Now you can use your DRM-laden "books" from Amazon on your Windows computer!
Why do so many fawn over Kindle and other like devices with DRM in text, IN TEXT!@, after spending years railing (often against the wrong targets) against DRM in music?
-- maybe this will mean a more useful crack for said DRM --
No shit. To anyone in marketing who might be reading this, I'll fill you in. How to make sure I never, ever buy your product for any reason:
Use any sort of DRM scheme.
What about DRM that used open source, rather than rely on security by obscurity and the DMCA to enforce that? Part of what I really dislike about it is the inability to move a book from device A running Windows, to device B running Android. If the DRM code was open, this wouldn't be an issue. My private key, aka licence code would *still* be mine, whatever the device.
I haven't noticed this being an issue since switchmode power supplies being used inside plugpaks. The older ones that housed 50Hz transformers were a problem for this, and sucked at regulation too.
The wall-wart contains the circuitry that converts 110vac/240vac to low voltage DC. Killing the wall wart means that same circuitry goes into the device, meaning that devices will now be larger by the size of the wall wart.
It's worse than that, the device would now have to comply with the standards of individual countries power authorities, rather than just the plug-pak (aka wallwart) having to comply. Making mobile phones or digital cameras comply with double-insulated standards would be a nightmare.
Sometimes. I've dried out a water-damaged book that was personally valuable to me, and it came out halfway decent. Perfect, no, but still quite readable.
I've dried out PDAs and they've recovered, probably to a better state than a paper book.
I'd have to unlearn so many habits with eBooks. I suppose it wouldn't be hard to stop gripping my books in my teeth when I'm running out of hands, but I'd have to break myself of my habit of using a bad book to kill flies with. If I'm reading a book I dislike and a fly lands nearby, I'll whack it with the book. Oddly I reflexively won't do this if I'm enjoying the book. So all it'll take is one bad book and one fly and there goes the eBook reader. And if anyone sees me do it, there goes any attempt to live without having something insanely stupid to try live down.
To be honest though, parking a crap add-on and then blaming Firefox for any security issues over it would sound par for the course as per Microsoft...
Well, of course it is... After all, isn't being unable to prevent the company that controls the OS your program runs under from automatically installing unremovable exploit code a severe security hole in your program? So clearly it's a problem with Mozilla, and has nothing to do with Microsoft at all.
There's a degree of humour here. Wasn't Microsoft crying the same thing about the Chrome addin for IE?
Yawn, don't feed the trolls, I know... but I respond on/2 as well.
When I figure out how to do it, I'm gonna steal the electrons from your machine too. There's no point in me paying for electricity, when I can get you to pay for it!
You'll be dust by the time the electrons from my machine make it to yours.
High tech industry != energy intensive industry. Any aluminium smelters there? No? Do you *use* aluminium? Then you are exporting your waste. The companies you mention are multinational and have energy use spread across the world. Where, for instance, do HP make their hardware? California? No. It may be designed there though.
It'd make more sense if it was paint colours that absorbed infra-red, rather than black exclusively. Or mandate for white cars only. Yawn, don't see it happening.
I wonder how much of the efficiency can be software based? Two consequences if so. It is *very* easy to make a LA only version. It might be easy for LA hackers to alter their TVs back to black label, as it were.
It's all about selling characters, not games. Noone's going to pay you a cent for an empty account, even if Blizzard did allow it. Actually maybe they should allow it, and reset the characters on the account back to level 1 at time of transfer.:)
Slashdot Mirror
... and just imagine a Beowulf cluster of them.
(JARRING CHORD)
NOBODY imagines a Beowulf cluster.
Our chief weapons are ... parallel processing and ruthless efficiency.
Phone-book dating. Why is my mind thinking something rather dirty here?
I'd disagree that it is an agreeable DRM. It locks you to a device, and a vendor. Amazon probably like that a lot.
Now you can use your DRM-laden "books" from Amazon on your Windows computer!
Why do so many fawn over Kindle and other like devices with DRM in text, IN TEXT!@, after spending years railing (often against the wrong targets) against DRM in music?
-- maybe this will mean a more useful crack for said DRM --
No shit. To anyone in marketing who might be reading this, I'll fill you in. How to make sure I never, ever buy your product for any reason:
What about DRM that used open source, rather than rely on security by obscurity and the DMCA to enforce that? Part of what I really dislike about it is the inability to move a book from device A running Windows, to device B running Android. If the DRM code was open, this wouldn't be an issue. My private key, aka licence code would *still* be mine, whatever the device.
I haven't noticed this being an issue since switchmode power supplies being used inside plugpaks. The older ones that housed 50Hz transformers were a problem for this, and sucked at regulation too.
The wall-wart contains the circuitry that converts 110vac/240vac to low voltage DC. Killing the wall wart means that same circuitry goes into the device, meaning that devices will now be larger by the size of the wall wart.
It's worse than that, the device would now have to comply with the standards of individual countries power authorities, rather than just the plug-pak (aka wallwart) having to comply. Making mobile phones or digital cameras comply with double-insulated standards would be a nightmare.
Listening to Brittney Spears should be worth a couple of years at the county jail.
AG
Um, no, that should be worth time off your sentence under the category "time already served"
Turn off youtube and google in Germany for a while. Until they plead for it to be turned back on.
I find it funny that pravda is the Russian word for truth, but then my sense of humour is warped.
Participation in this war of agression is categorically a war-crime. Period.
Opinion.
"So called"? They are doubting that they are applications, or what? Most of them would be out of our (Aussie) jurisdiction, anyway.
If the injury was Burns, then you'd get
Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie
- Durability - Both are ruined by water,
Sometimes. I've dried out a water-damaged book that was personally valuable to me, and it came out halfway decent. Perfect, no, but still quite readable.
I've dried out PDAs and they've recovered, probably to a better state than a paper book.
I'd have to unlearn so many habits with eBooks. I suppose it wouldn't be hard to stop gripping my books in my teeth when I'm running out of hands, but I'd have to break myself of my habit of using a bad book to kill flies with. If I'm reading a book I dislike and a fly lands nearby, I'll whack it with the book. Oddly I reflexively won't do this if I'm enjoying the book. So all it'll take is one bad book and one fly and there goes the eBook reader. And if anyone sees me do it, there goes any attempt to live without having something insanely stupid to try live down.
You need a more geeky way of dealing with flies. This might be a starting point.
http://www.jaycar.com/productView.asp?ID=YS5545&form=KEYWORD&ProdCodeOnly=yes&Keyword1=KJ8
You laugh about clock radios and 2009, but this is Hyperion, a planet with time tombs that move backwards through time.
To be honest though, parking a crap add-on and then blaming Firefox for any security issues over it would sound par for the course as per Microsoft...
Well, of course it is... After all, isn't being unable to prevent the company that controls the OS your program runs under from automatically installing unremovable exploit code a severe security hole in your program? So clearly it's a problem with Mozilla, and has nothing to do with Microsoft at all.
There's a degree of humour here. Wasn't Microsoft crying the same thing about the Chrome addin for IE?
Yawn, don't feed the trolls, I know... but I respond on /2 as well.
When I figure out how to do it, I'm gonna steal the electrons from your machine too. There's no point in me paying for electricity, when I can get you to pay for it!
You'll be dust by the time the electrons from my machine make it to yours.
Sometimes, its equal or greater than the dead-tree price.
You with the dirty mind, maybe he meant Read The First Article? (I doubt it, but maybe)
High tech industry != energy intensive industry. Any aluminium smelters there? No? Do you *use* aluminium? Then you are exporting your waste. The companies you mention are multinational and have energy use spread across the world. Where, for instance, do HP make their hardware? California? No. It may be designed there though.
It'd make more sense if it was paint colours that absorbed infra-red, rather than black exclusively. Or mandate for white cars only. Yawn, don't see it happening.
I wonder how much of the efficiency can be software based? Two consequences if so. It is *very* easy to make a LA only version. It might be easy for LA hackers to alter their TVs back to black label, as it were.
No, but the mirror drive in my attic (which I've named Dorian) does. :^)
Basically only say and do ingame what you would do in a room full of strangers IRL, and you are okay.
Shudder. You're quite sure about that? What about a room full of really intoxicated strangers?
"Having" to open an account is the problem itself.
What brainiac thinks you can just shove your nose in the air and demand 10 million people do something?
You disregard the attraction of the free penguin pet.
It's all about selling characters, not games. Noone's going to pay you a cent for an empty account, even if Blizzard did allow it. Actually maybe they should allow it, and reset the characters on the account back to level 1 at time of transfer. :)