Sure, there's nothing bad that can come of the modern version of the Soviet Union's typewriter registration scheme. I'll loosen my tinfoil hat and set aside my indignant outrage the second ordinary people like you quit being apologists for would-be fascists.
being the Pentium-DRM have contributed to Intel's fall from grace in the marketplace. I also hope AMD will read the lesson, lest Cyrix or some heretofore unknown Chinese manufacturer becomes the ascendent chip supplier to those who would still like general purpose computers as opposed to *AA controlled media delivery devices.
IBM also helped develop Hollerith card systems used to round up the Jews during the Holocaust. Too bad they didn't hang the IBM Germany execs and their U.S. puppet masters at Nuremburg--today, Cisco, Yahoo, and Google might have thought twice.
I'm more interested in a morally good lawyer than a "good" as in "successful" lawyer. Helping Microsoft screw its customers doesn't constitute qualification for the Federal bench.
Now that so many require a subscription to play. Also, the intrusive rental/DRM systems like Steam are no doubt enhancing revenue by preventing all that piracy they were crying about, so that money should be available to decrease the unit price.
What, and leave money on the table? They don't care if they help an oppressive dictatorship kill a few people, as long as there's money in it. The executives of Yahoo who authorized this should be arrested, clapped in irons, taken to the Hague, tried for crimes against humanity, and hanged.
This cracks me up. I mean, it's not as if all the rats out there working for the *AA are sitting behind IP ranges labeled "RIAA Stooge" in the ARIN database. They're no doubt sourcing the same cable modem and DSL connections as any other schmo when looking for people to sue.
That said, there are some well-defined IP ranges responsible for sporging fake files, and these are worth blocking.
No way I'm going to pass plaintext through Google to be mined and added to my electronic dossier. So unless it has encryption support with verifiably no back door, it's a non-starter for me.
. . . that had been using Geocities front door sites. Those were fun -- hammer the Geocities site every hour to deplete the bandwidth so potential suckers get 503d, then hammer the site the Geocities front points to. That one-two punch should keep the site from being reachable and generate some nice bandwidth bills for Spammy.
Well, then you need to tell IBM, Perceptive Vision, the contractor for our state government, and probably a bunch of other people how to do it. And if it takes as much effort to achieve portability as with C++, then what good is it, given the performance hit?
That, and I haven't seen a non-trivial Java business application yet that doesn't require a very specific JVM under a very specific OS (Windows) and a very specific browser (MSIE). So it's not cross platform, and incurs the p-code performance hit. A real winner.
You must be some kind of extreme left-wing abortion doctor to bash on pro-life like that. Seriously, I said "murder," not abortion -- it was you who chose to read it as abortion, which, given that you're apparently pro-abortion, means you and your conscience have some issues to work out.
How about you just do what any other professional should do--make it a point not to notice, and not to snoop. I think technicians who rat out users for what they find when in a position of trust working on their machines should be publicly blacklisted and to the extent possible prevented from ever working in a position of trust again.
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Sure, there's nothing bad that can come of the modern version of the Soviet Union's typewriter registration scheme. I'll loosen my tinfoil hat and set aside my indignant outrage the second ordinary people like you quit being apologists for would-be fascists.
Yup. I pulled it out of my ass. And thanks for supporting DRM.
being the Pentium-DRM have contributed to Intel's fall from grace in the marketplace. I also hope AMD will read the lesson, lest Cyrix or some heretofore unknown Chinese manufacturer becomes the ascendent chip supplier to those who would still like general purpose computers as opposed to *AA controlled media delivery devices.
IBM also helped develop Hollerith card systems used to round up the Jews during the Holocaust. Too bad they didn't hang the IBM Germany execs and their U.S. puppet masters at Nuremburg--today, Cisco, Yahoo, and Google might have thought twice.
I'm more interested in a morally good lawyer than a "good" as in "successful" lawyer. Helping Microsoft screw its customers doesn't constitute qualification for the Federal bench.
Intel's Pentium-D(RM) has DRM support baked in. Apple's going to need this to help keep the Mac what it is -- a dongle for OS X.
Who gave the M$ apologists mod points today? Oh well, they'll pay for that in M2.
And it's not even Patch Tuesday!
for when I get mod points.
Now that so many require a subscription to play. Also, the intrusive rental/DRM systems like Steam are no doubt enhancing revenue by preventing all that piracy they were crying about, so that money should be available to decrease the unit price.
Tried linking you up in my sig, but Slashdot strips the links.
What, and leave money on the table? They don't care if they help an oppressive dictatorship kill a few people, as long as there's money in it. The executives of Yahoo who authorized this should be arrested, clapped in irons, taken to the Hague, tried for crimes against humanity, and hanged.
<snip> You have been .sigged.
That said, there are some well-defined IP ranges responsible for sporging fake files, and these are worth blocking.
No way I'm going to pass plaintext through Google to be mined and added to my electronic dossier. So unless it has encryption support with verifiably no back door, it's a non-starter for me.
. . . that had been using Geocities front door sites. Those were fun -- hammer the Geocities site every hour to deplete the bandwidth so potential suckers get 503d, then hammer the site the Geocities front points to. That one-two punch should keep the site from being reachable and generate some nice bandwidth bills for Spammy.
Well, then you need to tell IBM, Perceptive Vision, the contractor for our state government, and probably a bunch of other people how to do it. And if it takes as much effort to achieve portability as with C++, then what good is it, given the performance hit?
That, and I haven't seen a non-trivial Java business application yet that doesn't require a very specific JVM under a very specific OS (Windows) and a very specific browser (MSIE). So it's not cross platform, and incurs the p-code performance hit. A real winner.
You must be some kind of extreme left-wing abortion doctor to bash on pro-life like that. Seriously, I said "murder," not abortion -- it was you who chose to read it as abortion, which, given that you're apparently pro-abortion, means you and your conscience have some issues to work out.
DRM is the opposite of open source.
To sum up: you don't get it.
. . . to be staking its future on open source Digital Restrictions Management "technology." That's like taking a stand for pro-life murder!
. . . to be staking its future on open source Digital Restrictions Management "technology." That's like taking a stand for pro-life murder.
. . . the BnetD card, or jackbooted DMCA-wielding thugs will kick down your door and hand you a subpoena.
How about you just do what any other professional should do--make it a point not to notice, and not to snoop. I think technicians who rat out users for what they find when in a position of trust working on their machines should be publicly blacklisted and to the extent possible prevented from ever working in a position of trust again.
So why isn't Bluefrog pounding the crap out of the name servers? Seems like spam-supporting name servers would be the ideal target.