Believe it or not, but I'd love to mod my Wii so I could create & play backups of all the discs I bought, because I don't want buy them again when my kids accidently scratch my Mario Kart discs when they play them.
And I'd gladly pay someone for the service too (after all, he's spending time, and he's risking to brick my hardware, so there's some liability as well...).
The only real solution is to pass a law that makes all kinds of DRM illegal. Any technology whose only purpose is to make the usage of the product more difficult and cumbersome (yes, that includes unskippable DVD ads) should be banned.
Noone asks for IDs because every purchase requires you to enter a PIN number (even with credit cards these days, not just debit cards). So unless you write your PIN on your card, you're quite safe.
While I think most of the original post is pure trolling, this line got me thinking...
> Think about it. If it wasn't for the cameras and security guards wouldn't you be stealing from stores?
No, I wouldn't. First, I haven't seen any security guards in the stores in town all (and only few cameras, mostly in the big grocery stores). Also, about half the farms around here are selling stuff (milk, eggs, vegetables, jam, cheese, etc.) without any security measures at all. It works like this: You enter the store room, grab what you want, write it down on the list, and put the money in a jar.
> I don't talk to kids. Even when I'm at the playground with my own son, I feel extremely uncomfortable if a kid tries to talk to me. Time and again I have watched kids biff it on the playground equipment, get up bleeding and screaming, while mommy ignores them. I don't do a god damned fucking thing. My kid needs a father himself, and I can't really be a dad if I'm in prison on some molestation charge. So have fun bleeding, kid.
Either you're extremly paranoid or the place you live in has gone batshit-crazy if you can get hit with a molestation charge for that.
Btw. 99.9% or some other made-up (but very high) number of kid abuse happens from people who know the kids well (i.e. family or close friends of the family).
> > In an ideal world you'd be referring to the parents of the little bastards who actually walk > > out in front of cars on purpose.
> Parents can have an influence on how a child turns out, but they do not have the last say.
Not only that, but also society as a whole is failing to help raise our kids. When was the last time you saw a bystander tell a kid to pick up the litter he just dropped onto the sidewalk / subway floor?
It only takes two people to make a baby, but it takes a whole town to raise a kid.
No they won't. RIM is a big easy target. But it's not worth going after everyone using PGP. They just want to decrypt most of the traffic going in and out, but not everything (they probably don't have the resources to process all that data either).
The Peugeot 5008 has a distance alert. I've been driving it for 4 months now, and I'm quite happy with it, apart from the fact that eats 8.0 - 8.5 liters / 100 km (27.6 - 29.4 miles per gallon according to google).
My car has a built-in range check and its computer tells me how far behind I am behind the car in front of me.
I feel most comfortable at a time distance of +3 seconds and let the car drive in cruise control then, which I turn off at 2.0-2.5 seconds. I have currently set the range check to start blinking warningly at 1.5 seconds or less. At that point you really need to be paying very close attention to what's going on on the road (yes, that means watching quite a few cars ahead). When it's at less then 1.2 seconds I usually put my foot on the brake to be able to quickly react to anything (and it's high time to lose some speed anyway).
If someone cuts into the lane right in front of me it sometimes goes down to 0.8 seconds. Needless to say that I make damn sure it doesn't stay that way for long.
Sorry to nitpick, but a trait that gives you a +Funny moderation is not benefitial, since Funny doesn't give you Karma. In fact, you risk losing Karma that way by alternately getting modded +Funny and -Overrated / -Redundant.
Now a trait that would give you a +Informative or +Insightful, that would be benefitial.
My lua interpreter is probably less then 100kb in size, I don't think it's much of a hassle to ship it with the app. In fact, I'd rather use my own then one supplied by the OS which contains god knows what wierd patches.
We have a couple in this country, but the train drivers hate them, because it forces them to go at a certain fixed speed (so the ads look 'right'), screwing up the whole accelleration / decceleration process.
Not buying just isn't enough (a lot of people already do that, and some of them head towards the pirate bay instead, but I don't this that has much effect on producers, they only think they need more DRM instead).
Market forces only work if there's actual competition. And frankly, there's not enough competition in the market to show them that non-DRMd products actually sell better. It's not like I have a choice between a DRM free Assassin's Creed, and one that totally depends on the availability of some server completely outside of my control (guess which one I'd buy, and which one I definitely won't buy).
Notable exception: When some organizations started to sell DRM free music, it had a notable effect. Almost everyone has switched to selling DRM free music now.
So it's a good idea not only to stop buying DRMd products, you also need to try to influence law makers to actually outlaw DRM completely (while the media industry tries to make DRM mandatory instead).
> I may be mistaken...but can't the commercials be taken out of DVD's just leaving the movie in place...if you decide you want to break DRM to make a backup of the video you purchased?
Yes, if you go the extra mile to use a DVD ripper etc. but then you're already breaking the DMCA or similiar laws.
> Always thought there was a FF button on the remote which will skip any of this?
Pressing FF five times or more (while always having to wait 1-2 seconds in between for the player to load the next advertisement track) isn't my idea of advert-free DVD watching. The Menu button is usually disabled. Also, why should I have to stare at some 'copyright notice' for 10 seconds or more every time I put in the disk? You can't FF through that.
If you believe you have only the right to do the things worded in the unreadable legalese you have already successfully been brainwashed.
If you buy a movie, you get to watch/mutilate/ignore the movie. On your terms. The movie is protected by copyright, which is ment to govern *redistribution* of said movie (wholesale or in parts), and nothing else. What you're doing with it is 100% your choice.
I didn't miss the sarcasm. I just think it's time for consumers to start making some demands of our own.
Outlaw every single DRM measure! Outlaw copy protection, region encoding, viewing restrictions (like the annoying mandatory ads on DVDs).
All these things are just hurting the honest paying customer, while the pirates actually get the better product.
Also, think of the children! They can be easily influenced by scrupulous advertisers and shouldn't be forced to sit through any commercials at all (while we're at it, let's outlaw all commercials during day time programming).
I would mandate the opposite legislation. Any device that's sold or rented to consumers must also include all contained cryptographic keys in an easily accessible manner (e.g. on an accompagning CD). That way it is guaranteed that consumers can always, and without limitations, accesss the data they paid for.
I have heard that Americans don't know much of the geography outside the U.S., but if this was confusing to the average American, I don't know what to say.
There's a good reason for the "standard" starting position. The other 959 (same colored bishops are such a stupid idea that we'll exclude them right away) are terribly broken, and not fun to play (that's why Chess-960 players are usually regarded as rather 'special' in the chess community).
Also, the games heavily favor the starting player (i.e. white). Games are often decided much faster, because there's so many traps that you can fall into early in the opening.
And if you think that chess these days is all about memorizing opening lines, you're totally wrong. Below Elo 2700 (about top 20 in the world rankings), the stronger player usually wins regardless of preparation. Just look at your own games, how many times have you and your opponent blundered *after* you left your book knowledge? That's where games are decided...
This is just the first step in a long convoluted law making process. More information on how law making in Switzerland works is found in this excellent (and entertaining) documentary:
Why would I need to validate that it's mine? It's not like the RIAA has a right to search my mp3 player and demand that I produce a licence for all songs on it.
- I let windows check for updates, but install them manually. - I mostly download my software from sourceforge / cygwin's mirrors (yes, I'm risking that those could be compromised).
I haven't noticed anything fishy yet, and my WoW account hasn't been hacked in 5 years:-)
What about "The code was written and deployed when PHP3 was new and noone will give me any money for fixing it and probably blame me if anything breaks."?
I have written a lot of web stuff from 1995-2000 (first in C using Tom Boutell's cgic, then in perl, then in PHP) and yes, quite a bit is still in use today. What should I do about all those old vulnerabilities lying around (keep in mind that I mostly quit web development in 2001)?
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Believe it or not, but I'd love to mod my Wii so I could create & play backups of all the discs I bought, because I don't want buy them again when my kids accidently scratch my Mario Kart discs when they play them.
And I'd gladly pay someone for the service too (after all, he's spending time, and he's risking to brick my hardware, so there's some liability as well...).
The only real solution is to pass a law that makes all kinds of DRM illegal. Any technology whose only purpose is to make the usage of the product more difficult and cumbersome (yes, that includes unskippable DVD ads) should be banned.
Noone asks for IDs because every purchase requires you to enter a PIN number (even with credit cards these days, not just debit cards). So unless you write your PIN on your card, you're quite safe.
While I think most of the original post is pure trolling, this line got me thinking...
> Think about it. If it wasn't for the cameras and security guards wouldn't you be stealing from stores?
No, I wouldn't. First, I haven't seen any security guards in the stores in town all (and only few cameras, mostly in the big grocery stores). Also, about half the farms around here are selling stuff (milk, eggs, vegetables, jam, cheese, etc.) without any security measures at all. It works like this: You enter the store room, grab what you want, write it down on the list, and put the money in a jar.
> I don't talk to kids. Even when I'm at the playground with my own son, I feel extremely uncomfortable if a kid tries to talk to me. Time and again I have watched kids biff it on the playground equipment, get up bleeding and screaming, while mommy ignores them. I don't do a god damned fucking thing. My kid needs a father himself, and I can't really be a dad if I'm in prison on some molestation charge. So have fun bleeding, kid.
Either you're extremly paranoid or the place you live in has gone batshit-crazy if you can get hit with a molestation charge for that.
Btw. 99.9% or some other made-up (but very high) number of kid abuse happens from people who know the kids well (i.e. family or close friends of the family).
> > In an ideal world you'd be referring to the parents of the little bastards who actually walk
> > out in front of cars on purpose.
> Parents can have an influence on how a child turns out, but they do not have the last say.
Not only that, but also society as a whole is failing to help raise our kids. When was the last time you saw a bystander tell a kid to pick up the litter he just dropped onto the sidewalk / subway floor?
It only takes two people to make a baby, but it takes a whole town to raise a kid.
No they won't. RIM is a big easy target. But it's not worth going after everyone using PGP. They just want to decrypt most of the traffic going in and out, but not everything (they probably don't have the resources to process all that data either).
If you call it "Ghosts and pills", and don't use any of the original artwork, can they do anything at all?
The Peugeot 5008 has a distance alert. I've been driving it for 4 months now, and I'm quite happy with it, apart from the fact that eats 8.0 - 8.5 liters / 100 km (27.6 - 29.4 miles per gallon according to google).
My car has a built-in range check and its computer tells me how far behind I am behind the car in front of me.
I feel most comfortable at a time distance of +3 seconds and let the car drive in cruise control then, which I turn off at 2.0-2.5 seconds. I have currently set the range check to start blinking warningly at 1.5 seconds or less. At that point you really need to be paying very close attention to what's going on on the road (yes, that means watching quite a few cars ahead). When it's at less then 1.2 seconds I usually put my foot on the brake to be able to quickly react to anything (and it's high time to lose some speed anyway).
If someone cuts into the lane right in front of me it sometimes goes down to 0.8 seconds. Needless to say that I make damn sure it doesn't stay that way for long.
Sorry to nitpick, but a trait that gives you a +Funny moderation is not benefitial, since Funny doesn't give you Karma. In fact, you risk losing Karma that way by alternately getting modded +Funny and -Overrated / -Redundant.
Now a trait that would give you a +Informative or +Insightful, that would be benefitial.
My lua interpreter is probably less then 100kb in size, I don't think it's much of a hassle to ship it with the app. In fact, I'd rather use my own then one supplied by the OS which contains god knows what wierd patches.
We have a couple in this country, but the train drivers hate them, because it forces them to go at a certain fixed speed (so the ads look 'right'), screwing up the whole accelleration / decceleration process.
Not buying just isn't enough (a lot of people already do that, and some of them head towards the pirate bay instead, but I don't this that has much effect on producers, they only think they need more DRM instead).
Market forces only work if there's actual competition. And frankly, there's not enough competition in the market to show them that non-DRMd products actually sell better. It's not like I have a choice between a DRM free Assassin's Creed, and one that totally depends on the availability of some server completely outside of my control (guess which one I'd buy, and which one I definitely won't buy).
Notable exception: When some organizations started to sell DRM free music, it had a notable effect. Almost everyone has switched to selling DRM free music now.
So it's a good idea not only to stop buying DRMd products, you also need to try to influence law makers to actually outlaw DRM completely (while the media industry tries to make DRM mandatory instead).
> I may be mistaken...but can't the commercials be taken out of DVD's just leaving the movie in place...if you decide you want to break DRM to make a backup of the video you purchased?
Yes, if you go the extra mile to use a DVD ripper etc. but then you're already breaking the DMCA or similiar laws.
> Always thought there was a FF button on the remote which will skip any of this?
Pressing FF five times or more (while always having to wait 1-2 seconds in between for the player to load the next advertisement track) isn't my idea of advert-free DVD watching. The Menu button is usually disabled. Also, why should I have to stare at some 'copyright notice' for 10 seconds or more every time I put in the disk? You can't FF through that.
If you believe you have only the right to do the things worded in the unreadable legalese you have already successfully been brainwashed.
If you buy a movie, you get to watch/mutilate/ignore the movie. On your terms. The movie is protected by copyright, which is ment to govern *redistribution* of said movie (wholesale or in parts), and nothing else. What you're doing with it is 100% your choice.
I didn't miss the sarcasm. I just think it's time for consumers to start making some demands of our own.
Outlaw every single DRM measure! Outlaw copy protection, region encoding, viewing restrictions (like the annoying mandatory ads on DVDs).
All these things are just hurting the honest paying customer, while the pirates actually get the better product.
Also, think of the children! They can be easily influenced by scrupulous advertisers and shouldn't be forced to sit through any commercials at all (while we're at it, let's outlaw all commercials during day time programming).
I would mandate the opposite legislation. Any device that's sold or rented to consumers must also include all contained cryptographic keys in an easily accessible manner (e.g. on an accompagning CD). That way it is guaranteed that consumers can always, and without limitations, accesss the data they paid for.
I have heard that Americans don't know much of the geography outside the U.S., but if this was confusing to the average American, I don't know what to say.
There's a good reason for the "standard" starting position. The other 959 (same colored bishops are such a stupid idea that we'll exclude them right away) are terribly broken, and not fun to play (that's why Chess-960 players are usually regarded as rather 'special' in the chess community).
Also, the games heavily favor the starting player (i.e. white). Games are often decided much faster, because there's so many traps that you can fall into early in the opening.
And if you think that chess these days is all about memorizing opening lines, you're totally wrong. Below Elo 2700 (about top 20 in the world rankings), the stronger player usually wins regardless of preparation. Just look at your own games, how many times have you and your opponent blundered *after* you left your book knowledge? That's where games are decided...
And in binary, two orders of magnitude is just 4 times longer.
Hardly an issue for MythTV...
This is just the first step in a long convoluted law making process. More information on how law making in Switzerland works is found in this excellent (and entertaining) documentary:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381395/
Why would I need to validate that it's mine? It's not like the RIAA has a right to search my mp3 player and demand that I produce a licence for all songs on it.
- I let windows check for updates, but install them manually.
- I mostly download my software from sourceforge / cygwin's mirrors (yes, I'm risking that those could be compromised).
I haven't noticed anything fishy yet, and my WoW account hasn't been hacked in 5 years :-)
Maybe there's only about 10 *good* cartoons...
What about "The code was written and deployed when PHP3 was new and noone will give me any money for fixing it and probably blame me if anything breaks."?
I have written a lot of web stuff from 1995-2000 (first in C using Tom Boutell's cgic, then in perl, then in PHP) and yes, quite a bit is still in use today. What should I do about all those old vulnerabilities lying around (keep in mind that I mostly quit web development in 2001)?