So you think copy protection and DRM are good things, since trying to convince everyone to restrain themselves from using the tools they've been given (disc burners, digital storage, computers), is not a permanent solution to the problem of copyright infringement?
Are you sure AVG didn't actually use the WinRAR you have installed to extract the files, so it can scan them? I know that Ark (a KDE file archiving utility) uses Rarsoft's unrar to operate on RAR files.
Of course, I don't know whether you have WinRAR installed. Can AVG scan your RAR files if you don't have WinRAR installed?
Do you have a CRT or an LCD screen? I read that CRT screens don't actually provide a location for your eyes to focus on, unlike LCDs, which is why CRT screens cause more eye strain than LCD screens do.
The blind American savant Leslie Lemke played Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No1, after he heard it for the first time, and he never had so much as a piano lesson.
That sounds positively dangerous in today's legal IP/DMCA/DRM climate! (dons tinfoil hat to ward off Orbital Mind Control Lasers)
Maybe it's because millions of CPU-hours is peanuts compared to the Earth over its lifespan? An unparalleled massively parallel biochemical lab would be comparable to untold trillions of CPU hours.
If the goal is simply to raise the cost of spam to $.001, then this plan seems a lot more complex than it needs to be. Why not just use hashcash? Five minutes of cpu time costs about $.001.
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Actually, not so long ago, it was in the news that a certain virus scanner could be compromised by scanning a special self-extracting archive file.
I think the scanner actually *executed* the self-extraction code of the file to be scanned, which is of course a mortal sin in virus security...
So you think copy protection and DRM are good things, since trying to convince everyone to restrain themselves from using the tools they've been given (disc burners, digital storage, computers), is not a permanent solution to the problem of copyright infringement?
Are you sure AVG didn't actually use the WinRAR you have installed to extract the files, so it can scan them? I know that Ark (a KDE file archiving utility) uses Rarsoft's unrar to operate on RAR files.
Of course, I don't know whether you have WinRAR installed. Can AVG scan your RAR files if you don't have WinRAR installed?
Do you have a CRT or an LCD screen? I read that CRT screens don't actually provide a location for your eyes to focus on, unlike LCDs, which is why CRT screens cause more eye strain than LCD screens do.
Arthur's alarm clock went off at 7:42.
Maybe it's because millions of CPU-hours is peanuts compared to the Earth over its lifespan? An unparalleled massively parallel biochemical lab would be comparable to untold trillions of CPU hours.
Yeah, and nobody actually believed that the hundred billion dollars that a war in Iraq would cost were going to... oh, wait a minute...
That's funny, the communist governments in Eastern Europe and the USSR used to control the voting process too...
I just saw Michael Moore's documentary. Those republicans are total jerks.
See my point?
That really doesn't look like a The Register article...
Do you have a link to that? No lies are too low for those talentless hacks at El Reg!
Now please excuse me, I have to go attend to some wiring and doorknobs. Oh, I have my hands full, please shut the door behind me...
s/octopusses/octopuses/
:-P
"Wrong == wrong" as the Grammar Nazis say
On the planet Decapod X, they don't think octopusses look bizarre :-P
s/widthly known/widely known/
:-P
;-)
Sorry hoor, maar je vraagt er zelf om in je sig
Oh, en in-can-ta-tions.
Fout == fout
But then you'd have to introduce region coding to prevent parallel imports.
Looks like it worked as flamebait on you. Don't take everything that sounds stupid so seriously, dude! :-P
Clearly you're not one of those excellent individuals that are "taking your jobs", since you don't understand what "average" means.
And income isn't absolute either, since your dollar will buy a lot more (local goods and services) in poor countries than it will in the USA.
Well, it seems the Dutch don't have those "stupid Belgians" jokes for nothing...
:-(
Really, I used to think it was just stupid stereotyping, but it looks like it's all true
Not if it's the CPU time of some botnet.
So, if the Atlantis were launched for such a rescue mission, how would it get back without a "zed-pee-em"?
Get a potato plant, take care of it meticulously, even coming in during the weekends to water it, only to have it die when it's almost full-grown!