Forget about it! The underground ice is used by the Zhti Ti Kofft in their underground cities to keep their beer cold. They aren't going to let you melt it and evaporate it into the air!
The whole Idea of DRM is flawed. It will never stop the black market of counterfeit CDs at flea markets, on street corners, and in regular retail outlets in some parts of the world. DRM will only stop legitimate paying customers from using their personal property as they see fit. I hope this thing bankrupts Sony, and that their demise becomes a cautionary tale for the rest of the industry. Don't call your customers thieves and expect to still have customers. Don't buy CDs.
If a corporation the size of Microsoft says it is news, the corporate media will comply. Who do you think pays them?
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The problem with free market theories is that they advocate the law of the jungle and the law of the land being the same. That flies in the face of civilization itself. Under such a system, big tigers get the meat, and small ones starve. Might is right. Humanity never would have needed civilization if that had worked.
Capitalism as an economic theory has its attributes and flaws, but capitalism as a religion is the worst thing ever foisted upon humankind. If you let "do as thou willst be the whole of the law" in business, you give businessmen a license to rob and loot. Guess what. They will use it. Bowing before golden calves called "competition" and "the markets" is all anarcho-captalism is, and libertarianism is basically the same.
That is exactly what the EULA stipulates. If you nolonger have the original CD, you nolonger have a license to use copies of it. You must delete them. Maybe the EULA would not stand up in court due to "fair use", but the matter here is only what the EULA says, not whether it is enforceable. The EFF is correctly translating what it says into english. The truth is not sensationalism.
Just boycotting Sony's music products isn't enough to fix this. We need to boycott every Sony product, even Playstation. Any other company that tries these tricks also needs to be smacked down by losing their customers. Continuing to buy things from such racketeers only encourages them to keep up the bad work.
Is Sony recalling all the trojan infected CDs and replacing them with clean ones? No. They are only claiming that they will not put this malware on future CDs. If we forgive or forget any of this, we only invite them to do it again. We need to boycott all Sony products. I know a lot of people who are mad about this are tempted to still buy Playstation games, and a Playstation III when it comes out. Don't buy them. There are other game consoles, PC gaming, and even Mac gaming.
Let Sony go bankrupt, and let the story of their demise serve as a lesson to the entertainment and electronics industries.
People will refer to aluminum foil as tin foil, but they are not the same. Make sure you get the real McCoy. The Uncoveror reported thisquite some time ago. Tin foil hats work. Aluminum foil hats do not.
The term, "martian" is one they find offensive and will not answer to. They are the Zhti Ti Kofft. If the other planets have life on them, I doubt that they accept the names terrans made up for them either.
You will have to ask the Zhti Ti Kofft. They have a base there with a giant death ray, so the moon and all its green cheese are for all intents and purposes theirs unless someone is strong enough to take it from them.
So, Einstein is the anti-Godwin. Mention him and you can be assured that discussion will continue, and you will win whatever argument you were engaging in because you are insightful and informative. I think that Anonymous Coward is just upset that someone else got there first.
If a new energy source that makes fossil fuels obsolete has been discovered, Dr. Mills has bigger things to worry about than physics theorists laughing at his ideas. The fear of oil company goons killing him, and destroying all evidence of his discoveries are what would keep me awake at night.
I am surprised that Unisys has even survived. When Sperry and Burroughs merged, common sense would have suggested that they pick one of those well known names, not invent a new one. Instead, they became a leviathan of a company no one had ever heard of, and had to spend an obscene fortune in advertising telling people who they were. I certainly wouldn't do business with a company that stupid.
No matter how you cover your passport, you will have to open it to have it read sometime, and the terrorists looking for Americans, Israelis and other targets will have their illicit antenna aimed at that point. They can make one out of a Pringles can.
The feds have a new toy, and they insist on playing with it. Their promises about anti skimming technology are hollow. It won't stop terrorists from using an illicit RFID reader to pick out the Americans. They might as well just paint red white and blue targets on us! I have written about this and written about this.
The recording industry's M.O. is simple: rip off children by selling them pieces of plastic at an obscene markup. They aren't interested in changing that in any way. Let them join other obsolete industries in the dustbin of history. Don't buy CDs.
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Forget about it! The underground ice is used by the Zhti Ti Kofft in their underground cities to keep their beer cold. They aren't going to let you melt it and evaporate it into the air!
The whole Idea of DRM is flawed. It will never stop the black market of counterfeit CDs at flea markets, on street corners, and in regular retail outlets in some parts of the world. DRM will only stop legitimate paying customers from using their personal property as they see fit. I hope this thing bankrupts Sony, and that their demise becomes a cautionary tale for the rest of the industry. Don't call your customers thieves and expect to still have customers. Don't buy CDs.
Indeed! If you want a real tinfoil hat, you need tin. Aluminum will not do the job.
If a corporation the size of Microsoft says it is news, the corporate media will comply. Who do you think pays them?
Capitalism as an economic theory has its attributes and flaws, but capitalism as a religion is the worst thing ever foisted upon humankind. If you let "do as thou willst be the whole of the law" in business, you give businessmen a license to rob and loot. Guess what. They will use it. Bowing before golden calves called "competition" and "the markets" is all anarcho-captalism is, and libertarianism is basically the same.
That is exactly what the EULA stipulates. If you nolonger have the original CD, you nolonger have a license to use copies of it. You must delete them. Maybe the EULA would not stand up in court due to "fair use", but the matter here is only what the EULA says, not whether it is enforceable. The EFF is correctly translating what it says into english. The truth is not sensationalism.
Just boycotting Sony's music products isn't enough to fix this. We need to boycott every Sony product, even Playstation. Any other company that tries these tricks also needs to be smacked down by losing their customers. Continuing to buy things from such racketeers only encourages them to keep up the bad work.
...And once machines can predict what will be popular, the labels will just have machines make the music. You don't have to pay robots.
Is Sony recalling all the trojan infected CDs and replacing them with clean ones? No. They are only claiming that they will not put this malware on future CDs. If we forgive or forget any of this, we only invite them to do it again. We need to boycott all Sony products. I know a lot of people who are mad about this are tempted to still buy Playstation games, and a Playstation III when it comes out. Don't buy them. There are other game consoles, PC gaming, and even Mac gaming. Let Sony go bankrupt, and let the story of their demise serve as a lesson to the entertainment and electronics industries.
People will refer to aluminum foil as tin foil, but they are not the same. Make sure you get the real McCoy. The Uncoveror reported thisquite some time ago. Tin foil hats work. Aluminum foil hats do not.
The term, "martian" is one they find offensive and will not answer to. They are the Zhti Ti Kofft. If the other planets have life on them, I doubt that they accept the names terrans made up for them either.
You will have to ask the Zhti Ti Kofft. They have a base there with a giant death ray, so the moon and all its green cheese are for all intents and purposes theirs unless someone is strong enough to take it from them.
So, Einstein is the anti-Godwin. Mention him and you can be assured that discussion will continue, and you will win whatever argument you were engaging in because you are insightful and informative. I think that Anonymous Coward is just upset that someone else got there first.
If a new energy source that makes fossil fuels obsolete has been discovered, Dr. Mills has bigger things to worry about than physics theorists laughing at his ideas. The fear of oil company goons killing him, and destroying all evidence of his discoveries are what would keep me awake at night.
I am surprised that Unisys has even survived. When Sperry and Burroughs merged, common sense would have suggested that they pick one of those well known names, not invent a new one. Instead, they became a leviathan of a company no one had ever heard of, and had to spend an obscene fortune in advertising telling people who they were. I certainly wouldn't do business with a company that stupid.
A telescope roughly the size of a footabll field? NFL or CFL? A CFL field is much bigger.
No matter how you cover your passport, you will have to open it to have it read sometime, and the terrorists looking for Americans, Israelis and other targets will have their illicit antenna aimed at that point. They can make one out of a Pringles can.
The feds have a new toy, and they insist on playing with it. Their promises about anti skimming technology are hollow. It won't stop terrorists from using an illicit RFID reader to pick out the Americans. They might as well just paint red white and blue targets on us! I have written about this and written about this.
We are AT&T. Your attempt to break up out monopoly was a trivial pursuit. If you try to compete with our operation, you will be sorry.
Want to convince a kid that religion is bullshit, and make an atheist of him? Send him to Catholic school.
The Uncoveror predicted that this was coming when they did it to rats!
No. No raise at all is normal. Getting fired for asking for a raise is normal. Actually getting any more money is a rarity.
There is more wrong with the whole idea of a space elevator than the speed limit. The X-4000 Launch Apparatus is more likely to actually work.
Manufacture something for less than a buck, and sell it for twenty. No profit margin there, huh?
The recording industry's M.O. is simple: rip off children by selling them pieces of plastic at an obscene markup. They aren't interested in changing that in any way. Let them join other obsolete industries in the dustbin of history. Don't buy CDs.