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Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future. - Niels Bohr
Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future. - Niels Bohr
And they'll call it: (Score:3, Funny)
Hang on a sec. . . (Score:4, Funny)
How is it spyware if they tell you it's sending data to the copyright holder? Isn't spyware supposed to be a bit more subtle than that?
Great... (Score:5, Funny)
DVD - Naughty Coed Cheerleaders in Heat IV
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So how much? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hang on a sec. . . (Score:1, Funny)
wrong thinking here (Score:4, Funny)
think about it. all that has to happen is one geek cracks the code. then distribute it. then get a few people together and make a database of all the different codes for different games. end result? get a nice little program that artificially inflates the stats for your favorite games!
forget running SETI of d.net, just run PS stacker in the background, sending of piles of info back to the mothership about how gamers REALLY LOVE BUSHIDO BLADE!!!
at least that's one way to do it. besides, break it entirely and they'll come up with another one. better to tweak it and use it to your advantage.
in case it gets slashdotted... (Score:4, Funny)
- Digital Rights Management and Distribution Technology
-Promoting distribution of digital content which respects copyright-
Tokyo, Japan
Sony Corporation today announced "OpenMG X", a digital rights manag
eh, screw it, it's sony, let 'em hurt....
Re:OpenMG X? (Score:5, Funny)
~Philly
Sony's new DRM scheme (Score:5, Funny)
Day 2: AIBO found looking through personal CD collection.
Day 3: AIBO attempts to sabotage my chipped PS2. I reprimand it by frowning sternly and saying "Bad dog" but it just wags its tail and pretends like it doesn't understand.
Day 4: AIBO swallows the laser assembly of my CD burner. Claims it was hungry.
Day 5: AIBO starts leaving little piles of Memory Sticks all over the house.
Day 6: AIBO trashes my RioVolt by trying to mate with it.
Day 7: AIBO returned to store, exchanged for TiVo.
Branding/Buzzword compliance (Score:2, Funny)
Let's see.
Uses a word with benevolent connotations ("Open")... +2 points
Followed up by a small abbreviation that terminates with the "ee" sound... +3 points.
Incorporates X somehow... +4 points.
Fails to use an "e" or "i" prefix... -2 points.
Total:
2 + 3 + 4 - 2 = rights still getting FLUSHED DOWN THE TOI... I mean, 7 points! Good work to everyone involved!
All you mushy-headed alarmists (Score:5, Funny)
"This will provide content holders and distributors with the bigger opportunities to widen the ways of secure content distribution to various devices while consumers will enjoy more entertaining and exciting content, which will enlarge and vitalize the entire digital content distribution market."
This will make your movies and music MORE EXCITING AND ENTERTAINING. Say goodbye to Britney and awful Elvis remixes. Say goodbye to slap-together Austin Powers' sequels crammed with product placements. THIS TECHNOLOGY WILL CURE US OF THAT.
I have yet to determine exactly how, but I happen to trust Sony. They told me the PS2 would be 1,000 times more powerful than the PS1, and dammit, we've all seen the results.
Why you guys can't get over your whining and just accept this new more exciting and entertaining future is beyond me.
Re:HERE is a good use for a firewall. (Score:4, Funny)
Psycho Keneitc Interference? I'll just wear my aluminium foil propeller-head beanie!
Re:Great... (Score:5, Funny)
Especially sections from 10min15 to 11min45, from 21min to 23min38, etc... (also known as the 'sticky bits')
Re:Great... (Score:2, Funny)
Well, if it's for forecasting, how about the manufacturers of Kleenex?
So we don't like Sony this week? (Score:2, Funny)
Sorry guys, but I might have to like them again when the network package for PS2 comes out in a couple weeks. And online Madden 2K3...
Mmmm...Madden...
Re:PS 3 (Score:3, Funny)
I think it also says somewhere in the article that you'll be able to strap it to your back and it will fly you to the moon.
Re:So what happens if... (Score:5, Funny)
Your puter sends 1M packets to Sony, taking down their router and server. They arrest you for launching a DoS attack on their server.
The story of your arrest gets posted to
Re:So how much? (Score:0, Funny)
Well, there's no way THAT could fail. (Score:2, Funny)
By ``end of the service'' here, they clearly mean ``the moment that just one of the multitude of clued-up and highly motivated hackers out there cracks the protection and puts an unecrypted copy on a P2P network''.
Ah, you gotta hand it to Sony. They have learned the lesson well: that you can always solve IPR problems with technology.
Next week: Sony Announce New Initiative To Improve Morality By Legislation.
The week after: Sony Announce New Initiative To End World Hunger By Telling People To Be Nicer.
These are all great ideas.
Prior art (Score:5, Funny)
Stan: Hey, it's happening again. [the probe is now a large satellite dish]
Kyle: Whoa, look at that.
Stan: Now, do you believe this, Cartman?
Cartman: You guys can't scare me! I know you're making it all up.
Stan: Cartman, there's a 80-foot satellite dish sticking out of your ass!
Cartman: Sure, you guys, what-ever. [the dish sends a radio signal out to space]
Re:Firewall = DMCA violation? (Score:5, Funny)
By walking through the store and looking at this package you agree to the following terms.
You allow Sony full access to a listing all of your media materials that can be used with this device. You allow Sony full rights to any information public or private that we deem as important in one way or another. Any thought about getting around this soul binding contract will permit full persecution by the government under which you reside and will persecute you at our request. By agreeing to this contract you agree to plead guilty to any charges brought against you by our company or any of its subsidiaries and pay any damages that we set. You also agree to not speak in a seditious way against our company or any of it's subsidiaries and also agree not to use any competing product or license of any competing company or government.
Re:Let me save you the trouble... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hitler and IP (Score:4, Funny)
You lose.
Re:Thank you Sony (Score:5, Funny)
No no no, it's the DMCA. You can remeber it by the old Village People song:
D - M - C - A ( It's fun to violate the )
D - M - C - A ( You'll do more time than Manson )
D - M - C - A!
Re:hmmm... let me make sure I understand (Score:3, Funny)
Re:HERE is a good use for a firewall. (Score:3, Funny)
oh! you mean that AMERICAN contrivance