You are legally and/or morally confused. However, you begin to understand the horror of the society based on DRM concept paradigm. You will end in jail for any illegal download, even if you buy 10000 of another copies of the same song.
How do you then ensure that the music and player you buy today will not be incompatible with your player, online store or the OS?
iRiver supports ogg, for ages. Lots of others as Qoolgee, CM-Tech, newers Mpio too. Qoolgee and CM-Tech even advertise the firmware is updatable for future file formats. Nice gadgets for hacking, too.
Generally, vendor lock-in seems to be typical for U.S./Apple or Japan/Sony markets, here in Europe we gladly buy more advanced taiwanese or korean products based on open standards.
How would we feel about losing 3 months of our lives, and after that, being released with "no charge". What would our employers think? What would happen to our houses, mortgages during that time? It's easy to think "90 days isn't so much", but think about what it actually means.
This is probably the original intention of the law setup: to destroy your life completely without legal consequences. I remember well that schema from totalitarian communist regime I lived in for more than 20 years. Pure possibility of it could happen makes majority of people behave conformly.
If I ever become a member of organisation opposing some government (aka "terrorist" in propaganda terminology), I would have small blocks of single encrypted data file spreaded on a very large number of computers around the world, with a diskless station at home bootable from tiny sd card. Server hosting is cheap, in comparision to guns and mortars. One can even chew up a flash card to shred the keys, with a little damage to dents. But "they" will probably damage your dents either, if an emergency exit schema fails...
Beware, one of the banner advertiser on that page (netshelter.net) is trying to buffer overflow with strangely crafted cookie. Hope you do not run your Firefox on Windows...
Whatever level of irrelevance of the actual book content, I like the cover artist bravely used the most potent magical symbol of the postmodern chaos magick. In fiery context. Excellent choice.
My post was intended to become +funny, I feel guilty it is taken so seriously. However, you really *can* imagine a single penguin with a flu, in his natural habitat? Yesterday, state tv media in my country were officially urging people not to destroy nests of swallows, common on houses, because swallows cannot catch nor carry the bird flu at all. The real tragedy is the medially induced campaign of fear, not the disease. Thats my point.
it is difficult to know whether an e-mail message is worth interrupting your work for unless you open and read it
No, it is not difficult at all: e-mail message is never worth interrupting your work. The reasoning is simple: mail transport is unreliable by protocol definition. Your "worthy" email message could gladly not come in at all. What level of up to moment importance can be assigned to it if it comes two hours later, or never?
While writing perl in haskell *is* fun, writing haskell in perl would be a horrific nightmare torture. Perhaps all code language disputations/wars should be solved by duel of this kind.
A house of yours with 150 software seats cannot afford one hardcore geek to build 150 identical computers from the carefully selected compatible bulk ordered shelve components, within a month? Whatever China these components are made in, as Dell's are.
I picked one of my PDAs fully dedicated for only password database, plus other technical details for my machines, net services or other accounts. Methodically not using it for anything else, no network, no usb plug to any machine, ever. Backups on flashcards. Second identical PDA in the drawer, without data but ready to accept backup flashcard at any moment, usualy used for playing with NetBSD.
Today, the database has 726 records of active nick/identities, Maljin Jolt on Slashdot among others. What a pile of sticky labels could that be!
Build your own cartrigde and refill it as you wish.
You will need some paper, glue and scissors to construct box, some epoxyde impregnation to make it liquid-proof, and some cotton and piece of cloth to stuff it. And ink, of course.
Dont forget to print a copyright notice on it while you made a paper cut design in your favourite vector graphics editor.
Expect widely spread remotely disabling unmodified players by those with malicious intent. The first motivation is competition. The second is will to remove such technology from the market.
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You are legally and/or morally confused. However, you begin to understand the horror of the society based on DRM concept paradigm. You will end in jail for any illegal download, even if you buy 10000 of another copies of the same song.
How do you then ensure that the music and player you buy today will not be incompatible with your player, online store or the OS?
iRiver supports ogg, for ages. Lots of others as Qoolgee, CM-Tech, newers Mpio too. Qoolgee and CM-Tech even advertise the firmware is updatable for future file formats. Nice gadgets for hacking, too.
Generally, vendor lock-in seems to be typical for U.S./Apple or Japan/Sony markets, here in Europe we gladly buy more advanced taiwanese or korean products based on open standards.
We were (and are) the "Responsible Superpower"
Sorry, but I do not see any true responsibility in your Superpower... since 6th August 1945.
Irrelevant to what I mean, +2 Troll *is* impressive....
just put a little device under our skin, when we are born, with our all identity details. That would solve all problems!
It is quite easy to solve that setup condition with a sharp knife.
How would we feel about losing 3 months of our lives, and after that, being released with "no charge". What would our employers think? What would happen to our houses, mortgages during that time? It's easy to think "90 days isn't so much", but think about what it actually means.
This is probably the original intention of the law setup: to destroy your life completely without legal consequences. I remember well that schema from totalitarian communist regime I lived in for more than 20 years. Pure possibility of it could happen makes majority of people behave conformly.
If I ever become a member of organisation opposing some government (aka "terrorist" in propaganda terminology), I would have small blocks of single encrypted data file spreaded on a very large number of computers around the world, with a diskless station at home bootable from tiny sd card. Server hosting is cheap, in comparision to guns and mortars. One can even chew up a flash card to shred the keys, with a little damage to dents. But "they" will probably damage your dents either, if an emergency exit schema fails...
Beware, one of the banner advertiser on that page (netshelter.net) is trying to buffer overflow with strangely crafted cookie. Hope you do not run your Firefox on Windows...
Whatever level of irrelevance of the actual book content, I like the cover artist bravely used the most potent magical symbol of the postmodern chaos magick. In fiery context. Excellent choice.
My post was intended to become +funny, I feel guilty it is taken so seriously. However, you really *can* imagine a single penguin with a flu, in his natural habitat? Yesterday, state tv media in my country were officially urging people not to destroy nests of swallows, common on houses, because swallows cannot catch nor carry the bird flu at all. The real tragedy is the medially induced campaign of fear, not the disease. Thats my point.
With the world flu panic boosted by a simple marketing campaign, did anyone noticed arctic penguins have immunity to bird flu?
If you value yourself as a linux geek, perhaps you should try gentoo instead of certain monolitic distro.
it is difficult to know whether an e-mail message is worth interrupting your work for unless you open and read it
No, it is not difficult at all: e-mail message is never worth interrupting your work. The reasoning is simple: mail transport is unreliable by protocol definition. Your "worthy" email message could gladly not come in at all. What level of up to moment importance can be assigned to it if it comes two hours later, or never?
'Don't be put off by Chris' Microsoft badge -- he is actually a long time Unix hacker,'
May we consider he became a traitor, please?
While writing perl in haskell *is* fun, writing haskell in perl would be a horrific nightmare torture. Perhaps all code language disputations/wars should be solved by duel of this kind.
A most admirable representant of violent culture...
Now I shall view him to be just a simple political coward.
A house of yours with 150 software seats cannot afford one hardcore geek to build 150 identical computers from the carefully selected compatible bulk ordered shelve components, within a month? Whatever China these components are made in, as Dell's are.
TFA does not mention how much explosives payload that pretty fish can carry.
One USB stick is not enough for your passwords.
I picked one of my PDAs fully dedicated for only password database, plus other technical details for my machines, net services or other accounts. Methodically not using it for anything else, no network, no usb plug to any machine, ever. Backups on flashcards. Second identical PDA in the drawer, without data but ready to accept backup flashcard at any moment, usualy used for playing with NetBSD.
Today, the database has 726 records of active nick/identities, Maljin Jolt on Slashdot among others. What a pile of sticky labels could that be!
...black market will rise with illegal bacteria capable to modify genetic profile.
How can they read my obsolete digital document?
Keep your obsolete computer as an antiquity. I do that for 20 years now.
How much wood would former propgramer chuck if former programer could chuck wood?
Build your own cartrigde and refill it as you wish.
You will need some paper, glue and scissors to construct box, some epoxyde impregnation to make it liquid-proof, and some cotton and piece of cloth to stuff it. And ink, of course.
Dont forget to print a copyright notice on it while you made a paper cut design in your favourite vector graphics editor.
Expect widely spread remotely disabling unmodified players by those with malicious intent. The first motivation is competition. The second is will to remove such technology from the market.
At last, scientists have a chance to understand what is magic and mysticism about...