So, we're saying kdps is a shill account being operated by the/. 'editors' to provoke and promote 'discussion' and a 'debate'; that we're being manipulated and incited in order to increase pageviews and comments?
We'd appreciate it if you could try again in this time, however we realise there are some people out there that ignore this and continue to click refresh, hit F5 and things trying to get to see if it's working yet. This proxy is provided by the The Pirate Party UK.
Nope, not 'as opposed to' the previous government. In addition to.
I only mentioned the current one because they're the ones with power at the time of writing. If Labour get in after that, there will be more fucking with people, their rights and freedoms and well being.
I'm more afraid of my government than I am of Al Quaeda.
I know the government can fuck with me, because for the last two years of a five-year term, they have been fucking with me and everyone else. And they show no signs of slowing. The true destroyers of Britain are the Tories and their LibDem enablers, not some remote dark-skinned jihadists who, statistically, pose less danger than a traffic accident.
It was created to block child pornography. Now it's also used to protect outdated business models.
When it was just blocking child porn, I dare say most people were OK with it. Now it's going to add 'copyright censorship'; soon, who knows what? Political sites, hate speech. And it'll gradually lose support and the means to circumvent its censorship will proliferate and become commonplace, making it entirely useless in doing the job it was designed for.
Sounds like a straight-up case of anti-competitive business practice and why content producers in the content delivery business should be fairly and soundly regulated if they're allowed in the first place.
In the UK this would doubtlessly be referred to the Competition Comission.
I stopped buying Sony CDs with the rootkit thing. I watched from afar at the PS3 thing - swearing to never buy a Sony games console.
I foolishly bought a Sony Bluray player (with xvid/mkv codecs) and was happy. They released firmware to improve it, regularly, then they pulled a PS3-style stunt and silently and without permission installed their shitty Cinavia DRM. Can't roll it back. I caught it one update too late unfortunately. I would never have bought an media player with that functionality built in to it, and yet, somehow, now I paid good money for one and own one!
The lesson: if it has updatable firmware that you either have no control over or must install to continue functionality, NEVER EVER EVER buy Sony, because they will fuck you over for their own ends.
I still own a Sony clock radio from the early 90's and it works perfectly. No updates possible, or course. Would buy one again. Maybe that's what Sony will become - a tiny company who isn't trusted to sell anything more complicated than a non-network connected clock radio.
Just create a throwaway anonymous and Gawker-specific Twitter account, as if you were creating an account on Gawker. Don't use that Twitter account for anything other than logging into Gawker.
Yeah - I just founf this out - bought a Sony Blu-ray player. They updated the firmware to include the new DRM scheme "Cinavia" without informing me and I can't roll it back to the previous firmware.
I would never buy a media player that used the Cinavia DRM and yet now I own one! Bait and switch. You can't trust SONY. They'll act in their own corporate interests and against yours and you'll generally have little or no recourse.
Yeah - I was looking for a clip of it on Youtube to post here - but they don't have any - a shame because that programme had a great many quotable moments.
I like to think of copyright as a poison (monopoly of the expression of culture) which when administered in the right dose, however, proves to be a medicine, and is quite beneficial (albeit with a few side effects).
The problem with copyright is that the junkies have the ear of the prescribing physicians, who keep bumping up the dosage for everyone, regardless of the consequences.
George Orwell - Animal Farm. Tells you a great deal about human nature and its response to power. All power corrupts, and unless you have functional reins and limits on those who are given power, it becomes, over time, ever more of a tyranny. Alas.
As a result of illegal downloads young, emerging artists may have had their careers damaged. If you have illegally downloaded music you will have damaged the future of the music industry. [emphasis mine]
Hilarious.
A perfect union of government law enforcement and lying, deceitful, dishonest, morally corrupt shysters (called the music industry) in operation. Zero facts. Zero credibility and destroying the credibility of SOCA's serious work with the alienating, dishohonest hyperbole the seized website now displays.
Every major study published independently has suggested that the opposite of what they say is true. So where the hell do they get off nakedly lying like that? I guess all pretence at independence is gone and they don't mind being seen to be little more that RIAA, BMI (et all) shills.
Makes you realise who's really running government and their institutions in this day and age.
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So, we're saying kdps is a shill account being operated by the /. 'editors' to provoke and promote 'discussion' and a 'debate'; that we're being manipulated and incited in order to increase pageviews and comments?
10 But don't worry!
20 The other political party will promise to undo/block all that nasty surveillance/snooping if you vote them into power.
30 And then, when they get into power, they will change their minds and come up with something worse.
40 Goto 10
Basic politics in a Western 'Democracy'.
Yes. Global.
They could also use a proofreader.
See my signature.
And I've been looking forward to replacing my obsolete television every couple of years.
Nope, not 'as opposed to' the previous government. In addition to.
I only mentioned the current one because they're the ones with power at the time of writing. If Labour get in after that, there will be more fucking with people, their rights and freedoms and well being.
I'm more afraid of my government than I am of Al Quaeda.
I know the government can fuck with me, because for the last two years of a five-year term, they have been fucking with me and everyone else. And they show no signs of slowing. The true destroyers of Britain are the Tories and their LibDem enablers, not some remote dark-skinned jihadists who, statistically, pose less danger than a traffic accident.
Mandatory Happy Fun Time, citizen.
Now get back in line before they start the collective punishment, and you get shivved in the showers.
They use Cleanfeed, BT's transparent proxy.
It was created to block child pornography. Now it's also used to protect outdated business models.
When it was just blocking child porn, I dare say most people were OK with it. Now it's going to add 'copyright censorship'; soon, who knows what? Political sites, hate speech. And it'll gradually lose support and the means to circumvent its censorship will proliferate and become commonplace, making it entirely useless in doing the job it was designed for.
They're idiots. But that's not news.
An even more accurate way to look at it is "Obama's security team fails to do its job".
Sounds like a straight-up case of anti-competitive business practice and why content producers in the content delivery business should be fairly and soundly regulated if they're allowed in the first place.
In the UK this would doubtlessly be referred to the Competition Comission.
>Editors?[...] What, precisely, is the point of having them?
Eye candy?
This in't just about privacy. The TSA is there to treat people like cattle entering steerage. It seems to do this, at least, with ruthless efficiency.
Citizens! Give up your humanity for the sake of your security!
All together now .... "Moooo!"
Don't worry about it, Valve have plenty of experience in filtering the whiny bitchfest that is the Team Fortress 2 Steam-Powered User Forums (SPUF).
>Actually, the glasses do exist, they're just being held up by customs because they lag a CE sign...
A CE sign floats in front of them wherever they go?
What's the ms delay? (Might not be a problem.)
I stopped buying Sony CDs with the rootkit thing. I watched from afar at the PS3 thing - swearing to never buy a Sony games console.
I foolishly bought a Sony Bluray player (with xvid/mkv codecs) and was happy. They released firmware to improve it, regularly, then they pulled a PS3-style stunt and silently and without permission installed their shitty Cinavia DRM. Can't roll it back. I caught it one update too late unfortunately. I would never have bought an media player with that functionality built in to it, and yet, somehow, now I paid good money for one and own one!
The lesson: if it has updatable firmware that you either have no control over or must install to continue functionality, NEVER EVER EVER buy Sony, because they will fuck you over for their own ends.
I still own a Sony clock radio from the early 90's and it works perfectly. No updates possible, or course. Would buy one again. Maybe that's what Sony will become - a tiny company who isn't trusted to sell anything more complicated than a non-network connected clock radio.
Oh well!
>Why are the popular channels subsidizing poor-performing specialty channels? What's the logic in that?
It's almost ... [shocked-face] SOCIALISM!
From CAPITALISTS!
Of course, as the Banks have ably demonstarated, corporate socialism [privatised reward, socialised risk] is more than acceptable.
Just create a throwaway anonymous and Gawker-specific Twitter account, as if you were creating an account on Gawker. Don't use that Twitter account for anything other than logging into Gawker.
Problem solved.
Yeah - I just founf this out - bought a Sony Blu-ray player. They updated the firmware to include the new DRM scheme "Cinavia" without informing me and I can't roll it back to the previous firmware.
I would never buy a media player that used the Cinavia DRM and yet now I own one! Bait and switch. You can't trust SONY. They'll act in their own corporate interests and against yours and you'll generally have little or no recourse.
Sayonara SONY.
Yeah - I was looking for a clip of it on Youtube to post here - but they don't have any - a shame because that programme had a great many quotable moments.
I like to think of copyright as a poison (monopoly of the expression of culture) which when administered in the right dose, however, proves to be a medicine, and is quite beneficial (albeit with a few side effects).
The problem with copyright is that the junkies have the ear of the prescribing physicians, who keep bumping up the dosage for everyone, regardless of the consequences.
Sky is not quite TRULY unlimited. They still censor Newzbin via a transparent proxy (just entering an IP address won't circumvent the block).
Alas, I ran outta mod points.
George Orwell - Animal Farm. Tells you a great deal about human nature and its response to power. All power corrupts, and unless you have functional reins and limits on those who are given power, it becomes, over time, ever more of a tyranny. Alas.
Hilarious.
A perfect union of government law enforcement and lying, deceitful, dishonest, morally corrupt shysters (called the music industry) in operation. Zero facts. Zero credibility and destroying the credibility of SOCA's serious work with the alienating, dishohonest hyperbole the seized website now displays.
Every major study published independently has suggested that the opposite of what they say is true. So where the hell do they get off nakedly lying like that? I guess all pretence at independence is gone and they don't mind being seen to be little more that RIAA, BMI (et all) shills.
Makes you realise who's really running government and their institutions in this day and age.