la_barba

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by la_barba 7y ago
1) If I'm selling lemonade and my terms and conditions are that you have to jump 10 times before paying me, and I only accept payment in rocks with 10% ferrous oxide, you are free to laugh and ignore me. Please also remember that we&#x
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by la_barba 7y ago
>if you have the capability, you're free to copy & distribute what you have access to or not. Well, you can do anything you like with the freedoms you have as enshrined in the legal framework that applies to your domicile. Do yo
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by la_barba 7y ago
Infringing on copyright law to play a game or a movie doesn't quite have the same 'civil disobedience' ring to it as fighting slavery.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well, okay, maybe you won't be able to buy a non-DRM version of a game you really like. That is a problem for the creator. If people simply walked out of a situation where they don't agree with the terms, maybe more creators would
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by la_barba 7y ago
I hope you realize that "more" vs "less" DRM, is not the same as DRM vs no-DRM. In any case, I don't see anything I can respond to.. so.. thanks for the comment.
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by la_barba 7y ago
>But it only takes one copy of a movie getting onto thepiratebay to make it accessible to everyone who wants it. Unlocking the DRM on that one movie allows you to pirate that one movie, not all movies. Finding a security bug for one OS a
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by la_barba 7y ago
Companies are not dummies, they know what works and how to make money. DRMd content is a billion+ dollar industry. But yeah, if you believe that it doesn't work, you're free to believe so. >Anyone arguing otherwise is motivated
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by la_barba 7y ago
I don't see what point you're trying to make? Microsoft continues to protect all their commercial products with DRM. They clearly see value in doing that.
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by la_barba 7y ago
It is the freedom of the creator to pick a license and method they wish to use to distribute their work. I'm talking about DRM for things which are mostly entertainment - things like movies, games, music, etc. We all have equal freedom
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by la_barba 7y ago
>As another hypothetical... if it were impossible to pirate Windows, would it be nearly as popular around the world? Why Windows became popular will never have a single unarguable objective answer. It was probably a combination of factor
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by la_barba 7y ago
Oh? I thought Apple Music was encumbered with DRM in their M4P format. I'm not super familiar with their service though. Maybe I'm wrong.. Edit: Looks like the M4P format was mainly on older songs pre2009. Though I see forum threa
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by la_barba 7y ago
It is rather bizarre to see some people feel entitled to content which isn't distributed as per their own personal wishes. A principled person would chose to take his/her business elsewhere and purchase a book on a platform whose
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by la_barba 7y ago
As an hypothetical.. If it were impossible to pirate Windows, would all of those users switch to BSD or some other free OSs? If even a single person goes out and buys Windows, then there is a definite argument that piracy resulted in the lo
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by la_barba 7y ago
You just signaled that you find value in the DRM'd product, even if that wasn't your intent. Why not reward creators who choose to distribute their works without DRM? I'm neither pro nor anti-DRM, but I find that people who l
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by la_barba 7y ago
I don't know if you know this, but DRM is a core part of Netflix. No studio would ever have signed up with them if they couldn't control distribution. >See far too many articles from Konrath, who at one point uploaded all his b
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by la_barba 7y ago
Its fine to have an opinion on how things should be, but some of your assertions are not based on facts. >Virtually all major DRM-"protected" works are available on thepiratebay shortly after release. Sometimes before release.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Have you found a solution to piracy that doesn't involve DRM? What was its success rate? I'm sure the publishers would love to switch to a better system if it exists.
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by la_barba 7y ago
They don't have to worry because they control the browser too, and so those tricks will continue to work for the foreseeable future.
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by la_barba 7y ago
>Effort is not accomplishment. If you repeat the same lesson a hundred times over, you’ll be left behind on the path to insight by the person who advances through a hundred different lessons. On the flip side, why should anyone celebrate
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by la_barba 7y ago
>I heard culturally Japan and to an extent other Asian manufacturing nations would never actually press the button. Can anyone confirm this? Its a cord, not a button, and the cord gets pulled all the time. It is a bit brave of Toyota to
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by la_barba 7y ago
30 years of deregulation is a vague, almost meaningless phrase. I'm in pharma and I haven't seen this "deregulation" so to speak. We're seeing more and more regulation surrounding safety of our products (and obvious
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by la_barba 7y ago
It isn't, really. That the entire point. Just repeating that it is without actually making a _science_ based argument is plain silly. If you inject yourself with non-sterile material, there is an extremely high chance you will now die
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by la_barba 7y ago
I'm not proposing a policy here. I'm giving my reasons why something is A Very Bad Idea. >If your alternative is to take this or die due to not being able to afford the proper medicine you need, what is your choice? I don'
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by la_barba 7y ago
I work in biotech/pharma, and not all of us are greedy sacks of shit as some people seem to think. I'm not an exec and cant speak to their ethics broadly, but like any industry where people make big bucks you have greedy asshole-y
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by la_barba 7y ago
Browsers do a has-this-site-ever-been-known-to-host-malware URL check. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Safe_Browsing
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by la_barba 7y ago
Might be easier to create 'players' for various peoples' synthesized voices, and just compress and stream the text.
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by la_barba 7y ago
We can. But its not realistic. You need purified water, media, etc to grow the strain, you need waste disposal for when you purify the harvest. And the biggest bug bear - maintaining sterility for all the pieces of equipment, and the enviro
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by la_barba 7y ago
>The only way to get them to stop being utter vacuous wastes of oxygen is, in the long term, regulation. Anything specific?
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by la_barba 7y ago
All designs break at some point. There is no such thing as hurricane proof. In this case the sub-surface safety valves designed to prevent oil spillage, failed. To take another industry, there are design risks when it comes to seatbelts, br
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by la_barba 7y ago
I'm using mine as a kitchen computer to lookup stuff online. Not exactly a Pi, but I used a adafruit feather to detect vibrations. I used it for landscape photography with a super telephoto lens where I wanted to be able to detect vibr

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