Some jerk might try to pull this, but I'm pretty sure that the actual labels themselves won't do this directly. Why? Because it's a qualitative difference from what they are doing now.
Right now they are suing people with all kinds of dubious legal theories, but they're still arguably within classical law interpretation.
Outright framing individuals crosses a line into pure fraud, and if correctly proven by a defense team, will smash that label a giant penalty.
"Your honor, I'd like to call Bruce Schneier for the defense expert.":)
These clashing objectives are really getting out of hand.
The only reason there is a problem is because studios are so terrified of extra copies siphoning off their revenue. Wholesale disappearance of material they are no longer interested in doesn't seem to bother them.
Then they claim it costs $200,000 per item to store them? That would mean... *negative* revenues against sales of zero.
Is it reasonable to say that modern hard drives can last some twelve years? So, every ten years you simply copy over your materials onto the newest spiffy drive.
Someone talked about favoring popular materials... absolutely not. If there were *no penalties* involved, everyone would carve out a niche because the storage effort could be semi coordinated. Then you could find the French edition of Casablanca if you wanted to, because *someone* would have it.
{Later, on Flyer} "New Band starting. We have the C, E, G set, the D,F,A set, and some of the flats. We're looking for a fresh new talent who specializes in B, Minors, and Sevenths. The local law firm has sponsored us with a left over "Treble" from a Treble Damages suit. We can't afford a Bass Clef, so we're using the open source version 'Atlantic Bass'.
We have purchased Octaves 3 and 4. We use Pitch Altering software when someone wants us to perform the US National Anthem. However, we're in a squabble from the owner of Octaves 2 and 5, who says our shifted notes sound exactly like theirs, and they want us to stop."
Would Hyperbolic Geometry explain everything? "Cairo is coming! Longhorn is coming! Compliance is coming!" Then their parallel lines veer off into the next galaxy.
I find this a really odd mistake for a standards organization to be making! If I were to allow myself the luxury of a Tin hat, I'd believe Bizarro Land.
One of the Mozilla developers hosts the test, whereupon the Fox3b2 plays nicely.
Could it be that the Web is the new home of the modern day Yellow Journalists?
Trolls have found the Contrast Equation. "The opposite of sensibility is...." Take your choice of Nonsensical, Insulting, Bioschlock, FanDude, ShriekingChimp, RazorLiner, LinkSeller, or InverseOnion. Those are like "Spray Paint Artists".
The middle line in between are the mostly sincere writers who may mean well, but whose perspective is skewed enough to require a seriously critical eye while reading.
I use 3rd party Mp3 players, choosing to bypass both iPods and both Microsoft lines. (PlaysWithVistaForSure) and (ZuneDoesNotPlayForSure).
For me, the entire point of these is that they are data storage devices underneath, and can hold a few items besides your batch of songs on there. Therefore, I never need to buy vanilla data drives, because one of the players always has an extra 200 megs left.
One day, they simply refuse to accept new files, and the fields in MyComputer have been changed from DeviceName, Type, Size, Space Free to Album, Song, Artist, Year. Things that make you go "Hmm."
Life trundled on for a while, and then I happened to be fiddling with one of my backup machines. *The behavior was back to normal*. Really!?
Get this - it was some weird "anti-functionality" from Windows Media Player 11. When I uninstalled it, everything went back to normal. To confirm, I re-installed it. Bricked again. Uninstalled again. Everything fine.
That was THE last straw.
We can discuss little quirks here and there, but I will not allow Microsoft to totally hose my devices.
At least you have given a high class description of your eyeball wrenching escapades.
However, Goatse is no longer the cutting edge of Troll Theory. You're much too good for that.
Instead, make yourself a valuable memeber of the community by supplying links related to the story titles. In this case, it would be a "hard hack laptop", which would be a photoshopped image of the Dell Gaming Machine with a Mining Excavator parked on top of it.
I saw the witch doctor, 'said health care was 'broke I asked what that meant, so he lit an herb smoke; And then the witch doctor, he gave me this advice - he said to
Cut Down, on high priced cures,
use prevent-tative measures
Vitamin C, ten cents a pop,
*before* you get the cold and cough
The only time for that doctor-bloke
is somethin' like your leg is broke!
So I got tired of the weird division fractions when I divide MMMLXXXVII by LXVIII...
Did you hear, some guy on the Silk Road Trade route invented this "nothing" thingie? I'm not sure how "nothing" can be something, but it apparently makes math so much easier, even children can do it!
Whereas before, in an age of highly restrictive religious environment, a Troll could be put to death for merely a casual remark about the authorities.
Today's Troll had to evolve a much more sophisticated repetoire because his former target is likely to laugh off the response, as shown above. Generating true resentment now requires a much more sustained attack."
I once talked to some overzealous missionaries who would accidentally make two subtle errors of logic while demonstrating their beliefs that would cancel each other out, thus allowing them to remain content with their faith.
I would mention them at the next discussion that there were two such mistakes during the previous day's discussion, and then pose a counter argument that explicitly depended upon those two mistakes not being there. At the time I liked doing that, but it was an absolutely fantastic way of making them hate me through and through, because they had to think on their own rather than believe by rote whatever was written in the bible.
This was also a time when micro computing technology itself had no idea of its direction. (I just checked the release dates - it predated the Commodore 64.) It did exactly what it was designed to do - capture young minds.
It used techniques never seen before... and never again (after the aggrivation factor turned out to be immense.)
And... it had the best closed-process phrase ever. (I have to inquire how much the license rights to that phrase are!)
As I mentioned elsewhere, this is a variant of the test.
Restate the problem this way:
"Is this really a hot babe looking for action, or is it (something) trying to scam me?"
People trying to be amorous and hook up qucikly have reduced the converasation domain. Then when some really weird answers come back, you do start trying to figure out "which agenda" is going on. I see little difference between a Bot scammer and a foreign scammer; both would use weird phraseology.
One of the reasons that AI researchers moved away from the pure test is that it becomes more about "gaming the conversation" than a test in real intelligence.
People have no trouble "abusing" the conversant if it is part of a test with a bot. Therefore, the *person* also gets subjected to degenerate forms of conversation until he/she "authenticates as a person".
(Really, someone just needs to put a few million of funding into some defensive conversation routines to make their perceived performance go through the roof. The problem so far has been everyone duplicating everyone else's efforts.)
Although I have done thought studies of the reduced level of "intelligence" in chat rooms to begin with, they don't feature the same "bust the knowledge domain" questions seen in typical Turing contests. In fact, asking those questions earns you *ridicule* in other chat environments.
Therefore, by "disallowing" the artificial questions, if the chatter failed to detect the BotHood of the conversant on the other side side by side with real people, it passes a form of Restricted Turing.
Slashdot Mirror
Some jerk might try to pull this, but I'm pretty sure that the actual labels themselves won't do this directly. Why? Because it's a qualitative difference from what they are doing now.
:)
Right now they are suing people with all kinds of dubious legal theories, but they're still arguably within classical law interpretation.
Outright framing individuals crosses a line into pure fraud, and if correctly proven by a defense team, will smash that label a giant penalty.
"Your honor, I'd like to call Bruce Schneier for the defense expert."
pliCAAWW! (He's Right. It is Monty Python.)
qu'kcuUH! (They found me out. I'm NOT dead!)
chthkqWA! (I'm a Avian Ventriloquist!)
http://orangecow.org/pythonet/pet-shop.html
http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/jokes/monty-python-parrot.html
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~ebarnes/python/dead-parrot.htm
These clashing objectives are really getting out of hand.
The only reason there is a problem is because studios are so terrified of extra copies siphoning off their revenue. Wholesale disappearance of material they are no longer interested in doesn't seem to bother them.
Then they claim it costs $200,000 per item to store them? That would mean... *negative* revenues against sales of zero.
Is it reasonable to say that modern hard drives can last some twelve years? So, every ten years you simply copy over your materials onto the newest spiffy drive.
Someone talked about favoring popular materials... absolutely not. If there were *no penalties* involved, everyone would carve out a niche because the storage effort could be semi coordinated. Then you could find the French edition of Casablanca if you wanted to, because *someone* would have it.
I think I know why.
You have to spell your adversary's name correctly first.
I'll take you up on that.
{Later, on Flyer}
"New Band starting. We have the C, E, G set, the D,F,A set, and some of the flats. We're looking for a fresh new talent who specializes in B, Minors, and Sevenths. The local law firm has sponsored us with a left over "Treble" from a Treble Damages suit. We can't afford a Bass Clef, so we're using the open source version 'Atlantic Bass'.
We have purchased Octaves 3 and 4. We use Pitch Altering software when someone wants us to perform the US National Anthem. However, we're in a squabble from the owner of Octaves 2 and 5, who says our shifted notes sound exactly like theirs, and they want us to stop."
Maybe MS operates with Non-Euclidian principles.
Would Hyperbolic Geometry explain everything? "Cairo is coming! Longhorn is coming! Compliance is coming!" Then their parallel lines veer off into the next galaxy.
I find this a really odd mistake for a standards organization to be making!
If I were to allow myself the luxury of a Tin hat, I'd believe Bizarro Land.
One of the Mozilla developers hosts the test, whereupon the Fox3b2 plays nicely.
http://www.hixie.ch/tests/evil/acid/002/#top
A helping of desert is a lot of sand.
Care for some dessert instead?
Could it be that the Web is the new home of the modern day Yellow Journalists?
...."
Trolls have found the Contrast Equation. "The opposite of sensibility is
Take your choice of Nonsensical, Insulting, Bioschlock, FanDude, ShriekingChimp, RazorLiner, LinkSeller, or InverseOnion. Those are like "Spray Paint Artists".
The middle line in between are the mostly sincere writers who may mean well, but whose perspective is skewed enough to require a seriously critical eye while reading.
Don't Sting me, Bee, Don't Sting me!
It would look like this. Then who would you choose?
http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/today_in_stupid/mockup_what_if_google_made_a_yahoolike_start_page_1.html
I shall then contribute some Actual Harm.
I use 3rd party Mp3 players, choosing to bypass both iPods and both Microsoft lines. (PlaysWithVistaForSure) and (ZuneDoesNotPlayForSure).
For me, the entire point of these is that they are data storage devices underneath, and can hold a few items besides your batch of songs on there. Therefore, I never need to buy vanilla data drives, because one of the players always has an extra 200 megs left.
One day, they simply refuse to accept new files, and the fields in MyComputer have been changed from DeviceName, Type, Size, Space Free to Album, Song, Artist, Year. Things that make you go "Hmm."
Life trundled on for a while, and then I happened to be fiddling with one of my backup machines. *The behavior was back to normal*. Really!?
Get this - it was some weird "anti-functionality" from Windows Media Player 11. When I uninstalled it, everything went back to normal. To confirm, I re-installed it. Bricked again. Uninstalled again. Everything fine.
That was THE last straw.
We can discuss little quirks here and there, but I will not allow Microsoft to totally hose my devices.
Dear Mr. Troll.
At least you have given a high class description of your eyeball wrenching escapades.
However, Goatse is no longer the cutting edge of Troll Theory. You're much too good for that.
Instead, make yourself a valuable memeber of the community by supplying links related to the story titles. In this case, it would be a "hard hack laptop", which would be a photoshopped image of the Dell Gaming Machine with a Mining Excavator parked on top of it.
This may be regarded as the Fundamental Flaw of Monopolies.
"But it's so Convenient/The Consumer is Smart Enough/1 Stop Shopping/Ma Bell Loves You"
When a company gets too big, it sits like a Blob on top of would-be innovative companies, and except for a fluke, will never go away.
I saw the witch doctor, 'said health care was 'broke
I asked what that meant, so he lit an herb smoke;
And then the witch doctor, he gave me this advice -
he said to
Cut Down, on high priced cures,
use prevent-tative measures
Vitamin C, ten cents a pop,
*before* you get the cold and cough
The only time for that doctor-bloke
is somethin' like your leg is broke!
Oo ee, ooh ah ah, ting tang,
walla walla bing bang!
So I got tired of the weird division fractions when I divide MMMLXXXVII by LXVIII ...
Did you hear, some guy on the Silk Road Trade route invented this "nothing" thingie? I'm not sure how "nothing" can be something, but it apparently makes math so much easier, even children can do it!
"Today's Troll has a much harder task.
Whereas before, in an age of highly restrictive religious environment, a Troll could be put to death for merely a casual remark about the authorities.
Today's Troll had to evolve a much more sophisticated repetoire because his former target is likely to laugh off the response, as shown above. Generating true resentment now requires a much more sustained attack."
I once talked to some overzealous missionaries who would accidentally make two subtle errors of logic while demonstrating their beliefs that would cancel each other out, thus allowing them to remain content with their faith.
I would mention them at the next discussion that there were two such mistakes during the previous day's discussion, and then pose a counter argument that explicitly depended upon those two mistakes not being there. At the time I liked doing that, but it was an absolutely fantastic way of making them hate me through and through, because they had to think on their own rather than believe by rote whatever was written in the bible.
In the country formerly known as Soviet Russia, the animal formerly known as a kitten says waste to a non-ninja mammal formerly known as you.
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Image:Killerkitty8qa.jpg
This was also a time when micro computing technology itself had no idea of its direction. (I just checked the release dates - it predated the Commodore 64.) It did exactly what it was designed to do - capture young minds.
... it had the best closed-process phrase ever. (I have to inquire how much the license rights to that phrase are!)
It used techniques never seen before... and never again (after the aggrivation factor turned out to be immense.)
And
"Informative" is easy. Look for some factoids you didn't know.
"Funny" is the tough one. Such a fine line between Funny & Troll.
What's an umber oppressor? Is that like the brown screen of Ubuntu that tells me I'm bricked when I forgot my password?
As I mentioned elsewhere, this is a variant of the test.
Restate the problem this way:
"Is this really a hot babe looking for action, or is it (something) trying to scam me?"
People trying to be amorous and hook up qucikly have reduced the converasation domain. Then when some really weird answers come back, you do start trying to figure out "which agenda" is going on. I see little difference between a Bot scammer and a foreign scammer; both would use weird phraseology.
It is in the family of Turing tests.
One of the reasons that AI researchers moved away from the pure test is that it becomes more about "gaming the conversation" than a test in real intelligence.
People have no trouble "abusing" the conversant if it is part of a test with a bot. Therefore, the *person* also gets subjected to degenerate forms of conversation until he/she "authenticates as a person".
(Really, someone just needs to put a few million of funding into some defensive conversation routines to make their perceived performance go through the roof. The problem so far has been everyone duplicating everyone else's efforts.)
Although I have done thought studies of the reduced level of "intelligence" in chat rooms to begin with, they don't feature the same "bust the knowledge domain" questions seen in typical Turing contests. In fact, asking those questions earns you *ridicule* in other chat environments.
Therefore, by "disallowing" the artificial questions, if the chatter failed to detect the BotHood of the conversant on the other side side by side with real people, it passes a form of Restricted Turing.
http://www.chocolateteapot.com/
http://www.chocolateteapot.net/ - "Made on a Mac"
http://www.chocolateteapot.org/ - News portal that today includes a story about Canadian regulators investigating price fixing of chocolate.
Now we know why there's no good URL's left.