Ars Technica is a biased, agenda driven shit-rag. Please stop using them as a source. Evidence can be found in their biased, agenda driven writing concerning the GamerGate consumer movement which they continue to insist, in wide generalizations is about misogyny. If they cannot even be bothered with understanding a somewhat complex story such as GamerGate, how can they possibly understand any other subject that has a whiff of complexity?
It's because someone lent me the first Sandman book that I ended up buying the entire series. Then Gaiman's other books, and eventually realizing that he is one of my favorite authors. All because someone lent me his book. I in turn introduced people to his work with American Gods, which is a particularly good book.
Right, I'm the person responsible for WEP and WPA's encryption being a slight formality in gaining access to a wireless network. Nice work there, douche nozzle. Why don't you just claim we shouldn't have WiFi at all because then 'teh pirates will use it to stealz!!!1'
Instead of suing, they could have just fixed the problem. Now, they'll get zero dollars out of this guy and people will continue pirating the signal. Good job!
BACH, which counts the inventor of the MP3 and a former chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment among its investors, is also hoping that software developers will create new applications and content for the MusicDNA player.
Here I was thinking they would secure the format's undeniable and history-making success by charging a license to support the format.
For the first paywall, to beat it and get to the content, all you had to do was take the link, put it in Google's search, then click the link that Google gave back when it couldn't find any results.
This one may work the same. The reasoning for the first time around was that they wanted Google users to find their news, so any traffic from Google to the NY Times was brought right in with no hassle.
Is this some convoluted attempt to drive more people towards piracy by narrowing consumer's options? Hollywood won't get any sympathy this way. Redbox is legal and offers a service that some consumers prefer. Removing it would effectively raise prices on DVD rentals 400-500% ($4-5 a DVD). This is not the right thing to do if you expect to stay in business.
In real life, if I pull the pin on a grenade, then die, the grenade still explodes! This should be a feature, not a glitch. Too many games remove this and its lame. Not all grenades thrown before death were cheap shots.
The glitch exploits in other games though? Like in Halo 2? Fuck yes ban those asshats, temporarily, for a day. It's not a perma-ban offense, but it sure is lame to have the other team super jump up somewhere you can't reach them without also exploiting a glitch.
The glitch ruins the experience if something has to be exploited to level the field. Those super jumps I mentioned in H2 aren't just a button press, something dumb like crouch under this over hang and jump in this direction. Something like this should be discouraged with a temp ban.
It was just added to the Xbox yesterday. I can search for an artist and get the artist's radio station, but all the music is not by the artist? Its all "sounds like" the band you searched for songs. Sure, discovery is cool, it was really nice when I discovered a band I wanted to listen to while listening to a genre station, searched for them and then couldn't listen to a single song by them. On the radio station named for them! How does that make sense (to a rational human being, not the RIAA)?
They don't even offer a way to actually pick what you listen to as a regular product yet. From their website:
http://www.last.fm/xbox/help
Will buying a subscription allow me to listen to any track I want?
No, our current basic subscription doesn’t allow for any on-demand listening; a basic subscription will give you the benefits described here, but it won’t allow you to play any tracks you want in full length that you can’t listen to as a non-subscriber either.
In the US, the UK and Germany we’re publicly beta testing our free listening service called “Free On-Demand”, which allows you to listen to most tracks up to three times for free. When the beta is over, we’ll offer a different subscription package with unlimited access to our music catalogue.
At least the readers are pointing out that he violated the privacy policy, hopefully they'll go further and stop reading that website.
Also, no one casually recognizes an IP address that has nothing to do with them. That fact that he claims to recognize IP addresses belonging to organizations unrelated to his own is suspicious in and of itself.
Reading that guys comments, insisting he sleeps well, he deserves everything bad that comes to him because of this.
Arbitration is a joke. They side with whomever pays them more often, so in a example dispute between yourself and the cellphone provider (manditory binding arbitration is in your contract) you will lose because if the arbitrator sides against you they'll be fired by the company who brings business your way all the time rather than you, the individual whose good for one dispute.
Free Credit Report at least had a claim, and wasn't doing something which could be described as cyber squating, so they had that going for them.
Fun facts about the National Arbitration Forum and how they rule against Citizen Joe 95% of the time
http://consumerist.com/304648/arbitration-firm-rules-against-consumers-95-of-the-time
Ars Technica is a biased, agenda driven shit-rag. Please stop using them as a source. Evidence can be found in their biased, agenda driven writing concerning the GamerGate consumer movement which they continue to insist, in wide generalizations is about misogyny. If they cannot even be bothered with understanding a somewhat complex story such as GamerGate, how can they possibly understand any other subject that has a whiff of complexity?
It's because someone lent me the first Sandman book that I ended up buying the entire series. Then Gaiman's other books, and eventually realizing that he is one of my favorite authors. All because someone lent me his book. I in turn introduced people to his work with American Gods, which is a particularly good book.
Just ban them from electricity too, cause you used electricity to power the computer.
Re: Re: Re: Re:
Right, I'm the person responsible for WEP and WPA's encryption being a slight formality in gaining access to a wireless network. Nice work there, douche nozzle. Why don't you just claim we shouldn't have WiFi at all because then 'teh pirates will use it to stealz!!!1'
Instead of suing, they could have just fixed the problem. Now, they'll get zero dollars out of this guy and people will continue pirating the signal. Good job!
Obviously a winner
From the Reuters link:
BACH, which counts the inventor of the MP3 and a former chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment among its investors, is also hoping that software developers will create new applications and content for the MusicDNA player.
Here I was thinking they would secure the format's undeniable and history-making success by charging a license to support the format.
Beating the original paywall
For the first paywall, to beat it and get to the content, all you had to do was take the link, put it in Google's search, then click the link that Google gave back when it couldn't find any results.
This one may work the same. The reasoning for the first time around was that they wanted Google users to find their news, so any traffic from Google to the NY Times was brought right in with no hassle.
Other countries also have limited, in-demand resources, and they too can use that as leverage.
Copyright maximalists = the new Scientology.
Is this some convoluted attempt to drive more people towards piracy by narrowing consumer's options? Hollywood won't get any sympathy this way. Redbox is legal and offers a service that some consumers prefer. Removing it would effectively raise prices on DVD rentals 400-500% ($4-5 a DVD). This is not the right thing to do if you expect to stay in business.
Re:
http://kotaku.com/5419298/hey-stop-blaming-the-australian-governmentpeople-for-banning-games
This journalist lives in Australia and explains about the one person who's log jamming things.
CRIA to Artists:
"I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Wellington_Wimpy
In real life, if I pull the pin on a grenade, then die, the grenade still explodes! This should be a feature, not a glitch. Too many games remove this and its lame. Not all grenades thrown before death were cheap shots.
The glitch exploits in other games though? Like in Halo 2? Fuck yes ban those asshats, temporarily, for a day. It's not a perma-ban offense, but it sure is lame to have the other team super jump up somewhere you can't reach them without also exploiting a glitch.
The glitch ruins the experience if something has to be exploited to level the field. Those super jumps I mentioned in H2 aren't just a button press, something dumb like crouch under this over hang and jump in this direction. Something like this should be discouraged with a temp ban.
Re: Re: "Insanity"
#1 and 4 define the *AAs, and they are lacking in Psychiatry. They should seek some.
Is this why Last.fm kinda sucks?
It was just added to the Xbox yesterday. I can search for an artist and get the artist's radio station, but all the music is not by the artist? Its all "sounds like" the band you searched for songs. Sure, discovery is cool, it was really nice when I discovered a band I wanted to listen to while listening to a genre station, searched for them and then couldn't listen to a single song by them. On the radio station named for them! How does that make sense (to a rational human being, not the RIAA)?
They don't even offer a way to actually pick what you listen to as a regular product yet. From their website:
http://www.last.fm/xbox/help
Will buying a subscription allow me to listen to any track I want?
No, our current basic subscription doesn’t allow for any on-demand listening; a basic subscription will give you the benefits described here, but it won’t allow you to play any tracks you want in full length that you can’t listen to as a non-subscriber either.
In the US, the UK and Germany we’re publicly beta testing our free listening service called “Free On-Demand”, which allows you to listen to most tracks up to three times for free. When the beta is over, we’ll offer a different subscription package with unlimited access to our music catalogue.
At least the readers are pointing out that he violated the privacy policy, hopefully they'll go further and stop reading that website.
Also, no one casually recognizes an IP address that has nothing to do with them. That fact that he claims to recognize IP addresses belonging to organizations unrelated to his own is suspicious in and of itself.
Reading that guys comments, insisting he sleeps well, he deserves everything bad that comes to him because of this.
Guess I'll just continue going to movies less and renting more. Do whatever I can to contribute to losses on the MPAAs part. Fair is fair.
Arbitration is rarely fair
Arbitration is a joke. They side with whomever pays them more often, so in a example dispute between yourself and the cellphone provider (manditory binding arbitration is in your contract) you will lose because if the arbitrator sides against you they'll be fired by the company who brings business your way all the time rather than you, the individual whose good for one dispute.
Free Credit Report at least had a claim, and wasn't doing something which could be described as cyber squating, so they had that going for them.
Fun facts about the National Arbitration Forum and how they rule against Citizen Joe 95% of the time
http://consumerist.com/304648/arbitration-firm-rules-against-consumers-95-of-the-time
Good example
This is a good example of how irrational and greedy copyright maximalists are.
Re: Douglas Adams described something relevant
Not sure if we're talking about the same DA, but the author of HHGTG said something else thats also relevant:
Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams