A game being banned because of content which is disabled and requires installing a mod to enable it? I sincerely don't see why there should be any legal difference between the content being already on the CD and it being added by a mod (which isn't the case). But what do I know?
When you're dead, you'll not experience any more happiness nor pain. When you're raped, you may experience happiness, and may overcome your pain. Forget it!
#3 Death is necessary for evolution. Evolution is part of the human, and eventually post-human, condition. "age-treatment" is somewhat of an oxymoron because age is not a disease, it's simply a part of life. On a personal level, I'd take the chance to live forever if it were offered, but I wouldn't make the mistake of assuming everyone living forever is an improvement to the species.
Yep, this is a highly discussible point. I'd say that a point in favor of living longer lifes (or even "forever", if that's possible in our universe) is that each time someone dies, loads of information and experience are lost, and a new person has to relearn everything (which could also be said to have its benefits, probably).
Unfortunately this is a discussion to be had in front of a few beers, not on this slashdot topic;)
Device keys and media keys are still there, with a major change, in the first steps of content decryption, a player has to find its specific key in a big ternary tree of keys, where each leaf corresponds to the key of a given device (brand and model). By denying a drive to find its key in the tree, Blu-ray and HD-DVD can easily revoke a single given device. If for instance a given player is cracked and its keys are published, the licensing authority will send new keys and navigation information to disc manufacturers. As a result, all discs pressed after the player has been cracked will refuse to play on this specific drive, but will play perfectly on all other (including older) devices.
This blacklisting of a single player model is quite powerful and can slow down mass piracy, but on the other hand it can also have some significant drawbacks for legitimate consumers. For instance, you could one day suddenly be unable to watch new movies on your player because it has been revoked after someone has successfully compromised this model. Practical use (as well as explanations to future customers) of this new revocation system will be very interesting to watch.
That absolutely sucks, and I had never heard about it...:(
Yes, I'm sure I'll be modded into oblivion for this, but this is politics.slashdot.org. Before you mod this down as "flamebait" or something, consider that disagreeing with someone doesn't mean they're posting flamebait, or off topic, or whatever.
On the contray, I'm sure you'll get modded insightful or similar. Maybe that paragraph will help, which may have been your intention anyway;)
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It's simple maths. But I won't bother explaining maths to someone who probably needs his toes to count to 17...
A game being banned because of content which is disabled and requires installing a mod to enable it? I sincerely don't see why there should be any legal difference between the content being already on the CD and it being added by a mod (which isn't the case). But what do I know?
Bullshit.
When you're dead, you'll not experience any more happiness nor pain. When you're raped, you may experience happiness, and may overcome your pain. Forget it!
I didn't complain :)
And don't you have anything better to do than bitching about other people bitching about a beta?
Oh, and the non-understood ironys...
So "1 year = 2+1/2 months" :D ;)
#3 Death is necessary for evolution. Evolution is part of the human, and eventually post-human, condition. "age-treatment" is somewhat of an oxymoron because age is not a disease, it's simply a part of life. On a personal level, I'd take the chance to live forever if it were offered, but I wouldn't make the mistake of assuming everyone living forever is an improvement to the species.
;)
Yep, this is a highly discussible point. I'd say that a point in favor of living longer lifes (or even "forever", if that's possible in our universe) is that each time someone dies, loads of information and experience are lost, and a new person has to relearn everything (which could also be said to have its benefits, probably).
Unfortunately this is a discussion to be had in front of a few beers, not on this slashdot topic
Device keys and media keys are still there, with a major change, in the first steps of content decryption, a player has to find its specific key in a big ternary tree of keys, where each leaf corresponds to the key of a given device (brand and model). By denying a drive to find its key in the tree, Blu-ray and HD-DVD can easily revoke a single given device. If for instance a given player is cracked and its keys are published, the licensing authority will send new keys and navigation information to disc manufacturers. As a result, all discs pressed after the player has been cracked will refuse to play on this specific drive, but will play perfectly on all other (including older) devices.
:(
This blacklisting of a single player model is quite powerful and can slow down mass piracy, but on the other hand it can also have some significant drawbacks for legitimate consumers. For instance, you could one day suddenly be unable to watch new movies on your player because it has been revoked after someone has successfully compromised this model. Practical use (as well as explanations to future customers) of this new revocation system will be very interesting to watch.
That absolutely sucks, and I had never heard about it...
Here is a nice article (six sections) with an independent comparison of the two formats.
A nice detail - the codecs supported on both discs are exactly the same...
Maybe you can do the same and ask her for a trip to the pharmacy or psychologist...
Because the people who bought expensive players for the format which loses probably won't be very satisfied...
you want to thoroughly fuck Blu-Ray from behind?
Sorry mods, I cant be a troll if i'm making a valid point.
Yes you can.
is a clear demonstration of how a stupid analogy can support a valid point :)
I'd expect old age
I'd expect death
So if age-treatments arise you think we'll no longer be humans?
I wonder if you'll say the same when robots are indistinguishable from humans...
Thus the betas are only available to MSDN subscribers.
And to anyone with a P2P client, probably...
And yeah, I did notice the "." instead of "," in your post but I didn't feel like complaining ;)
Oops. I totally apologize!
(I hope I got it right this time...)
Yes, I'm sure I'll be modded into oblivion for this, but this is politics.slashdot.org. Before you mod this down as "flamebait" or something, consider that disagreeing with someone doesn't mean they're posting flamebait, or off topic, or whatever.
;)
On the contray, I'm sure you'll get modded insightful or similar. Maybe that paragraph will help, which may have been your intention anyway
Yeah, that's an absolutely proven statement.
Considerating the stability and reliability of the tradional telephony networks - a product of decades of work - it seems foolhardy to replace it.
[sarcasm] Yeah, fuck progress! [/sarcasm]
It's "???", not "??".
Imagine what could be done if you guys weren't spending money on a war :(