You think a photograph is just worth the $1 and every other $1 is just gravy?
Unfortunately, that is the reality of today. The local TV stations all run forums that you can upload your own photographs and video of newsworthy events. Often, these are broadcast on the stations unpaid. I realize you are going to make an argument about the photos being submitted willingly, but this reinforces a reduced value for photos. The ubiquity of digital cameras and willing sharers has eviscerated the value of photographs that are not extraordinary.
I was denied a mortgage that I applied for because...
Your credit score sucked or you didn't have an adequate down payment or the house didn't appraise or your employment history was questionable or your ratios sucked.
Jumping Jesus, what a hypocrite. You rant against those unqualified "jackasses you have never met" for taking advantage of easy credit, yet whine like a little bitch when denied that same easy credit which caused all those defaults in the first place. I've got a newsflash for you. All those jackasses won't stop you from getting a mortgage if you are a good credit risk. I had no trouble getting one with a very good rate during the crisis.
I'd be willing to bet that your hypocritical tendencies will flourish and bloom if you ever get sick and find yourself with no insurance.
Yes we were. I have an old National Lampoon magazine from the 70s making fun of the French. I also heard my first "French rifle for sale" joke back in the 80s when I was in high school. It's been around for a long time.
I doubt your library is going to be open and lending books after a month of no power. As I said before, If you power is out for more than a month, you have bigger problems than what to read." Besides, my Kindle can be charged on my car USB adapter. And I'm not worried about running out of things to read on it. It has about 3.3GB of available free space. Since full length books are about 500kb to 1MB, I have room for more than 3,500 full length books. I already have easily more than a month's backlog of books on it.
people choose to download torrents of them [TV shows] for the following reasons: 1. No commercials 2. I want it now 3. Higher quality
I don't think any of your conditions truly apply.
1: Maybe, but I skip commercials with my DVR.
2: Unless I'm mistaken, usually the shows are broadcast before they hit the torrent sites.
3: Higher quality than broadcast HD?
My Kindle goes a month between charges. If YOUR power is out for longer than a month, I'd say you have bigger problem than what to read in your spare time.
Now don't be confusing our loud mouthed, angry Tea Partier with facts. You'll give him a headache.
We have the same trouble in Ohio. I am astonished at how many simpletons, even those not associated with the Tea Party, have swallowed the party line. When you explain how things actually work, I always see that "oh!" look on their faces, followed by a recognition that they have been played. I don't know if it is more sad, or disgusting...
Your rant smacks of revisionist history. You discount the significance of the so-called killer app. You see, in the old days before Windows, there was Apple and CP/M for "big boy" personal computers. Then IBM came along and dropped the PC on the world. Along came VisiCalc, and next thing you know, the PC was the must have device. Every big change has been preceded by the "must have" technology. Apple is making a killing in the iPhone/Ipad/iPod market with just this strategy.
Windows has had an exceptionally long run in terms of the computer industry. There is a tipping point, however. You are unimaginative and delusional if you think that legacy Windows and x86 will continue on forever. Change in inevitable. It is just a matter of when. Once the "must have" tech exceeds the inertia of the "I wanna run my ten year old game on my brand new desktop" crowd, Windows will evolve to compete or die. And let's face facts. As of today, Windows is the main reason that x86 survives. The past is littered with the corpses of technology industry kings who thought that their installed base made them invulnerable to the next big "must have" technology.
Your rant against developers is just asinine. Developers DO control what you run if you want to run anything new. If you are contented with your Office 2000 forever, then good for you. But when the next killer app runs only on Android or IOS or whatever else might come, we won't cry for you when developers jump ship from Windows and leave you high and dry with all your legacy software. You can commiserate with all the CP/M, BeOS, Palm, OS/2, and Amiga people.
I certainly hope you are not in management. Strict authoritarian for no good reason rule tends to alienate your employees. And let's be honest, preventing employees from checking their email is a dick move. Instead of going the extra mile for you, they will be thinking, "How long until I can quit this job?" I check personal email from work. In fact, I have all my accounts forward to a single account. I also bring in my own personal equipment to do my job at times. I have a large piece in there right now. If my employer wanted to be a dick about things, I would have them purchase their own. But since they are reasonable, I am only too happy to lend my things, saving them money.
Since a foreclosure proceeding is a court action, falsifying documentation is illegal. Coercing others to falsify court documents is (I belive) suborning perjury.
The government would be more motivated to find the actual responsible party if the easy pickings were eliminated. Right now, it's just too easy to blame "the corporation" and levy a simple fine. Place responsibility on those who actually are responsible. It can work. Look at Sarbanes Oxley. Why do you think that legislation has company executives shitting their pants? Because they become ultimately responsible, not the corporation. It makes them a lot more careful about what they do, when they know they, and not the corporation, are on the hook.
1) you're arguing that you OWN the PS3 in its entirety, where in fact you only own the hardware and A LICENSE to use the software. That's clearly spelled out right on the box. You don't own the software, however you assume that you have the right to own it, which is as communist as it gets.
Still confused about Communism I see... I do not care about Sony's software. The loader key allows me to run MY OWN SOFTWARE, not Sony's. You are inventing strawmen. If I do not use Sony's software, how does their license prevent me from using my own property?
3) [deleted for brevity]Your right to free speech is not absolute, and even to the extent that you have it - it does not apply to commercial organizations, or individuals among themselves. I, for example, exercise my right to free speech right now, however it inconveniences you, apparently. That's what I call hypocrisy.
Huh?? Are you sure that English is your first language? Free speech "does not apply" to "individuals among themselves." WTF? Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech. Sony is whining to the courts that a Congressional law should censor the rights of free speech.
You do not inconvenience me. In fact, I find your lack of understanding humorous. I cannot even imagine what reason you have conjured for calling me a hypocrite. I have never tried to silence you, only educate you. Clearly, this is a fool's quest.
4) If I have the same car and figure out how to easily open it and tell others how to do it, and the next day your car is stolen using my method to open it - how would you feel?
And finally, just to confuse you a little bit more. I am a Libertarian, not a Communist. I believe that you should NOT have usage rights over property you have sold to me. I do not advocate communal property or revoking property rights altogether. You unfortunately confuse property rights with copyright. You seem to think that legally granting a copyright, somehow prevents ownership of the underlying hardware. You want to disallow me from disassembling, studying, reverse engineering, and telling others what I have discovered. That is your "Utter BS."
Once again you fail at basic reading comprehension. I am not a Communist. In fact, you have no idea how far off the mark you really are. This may surprise you, but communism refers to the communal ownership of property and rights and a lack of private property. I am arguing just the opposite. I stated that if you own something, you own all of it. I actively refute the premise that I can sell you something and then proceed to tell you what you can and cannot do with it. Do you now understand difference with Communism?
I believe in the free exchange of ideas and information. What you call a hack,I can just as easily call research. It is just semantics. Unfortunately, you still want to argue, that I can sell you something and tell you how to use it. You think that if you use it in a way I did not anticipate or want, I should be able to take you to court. If you hate cheaters, then ban them. If you hate pirates, prosecute them. You think that because I don't want you to understand how it works or to tell anybody else, I should be able to use the courts to silence you.
Sadly, the exercise of free speech occasionally inconveniences some people. You would like to ban free speech to mitigate that inconvenience and protect corporate profits. I vehemently oppose that. As I stated, you want it both ways. If you sell me something, then it belongs to me. If you don't want me to publish how it works, tough shit. Don't sell it then.
You also seem to be confused on the concept of keys. When you buy a house or car, do you not ask for the key? Do you feel the need to beg the former owner for permission to copy that key or do you just ask the former owner to let you in when you come and go? Do you fear the courts when you make a copy to your family? Can you not understand how asinine your position is?
How can you read what I wrote and come up with the exact opposite of my point? First of all I would never advocate censorship of any kind, irrespective of my profession. I support the free exchange of ideas, regardless of yours or Sony's ignorance. Censorship is anthema to my very being.
In my college days, I wrote a mini OS/monitor for the 386 chip just because I wanted to understand the protected mode of the chip and the workings of the peripheral ICs. If you and Sony had your way, I would have never been able to do that. I read the books that were written in the era, detailing a reverse engineered BIOS, and DOS. If you had your petty corporatist way, there would be no personal computer industry as we know it and you wouldn't be sitting around bellyaching about your games. You see, Compaq reverse engineered the IBM PC and led the way to the explosion of personal computers in the late 80s and 90s. But because you hate "cheaters" so much, you would have never allowed such heresy. It blows my mind that people cannot fathom what life was like before the corporations began their campaigns of leading the weak minded to believe that you cannot own what you purchase.
I realize trying to make you understand is like teaching calculus to a pig, but believe it or not, life does not revolve around "cheaters" and "pirates" screwing you out of your perfect gaming experience. Even if you cannot make a stand on principle alone, you should at least realize that there are people smarter than you that can.
I've asked above and have never received an answer, so I'll ask again: what legitimate "tinkering" came out of the hack? We know the piracy is not enabled, we know cheating is now enabled, but besides that - what good did it bring?
I will answer for you. It doesn't matter what "legitimate" tinkering comes out. Is it now a pre-requisite that every activity in life must have a goal, that is approved by you? Maybe the goal is just to see if it can be done. Maybe it is to learn how others do things. Maybe it will lead to the next big gaming console. Who gives a shit?
You are just making excuses because you don't like disruptions in your little gaming world. The facts are that Sony wants to control their physical products after they have sold them to a willing buyer. This is not a license and it sure as hell is not a "rental" as you seem to imply with your crappy analogies. If they don't want people to have "their stuff", then maybe they shouldn't sell it. Let them rent it, if they want those rental rights. Otherwise, as I stated before, they can suck my balls.
George Hotz has stated under oath the he NEVER agreed to any EULA and his attorney demonstrated that firmware updates were provided without requiring it. EULAs cannot be arbitrarily enforced against parties that never agreed or for that matter had any opportunity to agree to them.
The fact that you want to stand up for Sony and their egregious behavior shows just how brainwashed the masses have become. Just because you want to grab your ankles when Sony or any other companies claim bogus ownership rights over something you paid for, doesn't mean the rest of us do. As far as I'm concerned, Sony can suck my balls.
For the record: I do not own a PS3, or any other Sony hardware for that matter. My last Sony purchase pre-dated Sony deciding to screw customers with its "Memory Stick" abomination.
Okay... Okay... We get the picture. You don't have to post the same tripe over and over. You are one of those "I'm all for free speech as long as it doesn't offend someone" types.
Really??? What is the actual real useful lifetime for open source copyrights or any software for that matter? You can get 8 years of copyright protection for $256 with my plan. That sounds like a bargain to me. In 2010, Windows 2000 was abandoned. That's only a $1024 total copyright registration expense under my plan for a pretty successful commercial software package. If Microsoft wanted to keep it locked up perpetually, it would cost a lot more, but is is really useful to do so?
You have to decide which is more important: Allow unfettered, free, perpetual copyright, or make it reflect its true value and costs to society. Copyright holders want to make copyright free for their usage, but make breaking copyright cripplingly expensive for us. Let's turn the tables and make copyright holders decide if it is worthwhile and cost effective to keep it for themselves perpetually. It seems fair to me.
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I thought that was Symantec's job.
Yes there was. My favorite sign was on a local highway segment. It said "Metric Signs Next 100 Miles." I swear to God.
Unfortunately, that is the reality of today. The local TV stations all run forums that you can upload your own photographs and video of newsworthy events. Often, these are broadcast on the stations unpaid. I realize you are going to make an argument about the photos being submitted willingly, but this reinforces a reduced value for photos. The ubiquity of digital cameras and willing sharers has eviscerated the value of photographs that are not extraordinary.
"Let's go pick a fight," proclaimed Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN). "If liberals in the Senate play political games, then shut down government. I say shut it down." http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/04/02/spending-fight-political-calculus
“Listen, there’s no daylight between the tea party and me,” the Ohio Republican [John Boehner] said in an interview with ABC News conducted Wednesday. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52722.html
the [Tea Party Rally] crowd chants: "Shut'er Down! Shut'er Down!" http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/04/shut_er_down_shut_er_down.php
Now, who do think will get the credit for the shutdown, if it occurs?
Your credit score sucked or you didn't have an adequate down payment or the house didn't appraise or your employment history was questionable or your ratios sucked.
Jumping Jesus, what a hypocrite. You rant against those unqualified "jackasses you have never met" for taking advantage of easy credit, yet whine like a little bitch when denied that same easy credit which caused all those defaults in the first place. I've got a newsflash for you. All those jackasses won't stop you from getting a mortgage if you are a good credit risk. I had no trouble getting one with a very good rate during the crisis.
I'd be willing to bet that your hypocritical tendencies will flourish and bloom if you ever get sick and find yourself with no insurance.
Yes we were. I have an old National Lampoon magazine from the 70s making fun of the French. I also heard my first "French rifle for sale" joke back in the 80s when I was in high school. It's been around for a long time.
I doubt your library is going to be open and lending books after a month of no power. As I said before, If you power is out for more than a month, you have bigger problems than what to read." Besides, my Kindle can be charged on my car USB adapter. And I'm not worried about running out of things to read on it. It has about 3.3GB of available free space. Since full length books are about 500kb to 1MB, I have room for more than 3,500 full length books. I already have easily more than a month's backlog of books on it.
I don't think any of your conditions truly apply.
1: Maybe, but I skip commercials with my DVR.
2: Unless I'm mistaken, usually the shows are broadcast before they hit the torrent sites.
3: Higher quality than broadcast HD?
My Kindle goes a month between charges. If YOUR power is out for longer than a month, I'd say you have bigger problem than what to read in your spare time.
It's a race to the bottom and all the Tea Partiers are out in front screaming "Me First!!!!"
Now don't be confusing our loud mouthed, angry Tea Partier with facts. You'll give him a headache.
We have the same trouble in Ohio. I am astonished at how many simpletons, even those not associated with the Tea Party, have swallowed the party line. When you explain how things actually work, I always see that "oh!" look on their faces, followed by a recognition that they have been played. I don't know if it is more sad, or disgusting...
Your rant smacks of revisionist history. You discount the significance of the so-called killer app. You see, in the old days before Windows, there was Apple and CP/M for "big boy" personal computers. Then IBM came along and dropped the PC on the world. Along came VisiCalc, and next thing you know, the PC was the must have device. Every big change has been preceded by the "must have" technology. Apple is making a killing in the iPhone/Ipad/iPod market with just this strategy.
Windows has had an exceptionally long run in terms of the computer industry. There is a tipping point, however. You are unimaginative and delusional if you think that legacy Windows and x86 will continue on forever. Change in inevitable. It is just a matter of when. Once the "must have" tech exceeds the inertia of the "I wanna run my ten year old game on my brand new desktop" crowd, Windows will evolve to compete or die. And let's face facts. As of today, Windows is the main reason that x86 survives. The past is littered with the corpses of technology industry kings who thought that their installed base made them invulnerable to the next big "must have" technology.
Your rant against developers is just asinine. Developers DO control what you run if you want to run anything new. If you are contented with your Office 2000 forever, then good for you. But when the next killer app runs only on Android or IOS or whatever else might come, we won't cry for you when developers jump ship from Windows and leave you high and dry with all your legacy software. You can commiserate with all the CP/M, BeOS, Palm, OS/2, and Amiga people.
I certainly hope you are not in management. Strict authoritarian for no good reason rule tends to alienate your employees. And let's be honest, preventing employees from checking their email is a dick move. Instead of going the extra mile for you, they will be thinking, "How long until I can quit this job?" I check personal email from work. In fact, I have all my accounts forward to a single account. I also bring in my own personal equipment to do my job at times. I have a large piece in there right now. If my employer wanted to be a dick about things, I would have them purchase their own. But since they are reasonable, I am only too happy to lend my things, saving them money.
Since a foreclosure proceeding is a court action, falsifying documentation is illegal. Coercing others to falsify court documents is (I belive) suborning perjury.
Which is known as retirony
The government would be more motivated to find the actual responsible party if the easy pickings were eliminated. Right now, it's just too easy to blame "the corporation" and levy a simple fine. Place responsibility on those who actually are responsible. It can work. Look at Sarbanes Oxley. Why do you think that legislation has company executives shitting their pants? Because they become ultimately responsible, not the corporation. It makes them a lot more careful about what they do, when they know they, and not the corporation, are on the hook.
Still confused about Communism I see... I do not care about Sony's software. The loader key allows me to run MY OWN SOFTWARE, not Sony's. You are inventing strawmen. If I do not use Sony's software, how does their license prevent me from using my own property?
Huh?? Are you sure that English is your first language? Free speech "does not apply" to "individuals among themselves." WTF? Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech. Sony is whining to the courts that a Congressional law should censor the rights of free speech.
You do not inconvenience me. In fact, I find your lack of understanding humorous. I cannot even imagine what reason you have conjured for calling me a hypocrite. I have never tried to silence you, only educate you. Clearly, this is a fool's quest.
I guess you have never seen a book on locksmithing. I thought I would enlighten you.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=automotive+locksmithing&x=0&y=0
You really should spend more of your time in the library. They have all sorts of books on forbidden knowledge you would just love to ban...
And finally, just to confuse you a little bit more. I am a Libertarian, not a Communist. I believe that you should NOT have usage rights over property you have sold to me. I do not advocate communal property or revoking property rights altogether. You unfortunately confuse property rights with copyright. You seem to think that legally granting a copyright, somehow prevents ownership of the underlying hardware. You want to disallow me from disassembling, studying, reverse engineering, and telling others what I have discovered. That is your "Utter BS."
Once again you fail at basic reading comprehension. I am not a Communist. In fact, you have no idea how far off the mark you really are. This may surprise you, but communism refers to the communal ownership of property and rights and a lack of private property. I am arguing just the opposite. I stated that if you own something, you own all of it. I actively refute the premise that I can sell you something and then proceed to tell you what you can and cannot do with it. Do you now understand difference with Communism?
I believe in the free exchange of ideas and information. What you call a hack,I can just as easily call research. It is just semantics. Unfortunately, you still want to argue, that I can sell you something and tell you how to use it. You think that if you use it in a way I did not anticipate or want, I should be able to take you to court. If you hate cheaters, then ban them. If you hate pirates, prosecute them. You think that because I don't want you to understand how it works or to tell anybody else, I should be able to use the courts to silence you.
Sadly, the exercise of free speech occasionally inconveniences some people. You would like to ban free speech to mitigate that inconvenience and protect corporate profits. I vehemently oppose that. As I stated, you want it both ways. If you sell me something, then it belongs to me. If you don't want me to publish how it works, tough shit. Don't sell it then.
You also seem to be confused on the concept of keys. When you buy a house or car, do you not ask for the key? Do you feel the need to beg the former owner for permission to copy that key or do you just ask the former owner to let you in when you come and go? Do you fear the courts when you make a copy to your family? Can you not understand how asinine your position is?
How can you read what I wrote and come up with the exact opposite of my point? First of all I would never advocate censorship of any kind, irrespective of my profession. I support the free exchange of ideas, regardless of yours or Sony's ignorance. Censorship is anthema to my very being.
In my college days, I wrote a mini OS/monitor for the 386 chip just because I wanted to understand the protected mode of the chip and the workings of the peripheral ICs. If you and Sony had your way, I would have never been able to do that. I read the books that were written in the era, detailing a reverse engineered BIOS, and DOS. If you had your petty corporatist way, there would be no personal computer industry as we know it and you wouldn't be sitting around bellyaching about your games. You see, Compaq reverse engineered the IBM PC and led the way to the explosion of personal computers in the late 80s and 90s. But because you hate "cheaters" so much, you would have never allowed such heresy. It blows my mind that people cannot fathom what life was like before the corporations began their campaigns of leading the weak minded to believe that you cannot own what you purchase.
I realize trying to make you understand is like teaching calculus to a pig, but believe it or not, life does not revolve around "cheaters" and "pirates" screwing you out of your perfect gaming experience. Even if you cannot make a stand on principle alone, you should at least realize that there are people smarter than you that can.
I've asked above and have never received an answer, so I'll ask again: what legitimate "tinkering" came out of the hack? We know the piracy is not enabled, we know cheating is now enabled, but besides that - what good did it bring?
I will answer for you. It doesn't matter what "legitimate" tinkering comes out. Is it now a pre-requisite that every activity in life must have a goal, that is approved by you? Maybe the goal is just to see if it can be done. Maybe it is to learn how others do things. Maybe it will lead to the next big gaming console. Who gives a shit?
You are just making excuses because you don't like disruptions in your little gaming world. The facts are that Sony wants to control their physical products after they have sold them to a willing buyer. This is not a license and it sure as hell is not a "rental" as you seem to imply with your crappy analogies. If they don't want people to have "their stuff", then maybe they shouldn't sell it. Let them rent it, if they want those rental rights. Otherwise, as I stated before, they can suck my balls.
George Hotz has stated under oath the he NEVER agreed to any EULA and his attorney demonstrated that firmware updates were provided without requiring it. EULAs cannot be arbitrarily enforced against parties that never agreed or for that matter had any opportunity to agree to them.
The fact that you want to stand up for Sony and their egregious behavior shows just how brainwashed the masses have become. Just because you want to grab your ankles when Sony or any other companies claim bogus ownership rights over something you paid for, doesn't mean the rest of us do. As far as I'm concerned, Sony can suck my balls.
For the record: I do not own a PS3, or any other Sony hardware for that matter. My last Sony purchase pre-dated Sony deciding to screw customers with its "Memory Stick" abomination.
Okay... Okay... We get the picture. You don't have to post the same tripe over and over. You are one of those "I'm all for free speech as long as it doesn't offend someone" types.
Not everybody. He is allowed. ;-)
I think you are confusing a standards setting body with a lobbying and business collusion entity.
Really??? What is the actual real useful lifetime for open source copyrights or any software for that matter? You can get 8 years of copyright protection for $256 with my plan. That sounds like a bargain to me. In 2010, Windows 2000 was abandoned. That's only a $1024 total copyright registration expense under my plan for a pretty successful commercial software package. If Microsoft wanted to keep it locked up perpetually, it would cost a lot more, but is is really useful to do so?
You have to decide which is more important: Allow unfettered, free, perpetual copyright, or make it reflect its true value and costs to society. Copyright holders want to make copyright free for their usage, but make breaking copyright cripplingly expensive for us. Let's turn the tables and make copyright holders decide if it is worthwhile and cost effective to keep it for themselves perpetually. It seems fair to me.