Sadly, all I can do is send a complaint to the company because copy protections aren't exactly printed on the packaging, and stores don't take returns.
You do have an alternative (assuming you're in the U.S. buying a game from a B&M merchant within 50 miles of your home).
Pay with a credit card. If you have a game that won't run acceptably due to intrusive protection, take it to the store and ask them to take it back. Sure, they'll refuse. But now you have "tried in good faith to settle the problem with the merchant."
Now send a letter to your credit card company stating the problem, and that you have tried unsuccessfully to solve it with the merchant, and that in accordance with the Fair Credit Billing Act, you dispute the charge. You will very likely get a refund. Even if you don't, you've cost that merchant a fee and another hit against his merchant account's reputation that's going to make him think twice before refusing such a return or stocking that manufacturer's wares in the future.
Sounds like Tunebite is just the sort of tool that is going to get the hammer as a result of the erosion of the Betamax precedent. Let's see . . . a program that's sole purpose is to help users of music rental service violate their licenses that costs money. Infringement tool? Check. Commercial? Check. Hope the authors enjoy prison.
Those obscene damage awards, while doing little for the consumers but lots for attorneys, do accomplish one important thing: deterrence. So it's a win-win. The lawyers get paid, and the people who bought the DRM-infected CDs don't have to come up with the money to hire a lawyer to sue.
. . . so capitalism is best with perfect information. Wal*Mart no doubt would like as close to perfect information about its customers and what they might be willing to pay in a given market. But they cry foul when the tables are turned and their policies of discriminatory pricing based on region and neighboorhood might be in jeapordy. Go figure.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio today. Famed astronomer and scientist Copernicus was found dead in his cathedral tomb today. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an heliocentric icon.
Enabling comments is a no-win. If he deletes spam, people will cry that they were censored. If he leaves the spam up, he's not minding the store. I wouldn't enable comments either, if I were he. An no, I'm neither a Republican nor a neocon.
Not saying I agree or disagree, just saying how it will probably go down.
Then how come this is the third post I've seen of yours with that same self-righteous teetotaling tone (e.g. "dangerous drug" in another post)? That's fine that you don't want to drink. It's fine that you don't want others to drink, but you have no right to force them not to.
The law doesn't say you can't have a drink at all and drive; it says there is a specific (and quite low) blood alcohol content that has to be proven to consitute "driving while intoxicated." This isn't a matter of whether the state is "sympathetic," it's a simple matter that there's doubt as to the guy's guilt because of the closed nature of the measuring device and lack of independent verification of its accuracy.
And I assume Cisco wants some $ per seat, as well--that may be the biggest barrier of all in most places against this next step (client attestation) towards a locked-down Trusted Computing environment.
That is exactly how it's going to be introduced -- first, as a voluntary measure to "help find missing kids." (Never mind that someone evil enough to kidnap a kid is probably evil enough to cut out the chip.) In a few generations, these things will be as ubiquitous as social security numbers, and if not outright mandatory, those that refuse them will be ostracized as tax protestors and/or tinfoil hat-wearing kooks.
The only thing that is stopping it right now is the religious base of the current party in power in the U.S.--Revelation 13:17 describes this sort of thing as a less than positive development.
. . . the rich and powerful never minded when public information was available, so long as it was only available to the elite. Now that it's available to everyone, it's a problem that the alcalde's property tax bill, what cars he owns, and, yes, pictures of his palatial estate, are available to all comers on the in-tar-web.
What "information warfare?".com is a de facto U.S. domain..ir is wide open for business without risk of interference from the Great Satan United States. The mullahs, though, might still be a problem for them.
The RIAA's going to have to walk carefully in the middle of a road between suing people who are judgement proof, but who might receive pro bono representation and suing the rich or connected who can afford to fight. Anything that throws a monkey wrench in their efforts to maintain their distribution monopoly is a good thing.
Easy. You're a middle-aged nostalgist who knows about computers, and you like Buffalo wings. You know you need to work out but haven't quite gotten around to it. You're looking at changing jobs. Your wife is religious.
The scary thing is it doesn't matter if these conclusions are wrong--just the fact that there's a dossier on each of us that is inevitably going to be sold (think of what value some prospective employers or insurers would place on these kind of data, for example).
MAC spoofing isn't hard at all, though. (Unless you have a Powerbook--Apple's attempted to stop their users from changing wireless MACs, but there are some kernel hacks out there that get around it for newer PBs.)
. . . unfortunate incidents are blown out of proportion or even engineered by the IT establishment at these colleges as a ploy for more authority and better funding. Whether or not that's the case, it'll certainly be the result.
You would think it would be just the opposite, that they would be held even more harshly accountable because they should know better. But often, eye-tee is the fox in charge of the chicken coop, as in your workplace. Indeed nice work if you can get it:).
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You do have an alternative (assuming you're in the U.S. buying a game from a B&M merchant within 50 miles of your home).
Pay with a credit card. If you have a game that won't run acceptably due to intrusive protection, take it to the store and ask them to take it back. Sure, they'll refuse. But now you have "tried in good faith to settle the problem with the merchant."
Now send a letter to your credit card company stating the problem, and that you have tried unsuccessfully to solve it with the merchant, and that in accordance with the Fair Credit Billing Act, you dispute the charge. You will very likely get a refund. Even if you don't, you've cost that merchant a fee and another hit against his merchant account's reputation that's going to make him think twice before refusing such a return or stocking that manufacturer's wares in the future.
Sounds like Tunebite is just the sort of tool that is going to get the hammer as a result of the erosion of the Betamax precedent. Let's see . . . a program that's sole purpose is to help users of music rental service violate their licenses that costs money. Infringement tool? Check. Commercial? Check. Hope the authors enjoy prison.
Those obscene damage awards, while doing little for the consumers but lots for attorneys, do accomplish one important thing: deterrence. So it's a win-win. The lawyers get paid, and the people who bought the DRM-infected CDs don't have to come up with the money to hire a lawyer to sue.
. . . so capitalism is best with perfect information. Wal*Mart no doubt would like as close to perfect information about its customers and what they might be willing to pay in a given market. But they cry foul when the tables are turned and their policies of discriminatory pricing based on region and neighboorhood might be in jeapordy. Go figure.
Mod parent up--that's the skinny on accredidation from someone who knows of what he speaks.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio today. Famed astronomer and scientist Copernicus was found dead in his cathedral tomb today. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an heliocentric icon.
. . . will require downloading the .NET runtime.
Enabling comments is a no-win. If he deletes spam, people will cry that they were censored. If he leaves the spam up, he's not minding the store. I wouldn't enable comments either, if I were he. An no, I'm neither a Republican nor a neocon.
Then how come this is the third post I've seen of yours with that same self-righteous teetotaling tone (e.g. "dangerous drug" in another post)? That's fine that you don't want to drink. It's fine that you don't want others to drink, but you have no right to force them not to.
The law doesn't say you can't have a drink at all and drive; it says there is a specific (and quite low) blood alcohol content that has to be proven to consitute "driving while intoxicated." This isn't a matter of whether the state is "sympathetic," it's a simple matter that there's doubt as to the guy's guilt because of the closed nature of the measuring device and lack of independent verification of its accuracy.
And I assume Cisco wants some $ per seat, as well--that may be the biggest barrier of all in most places against this next step (client attestation) towards a locked-down Trusted Computing environment.
Ah -- thanks. Guess using Google's better than asking the gun dealer!
What would be an example of a "wrong question" that would result in an "otherwise upstanding citizen" not being sold a gun?
The only thing that is stopping it right now is the religious base of the current party in power in the U.S.--Revelation 13:17 describes this sort of thing as a less than positive development.
. . . the rich and powerful never minded when public information was available, so long as it was only available to the elite. Now that it's available to everyone, it's a problem that the alcalde's property tax bill, what cars he owns, and, yes, pictures of his palatial estate, are available to all comers on the in-tar-web.
What "information warfare?" .com is a de facto U.S. domain. .ir is wide open for business without risk of interference from the Great Satan United States. The mullahs, though, might still be a problem for them.
The RIAA's going to have to walk carefully in the middle of a road between suing people who are judgement proof, but who might receive pro bono representation and suing the rich or connected who can afford to fight. Anything that throws a monkey wrench in their efforts to maintain their distribution monopoly is a good thing.
Someone in the U.S. should be able to whack their DNS, at least. Last I checked, the root servers for .com weren't in Iran.
Now jamming WiFi frequencies will be a standard procedure at protest sites.
Or just convert it from the Ghostscript GUI. No command line necessary.
The scary thing is it doesn't matter if these conclusions are wrong--just the fact that there's a dossier on each of us that is inevitably going to be sold (think of what value some prospective employers or insurers would place on these kind of data, for example).
Or licenses! Remember the "donations" to schools as part of their slap-on-the-wrist anti-trust settlement.
MAC spoofing isn't hard at all, though. (Unless you have a Powerbook--Apple's attempted to stop their users from changing wireless MACs, but there are some kernel hacks out there that get around it for newer PBs.)
. . . will be available on a Trusted-Computing "Enhanced" machine that's "Certified for Vista." Welcome to DRM dystopia.
. . . unfortunate incidents are blown out of proportion or even engineered by the IT establishment at these colleges as a ploy for more authority and better funding. Whether or not that's the case, it'll certainly be the result.
You would think it would be just the opposite, that they would be held even more harshly accountable because they should know better. But often, eye-tee is the fox in charge of the chicken coop, as in your workplace. Indeed nice work if you can get it :).