DarfurScores.org needs to get their shit together. According to them my zip (and, in fact, my entire state of South Carolina) doesn't even exist. I hate noble hippies who talk about helping but then half-ass it on the follow-through.
They are on the verge of becoming a world superpower. They have worked hard to build up close economic ties with the West. They stand to make billions on the deals they've struck. They have been given a chance to host the Olpympics, a golden opportunity to show the world they've arrived.
And what do they do? They proceed to show the world that they are still a backwards oppressive country with no common sense, jeopardizing much of the progress that they've made over a bunch of piss-ass monks and to avoid some bad press that 99.9% of the world would have ignored if they hadn't tried so hard to supress it.
Is there no Chinese term for "Bad PR" or are they just that stupid?
Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of the Dali Lama (like Penn Gillette, I think his intentions are a lot less pure than he lets on). But jeez China, USE YOUR HEAD. At least wait until AFTER the Olympics to start busting heads.
The problem isn't a company that wants to harass P2P users here (though that could potentially be a problem with many ISP's in the future, particularly Comcast and other ISP's who could be bought off with Hollywood cash), the problem are companies like Bell, AT&T, etc. who have oversold bandwidth while not building up their infrastructure to match. In other words, they've sat on their asses and not build up their networks and backbones the way they should have been doing, all while continuing to promise "unlimited" bandwidth--and now they're mouths are writing checks their asses can't cash.
It's also unlikely that they would have gotten as much studio support if they were Mac-only. The studios didn't want to miss out on those sales either.
Dan Rather did a recent profile of this neighborhood on his "Dan Rather Reports" show on HDNET. I never know such places existed in Canada, but there are bad neighborhoods everywhere I guess. Still, I've seen a lot worse in the U.S. I used to live near East St. Louis, and that place was more like a shelled-out DMZ than a town.
If radical Islam wins, it will be because of pussy-ass shit like this. Until the West stops being nice and tells these backwards medieval Koran-thumpers to go fuck themselves, they will only get stronger and stronger.
Wasn't this was originally developed as an open source project at MIT? I imagine their original agreement with MIT probably precluded this very thing (locking it down). If not, I would be very disappointed with MIT.
Not to mention that you would be taking a huge PR and liability risk. If one of your first responder systems failed in a major disaster or incident, you can imagine the fallout in lawsuits and bad press.
I remember complaining here about what a pain-in-the-ass it was to set up Ubuntu 7.04 to use a multi-monitor setup, only to be blasted by legions of Linux zealots claiming that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the way Ubuntu handled screen resolution and dual-monitors--and it didn't need to be improved on since it was so easy to fix by simply doing a complicated edit to the xorg config file. Now those same zealots are singing the praises of Canonical for fixing an annoying problem that, until this new version was released, they denied was a problem.
Such is the way with zealots.
June 5, 2005: Jim the Mac fan says "PowerPC chips are way more powerful and reliable than any of that Intel crap you PC fans use!"
June 6, 2005: Steve Jobs announces Apple will henceforth be using Intel chips
June 7, 2005: Jim the Mac fan says "Steve made the right decision. The Intel chips are clearly superior."
I would also add that HD-DVD was region-free, cheaper to produce (and hence to sell), and didn't have the conflict-of-interest of being tied directly to a media-producing studio (Sony). It was just a better all-around product for consumers. Blu-ray is aimed at pleasing studios more than the consumer.
That's actually why I got rid of my wifi router. I actually left it open at one time, thinking "why not share the bandwidth with my neighbor when I'm not using it?". Then it occurred to me one day that a wardriver or my neighbor could be using this to download anything (and the FBI would come knocking on MY door). So I went back to a wired setup.
Now, think of all the people out there who have open or poorly-secured wifi and/or botted computers and it's easy to see just how many innocent people could get caught up in these sort of raids.
It's funny that some of the best TV episodes are often the one-offs that mock their own show and its purported mythology. I always thought the best episodes, by far, of the X-files were the ones penned by Darin Morgan (that made fun of the X-files' silliness and the silliness of conspiracy theorists in general).
According to Hollywood, good guys only use Apple computers--unless it's a Sony picture (in which case every good guy uses a Sony laptop, a Sony-Erikson cellphone, and a blu-ray DVD player).
They know damn well that no DRM is ever really secure. But the bread and butter of these companies is to sucker the studios into thinking otherwise. So they don't make such statements because they actually believe them, but to sell their DRM scheme. By the time it gets cracked (usually about 5 minutes after anyone bothers to try), they've already made their money and can laugh all the way to the bank.
I still can't believe that people can't see this. They made it about as blatantly obvious as they could have without having the residents of Caprica wearing "I Love NY" t-shirts.
I really do think that most people suffer from an innate inability to see beyond the most basic literal level on anything they encounter. As Lex Luthor once wisely said "Some people can come away from reading War and Peace thinking it's a mere adventure story."
Hate to do a "me too" post, but I felt the same way--and I was a HUGE Futurama fan. "Benders Big Score" seemed diluted. About the only thing that I liked about it was that the dog from "Jurrassic Bark" at least finally got a happy ending.
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DarfurScores.org needs to get their shit together. According to them my zip (and, in fact, my entire state of South Carolina) doesn't even exist. I hate noble hippies who talk about helping but then half-ass it on the follow-through.
And what do they do? They proceed to show the world that they are still a backwards oppressive country with no common sense, jeopardizing much of the progress that they've made over a bunch of piss-ass monks and to avoid some bad press that 99.9% of the world would have ignored if they hadn't tried so hard to supress it.
Is there no Chinese term for "Bad PR" or are they just that stupid?
Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of the Dali Lama (like Penn Gillette, I think his intentions are a lot less pure than he lets on). But jeez China, USE YOUR HEAD. At least wait until AFTER the Olympics to start busting heads.
The problem isn't a company that wants to harass P2P users here (though that could potentially be a problem with many ISP's in the future, particularly Comcast and other ISP's who could be bought off with Hollywood cash), the problem are companies like Bell, AT&T, etc. who have oversold bandwidth while not building up their infrastructure to match. In other words, they've sat on their asses and not build up their networks and backbones the way they should have been doing, all while continuing to promise "unlimited" bandwidth--and now they're mouths are writing checks their asses can't cash.
Coincidentally, that's exactly the same top five reasons that your company has a hard time getting new young talent to work for them.
Canadian dollars? You must think I'm rich!
It's also unlikely that they would have gotten as much studio support if they were Mac-only. The studios didn't want to miss out on those sales either.
$10 to anyone who can tell me what in the Hell than sentence means, in actual English.
Dan Rather did a recent profile of this neighborhood on his "Dan Rather Reports" show on HDNET. I never know such places existed in Canada, but there are bad neighborhoods everywhere I guess. Still, I've seen a lot worse in the U.S. I used to live near East St. Louis, and that place was more like a shelled-out DMZ than a town.
If radical Islam wins, it will be because of pussy-ass shit like this. Until the West stops being nice and tells these backwards medieval Koran-thumpers to go fuck themselves, they will only get stronger and stronger.
Wasn't this was originally developed as an open source project at MIT? I imagine their original agreement with MIT probably precluded this very thing (locking it down). If not, I would be very disappointed with MIT.
But never successfully
I have it on good authority that he thinks of nothing but murder all day.
Not to mention that you would be taking a huge PR and liability risk. If one of your first responder systems failed in a major disaster or incident, you can imagine the fallout in lawsuits and bad press.
Such is the way with zealots.
June 5, 2005: Jim the Mac fan says "PowerPC chips are way more powerful and reliable than any of that Intel crap you PC fans use!"
June 6, 2005: Steve Jobs announces Apple will henceforth be using Intel chips
June 7, 2005: Jim the Mac fan says "Steve made the right decision. The Intel chips are clearly superior."
I would also add that HD-DVD was region-free, cheaper to produce (and hence to sell), and didn't have the conflict-of-interest of being tied directly to a media-producing studio (Sony). It was just a better all-around product for consumers. Blu-ray is aimed at pleasing studios more than the consumer.
Now, think of all the people out there who have open or poorly-secured wifi and/or botted computers and it's easy to see just how many innocent people could get caught up in these sort of raids.
That's a big twinkie.
It's funny that some of the best TV episodes are often the one-offs that mock their own show and its purported mythology. I always thought the best episodes, by far, of the X-files were the ones penned by Darin Morgan (that made fun of the X-files' silliness and the silliness of conspiracy theorists in general).
According to Hollywood, good guys only use Apple computers--unless it's a Sony picture (in which case every good guy uses a Sony laptop, a Sony-Erikson cellphone, and a blu-ray DVD player).
They know damn well that no DRM is ever really secure. But the bread and butter of these companies is to sucker the studios into thinking otherwise. So they don't make such statements because they actually believe them, but to sell their DRM scheme. By the time it gets cracked (usually about 5 minutes after anyone bothers to try), they've already made their money and can laugh all the way to the bank.
Wow, these guys are getting slow.
Starbuck and Boomer don't have any flaws? Are we watching the same show?
I really do think that most people suffer from an innate inability to see beyond the most basic literal level on anything they encounter. As Lex Luthor once wisely said "Some people can come away from reading War and Peace thinking it's a mere adventure story."
Hate to do a "me too" post, but I felt the same way--and I was a HUGE Futurama fan. "Benders Big Score" seemed diluted. About the only thing that I liked about it was that the dog from "Jurrassic Bark" at least finally got a happy ending.
At least they don't have to pay Richard Dean Anderson's exorbitant $20-per-week salary anymore.