. . . and other means of finding files through p2p filesharing services. I figure the C&D letters will go out Monday, and that sharing the higher profile files referenced through ShareReactor on eDonkey will become an unsafe activity (particularly for those with broadband connections in the U.S.) as the MPAA and their toadies at the "copyright enforcement" firms start gathering IP addresses.
It does seem like the various vendors would have an interest in splitting the towers in the remote areas, and agreeing to compete only in the high traffic areas. I wonder if that would have antitrust implications, at least in the U.S., though.
What they should be doing is comparing signal strengh to usage, and concentrate on making the high usage areas have a good signal, regardless of their competitors.
I understand this reasoning, but the most important reason for me to have a cellphone to begin with is for emergencies. And those tend to happen in lonely, deserted parts of the highway or dangerous parts of town. Neither of these may be high usage areas, but if they're green on the coverage map, I'll be mightily pissed if my phone doesn't work there after I break down. And I'll let them know afterward, if I live.
I attend a Public University, and the service is terrible.
A university isn't McDonalds, and you're not a customer. You're a student. While you might be catered to a little bit more in a private institution, unless you're quite rich, you won't be paying the entire cost of your education there, either.
For your tuition, you're entitled to be treated fairly, and to have the opportunity to get an education (you can get a degree without getting an education). You're not entitled to fawning "customer" treatment everywhere you go on campus. If private institutions are so much better, you're free to transfer.
Even if Intuit released a version of Quicken for Linux today, I wouldn't use it.
Strike 1: Intuit charges me for the software--then has the audacity to attempt to force me to give up personal information to use it (astalavista.box.sk to the rescue again).
Strike 2: Intuit spams me with sales pitches based on information entered into the program. I already paid once, thank you.
Strike 3: Using the online services requires me to go through Intuit as an intermediary, rather than keeping the relationship only between me and my financial institution. Given their proven propensity to bother me with ads, I don't exactly trust them with my financial details.
1. Almost all retail games are copy protected... there is NO changing this.
True, as long as people like you continue to willingly take it in the ass. You should be banished to some island where you have to subsist on rats for screwing it up for the rest of us.
Now if the phone makers program their firmware right, does that mean we can now dial 1-800-COLLECT, 1-800-G0ATSECX (wonder if that's taken), etc. without having to either memorize or decipher the letters associated with each digit?
They'll use sales figures for their argument either way. If sales are good, it's because the scum-sucking fascist pigs DMCAd the bnetd project. If sales are bad, it's because bnetd facilitated piracy.
I bet if you compared the taxes he pays percentage-wise, overall, including sales, VAT, federal income, motor vehicle, property, registration fees, social security/medicare taxes, state/provincial and local income taxes, et al, you might find yourself surprised to find the tax burdens about the same. The difference? The Canadians get something for their money rather than having it be used to fund corporate welfare like airline bailouts and subsidies for other failing industries.
If you couldn't fill out your own financial aid forms, which require skills in reading comprehension and following instructions, perhaps CMU was a school above your ability and it was all for the best.
. . . was notorious for hosting spamvertised sites. Spammers would make a spam run on a throwaway account, while their make money fast, penis enlargement, multilevel marketing, or what have you site safely operated in Telstra's IP space.
Writing to Telstra would get you an auto-ignore saying that the spam didn't originate from Telstra, and thus they would do nothing. If they still operate this way, they have it coming, and it serves them right.
That's a great plan except for the fact that copyright violation is a civil, not criminal, infringement.
Was. Not is. The "No Electronic Theft" Act and the DMCA made copyright infringement above a small ($1,000, IIRC) threshold a criminal act in and of itself, whether or not for commercial gain. Thank your Congressman.
I know you're trying to make a point with hyperbole, but this isn't far from what's been sought. Clipper with its LEAF (law enforcement access field), the Swiss with their email archiving requirements, and the PATRIOT act don't make an LE API based on XML web services (add buzzwords as needed) sound very farfetched.
Heck, I wouldn't be surprised to see it as a part of the Trusted PC specification.
You can. I could. The legions of consumer-types which are their customer base could not. And, unfortunately, there are a lot more of the consumer-types than there are of us, so they drive the market. Thus, if they get stuck with a later PVR for which archiving the drive is impossible, so do we, once our existing equipment wears out.
Either tv companies earn their money through adverts which cannot be skipped or...
They accept that ads will be skipped and start running them along the top or bottom of the screen during the program.
Which would you prefer?
The latter. I can defeat the latter with two well-placed pieces of cardboard. Of course, I already defeat it all by downloading what little TV I want to see. And if they take that away, I'll live happily without them. I've always been meaning to explore that, um, outdoors thing.
. . . is that these players are all are remotely "upgradable," and that TiVo and Replay will disable features customers like in half a heartbeat when it suits their revenue model, or the whims of a judge in the pocket of the MPAA.
You're acting like an idiot if you're wasting mod points on ACs--it's like trying to snuff an infinite number of candles with five drops of water. Better to use those modding those with IDs--and being careful not to waste them on someone's "expendable" ID. I always check posting history to make sure I'm not "spending" my mod points on a blatant troll, which will be posting at -1 soon enough.
Of course, this doesn't apply if you believe in the whole moderation system deep down in your heart, and don't use mod points to punish or reward like most moderators do.
Fair enough . . . but what I was saying is that it isn't realistic to expect that you aren't going to get data-raped if you use a free email service--or any free service, for that matter.
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. . . and other means of finding files through p2p filesharing services. I figure the C&D letters will go out Monday, and that sharing the higher profile files referenced through ShareReactor on eDonkey will become an unsafe activity (particularly for those with broadband connections in the U.S.) as the MPAA and their toadies at the "copyright enforcement" firms start gathering IP addresses.
It does seem like the various vendors would have an interest in splitting the towers in the remote areas, and agreeing to compete only in the high traffic areas. I wonder if that would have antitrust implications, at least in the U.S., though.
I understand this reasoning, but the most important reason for me to have a cellphone to begin with is for emergencies. And those tend to happen in lonely, deserted parts of the highway or dangerous parts of town. Neither of these may be high usage areas, but if they're green on the coverage map, I'll be mightily pissed if my phone doesn't work there after I break down. And I'll let them know afterward, if I live.
A university isn't McDonalds, and you're not a customer. You're a student. While you might be catered to a little bit more in a private institution, unless you're quite rich, you won't be paying the entire cost of your education there, either.
For your tuition, you're entitled to be treated fairly, and to have the opportunity to get an education (you can get a degree without getting an education). You're not entitled to fawning "customer" treatment everywhere you go on campus. If private institutions are so much better, you're free to transfer.
Strike 1: Intuit charges me for the software--then has the audacity to attempt to force me to give up personal information to use it (astalavista.box.sk to the rescue again).
Strike 2: Intuit spams me with sales pitches based on information entered into the program. I already paid once, thank you.
Strike 3: Using the online services requires me to go through Intuit as an intermediary, rather than keeping the relationship only between me and my financial institution. Given their proven propensity to bother me with ads, I don't exactly trust them with my financial details.
Yer out!
True, as long as people like you continue to willingly take it in the ass. You should be banished to some island where you have to subsist on rats for screwing it up for the rest of us.
Now if the phone makers program their firmware right, does that mean we can now dial 1-800-COLLECT, 1-800-G0ATSECX (wonder if that's taken), etc. without having to either memorize or decipher the letters associated with each digit?
They'll use sales figures for their argument either way. If sales are good, it's because the scum-sucking fascist pigs DMCAd the bnetd project. If sales are bad, it's because bnetd facilitated piracy.
I bet if you compared the taxes he pays percentage-wise, overall, including sales, VAT, federal income, motor vehicle, property, registration fees, social security/medicare taxes, state/provincial and local income taxes, et al, you might find yourself surprised to find the tax burdens about the same. The difference? The Canadians get something for their money rather than having it be used to fund corporate welfare like airline bailouts and subsidies for other failing industries.
. . . "accidentally" putting dents in the boxes making them unsaleable.
If you couldn't fill out your own financial aid forms, which require skills in reading comprehension and following instructions, perhaps CMU was a school above your ability and it was all for the best.
Writing to Telstra would get you an auto-ignore saying that the spam didn't originate from Telstra, and thus they would do nothing. If they still operate this way, they have it coming, and it serves them right.
Or, better yet . . . tw.at -- how did I not think of that?!
"at" = (2,8) (Austria). So twat.at would be a mere 6 keypresses, plus the dot. There may be more.
Was. Not is. The "No Electronic Theft" Act and the DMCA made copyright infringement above a small ($1,000, IIRC) threshold a criminal act in and of itself, whether or not for commercial gain. Thank your Congressman.
But this does pose an interesting question--what URL's are easily memorable, and are optimized for entry via telephone keypad as alpha?
Bias or not, I've observed three types of cops
I would expect it to be in a VSS repository rather than in a CVS tree. MS, after all, does eat its own dog food.
Heck, I wouldn't be surprised to see it as a part of the Trusted PC specification.
You can. I could. The legions of consumer-types which are their customer base could not. And, unfortunately, there are a lot more of the consumer-types than there are of us, so they drive the market. Thus, if they get stuck with a later PVR for which archiving the drive is impossible, so do we, once our existing equipment wears out.
The latter. I can defeat the latter with two well-placed pieces of cardboard. Of course, I already defeat it all by downloading what little TV I want to see. And if they take that away, I'll live happily without them. I've always been meaning to explore that, um, outdoors thing.
. . . is that these players are all are remotely "upgradable," and that TiVo and Replay will disable features customers like in half a heartbeat when it suits their revenue model, or the whims of a judge in the pocket of the MPAA.
Of course, this doesn't apply if you believe in the whole moderation system deep down in your heart, and don't use mod points to punish or reward like most moderators do.
Pot, kettle . . .
Fair enough . . . but what I was saying is that it isn't realistic to expect that you aren't going to get data-raped if you use a free email service--or any free service, for that matter.