I am not sure if they had something like a Jpeg in the 60's,, but JPEG was invented in 1991. by then I suspect the card reader was deprecated as a major storage medium, so it was inevitable that your idea should fail.
like so many other things, it's all in the timing...

I agree, with the proviso that the size of the coil in the magnetic head would determine "compatibility" with other readers. that said, during my time as a tape drive engineer, i never saw a tape that could not be read "raw".
unless the tapes were analogue "data", in which case, it would be a lot harder. (i guess)
I could not tell from TFA whether it was digital or not. If it was really helical, which i doubt, it would definitely be analogue, like a vcr, cos we didnt get error correction good enough to do digital till the 80's, afaik.

Well, Piracy is a criminal activity. Incest is too. and chances are, if your sister is not cooperative, it might also be rape.

The fact that you are conflating copyright infringement, and a printed instruction on a disc, at that, to the equivalent of the above offences, suggests you are an RIAA lawyer?

(a) I used to correct typos for people on slashdot, whilst feeling some sort of superiority, but generally it earned me negative karma, and usually didn't address any useful point.
(b) Wikipedia, to summarise, suggests: Fascism is a radical, authoritarian nationalist ideology. Fascists advocate the creation of a single-party state. Fascist governments forbid and suppress all criticism and opposition to the government. Following the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II and the publicity surrounding the atrocities committed during the period of fascist governments, the term fascist has been used as a pejorative word.

so sure, a rather lazy evocation of right wing thuggery, but intended as an insulting comment on the present direction of government. personally I prefer Nazi, but Godwin's law, and all that. The adverts suggesting you inform on your neighbours, and the general application of emergency powers to any situation are rather reminiscent of the early German state. If you are scholar of political history, as your post faintly suggests, I would be comforted to hear reasoned arguments that the situation currently bears no resemblance to the past.

Sure, its funny enough. but the TFA is about trying to obscure your downloading activities from being identified as belonging to some "group". And the original poster was suggesting you may worry about defending yourself in court once this "identification" has been made. most of the posts about infringement of liberties on slashdot these days seems to be how to get around them.

Well, I must admit I chuckled through the post myself, thanks for the heads up.(don't start) not really a troll, more perhaps offtopic? perhaps even educational. wish it wasnt anon, I'd look up more of his stuff.

The best defence must be to start objecting to the state behaving in such a facist fashion. Probably best to start objecting before they break down the door, though.

I was temporarily gutted when I heard about the backward compatibility with gba being removed. Then I remembered that I have 2 GBA's already.

My mum has an eating disorder, you insensitive clod!

besides, this is slashdot. i have an imaginary girlfriend. surely my mum is out of bounds?

Seriously, the only thing worth making at home is beer, or perhaps wine.
depending on how it goes, it can also have explosive properties, chemical warfare applications, or just really offensive flatulence.

How did you manage a +3 informative for insulting my girlfriend?

>its as a human being that I'd really want to be remembered.
just for the sake of argument, what were the other choices?
(ps I wholeheartedly agree with your post, except I wish I had lots more sex (or at least some ) when I was more generally inclined)

I think i got it: So, like, using all the good stuff makes you program too fast, so that eventually you run out of, er, space, memory or something. and it only you had stuck to the old, tried and tested system of anti-software engineering then you would be a lot slower and safer, producing less stuff with more bugs etc. No, actually i havent got it.

Personally, I drive faster (responsibly. and no phone) because my car is faster than it used to be. (Anyone heard of the vauxhall viva?) But I drive more slowly around town, probably 20mph tops. that's because I am a parent.

I'm racking my brains, but i just keep coming back to the car thing.