The word 'rent' has legal ramifications. The word 'purchase' has other legal ramifications. Calling it a 'rental' brushes away first purchase and fair use rights. I can see why some people, like you, don't get it. You don't purchase anything, you fucking moron - that is the point of calling it rental. You don't purchase a movie at Blockbuster and let them purchase it back later either.
One can't rent digital data because an integral part of renting something is returning it at the end of the rental period. By the same logic you can't watch digital movies, because you can't see the bits.
Ehh, we've got hundreds of these here in Vegas already, and I have seen criminals' "Wanted" ads on a few of them. They generally just flash up for 30 seconds or so on pre-existing digital billboards. That being said though, I haven't seen or heard of one being hacked yet... Ermm, how do you know? A hacker probably wouldn't write "0wnz0r3d" on it, but instead replace a few adds with that of the guy paying him best. Are you sure you are seeing the add for the casino that payed for the add?
Yeahhhhhh good luck with suing someone over what is clearly (read: the very *definition* of) satire.
Satire is one of those things that has been so thoroughly proven to be protected, Chuck is a fool to file suit unless this book reaches the point of slander. He isn't suing against the satire, he is suing against making money from it. Let's face it, the "author" just collected 400 one-liners from the internet and put a price on it.
I expect fake stories to make it through on April fools day. While an occasional few get through, and this could be one of them, it doesn't put the blame on the reader for falling for it. Exactly, it sure isn't your fault you're a gullible fool.
There's nothing noble in Apple wanting to control the *entire* PC experience. And that's what they want to do. I don't know what's funnier, your delusions about what Apple wants or the fact that Microsoft *has* copied the "entire PC experience" from Apple.
[This legal bullshit is] enough for me to say NO to future purchase of any apple products!
I agree. Whenever any Apple-using friends of mine trot out the line that "Apple is a better company than Microsoft", I just point out stuff like this. And they'll reply: "You fell for that and call us stupid?"
... a product they never released anyway. What if they shut down to protect against the law-suits by companies selling audio break-out boxes that lost sales because ThinkSecret reported that Apple would bring out such a thing?
OK, CalTech owns part of earthmine and JPL is at CalTech. That's fine, but didn't tax dollars pay for the technology developed at JPL? IANAL, but it *used* to be that federally-funded research needed to be made available to everyone - not licensed in perpetuity to a private company. Errm, there is a difference between "tax dollars pay for the technology developed at JPL" and "tax dollars pay for the research done at JPL".
Using Ogg/Theora in a video tag, on the other hand, would work perfectly. And it would work any less perfectly if the video tag didn't implicitly force OGG down everyone's throat?
I think this begs a larger question. Are people really using YouTube as an authoritative source of information for ANYTHING??? Hey, some even use Fox News for that.
I would pay 4$ extra for a DVD that would include the following bonuses:
The thing I've never gotten is why no DVD producers have already adopted this practice. They're all about value-add with piles of special features and such; why not stick an iTunes compatible file on the DVD and throw the iPod logo on there?
You know, if one reads the actual article where the TFA got its facts from wrong...
You'll notice that this "premium DVD" talk actually is based on the Die Hard 4 DVD, which "is also the first ever to include an electronic copy of the film which can be played on a computer and that also be imported into several models portable of video players" and "costs $3 or $4 more than an ordinary DVD." And has nothing to do with Steve Jobs whatsoever.
I know this might be a radical departure for Slashdot editors, but have you ever considered only linking to articles that have, I don't know, actual facts? Instead of rumor and innuendo to drive Apple bashing for Page Hits. Well, TFA has the link, but it turns out it did get the facts wrong.
[..] Apple has relented and has agreed to a higher wholesale price for movies.
[..]the studios are hoping to create "premium" versions of DVDs that include a copy of the movie that can easily be put on an iPod
There is no indication that those two things are related, or that the latter has been influenced by Jobs. Heck, the wording "the studios are hoping" pretty much says it isn't so. Not to mention the facts that Apple wants to sell the videos on the iTS, and the major DVD sellers wanted to make the iTS prices closer to DVD prices - those three things would only go together in the mind of a paranoid.
Since they're not specifically Military Police now, maybe we're going to start using private contractors for guards, a la Blackwater. Does that mean people who can neither be court-martialed (because they are not military personnel) nor tried by a regular US court (because they act on a military base) for whatever they do there?
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Lawbreaking != immorality. Not compensating artists/creators for their works = immorality.
You don't purchase anything, you fucking moron - that is the point of calling it rental. You don't purchase a movie at Blockbuster and let them purchase it back later either.
Ehh, we've got hundreds of these here in Vegas already, and I have seen criminals' "Wanted" ads on a few of them. They generally just flash up for 30 seconds or so on pre-existing digital billboards. That being said though, I haven't seen or heard of one being hacked yet... Ermm, how do you know? A hacker probably wouldn't write "0wnz0r3d" on it, but instead replace a few adds with that of the guy paying him best. Are you sure you are seeing the add for the casino that payed for the add?
How long until some kidnap victim gets lynched by somebody who saw him on the billboard and thought he was the kidnapper?
Gee, I guess I should have just posted "dupe" instead of first tagging the story, then digging up the first Slashdot story, hunh? That will teach me.
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Satire is one of those things that has been so thoroughly proven to be protected, Chuck is a fool to file suit unless this book reaches the point of slander. He isn't suing against the satire, he is suing against making money from it. Let's face it, the "author" just collected 400 one-liners from the internet and put a price on it.
So you deny being an idiot, and thus prove it. Yeah, to somebody so full of hate instead of brains, that was fully believable.
I agree. Whenever any Apple-using friends of mine trot out the line that "Apple is a better company than Microsoft", I just point out stuff like this. And they'll reply: "You fell for that and call us stupid?"
... a product they never released anyway.What if they shut down to protect against the law-suits by companies selling audio break-out boxes that lost sales because ThinkSecret reported that Apple would bring out such a thing?
The thing I've never gotten is why no DVD producers have already adopted this practice. They're all about value-add with piles of special features and such; why not stick an iTunes compatible file on the DVD and throw the iPod logo on there?
You know, if one reads the actual article where the TFA got its facts from wrong...
You'll notice that this "premium DVD" talk actually is based on the Die Hard 4 DVD, which "is also the first ever to include an electronic copy of the film which can be played on a computer and that also be imported into several models portable of video players" and "costs $3 or $4 more than an ordinary DVD." And has nothing to do with Steve Jobs whatsoever.
And Steve Jobs is on the Disney board of directors.
And this is not a conflict of interests... how?
Being on the board of directors of a company that makes money off of movies is a conflict of interests? Are you even trying to make sense?
Not to mention that this whole story is bunk, so you fit right in.Slit its throat. With your third hand, I guess.