What's so hard about being active on social media and GitHub?
Jesus wept.
It's not what's "hard" about it. The problem is that you have to live with yourself afterwards, with a bunch of strangers sending you highly-refined stupidity and looking for "follow-backs" and "likes" and "favorites". People posting pictures of their goddamn dinner. Then there are the bots dressed up as humans. Saying stupid cut and paste friendliness, but you don't want to block them because it just doesn't feel right and then it'll bring down the number of accounts that follow you to single digits.
For me, social media always brings to mind the quote by the poet Charles Bukowski:
"I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around."
The techdirt article doesn't need to mention the DMCA when we already know it bans circumvention.
Not you too!
The DMCA only bans circumvention of systems used to protect copyrighted works. Go read the law.
There is no copyright on a toner cartridge. No copyright on the toner. And the DMCA only covers works protected under copyright. If there's some crude kludge to allow you to use the lower-cost cartridges, it is not breaking any federal law, especially the DMCA.
We are slashdot, and we're geeky enough to figure this out for ourselves.
But not geeky enough to go look at a citation before you leap in with both feet.
Please tell me you understand the difference between hacking a PS3 so you can play pirated games and hacking a toner cartridge so you can print with cheaper ink. I know you know better.
He's on the top floor, apartment 23. But you won't find him there... he's up on the roof with his cows. He keeps cows. Dirty... disgusting... filthy... lice-ridden cows. You used to be able to sit out on the stoop like a person. Not anymore! No, sir! Cows!... You get my drift?
Are smaller numbers better than bigger numbers? Or is this an older card that they've kept in a box for a year before revealing to the world?
How would this improve my life?
It would improve your life by saving you $150 over the more expensive card.
If you want to play next-gen PC games though, it's not going to do much. It seems like every AAA title now requires at least a 960, and many recommend (amazingly to me) a Titan in the system specs.
Yet you should not need to break the law to be able to utilize a backup copy of the game you've already purchased once the original copy has been scratched passed restoration.
I agree completely. Sadly, this discussion is about the use of toner cartridges, which you can alter and hack to your heart's content without breaking the law. If you can figure out a way to refill your cartridges and reuse them, it's legal. If you can figure out a way to fool the printer into thinking an Eastern European cartridge is an American cartridge, it's legal. If you can start making Xerox cartridge clones that will work in your machine, it's legal.
I think what Xerox is doing is anti-competitive and shitty business. Region-coding cartridges to force your users to use the most expensive consumables is anti-consumer. But they're not using any part of federal law to do it. Region coding is not an example of government over-reach. It's bad corporate behavior, pure and simple.
Why do people feel a need to insult people with differing perspectives?
Being wrong and making shit up is not a "perspective". It's just plain old being wrong and making shit up.
If someone says, "to my perspective, 4 > 3 is false" you wouldn't say, "Well that's his perspective and we should all respect his perspective, so he should be able to keep his job writing code in which 4 > 3 is false. No, you'd say, "That guy is kind of an idiot, and he's screwing up the project. He is wrong and is making shit up.
And if he goes to management and says, "It is my perspective that 4 is not greater than 3, so I deserve to keep my job and the respect of all my co-workers and write code in which 4 is not greater than 3", what do you think happens then? Are you going to be the one to go to management and say, "You know, every perspective is valid, no matter how wrong it might be"?
The idea that every "differing perspective" is valid and deserves respect is the intellectual equivalent of giving participation trophies for scientific papers.
"Xerox is ripping us off" sounds like a condemnation of the corporation to me. The fact that they're abusing the DMCA to do so is a sideline.
First, where in the article does it say anything about using the DMCA to do anything regarding the toner cartridges? Or any mention of Xerox using ANY federal law to region code their products.
Second, you will notice that there is not a period, or even a comma after "Xerox is ripping us off". That's because the rest of the sentence is important to the meaning of what he's saying, that somehow Xerox, by region-coding their toner cartridges, is somehow using the force of federal law to make you use only toner cartridges made locally. That's the part that's not true. You can comb the Techdirt article from top to bottom and not find a single thing about any federal law being involved.
This law does exist, regardless of whether you know about it or not. I think it's called Anti-circumvention millenium.... here you go [wikipedia.org]
Sorry, friend, but that law you cite is meant to protect the copyright of works. You can't circumvent a PS4,to use a pirated game because the game is protected by copyright. The text of the law is there for you to read for yourself.
I don't think there's any way to cover a toner cartridge under copyright.
You're not looking at this in the right way. It should be lawful to encrypt cartridges as a way of making more money, and it should be equally lawful for a customer to decrypt them as a way of saving money. THAT is how real capitalism would work.
You fucking idiot. You wouldn't know how "real capitalism" would work if "real capitalism" came to your door and bit you on the ass.
What part of "real capitalism" includes the need to be able to hack a consumer products code to be able to use the product that you bought in the way you see fit? What part of "real capitalism" includes a company being able to embed a trojan in its products that it doesn't tell you about which will force you to buy the most expensive consumables?
Xerox is ripping us off not by region encoding its products, but by using federal power to criminalize whatever consumer forms of post-purchase hacking of its product that consumer may find advantageous.
This is the part that really set me off and prompted me to call you out as an idiot. Where in the motherfucking hell do you find anything about "federal power" preventing you from hacking your Eastern European cartridge? People who bought the expensive single-serve coffee machines were able to circumvent the consumable lock-in with a goddamn piece of tape. Do you believe that's also a violation of some federal statute? Because that is just as much "hacking" the lock-in. And can you please point us to the statute that says a consumer can't alter a consumable like a toner cartridge in order to use one from a different region? Or better yet, adapt a non-Xerox cartridge to your machine?
You goddamn libertarian mouth-breathers are always in a hurry to ascribe every bit of bad corporate behavior as being some sort of government conspiracy to take away your god-given liberty, and no corporation can ever be guilty of bad behavior. You absolutely will not hold any corporation accountable for anything, ever.
Not wanting to give out welfare isn't a selfish proposition.
We need to start looking at welfare in a different way. We will soon enter an age when we don't need "full employment" for everyone to have all the goods and services that they need. The late-stage capitalism where the more things are automated, the harder working people have to work, is just not sustainable. The only reason we have that situation today is to support the supply-side perversion of capitalism. It's already groaning under the weight of supply-side economics, and the burgeoning disparity of incomes and wealth is the evidence. When you have more than 40% of the US work-force making less than $15/hr, and 80% of people not having enough savings to retire on by age 68, social and economic disruption is going to occur.
Rich people can hire only so many servants and drivers and people to wash their cars and be nanny to their kids. There are only so many people needed to service the robots. Only so many people needed to do the dirty work. And those are just the low-paying jobs. The middle-income jobs have already started to go. How valuable you think your ability to program Java is going to be by 2017? Or for that matter, by this Christmas?
So, we can decide that a guaranteed minimum income is something we need, or we can decide to become a society where 67 year-old beggers fight with 25 year-old beggers who fight with 12 year-old beggers as they line the streets. As someone who's spent time in such countries, let me tell you, it's not that great to be a well-off person in a place where everyone else is dirt poor. It might appeal to the big-L Libertarians in the crowd, but for the other 99%, it's not a pleasant proposition.
As a card-carrying member of the Bofa Party, I am announcing my full support for this candidate. Mostly because I want to be able to say "I support Deez Nuts".
I'd love to see the look on some pompous limeys face when he popped the hood on a Bentley and found a thumping rat.
Where I live, the only Bentleys I see are driven by Chicago Bulls players (I live a few blocks from a Bulls practice facility. When I first moved here, I noticed a lot of very tall, very well-dressed black men driving Aston Martins, Bentleys, and a shorter guy (probably a point guard) driving an Audi A8. Once I even saw a Koenigsegg and the guy was coming out of the gym and I was walking the dog. I told him "I drive that car in Need For Speed Rivals" and he laughed and said, "Good choice". I didn't have the heart to tell him that, at least in the game, the the LaFerrari was a better choice.
You can't pay me in BitCoins. No real food. No firewood. No rent. No clothing. Millionaires starving out on the street because all they have are BitCoins. Sad.
But they'll be able to buy Oxycontin on the DarkNet and hire FBI agents to kill their ex-girlfriends, so in the end, they won't need rent, and they'll get three meals a day as guests of the state.
Slashdot Mirror
Jesus wept.
It's not what's "hard" about it. The problem is that you have to live with yourself afterwards, with a bunch of strangers sending you highly-refined stupidity and looking for "follow-backs" and "likes" and "favorites". People posting pictures of their goddamn dinner. Then there are the bots dressed up as humans. Saying stupid cut and paste friendliness, but you don't want to block them because it just doesn't feel right and then it'll bring down the number of accounts that follow you to single digits.
For me, social media always brings to mind the quote by the poet Charles Bukowski:
Not you too!
The DMCA only bans circumvention of systems used to protect copyrighted works. Go read the law.
There is no copyright on a toner cartridge. No copyright on the toner. And the DMCA only covers works protected under copyright. If there's some crude kludge to allow you to use the lower-cost cartridges, it is not breaking any federal law, especially the DMCA.
But not geeky enough to go look at a citation before you leap in with both feet.
Please tell me you understand the difference between hacking a PS3 so you can play pirated games and hacking a toner cartridge so you can print with cheaper ink. I know you know better.
He's on the top floor, apartment 23. But you won't find him there... he's up on the roof with his cows. He keeps cows. Dirty... disgusting... filthy... lice-ridden cows. You used to be able to sit out on the stoop like a person. Not anymore! No, sir! Cows!... You get my drift?
Adversity is the parent of virtue.
Does anyone have the number of the good divorce attorney?
Asking for a friend.
Lexmark lost. They were not able to get copyright over their code.
So, your one example to prove your point is a legal case where your point lost the case?
It would improve your life by saving you $150 over the more expensive card.
If you want to play next-gen PC games though, it's not going to do much. It seems like every AAA title now requires at least a 960, and many recommend (amazingly to me) a Titan in the system specs.
I agree completely. Sadly, this discussion is about the use of toner cartridges, which you can alter and hack to your heart's content without breaking the law. If you can figure out a way to refill your cartridges and reuse them, it's legal. If you can figure out a way to fool the printer into thinking an Eastern European cartridge is an American cartridge, it's legal. If you can start making Xerox cartridge clones that will work in your machine, it's legal.
I think what Xerox is doing is anti-competitive and shitty business. Region-coding cartridges to force your users to use the most expensive consumables is anti-consumer. But they're not using any part of federal law to do it. Region coding is not an example of government over-reach. It's bad corporate behavior, pure and simple.
Well, you're a regular Albert Schweitzer. No, wait. I'm pretty sure that Albert Schweitzer would have called Applehu Akbar an idiot too.
Yes, if English is your native language, you will quickly see that he made several statements of fact. All of them provably wrong.
OK, I'll type slow just for you...the DMCA just covers circumvention of technologies used to protect copyrighted works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A toner cartridge is not a copyrighted work.
It's called "reading", and most other nerds have heard of it by now.
Do you understand that up until a few years ago it was illegal to have butt sex?
So, you admit that this is not the law now? OK, we're getting somewhere.
Xerox is NOT using the power of the federal government to prevent you from using non-local, non-Xerox toner cartridges.
Being wrong and making shit up is not a "perspective". It's just plain old being wrong and making shit up.
If someone says, "to my perspective, 4 > 3 is false" you wouldn't say, "Well that's his perspective and we should all respect his perspective, so he should be able to keep his job writing code in which 4 > 3 is false. No, you'd say, "That guy is kind of an idiot, and he's screwing up the project. He is wrong and is making shit up.
And if he goes to management and says, "It is my perspective that 4 is not greater than 3, so I deserve to keep my job and the respect of all my co-workers and write code in which 4 is not greater than 3", what do you think happens then? Are you going to be the one to go to management and say, "You know, every perspective is valid, no matter how wrong it might be"?
The idea that every "differing perspective" is valid and deserves respect is the intellectual equivalent of giving participation trophies for scientific papers.
First, where in the article does it say anything about using the DMCA to do anything regarding the toner cartridges? Or any mention of Xerox using ANY federal law to region code their products.
Second, you will notice that there is not a period, or even a comma after "Xerox is ripping us off". That's because the rest of the sentence is important to the meaning of what he's saying, that somehow Xerox, by region-coding their toner cartridges, is somehow using the force of federal law to make you use only toner cartridges made locally. That's the part that's not true. You can comb the Techdirt article from top to bottom and not find a single thing about any federal law being involved.
Sorry, friend, but that law you cite is meant to protect the copyright of works. You can't circumvent a PS4,to use a pirated game because the game is protected by copyright. The text of the law is there for you to read for yourself.
I don't think there's any way to cover a toner cartridge under copyright.
You fucking idiot. You wouldn't know how "real capitalism" would work if "real capitalism" came to your door and bit you on the ass.
What part of "real capitalism" includes the need to be able to hack a consumer products code to be able to use the product that you bought in the way you see fit? What part of "real capitalism" includes a company being able to embed a trojan in its products that it doesn't tell you about which will force you to buy the most expensive consumables?
This is the part that really set me off and prompted me to call you out as an idiot. Where in the motherfucking hell do you find anything about "federal power" preventing you from hacking your Eastern European cartridge? People who bought the expensive single-serve coffee machines were able to circumvent the consumable lock-in with a goddamn piece of tape. Do you believe that's also a violation of some federal statute? Because that is just as much "hacking" the lock-in. And can you please point us to the statute that says a consumer can't alter a consumable like a toner cartridge in order to use one from a different region? Or better yet, adapt a non-Xerox cartridge to your machine?
You goddamn libertarian mouth-breathers are always in a hurry to ascribe every bit of bad corporate behavior as being some sort of government conspiracy to take away your god-given liberty, and no corporation can ever be guilty of bad behavior. You absolutely will not hold any corporation accountable for anything, ever.
We need to start looking at welfare in a different way. We will soon enter an age when we don't need "full employment" for everyone to have all the goods and services that they need. The late-stage capitalism where the more things are automated, the harder working people have to work, is just not sustainable. The only reason we have that situation today is to support the supply-side perversion of capitalism. It's already groaning under the weight of supply-side economics, and the burgeoning disparity of incomes and wealth is the evidence. When you have more than 40% of the US work-force making less than $15/hr, and 80% of people not having enough savings to retire on by age 68, social and economic disruption is going to occur.
Rich people can hire only so many servants and drivers and people to wash their cars and be nanny to their kids. There are only so many people needed to service the robots. Only so many people needed to do the dirty work. And those are just the low-paying jobs. The middle-income jobs have already started to go. How valuable you think your ability to program Java is going to be by 2017? Or for that matter, by this Christmas?
So, we can decide that a guaranteed minimum income is something we need, or we can decide to become a society where 67 year-old beggers fight with 25 year-old beggers who fight with 12 year-old beggers as they line the streets. As someone who's spent time in such countries, let me tell you, it's not that great to be a well-off person in a place where everyone else is dirt poor. It might appeal to the big-L Libertarians in the crowd, but for the other 99%, it's not a pleasant proposition.
Thank god we don't have any propaganda factories here in the U S of A.
Today it was announced that the candidate "Deez Nuts" was polling a 9% in North Carolina. I am not joking.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...
As a card-carrying member of the Bofa Party, I am announcing my full support for this candidate. Mostly because I want to be able to say "I support Deez Nuts".
Wake me up when you can make long-lasting batteries without having to tear apart third-world countries to get the materials.
Where I live, the only Bentleys I see are driven by Chicago Bulls players (I live a few blocks from a Bulls practice facility. When I first moved here, I noticed a lot of very tall, very well-dressed black men driving Aston Martins, Bentleys, and a shorter guy (probably a point guard) driving an Audi A8. Once I even saw a Koenigsegg and the guy was coming out of the gym and I was walking the dog. I told him "I drive that car in Need For Speed Rivals" and he laughed and said, "Good choice". I didn't have the heart to tell him that, at least in the game, the the LaFerrari was a better choice.
[true story]
"Could The Best Chevrolet Be A Bentley?"
Slashdot, where art thou?
Where is the guy with the cows when you need him?
That was how we ended up getting married. I thought she was a hat and promised to just put my head in.
But they'll be able to buy Oxycontin on the DarkNet and hire FBI agents to kill their ex-girlfriends, so in the end, they won't need rent, and they'll get three meals a day as guests of the state.
So in the end, it all works out for the best.
From this day forward, a Bitcoin fork shall be known as a "bork".
It is so decreed.