The "stop pirating" argument is irrelevant because the RIAA is suing people based on bad evidence, i.e. IP addresses. You typically can't nail an IP address to a single person because IP addresses change and multiple people can be using the Internet from the same IP. This doesn't even include the person they sued that had never used a computer.
Let's wait and see what happens when a big company's data farm gets raided. Then watch all the tech company lobbyists gang up against this stupid shit.
Good luck reading the fine print without a lawyer.
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You have it all wrong...advertising spreads a business' image. The advertiser wins the second that I am exposed to the ad. The website gets money from the advertiser per click. If it's an effective, memetic ad I will remember it whether I think it's good or bad. If I talk about the ad at all, even to say how stupid/annoying/irrelevant it is, I am still helping to spread the image. It's my business if I don't wanna fill my head with that crap.
I have no moral obligation to help a web site make money or stay afloat. I've donated money to sites that I think deserve it. There's no way that blocking ads is copyright infringement...that's completely off-base.
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I was REALLY pissed off by all of those "SHOOT THE PRESIDENT AND GET A FREE IPOD" type ads from a few years ago...I was so happy when the first version of the Flashblock extension became available so I never had to look at them again. Now I also use AdBlock and NoScript, and I forget what the web looks like without them. All I ever see now are the text ads next to my gmail...which I can just ignore since it's not a big colorful banner or flash object.
Selling ads represents a failure of creativity of the webmaster. Furthermore, I don't feel like helping the advertisers spread their image by looking at their garbage. I don't watch TV either.
My understanding is that a console is supposed to be a standard in the first place...Sony, MS, and Nintendo all screwed by allowing the Rock Band/Guitar Hero compatibility problems to exist. MS at least screwed up the least by forcing Activision to use the 360's controller standards, resulting in the GH guitars working with Rock Band and no wireless dongles. The RB guitar doesn't work with GH2 or 3, though...I suspect it's a software issue.
Ah okay that makes sense--Steam itself as "the asset" rather than people's games. What vux should have said was that the servers would have to stay up in the event of bankruptcy. The way he said it it sounded more like Valve was going to say "As our final act, we're going to rip off all our customers by making their purchases null and void...mwahahaha"
"devalue assets by giving them away for free"? What a straw man. If anything, they would be "devaluing the assets" if all Steam games stopped working. Hi, we're millions of enraged customers, here's a class-action lawsuit.
Maybe you meant that if Valve unlocked the games that the backup archives (you're aware that Steam can generate backup archives, right?) would be easily pirated. That's moot because piracy occurs regardless...every piece of media ever made can be and is cracked and made available on the internet if you know where to look.
Sounds like DMV syndrome...they just stick you with as many of the rules as possible because they can. TSA people take your stuff because they can...it's the same thing, just much more severe.
I long for the day that robots can do these kinds of jobs.
I don't understand what you're trying to say here. My point was that an MS Office subscription is a waste of money compared to owning an older version since updates are unimportant.
That's because Netflix and cable TV are services. MS is trying to tell us that they want to turn MS Office into a service akin to a virus scan subscription...an idea which many people are going to disagree with.
I for one don't care about getting updates for MS Office...the copy I got in 2002 still works just fine today. If I had been paying a subscription on it I'd be out $70x6=$420 as opposed to $120-150 to just buy the thing.
This is a blatant money-grab on MS' part and I hope the world (or at least the IT people of the world) will join me in seeing right through it.
I believe he was referring to the fact that it was none other than Microsoft that pushed PCs into people's homes in the first place. No PC = no machine to post on Slashdot with (Linux or otherwise)
Chris Dodd has earned my vote for his re-election the next time it comes up thanks to his resolve against Telco immunity. He is as passionate against warrantless wiretapping as people here are. I'm proud of my state (CT) for electing him.
I'd love it for someone like him to get the Presidential nomination...
That's a pretty good observation. It's definitely true of my time on my high school swim team.
I think it has to do with anti-intellectualism in the US in general. It's easier to reject somebody smarter than you as an unpatriotic, atheistic elitist than it is to try to understand them I guess.
How does reinstalling the OS constitute a successful attack on an encrypted hard drive? The data doesn't stop being encrypted just because you put a new OS there. Unless you deleted the partition containing the data...but wouldn't that defeat the purpose of breaking into the system?
HTML wouldn't be on there because it's not a programming language--it's code translated by your browser to make a web page. A program is translated by a compiler/VM/linker/etc into asm/binary.
The idea of a Use Tax seems unenforceable at first glance. I gotta keep track of all of my internet/out-of-state receipts for the year? What a hassle. How could the government catch up to Joe Average on something like this? I could understand big spenders like rich people or businesses getting nailed though...
Your Middle School English teacher didn't teach you about personification?
A personification is a figure of speech that gives an inanimate object or abstract idea human traits and qualities, such as emotions, desires, sensations, physical gestures and speech.
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It seems like an appropriate saying to me--when information is locked down by secrecy or DRM, people will leak it or break the DRM. It's a nice expression that has meaning packed into it.
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The "stop pirating" argument is irrelevant because the RIAA is suing people based on bad evidence, i.e. IP addresses. You typically can't nail an IP address to a single person because IP addresses change and multiple people can be using the Internet from the same IP. This doesn't even include the person they sued that had never used a computer.
Get a clue please.
That's what you think.
Let's wait and see what happens when a big company's data farm gets raided. Then watch all the tech company lobbyists gang up against this stupid shit.
Ensemble is not "the Halo Wars Studio." To call them that is an insult to their reputation.
Good luck reading the fine print without a lawyer.
You have it all wrong...advertising spreads a business' image. The advertiser wins the second that I am exposed to the ad. The website gets money from the advertiser per click. If it's an effective, memetic ad I will remember it whether I think it's good or bad. If I talk about the ad at all, even to say how stupid/annoying/irrelevant it is, I am still helping to spread the image. It's my business if I don't wanna fill my head with that crap.
I have no moral obligation to help a web site make money or stay afloat. I've donated money to sites that I think deserve it. There's no way that blocking ads is copyright infringement...that's completely off-base.
I was REALLY pissed off by all of those "SHOOT THE PRESIDENT AND GET A FREE IPOD" type ads from a few years ago...I was so happy when the first version of the Flashblock extension became available so I never had to look at them again. Now I also use AdBlock and NoScript, and I forget what the web looks like without them. All I ever see now are the text ads next to my gmail...which I can just ignore since it's not a big colorful banner or flash object.
Selling ads represents a failure of creativity of the webmaster. Furthermore, I don't feel like helping the advertisers spread their image by looking at their garbage. I don't watch TV either.
I'm not sure whether that's more of an insult to McCain supporters or LARPers.
My understanding is that a console is supposed to be a standard in the first place...Sony, MS, and Nintendo all screwed by allowing the Rock Band/Guitar Hero compatibility problems to exist. MS at least screwed up the least by forcing Activision to use the 360's controller standards, resulting in the GH guitars working with Rock Band and no wireless dongles. The RB guitar doesn't work with GH2 or 3, though...I suspect it's a software issue.
Ah okay that makes sense--Steam itself as "the asset" rather than people's games. What vux should have said was that the servers would have to stay up in the event of bankruptcy. The way he said it it sounded more like Valve was going to say "As our final act, we're going to rip off all our customers by making their purchases null and void...mwahahaha"
"devalue assets by giving them away for free"? What a straw man. If anything, they would be "devaluing the assets" if all Steam games stopped working. Hi, we're millions of enraged customers, here's a class-action lawsuit.
Maybe you meant that if Valve unlocked the games that the backup archives (you're aware that Steam can generate backup archives, right?) would be easily pirated. That's moot because piracy occurs regardless...every piece of media ever made can be and is cracked and made available on the internet if you know where to look.
Why waste your time playing a game that isn't worth your money?
Sounds like DMV syndrome...they just stick you with as many of the rules as possible because they can. TSA people take your stuff because they can...it's the same thing, just much more severe.
I long for the day that robots can do these kinds of jobs.
I don't understand what you're trying to say here. My point was that an MS Office subscription is a waste of money compared to owning an older version since updates are unimportant.
That's because Netflix and cable TV are services. MS is trying to tell us that they want to turn MS Office into a service akin to a virus scan subscription...an idea which many people are going to disagree with.
I for one don't care about getting updates for MS Office...the copy I got in 2002 still works just fine today. If I had been paying a subscription on it I'd be out $70x6=$420 as opposed to $120-150 to just buy the thing.
This is a blatant money-grab on MS' part and I hope the world (or at least the IT people of the world) will join me in seeing right through it.
The MacBook and MacBook Pro are designed to be user-upgradable. It was one of the smaller selling points of the redesign compared to the G4 laptops.
I believe he was referring to the fact that it was none other than Microsoft that pushed PCs into people's homes in the first place. No PC = no machine to post on Slashdot with (Linux or otherwise)
Chris Dodd has earned my vote for his re-election the next time it comes up thanks to his resolve against Telco immunity. He is as passionate against warrantless wiretapping as people here are. I'm proud of my state (CT) for electing him.
I'd love it for someone like him to get the Presidential nomination...
Excuse me, the quote is "that's the dumbest fucking idea I've heard since I've been at Microsoft."
It's really a shame that the "dumbestfuckingidea" tag never caught on.
That's a pretty good observation. It's definitely true of my time on my high school swim team.
I think it has to do with anti-intellectualism in the US in general. It's easier to reject somebody smarter than you as an unpatriotic, atheistic elitist than it is to try to understand them I guess.
How does reinstalling the OS constitute a successful attack on an encrypted hard drive? The data doesn't stop being encrypted just because you put a new OS there. Unless you deleted the partition containing the data...but wouldn't that defeat the purpose of breaking into the system?
HTML wouldn't be on there because it's not a programming language--it's code translated by your browser to make a web page. A program is translated by a compiler/VM/linker/etc into asm/binary.
Circumstantial ad hominem...nothing to see here, move along.
The idea of a Use Tax seems unenforceable at first glance. I gotta keep track of all of my internet/out-of-state receipts for the year? What a hassle. How could the government catch up to Joe Average on something like this? I could understand big spenders like rich people or businesses getting nailed though...
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It seems like an appropriate saying to me--when information is locked down by secrecy or DRM, people will leak it or break the DRM. It's a nice expression that has meaning packed into it.
Yeah, the Scientologists have always been ahead of the game on this front. Oh wait...