Comment Re:DRM works! (Score 5, Funny) 280
The question is, does anyone have a paid copy of it? Maybe if you removed your DRM, you'd have more paying customers!
This is not the first time I've seen beheadings suggested as a way to respond to DRM.
The question is, does anyone have a paid copy of it? Maybe if you removed your DRM, you'd have more paying customers!
This is not the first time I've seen beheadings suggested as a way to respond to DRM.
getting rid of Windows isn't going to do jack. Idiots using computers will be vulnerable to malware, no matter what kind of OS they use. Unless the OS is secured away from its user, there is no safety if the user himself is the biggest security hole.
Linux/Unix have a well established culture and plenty of infrastructure to support the concept of strong password protection. Unlike Windows.
Does that mean members of the Linux/Unix community use stupid and easy to guess passwords on websites? We've seen that most people do, so I'm just trying to determine if the strong password protection is due to the operating system or due to the actual user.
Before long, Spain will have its Gigabyte Tax
Italy will chime in with its own Megabyte Tax
And Greece? They'll have the honor of having the world's first Kilobyte Tax
I guess that leaves the byte tax for Ireland.
It's more like "Tax Bites" for the Irish
A Tax Bites strategy could help combat obesity in America.
The article only mentions this happening at Best Buy. The only place other retailers are mentioned is in the facebook comments, which is full of contradicting information.
Also, no sensible person ever said "Macs don't get [infected/hacked/whatever]." It just a lot less likely, and has historically been, even accounting for differences in marketshare.
If we're talking historically, most people who get involved with the OS arguments aren't sensible to begin with.
Fix the families. Restore family values. Education and all other aspects of life will follow.
So basically, the fix for the education system in the U.S. is... entirely outside the reach of teacher's and the education system itself: families and family values?
I believe the point is that if you quit burdening schools with extra crap that should be taught at home (such as respect for leaders, and no I don't mean unquestioning followers, just respect) then real education could come back to schools.
There are circumstances where it's good not to have your laptop, tablet, phone, etc, all occupying your space. Consider August 2, 2005, Air France Flight 358.
This is true. Let's be honest, though. The ban on them being turned on just means that they're turned off and in your space. People rarely put them away. (at least, not on the flights I've been on)
A coin flip is exactly as probabilistic an event as this possible impact.
Erm, nope. A coin flip is an exact statement about the probability of a random event, the chance of an asteroid impact represents our ignorance of the true state. One is frequentist probability, the other is a Bayesian posterior probability.
If you could account for and control every variable in a coin flip, such as upward force, spin rate, air temperature, humidity, air drag, landing surface, and the duration of flight, you could predict how a coin would end up because it would be the same every time.
A coin flip is perceived as random because the number of variables that go in to it is too complex and there values too hard to define in advance.
I view the "1 in 625 chance" as the odds that there is something out there that will happen to alter the course to cause collision with Earth. Of course, that's also why the article says it's so hard to predict their orbits more than a couple years in advance; there's a ton of stuff we don't know about.
Unless you are going 60-70 mph when you run into a windshield full of #6 Birdshot that is raining down on the highway because someone figured it wouldn't matter.
Did you watch the video? If you're going 70 down that "highway" you'll have far bigger concerns, like the condition of the road, and any wildlife that may decide to walk across it. Now I will give you that even going 55 mph and hitting falling bird shot will likely destroy your windshield, you also have to acknowledge the fact that during the several minutes of the video, there is not a single car that drives by on the road (you would hear it in the audio). This is not a busy highway, it's an aged country road.
Then there's also the fact that at 1:10 in the video you can hear that the drone makes a rough landing back on the road. When they show the damage on the drone, it basically consists of one blade damaged on both ends. Such damage would be consistent with coming in for an uneven landing and having one corner get too low and that spinning blade hits the ground.
I'm not saying the hunters would be right for carelessly shooting, but all we know is that they sent the drone up, there were gunshots (we don't know the direction they shot), the drone had a rough landing and at the end, there was a minimal amount of damage to the drone. Given that both sides were being assholes you can't trust anyone enough to know what really happened.
Watermarking is a good thing, but it suffers the same problems that all the other schemes do: The code can be bypassed by editing the executable. CRC checks against the executable's size (to see if there have been changes) also get edited out.
This is what crackers ofter do, literally change the executable to not execute functions, or change the evaluation results of a license check - this prevents the watermark or dongle failures.
If anyone is that interested in cracking your software, they're going to do it. Who you want to target is the copy downloaders. If there is a fully functional and easy to access version (and no advertisements for the paid version) readily available on the software producer's site, then people will just download it there, as opposed to finding some cracked version to avoid a digital watermark that doesn't have any impact on the display. People always go for the easiest route. Downloading an illegal copy is easier than earning $10,000 to buy the real one, but downloading a legal copy is easier than downloading an illegal copy (because there's no perceived risk).
"My sense of purpose is gone! I have no idea who I AM!" "Oh, my God... You've.. You've turned him into a DEMOCRAT!" -- Doonesbury
