Theres a problem with your counter-argument: me. My religion states that i must not give financial support to capitalist-pig megacorporations. This obviously means that i cannot by CDs. However, i still want to listen to the music on these mediums. My solution is filesharing - i can download the music for free and thus not financially support the company, while still being able to hear the music. Since its against my religion to buy CDs, i wouldn't buy them anyway. These numbers that the pigs wave about are meaningless, they always assume, that just because their over-priced product is consumed without paying them, someone would have paid if the means to get it free didn't exist.
Already done, i only own 1 DVD (it was on sale) and i have never bought a CD in my life. Since its against my religion to by CDs made by evil capitalist pig mega-corporations, downloading music over the internet is morally ok - seeing as i cant buy it anyway - like i said its against my religion - i'm not depriving anyone of a sale. As for that DVD, i have starved for a week to punish my self.
They would make better wireless routers for internet access, someone was going to do this with planes but surely zeppelins would be cheaper. anyway, they would make a good platform for alsorts of things - traffic cameras, transmitters, phone-base-stations, wireless networks, laser-guided missile painters, radars, and spy-cameras for the american governments new plan to track everyone in the country. leave the canadians alone, if i was the canadian government i'd put up a big wall to stop americans getting in.
No, windows would be a ship of the same size with _one_ cannon that fired non-standard sized balls, sometimes fast enough to do damage, but more often than not, so slow that they would just plop out. It would still be unstable, but they wouldn't even be able to get 3 sailors on board before it started rocking. It would be launched anyway and even though it would sink after 5 minutes, 500 more ships of the same specs. would be built
What i ment, was that saftey organisations and other bodies set up by the people should have access.
Most people don't understand the law! you need a degree in law before you can even begin to comprehend its complexity, even then there are still laws that you will never use. But it the government decided to source-out law-making to some other company, and decided not to let other people look at it on the grounds that "people might find loop-holes in it to get them out of trouble" then the general public would be pretty pissed off... oh, no wait, they _do_ do that.
I don't think the open-source activists were trying to say that the ATC software would be bug free if it was open source, i think they were trying to say, that an ATC system should be something the government is incharge of - since it involves stopping large bits of metal hitting civillians its definatly not a project that you should source out to any old company, and especially not a company who will write closed proprietory software, or hires a bunch of lay-abouts who take 6 months off, and write the whole thing in a week. (Ive done projects that way - they are bad). IBM are not exactly faultless (my replacement Deskstar just arrived). The software should be open source since it is probably funded by tax-payers and generally, the population wants to be able to see the code that is keeping them safe everyday, even if they have little input. For all we know with the capitalists outthere, IBM could have been sold to Al'Qaeda.
IBM? Lockheed!!? Looks like the UK has been bought-out by the corporate machine, and the eGovernment-Hyper-Online-Network-Gateway-Marketing -Bullshit thing has been sourced out to Microsoft. There are plenty of great programmers and companies in the country.
Ha Ha ha ha ha hahahahahahaha oh, oh, HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ROFL Ha Ha Ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha hahahahaha... ha... ha... ahhhhhhhhh. America, the country that practically invented the internet is now destroying it because of corporate pigs trying to cash in. And you know what? i don't even care, i don't live in America so it doesn't concern me. And the best thing of all is - none of this matters because the ideals of the internet will live on free though newer projects such as wireless P2P networks. Damn, i hope we declare war on the US soon, otherwise they will infect Tony (dumb shit) with their evil laws.
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Yes but even so, they still get boring, especially if the advert is repeated allot of times. I vowed that if i ever had to sit through that Haribo basket-ball advert again i would slit my wrists. Unfortunatly i chickened out, but i still refuse to by Haribo just because of the bad adverts. Even if the advert is cool, you can still watch it to many times, and it costs to much for a company to make lots of adverts and only show each one a few times. The BT advert is quite good, and they've managed to show it sparingly but that too will start to piss me off soon, and then, i'll switch to broadband and which company will i not use? thats right. The UK is lucky because we have so little advertising on TV, but its still too much. Advertising should be something that makes the customer want to buy the product. I think in the future we could see more interesting advertising mediums. To save time (people who work in advertising are a bit slow) i have come up with some ideas below:
1) VIP Advertising - VIPs (presidents, chairpeople, CEOs etc) from a company will walk around streets with sandwich bords to advertise products, for extra effect, they will drop to their knees infront of pedestrians and beg for them to buy products.
2) Air Traffic Control Advertising - ATC will now contain short audio adverts for pilots "This landing clearance was sponsored by McDonalds, availiable near the baggage collection point."
3) Disaster Advertising - Major events will become sponsored, for example, the WTC rubble would have had a Microsoft flag instead of the American flag. In return, Microsoft would fund the rescue and clean-up. Although there may have been issues if the terrorists had also been sponsored
Lol, its a good thing that these would still be illigal without the proper labeling.
Theres a rule, that i think you learn in business school, its pretty important and goes something like "don't piss off your customers in any way unless you have a damn good marketing spin campagne to fool the suckers into coming back"
I don't care, i have never bought a CD in my life and im not about to start. Why bother paying for something when you can download it or rip other peoples? no its not fair to the record companys but then, life is not fair. People screw me around all the time, and you know what? i couldn't give the slightest crap weather all the major record labels' bosses dropped dead or a plane load of bad artists was smashed into their studios. lol we will probably see activists running around stores spray painting all the protected CDs.
Is the movie and its detailed description of breaking the Enigma in violation of the DMCA?
I hope not, i plan to make a film about how russian programmers did their bit for the anti-capitalist/globalist/pigs war and hacked the SSSCA DRM system. Then they put the results on the internet so people could hunt down and kill the evil Friz Hollings and his army.
If you think about it there are some pretty bad hygiene practaces in the world. At McDonalds staff handle food and cash, and so do the customers who then go on to eat with their hands. in webcafes the keyboards must be complete health & safety failures. Even just holding the safety rails on trains and buses is a bactera-sharing moment. who needs the postal service when a suicide-terrorist could just put anthrax on their hands and go around the city using these services.
We might as well make use of it, what about developing bacteria sized memory modules, then you could download your mp3s on a batch and create the ultimate p2p filesharing network
Why don't they design the user interface to be more customisable. They could just put in a touch screen powered by something (not WinCE) and people could even design their own interfaces. You could download them like you download skins. Most UI's a crap, if they could be customised you wouldn't have to live with them. The basics of a good interface is one that can be customised to the users preferences
Wow, the law-makers are really biting into this whole "software is not free speech" thing. Next you'll need a license to code. The only problem is, they would have to include a "beta testing" clause and that means everyone would just release beta-software to get around the law. Mybe they should just change it to only apply to commercial software and we might forget about their crack addiction if you know what im saying. Also, someone would legislate against talking out of your ass.
What a load of crap, next thing you know, you will have to break a seal before you open the book saying "by breaking this seal you agree to all terms and conditions of this book" these T&Cs will obviously include not damaging or removing the chip.. except ofcourse by "accident". People will reverse engineer the chips, build their own re-programmers and sell the books with new serial numbers, just like absolutely every single stupid protection system ever made. Although, on another note, these chips could be kinda cool - for finding lost stuff, just stick a chip on your tv remote, fav. pen or wallet and you can use your little tracking device to find it down the back of the sofa. Someone could mass-manufacture them on sticky things so you could just stick them on stuff. That would be uber.. otherwise... who cares, i'll just "accidently" stick my books in the microwave, before realising, after a few seconds, my mistake and taking them out again.. perfectly legal.
Maybe i'm missing something but WHO CARES?!?! who gives a shit what will happen to some explorer in 10,000 years. We have enough issues on our planet now, not to be spending $150M on some fucking rocks. People in 10,000 years will probably have far greater technology than us, they will know that its nasty stuff, they will probably have so much technology that they won't need to worry about radiation sickness and poisoning. And, even if we've all de-evolved in 10,000 years and go play with the waste is anyone here going to loose sleep over it? no, we are all sick bustards anyway. I'm not saying we should pollute the world for future generations, but hell, we pollute it already, kill and torture and let people suffer and starve while the US (incidentally the worlds greatest polluter) wastes even more money buying rocks that serve absolutely no use (and lets face it, they are going to spend $10,000 on the rocks and pipe the rest into their weapons program). A sign carved in something, saying "Warning Radioactive Waste" in most of the worlds languages, a scull and cross bones and a diagram of various elements will suffice.
Getcha space shuttles, Getcha space shuttles - 2 for a pound, genuine russian, we got war-heads we got satellites, half price... 'ello young lady what can i getcha? you want a space station - sorry all gone, how about a nuclear war head, nice girl like you ill give you 2, a shuttle and a submarine only a fiver? genuine uranium powered reactor only one previous accident.. yeah it was a collision. Come on sir weapons grade plutonium for 50p a kilo? your practically stealing it sir - day light robbery that is. morning officer, im not selling anything fishy just genuine russian here, all imported, no american junk honest. comon comon impress your friends genuine russian migs - squad for a pound, nuclear capable, only 500 thousend miles...
So what are they saying? - that the source code kept at MS HQ is basically a key to every MS based server in the world. The number of MS servers that store private data for me is scary - anyone who has access to the source code has my data - bank details, mail, accounts its all theirs, and im not sure how much i trust the current owners, let alone anyone who stole it. Its amazing how the world got into the mess of using MS on a large scale, even though they write some of the worlds worst software. It just mirrors what i see everyday - good people, good ideas, good things are all crushed by assholes and stupid ideas and products for some reason. Kinda reminds me of the "asshole theory" on everything2.com
IBM might be all open source and anti-microsoft, but dude, that doesn't excuse them for the deskstar incident - its almost 3 weeks and i've yet to see my new drive... woa, how off-topic is this.. (i've already reached the cap so i just don't care anymore
God-damnit i hate the EU almost as much as the US. If only they would enforce VAT on illigal substances - then they wouldn't have to charge as much for the rest of us.
Since most people here are not too confident reading the emotions of the opposite sex (well its better than being an over-confident jock and deciding that everyone has the hots for you), this could be very useful. Just wear a mini-device all day and then cry yourself to sleep when you review the data log and find out that no-one you met today had the slightest interest in you. Also there are other much more pointless things you could use it for such as scanning emotions in political debates and detecting when someone is not in the best mood to fly planes or operate heavy machinery. and im sure it will be used for "anti-terrorist" purposes too:)
I don't think their should be an oath, but we should find out who the scabs are that are coding for these evil corporations - ie the RIAA, MPAA and anyone else who writes spywear or drm systems. Then we should either expose them for the asshole scabs that they are and banish them from the geek community, or kidnap them and force them to reveal all their backdoors, or just bribe them, or higher prostitutes to give them sexual favours until they agree to change jobs.
Hey i've got a better idea: why not lay decent lines and comms networks for everyone and not flog your crap aged phone systems to people, considering data far outnumbers analog voice on all systems.
Hey isnt that the same trick Bill Gates pulled with some technology - "windows" or something, anyway, this is just proof that most business people with money have no clue and need someone else to take their money for them.
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Theres a problem with your counter-argument: me. My religion states that i must not give financial support to capitalist-pig megacorporations. This obviously means that i cannot by CDs. However, i still want to listen to the music on these mediums. My solution is filesharing - i can download the music for free and thus not financially support the company, while still being able to hear the music. Since its against my religion to buy CDs, i wouldn't buy them anyway. These numbers that the pigs wave about are meaningless, they always assume, that just because their over-priced product is consumed without paying them, someone would have paid if the means to get it free didn't exist.
Already done, i only own 1 DVD (it was on sale) and i have never bought a CD in my life. Since its against my religion to by CDs made by evil capitalist pig mega-corporations, downloading music over the internet is morally ok - seeing as i cant buy it anyway - like i said its against my religion - i'm not depriving anyone of a sale. As for that DVD, i have starved for a week to punish my self.
They would make better wireless routers for internet access, someone was going to do this with planes but surely zeppelins would be cheaper. anyway, they would make a good platform for alsorts of things - traffic cameras, transmitters, phone-base-stations, wireless networks, laser-guided missile painters, radars, and spy-cameras for the american governments new plan to track everyone in the country. leave the canadians alone, if i was the canadian government i'd put up a big wall to stop americans getting in.
No, windows would be a ship of the same size with _one_ cannon that fired non-standard sized balls, sometimes fast enough to do damage, but more often than not, so slow that they would just plop out. It would still be unstable, but they wouldn't even be able to get 3 sailors on board before it started rocking. It would be launched anyway and even though it would sink after 5 minutes, 500 more ships of the same specs. would be built
What i ment, was that saftey organisations and other bodies set up by the people should have access.
Most people don't understand the law! you need a degree in law before you can even begin to comprehend its complexity, even then there are still laws that you will never use. But it the government decided to source-out law-making to some other company, and decided not to let other people look at it on the grounds that "people might find loop-holes in it to get them out of trouble" then the general public would be pretty pissed off... oh, no wait, they _do_ do that.
You don't get out much, do you??
I don't think the open-source activists were trying to say that the ATC software would be bug free if it was open source, i think they were trying to say, that an ATC system should be something the government is incharge of - since it involves stopping large bits of metal hitting civillians its definatly not a project that you should source out to any old company, and especially not a company who will write closed proprietory software, or hires a bunch of lay-abouts who take 6 months off, and write the whole thing in a week. (Ive done projects that way - they are bad). IBM are not exactly faultless (my replacement Deskstar just arrived). The software should be open source since it is probably funded by tax-payers and generally, the population wants to be able to see the code that is keeping them safe everyday, even if they have little input. For all we know with the capitalists outthere, IBM could have been sold to Al'Qaeda.
IBM? Lockheed!!? Looks like the UK has been bought-out by the corporate machine, and the eGovernment-Hyper-Online-Network-Gateway-Marketing -Bullshit thing has been sourced out to Microsoft. There are plenty of great programmers and companies in the country.
Ha Ha ha ha ha hahahahahahaha oh, oh, HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ROFL Ha Ha Ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha hahahahaha... ha... ha... ahhhhhhhhh. America, the country that practically invented the internet is now destroying it because of corporate pigs trying to cash in. And you know what? i don't even care, i don't live in America so it doesn't concern me. And the best thing of all is - none of this matters because the ideals of the internet will live on free though newer projects such as wireless P2P networks. Damn, i hope we declare war on the US soon, otherwise they will infect Tony (dumb shit) with their evil laws.
Guess what, i hit the karma barrier, so you can mod me down as much as you like, i don't care.
Yes but even so, they still get boring, especially if the advert is repeated allot of times. I vowed that if i ever had to sit through that Haribo basket-ball advert again i would slit my wrists. Unfortunatly i chickened out, but i still refuse to by Haribo just because of the bad adverts. Even if the advert is cool, you can still watch it to many times, and it costs to much for a company to make lots of adverts and only show each one a few times. The BT advert is quite good, and they've managed to show it sparingly but that too will start to piss me off soon, and then, i'll switch to broadband and which company will i not use? thats right. The UK is lucky because we have so little advertising on TV, but its still too much. Advertising should be something that makes the customer want to buy the product. I think in the future we could see more interesting advertising mediums. To save time (people who work in advertising are a bit slow) i have come up with some ideas below:
1) VIP Advertising - VIPs (presidents, chairpeople, CEOs etc) from a company will walk around streets with sandwich bords to advertise products, for extra effect, they will drop to their knees infront of pedestrians and beg for them to buy products.
2) Air Traffic Control Advertising - ATC will now contain short audio adverts for pilots "This landing clearance was sponsored by McDonalds, availiable near the baggage collection point."
3) Disaster Advertising - Major events will become sponsored, for example, the WTC rubble would have had a Microsoft flag instead of the American flag. In return, Microsoft would fund the rescue and clean-up. Although there may have been issues if the terrorists had also been sponsored
Lol, its a good thing that these would still be illigal without the proper labeling.
Theres a rule, that i think you learn in business school, its pretty important and goes something like "don't piss off your customers in any way unless you have a damn good marketing spin campagne to fool the suckers into coming back"
I don't care, i have never bought a CD in my life and im not about to start. Why bother paying for something when you can download it or rip other peoples? no its not fair to the record companys but then, life is not fair. People screw me around all the time, and you know what? i couldn't give the slightest crap weather all the major record labels' bosses dropped dead or a plane load of bad artists was smashed into their studios. lol we will probably see activists running around stores spray painting all the protected CDs.
Is the movie and its detailed description of breaking the Enigma in violation of the DMCA?
I hope not, i plan to make a film about how russian programmers did their bit for the anti-capitalist/globalist/pigs war and hacked the SSSCA DRM system. Then they put the results on the internet so people could hunt down and kill the evil Friz Hollings and his army.
If you think about it there are some pretty bad hygiene practaces in the world. At McDonalds staff handle food and cash, and so do the customers who then go on to eat with their hands. in webcafes the keyboards must be complete health & safety failures. Even just holding the safety rails on trains and buses is a bactera-sharing moment. who needs the postal service when a suicide-terrorist could just put anthrax on their hands and go around the city using these services.
We might as well make use of it, what about developing bacteria sized memory modules, then you could download your mp3s on a batch and create the ultimate p2p filesharing network
Why don't they design the user interface to be more customisable. They could just put in a touch screen powered by something (not WinCE) and people could even design their own interfaces. You could download them like you download skins. Most UI's a crap, if they could be customised you wouldn't have to live with them. The basics of a good interface is one that can be customised to the users preferences
Wow, the law-makers are really biting into this whole "software is not free speech" thing. Next you'll need a license to code. The only problem is, they would have to include a "beta testing" clause and that means everyone would just release beta-software to get around the law. Mybe they should just change it to only apply to commercial software and we might forget about their crack addiction if you know what im saying. Also, someone would legislate against talking out of your ass.
What a load of crap, next thing you know, you will have to break a seal before you open the book saying "by breaking this seal you agree to all terms and conditions of this book" these T&Cs will obviously include not damaging or removing the chip.. except ofcourse by "accident". People will reverse engineer the chips, build their own re-programmers and sell the books with new serial numbers, just like absolutely every single stupid protection system ever made. Although, on another note, these chips could be kinda cool - for finding lost stuff, just stick a chip on your tv remote, fav. pen or wallet and you can use your little tracking device to find it down the back of the sofa. Someone could mass-manufacture them on sticky things so you could just stick them on stuff. That would be uber.. otherwise... who cares, i'll just "accidently" stick my books in the microwave, before realising, after a few seconds, my mistake and taking them out again.. perfectly legal.
Maybe i'm missing something but WHO CARES?!?! who gives a shit what will happen to some explorer in 10,000 years. We have enough issues on our planet now, not to be spending $150M on some fucking rocks. People in 10,000 years will probably have far greater technology than us, they will know that its nasty stuff, they will probably have so much technology that they won't need to worry about radiation sickness and poisoning. And, even if we've all de-evolved in 10,000 years and go play with the waste is anyone here going to loose sleep over it? no, we are all sick bustards anyway. I'm not saying we should pollute the world for future generations, but hell, we pollute it already, kill and torture and let people suffer and starve while the US (incidentally the worlds greatest polluter) wastes even more money buying rocks that serve absolutely no use (and lets face it, they are going to spend $10,000 on the rocks and pipe the rest into their weapons program). A sign carved in something, saying "Warning Radioactive Waste" in most of the worlds languages, a scull and cross bones and a diagram of various elements will suffice.
No probs. Just put it in the freezer and it will be icy cold in the morning when you take it to work.
Getcha space shuttles, Getcha space shuttles - 2 for a pound, genuine russian, we got war-heads we got satellites, half price... 'ello young lady what can i getcha? you want a space station - sorry all gone, how about a nuclear war head, nice girl like you ill give you 2, a shuttle and a submarine only a fiver? genuine uranium powered reactor only one previous accident.. yeah it was a collision. Come on sir weapons grade plutonium for 50p a kilo? your practically stealing it sir - day light robbery that is. morning officer, im not selling anything fishy just genuine russian here, all imported, no american junk honest. comon comon impress your friends genuine russian migs - squad for a pound, nuclear capable, only 500 thousend miles...
So what are they saying? - that the source code kept at MS HQ is basically a key to every MS based server in the world. The number of MS servers that store private data for me is scary - anyone who has access to the source code has my data - bank details, mail, accounts its all theirs, and im not sure how much i trust the current owners, let alone anyone who stole it. Its amazing how the world got into the mess of using MS on a large scale, even though they write some of the worlds worst software. It just mirrors what i see everyday - good people, good ideas, good things are all crushed by assholes and stupid ideas and products for some reason. Kinda reminds me of the "asshole theory" on everything2.com
IBM might be all open source and anti-microsoft, but dude, that doesn't excuse them for the deskstar incident - its almost 3 weeks and i've yet to see my new drive... woa, how off-topic is this.. (i've already reached the cap so i just don't care anymore
God-damnit i hate the EU almost as much as the US. If only they would enforce VAT on illigal substances - then they wouldn't have to charge as much for the rest of us.
Since most people here are not too confident reading the emotions of the opposite sex (well its better than being an over-confident jock and deciding that everyone has the hots for you), this could be very useful. Just wear a mini-device all day and then cry yourself to sleep when you review the data log and find out that no-one you met today had the slightest interest in you. Also there are other much more pointless things you could use it for such as scanning emotions in political debates and detecting when someone is not in the best mood to fly planes or operate heavy machinery. and im sure it will be used for "anti-terrorist" purposes too :)
I don't think their should be an oath, but we should find out who the scabs are that are coding for these evil corporations - ie the RIAA, MPAA and anyone else who writes spywear or drm systems. Then we should either expose them for the asshole scabs that they are and banish them from the geek community, or kidnap them and force them to reveal all their backdoors, or just bribe them, or higher prostitutes to give them sexual favours until they agree to change jobs.
Hey i've got a better idea: why not lay decent lines and comms networks for everyone and not flog your crap aged phone systems to people, considering data far outnumbers analog voice on all systems.
Hey isnt that the same trick Bill Gates pulled with some technology - "windows" or something, anyway, this is just proof that most business people with money have no clue and need someone else to take their money for them.