BTW, I lived in Israel for a few years and one thing I enjoyed there, is the almost total lack of petty crime. No break-ins, robberies, assaults or public drunkennes. Having guns in every home does help against general lawlessnes, but it doesn't help against large scale organized, or white collar crime.
Sure, they can pass such a regulation, but any communications limiting regulations are unenforceable in most states. In Canada, only the Federal Government can regulate communications. So, yeah, nothing to see here, move along...
The sad thing is that it penalizes legitimate customers, people that actually paid for the disks and does *nothing* to people who download rips.
So, clearly, it is much better to download rips - cheaper and safer...
That sounds like an infinite loop to me. The shopkeep should eventually realize that it isn't going to work...
BTW, check the 'Sale of Goods' act in your state. Some states have a 10 day cool-off period. If you insist on that, then they have to void the sale and take the product back and return you your money, not give you a voucher.
Just return them to the shop: Faulty - won't play on my computer...
These are really lame artists anyway - my mind boggles that Sony thought it would be necessary to DRM such crappy discs.
Hmm, this whole thing depends on physical presence. A real lawyer should comment on this, but as far as I figure, this guy performed 75% of his work in Tenessee - sorry New York, but you are losing out.
An old fashioned analogy is someone who corresponds my mail with another party in another country, while performing his work in his country of residence. Computers just make it faster. It is not really any different.
Well, that already happened. Current versions of MS Word doesn't support all its old versions. You need OpenOffice or WordPerfect for to access old Word docs.
BTW, Corel WordPerfect also doesn't support all its old formats. You need one of the utilities I wrote to read WP v1 and v2 docs.
There seems to be two mechanisms on my web site: a. Ordinary folks who got to my site by mistake and click on ads since they are really looking for something. Geeks who click ads since they are really relevant and they want to learn about a new product/solution. b. Geeks who 'throw a site a click' in order to generate some compensation to the webmaster for providing useful information. This is like making a donation with someone else's money.
On my web site it is probably mostly b). I don't mind why people click, I need the money to maintain the site.
This a separation of church and state issue. The religious zealots were kicked out the front door and are now trying to sneak in by the back door, under the guise of science. That is really reprehensible.
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As safe and sound as Gaza city.
BTW, I lived in Israel for a few years and one thing I enjoyed there, is the almost total lack of petty crime. No break-ins, robberies, assaults or public drunkennes. Having guns in every home does help against general lawlessnes, but it doesn't help against large scale organized, or white collar crime.
1940s? Grampaw? That you??? Damn, I thought that at 45 I am rather old for this group...
A really bad article by a public school graduate? It doesn't really warrant any comment. Government funded FOSS - I ask you. DARPA? Who said DARPA?
So what the hell is a Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) community? Sounds distinctly middle eastern...
Sounds like the KDE browser with a couple new ioslaves to me.
Sure, they can pass such a regulation, but any communications limiting regulations are unenforceable in most states. In Canada, only the Federal Government can regulate communications. So, yeah, nothing to see here, move along...
is still free and according to TFA even helping the authorities catch their own pushers. So WTF?
Well, that is probably a whole month's average income for someone in Elbonia...
I guess having a patent to restrict availability of this idea is a very good thing...
Well, 3/4 of this planet is covered by water...
The sad thing is that it penalizes legitimate customers, people that actually paid for the disks and does *nothing* to people who download rips. So, clearly, it is much better to download rips - cheaper and safer...
That sounds like an infinite loop to me. The shopkeep should eventually realize that it isn't going to work... BTW, check the 'Sale of Goods' act in your state. Some states have a 10 day cool-off period. If you insist on that, then they have to void the sale and take the product back and return you your money, not give you a voucher.
Not wow at all, just totally lame and absolutely clueless. They want you to run a browser with craptive-X enabled to download the removal tool...
Just return them to the shop: Faulty - won't play on my computer... These are really lame artists anyway - my mind boggles that Sony thought it would be necessary to DRM such crappy discs.
You need a browser with Craptive-X enabled to download the fix - Unbefriggenlievable...
Hmm, this whole thing depends on physical presence. A real lawyer should comment on this, but as far as I figure, this guy performed 75% of his work in Tenessee - sorry New York, but you are losing out. An old fashioned analogy is someone who corresponds my mail with another party in another country, while performing his work in his country of residence. Computers just make it faster. It is not really any different.
Well, that already happened. Current versions of MS Word doesn't support all its old versions. You need OpenOffice or WordPerfect for to access old Word docs.
BTW, Corel WordPerfect also doesn't support all its old formats. You need one of the utilities I wrote to read WP v1 and v2 docs.
It is very easy to do ad blocking in a newspaper - just don't open the classified section.
As Don McLean said: "The Farenheit, comes out at night, to freeeeeeeeeeeze you."
Make that six: As another contributor pointed out there is also Crosslinks...
Hey - too funny! Actually, I think FAT is unique in that it can have links pointing to multiple destinations. Now that is innovative...
Somebody is unable to distinguish pseudo-science from pure fantasy...
There seems to be two mechanisms on my web site:
a. Ordinary folks who got to my site by mistake and click on ads since they are really looking for something. Geeks who click ads since they are really relevant and they want to learn about a new product/solution.
b. Geeks who 'throw a site a click' in order to generate some compensation to the webmaster for providing useful information. This is like making a donation with someone else's money.
On my web site it is probably mostly b). I don't mind why people click, I need the money to maintain the site.
The fact that you only see something like that once a week, actually shows how good the system is.
This a separation of church and state issue. The religious zealots were kicked out the front door and are now trying to sneak in by the back door, under the guise of science. That is really reprehensible.