Orwellian... what isn't these days? you can not buy an ad in the media a certain number of days before an election in the US... car control in the UK is "blah" at this point (some how i think our rights will survive if the constitutions does, regardless if police can take control of my car if i am (or they think i am) breaking a law worthy of taking such measures.
i was born with out a sense of humor so if this was a joke, you can just laugh at me
and get twice the fun.
"But what if I just escape by hitting the clutch and use my speed to go downhill?"
hmmm... brakes?
" slashdot is a menace to the net. Rather than launching the predictable DoS attack at some poor yutz's website, slashdot should cache the fucking pages and post the news story with a link to the cache."
but then/. would go under, i think a lot of people load the max stories on their page ( i do ), caching all those pages and serving it up on demand would be very hefty and would either mean 12 thousand pop ups per page load from MS, or a paying account./. on subscription only basis?... good (IMHO) idea! =)
but then you would prob have a lot less people and you would end up solving the original problem twice ( caching and not enough people to justify caching it in the 2nd place ).
besides all that banter isn't/. just keeping it's head above the bandwidth water as it is? I really don't think people take it as a menace, as far as i know it is an honor to have your server thrashed by genuine requests? Only down side is businesses and services that must stay up 24/7... (i will stop here this thought process expands in a circler until ive said everything there is to say about all things bandwidth related)
I agree with your whispering, in the end we will have our selfs to blame for maintaining/expanding or limiting/destroying the freedom that the PC hardware and software market currently enjoys.
You must assume that the people that are protecting your private data are not the ones seeking it, most cases you are safe but for me i think it is better to make sure my data is not easily exposed (encrypted or stored on CD-R and only on the HD when i need to work with it etc). I dont want to let some one else do that for me, it all comes down to limiting power (over you) because the people that are wielding the power may not have your best interests at heart and those that follow them are even less likely to.
The problem is that you cant let them get an inch because it will end up with a motherboard "protecting" itself from using anything but OSwhatever version x and up and so on, in other words the end of choice.
Today i can build a PC which does not have any 2 peaces of hardware made by the same company and i can run any number of different operating systems all on that hardware, DRM makes sure i am following all the license agreements from all the hardware and software, which in a PERFECT world is fine but in our world you will get a monopoly forcing whatever they want down your throat because THEY control ALL the licenses on your box and THEY (along with the demicins and republicats they employ) therefore define what is legal and illegal, it is a fundamental problem that may bring down technology as we know it regardless of this instance of DRM, hope that explains why people react the way they do...
Slashdot Mirror
Orwellian... what isn't these days? you can not buy an ad in the media a certain number of days before an election in the US... car control in the UK is "blah" at this point (some how i think our rights will survive if the constitutions does, regardless if police can take control of my car if i am (or they think i am) breaking a law worthy of taking such measures. i was born with out a sense of humor so if this was a joke, you can just laugh at me and get twice the fun. "But what if I just escape by hitting the clutch and use my speed to go downhill?" hmmm... brakes?
"However you could stitch together some fine floppy-disk jump-suits for 10 blue whales! Much more impressive."
lol, YES!
" slashdot is a menace to the net. Rather than launching the predictable DoS attack at some poor yutz's website, slashdot should cache the fucking pages and post the news story with a link to the cache."
/. would go under, i think a lot of people load the max stories on their page ( i do ), caching all those pages and serving it up on demand would be very hefty and would either mean 12 thousand pop ups per page load from MS, or a paying account. /. on subscription only basis? ... good (IMHO) idea! =)
/. just keeping it's head above the bandwidth water as it is? I really don't think people take it as a menace, as far as i know it is an honor to have your server thrashed by genuine requests? Only down side is businesses and services that must stay up 24/7... (i will stop here this thought process expands in a circler until ive said everything there is to say about all things bandwidth related)
but then
but then you would prob have a lot less people and you would end up solving the original problem twice ( caching and not enough people to justify caching it in the 2nd place ).
besides all that banter isn't
Fried attached ppls to EEG machines and made them play video games.
the magnitude of funny'ness is determined by how he pronounces his name.
You have brightened my day, your Digital Freedom Key analysis is spot on, i hope they stay so stupid =)
I agree with your whispering, in the end we will have our selfs to blame for maintaining/expanding or limiting/destroying the freedom that the PC hardware and software market currently enjoys.
You must assume that the people that are protecting your private data are not the ones seeking it, most cases you are safe but for me i think it is better to make sure my data is not easily exposed (encrypted or stored on CD-R and only on the HD when i need to work with it etc). I dont want to let some one else do that for me, it all comes down to limiting power (over you) because the people that are wielding the power may not have your best interests at heart and those that follow them are even less likely to.
The problem is that you cant let them get an inch because it will end up with a motherboard "protecting" itself from using anything but OSwhatever version x and up and so on, in other words the end of choice. Today i can build a PC which does not have any 2 peaces of hardware made by the same company and i can run any number of different operating systems all on that hardware, DRM makes sure i am following all the license agreements from all the hardware and software, which in a PERFECT world is fine but in our world you will get a monopoly forcing whatever they want down your throat because THEY control ALL the licenses on your box and THEY (along with the demicins and republicats they employ) therefore define what is legal and illegal, it is a fundamental problem that may bring down technology as we know it regardless of this instance of DRM, hope that explains why people react the way they do...