Someone who invests in the creation of a product has some right to expect to be able to sell their works for a profit.
Yeah? Tell that to someone with an underwater mortgage, or who bought faceBook stock.
Massive downloading and viewing "pirated content" deprives the creators of some financial return.
Fallacious. When Lou and Randy in Britain want to see the latest Big Bang Theory and they pirate it because its simply isn't available there, how are they costing the producers any money? If they download a movie thay think might suck that they would never have paid for, how are the studios losing money? Especially if they're happily surprised that it doesn't suck and they buy a copy?
When Joe McDonalds cook and Suzie college kid who can't afford to buy a movie downlod one, how is the studio losing money?
The truth is, Hollywood keeps making these claims of loss with no proof whatever of veracity, and studies all show they're wrong. But keep the lies going, fellow.
What's worse, I buy my movies at WalMart but lately I;ve been thinking of simply going to TPB. Why? Because the pirate version is superior to the paid version! When I buy a DVD, I have to sit through often unskippable trailors (yeah, I REALLY want to be forced to watch commercials in a product I already paid for, you're making me pay TWICE you damned thieves), wait for a lame animated menu to stop animating, and hit "play" again, and then am assaulted with three separate unskippable piracy warnings when I'm not pirating in the fisrt damned place! If I start pirating, I just hit "play" with the mouse and the movie starts.
Listen up, Hollywood, if you want to keep me as a customer, you're going to have to make the paid for version at least equal to the pirate version. When I put the DVD in, start the god damned movie NOW you stupid fuckweeds! You can have your menu when the movie's done, with trailors as an option, not forced.
Piracy is rampant because the entertainment industry is run by idiots.
In just the past 4 years they've got from ALSA to Pulse, GNOME 2 to 3 and KDE 3 to 4, it was just a fucking mess! Wireless wouldn't work, Ethernet would just drop in and out, give audio up it was just a mess, and of course the Nvidia and ATI drivers were crapped on, the Intel worked but only in VESA mode. So what did I get told then? "Well you should use Red hat, its supported" yeah at $399 a year it IS supported, its also 40 times the cost of Windows over that same 10 year cycle.../facepalm/
It's true that Nvidea and ATI suck (damned MS only shit, like the "winmodems" used to be), but the rest of your rant is unadulterated bullshit. Ethernet doesn't drop out unless you're trying to network with a Win7 box; Microsoft deliberately crippled 7's network capability. Its own files say you need a copy of W7 pro on the network for it to work, so it's a wonder the Samba people got it going at all. maybe I just got lucky with the Acer notebook, but I haven't had trouble with wireless and kubuntu at all (but on its native OS, Win 7, sometimes wifi does get flaky).
How's that BlueTooth support on your Windows box? I bought a Bluetooth dongle to transfer photos from my phone, it came with with Mac and Windows install CDs, but no Linux. I figured Linux simply wasn't supported. I was wrong. I didn't have to install anything to get Bluetooth working, all I had to do was plug the dongle in and it worked. No muss, no fuss, no installation, no reboots, no problem. Quite unlike Windows, where I had to copy the disk to a thumb drive, install the drivers and program, and reboot twice.
As to Red Hat, I haven't screwed with that in a decade, because I simply fucking HATED it when I tried it. Red Hat is not a desktop OS, it's pretty much server-only, or at least looked that way 10 years ago.
Have you ever even thought of any of the accounts of Rama or Vishnu, say, as being "Hindu myths"?
Surprisingly, no. I spent a year in Thailand, a Bhuddist country, and I have the utmost respect for them. Especially one Bhudist priest; I'll recount a story but you'll surely think it's bullshit, because if I hadn't experienced it myself I wouldn't believe it. I probably recounted this story elsewhere, but here it is.
I was out in the boonies by the ocean visiting some Thai friends, and waited by the side of the road for a bhat bus back to the base (I was stationed in Thailand, it was at the end of the Vietnam war). A bhat bus was a Japanese pickup truck with benches and a canopy in the back.
I kept looking back and forth for the bus, and when I looked from right to left this portly gentleman in a bright orange robe was standing next to me. It made me think of the TV show Kung Fu. But it got better.
I exchanged pleasantries with him, and twenty minutes later I looked down the road for the bus and saw it coming. "Oh, there he is" I said, and turned to the priest, and he'd disappeared. The "bus" showed up and I told the driver to wait a minute, that there was someone else there a minute earlier who wanted a ride. He asked me to describe the fellow (remember, this was a dirt road through the jungle). When I did, his eyes got big and he said "wow, you've been blessed! He's special, few have ever seen him." He motioned for me to get in the front passenger seat, I did, and he took off.
Five minutes later as I was looking out the window he slammed on the brakes, and when I looked, the priest in the flourescent orange robe was sitting between us!
The driver made me get in the back.
That was nearly 40 years ago, and although I've tried to think of a rational explanation for what I'd seen, I still can't explain that Asian David Copperfield. God must surely be with the Bhuddists, but after all, he created all this. Including Bhudda.
From everything I've read, Windows 8 won't run unless SecureBoot is on. That means to swap OSes, the user would have to boot into the BIOS every time he wanted to change OSes. That's just shitty.
Christianity as a big one; but why not grab just one branch higher and group the christians together with the jews and probably a few others under the Abrahamic religion?
Because it's completely different. The Jews and Muslims are under the old covenant (they're God's chosen people) and followers of Christ are under the new covenant. Jews and Muslims must lead a perfect, sinless life to get to heaven, but Christians' sins have been paid for in blood.
Well, except for buddhism, that has a fat man instead.
I spent a year in Thailand, a Bhuddist country, and learned quite a bit about their religion. Obviously you know little about Bhuddism.
Because someone having to steal a certificate first, and then get malware to spread significantly before the certificate is revoked is so much less secure than not signing your code at all?
Yes, because the user will think the door's locked when it's wide open. This makes SafeBoot worse than useless.
Oh please. Next you'll be saying we shouldn't bother to lock our doors because someone can just throw a brick through the window too, yes?
No, I'll lock my own damned door rather than trust a crackhead (microsoft) to lock it for me.
It's not often I side with an AC, but he's right. You would think that after twelve years they would have had the holes closed tight as a drum, but apparently they either don't care to make their OS a quality product, or they're simply not competent (my guess would be "don't care", they did a good job with Excel so they must have a few excellent programmers).
I had the same thing a few months ago, a friend brought his agening Dell for me to fix, including its OS and driver disks. So I just installed XP on a computer a few months ago; the OS was too trashed to run. In 10 years of using Linux, various flavors, I've never seen it hosed like Windows gets.
Sadly, Windows couldn't find the drivers on the disks or or on the internet. There's no way W7 would have run on that box, even if my friend wanted to shell out a couple hundred bucks for it. So I slapped Mandriva 2005 on it. Which, BTW, is safer than a brand new out of the box copy of W7.
please stay with Linux, you are obviously too big of a dumbass to run Windows.
That was funny! But acutually, since installing Windows is such a pain in the ass and running it is so frustrating, you're right. I prefer an OS that just works. The computer should jump through the hoops, not me. I shouldn't have to hunt for drivers, especially when I have them on a CD. I shouldn't have to have someone mention in a slashdot comment how to make Windows start without entering the password, and I shouldn't have to run a program from the goddamned command line that's included with Windows to do so.
I see you haven't read the FAQ on the matter. You'll find "try to respond to another comment" in there, NOT "If you want to comment on something from TFS, make a new comment". If you don't like it, take it up the staff, not us.
This especially goes for topics that get a joke first post. If someone breaks the flow of THAT conversation, that's a GOOD thing.
Oh, BTW, you moderators might want to read the FAQ as well, his comment was not only incorrect, it was offtopic.
then again, the US has a very high population of religious sheep and those are the perfect 'voters' to keep the status quo going. brainwashed believers are a huge part of the problem
Odd, my bible doesn't say a single word about pot, even though it's been used by humans for thusands of years. So WTF does religion have to do with it?
An awful long post for one minute after the story's timestamp.
A subscriber sees the articles before a non-subscriber, although you can't post until the story is visible to everyone. But you have plenty of time to read the article, and to jot down your thoughts and links in a text editor and wait for it to be ready for comments. Wouldn't you rather see a well thought out, informative comment like that one rather than a Frosty Piss or a joke that takes up the first 200 comments listed? I sure would!
That said, I would keep some drugs controlled - Opiates and Cocaine, while fun, are ripe for abuse due to their addictive potential
Alcohol is so addictive that withdrawal can be and often is fatal. Not so with cocaine, less so with heroin. If you want to ruin your life shooting heroin, how is that my or the government's business? If someone steals to support a habit (whether heroin, crack, alcohol, or coffee) then put them in jail for theft.
The only class of drug I would keep illegal is antibiotics. Your misuse of antibiotics (especially the legal misuse in farms on food animals) does affect me, by breeding "superbugs". These should be illegal, and farmers should not be able to use antibiotics at all, only by a veterenarian and only when an animal has a bacterial infection.
Wrong. The inside of a Baptist church is no different than the inside of a Methodist church, and the sermons are likewise similar. The only thing that's different is the trappings; all of Christainity worship the same savior and are supposed to follow the same rules. It's no different than Ubuntu and Red Hat, both are Linux and use the same kernel.
Also, the GP's numbers are flawed (I looked it up a few weeks ao in response to a/. comment). He's overestimating the Hinus by a little, the Muslims by a little, and underestimating the number of Christians by a third. Over three billion people consider themselves Christian (even if few of them even attempt to follow Christ's teachings).
Oh, and when you don't capitalize Hindu or Muslim or Bhuddist or Christian, you're insulting millions or billions of people. We call that "flamebait" around here.
How in the HELL can anyone not have heard of Amilia Earhart? What grade are you in, kid? Fourth? Jesus, there was even a Star Trek Voyager episode involving her! Few history books about the era neglect her, and she's been the subject of discussion and fiction since her plane disappeared.
Amazing that a comment THAT ignorant can be modded "insightful". Whoever modded that should never get mod points!
Teabaggers had nothing to do with the current economic crisis; they were a response to the crisis, not its cause.
They didn't happen until Obama was sworn in to office. The economy had crashed six months earleier. The Tea Party was the Koch brothers' effortd to have his 1%er agenda pushed forward. Notice it's the "tea (taxed enough already) party" rather than the "deficit is toobig" party? The tea party is for lower taxes and a balanced budget. Odd, federal taxes are lower than any time in 60 years. Also odd that Bush spent like a drunken sailor, where was the tea party when he took Clinton's balanced budget and had history's highest defecit when his first term ended?
On the other side of the equation are drug users. Drug users often A: Don't work, they can't keep a job B: Don't have money C: Need money to get high So they rob banks, they rob liquor stores, they rob cars, and the crime rate sky rockets.
Alcohol is so addictive that withdrawal can be fatal. Tobacco is so deadly it kills most of its users. Caffiene is also addictive. So why aren't alcoholics, coffee drinkers, and tobacco smokers all out of work, starving, and robbing people?
You're either a moron, or you work for the drug cartels. That is the only two reasons to argue for the continued outlawing of illegal drugs; stupidity and a vested interest.
Amusing that name has actually been used by the two companies.
Not when you know the history of BASIC. Wozniac was 16 when BASIC was developed at Dartmouth, Gates was only 11. It was the perfect language for a tiny computer like the Apple 1 or the Commodore Pet (which iinm used MS BASIC)
I stopped using AV software when it failed to protect me from XPC. Who would have thought that a large, well respected company like Sony would deliberately infect their paying customers' computers? The irony is, if my daughter had just downloaded the songs instead of buying it from the record store she worked at, I'd not have gotten infected.
If mozilla.com got infected, your AV software isn't going to help any more than mine protected me against XCP.
Don't kid yourself if you think other places wont do the same if they think they can turn a profit and make their books looked balanced by taxing anything they may make legal in the future.
Is a pack of cigarettes a hundred bucks in Canada? A pack of cigarettes has an ounce of tobacco. Guess what an ounce of pot costs?
Honestly, I find that pathetic. This is not like conscientous objectors hiding Jews when Nazis came looking for them. It's just declining to help somebody b'cos it violates another agreement. Do we always do everything our friends and neighbors ask us to do? If my neighbor asked me to help set up a forgery outfit to help him out of his poverty and joblessness, would it be right or wrong of me to refuse?
You know, buddy, hyperbole that stupid doesn't belong here. First you take Stallman completely out of context, then you resort to extreme hyperbole. When you have to resort to either tactic, you already lost the debate.
Don't let the screen door hit your ass on the way out, MAFIAA shill. You're outed!
I find it amazing that some people are 100% sure that God doesn't exist (despite the fact that people have experienced God) yet insist just as vehemently that sentient space beings do, despite the fact that nobody has ever had any indication whatever (yet! I'd be surprised if we found none, nowhere) that any life at all exists off this rock, let alone sentient life.
Me, I think there probably is life out there, perhaps even sentient life, but if we find no life in the solar system besides here on earth, we'll never find any. The distance between stars is just too far.
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Someone who invests in the creation of a product has some right to expect to be able to sell their works for a profit.
Yeah? Tell that to someone with an underwater mortgage, or who bought faceBook stock.
Massive downloading and viewing "pirated content" deprives the creators of some financial return.
Fallacious. When Lou and Randy in Britain want to see the latest Big Bang Theory and they pirate it because its simply isn't available there, how are they costing the producers any money? If they download a movie thay think might suck that they would never have paid for, how are the studios losing money? Especially if they're happily surprised that it doesn't suck and they buy a copy?
When Joe McDonalds cook and Suzie college kid who can't afford to buy a movie downlod one, how is the studio losing money?
The truth is, Hollywood keeps making these claims of loss with no proof whatever of veracity, and studies all show they're wrong. But keep the lies going, fellow.
What's worse, I buy my movies at WalMart but lately I;ve been thinking of simply going to TPB. Why? Because the pirate version is superior to the paid version! When I buy a DVD, I have to sit through often unskippable trailors (yeah, I REALLY want to be forced to watch commercials in a product I already paid for, you're making me pay TWICE you damned thieves), wait for a lame animated menu to stop animating, and hit "play" again, and then am assaulted with three separate unskippable piracy warnings when I'm not pirating in the fisrt damned place! If I start pirating, I just hit "play" with the mouse and the movie starts.
Listen up, Hollywood, if you want to keep me as a customer, you're going to have to make the paid for version at least equal to the pirate version. When I put the DVD in, start the god damned movie NOW you stupid fuckweeds! You can have your menu when the movie's done, with trailors as an option, not forced.
Piracy is rampant because the entertainment industry is run by idiots.
Damn, you beat me to it!
In just the past 4 years they've got from ALSA to Pulse, GNOME 2 to 3 and KDE 3 to 4, it was just a fucking mess! Wireless wouldn't work, Ethernet would just drop in and out, give audio up it was just a mess, and of course the Nvidia and ATI drivers were crapped on, the Intel worked but only in VESA mode. So what did I get told then? "Well you should use Red hat, its supported" yeah at $399 a year it IS supported, its also 40 times the cost of Windows over that same 10 year cycle.../facepalm/
It's true that Nvidea and ATI suck (damned MS only shit, like the "winmodems" used to be), but the rest of your rant is unadulterated bullshit. Ethernet doesn't drop out unless you're trying to network with a Win7 box; Microsoft deliberately crippled 7's network capability. Its own files say you need a copy of W7 pro on the network for it to work, so it's a wonder the Samba people got it going at all. maybe I just got lucky with the Acer notebook, but I haven't had trouble with wireless and kubuntu at all (but on its native OS, Win 7, sometimes wifi does get flaky).
How's that BlueTooth support on your Windows box? I bought a Bluetooth dongle to transfer photos from my phone, it came with with Mac and Windows install CDs, but no Linux. I figured Linux simply wasn't supported. I was wrong. I didn't have to install anything to get Bluetooth working, all I had to do was plug the dongle in and it worked. No muss, no fuss, no installation, no reboots, no problem. Quite unlike Windows, where I had to copy the disk to a thumb drive, install the drivers and program, and reboot twice.
As to Red Hat, I haven't screwed with that in a decade, because I simply fucking HATED it when I tried it. Red Hat is not a desktop OS, it's pretty much server-only, or at least looked that way 10 years ago.
Try kubuntu or Mandriva.
Have you ever even thought of any of the accounts of Rama or Vishnu, say, as being "Hindu myths"?
Surprisingly, no. I spent a year in Thailand, a Bhuddist country, and I have the utmost respect for them. Especially one Bhudist priest; I'll recount a story but you'll surely think it's bullshit, because if I hadn't experienced it myself I wouldn't believe it. I probably recounted this story elsewhere, but here it is.
I was out in the boonies by the ocean visiting some Thai friends, and waited by the side of the road for a bhat bus back to the base (I was stationed in Thailand, it was at the end of the Vietnam war). A bhat bus was a Japanese pickup truck with benches and a canopy in the back.
I kept looking back and forth for the bus, and when I looked from right to left this portly gentleman in a bright orange robe was standing next to me. It made me think of the TV show Kung Fu. But it got better.
I exchanged pleasantries with him, and twenty minutes later I looked down the road for the bus and saw it coming. "Oh, there he is" I said, and turned to the priest, and he'd disappeared. The "bus" showed up and I told the driver to wait a minute, that there was someone else there a minute earlier who wanted a ride. He asked me to describe the fellow (remember, this was a dirt road through the jungle). When I did, his eyes got big and he said "wow, you've been blessed! He's special, few have ever seen him." He motioned for me to get in the front passenger seat, I did, and he took off.
Five minutes later as I was looking out the window he slammed on the brakes, and when I looked, the priest in the flourescent orange robe was sitting between us!
The driver made me get in the back.
That was nearly 40 years ago, and although I've tried to think of a rational explanation for what I'd seen, I still can't explain that Asian David Copperfield. God must surely be with the Bhuddists, but after all, he created all this. Including Bhudda.
From everything I've read, Windows 8 won't run unless SecureBoot is on. That means to swap OSes, the user would have to boot into the BIOS every time he wanted to change OSes. That's just shitty.
Christianity as a big one; but why not grab just one branch higher and group the christians together with the jews and probably a few others under the Abrahamic religion?
Because it's completely different. The Jews and Muslims are under the old covenant (they're God's chosen people) and followers of Christ are under the new covenant. Jews and Muslims must lead a perfect, sinless life to get to heaven, but Christians' sins have been paid for in blood.
Well, except for buddhism, that has a fat man instead.
I spent a year in Thailand, a Bhuddist country, and learned quite a bit about their religion. Obviously you know little about Bhuddism.
Because someone having to steal a certificate first, and then get malware to spread significantly before the certificate is revoked is so much less secure than not signing your code at all?
Yes, because the user will think the door's locked when it's wide open. This makes SafeBoot worse than useless.
Oh please. Next you'll be saying we shouldn't bother to lock our doors because someone can just throw a brick through the window too, yes?
No, I'll lock my own damned door rather than trust a crackhead (microsoft) to lock it for me.
Since you used a perfectly reasonable and logic argument regarding a humorous comment, I believe you are a government drone
LOL! Since when has any govenment drone ever used reason and logic? Reason and logic are the hallmark of the NERD.
YOu are already thrusting MS to run code (the "OS") on your computer.
No I'm not, I'm running kubuntu. Not trusting MS is one of the many reasons why.
It's not often I side with an AC, but he's right. You would think that after twelve years they would have had the holes closed tight as a drum, but apparently they either don't care to make their OS a quality product, or they're simply not competent (my guess would be "don't care", they did a good job with Excel so they must have a few excellent programmers).
I had the same thing a few months ago, a friend brought his agening Dell for me to fix, including its OS and driver disks. So I just installed XP on a computer a few months ago; the OS was too trashed to run. In 10 years of using Linux, various flavors, I've never seen it hosed like Windows gets.
Sadly, Windows couldn't find the drivers on the disks or or on the internet. There's no way W7 would have run on that box, even if my friend wanted to shell out a couple hundred bucks for it. So I slapped Mandriva 2005 on it. Which, BTW, is safer than a brand new out of the box copy of W7.
please stay with Linux, you are obviously too big of a dumbass to run Windows.
That was funny! But acutually, since installing Windows is such a pain in the ass and running it is so frustrating, you're right. I prefer an OS that just works. The computer should jump through the hoops, not me. I shouldn't have to hunt for drivers, especially when I have them on a CD. I shouldn't have to have someone mention in a slashdot comment how to make Windows start without entering the password, and I shouldn't have to run a program from the goddamned command line that's included with Windows to do so.
Windows just sucks, period.
I see you haven't read the FAQ on the matter. You'll find "try to respond to another comment" in there, NOT "If you want to comment on something from TFS, make a new comment". If you don't like it, take it up the staff, not us.
This especially goes for topics that get a joke first post. If someone breaks the flow of THAT conversation, that's a GOOD thing.
Oh, BTW, you moderators might want to read the FAQ as well, his comment was not only incorrect, it was offtopic.
then again, the US has a very high population of religious sheep and those are the perfect 'voters' to keep the status quo going. brainwashed believers are a huge part of the problem
Odd, my bible doesn't say a single word about pot, even though it's been used by humans for thusands of years. So WTF does religion have to do with it?
An awful long post for one minute after the story's timestamp.
A subscriber sees the articles before a non-subscriber, although you can't post until the story is visible to everyone. But you have plenty of time to read the article, and to jot down your thoughts and links in a text editor and wait for it to be ready for comments. Wouldn't you rather see a well thought out, informative comment like that one rather than a Frosty Piss or a joke that takes up the first 200 comments listed? I sure would!
Well said! However,
That said, I would keep some drugs controlled - Opiates and Cocaine, while fun, are ripe for abuse due to their addictive potential
Alcohol is so addictive that withdrawal can be and often is fatal. Not so with cocaine, less so with heroin. If you want to ruin your life shooting heroin, how is that my or the government's business? If someone steals to support a habit (whether heroin, crack, alcohol, or coffee) then put them in jail for theft.
The only class of drug I would keep illegal is antibiotics. Your misuse of antibiotics (especially the legal misuse in farms on food animals) does affect me, by breeding "superbugs". These should be illegal, and farmers should not be able to use antibiotics at all, only by a veterenarian and only when an animal has a bacterial infection.
Wrong. The inside of a Baptist church is no different than the inside of a Methodist church, and the sermons are likewise similar. The only thing that's different is the trappings; all of Christainity worship the same savior and are supposed to follow the same rules. It's no different than Ubuntu and Red Hat, both are Linux and use the same kernel.
Also, the GP's numbers are flawed (I looked it up a few weeks ao in response to a /. comment). He's overestimating the Hinus by a little, the Muslims by a little, and underestimating the number of Christians by a third. Over three billion people consider themselves Christian (even if few of them even attempt to follow Christ's teachings).
Oh, and when you don't capitalize Hindu or Muslim or Bhuddist or Christian, you're insulting millions or billions of people. We call that "flamebait" around here.
How in the HELL can anyone not have heard of Amilia Earhart? What grade are you in, kid? Fourth? Jesus, there was even a Star Trek Voyager episode involving her! Few history books about the era neglect her, and she's been the subject of discussion and fiction since her plane disappeared.
Amazing that a comment THAT ignorant can be modded "insightful". Whoever modded that should never get mod points!
Gees, think much?
Teabaggers had nothing to do with the current economic crisis; they were a response to the crisis, not its cause.
They didn't happen until Obama was sworn in to office. The economy had crashed six months earleier. The Tea Party was the Koch brothers' effortd to have his 1%er agenda pushed forward. Notice it's the "tea (taxed enough already) party" rather than the "deficit is toobig" party? The tea party is for lower taxes and a balanced budget. Odd, federal taxes are lower than any time in 60 years. Also odd that Bush spent like a drunken sailor, where was the tea party when he took Clinton's balanced budget and had history's highest defecit when his first term ended?
On the other side of the equation are drug users. Drug users often
A: Don't work, they can't keep a job
B: Don't have money
C: Need money to get high
So they rob banks, they rob liquor stores, they rob cars, and the crime rate sky rockets.
Alcohol is so addictive that withdrawal can be fatal. Tobacco is so deadly it kills most of its users. Caffiene is also addictive. So why aren't alcoholics, coffee drinkers, and tobacco smokers all out of work, starving, and robbing people?
You're either a moron, or you work for the drug cartels. That is the only two reasons to argue for the continued outlawing of illegal drugs; stupidity and a vested interest.
I've never seen porn on Wikipedia, because I've never looked for it.
There are even worse images than goatse. Look up the wiki article on "vitrectomy". (Yes, I underwent that procedure. Not fun.)
Amusing that name has actually been used by the two companies.
Not when you know the history of BASIC. Wozniac was 16 when BASIC was developed at Dartmouth, Gates was only 11. It was the perfect language for a tiny computer like the Apple 1 or the Commodore Pet (which iinm used MS BASIC)
I stopped using AV software when it failed to protect me from XPC. Who would have thought that a large, well respected company like Sony would deliberately infect their paying customers' computers? The irony is, if my daughter had just downloaded the songs instead of buying it from the record store she worked at, I'd not have gotten infected.
If mozilla.com got infected, your AV software isn't going to help any more than mine protected me against XCP.
Don't kid yourself if you think other places wont do the same if they think they can turn a profit and make their books looked balanced by taxing anything they may make legal in the future.
Is a pack of cigarettes a hundred bucks in Canada? A pack of cigarettes has an ounce of tobacco. Guess what an ounce of pot costs?
Honestly, I find that pathetic. This is not like conscientous objectors hiding Jews when Nazis came looking for them. It's just declining to help somebody b'cos it violates another agreement. Do we always do everything our friends and neighbors ask us to do? If my neighbor asked me to help set up a forgery outfit to help him out of his poverty and joblessness, would it be right or wrong of me to refuse?
You know, buddy, hyperbole that stupid doesn't belong here. First you take Stallman completely out of context, then you resort to extreme hyperbole. When you have to resort to either tactic, you already lost the debate.
Don't let the screen door hit your ass on the way out, MAFIAA shill. You're outed!
I find it amazing that some people are 100% sure that God doesn't exist (despite the fact that people have experienced God) yet insist just as vehemently that sentient space beings do, despite the fact that nobody has ever had any indication whatever (yet! I'd be surprised if we found none, nowhere) that any life at all exists off this rock, let alone sentient life.
Me, I think there probably is life out there, perhaps even sentient life, but if we find no life in the solar system besides here on earth, we'll never find any. The distance between stars is just too far.
Check your "freaks" file. If you have any freaks (and the AC sure looks like you do) that's your list of likely suspects.