Sure. Where can we examine the source? Or the proprietary specifications? What makes you so certain there aren't DRM-frienly features in MS' next filesystem? Surely one of the goals is going to be to make it easier to hide data from the user in the filesystem as a stopgap until TCG-hobbled machines can get a foothold in the market.
Why shouldn't people be wary? Microsoft, Intel, and the like aren't going to be advertising the usefulness or inclusion of DRM in their products. So it's hardly surprising that "innovations" like this are met with suspicion.
I agree that we're all human, and I don't look at people from other races in terms of intelligence (or even of race, for that matter). But suppressing scientfic results in the name of political correctness is still anethma to me, even if those results could be twisted for racist ends.
If that's what the study shows, what is your issue with the methodology? Or is it that you couldn't bear that finding? Stereotypes don't just pop up out of thin air, they have at least a basis in truth.
Currently, the product liability would probably fall with the company who produced the artificial entity. And I can't imagine anyone wanting to take on that kind of potential liability. What we'll probably see rather than autopilot is computer assisted driving. But that will still be dangerous from a liability perspective and will be disclaimered to death. Can you imagine having to solve captchas to keep your car moving?
It's admirable that you want to make sure your job is taken care of, but if I had a brush with death, that would honestly be the last thing on my mind!
But the ratification process isn't necessarily a plebiscite in each state -- it's up to the individual legislatures. Which isn't as high a bar as needing majority votes of the people in 3/4 of the states. Of course, nothing stops some of the state legislatures from turning the matter over to a plebiscite in their individual states.
I hope the pure irony of a ban on flag burning in a country whose first enumerated right in its Bill of Rights is freedom of speech isn't lost on our leaders.
If the WGA check works under WINE on Linux, then Microsoft gets made fun of. If it doesn't, they're accused of anti-trust violations, malfeasance, and generally being bad.
You nailed it. XP is Windows 2000 with spyware and eye candy. Windows Vista will be Windows 2000 with even more spyware, even more eye candy, and intrusive DRM baked in through and through.
Not necessarily. Tenants have certain rights, too. For example, an apartment building in the U.S. can't forbid tenants from using satellite dishes out their windows or even make them ask permission. And common law doesn't likely give the airport a clearcut right to deny the tenant the use of a Federally unregulated piece of spectrum. Although I must admit that the airport's thinly veiled allusions to homeland security with respect to the issue are quite clever. Bullshit, but clever.
Bull. The real reason they stopped the program is because they realized they were giving a ten percent discount to people who were eating a bunch at Subway anyway. But they couldn't very well say that, and "widespread counterfeiting" makes a sympathetic story and good cover.
Except that a much higher proportion of the "folks enforcing the law" took their jobs for the power. Many of those that didn't still consider themselves above the laws they are supposed to enforce after awhile on the job.
Usenet is actually very vulnerable in that to get any recent stuff, one must subscribe to a "premium" (i.e. doesn't drop the warez and media groups) provider. I expect that soon one of these providers is going to be prosecuted, and that will be the end of premium news servers in the U.S. Next will come the clampdown on anyone subscribing to one offshore.
Exactly. Now that it's obvious they're just using the same cheap commodity hardware everyone else is, TCPA is the only way they can keep Macs as what they've always been: multi-thousand dollar dongles for Mac OS.
Will the cocksucking piece of shit who modded the parent down please dump a point on this post, too? I don't get it. Is it not censorship when a supposedly "enlightened" Western government's doing it?
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Sure. Where can we examine the source? Or the proprietary specifications? What makes you so certain there aren't DRM-frienly features in MS' next filesystem? Surely one of the goals is going to be to make it easier to hide data from the user in the filesystem as a stopgap until TCG-hobbled machines can get a foothold in the market.
Why shouldn't people be wary? Microsoft, Intel, and the like aren't going to be advertising the usefulness or inclusion of DRM in their products. So it's hardly surprising that "innovations" like this are met with suspicion.
I agree that we're all human, and I don't look at people from other races in terms of intelligence (or even of race, for that matter). But suppressing scientfic results in the name of political correctness is still anethma to me, even if those results could be twisted for racist ends.
If that's what the study shows, what is your issue with the methodology? Or is it that you couldn't bear that finding? Stereotypes don't just pop up out of thin air, they have at least a basis in truth.
At the time, at least, I think that was marketing-speak to get the "power users" to lust after a 386.
Currently, the product liability would probably fall with the company who produced the artificial entity. And I can't imagine anyone wanting to take on that kind of potential liability. What we'll probably see rather than autopilot is computer assisted driving. But that will still be dangerous from a liability perspective and will be disclaimered to death. Can you imagine having to solve captchas to keep your car moving?
. . . by humans at the wheel: acceptable risk. One death caused by a computer at the helm: lawsuit of Biblical proportions.
It's admirable that you want to make sure your job is taken care of, but if I had a brush with death, that would honestly be the last thing on my mind!
I hope the pure irony of a ban on flag burning in a country whose first enumerated right in its Bill of Rights is freedom of speech isn't lost on our leaders.
Apple's just another DMCA-wielding jackbooted thug, just like Blizzard, Diebold, and the like. Surprise, surprise.
Whoops -- my apologies, thought you were replying to me! Sorry.
Eat shit. And please note the +1 bonus.
If the WGA check works under WINE on Linux, then Microsoft gets made fun of. If it doesn't, they're accused of anti-trust violations, malfeasance, and generally being bad.
You nailed it. XP is Windows 2000 with spyware and eye candy. Windows Vista will be Windows 2000 with even more spyware, even more eye candy, and intrusive DRM baked in through and through.
Not necessarily. Tenants have certain rights, too. For example, an apartment building in the U.S. can't forbid tenants from using satellite dishes out their windows or even make them ask permission. And common law doesn't likely give the airport a clearcut right to deny the tenant the use of a Federally unregulated piece of spectrum. Although I must admit that the airport's thinly veiled allusions to homeland security with respect to the issue are quite clever. Bullshit, but clever.
Bull. The real reason they stopped the program is because they realized they were giving a ten percent discount to people who were eating a bunch at Subway anyway. But they couldn't very well say that, and "widespread counterfeiting" makes a sympathetic story and good cover.
Except that a much higher proportion of the "folks enforcing the law" took their jobs for the power. Many of those that didn't still consider themselves above the laws they are supposed to enforce after awhile on the job.
Usenet is actually very vulnerable in that to get any recent stuff, one must subscribe to a "premium" (i.e. doesn't drop the warez and media groups) provider. I expect that soon one of these providers is going to be prosecuted, and that will be the end of premium news servers in the U.S. Next will come the clampdown on anyone subscribing to one offshore.
Publicity. Stunt.
But what if someone patches your M rated Open Source project and then it's retroactively changed to AO?
Yeah, but by the time you add a monitor, keyboard, reasonable amount of RAM, a hard disk faster than 4200 RPM, and a proper two button mouse . . . :)
Nice. Look who's talking. And can the tired comparison of Macs to BMWs. It's bullshit and you know it.
Exactly. Now that it's obvious they're just using the same cheap commodity hardware everyone else is, TCPA is the only way they can keep Macs as what they've always been: multi-thousand dollar dongles for Mac OS.
Of course, the Apple aplogist brigade will say they've always said that DRM and Treacherous Computing were A-OK with them.
Will the cocksucking piece of shit who modded the parent down please dump a point on this post, too? I don't get it. Is it not censorship when a supposedly "enlightened" Western government's doing it?