Because calling the C of Scientology a cult is libellous, while calling for the death of western society isn't.
Luckily for the 15 year old arrested, the definition of 'cult' is so subjective and ambiguous that he'll have no problem getting away without being charged.
Sure they look fine, but they don't support the 96 kHz audio sampling rate. By sticking with DVDs, you're missing out on a vast spectrum of inaudible sound.
Actually DVD does support 96khz audio, you just can't hear it.
This kind of proposed legislation sums up the European Union perfectly. In contrast to traditional liberalism (a strong tradition in the Western world) they feel that they can legislate their way towards their own private distopia.
For example, in the UK they have introduced 3000 new criminal offences since 1997, many coming from the EU.
For me, this is a quasi-democratic (soon to be despotic) body doing nothing more then limiting our freedom of expression through paternalistic and unneccessary legislation. It is the parents responsibility alone to make sure their kids aren't watching/playing anything that might be unsuitable.
I don't see a problem with kids playing violent games, and I don't see a connection to RL violence. Some might disagree, but it is their right to do so. It is not a government issue to enforce their twisted morality upon parents.
Anyone know if the Middle East and Africa qualifies?
Certainly not in Iraq. One of the first things Paul Bremer and the Coalition Provisional Authority introduced in the tatters of a starving nation back in 2003 was the implementation of US Copyright laws.
Possibly the first time a country was invaded for it's lax copyright laws. Watch out Canada!
No, but The Robot version 3.1 is subject to the latest DRM.
Subject to buying a licence for said dance, you can only use said licence in "Trusted Room" technology. These rooms are air tight with no windows or doors to ensure that no-one copies The Robot. Doing The Robot in any other location will reduce the dance to 10fps, and any robotic sounds made by the end user will be disabled.
All is not lost though. Under Trusted Room conditions, you are allowed a fair use policy of showing a maximum of 3 other people The Robot, though they cannot themselves carry out more then 10% of the dance without buying a licence.
Furthermore, any attempts to circumvent The Robot copy protection by editing the dance or doing THe Robot backwards will be subject to paying $750 per second through litigation.
All terms enforceable by Robot Industries Association of America.
The problem with Family Guy is that it parodies itself continuously, and it's nauseating. It doesn't seem to even try to have a story. The entire show is a container for unamusing flashbacks, usually with jokes about Family Guy. Not only that, but it has the most revolting theme song.
"But whatever the case, it shows that Intel doesn't trust their product enough to expose it to the free market."
*looks at home built Celeron machine*
*looks at old home built PIII*
*looks at dual pentium pro server*
Oh noes! It cannot be! Would these 3 machines spanning 10 years possibly be.... Intel processors bought from the "free market"? They must be Cyrix M2-300s or Motorola 68000s with Intel stickers on them, because Intel would surely never release their sub standard rubbish onto the open market.
I hate to inform you, but you can buy Intel components in the open market!
"On which note, it's interesting that by far the most-signed petition on the site objects to the introduction of vehicle tracking and road pricing measures. Many in government, including quite a few of my local councillors as well as the big central government players, seem to think this is inevitable. I rather suspect that it will be shot down on a similar basis to ID cards: it's a not-so-stealth tax, and it's a gross invasion of privacy"
I'm afraid I can't share your optimism. Looking at the longer term, I would imagine road pricing is being introduced to phase in a new stream of government income. Remember that in 40 or 50 years time we'll (most likely) be using an alternative fuel source, rendering the "minimising environmental impact" punitive petrol tax argument irrelevant. Without high (and flexible in times of election) taxation on private transport, the government won't have the carrot-and-stick approach to woo motorists into voting for them. Knowing the UK though, we'll end up paying high taxes in all areas.
I always wondered who arbitrarily decided that cheap stuff deserves not to work. The way I see it, if I paid my money for something I would expect functionality out of it regardless.
Case in point; I bought a Linksys WRK-54G 8 months ago (VERY cheap), and later discovered that despite paying good money for it the product was totally worthless as a router. Wireless connections dropped every hour or so, the box needed a hard reset every day and it wouldn't cope with any more then about 250 pipes without crashing. Needless to say it got returned a week later.
As consumers why should we accept that cheap automatically means defective? Have our standards dropped so far that we don't even expect our money to go supply functional products without paying a premium?
As mentioned before, the only thing DRM can achieve is to inconvienance a copy procedure, not bury it totally. Even if everything in my house had a locked architecture, I could hold a microphone to a speaker or a camcorder to a TV and still record. Only by outlawing and banning *any* sort of recording device would DRM become anywhere near a success, and thats on the assumption that it's uncrackable.
Until someone replaces my eyes and ears with digital equivilents (nasty thought, huh?), there will always be an analogue output to any media.
The way I look at DRM is thus. I still uphold my right to break copyright to make a CD for my girlfriend or for my car stereo in the same way that I'll drive my car at 110mph when it's 3am and there's no cops on the motorway. Or in the same way that i'll stub a cigarette out on the pavement or (back in the day) buy alchohol underage.
We are all guilty of something, so why bother hiding it? If i get caught, then I am a fool. Simple as. Just because it is a law doesn't mean that everyone adheres to it. Being honest, I wouldn't imagine that the powers that be would want everyone to adhere to it. Civil disobedience is the summit of a free society, and the time to start worrying would be when everyone starts doing what they're told.
Say these things caught on, and you got a discount off your car for using a keyfob. Surely the billboards (during heavy traffic) would only display said adverts for a second or less (due to sheer number of users)?
Roadside strobe advertising, just what everyone needs!
Sure, we don't have to use those products. It's pretty hard not to, Windows, Disney, EMI etc. are all hardwired into mainstream culture. I can explain why too, if you like.
Microsoft encouraged very few measures against software piracy until the last 2 years or so. Disney still release VHS versions of their God-awful bile. The availability of tools to crack primitive 10 year old CD copy protection in music is widespread. The result of this, propagation of their works to the population at large in return for very little effort.
In other words, corporations have been using this method to get everyone using their products and get everyone using them before finally cashing in. It's like letting someone test drive a car then legally binding them into buying it when they return. It's all a dirty trick, and don't tell me that they don't know it too. In effect, if we're stealing the software.. they're stealing our ability to do so in return. They've encouraged people to 'steal' their software for years. If people realised this and fought legal campaigns in the same vein as smokers sue tabacco companies there'd be a lot of compromise from the corporations. Kick the fuckers in the wallet, in other words. The only things they understand is money and liability.
Piracy is legal in the same way speeding is. In a closed society where all crimes are commited between closed doors, the only crime is getting caught.
I wouldn't say that Windows 1.0 to 3.11 had a particually big marketing budget. Multimedia was a tiny specks on the horizon, and Microsoft became successful because they put inexpensive software on inexpensive platforms (back then the PS/2 clone). Technical superiority isn't a big thing with consumers, if it was audio cassettes and vhs would never have taken off. Marketing has very little to do with it, people will always adopt the convienient solution regardless of whatever crap people try to sell them. Windows succeeded because it brought together home and business computing, tapes succeeded because they were recordable, and HD DVD will provail because of it's merits, not it's marketing budget.
Well done MS i say.
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Most of us spend a third of our lives at work, shouldn't the *environment* (by that i don't necessarily mean pointy haired boss) be more flexible in providing adequete facilities for happiness? There is no mandate that states that life should be difficult, but it's what some people believe. Just because you earn a living doesn't mean you should have to sell your life to do it.
Consumer economy drives spending. Spending drives debt. Debt drives dependency. Dependency drives desperation. Most service/sales based employers DO have a responsibility, because they are constantly pushing this way of life on others.
"And frankly how much media is there out there that is WORTH wasting the three hours downloading every night anyways?"
Quite a lot, as it happens.
Bittorrent can also support the film and music industry (read: actual films and music rather then teen pap) through it's distrubtion model. There are things that i've bought which i never would have heard of if it wasn't for bittorrent. I'm sure i couldn't find a decent copy of Eraserhead in my local Blockbuster. And for as long as i can't find media which i consider to be of worth, i won't concern myself with the wishes of hollywood.
But that isn't the point of course. The MPAA want me to buy *their* worthless drival. Marketing and entertainment are pretty much the same thing now.
Has anyone considered that this announcment could be made with the full cooperation of Sony? The label wins by having "underground" artists who supposedly don't buy into the corporate ethos - angst and pseudo anti-corporatism generates a lot of sales. Anyone worth their salt would find a way to circumvent copy protection this easy anyway, so the label doesn't really lose out.
The artist gains from having that warm fuzzy feeling of "speaking out", and generating sales of course. They also have a shared voice with their fans, without lifting a finger.
I'm not saying they don't care, i'm just saying this could easily be a publicity stunt. It's on/., so it has worked to some extent.
The internal combustion engine is simply a mechanical device designed to turn energy into motion. It doesn't necessarily mean that there's always going to be a pollutant.
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Because calling the C of Scientology a cult is libellous, while calling for the death of western society isn't. Luckily for the 15 year old arrested, the definition of 'cult' is so subjective and ambiguous that he'll have no problem getting away without being charged.
Actually DVD does support 96khz audio, you just can't hear it.
This kind of proposed legislation sums up the European Union perfectly. In contrast to traditional liberalism (a strong tradition in the Western world) they feel that they can legislate their way towards their own private distopia.
For example, in the UK they have introduced 3000 new criminal offences since 1997, many coming from the EU.
For me, this is a quasi-democratic (soon to be despotic) body doing nothing more then limiting our freedom of expression through paternalistic and unneccessary legislation. It is the parents responsibility alone to make sure their kids aren't watching/playing anything that might be unsuitable.
I don't see a problem with kids playing violent games, and I don't see a connection to RL violence. Some might disagree, but it is their right to do so. It is not a government issue to enforce their twisted morality upon parents.
The same thing has happened here in the UK.
The Times = News Corporation Sky/ Sky News = News Corporation The Sun = News Corporation News of the World = News Corporation
So, the biggest tabloid and biggest broadsheet in Britain are owned by the same company :-).
Don't forget that the BBC is essentially a state owned television network. They spout out whatever they're told.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but mp4 is a video container format, much akin to avi, mkv, ogm etc. It's not an audio format :).
Certainly not in Iraq. One of the first things Paul Bremer and the Coalition Provisional Authority introduced in the tatters of a starving nation back in 2003 was the implementation of US Copyright laws.
Possibly the first time a country was invaded for it's lax copyright laws. Watch out Canada!
No, but The Robot version 3.1 is subject to the latest DRM.
Subject to buying a licence for said dance, you can only use said licence in "Trusted Room" technology. These rooms are air tight with no windows or doors to ensure that no-one copies The Robot. Doing The Robot in any other location will reduce the dance to 10fps, and any robotic sounds made by the end user will be disabled.
All is not lost though. Under Trusted Room conditions, you are allowed a fair use policy of showing a maximum of 3 other people The Robot, though they cannot themselves carry out more then 10% of the dance without buying a licence.
Furthermore, any attempts to circumvent The Robot copy protection by editing the dance or doing THe Robot backwards will be subject to paying $750 per second through litigation.
All terms enforceable by Robot Industries Association of America.
The problem with Family Guy is that it parodies itself continuously, and it's nauseating. It doesn't seem to even try to have a story. The entire show is a container for unamusing flashbacks, usually with jokes about Family Guy. Not only that, but it has the most revolting theme song.
1: Take flashback
2: Add B-list celebrity
3: ?
4: Profit!
*looks at home built Celeron machine*
*looks at old home built PIII*
*looks at dual pentium pro server*
Oh noes! It cannot be! Would these 3 machines spanning 10 years possibly be.... Intel processors bought from the "free market"? They must be Cyrix M2-300s or Motorola 68000s with Intel stickers on them, because Intel would surely never release their sub standard rubbish onto the open market.
I hate to inform you, but you can buy Intel components in the open market!
I'm afraid I can't share your optimism. Looking at the longer term, I would imagine road pricing is being introduced to phase in a new stream of government income. Remember that in 40 or 50 years time we'll (most likely) be using an alternative fuel source, rendering the "minimising environmental impact" punitive petrol tax argument irrelevant. Without high (and flexible in times of election) taxation on private transport, the government won't have the carrot-and-stick approach to woo motorists into voting for them. Knowing the UK though, we'll end up paying high taxes in all areas.
I always wondered who arbitrarily decided that cheap stuff deserves not to work. The way I see it, if I paid my money for something I would expect functionality out of it regardless.
Case in point; I bought a Linksys WRK-54G 8 months ago (VERY cheap), and later discovered that despite paying good money for it the product was totally worthless as a router. Wireless connections dropped every hour or so, the box needed a hard reset every day and it wouldn't cope with any more then about 250 pipes without crashing. Needless to say it got returned a week later.
As consumers why should we accept that cheap automatically means defective? Have our standards dropped so far that we don't even expect our money to go supply functional products without paying a premium?
As mentioned before, the only thing DRM can achieve is to inconvienance a copy procedure, not bury it totally. Even if everything in my house had a locked architecture, I could hold a microphone to a speaker or a camcorder to a TV and still record. Only by outlawing and banning *any* sort of recording device would DRM become anywhere near a success, and thats on the assumption that it's uncrackable. Until someone replaces my eyes and ears with digital equivilents (nasty thought, huh?), there will always be an analogue output to any media. The way I look at DRM is thus. I still uphold my right to break copyright to make a CD for my girlfriend or for my car stereo in the same way that I'll drive my car at 110mph when it's 3am and there's no cops on the motorway. Or in the same way that i'll stub a cigarette out on the pavement or (back in the day) buy alchohol underage. We are all guilty of something, so why bother hiding it? If i get caught, then I am a fool. Simple as. Just because it is a law doesn't mean that everyone adheres to it. Being honest, I wouldn't imagine that the powers that be would want everyone to adhere to it. Civil disobedience is the summit of a free society, and the time to start worrying would be when everyone starts doing what they're told.
Say these things caught on, and you got a discount off your car for using a keyfob. Surely the billboards (during heavy traffic) would only display said adverts for a second or less (due to sheer number of users)? Roadside strobe advertising, just what everyone needs!
"drugs waste in an obvious way"
You obviously havn't tried the drugs I'm on.
"there MSN server main host terminal, the connection for the whole network itself to the net past LAN, is a FreeBSD server"
Ahh, but what about the Total Cost of Ownership?
Sure, we don't have to use those products. It's pretty hard not to, Windows, Disney, EMI etc. are all hardwired into mainstream culture. I can explain why too, if you like.
Microsoft encouraged very few measures against software piracy until the last 2 years or so. Disney still release VHS versions of their God-awful bile. The availability of tools to crack primitive 10 year old CD copy protection in music is widespread. The result of this, propagation of their works to the population at large in return for very little effort.
In other words, corporations have been using this method to get everyone using their products and get everyone using them before finally cashing in. It's like letting someone test drive a car then legally binding them into buying it when they return. It's all a dirty trick, and don't tell me that they don't know it too. In effect, if we're stealing the software.. they're stealing our ability to do so in return. They've encouraged people to 'steal' their software for years. If people realised this and fought legal campaigns in the same vein as smokers sue tabacco companies there'd be a lot of compromise from the corporations. Kick the fuckers in the wallet, in other words. The only things they understand is money and liability.
Piracy is legal in the same way speeding is. In a closed society where all crimes are commited between closed doors, the only crime is getting caught.
Depends on where you plug it into.
Intuition
I wouldn't say that Windows 1.0 to 3.11 had a particually big marketing budget. Multimedia was a tiny specks on the horizon, and Microsoft became successful because they put inexpensive software on inexpensive platforms (back then the PS/2 clone). Technical superiority isn't a big thing with consumers, if it was audio cassettes and vhs would never have taken off. Marketing has very little to do with it, people will always adopt the convienient solution regardless of whatever crap people try to sell them. Windows succeeded because it brought together home and business computing, tapes succeeded because they were recordable, and HD DVD will provail because of it's merits, not it's marketing budget. Well done MS i say.
Most of us spend a third of our lives at work, shouldn't the *environment* (by that i don't necessarily mean pointy haired boss) be more flexible in providing adequete facilities for happiness? There is no mandate that states that life should be difficult, but it's what some people believe. Just because you earn a living doesn't mean you should have to sell your life to do it. Consumer economy drives spending. Spending drives debt. Debt drives dependency. Dependency drives desperation. Most service/sales based employers DO have a responsibility, because they are constantly pushing this way of life on others.
"And frankly how much media is there out there that is WORTH wasting the three hours downloading every night anyways?"
Quite a lot, as it happens.
Bittorrent can also support the film and music industry (read: actual films and music rather then teen pap) through it's distrubtion model. There are things that i've bought which i never would have heard of if it wasn't for bittorrent. I'm sure i couldn't find a decent copy of Eraserhead in my local Blockbuster. And for as long as i can't find media which i consider to be of worth, i won't concern myself with the wishes of hollywood.
But that isn't the point of course. The MPAA want me to buy *their* worthless drival. Marketing and entertainment are pretty much the same thing now.
Surely not. That would suggest realism, or at the very least sanity. We cannot let our betters make rational decisions, civilisation will crumble!
Has anyone considered that this announcment could be made with the full cooperation of Sony? The label wins by having "underground" artists who supposedly don't buy into the corporate ethos - angst and pseudo anti-corporatism generates a lot of sales. Anyone worth their salt would find a way to circumvent copy protection this easy anyway, so the label doesn't really lose out.
/., so it has worked to some extent.
The artist gains from having that warm fuzzy feeling of "speaking out", and generating sales of course. They also have a shared voice with their fans, without lifting a finger.
I'm not saying they don't care, i'm just saying this could easily be a publicity stunt. It's on
The internal combustion engine is simply a mechanical device designed to turn energy into motion. It doesn't necessarily mean that there's always going to be a pollutant.
I agree. Microsoft should port Office 2000 to my Commodore 64. That'll seperate the men from the boys!