I have a blu-ray player, but I run Linux. Playing Blu-ray in linux is difficult and error prone.
So I download the movies instead. I would happily buy them legally if I could pop them in and just play them in linux.
And the fact that the bluray rips are available with little to no effort on all the pirate sites would suggest to me that the copy protection isn't working anyway.
And they'll be filling his 'slot' in prison. At least there'll be plenty of tables to play. If he plays his cards right, he'll probably get a shortened sentence. Maybe he can roll the dice and get in with a gang that will protect him.
Hopefully he'll be well behaved and won't end up in the pit.
So many sentences people are receiving in crimes like these make it so that committing the crime might be worth it.
An ex-boss of mine told me many moons ago of a colleague from university he knew who planned, and successfully executed a pyramid scheme of some sort. Netted himself just south of $2M in about 4 months. Stashed the cash away in an off-shore account, got caught, went to jail at a low-security country-club style prison for 2 years less a day, got out, moved to some exotic country where $2M is easily enough to live off of for your life as a king, and did just that.
Newsflash: there are douchehats in every profession.
Computer fixers deal with people who click 'ok' on all the addons their favourite 'free' download site suggests. Computer programmers deal with specs and users that want features they don't understand, and will never use. Mechanics who deal with people who figured the 'little oil can light' wasn't anything serious and kept driving. Accountants whose clients figure they didn't need to file their taxes for the last 3 years, or that it was acceptable to write off that hooker as a 'business expense'. Teachers whose students are dumber than bricks, and have parents who insist its your fault.
It's already responsible for all sorts of idiotic laws and levies in Canada that shouldn't exist. It's idiotic.
If you have a wedding at a public venue you rent, you will be charged the 'SOCAN' fee.
Even if you don't play any music.
Even if you have a band playing music that will only play their own songs and they aren't a member of SOCAN.
So I say again,
SOCAN can DIAF.
(I also remember reading a story some time ago about the idiotic SOCAN levy on blank media not actually being paid to any actual musicians.)
However, it's become more and more apparent with every passing day that the CRTC isn't interested in consumers'/citizens' rights, so I'm sure this will go through, and we'll continue to be fucked by Canadian coporations.
gentoo is second to debian for me. As others have said, it just got to the point where maintaining things became problematic and time consuming. The fun part is when you go, 'oh, I missed a USE flag I'll need in the future.', you add it, and then wait while gentoo re-compiles the 136 packages that have now been changed by that use flag.
I understand that the rule with debian is pretty much everything is compiled with pretty much everything, but on a reasonably new system with good hardware I don't feel the need to get those few CPU cycles back.
I've sampled the others, and it just keeps working for me.
When other distros let me down -- even the debian based ones (like Ubuntu failing miserably over and over on my wife's netbook) -- debian, with the desktop set of packages installed, works beautifully.
Vimperator is what keeps me on firefox. I know there are vim-like extensions for chrome, but none of them have lived up to my expectations thus far. I keep going back to give them a try every now and again, though.
If they try and use it, as soon as it's out of sight, they'll claim the warranty has expired, and if you're willing to wait 3-6 months, they'll mail a a replacement via untrackable ground shipping.
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The whole Blu-ray bullshit, too.
I have a blu-ray player, but I run Linux. Playing Blu-ray in linux is difficult and error prone.
So I download the movies instead. I would happily buy them legally if I could pop them in and just play them in linux.
And the fact that the bluray rips are available with little to no effort on all the pirate sites would suggest to me that the copy protection isn't working anyway.
"I don't want to work for my money. I'd rather rest on my laurels."
And they'll be filling his 'slot' in prison. At least there'll be plenty of tables to play. If he plays his cards right, he'll probably get a shortened sentence. Maybe he can roll the dice and get in with a gang that will protect him.
Hopefully he'll be well behaved and won't end up in the pit.
OK, not really, but it is really fucking stupid.
Agree. Most corporations these days are so reprehensibly evil, it's not worth really talking about the few that haven't eaten any puppies this week.
It just might be worth it.
So many sentences people are receiving in crimes like these make it so that committing the crime might be worth it.
An ex-boss of mine told me many moons ago of a colleague from university he knew who planned, and successfully executed a pyramid scheme of some sort. Netted himself just south of $2M in about 4 months. Stashed the cash away in an off-shore account, got caught, went to jail at a low-security country-club style prison for 2 years less a day, got out, moved to some exotic country where $2M is easily enough to live off of for your life as a king, and did just that.
Newsflash: there are douchehats in every profession.
Computer fixers deal with people who click 'ok' on all the addons their favourite 'free' download site suggests.
Computer programmers deal with specs and users that want features they don't understand, and will never use.
Mechanics who deal with people who figured the 'little oil can light' wasn't anything serious and kept driving.
Accountants whose clients figure they didn't need to file their taxes for the last 3 years, or that it was acceptable to write off that hooker as a 'business expense'.
Teachers whose students are dumber than bricks, and have parents who insist its your fault.
If you don't like it, get a factory job.
It's already responsible for all sorts of idiotic laws and levies in Canada that shouldn't exist. It's idiotic.
If you have a wedding at a public venue you rent, you will be charged the 'SOCAN' fee.
Even if you don't play any music.
Even if you have a band playing music that will only play their own songs and they aren't a member of SOCAN.
So I say again,
SOCAN can DIAF.
(I also remember reading a story some time ago about the idiotic SOCAN levy on blank media not actually being paid to any actual musicians.)
However, it's become more and more apparent with every passing day that the CRTC isn't interested in consumers'/citizens' rights, so I'm sure this will go through, and we'll continue to be fucked by Canadian coporations.
Start holding the cell phone in front of my gut. That should increase that metabolic rate, too, right?
It's not a satchel, it's a purse.
gentoo is second to debian for me. As others have said, it just got to the point where maintaining things became problematic and time consuming. The fun part is when you go, 'oh, I missed a USE flag I'll need in the future.', you add it, and then wait while gentoo re-compiles the 136 packages that have now been changed by that use flag.
I understand that the rule with debian is pretty much everything is compiled with pretty much everything, but on a reasonably new system with good hardware I don't feel the need to get those few CPU cycles back.
I've sampled the others, and it just keeps working for me.
When other distros let me down -- even the debian based ones (like Ubuntu failing miserably over and over on my wife's netbook) -- debian, with the desktop set of packages installed, works beautifully.
First the rootkit, now this. It's not difficult to boycott Sony for me.
There're a couple dead people I know that were real tools.
Also, steam powered wooden dildos.
You're welcome.
Wow! What an original response!
WTF. I just came to /. for the first time since the update. If anyone mods you down, it's unreasonable. This really is shit. What a convoluted mess.
More likely is they'll just find a way to ignore/work around it.
Same thing here in Canada, only replace Verizon with Rogers, and it's word-for-word applicable.
Fuck them, you're absolutely right. /signed.
Vimperator is what keeps me on firefox. I know there are vim-like extensions for chrome, but none of them have lived up to my expectations thus far. I keep going back to give them a try every now and again, though.
That, and no middle-click-to-paste ftl.
WORKSFORME.
I run ff4b8, and I find it quicker, more stable, and generally snappier than previous stable releases.
And I use a lot of addons.
'High quality' does not mean what you think it means.
This pretty much sums up my thoughts; thanks.
I can get up to 180wpm on my standard keyboard. I'd be surprised if I break 40wpm even on a good day on swype or any other touch screen keyboard.
I came here to make some sort of joke like that, but this one is better, so there's no point in me trying.
If they try and use it, as soon as it's out of sight, they'll claim the warranty has expired, and if you're willing to wait 3-6 months, they'll mail a a replacement via untrackable ground shipping.
Oddly, this one upsets me less.