...because when PD starts spreading like VD, I can't WAIT for the covers of Time, Life, PC Rag, et. al., to read "Palladium Security Holes, Millions Affected."
Look at IIS and tell me that PD will not be as hole-icious as a good swiss cheese. The new Apple stores that are popping up will be selling 25inch iMacs with iTunes6 and 100GB iPods in a few years... and I SERIOUSLY, after so many years of Windoze, I might Switch(TM) real soon. I've been in the game, if your can call it that, since DOS 3.0 (saved allowance to get 3.11 if you can believe that! Little geek I was) and I want out. Soon, after Joe-Home-User looses his Citibank account cash because of some PD bugs and security issues, the general public will want to Switch(TM) too. Either to Mac or *nix, but it WILL happen. So I can't wait for PD to come out. I want a good laugh, and we are all gonna get it.
Do we want 100 year old designs, or brand new ones? Even if anyone would want to, or could, rebuild after such a hyperthetical situation. Regardless, the quote below applies most sincerely to the aforementioned question.
"Beautiful buildings are more that scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived works of art, using the best technology and inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind."
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Good point... although getting a pound of Coke(TM) accross the border is a lot harder than downloading something from a P2P network, or getting it from IRC. But yeah, that risk will still linger, and it *might* be enough to make all non-Slashdotters run out and plop down cash for obsolete technology (CD's and DVD's, when compared to iPods and PVR's and hard drives full of divx than can be played on demand, etc).
Buy yeah, lots-o-risk can remain, and might be getting worse. Especially with laws that might allow the **IA to DoS our little boxen.
YES! I AM SCREAMING IN CAPS! Don't worry fellow peeps, this is what I believe and why I can now sleep at night. Think about this: They can't keep cocaine, extacy, pot, crack, etc off the streets at ALL. It is easier for a 15 year old to buy POT that it is for that 15 year old to buy alcohol or cigs at a supermarket.
No matter what laws get passed, copying programs will always be arround. DeCSS workes on the first DVD ever made, and it works on every one in BlockBuster(TM) you can find. No matter what they try and stop, we will always be allowed to download our South Park(TM) episoes and watch it when WE want, not just on Wed's at 10:00pm EST. We will always have control.
IF THEY CAN'T GET CRACK OFF THE STREET, DO YOU REALLY THINK THEY WILL GET THE RECORD BUTTON OUT OF YOUR LIVING ROOM! SLEEP EASY!:)
Do you mean all those artsy-fartsy self-indulgent Hollywood a$$holes might be in trouble? Oh no!
From the Director to the "stars" to the intern who gets coffee for the assistant key grip, I could care less if they all choked on their matzo soup infront of their families the night before a big movie opening. I hope CGI turns that industry upside down, maybe the RI@@ will be too busy then to bother hacking our boxen.
So *some people* buy these XBoxen(TM) and Micro$oft looses a few hunderd on each box, and then they don't recoup money selling their games because *some people* use the box to play their MP3's and run Linux and have an all around fun time without buying games? Hehe... that's got me goin' like tickle-me-elmo.
I wonder if THAT could run, oh nevermind. It looks nothing like a penguin anyway.
Listen... when I can get my Laptop (Windoze OR MacOS X OR Linux) and sit in a Starbucks and browse at cable modem speed for $40/month, call me. Until then, you can keep your crappy prices and crappy content.
***Screenshot from a Sprint 3G Cellphone***
(1) Weather
(2) News
(3) Pr0n
(3) Sport Scores
(4) Get AOL Now!
*********
Is THAT the reason I want wireless web at any speed on my cellphone?
I really respect the achievement. And then my active mind realizes that, in 2010, how much better will that little plane be? Good enough for drug trafficers to move those things accross the atlantic. 11 pounds (weight) of Extacy (a drug that is a little pill, for those who don't know) is a LOT of $$$ and can you tell me NORAD or similar type of costal radar arrays can track that thing? The stealh bomber was cosidered invisible because it was the size of a bird or small model plane. Well this thing is the size of...
So seriously, someone tell me why, in 2010 (if not 8 years sooner) drug trafficers won't be using these things around the world for cross-country drug moving? The US coast guard is good at catching planes, but a model plane can fly in anywhere, as is practically "stealth" by comparison (size, noise, heat sig). With GPS worldwide, and even more accurate in USA (due to localized removals of accuracy-blocking) it can land on the beach at 3:00am for a pickup. NUTS!
In order for them to have success, they must have a standard. Imagine EVERY dvd player having a different standard? Just having 3 standards with DVD-RW drives is making hell out of that market. This is the point I'm trying to make: once they decide on a DRM and put it in millions of homes, they can't turn back. Not for 1/2 a decade at least, anyway. Once the devices start appearing in stores, users et. al. grab the *fix* and it will work for years and years. Example, DeCSS worked the day it came out, and it STILL works on a DVD you can buy today, and will work on DVD's for YEARS to come.
And Slashdotterz are not the only ones who will know to pop onto Sourceforge and grab the *fix*. How do I know this? I've seen in schools kindergarten kids (5 years of age) using Dell Laptops and Instant Messaging and Internet Exploer. I'm proud of having used Z-Modem prototal and BBS's at age 10, but get ready, because a generation of uber-tech-savy consumers is growing up and when little-missy-8-year-old wants to watch Disney on whatever device she chooses, little-missy-8-year-old is gonna fuck!n find a way.
...thankx for the newz... uplifting... I do hope I stand corrected! I had no Idea the system was like that. WISH it was like that here in the United States of DRM.
"the court decided to postpone the trial to find a technology savvy judge."
My big worry is that a tech savy judge means nothing... other than the fact that it will cost Sony, RIAA et. al. twice as much cash to make up his mind.
Look at every other case that needed, or had, a "tech savy" judge. Might as well start installing Palladium Beta over my Suse 8.0 drive, 'cause resistance is... well...
I hate these times. I want my 2600 modem and BBS and NO LAMERZ on the line. Things were small and elite and I liked it that way. Things really suck now. Yeah, I love my Castle Wolfenstein, but I miss not having assholes get in the way of what i do once I'm on the copper wire.
So when some h@x0r CompSci major takes down a box, 30,000 students can't study or do homework. Greaaaaaaaaat. And we all know how secure Campus boxen are, right?
Sorry, but I'm not gonna keep ANY data on a hard drive that's opened up. It's hard enough avoiding bad HD's that are sealed (IBM and Maxtor drives have been known to have lots-o-problems). Everything about the mod is smart and shweet, but c'mon, don't fu$k with the HD... that's just dumb IMO. You really want to keep your work/skewl/pr0n on a drive like that?
Can someone smarter and less lazy than me post exactly WHY they backed off? And lets get this info out, posted, etc, so this does not become a one-and-only incident. If the reason was "good enough" it could be a way for others to stop this insanity.
Lets hope the goodness going on can/will reach the masses. And good luck to attendees. Hope you brought your fake ID's and smile for the Fed cameras that will be all over the place catalogging every pretty mug. Were a hat and glasses while you run Snort off your IPaqs, ok?
So how many people will Adobe(TM) arrest this time? I can't help the sarcasim when I feel so sad. From the days of Xmodem and BBS's to fighting DRM, Adobe, MS et. al to let information be free. Sad days indeed, but I look forward with keen eye to what comes out of their.
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Look at IIS and tell me that PD will not be as hole-icious as a good swiss cheese. The new Apple stores that are popping up will be selling 25inch iMacs with iTunes6 and 100GB iPods in a few years... and I SERIOUSLY, after so many years of Windoze, I might Switch(TM) real soon. I've been in the game, if your can call it that, since DOS 3.0 (saved allowance to get 3.11 if you can believe that! Little geek I was) and I want out. Soon, after Joe-Home-User looses his Citibank account cash because of some PD bugs and security issues, the general public will want to Switch(TM) too. Either to Mac or *nix, but it WILL happen. So I can't wait for PD to come out. I want a good laugh, and we are all gonna get it.
"Beautiful buildings are more that scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived works of art, using the best technology and inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind." -Frank Lloyd Wright
Good point... although getting a pound of Coke(TM) accross the border is a lot harder than downloading something from a P2P network, or getting it from IRC. But yeah, that risk will still linger, and it *might* be enough to make all non-Slashdotters run out and plop down cash for obsolete technology (CD's and DVD's, when compared to iPods and PVR's and hard drives full of divx than can be played on demand, etc).
Buy yeah, lots-o-risk can remain, and might be getting worse. Especially with laws that might allow the **IA to DoS our little boxen.
No matter what laws get passed, copying programs will always be arround. DeCSS workes on the first DVD ever made, and it works on every one in BlockBuster(TM) you can find. No matter what they try and stop, we will always be allowed to download our South Park(TM) episoes and watch it when WE want, not just on Wed's at 10:00pm EST. We will always have control.
IF THEY CAN'T GET CRACK OFF THE STREET, DO YOU REALLY THINK THEY WILL GET THE RECORD BUTTON OUT OF YOUR LIVING ROOM! SLEEP EASY! :)
Sorta' Good Privacy.
From the Director to the "stars" to the intern who gets coffee for the assistant key grip, I could care less if they all choked on their matzo soup infront of their families the night before a big movie opening. I hope CGI turns that industry upside down, maybe the RI@@ will be too busy then to bother hacking our boxen.
I wonder if THAT could run, oh nevermind. It looks nothing like a penguin anyway.
***Screenshot from a Sprint 3G Cellphone***
(1) Weather
(2) News
(3) Pr0n
(3) Sport Scores
(4) Get AOL Now!
*********
Is THAT the reason I want wireless web at any speed on my cellphone?
So seriously, someone tell me why, in 2010 (if not 8 years sooner) drug trafficers won't be using these things around the world for cross-country drug moving? The US coast guard is good at catching planes, but a model plane can fly in anywhere, as is practically "stealth" by comparison (size, noise, heat sig). With GPS worldwide, and even more accurate in USA (due to localized removals of accuracy-blocking) it can land on the beach at 3:00am for a pickup. NUTS!
And Slashdotterz are not the only ones who will know to pop onto Sourceforge and grab the *fix*. How do I know this? I've seen in schools kindergarten kids (5 years of age) using Dell Laptops and Instant Messaging and Internet Exploer. I'm proud of having used Z-Modem prototal and BBS's at age 10, but get ready, because a generation of uber-tech-savy consumers is growing up and when little-missy-8-year-old wants to watch Disney on whatever device she chooses, little-missy-8-year-old is gonna fuck!n find a way.
...thankx for the newz... uplifting... I do hope I stand corrected! I had no Idea the system was like that. WISH it was like that here in the United States of DRM.
My big worry is that a tech savy judge means nothing... other than the fact that it will cost Sony, RIAA et. al. twice as much cash to make up his mind.
Look at every other case that needed, or had, a "tech savy" judge. Might as well start installing Palladium Beta over my Suse 8.0 drive, 'cause resistance is... well...
I hate these times. I want my 2600 modem and BBS and NO LAMERZ on the line. Things were small and elite and I liked it that way. Things really suck now. Yeah, I love my Castle Wolfenstein, but I miss not having assholes get in the way of what i do once I'm on the copper wire.
So how many people will Adobe(TM) arrest this time? I can't help the sarcasim when I feel so sad. From the days of Xmodem and BBS's to fighting DRM, Adobe, MS et. al to let information be free. Sad days indeed, but I look forward with keen eye to what comes out of their.
Sony will stop their shills campain faster than you can say, "DRM can suck my n\/ts cause I'm running Linux".
How I need one of those chairs to sit and wait for the slashdotting to end, so I can see the chair.
How about a GUI that acts like a person.
Yeah, or better yet, a paper clip.