Hey how about we just close the tube? If saving lives is really worth it then this is the only way.
No? why? because then they will just attack something else? Piss off QinetiQ.
I really think we should ban all cars - that way all those traffic deaths that occur every day would be stopped. Then we need to think about limiting the number of people that are legally allowed to occupy any volume of space - ban concerts for a start, rush-hour crowds, protests, orgies?
We were doing so well on Thursday - people were saying "life has to carry on", the media were saying that we wouldn't be pushed around by this. Then it all has to go down hill. I blame the mother fucking tabloids they are basically raping this for everything, cover to cover, give it a fucking rest! It was a terrible thing to happen but do we have to drag it on? News is supposed to report things that are happening, when bombs are going off i want to know about it, when the bombs have stopped going off and there is no more fucking news about it then stop trying to make news out of it, stop trying to agitate everyone. People haven't even been buried yet and already the agendas are coming out - ID cards, scanners, companies who just want to make money selling us this crap are already pitching their bids. You know what? the end of the world is NOT here, the risk of another attack is low, our current security is strong enough and if there is another attack then it will happen no matter what security is in place. Put scanners on all the stations and someone will blow something else up. We can all carry ID cards and have check points every 10 meters and someone with a card will do the attack. Where will we be after that? more people dead but instead of being able to spend all that money on contingency, hospitals and policing we will have wasted it on useless £2m scanners. Just for fucks sake stop this mother fucking knee-jerk bullshit.
London is absolutely fine the way it is, this country is fine the way it is we do not need radical changes. The risk of a bomb going off is exactly the same has it has been for the last 5 years, just like the chance of the lottery numbers being "1,2,3,4,5,6", its only peoples perception that has changed.
Well that's one way to alleviate congestion on the tube.. prepare to see passenger numbers drop to 5%. Oh and ill be demanding copies of my scans under the data protection act just to slow things down.
2. sign legal document declaring they will never give me any more books if i break the contract
3. start massive advertising (pre-planed) campaign: Internet, tv, driving a van around with a poster and megaphone all within minutes of getting the book in stock
4. offer the books to the absolute highest bidders, take advantage of rich kids, yank the prices up as high as they can possibly go.
5. Call up scholastic say: "If you want me to stop selling these books I will sell you my remaining stock.. for a fee, and even give you a list of people I sold them to."
6. Proffit
This isn't real DRM, and it certainly isn't to stop piracy, this is just their hype machine and if you play it right you can make some serious profit off it and probably quite legally except for that pesky civil court.
The web might have redundancies, but most ISPs don't have the capacity to handle all their customers at once, and most websites will get slashdotted in minutes.
I was pretty impressed that my net connection was running perfectly the whole time and various news sites seemed to be coping. I was talking on Skype no problem, but the land and mobile phones were taking a few tries to get through. Even so there were plenty of pictures from camera phones getting on the net.
Lets just get one thing straight here: In the land of the free, you have the absolute and undeniable right to keep and bare arms. However, you absolutely do not have the right to bare breasts. You can shoot your weapon all over your front lawn but don't even think about shooting your load.
Would someone like to explain the big deal here? I would be very worried about someone who is old enough to see violence but not sex. People who don't get laid are the ones who end up going on killing sprees.
Ok so if there had been and children in those attacks would they have been related? People vote and turn up to protests against the war there's not much more you can do. The UK isn't bad, we don't take over countries and purposefully kill innocent people we gave all that up and if these people have any problem with British troops being in Iraq they should take it up with those troops or the people in charge of sending them.
I think the reality of the situation is that these people are the same sort of idiots who stone adulterers and denounce democracy because they want to be the ones in charge. They have no education, they have no 'good arguments' they just make it up and keep fuelling their anger and spouting the same old crap about the west. They're just angry angsty young men who really need to get laid. Why didn't they attack the G8? not that it would have been acceptable, but they are lazy and find it easier to punch below the belt.
Maybe its time for the terrorist groups to ask themselves whether they are doing the right thing by killing totally unrelated people who have nothing to do with Iraq.
actually i think their guarantee policy is probably something like:
1. advertise $1000 guarantee policy 2. get customers 3. hope it works out 4. if it doesn't, just make claiming the $1000 very hard with lots of forms and delays, assume that most people won't have the time or money to take it to court. 5. profit.
The problem is the media, they sit there looking for the most 'interesting' results and papers they can find and then they dumb them down and some it up for the masses in whatever way will make you click a link, by a paper, or sit through the commercials. Well in fact you can't blame the media for that - their job in most cases is to make money and they do that well, the real culprits are the dumbed down masses who accept this trash. Its like fuck-wits who buy from telemarketers and spam: they are responsible for telling the telemarketers and spammer "yes, please continue to do this because it will pay off"
Cell Phones: not dangerous Salmon: ok Sudan-1: bad Power lines: definately bad Condoms: dont have holes Beef: depends on country Sunscreen: bad? Lead piping: ok now? GM food: border-line Torture: 'acceptable in some situations' Violent video games: leads to violent people Flares: out Mullets: out Ironic Mullets: in but slipping
Just a point on fair use for imported games - with DVD's the region encoding and the scrambling are two separate things AFAIK. Throwing all controversy with DMCA/EUCA out for a moment, breaking the scrambling/CSS part of the DVD would clearly by illegal, but breaking the region coding is not in any way a copyright violation or a breaking of a copy-protection device. Assuming the XBox works the same way, modding for compatibility with imported titles is not the same as modding so that a copied disk can be used or so that it can load from a hard-drive. Hopefully that would stand up in court, although given how crappy the law is in the first place i doubt it.
I'm interested to see whether the original XBox can be made into an XBox 360 with a simple mod, or not. Frankly I don't see why it should be hard, and it'll open the floodgates for modding.
If you mean replacing the motherboard, CPU, memory, and graphics chips then yes, it will be quite possible.
Its amazing, this guy actually did violate copyrights with piracy, for profit, and on quite a large scale and he gets a small fine and community service. Dimitry Skilerov violated no copyrights, in another country, and mearly talked about it and he got 6 months in prison.
This brings me to another point: If the whole purpose of a copy-protection device is to stop you copying something, then why do you need a law to prohibit tampering with the device?? If its such an amazing piece of engineering why does it need legal protection? It seems like 'they' are getting the best of both worlds - they can have their copy-protection devices AND the law behind them when only ONE is actually necessary. Perhaps consoles should be sold under a contract making it clear that you don't actually own the console and you may not modify it. For fucks sake someone just choose one of these options, you cant have your cake and eat it too.
The European copyright law is basically a copy of the US DMCA, so yes. Its for compatibility so that we can trade 'fairly' with the US, perhaps next we should consider flogging and stoning so we are 'compatible' with Saudi Arabian law?
From his rent-a-mark site: (probably infringing copyright by pasting):
Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unknown to you, that is trading off your brand, building common law rights in your brand and waiting to ambush your company with a trademark infringement lawsuit. You can't dodge that bullet. You're going to have to shoot first. You're going to have to outsmart your competitor with a Rentamark Trademark Brand Checkup annually. This checkup will reveal these unknown competitors who are waiting to ambush your company with an Opposition, Petition to Cancel your Trademark and/or file a Trademark Infringement lawsuit against your company.
Then further down the page this caught my eye:
Remember your brand could be worth over $1,000,000 (one million dollars) and your brand could be ailing or is being knocked off and needing repair.
You don't phrase "$1,000,000 (one million dollars)" like that unless you specifically mean that exact figure and are actually involved in a transaction. This guy is clearly on the same lines as a Nigerian scam and can safely be ignored. Yes he has been taking legal action but the makers of the stealth bomber can handle one little nut job im sure. Pitty about the smaller companies he has targetted, I hope they don't get footed with a big legal bill.
Columbia Pictures has brought a civil action in federal court in Chicago, seeking a declaratory judgment that its use of the title "Stealth" for a movie scheduled for release on July 29, 2005, does not infringe upon or dilute Leo Stoller's purported rights in the mark STEALTH. Columbia Pictures Indus., Inc. v. Stoller et al., Civil Action No. 05-C-2052 (N.D. Ill.).
"The Motion Picture 'Stealth,' starring Academy Award®-winner Jamie Foxx, Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, and Sam Shephard, tells the fictional story of a top-secret military program involving a fully autonomous and very lethal prototype stealth fighter bomber that unexpectedly develops human-like consciousness."
Good point, at times I havn't been able to dip into GTA for a few weeks and I had to be restrained. Once I even started walking around tugging on police car doors because I thought that if they arrested me the game would be reset at the police station.
Yes I think Ken Livingston has a warped idea of economics. Some other mathematical anomalies he has produced:
"I will not raise prices above the rate of inflation" means "I will just about double prices within two years"
The great new pricing structure means you can save 10 whole pence if you press the wrong button and buy a rip-off return instead of a rip-off travel-card. Its like being given a choice between regular and something 10 times bigger but only costing a few pennies more, the only reason for the regular is to scam people who didn't know about the large.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey how about we just close the tube? If saving lives is really worth it then this is the only way.
No? why? because then they will just attack something else? Piss off QinetiQ.
I really think we should ban all cars - that way all those traffic deaths that occur every day would be stopped. Then we need to think about limiting the number of people that are legally allowed to occupy any volume of space - ban concerts for a start, rush-hour crowds, protests, orgies?
We were doing so well on Thursday - people were saying "life has to carry on", the media were saying that we wouldn't be pushed around by this. Then it all has to go down hill. I blame the mother fucking tabloids they are basically raping this for everything, cover to cover, give it a fucking rest! It was a terrible thing to happen but do we have to drag it on? News is supposed to report things that are happening, when bombs are going off i want to know about it, when the bombs have stopped going off and there is no more fucking news about it then stop trying to make news out of it, stop trying to agitate everyone. People haven't even been buried yet and already the agendas are coming out - ID cards, scanners, companies who just want to make money selling us this crap are already pitching their bids. You know what? the end of the world is NOT here, the risk of another attack is low, our current security is strong enough and if there is another attack then it will happen no matter what security is in place. Put scanners on all the stations and someone will blow something else up. We can all carry ID cards and have check points every 10 meters and someone with a card will do the attack. Where will we be after that? more people dead but instead of being able to spend all that money on contingency, hospitals and policing we will have wasted it on useless £2m scanners. Just for fucks sake stop this mother fucking knee-jerk bullshit.
London is absolutely fine the way it is, this country is fine the way it is we do not need radical changes. The risk of a bomb going off is exactly the same has it has been for the last 5 years, just like the chance of the lottery numbers being "1,2,3,4,5,6", its only peoples perception that has changed.
Well that's one way to alleviate congestion on the tube.. prepare to see passenger numbers drop to 5%. Oh and ill be demanding copies of my scans under the data protection act just to slow things down.
aww you got to give them something - at least try and sell them a fake copy for twice the price!
1. receive truck load of harry potter books
2. sign legal document declaring they will never give me any more books if i break the contract
3. start massive advertising (pre-planed) campaign: Internet, tv, driving a van around with a poster and megaphone all within minutes of getting the book in stock
4. offer the books to the absolute highest bidders, take advantage of rich kids, yank the prices up as high as they can possibly go.
5. Call up scholastic say: "If you want me to stop selling these books I will sell you my remaining stock.. for a fee, and even give you a list of people I sold them to."
6. Proffit
This isn't real DRM, and it certainly isn't to stop piracy, this is just their hype machine and if you play it right you can make some serious profit off it and probably quite legally except for that pesky civil court.
BBC news worked for me, I was refreshing it every few mins along with CNN, maybe that didn't help ;)
The web might have redundancies, but most ISPs don't have the capacity to handle all their customers at once, and most websites will get slashdotted in minutes.
I was pretty impressed that my net connection was running perfectly the whole time and various news sites seemed to be coping. I was talking on Skype no problem, but the land and mobile phones were taking a few tries to get through. Even so there were plenty of pictures from camera phones getting on the net.
Lets just get one thing straight here:
In the land of the free, you have the absolute and undeniable right to keep and bare arms. However, you absolutely do not have the right to bare breasts. You can shoot your weapon all over your front lawn but don't even think about shooting your load.
Would someone like to explain the big deal here? I would be very worried about someone who is old enough to see violence but not sex. People who don't get laid are the ones who end up going on killing sprees.
Ok so if there had been and children in those attacks would they have been related? People vote and turn up to protests against the war there's not much more you can do. The UK isn't bad, we don't take over countries and purposefully kill innocent people we gave all that up and if these people have any problem with British troops being in Iraq they should take it up with those troops or the people in charge of sending them.
I think the reality of the situation is that these people are the same sort of idiots who stone adulterers and denounce democracy because they want to be the ones in charge. They have no education, they have no 'good arguments' they just make it up and keep fuelling their anger and spouting the same old crap about the west. They're just angry angsty young men who really need to get laid. Why didn't they attack the G8? not that it would have been acceptable, but they are lazy and find it easier to punch below the belt.
Maybe its time for the terrorist groups to ask themselves whether they are doing the right thing by killing totally unrelated people who have nothing to do with Iraq.
actually i think their guarantee policy is probably something like:
1. advertise $1000 guarantee policy
2. get customers
3. hope it works out
4. if it doesn't, just make claiming the $1000 very hard with lots of forms and delays, assume that most people won't have the time or money to take it to court.
5. profit.
well yes, but that's no different from:
1. get x
2. insure x
3. report x stolen
4. claim insurance
5. profit
its called fraud.
The problem is the media, they sit there looking for the most 'interesting' results and papers they can find and then they dumb them down and some it up for the masses in whatever way will make you click a link, by a paper, or sit through the commercials. Well in fact you can't blame the media for that - their job in most cases is to make money and they do that well, the real culprits are the dumbed down masses who accept this trash. Its like fuck-wits who buy from telemarketers and spam: they are responsible for telling the telemarketers and spammer "yes, please continue to do this because it will pay off"
Ok im a little behind this year so correct me:
Cell Phones: not dangerous
Salmon: ok
Sudan-1: bad
Power lines: definately bad
Condoms: dont have holes
Beef: depends on country
Sunscreen: bad?
Lead piping: ok now?
GM food: border-line
Torture: 'acceptable in some situations'
Violent video games: leads to violent people
Flares: out
Mullets: out
Ironic Mullets: in but slipping
For once an Apple cease and desist would be a good thing here...
Just a point on fair use for imported games - with DVD's the region encoding and the scrambling are two separate things AFAIK. Throwing all controversy with DMCA/EUCA out for a moment, breaking the scrambling/CSS part of the DVD would clearly by illegal, but breaking the region coding is not in any way a copyright violation or a breaking of a copy-protection device. Assuming the XBox works the same way, modding for compatibility with imported titles is not the same as modding so that a copied disk can be used or so that it can load from a hard-drive. Hopefully that would stand up in court, although given how crappy the law is in the first place i doubt it.
I'm interested to see whether the original XBox can be made into an XBox 360 with a simple mod, or not. Frankly I don't see why it should be hard, and it'll open the floodgates for modding.
If you mean replacing the motherboard, CPU, memory, and graphics chips then yes, it will be quite possible.
Its amazing, this guy actually did violate copyrights with piracy, for profit, and on quite a large scale and he gets a small fine and community service. Dimitry Skilerov violated no copyrights, in another country, and mearly talked about it and he got 6 months in prison.
This brings me to another point: If the whole purpose of a copy-protection device is to stop you copying something, then why do you need a law to prohibit tampering with the device?? If its such an amazing piece of engineering why does it need legal protection? It seems like 'they' are getting the best of both worlds - they can have their copy-protection devices AND the law behind them when only ONE is actually necessary. Perhaps consoles should be sold under a contract making it clear that you don't actually own the console and you may not modify it. For fucks sake someone just choose one of these options, you cant have your cake and eat it too.
The European copyright law is basically a copy of the US DMCA, so yes. Its for compatibility so that we can trade 'fairly' with the US, perhaps next we should consider flogging and stoning so we are 'compatible' with Saudi Arabian law?
tommy chong?
From his rent-a-mark site: (probably infringing copyright by pasting):
Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unknown to you, that is trading off your brand, building common law rights in your brand and waiting to ambush your company with a trademark infringement lawsuit. You can't dodge that bullet. You're going to have to shoot first. You're going to have to outsmart your competitor with a Rentamark Trademark Brand Checkup annually. This checkup will reveal these unknown competitors who are waiting to ambush your company with an Opposition, Petition to Cancel your Trademark and/or file a Trademark Infringement lawsuit against your company.
Then further down the page this caught my eye:
Remember your brand could be worth over $1,000,000 (one million dollars) and
your brand could be ailing or is being knocked off and needing repair.
You don't phrase "$1,000,000 (one million dollars)" like that unless you specifically mean that exact figure and are actually involved in a transaction. This guy is clearly on the same lines as a Nigerian scam and can safely be ignored. Yes he has been taking legal action but the makers of the stealth bomber can handle one little nut job im sure. Pitty about the smaller companies he has targetted, I hope they don't get footed with a big legal bill.
Columbia Pictures has brought a civil action in federal court in Chicago, seeking a declaratory judgment that its use of the title "Stealth" for a movie scheduled for release on July 29, 2005, does not infringe upon or dilute Leo Stoller's purported rights in the mark STEALTH. Columbia Pictures Indus., Inc. v. Stoller et al., Civil Action No. 05-C-2052 (N.D. Ill.).
"The Motion Picture 'Stealth,' starring Academy Award®-winner Jamie Foxx, Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, and Sam Shephard, tells the fictional story of a top-secret military program involving a fully autonomous and very lethal prototype stealth fighter bomber that unexpectedly develops human-like consciousness."
Oh the irony
Good point, at times I havn't been able to dip into GTA for a few weeks and I had to be restrained. Once I even started walking around tugging on police car doors because I thought that if they arrested me the game would be reset at the police station.
Yes I think Ken Livingston has a warped idea of economics. Some other mathematical anomalies he has produced:
"I will not raise prices above the rate of inflation" means "I will just about double prices within two years"
The great new pricing structure means you can save 10 whole pence if you press the wrong button and buy a rip-off return instead of a rip-off travel-card. Its like being given a choice between regular and something 10 times bigger but only costing a few pennies more, the only reason for the regular is to scam people who didn't know about the large.