Three words: click of death. Because Iomega made one bad product, I think that we should all boycott them for the rest of eternity.
Never underestimate the power of a geek boycott. We sunk amazon.com, we sunk the RIAA and MPAA, and now we're going after you for things you did five years ago.
I installed Netscape 7.0, and I have to say that it is an awful web browser. Its interface looks like it was designed by a 12-year-old l33t kiddie that competes in Photoshop contests on the Fark or the SomethingAwful.
It is much slower than the Internet Explorer, crashes more frequently, and has an ugly look and feel that few other applications can match.
In sort, I don't understand why Netscape didn't just upgrade to Internet Explorer.
Having used Overture, I can safely say that Google will remain the leader in search engine technology.
Here's an example. Search for "linux" using Overture. The results are all paid results, worthless sludge like "training classes" and "hosting providers."
Now search for "linux" using Google. You get relevant, useful results with all sponsored links clearly separated from the good stuff. Of course, most people aren't as smart as me, so they might click the sponsored links. I remain convinced that Google is the best search engine ever.
Why do we deify such an amateur as Sean Fanning? Hi, folks, I'm Seth Finklestein, and this is Tech Sunday.
Even the popular web site Slashdot has glorified Mr. Fanning. He is credited with starting Napster.com, a web site where people could search for and download more than 200 illegally copied songs without giving consideration to the copyright owner. First of all, that's against the law. Second of all, he didn't invent the technology of file sharing.
We'll be right back after this message. Have you discovered the thrill of shopping at eBay? eBay, the world's largest auction site, lets you bid on everything you want. Just go to www.eBay.com. Good luck!
We're back on Tech Sunday. I'm Seth Finklestein. Now, I don't mean to brag, but I've been using computers since the 1980s (that's right, I said *'80s*) and I've never taken a computer class in my life. I do, however, know how to use the Internet File Transfer Protocol, or iFTP, to download files. Let's look at a sample session with iFTP.
Fire up iFTP
Connect to server
Download data quickly, securely, and freely.
Now, Shawn Fanning basically made an FTP client that uses pictures instead of words. Some of those pictures, in fact, represent advertising -- the one thing that the World Wide Web was designed to prevent! Furthermore, unlike iFTP, Fanning did not open the source to his Napster.com. For all you know, Napster.com could have used your personal information for advertising or something even worse, like marketing.
I'm Seth Finklestein, and this has been Tech Sunday. If you'd like a transcript of this broadcast, send $5 to jellicle@inch.com.
Here's what I do to the RIAA. As a professional cybersecurity mastermind, I know how to take down info-terrorists like Mattel, Michael Sims, and the RIAA.
First, find a good contact address like hillary.rosen@riaa.com.
Post the contact address, not munged (as in "sNOSPAMeNOSPAMtNOSPAMhNOSPAMfNOSPAM@NOSPAMsNOSPAM eNOSPAMtNOSPAMhNOSPAMf.NOSPAMcNOSPAMoNOSPAMm") to Slashdot.
Post spoofed e-mails from this address on the Usenet.
Leave negative reviews for the RIAA's products on respected review sites such as Epinions and Amazon.com.
Organize a boycott.
Organize an Internet petition.
E-mail the news media to get them to cover your story.
We all know that Michael Sims is trying to cover his extremely gay ass by trying to defend his status as what the Germans call a "confirmed bachelor."
Paul Lynde was a confirmed bachelor and took his own life through substance abuse. Why don't you do the same, Michael? After all, you took the life of my web site...
Its easy to vote with your dollars if you dive to other sites as soon as you get a "Site Requirement: Macromedia Flash" message...
Actually, it isn't easy. Whiny Linux-using hippies like yourself don't have any dollars to vote with. You wasted all your money buying Xboxes (Xboxen!!!!11 roffle!!111 PENNY ARCAED) to mod.
Also, I hear the rent in your parents' basement is pretty low...
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 10:41:18 -0400
From: Seth Finkelstein
To: Seth Finkelstein's InfoThought list
Subject: IT: Federal censorware law down! (and Seth Finkelstein's reports!)
I'm ecstatic that the court seems to have used my pioneering
efforts in
anticensorware work
as one factor in its decision, in passages such as these:
Another technique that filtering companies use in order to deal with a
structural feature of the Internet is blocking the root level URLs of
so-called loophole Web sites. These are Web sites that provide
access to a particular Web page, but display in the user's browser a
URL that is different from the URL with which the particular page is
usually associated. Because of this feature, they provide a loophole
that can be used to get around filtering software, i.e., they display
a URL that is different from the one that appears on the filtering
company's control list. Loophole Web sites include caches of Web pages that have been removed from their original location,
anonymizer sites, and translation sites.
Caches are archived copies that some search engines, such as Google,
keep of the Web pages they index. The cached copy stored by Google
will have a URL that is different from the original URL. Because Web
sites often change rapidly, caches are the only way to access pages
that have been taken down, revised, or have changed their URLs for
some reason. For example, a magazine might place its current stories
under a given URL, and replace them monthly with new stories. If a
user wanted to find an article published six months ago, he or she
would be unable to access it if not for Google's cached version.
Some sites on the Web serve as a proxy or intermediary between a user
and another Web page. When using a proxy server, a user does not
access the page from its original URL, but rather from the URL of the
proxy server. One type of proxy service is an anonymizer. Users may
access Web sites indirectly via an anonymizer when they do not want
the Web site they are visiting to be able to determine the IP address
from which they are accessing the site, or to leave cookies on their
browser.(8) Some proxy servers can be used to attempt to translate Web
page content from one language to another. Rather than directly
accessing the original Web page in its original language, users can
instead indirectly access the page via a proxy server offering
translation features.
As noted above, filtering companies often block loophole sites, such
as caches, anonymizers, and translation sites. The practice of
blocking loophole sites necessarily results in a significant amount of
overblocking, because the vast majority of the pages that are cached,
for example, do not contain content that would match a filtering
company's category definitions. Filters that do not block these
loophole sites, however, may enable users to access any URL on the Web
via the loophole site, thus resulting in substantial underblocking.
This is an aspect which I've been trying to get into the
censorware debate for ages. I'm overjoyed that the court heard, they
got it, they listened, and it helped strike down Federal censorware law!
These are the reports wh
When you decided to become an atheist, all you did was abandon your religion. When a major company decides to adopt Linux, it decides to save millions of dollars in software and improve the community as a whole.
This is your head. (holds up a balloon) This is reality. (holds up a pin) This is your head in reality. (puts the pin away and shoots you in the head)
These days, I have been doing a lot of consulting for large companies. A lot of companies call me and ask, "Seth Finklestein, we want to get more for less."
"The solution," I answer with the sly wit of an open source expert, "is Linux."
You see, Linux outperforms all other competitors on bang for the buck. Just try to run Windows XP on a Pentium II 350. You can't. Now install Debian GNU/Linux with Blackbox as the window manager. It flies. You'd need to have at least 350 more megahertz to get even half the performance that Linux offers.
Furthermore, office software such as KOffice and OpenOffice.org requires far less of an investment than Microsoft Office. Why would I pay $400 per seat for MS Office, plus another few hundred every year for upgrades? OpenOffice.org is free, and I know it's secure because I can see the code. You want to see the code for Microsoft? Sorry, you're out of luck.
In conclusion, I predict that the technology buying slump will lead to a 100% annual growth rate for Linux, meaning that Linux will overtake Windows on the corporate desktop by 2007.
So, I see Michael Sims is at it again, spewing his "progressive" activist dreck in the futile hopes of being heard.
Slate
A Micro$oft publication. Hmm, don't see a conflict of interest there...
has a piece
It's an article, Michael. Don't diminish it by calling it a "piece." Your dick, for example, is a "piece."
about Harry Potter
Never read that awful book. I hear they just made a sequel, which I am also boycotting.
and copyright worldwide that is a disguised call for copyright reform.
Oh, really, Michael? You and your bleeding-heart liberal pansy "friends" plan to roam the world calling for copyright reform? Do tell me when you get to China. Oh, wait, you can't, because you're just sitting on your ass as always.
Well written, well argued, extremely good argument, won't be picked up anywhere else.
Translation: "I agree with this article. I agree with this article. I agree with this article. I'm better than you because I chose to link to this article on Slashdot."
Excuse me while I go puke on your ex-wife's bed, Michael Sims.
Sorry, Mickey$oft, but you can't polish a turd. Pocket PCs will continue to BSOD all over the place, while my Apple Newton MessagePad will continue to function better than any other PDA on the market.
(2)
unveiled a new "Windows Mobile"
branding strategy; and
Don't you mean, "BSOD mobile"? That's all I wanted! "Sorry Fred, I meant to call you back, but my phone BSODed!"
(3) launched a
collaboration with three leading
high-speed wireless service providers
to provide easier access to more than
3,500 Wi-Fi wireless "hot spots" by
Windows-powered PDAs throughout
the US.
Yawn. I can already do Wi-Fi with my Apple Newton MessagePad. And what the fuck does "Wi-Fi" mean? "Wireless Fidelity"? Give me a fxcking break!
A few years ago, the Censorware Project, one of the most important sites on the entire Internet, fell prey to the most grave injustice ever. Michael Sims, a pear-shaped mother's boy who lives in his parent's basement watching porn and wearing Adbusters t-shirts like he's some kind of counterculture revolutionary, took my web site and destroyed it. It was, in a word, goatse'ing.
I'd like to read from my journal about the prosecution that followed.
As I awoke at 8:15 AM on the day in question, my first item on the ol' agenda was to check on my web site, "The Censorware Project." I went to my computer, punched in www.censorware.org into Mozilla (not Internet Explorer) and depressed the "Enter" key on my computer's key-board.
"The Censorware Project," it said, "is now closed."
Knowing my rights, I immediately dialed 911. There, I spoke to some clueless cop. I don't even know whether he knew who I was (Seth Finklestein) or what a "web site" was. He was probably too busy eating doughnuts and watching Jerry Springer.
After that debacle, I immediately called the ACLU, the FBI, the CIA, and the Army Corps of Engineers. Nobody wanted to help me. Finally, I was forced to take Michael Sims to court. I sued him for murder in the second degree (a web site can't be considered a person, so I couldn't make him fry for his actions) and criminal negligence. Lawyers are just overpriced nerds, so I decided to represent myself.
The judge said the most ignorant, hateful words I have ever heard at the pre-trial hearing. "Your web site," she explained, "was not 'murdered.'" She even did the "air quotes" thing! She was talking down to me! Me, Seth Finklestein! I tried to yell back at her, but these awful Negroes dragged me out of the court room.
Now I sit here, at my high-paying job, plotting revenge. And you will get yours, Michael Sims. I guaran-fucking-tee it.
As a famous cybersecurity activist, you're already aware that I am the most important person keeping freedom alive on the Internet. For too long, I have been downloading nothing but filth, and ICANN has done nothing to help.
As a result, I am now boycotting the Internet. I urge you all to do the same. If we can show the Internet that we all want to boycott it, we can make a world of difference.
If it can be heard (audio), it will be recorded and it will be shared (not "stolen").
If it can be seen (video), it will be recorded and it will be shared.
Hi, I'm Seth Finklestein, famous cybersecurity expert. I'm here to talk to you about DRM: the silent killer.
Once upon a time, before Michael Sims became unconscionably evil, there were CDs, and they were good. Then along came MP3, and I was able to start boycotting CDs due to their high prices, instead showing my contempt for the recording industry by sharing (not "stealing") their product.
Then along came DVDs, and they were bad. However, DeCSS made them good, so now I can enjoy royalty-free, DRM-free entertainment from legitimate businesses like KaZaA Gold.
I predict that copy-protected CDs and DVDs will vanish. Furthermore, even if KaZaA Gold goes under, a replacement will come along.
I plan to download the ISOs for all games that I own or plan to own in the next few months. The reason for this is simple: as the owner of the games, I am entitled to a back-up copy in case the original is broken. Of course, most of you know me as a famous cybersecurity activist, but I'm also a father of two young boys. Young boys, as I'm sure you all know, love to place objects in their mouth, and my little scamps are no exception. I suspect that their adorable little mouths have cost me hundreds of dollars in replacement game-soft cartridges and disks.
In conclusion, this is a good thing, and it falls completely under the doctrine of Fair Use. If they are ever sued, I will take the case personally, pro bona.
My experiences with Canadian high school computers have been quite the opposite.
In 1999, I saw a Canadian computer powered by young Canadians emotions. The battery had two terminals. Connected to the '+' terminal was the Canadian students' love of American television, popular music, and motion pictures. Connected to the '-' terminal was the Canadian students' resentment of American politics and dominance of world affairs.
The computer received so much power, it exploded. When I asked the Canadian students why their computer broke, they blamed the Americans.
Slashdot Mirror
Three words: click of death. Because Iomega made one bad product, I think that we should all boycott them for the rest of eternity.
Never underestimate the power of a geek boycott. We sunk amazon.com, we sunk the RIAA and MPAA, and now we're going after you for things you did five years ago.
I installed Netscape 7.0, and I have to say that it is an awful web browser. Its interface looks like it was designed by a 12-year-old l33t kiddie that competes in Photoshop contests on the Fark or the SomethingAwful.
It is much slower than the Internet Explorer, crashes more frequently, and has an ugly look and feel that few other applications can match.
In sort, I don't understand why Netscape didn't just upgrade to Internet Explorer.
That's because you're an idiot. Don't worry. Even idiots can become the President of the United States of AmeriKKKA, or even worse, a Slashdot "editor".
Having used Overture, I can safely say that Google will remain the leader in search engine technology.
Here's an example. Search for "linux" using Overture. The results are all paid results, worthless sludge like "training classes" and "hosting providers."
Now search for "linux" using Google. You get relevant, useful results with all sponsored links clearly separated from the good stuff. Of course, most people aren't as smart as me, so they might click the sponsored links. I remain convinced that Google is the best search engine ever.
Thank you.
Why do we deify such an amateur as Sean Fanning? Hi, folks, I'm Seth Finklestein, and this is Tech Sunday.
Even the popular web site Slashdot has glorified Mr. Fanning. He is credited with starting Napster.com, a web site where people could search for and download more than 200 illegally copied songs without giving consideration to the copyright owner. First of all, that's against the law. Second of all, he didn't invent the technology of file sharing.
We'll be right back after this message. Have you discovered the thrill of shopping at eBay? eBay, the world's largest auction site, lets you bid on everything you want. Just go to www.eBay.com. Good luck!
We're back on Tech Sunday. I'm Seth Finklestein. Now, I don't mean to brag, but I've been using computers since the 1980s (that's right, I said *'80s*) and I've never taken a computer class in my life. I do, however, know how to use the Internet File Transfer Protocol, or iFTP, to download files. Let's look at a sample session with iFTP.
Now, Shawn Fanning basically made an FTP client that uses pictures instead of words. Some of those pictures, in fact, represent advertising -- the one thing that the World Wide Web was designed to prevent! Furthermore, unlike iFTP, Fanning did not open the source to his Napster.com. For all you know, Napster.com could have used your personal information for advertising or something even worse, like marketing.
I'm Seth Finklestein, and this has been Tech Sunday. If you'd like a transcript of this broadcast, send $5 to jellicle@inch.com.
Here's what I do to the RIAA. As a professional cybersecurity mastermind, I know how to take down info-terrorists like Mattel, Michael Sims, and the RIAA.
See this?
Kiss it. Kiss it long, and kiss it hard.
We all know that Michael Sims is trying to cover his extremely gay ass by trying to defend his status as what the Germans call a "confirmed bachelor."
Paul Lynde was a confirmed bachelor and took his own life through substance abuse. Why don't you do the same, Michael? After all, you took the life of my web site...
Except that if you and 1,000,000 friends buy the box but blah blah blah wank wank wank fap fap
Does my argument have holes? Sure.
Since when does the average Slashdot user have 1,000 friends? Most users don't have any.
Own me! Own me now.
Its easy to vote with your dollars if you dive to other sites as soon as you get a "Site Requirement: Macromedia Flash" message...
Actually, it isn't easy. Whiny Linux-using hippies like yourself don't have any dollars to vote with. You wasted all your money buying Xboxes (Xboxen!!!!11 roffle!!111 PENNY ARCAED) to mod.
Also, I hear the rent in your parents' basement is pretty low...
Good choice! I always use michael@slashdot.org wherever possible. I would also recommend using Michael's "real" e-mail address, jellicle@inch.com .
Thank you, Mr. Anonymous Coward, for making the world a less friendly place for Michael Sims.
See also Bennett Haselton's comments on the hijacking and Jonathan Wallace's comments]
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 10:41:18 -0400
From: Seth Finkelstein
To: Seth Finkelstein's InfoThought list
Subject: IT: Federal censorware law down! (and Seth Finkelstein's reports!)
I'm ecstatic that the court seems to have used my pioneering efforts in anticensorware work as one factor in its decision, in passages such as these:
Another technique that filtering companies use in order to deal with a structural feature of the Internet is blocking the root level URLs of so-called loophole Web sites. These are Web sites that provide access to a particular Web page, but display in the user's browser a URL that is different from the URL with which the particular page is usually associated. Because of this feature, they provide a loophole that can be used to get around filtering software, i.e., they display a URL that is different from the one that appears on the filtering company's control list. Loophole Web sites include caches of Web pages that have been removed from their original location, anonymizer sites, and translation sites.
Caches are archived copies that some search engines, such as Google, keep of the Web pages they index. The cached copy stored by Google will have a URL that is different from the original URL. Because Web sites often change rapidly, caches are the only way to access pages that have been taken down, revised, or have changed their URLs for some reason. For example, a magazine might place its current stories under a given URL, and replace them monthly with new stories. If a user wanted to find an article published six months ago, he or she would be unable to access it if not for Google's cached version.
Some sites on the Web serve as a proxy or intermediary between a user and another Web page. When using a proxy server, a user does not access the page from its original URL, but rather from the URL of the proxy server. One type of proxy service is an anonymizer. Users may access Web sites indirectly via an anonymizer when they do not want the Web site they are visiting to be able to determine the IP address from which they are accessing the site, or to leave cookies on their browser.(8) Some proxy servers can be used to attempt to translate Web page content from one language to another. Rather than directly accessing the original Web page in its original language, users can instead indirectly access the page via a proxy server offering translation features.
As noted above, filtering companies often block loophole sites, such as caches, anonymizers, and translation sites. The practice of blocking loophole sites necessarily results in a significant amount of overblocking, because the vast majority of the pages that are cached, for example, do not contain content that would match a filtering company's category definitions. Filters that do not block these loophole sites, however, may enable users to access any URL on the Web via the loophole site, thus resulting in substantial underblocking.
This is an aspect which I've been trying to get into the censorware debate for ages. I'm overjoyed that the court heard, they got it, they listened, and it helped strike down Federal censorware law! These are the reports wh
We plan to file suit immediately.
Shut the dick up, cockbitch.
When you decided to become an atheist, all you did was abandon your religion. When a major company decides to adopt Linux, it decides to save millions of dollars in software and improve the community as a whole.
This is your head. (holds up a balloon)
This is reality. (holds up a pin)
This is your head in reality. (puts the pin away and shoots you in the head)
These days, I have been doing a lot of consulting for large companies. A lot of companies call me and ask, "Seth Finklestein, we want to get more for less."
"The solution," I answer with the sly wit of an open source expert, "is Linux."
You see, Linux outperforms all other competitors on bang for the buck. Just try to run Windows XP on a Pentium II 350. You can't. Now install Debian GNU/Linux with Blackbox as the window manager. It flies. You'd need to have at least 350 more megahertz to get even half the performance that Linux offers.
Furthermore, office software such as KOffice and OpenOffice.org requires far less of an investment than Microsoft Office. Why would I pay $400 per seat for MS Office, plus another few hundred every year for upgrades? OpenOffice.org is free, and I know it's secure because I can see the code. You want to see the code for Microsoft? Sorry, you're out of luck.
In conclusion, I predict that the technology buying slump will lead to a 100% annual growth rate for Linux, meaning that Linux will overtake Windows on the corporate desktop by 2007.
So, I see Michael Sims is at it again, spewing his "progressive" activist dreck in the futile hopes of being heard.
Slate
A Micro$oft publication. Hmm, don't see a conflict of interest there...
has a piece
It's an article, Michael. Don't diminish it by calling it a "piece." Your dick, for example, is a "piece."
about Harry Potter
Never read that awful book. I hear they just made a sequel, which I am also boycotting.
and copyright worldwide that is a disguised call for copyright reform.
Oh, really, Michael? You and your bleeding-heart liberal pansy "friends" plan to roam the world calling for copyright reform? Do tell me when you get to China. Oh, wait, you can't, because you're just sitting on your ass as always.
Well written, well argued, extremely good argument, won't be picked up anywhere else.
Translation: "I agree with this article. I agree with this article. I agree with this article. I'm better than you because I chose to link to this article on Slashdot."
Excuse me while I go puke on your ex-wife's bed, Michael Sims.
(1) rolled out Pocket PC 2003 (and renamed it);
Sorry, Mickey$oft, but you can't polish a turd. Pocket PCs will continue to BSOD all over the place, while my Apple Newton MessagePad will continue to function better than any other PDA on the market.
(2) unveiled a new "Windows Mobile" branding strategy; and
Don't you mean, "BSOD mobile"? That's all I wanted! "Sorry Fred, I meant to call you back, but my phone BSODed!"
(3) launched a collaboration with three leading high-speed wireless service providers to provide easier access to more than 3,500 Wi-Fi wireless "hot spots" by Windows-powered PDAs throughout the US.
Yawn. I can already do Wi-Fi with my Apple Newton MessagePad. And what the fuck does "Wi-Fi" mean? "Wireless Fidelity"? Give me a fxcking break!
Seth Fucklestein your mother is here say hi
Hi mom
PS did you get me those new sneakers that the doctor told you about? They might fix that foot problem im having
thanks
love,
your son seth
M$ is the suxor! Roffle lowell!
That's got to be the biggest Blue Screen of Death, in terms of resolution! I've never heard of any BSOD bigger!
Laugh, then mod me up, you Linux-using sheep!
A few years ago, the Censorware Project, one of the most important sites on the entire Internet, fell prey to the most grave injustice ever. Michael Sims, a pear-shaped mother's boy who lives in his parent's basement watching porn and wearing Adbusters t-shirts like he's some kind of counterculture revolutionary, took my web site and destroyed it. It was, in a word, goatse'ing.
I'd like to read from my journal about the prosecution that followed.
As I awoke at 8:15 AM on the day in question, my first item on the ol' agenda was to check on my web site, "The Censorware Project." I went to my computer, punched in www.censorware.org into Mozilla (not Internet Explorer) and depressed the "Enter" key on my computer's key-board.
"The Censorware Project," it said, "is now closed."
Knowing my rights, I immediately dialed 911. There, I spoke to some clueless cop. I don't even know whether he knew who I was (Seth Finklestein) or what a "web site" was. He was probably too busy eating doughnuts and watching Jerry Springer.
After that debacle, I immediately called the ACLU, the FBI, the CIA, and the Army Corps of Engineers. Nobody wanted to help me. Finally, I was forced to take Michael Sims to court. I sued him for murder in the second degree (a web site can't be considered a person, so I couldn't make him fry for his actions) and criminal negligence. Lawyers are just overpriced nerds, so I decided to represent myself.
The judge said the most ignorant, hateful words I have ever heard at the pre-trial hearing. "Your web site," she explained, "was not 'murdered.'" She even did the "air quotes" thing! She was talking down to me! Me, Seth Finklestein! I tried to yell back at her, but these awful Negroes dragged me out of the court room.
Now I sit here, at my high-paying job, plotting revenge. And you will get yours, Michael Sims. I guaran-fucking-tee it.
As a famous cybersecurity activist, you're already aware that I am the most important person keeping freedom alive on the Internet. For too long, I have been downloading nothing but filth, and ICANN has done nothing to help.
As a result, I am now boycotting the Internet. I urge you all to do the same. If we can show the Internet that we all want to boycott it, we can make a world of difference.
If it can be heard (audio), it will be recorded and it will be shared (not "stolen").
If it can be seen (video), it will be recorded and it will be shared.
Hi, I'm Seth Finklestein, famous cybersecurity expert. I'm here to talk to you about DRM: the silent killer.
Once upon a time, before Michael Sims became unconscionably evil, there were CDs, and they were good. Then along came MP3, and I was able to start boycotting CDs due to their high prices, instead showing my contempt for the recording industry by sharing (not "stealing") their product.
Then along came DVDs, and they were bad. However, DeCSS made them good, so now I can enjoy royalty-free, DRM-free entertainment from legitimate businesses like KaZaA Gold.
I predict that copy-protected CDs and DVDs will vanish. Furthermore, even if KaZaA Gold goes under, a replacement will come along.
With freedom and contempt,
Seth Finklestein.
I plan to download the ISOs for all games that I own or plan to own in the next few months. The reason for this is simple: as the owner of the games, I am entitled to a back-up copy in case the original is broken. Of course, most of you know me as a famous cybersecurity activist, but I'm also a father of two young boys. Young boys, as I'm sure you all know, love to place objects in their mouth, and my little scamps are no exception. I suspect that their adorable little mouths have cost me hundreds of dollars in replacement game-soft cartridges and disks.
In conclusion, this is a good thing, and it falls completely under the doctrine of Fair Use. If they are ever sued, I will take the case personally, pro bona.
My experiences with Canadian high school computers have been quite the opposite.
In 1999, I saw a Canadian computer powered by young Canadians emotions. The battery had two terminals. Connected to the '+' terminal was the Canadian students' love of American television, popular music, and motion pictures. Connected to the '-' terminal was the Canadian students' resentment of American politics and dominance of world affairs.
The computer received so much power, it exploded. When I asked the Canadian students why their computer broke, they blamed the Americans.