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Comment: Re:Why? (Score 1) 766

by executioner (#46397759) Attached to: The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM"
I think the hate is for the unnecessary and repugnant DRM they are going to force on their consumers in the next incarnation of the product. Personally the DRM guarantees I will not be upgrading, I like my Dunkin Donuts coffee and i'm sure they will be considered a knock off as there are limited places to purchase them. They must be feeling the pain of the K-cups being made by everyone. Although I'm not sure as a company that implementing DRM is the best way for them to go, I see lots of customer complaints happening after release.. (what do you mean I can only use green mountain coffee brands?) then they will go and my the mister coffee k-cup machine that doesn't have DRM in it.

Comment: Re: I hope it explodes and kills him (Score 1) 336

by executioner (#44497997) Attached to: Version 2.0 of 3D-Printed Rifle Successfully Fires 14 Rounds
" These guns are made specifically to make dodging regulations easier. This shows a disdain for the will of people. If you don't like the gun control laws then go and change them. If your political system is corrupt - go and change it." dodging which regulation exactly, it is perfectly legal for a citizen to create/make their own guns as long as they don't sell it. The will of the people ? People want access to firearms for many reasons this just makes it easier for someone with the available cash to purchase a printer and materials to create something for themselves.

Comment: Re:1 2 3 4 I declare flame war (Score 1) 976

after it being out only a couple days there was a uninstall/comment that her mother was tagged as owning a SKS (she didn't) Lots of room for incorrect tags on this add to it the potential for criminal abuse (theft) hope he has a 5 star legal defense team.

Comment: Re:Whoosh (Score 1) 547

by executioner (#44060493) Attached to: Microsoft Kills Xbox One Phone-Home DRM
The graphic specs have a noticeable difference in their capabilities. the PS4 is far superior in the graphics department then the XB1. I found the Kinect to decent (at least for the games I have played with it) but I do not like the always listening part of the new connect. The DRM was just plain stupid as the backlash started over a year ago when the rumors first came out that they were going to tank the used games on the system. Why the expected it to get better once they announced it I'll never understand. It just allowed Sony and the PS4 to severely spank them at E3 this year by being that stupid.

Comment: Re:BS (Score 1) 953

by executioner (#43525645) Attached to: Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade
I disagree being lazy has nothing to do with it. I have found many specialized software applications while appealing because they are designed for the niche market are too costly a) to purchase and b) to costly to maintain. some users wish they hadn't spent that much on it. I had an incident many years ago with a building company they asked me to sit in as a technical consultant on some presentations on job costing software. I knew his current setup for software. Both companies provided great pitches but cost wise one was $15,000 and $5-8,000 in maintenance fees per year and the other one was in the same realm but more expensive. After they left I told him technically both solutions would do the job he was looking for but require him to tie himself to their companies to continue using the software as once he stopped paying the maintenance fees the software would shut down. I suggested he wait a month and purchase the job costing software from quicken (would have tied nicely with his accounting software) and spend $99 a little additional customizing and it would do the same job. with no fees. He choose to go with the $15,000 solution and exactly a month later he received a postcard with the job costing software for $99 in the mail.

Comment: Re:They don't have to be (just generate a GUID) (Score 1) 327

by executioner (#41231401) Attached to: Networked Cars: Good For Safety, Bad For Privacy
yes but you miss the point the cars will not think it is as unimportant as we do and will log all activity (car connection) then they will add a bluetooth module that either interrupts the radio with a targeted ad for wal-mart that you are driving by based on the fact you stopped my the local pet store last week. unfortunately it is a slippery slope when it starts being added without protections from the start.

Comment: verizon (Score 1) 294

by executioner (#39147867) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Mobile Phone Solution With No Data Plan?
I use the LG Cosmos it is considered a basic phone (no data plan required) but can use it for email, web, has a built in music player and camera. and think it has been moved to the free category now (was 99 when i got it) I use it for texting, phone and music mostly so it handles what i need it to.

Comment: Re:Technology could be so cool (Score 1) 150

by executioner (#38876543) Attached to: Tenative Ruling Against Kaleidescape in DVD CCA Case

-Embrace streaming. The infrastructure is there. The technology is mature. Drive-in theaters died a long time ago, and so will megaplexes. Deal with it. Stop fighting Netflix. Stop trying to cling onto your antiquated distribution platform..

I couldn't agree more the antiquated distribution platform needs a rewrite for the 21st century. Although Drive-in theaters are not completely dead yet. We have one locally where I am at that shows double features every night during the summer showing current movies or sometimes ones that have been out a few months. I can get myself and my two boys in for less then $10 and about the same for snacks. so for $20 I get three people into see 2 movies. go to a traditional movie theatre and that has just ballooned to $50 or $60 dollars for the 3 of us to see 1 movie. I'll continue to go to the Drive-in as long as it is around 78th year this coming season I believe.

I also have to agree with the person who said that Money (or some sort of Graft) had to have changed hands for the judge to change so radically from 2007 to now. It is a sad commentary on were we are heading when judges and politicians cannot be bothered to do what is right and actually try to learn about what they are making laws about. the content laws and changes from the content industries that they are trying to make like, Game companies trying to kill the used game market, (you know resale of movies and cds will be next), SOPA (lets not forget C-11 in Canada, ACTA in Europe etc. they are trying to get the provisions passed outside the US and then will come back and say they have these laws lets be equals), DCMA, RIAA/MPAA biting the hand that feeds it by suing customers.

I forsee a day when my consumption of media companies content will be at zero, i have already made my decision if the new Xbox 720 comes out with used game restrictions I will stay on the current systems and continue to purchase the games that do not have these restrictions.

What ever happened to the days of fair use it seems like it is slowly dying a painful death at the hands of media companies that would rather we pay for media each time we listen to it.

Comment: Re:Oh, Canada (Score 1) 231

by executioner (#38825307) Attached to: Canadian SOPA Could Target YouTube


yeah that whole freedom of speech is a pesky problem for the MPAA/RIAA. Though I think its high time to start taking that freedom of speech and walk away from consuming the stuff that they produce. I haven't had cable TV in over a year, If I go to the movies it is the local drive in that I get to see 2 movies for me and my 2 boys for $10 and popcorn and drinks for a extra $10. There are so many other ways to spend time without helping to fill their coffers to buy politicians and further their agenda.

Comment: Did you plug it in (Score 1) 181

by executioner (#38794435) Attached to: Tales of IT Idiocy
I worked for a company that had the contract for all the state computers. I had one office call me one day with the our printer is not working. Asking the all important question "is it plugged in?" i got a rather quick response so I asked a couple other routine questions and asked again if someone got under the table and verified the printer was plugged in. I got a yes we did that. After the 90 minute drive out to the location I walked in crawled under the table plugged in the printer, wrote out the bill for my drive time and went back to the shop. At least it was a Nice summer day out :)

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