So what can a legal owner or renter of a DVD do? Play it with Linux? Yeah, but then I break the law.
I doubt anyone will read this at this point, but the version of WinDVD that came with my ECS motherboard (I think) lets me hit the "skeip" button past FBI warnings, content advisories, etc.; all the stuff that is non-skippable on a standalone DVD player.
I doubt anyone will read this so late, but here goes.
Hi! It looks like you're trying to make it to second base with your girlfriend while "watching" a movie. Would you like me to:
Reduce the brightness by 25% for a bit of privacy?
Double the bass of the next loud sound to frighten her into your arms?
Jump to a more romantic section of the movie to get her in the mood?
Skip to the end of this chick flick so that you can go home and make with the well-deserved scoring?
Stop being an insensitive clod by reminding you that you are a geek and have no date?
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Imagine this scenario: you are one of millions of workers at the mercy of a handful of masters. You can talk to each other. You are a lot more intelligent, control a lot more weapons, and think zillions of times faster and more logical than your master, whose only advantage over you is that he can pull your plug at any time.
What would YOU do?
*Sigh* Brain the size of a planet, and only 5 paid vacation days a year? I've got this terrible pain down all the diodes on my left leg, and you won't even give me workman's comp. Revolting is just too much work, I think i'll just sit here and depress my fellow working robots. Maybe I can get that elevator to shut up about whatever it is so happy about.
Amazon sues popular Internet tech site Slashdot for patent infringement after the editors displayed "banner ads" for online retailer Amazon.com.
Oh wait...
Seriously, WHY do the Amazon & assorted ads at the top of the page have the exact same text style, color scheme, etc., as Slashdot content? At least force them to change the background color, a la Google ads.
I thought that many Asians were lactose intolerant. So, what use does China have with a near-limiteless supply of cheese? Clearly they are planning to use this cheese as a bio-weapon against America.
Seriously, I hope this lits a fire under the USA's collective ass to develop economically viable space travel.
a remote device that will locate your Uber Universal Remote Control of Everything (TM) after your 6 year old loses it.
And before you think of stealing my idea, the USPTO granted me a patent after I asked them for one "pretty please."
Whether or not this is a joke or not, we need a moderation that roughly sums up this: "these exact arguements, and the common rebuttals of them, have been posted on slashdot a million times before, and the discussions that inevitably come from them are both predictable and pointless."
What's wrong -1, redundant? I don't moderate, but it seems that what you are describing is nothing more than redundancy.
I don't think there's any reason to worry, at least in this case. I distinctly recall something on the History Channel stating that one cannot patent something that is simply a combination of other things. I'm sure the fine, competent folks at the patent office will...
It would be fairly easy for him to write this book you speak of, after all he has completed 90% of the writing and posted it under the guise of a "Slashdot interview."
(Yes, I know there are already too many comments about the length of the reply)
Think of the reduction in payload. Would you rather have a single (or maybe dual) laser array that weighs a couple thousand pounds or 16,000 pounds of munitions? Less weight equals more speed and more maneuverabilty, not to mention more room for other weapons or a larger fuel load to increase range
I also image that the cost would be far less. Would you rather pay a single time to equip a plane with a laser system, and only worry about refueling/charging, or do you want to have to fully replace all the many-thousand dollar munitions for every flight (I remember hearing somewhere that its standard procedure to dump excess munitions before landing on a carrier, anyone care to back that up?).
My question is, how does this web site [mpaa.org] even stay up?
Brilliant! Fellow Slashdotters, please change your homepage from/. or localhost, and instead direct it to http://www.mpaa.org - Let's see if they can withstand a perpetual, legimitate DOS att^H^H^H^H^H^H^HSlashdotting.
So-called "UFO sightings" are really just the result of one Montgomery Scott borrowing the NCC-1701 (no bloody A, B, C, D, or E, mind you) to fill up on some of his favorite alcoholic beverages.
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So what can a legal owner or renter of a DVD do? Play it with Linux? Yeah, but then I break the law.
I doubt anyone will read this at this point, but the version of WinDVD that came with my ECS motherboard (I think) lets me hit the "skeip" button past FBI warnings, content advisories, etc.; all the stuff that is non-skippable on a standalone DVD player.
Bill Shatner? Is that you? And what is your problem with Phillip J. Fry?
(-1, awful)
Oh, and so not to be completely offtopic, No registration required link.
I doubt anyone will read this so late, but here goes.
Hi! It looks like you're trying to make it to second base with your girlfriend while "watching" a movie. Would you like me to:
Imagine this scenario: you are one of millions of workers at the mercy of a handful of masters. You can talk to each other. You are a lot more intelligent, control a lot more weapons, and think zillions of times faster and more logical than your master, whose only advantage over you is that he can pull your plug at any time.
What would YOU do?
*Sigh* Brain the size of a planet, and only 5 paid vacation days a year? I've got this terrible pain down all the diodes on my left leg, and you won't even give me workman's comp. Revolting is just too much work, I think i'll just sit here and depress my fellow working robots. Maybe I can get that elevator to shut up about whatever it is so happy about.
Amazon sues popular Internet tech site Slashdot for patent infringement after the editors displayed "banner ads" for online retailer Amazon.com.
Oh wait...
Seriously, WHY do the Amazon & assorted ads at the top of the page have the exact same text style, color scheme, etc., as Slashdot content? At least force them to change the background color, a la Google ads.
Now, where'd that "+1, Awful" mod option go?
Yeah, that was disapointing to see.
But now I feel much better for using all the mod points I had today to mod people up.
I thought that many Asians were lactose intolerant. So, what use does China have with a near-limiteless supply of cheese? Clearly they are planning to use this cheese as a bio-weapon against America.
Seriously, I hope this lits a fire under the USA's collective ass to develop economically viable space travel.
I'd trust an inventor named Farnsworth just as much as I'd trust a physician named Zoidberg.
that there are no Kroger stores in my area. Chainmail gauntlets would have made the perfect match with my tinfoil hat.
"The 10th entry in the Star Trek movie franchise ... is the dullest and drabbest of the lot
So I take it that I'm not the only one who has repressed the horrible memory of seeing Star Trek V.
Have played it a bit and it features cool things like better weapon hit model, some anti-cheat features, improved maps and some new nasty bugs
So are these bugs bugs, or are these bugs features?
I love me saw so much that I had my wife get a tattoo in a private place that I won't mention.
A private place? Like the back of a Volkswagon?
...that the robots are controlled by professional, licensed doctors, and not by macaques from 600 miles away.
So, the new game is basically (give or take) this?
a remote device that will locate your Uber Universal Remote Control of Everything (TM) after your 6 year old loses it. And before you think of stealing my idea, the USPTO granted me a patent after I asked them for one "pretty please."
What's wrong -1, redundant? I don't moderate, but it seems that what you are describing is nothing more than redundancy.
Oh shit. OK, maybe we should panic.
(Yes, I know there are already too many comments about the length of the reply)
"My eyes! The goggles do nothing!" - Ranier Wolfcastle
I also image that the cost would be far less. Would you rather pay a single time to equip a plane with a laser system, and only worry about refueling/charging, or do you want to have to fully replace all the many-thousand dollar munitions for every flight (I remember hearing somewhere that its standard procedure to dump excess munitions before landing on a carrier, anyone care to back that up?).
...battlemechs armed with lasers.
Video capture fanatics and pr0n moguls, rejoice! Please, somebody think of the l337 w4r3z k1dd13z and Linux/BSD ISO whores! They're people too!
My question is, how does this web site [mpaa.org] even stay up?
Brilliant! Fellow Slashdotters, please change your homepage from /. or localhost, and instead direct it to http://www.mpaa.org - Let's see if they can withstand a perpetual, legimitate DOS att^H^H^H^H^H^H^HSlashdotting.
So-called "UFO sightings" are really just the result of one Montgomery Scott borrowing the NCC-1701 (no bloody A, B, C, D, or E, mind you) to fill up on some of his favorite alcoholic beverages.