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The War on Words — part 1

Posted Fri, 11/30/2007 - 3:19pm by rernst

Equal, But Opposite

I'm confident it's not a 20th century invention to use words to mean the opposite of what they conventionally mean. But it certainly is pervasive. And annoying. And very, very dangerous.

Something I saw somewhere:

"English is the language that lets you talk until you figure out what to say"

Take for example, the phrase 'Digital Rights Management protections', which I came across recently.

It reminds me of a bad Capital One Commercial

Posted Fri, 08/03/2007 - 7:19pm by rernst

Sing along with me now: 'Hands in my picket/Hands in my pocket...'.

What was I rambling about? Oh yes: The Mafiaa wants you to pay every time you share or copy media on your local network.

Move that media file? Pay a fee.
Defragment your hard drive? Pay a fee.
Watch that video? Pay a fee.
Watch that video with a friend in the room? Pay another fee.

Where will it end?

If you have a hammer…

Posted Sun, 02/19/2006 - 6:49am by rernst

and you replace the handle, and then later the head, do you have the same hammer?. What constitutes what something is, anyways?

It was inevitable

Posted Tue, 05/24/2005 - 7:23am by rernst

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/18/2254255&tid=230&tid=218

The scary thing is that some day, should MS and other 'Trusted Computing' vendors have their way, we might have to use this for *legal* torrents. As it is, BT is by far the best way to download Linux ISO's at your maximum connection speed.