Linux patches do not necessitate a reboot, barring kernel updates, so a large linux uptime does not necessarily mean a machine is going to be rooted at any second.
Really, anything that convinces a player that is fully capable of playing a disc to not play it is DRM. So region coding qualifies.
Where did I say it wasn't DRM? Nowhere.
Additionally, I feel that if they hadn't used these special disks, many people could have used regular region free players (common in Europe) to play them.
THEY USED THE SPECIAL DISKS TO PREVENT JUST THAT SORT OF SCENARIO FROM PLAYING OUT. STOP MAKING THE WORLD CRY WITH YOUR DUMB HEAD THOUGHTS. STOP IT STOP STOP OH GOD SOOTHING PANDAS BUNNIES GAZELLES hop hop pixie dust
pixie dust
pixie dust
Ok, better now. Rage: palpable, but under control. I'm trying to work with you here, honey, but sometimes Daddy just can't bear it.
This isn't a consumer DRM issue. No consumers were involved. This is a problem with the double ROT13 limited edition pre-production run for-the-academy's-consideration discs. There really isn't a piracy grey area with these sorts of discs; it's flagrant. The only reason the Elliptical Dodecahedron encryption and Reverse Elliptical Dodecahedron players came about was because people were pirating them all the time. Before the DVDs got released. Before the DVDs got released.
I can't even summon my patented Nelson Muntz laugh at this, because it's just about the only legit use of draconian DRM that I can think of.
The submitter and I have very different criteria for "ironic twist". A Cask of Amontillado this is not. Hell, it isn't even up to M. Night Shyamalan standards.
Seriously, every time I reread the submission I find something else wrong. This has nothing to do with encryption, consumers, or copy protection. Region codes serve only one "useful" purpose: preventing the import/export of legit discs. The lab mistakenly put in a "1" instead of a "2", so the disc wouldn't play. This is a non-event. This is not a stunning blow against the media pigopolists. No points were made. No wars were won. No minds were blown.
Rename the headline to "Lab fucks up; switches 2s with 1s. Almost nobody affected" or I will start submitting a new article for every DVD-R I coaster.
Everything that isn't spaghetti code has an underlying architecture. Frameworks are just standardized, generalized, pluggable versions of that architecture. Practically any off-the-shelf web framework you decide to use is going to be better than what you hand roll, assuming your site is bigger than 10 pages. If it is smaller than 10 pages, stay the hell away from Java and get a decent Perl, Ruby, or PHP framework.
A framework is less a tool than it is an entire toolbox and a methodology for using said tools. These things are almost always useful.
Video internet, whatever that is, is copyright limited. The OS of the systems on each end of the cable makes virtually no difference to the deliverable intellectual property.
There, fixed that for you. You rights are being digitally managed, and the digit doing the managing is a giant anthropomorphic middle finger in a gimp mask.
When I say that Ruby drastically improves programmer productivity compared to Java
I'd accept this based on my experiences with Python. However I think you give that up in testing -
especially as the size of the programmer team grows. Dynamically typed languages are subject to
more runtime errors than statically typed languages, and run time errors are more expensive to test
for and to catch.
Ah, but you don't have to compile Ruby either. Even without taking that into account, I don't think the debugging cost would exceed the programming gain. My error rate still sort of sucks in rails because I am only moderately familiar with it - I think it will improve in time. My error rate in ruby is quite a bit lower than anything else, though, even though I have written more PHP and Java, and much much more Perl.
I have the same problem. I can't get off unless I'm tied up, gagged, whipped, and electrocuted.
That's my definition of sexy.
Seriously, though, you should not be relying on the language to organize everything for you - don't go fobbing your architectural duties off on the language. Really, LISP is the scriptiest scripting language under your definition.
I maintain a large, old perl codebase. I have no problems reading and understanding what any given line of code is doing. I do have tons of problems finding code and following the path of execution. Why? The architecture and frameworks were hand-rolled and barely refactored. When there isn't an obvious or straightforward way to do a thing, you might see 4 different implementations in 4 different modules. Suck.
The article doesn't make it clear why it should run as a screensaver... is the ISO interactive? How does one escape the screensaver? Why not just run it stand-alone?
uid is fine. If you don't file with the same name, you're disqualified. If you change your name, disqualified. Get married and are a woman? Dis-fucking-qualified. I want my wife at home barefoot in the kitchen, not injecting buckyballs into some rhesus monkey's anus.
Your post? Disqualified, since you have forgotten how to love.
UPDATE: Spurred by the positive feedback I have recieved thus far, I have taken it upon myself to file patent #7342853 - A method of determining the top 10 patent holders within the US. Anyone who runs the parent query or creates a derivative work* must purchase a license from ILP LLC for $20,000 in order to remain compliant and avoid legal action; your BSA audit notification will be arriving shortly via certified mail.
Thank you for for your continuing support. ILP LLC and its subsidiaries, BhopalChem and Hitlerium Ltd., would also like to wish you Happy Holidays in accordance with Article III Section 9 Paragraph VI of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
*This includes all replies to the parent, all moderations applied to the parent, all joins perfomed on the table the parent is stored in, the use of 'QUITE SILLY' as a database value or define, and zero-click shopping
Here, let me jump on this mighty grenade for the PTO:
select user_id, num_patents from (
select
u.id user_id, count(p.id) num_patents
from
patents p, users u
where
u.id = p.user_id
and p.status in ('APPROVED', 'ACTIVE', 'QUITE SILLY')
group by
u.id
order by
num_patents desc ) where rowcount < 11
Fuck your flamebait. The parent was flamebait. I was flaming him. That should rightly be (+3, Flaming the Asshole Flamebaiter You Myopic Bastards). I am metamodding you into oblivion inside my head.
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Linux patches do not necessitate a reboot, barring kernel updates, so a large linux uptime does not necessarily mean a machine is going to be rooted at any second.
Really, anything that convinces a player that is fully capable of playing a disc to not play it is DRM. So region coding qualifies.
Where did I say it wasn't DRM? Nowhere.
Additionally, I feel that if they hadn't used these special disks, many people could have used regular region free players (common in Europe) to play them.
THEY USED THE SPECIAL DISKS TO PREVENT JUST THAT SORT OF SCENARIO FROM PLAYING OUT. STOP MAKING THE WORLD CRY WITH YOUR DUMB HEAD THOUGHTS. STOP IT STOP STOP OH GOD SOOTHING PANDAS BUNNIES GAZELLES hop hop pixie dust
pixie dust
pixie dust
Ok, better now. Rage: palpable, but under control. I'm trying to work with you here, honey, but sometimes Daddy just can't bear it.
This isn't a consumer DRM issue. No consumers were involved. This is a problem with the double ROT13 limited edition pre-production run for-the-academy's-consideration discs. There really isn't a piracy grey area with these sorts of discs; it's flagrant. The only reason the Elliptical Dodecahedron encryption and Reverse Elliptical Dodecahedron players came about was because people were pirating them all the time. Before the DVDs got released. Before the DVDs got released.
I can't even summon my patented Nelson Muntz laugh at this, because it's just about the only legit use of draconian DRM that I can think of.
It was damn ironic from Fortunato's point of view
The submitter and I have very different criteria for "ironic twist". A Cask of Amontillado this is not. Hell, it isn't even up to M. Night Shyamalan standards.
Seriously, every time I reread the submission I find something else wrong. This has nothing to do with encryption, consumers, or copy protection. Region codes serve only one "useful" purpose: preventing the import/export of legit discs. The lab mistakenly put in a "1" instead of a "2", so the disc wouldn't play. This is a non-event. This is not a stunning blow against the media pigopolists. No points were made. No wars were won. No minds were blown.
Rename the headline to "Lab fucks up; switches 2s with 1s. Almost nobody affected" or I will start submitting a new article for every DVD-R I coaster.
This is the first headline pun in awhile that didn't make me want to kill the editor with a tiger bomb. Kudos.
Maybe you missed the RAM half of RamSan? It's a monsterous RAM disk backed with scsi drives, not solid state.
Everything that isn't spaghetti code has an underlying architecture. Frameworks are just standardized, generalized, pluggable versions of that architecture. Practically any off-the-shelf web framework you decide to use is going to be better than what you hand roll, assuming your site is bigger than 10 pages. If it is smaller than 10 pages, stay the hell away from Java and get a decent Perl, Ruby, or PHP framework.
A framework is less a tool than it is an entire toolbox and a methodology for using said tools. These things are almost always useful.
Video internet, whatever that is, is copyright limited. The OS of the systems on each end of the cable makes virtually no difference to the deliverable intellectual property.
There, fixed that for you. You rights are being digitally managed, and the digit doing the managing is a giant anthropomorphic middle finger in a gimp mask.
I have the same problem. I can't get off unless I'm tied up, gagged, whipped, and electrocuted.
That's my definition of sexy.
Seriously, though, you should not be relying on the language to organize everything for you - don't go fobbing your architectural duties off on the language. Really, LISP is the scriptiest scripting language under your definition.
I maintain a large, old perl codebase. I have no problems reading and understanding what any given line of code is doing. I do have tons of problems finding code and following the path of execution. Why? The architecture and frameworks were hand-rolled and barely refactored. When there isn't an obvious or straightforward way to do a thing, you might see 4 different implementations in 4 different modules. Suck.
Dude, if you have to ask...
Another class you can't use in the real world, like math and English.
...was that "This briskit is good enough for Jehovah". Oh shit, now I said it mysel-
Don't make me angry
Great moderation there. Slashdot: where comedy goes to die.
uid is fine. If you don't file with the same name, you're disqualified. If you change your name, disqualified. Get married and are a woman? Dis-fucking-qualified. I want my wife at home barefoot in the kitchen, not injecting buckyballs into some rhesus monkey's anus.
Your post? Disqualified, since you have forgotten how to love.
My made up query assumed a normalized schema. Another case of reality failing to live up to fantasy.
My made up query was way better.
Are they also anonymous?
UPDATE: Spurred by the positive feedback I have recieved thus far, I have taken it upon myself to file patent #7342853 - A method of determining the top 10 patent holders within the US. Anyone who runs the parent query or creates a derivative work* must purchase a license from ILP LLC for $20,000 in order to remain compliant and avoid legal action; your BSA audit notification will be arriving shortly via certified mail.
Thank you for for your continuing support. ILP LLC and its subsidiaries, BhopalChem and Hitlerium Ltd., would also like to wish you Happy Holidays in accordance with Article III Section 9 Paragraph VI of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
*This includes all replies to the parent, all moderations applied to the parent, all joins perfomed on the table the parent is stored in, the use of 'QUITE SILLY' as a database value or define, and zero-click shopping
Thanks. Remember, good swearing is 50% wording, 50% cadence.
Fuck your flamebait. The parent was flamebait. I was flaming him. That should rightly be (+3, Flaming the Asshole Flamebaiter You Myopic Bastards). I am metamodding you into oblivion inside my head.
Time to upgrade all those 8-bit key pairs I have lying around, now that they can be cracked in polynomial time.