So if you're interested in making clean fuels, this microbe makes an excellent starting point.
Yeah, if you live in a world full of CO. Of course, since CO is a highly toxic gas, you wouldn't actually be "living" there. And CO hardly comes for free since it's combustable as well.
I'd have found this more interesting if we had toxic CO dumps in need of cleanup.
French programmers could just develop their software under assumed pen-names and publish their free software on servers overseas outside of the French government's jurisdiction.
But to avoid detection, they'd have to write their comments in English -- and that's never going to happen!
It seems a bit after the fact to be reviewing a show that everyone who ever had an interest in it probably already knows as well as the reviewer. Or was this just a Slashdot story that stayed in Pending too long.:^)
And while MJS may have written the vast majority of the episodes, the very best one was written by David Gerrold! That's my review.
Part of me wishes Sony had not withdrawn their software voluntarily and had put up a legal fight, such that the courts could have struck down parts of the law as unconstitutional and or invalid.
Sony wouldn't have had a DMCA fight by continuing to ship the software. That's not illegal under the DMCA, nor are they being sued under its provisions.
The researchers who determined how it worked, and how to workaround and/or remove it would have had to carry the burden of the fight if Sony charged them with violating the DMCA.
Sony had to pull it because of: a) Immense bad PR; and b) Being sued for every instance still out there under Spyware/Computer Invasion laws. Sony's only hope for defense (a huge lie, btw, in light of what has been revealed since this story first broke) is, "We didn't know it was bad when we shipped it, and the moment we found out it was bad we recalled it and offered replacements."
I hope this won't save them because they truly deserve to go all the way down over this, and should serve as a severe warning to every other remaining company that this is just plain Wrong!
it's not reasonable to assume that they would prosecute you unless you published the information you obtained (indeed, how would they know?).
By your interpretation, every single user would have to be a Computer Scientist able to diagnose and repair their own complex operating software, since no one could share their discoveries.
And since Viruses hide themselves, no anti-virus firm could market a product to remove them since that would be making use of illegal bypassing of the Virus's anti-circumvention provisions.
You see where this leads. Without the ability to share information on threats, the ability to remove and protect against them is essentially nullified. The DMCA is a damn horrible awful thing for consumers.
will do NOTHING. Sounds like the defence used in the Nurenburg trials.
Nope. At Nurenberg they were on trial because they'd definitely done SOMETHING! They were not guilty of acts of ommission, like forgetting to tell you that they'd installed DRM software onto your computer BEFORE presenting you with an EULA and asking if you wanted to allow them to install software on your computer.
It's really sad that someone has to ask for this exemption. It should have been there from the beginning. Furthermore, I should be able without fear of prosecution to investigate anything on my computer that affects its operation for the purposes of removing it safely and completely without fear of prosecution.
Just another reason why politicians shouldn't be writing laws concerning subjects they know nothing about.
1. Unlike, say, Microsoft, they never discouraged their users from hacking their boxes. As a result, a huge community of TiVo hackers emerged (see http://www.tivocommunity.com/). I upgraded my TiVo's 30 gig hard drive to two 120's, and installed a cachecard/network card combo from 9th Tee, which means I can do fun tricks like scheduling shows and season passes from the road, or watching shows in my bedroom on my XBOX.
How about hacking it to put 30 second instant skip back in? Think TiVo favors that? And ditching the floating commercials. Got a hack for that yet? We won't even talk about TiVo to GoTo the DVD burner of your choice so that you can keep from filling up your 240 Gigs with programs you prefer to keep like you used to keep $1 VCR tapes halfway to forever.
Your section on the Bad should have included all the things TiVo has taken away (e.g. 30 second skip), or never provided when they could (e.g. Replay TV style automatic commercial skip) to the benefit of their customer base. I don't see TiVo presenting as rosy a picture as you do.
Though I fast-forward through them, I still see several frames of each commercial, and that's all the brain needs to see what product they are advertising.
Does this qualify as subliminal advertising, which is highly illegal? Since TiVo has removed the 30 second skip they are forcing you to view commercials in this manner. Has anyone investigated this?
Overall TiVo just keeps giving me more reasons to hate them.
For the first time, advertisers will have the ability to deliver television advertising, on demand and targeted to consumers, without the limitations of traditional television media placement.
Let's try a little editing from an Internet perspective:
For the first time, advertisers will have the ability to deliver Internet advertising, on demand and targeted to consumers, without the limitations of traditional web-browsing patterns.
Sounds to me like the very same descriptions used for the Adware/Spyware that we all totally despise!
Much to my suprise, the DVD blocked the watching of the movie on my computer.
I would have to think it was the other way around. You computer blocked your ability to play this DVD.
The DVD hasn't got any idea what it is being played on. It doesn't change its bits when it's inserted into a computer DVD drive instead of a living room player. More likely the DVD contains some form of region coding that says don't play me on computers, and your computer player obliged it by refusing. I'd be angry at my computer software, and scanning the web for illegal players/rippers about now. (Way to go movie studio. You've just pissed off another one of your customers!)
If there's more than that at work here, I hope someone out in/. land can enlighten us all. This could be the beginning of the next Sony-BMG scandal.
Yeah, and if some big record company like Sony/BMG were to release audio CDs with buggy, privacy-violating copy protection; I bet the government would jump right in with a long overdue revision of the copyright laws.
Which does the government depend on more, and which would more of them miss first -- their Blackberry, or a crappy (aren't they all, these days?) Sony-BMG music CD that hides its infection of your computer?
The next, obvious, and far too long overdue, step is for Google to flag web-sites that attempt to install malware, redirect you to sites you didn't want to visit, spawn endless pop-up windows, attempt to create a full-screen browser that you can't close, or disable features of your browser like right mouse button clicks. Since they've already spidered it, and in most cases cached it, they can darn well scan it for viruses and other crap at the same time! Their virus, adware, spyware, malware signature files would certainly be more upto date than my own. They could even be protecting surfers now from the current unpatched IE exploit by warning of sites that have dodgy or questionable code while MS takes its own sweet time coming up with a patch.
The first decent search engine that takes this step to protect its users can count on the majority of my traffic.
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If so, then the Microsoft campus should the most liver diesase-free spot on Earth.
Yeah, if you live in a world full of CO. Of course, since CO is a highly toxic gas, you wouldn't actually be "living" there. And CO hardly comes for free since it's combustable as well.
I'd have found this more interesting if we had toxic CO dumps in need of cleanup.
Oh, wow! I almost get the feeling that OpenDocument just appeared in final form and IBM is an early adopter -- NOT!
So it's finally happened. Microsoft's first salvo against Google. What else could it be?
If Homer were French: Mmmmmmmm cheese.
But to avoid detection, they'd have to write their comments in English -- and that's never going to happen!
And while MJS may have written the vast majority of the episodes, the very best one was written by David Gerrold! That's my review.
Sony wouldn't have had a DMCA fight by continuing to ship the software. That's not illegal under the DMCA, nor are they being sued under its provisions.
The researchers who determined how it worked, and how to workaround and/or remove it would have had to carry the burden of the fight if Sony charged them with violating the DMCA.
Sony had to pull it because of: a) Immense bad PR; and b) Being sued for every instance still out there under Spyware/Computer Invasion laws. Sony's only hope for defense (a huge lie, btw, in light of what has been revealed since this story first broke) is, "We didn't know it was bad when we shipped it, and the moment we found out it was bad we recalled it and offered replacements."
I hope this won't save them because they truly deserve to go all the way down over this, and should serve as a severe warning to every other remaining company that this is just plain Wrong!
And this would be bad because...?
By your interpretation, every single user would have to be a Computer Scientist able to diagnose and repair their own complex operating software, since no one could share their discoveries.
And since Viruses hide themselves, no anti-virus firm could market a product to remove them since that would be making use of illegal bypassing of the Virus's anti-circumvention provisions.
You see where this leads. Without the ability to share information on threats, the ability to remove and protect against them is essentially nullified. The DMCA is a damn horrible awful thing for consumers.
Nope. At Nurenberg they were on trial because they'd definitely done SOMETHING! They were not guilty of acts of ommission, like forgetting to tell you that they'd installed DRM software onto your computer BEFORE presenting you with an EULA and asking if you wanted to allow them to install software on your computer.
Just another reason why politicians shouldn't be writing laws concerning subjects they know nothing about.
How about hacking it to put 30 second instant skip back in? Think TiVo favors that? And ditching the floating commercials. Got a hack for that yet? We won't even talk about TiVo to GoTo the DVD burner of your choice so that you can keep from filling up your 240 Gigs with programs you prefer to keep like you used to keep $1 VCR tapes halfway to forever.
Your section on the Bad should have included all the things TiVo has taken away (e.g. 30 second skip), or never provided when they could (e.g. Replay TV style automatic commercial skip) to the benefit of their customer base. I don't see TiVo presenting as rosy a picture as you do.
Does this qualify as subliminal advertising, which is highly illegal? Since TiVo has removed the 30 second skip they are forcing you to view commercials in this manner. Has anyone investigated this?
Overall TiVo just keeps giving me more reasons to hate them.
Let's try a little editing from an Internet perspective:
For the first time, advertisers will have the ability to deliver Internet advertising, on demand and targeted to consumers, without the limitations of traditional web-browsing patterns.
Sounds to me like the very same descriptions used for the Adware/Spyware that we all totally despise!
I would have to think it was the other way around. You computer blocked your ability to play this DVD.
The DVD hasn't got any idea what it is being played on. It doesn't change its bits when it's inserted into a computer DVD drive instead of a living room player. More likely the DVD contains some form of region coding that says don't play me on computers, and your computer player obliged it by refusing. I'd be angry at my computer software, and scanning the web for illegal players/rippers about now. (Way to go movie studio. You've just pissed off another one of your customers!)
If there's more than that at work here, I hope someone out in /. land can enlighten us all. This could be the beginning of the next Sony-BMG scandal.
I just wish they'd hurry up and die from their mistakes so something better can come along.
Which does the government depend on more, and which would more of them miss first -- their Blackberry, or a crappy (aren't they all, these days?) Sony-BMG music CD that hides its infection of your computer?
Is that for your dongle?
Wouldn't that be a grammar checker?
A: He doesn't care how black people leave New Orleans.
How do you mod just a Sig as FLAMEBAIT -1?
So you really do want to read the love letter just for you, and view those Anna Kornokorva pics, one more time.
The next, obvious, and far too long overdue, step is for Google to flag web-sites that attempt to install malware, redirect you to sites you didn't want to visit, spawn endless pop-up windows, attempt to create a full-screen browser that you can't close, or disable features of your browser like right mouse button clicks. Since they've already spidered it, and in most cases cached it, they can darn well scan it for viruses and other crap at the same time! Their virus, adware, spyware, malware signature files would certainly be more upto date than my own. They could even be protecting surfers now from the current unpatched IE exploit by warning of sites that have dodgy or questionable code while MS takes its own sweet time coming up with a patch.
The first decent search engine that takes this step to protect its users can count on the majority of my traffic.
Does it run? TOPS-20?