What sort of fucked up stuff have these people been smoking this time?! Where were they when the DVD-CSS was cracked!? Do they have no sense of economics? If they sell a DVD thats identical to other DVDs but self-destructs and is much much cheaper, what sort of message is that going to send to the average consumer? they will think "hey, wait a minute, if they can give me the DVD and not need me to return it, then the disk must cost almost nothing to make, so why the fuck am i paying such mad prices for retail DVDs?!?" then they will just copy the rented disks before the 8 hours is up, simple as that, theres no way around it - try and ban the copying software? sure, like you tried to ban file-sharing, you see when you copy a DVD, no-one knows what you are doing, you are not on a network and your ISP has no record duh!
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It was a terrorist strike plain and simple - drop the bombs, scare the shit out of everyone and get what you wanted. Couldnt they have atleast dropped the bombs somewhere where everyone would know about them but few or none would be harmed? they could at the same time drop a parachute crate over hiroshima with a big American flag on it just to proove that they could have dropped the bombs anywhere. Or maybe America does support terrorism, just like they support torture..
(glad i live in the uk) Its a good way of doing it because naturally if a company with a big market share or monopoly sticks a restrictive EULA on something, the general public (if they even read it) will be in an unfair bartering position to accept it, so 99 times out of 100 they will just accept it what-ever it is. I actually think if a EULA demanded your first born, it would be atleast a year before anyone noticed or objected. Its the classic story of 1 person vs the big corporation and its something that really needs to be looked at, im glad we atleast have some legal protection here (the data protection act aswell) but im scared we will be raped of it.
I didnt RTFA or see if this had been posted before, so does that mean im not a troll?
Seriously these judges are on crack if they think they can get away with biased judgement (and im not sure since i dint RTFA but I think thats what this is). Not only would this not work if someone claimed they didnt read a EULA or didnt know a device could be used to violate the DMCA, but when corporations go around sueing for stupid patent infringements, they dont get thrown out of court on the grounds that they should never have expected to get away with patenting air!
What you do in your own home with your own property is your own business and no-one elses. Aslong as it doesnt directly harm anyone (leaking radiation, shooting at people, jamming things etc).
Arg i thought this was the single coolest thing in the world ever, but no its a projector. I saw a programme (Science Shack or something) where this team of people were given a day to camoflage a Mini, they hitched a big video screen to the side and a camera on the other side and from a fair distance it looked ok, but even thats more impressive than pointing a projector at someone, hey i can even do that without the cloak.. just by standing infront of a projector wearing white!
Damnit i want my wrap-around fiber-optic invisible cloak!
How is the wall thing a privacy issue?? its just like having a camera pointing at your cube and the boss watching on a monitor!? I don't see how the wall bit changes anything?
AOL runs Netscape/Mozilla and many people also think AOL is the internet visa/versa. Allot of schools, universities, offices etc where an admin sets up all the PCs would be good candidates to switch, lots of them use Netscape and if for example they decided OpenOffice could be a drop-in replacement for MS Office they might also look at alternative mail and browsers (Outlook Express headaches). I reckon you could drop firefox into most peoples computers, switch the icons and they wouldnt notice (except the sudden loss of 200 spyware pop-ups and crashes) - by 'drop-in' i mean doing it without telling them in some sort of cruel user interface experiment. Now you can argue about Linux forever and id agree, the average user isnt going to switch this year unless something radical came out, but there are some free/open applications that are damn-right superior to their counterparts, firefox is an example.
Obviously increasing functionality is vital - whos going to buy a device that for the last 15 years really hasnt changed much in basic functionality? The first major step was allowing extra software to be added - either by downloading or on cards, this is really what a computer is all about. The next step is just to add more hardware devices, card slots for extra things etc. This has already started to happen - combining a PDA and phone, camera, wireless/bluetooth etc it really just needs more battery life, memory, speed and resolution..
Whats wrong with just attaching cheap receipt printers to every machine (they wanted to attach notebooks). Design the receipt to be visually obvious and machine readable, use paper thats atleast abit hard to forge, it could be for example just headed with a hologram sticker or water-mark or even just a unique id. Then when the voter presses ok, it prints, they are told to check it, the paper is wound up abit and the next voter comes in. Make recounts by this method mandatory for every election and the machines that read them are not made by the same company (or diebold). Advantage: You can use the existing machines, it doesnt matter how insecure they are, aslong as the paper is kept secure behind glass and then placed in a sealed box. Disadvantage: Im pretty sure the two results will disagree.
Do you have any idea how long it takes to fake 20,000 paper ballots by crossing each one? and you have to make the cross look abit different each time! With computers.. "update votes set candidate='bob' where candidate='jim';"
Just remember, replacing every existing digital radio and upgrading every digital station just to install DRM is not a problem, other things that the RIAA might also consider an option in the near future: Rounding up all non-DRM hardware by force (first digital then analog), Breaking down your door and beating you on the ground for using Kazaa, Raping your wife/sister/daughter because you 'raped an artist of their work', Getting the death sentence imposed for copyright violation (by giving the government some 'gifts'), and 'buying' the rights to major historical composers such as Mozart, Beethoven and Vivaldi, sampling their work or reusing melodies to create really crap gangsta rap albums and charging orchestras royalties for playing any of the original music.
It would be a great idea, similar to the DeCSS Gallery, to document every possible way you can copy/save/record any auido/video stream including schematics and code for DIY hardware boxes (like phreaking boxes) and software in many forms (t-shirts, songs, art, or just plain code etc..). Cover every hardware platform, every media format and every method, from micro-phone-to-speaker to full digital stream copies. Make sure the site shows how much of a joke this is but at the same time gives a useful resource and of course, make many many mirrors of it. If its already been done then great, whats the url? but if it hasnt it would be a great project (funded by t-shirt sales). All these great copying methods from pressing shift to blacking out the edges of CDs to decryption need to be in one place. Device-by-device guides showing you pin-outs and wiring instructions, code for PICs etc and what country sells the tools you need. The site should conform to some basic common sense rules i.e displaying "copyright violation is a criminal offence" etc and the thinking being that what you do with your own property in your own home is your business.
Damn leaners, saw one of those basterds take out a whole squad! water everywhere, that was the night before we took the northen corridor, 205 people were lost on that corridor, i could never let it go. WHY!? WHY!??? the humanity!
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Sounds exactly like september 11th to me!
What sort of fucked up stuff have these people been smoking this time?! Where were they when the DVD-CSS was cracked!? Do they have no sense of economics? If they sell a DVD thats identical to other DVDs but self-destructs and is much much cheaper, what sort of message is that going to send to the average consumer? they will think "hey, wait a minute, if they can give me the DVD and not need me to return it, then the disk must cost almost nothing to make, so why the fuck am i paying such mad prices for retail DVDs?!?" then they will just copy the rented disks before the 8 hours is up, simple as that, theres no way around it - try and ban the copying software? sure, like you tried to ban file-sharing, you see when you copy a DVD, no-one knows what you are doing, you are not on a network and your ISP has no record duh!
It was a terrorist strike plain and simple - drop the bombs, scare the shit out of everyone and get what you wanted. Couldnt they have atleast dropped the bombs somewhere where everyone would know about them but few or none would be harmed? they could at the same time drop a parachute crate over hiroshima with a big American flag on it just to proove that they could have dropped the bombs anywhere. Or maybe America does support terrorism, just like they support torture..
(glad i live in the uk)
Its a good way of doing it because naturally if a company with a big market share or monopoly sticks a restrictive EULA on something, the general public (if they even read it) will be in an unfair bartering position to accept it, so 99 times out of 100 they will just accept it what-ever it is. I actually think if a EULA demanded your first born, it would be atleast a year before anyone noticed or objected. Its the classic story of 1 person vs the big corporation and its something that really needs to be looked at, im glad we atleast have some legal protection here (the data protection act aswell) but im scared we will be raped of it.
I didnt RTFA or see if this had been posted before, so does that mean im not a troll?
Seriously these judges are on crack if they think they can get away with biased judgement (and im not sure since i dint RTFA but I think thats what this is). Not only would this not work if someone claimed they didnt read a EULA or didnt know a device could be used to violate the DMCA, but when corporations go around sueing for stupid patent infringements, they dont get thrown out of court on the grounds that they should never have expected to get away with patenting air!
What you do in your own home with your own property is your own business and no-one elses. Aslong as it doesnt directly harm anyone (leaking radiation, shooting at people, jamming things etc).
Arg i thought this was the single coolest thing in the world ever, but no its a projector. I saw a programme (Science Shack or something) where this team of people were given a day to camoflage a Mini, they hitched a big video screen to the side and a camera on the other side and from a fair distance it looked ok, but even thats more impressive than pointing a projector at someone, hey i can even do that without the cloak.. just by standing infront of a projector wearing white!
Damnit i want my wrap-around fiber-optic invisible cloak!
How is the wall thing a privacy issue?? its just like having a camera pointing at your cube and the boss watching on a monitor!? I don't see how the wall bit changes anything?
AOL runs Netscape/Mozilla and many people also think AOL is the internet visa/versa. Allot of schools, universities, offices etc where an admin sets up all the PCs would be good candidates to switch, lots of them use Netscape and if for example they decided OpenOffice could be a drop-in replacement for MS Office they might also look at alternative mail and browsers (Outlook Express headaches). I reckon you could drop firefox into most peoples computers, switch the icons and they wouldnt notice (except the sudden loss of 200 spyware pop-ups and crashes) - by 'drop-in' i mean doing it without telling them in some sort of cruel user interface experiment. Now you can argue about Linux forever and id agree, the average user isnt going to switch this year unless something radical came out, but there are some free/open applications that are damn-right superior to their counterparts, firefox is an example.
Yes but more importantly can you say fuck, shit or bugger?
Its not GPL, it was started years ago under a different license.
Obviously increasing functionality is vital - whos going to buy a device that for the last 15 years really hasnt changed much in basic functionality? The first major step was allowing extra software to be added - either by downloading or on cards, this is really what a computer is all about. The next step is just to add more hardware devices, card slots for extra things etc. This has already started to happen - combining a PDA and phone, camera, wireless/bluetooth etc it really just needs more battery life, memory, speed and resolution..
Whats wrong with just attaching cheap receipt printers to every machine (they wanted to attach notebooks). Design the receipt to be visually obvious and machine readable, use paper thats atleast abit hard to forge, it could be for example just headed with a hologram sticker or water-mark or even just a unique id. Then when the voter presses ok, it prints, they are told to check it, the paper is wound up abit and the next voter comes in. Make recounts by this method mandatory for every election and the machines that read them are not made by the same company (or diebold). Advantage: You can use the existing machines, it doesnt matter how insecure they are, aslong as the paper is kept secure behind glass and then placed in a sealed box. Disadvantage: Im pretty sure the two results will disagree.
Do you have any idea how long it takes to fake 20,000 paper ballots by crossing each one? and you have to make the cross look abit different each time! With computers.. "update votes set candidate='bob' where candidate='jim';"
"These are minor technical hiccups that happen," said Hood spokeswoman Nicole DeLara. "No votes are lost, or could be lost."
They said it couldnt happen..
"She's the fastest voting machine in the fleet"
But as the electronic voting system made her maiden election..
[Insert dramatic music]
"ACCESS DATABASE CORRUPTION - RIGHT A HEAD"
Disaster struck..
"Full reverse transactions on the data base! Switch to MySQL!"
"Its too late, we cant migrate in time!"
"But these machines.. they cant fail, they are un-breakable!"
[Music gets more dramatic]
"Captin! we have lost 12 states, this system had only enough redundancy for 14."
"What are you saying sir!?"
"Captin, im saying that if we loose 3 more megabytes of data.. then this election will be null"
[Music gets even more dramatic crescendo fff]
"Jack! Jack! there are only enough paper ballots for half the population of Texas!"
"You take one, your vote is more important! I was only going to throw it away on a 3rd candidate anyway"
Coming soon, from the directors of Florida 2000, Election Systems & Software of Omaha, Diebold, Microsoft.
[Music reaches climax]
ELECTION: 2004
They said it couldnt happen.
Can we atleast all agree that VB script is utter shit and should be wiped from the face of the earth?
..when a girl messes you up so much you'd rather be with a dog! it cant be that bad can it?
Let me get this straight.. you want to have sex with your dog and have Collie - the girl who is bording at your place to translate what the dog says?
"Suck my cock you fucking bitch"
This wasnt ment to be funny, i bet you wont be laughing in 10 years when atleast one of these things will have happened.
Man someones got an RPG up their ass and its shooting its molten copper!
Just remember, replacing every existing digital radio and upgrading every digital station just to install DRM is not a problem, other things that the RIAA might also consider an option in the near future: Rounding up all non-DRM hardware by force (first digital then analog), Breaking down your door and beating you on the ground for using Kazaa, Raping your wife/sister/daughter because you 'raped an artist of their work', Getting the death sentence imposed for copyright violation (by giving the government some 'gifts'), and 'buying' the rights to major historical composers such as Mozart, Beethoven and Vivaldi, sampling their work or reusing melodies to create really crap gangsta rap albums and charging orchestras royalties for playing any of the original music.
It would be a great idea, similar to the DeCSS Gallery, to document every possible way you can copy/save/record any auido/video stream including schematics and code for DIY hardware boxes (like phreaking boxes) and software in many forms (t-shirts, songs, art, or just plain code etc..). Cover every hardware platform, every media format and every method, from micro-phone-to-speaker to full digital stream copies. Make sure the site shows how much of a joke this is but at the same time gives a useful resource and of course, make many many mirrors of it. If its already been done then great, whats the url? but if it hasnt it would be a great project (funded by t-shirt sales). All these great copying methods from pressing shift to blacking out the edges of CDs to decryption need to be in one place. Device-by-device guides showing you pin-outs and wiring instructions, code for PICs etc and what country sells the tools you need. The site should conform to some basic common sense rules i.e displaying "copyright violation is a criminal offence" etc and the thinking being that what you do with your own property in your own home is your business.
Damn leaners, saw one of those basterds take out a whole squad! water everywhere, that was the night before we took the northen corridor, 205 people were lost on that corridor, i could never let it go. WHY!? WHY!??? the humanity!
prostration!? that sounds like a cross between prostate and castration.. erm.. *backs off slowly*