A question of "do you want beer or not" is not meaningful. This is why you get reasonable but useless responses like the first one here which had a subject line of "why not?"
For the article to have some legitimacy here, it should post the question in terms of altenatives:
- should a new accelerator be built in japan OR should the money go towards a new orbiting telescope? - should a new accelerator be built in japan OR should a new accelerator be built in india?
and so forth.
while some such questions are a bit forced (I mean, we'd all like to have BOTH the accelerator and the telescope) if the question is framed in terms of decision making given scarcity, then we can discuss the merits and tradeoffs in a realistic way rather than the fantastic way that the headline suggests we should
how is the consumer "ripped off" in a voluntary exchange of money and non-essential goods for which there are countless substitutes, including countless free ones?
how does the value printed on your dollar make it worth more or less than the US dollar? if the number printed on the bill makes a big difference to you, then i'll offer you a great deal - one billion melmac dollars for just 1000 of your aussie ones.
guys, i'm sure crafty munchkin's a nice person, but he clearly lacks even the basics in terms of knowledge of economics and policy. why did he get +5 again?
Sounds like someone that has a complete lack of respect for the law in general. "We don't agree with the law, we don't want you trying to enforce the law on us, and we're going to fight it even though it's law." I do hope the German court decides to haul them out back behind the woodshed and explain how legislature, laws, and law enforcement work.
Try posting this response in any slashdot piracy thread. I guarantee you you won't get the +5 insightful that you seem to have gotten here.
PS3 security worked for the vast majority of the PS3's profitability window. For you to claim that "client side security doesn't work" just because you brazenly assert this doesn't make it true. Clearly, it DID work in the case of PS3 and allowed Sony and associated developers to earn far more profit despite the presence of thieving "bored teenagers" that were actively trying to crack it.
Your claim that "windows 8 is an attempt to emulate apple" is also nonsense. Windows 8 may or may not be many things, but " an attempt to emulate apple" it is certainly not
"But don't act surprised when someone cracks a client-side security scheme. No implimentation of it has denied a determined attacker with the resources of a private individual or (at worst) a small company to date. It has a fundamental design flaw that cannot be corrected."
There were HUGE rewards to be had for those who cracked Ps3 and the problem was very seriously considered by quite a few groups for some time without success. But,. you know, what is an actual exmaple, now several years old, of effective DRM compared to your wishful thinking?.
a VLC streamer app that lets me stream videos to my iOS devices from my home PCs. I'm sure it's possible through some technical hacks, but the VLC server that I have right now by default works or is said to work that I can only stream on my local network.
This is not much more than a political gambit. Kazakhstan squeezes, russia squeezes back. Or, more precisely, kazakhstan squeezes, russia pays off whoever needs to be paid off in kazakhstan, and things are back to normal. There's a good reason why I've seen more maybachs in Almaty than any other city in the world. While nowhere nearly as corrupt as uzbekistan or turkmenistan or russia as a whole, kazakhstan is still by in large run with russia's golden hand up its backside.
russia, or, more specifically, the russian governments from basically 1400 through 1991 and then 2000 - today have been this giant cancer that has caused hardship and ruin for the lives of hundreds of millions in states and regions that border russia. only now are internet-reading educated russians in large cities starting to even slightly understand this.
Ladies and gentleman, a most unusual Slashdot post!
"I can't help but feel that it seems like, more and more, we're seeing cases around the world where prosecutors abusing pre-trial incarceration to make it a de-facto sentence irrespective of a person's eventual guilt or innocence."
Here's part 1 - the stereotypical slashdot bit - "more and more" - inferring or at least suspecting some rate change without substantial evidence.. but then...
"But I also recognise that I don't know the full details of the case, so it's always possible that the prosecutor fears were legitimate"
Shock and horror! Actual reasonable measured humility! Wow! We should gold plate this post. Well, done, sir! Well done!
/ now, back to reading the overbroad cocksure outraged conclusions drawn by the usual suspects.
You didn't "buy" the game in the same way that one buys a banana. You licensed it with a specific set of terms and conditions that you agreed to at the time of license. If you don't like those conditions, then don't press (or you shouldnt have pressed) the "buy now" button. You're more than welcome to com plan about it and tell others that you feel that the value proposition offered to you by Wii U is in your opinion lacking, but what is not right is to poison the conversation by throwing in words that basically amount to lies such as "bought."
I think the "single device" license that they offer to be quite fair and reasonable. I'd accept the risk of my console being broken, lost, or stolen in this case as I understand that it gives me incentive to keep my console in good knick and I understand that in a world where piracy is the norm, not the exception, if sony did otherwise this would have a significant impact on their ability to attract developers to their platform.
I'm sorry you experience difficulties. However, your anecdote does not constitute data. And that's really the problem with these bullshit "spectrum diagnosis" things,isn't it? They're anecdote based. Kudos to the APA for finally trying to reign in the runaway buck of aspbergers/autism overdiagnosis caused by the emotional but empty anecdotal arguments of people like you.
There's an easy cure to 95-98% of autism cases: break the idiotic alignment of financial incentives that causes the massive fraudulent overdiagnosis of these "spectrum disorder" conditions.
1. overlong terms on copyrighted materials of mostly entertainment goods (mind you, not patents, but copyrights) or 2. the wholesale theft of intellectual property developed in the USA, including nearly all forms of entertainment media and very considerable theft of all manner of industrial process and design by foreign firms in virtually every market imaginable?
By anything even approaching a rational or numerate analysis, the second answer is obviously correct.
But what do we get from/.ers like agStypopa?
[QUOTE] He got a call from a massive donor who benefits from restrictive copyright (Disney, etc.) and he was told to immediately 'review' this position or he'd see an impact on national funding. They're all such whores. Simply whores....except whores at least make one other person happy, they're not QUITE as selfish as politicians [/QUOTE]
Dear OeLeWaPpErKe, you useless zealot: it would take all of one google search for "Hamas two state solution" to find plenty of evidence to support the obvious notion that Hamas in principle is not opposed to a two state solution. All I see evidence for is that you are a piece of biased filth that chooses to tar an entire population with some random highly contentious bit of rhetoric in what is obviously a complex issue as if it wasnt possible to find similar rhetoric on both sides. I mean, DO YOU THINK WE ARE STUPID? Do you think ANY reader here couldn't find similar rhetoric on the Israeli side?
Nytimes, May 5 2011: Hamas Leader Calls for Two-State Solution, but Refuses to Renounce Violence
as much as I took issue with Sun's categorizations, I do think his system is right on in classifying you, OeLeWaPpErKe, as a biased fool and part of the problem. You and your attitude are a direct obstacle to peace. Step aside and piss off.
I'm sorry. There is a very clear villain and I am not wrong. The villain is extremist religionists on ALL sides who (to paraphrase Christopher Hitchens, who made this argument far better than I ever could) poison the dialogue with their absolutist demands which they back up using the force of their chosen celestial sky wizard and his holy books.
The vast vast vast majority of people on both sides favor a two state solution. the US wants this too, as does virtually everybody else. its the obvious answer. why dosen't it happen?
because of people who think that whose first accountability is to some god, not their fellow man.
they are the villians in this drama. no ands, ifs, or buts.
A great day for piracy and the people who invent pseudophilosophical justifications to rationalize and justify it.
user "jinx" pretends this is a YRO issue and not a piracy issue. it is a piracy issue. we all know it is a piracy issue. but no, here comes the sanctimonious rights talk smoke and mirrors FUD. Anything, but anything to avoid seriously discussing the real matter. Go on--get on your soapbox. Pretend this is a Issue of Major Human and Civil Rights Importance. I know you will.
We have here a case where we know that some guy should face a charge in the USA. but, he won't, because he's on the other side of some imaginary line IN THE USA and some prosecutor presumably doesnt want to file the necessary paperwork (perhaps sensibly given his/her workload - the problem is the basic system, not this caveat). Meanwhile, this woman will not get the justice she presumably deserves. Insane.
Meanwhile, Bing or somebody steps in and offers the publishers a more fair deal compared to google's mafia-don offer you can't refuse because i never made you an offer I just took your stuff policies. The google model is broken. Fixing the internet starts with this and I applaud the french for standing up to it.
"Legitimate news reports don't "create" anything. You can't "create" facts..."
What utter rubbish. Overlooking the obvious and pathetic joke that you hinted at, news is created by the picking and choosing of select information in a sea of noise. By your estimation, michaelangelo didn't paint the sistene chapel since you can't create matter and paint is matter and programmers don't create programs since they didn't create the electrons.
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I hear that's how its done in north korea.
A question of "do you want beer or not" is not meaningful. This is why you get reasonable but useless responses like the first one here which had a subject line of "why not?"
For the article to have some legitimacy here, it should post the question in terms of altenatives:
- should a new accelerator be built in japan OR should the money go towards a new orbiting telescope?
- should a new accelerator be built in japan OR should a new accelerator be built in india?
and so forth.
while some such questions are a bit forced (I mean, we'd all like to have BOTH the accelerator and the telescope) if the question is framed in terms of decision making given scarcity, then we can discuss the merits and tradeoffs in a realistic way rather than the fantastic way that the headline suggests we should
how is the consumer "ripped off" in a voluntary exchange of money and non-essential goods for which there are countless substitutes, including countless free ones?
how does the value printed on your dollar make it worth more or less than the US dollar? if the number printed on the bill makes a big difference to you, then i'll offer you a great deal - one billion melmac dollars for just 1000 of your aussie ones.
guys, i'm sure crafty munchkin's a nice person, but he clearly lacks even the basics in terms of knowledge of economics and policy. why did he get +5 again?
Sounds like someone that has a complete lack of respect for the law in general. "We don't agree with the law, we don't want you trying to enforce the law on us, and we're going to fight it even though it's law."
I do hope the German court decides to haul them out back behind the woodshed and explain how legislature, laws, and law enforcement work.
Try posting this response in any slashdot piracy thread. I guarantee you you won't get the +5 insightful that you seem to have gotten here.
im sorry, AC.. i forgot. Snide comments only allowed if they are anti-MS as per usual.
suh-praz suh-praz, suh-praz. suddenly when microsoft's the one in the position of supplication, slashdotters become capitalists.
PS3 security worked for the vast majority of the PS3's profitability window. For you to claim that "client side security doesn't work" just because you brazenly assert this doesn't make it true. Clearly, it DID work in the case of PS3 and allowed Sony and associated developers to earn far more profit despite the presence of thieving "bored teenagers" that were actively trying to crack it.
Your claim that "windows 8 is an attempt to emulate apple" is also nonsense. Windows 8 may or may not be many things, but " an attempt to emulate apple" it is certainly not
"But don't act surprised when someone cracks a client-side security scheme. No implimentation of it has denied a determined attacker with the resources of a private individual or (at worst) a small company to date. It has a fundamental design flaw that cannot be corrected."
There were HUGE rewards to be had for those who cracked Ps3 and the problem was very seriously considered by quite a few groups for some time without success. But,. you know, what is an actual exmaple, now several years old, of effective DRM compared to your wishful thinking?.
a VLC streamer app that lets me stream videos to my iOS devices from my home PCs. I'm sure it's possible through some technical hacks, but the VLC server that I have right now by default works or is said to work that I can only stream on my local network.
This is not much more than a political gambit. Kazakhstan squeezes, russia squeezes back. Or, more precisely, kazakhstan squeezes, russia pays off whoever needs to be paid off in kazakhstan, and things are back to normal. There's a good reason why I've seen more maybachs in Almaty than any other city in the world. While nowhere nearly as corrupt as uzbekistan or turkmenistan or russia as a whole, kazakhstan is still by in large run with russia's golden hand up its backside.
russia, or, more specifically, the russian governments from basically 1400 through 1991 and then 2000 - today have been this giant cancer that has caused hardship and ruin for the lives of hundreds of millions in states and regions that border russia. only now are internet-reading educated russians in large cities starting to even slightly understand this.
Ladies and gentleman, a most unusual Slashdot post!
"I can't help but feel that it seems like, more and more, we're seeing cases around the world where prosecutors abusing pre-trial incarceration to make it a de-facto sentence irrespective of a person's eventual guilt or innocence."
Here's part 1 - the stereotypical slashdot bit - "more and more" - inferring or at least suspecting some rate change without substantial evidence.. but then...
"But I also recognise that I don't know the full details of the case, so it's always possible that the prosecutor fears were legitimate"
Shock and horror! Actual reasonable measured humility! Wow! We should gold plate this post. Well, done, sir! Well done!
/ now, back to reading the overbroad cocksure outraged conclusions drawn by the usual suspects.
truly, with asp and access microsoft controls the world in its claws, now that we've been magically transported back to 1999.
You didn't "buy" the game in the same way that one buys a banana. You licensed it with a specific set of terms and conditions that you agreed to at the time of license. If you don't like those conditions, then don't press (or you shouldnt have pressed) the "buy now" button. You're more than welcome to com plan about it and tell others that you feel that the value proposition offered to you by Wii U is in your opinion lacking, but what is not right is to poison the conversation by throwing in words that basically amount to lies such as "bought."
I think the "single device" license that they offer to be quite fair and reasonable. I'd accept the risk of my console being broken, lost, or stolen in this case as I understand that it gives me incentive to keep my console in good knick and I understand that in a world where piracy is the norm, not the exception, if sony did otherwise this would have a significant impact on their ability to attract developers to their platform.
I'm sorry you experience difficulties. However, your anecdote does not constitute data. And that's really the problem with these bullshit "spectrum diagnosis" things,isn't it? They're anecdote based. Kudos to the APA for finally trying to reign in the runaway buck of aspbergers/autism overdiagnosis caused by the emotional but empty anecdotal arguments of people like you.
There's an easy cure to 95-98% of autism cases: break the idiotic alignment of financial incentives that causes the massive fraudulent overdiagnosis of these "spectrum disorder" conditions.
1. overlong terms on copyrighted materials of mostly entertainment goods (mind you, not patents, but copyrights)
or
2. the wholesale theft of intellectual property developed in the USA, including nearly all forms of entertainment media and very considerable theft of all manner of industrial process and design by foreign firms in virtually every market imaginable?
By anything even approaching a rational or numerate analysis, the second answer is obviously correct.
But what do we get from /.ers like agStypopa?
[QUOTE]
He got a call from a massive donor who benefits from restrictive copyright (Disney, etc.) and he was told to immediately 'review' this position or he'd see an impact on national funding. They're all such whores. Simply whores....except whores at least make one other person happy, they're not QUITE as selfish as politicians
[/QUOTE]
Right.
Dear OeLeWaPpErKe, you useless zealot: it would take all of one google search for "Hamas two state solution" to find plenty of evidence to support the obvious notion that Hamas in principle is not opposed to a two state solution. All I see evidence for is that you are a piece of biased filth that chooses to tar an entire population with some random highly contentious bit of rhetoric in what is obviously a complex issue as if it wasnt possible to find similar rhetoric on both sides. I mean, DO YOU THINK WE ARE STUPID? Do you think ANY reader here couldn't find similar rhetoric on the Israeli side?
Nytimes, May 5 2011: Hamas Leader Calls for Two-State Solution, but Refuses to Renounce Violence
as much as I took issue with Sun's categorizations, I do think his system is right on in classifying you, OeLeWaPpErKe, as a biased fool and part of the problem. You and your attitude are a direct obstacle to peace. Step aside and piss off.
I'm sorry. There is a very clear villain and I am not wrong. The villain is extremist religionists on ALL sides who (to paraphrase Christopher Hitchens, who made this argument far better than I ever could) poison the dialogue with their absolutist demands which they back up using the force of their chosen celestial sky wizard and his holy books.
The vast vast vast majority of people on both sides favor a two state solution. the US wants this too, as does virtually everybody else. its the obvious answer. why dosen't it happen?
because of people who think that whose first accountability is to some god, not their fellow man.
they are the villians in this drama. no ands, ifs, or buts.
That's like 9 ipads.
No, you pirate becaus you dont like paying for things. The rest is pseudophilosophical rationalizaton.
A great day for piracy and the people who invent pseudophilosophical justifications to rationalize and justify it.
user "jinx" pretends this is a YRO issue and not a piracy issue. it is a piracy issue. we all know it is a piracy issue. but no, here comes the sanctimonious rights talk smoke and mirrors FUD. Anything, but anything to avoid seriously discussing the real matter. Go on--get on your soapbox. Pretend this is a Issue of Major Human and Civil Rights Importance. I know you will.
Will you take it to the apothecary or the cobbler to get it fixed? Or perhaps you could take your autogyro to the haberdasherer instead.
We have here a case where we know that some guy should face a charge in the USA. but, he won't, because he's on the other side of some imaginary line IN THE USA and some prosecutor presumably doesnt want to file the necessary paperwork (perhaps sensibly given his/her workload - the problem is the basic system, not this caveat). Meanwhile, this woman will not get the justice she presumably deserves. Insane.
you must be the gothiest goth on the whole block, deep thinker.
Meanwhile, Bing or somebody steps in and offers the publishers a more fair deal compared to google's mafia-don offer you can't refuse because i never made you an offer I just took your stuff policies. The google model is broken. Fixing the internet starts with this and I applaud the french for standing up to it.
"Legitimate news reports don't "create" anything. You can't "create" facts..."
What utter rubbish. Overlooking the obvious and pathetic joke that you hinted at, news is created by the picking and choosing of select information in a sea of noise. By your estimation, michaelangelo didn't paint the sistene chapel since you can't create matter and paint is matter and programmers don't create programs since they didn't create the electrons.