Posts by Trahloc 7 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jul 2013
I haven't played with a recent iPod but during that era you could hook one up to your windows PC and see all the music files in a hidden folder with garbled filenames through windows explorer. So if copying files into a hidden folder which is standard computer operation for nearly half a century is "hacking" then the whole computing industry is based on hacking...
An mp3 file has no DRM. How the file gets onto the device shouldn't matter. It's a legal file using 'open' (as in understood) format that the iPod plays without issue. The only time any problem occurs is when a user hooks it up to iTunes after listening to their music without issue and is then lied to that they need to wipe their device.
>Precautionary principle. We know that anything distracting the driver's eyes from the road is a risk.
We should remove all information display in cars then, they require looking away from the road and major refocusing of your eyes. Just because they've been there for decades shouldn't matter, they need to go.
>Why on earth did this driver feel the need to wear them while driving her car?
Do you take your hat off *every* time you get in the car even though it has a roof so the cover becomes redundant? Same reason, it's hands free and not distracting so why not leave it on?
>Is using them why she missed the speed limit?
This is California, doing less than 75 in a 65 is a slow car hazard. We usually do 80 in the first lane which is why several USA states have 75-80mph as their freeway speed limits but California is a nanny state when it comes to freeway speeds. I usually get past by folks in the second lane if I'm doing 75 in the first.
@Goldmember
"That's a good get-out for Spotify though; just look up every MoS compilation tracklist, ensure at least one random remix is unavailable from each one and presto, problem solved."
I disagree. If its a 12 track album, 11 of the artists made a deal with spotify to release their work, the 12th artist was busy creating a new album so didn't want to deal with lawyers ... and when they come to spotify with their latest album + the rest of their work they're not allowed to release their complete works on there because of that ruling in court? Punishing someone for being last isn't a solution.
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