A person is intelligent, but people are stupid, emotional, and frighten easily.
The thing is corporations suffer from a mob mentality, mainly greed (but also fear). The people in charge get detatched from the end result of their actions, because they have to to make the most profit.
Think of offshore outsourcing of technical support. As a ceo it's a great idea because it saves money, but no ceo would go for it if they actually cared that it takes 1/4th of the call just to figure out what the tech is trying to say.
What we need is a website that tracks and rates the actions of IBM (and possibly some other companies), so we can see their daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and running total of good/bad karma.
It's so hard to remember who to hate today (besides sco and ms).
Read the parent I replied to (modded down for knee-jerk anti-rfid/walmart message). My message was one of "I don't care how they track their products in-store, as long as it stays in-store only". It's their property until I buy it, and if these things save them money then great, it'll mean prices will stay semi-reasonable longer.
And sorry about the spacing, forgot to select plain text.
Bit different, you don't have to use credit cards to purchase items from a store, you could use checks, cash, gift certificates, ect...
By using a credit card you agree to tell them that information in exchange for a guaranteed (within reason) short term loan.
Unremovable, active RFID tags, on the other hand, mean someone with a scanner can find out not only that I have a PDA in my coat pocket, but the type and model number. This opens up avenues for targeted personal advertisements (joe advertised walks up to you on the street after detecting your PDA's rfid chip, "Hey, did you know is leagues better than , and this is why! "), ease of public hacking ("Dude, the scanner says there's a pre-fix pda out there, and I know the backdoor user/pass for that model!"), or even targeted theft ("Hrm, that guys got a nice new iPod hidden in his jacket, I'll just follow him and swipe it...").
As long as they disable the things once they leave the checkout, I have no problems with this really.
Now, if they forced them to be embedded into CD backings, major structural features, and/or obscure places, where you couldn't remove them without damaging the product, and left them active, I'd be pissed.
Before the product has been purchased, it's their property, and they can do as they see fit, but after I give them my money for it it's mine and no one has the right to know I bought certain products or not if I don't want them to know.
If they don't, then they'll whine to congress about the evils of this new "black-market piracy tool of the devil and terrorists", and get it shut down.
Kinda complicated if you have to use wireless. You'd have to get a real router (not one of those cheap broadband NATs) with 3 ethernet ports, two wireless access points and a wireless bridge. Link one port in through ethernet, another through the access point and bridge, and set those to loadbalance the traffic to the 3rd port (with NAT, and DHCP if you want). Stick the second access point off that and have double speed broadband.
Complicated and probably rather touchy, but if you really wanted to, you could. Though it'd be cheaper to just use one broadband account and pay for the combine bandwidth, and share that out.
I always wait till the games come down to the $10-$20 range at walmart (the next closest game selling store is a 5hr round trip, though when I do stop by there they always have better games in that range).
Yes I think $50 for a game is overpriced, just like I think over $10 a month is overpriced for MMORPGs (and even then it has to be damn good to get my attention), but I just don't buy it if it's overpriced.
I was forced to a few years ago, came back from college durring breaks to dialup when I had a T3 at school.
It sucked, but it's like people becomming cannibals in dire situations, you don't know what youy're capable of doing till you're faced with no other choices.
While your example doesn't take into account people who want to switch durring that time but can't, you still point out what I was going to.
Percentages mean squat without hard numbers to back them up. 1% may not seem like a large number, but when taken as an amount of the population of new york or LA, it's quite large. But if taken as an amount of the population of Podunk, USA (pop. 500), it not even enough to fill a bus.
MS would probably just use it as an opportunity to outsource to india...
You can bet they've got contingency plans setup for that, like programmers on tap in india and all the "crucial" employees (read, managers) officed in the same material they build black boxes out of.
By wireless I'd expect they mean short range.
There's no point in a 100m range on the wireless.
What I'm guessing is they plan on creating a magnetic induction loop to power the thing, and a very short range wireless link (couple inches, something like WUSB and bluetooth). Then they create a headband to wear that had the induction coil and the wireless antenna in it.
The onlt problem with the system is MRIs and other high strength magnets could cause a problem, frying the chips and possibly creating a hot spot in their heads.
The two main rules of engagement, "Know yourself" and "Know your enemy". Fairplay will hurt the RIAA's stance in the long run, but only if we don't kill it because it's the easiest to circumvent of the DRM schemes. Take what you can, and use it as leverage to push the other way.
Remember, talk on slashdot is all fine and good, but unless you have a plan to mobilize a couple hundred million americans to speak out against DRMing music, then attacking indiscriminately will only hurt our position.
The thing is, attacking all DRM is a death sentence for fair use because we as consumers don't have as much say over the content or copyright laws as the RIAA does.
Fairplay isn't some massively restrictive DRM scheme that forces you to sacrifice a live virgin every time you want to listen to a song, and apple isn't beating down the doors of anyone even remotely related to this and sending them to prison for 20 years.
Learn to pick your battles, and some day fairplay's setup may become the worst we'll have to deal with.
Explain to me how DRM works then.
Could it be the player validates credentials based on information provided by you (by way of installed certificates) and in the song file itself, then grants you the ability to read the music data?
Well holly shite, you've got yourself an automated login prompt.
Now you explain to me how the internet would have gotten past 3 computers that trusted eachother completely if everyone had read/write access to EVERYTHING online.
DRM is another name for portable file security. If you think any different then I;ve got some info on an dangerous substance Dihydrogen Monoxide you might be interested in.
DRM is simply unacceptable. Frankly, I'm in favor of revoking the copyrights of any work that is authorizedly subjected to DRM, and to not only legalize, but encourage the circumvention of DRM.
I'm not even going to bother trying to argue against this, I'm just going to track you down and take your computer. And heaven help you if you have a locked door in my way, I'll go to your city hall or apartment owner and demand you lose rights to your property for implementing a security device to keep me out.
And how is you clearly anti-apple hatespeech any different from the "apple loving freak" speech your're so angry at?
Ya know, I get the feeling you're either an anti-mac zealot, or have some stake in a DRM technology that competes with fairplay.
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Technology changes, ranges will increase.
I'd rather not give anyone a chance to know what I'm carrying without me having a say in it, no matter what range.
A person is intelligent, but people are stupid, emotional, and frighten easily.
The thing is corporations suffer from a mob mentality, mainly greed (but also fear). The people in charge get detatched from the end result of their actions, because they have to to make the most profit.
Think of offshore outsourcing of technical support. As a ceo it's a great idea because it saves money, but no ceo would go for it if they actually cared that it takes 1/4th of the call just to figure out what the tech is trying to say.
What we need is a website that tracks and rates the actions of IBM (and possibly some other companies), so we can see their daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and running total of good/bad karma.
It's so hard to remember who to hate today (besides sco and ms).
Read the parent I replied to (modded down for knee-jerk anti-rfid/walmart message).
My message was one of "I don't care how they track their products in-store, as long as it stays in-store only". It's their property until I buy it, and if these things save them money then great, it'll mean prices will stay semi-reasonable longer.
And sorry about the spacing, forgot to select plain text.
Bit different, you don't have to use credit cards to purchase items from a store, you could use checks, cash, gift certificates, ect...
By using a credit card you agree to tell them that information in exchange for a guaranteed (within reason) short term loan.
Unremovable, active RFID tags, on the other hand, mean someone with a scanner can find out not only that I have a PDA in my coat pocket, but the type and model number. This opens up avenues for targeted personal advertisements (joe advertised walks up to you on the street after detecting your PDA's rfid chip, "Hey, did you know is leagues better than , and this is why! "), ease of public hacking ("Dude, the scanner says there's a pre-fix pda out there, and I know the backdoor user/pass for that model!"), or even targeted theft ("Hrm, that guys got a nice new iPod hidden in his jacket, I'll just follow him and swipe it...").
As long as they disable the things once they leave the checkout, I have no problems with this really. Now, if they forced them to be embedded into CD backings, major structural features, and/or obscure places, where you couldn't remove them without damaging the product, and left them active, I'd be pissed. Before the product has been purchased, it's their property, and they can do as they see fit, but after I give them my money for it it's mine and no one has the right to know I bought certain products or not if I don't want them to know.
If they don't, then they'll whine to congress about the evils of this new "black-market piracy tool of the devil and terrorists", and get it shut down.
Don't forget Duke Nukem. You can tell they're based near the mexico/texas border from all the anti-illegal alien gameplay...
atomic powered flying pig
Mmmmm, pre-nuked bacon to go...
Kinda complicated if you have to use wireless.
You'd have to get a real router (not one of those cheap broadband NATs) with 3 ethernet ports, two wireless access points and a wireless bridge. Link one port in through ethernet, another through the access point and bridge, and set those to loadbalance the traffic to the 3rd port (with NAT, and DHCP if you want). Stick the second access point off that and have double speed broadband.
Complicated and probably rather touchy, but if you really wanted to, you could. Though it'd be cheaper to just use one broadband account and pay for the combine bandwidth, and share that out.
So, who would that be? China and . . . China?
You forgot China as well.
I always wait till the games come down to the $10-$20 range at walmart (the next closest game selling store is a 5hr round trip, though when I do stop by there they always have better games in that range). Yes I think $50 for a game is overpriced, just like I think over $10 a month is overpriced for MMORPGs (and even then it has to be damn good to get my attention), but I just don't buy it if it's overpriced.
Wireless, takes credit cards, covers 12 spots, and deals with goverment bureaucracy.
Seems a bit underpowered when you add that last part in.
I can't see it in the story, how many wires/fiber pairs were used?
If it was a single pair, then DAAAAAAAMN...
I was forced to a few years ago, came back from college durring breaks to dialup when I had a T3 at school.
It sucked, but it's like people becomming cannibals in dire situations, you don't know what youy're capable of doing till you're faced with no other choices.
While your example doesn't take into account people who want to switch durring that time but can't, you still point out what I was going to.
Percentages mean squat without hard numbers to back them up.
1% may not seem like a large number, but when taken as an amount of the population of new york or LA, it's quite large. But if taken as an amount of the population of Podunk, USA (pop. 500), it not even enough to fill a bus.
MS would probably just use it as an opportunity to outsource to india... You can bet they've got contingency plans setup for that, like programmers on tap in india and all the "crucial" employees (read, managers) officed in the same material they build black boxes out of.
What we need is for the goverment to start seizing 10% of microsoft's assets a year until they change their ways.
Not enough to kill them off (which would be devastating, considering winXP would stop running), but enough to wake them up.
By wireless I'd expect they mean short range.
There's no point in a 100m range on the wireless.
What I'm guessing is they plan on creating a magnetic induction loop to power the thing, and a very short range wireless link (couple inches, something like WUSB and bluetooth). Then they create a headband to wear that had the induction coil and the wireless antenna in it.
The onlt problem with the system is MRIs and other high strength magnets could cause a problem, frying the chips and possibly creating a hot spot in their heads.
The two main rules of engagement, "Know yourself" and "Know your enemy".
Fairplay will hurt the RIAA's stance in the long run, but only if we don't kill it because it's the easiest to circumvent of the DRM schemes. Take what you can, and use it as leverage to push the other way.
Remember, talk on slashdot is all fine and good, but unless you have a plan to mobilize a couple hundred million americans to speak out against DRMing music, then attacking indiscriminately will only hurt our position.
The thing is, attacking all DRM is a death sentence for fair use because we as consumers don't have as much say over the content or copyright laws as the RIAA does.
Fairplay isn't some massively restrictive DRM scheme that forces you to sacrifice a live virgin every time you want to listen to a song, and apple isn't beating down the doors of anyone even remotely related to this and sending them to prison for 20 years.
Learn to pick your battles, and some day fairplay's setup may become the worst we'll have to deal with.
And these rats are leaving by gnawing through the hull while wearing tiny orange lifepreservers and scubatanks.
Atleast it means they're sinking faster now.
Explain to me how DRM works then. Could it be the player validates credentials based on information provided by you (by way of installed certificates) and in the song file itself, then grants you the ability to read the music data? Well holly shite, you've got yourself an automated login prompt. Now you explain to me how the internet would have gotten past 3 computers that trusted eachother completely if everyone had read/write access to EVERYTHING online. DRM is another name for portable file security. If you think any different then I;ve got some info on an dangerous substance Dihydrogen Monoxide you might be interested in.
DRM is simply unacceptable. Frankly, I'm in favor of revoking the copyrights of any work that is authorizedly subjected to DRM, and to not only legalize, but encourage the circumvention of DRM.
I'm not even going to bother trying to argue against this, I'm just going to track you down and take your computer. And heaven help you if you have a locked door in my way, I'll go to your city hall or apartment owner and demand you lose rights to your property for implementing a security device to keep me out.
And how is you clearly anti-apple hatespeech any different from the "apple loving freak" speech your're so angry at? Ya know, I get the feeling you're either an anti-mac zealot, or have some stake in a DRM technology that competes with fairplay.