He proves himself to be a hypocrite when he says that he is fed up with pirates and people using pirated games getting a better gaming experience than legitimate customers, then turns around to thank the makers of cracks for allowing what he is fed up with to actually happen.
You have it backwards. The crackers did not degrade that gaming experience. The makers or the game did. WHY they did so is irrelevant. All that matters is the game makers degraded the experience of a paying customer. The crackers reversed the pointless degradation inflicted by the game maker.
Thank you, crackers.
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Why have Police? Can't we trust the majority of people not to do things that are wrong? Why should we let the actions of a few criminals put the annoyance that are the Police in our faces?
Most of the time the police don't have any affect on you if you aren't doing anything wrong. They don't pull you over and ask to check your license & paperwork for no reason at all. DRM on the other hand affects you wether you're ripping the game off or not. In fact, it arguably has MORE of an effect on those who bought the game than those who got it illegally.
If you don't like the annoying copy protections you face, why not try supporting the people who are trying to defeat software piracy?
Because the people who are trying to defeat software piracy are not supporting HIM? Rather, they're inconveniencing him more than they're inconveniencing the "pirates".
Basically I find it really annoying that to get even a fraction of the functionality of stock perl one has to import some library.
And basically I find it really annoying in perl that that extra functionality is built in to the language via a disorganized mishmash of global variables with ridiculous names and extra operators.
Why do I have to import Regular expression or Strings in python? or for that matter, just to get the command line args I have to import a freakin library?
Why do I have to have those things present in the process and the namespace of my program if I'm not using them?
And then why does it take a zillion pages in the quickref to explain it when it has less fearutes than stock perl.
Clearly your metric of using oreilly quick reference docs to gauge language bloat is wrong.
Once you learn perl you don't need a big set of reference books to explain every obscure library. Just the manpages or a quick reference will do. I hate language bloat.
And once you learn python (or whatever language) and the libraries you need, you don't need reference books to remember what variables like "$]" means.
Of course, Circuit City took $80 out of my refund as a "restocking fee," despite the fact that their fraud and their refusal to honor their promise was the sole basis for my return.
If you didn't, you should have bought the laptop on a credit card and before returning photocopy all of that contradictory rebate legalease and the ad, then dispute the remaining $80 on your creditcard. It should be a pretty easy dispute since circity city itself not-so-plainly said in writing that they are not willing to give you what you paid for.
what about the millions of people who don't have the advantages you do? Don't they deserve better than being tracked like freight in a supply chain?
They don't deserve to be free of anything that they subject themselves to. Now realistically, "average joe" doesn't have much bargaining power on his own, but this is why unions were created.
What exact day and time did this take place? I live in the area and have shopped at that circut city before. I'll try to stop by next time that moron is likely to be working and let him know how we feel.
I hope you can successfully sue the brooklyn PD for something and get that pig in trouble or (wishful thinking) fired. You'll have done us all a favor. I hate cops.
With that kind of incompetence due to very low pay, it does not surprise me that security cameras are put on the net directly.
It isn't due to low pay. It is just IT in general. This whole industry is overflowing with incompetent morons. I've encountered web designers who don't know what a CSS class is; programmers who think client-side Javascript is sufficient input validation; network people who think apache web sites necessarily run on a different port number... Many of them make decent money (often at large, bloated, companies).
What does CNC have to do with anything? Any car key, including simple ones that you could do a putty transfer on could have been cut by a CNC machine. They probably all are originally anyway.
I have two ISP providers I can even think of subscribing to. Comcast and AT&T. I'm too far away from the central hub for DSL. The government allowed this to happen. The government should fix this problem.
The government allowed what to happen? That only one ISP chose to put the infrastructure in your area for broadband?
Witness a site like Myspace, where if a person has a busy webpage, it's enough to cause my quad-core Mac Pro to seize up and require a restart (both Firefox and Safari put the machine into a state of deadlock). And lest one chalk it down to hardware or OS problems, I know other people with Core2 Duo-based machines (both OSX and Windows) who suffer the same problems.
I don't know what's wrong with your OS or hardware, but I've been to my share of shitty myspace pages (well, nearly all of them are) but have yet to ever have to reboot my machine (which is a pentium-M underclocked to 600mhz most of the time) for any sort of web page.
Ok, maybe they didn't _directly_ impede science (since fortunately the church has no real power anymore) but it certainly has a heavy influence on others impeding it.
stop stealing shit and your lives will become much easier.
No, they won't. Quite the opposite:
DRM-free movies can be easily copied onto an HTPC hard disk with no need to store and swap discs. DRM-free hardware and software costs less. DRM-free equipment doesn't magically stop working when given a self-destruct code on a disc because its key was compromised. DRM-free equipment plays movies from anywhere in the world, no region code nonsense. DRM-free equipment doesn't have the random bugs and problems caused by the DRM. DRM-free media can be played by software on any operating system. DRM-free equipment doesn't force its owner to watch FBI warnings and commercials. DRM-free equipment doesn't needlessly and intentionally reduce the quality of the content it "protects".
The big media business has definitely made our lives far easier when just "stealing shit".
2Mbit total of openvpn should be no problem. While I've only had experience with these soekris machines at work, I use an ancient pentium 233MMX (it just won't die) as a router/firewall/vpn at home. I just tried copying a 100MB file through my openvpn connection and it sustained around 500KBytes/sec (4Mbit/sec). I was running top on the router while doing that. The load gradually rose to 1.0-1.3 with the openvpn process pegging the CPU so I guess it is at its limit doing 4Mbit/s worth of openvpn stuff.
However soekris does make an encryption/compression accellerator miniPCI card (http://www.soekris.com/vpn1401.htm). Not sure if openvpn can use that, but they claim one of those little boxes can move 250mbit/sec worth of encrypted traffic with that card...
I think you and the site you link to misunderstands the meaning of the term "compulsory license". It isn't compulsory for the radio station, it is compulsory for the artist. Meaning the artist has no choice but to grant a license through SoundExchange. However the artist can grant other licenses and the radio station is free to accept or reject any of them. The compulsory license isn't compulsory for the licensor to accept, it is compulsory for the artists to grant. If artist and licensor can agree upon some license directly with each other, soundexchange is irrelevant and gets nothing.
And above all else, do I really want the government (even the friendly local variety) being my gateway to the Internet? I have nightmares of hearing a prosecuting attorney saying something like "our city access records indicate you posted anti-government statements to a communist website called Dotslash." Maybe that's unlikely, but tell me honestly you can't hear a mayor explaining how his city's network will be "a safe place for our children to play thanks to our new monitoring and filtering system" to thunderous applause.
You're forgetting something: the only reason any private ISP can exist at all is because of a government-granted right of way to run cable wherever they need to, across public and private property.
If the government passes some law or prosecutes someone to suppress speech (as it has before), a private ISP won't be immune to that... unless it has an army to defend itself with.
Personally, the Ron Paul supporter in me says that the Federal government should have no authority to tell the ISP, state, or local governments what they can or cannot do.
Should the federal government have the authority to tell state or local governments that they can't discriminate against blacks? That they must perform a trial by jury? etc...
The problem is that you dont own the 'property' contained in the code, They do.
Yes, I do own THAT specific copy of the code. What I don't have is the copyright on that code. However as far as I know, mod chips don't contain copies of the machine's firmware. On to the real point:
Now that said, if you read my other post, i actually agree with your view of ownership personally. I also feel its mine to do as i please. The problem is the LAW doesnt.
First, what law specifies that sellers may create arbitrary, legally binding terms of use on copies of data they sell after they've sold it?
Second, the law that IS being violated here is the DMCA and it is being violated because the mod chips are a "circumvention device" and these people who are distributing them are trafficking in circumvention devices. It has nothing to do with users of said chips violating some license agreement.
And at any rate, third, I never said anything about any law. I wasn't trying to argue a matter of law, I was trying to argue a matter of general ethics. The law will never be changed and will only get worse if people believe they have no rights whatsoever over intellectual property they purchase except those arbitrarily proscribed by the seller. And the mere concept of the seller being able to dictate said rights AFTER the purchase is simply ludicrous.
Its a right to use contract for the $ you paid. You only recourse for not agreeing is returning it for a refund ( also stated in the contact )
The EULA is irrelevant. They already sold you that copy of the firmware without your acceptance of any contract. It became yours with no special terms attached. They can't later present a contract which forces you to give back something that is now yours. If you don't think so then I have a contract for you:
You agree to pay me one million dollars in exchange for the continued use of your own computer. If you do not agree, your only recourse is to return your computer to sell or return your computer.
it's up to them to determine the terms under which they offer it for sale
Sure, they could present terms to which buyers must agree when offering it for sale. But they don't. They just take your money and give you the machine. There are no terms whatsoever.
They certainly can't dictate terms of use on things that aren't theirs.
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You have it backwards. The crackers did not degrade that gaming experience. The makers or the game did. WHY they did so is irrelevant. All that matters is the game makers degraded the experience of a paying customer. The crackers reversed the pointless degradation inflicted by the game maker.
Thank you, crackers.
Most of the time the police don't have any affect on you if you aren't doing anything wrong. They don't pull you over and ask to check your license & paperwork for no reason at all. DRM on the other hand affects you wether you're ripping the game off or not. In fact, it arguably has MORE of an effect on those who bought the game than those who got it illegally.
Because the people who are trying to defeat software piracy are not supporting HIM? Rather, they're inconveniencing him more than they're inconveniencing the "pirates".
Sure you do, you have the highest degree of control: you have the source code.
And basically I find it really annoying in perl that that extra functionality is built in to the language via a disorganized mishmash of global variables with ridiculous names and extra operators.
Why do I have to have those things present in the process and the namespace of my program if I'm not using them?
Clearly your metric of using oreilly quick reference docs to gauge language bloat is wrong.
And once you learn python (or whatever language) and the libraries you need, you don't need reference books to remember what variables like "$]" means.
If you didn't, you should have bought the laptop on a credit card and before returning photocopy all of that contradictory rebate legalease and the ad, then dispute the remaining $80 on your creditcard. It should be a pretty easy dispute since circity city itself not-so-plainly said in writing that they are not willing to give you what you paid for.
They don't deserve to be free of anything that they subject themselves to. Now realistically, "average joe" doesn't have much bargaining power on his own, but this is why unions were created.
What exact day and time did this take place? I live in the area and have shopped at that circut city before. I'll try to stop by next time that moron is likely to be working and let him know how we feel.
I hope you can successfully sue the brooklyn PD for something and get that pig in trouble or (wishful thinking) fired. You'll have done us all a favor. I hate cops.
It isn't due to low pay. It is just IT in general. This whole industry is overflowing with incompetent morons. I've encountered web designers who don't know what a CSS class is; programmers who think client-side Javascript is sufficient input validation; network people who think apache web sites necessarily run on a different port number... Many of them make decent money (often at large, bloated, companies).
What does CNC have to do with anything? Any car key, including simple ones that you could do a putty transfer on could have been cut by a CNC machine. They probably all are originally anyway.
What an appropriate point. I'm not a Christian, but I do seem to remember from my catholic upbringing that they believe god gave humans free will.
How ironic and hypocritical that so many people want to restrict this, all in the name of god.
What a dumb analogy. Having sex with someone against their will by definition involves nonconsenting people. The GP post's actions do not.
The government allowed what to happen? That only one ISP chose to put the infrastructure in your area for broadband?
I don't know what's wrong with your OS or hardware, but I've been to my share of shitty myspace pages (well, nearly all of them are) but have yet to ever have to reboot my machine (which is a pentium-M underclocked to 600mhz most of the time) for any sort of web page.
November 9th 2004:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/nov/04111203.htm
Ok, maybe they didn't _directly_ impede science (since fortunately the church has no real power anymore) but it certainly has a heavy influence on others impeding it.
No, they won't. Quite the opposite:
DRM-free movies can be easily copied onto an HTPC hard disk with no need to store and swap discs. DRM-free hardware and software costs less. DRM-free equipment doesn't magically stop working when given a self-destruct code on a disc because its key was compromised. DRM-free equipment plays movies from anywhere in the world, no region code nonsense. DRM-free equipment doesn't have the random bugs and problems caused by the DRM. DRM-free media can be played by software on any operating system. DRM-free equipment doesn't force its owner to watch FBI warnings and commercials. DRM-free equipment doesn't needlessly and intentionally reduce the quality of the content it "protects".
The big media business has definitely made our lives far easier when just "stealing shit".
2Mbit total of openvpn should be no problem. While I've only had experience with these soekris machines at work, I use an ancient pentium 233MMX (it just won't die) as a router/firewall/vpn at home. I just tried copying a 100MB file through my openvpn connection and it sustained around 500KBytes/sec (4Mbit/sec). I was running top on the router while doing that. The load gradually rose to 1.0-1.3 with the openvpn process pegging the CPU so I guess it is at its limit doing 4Mbit/s worth of openvpn stuff.
However soekris does make an encryption/compression accellerator miniPCI card (http://www.soekris.com/vpn1401.htm). Not sure if openvpn can use that, but they claim one of those little boxes can move 250mbit/sec worth of encrypted traffic with that card...
These things are pretty good and cheap: http://www.soekris.com/index.htm
I think you and the site you link to misunderstands the meaning of the term "compulsory license". It isn't compulsory for the radio station, it is compulsory for the artist. Meaning the artist has no choice but to grant a license through SoundExchange. However the artist can grant other licenses and the radio station is free to accept or reject any of them. The compulsory license isn't compulsory for the licensor to accept, it is compulsory for the artists to grant. If artist and licensor can agree upon some license directly with each other, soundexchange is irrelevant and gets nothing.
Well you just said the federal government should have no authority to tell locals what they can and cannot do.
You're forgetting something: the only reason any private ISP can exist at all is because of a government-granted right of way to run cable wherever they need to, across public and private property.
If the government passes some law or prosecutes someone to suppress speech (as it has before), a private ISP won't be immune to that... unless it has an army to defend itself with.
Should the federal government have the authority to tell state or local governments that they can't discriminate against blacks? That they must perform a trial by jury? etc...
Yes, I do own THAT specific copy of the code. What I don't have is the copyright on that code. However as far as I know, mod chips don't contain copies of the machine's firmware. On to the real point:
First, what law specifies that sellers may create arbitrary, legally binding terms of use on copies of data they sell after they've sold it?
Second, the law that IS being violated here is the DMCA and it is being violated because the mod chips are a "circumvention device" and these people who are distributing them are trafficking in circumvention devices. It has nothing to do with users of said chips violating some license agreement.
And at any rate, third, I never said anything about any law. I wasn't trying to argue a matter of law, I was trying to argue a matter of general ethics. The law will never be changed and will only get worse if people believe they have no rights whatsoever over intellectual property they purchase except those arbitrarily proscribed by the seller. And the mere concept of the seller being able to dictate said rights AFTER the purchase is simply ludicrous.
If you find the concept of owning property to be irrational than it is clearly you that is the idiot.
The EULA is irrelevant. They already sold you that copy of the firmware without your acceptance of any contract. It became yours with no special terms attached. They can't later present a contract which forces you to give back something that is now yours. If you don't think so then I have a contract for you:
You agree to pay me one million dollars in exchange for the continued use of your own computer. If you do not agree, your only recourse is to return your computer to sell or return your computer.
Do you agree?
Sure, they could present terms to which buyers must agree when offering it for sale. But they don't. They just take your money and give you the machine. There are no terms whatsoever.
They certainly can't dictate terms of use on things that aren't theirs.