Treason only counts if the crime was committed against the country. Obviously we do not live in a democracy (electoral college, anyone?). The most it would be is a civil matter versus the guy who lost and the guy who won.
I bet people would care if they could make a cell phone at a decent price.
Cell phones these days are absolutely locked down by high prices. If Apple could make a phone with a good design, good specs, etc, that would beat the prices on those other phones..they might have something there.
I don't look forward to paying $200 to replace my three-year-old-phone with the exact same model because the prices are just going up.
They're so cheap so the phone company can offer them for free, but god forbid you buy one with no 'deal'.
I wouldn't be surprised if in the next version or so, they charged a per-boot fee automatically taken out of an account that you had set up. Of course installing it on another machine also means re-buying the software at full price.
They set up their monopoly, and they can do whatever they want with it. If they wanted to restrict use to machines with built-in GPS locators so that they could charge you based on county or city, they could.
Well, with this we might have to worry about raidation-shielding on armored vehicles. What's the point in armor at all if they can shine enough of these at your armored SUV?
We, as a race, expect an event to be The End. We will go out of our ways to make sure it happens. If it looks good, why not press the button? We can blow the fuck out of the rest of the world with nukes and then claim that the Bible predicted it or whatever holy text you're fond of.
The slippery slope to being automatically flagged as someone to watch out for. No human control in the process, but one day when you go to apply for a loan or get your drivers' licence renewed, you might get a surprise.
I guarentee that it will be shipped on by default but have an option in the PS3 BIOS to use it during downtime or not. Besides, who leaves their consoles on at all times?
Doesn't matter whether or not the features could be just as easily done on both systems..
All you have to put on the CD is that it's for use with RFID players only, and that it differs from the standard CD because it has special tracks on it. Never mind it can be played in a regular player, I'm sure most people wouldn't try it anyway and would accept their new $200 cd player for their living room.
So what if you had a band and decided to share this music?
Say the software wraps it in nice DRM packaging, which goes against your 'rules' for use of the music. Since the Zune did this automatically, acting on the behalf of Microsoft, which it was designed to do..wouldn't this mean you could sue them just as hard as they sue people that share music / reverse engineer software?
Just like how we send millions and millions of dollars in aid and support for west African countries that just seize the food to feed their armies with.
We still deny people support in America that really need it. But I guess that's ok, right? Make sure that the countries that rape babies to cure their AIDS are well fed before we feed our single mothers and poor families.
I saw a comment either on Fark or Slashdot about a someone that placed an order with AT&T to order a friend the power supply for their modem or router or whatever it was.
A few days later they received an email asking for their SSN and other personal information that they shouldn't have been asking for. Of course they didn't fall prey to it, but it contained the order number and order details of the order they had placed! Its the ultimate phishing scam. They can now be virtually indistinguishable from the AT&T people. All it takes is a few people to screw up.
A lot of things can be construed as sexual harassment. Or at least, harassment. If you ask a girl to hang out and she says she's busy..and then you ask her again at a later date..that's harassment. You expressed your interest in hanging out with her and were shot down. The only reason you could EVER ask her out again is to piss her off and make her feel uncomfortable.
Asking someone to come hang out with everyone at the pub is innocent to you, but might be 'they asked me to come and get drunk so they could take advantage of me' to some vulnerable-minded guy or girl. Believe me, when an employee feels threatened, the HR department will shoot first and ask questions later.
Nothing says publicity like a multi-million dollar sexual harrassment lawsuit.
Hollywood should retaliate against this by making a movie about a man who's life and family is ruined by piracy. Namely, he's a musical artist getting zero income after placing himself in debt.
He's really really famous but can't afford to eat. Eventually he kills himself.
Hollywood should use their talent at making shitty movies to strike back at teh pirates.
First you OK illegal searching of people's computers 'to save the kiddies'. Next you OK illegal searching of people's homes 'to save the kiddies'. Then you go down a list outlawing or making penalities harsher to unrelated things now that 'to save the kiddies' mentality has caught on and everyone is riding that train.
Pretty soon you can't even take a piss in the middle of the woods without a flying camera bot shooting you in the back with a tazer and hauling you to the nearest detention facility.
I would never spend more than two minutes at a time at a website like MySpace assuming it was unblocked. I'd check my messages and maybe post a blog. Searching for chicks is something best done at home. Besides, with what people put as their backgrounds, you could very easily get fired for looking at someone's MySpace page.
On the other hand, I usually end up spending break reading slashdot, fark, or random wikipedia articles that pique my interest. They've already blocked wikipedia..
Usually during non-break hours I've got plenty of stuff to keep me occupied. I do, however, let my gmail sit open in the back ground just in case..its definately not a distraction to me, but I've worked at places where people do almost nothing but surf the internet and occasionally get something done when threatened. So it could go both ways for most people..
Doubt there's going to be unless its 'arranged' and baited.
All the CC company knows is that last week you placed an order for that anime keychain your friend showed you while you were surfing on the 's wifi connection, and three hours later you ordered an Alienware machine and had it shipped to a place you didn't live.
Its clear after the frantic calls and sleepless nights that someone spoofed your credentials, but how they did it is another story. Using a wifi connection or a public terminal always has some risk. All it takes is one transaction to make that guy-in-the-corner's night worth it. He'll have himself another new gaming machine and another notch in his hackin' laptop. The credit card company will shake their heads in dismay and end up having to eat another loss from this same damn connection.
A good idea would be for them to produce a kit that requires you to have a PC/mac, printer, and a DL DVD burner.
The kit could have blank 'movie' DVDs that people have bitched about it requiring, blank labels, and blank cases.
Or perhaps you could integrate it all into a kiosk. Go to kiosk, tell it what you want, it prints the case, label, and DVD. You get a new movie for $10. All the profit goes to the MPAA except for however much they use to pay-off the property that the machine takes up.
Give them a virus that you wrote. Put a bunch of what appear to be self-extracting zip files in a directory and attach a virus to the extractor. Give them fun names, too. Like Montauk Project, Philadelphia Experiment, Roswell, etc.
What recourse do we have? Peaceful protests? Voting? Voting with our dollars?
Nothing but force can change the sway of the government back into the favor of the people instead of just the favor of the governmentpeople.
'The American Dream' is nothing but a cunning bit of propaganda the government spreads. If you have 2.5 kids, a dog, a cat, and a house that will be paid off in just a few more decades..what incentive do you have to fight or risk all of that because Uncle Sam might be listening to your calls? Knowing where you drive? Carding you randomly on the streets to make sure you aren't a terrorist..enforcing copyrights through threat of death....
There should be a law against having 7 music videos try to load when you load the page. The default MySpace page layout isn't bad. But text the same color as the background is a common occurance.
Nothing I hate worse than my peace being interrupted by a music video that totally dominates all sound for three blocks because it adjusted my volume via hacks.
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No surprise from a company that marks half of its legitimate software installs as pirated.
Treason only counts if the crime was committed against the country. Obviously we do not live in a democracy (electoral college, anyone?). The most it would be is a civil matter versus the guy who lost and the guy who won.
Maybe fraud and a felony.
My thoughts exactly. You'll be responsible for shipping, and probably for part costs as well.
Sony will gladly replace anything of theirs that you have bought in the past few years..you just have to pay them for it!
I bet people would care if they could make a cell phone at a decent price.
Cell phones these days are absolutely locked down by high prices. If Apple could make a phone with a good design, good specs, etc, that would beat the prices on those other phones..they might have something there.
I don't look forward to paying $200 to replace my three-year-old-phone with the exact same model because the prices are just going up.
They're so cheap so the phone company can offer them for free, but god forbid you buy one with no 'deal'.
I wouldn't be surprised if in the next version or so, they charged a per-boot fee automatically taken out of an account that you had set up. Of course installing it on another machine also means re-buying the software at full price.
They set up their monopoly, and they can do whatever they want with it. If they wanted to restrict use to machines with built-in GPS locators so that they could charge you based on county or city, they could.
The question is, what can't they do?
Well, with this we might have to worry about raidation-shielding on armored vehicles. What's the point in armor at all if they can shine enough of these at your armored SUV?
..so you can get arrested for assault.
You're expected to let the police take 6+ weeks to recover a stolen item.
We, as a race, expect an event to be The End. We will go out of our ways to make sure it happens. If it looks good, why not press the button? We can blow the fuck out of the rest of the world with nukes and then claim that the Bible predicted it or whatever holy text you're fond of.
The slippery slope to being automatically flagged as someone to watch out for. No human control in the process, but one day when you go to apply for a loan or get your drivers' licence renewed, you might get a surprise.
I guarentee that it will be shipped on by default but have an option in the PS3 BIOS to use it during downtime or not. Besides, who leaves their consoles on at all times?
Special features, man.
Doesn't matter whether or not the features could be just as easily done on both systems..
All you have to put on the CD is that it's for use with RFID players only, and that it differs from the standard CD because it has special tracks on it. Never mind it can be played in a regular player, I'm sure most people wouldn't try it anyway and would accept their new $200 cd player for their living room.
So what if you had a band and decided to share this music?
Say the software wraps it in nice DRM packaging, which goes against your 'rules' for use of the music. Since the Zune did this automatically, acting on the behalf of Microsoft, which it was designed to do..wouldn't this mean you could sue them just as hard as they sue people that share music / reverse engineer software?
Just like how we send millions and millions of dollars in aid and support for west African countries that just seize the food to feed their armies with.
We still deny people support in America that really need it. But I guess that's ok, right? Make sure that the countries that rape babies to cure their AIDS are well fed before we feed our single mothers and poor families.
I saw a comment either on Fark or Slashdot about a someone that placed an order with AT&T to order a friend the power supply for their modem or router or whatever it was.
A few days later they received an email asking for their SSN and other personal information that they shouldn't have been asking for. Of course they didn't fall prey to it, but it contained the order number and order details of the order they had placed! Its the ultimate phishing scam. They can now be virtually indistinguishable from the AT&T people. All it takes is a few people to screw up.
A lot of things can be construed as sexual harassment. Or at least, harassment. If you ask a girl to hang out and she says she's busy..and then you ask her again at a later date..that's harassment. You expressed your interest in hanging out with her and were shot down. The only reason you could EVER ask her out again is to piss her off and make her feel uncomfortable.
Asking someone to come hang out with everyone at the pub is innocent to you, but might be 'they asked me to come and get drunk so they could take advantage of me' to some vulnerable-minded guy or girl. Believe me, when an employee feels threatened, the HR department will shoot first and ask questions later.
Nothing says publicity like a multi-million dollar sexual harrassment lawsuit.
Hollywood should retaliate against this by making a movie about a man who's life and family is ruined by piracy. Namely, he's a musical artist getting zero income after placing himself in debt.
He's really really famous but can't afford to eat. Eventually he kills himself.
Hollywood should use their talent at making shitty movies to strike back at teh pirates.
So..where does it end?
First you OK illegal searching of people's computers 'to save the kiddies'. Next you OK illegal searching of people's homes 'to save the kiddies'. Then you go down a list outlawing or making penalities harsher to unrelated things now that 'to save the kiddies' mentality has caught on and everyone is riding that train.
Pretty soon you can't even take a piss in the middle of the woods without a flying camera bot shooting you in the back with a tazer and hauling you to the nearest detention facility.
Feh. They're probably doing it on purpose.
Imagine if car companies were also the gas company and could modify the gasoline to make their older models run worse/less efficient/slower?
You wouldn't be able to get a car to work beyond 3 years.
It can be a godsend or an immense distraction.
I would never spend more than two minutes at a time at a website like MySpace assuming it was unblocked. I'd check my messages and maybe post a blog. Searching for chicks is something best done at home. Besides, with what people put as their backgrounds, you could very easily get fired for looking at someone's MySpace page.
On the other hand, I usually end up spending break reading slashdot, fark, or random wikipedia articles that pique my interest. They've already blocked wikipedia..
Usually during non-break hours I've got plenty of stuff to keep me occupied. I do, however, let my gmail sit open in the back ground just in case..its definately not a distraction to me, but I've worked at places where people do almost nothing but surf the internet and occasionally get something done when threatened. So it could go both ways for most people..
Doubt there's going to be unless its 'arranged' and baited.
All the CC company knows is that last week you placed an order for that anime keychain your friend showed you while you were surfing on the 's wifi connection, and three hours later you ordered an Alienware machine and had it shipped to a place you didn't live.
Its clear after the frantic calls and sleepless nights that someone spoofed your credentials, but how they did it is another story. Using a wifi connection or a public terminal always has some risk. All it takes is one transaction to make that guy-in-the-corner's night worth it. He'll have himself another new gaming machine and another notch in his hackin' laptop. The credit card company will shake their heads in dismay and end up having to eat another loss from this same damn connection.
A good idea would be for them to produce a kit that requires you to have a PC/mac, printer, and a DL DVD burner.
The kit could have blank 'movie' DVDs that people have bitched about it requiring, blank labels, and blank cases.
Or perhaps you could integrate it all into a kiosk. Go to kiosk, tell it what you want, it prints the case, label, and DVD. You get a new movie for $10. All the profit goes to the MPAA except for however much they use to pay-off the property that the machine takes up.
Prices go down, selection goes way way way up..
Give them a virus that you wrote. Put a bunch of what appear to be self-extracting zip files in a directory and attach a virus to the extractor. Give them fun names, too. Like Montauk Project, Philadelphia Experiment, Roswell, etc.
The cash went into a scanner which picked up your fingerprints too. It now has a picture of you, your voice, and your fingerprints.
What recourse do we have? Peaceful protests? Voting? Voting with our dollars?
Nothing but force can change the sway of the government back into the favor of the people instead of just the favor of the governmentpeople.
'The American Dream' is nothing but a cunning bit of propaganda the government spreads. If you have 2.5 kids, a dog, a cat, and a house that will be paid off in just a few more decades..what incentive do you have to fight or risk all of that because Uncle Sam might be listening to your calls? Knowing where you drive? Carding you randomly on the streets to make sure you aren't a terrorist..enforcing copyrights through threat of death....
There should be a law against having 7 music videos try to load when you load the page. The default MySpace page layout isn't bad. But text the same color as the background is a common occurance.
Nothing I hate worse than my peace being interrupted by a music video that totally dominates all sound for three blocks because it adjusted my volume via hacks.