This brings to mind the copyright on the 'minute of silence' (or something like that') 'song'. To take it to an illogical conclusion, I am going to copyright a blank page! Thereafter, any page with white space on it will be a substantially derivative work, as it will be 90%+ white space! Of course, I will place a proper copyright notification on it, as well as file the two copies. I'll be rich!!!!!!
Beautiful! (I wish I had mod points!) I think this would get them both ways. If they release and renew the hold, this would be further evidence that they are (at least morally) abusing the tasting process. If they do not release, then they should be stuck with the name(s). If they are not then held liable for registration fees, or they somehow neglect to pay, then they are violating their agreement.
I am not sure about Best Buy, but other retailers such as Fry's and PC Club scan the serial number of hard drives and other valuable serialized merchandise, and insert/include this data on the receipt. Did anyone ask Best Buy to search previous sales/returns for that serial number?
-K-
More detail on 'a pain to install.... compared to XP' would be nice. My (long-time) experience, with both Windows and Linux platforms, is that hardware with hard-to-find drivers for either or both is out there. Get hardware that the OS has pre-loaded drivers for, and life is good, and you get a install and go experience. Get hardware that is not supported 'out-of-the-box' by that OS, especially networking (apparently the issue for this user), and it can be a 'pain to install'. That said, I feel Vista is more about Microsoft having a shiny new product with 'eye-candy' and about pleasing the Media powers-that-be (DRM), than it is about really giving the USER anything new that (XP 2007) couldn't do.
My (paranoid?) suspicions are:
1. DHS produced this FUD/PhotoOp (remember, it is CNN) to justify their funding. Their current terrorist prevention accomplishments are in the category of 'See any elephants/terrorists? No? Must mean our elephant/terrorist repellent works'
2. Showing a terrorist target that 'hits closer to home' (no pun intended) for Joe/Jane citizen
3. A reason to let them monitor everything they can on the internet. Their justification would be 'If we see them trying to get in, we can find and stop them.' Seems that a proper firewall / VPN setup would be required/more useful
K
Could the (il)logical next step be to bar one from playing as a different race/ethnicity? The justifications given for the sex ban appear to be the same, but how would you determine it? (Picture wouldn't cover it). Also, what percentage of that race/ethnicity would you need to have to qualify?
Call me dense, but isn't this "The RIAA has officially backed a move by the recording industry" really saying "The recording industry has officially backed a move by the recording industry" ?
Could hacking this be as simple as:
1) Somehow acquire a Vista key that provokes the reduced-functionality / blackscreen mode
2) Have a sniffer ready to capture the sent and received stream when activation is attempted
3) Prepare a website that would mimic this if visited
Maybe a bit simplistic, but I wonder.....
Another fallacy in the Piracy = Lost Sales logic, is that the pirated / copied song(s) are always available for purchase from a legal channel. What of the listeners looking for a song that is not currently in release (older / import / low demand)? The consumer is likely willing to pay a fair price, or even any price, but there is no seller for what the buyer wants. A case of demand with no supply, except for the ones that don't put money in the licensee's pocket.
I agree with you on the modified ad blocker idea, especially the converting animated GIF to static. It might actually get seen by me, and not automatically added to the blocked site list. Could this be the next FF extension, or a new version of adblocker?
I have been very pleased with the Nokia 1500, which is available at Sam's or Wal-mart. It will run you about $30.00(US). This is for the phone, charger, manual, and includes a 2-month/300 minute credit. Very basic Nokia 1500 phone, with excellent signal strength. It does use a SIM, so you can 'upgrade' to another model.
To me, the most important reason to have a user-replacable battery is run-time. If I am traveling, and my battery runs out of charge, am I expected to either hook up the car adapter (if it has any), or find somewhere to plug the AC adapter/charger in?
That is what I have done, as well. The only issue nowadays, is that Canon is putting a custom chip on each cartridge that, once a cartridge has run out, refuses to monitor ink levels. It requires you to tell the print driver to go ahead without monitoring the level, by holding the resume button on the printer for 5 seconds, once for each refilled cartridge, any time you open and close the access lid. If you are willing to refill it yourself (Stores typically don't refill the 'chipped' models) and keep tabs on the levels manually, this will be, at best, a minor annoyance. At least you can force the printer to continue, unlike HP (IIRC), where the cartridge is permanently out of ink, and will not allow an override.
I would be VERY impressed by whomever could write a program that could be executed without altering any RAM (can't alter what you are trying to capture, after all) , assuming a Windows platform. In short, not possible. The only way I can visualize, is to literally stop the processors clocks, while leaving the refresh clocks operational. Then, a ICE (In-circuit emulator) could be attached in place of/atop the CPU bus, and possibly walked through the addresses, and store to another device. Of course, this would all have to be done at the time of the supposed violation, and with expert (and repeatable, I suspect) forensic techniques used. Maybe the NSA has the hardware and expertise available, but doubtful it could be done otherwise. Beyond that of course, is determining what data is relevant, and verifiably connecting it to the application. (Have the source code to Windows, BitTorrent, etc. as needed, do you?)
All she has to do is something like this: (Typical update process with a consumer stand-alone Blu-Ray player)
Option A:
1. Go to website (Mom: Website, what's a website? I don't have a computer)
2. Download the appropriate file (Mom: Download a file? Which one? From where?)
3. Burn it onto a CD-R (Mom: Burn it? CD-R ??)
4. Put in player and wait for it to install, hopefully it works
5. Watch movie (finally!!!)
6. Get fed up with new Blu-Ray player, and stop buying movies, possibly taking player back to store for a refund.
Option B:
1. Go to website to get support phone #
2. Wait on hold for minutes / hours (YMMV)
3. Get asked what model you have (Mom: Where is the model? On the back/bottom? I gotta unplug the cables ?!?!?)
4. Start over at step 2 when you know the model
5. Give them your name, address, other personal info, along with the serial # (Mom: see #3) If no serial #, get it and start over at step 2, again!
6. Wait until they can ship it to you, could be days or weeks
7. Put in player and wait for it to install, hopefully it works
8. Watch movie (finally!!!)
9. Get fed up with new Blu-Ray player, and stop buying movies, possibly taking player back to store for a refund.
Option C:
1. Decide disk is defective (Mom: My other disks work, so it must be this disk)
2. Drive to store and get new copy
3. New copy fails, too. Store won't refund, until you raise a ruckus.
4. Get fed up with new Blu-Ray player, and stop buying movies, possibly taking player back to store for a refund.
You will note that all three cases lead to rejection of Blu-Ray by average consumer. Mom, or your average consumer, wants a player where they can:
1. Buy any Blu-Ray disk
2. Put it in the player
3. Push play
4. Movie plays!!!
Anything beyond that, and you alienate your customer. Simple.
Regardless of whether is it currently free or not, I suspect Google hopes to have a paid version of this in the near future. Prior to this, they need to add an upload/download option for this data. It would then be up to the designer to use this feature, and puts them back in the 'driver's seat' in restoring a layout, even if the host loses or corrupts it, as in this case.
On their support site: esupport.sony.com http://esupport.sony.com/ :
I'm sure it is just a coincidence that the 'Home Entertainment' and 'Television' links both return a '404 - Page not found', while the other links work >:-}
(I hate running out of mod points >:- )
Well said. I was not aware that the sales tax was the 'trigger' for ownership, but it makes sense. I have to ask, then, why we pay taxes on software purchases, as they are almost always 'licenses' rather than 'purchases' ?
Looks like Conquest saw Slashdot coming. They have already removed all of the 'Contact Us' links on their home page, as well as the page referred to in the article:->
IANAL, but Apple has the Trademark, etc. on iPod, not Pod. How does using a part of that word (Pod) constitute infringement? By that logic, it seems that Cola would be an infrignement on the CocaCola trademark?
I recall a variation on this, in a project from Popular Electronics magazine (1970-1980?), where you would both tune in the same radio station as your 'encryption' source. Only problem was, when there was silence in the audio, you could make out what was being said.
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This brings to mind the copyright on the 'minute of silence' (or something like that') 'song'. To take it to an illogical conclusion, I am going to copyright a blank page! Thereafter, any page with white space on it will be a substantially derivative work, as it will be 90%+ white space! Of course, I will place a proper copyright notification on it, as well as file the two copies. I'll be rich!!!!!!
Beautiful! (I wish I had mod points!) I think this would get them both ways. If they release and renew the hold, this would be further evidence that they are (at least morally) abusing the tasting process. If they do not release, then they should be stuck with the name(s). If they are not then held liable for registration fees, or they somehow neglect to pay, then they are violating their agreement.
I am not sure about Best Buy, but other retailers such as Fry's and PC Club scan the serial number of hard drives and other valuable serialized merchandise, and insert/include this data on the receipt. Did anyone ask Best Buy to search previous sales/returns for that serial number? -K-
More detail on 'a pain to install.... compared to XP' would be nice. My (long-time) experience, with both Windows and Linux platforms, is that hardware with hard-to-find drivers for either or both is out there. Get hardware that the OS has pre-loaded drivers for, and life is good, and you get a install and go experience. Get hardware that is not supported 'out-of-the-box' by that OS, especially networking (apparently the issue for this user), and it can be a 'pain to install'. That said, I feel Vista is more about Microsoft having a shiny new product with 'eye-candy' and about pleasing the Media powers-that-be (DRM), than it is about really giving the USER anything new that (XP 2007) couldn't do.
My (paranoid?) suspicions are: 1. DHS produced this FUD/PhotoOp (remember, it is CNN) to justify their funding. Their current terrorist prevention accomplishments are in the category of 'See any elephants/terrorists? No? Must mean our elephant/terrorist repellent works' 2. Showing a terrorist target that 'hits closer to home' (no pun intended) for Joe/Jane citizen 3. A reason to let them monitor everything they can on the internet. Their justification would be 'If we see them trying to get in, we can find and stop them.' Seems that a proper firewall / VPN setup would be required/more useful K
Could the (il)logical next step be to bar one from playing as a different race/ethnicity? The justifications given for the sex ban appear to be the same, but how would you determine it? (Picture wouldn't cover it). Also, what percentage of that race/ethnicity would you need to have to qualify?
Call me dense, but isn't this "The RIAA has officially backed a move by the recording industry" really saying "The recording industry has officially backed a move by the recording industry" ?
Could hacking this be as simple as: 1) Somehow acquire a Vista key that provokes the reduced-functionality / blackscreen mode 2) Have a sniffer ready to capture the sent and received stream when activation is attempted 3) Prepare a website that would mimic this if visited Maybe a bit simplistic, but I wonder.....
Another fallacy in the Piracy = Lost Sales logic, is that the pirated / copied song(s) are always available for purchase from a legal channel. What of the listeners looking for a song that is not currently in release (older / import / low demand)? The consumer is likely willing to pay a fair price, or even any price, but there is no seller for what the buyer wants. A case of demand with no supply, except for the ones that don't put money in the licensee's pocket.
I agree with you on the modified ad blocker idea, especially the converting animated GIF to static. It might actually get seen by me, and not automatically added to the blocked site list. Could this be the next FF extension, or a new version of adblocker?
I have been very pleased with the Nokia 1500, which is available at Sam's or Wal-mart. It will run you about $30.00(US). This is for the phone, charger, manual, and includes a 2-month/300 minute credit. Very basic Nokia 1500 phone, with excellent signal strength. It does use a SIM, so you can 'upgrade' to another model.
To me, the most important reason to have a user-replacable battery is run-time. If I am traveling, and my battery runs out of charge, am I expected to either hook up the car adapter (if it has any), or find somewhere to plug the AC adapter/charger in?
That is what I have done, as well. The only issue nowadays, is that Canon is putting a custom chip on each cartridge that, once a cartridge has run out, refuses to monitor ink levels. It requires you to tell the print driver to go ahead without monitoring the level, by holding the resume button on the printer for 5 seconds, once for each refilled cartridge, any time you open and close the access lid. If you are willing to refill it yourself (Stores typically don't refill the 'chipped' models) and keep tabs on the levels manually, this will be, at best, a minor annoyance. At least you can force the printer to continue, unlike HP (IIRC), where the cartridge is permanently out of ink, and will not allow an override.
I would be VERY impressed by whomever could write a program that could be executed without altering any RAM (can't alter what you are trying to capture, after all) , assuming a Windows platform. In short, not possible. The only way I can visualize, is to literally stop the processors clocks, while leaving the refresh clocks operational. Then, a ICE (In-circuit emulator) could be attached in place of /atop the CPU bus, and possibly walked through the addresses, and store to another device. Of course, this would all have to be done at the time of the supposed violation, and with expert (and repeatable, I suspect) forensic techniques used. Maybe the NSA has the hardware and expertise available, but doubtful it could be done otherwise. Beyond that of course, is determining what data is relevant, and verifiably connecting it to the application. (Have the source code to Windows, BitTorrent, etc. as needed, do you?)
All she has to do is something like this: (Typical update process with a consumer stand-alone Blu-Ray player)
Option A:
1. Go to website (Mom: Website, what's a website? I don't have a computer)
2. Download the appropriate file (Mom: Download a file? Which one? From where?)
3. Burn it onto a CD-R (Mom: Burn it? CD-R ??)
4. Put in player and wait for it to install, hopefully it works
5. Watch movie (finally!!!)
6. Get fed up with new Blu-Ray player, and stop buying movies, possibly taking player back to store for a refund.
Option B:
1. Go to website to get support phone #
2. Wait on hold for minutes / hours (YMMV)
3. Get asked what model you have (Mom: Where is the model? On the back/bottom? I gotta unplug the cables ?!?!?)
4. Start over at step 2 when you know the model
5. Give them your name, address, other personal info, along with the serial # (Mom: see #3) If no serial #, get it and start over at step 2, again!
6. Wait until they can ship it to you, could be days or weeks
7. Put in player and wait for it to install, hopefully it works
8. Watch movie (finally!!!)
9. Get fed up with new Blu-Ray player, and stop buying movies, possibly taking player back to store for a refund.
Option C:
1. Decide disk is defective (Mom: My other disks work, so it must be this disk)
2. Drive to store and get new copy
3. New copy fails, too. Store won't refund, until you raise a ruckus.
4. Get fed up with new Blu-Ray player, and stop buying movies, possibly taking player back to store for a refund.
You will note that all three cases lead to rejection of Blu-Ray by average consumer. Mom, or your average consumer, wants a player where they can:
1. Buy any Blu-Ray disk
2. Put it in the player
3. Push play
4. Movie plays!!!
Anything beyond that, and you alienate your customer. Simple.
Regardless of whether is it currently free or not, I suspect Google hopes to have a paid version of this in the near future. Prior to this, they need to add an upload/download option for this data. It would then be up to the designer to use this feature, and puts them back in the 'driver's seat' in restoring a layout, even if the host loses or corrupts it, as in this case.
On their support site: esupport.sony.com http://esupport.sony.com/ : I'm sure it is just a coincidence that the 'Home Entertainment' and 'Television' links both return a '404 - Page not found', while the other links work >:-}
(I hate running out of mod points >:- ) Well said. I was not aware that the sales tax was the 'trigger' for ownership, but it makes sense. I have to ask, then, why we pay taxes on software purchases, as they are almost always 'licenses' rather than 'purchases' ?
Is it possible to 'spoof' a DSL or cable connection, thus producing 'reasonable doubt' that her physical DSL or cable connection was used?
Looks like Conquest saw Slashdot coming. They have already removed all of the 'Contact Us' links on their home page, as well as the page referred to in the article :->
If you want a bit more than a home-grade AC, and more flexible, try this from APC: http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index .cfm?base_sku=ACF301&tab=features
It is designed for wall or ceiling mount.
Is it possible for the Slashdot effect to be topped?!?!?!
IANAL, but Apple has the Trademark, etc. on iPod, not Pod. How does using a part of that word (Pod) constitute infringement? By that logic, it seems that Cola would be an infrignement on the CocaCola trademark?
I recall a variation on this, in a project from Popular Electronics magazine (1970-1980?), where you would both tune in the same radio station as your 'encryption' source. Only problem was, when there was silence in the audio, you could make out what was being said.
You mean someone (besides me) has read,'The Adolesence of P-1' ?. I actually still have a copy!