Answers: 1. Yes. 2. NOOO. That is so NOT possible. Look, YouTube is an American company. We show dirt on China and Russia. Not on US. 3. Free Speech? You are barking up the wrong tree. This amounts to Racial Discrimination. 4. Yes. And we all should upload Maroon 5 or 50 Cents videos by millions so that their copyright gangsta is swamped.
Warcraft on Mac is different. Hell any game is better on a Mac. Age of Mythology CD has no DRM on Mac. So is Civ III. This instance was blizzard.net. Warcraft III update did try kicking away the CD Drive, but kaspersky caught that operation and screamed bloody murder. I "Denied" and the update failed. Probably that is why blizzard kicked me out... Second time in 1 year i had to reinstall XP. The last time i installed TIGER on my iBook was when i upgraded the hard drive about 3 years ago.
Hey, that's actually a pretty good idea. Couple it with a distribution system like Stardock, and you have a kickass game release. You pay for either the DVD set which comes with the keypad (like HSBC has), or pay only for the keypad and download the game. Initially you need to register your keypad ID code with the website (like XP activation). Once done, you can startup the game anytime you want and type the current random number that appears on the pad. The server validates the same and allows playing. One DVD is enough to install it on nnn number of computers. And buyers need to pay lesser for the keypad only.
I do not live in US. But i have a kickass machine config, a fast 2 Mbps internet, and buy most of the games like CoH, CoH: OF, Age of Empires, etc. Most games sold online or through Amazon are available only to US residents/credit card holders. This forces me to pirate games that i love to buy, but CANNOT buy because the stupid publisher thinks US==World. I had to ask my sis-in-law to buy games like Company of Heroes/Opposing Fronts from US, because these games are not available where i live and amazon refuses to ship them. OTOH Stardock/Impulse pioneered a way to buy games without the US restrictions. So i ended up buying most of my games from them. Second reason is DRM crap. I bought crysis and i ended up with SecurROM which slowed down my DVD read/write drive to such an extent i had to reinstall XP. Now? Crysis sits on my desk and i play CoH. Third is the way the authentication of keys work. I had to reinstall XP (problem above) without uninstalling anything (could not boot up PC). Most games allowed me to reinstall without trouble (like CoH, Age of Empires, etc). Stardock automatically allowed me to download same games once again without asking major questions. WarCraft refused, saying am pirating. Rise of nations refused to go online stating same reason. Both support people were helpful, but wanted me to scan the original DVDs, proof of purchase and a signed affidavit stating i bought it from so-so dealer. I bought Rise of nations a long time ago. Shifted homes thrice. P-of-Purchase NA. So no online! I sent the jpg shots of my game DVD, and a CD key paper i had retained. When support refused to activate it, i cracked it. After all, am "helping" the company to provide me the service i paid for. Right?
Short story: KISS and allow anyone to purchase your games from anywhere. Don't insist on stupid lawyers to restrict regions/countries.
The fact that there is a law about over time in situations like this is pure stupidity
Probably you would be a glad cuban plantation owner in 1500s or a mill owner in the Victorian era: The laws then were non-existent, and sub-humans who worked in your plantation or mill can be worked to death WITHOUT any reprecussions.
All those laws do is remove Darwinian survival of the fittest from our society which only serves to make all of us weak.
True: only the fittest and healthiest slaves have survived today. And are roaming around as 50 cents and Lil' Kim.
To rid ourselves of people who think that companies not wanting to pay over time is "EXACTLY the kind of crap that needs to be stopped."
Am sure you WERE a cuban plantation owner in the 1500s in your previous incarnation. The one who was hacked to death by his own slaves. So how was life back then..?
Exactly. Corporates are psycopaths. If a psychiatrist examines them, he/she would say a corporate is a pathological liar with a maturity of a 12 year old and a physical prowess of Hercules. Treating a 12 year old with adult behavior will not just work. For instance, not talking to them or sniffling in front of a 12 yrs old to prvent him/her from stealing from the fridge is just a waste. OTOH, tying up the 12 year old or stopping his/her pocket money will have a dramatic change. Strict Discipline, constant care & threats, coupled with authority will make a 12 year old grow into an adult. Corporates similarly need to be treated the same way: how much ever they cry about it. Get the corporate to pay 200% of the amount as non-tax-deductible fine, and cancel the operating licenses of a few corporates, and you will see the rest falling in line.
Damn. You made me spill my drink. No wonder you were modded insightful. MediaSentry will definitely want to try out a few draconian measures of DRM as a test. This is a God-send for RIAA/MPAA.
For the love of God i din't know why you were modded as Troll even though you were right. Guess the anti-neocon movement that is slashdot fears any attempt at sarcasm is criticism of their Holy Leader.
Enable stock holders to share data about corporate executives, their health records, their private lives, credit scores of their companies, etc. Build a website that allows people to post photos of wandering executives, health histories so that shareholders can then approach the board to remove a CEO. Do it especially on a large corporate scale. Incorporate a company to do this, and operate under the corporate shell. If they sue you, they need to sue your corporate and not bankrupt you. Make the records public, for sale, and provide detailed analysis of banks, especially based on credit ratings, customer satisfaction, etc.
While in reality it may seem too simple and even stupid for some, the fact that none of us thought of it before and had implemented it shows it as unique. The process itself is simple: Affix a sticker (much like any other sticker), and next time the cashier needs to only scan it instead of asking. Morally objectionable: I don't think so. Not commonly used. Although a bit dumb. Legally Valid: Yes.
How about HSBC, Statestreet & Barclays? Both live on IBM. I lived with many large banks for over a decade, especially with HSBC. IBM is something they swear by. Not just because its well known, but because it is so good and thorough. Mid level banks, your figures are correct: Oracle and then SQL Server. I worked for a mid-level bank in CT which migrated from mainframe to Services-Bases Arch and uses Oracle as a back-end. Plus, security of data and privacy lawsuits terrify large banks more. I had to go through a FBI Security clearance cycle before statestreet allowed me to work on their scrambling data program.
Well, there are two classes of people (castes actually): The first are the tax consumers (Government), and the second are the $uckers, sorry, Tax payers (That's us). The first is always above law: Have you ever seen a Congressman vote down his own payraise? The second always obeys the law or pays a frightful price for it: 20 years sentence for pirating Dukes of Hazzard, while 5 years for manslaughter. Unless you belong to the first group, you belong to the second one. Comprende??
Except that the due process of law was followed in this case and the court ruled that DMCA does not apply to USAF. besides why should the USAF throw away our money to music millionaires when they need the money to pay for $350 toilet seats and $500 hammers? I would rather wish my money would be thrown away to defense vendors rather than some dumbass music lawyers.
myspace.com has been supplated by Facebook. And DB2 is the granddaddy that is being trusted by ALL banks. Give me a bank which does not store its data on DB2, and i will concede this. And banks are the most thorough corporate IT customers.
...and that is why you should switch to DB2. What the heck are you doing with MS-SQL Server? Don't you know its for developers and kids? Trying to use SQL Server in production is like trying to cut your toenails with a straight razor: You may end up cutting your toenails ultimately, but you are likely to bleed yourself to death before that.
The lawyers for EFF and ACLU made an initial mistake when suing about privacy. They should have equated reading email as similar to postal mail except it is speedy. This is similar to how railroads established acquiring legal rights of corporations as a person. If ACLU and EFF had set a couple of precedents for email as faster postal mail (ya, it is dumb, but then judges need a precedence), then it would be easier to sue governments for opening up mail. Instead these two organisations tried to make it as a new front, thus enabling the government and corporates to use their muscle to remove email from postal mail snooping laws. Otherwise, Amex and VISa would long have been criminally convicted for mail snooping.
I thought traffic tickets helped the council earn money by legalising something that should be illegal in first place. Plus it helps the nerds earn money during the time they would have otherwise spent watching X-files or Xena.
...the result of this stupid strategy would be a law that outlaws all our recording devices. Some stupid congressman would see it as a few brownie points to score with his dumb voters (rednecks), and 2 days later a HUGE omnibus law would result in outlawing all recording devices that can record a cop doing his duty. An eye for an eye is a better way. You beat me for no reason, you suddenly find your car is torched. You can't charge me: i have a perfect alibi. You continue beating me for no reason, don't be surprised to find a few lasers pointed at you while you run for your life. See... nothing gets results faster looking down a barrel of a long gun.
Well, in UK they can detain you for 48 days without food or water or until you hand over the evidence, whichever comes first. After 48 days you would probably be dead so the evidence was never there in the first place. All the courts in the world could not bring you back alive.
Is it?? Wow! I would love to see what Jessica Simpson is doing wrong. After all if her sister could get pregnant so easily, Jessica must be doing "it" wrong. Would give me a chance to 'advise" and "show" her the correct way...
Now that yahoo is offering "refunds" for withdrawing a license to a licensee, it is time to use this as a precedent and sue Microsoft for refunds. No, am serious. As per the license agreement, i agree to pay a fee per month for having access to the music. As per the license agreement, microsoft agrees to keep the access "open". If they violate the terms of a contract, then am entitled to compensation: in this case refund of license fees.
Fast Fwd a few decades later and we were duped once again by the lure of Vista being a better XP... Well goes onto prove that we are suckers. Fool me once and shame on you. Fool me twice and shame on me. We are fools to have fallen for Vista and by the time we realized, XP was long gone.
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Answers:
1. Yes.
2. NOOO. That is so NOT possible. Look, YouTube is an American company. We show dirt on China and Russia. Not on US.
3. Free Speech? You are barking up the wrong tree. This amounts to Racial Discrimination.
4. Yes. And we all should upload Maroon 5 or 50 Cents videos by millions so that their copyright gangsta is swamped.
Warcraft on Mac is different. Hell any game is better on a Mac.
Age of Mythology CD has no DRM on Mac. So is Civ III.
This instance was blizzard.net.
Warcraft III update did try kicking away the CD Drive, but kaspersky caught that operation and screamed bloody murder. I "Denied" and the update failed.
Probably that is why blizzard kicked me out...
Second time in 1 year i had to reinstall XP.
The last time i installed TIGER on my iBook was when i upgraded the hard drive about 3 years ago.
Hey, that's actually a pretty good idea.
Couple it with a distribution system like Stardock, and you have a kickass game release.
You pay for either the DVD set which comes with the keypad (like HSBC has), or pay only for the keypad and download the game.
Initially you need to register your keypad ID code with the website (like XP activation). Once done, you can startup the game anytime you want and type the current random number that appears on the pad.
The server validates the same and allows playing.
One DVD is enough to install it on nnn number of computers. And buyers need to pay lesser for the keypad only.
I do not live in US. But i have a kickass machine config, a fast 2 Mbps internet, and buy most of the games like CoH, CoH: OF, Age of Empires, etc.
Most games sold online or through Amazon are available only to US residents/credit card holders.
This forces me to pirate games that i love to buy, but CANNOT buy because the stupid publisher thinks US==World.
I had to ask my sis-in-law to buy games like Company of Heroes/Opposing Fronts from US, because these games are not available where i live and amazon refuses to ship them.
OTOH Stardock/Impulse pioneered a way to buy games without the US restrictions. So i ended up buying most of my games from them.
Second reason is DRM crap.
I bought crysis and i ended up with SecurROM which slowed down my DVD read/write drive to such an extent i had to reinstall XP.
Now? Crysis sits on my desk and i play CoH.
Third is the way the authentication of keys work.
I had to reinstall XP (problem above) without uninstalling anything (could not boot up PC).
Most games allowed me to reinstall without trouble (like CoH, Age of Empires, etc).
Stardock automatically allowed me to download same games once again without asking major questions.
WarCraft refused, saying am pirating.
Rise of nations refused to go online stating same reason.
Both support people were helpful, but wanted me to scan the original DVDs, proof of purchase and a signed affidavit stating i bought it from so-so dealer.
I bought Rise of nations a long time ago. Shifted homes thrice. P-of-Purchase NA. So no online! I sent the jpg shots of my game DVD, and a CD key paper i had retained.
When support refused to activate it, i cracked it.
After all, am "helping" the company to provide me the service i paid for. Right?
Short story: KISS and allow anyone to purchase your games from anywhere. Don't insist on stupid lawyers to restrict regions/countries.
The fact that there is a law about over time in situations like this is pure stupidity
Probably you would be a glad cuban plantation owner in 1500s or a mill owner in the Victorian era: The laws then were non-existent, and sub-humans who worked in your plantation or mill can be worked to death WITHOUT any reprecussions.
All those laws do is remove Darwinian survival of the fittest from our society which only serves to make all of us weak.
True: only the fittest and healthiest slaves have survived today. And are roaming around as 50 cents and Lil' Kim.
To rid ourselves of people who think that companies not wanting to pay over time is "EXACTLY the kind of crap that needs to be stopped."
Am sure you WERE a cuban plantation owner in the 1500s in your previous incarnation. The one who was hacked to death by his own slaves.
So how was life back then..?
Exactly.
Corporates are psycopaths. If a psychiatrist examines them, he/she would say a corporate is a pathological liar with a maturity of a 12 year old and a physical prowess of Hercules.
Treating a 12 year old with adult behavior will not just work. For instance, not talking to them or sniffling in front of a 12 yrs old to prvent him/her from stealing from the fridge is just a waste.
OTOH, tying up the 12 year old or stopping his/her pocket money will have a dramatic change.
Strict Discipline, constant care & threats, coupled with authority will make a 12 year old grow into an adult.
Corporates similarly need to be treated the same way: how much ever they cry about it.
Get the corporate to pay 200% of the amount as non-tax-deductible fine, and cancel the operating licenses of a few corporates, and you will see the rest falling in line.
If you are talking about personal cloaking, the Jem Hadar is supposed to use it.
Damn. You made me spill my drink.
No wonder you were modded insightful.
MediaSentry will definitely want to try out a few draconian measures of DRM as a test. This is a God-send for RIAA/MPAA.
For the love of God i din't know why you were modded as Troll even though you were right.
Guess the anti-neocon movement that is slashdot fears any attempt at sarcasm is criticism of their Holy Leader.
Enable stock holders to share data about corporate executives, their health records, their private lives, credit scores of their companies, etc.
Build a website that allows people to post photos of wandering executives, health histories so that shareholders can then approach the board to remove a CEO.
Do it especially on a large corporate scale. Incorporate a company to do this, and operate under the corporate shell. If they sue you, they need to sue your corporate and not bankrupt you.
Make the records public, for sale, and provide detailed analysis of banks, especially based on credit ratings, customer satisfaction, etc.
While in reality it may seem too simple and even stupid for some, the fact that none of us thought of it before and had implemented it shows it as unique.
The process itself is simple: Affix a sticker (much like any other sticker), and next time the cashier needs to only scan it instead of asking.
Morally objectionable: I don't think so. Not commonly used. Although a bit dumb.
Legally Valid: Yes.
For the bigger banks
How about HSBC, Statestreet & Barclays? Both live on IBM.
I lived with many large banks for over a decade, especially with HSBC.
IBM is something they swear by. Not just because its well known, but because it is so good and thorough.
Mid level banks, your figures are correct: Oracle and then SQL Server.
I worked for a mid-level bank in CT which migrated from mainframe to Services-Bases Arch and uses Oracle as a back-end.
Plus, security of data and privacy lawsuits terrify large banks more. I had to go through a FBI Security clearance cycle before statestreet allowed me to work on their scrambling data program.
Well, there are two classes of people (castes actually):
The first are the tax consumers (Government), and the second are the $uckers, sorry, Tax payers (That's us).
The first is always above law: Have you ever seen a Congressman vote down his own payraise?
The second always obeys the law or pays a frightful price for it: 20 years sentence for pirating Dukes of Hazzard, while 5 years for manslaughter.
Unless you belong to the first group, you belong to the second one.
Comprende??
Except that the due process of law was followed in this case and the court ruled that DMCA does not apply to USAF.
besides why should the USAF throw away our money to music millionaires when they need the money to pay for $350 toilet seats and $500 hammers?
I would rather wish my money would be thrown away to defense vendors rather than some dumbass music lawyers.
myspace.com has been supplated by Facebook.
And DB2 is the granddaddy that is being trusted by ALL banks.
Give me a bank which does not store its data on DB2, and i will concede this.
And banks are the most thorough corporate IT customers.
...and that is why you should switch to DB2.
What the heck are you doing with MS-SQL Server? Don't you know its for developers and kids?
Trying to use SQL Server in production is like trying to cut your toenails with a straight razor: You may end up cutting your toenails ultimately, but you are likely to bleed yourself to death before that.
The lawyers for EFF and ACLU made an initial mistake when suing about privacy.
They should have equated reading email as similar to postal mail except it is speedy.
This is similar to how railroads established acquiring legal rights of corporations as a person.
If ACLU and EFF had set a couple of precedents for email as faster postal mail (ya, it is dumb, but then judges need a precedence), then it would be easier to sue governments for opening up mail.
Instead these two organisations tried to make it as a new front, thus enabling the government and corporates to use their muscle to remove email from postal mail snooping laws.
Otherwise, Amex and VISa would long have been criminally convicted for mail snooping.
I thought traffic tickets helped the council earn money by legalising something that should be illegal in first place.
Plus it helps the nerds earn money during the time they would have otherwise spent watching X-files or Xena.
...the result of this stupid strategy would be a law that outlaws all our recording devices.
Some stupid congressman would see it as a few brownie points to score with his dumb voters (rednecks), and 2 days later a HUGE omnibus law would result in outlawing all recording devices that can record a cop doing his duty.
An eye for an eye is a better way.
You beat me for no reason, you suddenly find your car is torched. You can't charge me: i have a perfect alibi.
You continue beating me for no reason, don't be surprised to find a few lasers pointed at you while you run for your life.
See... nothing gets results faster looking down a barrel of a long gun.
Well, in UK they can detain you for 48 days without food or water or until you hand over the evidence, whichever comes first.
After 48 days you would probably be dead so the evidence was never there in the first place.
All the courts in the world could not bring you back alive.
view someone else, no mater where they are
Is it?? Wow! I would love to see what Jessica Simpson is doing wrong. After all if her sister could get pregnant so easily, Jessica must be doing "it" wrong.
Would give me a chance to 'advise" and "show" her the correct way...
Now that yahoo is offering "refunds" for withdrawing a license to a licensee, it is time to use this as a precedent and sue Microsoft for refunds.
No, am serious.
As per the license agreement, i agree to pay a fee per month for having access to the music.
As per the license agreement, microsoft agrees to keep the access "open".
If they violate the terms of a contract, then am entitled to compensation: in this case refund of license fees.
Hmmm.. two possible answers:
1. Relocate to EU or Iraq (hey, US army will send you to Iraq free-:)).
2. use TOR.
She also has been playing Scrabble, or is it Scrabulous, for months now
That's all she been playing around in college????
What is she? A Fat Monica Gellar?
Fast Fwd a few decades later and we were duped once again by the lure of Vista being a better XP...
Well goes onto prove that we are suckers.
Fool me once and shame on you. Fool me twice and shame on me. We are fools to have fallen for Vista and by the time we realized, XP was long gone.