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The only form of government that doesn't claim to be giving the people what they need to be happy is the totalitarian state, and while I wouldn't choose to live in such an environment at least it is honest about its aims
Not long until you emigrate, then?
"The power of the executive to cast a man in prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government, whether Nazi or Communist."- Winston Churchill
Do you think that perhaps the software industry is moving towards a model whereby one 'rents' applications and pays a subscription?
In that scenario, AV (with updates) could be packaged with Windows, with the cost being absorbed within the subscription fee.
I personally think that within 5-10 years, Windows will be a free (as in beer) download, but which you pay to license per user, per month/year/whatever. This is only the beginning...
They do understand this, but they also understand that in affluent societies, prices of luxury goods (such as CDs and DVDs) have a fair amount of elasticity, and thus, can be kept higher, netting them even *more* money. That is what they realise.
Government won't do too much to stop them, as higher revenues look better for the economy in general, and help keep the nation's growth looking healthy, which in turn prevents it from being eclipsed by other rising powers, and subsequently outgunned.
This is what happened to Great Britain, already in relative economic decline before the First World War. The government's method of preventing a similar fate befalling the US is to do pretty much anything it can to keep the economy ticking over, even at the expense of civil liberties and public opinion.
Not meaning to troll or bait flame here, but there's a lot of these type of news stories around, and I think this is my take on it.
Indeed, it is trivially easy to get a connection to the internet (unless you're with AOL).
Even cutting the cables to Sri Lanka only affected 'most of the population' (ie - not *ALL* of them).
However... the government would have too much to lose if it were to outlaw all TV/Radio/films/newspapers/et cetera, as they can be very useful for spin/propaganda.
Against safari? They'll probably just employ the same kind of dirty tricks they did against Opera, where they detect the user agent string, and send back broken CSS files.
I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. 'I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.' 'I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.' 'Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!'
I usually wait until there's a couple of broken laptops, and swap out bits of each of them to make one working laptop. I have tonnes of spares for various HP Omnibook laptops, and old Toshiba Tecra/Satellites.
I am still using a P3 Omnibook XE3 which came to me in the form of one laptop with a broken screen and another laptop which had suffered severe internal coffee-related injuries.
...isn't actually the fault of MS programmers?
In that case, given that leadership is one of the factors, then I can legitimately blame Bill Gates personally.
So that's alright, then.
Firstly, it isn't that simple, as the whole point of the internet was that you could nuke certain parts of it, but basically, it would still continue to function. So you cut the link to China/North Korea, or you blackhole the address range. So they route out via someplace else.
..it was recognised for what it is.
Here, in the UK, such software falls foul of the Computer Misuse Act (which is due for an update).
Personally, I already spend far too much time removing Adware, Spyware, BHOs, et cetera from Windows machines, especially at one site, where they seem to actually think CoolWebSearch really is cool.
I used to work for 3Com, back in 1996. It seems amusing to see the headline about 3Com products being launched to compete with Cisco, as back then, 3Com viewed themselves as *the* competition for Cisco, and indeed way ahead of any offerings from Madge, Cabletron, Newbridge and Bay.
Nowadays, I'm sure it's a very different story.
I think you're right - I coulda sworn the burden of proof lies on the shoulders of the prosecution, not the defense. Would indeed be fun to turn up to such a court hearing, and make the case that yes, whilst you do admit buying such equipment, you also wish to confess to buying enough petrol in your lifetime to burn down a whole city block, and taking enough dihydrogen monoxide to kill hundreds of people, and that you have also learned to read another language, possibly making you vulnerable to evil influence from foreign empires.
Idea of having lots of high-ranking back-links is most certainly an effective one. I used to have a plain old personal homepage, which was ranked as '1' by google, and then I added a link to my site on my page at h2g2, and watched my rank go up to 4 within a week. Sadly, it didn't last...
Well, if you're all 'teched-up' to the max, perhaps you could get yourself a phaser, which would nicely compliment your iPod, laptop, 3G phone, et cetera - as a nifty hi-tech gadget, but also doubles as a self defence device! Can you imagine the police investigation?: Yes officer, he was trying to steal my copy of advanced calculus... he says what? that I shot him with an alien ray-gun? Sure.... whatever!
You neglected to mention which part of London you're spending your time in. It's a totally different ball game if you're in Hackney to when you're in Mayfair.
But do you honestly thing that US movie companies are going to release movies on EVD without copy-protection? That will never happen.
I had thought that CSS didn't prevent copying at all. You can copy a CSS-protected DVD just fine, and you will end up with another CSS-protected DVD. In any case - they might not be the ones releasing the discs.
Personally, if the Chinese standards don't include restrictive concepts such as CSS and region-encoding, I'd rather have my movies on EVD than DVD.
That said, if EVD has some other kind of restrictions (such as detecting anti-government remarks, and then emailling the details of the viewer to the Ministry of Truth, so that they might be 're-educated' - then perhaps CSS is the lesser of two evils.
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The only form of government that doesn't claim to be giving the people what they need to be happy is the totalitarian state, and while I wouldn't choose to live in such an environment at least it is honest about its aims
Not long until you emigrate, then?"The power of the executive to cast a man in prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government, whether Nazi or Communist."- Winston Churchill
And in October, too!
I'll start a countdown of 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds from the moment of impact until the end of the world/tangent universe.
Do you think that perhaps the software industry is moving towards a model whereby one 'rents' applications and pays a subscription?
In that scenario, AV (with updates) could be packaged with Windows, with the cost being absorbed within the subscription fee.
I personally think that within 5-10 years, Windows will be a free (as in beer) download, but which you pay to license per user, per month/year/whatever. This is only the beginning...
Judging by the next article, their declaration of war doesn't seem to have had much effect so far.
They do understand this, but they also understand that in affluent societies, prices of luxury goods (such as CDs and DVDs) have a fair amount of elasticity, and thus, can be kept higher, netting them even *more* money. That is what they realise.
Government won't do too much to stop them, as higher revenues look better for the economy in general, and help keep the nation's growth looking healthy, which in turn prevents it from being eclipsed by other rising powers, and subsequently outgunned.
This is what happened to Great Britain, already in relative economic decline before the First World War. The government's method of preventing a similar fate befalling the US is to do pretty much anything it can to keep the economy ticking over, even at the expense of civil liberties and public opinion.
Not meaning to troll or bait flame here, but there's a lot of these type of news stories around, and I think this is my take on it.
Indeed, it is trivially easy to get a connection to the internet (unless you're with AOL).
Even cutting the cables to Sri Lanka only affected 'most of the population' (ie - not *ALL* of them).
Wow, that Korean hacker training program must be tough... there were 600 of them a week ago.
I believe Ms Williams has stumbled across the breeding/training ground for Microsoft's army of evil monkeys.
Well said!
However... the government would have too much to lose if it were to outlaw all TV/Radio/films/newspapers/et cetera, as they can be very useful for spin/propaganda.
And when all the jobs have been outsourced to India, who will be left with enough expendable cash to buy CDs and DVDs in America?
Against safari? They'll probably just employ the same kind of dirty tricks they did against Opera, where they detect the user agent string, and send back broken CSS files.
I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. 'I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.' 'I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.' 'Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!'
I usually wait until there's a couple of broken laptops, and swap out bits of each of them to make one working laptop.
I have tonnes of spares for various HP Omnibook laptops, and old Toshiba Tecra/Satellites.
I am still using a P3 Omnibook XE3 which came to me in the form of one laptop with a broken screen and another laptop which had suffered severe internal coffee-related injuries.
...isn't actually the fault of MS programmers? In that case, given that leadership is one of the factors, then I can legitimately blame Bill Gates personally. So that's alright, then.
Firstly, it isn't that simple, as the whole point of the internet was that you could nuke certain parts of it, but basically, it would still continue to function. So you cut the link to China/North Korea, or you blackhole the address range. So they route out via someplace else.
> DISABLE ECONOMY
> You cannot do that here.
> EXAMINE CYBER INFRASTRUCTURE
> Access Denied.
> HIT ECONOMY WITH STICK
..it was recognised for what it is. Here, in the UK, such software falls foul of the Computer Misuse Act (which is due for an update). Personally, I already spend far too much time removing Adware, Spyware, BHOs, et cetera from Windows machines, especially at one site, where they seem to actually think CoolWebSearch really is cool.
I used to work for 3Com, back in 1996. It seems amusing to see the headline about 3Com products being launched to compete with Cisco, as back then, 3Com viewed themselves as *the* competition for Cisco, and indeed way ahead of any offerings from Madge, Cabletron, Newbridge and Bay. Nowadays, I'm sure it's a very different story.
You're not the only one:
No of Linux distros surpasses no of users.
I think you're right - I coulda sworn the burden of proof lies on the shoulders of the prosecution, not the defense. Would indeed be fun to turn up to such a court hearing, and make the case that yes, whilst you do admit buying such equipment, you also wish to confess to buying enough petrol in your lifetime to burn down a whole city block, and taking enough dihydrogen monoxide to kill hundreds of people, and that you have also learned to read another language, possibly making you vulnerable to evil influence from foreign empires.
Idea of having lots of high-ranking back-links is most certainly an effective one. I used to have a plain old personal homepage, which was ranked as '1' by google, and then I added a link to my site on my page at h2g2, and watched my rank go up to 4 within a week. Sadly, it didn't last...
Well, if you're all 'teched-up' to the max, perhaps you could get yourself a phaser, which would nicely compliment your iPod, laptop, 3G phone, et cetera - as a nifty hi-tech gadget, but also doubles as a self defence device! Can you imagine the police investigation?:
Yes officer, he was trying to steal my copy of advanced calculus... he says what? that I shot him with an alien ray-gun? Sure.... whatever!
You neglected to mention which part of London you're spending your time in. It's a totally different ball game if you're in Hackney to when you're in Mayfair.
But do you honestly thing that US movie companies are going to release movies on EVD without copy-protection? That will never happen.
I had thought that CSS didn't prevent copying at all. You can copy a CSS-protected DVD just fine, and you will end up with another CSS-protected DVD. In any case - they might not be the ones releasing the discs.Personally, if the Chinese standards don't include restrictive concepts such as CSS and region-encoding, I'd rather have my movies on EVD than DVD.
That said, if EVD has some other kind of restrictions (such as detecting anti-government remarks, and then emailling the details of the viewer to the Ministry of Truth, so that they might be 're-educated' - then perhaps CSS is the lesser of two evils.