Translation: "We feel that changing your name will allow us to continue our evil actions under a different alias... and continue to profit."
Correction: "We feel that changing our name..."
What correction? You haven't seen the new Claria 1.0, with the built in deed-poll feature, have you?. Thanks to Kazaa's spyware component, I'm now legally known as Mr Sparkle's Floor Wax.
Company delays paying up as long as it can to make interest, fails to pay up due to bad review, or item is given good review to make sure manufacturers pay up. Repeat till magazine goes bust.
Piracy has been bandied about as an excuse for the implementation of the flag, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone came up with a box to defeat the protection, as they did macrovision.
I may be heading into tinfoil hat territory here, but it seems to be more about control. This would allow broadcasters to further control the distribution of their programes - no taping a programme for a friend here. I'm getting flashbacks to the whole DVD Region coding thing, with media giants being shocked that they didn't have control over the distribution of their films, regardless of the fact that they'd been paid for the DVDs.
It's satire - albeit it's relatively subtle so it seems to have sneaked under the comedy radars of a few people, but the more you read it, the funnier it gets.
I can't believe the writer of the article pumped out such 'flamebait' and yet didn't refer to the one situation that he could have used to tarnish Linux et al. Specifically, when a group found an exploit for the X-Box that didn't require soldering or a chip to run Linux - or indeed pirate games - and demanded Microsoft release a signed Linux loader or they would release the exploit.
Unsurprisingly, MS didn't comply, and the exploit was released. The group's actions could quite easily be interpreted as blackmail, and would have made great fodder for the article. I'm guessing the guy didn't dig too deep.
I can't see why anyone would have problems differentiating between the two. After all, one is a bland, disposable disc which is likely to be thrown in the bin and forgotten about, and the other is a disc made out of corn...
.. the Outer Limits - the new series, not the old one - had an episode where a robot was on trial for murder, having apparently killed is creator (with all the usual military complex shenanigans)
Mama mia! That's a hefty injection of legitmate traffic for P2P networks!
Nice to see auntie beeb giving back to the PD!
The irony being that while they actually deleted a great deal of their original output - Nigel Kneale's 'The Road' - various other shows etc, without making copies. Maybe this is a way to save space - they share the programs, delete them from their own tapes and when they want to broadcast them, just dl them from Kazaa:)
So how long before the laser scanning data is used to produced smaller replicas of Stonehenge? I'm sure there's a market there for selling them to new-agers / people who want more than just a gnome in their gardens.
I'm reminded of the scene where he spins the data ring and hears about the war which destroyed civilization having lasted over 300 years.
That's an earth-bound war. Just wait till some bright spark invents a device that can artifically generate minature black holes with the intention of sucking in enemy fleets. And then the testing goes awry...
That's if you get digital. If you don't have a digibox, you get a grand total of two TV stations. So the majority are subsising the minority, apparently.
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.. no mention of God, Baby Jesus, Moses, Jehova, Mohammed, L Ron Hubbard and 'Bob' all blessing you for replying to the letter.
Correction: "We feel that changing our name..."
What correction? You haven't seen the new Claria 1.0, with the built in deed-poll feature, have you?. Thanks to Kazaa's spyware component, I'm now legally known as Mr Sparkle's Floor Wax.
Claria is a social disease With a better suited name, too. Cue a thousand 'Do you have clarmydia?' anti-spyware websites springing up.
Company delays paying up as long as it can to make interest, fails to pay up due to bad review, or item is given good review to make sure manufacturers pay up. Repeat till magazine goes bust.
.. welcome our new bread-making anthrax-detecting apocalypse-surviving insect overlords.
.. will no doubt carry an article about traffic light control jammers being sold to stop people who use the controls causing chaos.
That these aren't the droids you're looking for. Repeat, these aren't the droids you're looking for.
I may be heading into tinfoil hat territory here, but it seems to be more about control. This would allow broadcasters to further control the distribution of their programes - no taping a programme for a friend here. I'm getting flashbacks to the whole DVD Region coding thing, with media giants being shocked that they didn't have control over the distribution of their films, regardless of the fact that they'd been paid for the DVDs.
It's satire - albeit it's relatively subtle so it seems to have sneaked under the comedy radars of a few people, but the more you read it, the funnier it gets.
Hang on.. that sound familiar. Jay of 'Jay and Silent Bob' is in charge of the internet? That explains a lot.
Well, if you can think of a better one, I'm all ears.
Unsurprisingly, MS didn't comply, and the exploit was released. The group's actions could quite easily be interpreted as blackmail, and would have made great fodder for the article. I'm guessing the guy didn't dig too deep.
I can't see why anyone would have problems differentiating between the two. After all, one is a bland, disposable disc which is likely to be thrown in the bin and forgotten about, and the other is a disc made out of corn...
Which may sound far-fetched, but there are tales aplenty of this kind of incompetence at the excellent TechTales.
Maybe they're planning to campaign for the freedom of speech of telemarketers next?
Oh? So did the one in the new series - a remake, apparently.
Would this be usable on someone who gets heartburn a lot? Would too much stomach acid would release too much of the drug too early?
You mean I donned my tinfoil hat for nothing? There goes my 'govt using microchips in our body to track us' post. Damn you, Auntie Beeb!
Would it have a bank account? If so, yes.
.. the Outer Limits - the new series, not the old one - had an episode where a robot was on trial for murder, having apparently killed is creator (with all the usual military complex shenanigans)
The irony being that while they actually deleted a great deal of their original output - Nigel Kneale's 'The Road' - various other shows etc, without making copies. Maybe this is a way to save space - they share the programs, delete them from their own tapes and when they want to broadcast them, just dl them from Kazaa :)
So how long before the laser scanning data is used to produced smaller replicas of Stonehenge? I'm sure there's a market there for selling them to new-agers / people who want more than just a gnome in their gardens.
That's an earth-bound war. Just wait till some bright spark invents a device that can artifically generate minature black holes with the intention of sucking in enemy fleets. And then the testing goes awry...
Surely.. 'Wraa! Hhu! Waht si ti godo fror? Abolsutly nhoting!'
That's if you get digital. If you don't have a digibox, you get a grand total of two TV stations. So the majority are subsising the minority, apparently.