Why shouldn't be illegal?? Very simple really. If they can monitor and plant these things on stuff I *own* without my permission, I can just as easily plant them myself on stuff I own. I would be breaking no laws. You're terrorism reference makes me laugh... the government won't come to a hault if they can't monitor what I purchase, they shouldn't be allowed to in the first place.
I'm not worried about this RFID thing - I plan on learning how to make these things myself with some kit you can buy out the back of popular science, and I'm going to program them and stick them all over my clothes... the catch is, I'm going to fill them with all kinds of crap data that just wastes these companies and gov's bandwidth and storage capabilities, and flood their databases with wack data. If enough people do what I do, RFID will be worthless real fast I figure. Sure, there will be ways to sort the data so the bad stuff can be trashed, but then we adapt and reprogram the tags, and it becomes a game they will tire of quickly.
1: Only 15-year olds spell Microsoft with a "$". Grow up.
It was an abbreviation fuckwad. Would you prefer everyone waste their time spelling out Microsoft each time, or actually get to the point they are trying to make? Everybody who visits this website knows what I'm refering to when I use M$.
Right - I'm all about putting that M$ proprietary format out of business myself, but along the same lines, I would say the same about the ACC Apple format. Screw them both, when there are already acceptable formats available and widely used like MP3 and OGG. The fact remains though, is that if they were that serious about selling as many ipods as possible, they would support OGG and WMV to grab that other 20% of the market.
Exactly - if it were true that Apple's intentions were to only make money off the ipod, they WOULD support.wmv. However, they don't because they want CONTROL over online music distribution, and seem to be sacrificing a profit to get there. I supposet that's kinda like M$ and the Xbox.
Interesting. I had always thought it had 48 since that's what the early specs were saying. I believe the Xbox has 128 of system memory. It always does amaze me how efficiently video game consoles use memory since I think the PS1 only had 3 or 4 megs, and it was a 33 mhz processor running it all if I remember right.
4mb of ram for the system??? It actually has 48 - I have no idea where you got 4. The PS2 has 32. So the GC has more than the PS2.
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Yeah, and I'd like to comapare the cancer rates to that of the U.S. then as well... I keep reading more and more about the problems cell phone towers and wireless gateways are causing for people's health. So, maybe the worse coverage in the U.S. might be better for the people after all...
Right.... I'm gonna pay for downloading music when I 90% is crap to begin with. You know what I'm talking about, blank mp3 files the RIAA stuck on the network, music with skips, blank spaces, only encoded at 112 kbps, etc. No thanks. I'd use the Apple online music solution, or any other method, before I would pay for access to a network where I would get music from other users - and then get billed by a company that didn't have a damn thing to do with distributing it besides writing their lame ass software full of spyware and adware. Whoever at that company thinks this will work smoked far too much crack before coming up with this brilliant plan.
Yeah, I definitely think anytime a company wastes money on an inheritenly defective product such as this - it can't be a good thing for their bottom line. Funny how you don't hear about that stuff though when they talk about their decreasing profits all the time...
Exactly - I think somebody would end up be held liable for possible damages. It sounds like a good idea at first, but one false positive could do some serious damage and get people in lots of trouble.
"Did you miss the first line of the ITMS Terms of Service, " THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND APPLE COMPUTER, INC. ("APPLE") STATING THE TERMS THAT GOVERN YOUR USE OF THE ITUNES MUSIC STORE SERVICE." If you wish to use the Service you must agree to these terms, including waiving your fair use rights, which is all perfectly legal. This is a legal contract between you and Apple and they can enforce it if they choose. Just because they probably won't prosecute doesn't mean you aren't breaking the law, just as it is statistically unlikely that you will be sued by the RIAA for using Kazaa."
I disagree with you - I'm not a lawyer, but I think that if a citizen is afforded specific rights by the U.S. constituion, no contract in this country can take away any of those. It's like Microsoft's EULA for front page stating that you can't use front page to create pages containing negative comments about M$. It's retarded, and it would certainly not be illegal to use front page to trash M$. If M$ tried to sue somebody in court over it, they would lose. When you say Apple can "enforce" this contract if I reencode files, you're sort of right - they can void the contract and kick me off their service, that's it. They can't sue me or have legal charges brought against me. My fair use is protected in the U.S., and Apple can't change that, simple as that.
Why would the encoding be lossy? It should be no different than any other mp3 I have encoded - it's just that the file is starting from a compresses state, being expanded, and then compressed again. As long as the file is originally encoded at 128 kbps or higher, I'm happy.
"Besides, re-coding without the DRM violates the ITMS Terms of Service, a legal agreement between the user and Apple."
Well, for starters, there is no law stating that I can't reencode music into any format that I choose if I have legally purchased this music. It's called Fair Use. So, even if Apple's agreement prohibits it, so what. That makes their agreement legally void then, and I'd like to see them try to enforce it.
Because their DRM is a joke. You can burn a CD with their app from the music you bought. Then, you can easily rip the CD to any format you wish, including MP3 or OGG. This scheme keeps the music labels relatively happy, and the consumers happy knowing they can end up doing whatever they choose with the CDs they can burn. I think this is awesome, and the way it should be. I can't wait for a windows release so I can get in on the the cheap music party.
I agree - I have a PS2, but am now seriously considering getting a cube for the Mario cart game. At 149, no way - but 99 sounds a lot more appealing... I miss the Mario games I used to play as a kid.
Well, then you haven't looked at the temp differences between AMD/Intel cpus in a LONG time. Have you seen how hot the Pentium 4 gets and how much heat it dissepates?? The fact of the matter is, Via and Transmeta both make x86 cpus that put off low amounts of heat. AMD and Intel don't have anything that compares - unless you're going to tell me that the Pentium M or Centrino offerings are low power... I guess that dependson what your definition of low power is.
You must be drunk - I'm not an AMD or Intel fanboy as you call it - I just know that AMDs floating point performance crushes any intel cpu currently on the market. That is the only way AMD has been able to stay with Intel in the performance area. Intel relies on mhz scaling in their long pipeline, while AMD tries to squeeze extra performance out of the lower mhz they use.
As other posters have pointed out, from what I understand, there is still support until December for NT4. Not that anyone should still be running it...
"The resources available to a spammer are limited. They don't have the ability to get a court order to force the blacklist server offline, they can't have Network Solutions yank the blacklist server out of DNS space, but they can launch a retributional DDOS attack back at the blacklist server."
WHAT?! That argument is RETARDED. It's like saying that capital punishment or a life sentence is a determent for murder - so the killers needs to "adapt or die" by killing cops and judges. It's also like saying that home security systems are getting in the way of robbers doing "business", so robbers should band together and shut down home security companies. IF I DON'T SPAM I WILL DO ANYTHING IN MY POWER TO KEEP IT FROM GETTING TO MY SERVER. Do you get that? I said MY server - a spammer has absolutely no right to send mail to MY server unless I allow it - so I have every right to subscribe to an RBL and an RBL has ever right to assist me in blocking that mail that I don't want.
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Why shouldn't be illegal?? Very simple really. If they can monitor and plant these things on stuff I *own* without my permission, I can just as easily plant them myself on stuff I own. I would be breaking no laws. You're terrorism reference makes me laugh... the government won't come to a hault if they can't monitor what I purchase, they shouldn't be allowed to in the first place.
I'm not worried about this RFID thing - I plan on learning how to make these things myself with some kit you can buy out the back of popular science, and I'm going to program them and stick them all over my clothes... the catch is, I'm going to fill them with all kinds of crap data that just wastes these companies and gov's bandwidth and storage capabilities, and flood their databases with wack data. If enough people do what I do, RFID will be worthless real fast I figure. Sure, there will be ways to sort the data so the bad stuff can be trashed, but then we adapt and reprogram the tags, and it becomes a game they will tire of quickly.
1: Only 15-year olds spell Microsoft with a "$". Grow up.
It was an abbreviation fuckwad. Would you prefer everyone waste their time spelling out Microsoft each time, or actually get to the point they are trying to make? Everybody who visits this website knows what I'm refering to when I use M$.
Right - I'm all about putting that M$ proprietary format out of business myself, but along the same lines, I would say the same about the ACC Apple format. Screw them both, when there are already acceptable formats available and widely used like MP3 and OGG. The fact remains though, is that if they were that serious about selling as many ipods as possible, they would support OGG and WMV to grab that other 20% of the market.
Exactly - if it were true that Apple's intentions were to only make money off the ipod, they WOULD support .wmv. However, they don't because they want CONTROL over online music distribution, and seem to be sacrificing a profit to get there. I supposet that's kinda like M$ and the Xbox.
What an extremely frightening scenario, yet something like this is probably already being developed. However, 2 things must exist first:
1) They must have the belkin router in question.
2) The ByteVerify hole must be allowed to be exploited by having old versions on the machine.
So, it's possible, I would just think this is a small number of people who meet both requirements.
Interesting. I had always thought it had 48 since that's what the early specs were saying. I believe the Xbox has 128 of system memory. It always does amaze me how efficiently video game consoles use memory since I think the PS1 only had 3 or 4 megs, and it was a 33 mhz processor running it all if I remember right.
4mb of ram for the system??? It actually has 48 - I have no idea where you got 4. The PS2 has 32. So the GC has more than the PS2.
Yeah, and I'd like to comapare the cancer rates to that of the U.S. then as well... I keep reading more and more about the problems cell phone towers and wireless gateways are causing for people's health. So, maybe the worse coverage in the U.S. might be better for the people after all...
Right.... I'm gonna pay for downloading music when I 90% is crap to begin with. You know what I'm talking about, blank mp3 files the RIAA stuck on the network, music with skips, blank spaces, only encoded at 112 kbps, etc. No thanks. I'd use the Apple online music solution, or any other method, before I would pay for access to a network where I would get music from other users - and then get billed by a company that didn't have a damn thing to do with distributing it besides writing their lame ass software full of spyware and adware. Whoever at that company thinks this will work smoked far too much crack before coming up with this brilliant plan.
Yeah, I definitely think anytime a company wastes money on an inheritenly defective product such as this - it can't be a good thing for their bottom line. Funny how you don't hear about that stuff though when they talk about their decreasing profits all the time...
Exactly - I think somebody would end up be held liable for possible damages. It sounds like a good idea at first, but one false positive could do some serious damage and get people in lots of trouble.
"Did you miss the first line of the ITMS Terms of Service, " THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND APPLE COMPUTER, INC. ("APPLE") STATING THE TERMS THAT GOVERN YOUR USE OF THE ITUNES MUSIC STORE SERVICE." If you wish to use the Service you must agree to these terms, including waiving your fair use rights, which is all perfectly legal. This is a legal contract between you and Apple and they can enforce it if they choose. Just because they probably won't prosecute doesn't mean you aren't breaking the law, just as it is statistically unlikely that you will be sued by the RIAA for using Kazaa."
I disagree with you - I'm not a lawyer, but I think that if a citizen is afforded specific rights by the U.S. constituion, no contract in this country can take away any of those. It's like Microsoft's EULA for front page stating that you can't use front page to create pages containing negative comments about M$. It's retarded, and it would certainly not be illegal to use front page to trash M$. If M$ tried to sue somebody in court over it, they would lose. When you say Apple can "enforce" this contract if I reencode files, you're sort of right - they can void the contract and kick me off their service, that's it. They can't sue me or have legal charges brought against me. My fair use is protected in the U.S., and Apple can't change that, simple as that.
Why would the encoding be lossy? It should be no different than any other mp3 I have encoded - it's just that the file is starting from a compresses state, being expanded, and then compressed again. As long as the file is originally encoded at 128 kbps or higher, I'm happy.
"Besides, re-coding without the DRM violates the ITMS Terms of Service, a legal agreement between the user and Apple."
Well, for starters, there is no law stating that I can't reencode music into any format that I choose if I have legally purchased this music. It's called Fair Use. So, even if Apple's agreement prohibits it, so what. That makes their agreement legally void then, and I'd like to see them try to enforce it.
Because their DRM is a joke. You can burn a CD with their app from the music you bought. Then, you can easily rip the CD to any format you wish, including MP3 or OGG. This scheme keeps the music labels relatively happy, and the consumers happy knowing they can end up doing whatever they choose with the CDs they can burn. I think this is awesome, and the way it should be. I can't wait for a windows release so I can get in on the the cheap music party.
Who said I was going to pay $49 for a game?? Ebay or used game shops are the way to go. Hell, maybe I'll just rent it.
I agree - I have a PS2, but am now seriously considering getting a cube for the Mario cart game. At 149, no way - but 99 sounds a lot more appealing... I miss the Mario games I used to play as a kid.
Well, then you haven't looked at the temp differences between AMD/Intel cpus in a LONG time. Have you seen how hot the Pentium 4 gets and how much heat it dissepates?? The fact of the matter is, Via and Transmeta both make x86 cpus that put off low amounts of heat. AMD and Intel don't have anything that compares - unless you're going to tell me that the Pentium M or Centrino offerings are low power... I guess that dependson what your definition of low power is.
You must be drunk - I'm not an AMD or Intel fanboy as you call it - I just know that AMDs floating point performance crushes any intel cpu currently on the market. That is the only way AMD has been able to stay with Intel in the performance area. Intel relies on mhz scaling in their long pipeline, while AMD tries to squeeze extra performance out of the lower mhz they use.
Wow, the things I learn... No wonder the last administration was tough on Microsoft while the current one is not!
So, according to that BS, Apple now owes SCO money too?
Al must have worked for Apple.
As other posters have pointed out, from what I understand, there is still support until December for NT4. Not that anyone should still be running it...
Everyone misunderstood your post then - because to me, it sounded like you were defending the spammers actions... and I strongly disagree with that.
"The resources available to a spammer are limited. They don't have the ability to get a court order to force the blacklist server offline, they can't have Network Solutions yank the blacklist server out of DNS space, but they can launch a retributional DDOS attack back at the blacklist server."
WHAT?! That argument is RETARDED. It's like saying that capital punishment or a life sentence is a determent for murder - so the killers needs to "adapt or die" by killing cops and judges. It's also like saying that home security systems are getting in the way of robbers doing "business", so robbers should band together and shut down home security companies. IF I DON'T SPAM I WILL DO ANYTHING IN MY POWER TO KEEP IT FROM GETTING TO MY SERVER. Do you get that? I said MY server - a spammer has absolutely no right to send mail to MY server unless I allow it - so I have every right to subscribe to an RBL and an RBL has ever right to assist me in blocking that mail that I don't want.