Thank you Green Party for further fragmenting the socialist vote. Thanks to your hard work we can be certain that the two party Liberal/Conservative system will remain intact.
Since you mention the long form census controversy, I've talked with some old timers from StatsCan, and they all confirm that the long form census has been on the chopping block for a long time. Even Mr. Sheikh has been on record as noting the information collected by the long form is largely useless and irrelevant, serving only to feed endless studies that provide perpetual employment for a select few in StatsCan.
Essentially, the whole "long form census" scandal is nothing more than some entitled statisticians culture in StatsCan upset that their gravy train has been overturned. Eliminating the compulsory long form has no effect on the accuracy of census data in Canada, any outrage over this is just fodder for media attention and slandering the government.
Majority?? I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be incorrect to put that number at about a fraction of one percent.
And there's little doubt that many OtherOS users either loaded Linux and quickly got bored with it, or tried to find some way to get ripped PS3 games to work before giving up.
Sony dropped the OtherOS support on the new slim models to a chorus of "meh..so what" from the PS3 community. It wasn't until Geohot starting bragging about his so-called PS3 hack that people took an interest in the OtherOS function, and naturally began crying foul when Sony started removing it from the older models.
The OtherOS function was a gimmick and served no usefull purpose on a gaming console.
1962 here, earliest memory was using batch processed punch cards in Junior High. Hand your card stack over to the teacher on Monday, Board of Education would process them on Wednesday and you'd get your printout back on Thursday. Correct your errors and send them back next Monday.
High school had an actual computer with drum memory and a teletype with a paper tape reader. Spent many late nights entering the code for the TREK program, damn my fingers hurt from pushing those keys. Wish I had kept the paper tapes, only my sliderule remains as a memento.
Yeah, this is quite obviously a fake. For a PS3 hack to suddenly appear out of nowhere and a rumored $170 fee for the USB stick just stinks of rip-off.
The PS3 has resisted cracking for over three years, even the great Geohot tried and failed to even make a dent. The fact that it's been impossible to play cracked games on the PS3 has worked the pirate community into such a tizzy that it's likely we'll see more scams like this in the future.
Evidence or hearsay? As long as we're making unsubstantiated claims, let's also say that IBM has been funding the fight against SCO using Groklaw as a proxy.
Indeed, the history of science shows that "scientific consensus" inevitably gets turned on its head by upstart researchers and scientists who seek to find the real truth.
Can anyone identify any "scientific consensus" that has resisted any and all challenges for any appreciable amount of time?
Every time the artists try to offer what the pirates claim they would gladly pay for, another excuse is brought forward to justify getting it for free.
No business model can compete with free, and the pirates want to keep it that way.
Electrons are a (practically) infinite resource as well, so why do I pay for something that's freely available?
You're not paying for the bits, but the bandwidth (which relies on a lot of expensive equipment) and the infrastructure (also expensive). Strange that there are still people out there that insist there is no such thing as bandwidth or capacity and that net access is an infinite resource that's being artificially metered out by greedy corporations.
P2P is a distribution system, and the DVD's in question have a quite prominent warning that they are not to be distributed or performed without permission by the copyright holders.
So anyone using P2P to "download" their movies becomes a distributor and places themselves directly in sights of the MPAA/RIAA. The pirate community has a hard time understanding the difference between "downloading" and "distributing", so any discussion of legality or lawsuits is always defined (wrongly) as an attack on downloaders.
According to the article, only P2P users are being targeted. So this is still about file "sharing" or distribution without permission and not downloading.
If you use a torrent to get your copy then yes, it is illegal as you are now distributing and not just downloading.
Buying a copy of the DVD and downloading a copy is ok, as the FBI warning prohibits you from distributing. Stop using bit torrent and all your legal problems disappear...
Well, someone better tell the Israeli government and the journalists at the The Fifth Estate that they are lairs as well.
The Patriot missile system deployed in the Gulf War had essentially a 0% success rate against Iraqi SCUD missiles. It was so bad that the Israeli government threatened to abandon the Patriot system and develop their own missile defense platform.
Bush would later claim that the Patriot missile system had a 97% success rate during the Gulf War. The actual numbers were about 10% and likely even lower. Wikipedia has more details.
Basically, the Patriot missile system is a farce, it exists solely to provide jobs for Massachusetts and a steady supply of pork for its senators and congressmen.
Killing the middle man would be the last thing pirates would want. If it weren't for the RIAA/MPAA the pirates would be screwing the artists directly rather than by proxy, and no-one want to be a party to that.
As long as the MPAA/RIAA exist, the pirates can safely take all the media they like while rationalizing it as "sticking it to the man"
I see the same misinformation about downloading and uploading every time a pirate tries to claim that the RIAA/MPAA has been going after people who download.
The RIAA/MPAA are in the distribution business. If you are using torrents to get your pirated media then you are also in the distribution business, but without license or permission to do so.
Downloading without uploading has never been challenged by the RIAA/MPAA. Not a single court case or legal action has been taken against anyone who has just downloaded.
The Pirate community has been unable to see past there own blinkered ignorance and self interest, refusing to acknowledge any difference between distribution and downloading. If you use torrents to get your pirate media, you are just a fool waving a red flag in front of a mad bull.
Could you please provide a link to where these ARM based netbooks or Android tablets are being sold? Cheapest netbooks I've seen start at $400 CDN and functional tablets have been pretty much vapourware..
These playback issues are really just a case of PEBKAC (or perhaps PEBB(u-ray player)AC)
Trying to raise a class action suite against this would be like trying to sue for manufactures failure to set the VCR clock to the proper time instead of flashing "12:00"
Just one response to that, learn to use your remote.
Honestly, just use your damn remote. No such thing as un-skippable previews or other such nonsense. INothing more than an internet meme being passed around by people trying to find yet another weak excuse for pirating..
In short, no. The OtherOS capability was pretty much useless for much else than tinkering around or running some pretty specific Cell applications. The majority of OtherOS users installed some flavour of Linux and used it to either rip Blu-ray movies or make repeated failed ateempts to pirate PS3 games. Homebrew was pretty much non-existant.
Enthusiasts/hackers were unable to make anything more than a dent in the PS3 security (Geohots shameless self promotion aside), and once the OtherOS option was removed there is literally NO method remaining to crack the system.
If you create something and decide to sell it, and I proceed to make copies of it (without your consent) and give it away for free then am I not depriving you of income by forcing the value of your goods (or service) to zero?
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Or perhaps more obviously to prevent government scientists from using their tax-payer funded research to push their own personal agendas.
Thank you Green Party for further fragmenting the socialist vote. Thanks to your hard work we can be certain that the two party Liberal/Conservative system will remain intact.
Since you mention the long form census controversy, I've talked with some old timers from StatsCan, and they all confirm that the long form census has been on the chopping block for a long time. Even Mr. Sheikh has been on record as noting the information collected by the long form is largely useless and irrelevant, serving only to feed endless studies that provide perpetual employment for a select few in StatsCan.
Essentially, the whole "long form census" scandal is nothing more than some entitled statisticians culture in StatsCan upset that their gravy train has been overturned. Eliminating the compulsory long form has no effect on the accuracy of census data in Canada, any outrage over this is just fodder for media attention and slandering the government.
Majority?? I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be incorrect to put that number at about a fraction of one percent.
And there's little doubt that many OtherOS users either loaded Linux and quickly got bored with it, or tried to find some way to get ripped PS3 games to work before giving up.
Sony dropped the OtherOS support on the new slim models to a chorus of "meh..so what" from the PS3 community. It wasn't until Geohot starting bragging about his so-called PS3 hack that people took an interest in the OtherOS function, and naturally began crying foul when Sony started removing it from the older models.
The OtherOS function was a gimmick and served no usefull purpose on a gaming console.
1962 here, earliest memory was using batch processed punch cards in Junior High. Hand your card stack over to the teacher on Monday, Board of Education would process them on Wednesday and you'd get your printout back on Thursday. Correct your errors and send them back next Monday.
High school had an actual computer with drum memory and a teletype with a paper tape reader. Spent many late nights entering the code for the TREK program, damn my fingers hurt from pushing those keys. Wish I had kept the paper tapes, only my sliderule remains as a memento.
Yeah, this is quite obviously a fake. For a PS3 hack to suddenly appear out of nowhere and a rumored $170 fee for the USB stick just stinks of rip-off.
The PS3 has resisted cracking for over three years, even the great Geohot tried and failed to even make a dent. The fact that it's been impossible to play cracked games on the PS3 has worked the pirate community into such a tizzy that it's likely we'll see more scams like this in the future.
A quick look at the most popular torrents over the last few weeks and the answer to your question should be a resounding "No"
Do you have permission from the copyright holder to redistribute said software?
If not, then your downloading from a torrent site would be considered as copyright infringement and therefore illegal.
I really can't think of any way to explain this more clearly, perhaps someone can suggest a car analogy?
Evidence or hearsay? As long as we're making unsubstantiated claims, let's also say that IBM has been funding the fight against SCO using Groklaw as a proxy.
Indeed, the history of science shows that "scientific consensus" inevitably gets turned on its head by upstart researchers and scientists who seek to find the real truth.
Can anyone identify any "scientific consensus" that has resisted any and all challenges for any appreciable amount of time?
And yet there's no evidence they eo.
Every time the artists try to offer what the pirates claim they would gladly pay for, another excuse is brought forward to justify getting it for free.
No business model can compete with free, and the pirates want to keep it that way.
Well, to be fair those are not real "HD" services but rather SD media upscaled and labelled HD as a marketing gimmick.
Electrons are a (practically) infinite resource as well, so why do I pay for something that's freely available?
You're not paying for the bits, but the bandwidth (which relies on a lot of expensive equipment) and the infrastructure (also expensive). Strange that there are still people out there that insist there is no such thing as bandwidth or capacity and that net access is an infinite resource that's being artificially metered out by greedy corporations.
P2P is a distribution system, and the DVD's in question have a quite prominent warning that they are not to be distributed or performed without permission by the copyright holders.
So anyone using P2P to "download" their movies becomes a distributor and places themselves directly in sights of the MPAA/RIAA. The pirate community has a hard time understanding the difference between "downloading" and "distributing", so any discussion of legality or lawsuits is always defined (wrongly) as an attack on downloaders.
No one has ever been forced to pay those damages for downloading, only for distributing.
Steal a DVD and pay a $400 fine, duplicate a DVD illegaly and give it away for free outside the store and yeah, your going to pay damages big time.
Download a DVD without uploading, no harm no foul.
According to the article, only P2P users are being targeted. So this is still about file "sharing" or distribution without permission and not downloading.
Stop using P2P and the lawsuits will stop.
If you use a torrent to get your copy then yes, it is illegal as you are now distributing and not just downloading.
Buying a copy of the DVD and downloading a copy is ok, as the FBI warning prohibits you from distributing. Stop using bit torrent and all your legal problems disappear...
Well, someone better tell the Israeli government and the journalists at the The Fifth Estate that they are lairs as well.
The Patriot missile system deployed in the Gulf War had essentially a 0% success rate against Iraqi SCUD missiles. It was so bad that the Israeli government threatened to abandon the Patriot system and develop their own missile defense platform.
Bush would later claim that the Patriot missile system had a 97% success rate during the Gulf War. The actual numbers were about 10% and likely even lower. Wikipedia has more details.
Basically, the Patriot missile system is a farce, it exists solely to provide jobs for Massachusetts and a steady supply of pork for its senators and congressmen.
Killing the middle man would be the last thing pirates would want. If it weren't for the RIAA/MPAA the pirates would be screwing the artists directly rather than by proxy, and no-one want to be a party to that.
As long as the MPAA/RIAA exist, the pirates can safely take all the media they like while rationalizing it as "sticking it to the man"
I see the same misinformation about downloading and uploading every time a pirate tries to claim that the RIAA/MPAA has been going after people who download.
The RIAA/MPAA are in the distribution business. If you are using torrents to get your pirated media then you are also in the distribution business, but without license or permission to do so.
Downloading without uploading has never been challenged by the RIAA/MPAA. Not a single court case or legal action has been taken against anyone who has just downloaded.
The Pirate community has been unable to see past there own blinkered ignorance and self interest, refusing to acknowledge any difference between distribution and downloading. If you use torrents to get your pirate media, you are just a fool waving a red flag in front of a mad bull.
Could you please provide a link to where these ARM based netbooks or Android tablets are being sold? Cheapest netbooks I've seen start at $400 CDN and functional tablets have been pretty much vapourware..
These playback issues are really just a case of PEBKAC (or perhaps PEBB(u-ray player)AC)
Trying to raise a class action suite against this would be like trying to sue for manufactures failure to set the VCR clock to the proper time instead of flashing "12:00"
Just one response to that, learn to use your remote.
Honestly, just use your damn remote. No such thing as un-skippable previews or other such nonsense. INothing more than an internet meme being passed around by people trying to find yet another weak excuse for pirating..
In short, no. The OtherOS capability was pretty much useless for much else than tinkering around or running some pretty specific Cell applications. The majority of OtherOS users installed some flavour of Linux and used it to either rip Blu-ray movies or make repeated failed ateempts to pirate PS3 games. Homebrew was pretty much non-existant.
Enthusiasts/hackers were unable to make anything more than a dent in the PS3 security (Geohots shameless self promotion aside), and once the OtherOS option was removed there is literally NO method remaining to crack the system.
If you create something and decide to sell it, and I proceed to make copies of it (without your consent) and give it away for free then am I not depriving you of income by forcing the value of your goods (or service) to zero?
Sounds like a kind of theft to me.