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Comment: Re:not sure (Score 1) 453

by N_Piper (#40162223) Attached to: Windows 8: More EULA, Fewer Rights.
INAL but I'm pretty sure you can't totally give up your right to a civil case (7th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?) I've seen EULA where an Arbiter was the required first step.
I know most EULA also have some sort of required Jurisdiction for disputes to be heard in, that usually isn't legal either, though on a local level.

Comment: Re:Most powerful? (Score 3, Interesting) 241

If you expand "Anonymous" to mean technically savvy individuals who share one or more cause in common with Anonymous who are willing to put forward work towards their own pet peeve, then yes they could be the most powerful group in the internet, with potential sleeper agents in every group in the world.

However that's like calling socially active citizens the most powerful group in any given country, any group active enough to destabilize the status quo is broken up and a silent majority dislikes the chosen tactics of the vocal minority fracturing it and leading fewer to join the larger cause.
But that's just my two cents

On a related topic is a DDoS the new Picket Line?

Comment: Re:On behalf of us who've suffered... piss off! (Score 5, Insightful) 190

"There are always medications but studies have shown that if you treat your depression with drugs, you're likely to get depressed again sooner and the next depression is likely to be deeper... until the medicines don't have enough effect anymore."

You know some of us with actual mental illness really get our knickers in a twist when people start saying we don't need our medicines we just need to Try REALLLLLLLY hard and we'll get better.
If having a sucky life makes you depressed then you aren't mentally ill, you just have a sucky life, it's normal to be depressed then, heck if you are on the proper medication for chronic depression you should be depressed when your life sucks. If all you need is help, love, reassurance and planning to get out of your problem then more power to you. When you have a stable job, loving spouse, safe clean home and pleasant relations with your extended family and you sleep all day because you think if you get up you are liable to slit your wrists that is mental illness.
Anyway what you have and what I have are two very different diseases that happen to share a name, sometimes telling one from the other is difficult so everyone owes it to themselves to explore all the options for treatment. That being said don't call my drugs dangerous and ineffective and I won't call your therapy hippie bullcrap ok?

Comment: Re:Obvious (Score 2) 203

by N_Piper (#38112332) Attached to: 2-Year Study Shows Mac Users Downloading More Open Source Software
I really don't know where or what you are looking but most of the software on my Macs is just plain old beggar-ware, you know "If you find this helpful please consider donating" that sort of thing.
As I've transitioned to windows I find is hard to locate software with the glut of abandoned products that won't work on newer versions of windows.

Comment: Re:It's not that hard. (Score 1) 520

by N_Piper (#37636820) Attached to: Is the Creative Class Engine Sputtering?
I hope you proof your designs more thoroughly than you proof your posts.
In all seriousness though my uncle just sold his house after being laid off as a Silicon QA something or other after 20 years on the job because tax incentives were good enough in Asia to warrant moving all production there.
Or to put it another way, just because people need it doesn't mean they'll pay YOU to make it.
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Bitcoin-like DRM Perserving Right-of-first-sale?

Submitted by watchful2037
watchful2037 writes "As someone who develops software for a living I understand that only selling support isn't always practical: movies, music, and games for example. (Please, no flame-wars about the evils of DRM.) As a customer I also see usage terms that prohibit transfer or resale as violating the first-sale doctrine.

Could Bitcoin-like DRM be a solution that suits both seller and buyer better?"

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