hmmmm, what services do these middlemen provide. They provide marketing and distribution of information. Welcome to 2009, the internet has made distribution of information cost almost nothing.
>Today, a citizen of Boston can use the Internet to read news from a variety of sources: "New York Times", "The Washington Post", "San Francisco Chronicle", etc. He is not forced to buy only today's editon of the "Boston Globe".
Those other news papers have existed along side the Boston Globe before the internet. What has changed is technology. The distribution and sharing of information got more efficient. They are competing against technology.
The reward is a $60 harddrive with a 80gig capacity, yea who wouldnt want to spend a lot of time recoverying data for that.
That site mentions that they will send the harddrive to any "established, professional data recovery company" with free shipping and then down the page it says "Send a self-addressed, postage-paid box with packaging material to the address listed below and we will mail the drive to you."
From one of the links.. (SysTest being the company hired by the Breathalyzer company to review the source code and Base One being the company hired by the accused) > SysTest only looked for "mal-ware", not for functioning of the code. > > Base One, however, did an extensive evaluation, finding 19,400 potential errors in the code.
How can you find "mal-ware" when you don't consider the purpose of the code.
And here is their algorithm to average n = 4 readings... "When the software takes a series of readings, it first averages the first two readings. Then, it averages the third reading with the average just computed. Then the fourth reading is averaged with the new average... which would cause the first reading to have more weight... Nonetheless, the comments say that the values should be averaged, and they are not."
I am but one person of this slashdot group, and I do not think it is ok to "get free stuff" but do you think it is ok for copyright terms to be as long as they are now given the technology we have today to easily duplicate and distribute?
Why worry about the legality of this, that is just bitching about who is right and wrong. We should make it so stuff like this is clearly legal. Copyright reform is needed.
I read some of the comments on the youtube link for the trailer and more than one person was saying how they loved reading LotR grade school, clearly a long time ago. Our present situation makes me sad.
>Would you, as the company selling this game, want to deny your customers access to the server because somebody else broke the rules?
Exactly, so why piss off paying customers with DRM when non-paying cutomers are breaking the rules? (this hypothetical question is not directed at Demigod producers)
I can play this word game too. Let's replace buying music (or any other digital information) with getting rapped.
Technology has made reproducing digital information cost almost nothing, yet we get to pay the same price for music as when they cost a lot more to reproduce.
The past: Technology has created the horseless carrige. Physical items are moved around more effieciently. Horseshoe repairmen are out of jobs
The present: Technology has created the digital age. Information is reproduced and spread about more efficiently. The middlemen who use to reproduce (making records/cds) and spread (market and distribute) this information are losing their jobs.
The furture: Technology has created a device that clones physical items like food. Physical items are reproduced more efficiently. If the present is any indication, the people who use to create these physical items will be trying to use the law to prevent society from freely reproducing these physical items.
I agree copyright is a good thing for society, but technology has made its current length unreasonable
What right do you (the hypothetical you) have to use the full force of the government to protect and benifit a few (the "content" owners). Copyright is suppose to benifit the whole of society. With today's technology to easily reproduce audio and visual works, current copyright terms are bullshit.
You talk about freedom and convienience regarding dvd playback. The inconvienience isnt any technical problem, it is a legal problem. If you want that fixed, laws have to be changed. With linux, you have the freedom to ignore the law and compile and use a media player capable of playing encrypted dvds.
Freedom isnt free.
Do you want a choice in what your software does and how it interacts with your data? With open source, you have the freedom to invest your time to change to to your specifications or invest some money to hire someone else to do the changes for you.
With non opensource software, you have to take what the developers give you. Your voice or opinion does not matter to the developers in a sea of other voices.
About your battery life comparisions in Windows XP versus Ubuntu, were you using the same settings? Were you using the same backlight intensity and blank time, the same harddrive spindown time, the same cpu frequency? I suspect you were not.
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Thats how Disney thinks about Mickey Mouse as well...
hmmmm, what services do these middlemen provide. They provide marketing and distribution of information. Welcome to 2009, the internet has made distribution of information cost almost nothing.
The guy is charged with stalking and is then stalked by the police with gps ... wow.
All the gps data will prove is the car was in a certain location at a certain time, not who.
Guilty until proven inocent, eh?
I was talking to someone about making society better and he replied, "fuck off with your startrek ideas."
>Today, a citizen of Boston can use the Internet to read news from a variety of sources: "New York Times", "The Washington Post", "San Francisco Chronicle", etc. He is not forced to buy only today's editon of the "Boston Globe".
Those other news papers have existed along side the Boston Globe before the internet. What has changed is technology. The distribution and sharing of information got more efficient. They are competing against technology.
To elaborate, the feature sets of Windows 7 are:
able to run most programs that worked on win xp and able to run win7 only programs.
So how often are the checks done to see if DRM'd content is playing? are those not wasted cpu cycles?
The reward is a $60 harddrive with a 80gig capacity, yea who wouldnt want to spend a lot of time recoverying data for that.
That site mentions that they will send the harddrive to any "established, professional data recovery company" with free shipping and then down the page it says "Send a self-addressed, postage-paid box with packaging material to the address listed below and we will mail the drive to you."
What is this Premium Content they mention? and when this premium content arrives, how much are they asking for?
From one of the links .. (SysTest being the company hired by the Breathalyzer company to review the source code and Base One being the company hired by the accused)
> SysTest only looked for "mal-ware", not for functioning of the code.
>
> Base One, however, did an extensive evaluation, finding 19,400 potential errors in the code.
How can you find "mal-ware" when you don't consider the purpose of the code.
And here is their algorithm to average n = 4 readings ... "When the software takes a series of readings, it first averages the first two readings. Then, it averages the third reading with the average just computed. Then the fourth reading is averaged with the new average ... which would cause the first reading to have more weight ... Nonetheless, the comments say that the values should be averaged, and they are not."
I am but one person of this slashdot group, and I do not think it is ok to "get free stuff" but do you think it is ok for copyright terms to be as long as they are now given the technology we have today to easily duplicate and distribute?
Why worry about the legality of this, that is just bitching about who is right and wrong. We should make it so stuff like this is clearly legal. Copyright reform is needed.
I read some of the comments on the youtube link for the trailer and more than one person was saying how they loved reading LotR grade school, clearly a long time ago. Our present situation makes me sad.
No confidience in airport security? How would a potential terrorist take over a large commercial plane post 9/11?
WHY? because it is apparently against the law. If you don't like it, then maybe the law should be changed.
If they lose, I hope it shows normal people how wrong the law is and that it should be changed.
So what is or who are the United States? Its' citizens or the government? or both or something else?
What is war?
Who are United States' enemies?
How is that different from using trackerless torrents and getting the hash info from the web that google indexes?
>Would you, as the company selling this game, want to deny your customers access to the server because somebody else broke the rules?
Exactly, so why piss off paying customers with DRM when non-paying cutomers are breaking the rules? (this hypothetical question is not directed at Demigod producers)
I can play this word game too. Let's replace buying music (or any other digital information) with getting rapped.
Technology has made reproducing digital information cost almost nothing, yet we get to pay the same price for music as when they cost a lot more to reproduce.
The past: Technology has created the horseless carrige. Physical items are moved around more effieciently. Horseshoe repairmen are out of jobs
The present: Technology has created the digital age. Information is reproduced and spread about more efficiently. The middlemen who use to reproduce (making records/cds) and spread (market and distribute) this information are losing their jobs.
The furture: Technology has created a device that clones physical items like food. Physical items are reproduced more efficiently. If the present is any indication, the people who use to create these physical items will be trying to use the law to prevent society from freely reproducing these physical items.
I agree copyright is a good thing for society, but technology has made its current length unreasonable
What right do you (the hypothetical you) have to use the full force of the government to protect and benifit a few (the "content" owners). Copyright is suppose to benifit the whole of society. With today's technology to easily reproduce audio and visual works, current copyright terms are bullshit.
You talk about freedom and convienience regarding dvd playback. The inconvienience isnt any technical problem, it is a legal problem. If you want that fixed, laws have to be changed. With linux, you have the freedom to ignore the law and compile and use a media player capable of playing encrypted dvds.
Freedom isnt free.
Do you want a choice in what your software does and how it interacts with your data? With open source, you have the freedom to invest your time to change to to your specifications or invest some money to hire someone else to do the changes for you.
With non opensource software, you have to take what the developers give you. Your voice or opinion does not matter to the developers in a sea of other voices.
About your battery life comparisions in Windows XP versus Ubuntu, were you using the same settings? Were you using the same backlight intensity and blank time, the same harddrive spindown time, the same cpu frequency? I suspect you were not.