Personally, I think it'd be a great spoof to make a "Herbal Essences" commercial with like a 70 year old grandma. I don't think I could stand to watch it, but other peoples' disgust would be funny.
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This is a serious suggestion. Don't report it, just pick classes at random each semester and fail all the students in them. 10 or so should be enough. The administration will freak out, and they will get the company's attention for you. Use an anonymous remailer to tell the company where the problem is, but never release any exploit code.
The fact is, with this sort of thing, the squeaky wheel gets whacked with a sack of doorknobs.
An important distinction. You would think that idiots would be more inclined to give their money to someone, but quite often it is the entire concept of paying for services that is the barrier.
Good point. For this price-fixing scheme to work, the companies will have to get rid of "property" and simply grant you licences to use everything that you buy.
People have a tendancy to abuse the privledges they are given. People will use the IM anytime they feel the urge to communcate with someone else. This has a tendancy to turn 15 minute breaks into 30 minute breaks and 1/2 hour lunches into 2 hour lunches.
The same argument could easily be applied to the telephone, or to email, or to face-to-face conversations.
Let's see, if it doesn't require a special key, and you steal the whole computer (which is likely, compared to just stealing the hard drive), then you can read the data. Furthermore, assuming this computer will "work", what is to stop you from sharing the data. Strange claims, but this technology could be useful for other purposes. Encrypted CD-R's which can only be read on a specific computer, for example.
I agree. I think you have to give Microsoft a lot of credit for continually trying ideas which are ahead of their time. How many times they've tried to make Pen Computing a reality ? Three or four ? We all know it's going to work sooner or later, yet here is Microsoft spending their time and money trying to make it work now. Even if they never actually get it right, whoever eventually does will have benefitted from their efforts.
The only lousy part about this process is that sometimes Microsoft's ideas really are bad, and then we are tortured with them over and over again. BTW, Slashdotters will probably find this site very amusing.
Honestly, having one giant frag fest with everyone getting splattered every 30 seconds is fun... to a point. I really miss good old four player deathmatch in Doom (and to a lesser extent, Doom 2). It had a slower, carefully paced game: hunting people down, conserving resources, and trying to outflank people to get the drop on them. The tension in these games would build and build, especially if your opponents knew you were weak or low on ammo. It made for an altogether different style of deathmatch game which has never really been revisited (except System Shock 2 ?). I hope Doom 3 will move back towards this style of multiplayer, with cooperative play as well. I really miss cooperative play.
1993: Playboy Enterprises Inc. v. Frena
The Florida Northern District Court held that Frena, an electronic bulletin board operator, had violated Playboy's copyright when one of their photographs was digitized and placed on the bulletin board system by one subscriber and downloaded by another subscriber. According to the decision, "it does not matter that Defendant Frena may have been unaware of the copyright infringement. Intent to infringe is not needed to find copyright infringement. Intent or knowledge is not an element of infringement, and thus even an innocent infringer is liable for infringement; rather innocence is significant to a trial court when it fixes statutory damages, which is a remedy equitable in nature."
Or, since Intertrust is owned by Sony, they'll make it cheap, and a unified DRM standard will arrive much sooner than in a free market. Of course for the lack of competition this DRM system could also be weaker, that would be a small consolidation prize.
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Personally, I think it'd be a great spoof to make a "Herbal Essences" commercial with like a 70 year old grandma. I don't think I could stand to watch it, but other peoples' disgust would be funny.
And chatting to those very same people, no doubt.
This is fucking great, someone mod this up
This is a serious suggestion. Don't report it, just pick classes at random each semester and fail all the students in them. 10 or so should be enough. The administration will freak out, and they will get the company's attention for you. Use an anonymous remailer to tell the company where the problem is, but never release any exploit code.
The fact is, with this sort of thing, the squeaky wheel gets whacked with a sack of doorknobs.
"Homer, that was an episode of Happy Days!"
As a Gentoo fanatic, I do this monthly, which is roughly the amount of time it takes to finish.
1999-2000 : Thwarted Evil Diabolical Plan
An important distinction. You would think that idiots would be more inclined to give their money to someone, but quite often it is the entire concept of paying for services that is the barrier.
You never know. They might just have a second 1.0 release in a couple of hours, since the editors are so lazy and all.
Did they tell you that you were to be replaced "by this new guy who just applied" ?
Actually, Windows XP tries to upgrade you here in America. I can only assume that in Soviet Russia, you upgrade Windows XP.
Good point. For this price-fixing scheme to work, the companies will have to get rid of "property" and simply grant you licences to use everything that you buy.
How did this get modded troll ? I think it's pretty insightful.
People have a tendancy to abuse the privledges they are given. People will use the IM anytime they feel the urge to communcate with someone else. This has a tendancy to turn 15 minute breaks into 30 minute breaks and 1/2 hour lunches into 2 hour lunches.
The same argument could easily be applied to the telephone, or to email, or to face-to-face conversations.
Great, let's propose MORE government to solve a problem that was created by government in the first place.
Boy, that sounds remarkably similar to what we do with technology !
Let's see, if it doesn't require a special key, and you steal the whole computer (which is likely, compared to just stealing the hard drive), then you can read the data. Furthermore, assuming this computer will "work", what is to stop you from sharing the data. Strange claims, but this technology could be useful for other purposes. Encrypted CD-R's which can only be read on a specific computer, for example.
A necessary part of this country, but not a f**king tradition the family with 2.3 kids would participate in.
Apparently not, since they are missing 0.7 of a kid.
I agree. I think you have to give Microsoft a lot of credit for continually trying ideas which are ahead of their time. How many times they've tried to make Pen Computing a reality ? Three or four ? We all know it's going to work sooner or later, yet here is Microsoft spending their time and money trying to make it work now. Even if they never actually get it right, whoever eventually does will have benefitted from their efforts.
The only lousy part about this process is that sometimes Microsoft's ideas really are bad, and then we are tortured with them over and over again. BTW, Slashdotters will probably find this site very amusing.
Fly By Night by Rush is terrible.
So what's that got to do with ALSA ?
Honestly, having one giant frag fest with everyone getting splattered every 30 seconds is fun... to a point. I really miss good old four player deathmatch in Doom (and to a lesser extent, Doom 2). It had a slower, carefully paced game: hunting people down, conserving resources, and trying to outflank people to get the drop on them. The tension in these games would build and build, especially if your opponents knew you were weak or low on ammo. It made for an altogether different style of deathmatch game which has never really been revisited (except System Shock 2 ?). I hope Doom 3 will move back towards this style of multiplayer, with cooperative play as well. I really miss cooperative play.
Yet it's front page news with cheering and gloating if IBM pays them off to say Linux is good.
That creates problems as soon as someone contributes code to the GPL version. What then ?
Check out this site and skip down to 1993.
1993: Playboy Enterprises Inc. v. Frena
The Florida Northern District Court held that Frena, an electronic bulletin board operator, had violated Playboy's copyright when one of their photographs was digitized and placed on the bulletin board system by one subscriber and downloaded by another subscriber. According to the decision, "it does not matter that Defendant Frena may have been unaware of the copyright infringement. Intent to infringe is not needed to find copyright infringement. Intent or knowledge is not an element of infringement, and thus even an innocent infringer is liable for infringement; rather innocence is significant to a trial court when it fixes statutory damages, which is a remedy equitable in nature."
Actually, up until 1891 : "American publishers continued to regard the work of a foreign (i. e., non-resident) author as unprotected 'common' property.". So the US basically inherited the works of western civilization copyright-free.
Slightly unrelated, but you may also want to check out this site for a history of American copyright law.
Or, since Intertrust is owned by Sony, they'll make it cheap, and a unified DRM standard will arrive much sooner than in a free market. Of course for the lack of competition this DRM system could also be weaker, that would be a small consolidation prize.