That's good to hear. The last time I visited (admittedly, some time ago), only Real (ugh) and Windows Media DRM Edition (9 IIRC) were available. An email to suggest the use of more open formats was blown off with a boilerplate reply, after which I became a non-contributor.
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China is where the "bullet-proof hosting" services are mostly housed. You can't shake a stick at a group of spamvertised sites without hitting Chinanet. The emails themselves don't come from China because lots of intelligent mail admins block the whole country.
No one will dare publish interesting rumors, even if they're not legally protected trade secrets, unless they're either judgment-proof or have their own pack of snarling lawyers.
Within weeks from the first iPod appearing there, the hack to remove this limitation went widely diffused over internet...
As it should be. The state shouldn't be limiting people's freedom to do something that harms no one but themselves. Laws like that one, seat belt and helmet laws, and the like, only perpetuate the idea of state in loco parentis and in a few generations will make people even more dependent and unproductive.
Surely the prosecution didn't get a conviction on a discarded drive? Any comptetent defense attorney could argue that anyone could have had custody of that drive between the time it was discarded and the time it was analyzed!
You're not looking back in the history far enough. And you're obviously karma whoring, while I'm obviously not, yet we both post at 2. What does that say about you?
I'm posting this at 2 to piss you off. Please go fuck yourself, you budding little network Nazi, you, and after you're done, see someone about your anger issues.
What I love about you guys is that you're so easy to troll. Fact is, if you leave the people with a clue alone, we won't cause you problems. But if you start with that lockdown crap, we will agitate by whatever means--and it'll be subtle--to erode the power you've usurped. And remember, it isn't your machine either, unless you personally own the company.
No one remote controls my machine. Especially not one of the minions of the helpless desk. And if eye-tee ever gets that degree of control at my company, I'll find one where the business people are in control, not the techs.
And if those power-tripping weenies ever lock down my workstation, I'll have them at my desk every time anything needs admin privileges. And I'll ensure that happens a lot. And since I'm being treated like a dumb user, I'll have them go over changing the margins in Word for me while they're there, too. These computator thingies are so complicated. And if they try being obstructionist, into my boss' office I go.
I'm the admin of my box, and it is my responsibility. "They" are free to lock me down the minute I cause them in any work. Hasn't happened in my ten years with the company. So keep your grubby mitts off my box.
So power-tripping network Nazis don't get any respect and get gone around when they mess with people senior to them. Did you know the Pope's Catholic, too?
The cartridges that come with the printers have very little ink in them. They call them "starter cartridges" or something of the like. So while the printer with ink installed is cheaper, it's probably not cheaper per milliliter of ink.
There are numerous and known security problems with the credit card processing system as it exists today. The card companies have decided that it's cheaper to live with those problems than to fix them, leaving merchants and consumers to bear the cost.
In any case, whether the policy on Visa's part is ridiculous or not, it does exist. (MasterCard has the same policy. American Express does not--they allow merchants to check ID at their discretion. Don't know about Discover.)
With respect to Best Buy, it's pretty much a moot point for me because I go out of my way to avoid merchants who have their customers arrested for comparision shopping, using two dollar bills, or daring to demand an item for its advertised price, all of which Best Buy has done. Violating their merchant agreement is the least of their offenses. I hope the store you work for has more ethical management than the ones that have made the press.
I didn't dispute rights or lack thereof, just the practicality of enforcement of them. Do you plan to file suit against someone who copies or links your images? Or are you just going to suck it up? One option is expensive, the other practical. (Or if someone were using the images on your server, I suppose you could replace then with goatse.)
Unrelated, it's ridiculous, with an i, in case that wasn't a typo.
Theoretically, that's true. But in the real world, you have to go to court to enforce a copyright. And if you want to keep your precious "content" locked up, it's much more practical to keep it off the WWW to begin with.
So a cashier from Best Buy knows all about Visa policy? Just because Best Buy routinely violates the policy through ignorant employees doesn't mean the policy doesn't exist.
. . . will just the drive be disabled? Or will the DRM gods take out your whole PS3 as just compensation for daring to defy their digital restrictions management/regional price scam schemes?
Still no negotiation. Still imposed at the point of sale. Still someone trying to control an item that has been sold after the fact. If they want to collect a "bottle deposit" on the cartridges, that's fine--but to impose restrictions on the use of a physical item is bogus.
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That's good to hear. The last time I visited (admittedly, some time ago), only Real (ugh) and Windows Media DRM Edition (9 IIRC) were available. An email to suggest the use of more open formats was blown off with a boilerplate reply, after which I became a non-contributor.
China is where the "bullet-proof hosting" services are mostly housed. You can't shake a stick at a group of spamvertised sites without hitting Chinanet. The emails themselves don't come from China because lots of intelligent mail admins block the whole country.
No one will dare publish interesting rumors, even if they're not legally protected trade secrets, unless they're either judgment-proof or have their own pack of snarling lawyers.
Would you like a schmoke and a pancake?
As it should be. The state shouldn't be limiting people's freedom to do something that harms no one but themselves. Laws like that one, seat belt and helmet laws, and the like, only perpetuate the idea of state in loco parentis and in a few generations will make people even more dependent and unproductive.
Well, not necessarily hand in hand.
Surely the prosecution didn't get a conviction on a discarded drive? Any comptetent defense attorney could argue that anyone could have had custody of that drive between the time it was discarded and the time it was analyzed!
You're not looking back in the history far enough. And you're obviously karma whoring, while I'm obviously not, yet we both post at 2. What does that say about you?
Seig Heil, mein network Nazi Obergruppenstraumbfuhrer.
I'm posting this at 2 to piss you off. Please go fuck yourself, you budding little network Nazi, you, and after you're done, see someone about your anger issues.
This would be more likely to work if the keyboard is only used for typing passwords :).
What I love about you guys is that you're so easy to troll. Fact is, if you leave the people with a clue alone, we won't cause you problems. But if you start with that lockdown crap, we will agitate by whatever means--and it'll be subtle--to erode the power you've usurped. And remember, it isn't your machine either, unless you personally own the company.
No one remote controls my machine. Especially not one of the minions of the helpless desk. And if eye-tee ever gets that degree of control at my company, I'll find one where the business people are in control, not the techs.
Hear, hear. Having been extensively bullied during childhood doesn't give these guys the right to go around lording it over office workers.
And if those power-tripping weenies ever lock down my workstation, I'll have them at my desk every time anything needs admin privileges. And I'll ensure that happens a lot. And since I'm being treated like a dumb user, I'll have them go over changing the margins in Word for me while they're there, too. These computator thingies are so complicated. And if they try being obstructionist, into my boss' office I go.
I'm the admin of my box, and it is my responsibility. "They" are free to lock me down the minute I cause them in any work. Hasn't happened in my ten years with the company. So keep your grubby mitts off my box.
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The cartridges that come with the printers have very little ink in them. They call them "starter cartridges" or something of the like. So while the printer with ink installed is cheaper, it's probably not cheaper per milliliter of ink.
For not requiring streaming of the show in a DRM format. It's exactly what taxpayer and donor subsidized entities should be doing. NPR, take note.
In any case, whether the policy on Visa's part is ridiculous or not, it does exist. (MasterCard has the same policy. American Express does not--they allow merchants to check ID at their discretion. Don't know about Discover.)
With respect to Best Buy, it's pretty much a moot point for me because I go out of my way to avoid merchants who have their customers arrested for comparision shopping, using two dollar bills, or daring to demand an item for its advertised price, all of which Best Buy has done. Violating their merchant agreement is the least of their offenses. I hope the store you work for has more ethical management than the ones that have made the press.
Unrelated, it's ridiculous, with an i, in case that wasn't a typo.
Theoretically, that's true. But in the real world, you have to go to court to enforce a copyright. And if you want to keep your precious "content" locked up, it's much more practical to keep it off the WWW to begin with.
So a cashier from Best Buy knows all about Visa policy? Just because Best Buy routinely violates the policy through ignorant employees doesn't mean the policy doesn't exist.
. . . will just the drive be disabled? Or will the DRM gods take out your whole PS3 as just compensation for daring to defy their digital restrictions management/regional price scam schemes?
Still no negotiation. Still imposed at the point of sale. Still someone trying to control an item that has been sold after the fact. If they want to collect a "bottle deposit" on the cartridges, that's fine--but to impose restrictions on the use of a physical item is bogus.