This won't escalate into anything. While its true it could be seen as an act of war, we in the U.S. are not going to do anything that might jeopardize our supply of Happy Meal toys.
Not just that, but implantable chips could conceivably be LESS secure than non-implantable ones. Why?
An RFID can be read from several feet away and CLONED by a person with a laptop and a scanner. Which RFID chip would be easier to clone this way - the RFID chip in a pass card that's surrendered at the end of the work day and thus on Saturday nights is locked in a security guard's safe, or sitting somewhere in the employee's locked home... or the RFID tag that's embedded in the employee's arm in the booth behind the cloner's at the local pizza and beer joint?
I dunno how it is in your town, and I dunno how it is in this guy's town, but in at least one town I've lived in they WANT you to call 911 any time you want the cops. They have their dispatchers on that line and not at the local desk number, and since they want to dispatch a car nearby, they have to go through the dispatcher. If you call them at the desk they hate the hassle because they themselves have to then call the dispatchers. I once was TOLD to hang up and call 911 over a relatively trivial matter.
Probably not the case everywhere, and maybe not even in most places... but it was where I was at the time.
You aren't getting it. Anyone has the right to ask anyone anything. So of COURSE the store has the right to ask for you to show them the receipt. Same way I have the right to ask you to pass the salt. Its no more empty or full of a right than that.
Why on earth would you think they have any right to do anything beyond that? They are not cops, there has been NO legal process, why are you giving police powers over you to a minimum wage employee? That's just fucking crazy.
If I buy a candy bar from you, that DOESN'T give you the authority to detain me because of some suspicion you have, or due to me refusing some request you routinely make as part of your business practices that I find objectionable. SO THE FUCK WHAT if you can't figure out how to sell candy bars profitably without assuming police powers over other people - that's not my fucking problem, its yours.
The president who has taken more vacation time than any other is too busy? Actually it's probably because they didn't want him to open a speech by saying something like "It's a pleasure to be here with all of you at The Google."
I meant cracking the thing so that any new keys will be useless. From what I understand, the last "crack" wasn't really a crak more like a workaround that could be disabled by the issuance of new keys.
For about 100 years, the phone company wouldn't allow anyone to connect their own equipment to their network. You had to lease your phone. That ended around 1969, when the government ruled that they had to allow people to own their own phones, etc. They ruled this after a company called Carterphone sued... because they provided what was basically an acoustic coupler modem for people to use with their phones.
If it had gone the other way, there would be no internet as we know it. Sprint followed Carterphone, letting people "steal" long distance calls by paying them rather than ma bell.
Openness drives innovation, which creates new industries and technologies - which corporations then try to own completely and milk every last cent out of, while killing any competing technology.
It was a boon for AT&T to have a stranglehold on communications, they were the wealthiest company on earth. But it held technological progress back by decades. Hell, they didn't even introduce phones in colors other than black for over 50 years.
And NOT accepting that teens are sexual beings will somehow prevent teen pregnancy? It's been tried, it doesn't work. In fact, abstinence-only education results in more teen pregnancies. Accept that teens are sexual beings, be open and honest about it with them, teach them about themselves and their needs and treat those needs with maturity and respect rather than shame, and guess what - the teens learn self-respect and learn to take care of themselves, whether that means waiting or using birth control.
I went to his blog to see what all the fuss was about. Then I read your comment. When I was on his blog I didn't see a single ad, wondered why people don't like him. Also wondered why he bothers since it can't gain him anything because of no ads.
Now I realize it's because I'm running Firefox with adblock (and noscript). I'm so used to a net without ads I had pretty much forgotten their existence. Which leads me to wonder - why is a typical Slashdot reader (you're typical, right?) seeing ads? Why are you not running Firefox with adblock (and maybe noscript)?
The stuff people put up with willingly or out of conservativism (the little 'c' kind, the kind that makes you averse to change)... I just don't get it.
"Copyright is designed to protect artistic and scholarly works."
That was how copyright was intended. But copyright law as its currently written and enforced in the U.S. is diametrically opposed to the original intent of copyright. A half-second blip of sound is considered protected under the current copyright climate and can't be sampled without permission. You can't sample a single recorded note played on a piano without permission. Given those standards, I doubt a court would look upon claims of creativity in the layout of a coupon unfavorably.
As a former ad designer, I can tell you that there is some creativity that goes into designing ads, and coupons are often part of that. I am totally against the current copyright laws, but you can bet that advertisers consider their advertising materials, even coupons, as creative works... and given the current legal climate regarding IP law, I would be startled if a court didn't rule that coupons are copyrightable based on text, package artwork and layout.
Who says a coupon is not copyrightable? Is that a guess on your part, or do you know of law? Because unless there's specific legislation or rulings that coupons are not copyrightable (which would not surprise me), I don;t see why they wouldn't be.
Exactly. This is just another step towards letting defenseless multinational corporations be bullied around by individual consumers. Who's next - the members of the RIAA? Someone has to think of the multinationals!
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... there's no real secret to making your product? I can see companies wanting to hide that!
Beck? Shit. And I liked "Sea Change." Oh well. Who says delusional dumbasses can't have talent.
This won't escalate into anything. While its true it could be seen as an act of war, we in the U.S. are not going to do anything that might jeopardize our supply of Happy Meal toys.
An RFID can be read from several feet away and CLONED by a person with a laptop and a scanner.
Which RFID chip would be easier to clone this way - the RFID chip in a pass card that's surrendered at the end of the work day and thus on Saturday nights is locked in a security guard's safe, or sitting somewhere in the employee's locked home... or the RFID tag that's embedded in the employee's arm in the booth behind the cloner's at the local pizza and beer joint?
Probably not the case everywhere, and maybe not even in most places... but it was where I was at the time.
Why on earth would you think they have any right to do anything beyond that? They are not cops, there has been NO legal process, why are you giving police powers over you to a minimum wage employee? That's just fucking crazy. If I buy a candy bar from you, that DOESN'T give you the authority to detain me because of some suspicion you have, or due to me refusing some request you routinely make as part of your business practices that I find objectionable. SO THE FUCK WHAT if you can't figure out how to sell candy bars profitably without assuming police powers over other people - that's not my fucking problem, its yours.
Hey - there are good anal probes, and there are bad anal probes.
The president who has taken more vacation time than any other is too busy? Actually it's probably because they didn't want him to open a speech by saying something like "It's a pleasure to be here with all of you at The Google."
The Russians float out these proposals regularly, and wait to see if anyone expresses interest in investing in it. Which usually doesn't happen.
...is to make it capable of autonomous self- introspection.
Bible-thumping Feminists? That has to be a first.
I meant cracking the thing so that any new keys will be useless. From what I understand, the last "crack" wasn't really a crak more like a workaround that could be disabled by the issuance of new keys.
If it had gone the other way, there would be no internet as we know it. Sprint followed Carterphone, letting people "steal" long distance calls by paying them rather than ma bell.
Openness drives innovation, which creates new industries and technologies - which corporations then try to own completely and milk every last cent out of, while killing any competing technology.
It was a boon for AT&T to have a stranglehold on communications, they were the wealthiest company on earth. But it held technological progress back by decades. Hell, they didn't even introduce phones in colors other than black for over 50 years.
... of all mankind. A distributed computing project for the benefit of the human race. Like, cracking blu-ray DRM or something.
And NOT accepting that teens are sexual beings will somehow prevent teen pregnancy? It's been tried, it doesn't work. In fact, abstinence-only education results in more teen pregnancies. Accept that teens are sexual beings, be open and honest about it with them, teach them about themselves and their needs and treat those needs with maturity and respect rather than shame, and guess what - the teens learn self-respect and learn to take care of themselves, whether that means waiting or using birth control.
Oh man that would be fucking AWESOME.
well, that's the internet for ya.
Except when it suits them.
if it's not blocking the ads, then it doesn't have all of the wanted features.
Now I realize it's because I'm running Firefox with adblock (and noscript). I'm so used to a net without ads I had pretty much forgotten their existence. Which leads me to wonder - why is a typical Slashdot reader (you're typical, right?) seeing ads? Why are you not running Firefox with adblock (and maybe noscript)?
The stuff people put up with willingly or out of conservativism (the little 'c' kind, the kind that makes you averse to change)... I just don't get it.
That was how copyright was intended. But copyright law as its currently written and enforced in the U.S. is diametrically opposed to the original intent of copyright. A half-second blip of sound is considered protected under the current copyright climate and can't be sampled without permission. You can't sample a single recorded note played on a piano without permission. Given those standards, I doubt a court would look upon claims of creativity in the layout of a coupon unfavorably.
As a former ad designer, I can tell you that there is some creativity that goes into designing ads, and coupons are often part of that. I am totally against the current copyright laws, but you can bet that advertisers consider their advertising materials, even coupons, as creative works... and given the current legal climate regarding IP law, I would be startled if a court didn't rule that coupons are copyrightable based on text, package artwork and layout.
Who says a coupon is not copyrightable? Is that a guess on your part, or do you know of law? Because unless there's specific legislation or rulings that coupons are not copyrightable (which would not surprise me), I don;t see why they wouldn't be.
Isn't there some fraud possibility? If the coupons have a limit (2 per person) that you agree to by checking a box or whatever?
Exactly. This is just another step towards letting defenseless multinational corporations be bullied around by individual consumers. Who's next - the members of the RIAA? Someone has to think of the multinationals!