I agree, with one addition. The adult "releases" the information.
No, it is the parents job to protect their children, not the rest of the world's. If a parent is going to sit a child in front of a computer and give them internet access that they can't trust to use responcibly, than anything that happens is the parents own fault and only the parents fault, not the website that the kid wondered onto that doesn't even have a solid way of knowing the age of the user.
Umm, I don't think you get the point. It's free. No royalties, no nothing. It's a good, professional-looking typeface that can be used without restriction.
well...with money they could higher more people to review the patents faster and in more detail
I think right now they are just swamped and overloaded. Letting things that should be rejected slide because they just don't have the time to really think about them.
All the rental places like Blockbuster certainly aren't going to just buy new copies. What are they going to do? Send out new copies to every single store and ask them to replace their old copies? That's an awful lot of low-lever workers to keep quiet. It would be all over the news that microsoft tried to sneak in a fixed up version of a game and why they did it.
It's not the copies at blockbuster's you need to worry about, it's the new shipments that could be on store shelves right now.
Common already, it's getting old, hasn't anyone realized yet that these damn time-warner servers can take a beating and keep dishing it out fast? BitTorrent links are a great idea for helping people get big files from slashdotted sites, but common, no one on a decent connection is gonna get half the speed off bittorrent that they could right off the aol servers
I never have much trouble with static and connections. Call me selfish but I'd rather get cool games ASAP instead of waiting around for whoever your carrier is to fix the networks around your house
Why is everyone getting so upset about having RFIDs in the close they are wearing? Oh no, someone up to 10-15 feet away from me might be able to determine that i'm wearing a blue tshirt. Of course your welcome to fry it as soon as you get home, but you should expect to be charged a hefty "retagging" fee if you try to take it back for some reason.
My point is that this article implies that they are technically unable to. If they wanted to get a song off a copy-protected CD, they very easily could do it. But the recording industry is inconveniencing them and everyone else with their copy-protection bullshit. The radio station saying "Oh we can't give you airtime because we are unable to play your copy-protected CDs" seems like more of a protest against the copy protection then a real unsolvable problem.
Pretty much anyone with a plain CD player somewhere can get any song they want of a copy-protected CD with little if any quality loss. The RIAA whores don't seem to realize that no matter what they do, the songs will end up freely available online and in the end only the people legally buying the CDs are getting screwed when it won't play in their computer or high-tech cd player. The record companies better realize soon that this shit and the legal stunts their pulling won't stop the new wave of digital music use. They can either adapt and go with it or get run over in the end.
I've done it before, it's fine. Certainly superior to what you hear over the radio at least. Your severly overestimating the degredation of a short trip through analogue
The only point of listening to the radio now adays is to hear new music, which I havn't done anyway in at least a year. Pretty much all the stations play the same crap over and over, filled with tons of ads and DJs making stupid noises and acting like idiots.
Yeah I don't believe that it is possible for a radio station to be technically unable to get the songs off the cd. Hell with my audigy , old cd player, and $5 bucks worth of audio cables, I'd have no problem at all getting any song off any copy protected CD by just sending it into my comp analogue. Don't even try to tell me that a radio station couldn't handle that.
I'm sick of misinformed people like you bitching about things you know little about. A cookie can't take anything you don't provide and they are vital to most interactive/dynamic websites. All this crap about cookies violating privacy started when ad companies were having banner images set a cookie to identify you and using the HTTP_REFERER to snag the URL of the page the banner is being loaded from and using that to profile you and pick ads that you might be more interested in. Then all of the sudden this mass-hysteria against cookies among the under-informed. Suddenly cookies could be used to steal all your personal information.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree, with one addition. The adult "releases" the information.
No, it is the parents job to protect their children, not the rest of the world's. If a parent is going to sit a child in front of a computer and give them internet access that they can't trust to use responcibly, than anything that happens is the parents own fault and only the parents fault, not the website that the kid wondered onto that doesn't even have a solid way of knowing the age of the user.
if these 180 people were to suddenly magically disappear, you'd get a LOT less spam
well, we know what we have to do... get to it
outside?? where's that? link please...
Umm, I don't think you get the point. It's free . No royalties, no nothing. It's a good, professional-looking typeface that can be used without restriction.
well...with money they could higher more people to review the patents faster and in more detail
I think right now they are just swamped and overloaded. Letting things that should be rejected slide because they just don't have the time to really think about them.
these are great
Yeah but you forget we're fighting n00bs
Anyone know if our good buddy mr. ralsky will be getting some of the good news?
I sure hope so.
All the rental places like Blockbuster certainly aren't going to just buy new copies. What are they going to do? Send out new copies to every single store and ask them to replace their old copies? That's an awful lot of low-lever workers to keep quiet. It would be all over the news that microsoft tried to sneak in a fixed up version of a game and why they did it.
It's not the copies at blockbuster's you need to worry about, it's the new shipments that could be on store shelves right now.
you can't slashdot aol! it doesn't work! we've tried and tried and tried it's just not gonna happen! stop it!
Common already, it's getting old, hasn't anyone realized yet that these damn time-warner servers can take a beating and keep dishing it out fast? BitTorrent links are a great idea for helping people get big files from slashdotted sites, but common, no one on a decent connection is gonna get half the speed off bittorrent that they could right off the aol servers
We can already have those on cell phones... It's called a screen saver
I never have much trouble with static and connections. Call me selfish but I'd rather get cool games ASAP instead of waiting around for whoever your carrier is to fix the networks around your house
By that test, MS has already reached artificial intelligence with Word
Yeah but most techies can do a lot more than just their main thing
Why replace useful titles with some generic contrived name?
Cause it's fun
Why is everyone getting so upset about having RFIDs in the close they are wearing? Oh no, someone up to 10-15 feet away from me might be able to determine that i'm wearing a blue tshirt. Of course your welcome to fry it as soon as you get home, but you should expect to be charged a hefty "retagging" fee if you try to take it back for some reason.
this is exactly my point
assuming coders even have money to spend on silly things like teeth
My point is that this article implies that they are technically unable to. If they wanted to get a song off a copy-protected CD, they very easily could do it. But the recording industry is inconveniencing them and everyone else with their copy-protection bullshit. The radio station saying "Oh we can't give you airtime because we are unable to play your copy-protected CDs" seems like more of a protest against the copy protection then a real unsolvable problem.
Pretty much anyone with a plain CD player somewhere can get any song they want of a copy-protected CD with little if any quality loss. The RIAA whores don't seem to realize that no matter what they do, the songs will end up freely available online and in the end only the people legally buying the CDs are getting screwed when it won't play in their computer or high-tech cd player. The record companies better realize soon that this shit and the legal stunts their pulling won't stop the new wave of digital music use. They can either adapt and go with it or get run over in the end.
[/rant]
I've done it before, it's fine. Certainly superior to what you hear over the radio at least. Your severly overestimating the degredation of a short trip through analogue
The only point of listening to the radio now adays is to hear new music, which I havn't done anyway in at least a year. Pretty much all the stations play the same crap over and over, filled with tons of ads and DJs making stupid noises and acting like idiots.
Yeah I don't believe that it is possible for a radio station to be technically unable to get the songs off the cd. Hell with my audigy , old cd player, and $5 bucks worth of audio cables, I'd have no problem at all getting any song off any copy protected CD by just sending it into my comp analogue. Don't even try to tell me that a radio station couldn't handle that.
I'm sick of misinformed people like you bitching about things you know little about. A cookie can't take anything you don't provide and they are vital to most interactive/dynamic websites. All this crap about cookies violating privacy started when ad companies were having banner images set a cookie to identify you and using the HTTP_REFERER to snag the URL of the page the banner is being loaded from and using that to profile you and pick ads that you might be more interested in. Then all of the sudden this mass-hysteria against cookies among the under-informed. Suddenly cookies could be used to steal all your personal information.
Lay off it
Well they probably figure they're screwed so they might as well try to glide on stolen money from the big boys for as long as they can