all Joe would have to do is walk out of the cinema, and his cellphone and camcorder would work perfectly.
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... originally it didn't uninstall when the game was uninstalled.
dave420:
was also previously told before even entering the cinema that it would happen. Doesn't seem so draconian, does it?
Does still seem very draconian to me. As dictionary.com puts it: draconian means 2. Excessively harsh; severe. Obviously, that makes the usage of that word rather subjective, but I, personally, would find the manipulation of my property to the point of it becoming partially unusable VERY severe, especially if i didn't even intend to harm the movie industry.
I'll point out another thing: Had joe d/led that stupid movie and watched it on his home pc, is cellphone would have been unharmed. Had joe used a pirated version of game X right from the start, his PC would work as it used to without him re-installing windows[1]. One day maybe he'll realize this fact and adjust his buying habits accordingly.
I find it tremendously stupid by the content (movie, music, games, whatever) industry to try to prevent piracy by actually giving pirated versions of their products an edge over the legitimate versions.
[1] BTW, re-installing windows on machines that are intended to be connected to the internet has grown from click-a-few-buttons-and-wait-half-an-hour into a find-another-pc-which-is-halfway-up-to-date-and-us e-it-to-download-zillions-of-patches-and-updates-t hen-install-windows-on-your-disconnected-machine-t hen-install-zillions-of-patches-and-updates-then-p ray-and-plug-in-the-cat5 nightmare that probably only a very tiny minority of windows users is even capable of doing themselves, so for the majority re-installing windows means either paying $$$ or ending up with a machine that'll be infected in a few minutes and unusable probably in a months time.
Your example is way off. That "copy protection" actually installs software intended to either prevent other software (all of which has a whole bunch of legitimate uses) from running or to prevent the game from running when such other software is present.
Imagine a device to prevent people taking videos of movie. Sounds legitimate, doesn't it? If Joe walks into a movie with a camcorder in his backpack, the device will magically render the camcorder unusable. To make it usable again, Joe will have to send it to the manufacturer to be repaired or will have to repair it himself which may take him well over three hours.
Obviously, Joe may bring that camcorder without actually wanting to violate any copyright. Maybe he just has it in the backpack because he and his friends were out skateboarding and he recorded some of their great moves. Whatevar. He just has it with him without any bad intent.
Bang, dead camcorder.
Obviously, every system has at least one bug, so one day, Joe goes into a movie with his new cellphone - switched off, because he is a nice guy - in his pocket. Said cellphone includes a camera and the magic device therefore thinks it could be used to make Brad Pitt starve by taking pictures of the movie.
Obviously so-called "personal firewalls" suffer from a few problems.
They run on the exact machine they are supposed to protect, often under the same user account (since Windows programs often want to run as Administrator, so lots of people have administrator privileges on their "normal" accounts).
Obviously, they can therefore easily be defeated by trojans.
Then there's a few social problems. Having a car with additional security (big crumple zones, ABS, SIPS, airbag,...) makes some people feel more secure, hence drive less careful. The same applies to PFWs, especially with users who aren't that knowledgeable in computer security. Those also suffer from the fact that PFWs are often difficult to understand for them, so user error may also contribute to reduce the security provided.
A big point is, PFWs are not trivial to write and test, and often have to run as superuser. This can actually mean that they introduce new security holes.
How could i know wether the links go to a legitimate site if "For the Phishing IQ Test, the Link has been disabled"?
Seriously, wouldn't that be the #1 way to spot fraud? You know, like, looking what you are telling your computer to do instead of trusting a random piece of text that arrived via means that make it next to impossible to validate the sender?
That unicode comment reminds me of a funny fact of my life:
I have two birth certificates, with slightly differing names on them!
On one, my last name is written with an "S-Z-Ligature" or "scharfes S" (ß), on the other one with a "double S" instead. As far as i can tell, the correct one would be the former - the other one was issued first (IIRC, don't have them here right now) and probably should have been destroyed when the corrected version was issued.
I usually use the double-S variant of my name though, because often forms have to be filled out in all-uppercase (strictly speaking, scharfes S would be written as "SZ" in uppercase, but that both looks weird and could be mistaken to mean just "SZ" instead of scharfes S anyways) or i have to use ASCII characters only.
Never ran into problems, but i would guess that such issues are rather common in Austria - it seems my grandparents' legal last name was written with double-S, while my parents did some genealogical research to find out that the "original" family name was written with scharfes S; and i doubt that my family is the only one where such things happened.
In another fabulous move to combat piracy, the media industry debates new plans to make their products suck even more. John Erk, Chief Innovation Officer of Parapount Mictures: "We also have the idea that we could just start randomly shooting at movie audiences or poisoning the popcorn. That'll show those evil pirates!"
Sounds a little too much like "direct from Redmond" FUD doesn't it?
Yes. Apart from that, the SPD and Greens supported the adoption of Linux in Munich.
The SPD and Greens also form Germany's current coalition government while the CDU/CSU is the biggest (and most vocal) opposition party. Of course everything the SPD and Greens do has to be promptly declared pure evil by the CDU/CSU. Leftist pinko commie scumbags kruzifix nuamoi!
Sure, your temp files are under C:\documents and settings\username\local settings\temp
No, they are under C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\<username>\Lokale Einstellungen\Temp.
And I couldn't even type out in what directory they would be at the local asian restaurant. Horribly annoying i would say.
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Counter theory: The only mechanical typewriter i've ever played with (was a kid at that time, so played is the right term) also had caps-lock right above shift. (Not to mention that shift lifted a big and heavy part of that typewriter around half a centimeter, so caps lock saved your pinky if you had to write more than one or two letters caps.)
Still, i double-press the physical button to get a specific reaction from the software. Nothing different to that application button on the PocketPC, except that the action there doesn't have the context of a pointer with a position.
But of course, innovation would come to a grinding halt if a corporation couldn't get a 20-year monopoly on old concepts applied in slightly new-ish contexts, so we're better of now anyways. (Cynicism not directed at you.)
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dave420:
Does still seem very draconian to me. As dictionary.com puts it: draconian means 2. Excessively harsh; severe. Obviously, that makes the usage of that word rather subjective, but I, personally, would find the manipulation of my property to the point of it becoming partially unusable VERY severe, especially if i didn't even intend to harm the movie industry.
I'll point out another thing: Had joe d/led that stupid movie and watched it on his home pc, is cellphone would have been unharmed. Had joe used a pirated version of game X right from the start, his PC would work as it used to without him re-installing windows[1]. One day maybe he'll realize this fact and adjust his buying habits accordingly.
I find it tremendously stupid by the content (movie, music, games, whatever) industry to try to prevent piracy by actually giving pirated versions of their products an edge over the legitimate versions.
[1] BTW, re-installing windows on machines that are intended to be connected to the internet has grown from click-a-few-buttons-and-wait-half-an-hour into a find-another-pc-which-is-halfway-up-to-date-and-u
Hasta la vista, baby!
I'll be back!
Sink of zee children! For gods sake, zee children!!
Your example is way off. That "copy protection" actually installs software intended to either prevent other software (all of which has a whole bunch of legitimate uses) from running or to prevent the game from running when such other software is present.
Imagine a device to prevent people taking videos of movie. Sounds legitimate, doesn't it? If Joe walks into a movie with a camcorder in his backpack, the device will magically render the camcorder unusable. To make it usable again, Joe will have to send it to the manufacturer to be repaired or will have to repair it himself which may take him well over three hours.
Obviously, Joe may bring that camcorder without actually wanting to violate any copyright. Maybe he just has it in the backpack because he and his friends were out skateboarding and he recorded some of their great moves. Whatevar. He just has it with him without any bad intent.
Bang, dead camcorder.
Obviously, every system has at least one bug, so one day, Joe goes into a movie with his new cellphone - switched off, because he is a nice guy - in his pocket. Said cellphone includes a camera and the magic device therefore thinks it could be used to make Brad Pitt starve by taking pictures of the movie.
Bang, dead cellphone.
Obviously so-called "personal firewalls" suffer from a few problems.
...) makes some people feel more secure, hence drive less careful. The same applies to PFWs, especially with users who aren't that knowledgeable in computer security. Those also suffer from the fact that PFWs are often difficult to understand for them, so user error may also contribute to reduce the security provided.
They run on the exact machine they are supposed to protect, often under the same user account (since Windows programs often want to run as Administrator, so lots of people have administrator privileges on their "normal" accounts).
Obviously, they can therefore easily be defeated by trojans.
Then there's a few social problems. Having a car with additional security (big crumple zones, ABS, SIPS, airbag,
A big point is, PFWs are not trivial to write and test, and often have to run as superuser. This can actually mean that they introduce new security holes.
That would nevar happen!!
On my machine, as good as under windows directly. See here.
Yeah, some more sun rays wouldn't hurt the pale linux crowd.
At least not if you wrote the thing.
It's your baby, you don't wanna hurt it. You also know what it likes and what it doesn't like. You're not fair, you're too nice when testing.
Get someone who wasn't directly involved in developing it. He'll find gazillion of bugs that you won't.
Can the four non-geeks in your company manage to hover the mouse cursor over a link to see where it really goes to?
(Also, do they use a browser/MUA that tells correct information in its address/status bar?)
How could i know wether the links go to a legitimate site if "For the Phishing IQ Test, the Link has been disabled"?
Seriously, wouldn't that be the #1 way to spot fraud? You know, like, looking what you are telling your computer to do instead of trusting a random piece of text that arrived via means that make it next to impossible to validate the sender?
1. 5 -> 4 (check)
2. 4 -> 3
3. 3 -> 2
4. 2 -> 1
5. 1 -> 0
6. Profit!!!
That unicode comment reminds me of a funny fact of my life:
I have two birth certificates, with slightly differing names on them!
On one, my last name is written with an "S-Z-Ligature" or "scharfes S" (ß), on the other one with a "double S" instead. As far as i can tell, the correct one would be the former - the other one was issued first (IIRC, don't have them here right now) and probably should have been destroyed when the corrected version was issued.
I usually use the double-S variant of my name though, because often forms have to be filled out in all-uppercase (strictly speaking, scharfes S would be written as "SZ" in uppercase, but that both looks weird and could be mistaken to mean just "SZ" instead of scharfes S anyways) or i have to use ASCII characters only.
Never ran into problems, but i would guess that such issues are rather common in Austria - it seems my grandparents' legal last name was written with double-S, while my parents did some genealogical research to find out that the "original" family name was written with scharfes S; and i doubt that my family is the only one where such things happened.
In Soviet Russia, Corn Saves You!
1. Save The Corn.
2. ???
3. Profit!!!
All Your Crop Circle Are Belong To Us!!
OMG, think of the Children Of The Corn!!
et cetera et cetera
So the games won't be based on bible stories then?
Are you from soviet russia?
does it have auto-indent? *g*
In another fabulous move to combat piracy, the media industry debates new plans to make their products suck even more. John Erk, Chief Innovation Officer of Parapount Mictures: "We also have the idea that we could just start randomly shooting at movie audiences or poisoning the popcorn. That'll show those evil pirates!"
Yes. Apart from that, the SPD and Greens supported the adoption of Linux in Munich.
The SPD and Greens also form Germany's current coalition government while the CDU/CSU is the biggest (and most vocal) opposition party. Of course everything the SPD and Greens do has to be promptly declared pure evil by the CDU/CSU. Leftist pinko commie scumbags kruzifix nuamoi!
grep
"Fuck me hell Tom, what's that?"
"It's me belt Turkish."
"No Tommy there's a gun in your trousers.
What's a gun doing in your trousers?"
"It's for protection!"
"Protection from what, Zee Germans?"
Yeah it must have been exactly like this. Good thing someone with better memory explained it much better now.
No, they are under C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\<username>\Lokale Einstellungen\Temp.
And I couldn't even type out in what directory they would be at the local asian restaurant. Horribly annoying i would say.
Counter theory: The only mechanical typewriter i've ever played with (was a kid at that time, so played is the right term) also had caps-lock right above shift. (Not to mention that shift lifted a big and heavy part of that typewriter around half a centimeter, so caps lock saved your pinky if you had to write more than one or two letters caps.)
Still, i double-press the physical button to get a specific reaction from the software. Nothing different to that application button on the PocketPC, except that the action there doesn't have the context of a pointer with a position.
But of course, innovation would come to a grinding halt if a corporation couldn't get a 20-year monopoly on old concepts applied in slightly new-ish contexts, so we're better of now anyways. (Cynicism not directed at you.)
My mouse has hardware buttons.