Those people probably don't freely admit to a police officer that they were doing it intentionally, though. You know, kind of makes a difference, that.
God, you people parroting the same tired, refuted-ad-nauseum arguments OVER and OVER and OVER...
Christ! Make the slightest effort at rational thought, would you? Take a tiny little step towards finding something out for yourself instead of believing every pig-headed thing you hear on the internet that makes you feel good about yourself for being a contrarian.
You want to complain about the "old guard" holding science back?
1. Of, relating to, extending to, or affecting the entire world or all within the world; worldwide: "This discovery of literature has as yet only partially penetrated the universal consciousness" (Ellen Key). 2. Including, relating to, or affecting all members of the class or group under consideration: the universal skepticism of philosophers. See synonyms at general.
3. Applicable or common to all purposes, conditions, or situations: a universal remedy.
4. Of or relating to the universe or cosmos; cosmic.
5. Knowledgeable about or constituting all or many subjects; comprehensively broad.
6. Adapted or adjustable to many sizes or mechanical uses.
7. Logic. Encompassing all of the members of a class or group. Used of a proposition.
And a "Windows virus" is a virus which attacks Windows machines. By using Linux, I am 100% immune to "Windows viruses", therefore its security is perfect!
In case I need to spell it out: Worms are really the least of your worries these days, on Windows or any other platform. Being immune to them improves your security very little. Claiming otherwise is playing stupid semantic games.
Except that without doing a proper AACS handshake with the drive, you can't actually make an image! Certain sectors are protected from reading to stop this.
Whether you like it or not, it really is a copy-protection system, designed to stop copying. Casual copying, to be precise. Of course you can build your own specialized drive that bypasses those checks and make bitwise perfect copies, but that is far beyond the means of the average user.
What on earth is your point? I was never talking about the legal definition. And both the dictionary defintion and the legal definition in most countries agree that the post I called wrong, was wrong.
On the one hand, some people doing research don't get to see any profits.
On the other hand, millions of people die.
Gee. This is a fucking hard choice, man.
Really, I know Slashdot is a favoured hangout of libertarian fuckwads with a ossified sense of empathy, but christ, just shut the fuck up already. Listening to you talk makes me sick. I am ashamed to be the same species as you.
I'm not sure if you're very confused here or mostly getting it right, but just in case, I'll clarify:
1. Hardware players can be individually revoked. That is, per physical unit, not per product line. 2. However, the X-box is not a hardware player. It can't even read HD-DVDs at all. 3. However, the X-box add-on HD-DVD drive exists, but it is not a hardware players, it is a device to be accessed by a software player. Those follow different rules, and as far as I know cannot be indivdually revoked.
And as it turns out, it is mostly the X-box drive people are hacking at this point. This is not so much because it is hard to revoke, which is true, but because it is cheap and ubiquitous and can be connected to a computer instead of an X-box just as well.
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I'm pretty sure he just glossed over most of those languages because nobody actually does anything useful with them.
True. C's niche, however, is the niche of making everything actually work for the rest of the people.
That's a funny definition of "many" there.
I dunno, maybe you could call the people up? And ask them if the cards are still active?`Like the guy did? And wrote about it in the article?
Maybe?
"My"? You put all that effort into making this nice strawman, and you're giving it to me? Thanks!
Those people probably don't freely admit to a police officer that they were doing it intentionally, though. You know, kind of makes a difference, that.
No, "this logic" is the letter of the law, which says that what happened here was illegal, and what you suggest isn't.
You're welcome.
God, you people parroting the same tired, refuted-ad-nauseum arguments OVER and OVER and OVER...
Christ! Make the slightest effort at rational thought, would you? Take a tiny little step towards finding something out for yourself instead of believing every pig-headed thing you hear on the internet that makes you feel good about yourself for being a contrarian.
You want to complain about the "old guard" holding science back?
YOU ARE THE FUCKING OLD GUARD!
(This is Big Brother we are talking about)
No, it's an agency dedicated to protecting American interests by providing good security against foreign intelligence agencies.
what
universal
adj.
1. Of, relating to, extending to, or affecting the entire world or all within the world; worldwide: "This discovery of literature has as yet only partially penetrated the universal consciousness" (Ellen Key).
2. Including, relating to, or affecting all members of the class or group under consideration: the universal skepticism of philosophers. See synonyms at general.
3. Applicable or common to all purposes, conditions, or situations: a universal remedy.
4. Of or relating to the universe or cosmos; cosmic.
5. Knowledgeable about or constituting all or many subjects; comprehensively broad.
6. Adapted or adjustable to many sizes or mechanical uses.
7. Logic. Encompassing all of the members of a class or group. Used of a proposition.
And a "Windows virus" is a virus which attacks Windows machines. By using Linux, I am 100% immune to "Windows viruses", therefore its security is perfect!
In case I need to spell it out: Worms are really the least of your worries these days, on Windows or any other platform. Being immune to them improves your security very little. Claiming otherwise is playing stupid semantic games.
audiophiles will hear a difference
If you tell them they are supposed to hear a difference. And especially if they paid a lot of money for that difference.
Except that without doing a proper AACS handshake with the drive, you can't actually make an image! Certain sectors are protected from reading to stop this.
Whether you like it or not, it really is a copy-protection system, designed to stop copying. Casual copying, to be precise. Of course you can build your own specialized drive that bypasses those checks and make bitwise perfect copies, but that is far beyond the means of the average user.
the interface (one that newbies hate, but veterans fall in love with)
Are you sure you don't mean "one that only the few people who are able to love it ever use for long enough to become veterans"?
Except of course that that is not the same thing at all.
So yeah, this is pretty much the archetypical "this has been done before on slashdot" post.
How is this anything like virtual desktops, exactly?
That's a pretty pointless debate to hold while millions of people are dying, don't you think?
What on earth is your point? I was never talking about the legal definition. And both the dictionary defintion and the legal definition in most countries agree that the post I called wrong, was wrong.
You have no clue at all what this article is about.
Except for the part where AIDS drug research gets tons of public funding, and is then given away to companies to charge lots of money for it.
On the one hand, some people doing research don't get to see any profits.
On the other hand, millions of people die.
Gee. This is a fucking hard choice, man.
Really, I know Slashdot is a favoured hangout of libertarian fuckwads with a ossified sense of empathy, but christ, just shut the fuck up already. Listening to you talk makes me sick. I am ashamed to be the same species as you.
I'm not sure if you're very confused here or mostly getting it right, but just in case, I'll clarify:
1. Hardware players can be individually revoked. That is, per physical unit, not per product line.
2. However, the X-box is not a hardware player. It can't even read HD-DVDs at all.
3. However, the X-box add-on HD-DVD drive exists, but it is not a hardware players, it is a device to be accessed by a software player. Those follow different rules, and as far as I know cannot be indivdually revoked.
And as it turns out, it is mostly the X-box drive people are hacking at this point. This is not so much because it is hard to revoke, which is true, but because it is cheap and ubiquitous and can be connected to a computer instead of an X-box just as well.
It is untrue in either case, as evidenced by the dictionary entry. Yes?
Considering that the story is submitted by a total crackpot, what does that say about the connection to global warming deniers, then?