The way to "crack" this DRM is to rewrite the parts of the code that are "protected" by it. Or, ya know, just do some hardware hacking so you can grab a copy of the unencrypted code in memory.. not that it's easy or anything.
I think it's more about assuming someone else has done their job. How'd the guy with the ladder get in here, oh, he must of gone through reception and surely they would have checked he was supposed to be here.
Or previous blunders where the people who bought the computers immediately called their mate Tony to call his mate Ivan to get in touch with his uncle in the russian mafia to sell this stuff to spammers.
Not only are you an arsehole, you're delusional too. Are you trying to tell me that Kerry Packer is middle class? Brick layers, and factory workers, they take home the same as programmers do they? We may not have the impoverished underclass of the US but we still have class struggle in Australia.
Never underestimate the power to set office workers minds at ease by wearing blue and carrying a ladder. It's a total class issue. White collar workers think blue collar workers a beneigth them and not worth challenging.
Clearly you know nothing about sentience. That is not a single thing that a newborn can do that a dog cannot. You're also an uncivil person who can't have a conversation without insulting someone. However, I'll let that go cause I'm guilty of it myself sometimes.
I tried to watch the second one but was unable to get past trying to figure out where they found the cows to make all those leather jackets from and how they had time to construct the machinery and chemical processes to build those sunglasses they all seemed to wear.
They don't have anything like that on in the real world man. They all wear rags and other garbs that you would expect people who live in a hole in the ground. The clothes in the Matrix are all contrivances.
Man, you can do that. You just have to pony up $20,000,000 and you get 8 days on the ISS. Is that space travel enough for you? For 1000th the price you get a "sample" of space travel.. for some of us that's worth it. For the rest of us, we have to wait for early adopters to drive down the price. Personally I hope someone buys one of these tickets and raffles it (with permission from Virgin Galactic of course). Then for the price of $20 we can all have a chance of going into space.
A newborn cannot exhibit sentience any more than a dog can. In fact, dogs can do "tricks" that newborns can't which would easily make you think they are sentient. It's a bullshit test.
You think people like band X because of their music? Oh boy. You like the music you like because of how old you are and where you grew up. You like what you like because your friends listened to it or because your dad hated it or because you got saturated with advertising for it whilst you were going through a messy breakup. Music is the perfect reflection of social control over thought.
No, see, most of us don't think causing someone else to lose money should be a crime. Not that I'm agreeing that copyright infringement causes anyone to lose money, but that is their claim and they believe that it should be a crime. Now what of these two other things I mentioned huh? Slander can cause someone to lose money. If I say you're a baby killer, people believe me and won't do business with you, then you lose money. So how much money do you have to lose before you think it should be a crime for me to call you a baby killer? How about that other one, breach of contract? It's really easy to see that I could lose you money if I break on contract with you. How much money do you have to lose before they make it a crime to break a contract? The point is, we already have a system in place to facilitate these things. I caused you to make a loss? Ok, let's go to court, you prove to the judge that you made a loss and the judge demands that I pay it. Easy. Where things started going wrong is that unlike slander or breach of contract, copyright holders started demanding that they get more than just what they lost. They demanded that the violator be "taught a lesson" and the courts complied. Not to mention the fact that courts didn't seem to care if the copyright holder had adequately proved they made a loss or not. In fact, these days the courts don't even care. All in all, the case law for copyright infringement has become a run away train which has led us into this criminal copyright law era.
You're new right? The FBI can't go after legitimate counterfieters, they all operate out of China or somewhere else outside the US. These arrests, and others, are of normal people who want to copy works for their own use and are bought and paid for by those corporations who base their fortune on making something that is inheriently copyable into something that is not. If the people want to copy, the people should be free to copy. The state should serve us, not the very very very small minority of us who put bribes in the pockets of our representatives.
I never thought I'd ever live in a time where something that is so clearly a civil issue would be come a criminal charge. What's next, arresting people for slander or violating a contract?
Personally I don't have a problem with killing rabbits and dogs for medical research (or cosmetics) and a newborn really isn't any more capable than a rabbit or a dog. The difference, in our society, is that a human cannot be property, whereas a dog/rabbit can. So if the argument is that you can't kill a human baby because a human baby is not property then it's a total strawman argument to claim that it is ok to kill a zygote on the grounds of what it is capable of. You have to face the argument, is a zygote property? To answer that question I think we have to agree on a few things. I own my own body, you own yours. If we define a woman's body to include anything that grows within it, regardless of how that growth is initiated, then it is clear that until a fetus is removed from her body it is her property. Of course, I'm sure that's endlessly debatable, and therein lies the controversy.
Now, of course, if you really want to get into a sticky situation, imagine if some well intentioned doctors developed a technique for reembedding miscarriages. I'm sure it would be considered a modern miracle for women who are having trouble getting pregnant. If this technique became well known and successful I'm sure we'd see some people claiming that women who fail to get the procedure are negligent. Now not only would some states being telling women they can't abort a pregnancy willingly, they'd also be saying that they can't abort a pregnancy naturally. Knowing this is likely, is it ethical for a researcher who develops a technique for reembedding miscarriages to suppress that research?
It's not that they don't get smarter, it's just that there's an infinite supply of dickheads. Back in the BBS days you could be sure that there was only a small community of people who were connecting to that particular BBS and that they had a reasonable level of intelligence as it was pretty difficult for the average person to get onto a BBS. Neither of those two are true for Slashdot.
Because it is the obligation of good christian women to offer up their fertile wombs for implantation of these harvested embryos and carry them to term whilst burning at the stake the women who donated them in the first place.
They did advertising during the beta, then stopped.. which is just dumb marketting. As for getting turned off by the last two movies, I guess people just don't understand symbolism anymore. Maybe they should put warnings on the box: caution, this film contains depth. Here's a good overview for Reloaded and Revolutions. Worth reading even if you think you understood the films.
One of the few girls who did an IT degree around the same time as me had a MUDing problem. She didn't study, missed classes, missed exams, flunked courses. We all felt so sorry for her but none of us knew what to do. Eventually people started intervening. If we found her in the unix lab we'd harrass her to stop playing MUDs. That didn't work though, she stopped coming to uni altogether when she got herself an Internet connection with no weekly connection limits (as you can tell, this was quite a few years ago). Some of the girls starting going around to her house but her parents would lie for her and say she wasn't home (even though we knew she was cause her character was online). It's really sad.
They started too many servers too fast. Guess they were encouraged by the popularity of WoW and thought they were next. What's really sad is that they didn't do a bit of advertising. They let too many people in the beta who formed an opinion of the game and never came back to see if the bugs were fixed (much like people review open source software). The world (Mega City) is just so damn big that you hardly ever ran into anyone anyway. So now with only 3 servers maybe people won't get the feeling that no-one is playing the game. There are people playing the game, lots of them, but they were spread over 9 servers and 30+ areas (not to mention 3 organisations and 24 timezones). However, just merging the servers isn't going to repair the damage. Sony needs to get their marketting team on this. Get some advertisement and promotions going.
What's the law got to do with it? When you sign a contract you are making a promise. You shouldn't try to weasel out of a promise. I remember a kinder gentler time when people made agreements with no more assurance than a hand shake. Nowadays people want a written contract for everything and if the law says the contract isn't enforcable they immediately forget their obligations. What ever happened to Google's mantra: do no evil. Why would such a company want to hire someone who can't even keep a promise?
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I see your future! You will be rated to +5 Insightful by others, like you, who didn't even bother reading the article.
The way to "crack" this DRM is to rewrite the parts of the code that are "protected" by it. Or, ya know, just do some hardware hacking so you can grab a copy of the unencrypted code in memory.. not that it's easy or anything.
I think it's more about assuming someone else has done their job. How'd the guy with the ladder get in here, oh, he must of gone through reception and surely they would have checked he was supposed to be here.
No, that's plumbers and electricians. Shortage of tradesmen and all.
Or previous blunders where the people who bought the computers immediately called their mate Tony to call his mate Ivan to get in touch with his uncle in the russian mafia to sell this stuff to spammers.
Not only are you an arsehole, you're delusional too. Are you trying to tell me that Kerry Packer is middle class? Brick layers, and factory workers, they take home the same as programmers do they? We may not have the impoverished underclass of the US but we still have class struggle in Australia.
Never underestimate the power to set office workers minds at ease by wearing blue and carrying a ladder. It's a total class issue. White collar workers think blue collar workers a beneigth them and not worth challenging.
Clearly you know nothing about sentience. That is not a single thing that a newborn can do that a dog cannot. You're also an uncivil person who can't have a conversation without insulting someone. However, I'll let that go cause I'm guilty of it myself sometimes.
God you're a moron. Sunflowers exhibit more impressive behaviour than newborns.
I tried to watch the second one but was unable to get past trying to figure out where they found the cows to make all those leather jackets from and how they had time to construct the machinery and chemical processes to build those sunglasses they all seemed to wear.
They don't have anything like that on in the real world man. They all wear rags and other garbs that you would expect people who live in a hole in the ground. The clothes in the Matrix are all contrivances.
Man, you can do that. You just have to pony up $20,000,000 and you get 8 days on the ISS. Is that space travel enough for you? For 1000th the price you get a "sample" of space travel.. for some of us that's worth it. For the rest of us, we have to wait for early adopters to drive down the price. Personally I hope someone buys one of these tickets and raffles it (with permission from Virgin Galactic of course). Then for the price of $20 we can all have a chance of going into space.
A newborn cannot exhibit sentience any more than a dog can. In fact, dogs can do "tricks" that newborns can't which would easily make you think they are sentient. It's a bullshit test.
STFU man, you don't know!!! Information wants to be free! or something.
You think people like band X because of their music? Oh boy. You like the music you like because of how old you are and where you grew up. You like what you like because your friends listened to it or because your dad hated it or because you got saturated with advertising for it whilst you were going through a messy breakup. Music is the perfect reflection of social control over thought.
No, see, most of us don't think causing someone else to lose money should be a crime. Not that I'm agreeing that copyright infringement causes anyone to lose money, but that is their claim and they believe that it should be a crime. Now what of these two other things I mentioned huh? Slander can cause someone to lose money. If I say you're a baby killer, people believe me and won't do business with you, then you lose money. So how much money do you have to lose before you think it should be a crime for me to call you a baby killer? How about that other one, breach of contract? It's really easy to see that I could lose you money if I break on contract with you. How much money do you have to lose before they make it a crime to break a contract? The point is, we already have a system in place to facilitate these things. I caused you to make a loss? Ok, let's go to court, you prove to the judge that you made a loss and the judge demands that I pay it. Easy. Where things started going wrong is that unlike slander or breach of contract, copyright holders started demanding that they get more than just what they lost. They demanded that the violator be "taught a lesson" and the courts complied. Not to mention the fact that courts didn't seem to care if the copyright holder had adequately proved they made a loss or not. In fact, these days the courts don't even care. All in all, the case law for copyright infringement has become a run away train which has led us into this criminal copyright law era.
Which is what makes me sick.
You're new right? The FBI can't go after legitimate counterfieters, they all operate out of China or somewhere else outside the US. These arrests, and others, are of normal people who want to copy works for their own use and are bought and paid for by those corporations who base their fortune on making something that is inheriently copyable into something that is not. If the people want to copy, the people should be free to copy. The state should serve us, not the very very very small minority of us who put bribes in the pockets of our representatives.
I never thought I'd ever live in a time where something that is so clearly a civil issue would be come a criminal charge. What's next, arresting people for slander or violating a contract?
Now, of course, if you really want to get into a sticky situation, imagine if some well intentioned doctors developed a technique for reembedding miscarriages. I'm sure it would be considered a modern miracle for women who are having trouble getting pregnant. If this technique became well known and successful I'm sure we'd see some people claiming that women who fail to get the procedure are negligent. Now not only would some states being telling women they can't abort a pregnancy willingly, they'd also be saying that they can't abort a pregnancy naturally. Knowing this is likely, is it ethical for a researcher who develops a technique for reembedding miscarriages to suppress that research?
Scary stuff.
You're on crack. Seriously, it takes absolutely no effort to find people who are 100% pro-choice.
It's not that they don't get smarter, it's just that there's an infinite supply of dickheads. Back in the BBS days you could be sure that there was only a small community of people who were connecting to that particular BBS and that they had a reasonable level of intelligence as it was pretty difficult for the average person to get onto a BBS. Neither of those two are true for Slashdot.
Because it is the obligation of good christian women to offer up their fertile wombs for implantation of these harvested embryos and carry them to term whilst burning at the stake the women who donated them in the first place.
They did advertising during the beta, then stopped.. which is just dumb marketting. As for getting turned off by the last two movies, I guess people just don't understand symbolism anymore. Maybe they should put warnings on the box: caution, this film contains depth. Here's a good overview for Reloaded and Revolutions. Worth reading even if you think you understood the films.
One of the few girls who did an IT degree around the same time as me had a MUDing problem. She didn't study, missed classes, missed exams, flunked courses. We all felt so sorry for her but none of us knew what to do. Eventually people started intervening. If we found her in the unix lab we'd harrass her to stop playing MUDs. That didn't work though, she stopped coming to uni altogether when she got herself an Internet connection with no weekly connection limits (as you can tell, this was quite a few years ago). Some of the girls starting going around to her house but her parents would lie for her and say she wasn't home (even though we knew she was cause her character was online). It's really sad.
They started too many servers too fast. Guess they were encouraged by the popularity of WoW and thought they were next. What's really sad is that they didn't do a bit of advertising. They let too many people in the beta who formed an opinion of the game and never came back to see if the bugs were fixed (much like people review open source software). The world (Mega City) is just so damn big that you hardly ever ran into anyone anyway. So now with only 3 servers maybe people won't get the feeling that no-one is playing the game. There are people playing the game, lots of them, but they were spread over 9 servers and 30+ areas (not to mention 3 organisations and 24 timezones). However, just merging the servers isn't going to repair the damage. Sony needs to get their marketting team on this. Get some advertisement and promotions going.
What's the law got to do with it? When you sign a contract you are making a promise. You shouldn't try to weasel out of a promise. I remember a kinder gentler time when people made agreements with no more assurance than a hand shake. Nowadays people want a written contract for everything and if the law says the contract isn't enforcable they immediately forget their obligations. What ever happened to Google's mantra: do no evil. Why would such a company want to hire someone who can't even keep a promise?