I grew up on a farm, and we were constantly spraying that stuff on plants. It would radically change the way they grew, so you could clearly see a line in a field where it had been applied, and where it hadn't. We even had tanks of it in places, and animals like squirrels and mice would regularly get into it and die, and I'd have to clean out their little corpses as one of my chores.
God knows if you tested my body today I'm probably still full of the stuff. Crazy what we used to do before organic farming came along.
That's insane to use water. Don't you know that it's Brawndo that has what plants crave?
And so you need to comply to a EULA. A process which companies like Sony picked up quite well by including a whole lot of extra stuff you need to agree on before playing can commence. A list so long that hardly anyone reads it.
Here is your problem right there.
These guys should at least have read the EULA so that they knew what they got themselves into. Better yet: should have worked their way around it. Yes, it can be done, because there are loopholes in there. It isn't easy, it takes a lot of time to read, comprehend and work out a strategy, but it can be done.
I agree that the police invasion is a bit over the top, but you know what they say: "Mess with the big boys and...".
Sorry, I think they should have done their homework.
From another thread a while back about the PS3 and Sony's asshattery:
I fired up my 3 most modern consoles: Wii, PS2, and XBox (don't own a 360 or PS3). None of them presented me with any sort of license that I had to agree to before I could use them. That means that the only thing I am bound by is actual copyright law. By using the software "hardwired" into the hardware, I am agreeing to not copy and distribute it without the manufacturer's permission. Nothing more, nothing less. If they have a problem with that, they can go fuck themselves.
So, does the PS3 present a license agreement that you have to click through every time you boot it up, or do you just boot right to whatever game you have inserted?
It's a failure of the house design if a switch in the room turns on a light 4 rooms away or on a different floor.
Reminds me of a Steven Wright joke.
I have a light switch in my house that doesn't turn anything on and off. Every once in a while, I would just go ahead and flip it up and down a few times. One day I got a letter from a lady in Germany that said "knock it off".
I rather suspect that if I was trying to use an old 486 running Slackware as a corporate router, my boss would be far less concerned that I had removed a chair leg to preserve uptime on the aforementioned router than the fact that I was using obsolete and unreliable hardware as part of the network infrastructure.
But even if it was in a professional environment instead of for personal use, the fact that the router was:
1 - working as intended 2 - running for several years without needing a reboot
then apparently:
1 - the hardware was actually not obsolete for its purpose 2 - the hardware was obviously not so unreliable after all
Besides, unless your boss is a tech head and not a typical PHB, would you actually keep him informed about how everything really works?
BTW my friend is about to be signed, here's a song about how difficult the industry has become. If a hottie with pipes like this going unsigned for 10 years doesn't convince you that piracy is killing the industry, nothing will. Gene Simmons called her "the best unsigned singer out there", she's being called "Amy Winehouse without the baggage" and "a super-hot Susan Boyle" by industry-leading agents and label reps.
She seems talented enough that she should not need to rely on being signed by a label. She can make it fine on her own, one would think.
My wife recently turned 42 (she's a Douglas Adams fan, too). I put eight candles on her cake, and lit three of them: 00101010. She got it right away. Not bad for an English professor. I lost her, though, when I said she was my shining *.
Aw. You should have done a 6 x 9 array of candles.
Guess we need to launch a mission to patch those holes. Of course, for the safety of the astronauts, so that they don't burn up, they will do it at night.
Rick-rolling is a unique "feature" of our culture, a practical joke or graffiti, essentially. Monied manipulation of the population writ large is not the same.
Rick-rollers don't seek to manipulate my wallet/vote/behavior (aside from perhaps a little keyboard rage, though personally I find it amusing more often than not).
I still find it amusing myself (personally very late to the RR meme myself), but I'm still finding new ways to inflict Astley on people. And as an aside, it looks like even Konami jumped onto the Rickroll bandwagon with Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party 3.
Then again, does it count as a Rickroll if you already know the song is one of the selections in the game?
The problem is that while well known now, there was no published prior art on this 'cat chasing laser exercise' technology back in 1993. Youtube didn't exist until 12 years after the patent was filed so there weren't widely published videos available.
Youtube may not have existed back then, but America's Funniest Home Videos was already going strong at the time. Odds are really good that between November 1989 and whenever it was this patent was granted in 1993 that plenty of videos had been submitted and broadcast showing cats chasing lasers and flashlight beams. And there was also a real cute one of a carpet shark (ferret) chasing a radio control car around the room as well. But I digress.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
If Geohot has broken the law (DMCA), then how and why does Sony (a private entity) have any right to seize his personal property? If anything, the US Government should be seizing his property as evidence that he committed a federal crime. Last I heard, plaintiffs cannot seize defendants' property in a civil lawsuit. Alas, IANAL...
That to me sounds like a perfectly reasonable interpretation. And personally, Idon'tANAL.:p
I've been out of the religion scene for a long long time. However, I do seem to recall that there was only person to whom your sins were to be confessed to, that Christ fellow that the entire religion is allegedly centered around.
Now granted I'm not saying I agree with that model, and it should change, but it is what it is, and it is never inconvenient to someone who just purchases a Wii/Xbox 360 and never breaks the EULA.
I don't know about the 360, but the Wii does not present a EULA in any way shape or form in order to use it.
There may be one for the Shopping Channel (don't know for sure, since there is nothing there I am interested in buying, so don't use it), but for just general usage of the console, there is no license agreement you have to accept.
Yes, you own the console, and Sony has been kind enough to grant you a license to use a certain bit of their software on it. Remove all their software (and anything else with a legally-binding contract limiting its use) and you'll be able to do whatever you want with it. That also includes the chip firmware, so you'll have a lovely paperweight that might barely have the functionality to turn on a LED, but it will be all yours.
If I paid $1000 for rent this past month, who owns the house I live in? THE LANDLORD. I still can't do major changes to the house or property, can't burn it down, can't use it as security for a loan... and I have to abide by all the terms I agreed to in the lease, which is a legally-binding contract just like the software license you agreed to. You did read it, didn't you?
I just fired up my 3 most modern consoles: Wii, PS2, and XBox (don't own a 360 or PS3). None of them presented me with any sort of license that I had to agree to before I could use them. That means that the only thing I am bound by is actual copyright law. By using the software "hardwired" into the hardware, I am agreeing to not copy and distribute it without the manufacturer's permission. Nothing more, nothing less. If they have a problem with that, they can go fuck themselves. If they want to try to enforce a non-existent license, they would have to attempt to physically confiscate my property, which would require forceful entry into my home. Fortunately, I have 2 security devices to discourage them: one 7mm and one 9mm.
So, does the PS3 present a license agreement that you have to click through every time you boot it up, or do you just boot right to whatever game you have inserted?
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I grew up on a farm, and we were constantly spraying that stuff on plants. It would radically change the way they grew, so you could clearly see a line in a field where it had been applied, and where it hadn't. We even had tanks of it in places, and animals like squirrels and mice would regularly get into it and die, and I'd have to clean out their little corpses as one of my chores.
God knows if you tested my body today I'm probably still full of the stuff. Crazy what we used to do before organic farming came along.
That's insane to use water. Don't you know that it's Brawndo that has what plants crave?
if ebay outlaws craigslist....?
That is unlikely to happen, as eBay owns a 25% share of Craigslist.
And so you need to comply to a EULA. A process which companies like Sony picked up quite well by including a whole lot of extra stuff you need to agree on before playing can commence. A list so long that hardly anyone reads it.
Here is your problem right there.
These guys should at least have read the EULA so that they knew what they got themselves into. Better yet: should have worked their way around it. Yes, it can be done, because there are loopholes in there. It isn't easy, it takes a lot of time to read, comprehend and work out a strategy, but it can be done.
I agree that the police invasion is a bit over the top, but you know what they say: "Mess with the big boys and...".
Sorry, I think they should have done their homework.
From another thread a while back about the PS3 and Sony's asshattery:
I fired up my 3 most modern consoles: Wii, PS2, and XBox (don't own a 360 or PS3). None of them presented me with any sort of license that I had to agree to before I could use them. That means that the only thing I am bound by is actual copyright law. By using the software "hardwired" into the hardware, I am agreeing to not copy and distribute it without the manufacturer's permission. Nothing more, nothing less. If they have a problem with that, they can go fuck themselves.
So, does the PS3 present a license agreement that you have to click through every time you boot it up, or do you just boot right to whatever game you have inserted?
Every comedian is rolling in their grave... slowly.
Including those who are still alive?
(sigh)
Here's a video that resolves your issue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Personally, I think that this video explains it a little better.
It's a failure of the house design if a switch in the room turns on a light 4 rooms away or on a different floor.
Reminds me of a Steven Wright joke.
I have a light switch in my house that doesn't turn anything on and off. Every once in a while, I would just go ahead and flip it up and down a few times. One day I got a letter from a lady in Germany that said "knock it off".
I rather suspect that if I was trying to use an old 486 running Slackware as a corporate router, my boss would be far less concerned that I had removed a chair leg to preserve uptime on the aforementioned router than the fact that I was using obsolete and unreliable hardware as part of the network infrastructure.
But even if it was in a professional environment instead of for personal use, the fact that the router was:
1 - working as intended
2 - running for several years without needing a reboot
then apparently:
1 - the hardware was actually not obsolete for its purpose
2 - the hardware was obviously not so unreliable after all
Besides, unless your boss is a tech head and not a typical PHB, would you actually keep him informed about how everything really works?
Geo kick their ass!
Geo kick their face!
Geo kick their balls into outer spaaaaaaaccceeeeee!!!
HTML6 and the tag haven't been approved yet, so he didn't know.
And the <joke> tag is already self deprecated.
Pro tip: When ever you see "APT," run in the other direction. That term belongs to Marketing now.
apt-get install...
Probably some others.
You mean He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
Hastur is a hacker?
Hastur never really came across as a hacker type.
Hastur is... (oh shit!)
*** Transmission terminated at the source ***
BTW my friend is about to be signed, here's a song about how difficult the industry has become. If a hottie with pipes like this going unsigned for 10 years doesn't convince you that piracy is killing the industry, nothing will. Gene Simmons called her "the best unsigned singer out there", she's being called "Amy Winehouse without the baggage" and "a super-hot Susan Boyle" by industry-leading agents and label reps.
She seems talented enough that she should not need to rely on being signed by a label. She can make it fine on her own, one would think.
That's rather neat that Slashdot works with Lynx. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y129/Scarletdown/Slashdot-Lynx.jpg Granted, it looks like crapola, but it's still neat in a "Wow! That sure takes me back to the old library freenet days of the 90s" sort of way.
Why the hell didn't my link show up? http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y129/Scarletdown/Dilbert-Unix.png
And the Dilbert perspective...
My wife recently turned 42 (she's a Douglas Adams fan, too). I put eight candles on her cake, and lit three of them: 00101010. She got it right away. Not bad for an English professor. I lost her, though, when I said she was my shining *.
Aw. You should have done a 6 x 9 array of candles.
My filing system is still under development off in the Someday Isles, as in:
Someday I'll get around to sorting and organizing all my stuff, but not right now.
Guess we need to launch a mission to patch those holes. Of course, for the safety of the astronauts, so that they don't burn up, they will do it at night.
Rick-rolling is a unique "feature" of our culture, a practical joke or graffiti, essentially. Monied manipulation of the population writ large is not the same.
Rick-rollers don't seek to manipulate my wallet/vote/behavior (aside from perhaps a little keyboard rage, though personally I find it amusing more often than not).
I still find it amusing myself (personally very late to the RR meme myself), but I'm still finding new ways to inflict Astley on people. And as an aside, it looks like even Konami jumped onto the Rickroll bandwagon with Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party 3.
Then again, does it count as a Rickroll if you already know the song is one of the selections in the game?
The problem is that while well known now, there was no published prior art on this 'cat chasing laser exercise' technology back in 1993. Youtube didn't exist until 12 years after the patent was filed so there weren't widely published videos available.
Youtube may not have existed back then, but America's Funniest Home Videos was already going strong at the time. Odds are really good that between November 1989 and whenever it was this patent was granted in 1993 that plenty of videos had been submitted and broadcast showing cats chasing lasers and flashlight beams. And there was also a real cute one of a carpet shark (ferret) chasing a radio control car around the room as well. But I digress.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
If Geohot has broken the law (DMCA), then how and why does Sony (a private entity) have any right to seize his personal property? If anything, the US Government should be seizing his property as evidence that he committed a federal crime. Last I heard, plaintiffs cannot seize defendants' property in a civil lawsuit. Alas, IANAL...
That to me sounds like a perfectly reasonable interpretation. And personally, Idon'tANAL. :p
Have you played 46 DC EA D3 17 FE 45 D8 09 23 EB 97 E4 95 64 10 D4 CD B2 C2 today?
I've been out of the religion scene for a long long time. However, I do seem to recall that there was only person to whom your sins were to be confessed to, that Christ fellow that the entire religion is allegedly centered around.
Now granted I'm not saying I agree with that model, and it should change, but it is what it is, and it is never inconvenient to someone who just purchases a Wii/Xbox 360 and never breaks the EULA.
I don't know about the 360, but the Wii does not present a EULA in any way shape or form in order to use it.
There may be one for the Shopping Channel (don't know for sure, since there is nothing there I am interested in buying, so don't use it), but for just general usage of the console, there is no license agreement you have to accept.
Yes, you own the console, and Sony has been kind enough to grant you a license to use a certain bit of their software on it. Remove all their software (and anything else with a legally-binding contract limiting its use) and you'll be able to do whatever you want with it. That also includes the chip firmware, so you'll have a lovely paperweight that might barely have the functionality to turn on a LED, but it will be all yours.
If I paid $1000 for rent this past month, who owns the house I live in? THE LANDLORD. I still can't do major changes to the house or property, can't burn it down, can't use it as security for a loan... and I have to abide by all the terms I agreed to in the lease, which is a legally-binding contract just like the software license you agreed to. You did read it, didn't you?
I just fired up my 3 most modern consoles: Wii, PS2, and XBox (don't own a 360 or PS3). None of them presented me with any sort of license that I had to agree to before I could use them. That means that the only thing I am bound by is actual copyright law. By using the software "hardwired" into the hardware, I am agreeing to not copy and distribute it without the manufacturer's permission. Nothing more, nothing less. If they have a problem with that, they can go fuck themselves. If they want to try to enforce a non-existent license, they would have to attempt to physically confiscate my property, which would require forceful entry into my home. Fortunately, I have 2 security devices to discourage them: one 7mm and one 9mm.
So, does the PS3 present a license agreement that you have to click through every time you boot it up, or do you just boot right to whatever game you have inserted?