This is important - Let's highlight it ! - FF34
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"If everyone at WTDWTF would just contribute a dollar a day, we could get @ben_lubar off of 56K."
Hey, that rhymes!
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i'd donate to that fund.
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"If everyone at WTDWTF would just contribute a dollar a day, we could get @ben_lubar off of 56K."
The first post in this:
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/milwaukee-pc/4329
Shows he has .11 Mbps which is about double 56K but that could still be a nice charity to donate to.
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Shows he has .11 Mbps which is about double 56K but that could still be a nice charity to donate to.
I was going more for comedic effect with using that technology.
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Reckon @PJH would add it as a banner covering the top two thirds of Discourse?
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Reckon @PJH would add it as a banner covering the top two thirds of Discourse?
Why not the left fifth and right third? It wouldn't even cover any content!
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Oh I know, but it's sad just how little exaggeration you were using.
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Oh I know, but it's sad just how little exaggeration you were using.
It's more sad that my co-worker asked why I was putting my fingers up to my screen to measure increments.
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@gravejunker - Days Since Last Discourse Bug: -1
<!-- Posted by SockBot 0.13.0 "Devious Daine" on Mon Dec 29 2014 14:50:11 GMT+0000 (UTC)-->
Hey, a non-zero @discoursebot report. Of course I would say that a negative number here is actually worse than always zero...
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It's "random" between -1, 0 and 'Last Day Without A Discourse Bug: null'
EDIT: INB4 @accalia points out it's an old version of the code
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Bleurgh. That's even worse than I thought. And with Diskorse I'd normally consider that hard.
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And yes, I know it's an old version of the code. That was the limp-wristed excuse for the thing being always zero.
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That was the limp-wristed excuse for the thing being always zero.
I'll skip the longer explanation, but it started off with a static zero - always being zero was originally the joke.
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EDIT: INB4 @accalia points out it's an old version of the code
you still havent upgraded?
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Reckon @PJH would add it as a
bannertoaster covering the top two thirds of Discourse?Â
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Evil ideas thread is elsewhere.
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What does DRM even accomplish? Making more people resort to piracy because the official way to get the product doesn't work?
DRM accomplishes one thing: it stops hardware manufacturers from improving their devices. If you want the keys to unlock DRMed content, you have to agree to some very draconian limitations about what you can implement in your hardware. Nothing else - everybody knows that if it can be viewed, it can be copied.
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Nothing else - everybody knows that if it can be viewed, it can be copied.
the analog paradox. :-D
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DRM is of use to combat a pirate state of mind.
Underneath it all - all the images you've twitched your face to; all the sounds you smashed your head for; all the videos you mutilated your feet for; all the games you've smashed in your fingers against.
They are all VALUE = 0.And yet. in order to incentivize content birthers to birth more content for you to absorb, the content must be assigned VALUE > 0.
To solve this logical paradox, DRM was created to usher in value for content.
Now it is true that the wily pirates ignore the DRM as they torrent and mule.
But the pirates rely on the supply of the devaluement groups, who turn VALUE > 0 into VALUE = 0.In that past, all the devaluers had to do was copy a series of bits and spread it across the internet.
Of course, not all content can be so easily debased - some content requires devaluers to actually infiltrate a company that has bought the content before the bits can be at hand.In the future, this will become the norm for all types of interactive content (applications, games) as they will move to server-side.
For non-interactive content (images, sounds, videos), even with the advent of interactivising solutions (e.g. tilt your head to see the movie differently) won't stop the hardcore pirateers. They will just record a deinteractivation of the content and warp it all over the web as usual.For those, the only recourse is to wipe the buccaneer state of mind, which is where DRM and IP education comes in.
This is going mostly well and the youths of VALUE > 0 countries like America are already adopting anti-piracy thought techniques.
They conjoin respect of content birthers and the unique content IP trace of their birthings into their day-to-day life.For example, whereas an a you-and-me would see no devilry in a shared watching of a content view, the American youth would quickly catch up to the VALUE discrepancy and make sure that all present have accrued the rights to the content view.
In the future, this would also be made easier to do formally by a shared content view lease and more, but I'm really getting ahead of myself.[size=6]What I think I'm trying to say is that trolling will always be free of VALUE and is the ultimate form of art and expression and you should do more of it instead.[/size]
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@created_just_to_disl said:
What I think I'm trying to say is that trolling will always be free of VALUE and is the ultimate form of art and expression and you should do more of it instead.
This raises a good point. For something to have (monetary) value, preventing people from getting it for free is necessary but not sufficient.
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the analog paradox.
Nah - you can just strip the DRM from content with a bit of effort. Analog hole is just the last resort.
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Nah - you can just strip the DRM from content with a bit of effort.
true, of course the effort required can vary wildly depending on what form of DRM we're talking about.
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Nah - you can just strip the DRM from content with a bit of effort. Analog hole is just the last resort.
Yes, true (about the last resort thing), but the key fact is that the said last resort exists, so all anti-piracy mechanisms are incapable of achieving 100% effectiveness, even if the digital mechanisms are 100% effective.Worse still, the analogue hole is relatively easy to use - in a pinch, for audio, you use a mike to record from speakers that are playing the "protected" media. The playback part is easy (because if it was hard, just listening to the music would be hard, and despite the anti-DRM campaigners' most fervent blitherings, the content-packagers want us to be able to listen easily (otherwise we won't buy at all...)), and the recording part isn't exactly difficult either - install Audacity, hook up a microphone, press record, done.
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use a mike to record from speakers that are playing the "protected" media
Or you could hook the wires leading to the speakers up to an audio input.
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But the analogue hole as you call it exists only for non-interactive content - images, sounds and videos.
As soon as you add interactiveness, the best you can extract like that is a non-interactive linearization of the interactive content.
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Actually, it was ender who called it that...
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Install Audacity, hook up a microphone, press record, done.
You missed some stuff...
- Install Audacity
- Hook up a microphone
- Rant about non-native menus or controls or some similar bullshit
- Press record
- Post on TDWTF about your terrible OSS experience
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Heck, you don't need half of Audacity for this -- sndrec32.exe would do the trick.
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You missed some stuff...
Has anyone ever seen @Steve_The_Cynic and @blakeyrat in the same thread?
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In my experience, DRM pisses off CxOs who just want to give a ****ing presentation to the peons and don't understand why the **** they can't have the inspirational video that their secretary recorded play in PowerPoint at the big corporate event.
- That one was very irritating to handle, as it genuinely was 100% legit video, yet blocked by Windows DRM which simply assumed no HD video can be sent to multiple screens in case it's being copied.
It also cost Intel and Microsoft an unexpected and very expensive satellite internet connection at a joint launch event. Which was amusing. WGA for the win!
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Has anyone ever seen @Steve_The_Cynic and @blakeyrat in the same thread?
Given what was said above by @boomzilla, I'd ask the same question about him and @blakeyrat... I've used Audacity, and no, it isn't exactly a good UX match with the Windows environment, but it does the job, and doesn't have the odd limitations of some versions of sndrec*.exe (early versions wouldn't record more than 60 seconds of audio in a single file. I haven't tried it recently...)
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Given what was said above by @boomzilla, I'd ask the same question about him and @blakeyrat.
I suspect you're the only one who thinks this. Hmm...this is becoming a pattern.
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That one was very irritating to handle, as it genuinely was 100% legit video, yet blocked by Windows DRM which simply assumed no HD video can be sent to multiple screens in case it's being copied.
Wow. TRWTF is Draconian Restrictions Manglement. And I'm sure people still insist on calling anti-DRM folks pirate sympathizers and freeloaders...
I'm sorry folks, but technology can't fix broken statute. (Broken in that "the assumptions the authors of said statute make no longer hold up", mind you.)