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Oh Nine, Eff Nine
I don't know if anyone has been following the controversy over the HD movie code, but I ended up following a thread to a sung version of the code over at YouTube.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can read the New York Times story about it here: In Web Uproar, Antipiracy Code Spreads Wildly. Basically a group of industry lawyers threatened several websites that had posted a 32-character code that allows users to defeat copy protection on HD DVD and Blu-Ray discs. Rather than cave in, thousands of users have posted the code everywhere - including one guy who, as I mentioned above, turned it into a song and video.
I couldn't resist making a comment on YouTube. Unfortunately the original version was too long to fit in the comment section. Here's the too-long version:
And here's the boiled-down version:
Guess I'm just feeling silly today.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can read the New York Times story about it here: In Web Uproar, Antipiracy Code Spreads Wildly. Basically a group of industry lawyers threatened several websites that had posted a 32-character code that allows users to defeat copy protection on HD DVD and Blu-Ray discs. Rather than cave in, thousands of users have posted the code everywhere - including one guy who, as I mentioned above, turned it into a song and video.
I couldn't resist making a comment on YouTube. Unfortunately the original version was too long to fit in the comment section. Here's the too-long version:
You are all under arrest for violating the DMCA. Please package your eyeballs and brain in a secure waterproof container, label it "COPYRIGHT TERRORIST" in block letters, and mail it to:
Alberto Gonzales
The Department of Justice
Republican Party Headquarters
Washington, D.C.
Immediately afterwards, report in person to your nearest media megacorporation outlet for processing. Bring all your credit and debit cards, your bank statements and tax forms for the past five years, and any cash or personal valuables in your possession.
Failure to comply will result in the maximum penalty allowed under the [REDACTED] Act, up to and including total familial dismemberment.
Thank you for your cooperation.
And here's the boiled-down version:
You are under arrest for violating the DMCA. Place your eyeballs and brain in a secure container labeled "COPYRIGHT TERRORIST", and mail it to "Department of Justice, Republican Party HQ, Washington DC".
Then report to any Haliburton outlet. Bring all credit/debit cards and any cash or personal valuables in your possession.
Failure to comply will result in the maximum penalty allowed under the [REDACTED] Act, up to and including total familial dismemberment. Thank you for your cooperation.
Guess I'm just feeling silly today.
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Sounds like it's the Corps own fault for having such an easily defeated bit of copy protection.
I of course tend to be of at least two (and maybe more) minds on that sort of thing. On the one hand, if there's no profit to be made out of producing movies and music and books, we could end up with nothing but the equivalent of fanfic. On the other hand, it's not quite proven to me that what copying that exists is hurting the Corps as much as they'd like us all to believe, and antipiracy stuff (and things like the region codes for DVDs) can end up making the legit products hard to use.
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... this is exactly the problem I run into with resumes. It's not a question of formating - that is, which format is better. It's a questions of standards vs. information.
The standard is one to two pages... but, if you do go into the second page, you shouldn't go over by too much. In other words, it isn't a hard boundary at the end of the second page, but a soft boundary somewhere in the middle.
As with your comment, losing the extra words definitely cuts down on the quality of the result. You may not be providing more information, but you do make the information you provide more meaningful... sometimes there is "fat" that you can cut out, but if you have been working on something a long time most of the fact has already been cut away... and then removing even one or two lines can really be a lot of work.
Kiralee