I do blame them for trying. As a designer myself, I have the responsibility for the directions and consequences I choose in creating a product or an answer to a problem. If I am lazy or unsophisticated, my "easy" solution can result in harm, or even real danger, because I selected to not look very far into the future. Since I fancy myself a professional, I can't escape a continuous "in-house" re-evaluation of my own work. My blind spots will become a reality for someone else out there, and my obligation is to minimize or eliminate those created hidden dangers as best I can.
Here, a CD, with or without an admonition on the label not to play in Macs or PCs, can apparently shut down a system and be both inconvenient and expensive. My new iBook is apparently vulnerable to a range of attacks by email viruses and the like, which I understand, but now is able to be shut down by some creepy collective boneheads' ideas on keeping their stupid music from being copied. Easy for them, painful for me if someone uses my iBook for their moment's listening pleasure. (I assure you, I won't listen to that debris on my machine.) This seems to me to be the equivalent of pipe bombs in mailboxes--and spare me the letters about my poor choice of metaphors. That jerk hurt people to make a national smiley face on the US map. I guess he's sure that performasnce-art goal justifies his means. He'll get his lessons in a US court. Performance-art here means hurting people to protect performance royalties. If a few machines get blown up, that's collateral damage. After all, the CD had a label and that's good enough according to the crack legal team of Doofus and Dingdong. This style of protection is indiscriminate, brain-dead, lazy, and destructive. (You choose the hierarchical ranking.) Hopefully, they'll get their lessons in a US or Canadian court. They don't control the universe. And then again neither do we. We just pay our money and endure I want that on my tombstone. Wulkowsquash ----------------------------------- Mac Duff wrote: On 5/11/02 1:03 AM, "Bob Wulkowicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >they don't control the universe. > >We do... > As dumb an attempt as theirs is, I don't blame them for trying. (*opens old can of worms*) -- Mac Canada is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Shop Canadian, visit Mantek Services <http://www.mantek.mb.ca> Low Prices That Will Keep YOU and Your MAC Smiling Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac Canada info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-can.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-canada%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
