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School + DRM = ♥
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lamefun
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School + DRM = ♥
You feel that schools are bad because the society because it wasn't techonlogically ready. Now it is.
Based on the existing DRM technologies, we can create a new one - DCB - Digital Curricular Barrier. Instead of protecting authors' copyright, DCB protects childrens' right for education by isolating them from any information that isn't in school curriculum. Amazon's remote deletion of the book 1984 should be showcase of the true power of DRM. You have to understand that all interests besides school curriculum are unhealthy - they are ADDICTION, just like TV or game addiction.
Lets look how DCB-enabled compilers will prevent the most dangerous addiction of the modern world: programming addiction. Let's take a look at a C code:
Code:
struct { int x; int y; } point;
int main() { return 0; }
This won't compile on DCB-enabled compiler: "Illegal keyword `struct' - you haven't been taught structures yet, wait until you're taught them".
We are entering post-PC era. Computers will never cease to exist-no, they'll just ceas to be Personal. The new computing devices for people of the future, like Microsoft tablets will be controlled by government for the good and safety of children!
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School + DRM = ♥
So we don't get to learn about our Orwellian school system?
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(06-14-2013 08:02 AM)Potato Wrote: watch the fuq out, we've got an "intellectual" over here.
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School + DRM = ♥
What if you die before the bones are ground to dust? I hear it takes a while.
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(06-14-2013 08:02 AM)Potato Wrote: watch the fuq out, we've got an "intellectual" over here.
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School + DRM = ♥
My point precisely.
I suppose I could dig them up and grind them myself, although following that logic I could probably kill him myself and save the wait.
Hello, traveler.
This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.
Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"
Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.
People are allowed to change their views.
Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.
If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
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RE: School + DRM = ♥
(02-20-2013 06:35 AM)planetfall666 Wrote: Thank you SO FUCKING MUCH FOR THIS GODDAMN POST.
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Well, that's kind of like what I feel about people who oppose free software.
I don't really support this kind of system, I'm just being sarcastic all the time. But well, this could very likely be the real future, because free software will die because of this, unschooling will be too slow to gain enough popularity to be considered before DRM will go ubiquitous and government will declare all interests besides school curriculum as addiction and will use DRM to create an impenetrable information barrier around children to force them to follow curriculum.
BTW I've talked with some people at #gnu at freenode.net, some of free software ppl are against school too.
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School + DRM = ♥
"Digital Curricular Barrier" turns up no results from Google search except for this thread.
Don't give the bastards ideas.
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We should give them misinformation. Quick, somebody create a shell company marketing this DRM product but place a bunch of exploits in the programming so we can crash the entire educational infrastructure and take over the world!
I mean, make a newly reformed institution...
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(06-14-2013 08:02 AM)Potato Wrote: watch the fuq out, we've got an "intellectual" over here.
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