Power Failure Crash; Store (encrypted) information in cookies even before transfer to the server, so information is preserved from all but the most serious "melt-downs."...Convert your existing software and write new software to perform Continuous Save
SOOooo... I missed the part where this is the PC manufacturers responsibility. It's not their job to back up your data. Period. That's all YOU. Nobody else. You're in control of that PC's hardware and software, as well as providing safeguards for catastrophic failures. And let's say it was their job for a moment. Do you really think they would provide such a service for free? Not a freaking chance they're going to provide webservers to maintain the integrity of your data without charge. If anything, it's going to be an option for which you pay for, like an extended warrenty and people are still going to turn it down, just like people don't (but should) back up their system on a regular basis. Did we mention you can already pay for these services anyway???
The same damn thing goes for the capacitors crap, which, while not a bad idea, is a solution anybody can take personal resposibility for as well quite easily. From an engineering standpoint, you just increased the wieght and cost of your box anyway. And we all know the hibernate time from computer to computer can vary at any given moment depending on what you're doing to begin with. I'd contend that this is less neglect on PC manufacturers part and more a market demand issue.
"Dr Taylor says 200 million tonnes of lunar soil would produce one tonne of helium."
WTF crack are you people smoking???? I know we love to repost this story on Helium 3 From Outer Space, but we're talking about strip-mining the moon to the tune of 200 MILLION TONNES. Since when was this a good idea again???? The reactor technology isn't the only thing in it's infancy here. We're looking at nothing short of a full scale industrial revolution taking place on the moon, along with the massive transport and support infrastructure needed to keep it operational. At today's- no, scratch that -even at tommorow's level of technology, the time, money and rescources it'll take to mine 200 million tonnes of moon rock for one ton of helium 3 will be so outrageous as to make your ass pucker.... Which will only power the damn country for a year.
And that's not even touching the fact that you're destroying the moon. Hey, I don't care. Do it on the dark side (more tech/support/infrastructure challenges), but you're gonna have a tough time convincing people that staring at a gutted, strip mined celestial body in high orbit is where it's at... And I'm guessing, being the slashnot astronomer that I am, that is where most of the largest density of helium 3 is going to be found: The side facing the solar winds.
Tinfoil shielding? While that may work, why not just design it to be readable at a shorter range?? I mean, it can't be that hard, can it? Over-engineering strikes again...
Oh, and let me guess... I'm going to have to remove this from my person as well just to pass through the metal detector unmolester, right?
Just reminds me of microwaving your brain with a cell phone. How long will it be before people find out that you can not only get carpletunnel, but liquify the nerve endings in your wrist at the same time while powering the mouse...?
Makes you wonder about the people behind the anti-trust lawsuits when you find out that the cause they're so firmly behind can be bought out so easily. Also makes you wonder if it's as big a deal as these people are potentially inflating it to be in some cases.
Of course, 9.5 million is enough to make anybody think twice.
Like somebody else said, only in the US. And I'm pretty sure it's because while everybody else in the world is playing Final Fury XXDeusSE in their arcades, the best we normally manage over here are the titles several generations behind the current. That's assuming your arcade even bothers to update on a regular basis. Heck, if they kept the titles as fresh as they do in say, Singapore (been there, done that), then I suspect sales would be a tad stronger.
Then perhapse "buy" isn't the term software companies should use from now on, since you don't own the item outright to do as you will with it. For the sake of truth in advertising, I think "Rent" is a more accurate term.
But then, would you have bought a HL2 with the tag, "Rent Half Life 2 today!"
"Flashback 20 years: You mean you have a walkman that can carry 10,000 songs, has as much file storage as 1000PCs, can sychronize contact information, plays games, has an LCD screen, all in a package the size of a deck of cards, and you still gotta worry about the battery wearing out in 8 hours!"
The function and abilities of those devices has changed. The function and abilities of a flashlight... Has not.
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"Now that Valve has proven the concept of widespread distribution of games online...other game developers can follow suit."
Wow. And here I was thinking Id was the front-runner in that trend...
And speaking of people, amazing how not one photo has a single person in it. Giant boosters, complex machinery, huge manufacturing centers... And no one single person. Not even independent ground vehicals.
And yeah, it does look like the Thunderbirds. If I stare long enough, I could swear I see the strings. I'm calling BS Flag, 30 yard line. It may be legit, but somebody is gonna have to do better than those photographs.
Well THANK YOU for that brief, redundant insight into common law. I'll make sure to inquire of you next time I need a brief synopsis into all things that are common knowledge. How things should be often bares little resemblance to how that actually are, but thankyouverymuch.
As for my black box, if it's not, I have no idea what it is then as it possess no vital function that I can ascertain.
"You can't shut it off, and you can't manipulate it..."
...But you can pull the plug. I've found that what appears to be that suspicious black box under the dash of my '02 Elantra. Disconnecting it does not affect the car alarm, radio, ignition, or any other vital feature nessisary to the car's operation.
Honestly, I don't mind the fact that they exist... As long as they are only used in the event of a crash and only at your option. I say that above all else because that box is your property, crash or no crash. The information therein is yours to release or not to release and should be covered as the 5th amendment would be used to protect your innocence. This device cannot run a-ground on the same DRM issues that affect consoles, software and music-- You know, the products you bought but don't actually own? That information is yours, recorded on a device you bought inside the car you own.
Now granted, it may very well be the only thing that proves your innocence. That said, story does have the right idea, however. These things are way too prone to abuse to be used without the proper safeguards in place.
Some [Long Term] calculations...
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Hacking Vodka
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Let's see... It still makes sense when you consider you can use the same filter several times. Most are rated in the gallons filtered before they need a change* whereas your "good" vodka is going to start adding up pretty quickly on a bottle to bottle basis. After the initial expense, I'm saving $20 to every bottle you buy.
*A brita pitcher filter can filter 40 gallons before changing
Are we absolutely sure these people are human? The war on Terror? Fine. Patriot Act? Well, ok. I guess. Invade Iraq? Sure go ahead. But it's revelations like, "Internet Porn More Addictive Than Crack!" that really give you pause.
Pause like: NO F$%#%ING SH%^, SHERLOCK.
Just a thought, but I hear SEX is REALLY addictive too. Can I go up before the Senate and state- for the record -that sex is highly addictive??? Not that I would know. I'm actually posting here all the time (see? my karma is excellent). And let's see... If I'm not mistaken, sex is one of the most basic human attributes. Fapping causes pleasure (well, for most of us). Fapping is free (again, most of us). Internet Porn is well, um, free.
Ergo, we must introduce a bill that will spend a few million researching the causes and affects of internet pornificationers.
All kidding aside, I'm of the opinion that it kinda desensitizes you to sex in general, possibly even reducing your drive to actually pursue real sex. Such easy access to self gratification material can't generally be a good thing in that respect. The Seantor is somewhat right... back in the day, if you wanted a playboy, you generally went through some trouble to get it. Now all you need is Google and your imagination.. Oh, and a good cache cleaner:p Much easier access to potential self gratification and unrealistic expectations.
"Looks like Russia has picked up where the U.S. failed..."
It's amazing what ones choice of words can tell you about the person who wrote this story. Failure? Failure assumes one wanted to be involved in the first place. No, don't be so self-centered, I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about national policy in general. The US didn't want to be involved in Kyoto period. There was no failure. There was no effort, policy or want to join Kyoto. And as long as we're being unbiased, maybe it was because of studies such as this:
The Sun is Getting Hotter Global warming has finally been explained: the Earth is getting hotter because the Sun is burning more brightly than at any time during the past 1,000 years, according to new research. A study by Swiss and German scientists suggests that increasing radiation from the sun is responsible for recent global climate changes.
Dr Sami Solanki, the director of the renowned Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Gottingen, Germany, who led the research, said: "The Sun has been at its strongest over the past 60 years and may now be affecting global temperatures. The Sun is in a changed state. It is brighter than it was a few hundred years ago and this brightening started relatively recently - in the last 100 to 150 years."
Dr Solanki said that the brighter Sun and higher levels of "greenhouse gases", such as carbon dioxide, both contributed to the change in the Earth's temperature but it was impossible to say which had the greater impact. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtm l?xml=/ne ws/2004/07/18/wsun18.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/07/18/i xnewstop.html
Or this:
Sunspots reaching 1,000-year high
The Sun, Stanford University Sunspots are plentiful nowadays A new analysis shows that the Sun is more active now than it has been at anytime in the previous 1,000 years. Scientists based at the Institute for Astronomy in Zurich used ice cores from Greenland to construct a picture of our star's activity in the past.
They say that over the last century the number of sunspots rose at the same time that the Earth's climate became steadily warmer.
This trend is being amplified by gases from fossil fuel burning, they argue.
Sunspots have been monitored on the Sun since 1610, shortly after the invention of the telescope. They provide the longest-running direct measurement of our star's activity. The variation in sunspot numbers has revealed the Sun's 11-year cycle of activity as well as other, longer-term changes. In particular, it has been noted that between about 1645 and 1715, few sunspots were seen on the Sun's surface.
This period is called the Maunder Minimum after the English astronomer who studied it. Ice core disc, Epica Ice cores record climate trends back beyond human measurements It coincided with a spell of prolonged cold weather often referred to as the "Little Ice Age". Solar scientists strongly suspect there is a link between the two events - but the exact mechanism remains elusive. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/386975 3. stm
Or possibly even (and slightly more combative):
Global Warming Activists Studiously Ignore History's Cycles of Warming and Cooling The latest pseudo-scientific parlor game is pretending that the Little Ice Age didn't happen. We're supposed to ignore the historic reality that the world's mean temperatures dropped sharply by 2 to 4 degrees Fahrenheit from about 1300 AD until at least 1850 AD and fell perhaps a freaky 9 degrees below today's average temperatures in the 13th century.
Let's pretend this well-documented spasm of freezing cold, advancing glaciers, and terrible storms did not freeze the Viking settlers on Greenland to death or create Europe's "year without a summer" in 1315, when crops failed and created massive famine. The silly game of "hide the Little Ice Age" is being played to support the g
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""Thirty-five years ago this week, the sedentary, fine-grained powder began to rise from a secret soundstage in the Nevada Desert. Soon after - at 1:54:35 a.m. EST on Nov. 19, 1969 - the lunar module Intrepid was lowered by crain onto the manufactured lunar set. Apollo 12 actor Pete Conrad and his fellow actor Alan Bean would be filmed on the set for more than 31 hours, with director Dick Gordon filming the worlds most elaborate hoax from his studio nicknamed 'The Yankee Clipper.'"
And don't even get me started on the NASA Earthquake machine...
It's tough to find a state so wallowing in it's own ineptness as California. This is among the same policy that bankrupted the damn place to begin with, and you'd have hoped Arny would have sacked whoever proposed this busted-ass initiative. I mean, overengineering the solution isn't even the half of it. Frankly, I don't think california has the rescources to impliment this without driving them further into that bleed gushing pit of red they call a budget. We're talking about the percision tracking and billing of over a million drivers. What is going to be cheaper? A few toll booths, or building a new infrastructure designed to handle this crap from the ground up??? And that's not even the privacy issues involved. Even then, it's only a matter of time before mass circumvention of the system takes place.
How the fuck is it that every other state in the damn union can maintain their roads without seriously ass-fucking their population in the process? I have hope for Arny, but if he lets something like this through, he can go screw himself if he tries for another public office.
"After the money changes hands, the game belongs to me -- not the company. So get your grubby hands off, you greedy bastards.
Sadly, your pleas are falling on deaf ears if the console industry is any indication. Frankly, I see everything I buy from the perspective of my car. I bought it, money changed hands and I can mod it in nearly any fasion I see fit. I can even modify to go several times in excess of the speed limit. it's only after I break the law will those modifications come under scrutiny and penalties accrued. And that's not even mentioning the fact that cars are made with the ability to break the speed limit anyway, but don't get me started on that topic.
But it's entirely the opposite with software and the console industry. While your intentions might be wholesome in nature, it's a crime to even touch the source code or hardware. These are probably the only products you'll ever pay full cash value for but never truly own because of the bastardiztion of digital rights laws. Frankly, I'm 100% behind you. I will mod the software I bought so it doesn't become obsolete and unusable because of the developers negligence or busted policy, just like I will mod my consoles for other uses, including its expansion to other uses as well as playing back-ups. I paid for it and the game, so I sure as hell am not going to go out and buy another license for the same damn game I just paid for, let alone the fact that distribution will eventially end as it has done for the Dreamcast.
Here, here, and I second your "Screw off, digital rights whores" motion.
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Power Failure Crash; Store (encrypted) information in cookies even before transfer to the server, so information is preserved from all but the most serious "melt-downs."...Convert your existing software and write new software to perform Continuous Save
SOOooo... I missed the part where this is the PC manufacturers responsibility. It's not their job to back up your data. Period. That's all YOU. Nobody else. You're in control of that PC's hardware and software, as well as providing safeguards for catastrophic failures. And let's say it was their job for a moment. Do you really think they would provide such a service for free? Not a freaking chance they're going to provide webservers to maintain the integrity of your data without charge. If anything, it's going to be an option for which you pay for, like an extended warrenty and people are still going to turn it down, just like people don't (but should) back up their system on a regular basis. Did we mention you can already pay for these services anyway???
The same damn thing goes for the capacitors crap, which, while not a bad idea, is a solution anybody can take personal resposibility for as well quite easily. From an engineering standpoint, you just increased the wieght and cost of your box anyway. And we all know the hibernate time from computer to computer can vary at any given moment depending on what you're doing to begin with. I'd contend that this is less neglect on PC manufacturers part and more a market demand issue.
Point. I was mixing and matching rotations. Can I get a big "duh" in the house?
" The people that run the Country rely on oil as the controlling mechanism"
Wow. Thank god oil came along. I mean, prior to that, goverments simply weren't cohesive or had any sort of controlling mechanisms, right?
Remember kids:
Oil. It's all your fault
"Dr Taylor says 200 million tonnes of lunar soil would produce one tonne of helium."
WTF crack are you people smoking???? I know we love to repost this story on Helium 3 From Outer Space, but we're talking about strip-mining the moon to the tune of 200 MILLION TONNES. Since when was this a good idea again???? The reactor technology isn't the only thing in it's infancy here. We're looking at nothing short of a full scale industrial revolution taking place on the moon, along with the massive transport and support infrastructure needed to keep it operational. At today's- no, scratch that -even at tommorow's level of technology, the time, money and rescources it'll take to mine 200 million tonnes of moon rock for one ton of helium 3 will be so outrageous as to make your ass pucker.... Which will only power the damn country for a year.
And that's not even touching the fact that you're destroying the moon. Hey, I don't care. Do it on the dark side (more tech/support/infrastructure challenges), but you're gonna have a tough time convincing people that staring at a gutted, strip mined celestial body in high orbit is where it's at... And I'm guessing, being the slashnot astronomer that I am, that is where most of the largest density of helium 3 is going to be found: The side facing the solar winds.
200 freakin million tonnes. Genius.
Tinfoil shielding? While that may work, why not just design it to be readable at a shorter range?? I mean, it can't be that hard, can it? Over-engineering strikes again...
Oh, and let me guess... I'm going to have to remove this from my person as well just to pass through the metal detector unmolester, right?
Just reminds me of microwaving your brain with a cell phone. How long will it be before people find out that you can not only get carpletunnel, but liquify the nerve endings in your wrist at the same time while powering the mouse...?
That is a joke, lest you missed the tags.
Oh, so it's taboo to link to another person's site without their permission? And how many times have you done that yourself again?
More times than you can possibly count, more than likely.
Makes you wonder about the people behind the anti-trust lawsuits when you find out that the cause they're so firmly behind can be bought out so easily. Also makes you wonder if it's as big a deal as these people are potentially inflating it to be in some cases.
Of course, 9.5 million is enough to make anybody think twice.
Like somebody else said, only in the US. And I'm pretty sure it's because while everybody else in the world is playing Final Fury XXDeusSE in their arcades, the best we normally manage over here are the titles several generations behind the current. That's assuming your arcade even bothers to update on a regular basis. Heck, if they kept the titles as fresh as they do in say, Singapore (been there, done that), then I suspect sales would be a tad stronger.
Then perhapse "buy" isn't the term software companies should use from now on, since you don't own the item outright to do as you will with it. For the sake of truth in advertising, I think "Rent" is a more accurate term.
But then, would you have bought a HL2 with the tag, "Rent Half Life 2 today!"
Journal rant immeninent.
"Flashback 20 years: You mean you have a walkman that can carry 10,000 songs, has as much file storage as 1000PCs, can sychronize contact information, plays games, has an LCD screen, all in a package the size of a deck of cards, and you still gotta worry about the battery wearing out in 8 hours!"
The function and abilities of those devices has changed. The function and abilities of a flashlight... Has not.
"Now that Valve has proven the concept of widespread distribution of games online...other game developers can follow suit."
Wow. And here I was thinking Id was the front-runner in that trend...
And speaking of people, amazing how not one photo has a single person in it. Giant boosters, complex machinery, huge manufacturing centers... And no one single person. Not even independent ground vehicals.
And yeah, it does look like the Thunderbirds. If I stare long enough, I could swear I see the strings.
I'm calling BS Flag, 30 yard line. It may be legit, but somebody is gonna have to do better than those photographs.
The last place that served me freedom fries, I somehow got hash browns... Oh wait...
Or maybe just because it's ugly as sin? Naaaah.
Well THANK YOU for that brief, redundant insight into common law. I'll make sure to inquire of you next time I need a brief synopsis into all things that are common knowledge. How things should be often bares little resemblance to how that actually are, but thankyouverymuch.
As for my black box, if it's not, I have no idea what it is then as it possess no vital function that I can ascertain.
It must do your laundry too, since I sure as hell didn't start it...
Honestly, I don't mind the fact that they exist... As long as they are only used in the event of a crash and only at your option. I say that above all else because that box is your property, crash or no crash. The information therein is yours to release or not to release and should be covered as the 5th amendment would be used to protect your innocence. This device cannot run a-ground on the same DRM issues that affect consoles, software and music-- You know, the products you bought but don't actually own? That information is yours, recorded on a device you bought inside the car you own.
Now granted, it may very well be the only thing that proves your innocence. That said, story does have the right idea, however. These things are way too prone to abuse to be used without the proper safeguards in place.
Let's see... It still makes sense when you consider you can use the same filter several times. Most are rated in the gallons filtered before they need a change* whereas your "good" vodka is going to start adding up pretty quickly on a bottle to bottle basis. After the initial expense, I'm saving $20 to every bottle you buy.
*A brita pitcher filter can filter 40 gallons before changing
Are we absolutely sure these people are human? The war on Terror? Fine. Patriot Act? Well, ok. I guess. Invade Iraq? Sure go ahead. But it's revelations like, "Internet Porn More Addictive Than Crack!" that really give you pause.
:p Much easier access to potential self gratification and unrealistic expectations.
Pause like: NO F$%#%ING SH%^, SHERLOCK.
Just a thought, but I hear SEX is REALLY addictive too. Can I go up before the Senate and state- for the record -that sex is highly addictive??? Not that I would know. I'm actually posting here all the time (see? my karma is excellent). And let's see... If I'm not mistaken, sex is one of the most basic human attributes. Fapping causes pleasure (well, for most of us). Fapping is free (again, most of us). Internet Porn is well, um, free.
Ergo, we must introduce a bill that will spend a few million researching the causes and affects of internet pornificationers.
All kidding aside, I'm of the opinion that it kinda desensitizes you to sex in general, possibly even reducing your drive to actually pursue real sex. Such easy access to self gratification material can't generally be a good thing in that respect. The Seantor is somewhat right... back in the day, if you wanted a playboy, you generally went through some trouble to get it. Now all you need is Google and your imagination.. Oh, and a good cache cleaner
"Looks like Russia has picked up where the U.S. failed..."
It's amazing what ones choice of words can tell you about the person who wrote this story. Failure? Failure assumes one wanted to be involved in the first place. No, don't be so self-centered, I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about national policy in general. The US didn't want to be involved in Kyoto period. There was no failure. There was no effort, policy or want to join Kyoto. And as long as we're being unbiased, maybe it was because of studies such as this:
The Sun is Getting Hotter
G lobal warming has finally been explained: the Earth is getting hotter because the Sun is burning more brightly than at any time during the past 1,000 years, according to new research. A study by Swiss and German scientists suggests that increasing radiation from the sun is responsible for recent global climate changes.
Dr Sami Solanki, the director of the renowned Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Gottingen, Germany, who led the research, said: "The Sun has been at its strongest over the past 60 years and may now be affecting global temperatures. The Sun is in a changed state. It is brighter than it was a few hundred years ago and this brightening started relatively recently - in the last 100 to 150 years."
Dr Solanki said that the brighter Sun and higher levels of "greenhouse gases", such as carbon dioxide, both contributed to the change in the Earth's temperature but it was impossible to say which had the greater impact.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtm l?xml=/ne ws/2004/07/18/wsun18.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/07/18/i xnewstop.html
Or this:
Sunspots reaching 1,000-year high
T he Sun, Stanford University Sunspots are plentiful nowadays A new analysis shows that the Sun is more active now than it has been at anytime in the previous 1,000 years. Scientists based at the Institute for Astronomy in Zurich used ice cores from Greenland to construct a picture of our star's activity in the past.
They say that over the last century the number of sunspots rose at the same time that the Earth's climate became steadily warmer.
This trend is being amplified by gases from fossil fuel burning, they argue.
Sunspots have been monitored on the Sun since 1610, shortly after the invention of the telescope. They provide the longest-running direct measurement of our star's activity. The variation in sunspot numbers has revealed the Sun's 11-year cycle of activity as well as other, longer-term changes. In particular, it has been noted that between about 1645 and 1715, few sunspots were seen on the Sun's surface.
This period is called the Maunder Minimum after the English astronomer who studied it. Ice core disc, Epica Ice cores record climate trends back beyond human measurements It coincided with a spell of prolonged cold weather often referred to as the "Little Ice Age". Solar scientists strongly suspect there is a link between the two events - but the exact mechanism remains elusive.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/386975 3. stm
Or possibly even (and slightly more combative):
Global Warming Activists Studiously Ignore History's Cycles of Warming and Cooling
The latest pseudo-scientific parlor game is pretending that the Little Ice Age didn't happen. We're supposed to ignore the historic reality that the world's mean temperatures dropped sharply by 2 to 4 degrees Fahrenheit from about 1300 AD until at least 1850 AD and fell perhaps a freaky 9 degrees below today's average temperatures in the 13th century.
Let's pretend this well-documented spasm of freezing cold, advancing glaciers, and terrible storms did not freeze the Viking settlers on Greenland to death or create Europe's "year without a summer" in 1315, when crops failed and created massive famine. The silly game of "hide the Little Ice Age" is being played to support the g
""Thirty-five years ago this week, the sedentary, fine-grained powder began to rise from a secret soundstage in the Nevada Desert. Soon after - at 1:54:35 a.m. EST on Nov. 19, 1969 - the lunar module Intrepid was lowered by crain onto the manufactured lunar set. Apollo 12 actor Pete Conrad and his fellow actor Alan Bean would be filmed on the set for more than 31 hours, with director Dick Gordon filming the worlds most elaborate hoax from his studio nicknamed 'The Yankee Clipper.'"
And don't even get me started on the NASA Earthquake machine...
"Right now I am using WMP 10 and it does everything I want, it plays my mp3's and that's all I want."
Annnd sets the stage for massive DRM nazism in the process. Good choice!
It's tough to find a state so wallowing in it's own ineptness as California. This is among the same policy that bankrupted the damn place to begin with, and you'd have hoped Arny would have sacked whoever proposed this busted-ass initiative. I mean, overengineering the solution isn't even the half of it. Frankly, I don't think california has the rescources to impliment this without driving them further into that bleed gushing pit of red they call a budget. We're talking about the percision tracking and billing of over a million drivers. What is going to be cheaper? A few toll booths, or building a new infrastructure designed to handle this crap from the ground up??? And that's not even the privacy issues involved. Even then, it's only a matter of time before mass circumvention of the system takes place.
How the fuck is it that every other state in the damn union can maintain their roads without seriously ass-fucking their population in the process? I have hope for Arny, but if he lets something like this through, he can go screw himself if he tries for another public office.
"After the money changes hands, the game belongs to me -- not the company. So get your grubby hands off, you greedy bastards.
Sadly, your pleas are falling on deaf ears if the console industry is any indication. Frankly, I see everything I buy from the perspective of my car. I bought it, money changed hands and I can mod it in nearly any fasion I see fit. I can even modify to go several times in excess of the speed limit. it's only after I break the law will those modifications come under scrutiny and penalties accrued. And that's not even mentioning the fact that cars are made with the ability to break the speed limit anyway, but don't get me started on that topic.
But it's entirely the opposite with software and the console industry. While your intentions might be wholesome in nature, it's a crime to even touch the source code or hardware. These are probably the only products you'll ever pay full cash value for but never truly own because of the bastardiztion of digital rights laws. Frankly, I'm 100% behind you. I will mod the software I bought so it doesn't become obsolete and unusable because of the developers negligence or busted policy, just like I will mod my consoles for other uses, including its expansion to other uses as well as playing back-ups. I paid for it and the game, so I sure as hell am not going to go out and buy another license for the same damn game I just paid for, let alone the fact that distribution will eventially end as it has done for the Dreamcast.
Here, here, and I second your "Screw off, digital rights whores" motion.