Re:This will last real long.
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This would be funny, if you weren't wrong. They already employ people to do this, and some of them are passably technical. A better example, would be some flesh-eating lawyer congratulating a programmer with low ethical standards about writing a script to "borrow" thousands of roms at a time, simultaneously.
And if you read my other posts, you'll see why they would bother to spend even that much effort.
And how are they going to personalize a watermark, without making it easy as hell to crack?
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Because there is still money to be made from them, no matter how old or tired they are. Hell, if they would just SELL them they could make a killing.
Haha. Do you believe your own drivel? The intellectual property industry has shown time and time again, that they will crack down on infringement even when there is no chance of it hurting their revenue stream.
No, they do it for a different reason. Please allow me to indulge in a metaphor. Imagine that they sell bottled water. Not a bad business to be in, everyone has to drink, right? Plus, they're just selling water, and still getting $1.29 per bottle at 7-Eleven. They could easily get rich, lazy, and still have a big inheritance for their spoiled brats... so what's the problem? Well, there just isn't any way to grow this business past a certain point, no matter how well you run it.
Unless.... what if everyone lived in a desert? And they were the only ones selling water? They could ask any price they wanted, and you would either buy their water or die! Fuck $1.29, $19,995 + tax sounds alot better. You can take all they have, every last cent. And as long as they don't die, sooner or later, they'll have more to spend. They're already tooled up, and whatever investment they need to engage in, they've got plenty of capital for. If only they could somehow build a desert all around us, without us noticing...
The MPAA/RIAA/SBA are all busy building deserts. They're busy making sure the only entertainment you can have, is bought from them.
This will last real long.
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I mean, I expect the first corp bot to "check out" all the roms within a few weeks, and never release them.
Didn't scientology do this court records, at one point?
Basically, if it does this, it should also require that "official" watermarks be available free-of-charge for any content-creator who asks for one.
That would be nice, even acceptable to me. The RIAA/MPAA would never stand for it though, when people downloaded official free-of-charge watermarks, and applied them to Seinfeld episodes.
You see, for it to work, things have to be restricted.
News flash: Legal counsel for the MPAA and RIAA informed congress that literally quadrillions of people were illegally infringing on Hollywood's copyrights in parallel universes. "Mr. Chairman, a large number of quantum physicists have theorized a nearly infinite number of parallel universes, many of which are similar to our own. If this is true, and many experts believe it so, then there are any number of people in these universes that are improperly using out intellectual property. Something must be done. The RIAA estimates that each year, $97 trillion trillion trillion dollars is lost to parallel universe mp3 trading. Need I remind you that that is $97 trillion trillion trillion dollars that could have been taxed?"
Your fallacy is so subtle, you can barely detect. Practiced awhile to get it right, eh?
You see, he's been trained as a professional corporate sycophant, people, so be careful. Very very dangerous.
He'll claim that you're only "rationalizing" no matter what valid argument you have. In effect, he shuts down any and all debate. Let's dissect it further.
Rationalizing, in its most proper form, is still a dubious psychobabble concept. If you were to apply it fairly, it would be in an example as such "the sociopath reasoned that the victim would die someday, so what is the difference if he let her live...". It means using reason in a way that stretches its definition, appearing to be reasonable when you actually aren't. This term is on shaky ground to begin with, but then Erwhos slides an earthquake underneath it.
Now, by claiming that you are rationalizing, he makes it seem that you shouldn't be taken seriously. That's right, no matter how serious you are, no matter how well founded your points, he undermines them pre-emptively. He refuses to even give them any credit, sincerity, honesty, wisdom... you don't get any of those, and he all but says he has decided before ever hearing a word out of your mouth.
In a way, it reminds me of how the religious are supposed to behave, nothing can ever disprove what they believe, and if it appears to do so the experiment can only be false.
As an american, I'm tired of my country's corporatist culture raping other nations like your own. I'm tired of them redefining words like theft and piracy to fit their agendas, and acting as if laws so new, that the check they used to buy them hasn't quite cleared the bank. I'm especially sick of them acting as if these laws have any moral weight at all.
I'm sorry, but no one in this country will go hungry, should your schools ever decide to infringe our dubious copyrights.
I was right there beside you flaming him on comp.sys.next.hardware.
I don't own a cube yet, and now thanks to this stupid fucker, there is one less I have a chance at. Have to make do with my wonderful little slab. Color non-turbo, in case you're curious.
If I see someone ever do such to a BeBox, I will literally murder them. With 25,000 NeXT ever made, we can stand to lose a few of them. BeBoxen number around 1800 though....
Emulation has its place. And this isn't it. Some of what made the Amiga great, was done in hardware, in such a way that it can't be emulated.
Nor can you open up the case of a virtual machine, and take a peek inside. Or upgrade it. You see, someone like myself likes the amiga for alot more than just being able to play games.
But, if you absolutely HAVE TO HAVE uae, why the fuck do you have to butcher an a1000 just to run it?
Thaat's a great way to celebrate maybe the single greatest personal computer ever designed (top 3, at the very least). Give it a piece of shit celeron, the shittiest cpu ever, made by the shittiest cpu manufacturer ever. Way to pay homage to the 68k, a paragon of simplicity and power. What better way to honor the first color GUI, a gui that fit on a single 880k floppy, than to put the cruddiest OS ever invented? They did put windows on it, right? It's some kind of sarcastic performance art, and the only thing that could contrast beautiful Workbench would be XP, which is lean if it installs in what, less than 300 megs?
Now, I'm hardly a purist. Things don't have to have original condition. I'm fine with PPC's in a1000's, linux on amigas, someone doing a messy hack that gives it more ram. If you want to see a real A1000 hack, ask for pictures of the FrankenThousand on comp.sys.amiga.hardware. But don't pull this shit. This isn't retro-computing, it's vivisectiony at its most sociopathic.
Go ahead, mod me down. Claim I don't know what I'm talking about. But don't come begging when you want to buy a 20mhz overclocking kit for your sinclair 1000.
That's right. You would never hire me for this project or any other. Of the few managers that do interview me, none would ever consider me for any kind of coding job. Why? Because they're obviously too busy picking winners like your co-workers!
HAHA. BWAHAHA. BWAHAHAHA HAHAHA.
Sometimes, life only sucks a small fraction of the amount it usually sucks. I live for those moments.
You'll note that I made an exception for common sense things. Hell, I'll go one further and include all moral/immoral things.
But how could he, or myself for that matter, no whether or not today goverment will decide that installing a pic microcontroller into your own hardware will be illegal or not? I could hire a team of lawyers, and still not know for sure.
In the US, our politicians have perverted and bloated the law, until no common man (and in many cases even the lawyers that specialize in it) can be sure of anything. It is totally unacceptable.
So far as I know, I've stolen no service at all. Am seriously considering adding S-Video to it, and getting rid of the fucking onscreen ads (little quarter screen JPEGs in the guide menu).
While I agree that chipping a PS2 shouldn't be a crime, the above is an extreamly lame excuse.
I've been thinking about this alot lately, and I just can't agree. It would be a lame excuse if...
A) The was was somewhat simple and direct. Think no more than 1500 pages total... something any individual could read and study.
B) The law was common sense. Not murdering people, for example. Claiming you didn't know homicide was illegal is lame.
C) Lawyers weren't institutionalized weasels that cost $150+ an hour. Did you know the great state of Texas outlawed legal selfhelp books a few years back, on the grounds that they "impersonated a licensed attourney"?
So tell me, how the hell am I supposed to know whether I'm committing a crime, most of the time? And I'm not talking the simple stuff, as a hardware hacker myself, I'm sure that some things I do skirt the gray areas of bought and paid for legislation.
We need to get the opinion of a plastics engineer
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Seriously, I only know a little about injection molding, but the thinner the piece is, the more complex its shaped, the more likely it will fail under stress. And what part of the laptop's plastic gets stressed, other than the hinge?
I would venture a guess that Compaq's quest for ever smaller laptops, quick production/obselescence cycles, and general nonconcern for quality products has caught up them, and it's hurting you.
I mean, really. At what point would they stop, if they didn't have pesky laws, negative feedback and the like to get in their way? 12 hours of consumer commercial viewing, with another 4 hours for purchasing everything we've seen leaving 8 hours for sleep and personal hygiene?
I can see it now. Some agency will ink a deal with a state gov, you don't get your unemployment check unless you prove you've watched at least 10 hours of commercials that week. Or maybe they'll just pull a Running Man, and make it illegal to turn off the TVs. That would be a hoot, wouldn't it?
Every time I see something like this, modded up as if it were fact, I want to cry. Go ahead, mod me down as troll or flamebait, but it's the goddammed truth. PhysicsGenius is anything but.
I believe that, in some trollish way, he refers to the old UV erasable EPROMs that are hardly ever used today. Hello, Brainiac, not only do those always have a sticker over the window to prevent accidental erasure, but they would be inside the case. That's right, aside from the stray 1 in 1 trillionth photon that tunnels through a quarter inch of plastic, any EPROMs would be safe.
If only it were an EPROM, that is. Flashrom is electrically erasable, no light of any wavelength is involved. Nothing short of long-term high dose gamma rays is likely to have any effect whatsoever.
Please, please, if you see this in m2, kick the ass of the moderator that gave this "interesting".
You are only supposed to use it for email and web access, and on the ports they designate for this. You aren't allowed to delete spams, or close popup ads.
Anyone doing anything else, is obviously an evil hacker, and thank god the good legislators in this country have realized that all hackers are terrorists. You're all evil.
Yes, I'm being sarcastic. The really annoying part though, is that I'm too close to the mark, in how these ISP's think...
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This would be funny, if you weren't wrong. They already employ people to do this, and some of them are passably technical. A better example, would be some flesh-eating lawyer congratulating a programmer with low ethical standards about writing a script to "borrow" thousands of roms at a time, simultaneously.
And if you read my other posts, you'll see why they would bother to spend even that much effort.
And how are they going to personalize a watermark, without making it easy as hell to crack?
Because there is still money to be made from them, no matter how old or tired they are. Hell, if they would just SELL them they could make a killing.
Haha. Do you believe your own drivel? The intellectual property industry has shown time and time again, that they will crack down on infringement even when there is no chance of it hurting their revenue stream.
No, they do it for a different reason. Please allow me to indulge in a metaphor. Imagine that they sell bottled water. Not a bad business to be in, everyone has to drink, right? Plus, they're just selling water, and still getting $1.29 per bottle at 7-Eleven. They could easily get rich, lazy, and still have a big inheritance for their spoiled brats... so what's the problem? Well, there just isn't any way to grow this business past a certain point, no matter how well you run it.
Unless.... what if everyone lived in a desert? And they were the only ones selling water? They could ask any price they wanted, and you would either buy their water or die! Fuck $1.29, $19,995 + tax sounds alot better. You can take all they have, every last cent. And as long as they don't die, sooner or later, they'll have more to spend. They're already tooled up, and whatever investment they need to engage in, they've got plenty of capital for. If only they could somehow build a desert all around us, without us noticing...
The MPAA/RIAA/SBA are all busy building deserts. They're busy making sure the only entertainment you can have, is bought from them.
I mean, I expect the first corp bot to "check out" all the roms within a few weeks, and never release them.
Didn't scientology do this court records, at one point?
Basically, if it does this, it should also require that "official" watermarks be available free-of-charge for any content-creator who asks for one.
That would be nice, even acceptable to me. The RIAA/MPAA would never stand for it though, when people downloaded official free-of-charge watermarks, and applied them to Seinfeld episodes.
You see, for it to work, things have to be restricted.
News flash: Legal counsel for the MPAA and RIAA informed congress that literally quadrillions of people were illegally infringing on Hollywood's copyrights in parallel universes. "Mr. Chairman, a large number of quantum physicists have theorized a nearly infinite number of parallel universes, many of which are similar to our own. If this is true, and many experts believe it so, then there are any number of people in these universes that are improperly using out intellectual property. Something must be done. The RIAA estimates that each year, $97 trillion trillion trillion dollars is lost to parallel universe mp3 trading. Need I remind you that that is $97 trillion trillion trillion dollars that could have been taxed?"
Your fallacy is so subtle, you can barely detect. Practiced awhile to get it right, eh?
You see, he's been trained as a professional corporate sycophant, people, so be careful. Very very dangerous.
He'll claim that you're only "rationalizing" no matter what valid argument you have. In effect, he shuts down any and all debate. Let's dissect it further.
Rationalizing, in its most proper form, is still a dubious psychobabble concept. If you were to apply it fairly, it would be in an example as such "the sociopath reasoned that the victim would die someday, so what is the difference if he let her live...". It means using reason in a way that stretches its definition, appearing to be reasonable when you actually aren't. This term is on shaky ground to begin with, but then Erwhos slides an earthquake underneath it.
Now, by claiming that you are rationalizing, he makes it seem that you shouldn't be taken seriously. That's right, no matter how serious you are, no matter how well founded your points, he undermines them pre-emptively. He refuses to even give them any credit, sincerity, honesty, wisdom... you don't get any of those, and he all but says he has decided before ever hearing a word out of your mouth.
In a way, it reminds me of how the religious are supposed to behave, nothing can ever disprove what they believe, and if it appears to do so the experiment can only be false.
From the US copyright laws?
Well, only if you believe in national sovergnty for other nations. Duh.
The hordes of rabid retards willing to take dubious bought-and-paid-for laws as some sort of biblical commandment is literally unbelievable.
As an american, I'm tired of my country's corporatist culture raping other nations like your own. I'm tired of them redefining words like theft and piracy to fit their agendas, and acting as if laws so new, that the check they used to buy them hasn't quite cleared the bank. I'm especially sick of them acting as if these laws have any moral weight at all.
I'm sorry, but no one in this country will go hungry, should your schools ever decide to infringe our dubious copyrights.
I was right there beside you flaming him on comp.sys.next.hardware.
I don't own a cube yet, and now thanks to this stupid fucker, there is one less I have a chance at. Have to make do with my wonderful little slab. Color non-turbo, in case you're curious.
If I see someone ever do such to a BeBox, I will literally murder them. With 25,000 NeXT ever made, we can stand to lose a few of them. BeBoxen number around 1800 though....
Emulation has its place. And this isn't it. Some of what made the Amiga great, was done in hardware, in such a way that it can't be emulated.
Nor can you open up the case of a virtual machine, and take a peek inside. Or upgrade it. You see, someone like myself likes the amiga for alot more than just being able to play games.
But, if you absolutely HAVE TO HAVE uae, why the fuck do you have to butcher an a1000 just to run it?
Maybe they should upgrade the charges to treason and sedition. Hacking is terrorism, after all, and this was rather insulting to the court.
Thaat's a great way to celebrate maybe the single greatest personal computer ever designed (top 3, at the very least). Give it a piece of shit celeron, the shittiest cpu ever, made by the shittiest cpu manufacturer ever. Way to pay homage to the 68k, a paragon of simplicity and power. What better way to honor the first color GUI, a gui that fit on a single 880k floppy, than to put the cruddiest OS ever invented? They did put windows on it, right? It's some kind of sarcastic performance art, and the only thing that could contrast beautiful Workbench would be XP, which is lean if it installs in what, less than 300 megs?
Now, I'm hardly a purist. Things don't have to have original condition. I'm fine with PPC's in a1000's, linux on amigas, someone doing a messy hack that gives it more ram. If you want to see a real A1000 hack, ask for pictures of the FrankenThousand on comp.sys.amiga.hardware. But don't pull this shit. This isn't retro-computing, it's vivisectiony at its most sociopathic.
Go ahead, mod me down. Claim I don't know what I'm talking about. But don't come begging when you want to buy a 20mhz overclocking kit for your sinclair 1000.
I'd just like to say
HAHA.
That's right. You would never hire me for this project or any other. Of the few managers that do interview me, none would ever consider me for any kind of coding job. Why? Because they're obviously too busy picking winners like your co-workers!
HAHA. BWAHAHA. BWAHAHAHA HAHAHA.
Sometimes, life only sucks a small fraction of the amount it usually sucks. I live for those moments.
*Raises hand*
Still, would have been cool.
Anytime that economists start to see that maybe money/greed isn't everything, I get the creeps.
Which can only mean that asteroid will hit in 2019. Oh well, still 17 years left to party...
You'll note that I made an exception for common sense things. Hell, I'll go one further and include all moral/immoral things.
But how could he, or myself for that matter, no whether or not today goverment will decide that installing a pic microcontroller into your own hardware will be illegal or not? I could hire a team of lawyers, and still not know for sure.
In the US, our politicians have perverted and bloated the law, until no common man (and in many cases even the lawyers that specialize in it) can be sure of anything. It is totally unacceptable.
Not yet, I'm still busy hacking it.
Motorola(formerly General Instruments) digital cable TV reciever
So far as I know, I've stolen no service at all. Am seriously considering adding S-Video to it, and getting rid of the fucking onscreen ads (little quarter screen JPEGs in the guide menu).
While I agree that chipping a PS2 shouldn't be a crime, the above is an extreamly lame excuse.
I've been thinking about this alot lately, and I just can't agree. It would be a lame excuse if...
A) The was was somewhat simple and direct. Think no more than 1500 pages total... something any individual could read and study.
B) The law was common sense. Not murdering people, for example. Claiming you didn't know homicide was illegal is lame.
C) Lawyers weren't institutionalized weasels that cost $150+ an hour. Did you know the great state of Texas outlawed legal selfhelp books a few years back, on the grounds that they "impersonated a licensed attourney"?
So tell me, how the hell am I supposed to know whether I'm committing a crime, most of the time? And I'm not talking the simple stuff, as a hardware hacker myself, I'm sure that some things I do skirt the gray areas of bought and paid for legislation.
Seriously, I only know a little about injection molding, but the thinner the piece is, the more complex its shaped, the more likely it will fail under stress. And what part of the laptop's plastic gets stressed, other than the hinge?
I would venture a guess that Compaq's quest for ever smaller laptops, quick production/obselescence cycles, and general nonconcern for quality products has caught up them, and it's hurting you.
Oh well.
I checked to see what types of JPEGs I've got, and they're all of naked women. Will I have to pay royalties?
Yes, he and the post office is providing you a service. They're called stamps, and some people still use them.
I mean, really. At what point would they stop, if they didn't have pesky laws, negative feedback and the like to get in their way? 12 hours of consumer commercial viewing, with another 4 hours for purchasing everything we've seen leaving 8 hours for sleep and personal hygiene?
I can see it now. Some agency will ink a deal with a state gov, you don't get your unemployment check unless you prove you've watched at least 10 hours of commercials that week. Or maybe they'll just pull a Running Man, and make it illegal to turn off the TVs. That would be a hoot, wouldn't it?
Since when do we mod up retards?
Every time I see something like this, modded up as if it were fact, I want to cry. Go ahead, mod me down as troll or flamebait, but it's the goddammed truth. PhysicsGenius is anything but.
I believe that, in some trollish way, he refers to the old UV erasable EPROMs that are hardly ever used today. Hello, Brainiac, not only do those always have a sticker over the window to prevent accidental erasure, but they would be inside the case. That's right, aside from the stray 1 in 1 trillionth photon that tunnels through a quarter inch of plastic, any EPROMs would be safe.
If only it were an EPROM, that is. Flashrom is electrically erasable, no light of any wavelength is involved. Nothing short of long-term high dose gamma rays is likely to have any effect whatsoever.
Please, please, if you see this in m2, kick the ass of the moderator that gave this "interesting".
You are only supposed to use it for email and web access, and on the ports they designate for this. You aren't allowed to delete spams, or close popup ads.
Anyone doing anything else, is obviously an evil hacker, and thank god the good legislators in this country have realized that all hackers are terrorists. You're all evil.
Yes, I'm being sarcastic. The really annoying part though, is that I'm too close to the mark, in how these ISP's think...