Sorry - too much Gin to make a more cogent comment.
The parent is right, but pretty much echos the sentiment of the original article... DRM isn't fooling anyone who wants to get around it.
Most bootleg content I have seen, I have deleted. No Backups, just gone.
Stuff that is worth owning is worth paying for, and I *own* plenty of it. I rip my own CDs and have no desire to have to re-do my work due to DRM restrictions - I make MP3 files of my own CDS, not WMA's, and certainly not DRM'ed WMA's... duh!
Isn't SpaceShipOne at least partially funded with Microsoft (Paul Allen) money?
[Saying this tongue-in-cheek (and who has to spell-check "cheek") as someone who forks lots of $$ over to MSFT every year for MSDN Universal subscriptions]
I for, one, welcome our billionaire overlords, if they fund fun stuff like this!
I guess, as an afterthought, if you need to do backups, the cost is worth it, and having higher density disks in no way changes the equation of what it is worth to do your backups.
for individuals, a new 400GB disk is good news. It just means normal folk will be able to affort two 250GB disks all that much sooner, and just keep redundand copies.
Disk drives are getting to be a commodity the loss of which shouldn't be much more disconcerting than the death of a VCR...
I have [off the top of my head] almost a TB of hdd spining in my house. Yet my backups generally fit on a DVD or two, some on CD-R's [Wife's system, my main system, my dev system, client computers, kid1 system, kid2 system, NAT drives.]
Much of what I have doesn't need a backup - is that not that case with most people?
A typical scenario is to build out a system, make an image backup to a DVD or two, depending on how many apps it has on it, then just keep backups of actual data. MP3s? I have 25GB - they don't change, they don't need backups. TV Shows recorded on my ATI wonder? No big loss, it's just TV. I make VCD's if I don't want to watch it on the computer. Home movies get put on DVD's... there are dozens of gigs laying around un-edited, in the "to-do" queue, but the original tapes are still around.
Would a hdd failure take time to recover from? Yes, but not the end of the world.
I agree, backups of large drives are a pain, and Image backups are the best, but how many people really have that much data that needs constant backups?
It is not bad for a geeks like us, but I guess most people don't really know where there data are.
Pop quiz - does your Dad know where is Outlook Express mail files and address book (.WAB file) are kept?
The second link mostly says "untried" and "illegal" - not "wouldn't work" or "bad idea".
The part where it says a one ton wieght burrows 50m into the sand with nary a trace sounds perfect to me. That ought to slow down the breakdown of the container. By the time it leaks you would have had thousands of years of cooling off, then it would still be covered in sand.
I know this doesn't sound very "green", but but rather than burying the waste on land somewhere and hoping it doesn't leak into the groundwater, get stolen by bad guys, etc. What is wrong with dropping it in some remote spot in the ocean?
In all seriousness, can't you take the same sort of containment precautions they take for land disposal, make a torpedo shape and drop it in a couple of miles of water in the middle of nowhere. I would imagine a several ton "bomb" would bury itself really deep in the muck (don't drop it where there are rocks;-)
Are there any suitable dumping spots? Muddy sea bottom far from land, in deep water? Are all ocean plates opening, or is there someplace where suitable that is also a subduction plate, as a further safe guard that the junk is going in the right direction to be recycled?
Even if you got some leakage, wouldn't it get dispersed so widely as to be "background" noise?
I usually deal with bits, so stuff as large as atomic particles are really not my thing. Please flame gently.
Mostly what people do is live and die. If your "work" makes it to a give-away disc o-music consider yourself lucky.
Most people who labor in a "service" market leave no mark. Most of the software I have written in my life doesn't or will not have any hardware to run it on any more.
If you get paid for your work and not copies of your work you will be better off in the long run, since, (to paraphrase), in the long run, we are all dead anyhow.
Enjoy what you do. Make a living at it if you are lucky, get wealthy at it if you are absurdly lucky.
It's kind of like the sotto voice fast talking disclaimer at the end of a humorous comercial for something or other - claiming "You just won one Billion Dollars!" One billion dollars paid 2 dollars a year for 500 million years.
Serious question - I think it is quite possible that export versions of software [from every country to any country] most likely have state sponsored backdoors installed. Does anyone know anything about this, or did y'all sign some NDA in blood?
In today's environment, I assume, even domestic software in the USA may have government suggested features as well, not that other countries haven't had it all along.
In my opinion, nothing has changed for decades, except the technology; e.g. if you are a "bad guy", they will find some way of watching you, if you are bad enough. For the tin-foil hatter's out there... consider this - there are too damn many people doing too damn much stuff for them to watch everone. Don't worry about it too much.
So, if I am a terrorist, all I have to do is have my name come up under some video game, or other innocuous topic [like slashdot postings] more often than fringe websites and usenet groups, and I'm free and clear with the Feds?
Slashdot Mirror
Thank god for the 60's
Most people will still buy stuff, as "needed" and those that won't, won't.
The parent is right, but pretty much echos the sentiment of the original article... DRM isn't fooling anyone who wants to get around it.
Most bootleg content I have seen, I have deleted. No Backups, just gone.
Stuff that is worth owning is worth paying for, and I *own* plenty of it. I rip my own CDs and have no desire to have to re-do my work due to DRM restrictions - I make MP3 files of my own CDS, not WMA's, and certainly not DRM'ed WMA's... duh!
I have never used "certification" as a qualifer when hiring.
I have never been certified and I earn a decent living (6 figures USD) in the software biz.
Q.E.D. (that's Latin for something or other that means "duh").
[Saying this tongue-in-cheek (and who has to spell-check "cheek") as someone who forks lots of $$ over to MSFT every year for MSDN Universal subscriptions]
I for, one, welcome our billionaire overlords, if they fund fun stuff like this!
for individuals, a new 400GB disk is good news. It just means normal folk will be able to affort two 250GB disks all that much sooner, and just keep redundand copies.
Disk drives are getting to be a commodity the loss of which shouldn't be much more disconcerting than the death of a VCR...
Yet my backups generally fit on a DVD or two, some on CD-R's [Wife's system, my main system, my dev system, client computers, kid1 system, kid2 system, NAT drives.]
Much of what I have doesn't need a backup - is that not that case with most people?
A typical scenario is to build out a system, make an image backup to a DVD or two, depending on how many apps it has on it, then just keep backups of actual data.
MP3s? I have 25GB - they don't change, they don't need backups.
TV Shows recorded on my ATI wonder? No big loss, it's just TV. I make VCD's if I don't want to watch it on the computer.
Home movies get put on DVD's... there are dozens of gigs laying around un-edited, in the "to-do" queue, but the original tapes are still around.
Would a hdd failure take time to recover from? Yes, but not the end of the world.
I agree, backups of large drives are a pain, and Image backups are the best, but how many people really have that much data that needs constant backups?
It is not bad for a geeks like us, but I guess most people don't really know where there data are.
Pop quiz - does your Dad know where is Outlook Express mail files and address book (.WAB file) are kept?
Alas, the rest of us are stuck with computers that suck.
No, I didn't RTFA, but if money is involved, sharks will circle.
lol
The part where it says a one ton wieght burrows 50m into the sand with nary a trace sounds perfect to me. That ought to slow down the breakdown of the container. By the time it leaks you would have had thousands of years of cooling off, then it would still be covered in sand.
In all seriousness, can't you take the same sort of containment precautions they take for land disposal, make a torpedo shape and drop it in a couple of miles of water in the middle of nowhere. I would imagine a several ton "bomb" would bury itself really deep in the muck (don't drop it where there are rocks ;-)
Are there any suitable dumping spots? Muddy sea bottom far from land, in deep water? Are all ocean plates opening, or is there someplace where suitable that is also a subduction plate, as a further safe guard that the junk is going in the right direction to be recycled?
Even if you got some leakage, wouldn't it get dispersed so widely as to be "background" noise?
I usually deal with bits, so stuff as large as atomic particles are really not my thing. Please flame gently.
Most people who labor in a "service" market leave no mark. Most of the software I have written in my life doesn't or will not have any hardware to run it on any more.
If you get paid for your work and not copies of your work you will be better off in the long run, since, (to paraphrase), in the long run, we are all dead anyhow.
Enjoy what you do. Make a living at it if you are lucky, get wealthy at it if you are absurdly lucky.
It's kind of like the sotto voice fast talking disclaimer at the end of a humorous comercial for something or other - claiming "You just won one Billion Dollars!" One billion dollars paid 2 dollars a year for 500 million years.
In today's environment, I assume, even domestic software in the USA may have government suggested features as well, not that other countries haven't had it all along.
In my opinion, nothing has changed for decades, except the technology; e.g. if you are a "bad guy", they will find some way of watching you, if you are bad enough. For the tin-foil hatter's out there... consider this - there are too damn many people doing too damn much stuff for them to watch everone. Don't worry about it too much.
The NSA has no backdoors into Microsoft products.
Everyone here knows that the NSA is just a tool of Big Business.
Clearly you meant to say Microsoft has a backdoor into the NSA.
Slap an "M" on that baby and ship it already.
Oh, yeah, why would anyone think 1024x768 wallpaper is "large"? This is not the 20th century anymore.
Anyhow, um, wouldn't the future be now, in Japan?
For the record, I would like my phone to be a phone. I could give a rat's ass about the other stuff.
heh, that will throw them off the trail. lol
I read the article, albeit quickly. I understand the pro-and-con arguments on this topic, but did he or did he not end up with the info requested?
My question is this - what if some miscreant makes off with my original CD, and all I am left with is my MP3 copy?
I'm I still covered under "fair use" or did the thief make off with my fair use license too?
Yeah, that will go down, right next to Billy G's "all anyone ever needs is 640K" quote.
You must not be doing real computing, like the rest of us.
1) Faster computers
2) ?
3) Profit!
I worked in the signal processing / neural net area a while ago, and it wasn't ready for prime time, then.
Does anyone know for sure if there are commercially viable AI's making money on stock market technical analysis (TA) yet?
I hadn't heard it before. lol.
In case you don't know how to do either of those, I'll tell you [regards to Monty Python, etc]
1) Make a million dollars. Don't pay taxes.
2) Get a block of wood. Carve away all the bits that don't look like a boat.
Nothing personal, nizo, I am just whoring for a funny moderation, but basically what you have just said is slight variation on a slashdot meme:
1) ?
2) use the asteroid for cool stuff.
3) profit!