a trilogy set after the original one. The books are way ahead of him. Although Lucasfilm does own the copyright on all of them. The newest ones are even set far enough after the original trilogy that he could use the original actors. Might be a bit of a jump for the fans who've only seen the movies, though.
What they're not presenting doesn't bother me as much as what they are presenting: Sklyarov as a "hacker." Doesn't exactly stir up public sympathy for him, does it?
Not really surprising, though. Quoth the copyright notice:
Ironically, while I loathe Microsoft, I admire his intelligence and his sense of humor.
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Man, you should've known better than to post anything pro-Gatesish here.:)
* spots moderator coming back *
Uh...
NYT: 'Code Red' at the White House
WT/P: Chinese Hackers Retaliate 'for Pilot Wang'
MSNBC: Web Administrators Ignore Microsoft's Warnings, Endanger Government
FOX: Tonight on FOX: When Worms Attack!!
The biggest problem is probably going to be modding rippers like CD Paranoia to give up on the deliberate errors and continue with the rest of the rip.
Hmm.. no, actually the biggest problem is keeping the protection scheme from scaring off Joe Sixpack. The tech may be nothing special to us, but the average MusicMatch luser doesn't know that. Sad, really.
From the article, it looks like you can rip it, but it introduces errors that aren't automatically corrected when reading the disc in digital mode, resulting in pops and clicks. Wouldn't be too hard to write something that automatically finds and interpolates over them.
Slashdot Mirror
Then it's about time to get away from these plutocratic hosers and start applying for Canadianship, eh? :)
Not quite. :)
The "Aye"s were just loudest.
What we need to do is send Boucher and all his buddies a bunch of megaphones.
So are cartels, but that doesn't seem to have stopped anybody.
You seem to be forgetting who owns the mainstream media (among other things).
"There ought to be limits to, uh, to freedom."
— George W. Bush, in response to a perfectly legal parody site.
Need I say more?
Hey, buddy!
* looks around cautiously *
Wanna buy a newspaper?
C'mon, you'll like it. First one's free!
But what will they use to compile the compilers they're using to compile the compilers they compiled themselves? And how will they compile the compilers they're using to compile the compilers they're using to compile the compilers they compiled themselves? And you have to wonder how they're going to compile the compilers they're using to compile the compilers they're using to compile the compilers they're using to compile the compilers they compiled themselves! Not to mention-
* head explodes *
Uh, sorry about that. Hand me that eyeball, will you?
Make that really huge American companies.
Anyone who messes with them is obviously some sort of evil, communist, hippie anarchist hacker bent on economic terrorism! And I bet they drown puppies and stomp on flowers, too! But don't worry, your friends at AOL/Time Warner/Microsoft/AT&T/Sprint/Verizon/Hewlett Packard Bell will save you!
Ditto for building 6, according to NBC. Also heard that the Mexican border in not closed, but security is very tight.
Yeah, that'll work real well. They go in, with big guns, and drag the newscasters off in handcuffs on live TV. Great PR move. I'm sure the people will love it.
CNN Newscaster: "Oh my god, ladies and gentlemen, there's a tank outside! Your tyrannical government is trying to take us, your wonderful, impartial, informative newscasters, off the air! Oh my god, armed men are storming in! This must be stopped, ladies and gentlemen! This is a violation of the first amendment! Tyrrany! Communism! You must protest!! Can't you see they're repressing me?!?!? "
[is handcuffed, dragged off]
According to ancient Chinese legend, they own and/or practically own:
Netscape, CNN, E! Online, Time magazine, Life magazine, Time Life Books, People magazine, Newsweek magazine, Sports Illustrated, Fortune magazine, Money magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Warner Communications, Warner Bros, Warner Music International, Atlantic Records, Elektra Records, HBO, Cinemax, New Line Cinema, TNT, TBS, TCM, Cartoon Network, Time Warner Cable, MTV, and Nullsoft, plus enough congresscritters to earn them a bulk discount.
<MOM SRC="http://watch.tv/be_quiet/overprotective.mom" STYLE="hairdo: 1960s">Careful! You could put an eye out with that thing!!</MOM>
"Hello, my name is S.L. Ashdot. And you are...?"
"Gregory Oatse."
"Alfred Ol."
"Matthew Paa."
"Richard Iaa."
"Stephen D. Mi."
"Yossem Ahoo."
"George E. O'Cities."
"Nathan Etscape."
"Michael O'Zilla."
"Theodore H. Inkgeek."
"Nice to meet you all."
All they'd have to do is get someone to argue that nobody really needs that much processing power except for registered business users, spread their side of the story over the major media outlets (Which, apart from Zif f-Da vis, the BBC, and possibly the non-MS bits of NBC, are almost all owned by **AA/BSA/etc. members.), take a cue from Pepsi/Coke and buy some propaganda space in schools, and viola, no more 16-year-old hackers.
Link to article pointing out that the EU is about to make DMCA type laws mandatory.
Beowulf cluster.
ASCII art.
Troll.
Natalie Portman.
Attempt to summarize all posts.
Hot grits.
Karma whoring.
*BSD is Dying.
Stephen King, author, dead at 54.
ASCII art.
Troll.
White supremacist troll.
Troll.
Insightful post that nobody notices because it's all the way at the bottom of the first page.
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[Scene: CmdrTaco, standing in front of a mirror.]
Mirror: >CRACK<
[Scene: Andux, staring at his user info, speaking in the third person, watching his karma slowly trickle away...]
Andux: Um... No offense, Taco!
[Scene: Back at the mirror.]
CmdrTaco: ...I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!
Actually, according to the timeline at the beginning of the new books, Empire Strikes Back was set 3 years after A New Hope, and Return of the Jedi a year after that. Episode I is set 32 years before ANH, Episode II is 22 years (so Anakin will be 20), and Episode III is 2 years after that, leaving a gap you could stuff a Hutt through.
Whatever he does, I hope he at least quits being cutesy long enough to wipe out those damned teddy-bears.
Not really surprising, though. Quoth the copyright notice:
Hmm.. Time-Warner.. now why does that name sound so familiar?Anti-emulation progaganda, anyone?
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Man, you should've known better than to post anything pro-Gatesish here. :)
* spots moderator coming back *
Uh...
NYT: 'Code Red' at the White House
WT/P: Chinese Hackers Retaliate 'for Pilot Wang'
MSNBC: Web Administrators Ignore Microsoft's Warnings, Endanger Government
FOX: Tonight on FOX: When Worms Attack!!
See? I'm on-topic, even!
* ducks modstick *
TSX does that now. They don't even let you turn it off. Click here if you're a masochist. Then click here to tell them what you think.
Hmm.. no, actually the biggest problem is keeping the protection scheme from scaring off Joe Sixpack. The tech may be nothing special to us, but the average MusicMatch luser doesn't know that. Sad, really.
From the article, it looks like you can rip it, but it introduces errors that aren't automatically corrected when reading the disc in digital mode, resulting in pops and clicks. Wouldn't be too hard to write something that automatically finds and interpolates over them.