Yeah it would work real well, I mean, in my state if you commist 1st degree murder they can execute you.
And our murder rate....wait, damn, it's gone up over the past 20 years....
Then let's get into the ethics of the matter. Is it really right to single one individual out of x number of people and shitmahher them for something, especially when it's something like MP3's....come on, you are going to tell me that under these circumstances these two should lose 5 years of their life and be put in the same group as pdeophiles, murderers, rapists, and other violent criminals?
Theft is illegal, and should be punished, but to me, if I don't see PROOF, damn good proof too, that they REALLY lost money DIRECTLY by his actions, I am NOT sold on sending them to prison for 5 years of their adult life.
I forgot, you cannot mention race, religion, gender, political influence, or preferences anymore regardless of wether or not there is a difference....if you do you are automatically sexist, racist, et al.
Someone remind me again what the emoticon is for rolling your eyes back into your head so far that your head implodes?
It's not even an ad, it's a user submitted link to something on interest. People need to SERIOUSLY get the fuck over themselves. If you dont want to see it, fine, but shut the hell up with your retarded comments about the movie. Nobody gives a shit what you think, you aren't cool, you aren't "in" your just some loser on a message board spouting off his piece.
Wow, you could tell all that from a teaser trailer, MY GOD you are GOOD!
Nevermind the fact it has nothing at all to do with anything even remotely related to the Matrix....honestly, even from that trailer I have no clue how the f*ck you managed to come to that conclusion.
For the record while it is an action movie, it is not primarily geared to that sense. It's kind of half action half romance. Read up on it and you might just find out its nothing like Blade OR The Matrix, and it might just be good.
It was exclusive when they released it a few days ago:)
That being said, thank you for links to a bigger version I can save to my HD so I can make it even bigger so I can see wtf is going on (that UGO one was TINY, even the "high quality" one).
Erm, how is it someone elses service? They bought that "someone else" so it's THEIR service. The point here is that D&M don't HAVE to make their own service, because they bought someone elses service, so all that infrastructure work with channel guide updating, and so on, and hardware design, os customization,menu building, it's already done. Otherwise they would have just made their own from scratch.
There is absolutely no reason to buy a company who's assets contain everything you need from top to bottom to get a functional PVR out the door, and then change crap so it becomes "yours".
It already IS yours. Any changes you make to the system (outside of new features and whatnot) is just making life harder for you than it needs to be.
It would be like me buying, oh, GM, then changing the engine bays so they don't fit the standard GM engines anymore, then making my own engine just to put it in the car and say it's "my engine".
Why dothat? It's stupid, just use the engines and bays and layouts you paid for.
Maybe for you, but anybody who values their time in the LEAST would never do that. The MCE boxes are not that great either. But of course you mentioned Linux so you will get plenty of Karma points.
Only $1700. You know, I think that the only way you guys would bash a Linux based product is if the developer molested your mother and poured sugar in your gas-tank....jesus.
I take/. out of my bookmark folder. This is ust retarded. They couldnt wait to poke fun at MS, but, oh crap, they got the WRONG PRODUCT....jesus.....this is retarded.
WOW....I mean, at least you are not paranoid or anything right? I....wow, I just can't think on that paranoid a level to try to convince you otherwise....
Because the company who handles our accounting software will, if it comes to it, ship out three techs in bright shiny suits who come in here with sledgehammers and safety glasses and won't stop swinging until the problem is solved.
And because I don't make the decisions, my boss doesnt make them either, the commitee does.
Welcome to hell, please keep your limb inside the vehicle until it comes to a screaming, crashing halt.
You know, the tiny bit of info regarding the fact that he also was involved in selling DSS hacking equipment.
I bet that had a pretty big role to play in his arrest.
Also keep in mind that the XBox BIOS isn't, really, a copyright protection mechanism. It's primary (and I don't count using a ATA spec. hard drive lock to be a copyright protection mechanism) function is booting the PC. Not making sure you can't play copyrighted games. As a matter of fact the XBox doesnt have any real copyright protection. Which is going to screw them on this one. Because ALOT of the modchips for the XBox do NOT come shipped with a MS based BIOS, the Xecuter II lite does, the enigmah (which sucks) does, and a couple others, but the Xecuter II Pro, Matrix, and that Aussie one, donn't come with a BIOS or come with the Linux Boot only BIOS. It's pretty damned hard to imply that a modchip that, as sold, only lets you boot Linux and nothing else is a device for bypassing copyright protection (if, as I said before, you want to really call it that).
In short, the "end of XBox modding" approach some articles have suggested is far from the case. But maybe the stock the retailers carry will change a bit:) or maybe they will stop advertising them as XBox modchips and instead call them "replacement backup BIOS's" or some such BS, and only ship chips without BIOS's on them, that way, as advertised they are nothing more than a generic BIOS replacement for....whatever really. The problem comes in when you start SAYING "plays backups". And when you start SAYING your product will mod the XBox. If BMW startedmarketing their cars with the feature "High Performance breaking to help you in your bank robberies" they'd come under fire too:)
Is that even if MS went away tomorrow, we wouldn't suddenly have a great new OS to replace them. I mean, 12 years later Linux, while having made great strides, is NOT ready for mainstream yet.
Sad but true.
Once Linux becomes capable enough to make it mainstream MS won't be able to keep it out. Because there is little real financial burden on Linux. It's an open source product where ALOT of the work is done, in essence, for free. So MS can't bully it out of the marketplace by putting pressure on their vendors until the OS suffocates itself for lack of funds like a competing comppany would surely do.
It's here to stay because nobody is paying for it, and nobody is financially burdened by it. So it developson it's own, with TONS of fierce competition from MS. And it does nothing but grow and grow.
People should STOP complaining about Ms being a monopoly and START contributing to Linux/GNU.
One of the above posters said if you don't like it, don't use it. Thats dead wrong. As with everything else in life, if you don't like it, do something to change it. Do something to enhance Linux and/or its acceptance.
Me: "Hey boss, I don't like the new MS license system. Letstop using Ms products."
Boss: "Sure, what would that entail?"
Me: "Um, well, the accounting, mail, DNS, Database, HR and Engineering servers would have to be completely redone, half of our software would have to go as well. We would also need to replace about half of our support staff with more expensive staff."
Boss: "Why haven't I fired you yet?"
Well, ok, not funny, more like, extremely aggravating. Is the continued claims of groups like the BSA. They, and their research numbers, are about as believable as pretty much ANYTHING that comes out of the RIAA's mouth.
Funnier still is this claim of increased piracy.
By whom???? Bob college student dicking around with a spare PC in the corner?
Ver few businesses will go without product licensing nowadays. It's just not worth it.
And speaking of not worth it, I HIGHLY doubt that now that we have our Win2k server and Active Directory up and running, and functioning with all the other systems (payroll, accounting, timeclock, inventory, etc. etc.) we are going to shel out MORE money for a new Windows Server platform....forget that. Last thing I want is to setup Server '03 and pray to God nothing complains. For what? What do I REALLY gain from the upgrade? DICK!
Erm, no, because as the article ALSO states, the same case was tru for Windows XP, Corp. Vol. license keys were out before the retail package was!
This is absolutely no different for the last....well....five Windows launches.
There has ALWAYS been a key readily available even after WPA. And WPA has never been a problem. Sure SP1 blocked TWO popular keys but do you have any idea how many people have friends in IT depts. with access to keys?
Me, my brother in law, my roomate, his brother, my brother, my brother in laws brother, his friend, my cousin, three of my other friends.
ALL of us have access to different volume license keys.
It's about as safely gaurded a number as you can get, short of plastering them on billboards and busses.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah it would work real well, I mean, in my state if you commist 1st degree murder they can execute you.
And our murder rate....wait, damn, it's gone up over the past 20 years....
Then let's get into the ethics of the matter. Is it really right to single one individual out of x number of people and shitmahher them for something, especially when it's something like MP3's....come on, you are going to tell me that under these circumstances these two should lose 5 years of their life and be put in the same group as pdeophiles, murderers, rapists, and other violent criminals?
Theft is illegal, and should be punished, but to me, if I don't see PROOF, damn good proof too, that they REALLY lost money DIRECTLY by his actions, I am NOT sold on sending them to prison for 5 years of their adult life.
Wow...no really, wow, hows the medication working? Maybe up your doses???? Seriously, you people need help.
I forgot, you cannot mention race, religion, gender, political influence, or preferences anymore regardless of wether or not there is a difference....if you do you are automatically sexist, racist, et al.
Someone remind me again what the emoticon is for rolling your eyes back into your head so far that your head implodes?
It's not even an ad, it's a user submitted link to something on interest. People need to SERIOUSLY get the fuck over themselves. If you dont want to see it, fine, but shut the hell up with your retarded comments about the movie. Nobody gives a shit what you think, you aren't cool, you aren't "in" your just some loser on a message board spouting off his piece.
Thank you for that, the world is a much better place for that....
Somebody get my 12 gauge net so we can scoop this turd out of the gene pool.
Wow, you could tell all that from a teaser trailer, MY GOD you are GOOD!
Nevermind the fact it has nothing at all to do with anything even remotely related to the Matrix....honestly, even from that trailer I have no clue how the f*ck you managed to come to that conclusion.
For the record while it is an action movie, it is not primarily geared to that sense. It's kind of half action half romance. Read up on it and you might just find out its nothing like Blade OR The Matrix, and it might just be good.
It was exclusive when they released it a few days ago :)
That being said, thank you for links to a bigger version I can save to my HD so I can make it even bigger so I can see wtf is going on (that UGO one was TINY, even the "high quality" one).
Kate Beckinsale is so damned fine.
Dont forget corporate executives.
Seattle has a border now huh....
Erm, how is it someone elses service? They bought that "someone else" so it's THEIR service. The point here is that D&M don't HAVE to make their own service, because they bought someone elses service, so all that infrastructure work with channel guide updating, and so on, and hardware design, os customization,menu building, it's already done. Otherwise they would have just made their own from scratch.
There is absolutely no reason to buy a company who's assets contain everything you need from top to bottom to get a functional PVR out the door, and then change crap so it becomes "yours".
It already IS yours. Any changes you make to the system (outside of new features and whatnot) is just making life harder for you than it needs to be.
It would be like me buying, oh, GM, then changing the engine bays so they don't fit the standard GM engines anymore, then making my own engine just to put it in the car and say it's "my engine".
Why dothat? It's stupid, just use the engines and bays and layouts you paid for.
Maybe for you, but anybody who values their time in the LEAST would never do that. The MCE boxes are not that great either. But of course you mentioned Linux so you will get plenty of Karma points.
Only $1700. You know, I think that the only way you guys would bash a Linux based product is if the developer molested your mother and poured sugar in your gas-tank....jesus.
I take /. out of my bookmark folder. This is ust retarded. They couldnt wait to poke fun at MS, but, oh crap, they got the WRONG PRODUCT....jesus.....this is retarded.
I believe you may have seen something on Slashdot about it
Die....seriously....repost whores.
The problem isnt man reach exceeding his grasp, it's the fact that he doesn't really look at what he is grabbing.
But at the level to which the poster implies?
WOW....I mean, at least you are not paranoid or anything right? I....wow, I just can't think on that paranoid a level to try to convince you otherwise....
Because the company who handles our accounting software will, if it comes to it, ship out three techs in bright shiny suits who come in here with sledgehammers and safety glasses and won't stop swinging until the problem is solved.
And because I don't make the decisions, my boss doesnt make them either, the commitee does.
Welcome to hell, please keep your limb inside the vehicle until it comes to a screaming, crashing halt.
Exactly. All my boss cares about is "I have X,XXX to spend in my budget, how can I spend that and cause myself the least amount of pain?"
:)
And hiring new people causes them pain. Network resource availabilities causes him pain. Shelling out more of the companies money....very little pain.
But yeah, they do kind have you by the cahones
You know, the tiny bit of info regarding the fact that he also was involved in selling DSS hacking equipment.
:) or maybe they will stop advertising them as XBox modchips and instead call them "replacement backup BIOS's" or some such BS, and only ship chips without BIOS's on them, that way, as advertised they are nothing more than a generic BIOS replacement for....whatever really. The problem comes in when you start SAYING "plays backups". And when you start SAYING your product will mod the XBox. If BMW startedmarketing their cars with the feature "High Performance breaking to help you in your bank robberies" they'd come under fire too :)
I bet that had a pretty big role to play in his arrest.
Also keep in mind that the XBox BIOS isn't, really, a copyright protection mechanism. It's primary (and I don't count using a ATA spec. hard drive lock to be a copyright protection mechanism) function is booting the PC. Not making sure you can't play copyrighted games. As a matter of fact the XBox doesnt have any real copyright protection. Which is going to screw them on this one. Because ALOT of the modchips for the XBox do NOT come shipped with a MS based BIOS, the Xecuter II lite does, the enigmah (which sucks) does, and a couple others, but the Xecuter II Pro, Matrix, and that Aussie one, donn't come with a BIOS or come with the Linux Boot only BIOS. It's pretty damned hard to imply that a modchip that, as sold, only lets you boot Linux and nothing else is a device for bypassing copyright protection (if, as I said before, you want to really call it that).
In short, the "end of XBox modding" approach some articles have suggested is far from the case. But maybe the stock the retailers carry will change a bit
Is that even if MS went away tomorrow, we wouldn't suddenly have a great new OS to replace them. I mean, 12 years later Linux, while having made great strides, is NOT ready for mainstream yet.
Sad but true.
Once Linux becomes capable enough to make it mainstream MS won't be able to keep it out. Because there is little real financial burden on Linux. It's an open source product where ALOT of the work is done, in essence, for free. So MS can't bully it out of the marketplace by putting pressure on their vendors until the OS suffocates itself for lack of funds like a competing comppany would surely do.
It's here to stay because nobody is paying for it, and nobody is financially burdened by it. So it developson it's own, with TONS of fierce competition from MS. And it does nothing but grow and grow.
People should STOP complaining about Ms being a monopoly and START contributing to Linux/GNU.
One of the above posters said if you don't like it, don't use it. Thats dead wrong. As with everything else in life, if you don't like it, do something to change it. Do something to enhance Linux and/or its acceptance.
Why didn't I think of that.
Me: "Hey boss, I don't like the new MS license system. Letstop using Ms products."
Boss: "Sure, what would that entail?"
Me: "Um, well, the accounting, mail, DNS, Database, HR and Engineering servers would have to be completely redone, half of our software would have to go as well. We would also need to replace about half of our support staff with more expensive staff."
Boss: "Why haven't I fired you yet?"
Sorry i was cleaning up my spam while I typed that post, guess I got confused! :)
Damn penis pumps.
Well, ok, not funny, more like, extremely aggravating. Is the continued claims of groups like the BSA. They, and their research numbers, are about as believable as pretty much ANYTHING that comes out of the RIAA's mouth.
Funnier still is this claim of increased piracy.
By whom???? Bob college student dicking around with a spare PC in the corner?
Ver few businesses will go without product licensing nowadays. It's just not worth it.
And speaking of not worth it, I HIGHLY doubt that now that we have our Win2k server and Active Directory up and running, and functioning with all the other systems (payroll, accounting, timeclock, inventory, etc. etc.) we are going to shel out MORE money for a new Windows Server platform....forget that. Last thing I want is to setup Server '03 and pray to God nothing complains. For what? What do I REALLY gain from the upgrade? DICK!
Erm, no, because as the article ALSO states, the same case was tru for Windows XP, Corp. Vol. license keys were out before the retail package was!
This is absolutely no different for the last....well....five Windows launches.
There has ALWAYS been a key readily available even after WPA. And WPA has never been a problem. Sure SP1 blocked TWO popular keys but do you have any idea how many people have friends in IT depts. with access to keys?
Me, my brother in law, my roomate, his brother, my brother, my brother in laws brother, his friend, my cousin, three of my other friends.
ALL of us have access to different volume license keys.
It's about as safely gaurded a number as you can get, short of plastering them on billboards and busses.