I disagree. One good use of it is libraries that lend audiobooks - several of them let you download audiobooks with DRM that expires the file after the two-week lending period. Not only is that entirely legitimate, it's efficient.
Generally speaking, it's not impossible to imagine a DRM system that justly protects the IP rights of an artist/publisher/author's content. The problem is that publishers, not consumers, are the ones behind such systems, and as such the systems aren't designed to be fair - they're designed to garner maximum advantage for the publisher.
What we need is a neutral third party to create and administer DRM that protects both the owner's intellectual property and the consumer's right to fair use. Unfortunately, no such third party exists, so long as the RIAAs, MPAAs and BSAs have armies of lobbyists while the consumers, as a group, do not.
Okay... it's now obvious to me that you have little if any idea what you're talking about, particularly concerning the Baathist regime, and as such I'm not going to waste any more time on you.
What bothers me most about people like you is that I oppose the invasion and occupation in Iraq, but you and your ilk actually hurt my cause by inventing facts and spewing wild hyperbole, allowing neocons and their allies to paint all of us with the same ugly brush. Are you sure you're not on William Kristol's payroll?
If you don't know that the U.S. openly both financed Saddam Hussein, supported his rise to power, and provided him with weapons which he used against factions of his own people that he did not like, then you are just ignorant.
Yeah, which somehow makes the US responsible for the invasion of Kuwait.
In this case, I think we just helped finance them
Let me get this straight: Iraq, one of the world's biggest oil producers, needed the US to finance its purchase of Scud missles?
The Iraqi people are not some evil group, they are just people who have seen their homes bombed, their culture derided, their children murdered, their religion de-sanctified, their people arbitrarily arrested, tortured, humiliated, sexually abused, and murdered, their natural resources stolen, their country's wealth given away as "reparations," huge loans taken out on their behalf,
That's right - but now that Saddam is gone, those things are happening on a much smaller scale.
And no, I don't watch Fox News, or any television news for that matter. I read plenty of foreign news sources, and I'm a longtime subscriber to Foreign Affairs and The Economist. If you have nothing to offer but ad hominem attacks and outrageously illogical claims, maybe you're the one who should do some reading.
PS: I won't answer to redneck replies to this, there's no use. You want to punch me in the face? Come over here and try to, ok?
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I read at -1, because every opinion may be worth it. Moderator opinions shouldn't censor for others, post them instead!
We Slashdotters need to come up with a word that means "a post which directly contradicts the poster's sig."
P.S. The "Come over here and try to" is exactly the kind of thing I'd expect to hear a "redneck" say - and, by the way, "redneck" is a racist term, so knock it off.
Right. Iraq's invasion of Kuwait is America's doing. America somehow sold Soviet- and Chinese-made Scuds to Saddam. The missle attacks on Tel Aviv and Saudi Arabia are attributable to the US. And the US is now seizing oil, despite paying more for it both directly and indirectly than Saddam was willing to sell it to us, and despite the fact that many more countries than the US are getting Iraqi oil today.
It must be nice, being a non-American, because then you can simply blame everything on America and skip merrily along, knowing that nothing is ever your fault.
So... your assertion that democracy in the US is a fallicy is predicated on the fact that you need a majority of votes to win an election, and that we have a de facto two-party system? And are you seriously equating the level of corruption in the US with that in the UN? And you are interpreting the GP's statement:
So make no mistake, without US backing, the UN would be nothing.
... to mean that the one with the most money should control the UN?
You need some perspective, some logic and a lesson in honest debating, my friend.
You left out the part where Herb beat, robbed and raped his neighbor his neighbor Sally, and took a few potshots at his other neighbors Avi and Abdul. Not to mention the open fact that Herb has been beating and molesting his children for years, and the only one who actually stepped up and did something about it was George.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Exhibit A in the argument against "world" ownership of the Internet. Because at some point, some frothy deluded UN pluto-beaurocrat would propose and enact something very much like this - not taking into consideration that there is content on the web and the 'net that has nothing to do with any one specific country.
Plus, of course the "We built it" argument ignores the Web, which is not an American invention. Should the US go back to Gopher?
Should the world go back to text-only Lynx? Becasue that's the "web" as it existed until American scientists and entrepreneurs embraced and improved it.
The concept of the EMP is popularized by movies and the like, but is not really acheivable with anything short of an enormous explosion (such as a nuclear bomb).
And to make matters worse, IE running on Windows XP SP2 now blocks lots of ActiveX objects whether or not they are in CATID_SafeForScripting... which might be a kind of blanket security, except now an ActiveX object merely has to correctly implement IObjectSafety to get around that. So I suppose Microsoft isn't protecting us from malware writers, they're just protecting us from really lazy ones.
Christ, it's done, stick a fork in it and turn it.
That's it! Forks! Or maybe Table Settings! It's the inner lives of cutlery, who have lives just as mundane as our own! I'll get to work right now on the necessary animation tools... thanks for the excellent idea!
The funny (or not-so-funny) thing about Cars is this: with every movie we've done, we've focused on improving specific aspect of rendering and animation. For example, with Monsters it was fur and hair; with Incredibles it was fabric. But with Cars, it's reflective surfaces. That's right, chrome is the big deal in Pixar's next movie. Those of us who tried to convince directors and management that CG chrome has been, y'know, done before, were ignored.
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I disagree. One good use of it is libraries that lend audiobooks - several of them let you download audiobooks with DRM that expires the file after the two-week lending period. Not only is that entirely legitimate, it's efficient.
Generally speaking, it's not impossible to imagine a DRM system that justly protects the IP rights of an artist/publisher/author's content. The problem is that publishers, not consumers, are the ones behind such systems, and as such the systems aren't designed to be fair - they're designed to garner maximum advantage for the publisher.
What we need is a neutral third party to create and administer DRM that protects both the owner's intellectual property and the consumer's right to fair use. Unfortunately, no such third party exists, so long as the RIAAs, MPAAs and BSAs have armies of lobbyists while the consumers, as a group, do not.
Okay... it's now obvious to me that you have little if any idea what you're talking about, particularly concerning the Baathist regime, and as such I'm not going to waste any more time on you.
What bothers me most about people like you is that I oppose the invasion and occupation in Iraq, but you and your ilk actually hurt my cause by inventing facts and spewing wild hyperbole, allowing neocons and their allies to paint all of us with the same ugly brush. Are you sure you're not on William Kristol's payroll?
If you don't know that the U.S. openly both financed Saddam Hussein, supported his rise to power, and provided him with weapons which he used against factions of his own people that he did not like, then you are just ignorant.
Yeah, which somehow makes the US responsible for the invasion of Kuwait.
In this case, I think we just helped finance them
Let me get this straight: Iraq, one of the world's biggest oil producers, needed the US to finance its purchase of Scud missles?
The Iraqi people are not some evil group, they are just people who have seen their homes bombed, their culture derided, their children murdered, their religion de-sanctified, their people arbitrarily arrested, tortured, humiliated, sexually abused, and murdered, their natural resources stolen, their country's wealth given away as "reparations," huge loans taken out on their behalf, That's right - but now that Saddam is gone, those things are happening on a much smaller scale.
And no, I don't watch Fox News, or any television news for that matter. I read plenty of foreign news sources, and I'm a longtime subscriber to Foreign Affairs and The Economist. If you have nothing to offer but ad hominem attacks and outrageously illogical claims, maybe you're the one who should do some reading.
PS: I won't answer to redneck replies to this, there's no use. You want to punch me in the face? Come over here and try to, ok?
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I read at -1, because every opinion may be worth it. Moderator opinions shouldn't censor for others, post them instead!
We Slashdotters need to come up with a word that means "a post which directly contradicts the poster's sig."
P.S. The "Come over here and try to" is exactly the kind of thing I'd expect to hear a "redneck" say - and, by the way, "redneck" is a racist term, so knock it off.
Brazil taking a stand against pornography! That's like America taking a stand against television.
Even in the US library computers are censored. That's too bad
Yes, it's a real shame that second graders can't surf www.hot-nasty-sluts.com. Truly we are living under a repressive regime.
The web as we know it was created by CERN
"As we know it?" So that means you're reading this on a text-only browser?
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/fbrowser.htm l
Unless you're reading this on Lynx or "WorldWideWeb," please STFU until you know what you're talking about, son.
Right. Iraq's invasion of Kuwait is America's doing. America somehow sold Soviet- and Chinese-made Scuds to Saddam. The missle attacks on Tel Aviv and Saudi Arabia are attributable to the US. And the US is now seizing oil, despite paying more for it both directly and indirectly than Saddam was willing to sell it to us, and despite the fact that many more countries than the US are getting Iraqi oil today.
It must be nice, being a non-American, because then you can simply blame everything on America and skip merrily along, knowing that nothing is ever your fault.
So... your assertion that democracy in the US is a fallicy is predicated on the fact that you need a majority of votes to win an election, and that we have a de facto two-party system? And are you seriously equating the level of corruption in the US with that in the UN? And you are interpreting the GP's statement:
So make no mistake, without US backing, the UN would be nothing.
... to mean that the one with the most money should control the UN?
You need some perspective, some logic and a lesson in honest debating, my friend.
You left out the part where Herb beat, robbed and raped his neighbor his neighbor Sally, and took a few potshots at his other neighbors Avi and Abdul. Not to mention the open fact that Herb has been beating and molesting his children for years, and the only one who actually stepped up and did something about it was George.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Exhibit A in the argument against "world" ownership of the Internet. Because at some point, some frothy deluded UN pluto-beaurocrat would propose and enact something very much like this - not taking into consideration that there is content on the web and the 'net that has nothing to do with any one specific country.
Plus, of course the "We built it" argument ignores the Web, which is not an American invention. Should the US go back to Gopher?
Should the world go back to text-only Lynx? Becasue that's the "web" as it existed until American scientists and entrepreneurs embraced and improved it.
Where are my motherfucking mod points? Huh? Huh?
Well, okay, it's post #17, but still... stop frist!
Aw, c'mon, somebody mod that up. That's the first thing I've laughed out loud at here in weeks.
Maybe you'll be gratified to know that at least one person, me, has never even heard of Golden Palace and has no idea what it is.
Take that, Golden Palace, whoever or whatever you are!
Try being known as "The Senator who outlawed the iPod" and see how your next reelection turns out.
The genie is out of the bottle, and the RIAA is just going to have to wise up and live with it.
Ah yes, Canada, land of the free, where thought crimes are severely punished.
... was just a handy way for you to know exactly how much of your life you've wasted watching that piece of crap.
The concept of the EMP is popularized by movies and the like, but is not really acheivable with anything short of an enormous explosion (such as a nuclear bomb).
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False.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_compression_gen
And to make matters worse, IE running on Windows XP SP2 now blocks lots of ActiveX objects whether or not they are in CATID_SafeForScripting... which might be a kind of blanket security, except now an ActiveX object merely has to correctly implement IObjectSafety to get around that. So I suppose Microsoft isn't protecting us from malware writers, they're just protecting us from really lazy ones.
Never, ever, ever tempt the wrath of a single mother.
Christ, it's done, stick a fork in it and turn it.
That's it! Forks! Or maybe Table Settings! It's the inner lives of cutlery, who have lives just as mundane as our own! I'll get to work right now on the necessary animation tools... thanks for the excellent idea!
The funny (or not-so-funny) thing about Cars is this: with every movie we've done, we've focused on improving specific aspect of rendering and animation. For example, with Monsters it was fur and hair; with Incredibles it was fabric. But with Cars, it's reflective surfaces. That's right, chrome is the big deal in Pixar's next movie. Those of us who tried to convince directors and management that CG chrome has been, y'know, done before, were ignored.
Oh well... I've heard Lucasfilm is hiring.