Are you implying that the American's should not have dropped the atomic bombs on Japan?
No, of course not. America was totally in the right. Ok, so some people say that Hiroshima and Nagasaki had innocent children and hospitals, and that the factories were in fact operated by people who were forced to work there, but i mean, where's the real proof? ok, so there are eye witness reports (thousands apparently) film and photos of the destruction, and of burnt and charred bodies... oh, yeah, well i see what they mean then. But don't forget people, this is America we're talking about, they have the right to do _anything_
Most don't, but most don't have any love for America. If America dropped a nuclear device on an Muslim country, the Muslim world would see this as a war against Islam, and therefore would be more sympathetic, if not outright supportive, of al Qaeda.
I don't hate America, but i don't love it either. If Bush dropped some nukes in England, i would be pissed off, and would want him dead (i've already had a post removed for threatening the president, so i better be careful here). The point i was making, is just what you said - If America, or any other country (but lets face it, America has quite a few more than most) used nuclear weapons for any reason what so ever (even testing) there would be international outrage. (just like there almost was with Pakistan). Most nations have ethics and a reputatiion to keep. Even bin laden probably wants all the support he can get. Bush however understands that he runs the most powerful nation on earth who answers to no-one and couldn't care less.
Unfortunately your logic is flawed. When the US dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, it was to end a war begun by the Japanese government. Their goverment had the power to cease hostilities. Unfortunately, doing the same thing to an Afghan city will not cause the al Qaeda terrorists to end their violence against the West. If anything, this will only encourage them, as it will be perceived by the Islamic world that the US is fighting the Muslims. Thus, dropping nuclear bombs on Afghanistan will be counter-productive to American goals.
Firstly, it was a joke. I was taking the piss out of the fact that the Americans are the only nation to ever use nukes, and on civilian targets.
Secondly, its not Muslims vs. Americans. as far as i know most Muslims don't support al'qaeda.
Also, i wasn't talking about bombing some mud-hut cities in Afghanistan, i was talking about somewhere more important.
When the Americans dropped the bombs on Japan, they knew there could be no retaliation as no-one else had the bomb. i.e. they were shooting unarmed people (a recurring theme). If they used any sort of nuclear weapon today, even a low-yield 1k or less on a bunker, it would cause international outrage, there are enough bans on testing, let alone actually using it in battle. No one would take that sort of crap, especially from America. If al'qaeda did have nukes or other big weapons, they would not hesitate to use them back at the US.
(ps, forget the oracle forbidden thread, i got 3 of my comments deleted off the server in the name of national security: slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=28127&cid=3028268 lol)
Maybe America should find a couple of cities that al'qaeda recognize as sacred, and then nuke them killing millions of civilians. Then they could say "give up now, or we bomb 2 more cities". I mean, it worked in Japan, and we all know the American government has the PR capability to turn it all around and make it seem like they are the good guys.:)
The MPAA has just released a memo to all government agencies and private detectives hoping to use this method for surveillance. Apparently you cannot use it while someone is watching a film or other copyrighted work on their monitor as this is a violation of the DMCA. They had originally planned to ban this technology completely, but Bush decided that it would put the USA at a distinct disadvantage in the surveillance world, so they settled for this fix instead.
If you want to protect yourself, have a dvd looping in a small window on your monitor and spies will be forced to stop watching, or face the penalties. This law also applies to Russia and all other countries by order of US international law(tm)
you can evesdrop on conversations by hiding in a bush and using a gadget to read the vibrations of a window from the reflected light on it.
You can pickup cordless, and maybe even cellphones (digital/encryption though).
You can open up the phone junction box outside the building and tap the wires.
You can pick-up the emf from a monitor or tv and reconstruct the image (pretty hard i think).
You can use the earth wire in a house to transmit data from bugs hidden in plugs.
You can use tools like netbus etc.. to view peoples computer over a network.
You can trick security guards with dumb-busty-blondes(tm)*
*I in no way endorse the use of busty-blondes(tm) or in anyway imply that they are all dumb, or that security guards are shallow/thick and are easily seduced.
You can look into windows with telescopes
You can recover badly deleted data from disks
You can packet sniff
You can abuse the fact that your an admin for that network and get anything you want
You can even use money to get information
And now you can use LEDs and monitor flicker too... And the FBI wants _more_ rights to tap you?!?!? how does that work?
.. The scientists plan to build an even bigger supercomputer: the ASCI White:II. With this thay plan to simulate the Hiroshima bomb, the city, and even the people. One spokesperson explained: "We want to produce a full 3D simulation witch we can load into our playstation to watch. It will simulate _everything_ buildings being destroyed, the flash burns, little children screaming, vaporized bodies, even the radiation effects over a period of 50 years. We will also be simulating the US government at that time, with a little simulated president to spread lots of FUD!"
All i want to know, is where can i get a job inventing stupid and pointless drm systems that try and go against the "if i can see it i can copy it" rule and fail. The one in the article is a cheap hack that a 12-year old might pull off. Why do companies pay good money to programmers to come up with this stuff - css, region encoding, ebooks, windows media etc..?
PS. Would anyone be interested in buying the DRM system i just developed: Basically, the media (cd/dvd etc..) comes with a special label stuck on the front that says: "for every cd bought, we save one 3rd world childs life. If you pirate this cd, you are killing a poor little child, can you handle the guilt??" and it has a picture of a sick and starving mine victim on it.
Don't worry, your company doesn't have to actually donate any money, all you have to do is put a little notice on the back in 1pt font saying "x company does not donate money to charity and may not actually save one life per cd. all rights reserved"
Please note that i plan to sell this DRM system for allot of money (3 million) and it is (c) Theodore Allardyce 2002. If i see any such labels on cds, i will know who to sue.
[This post is protected under the Allardyce DRM 1.0 - I will personally save one starving and sick 3rd world mine/aids/torture victim child for every +1 mod. Can _YOU_ handle the guilt??]
All the things on the right can be used together to make something much more powerful than the sum of its parts. + It can all be developed from a text editor.
The thing on the left has a 'hide source' flag that software can choose to ignore if it wants (making it as pointless as region encoding). Why would anyone use technology from a developer who thought this was a good philosophy?
I guess that's one way to combat piracty: forego profit.
sorry, i can't resist: Windows XP is made with cheap labour and developement costs can be covered by about 10 cents per copy (the box and disk pressing actually costs about a dollar). They can still make a profit even at 5:)
no no no, what i'm saying, is that we have to treat web-designers like our little bitch-slaves. Sure, allot of them are good at what they do, but some are not and even though its their right to design crap sites, and if i don't like a site i shouldn't go there, but it doesn't change the fact that i get pissed off...
When i was at school, a group of us started mapping out the entire campus for a big quake map. We couldn't be bothered to ask for a copy of the blue-prints for our cough 'project' so we had to measure everything (we got some strange looks)... Its very hard, we only managed one badly done, un-textured building before we got bored. We didn't even get as far as skinning the players:(
I so badly wanted to shoot those annoying little kids. All spoilt brats, and don't even get me started on the jocks! We had a shooting range too, it was very tempting to turn around and shoot everyone but it was one of those crappy one shot and then reload rifles so i wouldn't have got very far. Also, someone would call the police who would come and make me drop the gun and then they would all jump on me and beat me to the ground. After that they would probably put me in prison where i would have to live with my conscience for years and i would go mad. After thinking this through, i decided that going on a real rampage would not be a good thing.. Going on a virtual rampage though... now thats a good idea! If your serious, then you need to decide on an engine (unless you want to write one). You could go with half-life but thats dated. What you really need is something that fully supports blowing off limbs (its not fun otherwise, trust me). You will need a good sheep-like herding AI, so all the kids do the same thing. Melee weapons will increase the enjoyment, but to really make it a good game you need something else - the jocks for example, could play on a mined pitch, or with a nail-bomb ball, and for the cheerleaders, petrol dowsed uniforms! The story could develop slow at first - you sneak up and kill a few people, and the news slowly spreads into full blown panic. Or, if your an impatient sort of person.. assembly, uzi's... and for the sneaky types, how about a fire drill - except with this one you turn off the fire alarm, lock the doors and make a real fire lol:).
BTW, your sig should read: "the only nation to deploy nuclear weapons on another... twice.. and on civilians.."
I love the way they give important sounding names to things that aren't. "mobility denial system" sounds like something Microsoft would patent to stop people moving software. It goes with things like "digital rights management (we lock up your data)" and "collateral damage (oops, we blew up a red cross centre)"
Lets face it, most web designers are a little bit... cough... well lets just say they have a gcse in art.
If they see that they can make their entire client's site in flash, then that is what they will do. It will probably be closed source, and terrible for anyone who filters their html for banner ads, or uses brail etc.
So, what we have to do is take these people and give them a slap on the wrist, saying "NO" and then put them back in front-page (or whatever stupid software they use). I like html because, as a user of a web page, it gives me the power to control how that page is viewed on my computer. I can configure my browser so that fonts are bigger, background colours are ignored, opening new windows is barred etc. i can even use a proxy to take out things i don't want, like banner ads. Its probably still possible to do this with flash, but it gets allot more complicated.
Technically, i am just a guest on the web site, and the designer has the right to do whatever they want (just like the mpaa has the right to sell plastic disks for rip-off prices).
As usual we just have to stand up for what we want, and say "no, dog, get back on all fours and code your site in html, you pig, your lucky i'm not making you do it in html 1.0, you cretin designer, you should be working for dog food, now don't let me catch you with any of that 'i'm a **** so i'll make this link open with java' witchcraft or i'll make you do the whole thing in vi!"
One step closer to Bill Gates dream of making all web pages packaged into little closed source executables (running under windows only ofcourse). The web's protocals were supposed to be open, above everything else. If macromedia are planning to keep it open, then fine. But if they are trying to push everything into closed, licensed formats then they should burn in the fires of hell. (but they probably won't, capitalist pigs:)
Thats nice.. no no its fine that you run XP. I know some people talk about XP being spy-ware, MSN propoganda, or some evil DRM OS, but i'm sure its fine...
Does anyone know why this is being shown on Channel 5 in the uk if it is supposed to be successful? How can they afford to import this? Where are they getting the money considering their only revenue is advertising and in order for that to work, someone actually has to watch their channel? I thought good american stuff was only shown on channel 4, and 5 just got the really crap films (atomic train, and anything with the words delta or force in it), porn, and 'the worlds x'est x's' Now i am confused. I think the mpaa should come and investigate this channel for copy-right infringement;)
I'm surprised there arn't as many homemade projects around. I looked into it a few months back and the only solutions i could find where windows based (i don't know about you, but the thought of relying on windows to stay up more than half a day is not good). Also, true encoder cards (i.e that do all the encoding) are very very expensive, and i wanted to have dedicated hardware doing the work so i could put in an old cpu to handle the rest. There are lots of online tv guides you can leech from with a few scripts, you would be able to put in removable drives (cd-r etc.) for back-up, and you could log in to the machine while you were away to change the settings. Also, you could add a cd/mp3 player, email and net, and a dvd player (region free of course). And the best thing is, you wouldn't have to worry about subscription, EULAs, and stupid laws about what you can and can't do in your own home.
Ok, What do you get, if you mix 5 major corporations, a pig and a bag of cocaine? The SSSCA ROFL!!! hahahahhaha ha ha ohhh...
Heres another: Why didn't the Aibo cross the road? because he was not SSSCA compliant! oh god thats killing me!
alright alright: What do these things have in common: Heroin, Nuclear weapons, and a BBC microcomputer? they will all be illigal imports in america!! OH HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAa lol.
Alright. This is the last one, i promise: Why are these jokes so lame? They're Friz Holings wanna-bes! ROFL, oh oh oh god i can't oh oh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaa phew....
Sen. Fritz Hollings told universities, schools and colleges, Thursday that they can no longer teach students digital electronics, if it involves practical projects. Universities celebrated, after realising that they could sell all their expensive electronics labs, test equipment and computers and buy more carpets.
"This is GREAT!!" said one student. "My final project was a digital audio player, it was due in next week and i was far behind. But now the government has declared it illegal, and my professor is forced to pass me wayhaaay!" he continued: "The only down side, is that the feds raided my home and found a 100-page report (my project) with detaild schematics. I now face upto 5 years in prision under both the DMCA _and_ the SSSCA!"
Hobbyists were outraged however, "I don't want to live in a country where if i go to radio-shack to buy some components, i can expect FBI agents waiting on my doorstep for an inspection when i get home."
But this law doesn't only affect engineers. Second-hand electronics dealers today announced that they were concerned about the consequences of the law. When passed, it could mean the entire stock, of some dealers would instantly become as illegal as 100Kg of cocaine. "Does that mean i can sell this old Apple IIe for its weight in coke?" asked one seller.
After the introduction of the SSSCA in 2003, Microsoft dominated the US OS market. While other countries switched to IPv6, America was forced to use the proprietary protocal built into windows (thanks to auto-updates) which included advanced DRM, IP tracking and P2P restrictions - as a standard client, your computer could only connect to a 'server' i.e a Windows machine running Windows Server Edition with a valid federal license. The internet was effectively split in 2 - USA, and the rest of the world (troll: this didn't matter as most US citizens didn't know about the 'rest of the world' lol:)
It wasn't until the great Microsoft witch hunt of 2017, when 4000 Microsoft employees where burnt at the stake after the SSSCA was lifted (well, not lifted per say, actually, someone just blew-up congress)
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Are you implying that the American's should not have dropped the atomic bombs on Japan?
No, of course not. America was totally in the right. Ok, so some people say that Hiroshima and Nagasaki had innocent children and hospitals, and that the factories were in fact operated by people who were forced to work there, but i mean, where's the real proof? ok, so there are eye witness reports (thousands apparently) film and photos of the destruction, and of burnt and charred bodies... oh, yeah, well i see what they mean then. But don't forget people, this is America we're talking about, they have the right to do _anything_
Most don't, but most don't have any love for America. If America dropped a nuclear device on an Muslim country, the Muslim world would see this as a war against Islam, and therefore would be more sympathetic, if not outright supportive, of al Qaeda.
I don't hate America, but i don't love it either. If Bush dropped some nukes in England, i would be pissed off, and would want him dead (i've already had a post removed for threatening the president, so i better be careful here). The point i was making, is just what you said - If America, or any other country (but lets face it, America has quite a few more than most) used nuclear weapons for any reason what so ever (even testing) there would be international outrage. (just like there almost was with Pakistan). Most nations have ethics and a reputatiion to keep. Even bin laden probably wants all the support he can get. Bush however understands that he runs the most powerful nation on earth who answers to no-one and couldn't care less.
Unfortunately your logic is flawed. When the US dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, it was to end a war begun by the Japanese government. Their goverment had the power to cease hostilities. Unfortunately, doing the same thing to an Afghan city will not cause the al Qaeda terrorists to end their violence against the West. If anything, this will only encourage them, as it will be perceived by the Islamic world that the US is fighting the Muslims. Thus, dropping nuclear bombs on Afghanistan will be counter-productive to American goals.
Firstly, it was a joke. I was taking the piss out of the fact that the Americans are the only nation to ever use nukes, and on civilian targets.
Secondly, its not Muslims vs. Americans. as far as i know most Muslims don't support al'qaeda.
Also, i wasn't talking about bombing some mud-hut cities in Afghanistan, i was talking about somewhere more important.
When the Americans dropped the bombs on Japan, they knew there could be no retaliation as no-one else had the bomb. i.e. they were shooting unarmed people (a recurring theme). If they used any sort of nuclear weapon today, even a low-yield 1k or less on a bunker, it would cause international outrage, there are enough bans on testing, let alone actually using it in battle. No one would take that sort of crap, especially from America. If al'qaeda did have nukes or other big weapons, they would not hesitate to use them back at the US.
(ps, forget the oracle forbidden thread, i got 3 of my comments deleted off the server in the name of national security:
slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=28127&cid=3028268 lol)
Maybe America should find a couple of cities that al'qaeda recognize as sacred, and then nuke them killing millions of civilians. Then they could say "give up now, or we bomb 2 more cities". I mean, it worked in Japan, and we all know the American government has the PR capability to turn it all around and make it seem like they are the good guys. :)
The MPAA has just released a memo to all government agencies and private detectives hoping to use this method for surveillance. Apparently you cannot use it while someone is watching a film or other copyrighted work on their monitor as this is a violation of the DMCA. They had originally planned to ban this technology completely, but Bush decided that it would put the USA at a distinct disadvantage in the surveillance world, so they settled for this fix instead.
If you want to protect yourself, have a dvd looping in a small window on your monitor and spies will be forced to stop watching, or face the penalties. This law also applies to Russia and all other countries by order of US international law(tm)
you can evesdrop on conversations by hiding in a bush and using a gadget to read the vibrations of a window from the reflected light on it.
You can pickup cordless, and maybe even cellphones (digital/encryption though).
You can open up the phone junction box outside the building and tap the wires.
You can pick-up the emf from a monitor or tv and reconstruct the image (pretty hard i think).
You can use the earth wire in a house to transmit data from bugs hidden in plugs.
You can use tools like netbus etc.. to view peoples computer over a network.
You can trick security guards with dumb-busty-blondes(tm)*
*I in no way endorse the use of busty-blondes(tm) or in anyway imply that they are all dumb, or that security guards are shallow/thick and are easily seduced.
You can look into windows with telescopes
You can recover badly deleted data from disks
You can packet sniff
You can abuse the fact that your an admin for that network and get anything you want
You can even use money to get information
And now you can use LEDs and monitor flicker too... And the FBI wants _more_ rights to tap you?!?!? how does that work?
.. The scientists plan to build an even bigger supercomputer: the ASCI White:II. With this thay plan to simulate the Hiroshima bomb, the city, and even the people. One spokesperson explained: "We want to produce a full 3D simulation witch we can load into our playstation to watch. It will simulate _everything_ buildings being destroyed, the flash burns, little children screaming, vaporized bodies, even the radiation effects over a period of 50 years. We will also be simulating the US government at that time, with a little simulated president to spread lots of FUD!"
All i want to know, is where can i get a job inventing stupid and pointless drm systems that try and go against the "if i can see it i can copy it" rule and fail. The one in the article is a cheap hack that a 12-year old might pull off. Why do companies pay good money to programmers to come up with this stuff - css, region encoding, ebooks, windows media etc..?
PS. Would anyone be interested in buying the DRM system i just developed: Basically, the media (cd/dvd etc..) comes with a special label stuck on the front that says: "for every cd bought, we save one 3rd world childs life. If you pirate this cd, you are killing a poor little child, can you handle the guilt??" and it has a picture of a sick and starving mine victim on it.
Don't worry, your company doesn't have to actually donate any money, all you have to do is put a little notice on the back in 1pt font saying "x company does not donate money to charity and may not actually save one life per cd. all rights reserved"
Please note that i plan to sell this DRM system for allot of money (3 million) and it is (c) Theodore Allardyce 2002. If i see any such labels on cds, i will know who to sue.
[This post is protected under the Allardyce DRM 1.0 - I will personally save one starving and sick 3rd world mine/aids/torture victim child for every +1 mod. Can _YOU_ handle the guilt??]
Which is why it was posted by the oxymoron dept.
Yet another insightful American view...
[Flash] vs [HTML, SVG, VRML, Java, and CGI]
All the things on the right can be used together to make something much more powerful than the sum of its parts. + It can all be developed from a text editor.
The thing on the left has a 'hide source' flag that software can choose to ignore if it wants (making it as pointless as region encoding). Why would anyone use technology from a developer who thought this was a good philosophy?
I guess that's one way to combat piracty: forego profit.
:)
sorry, i can't resist: Windows XP is made with cheap labour and developement costs can be covered by about 10 cents per copy (the box and disk pressing actually costs about a dollar). They can still make a profit even at 5
no no no, what i'm saying, is that we have to treat web-designers like our little bitch-slaves. Sure, allot of them are good at what they do, but some are not and even though its their right to design crap sites, and if i don't like a site i shouldn't go there, but it doesn't change the fact that i get pissed off...
"... who were convinced they were a superior race and wanted the rest of the world as their slaves.
They got what was coming to 'em."
Allot of them were kids, and most of the adults were forced to work in the factories.
After the explosion, many were badly wounded, blinded or burnt
America had other options at their disposal. But they had a new toy and they wanted to play with it.
When i was at school, a group of us started mapping out the entire campus for a big quake map. We couldn't be bothered to ask for a copy of the blue-prints for our cough 'project' so we had to measure everything (we got some strange looks)... Its very hard, we only managed one badly done, un-textured building before we got bored. We didn't even get as far as skinning the players :(
:).
I so badly wanted to shoot those annoying little kids. All spoilt brats, and don't even get me started on the jocks! We had a shooting range too, it was very tempting to turn around and shoot everyone but it was one of those crappy one shot and then reload rifles so i wouldn't have got very far. Also, someone would call the police who would come and make me drop the gun and then they would all jump on me and beat me to the ground. After that they would probably put me in prison where i would have to live with my conscience for years and i would go mad. After thinking this through, i decided that going on a real rampage would not be a good thing.. Going on a virtual rampage though... now thats a good idea! If your serious, then you need to decide on an engine (unless you want to write one). You could go with half-life but thats dated. What you really need is something that fully supports blowing off limbs (its not fun otherwise, trust me). You will need a good sheep-like herding AI, so all the kids do the same thing. Melee weapons will increase the enjoyment, but to really make it a good game you need something else - the jocks for example, could play on a mined pitch, or with a nail-bomb ball, and for the cheerleaders, petrol dowsed uniforms! The story could develop slow at first - you sneak up and kill a few people, and the news slowly spreads into full blown panic. Or, if your an impatient sort of person.. assembly, uzi's... and for the sneaky types, how about a fire drill - except with this one you turn off the fire alarm, lock the doors and make a real fire lol
BTW, your sig should read: "the only nation to deploy nuclear weapons on another... twice.. and on civilians.."
I love the way they give important sounding names to things that aren't. "mobility denial system" sounds like something Microsoft would patent to stop people moving software. It goes with things like "digital rights management (we lock up your data)" and "collateral damage (oops, we blew up a red cross centre)"
You have no sense of humour..
Lets face it, most web designers are a little bit... cough... well lets just say they have a gcse in art.
If they see that they can make their entire client's site in flash, then that is what they will do. It will probably be closed source, and terrible for anyone who filters their html for banner ads, or uses brail etc.
So, what we have to do is take these people and give them a slap on the wrist, saying "NO" and then put them back in front-page (or whatever stupid software they use). I like html because, as a user of a web page, it gives me the power to control how that page is viewed on my computer. I can configure my browser so that fonts are bigger, background colours are ignored, opening new windows is barred etc. i can even use a proxy to take out things i don't want, like banner ads. Its probably still possible to do this with flash, but it gets allot more complicated.
Technically, i am just a guest on the web site, and the designer has the right to do whatever they want (just like the mpaa has the right to sell plastic disks for rip-off prices).
As usual we just have to stand up for what we want, and say "no, dog, get back on all fours and code your site in html, you pig, your lucky i'm not making you do it in html 1.0, you cretin designer, you should be working for dog food, now don't let me catch you with any of that 'i'm a **** so i'll make this link open with java' witchcraft or i'll make you do the whole thing in vi!"
"The main question is how long they have the rights for."
Not too long i hope. I want to watch it but i don't like the stupid logo, or the bad reception. Bloody C5.
One step closer to Bill Gates dream of making all web pages packaged into little closed source executables (running under windows only ofcourse). The web's protocals were supposed to be open, above everything else. If macromedia are planning to keep it open, then fine. But if they are trying to push everything into closed, licensed formats then they should burn in the fires of hell. (but they probably won't, capitalist pigs :)
Thats nice.. no no its fine that you run XP. I know some people talk about XP being spy-ware, MSN propoganda, or some evil DRM OS, but i'm sure its fine...
Does anyone know why this is being shown on Channel 5 in the uk if it is supposed to be successful? How can they afford to import this? Where are they getting the money considering their only revenue is advertising and in order for that to work, someone actually has to watch their channel? I thought good american stuff was only shown on channel 4, and 5 just got the really crap films (atomic train, and anything with the words delta or force in it), porn, and 'the worlds x'est x's' Now i am confused. I think the mpaa should come and investigate this channel for copy-right infringement ;)
I'm surprised there arn't as many homemade projects around. I looked into it a few months back and the only solutions i could find where windows based (i don't know about you, but the thought of relying on windows to stay up more than half a day is not good). Also, true encoder cards (i.e that do all the encoding) are very very expensive, and i wanted to have dedicated hardware doing the work so i could put in an old cpu to handle the rest. There are lots of online tv guides you can leech from with a few scripts, you would be able to put in removable drives (cd-r etc.) for back-up, and you could log in to the machine while you were away to change the settings. Also, you could add a cd/mp3 player, email and net, and a dvd player (region free of course). And the best thing is, you wouldn't have to worry about subscription, EULAs, and stupid laws about what you can and can't do in your own home.
Ok, What do you get, if you mix 5 major corporations, a pig and a bag of cocaine?
The SSSCA ROFL!!! hahahahhaha ha ha ohhh...
Heres another: Why didn't the Aibo cross the road?
because he was not SSSCA compliant! oh god thats killing me!
alright alright: What do these things have in common: Heroin, Nuclear weapons, and a BBC microcomputer?
they will all be illigal imports in america!! OH HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAa lol.
Alright. This is the last one, i promise: Why are these jokes so lame? They're Friz Holings wanna-bes! ROFL, oh oh oh god i can't oh oh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaa phew....
(Please don't mod this as funny)
Sen. Fritz Hollings told universities, schools and colleges, Thursday that they can no longer teach students digital electronics, if it involves practical projects. Universities celebrated, after realising that they could sell all their expensive electronics labs, test equipment and computers and buy more carpets.
"This is GREAT!!" said one student. "My final project was a digital audio player, it was due in next week and i was far behind. But now the government has declared it illegal, and my professor is forced to pass me wayhaaay!" he continued: "The only down side, is that the feds raided my home and found a 100-page report (my project) with detaild schematics. I now face upto 5 years in prision under both the DMCA _and_ the SSSCA!"
Hobbyists were outraged however, "I don't want to live in a country where if i go to radio-shack to buy some components, i can expect FBI agents waiting on my doorstep for an inspection when i get home."
But this law doesn't only affect engineers. Second-hand electronics dealers today announced that they were concerned about the consequences of the law. When passed, it could mean the entire stock, of some dealers would instantly become as illegal as 100Kg of cocaine. "Does that mean i can sell this old Apple IIe for its weight in coke?" asked one seller.
How Long Until Widespread Deployment?
:)
About 15 years.
After the introduction of the SSSCA in 2003, Microsoft dominated the US OS market. While other countries switched to IPv6, America was forced to use the proprietary protocal built into windows (thanks to auto-updates) which included advanced DRM, IP tracking and P2P restrictions - as a standard client, your computer could only connect to a 'server' i.e a Windows machine running Windows Server Edition with a valid federal license. The internet was effectively split in 2 - USA, and the rest of the world (troll: this didn't matter as most US citizens didn't know about the 'rest of the world' lol
It wasn't until the great Microsoft witch hunt of 2017, when 4000 Microsoft employees where burnt at the stake after the SSSCA was lifted (well, not lifted per say, actually, someone just blew-up congress)