Oh that was a hoot. Especially when you pause the animations and read the fake text under the headlines.
But what was funnier..(to me, anyway), was the 'security issues' quiz:
I picked 'logged in computer', authentication card in reader,
post-it note with password..
('Torchwood: Children of Earth''s MP office coulda used that kind of security check) and a post-it with a phone number.
I was wrong, because I had left out 'coffee without a lid', which is, apparently, a security breach.
Remember folks, don't leave the lid off your coffee. IT'S STEAMING!
That was beautiful. With Don LaFontaine out of the picture, this is how movies should be promoted.
Congrats on out-viral-ing the 2012 fake-web fest..
unless this is part of it. can't win!
Okay, pardon me if I get details wrong..
A company that started out with a computer based on a hack of a calculator chip,
using a name that the Beatles used for their music company, Apple Records,
got sued over that, settled with one of the terms that they'd never make musical instruments..
(the sosume beep sound is allegedly named in reference to this)
Fast forward..
A phone out with a name used for a phone by a company that was bought by Cisco, who ignored it up until oh, December 2006,
being sued over that, (results not yet determined), and now they're suing folks for a utility
and a cluster of 32x32 icons?
Irony Mobius:
And at the same time, they drop 'Computer' from their name, leaving themselves open for The Beatles
reps to sue again.
Now, visit the same page as it is currently: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/swassets/sw293/trademar k_statement.html
Amazingly, there's now iPhone listed. And iPhone's now featured on their front page, where before it barely had any mention other than compatibility statements.
Took them 7 years to update their trademark page. Good timing, that.
Steve, buddy, if you use this to win, I want one of each product line.
The earlier poster has a good point. iPods and iTunes are based on the concept that you get music by either buying it from the iTunes store, downloading a legal mp3, or Ripping a CD, which used to be a haxt00r thing, now it's commonplace. Even W does it, well, he has someone do it for him, I'm sure.
But the DVD content. I got the latest Weird Al album, iTunes lets me copy the music. It's a duodisk, so I can flip the cd, it's now a dvd. I don't have a DVD player on my computer, so I copied the relevant (videos) DVD file onto a CD at a friend's computer, took the copy home, then converted that to Quicktime on my computer for viewing..
None of these things are going anywhere outside of my house, let alone the internets. Did I break the law, which ones, and at what point?
I've gotten iTunes music before, too. Immediately converted them to non-DRM content. (using one of Jon's earlier programs.)
Didn't share them. Lawbreaker? I still have the original m4a's. Last played: over a year ago. I listen to my non-DRM'd copies.
Variations on wavelengths, amplified and broadcast, take approximately 3 seconds from source audio to the listener. This cumilatively creates a 'storage medium' where anyone with a reciever can illegally intercept music.
This of course can be resolved by renegotiated royalty payments.
1: eBay should have stopped this by auction day one.
2: lacking reciepts, fellow is a pirate.
I think somebody let this auction go through just so they can say 'see? these iPods facilitate piracy!' One checkmark option in the preferences of a iTunes installation and that 'synch to nothing' feature goes away. But X number of conusmers can't find that checkbox..
However, If I want to put my purchased music, whether it's a digital legal download, a microphone recording, LP, tape, CD, on any media capable of reproducing it, it should be legal and anyone buying or leasing a device capable of it should have the legal backing to do so. Reselling the media? with proofs, or not at all. Illegal copies wrapped in a convenient package is still piracy.
The actual article has little to do with this aspect, but the comments seem to have gone this direction. Sure, folks with computer-savvy skills can wire this and patch that and do these things, but the common consumer is locked into a revenue system that defaults to extra charges for virtually nothing.
Imagine if your cable box had a nice remote, but each time you pushed the channel changer, it required a surcharge for 'data communications'. You could go to the store and get a compatible remote, or get up and change the channel, but the cable company provides the remote 'free' with the service. A percentage of their customers would fall for it..
We need a DMCA for consumers. 'No device or media product shall restrict usability for the purposes of incurring additional costs or limiting access to the consumer if comparable technologies allow the consumer to access this service or media at reduced or no cost.'
Now some might say this would outlaw the iTMS store selling music and tv shows because you could record a tv show and transfer it to your player for free if you take the trouble to do so. Nobody is forcing folks to buy the content off of their store, it's their choice to add this content rather than set their vcr. The costs of convenience..
However, if X company has cellphone that plugs into your computer to load ringtones easily, then Y company can't sell that phone with that feature disabled, or purposely restrict their networks to phones without that feature. In Europe, for instance, there are a lot of services they provide gratis that here in the US the phone companies charge for just because they can.
Sure, it's implausible in the real world, but look at what they want to legislate in on the other side with more restrictive media access built into future technologies. If the manufacturers have to comply with THAT legislation, then they should have to comply with new fair use rules that eliminate these closed markets..
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That farking malware needs to have no protection based on its EULA. Just re-did a XP install because the user had forgotten to turn on the firewall on their sp1. Result: slowdowns, popups,autorun programs; re-formatting and firewall fixed it. And those ##$*@ are just waiting on the internet ready to pounce on new installs w/o firewall enabled.
And that's just the stuff you didn't want.
These days, ANY program installed could set off some security risk (see SONY) so the spyware and virus protection folks need to take into account ANY possible security risk. Say this keylogger's stored file is accessable via some process. Then, keylogger=security risk: instead of some internal security measure, it turns into a virtual radio of what you type.
This seems to be a way to CYA over a poorly written program that introduces a security risk. Malware being primarily designed to introduce external data, is also a risk. Danger>EULA.
Guess someone will have to take this to court to settle down the differences between code-ripping and code-detection data. Affording protection to all software due to EULA is just asinine. All I have to do is include in the rarely-read EULA 'And it is a violation of the Agreement to attempt to detect, remove, or otherwise modify the Software.'
Oh wait, that's what they write now.
We've seen how durable these new nanos are. That's going to help their profits tremendously as now a 5 foot drop means a scratch, not a invisible damaged circuit they have to swap out units for under warrantee.
Good for them, good for me. Um, sorta. Dropped my mini and 10 days later, new mini. I think only ACME delivery to Wile E. Coyote is faster. Reducing that overhead potential just helps them more.
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Oh that was a hoot. Especially when you pause the animations and read the fake text under the headlines.
But what was funnier..(to me, anyway), was the 'security issues' quiz:
I picked 'logged in computer', authentication card in reader, post-it note with password..
('Torchwood: Children of Earth''s MP office coulda used that kind of security check) and a post-it with a phone number.
I was wrong, because I had left out 'coffee without a lid', which is, apparently, a security breach.
Remember folks, don't leave the lid off your coffee. IT'S STEAMING!
That was beautiful. With Don LaFontaine out of the picture, this is how movies should be promoted. Congrats on out-viral-ing the 2012 fake-web fest.. unless this is part of it. can't win!
Okay, pardon me if I get details wrong..
A company that started out with a computer based on a hack of a calculator chip,
using a name that the Beatles used for their music company, Apple Records,
got sued over that, settled with one of the terms that they'd never make musical instruments..
(the sosume beep sound is allegedly named in reference to this)
Fast forward..
A phone out with a name used for a phone by a company that was bought by Cisco, who ignored it up until oh, December 2006,
being sued over that, (results not yet determined), and now they're suing folks for a utility and a cluster of 32x32 icons?
Irony Mobius:
And at the same time, they drop 'Computer' from their name, leaving themselves open for The Beatles reps to sue again.
Oh! The Fees I Sees!
Here's an interesting bit from archive.org's Wayback Machine:c o.com/en/US/swassets/sw293/trademark_statement.htm l
r k_statement.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20060824185939/www.cis
That's their archive of cisco.com back in August 24th in regards to their trademarks. No iPhone.
Now, visit the same page as it is currently:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/swassets/sw293/tradema
Amazingly, there's now iPhone listed. And iPhone's now featured on their front page, where before it barely had any mention other than compatibility statements.
Took them 7 years to update their trademark page. Good timing, that.
Steve, buddy, if you use this to win, I want one of each product line.
(This) Song Is Just Six Words Long okay, seven, but bring it up with Al.
Dolby 5.1 surround is the way to go these days.
The earlier poster has a good point. iPods and iTunes are based on the concept that you get music by either buying it from the iTunes store, downloading a legal mp3, or Ripping a CD, which used to be a haxt00r thing, now it's commonplace. Even W does it, well, he has someone do it for him, I'm sure.
But the DVD content. I got the latest Weird Al album, iTunes lets me copy the music. It's a duodisk, so I can flip the cd, it's now a dvd. I don't have a DVD player on my computer, so I copied the relevant (videos) DVD file onto a CD at a friend's computer, took the copy home, then converted that to Quicktime on my computer for viewing..
None of these things are going anywhere outside of my house, let alone the internets. Did I break the law, which ones, and at what point?
I've gotten iTunes music before, too. Immediately converted them to non-DRM content. (using one of Jon's earlier programs.)
Didn't share them. Lawbreaker? I still have the original m4a's. Last played: over a year ago. I listen to my non-DRM'd copies.
Variations on wavelengths, amplified and broadcast, take approximately 3 seconds from source audio to the listener. This cumilatively creates a 'storage medium' where anyone with a reciever can illegally intercept music. This of course can be resolved by renegotiated royalty payments.
1: eBay should have stopped this by auction day one.
2: lacking reciepts, fellow is a pirate.
I think somebody let this auction go through just so they can say 'see? these iPods facilitate piracy!' One checkmark option in the preferences of a iTunes installation and that 'synch to nothing' feature goes away. But X number of conusmers can't find that checkbox..
However, If I want to put my purchased music, whether it's a digital legal download, a microphone recording, LP, tape, CD, on any media capable of reproducing it, it should be legal and anyone buying or leasing a device capable of it should have the legal backing to do so. Reselling the media? with proofs, or not at all. Illegal copies wrapped in a convenient package is still piracy.
The actual article has little to do with this aspect, but the comments seem to have gone this direction. Sure, folks with computer-savvy skills can wire this and patch that and do these things, but the common consumer is locked into a revenue system that defaults to extra charges for virtually nothing.
Imagine if your cable box had a nice remote, but each time you pushed the channel changer, it required a surcharge for 'data communications'. You could go to the store and get a compatible remote, or get up and change the channel, but the cable company provides the remote 'free' with the service. A percentage of their customers would fall for it..
We need a DMCA for consumers. 'No device or media product shall restrict usability for the purposes of incurring additional costs or limiting access to the consumer if comparable technologies allow the consumer to access this service or media at reduced or no cost.'
Now some might say this would outlaw the iTMS store selling music and tv shows because you could record a tv show and transfer it to your player for free if you take the trouble to do so. Nobody is forcing folks to buy the content off of their store, it's their choice to add this content rather than set their vcr. The costs of convenience..
However, if X company has cellphone that plugs into your computer to load ringtones easily, then Y company can't sell that phone with that feature disabled, or purposely restrict their networks to phones without that feature. In Europe, for instance, there are a lot of services they provide gratis that here in the US the phone companies charge for just because they can.
Sure, it's implausible in the real world, but look at what they want to legislate in on the other side with more restrictive media access built into future technologies. If the manufacturers have to comply with THAT legislation, then they should have to comply with new fair use rules that eliminate these closed markets..
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Can a moon landing be faked?
Answer:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v697/kayoteq/fa
That farking malware needs to have no protection based on its EULA. Just re-did a XP install because the user had forgotten to turn on the firewall on their sp1. Result: slowdowns, popups,autorun programs; re-formatting and firewall fixed it. And those ##$*@ are just waiting on the internet ready to pounce on new installs w/o firewall enabled. And that's just the stuff you didn't want. These days, ANY program installed could set off some security risk (see SONY) so the spyware and virus protection folks need to take into account ANY possible security risk. Say this keylogger's stored file is accessable via some process. Then, keylogger=security risk: instead of some internal security measure, it turns into a virtual radio of what you type. This seems to be a way to CYA over a poorly written program that introduces a security risk. Malware being primarily designed to introduce external data, is also a risk. Danger>EULA. Guess someone will have to take this to court to settle down the differences between code-ripping and code-detection data. Affording protection to all software due to EULA is just asinine. All I have to do is include in the rarely-read EULA 'And it is a violation of the Agreement to attempt to detect, remove, or otherwise modify the Software.' Oh wait, that's what they write now.
We've seen how durable these new nanos are. That's going to help their profits tremendously as now a 5 foot drop means a scratch, not a invisible damaged circuit they have to swap out units for under warrantee. Good for them, good for me. Um, sorta. Dropped my mini and 10 days later, new mini. I think only ACME delivery to Wile E. Coyote is faster. Reducing that overhead potential just helps them more.