The difference is that the people you mention are on the other side of the fence from you. It makes it seem like there is a difference, because you've picked a side. In short, you are part of the problem. You can't see it though because you're personally involved. Both sides are biased. If you claim one isn't, then *you* are biased as well.
I find both sides of this stupid left vs. right bickering tediously boring. And fantastically childish. Both sides are absolutely reprehensible. More harm is done to my country with this "us versus them" mentality than any good that could possibly come from it.
So stop it, or I'll turn this car around right now.
Does bring to mind another point: I wonder if there is a such a thing as terminal tennis elbow. From TFB:
Verizon estimated that out of a 40-week period, Vaccarelli spent 15 weeks talking on sex lines.
Holy crap! He's gotta look like the guy from Idiocracy's masturbation network commercial by now. Too bad there isn't an Olympic sport that requires you to have one really strong arm. If Air Hockey ever becomes an Olympic sport I believe we have our gold medal locked down.
When users ask for Admin privilages, they should be told to go fsck themselves. No matter who they are.
I'm a software developer. For the first few weeks working here IT wouldn't give me admin rights on my own box. I couldn't install software.
So I sat here and did nothing. Not because that's what I wanted. But because that's all I could do, until they gave me permissions on my machine.
Generally speaking, you're right. Most people in a business should be locked down. But not everyone. Depends on the person - depends on the work they're doing.
"I really want it" does not mean the same as "I need it" or "I deserve it"
You do actually need it to pass.
And since you are essentially paying into an extortion racket, there is no moral dilema in avoiding doing so. All these assholes do is change the sample problems with each book revision. There is no content change worth shelling out another couple hundred dollars each semester.
For example, let's look at an Algebra book. How much new algebra has been written in the last 1000 years? Now how much of that would you expect to see in an introductory text? The answer is zero. None. All introductory Algebra texts cover the exact same thing.
So, the dilema - how do you make a new Algebra book every semester? A publisher makes money by selling books. How to do that? Simple. Change the homework problems. There is no new Algebra information, no new content, so they change the homework.
This is unethical. It's extortion. "Pay us or you don't graduate." So yeah, it's nice to see people solving the problem. Remember, what is legal and what is moral are often times two different things.
Still, what you're talking about is copyright violation and not theft. Yeah, it's illegal. But it's a different illegal. Like how jaywalking and vehicular manslaughter are two different things. It would suck to be guilty of one and tried for another. It's the shell game the RIAA is foisting on the public trying to equate the two. And whenever I see it - I point it out. As loud as I can.
And FWIW, if I was still in college I'd be doing exactly what you're doing. You get awfully sick of eating Ramen noodles while paying up to $200 per book, with each class needing at least one book and sometimes up to 3 or 4 - each semester. Especially when the only thing that changes between revisions are the example problems so you can't even sell your old books off at the end of the semester. I believe it's morally correct to not support someone's extortion racket - "pay us huge bucks each year or you can't do your homework." That's racketeering, and I'd oppose it just as you do.
Please stop modding idiocy like this as Insightful. It isn't. You're doing the RIAA's work for them when you allow their twisted definitions to gain mainstream acceptance.
Add to this the success of the Toyota Prius, and you can see why only 3 percent of cars in the U.S. use diesel. "Americans see hybrids as the darling," says Global Insight auto analyst Philip Gott, "and diesel as old-tech."
I own an 07 Prius. The deciding factor? MPG. If something out there had better MPG, I'd have bought that instead.
The people buying high MPG cars aren't idiots. They'll buy whatever is good. Leave it to Ford to build something as awesome as the Fiesta and not market it in America thinking we're too stupid to understand it.
They deserve what's going to happen to them. What morons.
The seventh link returned is: "Cubase Studio 4 Hybrid ISO with Syncrosoft Patch". Site is a pirate torrent looking site, so use precautions if you decide to click the link.
Interestingly enough, the link just above that one is "Microsoft Licenses Software Security Technology from Syncrosoft." That's your real reason for DRM right there. Make up a super-uncrackable-no-shit-we-really-mean-it-this-time copy protection and get some sucker to license it from you.
Plus, it's bullshit anyways. Name one DRM scheme that hasn't been cracked all to hell. All it seems to take is one bored teenager in the Netherlands somewhere and wham! That's it. Now the only people the DRM harasses are the paid customers.
I know that the industry knows it too. What they tell themselves is that this is to prevent "casual copying". A kid with a DVD burner and not much know-how. But that's not how it works anymore.
Now, you don't need to be some uber-leet 0day warez nut to get your hands on cracked software. Any idiot with a cablemodem can get it. I'm not going to look for it, but I'd bet there is a torrent of this game out there already. All that kid really has to do is wait a week or so and it will be out there.
So what's the point of the DRM then? Only systems it's running on are the paid customers. It does no tangible good, other than to delay the pirates from getting it by a week or two. Is that really worth all the hassle? How could it be?
Maybe it's just because I'm a sick bastard, but I'd leave a single access point open to this network on the internet. Protect the living hell out of it, so only the leet could get in. And then make it a honeypot, not connecting to anything real.
But instead hosting video of alien autopsies, fake Apollo moon landing movie sets, documents about how the CIA shot JFK, letters from the Bavarian Illuminati ordering the war in Iraq...stuff like that.
Anything that takes in that much money can't be called a failure. It's wishful thinking to say otherwise. Judges are still finding in their favor, and nobody has been able to put a stop to their extortion racket yet. Their lawsuit racket is a machine that requires practically no work, and takes in thousands of dollars per victim. A thousand letters go out, and a couple of million dollars come back in. Hardly a failure.
It's immoral, and we hope that mainstream non-geek people will see it eventually...but currently, as much as it pains me to say so - it's a win for them. A big one.
If we convince ourselves that we've won and walk away when we haven't - then we are the ones who've lost. So let's not say what we hope things are. Let's say what they really are, and go from there.
I own an 07 Prius. You can really feel the drag coefficient when you coast. The thing will coast just about forever.
On my commute home, I jump off the freeway and up an off-ramp hill to my neighborhood. One of the things I like to do is to take my foot off the accelerator at freeway speed a ways before the ramp and see how far up the hill I can coast.
It's really a bizarre sensation. I usually can make it all the way at a decent speed and still have to use the brakes. It almost feels like you're sliding on ice. It's the kinetic->potential energy loss going up the hill that does most of the slowing of the car, not the wind and friction losses. And you can feel it. It's unearthly. It gives you the sensation that some invisible force is pulling you up the hill. Because you're so used to other cars slowing down much faster in similar circumstances.
The Prius really feels like you're driving a solid piece of magic sometimes.
I agree - immersing a contact connector is a bad idea. The fluid will eventually get in between the leads. So, just solder jumper cables directly to the motherboard and have them poke up out of the brine.
Probably a good idea to solder your PCI stuff directly to the board too, if you can.
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You know what else is reprehensible? You talking down to me like I am a child.
And just before:
No sir, what is reprehensible is fat fucks like Michael Moore appearing on MSNBC
Sound grown up to you?
So I'm sorry, but I *am* turning this car around. You're grounded.
And no, we're not still going to grandma's.
No, there isn't.
The difference is that the people you mention are on the other side of the fence from you. It makes it seem like there is a difference, because you've picked a side. In short, you are part of the problem. You can't see it though because you're personally involved. Both sides are biased. If you claim one isn't, then *you* are biased as well.
I find both sides of this stupid left vs. right bickering tediously boring. And fantastically childish. Both sides are absolutely reprehensible. More harm is done to my country with this "us versus them" mentality than any good that could possibly come from it.
So stop it, or I'll turn this car around right now.
Sweet jumping Jesus on a pogo stick but I get sick of listening to partisan crap.
"They did it first."
"They do it worse than we do it."
"It's different when we do it."
Enough already.
Does bring to mind another point: I wonder if there is a such a thing as terminal tennis elbow. From TFB:
Verizon estimated that out of a 40-week period, Vaccarelli spent 15 weeks talking on sex lines.
Holy crap! He's gotta look like the guy from Idiocracy's masturbation network commercial by now. Too bad there isn't an Olympic sport that requires you to have one really strong arm. If Air Hockey ever becomes an Olympic sport I believe we have our gold medal locked down.
When users ask for Admin privilages, they should be told to go fsck themselves. No matter who they are.
I'm a software developer. For the first few weeks working here IT wouldn't give me admin rights on my own box. I couldn't install software.
So I sat here and did nothing. Not because that's what I wanted. But because that's all I could do, until they gave me permissions on my machine.
Generally speaking, you're right. Most people in a business should be locked down. But not everyone. Depends on the person - depends on the work they're doing.
I'm especially fond of your ironic sig line:
"I really want it" does not mean the same as "I need it" or "I deserve it"
You do actually need it to pass.
And since you are essentially paying into an extortion racket, there is no moral dilema in avoiding doing so. All these assholes do is change the sample problems with each book revision. There is no content change worth shelling out another couple hundred dollars each semester.
For example, let's look at an Algebra book. How much new algebra has been written in the last 1000 years? Now how much of that would you expect to see in an introductory text? The answer is zero. None. All introductory Algebra texts cover the exact same thing.
So, the dilema - how do you make a new Algebra book every semester? A publisher makes money by selling books. How to do that? Simple. Change the homework problems. There is no new Algebra information, no new content, so they change the homework.
This is unethical. It's extortion. "Pay us or you don't graduate." So yeah, it's nice to see people solving the problem. Remember, what is legal and what is moral are often times two different things.
Still, what you're talking about is copyright violation and not theft. Yeah, it's illegal. But it's a different illegal. Like how jaywalking and vehicular manslaughter are two different things. It would suck to be guilty of one and tried for another. It's the shell game the RIAA is foisting on the public trying to equate the two. And whenever I see it - I point it out. As loud as I can.
And FWIW, if I was still in college I'd be doing exactly what you're doing. You get awfully sick of eating Ramen noodles while paying up to $200 per book, with each class needing at least one book and sometimes up to 3 or 4 - each semester. Especially when the only thing that changes between revisions are the example problems so you can't even sell your old books off at the end of the semester. I believe it's morally correct to not support someone's extortion racket - "pay us huge bucks each year or you can't do your homework." That's racketeering, and I'd oppose it just as you do.
You RIAA brain washed dupe.
Theft is "the illegal taking of another person's property without that person's freely-given consent." Your example is theft.
Copyright violation is "the unauthorized use of material that is covered by copyright law, in a manner that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works." What CC suggests is most likely copyright violation, but that depends on the terms the book is released under.
THEY ARE NOT THE SAME.
Please stop modding idiocy like this as Insightful. It isn't. You're doing the RIAA's work for them when you allow their twisted definitions to gain mainstream acceptance.
1. TFA states that this is for K-12, NOT college...so all the 'screw the Univ. for making me pay $200 for a textbook comments' are misguided
The K-12 books are bought with tax money. They're not free.
It's strange how even the most ordinary every day things like obliterating a planet are somehow amazing to Fry.
From your article:
Add to this the success of the Toyota Prius, and you can see why only 3 percent of cars in the U.S. use diesel. "Americans see hybrids as the darling," says Global Insight auto analyst Philip Gott, "and diesel as old-tech."
I own an 07 Prius. The deciding factor? MPG. If something out there had better MPG, I'd have bought that instead.
The people buying high MPG cars aren't idiots. They'll buy whatever is good. Leave it to Ford to build something as awesome as the Fiesta and not market it in America thinking we're too stupid to understand it.
They deserve what's going to happen to them. What morons.
Type "syncrosoft" into Google.
The seventh link returned is: "Cubase Studio 4 Hybrid ISO with Syncrosoft Patch". Site is a pirate torrent looking site, so use precautions if you decide to click the link.
Interestingly enough, the link just above that one is "Microsoft Licenses Software Security Technology from Syncrosoft." That's your real reason for DRM right there. Make up a super-uncrackable-no-shit-we-really-mean-it-this-time copy protection and get some sucker to license it from you.
Like I said earlier, snake oil.
Which ones do you recommend, and what MPG do they get?
And can they run on vegetable oil?
Plus, it's bullshit anyways. Name one DRM scheme that hasn't been cracked all to hell. All it seems to take is one bored teenager in the Netherlands somewhere and wham! That's it. Now the only people the DRM harasses are the paid customers.
I know that the industry knows it too. What they tell themselves is that this is to prevent "casual copying". A kid with a DVD burner and not much know-how. But that's not how it works anymore.
Now, you don't need to be some uber-leet 0day warez nut to get your hands on cracked software. Any idiot with a cablemodem can get it. I'm not going to look for it, but I'd bet there is a torrent of this game out there already. All that kid really has to do is wait a week or so and it will be out there.
So what's the point of the DRM then? Only systems it's running on are the paid customers. It does no tangible good, other than to delay the pirates from getting it by a week or two. Is that really worth all the hassle? How could it be?
Robbery, extortion and murder aren't failures - unless you get caught. That's kind of my point.
What they're doing is very wrong, but it isn't a failure. Because they're still doing it, they're allowed to do it, and it takes in boatloads of cash.
As soon as the bastards are all rotting in jail cells - that's when we get the luxury of calling their endeavor a failure. So let's stay focused.
Maybe it's just because I'm a sick bastard, but I'd leave a single access point open to this network on the internet. Protect the living hell out of it, so only the leet could get in. And then make it a honeypot, not connecting to anything real.
But instead hosting video of alien autopsies, fake Apollo moon landing movie sets, documents about how the CIA shot JFK, letters from the Bavarian Illuminati ordering the war in Iraq...stuff like that.
Anything that takes in that much money can't be called a failure. It's wishful thinking to say otherwise. Judges are still finding in their favor, and nobody has been able to put a stop to their extortion racket yet. Their lawsuit racket is a machine that requires practically no work, and takes in thousands of dollars per victim. A thousand letters go out, and a couple of million dollars come back in. Hardly a failure.
It's immoral, and we hope that mainstream non-geek people will see it eventually...but currently, as much as it pains me to say so - it's a win for them. A big one.
If we convince ourselves that we've won and walk away when we haven't - then we are the ones who've lost. So let's not say what we hope things are. Let's say what they really are, and go from there.
I own an 07 Prius. You can really feel the drag coefficient when you coast. The thing will coast just about forever.
On my commute home, I jump off the freeway and up an off-ramp hill to my neighborhood. One of the things I like to do is to take my foot off the accelerator at freeway speed a ways before the ramp and see how far up the hill I can coast.
It's really a bizarre sensation. I usually can make it all the way at a decent speed and still have to use the brakes. It almost feels like you're sliding on ice. It's the kinetic->potential energy loss going up the hill that does most of the slowing of the car, not the wind and friction losses. And you can feel it. It's unearthly. It gives you the sensation that some invisible force is pulling you up the hill. Because you're so used to other cars slowing down much faster in similar circumstances.
The Prius really feels like you're driving a solid piece of magic sometimes.
Encode your video in DIVX format, name the file Batman_The_Dark_Knight_0day_DVD_rip.avi, and stick the torrent on TPB.
You'll be famous. I promise.
I agree - immersing a contact connector is a bad idea. The fluid will eventually get in between the leads. So, just solder jumper cables directly to the motherboard and have them poke up out of the brine.
Probably a good idea to solder your PCI stuff directly to the board too, if you can.
"Government, please correct my broken business model."
Microsoft products aren't worth buying until they get to the third release. So they just skipped straight to #3 this time.
By ordering this sample, you agree to become part of an automatic plan in which we send you a new supply every month and charge your credit card.
This is the old "eleven albums for a penny" scam you used to see in old comic books.
For those who don't know the reference.
If you get a call/email/cell call/whatever about your auto warranty expiring, they are most likely bogus.
They've been spamming me on my cell phone.