My guess is that this is the return favor for the US. After all, I think it would be rather hard to get it past the constitution to fingerprint all US citizens. But, after all, the info is 'shared freely', so I take the prints of your subjects, you take those of mine, and everyone's happy.
I'm sure that's on the table, but in this case it was (is?) Brazil doing it as a political statement all the lines of what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
You will notice that below the box requesting your AppleID there's a link for if you've forgotten your AppleID.
Gee, what part of "username/email address" do you not understand? Why are you trying to feed me bullshit? Are you an itunes fanboi or something? All I want is an accurate and factual answer, so far all I get in this thread are people avoiding the question like you or at best suggesting I break that DMCA, which is NOT the point.
That website explicitly requires information that I listed as having been forgotten and lost because of disk failure. I am beginning to think that so far, none of the people who have responded to my question are actually answering it. In which case, that only supports the OP's claim that itunes music is a rental, not a purchase.
I am now very confused. I am talking about backing up the information required to recover the aforementioned "Apple ID" - have the previous posters been answering some other question than the one I originally asked?
They say "you knowingly signed up and agreed to XYZ unless you canceled, so just because your credit card has expired, doesn't mean you don't owe us." And when you put it that way, I think they're right.
Technically, even successfully disputing a charge on your credit card does not legally erase the debt, it just means the merchant has to find alternate means to collect like hiring a debt collector or outright suing you. Most never go that far because they tend to be in the wrong, but it does happen on occasion.
Either way, as they say "possession is nine-tenths of the law" - if they have your money, you are never getting it back. If you have your money, you can at least negotiate from a position of strength.
There's nothing to cancel, iTunes isn't a subscription service. All the songs you purchase are linked to a Apple ID, which doesn't expire.
What happens if you forget the important details like password and username/email address because your computer remembered them for you, and then your hard disk crashes? Is the info to re-access your "Apple ID" recoverable from the music files themselves?
You want privilege, look to the Irish. They can come here and not only find jobs, but get laid with no problem either. That's privilege.
I must have missed the guaranteed sex provisioning for the Irish in the latest immigration bill. Does it cover people of partial Scots origin too? If, so, sign me up!
the people who hop the fence illegally just to take advantage of health care they won't have to pay for
Ever go to a hospital? I've been in a couple in colorado and southern california recently. They all had signs up in practically every room and hallway about patients rights. Seems that a hospital's obligation to a non-paying client is stabilization and nothing more -- essentially emergency room care, and once any short-term issues have been dealt with (not cured, not fixed, just simply made to be no longer immediately life-threatening), they are legally allowed to kick you to the curb.
Turns out the entire "free health care for illegals" meme is bogus, and its brother - "illegals are bankrupting hospitals into closure" is also made from whole cloth. In my opinion, an illegal immigrant would do a lot better to pass right on through and sneak into Canada where their socialized system probably gives them a better chance of getting health care they won't have to pay for.
Maybe to a basement-bound geek who has somehow managed to never discover any pr0n, much less meet a girl in person.
Here's what Mark Twain had to say about mormon chicks:
the Mormon women... these poor, ungainly and pathetically "homely" creatures... the man that marries one of them has done an act of Christian charity which entitles him to the kindly applause of mankind, not their harsh censure - and the man that marries sixty of them has done a deed of open-handed generosity so sublime that the nations should stand uncovered in his presence and worship in silence.
But the truth is, these guys have made a truly offensive game that is super deliberatly made to be offesnive/controversial.
More "truth" from someone who hasn't even tried the game.
How the hell do you know the truth when you haven't even experienced the truth? Why do you think it is OK to go around spouting off about things you have no understanding of? Sure its your right to make a fool of yourself, but in what warped universe is it personally a good thing for you to actually preach from ignorance? Is that how you make decisions about everything else in your life?
What's worse is that there is no reason for you not to have found out the truth yourself - the game is freely available from the author's website:
I recently came across an article suggesting that artists on average get paid around.25 per song.
The article you "came across" was dead wrong. From every dollar, the most an artist will get is 20 cents and that's only the top few percent of recording artists.
You misunderstand. The article said, ".25 per song" -- not per dollar, not per copy. Just 25 cents total, once and for all.
your fredoms are chipped away a little at a time over a long term
I totally know what you mean, it seems like they have chipped away at your freedom so much that you've already lost an entire 'e' and you've only got one left!
Obviously not everyone, nor even a majority, of people of chinese ethnic origin are vulnerable to such methods. But that does not in any way negate that such methods are China's primary style of espionage. Note also that patriotism is only one sort of exploitation, loyalty to family directly and indirectly is another similar approach.
They're charging $150,000 per song. If they had applied those numbers since the inception of AllofMp3.com which according to a quick whois lookup of the site name, is June of 2000... using the same numbers of sales each month as they have for the time period of J-O then they'd owe roughly the GDP of the entire world. What a joke.
What are you, some kind of commie? How do you expect those hard-working record execs to send their kids to college and buy enough blow to keep their hookers happy?
I think a credit check is better. One check and it will tell you the likelyhood of Scientist x selling yoru secrets to the chinese/russians/islamists/EU. People who tend to do these things tend to have financial problems ot start with.
Not the chinese. Their favorite method is to find someone of chinese origins and then convince them that sharing information is a duty of one sort another, patriotic or for the good of any family they still have back in China. That's an over simplification, but the chinese methods are much more passive and much harder to "catch" than traditional western espionage techniques.
Of course this does not admit the possibility that there are other reasons why a scientist would agree to be polygraphed, including the possibility that someone working at a sensitive facility such as Los Alamos may just feel that it ain't worth the hassle to fight it.
That is, of course, the reason most people in such positions accept the insult. It is a game of chicken and usually the individual feels that they have more to lose. But not always.
I have a good friend who holds a handful of clearances. Part of the requirements for some of those clearances is an agreement to take a drug test if asked too. My friend is so straight, he rarely drinks and hasn't even smoked a single joint in his entire life. But he will never take a drug test because he feels they are insulting to him as a professional.
If it comes down to it and he is asked to take a test, he will refuse and accept revocation of his clearance and 'loss' of his job. In his case, the loss of a job is of little consequence, he's got enough money in the bank to retire permanently if he wanted to. The programs he works on would suffer more by his leaving than he would.
Unfortunately, most people are not in such a position, or at least don't feel like they are. So they cave to the pressure and accept the insult because they've got families to feed or careers they think will be ruined if they don't. In other words, freedom doesn't mean jackshit if you are afraid to exercise that freedom.
ALL the terrorists of 9/11 and the many follow on plots or successes have ONE major thing in common.
They were ALL MUSLIMS.
Brill! You've just narrowed the search pool from ~4 Billion to ~1 Billion. Now we are SURE to catch the bad guys!
Considering that MI 5 head and Sir Ian Blair (Metropolitan Police Head) have estimated that Al Qaeda has about 12,000 active jihadis and a hard core set of supporters in the 200,000 range or so, this is a serious issue.
I would sure like to see a citation for those claims. Because, the last I heard, MI5 said there were probably less than 1,000 active terrorists world-wide, and until recently it was more like a couple of hundred with Iraq being singled out as the prime cause of the growth in numbers.
The problem is not as big as you suggest. The software does not analyze an entire population and toss out names of suspect terrorists, rather one person comes to the attention of law enforcement through conventional means and the data mining analyzes those who have contact with that person.
Which is an entirely different problem than mining passenger data in a futile attempt at stopping terrorists from getting on board an airplane with a bomb.
The funny thing is - when you KNOW someone is trying to drop your airplanes out of the air - and this isn't being paranoid - that big hole in the ground in New York supports the claim, then taking precautions to try and identify problem passengers BEFORE the plane takes off seems only prudent doesn't it?
Knee-jerkers like you always leave off the most important qualifier when talking about "taking precautions" - namely that of effectiveness. All the data-mining in the world won't stop terrorism because the characteristics that you can mine for produce way too many false positives to be effective.
Then realize that airplanes aren't the only possible target and that if you really want to apply these useless data-mining techniques to protecting all possible targets, we will have to go way past that dictionary definition of fascism to pull it off.
You are just one of countless others on here spreading this FUD about the Zune. The fact is the restrictions are entirely client-based. The MP3 that you send wirelessly is identical to the source file. No DRM or anything is "added" to the file.
As if there is a difference.
Receive an mp3 wirelessly on a Zune and it is for all intents and purposes infected with DRM - you can't wirelessly share it with anyone else, you can't copy it out and you can't play it more than 3 times or after 3 days have passed.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck.
Congratulations. There's always some smart-ass who thinks that his slashdot dick is bigger because he can take a quote, remove the context and then dispute a point that was addressed in the context.
Since anyone can click "parent" on your post and get the original context, I'm not going to bother to quote myself just to reinsert the sentence you left out. Instead, I'll go one further and let microsoft's own FAQ demonstrate my point:
Microsoft MediaPlayer FAQ Q: How do I turn off copy protection when ripping music from a CD? A: It isn't possible to remove protection from files you have already ripped, but you can prevent files from being protected the next time you rip music from a CD. In addition, you can replace the existing protected files by ripping the CD again.
On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Rip music tab.
Clear the Copy protect music check box. Files that you rip in the future will not be copy-protected.
Clearly, at the time the FAQ was written, DRM was the default, else there would not have been a FAQ about how to make it not the default.
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My guess is that this is the return favor for the US. After all, I think it would be rather hard to get it past the constitution to fingerprint all US citizens. But, after all, the info is 'shared freely', so I take the prints of your subjects, you take those of mine, and everyone's happy.
I'm sure that's on the table, but in this case it was (is?) Brazil doing it as a political statement all the lines of what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
You will notice that below the box requesting your AppleID there's a link for if you've forgotten your AppleID.
Gee, what part of "username/email address" do you not understand? Why are you trying to feed me bullshit? Are you an itunes fanboi or something? All I want is an accurate and factual answer, so far all I get in this thread are people avoiding the question like you or at best suggesting I break that DMCA, which is NOT the point.
That website explicitly requires information that I listed as having been forgotten and lost because of disk failure. I am beginning to think that so far, none of the people who have responded to my question are actually answering it. In which case, that only supports the OP's claim that itunes music is a rental, not a purchase.
I am now very confused. I am talking about backing up the information required to recover the aforementioned "Apple ID" - have the previous posters been answering some other question than the one I originally asked?
How many backups can you make?
They say "you knowingly signed up and agreed to XYZ unless you canceled, so just because your credit card has expired, doesn't mean you don't owe us." And when you put it that way, I think they're right.
Technically, even successfully disputing a charge on your credit card does not legally erase the debt, it just means the merchant has to find alternate means to collect like hiring a debt collector or outright suing you. Most never go that far because they tend to be in the wrong, but it does happen on occasion.
Either way, as they say "possession is nine-tenths of the law" - if they have your money, you are never getting it back. If you have your money, you can at least negotiate from a position of strength.
There's nothing to cancel, iTunes isn't a subscription service. All the songs you purchase are linked to a Apple ID, which doesn't expire.
What happens if you forget the important details like password and username/email address because your computer remembered them for you, and then your hard disk crashes? Is the info to re-access your "Apple ID" recoverable from the music files themselves?
You want privilege, look to the Irish. They can come here and not only find jobs, but get laid with no problem either. That's privilege.
I must have missed the guaranteed sex provisioning for the Irish in the latest immigration bill. Does it cover people of partial Scots origin too? If, so, sign me up!
the people who hop the fence illegally just to take advantage of health care they won't have to pay for
Ever go to a hospital? I've been in a couple in colorado and southern california recently. They all had signs up in practically every room and hallway about patients rights. Seems that a hospital's obligation to a non-paying client is stabilization and nothing more -- essentially emergency room care, and once any short-term issues have been dealt with (not cured, not fixed, just simply made to be no longer immediately life-threatening), they are legally allowed to kick you to the curb.
Turns out the entire "free health care for illegals" meme is bogus, and its brother - "illegals are bankrupting hospitals into closure" is also made from whole cloth. In my opinion, an illegal immigrant would do a lot better to pass right on through and sneak into Canada where their socialized system probably gives them a better chance of getting health care they won't have to pay for.
Maybe to a basement-bound geek who has somehow managed to never discover any pr0n, much less meet a girl in person.
Here's what Mark Twain had to say about mormon chicks:
Don't you feel like an utter shit inside for so totally misrepresenting his statement like that?
Then the rapper 50 Cent must be twice as successful as most artists!
He's just a two hit wonder.
But the truth is, these guys have made a truly offensive game that is super deliberatly made to be offesnive/controversial.
More "truth" from someone who hasn't even tried the game.
How the hell do you know the truth when you haven't even experienced the truth? Why do you think it is OK to go around spouting off about things you have no understanding of? Sure its your right to make a fool of yourself, but in what warped universe is it personally a good thing for you to actually preach from ignorance? Is that how you make decisions about everything else in your life?
What's worse is that there is no reason for you not to have found out the truth yourself - the game is freely available from the author's website:
http://www.columbinegame.com/
You misunderstand. The article said, ".25 per song" -- not per dollar, not per copy.
Just 25 cents total, once and for all.
your fredoms are chipped away a little at a time over a long term
I totally know what you mean, it seems like they have chipped away at your freedom so much that you've already lost an entire 'e' and you've only got one left!
I find it funny that russian mafia is being attacked by american one.
Allofmp3 as russian mafia is just an riaa scare tactic, there has been no credible evidence for such claims.
I think you paint with a over broad brush.
Obviously not everyone, nor even a majority, of people of chinese ethnic origin are vulnerable to such methods. But that does not in any way negate that such methods are China's primary style of espionage. Note also that patriotism is only one sort of exploitation, loyalty to family directly and indirectly is another similar approach.
They're charging $150,000 per song. If they had applied those numbers since the inception of AllofMp3.com which according to a quick whois lookup of the site name, is June of 2000... using the same numbers of sales each month as they have for the time period of J-O then they'd owe roughly the GDP of the entire world. What a joke.
What are you, some kind of commie? How do you expect those hard-working record execs to send their kids to college and buy enough blow to keep their hookers happy?
I think a credit check is better. One check and it will tell you the likelyhood of Scientist x selling yoru secrets to the chinese/russians/islamists/EU. People who tend to do these things tend to have financial problems ot start with.
Not the chinese. Their favorite method is to find someone of chinese origins and then convince them that sharing information is a duty of one sort another, patriotic or for the good of any family they still have back in China. That's an over simplification, but the chinese methods are much more passive and much harder to "catch" than traditional western espionage techniques.
Of course this does not admit the possibility that there are other reasons why a scientist would agree to be polygraphed, including the possibility that someone working at a sensitive facility such as Los Alamos may just feel that it ain't worth the hassle to fight it.
That is, of course, the reason most people in such positions accept the insult. It is a game of chicken and usually the individual feels that they have more to lose. But not always.
I have a good friend who holds a handful of clearances. Part of the requirements for some of those clearances is an agreement to take a drug test if asked too. My friend is so straight, he rarely drinks and hasn't even smoked a single joint in his entire life. But he will never take a drug test because he feels they are insulting to him as a professional.
If it comes down to it and he is asked to take a test, he will refuse and accept revocation of his clearance and 'loss' of his job. In his case, the loss of a job is of little consequence, he's got enough money in the bank to retire permanently if he wanted to. The programs he works on would suffer more by his leaving than he would.
Unfortunately, most people are not in such a position, or at least don't feel like they are. So they cave to the pressure and accept the insult because they've got families to feed or careers they think will be ruined if they don't. In other words, freedom doesn't mean jackshit if you are afraid to exercise that freedom.
ALL the terrorists of 9/11 and the many follow on plots or successes have ONE major thing in common.
They were ALL MUSLIMS.
Brill! You've just narrowed the search pool from ~4 Billion to ~1 Billion.
Now we are SURE to catch the bad guys!
Considering that MI 5 head and Sir Ian Blair (Metropolitan Police Head) have estimated that Al Qaeda has about 12,000 active jihadis and a hard core set of supporters in the 200,000 range or so, this is a serious issue.
I would sure like to see a citation for those claims. Because, the last I heard, MI5 said there were probably less than 1,000 active terrorists world-wide, and until recently it was more like a couple of hundred with Iraq being singled out as the prime cause of the growth in numbers.
The problem is not as big as you suggest. The software does not analyze an entire population and toss out names of suspect terrorists, rather one person comes to the attention of law enforcement through conventional means and the data mining analyzes those who have contact with that person.
Which is an entirely different problem than mining passenger data in a futile attempt at stopping terrorists from getting on board an airplane with a bomb.
The funny thing is - when you KNOW someone is trying to drop your airplanes out of the air - and this isn't being paranoid - that big hole in the ground in New York supports the claim, then taking precautions to try and identify problem passengers BEFORE the plane takes off seems only prudent doesn't it?
Knee-jerkers like you always leave off the most important qualifier when talking about "taking precautions" - namely that of effectiveness. All the data-mining in the world won't stop terrorism because the characteristics that you can mine for produce way too many false positives to be effective.
Then realize that airplanes aren't the only possible target and that if you really want to apply these useless data-mining techniques to protecting all possible targets, we will have to go way past that dictionary definition of fascism to pull it off.
You are just one of countless others on here spreading this FUD about the Zune. The fact is the restrictions are entirely client-based. The MP3 that you send wirelessly is identical to the source file. No DRM or anything is "added" to the file.
As if there is a difference.
Receive an mp3 wirelessly on a Zune and it is for all intents and purposes infected with DRM - you can't wirelessly share it with anyone else, you can't copy it out and you can't play it more than 3 times or after 3 days have passed.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck.
Since anyone can click "parent" on your post and get the original context, I'm not going to bother to quote myself just to reinsert the sentence you left out. Instead, I'll go one further and let microsoft's own FAQ demonstrate my point:
Clearly, at the time the FAQ was written, DRM was the default, else there would not have been a FAQ about how to make it not the default.