Yes, I did. Sorry for the confusion. Too much blood in my Caffeine stream, apparently.
As for "trollish", ehhhh...
"Personally, I don't think the Gov't shouldn't be in the business of providing health care, either. If they can't balance a bank book (i.e. the budget) then how do we expect they can handle running health care?"
That kind of retarded Teabagger/Randroid talking point irritates me greatly.
The Feds seem to handle Medicare/Medicaid pretty damn well, and here in Boston, pretty much all the veterans I know have nothing but praise for the local VA hospitals.
I Can't. I don't know about you, pathetic loser troll. I NEVER access the Net as root. I NEVER click on attachments that claim to be "NAKED PICS OF (female athlete name here)" and my email app, Eudora, never ever automatically opens attachments or open URLs in Internet Explorer.
"How does your OS determine that it is a trojan and not a remote control app that you want to install?"
I don't use 'remote control apps".
"How does your OS determine that it is a spambot and not a regular IRC bot?"
I NEVER use IRC.
"How does your OS determine that it is a file stealing malware and not a filesharing app?""
In my decades of using Macs, I have encountered exactly ONE virus. It was on a used Color Classic I purchased. The freeware AV app 'Disinfectant' cleaned it right up.
Odds are, there never will BE an "iPod killer". And so what if any iPod killer is "patented and copyrighted"? I have no problem with that whatsoever. It's their legal (and indeed, ethical, right to profit from their creation, if that is what they so desire.)
And the next music player I HAVE GOT TO HAVE is another iPod. Likely a 160 gig Classic. The iPod Touch is still a bit too pricey and limited in storage for my tastes.
As for my iTunes purchases, when I have enough, I burn a CD. And that CD is FULL of easy to rip (if need be) tracks that'll play on an iPod, iTunes or any other device that will play MP3 files.
Of course, the vast majority of music I have in iTunes is from my CD collection, ripped by myself as unprotected MP3 tracks. I'm probably like a lot of people. They got iTunes, they ripped their CD collections and the discs are in a box in a closet now. So what is this "repurchase" you speak of?
When do I stop paying for music? Why, right after I buy the original file, that's when. I have MP3 files I ripped from my CDs on my ancient Mac Performa 6300 CD using SoundJam MP under System 7.6 that I still listen to today. Same thing for for iTunes Store tracks purchased 3 Macs and two OS's ago.
If my hard drive shreds itself, once I get back from the local Micro Center with a new drive, I'll let Time Machine do it's thing and all my files, including iTunes tracks are restored.
If you want to have a Holy Crusade against Apple and iTunes, go ahead.
I'll just sit here and laugh my ass off at you, though.
"Even $1.00 per track is too much to pay for music in the presently available low quality DRMed formats."
Actually, That's about what we paid for 45 RPM singles back in the day.
$0.99 for an iTunes track is perfectly reasonable.
I don't care a fat rat's ass about that track having some DRM on it. It plays on the Mac under iTunes and it'll play on my iPod (when I get around to buying a replacement for my dead 2nd Gen iPod)
If you don't like how the iTunes Store does business, don't buy anything from the iTunes Store.
No one denies that there ARE hazards that target OS X.
But three exploits for Leopard, one of them Intel only (PowerPC user here) another is a Safari exploit vs. the countless exploits for Windows scarcely seem indicate that Mac OS is as vulnerable as Windows.
As long as there are Windows users who do everything from the root account, and who will insist upon opening "SEE NAKED PICS OF (female athlete name here)!!!!" emails, Windows will continue to be the botnet host of choice.
With the proviso that smart Windows users have the their AV software and definitions all up to date and use something other than Outlook Express and IE for their email and web use.
"Now, I don't care to discuss the alleged complaints American Indians have against this country. I believe, with good reason, the most unsympathetic Hollywood portrayal of Indians and what they did to the white man. They had no right to a country merely because they were born here and then acted like savages. The white man did not conquer this country. And you're a racist if you object, because it means you believe that certain men are entitled to something because of their race. You believe that if someone is born in a magnificent country and doesn't know what to do with it, he still has a property right to it. He does not. Since the Indians did not have the concept of property or property rights--they didn't have a settled society, they had predominantly nomadic tribal "cultures"--they didn't have rights to the land, and there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights that they had not conceived of and were not using. It's wrong to attack a country that respects (or even tries to respect) individual rights. If you do, you're an aggressor and are morally wrong. But if a "country" does not protect rights--if a group of tribesmen are the slaves of their tribal chief--why should you respect the "rights" that they don't have or respect? The same is true for a dictatorship. The citizens in it have individual rights, but the country has no rights and so anyone has the right to invade it, because rights are not recognized in that country; and no individual or country can have its cake and eat it too--that is, you can't claim one should respect the "rights" of Indians, when they had no concept of rights and no respect for rights. But let's suppose they were all beautifully innocent savages--which they certainly were not. What were they fighting for, in opposing the white man on this continent? For their wish to continue a primitive existnece; for their "right" to keep part of the earth untouched--to keep everybody out so they could live like animals or cavemen. Any European who brought with him an element of civilization had the right to take over this continent, and it's great that some of them did. The racist Indians today--those who condemn America--do not respect individual rights."
Or didn't you bother to actually READ the "Scourge of Public Libraries" by the aforementioned libertarian dipshit?
Instead of just books, most of my local libraries contain all sorts of media that people can check out, including movies. Instead of going to one of the Blockbuster Video stores that are on practically every corner and paying $4, one can go to a local library and pay 50 cents or at some places nothing at all. Yay! Free movies!
Of course, if you want to get one of the more popular movies, you'll have to sign up on the waiting list several weeks in advance. It reminds me of Soviet breadlines. Very few people get their movies at libraries compared to Blockbuster. At least in this case, the convenience and selection of the free market are beating the socialist gravy train.
Yes, being on a waiting list for a DVD from the Boston Public Library (in my case) is JUST LIKE a "Soviet breadline".
" And if that fails, you can place a camcorder in front of the TV
That sounds like a major pain in the ass. If I have to buy one of their players just to get the content into my player, and I also can only import the data in 1x realtime, then I'm not going to bother. I'll just let the pirates handle it, and download it from them."
That was a suggestion from MPAA for teachers who wanted to use clips from DVDs as teaching aids.
-I.E., DVD/BluRay discs, any DRM is useless and will be subverted.
Encode the bits all the way to the monitor/TV display. It makes no difference. Someone, somewhere will figure out how to convince the data stream that it's driving an encryption compliant display, while in actuality, that now unencrypted data stream is being written to a hard drive as an H.264 video/audio file.
Even if eventually, everything comes from the cloud, the Chinese will be happy to sell you a greymarket flatscreen TV/Monitor with all the audio/video out ports you could ever want on the back of the display. All ready to plug into your computer.
Until then, ffmpeg and Handbrake/MacTheRipper are your archiving friends.
As for torrents, I look at the Internet as my own personal Digital Video Recorder that automatically edits out the commercials.
Oh, and lastly, I buy almost all my DVDs used. No point in paying the studios/networks/production companies that DRM their products.
"There are scalpels on planes and I can't bring a nail file?"
Hell, even the pilots get screwed by TSA yahoos!
Never mind that there is something called the "Crash Axe" in the cockpit, can't let the pilot onboard with a letter opener or butter knife in his carryon bag or briefcase. Security, you know!
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"Having said all that, I think ebooks have probably been set back significantly with the recent increase in prices."
Because, as we all know, selling 1 ebook at US$15.00 is far better than selling 10 ebooks at US$5.00 each.
Just back from a teabagger rally, were you?
"Anonymous Coward", the preferred nom du douchebag of the right wing /. Randroid retard.
"I assume however he meant Iraq"
Yes, I did. Sorry for the confusion. Too much blood in my Caffeine stream, apparently.
As for "trollish", ehhhh...
"Personally, I don't think the Gov't shouldn't be in the business of providing health care, either. If they can't balance a bank book (i.e. the budget) then how do we expect they can handle running health care?"
That kind of retarded Teabagger/Randroid talking point irritates me greatly.
The Feds seem to handle Medicare/Medicaid pretty damn well, and here in Boston, pretty much all the veterans I know have nothing but praise for the local VA hospitals.
Then you'll be refusing Medicare when you get old enough, right, anonymous coward Randroid?
Or perhaps you meant that REPUBLICAN government can't balance the checkbook. The last Democratic President left office with a budget surplus.
Which a REPUBLICAN President pissed away and then drove the US DEEPER into debt with his "Look how big my dick is!" war in Iran.
Windows fanboys with mod points modding down someone comparing the Mac OS to their beloved Windows.
A reaction as inevitable as day following night.
But no where NEAR as illuminating.
Nice try at trolling, pathetic loser troll.
EPIC FAIL!
But a nice try, nonetheless.
"Wait, you can't get a trojan on your MacOS?"
I Can't. I don't know about you, pathetic loser troll. I NEVER access the Net as root. I NEVER click on attachments that claim to be "NAKED PICS OF (female athlete name here)" and my email app, Eudora, never ever automatically opens attachments or open URLs in Internet Explorer.
"How does your OS determine that it is a trojan and not a remote control app that you want to install?"
I don't use 'remote control apps".
"How does your OS determine that it is a spambot and not a regular IRC bot?"
I NEVER use IRC.
"How does your OS determine that it is a file stealing malware and not a filesharing app?""
I use Transmission as my BitTorrent Client and I ALWAYS have Little Snitch active when online.
In my decades of using Macs, I have encountered exactly ONE virus. It was on a used Color Classic I purchased. The freeware
AV app ' Disinfectant ' cleaned it right up.
Any more questions, pathetic loser troll?
I run Mac OS X, you insensitive clod! Why should I pay to clean up YOUR CRAPPY OS?
Hey, here's an idea: Why not fix WINDOWS so it's not such promiscuous virus/trojan/worm whore?
I look forward to reading it. Online, of course!
I would NEVER think of violating MS' copyright.
That would be wrong.
"fags get bullied because they're little useless sacks of dog shit."
The Anonymous Coward closet case basement-dwelling Cheeto-gorging self loathing homosexual troll says what?
Odds are, there never will BE an "iPod killer". And so what if any iPod killer is "patented and copyrighted"? I have no problem with that whatsoever. It's their legal (and indeed, ethical, right to profit from their creation, if that is what they so desire.)
And the next music player I HAVE GOT TO HAVE is another iPod. Likely a 160 gig Classic. The iPod Touch is still a bit too pricey and limited in storage for my tastes.
As for my iTunes purchases, when I have enough, I burn a CD. And that CD is FULL of easy to rip (if need be) tracks that'll play on an iPod, iTunes or any other device that will play MP3 files.
Of course, the vast majority of music I have in iTunes is from my CD collection, ripped by myself as unprotected MP3 tracks. I'm probably like a lot of people. They got iTunes, they ripped their CD collections and the discs are in a box in a closet now. So what is this "repurchase" you speak of?
When do I stop paying for music? Why, right after I buy the original file, that's when. I have MP3 files I ripped from my CDs on my ancient Mac Performa 6300 CD using SoundJam MP under System 7.6 that I still listen to today. Same thing for for iTunes Store tracks purchased 3 Macs and two OS's ago.
If my hard drive shreds itself, once I get back from the local Micro Center with a new drive, I'll let Time Machine do it's thing and all my files, including iTunes tracks are restored.
If you want to have a Holy Crusade against Apple and iTunes, go ahead.
I'll just sit here and laugh my ass off at you, though.
"Stop perpetuating this myth about iTunes still having DRM'd music tracks. They aren't. "They haven't since right about January 6, 2009."
In all honesty, I haven't paid any attention to what iTunes Stores does to the files for some years now.
Are the basic US$0.99 tracks un-DRMed now, or is that only for the higher priced/higher quality tracks?
For that matter, do they still even sell US$0.99 tracks these days?
I only buy 3-4 tracks a month at the most, and really don't pay that much attention to the process.
I know, pathetic, isn't it? Click the mouse, instant gratification, no concern about the cost.
Of course, the point is that, for the VAST majority of iPod and iTunes users, what DRM there is/was on any music or video file was immaterial.
"Ooooh! WANT!" Click. "Oooooh! HAVE!" That simple, seamless, instant process is what makes iTunes so popular with people.
"Even $1.00 per track is too much to pay for music in the presently available low quality DRMed formats."
Actually, That's about what we paid for 45 RPM singles back in the day.
$0.99 for an iTunes track is perfectly reasonable.
I don't care a fat rat's ass about that track having some DRM on it. It plays on the Mac under iTunes and it'll play on my iPod (when I get around to buying a replacement for my dead 2nd Gen iPod)
If you don't like how the iTunes Store does business, don't buy anything from the iTunes Store.
Simple, isn't it?
"What can we make of you?"
Soylent green- GREEN!
The environmentally friendly Soylent green.
Try some today.
No one denies that there ARE hazards that target OS X.
But three exploits for Leopard, one of them Intel only (PowerPC user here) another is a Safari exploit vs. the countless exploits for Windows scarcely seem indicate that Mac OS is as vulnerable as Windows.
As long as there are Windows users who do everything from the root account, and who will insist upon opening "SEE NAKED PICS OF (female athlete name here)!!!!" emails, Windows will continue to be the botnet host of choice.
Essentially, yes.
With the proviso that smart Windows users have the their AV software and definitions all up to date and use something other than Outlook Express and IE for their email and web use.
...and let Software Update do it's thing with Security Updates.
Don't go online as Root, and really try not to open email attachments that claim to be "Nude Photos of (insert female athlete name here)"
Really, how hard is that?
Far better the douchebaggery of relatively SANE politicians, as opposed to the INSANE fantasies of the acolytes of the Inerrant Thought of Chairman Rand. Not to mention the pure and unadulterated douchebaggery of the meth-addicted fifth rate Nietzsche of the mini-malls herself: Fuck the Indian Savages!
Or didn't you bother to actually READ the "Scourge of Public Libraries" by the aforementioned libertarian dipshit?
...this dipshit is SERIOUS!
The Scourge of Public Libraries .
Yes, being on a waiting list for a DVD from the Boston Public Library (in my case) is JUST LIKE a "Soviet breadline".
Is there no end to Libertarian douchebaggery?
" And if that fails, you can place a camcorder in front of the TV
That sounds like a major pain in the ass. If I have to buy one of their players just to get the content into my player, and I also can only import the data in 1x realtime, then I'm not going to bother. I'll just let the pirates handle it, and download it from them."
That was a suggestion from MPAA for teachers who wanted to use clips from DVDs as teaching aids.
As if a teacher could afford a camcorder!
-I.E., DVD/BluRay discs, any DRM is useless and will be subverted.
Encode the bits all the way to the monitor/TV display. It makes no difference. Someone, somewhere will figure out how to convince the data stream that it's driving an encryption compliant display, while in actuality, that now unencrypted data stream is being written to a hard drive as an H.264 video/audio file.
Even if eventually, everything comes from the cloud, the Chinese will be happy to sell you a greymarket flatscreen TV/Monitor with all the audio/video out ports you could ever want on the back of the display. All ready to plug into your computer.
Until then, ffmpeg and Handbrake/MacTheRipper are your archiving friends.
As for torrents, I look at the Internet as my own personal Digital Video Recorder that automatically edits out the commercials.
Oh, and lastly, I buy almost all my DVDs used. No point in paying the studios/networks/production companies that DRM their products.
"There are scalpels on planes and I can't bring a nail file?"
Hell, even the pilots get screwed by TSA yahoos!
Never mind that there is something called the " Crash Axe " in the cockpit, can't let the pilot onboard with a letter opener or butter knife in his carryon bag or briefcase. Security, you know!
Thank you.
"WHOOOOSH!" Indeed, oh, perceptive AC.
I wonder if he/she/it is related to this person :
(From "If At All Possible, Involve A Cow", page 225)
"Pretty much every movie that I rent from Netflix is something that I've decided I don't mind waiting for..."
Same here. Eventually, whatever film is at the bottom reaches the top of the queue and then it reaches my mailbox.
And if, for some reason, I MUST see a WB film the day it's released on DVD, well, that IS why we have the Internet, right?