1: Why are people celebrating victory because Sony announced they will remove the cloak, they're still leaving all the rest of the crap on your system - including the memory and cpu wasting scan that runs continually, even when you're not playing their DRM infested CD's.
2: Now that the cloak is removed, what was that registry key that keeps track of how many CD's you've burned under their DRM system?
3: Don't you think you're celebrating a bit early since Warden 2.0 should be able to use the same tricks as RootKitRevealer to diagnose your system? And how long will this take to appear?
4: If you detecting and removing this software from your computer violates the DMCA, then the DMCA is so cleary wrong that it should be repealed this afternoon.
5: Profit! Or in other words, who is profiting from this now? I don't see Sony going broke yet.
Google trying to rewrite copyright law, it is also crushing creativity...Google envisions a world in which all content is free
Crushing creativity huh. Seems to be there are already about a zillion authors on the Internet who have never been paid a cent or seen a single page of their work sold as ink on paper, yet they continue to write and post. That's a starting point showing the garbage of the above contention.
Also, some people are going to buy books into the foreseeable future regardless of any other way that they can receive the same content. I don't expect books to die anytime soon.
So all this shouting "FIRE!" in the crowded theater about the end of creativity (yet once again folks) does not impress me in the least.
There are people who create the way the rest of us breathe -- naturally, without seeming effort, and regardless of whether or not they are getting paid for it. And many share freely on the Internet what they cannot sell otherwise. To claim that people will only create if they're given a complete monopoly over it essentially forever (the Disney Corporation argument for copyright extension) is ludicrous (not the rap thug), and I refuse to be panicked or stampeded by it into yet more restrictions on the Public Domain, which is hurting pretty badly of late anyway.
Besides, when was the last time a printed book installed a Rootkit onto your PC?
If you don't have a user of hydrogen, why work on low cost ways of making it?
Uh, because there are many other uses for H2 than just combusting it to motivate your automobile.
For example, hydrogen could replace natural gas use in this country in almost every instance, and make use of the existing infrastructure for transportation with minor changes in the burners. And it would be much less of a suffocation and CO threat in the process.
First, this is wrong. The states may fight over who gets to tax him, but in the end he'll only pay taxes to one state. (Yes, my wife is and accountant.) You are able to deduct taxes you pay in one state against taxes owed in another state.
Second, if he's paying taxes to NY he ought to be demanding the right to vote there. It's taxation without representation (and the right to vote against people who impose such taxes) otherwise!
Now that would make a great Supreme Court case. The guaranteed right to vote in any state that collects anything above a certain percentage of your income in taxes.
Third, I wonder if that includes City and Burough taxes in NYC?
Until you have a clean, renewable source of hydrogen you haven't solved any problem at all by building a hydrogen fuelled car. You've only moved the pollution source, and likely lost energy in the conversion and transportation.
If Slashdot can link to a chain of previous articles on the same subject (not that I don't mind seeing Sony flogged over this for a second day), shouldn't we all be linking to our postings in the original article as well?
This is why you don't use download cheating programs, you make them yourself and don't share them so that the name of your program isn't in their hash.
What? You mean cheaters have to become programmers too?? What fun is that???
They ought to just develop a World/Server where all the hacks can play against each other and see who hacks best. Even the people with the hacks themselves might find that more interesting.
I wonder how much the judges were influenced by the fact that a "Professional Designer" used a "Custom Created Font" for his submission? Did just regular folks have an even chance?
To me it looks like a Chaos Toy that you'd kick around on the floor with the horns causing it to caroom off in unexpected directions.
What it does not do for me is make me think of BSD Lnix when I see it.
Sony should be shot for this. Slammed so hard financially that they'll never even think of trying this again
How long for another, slightly different DRM rootkit starts fighting with this one with each trying to take control away from the other as both run on your system?
Of course, it needed some level of privilege to run. Does this CD simply refuse to play if you're not Administrator or Power User?
And just how hard is it to get an aluminum foil passport holder that it stays in except when you're crossing international boarders? I think this is all being blown out of proportion.
I'd also like to invest in the company that is going to sell these holders. Just how long before Privacy Purses become the next fashion accessory. One that shields all the RFID-tagged items inside it.
If George Lucas wants to fix something, how about fixing THX-1138? It's the only SciFi movie I've ever walked out on because, 45 minutes into the film I didn't have a clue on what was going on. And this is in a theater where I paid for my admission ticket!
Oh come on, this is hardly new. Movies have been being colorized for years. How is that different from what is being done now? Well some of the directors sure claimed that color changed and ruined their artistic works, so I must consider it was a significant change.
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1: Why are people celebrating victory because Sony announced they will remove the cloak, they're still leaving all the rest of the crap on your system - including the memory and cpu wasting scan that runs continually, even when you're not playing their DRM infested CD's.
2: Now that the cloak is removed, what was that registry key that keeps track of how many CD's you've burned under their DRM system?
3: Don't you think you're celebrating a bit early since Warden 2.0 should be able to use the same tricks as RootKitRevealer to diagnose your system? And how long will this take to appear?
4: If you detecting and removing this software from your computer violates the DMCA, then the DMCA is so cleary wrong that it should be repealed this afternoon.
5: Profit! Or in other words, who is profiting from this now? I don't see Sony going broke yet.
I can now do that computation in 12 parsecs.
See, the computer industry has already slowed down, so now they're slowing down light to catch up with where the industry has already gone.
One thing for certain, this sure makes building my FTL drive a whole lot easier!
Now you should be able to talk with the Elephants. Don't they communicate in the 1.25 - 1.75Hz range over long distances?
Crushing creativity huh. Seems to be there are already about a zillion authors on the Internet who have never been paid a cent or seen a single page of their work sold as ink on paper, yet they continue to write and post. That's a starting point showing the garbage of the above contention.
Also, some people are going to buy books into the foreseeable future regardless of any other way that they can receive the same content. I don't expect books to die anytime soon.
So all this shouting "FIRE!" in the crowded theater about the end of creativity (yet once again folks) does not impress me in the least.
There are people who create the way the rest of us breathe -- naturally, without seeming effort, and regardless of whether or not they are getting paid for it. And many share freely on the Internet what they cannot sell otherwise. To claim that people will only create if they're given a complete monopoly over it essentially forever (the Disney Corporation argument for copyright extension) is ludicrous (not the rap thug), and I refuse to be panicked or stampeded by it into yet more restrictions on the Public Domain, which is hurting pretty badly of late anyway.
Besides, when was the last time a printed book installed a Rootkit onto your PC?
Uh, because there are many other uses for H2 than just combusting it to motivate your automobile.
For example, hydrogen could replace natural gas use in this country in almost every instance, and make use of the existing infrastructure for transportation with minor changes in the burners. And it would be much less of a suffocation and CO threat in the process.
First, this is wrong. The states may fight over who gets to tax him, but in the end he'll only pay taxes to one state. (Yes, my wife is and accountant.) You are able to deduct taxes you pay in one state against taxes owed in another state.
Second, if he's paying taxes to NY he ought to be demanding the right to vote there. It's taxation without representation (and the right to vote against people who impose such taxes) otherwise!
Now that would make a great Supreme Court case. The guaranteed right to vote in any state that collects anything above a certain percentage of your income in taxes.
Third, I wonder if that includes City and Burough taxes in NYC?
Until you have a clean, renewable source of hydrogen you haven't solved any problem at all by building a hydrogen fuelled car. You've only moved the pollution source, and likely lost energy in the conversion and transportation.
For example, there's this and this for starters.
Shouldn't they be providing a tool to make this easy for their posters?
What? You mean cheaters have to become programmers too?? What fun is that???
They ought to just develop a World/Server where all the hacks can play against each other and see who hacks best. Even the people with the hacks themselves might find that more interesting.
To me it looks like a Chaos Toy that you'd kick around on the floor with the horns causing it to caroom off in unexpected directions.
What it does not do for me is make me think of BSD Lnix when I see it.
And this doesn't even get into business partnerships with Michael Jackson!
If it kills the New York Times, then it's a good thing. They've been too full of themselves for far too long and I wouldn't miss them at all.
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How long for another, slightly different DRM rootkit starts fighting with this one with each trying to take control away from the other as both run on your system?
Of course, it needed some level of privilege to run. Does this CD simply refuse to play if you're not Administrator or Power User?
And this is bad because...?
PS2
XBox
Nintendo GC
And coming soon:
PS3
XBox 360
Remember that they were building a machine only for gaming too in that article.
I'd also like to invest in the company that is going to sell these holders. Just how long before Privacy Purses become the next fashion accessory. One that shields all the RFID-tagged items inside it.
Did I mention at the time that the two friends I was with, also both huge SF fans, felt exactly the same way and we all left together?
If George Lucas wants to fix something, how about fixing THX-1138? It's the only SciFi movie I've ever walked out on because, 45 minutes into the film I didn't have a clue on what was going on. And this is in a theater where I paid for my admission ticket!
Oh come on, this is hardly new. Movies have been being colorized for years. How is that different from what is being done now? Well some of the directors sure claimed that color changed and ruined their artistic works, so I must consider it was a significant change.
The ultimate revisionist history: Wikipedia.
Yes I'm offended by typos. Shows sloppy thinking. Especially yours above. :^)
One man's sig-line is another man's glaring, offensive typo.
And the Parent is currently scored 70% Funny, 30% Troll, which is the funniest part of all!
One mans -1 Troll is another mans +1 Funny.
One man's sig-line is another man's glaring, offensive typo.