I have a HDTV and can tell the difference but don't care. I am not willing to pay the price difference for HD tv shows. My HDTV isnt going to waste tho, I do use it for high def gaming.
Replace "hit and run" or "download song" with "drug related crime" and you are in for a rude awakening. Even without your knowledge, the police with seize your car (in the usa) if it was used in a crime involving drugs. Once it is seized, it is auctioned off and the money goes the the police.... then they came for the potheads and i did not care because I did not do recreational drugs...
Tell that to Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen when aged 15 was captured by the US in Afganistan. He was no where near US soil and in a country that has no extradition agreements with the US.
You say you are a computer programmer with enough savyness to know where semicolons, brackets, braces go when coding -- yet you are suprised and frustrated that a config file you want to edit has to have no typos.
You don't understand or you don't care cause you do not gamble?...
First they came for the dirty pothead (Marc Emery from Canada), but I did not care. Then they came for the dirty software pirate (Hew Raymond Griffiths from Australia), but I did not care. Then they came for the ditry gamblers, but I did not care. You're next buddy!
This guy that got caught was not just ONE bad apple. The article quotes TSA Spokesperson Lara Uselding saying there has only been under 300 TSA employees that have been _caught_ for theft and terminated. Thats about 6 TSA theives per State on average.
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Where's those doughnuts I didn't tell you to get me? You have to anticipate my needs before I say them!
Sounds reasonable huh? Not everyone can read minds. If you want help you need to communicate that to the developers and not just complain on some web forum. I suggest filing a bug report or something to the mailing list of the particular kernel module.
Even if you can't code, you can help by testing and reporting.
In short, pirates are the reason that we all have to deal with DRM BS
You say "pirates" are the reason for DRM, but "pirates" don't have to deal with DRM. So, who has to deal with DRM? Legit users have to deal with DRM.
Let's see what DRM can do and the consequenses for legit users: * restrict users from format shifting thus forcing a user to buy same content for a differnt media device. * restrict users from reselling, thus removing the resale market and forcing new potential customers to buy new at retail price. * restrict users to viewing/listening to content only when some server is up and able to authorize you. * restrict a user to only a limited set of software/hardware that can play the media that supports the DRM.
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You get the web browser from the OEM that preinstalls it with the OS for you.
The asus eeepc i have (1000ha model) has 1,2,3 finger click and two finger scroll in windows xp and linux.
social engineer is just another name for con artist. doesnt sound as cool now, eh?
The future is now, old man!
But with 1 billion pc mice made by logitech, there are at least 1 billion computers out there in the world.
Hey, why wish for free internet. Instead wish for free unfiltered internet.
I have a HDTV and can tell the difference but don't care. I am not willing to pay the price difference for HD tv shows. My HDTV isnt going to waste tho, I do use it for high def gaming.
Why not ask slashdot? Can we not discus and disect laws about technology that affect us?
Replace "hit and run" or "download song" with "drug related crime" and you are in for a rude awakening. Even without your knowledge, the police with seize your car (in the usa) if it was used in a crime involving drugs. Once it is seized, it is auctioned off and the money goes the the police. ... then they came for the potheads and i did not care because I did not do recreational drugs ...
Tell that to Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen when aged 15 was captured by the US in Afganistan. He was no where near US soil and in a country that has no extradition agreements with the US.
"the DRM is present in demo versions only because crackers used to use demos to crack the retail versions of the games"
Yet the full retail releases have cracked executables
You say you are a computer programmer with enough savyness to know where semicolons, brackets, braces go when coding -- yet you are suprised and frustrated that a config file you want to edit has to have no typos.
Your argument sounds like the broken window falacy.
"But for fuck's sake, three felonies at 15? For a fucking non-violent, non-destructive "offense"?
Poor kid is screwed for life."
He can still be a us senator.
"What do they mean by 'used someone else's username and password?'"
They probably mean he used the following information
username: anonymous
password: billg@microsoft.com
You don't understand or you don't care cause you do not gamble? ...
First they came for the dirty pothead (Marc Emery from Canada), but I did not care.
Then they came for the dirty software pirate (Hew Raymond Griffiths from Australia), but I did not care.
Then they came for the ditry gamblers, but I did not care.
You're next buddy!
"CLOSE TO THREE HUNDRED EMPLOYEES HAVE BEEN _CAUGHT_ FOR THEFT!"
There, I fixed that for you. .... Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING
This guy that got caught was not just ONE bad apple. The article quotes TSA Spokesperson Lara Uselding saying there has only been under 300 TSA employees that have been _caught_ for theft and terminated. Thats about 6 TSA theives per State on average.
Where's those doughnuts I didn't tell you to get me? You have to anticipate my needs before I say them!
Sounds reasonable huh? Not everyone can read minds. If you want help you need to communicate that to the developers and not just complain on some web forum. I suggest filing a bug report or something to the mailing list of the particular kernel module.
Even if you can't code, you can help by testing and reporting.
All he has to do is edit/create a .Xmodmap file with the correct contents in his home directory
So what you are saying is we are living with a "secret law". We cant know if something is legal or not until we get shoved in front of a judge.
Shutup grasshopper :)
China is spending millions on space suits and America is spending millions on bailing out big corporations. Strange how that works, huh?
Maybe they should spend that to keep people from putting melamine in our food.
I fixed that for ya.
Maybe the company selling the dog|cat food should be responsible for selling non-dangerous foods.
"They even forgave me when I forgot to take off my shoes."
It is unbelievable that you think this is even sane.
You say "pirates" are the reason for DRM, but "pirates" don't have to deal with DRM. So, who has to deal with DRM? Legit users have to deal with DRM.
Let's see what DRM can do and the consequenses for legit users:
* restrict users from format shifting thus forcing a user to buy same content for a differnt media device.
* restrict users from reselling, thus removing the resale market and forcing new potential customers to buy new at retail price.
* restrict users to viewing/listening to content only when some server is up and able to authorize you.
* restrict a user to only a limited set of software/hardware that can play the media that supports the DRM.
There are probably more but you get the picture.