a contract is a contract, except when it's between a little customer and a giant corporation. then it's always in the company's favor regardless of merit.
in fact, 14 years is too long in this "information age".
what songs 14 years ago would you still purchase today with the same enthusiasm as when it first came out?
5 years is plenty of time to make enormous profits. even more so for software which obsoletes much more quickly than other copyrighted items. seeing iD software release the source for quake3 recently... it was 5 years old...
now imagine if every game after 5 years on retail shelves (or virtual ones) would release their source AND the art/game assets. i MORE than DOUBT any piece of software would be even remotely as profitable in its 5th year of sale. most studies and anecdotal evidence suggests that movies/music/games/books sell the most copies in their first year.
5 years is 1825 days. that's an enormous amount of time to make a !healthy! profit. 90 years + the life of the author (sounds like an incentive to murder the authors...) is tantamount to infringement itself. it's so beyond absurd that i lack the words to properly express my feelings about it.
5 years.
or you can take what's behind door number 2:
a complete dismissal and voiding of the copyright system.
sane laws vs no copyright laws whatsoever.
the way things are going right now... it won't last. people more and more everyday are starting to become aware of just what kind of shit copyright laws we have.
oh and no DMCA or alikes.
if you want the protection of copyright laws, you cannot in any way use technical means to lock customers out of their purchases.
it's one or the other.
you can have DMCA and DRM/Insidious Computing but you then forfeit your copyright PRIVILEGES.
we may all be greedy to some degree, but scumbag is a different ballgame.
scumbag is when you have no morals/ethics and don't care a whit about consequences in regards to others.
now generally scumbag is a superset of greed, it's implied. but it's more specific to say the above.
and yes, we need to be able to have multiple entry ways onto the net even if most of the data transfer over "their" lines. they shouldn't control all the gates as well.
they're owned by the communities, local ones. not by the government.
and since commercial isp's can't provide good service at a reasonable price, then they can fuck off.
50 bucks a month for lousy 3 mb/s down? if we had competition, you know, back in the olden days before government was invented, we could get the same service for 10 bucks a month.
sounds like you're not very interested in competition... even if it must come from sources you don't like. i'd rather satan open an isp and let people get cheap fast access than to continue with govt sanctioned bribe-induced monopolies.
prices and service is absolutely atrocious. something definitely needs to be done. no more fucking monopolies for the rich baby bells and cable companies.
except that they also prevent customers and other companies from providing hardware to run purchased OSX copies on (ppc and x86).
that's artificial and damn nasty of them.
99% of mac users will only buy from apple but they are screwing the other 1% just because they can.
it doesn't harm them at all and only helps them gain market share and mindshare which is more important.
i can't buy a copy of osx and run it on hardware i choose by legal and technical means (the legal means are pure bullshit).
why can't some company sell me hardware or a "modchip" to enable me to run a bought copy of osx?
artificial restrictions.
check out the story about the finnish DRM and "buying cd's and being able to play them is a priviledge and not a right"...
my money given to the merchant is MY RIGHT.
so fuck you for not letting me enjoy my purchase.
your business model infringes on the laws of commerce.
and the fact that you won't even remotely see a dent in hardware sales and that mac users will still only buy apple hardware... screwing that 1% is not a good thing to do, especially from a company who is widely regarded as better than MS.
business models are no defense. you sell things... let people enjoy them however they wish. that's commerce. trying to prevent them from running software on unapproved hardware (hello dvd region locks) is at least unethical and damn repugnant.
they basically don't want my business. take a cue from Burger King "have it your way"... ahh, the good old days of business...
the only problem being that the US govt is funding a massive regime change in Iran, using many Iranian immigrants as enemy agents to stir up "dissent" over there.
they send propoganda based programs through satellite (since that's what most tv viewers in Iran have) from the US, funded by taxpayer dollars.
the neocons on one end, keep pushing the US govt to start a "regime-change", then there's Israel who keeps saying Iran is developing nuclear weapons (never mind that they kept saying the same thing about Iraq before 2003). all the inspecters and IAEA reps that have been there all found only plans for a nuclear energy station.
there's an enormous campaign being waged against Iran, seeing as they're one of the few states in the middle east not under the control of the US and UK. they used to be though... if you remember, even just recently they tried to install the brutal and totalitarian regime of the shah (not ironically after the British empire got tired of them). they wanted the oil and natural resources of a soverign nation, so with the help of the CIA, they pulled off a coup d'etat.
frankly, every time i hear a story about "Iran suppressing and jailing journalists" i don't see a story about freedom of speech, i see them jailing enemy agents and spies. oh, how the US would benefit from doing the same to all those spies in America. and i mean the US people, the govt just overlooks it, cause most of the spies are from "favored" nations... you can probably guess which.
it must take a real braindead Iranian immigrant to want the US to take over to help propogandize their own people. it's like those colloborators in V... selling out the human race to the reptiles so they can be a little richer or have more power. (that sci fi reference thrown in cause we're geeks). there are plenty of real world examples of being a backstabbing judas but that's what history class is for;-).
unless someone gives control of their hardware back to the customers, you just paid sony/ms/nintendo lots of money for them to rent you a hardware system. not having full access to something is by definition a rental. you and i do not own them.
not every/. reader can read all the stories and discussions every time they come around. plus this is a good story that wraps up many issues in one. namely the copyright cartel issues and the DRM/Insidious Computing matters.
people buy tivos. people buy music cds. people buy dvds. people buy software, including OSs. people buy electronic games.
buying therefore is the key.
you and i buy the right to use any copyright product in whatever way we wish (law already forbids distribution so i needn't mention it).
anything contrary to the above is by definition infringement upon the customers' right to use.
whenever you have artificial restrictions, it's against the spirit and word of copyright law (as ironic as that is...).
content "compilers" (knowledge is neither created or destroyed) want all the benefits and protections of copyright law but refuse to allow the right of customers under the same law to use their products how they wish.
if i were in any position of power, i would start revoking their copyright priviledges so fast, it would make them think Gigli was a blockbuster smash hit at the box office. that goes double for the software industry.
once it is sold, you DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT to tell your customers what they may or may not do with said products.
go into your windows\system32\dllcache directory, remove the iexplore.exe and tell SFC (system file checker) to not replace it from the original CD. (you have to turn off hide system files and hide hidden files and folders)
then go into your c:\program files\internet explorer and delete or rename iexplore.exe
you won't be able to run windows update but for most intents and purposes, internet explorer (the shell for the html rendering engine in windows) is gone.
some programs may not work etc but you've closed off an avenue of attack on that system.
and there are a few programs that will allow you to get rid of it in a more complete manner such as nlite www.nliteos.com.
keep closing down things one by one, from services to ports etc until you get a functional system that is far more secure than the default. check around the search engines for more complete instructions.
ms has been up to no good for a very long time and no one is willing to extend them any "benefit-of-the-doubt" credit.
it's more than likely that they are behind a lot of these kinds of things. they spend billions every year... a few million to some "crackers" to embarass and exploit their web browser competitor is only a drop in the bucket and well worth it to them to do.
so yeah, i find it highly probable.
their reputation allows people to make such remarks. they run an extremely unethical business, so sabotage and cracking is not even remotely out of the question. and they have the golden gem "plausible deniability".
it also seems to work for Gulf War 1, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Balkans, Korea, World war 2, World War 1, Spanish-American War, the "civil" war, etc etc.
not a single war in the history of the world is what it seems, especially since everyone agrees that the victor writes the history. you and your children will die so rich elites can grow richer and so that they can spread the reach of their iron fists.
"but i was only following orders". hopefully, god is gullible enough to believe that.
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a contract is a contract, except when it's between a little customer and a giant corporation. then it's always in the company's favor regardless of merit.
excellent point.
in fact, 14 years is too long in this "information age".
what songs 14 years ago would you still purchase today with the same enthusiasm as when it first came out?
5 years is plenty of time to make enormous profits. even more so for software which obsoletes much more quickly than other copyrighted items. seeing iD software release the source for quake3 recently... it was 5 years old...
now imagine if every game after 5 years on retail shelves (or virtual ones) would release their source AND the art/game assets. i MORE than DOUBT any piece of software would be even remotely as profitable in its 5th year of sale. most studies and anecdotal evidence suggests that movies/music/games/books sell the most copies in their first year.
5 years is 1825 days. that's an enormous amount of time to make a !healthy! profit. 90 years + the life of the author (sounds like an incentive to murder the authors...) is tantamount to infringement itself. it's so beyond absurd that i lack the words to properly express my feelings about it.
5 years.
or you can take what's behind door number 2:
a complete dismissal and voiding of the copyright system.
sane laws vs no copyright laws whatsoever.
the way things are going right now... it won't last. people more and more everyday are starting to become aware of just what kind of shit copyright laws we have.
oh and no DMCA or alikes.
if you want the protection of copyright laws, you cannot in any way use technical means to lock customers out of their purchases.
it's one or the other.
you can have DMCA and DRM/Insidious Computing but you then forfeit your copyright PRIVILEGES.
and songs 10 years old should be 25 cents.
songs 20 years old should be 12 cents.
songs 40 years old should be 1 cent.
and the RIAA/MPAA should be burning in hell.
should is a wonderful word. let's show some respect for it.
we may all be greedy to some degree, but scumbag is a different ballgame.
scumbag is when you have no morals/ethics and don't care a whit about consequences in regards to others.
now generally scumbag is a superset of greed, it's implied. but it's more specific to say the above.
and yes, we need to be able to have multiple entry ways onto the net even if most of the data transfer over "their" lines. they shouldn't control all the gates as well.
they're owned by the communities, local ones. not by the government.
and since commercial isp's can't provide good service at a reasonable price, then they can fuck off.
50 bucks a month for lousy 3 mb/s down? if we had competition, you know, back in the olden days before government was invented, we could get the same service for 10 bucks a month.
sounds like you're not very interested in competition... even if it must come from sources you don't like. i'd rather satan open an isp and let people get cheap fast access than to continue with govt sanctioned bribe-induced monopolies.
prices and service is absolutely atrocious. something definitely needs to be done. no more fucking monopolies for the rich baby bells and cable companies.
no, they only own the ports onto the net, not the net itself.
the net (in theory...) doesn't belong to any one group.
i'd gladly cut off my nose if i could be sure that by doing so, they and other greedy scumbags would cease to exist.
Steamboat Willie was the catalyst for the downfall of modern civilization.
would make a good thesis.
did you know that if you rename billgatespie.exe to .scr you can install it as a screensaver?
then install a password on it and no one can stop it short of a reboot... or 30 mins, give or take.
name that worm in 3 infections.
heh touche.
except that they also prevent customers and other companies from providing hardware to run purchased OSX copies on (ppc and x86).
that's artificial and damn nasty of them.
99% of mac users will only buy from apple but they are screwing the other 1% just because they can.
it doesn't harm them at all and only helps them gain market share and mindshare which is more important.
i can't buy a copy of osx and run it on hardware i choose by legal and technical means (the legal means are pure bullshit).
why can't some company sell me hardware or a "modchip" to enable me to run a bought copy of osx?
artificial restrictions.
check out the story about the finnish DRM and "buying cd's and being able to play them is a priviledge and not a right"...
my money given to the merchant is MY RIGHT.
so fuck you for not letting me enjoy my purchase.
your business model infringes on the laws of commerce.
and the fact that you won't even remotely see a dent in hardware sales and that mac users will still only buy apple hardware... screwing that 1% is not a good thing to do, especially from a company who is widely regarded as better than MS.
business models are no defense. you sell things... let people enjoy them however they wish. that's commerce. trying to prevent them from running software on unapproved hardware (hello dvd region locks) is at least unethical and damn repugnant.
they basically don't want my business. take a cue from Burger King "have it your way"... ahh, the good old days of business...
anyone else crave a cigarette after reading through the parent's post?
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err maybe twinkie, since this is
"flow control"?
;-)
that's reversing the polarity, you ignorant clod.
just WHERE did you get your geek diploma from?
changing at will is an invalid and illogical clause in contracts.
it's so absurd, i wonder why people keep perpetuating the myth that it's valid or even legal.
how can you agree on a set of terms that keep changing?
that's why you turn off the web browsing features of the shell.
and yes, it's not going to fix the other issues but it will limit IE as the port of entry.
the only problem being that the US govt is funding a massive regime change in Iran, using many Iranian immigrants as enemy agents to stir up "dissent" over there.
;-).
they send propoganda based programs through satellite (since that's what most tv viewers in Iran have) from the US, funded by taxpayer dollars.
the neocons on one end, keep pushing the US govt to start a "regime-change", then there's Israel who keeps saying Iran is developing nuclear weapons (never mind that they kept saying the same thing about Iraq before 2003). all the inspecters and IAEA reps that have been there all found only plans for a nuclear energy station.
there's an enormous campaign being waged against Iran, seeing as they're one of the few states in the middle east not under the control of the US and UK. they used to be though... if you remember, even just recently they tried to install the brutal and totalitarian regime of the shah (not ironically after the British empire got tired of them). they wanted the oil and natural resources of a soverign nation, so with the help of the CIA, they pulled off a coup d'etat.
frankly, every time i hear a story about "Iran suppressing and jailing journalists" i don't see a story about freedom of speech, i see them jailing enemy agents and spies. oh, how the US would benefit from doing the same to all those spies in America. and i mean the US people, the govt just overlooks it, cause most of the spies are from "favored" nations... you can probably guess which.
it must take a real braindead Iranian immigrant to want the US to take over to help propogandize their own people. it's like those colloborators in V... selling out the human race to the reptiles so they can be a little richer or have more power. (that sci fi reference thrown in cause we're geeks). there are plenty of real world examples of being a backstabbing judas but that's what history class is for
it won't be true for any system by default.
unless someone gives control of their hardware back to the customers, you just paid sony/ms/nintendo lots of money for them to rent you a hardware system. not having full access to something is by definition a rental. you and i do not own them.
more coverage.
/. reader can read all the stories and discussions every time they come around. plus this is a good story that wraps up many issues in one. namely the copyright cartel issues and the DRM/Insidious Computing matters.
not every
redundancy can sometimes be useful... sometimes.
echoing to the choir.
but then linus didn't buy the rubberband.
people buy tivos. people buy music cds. people buy dvds. people buy software, including OSs. people buy electronic games.
buying therefore is the key.
you and i buy the right to use any copyright product in whatever way we wish (law already forbids distribution so i needn't mention it).
anything contrary to the above is by definition infringement upon the customers' right to use.
whenever you have artificial restrictions, it's against the spirit and word of copyright law (as ironic as that is...).
content "compilers" (knowledge is neither created or destroyed) want all the benefits and protections of copyright law but refuse to allow the right of customers under the same law to use their products how they wish.
if i were in any position of power, i would start revoking their copyright priviledges so fast, it would make them think Gigli was a blockbuster smash hit at the box office. that goes double for the software industry.
once it is sold, you DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT to tell your customers what they may or may not do with said products.
go into your windows\system32\dllcache directory, remove the iexplore.exe and tell SFC (system file checker) to not replace it from the original CD. (you have to turn off hide system files and hide hidden files and folders)
then go into your c:\program files\internet explorer and delete or rename iexplore.exe
you won't be able to run windows update but for most intents and purposes, internet explorer (the shell for the html rendering engine in windows) is gone.
some programs may not work etc but you've closed off an avenue of attack on that system.
and there are a few programs that will allow you to get rid of it in a more complete manner such as nlite www.nliteos.com.
keep closing down things one by one, from services to ports etc until you get a functional system that is far more secure than the default. check around the search engines for more complete instructions.
why did you allow activex to run at all?
just turning it off or severely limiting its use would have made you virtually immune to AX attacks.
if you have enough knowledge to know that AX allows a large amount of insecurity, then you knew enough to prevent it.
SP2 is not a cure-all if you leave everything open and don't tighten down your system.
as long as you are willing to buy millions upon millions of people new top of the line macs to replace their existing high end systems, please do.
i wouldn't mind having a fully loaded new computer.
i'll email you the details and my address. send it by overnight UPS. thanks.
hugs and kisses.
because it's not a theory.
ms has been up to no good for a very long time and no one is willing to extend them any "benefit-of-the-doubt" credit.
it's more than likely that they are behind a lot of these kinds of things. they spend billions every year... a few million to some "crackers" to embarass and exploit their web browser competitor is only a drop in the bucket and well worth it to them to do.
so yeah, i find it highly probable.
their reputation allows people to make such remarks. they run an extremely unethical business, so sabotage and cracking is not even remotely out of the question. and they have the golden gem "plausible deniability".
evil is as evil does.
ah, you're a fan of Sun Tzu.
All warfare is based on deception. -Sun Tzu
seems fitting during the Iraq "War".
it also seems to work for Gulf War 1, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Balkans, Korea, World war 2, World War 1, Spanish-American War, the "civil" war, etc etc.
not a single war in the history of the world is what it seems, especially since everyone agrees that the victor writes the history. you and your children will die so rich elites can grow richer and so that they can spread the reach of their iron fists.
"but i was only following orders". hopefully, god is gullible enough to believe that.
i wonder how they cool the massive z80 cpu...