If you've ever wondered why nothing useful has ever come out of Nicholas Negroponte's MIT Media Lab, see this video. Twenty years of letting wannabes and posers play at being computer geeks, all subsidized by U.S. tax dollars. Now their big project is installing some crapware on iPods that breaks the DRM code -- or, as one freetard puts it, "reconfigures the power relationship between you and your technology." Wow. Maybe you didn't realize you had a power relationship with your iPod. You just thought it was for playing music on the way to work. Who knew? Well, thanks, there, you Foucault-reading, latte-gulping graduate student, for saving the world from the tyranny of Apple. Let's go get ice cream cones at Toscanini's and you can tell us about Jeremy Bentham and the panopticon, and how the iPod is training us to imprison ourselves. But then shouldn't you be getting back to your schoolwork? Hilarious.
Best part of the video comes near the end. The little fruitcake leader of the group is describing this "event" where they invited people to bring in their iPods and get the freedom software installed. He's like, "Yeah it was a great success except for one disappointment which was that two people actually went out and bought new iPods for this event, which wasn't really the idea, we wanted to liberate people's iPods, not create an incentive for people to buy more iPods. So in the future we'll need to be a little more clear on that."
D'oh! Friggin freetarded MIT graduate students! How the hell did you morons ever get into MIT in the first place? Oh that's right. It's the Media Lab. Not the real MIT. By the way, kids -- when you put that crapware on your iPod you void your warranty. Just letting you know.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Freetards at MIT destroying perfectly good iPods
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Wow! Right at the end they say this will lead to a better product. Can't wait for something better than the iPod as Apple makes it to come out.
I notice the demo of Rockbox shows it crashing and throwing debug text over the User Interface at about 2/3 of the way through the video…
Nice reference to Foucault there! Langdon Winner would probably have been more appropriate but Foucault makes it funnier.
You would think these brainiacs would know how to spell...
It's "administrator" not "administrater"!!
the power relationship between you and your technology.
I always thought that the power relationship between me and my technology was what I decided to plug it into today.
This was a party? MIT parties suck.
This was a party? MIT parties suck.
Used to be if you had no education you would turn to theft.
Now it seems you need one to learn how to steal.
Shit, I should have gone and had them load it onto my iPod then gone back a year later with lawyers demanding the source to these exact programs.
As distributors of GPL'd Rockbox and Linux binaries these asshats are obligated to offer a means _which they provide_ to obtain the source for these exact binaries in their entirety. It's not enough to point people to Linux and Rockbox sites, if you distribute binaries _you_ have to provide the source. The FSF has been cracking down on Linux distributions who only distribute binaries and I expect these jerkoffs to be cracked down on just as hard.
Providing source to GPL'd programs is not an accomodation in the license, it is a restriction. Funny how that works.
Best non sequitor ever. They start of talking about how DRM is bad and everything, and then use that as an excuse to install Linux on the iPod. What does that have to do with the iTunes Music Store and DRM other than preventing you from using it? And what ass helps people void warranties on their devices?
The only thing I liked about this MIT thing was the reference to Toscanini's. Whenever I feel the urge to have some really good ice cream served by gals with multiple body piercings, that's where I go.
I've never seen these guys, there, however.
I know you, FSJ, would only eat the vegan, non dairy options (based on Mona Simpson's novel, which we can now say is the "FSJ Beta"). But good of you to name check Toscanini's Ice Cream, one of the finest ice cream makers in the US.
linux on my ipod! oh boy! like that is sooooooooo 2003! now i can wait for some pimply 13-year-old in germany to quit "hackin' it" to on-line porn or stop playing warcraft long enough to update the drivers he wrote for my ipod too! i'm just brimming with the excitement!
In the same breath, one of the kids said something like, "what I like about RockBox is I can install it on my iPod and then I can just drag my music to it like it was a hard drive or any flash based device, which you can only do otherwise with some third party software (I guess he means like iPodDisk for example)..."
So, WTF is RockBox if not third party software?
I'll bet those MIT whiz kids can protect us all from windmills as well...
Dude that was the funniest video i have ever seen.
OH I HATE DRM.
IT'S SOOO RESTRICTIVE.
Rich kids have nothing better to do with their time. Go feed the homeless, stop trying to get things for free. Liberation? How about health insurance issues, taxation, etc. Aren't you there to learn about something else?
Oh and by the way, if you want to stop supporting Apple, you probably don't want to spend over $2000 on one of their laptops...just a suggestion.
Oh wait, you're parents probably bought it for you, so it doesn't count.
Get a life, put your helmet back on, get on the short bus, and go back to Bridgewater State where you belong.
A comment from a normal linux user:
I like and use ipods. But whats not to like about having doom (the game) on your ipod? Or playing chess on it?
Oh and people take warranty seriously? That's the last thing I look for in a product.
I liked how 5 of the 6 laptops they used were either macbooks or macbook pros.... way to go on not supporting apple.
Oh goody! The nerve to even think and attempt something like this!
Actually, the Media Lab is not funded by tax money -- it's all corporate sponsorship. And this doesn't seem to have been part of research either.
I always have so much respect for people with a pierced eyebrow. This guy needs a life. Why is it that frigtards like this guy always look like freaks and did you notice he even talks like a typical college leftist freak. I don't understand these hippy wannabes - don't they have anything better to complain about than a friggin' iPod? geeezzzzz I bought an iPod to listen to music in my pickup truck not because I am some big supporter of DRM. Hey frigtards there is a WAR going on! what happened to the time hippies protested wars? ohhhhhh thats right protesting wars means you have to like be outside and in the cold or rain or in the heat - it means you need to go to big rallys where maybe you wouldn't be the center of attention. Even these leftist radical frigtards are only interested in themselves - they have don't care about about anything but getting their face in the media.
What's not to like about Doom on your iPod? Oh, I dunno... the fact that it's hard to see, swallows down battery life, and requires you TO PUT LINUX ON YOUR IPOD.
And warranties on MP3 players are valuable things, my friend. Well, if you're the average idiot that posts on iLounge complaining about iPod death.
Am quite surprised at the reaction of some of the people posting comments, it seems that everyone loves the restrictions on the ipod.
I must say as a device it is logistically wonderfully, and stylish, but for usability it lacks. The ability to only sync with one single itunes and not being able to drag music on to the ipod is one of the major major frustrations I've had to go through.
Someone above mentioned that you can already drag things on to the ipod, that's not the problem, the problem is then being able to play them!
Adding this small feature i think would go ALONG way to making the ipod even better than it already is, i think it would finally complete it! It's a pity you need to install a whole new system for this to happen. Come on Steve what's so bad about drag and drop for music?! :)
goodness. What's so bad about losing a bit of battery life? An video ipod only supports 3 hours playing videos anyway, and that's close to nothing.
Oh No! Linux! Save me! I just know I cant use the software reset/restore tool to reload my ipod! If an ipod user can figure out that that's what the restore tool does, they dont deserve to have an ipod. A zune however, would be in order.
What a bunch of freetards. It's easy for some rich kid bastards to talk about how music should be free. Try working for a living and having your work stolen.
Also, get some speech lessons so every third word isn't, "ummm."
fake steve has to be an ML alum. He knows too much!
Anonymous is an idiot. "rich kid bastards" ... "having your work stolen." Metallica needs another mansion built from solid gold?
mit medialab sucks!
the status quo is awesome!!!!!
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