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Originally posted by av_verbal: who wants some drm'ed thing that you cannot pass the books on to a library once finished with. i think i'll stick with a paper thing that i can sell or give away or swap at my convenience. I guess you have not looked very closely at the nook, or the DRM crack for the Kindle? I guess this means that Borders will be going out of business soon...if their management thinks that they are going to remain...

Yeah, there are some people that don't know much about encrypting their wi-fi...I never had the need to, but it would certainly be no problem, plenty available in my vicinity...Even more when I tested a Sunday DIY project, a nice cantenna..

Quote: Originally posted by DXR88: my IP is based in Europe, i live in Florida. anyway stupid stupid thief. Steal and Pawn is a tactic seen where i live. i always carve my name into the molding for verification. Using a proxy............thanks. Now we all know and so do others who might try to find you if you're doing anything illegal. In fact.........if you are, they'll start searching now and "Ip based in Europe"...

Again, it looks like a bunch of people (not all) talking out of their hind end because they lack any ability to reason. If you're gonna hate on Sony for Blu-ray , you have to equally hate Panasonic , Pioneer , Phillips, etc. to not be a hypocrite. Some of these forums are like listening to partisan political hacks on TV who just make up nonsense (i.e. lie) for anything they have no other basis for their position. FYI... Current Blu-ray...

I didn't realize how cheap Live subscriptions were.

Patents last 15 years .. but some people want to see them extended like copyright.. taking everything out of the possibility of the public domain. What annoys me is the buying and selling of something which was supposed to preserve the inventor rights to make money from their invention. The yankee patent office needs looking at.. it is allowing patents to be registered on already existing technology and on general ideas not specifics.. that...

Quote: Quote: Originally posted by KSib: I didn't realize how cheap Live subscriptions were. you can find them for about 20-30 a year if you look really hard. ZippyDSM, can you tell me where I could find a year of Live for that price? Troll the net google shop,amazon and ebay it can be done but its more rare than it should be, I swear if I am a business and buy 1000 cards/keys I should get a 30% or more discount then when you resale to...

Quote: Originally posted by beanos66: and has absoloutly nothing to do with authoritarianism, corruption and complete lack of human rights China are obviously just using these things as an excuse to further crack down on peoples' freedoms. The UK (among others) are very keen on this too, i have a link somewhere. It seems it's the same few countries playing follow the leader on these kind of things all the tie, i keep saying...

Originally posted by cyprusrom: I forgot to enter the "sarcasm" sign...it was meant to be funny. I am smiling right now,Just not showing it. I got nothing to hide, when I do, I just leech on one of my neighbors net... HA HA HA.........the BEST proxy in the world. Good man/woman. Or........drive around and look for them. So many dumb people with unsecured networks or those still using WEP .

Originally posted by djgizmo: In regards to the paying for updates for Ipod Touches and older Iphones, this is due to a US FEDERAL accounting regulation. As much as Apple may 'enjoy' receiving $10 payment for the update, their accounting costs to track that $10 out weighs it by at least 2 fold. The minute they can stop charging for updates they will, because it will save them money. Do some basic google research. Good old...