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arkarian
2012-01-03 05:42:35 pm
red chamber dream
did you hear about the price of vita memory cards grenola?
Poision Envy
2012-01-03 05:42:59 pm
Club 27 Goals
such bullshit, like $50 for 16gb?
arkarian
2012-01-03 05:43:42 pm
red chamber dream
it looks like it's not going to be as bad (in the us at least) as originally thought, but they're still outrageous: http://www.1up.com/news/vita-memory-cards-launch-games-detailed
arkarian
2012-01-03 05:43:58 pm
red chamber dream
$99 for 32 gb
DJGrenola
2012-01-03 05:45:05 pm
yeah I mean it fucking sucks that they can basically do this with the backing of things like the DMCA
DJGrenola
2012-01-03 05:46:36 pm
people were all "oh only pirates need worry about the DMCA" but no, everyone needs to start worrying about it when reverse engineering of crypto is illegal and so you can't buy third-party memory devices because you'll get strung up by the balls in court, so sony can charge literally whatever because of the artificial monopoly created by their ownership of the private key

it's fucked
arkarian
2012-01-03 05:47:46 pm
red chamber dream
and what certainly doesn't help is people in the government who don't even *want* to learn anything about technology before passing rulings
arkarian
2012-01-03 05:48:07 pm
red chamber dream
don't know much about the situation over there but the recent sopa stuff here has been hilarious and also frightening
Poision Envy
2012-01-03 05:48:12 pm
Club 27 Goals
lol yeah. goddamn old white people, who needs em.
arkarian
2012-01-03 05:48:43 pm
red chamber dream
i can understand being old and not knowing much about newer tech, but not being willing to call in experts is crazy
DJGrenola
2012-01-03 05:50:41 pm
I'm not sure politicians' ignorance of technology is really the problem so much as the lobbying power of corporations
arkarian
2012-01-03 05:51:08 pm
red chamber dream
there's that too
DJGrenola
2012-01-03 05:51:21 pm
I wonder what the world would be like if RSA encryption hadn't been invented
DJGrenola
2012-01-03 05:52:34 pm
because it seems to me that overall it may have been a bad thing
tomatobob
2012-01-03 05:52:35 pm
One shall stand, one shall ball.
Quote from Poision Envy:
lol yeah. goddamn old white people, who needs em.

Actually true.
arkarian
2012-01-03 05:53:19 pm
red chamber dream
sometimes it seems to me that the internet may have been a bad thing
DJGrenola
2012-01-03 05:54:04 pm
could be
arkarian
2012-01-03 05:55:24 pm
red chamber dream
like maybe everything being connected isn't so great after all
arkarian
2012-01-03 05:55:54 pm
red chamber dream
i'm sure there's a zillion sci fi novels about that
DJGrenola
2012-01-03 05:55:58 pm
in what sense?
DJGrenola
2012-01-03 05:56:21 pm
I mean yeah I can think of lots of ways in which it may be bad but I'm curious to know whether you had a specific scenario in mind
DJGrenola
2012-01-03 05:56:39 pm
lol this topic has now been infected by the chat disease
arkarian
2012-01-03 05:56:41 pm
red chamber dream
you actually caught me at a bad time for that because i'm in a good mood atm haha
arkarian
2012-01-03 05:56:53 pm
red chamber dream
it's usually when i'm feeling sour that i start thinking about it