Unfortunately for them, the guy cracking their DRM failed and didn't care, so every torrented copy crashed 5 mins in. Also, he released it 1 month before TQ went on sale, giving time for thousands of people to download it (millions if it hadn't crashed 5 mins in:P )
Ever since I bought three games that wouldn't run because of DRM, I've been a bigger supporter of Piracy - but seeing my favourite companies go down because of it makes me less happy.:/
Isn't what happened with Titan Quest precisely DRM working as designed? The bootleg copies didn't work right, thus making the game unplayable for pirates. Seems like the publisher got bit in the ass by unintended consequences of DRM doing exactly what it was designed to do.
If we want to save the internet from DRM we have to find a way to get rid of this dead weight so they don't ruin it for the rest of us.
Or, to put it more realistically and less pejoratively, companies need to come up with business models that don't rely on scarcity of non-scarce commodities.
Come on now, when have draconian punishments ever stopped people from committing crimes, let alone making mistakes?
The big difference is that most people commit crimes for their personal benefit. These guys are commiting crimes under some bogus rubric of protecting the country. At best their only personal benefit is a reduction of their own time spent on the project (for which they get paid for either way).
I happen to know that code rather well, and it's all there, at least for the routers.
b) Defendant was again distributing a new version of QuickVPN without providing correspond-
ing source code; c) Defendant was distributing executable copies of GCC, Binutils, and GDB in conjunction
with the Firmware for several of its products (including the WAP440N, WMA11B, WVC54G,
WVC54GC, WRV200, WAG300N, and EFG120/EFG250) without providing the correspond-
ing source code to these Programs.
It isn't hard to imagine that the FSF is suing because only some of "the source has been available for ages" or maybe Cisco's been adding restriction beyond the GPL to the source code that they do distribute. I bet google could tell you this in about 60 seconds.
I'm honestly surprised that F5 responded at all as there's really no comparison between the solutions for real world work loads and support.
Me too. If anything, making a defensive response like that is going to lend credence to the other side of the argument. People who know what F5 does don't need to be convinced, but those don't know are now thinking "hey, F5 is afraid of this." Seems like bad marketing to me.
Oh, fuck me, that's embarrassing. And now it's +5 Insightful. I love the spotlight!
Its a highly appropriate grammar mix-up - their would indeed be a "retensioning" as in tightening down the screws.
I used to know a guy who made those kinds of ontopic grammatical errors all the time. I would really like to know if there is a name for them - kind of like mondegreen.
I hope this won't be like what happens in the US where the company deletes data, but when pressured by the courts, they happen to recover a backup.
It's worked out GREAT for libraries in the US. The PATRIOT act requires that libraries give up book borrowing records without even a warrant. So within a year or two pretty much all of the common library management software packages were updated to delete all record of who/where/when/what was borrowed as soon as the book is returned. Few people would ever guess it, but most librarians are almost militant about patron privacy.
The "right wing extremists" report was extremely troubling. It was a whole bunch of "coulds" with no specific information and a warning to watch out for returning veterans and firearm owners. WTF?
Typically anti-terrorism FUD is all. I expect it came out of one of those "regional anti-terrorism centers" like the report out of the one in Louisiana that said Ron Paul supporters were potential terrorists. I wouldn't give obama's administration credit for anything coming out of those places, it is just a symptom of them having waaaay too much money and not enough real terrorists to spend it on, so they make up bogeymen instead. I've been hoping the economic crisis would reign in all that waste, maybe it still will.
Look, one way or the other, almost every broadband ISP has overbuilt their network and was not prepared for the advent of HD video and streaming services.
Who says? Anyone without a vested interest in you believing it?
I don't have any information on prepaid phone providers in Mexico; if they're as prevalent as they are here in the States, how will this affect those users? Can you just register the phone as belonging to Inigo Montoya and be done with it?
Worst case, you need a fake id. Surely those are impossible to get in Mexico.
You are all loving superfetch. That's not the problem. NT/XP/Vista and presumably Win7 all have brain-dead paging algorithms which favor i/o buffering way too much over user code and data. Open up a big app. Do a ton of sequential i/o - windows will page out most of that app in order to buffer up that sequential data which is never touched again. Switch back to that app and wait ages for it to page back in.
Do the same under linux and the memory manager is smart enough to recognize that sequential i/o should not cause buffercache to consume as much physical ram as possible.
That's why windows's memory management sucks ass and linux's doesn't.
Yeah, you are subtracting 20 twice. The article you linked to does not say that two different groups of 20 counties rejected the list. Only that the ones which did reject the list let a few thousand felons vote.
Thousands of people successfully appealed? Out of how many erroneously blocked? That list of 8000 texas felons was 100% bogus to start with. Plenty of errors abounded - some counties didn't even use certified mail to guarantee that the person knew they were being blocked and even when counties did, they found that addresses were often wrong, plus as the article you linked to says, even those who thought they had successfully appealed were still turned away. Never mind the ridiculous requirements to appeal, like providing fingerprints - how many people would put up with that?
Hey, is it any surprise campus security are afraid of Command Line Interface Terrorism?
I think they really need to lick the problem of Command Line Interface Terrorism. Fortunately they are likely to find many willing recruits among the general population and probably a 100% recruitment rate among lesbians.
Once again, somebody vastly misses the point. You are assuming that being able to climax in front of a straight person makes someone "straight", and vice versa. This is not a valid definition & is part of why this debate goes on like it does.
How weird that you would use "in front of" rather than "because of." I think you are the original poster, retreating to AC and still completely missing the fallacies in your own original argument.
I was aware that a few counties ignored the scrub lists, but 57 out of 67 counties does not count as a "few" who used them -- looks like a majority to me. Furthermore, what that article doesn't talk about is that there were multiple scrub lists that were distributed over a a year or two many of those counties that "ignored it altogether" actually used the earlier scrub lists and only ignored the last distribution, thus anybody who was on one of the early scrub lists had already been removed from the list of registered voters.
The questions being asked are pretty similar, actually. Should a person be allowed to marry (and enjoy the related benefits thereof) the person he/she loves regardless of [skin color|gender]?
One of the handful of countries to legalize gay marriage is South Africa. Most african cultures have as much machismo as any other (for example polygamy is fairly common throughout the continent, even in non-muslim areas). Yet SA is the only non-western and non 1st-world country to legalize gay marriage. Maybe it is a coincidence. Or maybe it is because their experience with overcoming apartheid has made the people there especially cognizant of civil rights and that they do see sexual discrimination as the same as ethnic discrimination.
Your lack of a sense of humour is funny. Not hahah funny, but revealingly funny.
Your response shows that you both: (a) Didn't get the joke and (b) Were so put out by it that you could not let it pass without the equivalent of a tin-pot authoritarian's "shut the fuck up."
In my opinion, it shows that you aren't really being objective in your analysis. That all of your "dispassionate" prose is really just a rationalization of your bias cloaked in the form of false empathy and insincere objectivity. If you weren't so tightly wound on the subject you wouldn't have felt the need to post such a transparent and futile defence against a perceived attack, especially one that wasn't even a criticism at all.
In other words, people don't even need to read you original post and go to the effort of applying any tests of the logic therein - your one line misdirected response to that joke reveals exactly where you are coming from in a much more succinct and direct fashion.
On the bright side, at least you can claim to have been a real "straight man."
Here's an experiment for you - find some random object/picture and stare at it while jacking off. Do that enough times, and you'll start to get horny when you see the object. It's a conditioned response involving brain chemistry and hormones. See also: Pavlov.
You really believe that? Sounds like the kind of thing they teach "confused" kids at those camps where they try to "cure" them of them being gay. If we just make them all jerk off to pictures of the opposite sex, they will turn straight!
I think most people who try what you suggest will just end up not getting off until they either tune out what they are looking at our find something more arousing to look at.
Have you ever considered that it is possible to examine a subject dispassionately, and put yourself in the other person's shoes to see things from their perspective, rather than having to attack anyone who disagrees with you and call them names or insult them?
Don't kid yourself. You can insult someone by calling them names and you can insult someone by acting like they are those names. Just because you aren't doing the former doesn't mean you aren't doing the latter. In my experience, it is almost universal that people who act like someone is stupid get all riled up when they are called stupid in return. It is a false piety.
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Unfortunately for them, the guy cracking their DRM failed and didn't care, so every torrented copy crashed 5 mins in. Also, he released it 1 month before TQ went on sale, giving time for thousands of people to download it (millions if it hadn't crashed 5 mins in :P )
Ever since I bought three games that wouldn't run because of DRM, I've been a bigger supporter of Piracy - but seeing my favourite companies go down because of it makes me less happy. :/
Isn't what happened with Titan Quest precisely DRM working as designed? The bootleg copies didn't work right, thus making the game unplayable for pirates. Seems like the publisher got bit in the ass by unintended consequences of DRM doing exactly what it was designed to do.
If we want to save the internet from DRM we have to find a way to get rid of this dead weight so they don't ruin it for the rest of us.
Or, to put it more realistically and less pejoratively, companies need to come up with business models that don't rely on scarcity of non-scarce commodities.
Highly appropriate nic for that response.
Come on now, when have draconian punishments ever stopped people from committing crimes, let alone making mistakes?
The big difference is that most people commit crimes for their personal benefit.
These guys are commiting crimes under some bogus rubric of protecting the country.
At best their only personal benefit is a reduction of their own time spent on the project (for which they get paid for either way).
I happen to know that code rather well, and it's all there, at least for the routers.
b) Defendant was again distributing a new version of QuickVPN without providing correspond-
ing source code;
c) Defendant was distributing executable copies of GCC, Binutils, and GDB in conjunction
with the Firmware for several of its products (including the WAP440N, WMA11B, WVC54G,
WVC54GC, WRV200, WAG300N, and EFG120/EFG250) without providing the correspond-
ing source code to these Programs.
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/complaint-2008-12-11.pdf
It isn't hard to imagine that the FSF is suing because only some of "the source has been available for ages" or maybe Cisco's been adding restriction beyond the GPL to the source code that they do distribute. I bet google could tell you this in about 60 seconds.
Did they violate the terms of the GPL. I see their source code posted, so I don't think so ....
Looks like the FSF disagrees with you since they filed suit against cisco and the article was posted only a few months ago.
I'm honestly surprised that F5 responded at all as there's really no comparison between the solutions for real world work loads and support.
Me too. If anything, making a defensive response like that is going to lend credence to the other side of the argument. People who know what F5 does don't need to be convinced, but those don't know are now thinking "hey, F5 is afraid of this." Seems like bad marketing to me.
Oh, fuck me, that's embarrassing. And now it's +5 Insightful. I love the spotlight!
Its a highly appropriate grammar mix-up - their would indeed be a "retensioning" as in tightening down the screws.
I used to know a guy who made those kinds of ontopic grammatical errors all the time. I would really like to know if there is a name for them - kind of like mondegreen.
I hope this won't be like what happens in the US where the company deletes data, but when pressured by the courts, they happen to recover a backup.
It's worked out GREAT for libraries in the US. The PATRIOT act requires that libraries give up book borrowing records without even a warrant. So within a year or two pretty much all of the common library management software packages were updated to delete all record of who/where/when/what was borrowed as soon as the book is returned. Few people would ever guess it, but most librarians are almost militant about patron privacy.
The "right wing extremists" report was extremely troubling. It was a whole bunch of "coulds" with no specific information and a warning to watch out for returning veterans and firearm owners. WTF?
Typically anti-terrorism FUD is all. I expect it came out of one of those "regional anti-terrorism centers" like the report out of the one in Louisiana that said Ron Paul supporters were potential terrorists. I wouldn't give obama's administration credit for anything coming out of those places, it is just a symptom of them having waaaay too much money and not enough real terrorists to spend it on, so they make up bogeymen instead. I've been hoping the economic crisis would reign in all that waste, maybe it still will.
Somebody just got a big fat grant for sitting around and smoking dubies.
Nah, they must have got that wrong, you let them drink beer, and then they may have sex with you.
And the ones that will look like Mimi Bobeck.
Look, one way or the other, almost every broadband ISP has overbuilt their network and was not prepared for the advent of HD video and streaming services.
Who says? Anyone without a vested interest in you believing it?
Of course for the price of that laptop you just ditched you could probably have bought a lot of $0.99 tracks on iTunes and saved yourself the hassle ;)
Yeah? 99 cents for X-Men Origins Wolverine? Wow.
I don't have any information on prepaid phone providers in Mexico; if they're as prevalent as they are here in the States, how will this affect those users? Can you just register the phone as belonging to Inigo Montoya and be done with it?
Worst case, you need a fake id. Surely those are impossible to get in Mexico.
You are all loving superfetch.
That's not the problem.
NT/XP/Vista and presumably Win7 all have brain-dead paging algorithms which favor i/o buffering way too much over user code and data.
Open up a big app. Do a ton of sequential i/o - windows will page out most of that app in order to buffer up that sequential data which is never touched again. Switch back to that app and wait ages for it to page back in.
Do the same under linux and the memory manager is smart enough to recognize that sequential i/o should not cause buffercache to consume as much physical ram as possible.
That's why windows's memory management sucks ass and linux's doesn't.
Yeah, you are subtracting 20 twice. The article you linked to does not say that two different groups of 20 counties rejected the list. Only that the ones which did reject the list let a few thousand felons vote.
Thousands of people successfully appealed? Out of how many erroneously blocked? That list of 8000 texas felons was 100% bogus to start with. Plenty of errors abounded - some counties didn't even use certified mail to guarantee that the person knew they were being blocked and even when counties did, they found that addresses were often wrong, plus as the article you linked to says, even those who thought they had successfully appealed were still turned away. Never mind the ridiculous requirements to appeal, like providing fingerprints - how many people would put up with that?
Hey, is it any surprise campus security are afraid of Command Line Interface Terrorism?
I think they really need to lick the problem of Command Line Interface Terrorism. Fortunately they are likely to find many willing recruits among the general population and probably a 100% recruitment rate among lesbians.
Does it really matter why they started do it?
The end result is the same and surely they must be happy with the end result because they keep doing it.
Once again, somebody vastly misses the point. You are assuming that being able to climax in front of a straight person makes someone "straight", and vice versa. This is not a valid definition & is part of why this debate goes on like it does.
How weird that you would use "in front of" rather than "because of." I think you are the original poster, retreating to AC and still completely missing the fallacies in your own original argument.
I was aware that a few counties ignored the scrub lists, but 57 out of 67 counties does not count as a "few" who used them -- looks like a majority to me. Furthermore, what that article doesn't talk about is that there were multiple scrub lists that were distributed over a a year or two many of those counties that "ignored it altogether" actually used the earlier scrub lists and only ignored the last distribution, thus anybody who was on one of the early scrub lists had already been removed from the list of registered voters.
The questions being asked are pretty similar, actually. Should a person be allowed to marry (and enjoy the related benefits thereof) the person he/she loves regardless of [skin color|gender]?
One of the handful of countries to legalize gay marriage is South Africa. Most african cultures have as much machismo as any other (for example polygamy is fairly common throughout the continent, even in non-muslim areas). Yet SA is the only non-western and non 1st-world country to legalize gay marriage. Maybe it is a coincidence. Or maybe it is because their experience with overcoming apartheid has made the people there especially cognizant of civil rights and that they do see sexual discrimination as the same as ethnic discrimination.
I'm sure you're smart enough to use google.
Your lack of a sense of humour is funny. Not hahah funny, but revealingly funny.
Your response shows that you both:
(a) Didn't get the joke and
(b) Were so put out by it that you could not let it pass without the equivalent of a tin-pot authoritarian's "shut the fuck up."
In my opinion, it shows that you aren't really being objective in your analysis. That all of your "dispassionate" prose is really just a rationalization of your bias cloaked in the form of false empathy and insincere objectivity. If you weren't so tightly wound on the subject you wouldn't have felt the need to post such a transparent and futile defence against a perceived attack, especially one that wasn't even a criticism at all.
In other words, people don't even need to read you original post and go to the effort of applying any tests of the logic therein - your one line misdirected response to that joke reveals exactly where you are coming from in a much more succinct and direct fashion.
On the bright side, at least you can claim to have been a real "straight man."
Here's an experiment for you - find some random object/picture and stare at it while jacking off. Do that enough times, and you'll start to get horny when you see the object. It's a conditioned response involving brain chemistry and hormones. See also: Pavlov.
You really believe that? Sounds like the kind of thing they teach "confused" kids at those camps where they try to "cure" them of them being gay. If we just make them all jerk off to pictures of the opposite sex, they will turn straight!
I think most people who try what you suggest will just end up not getting off until they either tune out what they are looking at our find something more arousing to look at.
Have you ever considered that it is possible to examine a subject dispassionately, and put yourself in the other person's shoes to see things from their perspective, rather than having to attack anyone who disagrees with you and call them names or insult them?
Don't kid yourself. You can insult someone by calling them names and you can insult someone by acting like they are those names. Just because you aren't doing the former doesn't mean you aren't doing the latter. In my experience, it is almost universal that people who act like someone is stupid get all riled up when they are called stupid in return. It is a false piety.