As someone who actually did receive a DCMA C&D once and had access to some of my data and a machine cut off for a while, I can say that I'm completely happy being paranoid and wrong "millions of times" than to be fucked over in that way again. You're right, it only has to happen once and all the millions of times you were and will be wrong and paranoid won't count in your own mind either.
It may not be easy but people do this sort of thing all the time to remove DRM from video games.
And if the firewall software checks to see if it has been modified then alter the firewall software so that it does not perform such a check. Hopefully you see where this is going...
Nobody has a right to smoke around someone else without their permission.
Nobody has a right to be on private property where that would be ocurring, nor do they (or well, nowadays should they) have a right to dictate wether people can smoke on that property any more than they can dictate the color that the walls must be painted.
Nobody has the 'right' to expose you to ammonia gas, or benzene or any other toxic chemical.
Depends on where you are. In your own home or in a toxic chemical manufacturing plant?
um, NO. You also don't have the right to put in a coal plant, develop outside of code, and have naked people dancing in the street to get more customers.
You shouldn't be able to put in a coal plant because it spews pollution all over other people's property. As for naked people, they're fine with me.
Plus it harms staff, and no the 'just get a different job' is not a reasonable reply. Because it is addictive and as such would permeate through every faucet of society.
Huh? Smoking was on the decline well before the smoking bans in the past couple years. You don't become addicted to smoking by breathing in smokers' fumes. I lived with a smoker for years and didn't become addicted.
Yes, but you DO NOT HAVE THE FUCKING RIGHT to violate other peoples liberties, and that is what smoking does. You keep the smoke and poison self contained then fine.
It was contained just fine on private property whose owners chose to allow smoking there, yet somehow that got banned.
Sounds like you have a problem with speed limits period. I've never experienced anyone in the left lane in that situation driving _below_ the speed limit voluntarily. Usually what happens is everyone is speeding, but someone behind them wants to speed even more.
I've been in that situation myself many times. I know that around here if you're much more than 10 over the limit then you'll get a ticket, so that's as fast as I will drive. I'll get in the left lane occasionally to pass, but I won't be passing fast enough, or the person on my right will speed up, or the lane to my right will fill up such that I can't move right. I'm still doing 10 over, but then someone will come up behind me and start tailgating even though I have no choice but to risk getting a ticket. Those people can fuck themselves. I just coast down to the limit for them.
That's a lie. I originally bought a T40 and then replaced its motherboard with one from a T41. All of the T40 parts worked just fine with the T41 motherboard.
If you live in New York City, the odds that you need an SUV are asymptotically close to zero.
the odds are asymptotically close to zero? What's the other variable in this asymptotic relationship? I'm trying to visualize it... on one axis we have the odds, on the other axis, we have...?
Not to mention that SimCity 4 was basically unplayable without the expansion. You just didn't have the road types needed to handle traffic in high-density cities. It just reeked of your typical EA garbage where they get the game only partially done, sell it, then sell the finished product as an expansion. I won't be buying societies.
they provide so many top-quality services at the mere input of your password on any computer in the country that I'd rather have the DRMed version than the CD version.
I'll take the CD version any day. I just create an image of it and I don't have to log on to anything, don't have to have an Internet connection, don't have to worry about someone else's servers or connections getting flaky, don't have to worry about the company going out of business or just deciding one day that they don't want me to use my games any more, don't have to ask other people for permission to use my own stuff, etc...
CD imaging software is the sort of Digital Rights Management system that I prefer - one that is focused on managing MY rights rather than someone else's.
This has little to do with being a fanboy, and more to do with having experience in the field. That software breaks with updates. Often. On both Mac and PC.
No it doesn't. Or rather, it depends on the software. I have several PCs running Debian stable and upgrade them all the time without any issues. One such server has been upgraded though multiple releases of Debian without issue. This the main reason I run Debian - dependable upgrades.
Well compared to Microsoft of course they look wonderful. Now compare it to any open source operating system (which have none of this nonsense at all) and they don't look so good, do they?
What difference does it make what it looks like? I love thinkpads the way they are. No shiny, rounded multi-colored children's toy-looking plastic, no obnoxious blue LEDs, no 400 useless multimedia keys... pure function, exactly what I want.
Copyright is not a right. Copying copyrighted material that the laws say you have control over, without your permission, if no fair use causes apply and the court agrees with you on that, is violating a law, not violating your rights.
I liked most of your post, but this is just silly nitpicking. In the US, the constitution explicitly defines copyrights to be Rights:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Second, a violation of ANY right can be boiled down to violating some law.
Then why did you respond and insist there was a natural right and tell me that's "the way the system works" and such when I asked "as in nature, biology"? The "natural right" that you now refer to simply reinforces what I've been saying. From the article you refernce:
A natural right is a universal right that is seen as inherent in the nature
Key words there being is seen as - as seen by US. Obviously "seen as" is subjective and varies over time and among societies.
It's irrelevent to the discussion at hand, which is deciding what is a natural right and what isn't.
Yes, I agree completely, particularly since you're now saying that we're "deciding" rather than that's just "the way the system works".
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Alter the firewall so it does not check itself.
As someone who actually did receive a DCMA C&D once and had access to some of my data and a machine cut off for a while, I can say that I'm completely happy being paranoid and wrong "millions of times" than to be fucked over in that way again. You're right, it only has to happen once and all the millions of times you were and will be wrong and paranoid won't count in your own mind either.
It may not be easy but people do this sort of thing all the time to remove DRM from video games.
And if the firewall software checks to see if it has been modified then alter the firewall software so that it does not perform such a check. Hopefully you see where this is going...
Sure you can. Just modify ZoneAlarm so that it does not complain first.
Anyone worryied about being cut off by Government (C&Ds, court orders), which should be everyone.
"Wikipedia is easier to get information out of" is exactly what he did say, and all that flash garbage is the reason why. I agree with him 100%.
Yes.
Nobody has a right to be on private property where that would be ocurring, nor do they (or well, nowadays should they) have a right to dictate wether people can smoke on that property any more than they can dictate the color that the walls must be painted.
Depends on where you are. In your own home or in a toxic chemical manufacturing plant?
And that's also not the property owner's problem.
You shouldn't be able to put in a coal plant because it spews pollution all over other people's property. As for naked people, they're fine with me.
Huh? Smoking was on the decline well before the smoking bans in the past couple years. You don't become addicted to smoking by breathing in smokers' fumes. I lived with a smoker for years and didn't become addicted.
It was contained just fine on private property whose owners chose to allow smoking there, yet somehow that got banned.
Sounds like you have a problem with speed limits period. I've never experienced anyone in the left lane in that situation driving _below_ the speed limit voluntarily. Usually what happens is everyone is speeding, but someone behind them wants to speed even more.
I've been in that situation myself many times. I know that around here if you're much more than 10 over the limit then you'll get a ticket, so that's as fast as I will drive. I'll get in the left lane occasionally to pass, but I won't be passing fast enough, or the person on my right will speed up, or the lane to my right will fill up such that I can't move right. I'm still doing 10 over, but then someone will come up behind me and start tailgating even though I have no choice but to risk getting a ticket. Those people can fuck themselves. I just coast down to the limit for them.
That's a lie. I originally bought a T40 and then replaced its motherboard with one from a T41. All of the T40 parts worked just fine with the T41 motherboard.
the odds are asymptotically close to zero? What's the other variable in this asymptotic relationship? I'm trying to visualize it... on one axis we have the odds, on the other axis, we have...?
Not to mention that SimCity 4 was basically unplayable without the expansion. You just didn't have the road types needed to handle traffic in high-density cities. It just reeked of your typical EA garbage where they get the game only partially done, sell it, then sell the finished product as an expansion. I won't be buying societies.
Well you sure lost both of those bets. Practically any computer with a web browser made within say, the last 10 years has encryption software on it.
Are tools not also resources?
I'll take the CD version any day. I just create an image of it and I don't have to log on to anything, don't have to have an Internet connection, don't have to worry about someone else's servers or connections getting flaky, don't have to worry about the company going out of business or just deciding one day that they don't want me to use my games any more, don't have to ask other people for permission to use my own stuff, etc...
CD imaging software is the sort of Digital Rights Management system that I prefer - one that is focused on managing MY rights rather than someone else's.
soap and water on what?
No it doesn't. Or rather, it depends on the software. I have several PCs running Debian stable and upgrade them all the time without any issues. One such server has been upgraded though multiple releases of Debian without issue. This the main reason I run Debian - dependable upgrades.
Well compared to Microsoft of course they look wonderful. Now compare it to any open source operating system (which have none of this nonsense at all) and they don't look so good, do they?
That would be an acceptable attitude if you were the only one living in the environment you're screwing up.
What difference does it make what it looks like? I love thinkpads the way they are. No shiny, rounded multi-colored children's toy-looking plastic, no obnoxious blue LEDs, no 400 useless multimedia keys... pure function, exactly what I want.
So then he's sending me to hell simply because he wants to send me to hell? Nothing for me to do about it, eh?
I liked most of your post, but this is just silly nitpicking. In the US, the constitution explicitly defines copyrights to be Rights:
Second, a violation of ANY right can be boiled down to violating some law.
Key words there being is seen as - as seen by US. Obviously "seen as" is subjective and varies over time and among societies.
Yes, I agree completely, particularly since you're now saying that we're "deciding" rather than that's just "the way the system works".