Piracy is the act of committing crimes such as murder, kidnapping, and rape on the high seas. This is the second time that it has been substituted for copyright infringement in two days.
What you are describing does not even rise to the status of copyright infringement. It is more like fair use. The player has paid for the use of the product, now the producer is tying it to their product.
Misleading reporting like this should be blocked.
That would require editorial standards and a staff competent enough to enforce them. Are you new here?
Yeah, 'cause when people did that after sony's issues, they've since closed, as the boycott by 0.01% of DRM haters has such an effect.
The company closing down is about a visceral desire for vengeance.
Recognizing and not buying from liars - and not taking this risk at all by not buying DRM in general - is about looking after your own interests.
While it's possible that both desires can be satisfied, the latter is definitely more achievable (thus more rational) than the other. Since I did not specify, interpreting my previous comment as the former alone would be an assumption on your part.
In my opinion... Sounds like a great reason to never do business with Oculus under any circumstance. Apparently they are proven liars. "We will never have this restriction!"... "okay we have this restriction, because piracy!" "No we don't care about piracy as long as you had to buy our hardware" Liars. Anyone who made the decision to buy from them, wholly or partially, because of the former promise has just been the victim of a bait-and-switch.
There's a world of difference in the QC and testing processes between these sorts of devices. How many of these "vape pens" are built, tested, and certified durable medical equipment? Since we're talking about semi-legitimate grey-market kit and chems that are sold in head shops and gas station quickie marts; I'll go out on a limb and guess very few, if any at all. How many are even vetted and certified by Underwriters Labs and Conformity Europeenne? The first couple pages of my own googling turned up none; just a "vape pen" perfidiously named the "CE-4" so as to bait google searches for a conforming and certified device.
Legitimate and mainstream consumer electronics (And their batteries.) must meet UL or CE standards to be sold in retailers other than fly-by-night and unscrupulous types. And DME, which is where these devices logically fit, must meet even more stringent standards. While none of these are 100% fool-proof; all three speak to a higher level of confidence in their safety and reliability then sketchy and untested devices but in the darkest unmonitored pits of China. So yeah, until and unless the "vape" industry goes legit, it's entirely appropriate to restrict the devices more stringently than mainstream electronics.
Personally I buy Panasonic batteries (made in Japan) from reputable vendors. As a bonus, spending a few extra bucks (it's not much really) means you actually get the stated capacity of the battery. I don't care about sub-ohm coils that draw high amperage. My own setup is low amperage enough that I can also use protected batteries (18650s) so I do, just as an added margin of safety. That means the battery itself won't let you short it, nor overcharge it, nor draw too many amps from it. If you've never seen one before, they're a little bit longer than standard batteries because one of the terminals has a circuit board with a chip that monitors these things and immediately cuts power if something goes wrong.
In addition to that the mod (device) itself has circuitry which detects and shuts down immediately if there is a short, wrong polarity, excessively low voltage, too high or low of a resistence, or anything like that. This is a good quality mod, not some little Ego-knockoff. Like anything else you get what you pay for, but decent mods with safety features and replacable batteries can be had for around $50. Mods like this have a configurable buck-booster circuit and an LCD readout so you can control how much power they use. That's why I know what I'm doing and I still don't want to bother with a mechanical mod because I like being able to select voltage and wattage on a whim and easily adjust them anytime I like.
What you describe is more like the very small "lookalikes" that are about the size and shape of a cigarette. Generally those suck. They tend to use low capacity batteries because of size constraints. They also tend to use a cartridge system - you buy pre-filled cartridges that come in half a dozen different flavors or so, and when they run out they're not designed to be refilled (though it can be done), they're designed to sell you more cartridges. The cartridges are cheaply made and don't last very long. With a proper mod and some kind of tank setup you get a much better experience and can choose from literally hundreds (pehaps thousands?) of different flavors from lots of different vendors and you can mix&match them if you want, or easily mix up your own.
It wouldn't be hard to forbid one but not the other, except bureaucrats at large institutions really hate recognizing these distinctions.
And what the actual intent is.
The new rule covers e-cigarettes, e-cigars, e-pipes, and battery-powered portable electronic smoking devices in general. It does not prohibit passengers from transporting other battery-powered devices for personal use like laptop computers or cellphones.
So in other words... the rule doesn't cover more popular battery-powered devices - that use the exact same lithium-ion battery technology. Occasionaly cell phones explode too but strangely, that doesn't get the sort of press reaction as those EVIL SMOKING DEVICES.
Everyone loves the idea of healthcare, and basic human rights. Until they realise that the only way for these things to happen is for income equality. America being the 1%ers of the world suddenly can't stand the fact that income equality not only means raising the income for outsourced workers in India, but also drastically lowering the insane income rates of the "western" world.
Only a very small fraction of the "western world" has anything like "insane income rates". America is a wealthy country in total but the majority of Americans struggle to make ends meet. It's not the 1% it's the 0.01% that own EVERYTHING.
Mostly it's the American version of gentry, the old-money families plus a few new-money types (that they sneer at) like Bill Gates. Rothchilds, Morgans, etc. Funny thing is they are stupid in a way - few nations have ever had this kind of wealth disparity for very long before becoming highly unstable, which didn't work out too well for the rich. A stable nation is good for everyone.
If I wanted the experience of maintaining a BSD, I'd switch back to Gentoo Linux.
Just curious - what caused you to switch away from Gentoo? I've heard of it and I think the whole source based distro is really neat. It's like the kind of thing you just plain can't do on Windows or OS X. So far I have stuck with Mint but I really wonder what source based is like. What did you like about it? What didn't you like? When you switched, what did you switch to? I'd really like to know if you don't mind explaining.
No. This is one of the many reasons the branding of Linux and Linux-based operating systems is so terribly bad. They are not called desktop systems, or operating systems, they are called Linux distributions, and consequently they are perceived as things for Linux people only, and people stick to Windows and Mac OS X.
There certainly are Linux distributions that call themselves operating systems. PCLinuxOS is the first one I thought of. There are others.
But honestly - if something so trivial is a major deciding factor, then I'd rather that user just stick to Windows or Macs. I really enjoy finding a knowledgable community of fellow users when I discuss Linux. I don't share this need to "beat Microsoft" or whatever as though it's a big contest. Linux already has more than enough users to ensure active development. Because of that threshold being met, I care about the quality of users more than the quantity.
It can be argued that testing the OS as a gestalt is a good thing. One good idea is how AIX does releases. You have your OS revisions and your APARs as patches, but you have technology level updates as well, which are not truly OS updates per se... but a snapshot in time where all packages and updates have been thoroughly regression tested. It would be interesting to have something similar on a quarterly basis. This is sort of handled by OS updates like RHEL 6.8 which was recently released, but would be something that would be more guaranteed to happen at a time of the year, so every so often, there is a solid base to start at for OS imaging.
I can see how that might be desirable in terms of support - you have a known system with known qualities. In every other way though, I'll take a rolling release system any day.
Okay, the comments on this thread are a shitshow. So far we have:
- JEWS DID 9/11
- prisoninmate loves ReiserFS
- Hillary will ban Linux
- FreeBSD >>>>>>>>>> Dumbuntu!
Slashdot just isn't waht it used to be in the Rob Malda days. I knew it was gonna go downhill the moment Dice bought it.
For trolling at least GNAA actually *tried* and Mr. Alpha Papa Kilo was genuinely endearing sometimes. Spelling it phonetically because invoking his name is the easiest way to trigger the lameness filter - there can be no better testament to how much he is in the hearts and minds of Slashdot admin.
Isn't FreeBSD the OS where you have to deal with the same incompatibility bullshit as in Linux... just exponentially more so?
Call me pessimistic, but with my luck on Linux I don't even want to try FreeBSD...
If I was going to try any BSD it would definitely be OpenBSD especially for running a net facing server. For day to day use, browsing, email, getting work done, playing games, whatever, I plan to stick with Linux behind a NAT router.
um. uh. what the fuck. do you have some kind of mental problem? if I see you walking down the street with your UID on your shirt or car I will run you down.
WHIPSLASH, PLEASE BAN THIS MUTHERFUCKER.
So you threaten to use potentially lethal violence against a total stranger... because you dislike his nickname? While suggesting that said total stranger is the one with a mental problem? Wow.
Actually as a black man I consider the n-word to be a badge of honor, a sign of times we have had to endure and the fact that we got through it no matter what. As a bisexual I see no reason to be ashamed of my sexuality or my slight preference for men because - for me - men are easier to relate to. You want to hate me for that?
Since Mint is Ubuntu derived - how do you know there's much difference? I can't find any specific team working on this on Mint's web site. If there was such a team why wouldn't they submit patches back to upstream so Ubuntu could work on it too?
I mean I use Mint and so I would like to believe it's a better implementation... but I don't know why?
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Piracy is the act of committing crimes such as murder, kidnapping, and rape on the high seas. This is the second time that it has been substituted for copyright infringement in two days.
What you are describing does not even rise to the status of copyright infringement. It is more like fair use. The player has paid for the use of the product, now the producer is tying it to their product.
Misleading reporting like this should be blocked.
That would require editorial standards and a staff competent enough to enforce them. Are you new here?
Yeah, 'cause when people did that after sony's issues, they've since closed, as the boycott by 0.01% of DRM haters has such an effect.
The company closing down is about a visceral desire for vengeance.
Recognizing and not buying from liars - and not taking this risk at all by not buying DRM in general - is about looking after your own interests.
While it's possible that both desires can be satisfied, the latter is definitely more achievable (thus more rational) than the other. Since I did not specify, interpreting my previous comment as the former alone would be an assumption on your part.
In my opinion ... Sounds like a great reason to never do business with Oculus under any circumstance. Apparently they are proven liars. "We will never have this restriction!" ... "okay we have this restriction, because piracy!" "No we don't care about piracy as long as you had to buy our hardware" Liars. Anyone who made the decision to buy from them, wholly or partially, because of the former promise has just been the victim of a bait-and-switch.
There's a world of difference in the QC and testing processes between these sorts of devices. How many of these "vape pens" are built, tested, and certified durable medical equipment? Since we're talking about semi-legitimate grey-market kit and chems that are sold in head shops and gas station quickie marts; I'll go out on a limb and guess very few, if any at all. How many are even vetted and certified by Underwriters Labs and Conformity Europeenne? The first couple pages of my own googling turned up none; just a "vape pen" perfidiously named the "CE-4" so as to bait google searches for a conforming and certified device.
Legitimate and mainstream consumer electronics (And their batteries.) must meet UL or CE standards to be sold in retailers other than fly-by-night and unscrupulous types. And DME, which is where these devices logically fit, must meet even more stringent standards. While none of these are 100% fool-proof; all three speak to a higher level of confidence in their safety and reliability then sketchy and untested devices but in the darkest unmonitored pits of China. So yeah, until and unless the "vape" industry goes legit, it's entirely appropriate to restrict the devices more stringently than mainstream electronics.
Personally I buy Panasonic batteries (made in Japan) from reputable vendors. As a bonus, spending a few extra bucks (it's not much really) means you actually get the stated capacity of the battery. I don't care about sub-ohm coils that draw high amperage. My own setup is low amperage enough that I can also use protected batteries (18650s) so I do, just as an added margin of safety. That means the battery itself won't let you short it, nor overcharge it, nor draw too many amps from it. If you've never seen one before, they're a little bit longer than standard batteries because one of the terminals has a circuit board with a chip that monitors these things and immediately cuts power if something goes wrong.
In addition to that the mod (device) itself has circuitry which detects and shuts down immediately if there is a short, wrong polarity, excessively low voltage, too high or low of a resistence, or anything like that. This is a good quality mod, not some little Ego-knockoff. Like anything else you get what you pay for, but decent mods with safety features and replacable batteries can be had for around $50. Mods like this have a configurable buck-booster circuit and an LCD readout so you can control how much power they use. That's why I know what I'm doing and I still don't want to bother with a mechanical mod because I like being able to select voltage and wattage on a whim and easily adjust them anytime I like.
What you describe is more like the very small "lookalikes" that are about the size and shape of a cigarette. Generally those suck. They tend to use low capacity batteries because of size constraints. They also tend to use a cartridge system - you buy pre-filled cartridges that come in half a dozen different flavors or so, and when they run out they're not designed to be refilled (though it can be done), they're designed to sell you more cartridges. The cartridges are cheaply made and don't last very long. With a proper mod and some kind of tank setup you get a much better experience and can choose from literally hundreds (pehaps thousands?) of different flavors from lots of different vendors and you can mix&match them if you want, or easily mix up your own.
It wouldn't be hard to forbid one but not the other, except bureaucrats at large institutions really hate recognizing these distinctions.
terminals/parking lots/shuttles/etc....
And what the actual intent is. The new rule covers e-cigarettes, e-cigars, e-pipes, and battery-powered portable electronic smoking devices in general. It does not prohibit passengers from transporting other battery-powered devices for personal use like laptop computers or cellphones.
... the rule doesn't cover more popular battery-powered devices - that use the exact same lithium-ion battery technology. Occasionaly cell phones explode too but strangely, that doesn't get the sort of press reaction as those EVIL SMOKING DEVICES.
So in other words
Perfect, shovelware for my neutered laptop. Excellent. Amazing. Brilliant.
They're really not bad once you put linux on them.
Everyone loves the idea of healthcare, and basic human rights. Until they realise that the only way for these things to happen is for income equality. America being the 1%ers of the world suddenly can't stand the fact that income equality not only means raising the income for outsourced workers in India, but also drastically lowering the insane income rates of the "western" world.
Only a very small fraction of the "western world" has anything like "insane income rates". America is a wealthy country in total but the majority of Americans struggle to make ends meet. It's not the 1% it's the 0.01% that own EVERYTHING.
Mostly it's the American version of gentry, the old-money families plus a few new-money types (that they sneer at) like Bill Gates. Rothchilds, Morgans, etc. Funny thing is they are stupid in a way - few nations have ever had this kind of wealth disparity for very long before becoming highly unstable, which didn't work out too well for the rich. A stable nation is good for everyone.
If I wanted the experience of maintaining a BSD, I'd switch back to Gentoo Linux.
Just curious - what caused you to switch away from Gentoo? I've heard of it and I think the whole source based distro is really neat. It's like the kind of thing you just plain can't do on Windows or OS X. So far I have stuck with Mint but I really wonder what source based is like. What did you like about it? What didn't you like? When you switched, what did you switch to? I'd really like to know if you don't mind explaining.
No. This is one of the many reasons the branding of Linux and Linux-based operating systems is so terribly bad. They are not called desktop systems, or operating systems, they are called Linux distributions, and consequently they are perceived as things for Linux people only, and people stick to Windows and Mac OS X.
There certainly are Linux distributions that call themselves operating systems. PCLinuxOS is the first one I thought of. There are others.
But honestly - if something so trivial is a major deciding factor, then I'd rather that user just stick to Windows or Macs. I really enjoy finding a knowledgable community of fellow users when I discuss Linux. I don't share this need to "beat Microsoft" or whatever as though it's a big contest. Linux already has more than enough users to ensure active development. Because of that threshold being met, I care about the quality of users more than the quantity.
It can be argued that testing the OS as a gestalt is a good thing. One good idea is how AIX does releases. You have your OS revisions and your APARs as patches, but you have technology level updates as well, which are not truly OS updates per se... but a snapshot in time where all packages and updates have been thoroughly regression tested. It would be interesting to have something similar on a quarterly basis. This is sort of handled by OS updates like RHEL 6.8 which was recently released, but would be something that would be more guaranteed to happen at a time of the year, so every so often, there is a solid base to start at for OS imaging.
I can see how that might be desirable in terms of support - you have a known system with known qualities. In every other way though, I'll take a rolling release system any day.
You are a fucking troll who thinks it is cool to have 2 sets of rules. Fuck Off Mr. Strangerman.
Have you considered psychological therapy by a licensed therapist? You seem to have a lot of anger towards someone who has done nothing against you.
Okay, the comments on this thread are a shitshow. So far we have:
- JEWS DID 9/11
- prisoninmate loves ReiserFS
- Hillary will ban Linux
- FreeBSD >>>>>>>>>> Dumbuntu!
Slashdot just isn't waht it used to be in the Rob Malda days. I knew it was gonna go downhill the moment Dice bought it.
For trolling at least GNAA actually *tried* and Mr. Alpha Papa Kilo was genuinely endearing sometimes. Spelling it phonetically because invoking his name is the easiest way to trigger the lameness filter - there can be no better testament to how much he is in the hearts and minds of Slashdot admin.
Isn't FreeBSD the OS where you have to deal with the same incompatibility bullshit as in Linux... just exponentially more so?
Call me pessimistic, but with my luck on Linux I don't even want to try FreeBSD...
If I was going to try any BSD it would definitely be OpenBSD especially for running a net facing server. For day to day use, browsing, email, getting work done, playing games, whatever, I plan to stick with Linux behind a NAT router.
um. uh. what the fuck. do you have some kind of mental problem? if I see you walking down the street with your UID on your shirt or car I will run you down. WHIPSLASH, PLEASE BAN THIS MUTHERFUCKER.
So you threaten to use potentially lethal violence against a total stranger ... because you dislike his nickname? While suggesting that said total stranger is the one with a mental problem? Wow.
Actually as a black man I consider the n-word to be a badge of honor, a sign of times we have had to endure and the fact that we got through it no matter what. As a bisexual I see no reason to be ashamed of my sexuality or my slight preference for men because - for me - men are easier to relate to. You want to hate me for that?
Exactly. Use the Mint version, instead.
Since Mint is Ubuntu derived - how do you know there's much difference? I can't find any specific team working on this on Mint's web site. If there was such a team why wouldn't they submit patches back to upstream so Ubuntu could work on it too?
... but I don't know why?
I mean I use Mint and so I would like to believe it's a better implementation