Just have the product shipped to someone in the US, and have them ship it to you. You might even be able to have the product shipped directly to you, while using a billing address in the US.
Radio waves do not pass through conductors. Want to steal something from a radio enabled store? Just wrap it in aluminum foil. It'd stop those ping-tags too.
Yes, but you can easily assume that the only person that sees you is the person you're doing the transaction with who is "trusted". I certainly expect governments to track bills of "suspects" which quickly becomes everyone when technology allows.
Or anyone who saw you transfer the money. It would be no different with RFID, the only people who would know about it would be those who had RFID receivers without a few feet of the transfer, and the RFID receivers wouldn't even tell you that it was transferred, only that it was there. You would also not know who was who unless you recognized one of the people.
If they really wanted to do that, they'd just burn every euro, and force people to use credit cards or bank cards or whatever. Now, putting RFID chips into money wouldn't stop the anon transfer of money, because how would they know if I gave a bill to some other person? They would be able to get an idea how the money flowed from place to place, but they would not know who had the money. (that is to say, unless they required everyone to carry an RFIDd ID card, which I doubt would be politically feasible, even in Europe.)
Otoh, what you could do would be to instantly count all the money you had in your wallit or whatever, which could be quite usefull. It would also cut down on counterfitting, and you could always just blast your bills in a microwave for a few seconds to kill the RFID...
Why does it feel as though if I stare at someone the wrong way, I may be violating the DMCA?
Is it just me?
No, not Just you, you and a bunch of reactionary idiots who havn't even bothered to read the DMCA. I don't think the DMCA is a good law, but you people act like it's the end of the god damn world.
telling people how to do this themselves will probably violate DMCA, not to mention state and local laws.
God damnit, it will not violate the DMCA. For one thing, it dosn't have anything to do with copyright or copying anything. And for another thing, the DMCA only applies to devices not speach. You can tell people how to do whatever you want, including mod an xbox or copy a DVD (as long as you don't include working source code...)
How long before this technology is required and we all have chips under our skin to track us in the name of national security?
Well, why not just fight against that It's been possible to implant chips in people for decades, but it's rarely done. Why? because no one wants it. Why would anything change just because you can print the chips out on paper and use them to track products in stores?
I'm sure that consumer level RFID tag readers will be widely available, so you'd be able to scan your items to see if they have one. And if they don't you can put on one so you can find it once you lose track : P
There was a good cringly article about corporate 'death'. The companies didn't die, but rather they simply gave up their souls while chasing the almighty dollar. The best example would be Borland. Here was a company that actualy competed with Microsoft and survived, for a while. But then they started restructuring and hiring new CEOs to bring up their stock portfolio and please wallstreet. And it's true that the company made money, but, it still died in the end.
Sounds like the same thing could be happening to adobe.
yes, you can use javascript to disable the right-click button in IE, but all that acomplishes is annoying the hell out of users (since the normal method of opening new windows is disabled). However, all you need to do is go to the file menu and click 'save as' Or you can just avoid being a retard and disable javascript. On my desktop computer I actualy have JS as a 'prompt' option. Every time I open a new page I click 'no' to JS. Slow, yes, but not nearly as irritating as dealing with slow-loading popups which for some reason lock the IE window that tries to pop them up.
There is no way to seriously lock files in IE, nor should there be.
If you're relying on PDF security to make sure you're not getting a contract changed on you, you're an idiot. There's no reason someone couldn't simply print out the contract, scan it, and photoshop it.
And NEVER trust the government, because they're the only group that can legally kill you and everyone you ever met "for the common good". I'd rather trust people concerned with money than people that could kill me for not trusting them... and get away with it. At least I agree that money is good. I definitely don't agree with killing me.
Not all governments can do this. In fact, most can't. Sure, they can break the law, but so can anyone else.
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what would that mean exactly? that every time someone made a public address that cited the law, that they would have to pay royalties to the writer?
You mean just like how you have to pay royalties for all the copyrighted works you cite in a paper?
Oh yeah. I like jacking off so therefore I must be a spammer, that makes sense.
No, I don't like Spam, and I'd like to see Ralski et. al. shot. But what I don't want to see is people thrown in jail for making mistakes. There are some spammers who know what they are doing is irritating millions of people and don't care. But I'm sure there are a few people who don't really understand what they are doing is wrong. They should be fined, yes, but not thrown in jail. I would prefer to see jail time only applied to people who use open proxies and relays (at this point).
Not only that, but I've heard that deviant overclockers may have access to patented ERASER(TM) technology. This technology allows pencil marks to be erased from various surfaces. With ERASER(TM) speed-freak hooligans can remove any evidence of tampering with the electrical contacts on their AMD(TM) Athlon(TM) Processors(TM).
Clearly these things should be illegal under the DMCA. Claims that Erasers have significant other functions are all lies.
Actually when I upgraded from my socket-7 mobo to my Abit Kt7 RAID my uptime in windows 98 went from about 12-24 hours to a solid week. I was amazed. The old k6 system crashed all the time. With win2k I routinely get uptimes of several weeks, and almost always the reason for the reboot is due something other then a whole crash (like my sound drivers or explorer or whatever will get 'weird').
And I've got cheap-ass ram in here to boot. I've been pretty impressed with the reliability so far.
I do wonder though if this adaptor will cause any problems. For one, the thermal sensor will no longer be in contact with the actual device, and for another the pin lengths will be longer. Could cause some problems...
I was just about to go out and buy a new 'stop-gap' motherboard so I could upgrade to the new Athlon CPUs. I paid about $140 for this mobo (Abit KT7-Raid it has built in raid) and I was expecting to last the whole Athlon cycle.
I read about the adaptor on toms hardware, but I didn't know it also let you use slower FSB settings. This kicks ass!
Sorry for the sincerity, as opposed to the cynical vindictive that so characterizes discussion between intelligent people these days, it's just that I'm just very happy about this.:)
Well, I have to say I finally got a Bayesian Spam filter when the Outlook plug in came out so, for now, it's like back in the days when no one knew my email. Only 1 in 20 spams scores less then 98%, and only one in a hundred regular messages score more then 3%. It's fantastic!
That said, I'd still be for this law, as long as it was fair. That is to say, if the sender had a 'reasonable' expectation that the person expected to receive mail from them (i.e. opt-in, or if you signed up for a service from them and never opted out). Similar to the 'business relationship' in the Telemarketing laws.
One important thing is to make it clear that you can't sell "lists". I've been sent spams that said "Cd of Opt-in emails" or whatever. It's like, come on. I don't know if I would want to send people to jail for screwing up like that. Jail and very harsh Spam fines should be reserved, IMO for habitual offenders, you know the lowest of the low types like Ralsky, etc, who relay and proxy scan, forge headers, etc.
Supposedly its the RCU (Read, Copy, Update) code that speeds up threading on super-highend systems. It came from Sequent which was later purchaced by IBM. The AT&T contract signed by sequent didn't have the add-on that IBM had, which said that IBM 'owned' all the software they developed. In other words, all the UNIX stuff developed by sequent before it was purchaced by IBM SCO has a rights on.
The problem is what Sequent did was come up with the system and patent it, publishing the system in a patent, which applied to any multithreaded OS. In other words, they developed something and stuck it into their unix system, not the other way around.
This reminds me a lot about how Adobe stopped doing Chinese translations of their software. What was the point if everyone simply pirated it? They're using the same logic here. What's the point if everyone's switching over to Final Cut pro? Why spend millions of dollars in dev keeping premiere on track on the mac, when that money could be spent more profitably else were.
It's not that bad of a way to run a company. The other side of the coin would be sun, which sticks to their guns no matter what.
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Just have the product shipped to someone in the US, and have them ship it to you. You might even be able to have the product shipped directly to you, while using a billing address in the US.
Radio waves do not pass through conductors. Want to steal something from a radio enabled store? Just wrap it in aluminum foil. It'd stop those ping-tags too.
And people can't inquire about my purchasing habits anonymously because they'll have to talk to people that saw me.
They couldn't track you even if they did know the RFID number of the money they used, because there would be no way to correlate cash to individuals.
Yes, but you can easily assume that the only person that sees you is the person you're doing the transaction with who is "trusted". I certainly expect governments to track bills of "suspects" which quickly becomes everyone when technology allows.
Or anyone who saw you transfer the money. It would be no different with RFID, the only people who would know about it would be those who had RFID receivers without a few feet of the transfer, and the RFID receivers wouldn't even tell you that it was transferred, only that it was there. You would also not know who was who unless you recognized one of the people.
If they really wanted to do that, they'd just burn every euro, and force people to use credit cards or bank cards or whatever. Now, putting RFID chips into money wouldn't stop the anon transfer of money, because how would they know if I gave a bill to some other person? They would be able to get an idea how the money flowed from place to place, but they would not know who had the money. (that is to say, unless they required everyone to carry an RFIDd ID card, which I doubt would be politically feasible, even in Europe.)
Otoh, what you could do would be to instantly count all the money you had in your wallit or whatever, which could be quite usefull. It would also cut down on counterfitting, and you could always just blast your bills in a microwave for a few seconds to kill the RFID...
Why does it feel as though if I stare at someone the wrong way, I may be violating the DMCA?
Is it just me?
No, not Just you, you and a bunch of reactionary idiots who havn't even bothered to read the DMCA. I don't think the DMCA is a good law, but you people act like it's the end of the god damn world.
telling people how to do this themselves will probably violate DMCA, not to mention state and local laws.
God damnit, it will not violate the DMCA. For one thing, it dosn't have anything to do with copyright or copying anything. And for another thing, the DMCA only applies to devices not speach. You can tell people how to do whatever you want, including mod an xbox or copy a DVD (as long as you don't include working source code...)
How long before this technology is required and we all have chips under our skin to track us in the name of national security?
Well, why not just fight against that It's been possible to implant chips in people for decades, but it's rarely done. Why? because no one wants it. Why would anything change just because you can print the chips out on paper and use them to track products in stores?
I'm sure that consumer level RFID tag readers will be widely available, so you'd be able to scan your items to see if they have one. And if they don't you can put on one so you can find it once you lose track : P
There was a good cringly article about corporate 'death'. The companies didn't die, but rather they simply gave up their souls while chasing the almighty dollar. The best example would be Borland. Here was a company that actualy competed with Microsoft and survived, for a while. But then they started restructuring and hiring new CEOs to bring up their stock portfolio and please wallstreet. And it's true that the company made money, but, it still died in the end.
Sounds like the same thing could be happening to adobe.
yes, you can use javascript to disable the right-click button in IE, but all that acomplishes is annoying the hell out of users (since the normal method of opening new windows is disabled). However, all you need to do is go to the file menu and click 'save as' Or you can just avoid being a retard and disable javascript. On my desktop computer I actualy have JS as a 'prompt' option. Every time I open a new page I click 'no' to JS. Slow, yes, but not nearly as irritating as dealing with slow-loading popups which for some reason lock the IE window that tries to pop them up.
There is no way to seriously lock files in IE, nor should there be.
If you're relying on PDF security to make sure you're not getting a contract changed on you, you're an idiot. There's no reason someone couldn't simply print out the contract, scan it, and photoshop it.
The whole point is that by loading an unsigned plugin, you can get past the DRM.
(1) He obviously can't tell the difference between pure and applied mathematics and
Well, obviously you havn't either. If you think Dijkstra is wrong, tell what the diffrence is and why he's wrong. Don't just spout off like an idiot.
Step 1. Outlaw guns.
Saddam Hussein never outlawed guns. In fact, one of the last things his government did was encourage people to go out and buy guns.
It didn't seem to stop him. You gun nuts are idiots if you think the banning of guns or whatever is a necessary precursor to totalitarianism.
And NEVER trust the government, because they're the only group that can legally kill you and everyone you ever met "for the common good". I'd rather trust people concerned with money than people that could kill me for not trusting them... and get away with it. At least I agree that money is good. I definitely don't agree with killing me.
Not all governments can do this. In fact, most can't. Sure, they can break the law, but so can anyone else.
what would that mean exactly? that every time someone made a public address that cited the law, that they would have to pay royalties to the writer?
You mean just like how you have to pay royalties for all the copyrighted works you cite in a paper?
Oh yeah. I like jacking off so therefore I must be a spammer, that makes sense.
No, I don't like Spam, and I'd like to see Ralski et. al. shot. But what I don't want to see is people thrown in jail for making mistakes. There are some spammers who know what they are doing is irritating millions of people and don't care. But I'm sure there are a few people who don't really understand what they are doing is wrong. They should be fined, yes, but not thrown in jail. I would prefer to see jail time only applied to people who use open proxies and relays (at this point).
Not only that, but I've heard that deviant overclockers may have access to patented ERASER(TM) technology. This technology allows pencil marks to be erased from various surfaces. With ERASER(TM) speed-freak hooligans can remove any evidence of tampering with the electrical contacts on their AMD(TM) Athlon(TM) Processors(TM).
Clearly these things should be illegal under the DMCA. Claims that Erasers have significant other functions are all lies.
Actually when I upgraded from my socket-7 mobo to my Abit Kt7 RAID my uptime in windows 98 went from about 12-24 hours to a solid week. I was amazed. The old k6 system crashed all the time. With win2k I routinely get uptimes of several weeks, and almost always the reason for the reboot is due something other then a whole crash (like my sound drivers or explorer or whatever will get 'weird').
And I've got cheap-ass ram in here to boot. I've been pretty impressed with the reliability so far.
I do wonder though if this adaptor will cause any problems. For one, the thermal sensor will no longer be in contact with the actual device, and for another the pin lengths will be longer. Could cause some problems...
I was just about to go out and buy a new 'stop-gap' motherboard so I could upgrade to the new Athlon CPUs. I paid about $140 for this mobo (Abit KT7-Raid it has built in raid) and I was expecting to last the whole Athlon cycle.
:)
I read about the adaptor on toms hardware, but I didn't know it also let you use slower FSB settings. This kicks ass!
Sorry for the sincerity, as opposed to the cynical vindictive that so characterizes discussion between intelligent people these days, it's just that I'm just very happy about this.
Well, I have to say I finally got a Bayesian Spam filter when the Outlook plug in came out so, for now, it's like back in the days when no one knew my email. Only 1 in 20 spams scores less then 98%, and only one in a hundred regular messages score more then 3%. It's fantastic!
That said, I'd still be for this law, as long as it was fair. That is to say, if the sender had a 'reasonable' expectation that the person expected to receive mail from them (i.e. opt-in, or if you signed up for a service from them and never opted out). Similar to the 'business relationship' in the Telemarketing laws.
One important thing is to make it clear that you can't sell "lists". I've been sent spams that said "Cd of Opt-in emails" or whatever. It's like, come on. I don't know if I would want to send people to jail for screwing up like that. Jail and very harsh Spam fines should be reserved, IMO for habitual offenders, you know the lowest of the low types like Ralsky, etc, who relay and proxy scan, forge headers, etc.
Supposedly its the RCU (Read, Copy, Update) code that speeds up threading on super-highend systems. It came from Sequent which was later purchaced by IBM. The AT&T contract signed by sequent didn't have the add-on that IBM had, which said that IBM 'owned' all the software they developed. In other words, all the UNIX stuff developed by sequent before it was purchaced by IBM SCO has a rights on.
The problem is what Sequent did was come up with the system and patent it, publishing the system in a patent, which applied to any multithreaded OS. In other words, they developed something and stuck it into their unix system, not the other way around.
Anyway, this is only one part of the story...
Well they could have used a cross platform system like Qt. That would have solved a lot of problems and given them a lot more flexibility later on.
This reminds me a lot about how Adobe stopped doing Chinese translations of their software. What was the point if everyone simply pirated it? They're using the same logic here. What's the point if everyone's switching over to Final Cut pro? Why spend millions of dollars in dev keeping premiere on track on the mac, when that money could be spent more profitably else were.
It's not that bad of a way to run a company. The other side of the coin would be sun, which sticks to their guns no matter what.