It also doesn't allow security update to the Live CD, so if banks start giving these out on a large scale, then "security by obscurity" goes out the window
I read an article about some kids doing that a while ago, but they did it better. They bought a prepaid cellphone with a GPS receiver built in that they reprogrammed to send them the coordinates of the balloon ever few minutes. The basket was a Styrofoam food container with chemical hand warmers that they used to keep the equipment warm. When the balloon landed, they just followed the coordinates the phone sent them.
Exactly. They've had this CD tax for years that legalized music copyright infringement.
Now that they're doing this for mp3 players (and I'm sure, PMPs in general), this would also imply that movie and portable game copyright infringement is legal too, eh?
I fully support fighting DRM with piracy.
If I have to put up with this DRM shit from the big guys, then I'm not going to buy their games, but it won't stop me from playing them.
I mean, I voted for this guy, and he can't get the Dems to force a traditional fillabuster for healthcare, and now Biden has convinced him of supporting big media.
Because I don't pay for the nuclear plant or the hydro dam. However, getting the money together to buy and install the solar panels is all on me, the homeowner
It doesn't have to record all the time for it to be recording. The fact that they have a 'record' aka the picture of the child means that recording took place. Even if all they have is 1 photo, they RECORDED that photo
Not the point. The Superbowl is free, but PPV fights are not, and can run a lot of money. If I were to host a fight, Splitting $100 fight over 5 people is better than paying it myself.
That's the whole problem with the copyright system! When I own something, I should be able to do WHATEVER I want with it. If I want to open a movie theater and charge people to watch my DVDs, so be it; my movie theater, my DVDs. However copyright law prevents this. Why? So the content providers have one more channel to make money
What principle? You, as a consumer, have no power in this. Every broadcaster does it, and even if some didn't, you can't "vote with your wallet" short of just not paying for TV. Regulation is good, especially in monopolistic situations
But see, the commercials wouldn't be worth as much, or at least, the advertisers wouldn't pay as much to have their ads broadcast. Since people get up to get food and such during commercials, they make them louder so that if you can't see them, maybe you'll still hear them. So by normalizing the commercial audio, then you wouldn't potentially make as much money.
So you'd rather have to pay more for your TV then to just force the networks to stop being assholes?
If *you* want loud commercials, then turn your TV up louder. I'm tired of the networks jacking the commercial sound up, its bullshit and I shouldn't have to be responsible for fixing it. If I have the movie or TV show at 70 dB, I want the commercials at 70 dB as well.
It was never to stop piracy, it was to sell more consoles! I don't think that the console division and the live division should be so interlaced. Banning live on modded xboxs doesnt stop piracy obviously, but sells more consoles.
Its not about whether smoking is bad for the computer, its because second-hand smoke is bad for the Apple workers..
I thought it meant the computers at first too...but they wouldn't call it a 'biohazard' then. Last time I checked, you had to be 'bio'logical to be affected by a biohazard.
They'll give a Nobel Peace Prize to ANYBODY these days...just look at the last guy who got it...
Don't flame, I like Obama a lot, but I'll be damned as to why he won a peace prize for stuff he is 'going' to do
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No, that law doesn't stop overdraft "protection" fees, it just prevents banks from automatically enrolling customers into those programs
It also doesn't allow security update to the Live CD, so if banks start giving these out on a large scale, then "security by obscurity" goes out the window
I read an article about some kids doing that a while ago, but they did it better. They bought a prepaid cellphone with a GPS receiver built in that they reprogrammed to send them the coordinates of the balloon ever few minutes. The basket was a Styrofoam food container with chemical hand warmers that they used to keep the equipment warm. When the balloon landed, they just followed the coordinates the phone sent them.
How is this better than, say, a few LCD screens?
Exactly. They've had this CD tax for years that legalized music copyright infringement.
Now that they're doing this for mp3 players (and I'm sure, PMPs in general), this would also imply that movie and portable game copyright infringement is legal too, eh?
I fully support fighting DRM with piracy. If I have to put up with this DRM shit from the big guys, then I'm not going to buy their games, but it won't stop me from playing them.
I think I've had about enough change now...
I mean, I voted for this guy, and he can't get the Dems to force a traditional fillabuster for healthcare, and now Biden has convinced him of supporting big media.
I, for one, welcome our new arsenic-laden overlords
Thats all opinion my friend.
I've never had problems with soda bottles...and thats 100% plastic
Because I don't pay for the nuclear plant or the hydro dam. However, getting the money together to buy and install the solar panels is all on me, the homeowner
Can you convert that into a more familiar unit, like Library of Congresses?
It doesn't have to record all the time for it to be recording. The fact that they have a 'record' aka the picture of the child means that recording took place. Even if all they have is 1 photo, they RECORDED that photo
How about trespassing? Then its all fair and square
Not the point. The Superbowl is free, but PPV fights are not, and can run a lot of money. If I were to host a fight, Splitting $100 fight over 5 people is better than paying it myself.
That's the whole problem with the copyright system! When I own something, I should be able to do WHATEVER I want with it. If I want to open a movie theater and charge people to watch my DVDs, so be it; my movie theater, my DVDs. However copyright law prevents this. Why? So the content providers have one more channel to make money
You've got to be kidding me!
You pay your cable bill and you watch the advertisements, don't you?
If I want to have people over and charge them to watch my TV, its not the NFL's business. Now, if the NFL wants to buy me a TV and a house to watch the Superbowl©, then I'll let them restrict who may enter my home, and at what price.
Hopefully the Vatican has to pay the guy who invented English for using his lower-case letter 't' their churches
What principle? You, as a consumer, have no power in this. Every broadcaster does it, and even if some didn't, you can't "vote with your wallet" short of just not paying for TV. Regulation is good, especially in monopolistic situations
But see, the commercials wouldn't be worth as much, or at least, the advertisers wouldn't pay as much to have their ads broadcast. Since people get up to get food and such during commercials, they make them louder so that if you can't see them, maybe you'll still hear them. So by normalizing the commercial audio, then you wouldn't potentially make as much money.
So you'd rather have to pay more for your TV then to just force the networks to stop being assholes?
If *you* want loud commercials, then turn your TV up louder. I'm tired of the networks jacking the commercial sound up, its bullshit and I shouldn't have to be responsible for fixing it. If I have the movie or TV show at 70 dB, I want the commercials at 70 dB as well.
It was never to stop piracy, it was to sell more consoles! I don't think that the console division and the live division should be so interlaced. Banning live on modded xboxs doesnt stop piracy obviously, but sells more consoles.
I can't believe people are OK with this!
Its not about whether smoking is bad for the computer, its because second-hand smoke is bad for the Apple workers..
I thought it meant the computers at first too...but they wouldn't call it a 'biohazard' then. Last time I checked, you had to be 'bio'logical to be affected by a biohazard.
They'll give a Nobel Peace Prize to ANYBODY these days...just look at the last guy who got it... Don't flame, I like Obama a lot, but I'll be damned as to why he won a peace prize for stuff he is 'going' to do
You assume he was on the clock. People do have breaks, and thus, what they do on their time is their business, no matter who owns the equipment.