A lot of people forget the lack of openness in early digital media. In the 90's if you wanted to rip CD audio, you had to have one of the minority of CD-ROM drives that would rip Redbook content. There were websites with lists of the CD-ROM drives that allowed this. Most drives blocked ripping Redbook content in the drive's firmware.
We can't cocoon people and then let them out into the world.
I think what these groups want to do, though, is train/indoctrinate people and then release them as little justice fighters into the real world when they graduate.
The beauty of buying games at GoG instead of Steam is that you download the installers from them. Archive away all the installers and you're good for the rest of your life (and beyond).
Well, moon rocks are illegal to sell. Scrap metal from NASA prototyping uses? We'd be buried in it if scrappers weren't allowed to sell it to China. That's probably where the scrap metal ended up, incidentally.
What is your sort doing in this discussion? You doubtless also believe that there was never a Moon Landing, so this 'lander' was just a prototype of a movie studio prop and not historic. The whole Federal Government is a conspiracy to steal your dollars.
Perhaps find another place to peddle your idiotic conspiracy theories.
There is a fetishization of 'historical' stuff that has gone on for a long time in America.
Nice older houses in many towns are labeled as 'Historic Homes' and tours go around the city to show them from time to time. I have to ask 'what that is historic happened in that house' and the plain truth is, it's just an old house. I love old houses and neighborhoods with old houses in them.
But there has to be a limit, because we can't save everything as if it has 'historic value.' Most of the 'historic' things that are left simply didn't get scrapped.
A whole lot of the games on Steam are already available DRM-free if you buy them at gog.com. I now ALWAYS check there first to buy an unlocked copy before even considering buying the game at Steam.
There is the added bonus that you don't wander into the numerous 'pre-release' ripoffs if you browse around on gog instead of Steam.
There are lots of WoW private servers. The only problem with them, from a player's point of view, is that you're running Blizzard's shitty old binaries when you connect to them. This new law could make it more legal for people to dig into the old WoW binaries (it would probably mainly be patchlevels 1.12.1 and 3.3.5a) and plug holes and vulnerabilities. Releasing a new security patchlevel cap for 1.12.1 and 3.3.5a would make it less dangerous to connect to a private server, and this law should make said reverse engineering legal.
Even with the quashing of bnetd there is a thriving community of people who develop and promote WoW servers that are non-blizzard. If you want to play an older version of WoW at a Lan party, or WoW as a single player game (it's a pretty decent single-player RPG, an aspect of the game that actually only has gotten worse as new Expansions came out) it's fairly trivial to download and set up a MySQL based server.
Maybe it's weird, but some of us have zero interest in WoW endgame and end up just rolling a new toon at level cap. Blizzard spends considerable effort making sure the paying 'player base' think of private server operators as 'the scum of the earth' and it makes sense in a way, because I for one wouldn't connect to a private server run by someone I didn't know personally with Blizzard's shitty binaries. But I'm also done connecting to Blizzard, and I love playing in Azeroth the way it is before they ruined it with Cataclysm.
Vanilla WoW is an example of a game "that require server authentication (where such authentication is no longer available)". I don't want to upgrade to your shitty new version, Blizzard. Thank goodness for Mangos and Trinity.
The color code would signal "this is a drone owned by a big company with lawyers on staff and a whole department tasked with going after anybody who interferes with it." And that will be enough.
They can do their job 'by the book' and not get into any trouble at all. It's interesting to see the cities turn into shitholes of crime because they do so. Maybe the race-based 'gangs' represent burgeoning self-government and we should just let the cities fester. I certainly don't have any interest in living there.
Apple's computers aren't so much 'different' as they are 'separate.' They do all the same stuff, but are removed just enough from the mainstream to make their users feel 'special.'
I think for programmers the hardware that should be mandatory is a basic computer architecture. It would be great if it could be discrete CPU/ROM/RAM/DecodeLogic/IO but that's a little ambitious in today's world. At a minimum an Arduino or some sort of small microcontroller.
Gate level AND/OR/NOT is so low in scope that it just doesn't relate to the real world. Unless, I suppose, they're using AND/OR/NOT gates to construct adders and ALUs.
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Indeed. Somebody who was apparently very threatened by what they saw watching the debate and thus riled up.
A lot of people forget the lack of openness in early digital media. In the 90's if you wanted to rip CD audio, you had to have one of the minority of CD-ROM drives that would rip Redbook content. There were websites with lists of the CD-ROM drives that allowed this. Most drives blocked ripping Redbook content in the drive's firmware.
We can't cocoon people and then let them out into the world.
I think what these groups want to do, though, is train/indoctrinate people and then release them as little justice fighters into the real world when they graduate.
So is this carbon arc lamp used to signal the guards or what??
Perhaps some welding goggles. Lots of them, for the prisoners and also so they can persuade the guards nearby to wear them?
The beauty of buying games at GoG instead of Steam is that you download the installers from them. Archive away all the installers and you're good for the rest of your life (and beyond).
Well, moon rocks are illegal to sell. Scrap metal from NASA prototyping uses? We'd be buried in it if scrappers weren't allowed to sell it to China. That's probably where the scrap metal ended up, incidentally.
What is your sort doing in this discussion? You doubtless also believe that there was never a Moon Landing, so this 'lander' was just a prototype of a movie studio prop and not historic. The whole Federal Government is a conspiracy to steal your dollars.
Perhaps find another place to peddle your idiotic conspiracy theories.
It also doesn't sound like it was 'priceless.' I wonder what the dude got for it.
If all the scrap at NASA had to be 'preserved' we would have to clear out every building in D.C. that isn't the Smithsonian to store it all in.
Hmmm, that's not a bad idea.
There is a fetishization of 'historical' stuff that has gone on for a long time in America.
Nice older houses in many towns are labeled as 'Historic Homes' and tours go around the city to show them from time to time. I have to ask 'what that is historic happened in that house' and the plain truth is, it's just an old house. I love old houses and neighborhoods with old houses in them.
But there has to be a limit, because we can't save everything as if it has 'historic value.' Most of the 'historic' things that are left simply didn't get scrapped.
The Dead Kennedy's song is 'California Uber Alles' not anything about Alabama.
A whole lot of the games on Steam are already available DRM-free if you buy them at gog.com. I now ALWAYS check there first to buy an unlocked copy before even considering buying the game at Steam.
There is the added bonus that you don't wander into the numerous 'pre-release' ripoffs if you browse around on gog instead of Steam.
There are lots of WoW private servers. The only problem with them, from a player's point of view, is that you're running Blizzard's shitty old binaries when you connect to them. This new law could make it more legal for people to dig into the old WoW binaries (it would probably mainly be patchlevels 1.12.1 and 3.3.5a) and plug holes and vulnerabilities. Releasing a new security patchlevel cap for 1.12.1 and 3.3.5a would make it less dangerous to connect to a private server, and this law should make said reverse engineering legal.
Even with the quashing of bnetd there is a thriving community of people who develop and promote WoW servers that are non-blizzard. If you want to play an older version of WoW at a Lan party, or WoW as a single player game (it's a pretty decent single-player RPG, an aspect of the game that actually only has gotten worse as new Expansions came out) it's fairly trivial to download and set up a MySQL based server.
Maybe it's weird, but some of us have zero interest in WoW endgame and end up just rolling a new toon at level cap. Blizzard spends considerable effort making sure the paying 'player base' think of private server operators as 'the scum of the earth' and it makes sense in a way, because I for one wouldn't connect to a private server run by someone I didn't know personally with Blizzard's shitty binaries. But I'm also done connecting to Blizzard, and I love playing in Azeroth the way it is before they ruined it with Cataclysm.
Vanilla WoW is an example of a game "that require server authentication (where such authentication is no longer available)". I don't want to upgrade to your shitty new version, Blizzard. Thank goodness for Mangos and Trinity.
McHale's Navy would have been a better choice.
The color code would signal "this is a drone owned by a big company with lawyers on staff and a whole department tasked with going after anybody who interferes with it." And that will be enough.
Because you might want to run real software, not just little self-contained 'apps' that are all packaged up like miniature Halloween candy bars.
A shocking number of illegal and immoral acts go on everywhere in the world all the time.
It's weird and a little introverted to be fixated on a little niche like software.
"Circle the wagons. Those people who hate our cult are on the way."
Yeah, what a great way to encourage people to belong to the cult. It's very reinforcing to be an oppressed member of a group.
Just gtfo with your 'hater' labels. Quit being a baby because other people think slavering brand loyalty is dumb.
Sorry, but do your job ..
They can do their job 'by the book' and not get into any trouble at all. It's interesting to see the cities turn into shitholes of crime because they do so. Maybe the race-based 'gangs' represent burgeoning self-government and we should just let the cities fester. I certainly don't have any interest in living there.
I was talking about five years later, though. Or six, or eight.
I drive a 2006 light truck that I bought new and I expect it to last at least five or six more years with affordable service costs.
Apple's computers aren't so much 'different' as they are 'separate.' They do all the same stuff, but are removed just enough from the mainstream to make their users feel 'special.'
The FAT filesystem is a symptom of climate change.
I think for programmers the hardware that should be mandatory is a basic computer architecture. It would be great if it could be discrete CPU/ROM/RAM/DecodeLogic/IO but that's a little ambitious in today's world. At a minimum an Arduino or some sort of small microcontroller.
Gate level AND/OR/NOT is so low in scope that it just doesn't relate to the real world. Unless, I suppose, they're using AND/OR/NOT gates to construct adders and ALUs.