The porn industry has actually had an effect on a lot of developing technologies. Depending on whom you ask, the porn industry may have had a very large hand in deciding the VHS vs. Betamax format war, and it may again have a huge impact on the upcoming Blu-Ray Disc vs. HD-DVD "situation" when the formats hit market. Though it operates somewhat "behind the scenes," the gross of over $5 billion per year (geek comments aside) isn't anything to shake a, uh...fist at.;)
The hardcore market would love this. It's the ultimate sense of danger, lending reality to a fantasy world. Most everyone else, however, doesn't. The quote about losing your stuff is absolutely, wholly true. Case in point: the success of World of Warcraft. When you die, you lose a couple dozen silver each time at most. No xp, no lives, no item penalties. Nothing. The other night I must have died a dozen times or more in attempting a difficult raid without enough people and I racked up 3g in repairs (for those who don't play WoW, at max level you can make 3g back with 15 minutes' lightweight work or 10 minutes hard grinding).
People love that. Hell, I love that. It encourages raiding and confrontations and risk, and pretty much adds to the enjoyment of the game knowing that attempting something difficult or even stupid won't set you back. It's just fun.
An anticircumvention ruling was issued by the Librarian of Congress on 10/28/2003. It protects - for the time being - sites such as ours at videogamemaps.net (my url). The pertinent clause:
(3) Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.
Sounds like the FBI straight out fucked up to me.
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/
Acknowledgements
This study and our analysis were funded under a research contract from Microsoft. As part of the agreement, we have complete editorial control over all research and analysis presented in this report. We stand behind our methodology and execution of that methodology to determine objective results that will be useful to customers and security practitioners.
Do they really expect us to buy an excuse that thin? Yes, a report of this type is academically viable, but only if you maintain neutrality. These "researchers" have carefully chosen their sources such that the report is biased, and out the window goes neutrality.
When Ninja Gaiden came out for the XBox, I headed over to the local Wal-Mart to grab me a copy. Taking it over to the register, the upitty cashier first demanded proof that I was 17 (I was 21 at the time and have always appeared older for my age. Example: At my sister's 15th birthday dinner, when I was 13, the waitress handed me the wine list.). Upon being begrudgingly satisfied by my driver's license, we went through the purchase. When I handed him the receipt, he literally took the credit card back out of my hand and compared my signature on the back to my signature on the receipt. "Ummmm...ok, I guess it's close enough. But try to do it better next time or I won't sell it to you."
It's the closest I've ever come to outright decking a store employee. Jump through hoops to get your signature checked? Nah, just find the newly promoted manager at Hell*Mart.
For instance, book origin of species will turn up the full text of Charles Darwin's controversial treatise.
If you still think this is controversial and are clinging to some other notion of the development of our current lifeforms on Earth, you may feel free to move back to 1900. As a History major approaching my degree, I've studied the Scopes trial four times in four separate classes here at Penn State, and always the conclusion is the same: How, knowing what we know now, could you possibly believe that evolution is a crackpot theory?
To be brutally honest, I don't think it would be advantageous for Logitech to port the drivers to Mac. Consider: Mac users make up less than 5% of the total home computer population (it's at 3% right now on the stats page at w3schools). If every one of those Mac users owns a Logitech mouse, I'm not sure the net revenue would offset the cost of developing the software for the platform.
Agreed. If you can manipulate a web browser with your headmouse, you can play WoW...albeit slowly, but the game's an absolute blast. You're welcome in my guild if you'd like to join. I'll send you an email with further information.
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I love how you link that like you're mister high and mighty and you don't spell his name in the link right. I didn't either, but I have ethos. I'd never heard of him before. =)
In addition to several references in the IBM case, SCO also put the claim at the center of its lawsuit against Linux user and former SCO customer AutoZone.
I didn't know that. I'm switching to AutoZone, effective immediately.
Even if it helped, I just don't think it could be done. The primary objective here is preventing further harm to the victim while capturing the bad guy.
Woah, you're not kidding about the find all media. I ran the damn thing and it even wanted to delete the system audio files in c:\windows\media.
Copyright detector. Bahahahaha.
Yeah. Just the desc seemed a little fishy, but hey, who knows, right? Check an earlier post that notes the incomplete address, anon proxy registration of the domain and other fun stuff.
What about the Microsoft security initiative? Is that being bested by the Microsoft why-aren't-you-getting-the-money initiative?
Why should Microsoft care about someone that's stolen from them? I don't blame them.
Exactly. And as for bestiality? Look, if that's what you're into, go for it. The whole point is, if you're offended by a girl having sex with a horse (or a guy doing the same), fine. Just keep your mouth shut about it.
Naw. All this is is politicians doing what they do best - it sounds good on paper, it doesn't work well in the "real world." You don't have to look far too see this happening at any level of government above town council in a very small town - amd sometimes things even get messed up then.
Wow, and here's me sans mod points. Mod parent troll please.
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What about those of us with a BA who work in the IT industry? We too bring a balanced, yet completely different view to the workplace - one of the reasons I was hired at my current job. Computer geek + history geek means a man who can do mental backflips.
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Holy crap! Flamebait? I was trying for a strained-but-plausible historical connection to incite discussion... :(
Microsoft simultaneously tries to own the world with patents and other IP but "resists involvement" in social isues. Yeah, right.
Even Hitler came to power using dubious but legal means.
The porn industry has actually had an effect on a lot of developing technologies. Depending on whom you ask, the porn industry may have had a very large hand in deciding the VHS vs. Betamax format war, and it may again have a huge impact on the upcoming Blu-Ray Disc vs. HD-DVD "situation" when the formats hit market. Though it operates somewhat "behind the scenes," the gross of over $5 billion per year (geek comments aside) isn't anything to shake a, uh...fist at. ;)
Yeah, dude, but that setup is freakin cool.
The hardcore market would love this. It's the ultimate sense of danger, lending reality to a fantasy world. Most everyone else, however, doesn't. The quote about losing your stuff is absolutely, wholly true. Case in point: the success of World of Warcraft. When you die, you lose a couple dozen silver each time at most. No xp, no lives, no item penalties. Nothing. The other night I must have died a dozen times or more in attempting a difficult raid without enough people and I racked up 3g in repairs (for those who don't play WoW, at max level you can make 3g back with 15 minutes' lightweight work or 10 minutes hard grinding).
People love that. Hell, I love that. It encourages raiding and confrontations and risk, and pretty much adds to the enjoyment of the game knowing that attempting something difficult or even stupid won't set you back. It's just fun.
An anticircumvention ruling was issued by the Librarian of Congress on 10/28/2003. It protects - for the time being - sites such as ours at videogamemaps.net (my url). The pertinent clause:
(3) Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.
Sounds like the FBI straight out fucked up to me.
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/
Acknowledgements
This study and our analysis were funded under a research contract from Microsoft. As part of the agreement, we have complete editorial control over all research and analysis presented in this report. We stand behind our methodology and execution of that methodology to determine objective results that will be useful to customers and security practitioners.
Do they really expect us to buy an excuse that thin? Yes, a report of this type is academically viable, but only if you maintain neutrality. These "researchers" have carefully chosen their sources such that the report is biased, and out the window goes neutrality.
When Ninja Gaiden came out for the XBox, I headed over to the local Wal-Mart to grab me a copy. Taking it over to the register, the upitty cashier first demanded proof that I was 17 (I was 21 at the time and have always appeared older for my age. Example: At my sister's 15th birthday dinner, when I was 13, the waitress handed me the wine list.). Upon being begrudgingly satisfied by my driver's license, we went through the purchase. When I handed him the receipt, he literally took the credit card back out of my hand and compared my signature on the back to my signature on the receipt. "Ummmm...ok, I guess it's close enough. But try to do it better next time or I won't sell it to you."
It's the closest I've ever come to outright decking a store employee. Jump through hoops to get your signature checked? Nah, just find the newly promoted manager at Hell*Mart.
For instance, book origin of species will turn up the full text of Charles Darwin's controversial treatise. If you still think this is controversial and are clinging to some other notion of the development of our current lifeforms on Earth, you may feel free to move back to 1900. As a History major approaching my degree, I've studied the Scopes trial four times in four separate classes here at Penn State, and always the conclusion is the same: How, knowing what we know now, could you possibly believe that evolution is a crackpot theory?
To be brutally honest, I don't think it would be advantageous for Logitech to port the drivers to Mac. Consider: Mac users make up less than 5% of the total home computer population (it's at 3% right now on the stats page at w3schools). If every one of those Mac users owns a Logitech mouse, I'm not sure the net revenue would offset the cost of developing the software for the platform.
Much like the rather silly DVD region protection, just get a firmware patch. End of story, and you'll get your fair use rights back.
Agreed. If you can manipulate a web browser with your headmouse, you can play WoW...albeit slowly, but the game's an absolute blast. You're welcome in my guild if you'd like to join. I'll send you an email with further information.
I love how you link that like you're mister high and mighty and you don't spell his name in the link right. I didn't either, but I have ethos. I'd never heard of him before. =)
From someone who is not at all involved with encryption: who's Bruce Schneir?
In addition to several references in the IBM case, SCO also put the claim at the center of its lawsuit against Linux user and former SCO customer AutoZone.
I didn't know that. I'm switching to AutoZone, effective immediately.
Caveat emptor.
Even if it helped, I just don't think it could be done. The primary objective here is preventing further harm to the victim while capturing the bad guy.
I don't know what's creepier, the pictures themselves or the comments joking about the originals and downplaying kiddie porn/statutory rape...
Woah, you're not kidding about the find all media. I ran the damn thing and it even wanted to delete the system audio files in c:\windows\media.
Copyright detector. Bahahahaha.
Yeah. Just the desc seemed a little fishy, but hey, who knows, right? Check an earlier post that notes the incomplete address, anon proxy registration of the domain and other fun stuff.
This isn't even vaporware. It's a scam.
What about the Microsoft security initiative? Is that being bested by the Microsoft why-aren't-you-getting-the-money initiative? Why should Microsoft care about someone that's stolen from them? I don't blame them.
Exactly. And as for bestiality? Look, if that's what you're into, go for it. The whole point is, if you're offended by a girl having sex with a horse (or a guy doing the same), fine. Just keep your mouth shut about it.
Naw. All this is is politicians doing what they do best - it sounds good on paper, it doesn't work well in the "real world." You don't have to look far too see this happening at any level of government above town council in a very small town - amd sometimes things even get messed up then.
Wow, and here's me sans mod points. Mod parent troll please.
What about those of us with a BA who work in the IT industry? We too bring a balanced, yet completely different view to the workplace - one of the reasons I was hired at my current job. Computer geek + history geek means a man who can do mental backflips.