Right, that thing looks like cache. I wonder how it will be operated on the OS level. Will it have internal processor to manage the cache and disk or will it be all done in the driver?
the replacement HD [Hitachi 60GB] is ==>$710 CAD==
You know, these HDDs tend to be standardized. Why not buy one and install yourself? While they tend to be twice as expensive as the normal desktop units, the kind of price you present is SICK.
What I did was simple: I keep the original HDD and put in decently priced (and fast (for a laptop)) Fujitsu drive. 60GB cost me about $200, interestingly, 40GB was only some $20 less. If I ever need to present the laptop for warranty repair, I'll put in the original drive. Just have to be careful not to scratch the screws too much.
Add $30 for an external USB box for the old drive, I now have also nice portable storage.
This bill is aimed at people who distribute movies *PRIOR* to their televised airing, release date, etc.
That may be, but it will be used against anyone that might fit extended interpretation. And it's not hard to extend this interpretation to include shows aired on TV and intended to be later released on DVD.
It's exactly like with spam. Web ads have more legitimacy, but for me and many other people, not much more.
It's not a fault or evilness on the side of ablock author (or authors of many other ad filtering products). It's the fault of some marketers who could not, and still don't, understand that above certain level advertising becomes too much of a distraction. People are not surfing to see ads. If ads distract to much from the content, things happen. Things like ad blocking, ad server blocklists, etc...
Overzealous marketers overdid it, exactly the same way it happened with email and spam and now every marketing effort is hit by a backlash. What can I say... They wanted war, they got war! Too bad some decent sites will die as a collateral damage.
Given that the laws are designed to do exactly opposite from their name or apparent purpose, I'd check what the real language will be before starting to party. And possible side effect need checking too, as in combination with something else it might turn into Weld Their Mouths Shut Act.
There comes a day in your life, when it's time to pay back student loans, buy/rent a house, car, etc etc. And put the food & beer on the table. Then you realize it's impossible to live on the ideals anymore:-(
There was a time I was considering even worse jobs. With no income and a bunch of debt collectors after you, the point-of-view changes.
So they'll easily find some people, who will work for them in exchange for being paid. Maybe even decently paid, with free consuelling to fight off guilty feelings from sending kids of their former friends to jail (or to gas chamber - since punishment for evil copyright infringement will be upgraded).
anything you do to erase the data on a dead drive is likely to void the warranty anyway
I don't understand something here... If the drive is dead, you can't really do anything except smashing, burning etc. You can't format/erase it 'coz it's dead and not responding!
If it's still responding then it's not dead and can be cleaned with some software.
Or is this the issue of having the device to "cover your ass" in case of inspection rather than actually functioning?
Take a look at generic chinese-made DVD players. These are made to play any disc you put in...
I have one of those (right, I'm a cheapskate) and it plays MP3 on DVD. Only problem is that it's slow to read file names and display them in menu. Thing is called Manta 001 (it is local branding for CEE I think, so you won't rather find it under this name in the US).
And of course, first place on the feature list on the box was "region free".
No, really, they do. You would be surprised to see how much faster are authors' and publishers' computers! Few hundred duped^Wsatisfied losers^Wcustomers and it's big upgrade time for them.
You know, there's that little thing called "DMCA takedown notice". Not a nice thing, but it sure beats FBI raid. Been used many times (not necessarily rightly) by copyright holders.
One page with legal office letterhead and his host/upstream would pull the plug and ask questions later.
So either this case stinks like hell of abuse OR the guy had more serious problems with the law. Given the comments about scams and fraud, it very well might be the latter.
While they don't have law on the books, they may make one when they see fit. But it's not really necessary. All it takes is to claim that by your resistance to vaccinations you are endangering a child, then take away your parenting rights. Maybe thrwo you in prison for good measure.
I know it sounds 1984 and it's yet not the policy. Not yet. Just the current trends of protecting people from their freedoms and mistakes lead to such concepts.
IMO, the current chaos is created by the "all you can eat" mentality.
Which is wrong... exactly why?
Anyone offering flat rate, unlimited-for-fixed-price (all you can eat) takes on a risk. This is obvious for anyone with basic understanding of economy. The same happened with unlimited internet access - marketing made assumptions about usage patterns that turned out wrong.
However in this case it may be simpler, as it seems somewhat to be bait and switch thing. Honest limited time offers say they are limited.
You see, this depends on the actual law in the recipient's jurisdiction.
Where I live, anything that is sent to me, having my name/address in headers makes me legal recipient. As such I have all rights to the correspondence, including publishing it on the web or street corner. The sender may *kindly* ask me to refrain from doing so, but I'm not required to. The only way it might hold would be if the email contained state secrets, maybe.
So these disclaimers really lack Void where prohibited at the end:-)
There are many others with "real" transparency. For starters, nvidia drivers for windoze had multidesktop+transparency as an option for some time - at least for 6 months (first time I saw it). There was also some small freeware utility to set window transparency that I tried about a year ago. Not to mention, that supposedly Win2K has API calls to set transparency, just that almost no one uses them; but that would mean MS had the idea about 5 years ago.
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You know, these HDDs tend to be standardized. Why not buy one and install yourself? While they tend to be twice as expensive as the normal desktop units, the kind of price you present is SICK.
What I did was simple: I keep the original HDD and put in decently priced (and fast (for a laptop)) Fujitsu drive. 60GB cost me about $200, interestingly, 40GB was only some $20 less. If I ever need to present the laptop for warranty repair, I'll put in the original drive. Just have to be careful not to scratch the screws too much.
Add $30 for an external USB box for the old drive, I now have also nice portable storage.
This bill is aimed at people who distribute movies *PRIOR* to their televised airing, release date, etc.
That may be, but it will be used against anyone that might fit extended interpretation. And it's not hard to extend this interpretation to include shows aired on TV and intended to be later released on DVD.
It's exactly like with spam. Web ads have more legitimacy, but for me and many other people, not much more.
It's not a fault or evilness on the side of ablock author (or authors of many other ad filtering products). It's the fault of some marketers who could not, and still don't, understand that above certain level advertising becomes too much of a distraction. People are not surfing to see ads. If ads distract to much from the content, things happen. Things like ad blocking, ad server blocklists, etc...
Overzealous marketers overdid it, exactly the same way it happened with email and spam and now every marketing effort is hit by a backlash. What can I say... They wanted war, they got war! Too bad some decent sites will die as a collateral damage.
Given that the laws are designed to do exactly opposite from their name or apparent purpose, I'd check what the real language will be before starting to party. And possible side effect need checking too, as in combination with something else it might turn into Weld Their Mouths Shut Act.
Not really.
While it blocks known IPs and subnets of various "enemies of P2P", it can't block their snitches working from home or from subcontracted companies.
It is however, especially when the list is used directly by personal firewall, quite effective against ads, trojans, phone-home spyware, etc.
End result: it won't guarantee that you won't get C&D or worse.
There comes a day in your life, when it's time to pay back student loans, buy/rent a house, car, etc etc. And put the food & beer on the table. Then you realize it's impossible to live on the ideals anymore :-(
There was a time I was considering even worse jobs. With no income and a bunch of debt collectors after you, the point-of-view changes.
So they'll easily find some people, who will work for them in exchange for being paid. Maybe even decently paid, with free consuelling to fight off guilty feelings from sending kids of their former friends to jail (or to gas chamber - since punishment for evil copyright infringement will be upgraded).
I don't understand something here... If the drive is dead, you can't really do anything except smashing, burning etc. You can't format/erase it 'coz it's dead and not responding!
If it's still responding then it's not dead and can be cleaned with some software.
Or is this the issue of having the device to "cover your ass" in case of inspection rather than actually functioning?
And, if you know a little Russian, try http://www.fishki.net/comment.php?id=1610 - it's less political and more realistic :-(
That is the "bright future" they are building for us.
Sure. Then they get you for "trafficking" in "circumvention devices".
:-(
While many activities corporations speak agains are legal, not everyone has the money to defend in courts. They are scaring us into submission
Right! We need to free prosecutors and spaces in the prison for the grannies sharing music. It's only logical that these guys are let free.
Murder victims don't pay politicians that much. RIAA/MPAA on the other hand...
"You get what you paid for" is true for laws as much as it's true for everything else.
Yes! Let's make the whole world into one great sandbox and have everyone in straightjacket too. That will make mankind safe and happy, right?
They did, only they treat it as HOW-TO manual.
The magnificent works of Ed Wood, where are they? Even his masterpiece is missing!
Take a look at generic chinese-made DVD players. These are made to play any disc you put in...
I have one of those (right, I'm a cheapskate) and it plays MP3 on DVD. Only problem is that it's slow to read file names and display them in menu. Thing is called Manta 001 (it is local branding for CEE I think, so you won't rather find it under this name in the US).
And of course, first place on the feature list on the box was "region free".
No, really, they do. You would be surprised to see how much faster are authors' and publishers' computers! Few hundred duped^Wsatisfied losers^Wcustomers and it's big upgrade time for them.
You know, there's that little thing called "DMCA takedown notice". Not a nice thing, but it sure beats FBI raid. Been used many times (not necessarily rightly) by copyright holders.
One page with legal office letterhead and his host/upstream would pull the plug and ask questions later.
So either this case stinks like hell of abuse OR the guy had more serious problems with the law. Given the comments about scams and fraud, it very well might be the latter.
You think so.
While they don't have law on the books, they may make one when they see fit. But it's not really necessary. All it takes is to claim that by your resistance to vaccinations you are endangering a child, then take away your parenting rights. Maybe thrwo you in prison for good measure.
I know it sounds 1984 and it's yet not the policy. Not yet. Just the current trends of protecting people from their freedoms and mistakes lead to such concepts.
Which would be a good thing.
All these invasive "copy protection" systems do little to hinder illegal distribution but make honest users' life difficult.
Then, where's my cheque?
IMO, the current chaos is created by the "all you can eat" mentality.
Which is wrong... exactly why?
Anyone offering flat rate, unlimited-for-fixed-price (all you can eat) takes on a risk. This is obvious for anyone with basic understanding of economy. The same happened with unlimited internet access - marketing made assumptions about usage patterns that turned out wrong.
However in this case it may be simpler, as it seems somewhat to be bait and switch thing. Honest limited time offers say they are limited.
You see, this depends on the actual law in the recipient's jurisdiction.
:-)
Where I live, anything that is sent to me, having my name/address in headers makes me legal recipient. As such I have all rights to the correspondence, including publishing it on the web or street corner. The sender may *kindly* ask me to refrain from doing so, but I'm not required to. The only way it might hold would be if the email contained state secrets, maybe.
So these disclaimers really lack Void where prohibited at the end
And then you send your horde of lawyers to deal with them? If you got money for that, why not just buy the stuff?
There are many others with "real" transparency. For starters, nvidia drivers for windoze had multidesktop+transparency as an option for some time - at least for 6 months (first time I saw it). There was also some small freeware utility to set window transparency that I tried about a year ago. Not to mention, that supposedly Win2K has API calls to set transparency, just that almost no one uses them; but that would mean MS had the idea about 5 years ago.
Seems Apple is just wasting money on that one.
One virus in each file, one worm in for every two?
Embedding executable in data file is BAD, especially if it needs to be native executable to get any acceptable performance.