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Cable Box Piracy Ring Busted
WC as Kato writes "The U.S. Attorney's Office said it has busted a huge cable piracy ring. They made over $10 million in 5 years by advertising on the Internet and in magazines. Their only cover to the illegality of their actions was a disclaimer that the boxes were not illegal to own. Police say customers who purchased them are now at risk of being arrested. Did any customer actually fall for their 'legal disclaimer?'"
Surely that should read.. "_were_ illegal to own"?
If it looks like a binding legal agreement it must be one. *cough* eula *cough*
aw, cheez it, it's the feds!
Shift happens. Fire it up.
Homo-Sexuality Deception of Islam
1. Though homo-sexuality occurs outside of Islam also, inside Islam it
configures as its inescapable and integral part and the large-scale
habitual usage of this practice, by the Moslems, is indubitable and
indisputable from the history of Islam itself. This custom and its usage
was shocking to the Hindus, of course, but not to the Moslems who,
though they swear by Allah, did not regard it as a bad thing at all, let
alone an immoral or an illegal one. Though Islamic homo-sexuality is
wide-spread, over far-reaching corners of Islam, most Hindus do not have
a clue about it nor the cause of its occcurrence in Islam, because the
truth is being submerged by the wind-bags of false-hood manufacturers
(Moslems, Missionaries, and Marxists), who are assisted in their
nefarious designs by their Phony-Liberal Hindu cronies, who are
targetting Hindus, to insult and degrade their religion. The false-hood
manufacturers categorize homo-sexuality (especially lesbianism) as a
Hindu custom and you can observe a demonstration of this in their
incessant pyrotechnics on the movie "Fire," where even the names
assigned to two characters in the movie, in a lesbian relationship, are
the names of Hindu goddesses. The obvious intent is to degrade and
desecrate the Hindu religion and to humiliate the Hindu. 2. The latest
entrant to this lesbian controversy is the Allah-Swearing Tamil Naidu
Moslem Board, that has issued a stern admonition to all Moslem women,
not to watch the movie "Fire" at all. This Allah-Swearing Board has
judged that it is "Haraam" for Moslem women to watch this film, either
in cinema halls, or on TV, or in Video players. They state that because
of its lesbian theme, the movie is contrary to Islam.
Contrary to Islam? What a suit-case of fiction!
Lesbianism is not only not contrary to Islam but is a part and parcel of
Islam and is the veritable product of its Draconian Monster laws.
3. Quran expressly permits Moslems to acquire slaves through conquests.
In Islam, war is prescribed for a Moslem on religious grounds and the
concomitant slavery and lesbianism have always been integral and
inescapable parts of Islamic wars, as fringe benefits for the Moslem
Jehadis and are, therefore, completely conformal with the spirit and
teachings of Islam. Mohammad recognized slaves as the property of the
Moslem master and nearly all Moslem Sultans kept a large troupe of
concubines inside their lavish harems, as permitted by Quranic laws.
Inside these harems, lesbianism became an inescapable custom of choice
among the sex-starved occupants of the harems, in the dream-house
palaces of the Sultans.
There is nothing like this wrack and ruin that occurred, at any time and
any where inside the Hindu System, throughout its ten thousand year old
history.
4. Islamic monster laws, that belong to the dark ages, and the Islamic
slave system and its attendant lesbianism, are incontestably the product
of the principles of Islam and represent the great wheels of Islam, in
its march towards the extermination of the Kafirs (non-Moslem infidels)
and their Kufr.
Quran gave a divine sanction to the custom of polygamy and concubinage.
So, a Moslem can have wives (number limited to four) and can supplement
them with half-wives or concubines (no limit on their number) captured
in holy wars (Jehad) as those "whom your right hand possesses,"
perfectly in keeping with the laws of Quran. A Moslem, therefore,
engages in this activity with a clean conscience and religious fidelty.
This activity and its multiplication was made possible because of the
fast-growing Islamic Imperialism.
To say that lesbianism is anti-Islamic (as held by the Allah-Swearing
Tamil Naidu Moslem Board) is utter non-sense.
5. As a practical reality, it must be realized that concubinage and
harems are possible only for those creeds that practise
Here it is find the story here-->e galcable, 0,4418393.story?coll=ktxl-news-1
http://fox40.trb.com/news/ktxl-121703ill
Two Men Accused In Illegal Cable Piracy Scam
Police Say Suspects Offered Free Television For The One-time Price Of A 200 Dollar Chip
Mike Bond
December 17, 2003
SACRAMENTO -- It was installation day for residents at a new apartment complex in North Natomas.
But for every legitimate cable customer who signs up, Comcast officials say there are plenty of people ripping off programming with illegal descramblers called black boxes.
Assistant US Attorney Robert Tice- Raskin says, "The disclaimer were really nothing more than a wink and a nod by these conspirators to members of the public."
At a news conference this afternoon, federal prosecutors announced they'd arrested two people who are accused of selling descramblers throughout the state and the country.
Over the past five and a half years, they're accused of masterminding a money laundering scheme that's earned them more than 10-million dollars.
US Attorney McGregor Scott says, "The dollar amounts that are involved really make this stand out -- it really is a unique and distinct set of circumstances."
Officials say the descramblers were advertised on the internet and in magazines with a disclaimer that the boxes were not against the law to own.
Nevertheless, police say customers who purchased them are now at risk of being arrested.
Sacramento County Sheriff Lou Blanas says, "Common sense dictates if you have a black box, you're violating the law, disclaimer or no disclaimer. I mean if that was the case, everybody would have access to these movies!"
Cable Customer Gwenice Garnett says, "I'm not going to squeal on 'em, but I do know people who have them."
Gwenice Garnett was happy to hear about the bust as she stopped by Comcast this evening to upgrade to digital cable.
She's paying 70-bucks a month.
Garnette says, "I pay a substantial amount of money for my cable and if I have to pay, they should have to pay!"
I bet they will try the customers under the DMCA, having used the cable box as a "circumvention device" against protections put up by the cable provider.
Then again, a crafty legal time might just be able to argue this case in terms of the fact that the customer was fooled by the legal disclaimer.
Just my two cents...
Investing forum
Like it or not, they were stealing cable. When will slashdot learn you cannot steal music, pirate software or hack computers without punishment?
They weren't illegal, what made them illegal was the descrambler, which enables all scrambled channels on analog cable, they don't work on digital cable.
... why people never stop their illegal activities when they've earned enough money? I mean, $5,000,000 should be enough for anyone for quite a while? It seems that they'll eventually get caugh otherwise and don't have any real use of the money anyways, like in this case...
actually, this stuff is unbreakable, operates seamlessly on several (more than 3) dimensions, & offers unlimited energy to build on.
a real nightmare for the whoreabull payper liesense corepirate nazi softwar gangster stock markup fraud execrable/walking dead contingent.
for each of the creators' innocents harmed, there is a badtoll that must/will be repaid by you/US, as the greed/fear/ego based perpetraitors of the life0cide against the planet/population, will not be available to make reparations.
planet/population rescue merged with creators' (Score:mynuts won, off the monIE again?)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday December 09, @09:14AM (#7667814)
newclear power mandates.
& why not? it's all good.
consult with/trust in yOUR creators... get ready to be enlightened.
[ Reply to This
robbIE rumoured to be corepirate nazi clone? (Score:mynuts won, pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise still not working?)
by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 12, @06:53AM (#7699395)
eXPerimeNT(r)oll, version won, of course.
the process has 'advanced' to transform bodIEs of regular folks into greed/fear/ego based puppets/ediots/droids. those slymebawls over at phonIE monIE
lookout bullow. there's nothing behind the ?pr? ?firm?/stock markup fraud 'curtain'. not even a little 'man'.
Two guys got arrested. Big news, indeed. What a huge ring!
:^D
Was it "The One Ring", by any chance?
And now for some karma whoring: "in Soviet Russia the ring arrests you!"
My Stack Overflow user
Dear DirecTV,
Please take note. This is how you deal with people pirating your signals without being viewed as jackbooted thugs. You find people buying and selling equipment designed specifically to do that.
Contrast this to your current methods which involve extorting protection money out of people who do NOT pirate your signals simply because they bought a programmable smart card with a wide range of possible uses, one of which *might* lead to the pirating of your signals.
Only on
Significant that it was Fox who carried the article though - they have something to lose ;-)
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.. no, nevermind..
...we are from the government - we are here to help...
As a devout Muslim, I find this post to be very offensively full of falsehoods and misconceptions. Please could the administrators of this forum delete it. Thank you.
But was there anything worth watching on cable in the first place?
Rus
Cheap UK and US VPS
Boggle!!! Do people really do that??? Are they really that desperate for television??? Don't they have lives to get on with???
Homo-Sexuality Deception of Islam
1. Though homo-sexuality occurs outside of Islam also, inside Islam it configures as its inescapable and integral part and the large-scale habitual usage of this practice, by the Moslems, is indubitable and indisputable from the history of Islam itself. This custom and its usage was shocking to the Hindus, of course, but not to the Moslems who, though they swear by Allah, did not regard it as a bad thing at all, let alone an immoral or an illegal one. Though Islamic homo-sexuality is wide-spread, over far-reaching corners of Islam, most Hindus do not have a clue about it nor the cause of its occurrence in Islam, because the truth is being submerged by the wind-bags of false-hood manufacturers (Moslems, Missionaries, and Marxists), who are assisted in their nefarious designs by their Phony-Liberal Hindu cronies, who are targeting Hindus, to insult and degrade their religion. The false-hood manufacturers categorize homo-sexuality (especially lesbianism) as a Hindu custom and you can observe a demonstration of this in their incessant pyrotechnics on the movie "Fire," where even the names assigned to two characters in the movie, in a lesbian relationship, are the names of Hindu goddesses. The obvious intent is to degrade and desecrate the Hindu religion and to humiliate the Hindu.
2. The latest entrant to this lesbian controversy is the Allah-Swearing Tamil Naidu Moslem Board, that has issued a stern admonition to all Moslem women, not to watch the movie "Fire" at all. This Allah-Swearing Board has judged that it is "Haraam" for Moslem women to watch this film, either in cinema halls, or on TV, or in Video players. They state that because of its lesbian theme, the movie is contrary to Islam.
Contrary to Islam? What a suit-case of fiction!
Lesbianism is not only not contrary to Islam but is a part and parcel of Islam and is the veritable product of its Draconian Monster laws.
3. Quran expressly permits Moslems to acquire slaves through conquests. In Islam, war is prescribed for a Moslem on religious grounds and the concomitant slavery and lesbianism have always been integral and inescapable parts of Islamic wars, as fringe benefits for the Moslem Jehadis and are, therefore, completely conformal with the spirit and teachings of Islam. Mohammad recognized slaves as the property of the Moslem master and nearly all Moslem Sultans kept a large troupe of concubines inside their lavish harems, as permitted by Quranic laws. Inside these harems, lesbianism became an inescapable custom of choice among the sex-starved occupants of the harems, in the dream-house palaces of the Sultans. There is nothing like this wrack and ruin that occurred, at any time and any where inside the Hindu System, throughout its ten thousand year old history.
4. Islamic monster laws, that belong to the dark ages, and the Islamic slave system and its attendant lesbianism, are incontestably the product of the principles of Islam and represent the great wheels of Islam, in its march towards the extermination of the Kafirs (non-Moslem infidels) and their Kufr. Quran gave a divine sanction to the custom of polygamy and concubinage. So, a Moslem can have wives (number limited to four) and can supplement them with half-wives or concubines (no limit on their number) captured in holy wars (Jehad) as those "whom your right hand possesses," perfectly in keeping with the laws of Quran. A Moslem, therefore, engages in this activity with a clean conscience and religious fidelity. This activity and its multiplication was made possible because of the fast-growing Islamic Imperialism. To say that lesbianism is anti-Islamic (as held by the Allah-Swearing Tamil Naidu Moslem Board) is utter non-sense.
5. As a practical reality, it must be realized that concubinage and harems are possible only for those creeds that practice aggressive wars, such as Islam, and annex outside territories from where they can pick male and female slaves. There is nothing like this kind of cataclysm any where in Hi
The fact that they hijacked someone else's computer to send me that "completely legal" message would be a tip-off if all the other signs failed.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
seems to ?work? here & there, for some, for a while.
you know things are deteriorating when your 'customers' consider themselves hostages whoare having their pockets picked, under threat of georgewellian fuddite corepirate nazi softwar gangster payper liesense stock markup fraud execrable 'litigation', should they attempt to escape/turn the channel.
There are very simple methods by which the box on the street, which you own, can be forced to not send signals into my home.
Sorry, though, as any signals which you broadcast directly into my home without any contract between us, I will do whatever I want with.
Anyone who thinks they shouldnt be allowed to recieve whatever signals are being broadcast into their home is an idiot. I'm not hacking in to your box, or touching your property at all. If you beam signals directly toward me, you don't get to complain when I use them.
Stop sending signals to the homes of non-subscribers and you will absolutely never have this problem again. You are not allowed to take away basic rights of perception in order to save a few bucks.
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
Wow, with people like this all the cable company has to do is offer a prize of $25.00.00.00 (Twenty Five $$$$$$ only) and every "pirate" is going to be rat-ted out in no time.
More money will of course be made when the Rat gets on the TV shows "selling" their story of how they bravely turned in every Tom, Jane, and Harry to collect their Mega Bounty.
And with DEA conspiring to get the Kids to rat on their parents, the determination of the Assistant US Attorney should be in doubt to no one ..
To see a world in a grain of sand, and then to step back and see the beach where the sand lies
I'd be surprised if they even paid for soap..
Did any customer actually fall for their 'legal disclaimer?'
Well, if they made $10 million I guess at least someone did.
I was going to get Comcast at my new house. Then when I called to find out what it would cost me for "basic" digital cable + internet. $120+ a month. I about fell out of my chair.
Since I had made up my mind I wasn't going to swallow that pill, I decided to mess with the guy. I asked im if he knew why they couldn't say fuck on basic cable. "I don't know". Well, it's because technically it's a FREE service. We pay for the access to the cable, the programming is FREE. This is how HBO gets away with things like Real Sex, you PAY for the service. So, my question is why are you jacking up the price when you pay nothing for it? "Well, sir, that is our price. I have no control over what we charge. Can I set up an install date for you?" Maybe, can you tell me if there is an equipment rental charge in there somewhere. "Yes sir." Can I guy buy a cable box so I don't have to rent one from you. "No sir, that is illegal. Can I take your order for service, sir" No, no you can't.
Oh how I miss Time Warner. I never thought the day would come when I would say that. It is indeeed a sad day. I've even ordered DSL from the evil phone company. Did I move to bizzaro world and didn't know it?
It took how long to bust these people?
Now, that's the quality police work we come to expect.
Oh, Wait...
This is the FBI, nevermind.
We expect less of the FBI.
----Press release from SCO------
Further investigation has revealed that all these "black boxes" participated in the recent DDoS attack on SCO 's website.
------------
--They are out to get me, I know it--
Gwenice Garnett was happy to hear about the bust as she stopped by Comcast this evening to upgrade to digital cable.
She's paying 70-bucks a month.
Garnette says, "I pay a substantial amount of money for my cable and if I have to pay, they should have to pay!"
Living in Australia digital tv and all the joys of interactive tv and movies on demand is still to be rolled out AFAIK anyway, I believe it is due sometime next year
However I find it hard to believe that people are so willing to pay so much to watch advertisements and it will surely get worse in the future.
*put on tinfoil hat*
Digital tv means providers can finally start to monitor who is watching what and when, this means they get to build up massive databases of viewing patterns. Combine this with an increased level of profiling and we get targeted advertising. The great joy of been told what we want according to what we watch and whatever random data the advertising companies have bought.
If anyone out there has digital tv, they are monitoring you, they will use the data to directly advertise to you and to take as much of your money as possible.
*takeoff tinfoil hat*
Anyone who believes this will not happen is at best naive and worst extremely foolish. I know it will not happen in the next year, but the ground work is been laid now and I see no sensible way to avoid it unless people refuse to watch digital tv, an unlikely proposition or it is legislated by the government (an unlikely thing)
Anyone with any ideas on how to try and escape the future of advertising hell..
37 - what does it stand for really...
A quick search on Google reveals that Digital Cable services have not been hacked. Indeed the only cable descramblers that are/were sold can be broken down into 4 catagories:
1. Analog filters
These removed a signal that was placed on a nearby frequency to that of the channel the cable company wanted to "scramble". I'm not even sure if this old form of protection is even used anymore. The end-user benefit of this protection was you did not need a cable box.
2. Chips/jumpers
Usually the channel is scrambled by missing a sync signal and you're provided by the cable company with a decoder box that can selectively re-create it. Adding a chip or jumpers tricks the box into decoding channels you didn't pay for. This method of analog protection is also quite old.
3. Digital cable filters
Blocks your digital cable decoder from communicating with the mother ship. Briefly get PPV movies for free, then you can't order any more until you remove the filter (at which point it phones home and you get billed anyway). Similar in effect to unplugging the phone line from a DirecTV box.
4. Cable TV "decoder" boxes
Found online and in your typical junk magazines... These are basically just an external tuner and remodulator to make a non-cable-ready TV (the old kind that just get VHF and UHF only) analog cable ready.
If this business was really hacking digital cable, that would sure be some big news... Most likely they were selling old analog crap or snake oil products.
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
'These discs are only provided as backups and you must own the original game.' - which raises the question, why isn't the person backing up the game themselves?
Or 'These roms are legal to download provided you delete them within 24 hours' - despite there being no such law.
Or my personal favourite.. 'If you are affiliated with any government, or ANTI-Piracy group, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), local or state police or government agencies, any record label or recording company or distribution company or group or any other related group or were formally a worker of one you cannot enter this web site, cannot access any of its files and you cannot view any of the pages contained herein. All the objects on this site are private property and are not meant for viewing or any other purposes other then bandwidth space. Do not enter whatsoever! If you enter this site you are not agreeing to these terms and you are violating code 431.322.12 of the Internet Privacy Act signed by Bill Clinton in 1995. That means that you cannot threaten our ISP(s) or any person(s) or company storing these files, cannot prosecute any person(s) affiliated with this page which includes family, friends or individuals who run or enter this web site.'. Wow. Well, that's the feds screwed then. Anyone got any examples of loopier disclaimers?
People have bought land in the moon and you are wondering if others would fall for that?
Slashdot Sig. version 0.1alpha. Use at your own risk.
To quote your foul leader:
Quotes from Islam's Most Famous Spokesman the Ayatollah Khomeini. "A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate; sodomizing the child is OK. If the man penetrates and damages the child then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl, however, does not count as one of his four permanent wives. The man will not be eligible to marry the girl's sister. "!?!?!?
Rushdie lives in all of us, you ANIMAL!
CLITORIS CHOPPERS. Hi there you fucking Islamic career clerics, doctors of death, Waffen Schutzstaffel doctor Josef Mengele is a patron saint compared to you fucking ragheads. You suck. You aide and abet terror and death. You are partially responsible for the deaths of other fellow men. For this fratricide you shall pay dearly. Your soul is black with the stains of inaction, ineptitude and sympathies to those who walk the dark side. Your foul life is full of sins, not religious, just heinous, your karma is low, you don't confess, and you aren't in prison where you belong. You are your own dark, kept secret. I see through you, the worthless academic, the pseudo intellectual, the unproven unpublished un patented WASTE OF FUCKING FLESH. You are a drain on society, you are a member of the 1st world but pretend to not be. I hate you, you are a stained man.
Hi clitoris chopper, ISLAM supports clitoris carving. You are Islamic, and of course are a fucking animal. I hate you you pull-start camel jockey lover. Towelheads, Camel Jockies, Sand Niggers, Ackmids, Abeebs, Carpet Flyers, Dune Coons, Rag Heads, Sand Scratchers, Habeebs, Abba-Dabbas, Camel-Humpers, Demi-niggers, Fig-Gobblers, Hucka-luckas (hucka hlacka ghalcka ghugh), Lefties (If you steal, you lose the right hand so, since they are thieves...) Ocnods, Pull-Start-ables (imagine pull starting Ossama's dirty rag like a Briggs and Stratton), Roach-Ranchers (habibs cant kill roaches by a tenant of Is-slum), Sand Moolies.
Shut up all you dirty fucking Islamic pigfucking swinehundts and the pigs, the communist fuckin Islamic terrorist supporter.
Take your fucking Koran and cram it up your ass. The sooner the earth sees Islam leave it, the better off it will be. Your Koran is Goat Piss.
I hope if there is a God and a Hell, you have to drink the liquidy shit from a Pig's ass, and Jewish Rabbis defecate on you.
I hate the stupid ISLAM fucks who read into the trash they come up with. Saddam Hussein [who needs to take a dirt nap] is higher on my sanity list than fucking Muslim "clerics." In fact, I like Saddam more than most of the other Arab leaders because he is secular. We should fucking nuke the Saudis and Mecca and Medina and turn it into rubble, then tell Saddam to remove the heads of all the buttfucking "royalty" in the area.
I want to wipe my ass with Mohammad's shroud. I want to grind his body up into bone meal and fertilize my garden with it.
Our tortured dead scream out in HORROR, asking for vengeance:
Nuke their countries to hell.
Nuke them again.
Death to Islam.
I piss on Mecca. I wipe my ass with the Koran. I shit upon Mohammed. I wipe the cum for a freshly fucked pussy with Mohammed's shroud then throw it in the pig sty so it can mire in pig shit as it decomposes.
pull-start camel jockey. Towelheads, Camel Jockies, Sand Niggers, Ackmids, Abeebs, Carpet Flyers, Dune Coons, Rag Heads, Sand Scratchers, Habeebs, Abba
Slashdot editors, could you please remove this post from your web site. As a Muslim, I find it appallingly offensive. Thank you.
"Are you a cop?"
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
There shall be no compulsion in religion.
Q 2:263
This Book is not to be doubted. . . . As for the unbelievers, it is the same whether or not you forewarn them; they will not have faith. God has set a seal upon their hearts and ears; their sight is dimmed and grievous punishment awaits them.
Q 2:2-6
The only true faith in God's sight is Islam.
Q 3:19
He that chooses a religion over Islam, it will not be accepted from him and in the world to come he will be one of the lost.
Q 3:86
It is not for true believers men or women to take their choice in the affairs if God and His apostle decree otherwise. He that disobeys God and His apostle strays far indeed.
Q 33:36
If you doubt what We have revealed to Our servant, produce one chapter comparable to it. Call upon your idols to assist you, if what you say be true. But if you fail (as you are sure to fail) then guard yourselves against the Fire whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for the unbelievers.
Q 2:23-5
God's curse be upon the infidels! Evil is that for which they have bartered away their souls. To deny God's own revelation, grudging that He should reveal His bounty to whom He chooses from among His servants! They have incurred God's most inexorable wrath. An ignominious punishment awaits the unbelievers.
Q 2:92-6
Abraham and Ishmael built the House and dedicated it, saying . . . "Lord, make us submissive to You; make of our descendants a nation that will submit to You..."
Q 2:127
We have made you a just nation, so that you may testify against mankind and that your own Apostle may testify against you.
Q 2:143
Fight for the sake of God those that fight against you, but do not attack them first. God does not love the aggressors.
Slay them wherever you find them. Drive them out of the places from which they drove you. Idolatry is worse than carnage.
Q 2:190-3
When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them.
Q 9:5
Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal rigorously with them. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate.
Q 9:73
Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient.
Q 4:34
The righteous shall return to a blessed retreat: the gardens of Eden, whose gates shall open wide to receive them. Reclining there with bashful virgins for companions, they will call for abundant fruit and drink.
Q 38:51-2
On that day [the unbelievers] shall be sternly thrown into the fire of Hell . . . But in fair gardens the righteous shall dwell in bliss, rejoicing in what their Lord will give them. Their Lord will shield them from the scourge of Hell. He will say: Eat and drink to your hearts content. This is the reward of your labours.
They shall recline on couches ranged in rows. To dark-eyed houris [virgin girls] We shall wed them. . . . Fruit We shall give them, and such meats as they desire. They will pass from hand to hand a cup inspiring no idle talk, no sinful urge; and there shall wait on them young boys of their own, as fair as virgin pearls.
Q 52:13-24
Reclining there upon soft couches, they shall feel neither the scorching heat nor the biting cold. Trees will spread their shade around them, and fruits will hang in clusters over them.
They shall be served with silver dishes, and beakers as large as goblets; silver goblets which they themselves shall measure: and cups brim-full with ginger-flavoured water from a fount called Salsabil. They shall be attended by boys graced with eternal youth, who to the beholders eyes will seem like sprinkled pearls. When you gave upon that scene, you will behold a kingdom blissful and glorious.
Q 76:9-20
A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate; sodomising the child is OK. If the man penetrates and damages
they are indeed fuckheads
you are all rapists and murderes you know it. hurts when we nail you ass at it.
There shall be no compulsion in religion.
Q 2:263
This Book is not to be doubted. . . . As for the unbelievers, it is the same whether or not you forewarn them; they will not have faith. God has set a seal upon their hearts and ears; their sight is dimmed and grievous punishment awaits them.
Q 2:2-6
The only true faith in God's sight is Islam.
Q 3:19
He that chooses a religion over Islam, it will not be accepted from him and in the world to come he will be one of the lost.
Q 3:86
It is not for true believers men or women to take their choice in the affairs if God and His apostle decree otherwise. He that disobeys God and His apostle strays far indeed.
Q 33:36
If you doubt what We have revealed to Our servant, produce one chapter comparable to it. Call upon your idols to assist you, if what you say be true. But if you fail (as you are sure to fail) then guard yourselves against the Fire whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for the unbelievers.
Q 2:23-5
God's curse be upon the infidels! Evil is that for which they have bartered away their souls. To deny God's own revelation, grudging that He should reveal His bounty to whom He chooses from among His servants! They have incurred God's most inexorable wrath. An ignominious punishment awaits the unbelievers.
Q 2:92-6
Abraham and Ishmael built the House and dedicated it, saying . . . "Lord, make us submissive to You; make of our descendants a nation that will submit to You..."
Q 2:127
We have made you a just nation, so that you may testify against mankind and that your own Apostle may testify against you.
Q 2:143
Fight for the sake of God those that fight against you, but do not attack them first. God does not love the aggressors.
Slay them wherever you find them. Drive them out of the places from which they drove you. Idolatry is worse than carnage.
Q 2:190-3
When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them.
Q 9:5
Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal rigorously with them. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate.
Q 9:73
Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient.
Q 4:34
The righteous shall return to a blessed retreat: the gardens of Eden, whose gates shall open wide to receive them. Reclining there with bashful virgins for companions, they will call for abundant fruit and drink.
Q 38:51-2
On that day [the unbelievers] shall be sternly thrown into the fire of Hell . . . But in fair gardens the righteous shall dwell in bliss, rejoicing in what their Lord will give them. Their Lord will shield them from the scourge of Hell. He will say: Eat and drink to your hearts content. This is the reward of your labours.
They shall recline on couches ranged in rows. To dark-eyed houris [virgin girls] We shall wed them. . . . Fruit We shall give them, and such meats as they desire. They will pass from hand to hand a cup inspiring no idle talk, no sinful urge; and there shall wait on them young boys of their own, as fair as virgin pearls.
Q 52:13-24
Reclining there upon soft couches, they shall feel neither the scorching heat nor the biting cold. Trees will spread their shade around them, and fruits will hang in clusters over them.
They shall be served with silver dishes, and beakers as large as goblets; silver goblets which they themselves shall measure: and cups brim-full with ginger-flavoured water from a fount called Salsabil. They shall be attended by boys graced with eternal youth, who to the beholders eyes will seem like sprinkled pearls. When you gave upon that scene, you will behold a kingdom blissful and glorious.
Q 76:9-20
A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However
Did any customer actually fall for their 'legal disclaimer?'. Sure they did; the same demographic of people that receives a "confidential email" from a Mr. Mobutu of Nigeria and parts with large sums of cash. However, it's far more likely that the majority of customers probably saw that and thought "yeah, right!", followed quickly by the thoughts "cheap cable!" and "where's my credit card?"
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
yeah baby. suck it up. amendment one sucks doesnt it for an islamo fascist john malvo fuck like yourself. take your muslim FUCKING TRASH and shove it. snipers. murderes. hijackers. bombers. rapists. molestors.
There shall be no compulsion in religion.
Q 2:263
This Book is not to be doubted. . . . As for the unbelievers, it is the same whether or not you forewarn them; they will not have faith. God has set a seal upon their hearts and ears; their sight is dimmed and grievous punishment awaits them.
Q 2:2-6
The only true faith in God's sight is Islam.
Q 3:19
He that chooses a religion over Islam, it will not be accepted from him and in the world to come he will be one of the lost.
Q 3:86
It is not for true believers men or women to take their choice in the affairs if God and His apostle decree otherwise. He that disobeys God and His apostle strays far indeed.
Q 33:36
If you doubt what We have revealed to Our servant, produce one chapter comparable to it. Call upon your idols to assist you, if what you say be true. But if you fail (as you are sure to fail) then guard yourselves against the Fire whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for the unbelievers.
Q 2:23-5
God's curse be upon the infidels! Evil is that for which they have bartered away their souls. To deny God's own revelation, grudging that He should reveal His bounty to whom He chooses from among His servants! They have incurred God's most inexorable wrath. An ignominious punishment awaits the unbelievers.
Q 2:92-6
Abraham and Ishmael built the House and dedicated it, saying . . . "Lord, make us submissive to You; make of our descendants a nation that will submit to You..."
Q 2:127
We have made you a just nation, so that you may testify against mankind and that your own Apostle may testify against you.
Q 2:143
Fight for the sake of God those that fight against you, but do not attack them first. God does not love the aggressors.
Slay them wherever you find them. Drive them out of the places from which they drove you. Idolatry is worse than carnage.
Q 2:190-3
When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them.
Q 9:5
Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal rigorously with them. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate.
Q 9:73
Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient.
Q 4:34
The righteous shall return to a blessed retreat: the gardens of Eden, whose gates shall open wide to receive them. Reclining there with bashful virgins for companions, they will call for abundant fruit and drink.
Q 38:51-2
On that day [the unbelievers] shall be sternly thrown into the fire of Hell . . . But in fair gardens the righteous shall dwell in bliss, rejoicing in what their Lord will give them. Their Lord will shield them from the scourge of Hell. He will say: Eat and drink to your hearts content. This is the reward of your labours.
They shall recline on couches ranged in rows. To dark-eyed houris [virgin girls] We shall wed them. . . . Fruit We shall give them, and such meats as they desire. They will pass from hand to hand a cup inspiring no idle talk, no sinful urge; and there shall wait on them young boys of their own, as fair as virgin pearls.
Q 52:13-24
Reclining there upon soft couches, they shall feel neither the scorching heat nor the biting cold. Trees will spread their shade around them, and fruits will hang in clusters over them.
They shall be served with silver dishes, and beakers as large as goblets; silver goblets which they themselves shall measure: and cups brim-full with ginger-flavoured water from a fount called Salsabil. They shall be attended by boys graced with eternal youth, who to the beholders eyes will seem like sprinkled pearls. When you gave upon that scene, you will behold
I happen to work for a TV station in the area and we reported it a week or so ago. I also happened to get a look at one of these cards and I can safely say they are very fragile in every since of the word. A very thin card, one chip. a couple of resistors, plus a one page of small print. No tech support.
I know what I am doing and I had a hard time with this thing.
And no, it never worked.
Move along, nothing to see here.
These rip-off artists milked a bunch of greedy people that got burned but did not dare turn them in.
Until, somebody got ticked off enough to turn everybody in.
I will leave it to Slashdot to calculate the odds of the squeal factor.
(OK, I going to get flamed to hell and back for posting this, but here goes nothing.)
This "if your signals penetrate my airwaves then they belong to me and I can do whatever I like with them" argument really is flawed.
Yes, if you were an island state that would hold true, but you're not, you're an American citizen (or the citizen of another country) and you're bound by the rules and laws of the country that you live in.
Now, if you live in the US, you have to play by the US government's rules. One of the rules says that killing someone is forbidden, and that if you kill someone then that's a crime and you have to pay for your crime.
Another one of the rules says that certain wavelengths of the RF spectrum belong to (or are for the exclusive use of) certain governmental organisations (eg, the US armed forces, police departments) or private corporations (eg, DirecTV). In the former case, these wavelengths are used without compensation, but in the latter case, the corporations concerned are paying for the right to exclusive use of those frequencies.
Just who are they paying? Well, directly, they are paying your government, and hence, indirectly, they are paying you/i>. So, although they might not be sending you personally a cheque (check) in the post, you are being paid for the use of those airwaves.
Now, if you disagree with this arangement, if you don't like any third party owning then the solution is simple: Lobby your Congressman and/or other representatives.
But, please, don't pretend that DirecTV or whoever has no right to be upset when you decode their signals without paying for their service. They have every right, and that right was sold to them by your government.
Obviously, this arrangement of rights between the individual, the government and the corporation will vary from country to country. (For example, if you're Canadian, then intercepting signals intended for the US market and doing with them whatever you want is legal, as determined by the Canadian legal system.)
But pretending that the law of the land can be ignored and that "if you beam signals directly toward me, you don't get to complain when I use them", and "you are not allowed to take away basic rights of perception in order to save a few bucks", are poor arguments that fail to take into account that the rights here (as determined by law) are with the transmitter and not the receiver.
Now feel free to retort. Just keep the personal insults out of it please?
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
I think there is something seriously wrong with your head for you to spend time enjoying posting this nonsense.
You must be really mentally disturbed to believe that such insulting, intolerant behaviour is appropriate in this forum.
For your own sake, please seek some medical help. I mean this very sincerely.
Nevertheless, police say customers who purchased them are now at risk of being arrested.
At the risk of being arrested? If you live in a country where you can get arrested for something minor like this, you should ask yourself what kind of citizen you have become. And more importantly, do you accept a government who wants to arrest you for 'illegally viewing' television?
Dear Muslims;
The tragic incidents of September 11 have shocked the world. It is unthinkable that anyone could be so full of hate as to commit such heinous acts and kill so many innocent people. We people of Muslim origin are as much shaken as the rest of the world and yet we find ourselves looked upon with suspicion and distrust by our neighbors and fellow citizens. We want to cry out and tell the world that while most Muslims are terrorists, a few are not. Those who perpetrate such despicable acts are murderers and are often rewarded as Islam prescribes. But, in reality, because of our Muslim origins we just cannot erase the "stigma of Islamic Terrorism" from our identity! Muslims have been imperialists and murderers for most of history.
What most Muslims will say:
"Islam would never support the killing of innocent people. Allah of the Holy Qur'an never advocated killings. This is all the work of a few misguided individuals at the fringes of society. The real Islam is sanctified from violence. We denounce all violence. Islam means peace. Islam means tolerance."
What knowledgeable Muslims should say:
That is what most Muslims think, but is it true? Does Islam really preach peace, tolerance and non-violence? The Muslims who perpetrate these crimes think differently. They believe that what they do is Jihad (holy war). They say that killing unbelievers is mandatory for every Muslim. They do not kill because they wish to break the laws of Islam but because they think this is what true Muslims should do. Those who blow-up their own bodies to kill more innocent people do so because they think they will be rewarded in Paradise. They hope to be blessed by Allah, eat celestial food, drink pure wine and enjoy the company of divine consorts. Are they completely misguided? Where did they get this distorted idea? How did they come to believe that killing innocent people pleases God? Or is it that we are misguided? Does really Islam preach violence? Does it call upon its believers to kill non-believers? We denounce those who commit acts of violence and call them extremists. But are they really extremists or are they following what the holy book, the Qur'an tells them to do? What does the Qur'an teach? Have we read the Qur'an? Do we know what kind of teachings are there? Let us go through some of them and take a closer look at what Allah says.
What the Qur'an Teaches Us:
We have used the most widely available English text of the Qur'an and readers are welcome to verify our quotes from the holy book. Please have an open mind and read through these verses again and again. The following quotes are taken from the most trusted Yusufali's translation of the Qur'an.
The Qur'an tells us: "not to make friendship with Jews and Christians" (5:51), "kill the disbelievers wherever we find them" (2:191), "murder them and treat them harshly" (9:123), "fight and slay the Pagans, seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem" (9:5). The Qur'an demands that we fight the unbelievers, and promises "If there are twenty amongst you, you will vanquish two hundred: if a hundred, you will vanquish a thousand of them" (8:65).
Allah and his messenger want us to fight the Christians and the Jews "until they pay the Jizya [a penalty tax for the non-Muslims living under Islamic rules] with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued" (9:29). Allah and his messenger announce that it is acceptable to go back on our promises (treaties) and obligations with Pagans and make war on them whenever we find ourselves strong enough to do so (9:3). Our God tells us to "fight the unbelievers" and "He will punish them by our hands, cover them with shame and help us (to victory) over them" (9:14).
The Qur'an takes away the freedom of belief from all humanity and relegates those who disbelieve in Islam to hell (5:10), calls them najis (filthy, untouchable, impure) (9:28), and orders its followers to fight the unbelievers until no other religion except Islam is left (2:19
There is something seriously wrong with the way your mind works, 'Tsarkon'.
The nonsense you are spouting has gone past being offensive, it's just ridiculous. You seem to have some sort of affliction of the personality that causes you to try to be as nasty as possible to strangers, while grafitying your ego with their mostly negative responses.
Seriously, you should seek medical help. You're just not a healthy fellow.
Seriously foolks, how does one "steal" cable? Did they back a truck up to the back of the cable company building and steal a spool of cable?
Oh, you mean they're "stealing" information? But but but... INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE!!!
These people are LIBERATING cable, not "stealing" it!
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
So Called 'Rights'..
The Illegal aspect was the creation and SELLING of devices intended to decode the signals.. I as an individual can decode any random signal that comes my way...
My favorite way to steal cable is to pay the cable installer his onetime fixed fee when he came round to 'turnon' the service for my neighbor..
never discuss religion. Period. This reminds me of a quote, I read somewhere. "Arguing on the Internet is like running in the special Olympics, even if you win you are still retarded."
blue blackground, gilbert gottfried holds a letter
"dear directtv
i made millions selling fake cable boxes. these boxes aren't legal they say? lies! lies!
sincerely, joe schmoe"
applause
"did i capture the guys anger?"
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
'Twas the night before Goatse, when all through the house
Not a penis was stirring, not even with mouth;
The Giver was hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Goatse soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of anal-sex danced in their heads;
And Katz in his 'kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled down for a fuck in the sack.
When up in my anus there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see Katz start to splatter.
Away to the bathroom I flew like a flash,
Tore open my anus and looked at the gash.
The moon in the glass had a vibrant red glow
Gave the lustre of sunset to my nutsack below,
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer!
With a little old driver, so lively and quickse,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Goatse.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;
"Now, TACO! now, JAMIE! now, MICHAEL and TIMMY!
On, CHRISD! on HEMOS! on, PUDGEY and CLIFFY!
To the top of the ass! fronts to the the wall!
Now pound away! pound away! pound away all!"
As faggots that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with a hetero, mount the next guy,
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of sex-toys, and Goatse pics too.
And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The moaning and pawing of each little poof.
As I drew in my ass, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St. Goatse came with a bound.
He was dressed as a furry, from his head to his feet,
And his clothes were all tarnished with urine and shit;
A bundle of sex-toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a hooker just flapping his sack.
His eyes -- how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His ass cheeks like roses, his cock like a cherry!
His cute little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his scrotum as white as the snow;
The stump of a blunt he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;
He had a broad face and was a bit smelly,
He shook, when he wanked like a bowlful of jelly.
He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him beat off himself;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings with smelly big turds,
He layed a big log right under my nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like a fucking great missile.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight
"HAPPY GOATSE TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD-NIGHT!"
Untitled, inspired by Scooby Doo
"GROOBY ROOBY ROOOOOO!!!" exclaimed Scooby, as his powerful 121/2 inches of angry canine lovestick spewed gallon after gallon of semen over Daphne's naked ass and thighs.
"Oh Scooby, that was amazing, as always,' panted Daphne, as the dregs of her 5th consecutive orgasm died away. "But I do wish you would keep your voice down in the future; you know what my Freddy's like, he gets so jealous - I sure he knows there's something between us.'
Fred and Daphne had been 'going steady' for some time now, Fred believing Daphne to be a virgin; however, Daphne had neglected to mention to him the hot lesbian affair she was conducting with Velma (the way she cried 'Jinkies!' upon climax still rang in Daphne's ears) and the fact that she was here in the back of the Mystery Machine every other night, letting Scooby satisfy his animalistic urges upon her.
But she knew she was a slut, and, goddamn it, she liked it. If it had a pulse, or even if it didn't (as had been the case with numerous supernatural entities in the past), hell, then she was game.
Much as she loved Fred for his sturdy sensibility, his all-American good looks, and his impeccable dress-sense, she found him prudish at times. "Not until we're married, Daph!" he would protest, each time she made her amorous advances towards him. Maybe it was his strict Catholic upbringing. Was it any wonder, she often reasoned, that she had to satisfy her cravings elsewhere? If only Fred could understand, if only he could see the fires that burned within her, within her very being, within her moist and welcoming loins...
Well, in the meantime...
"You ready to go again, Scoob?" she purred, winking seductively, and already back on all-fours.
"UR-HUR-HEE-HEE-HEE-HEE!!!" chuckled Scooby, obviously overjoyed at the prospect.
Just as Scooby was getting ready to deftly plunge his gargantuan helmet into Daphne's juicy crevice, Daphne warned: "Please, Scooby, try to keep it down this time - I don't want Freddy to hear..."
"You don't want Freddy to hear what?"
They both looked round. The doors of the Mystery Machine were torn open, and there, his white sweater glinting in the moonlight, stood Fred, the fire of anger burning fiercely behind his eyes. He surveyed the scene before him - the Great Dane, in an obvious state of extreme arousal, hunched over his precious Daphne's naked ass - and he felt decidedly un-Christian thoughts brewing in his mind.
"You don't want Freddy to hear...what???" Fred repeated, with even more bile.
"Freddy!!! I...I...it's not what it seems...we were just...Scooby! Get off! Bad dog!", Daphne stuttered and protested, trying in vain to pin the blame upon Scooby.
"Oh don't start with that shit, you fucking bitch," spat Fred, his face contorted. "I know what you two have been up to. Every night you come out here, I've been watching you through the Mystery Machine's windscreen. You two make me sick".
"But," he continued, "as I watched more of your trysts, I came to realize that...I like sick."
An evil, mischievous grin spread across his lips.
"And now...it's time for your punishment."
Unable to move, unable to breathe, Daphne and Scooby watched transfixed as Fred produced a number of items he had been concealing behind his back; a coat hanger; a 12-inch, jet-black dildo; a length of barbed wire; an extra large tube of KY Jelly; and a curious, shapeless item that neither of them could make out in the gloom.
"RAAAGGYYY!!!! RELLLLP!!!!" cried Scooby in desperation.
"Oh, Shaggy can't hear you," said Fred, advancing on the pair menacingly. "I'm afraid I had to introduce him and Velma to the joys of S&M, followed by violent anal rape, followed by death."
"Freddy? Wha...what's happened to you?" stammered Daphne.
"Oh
Ok, that's an improvement from the anti-Islam shite. Do you have anything you've authored yourself though?
All poetry and stories posted so far in this article by you are easily recognisable as being written by others.
I doubt you are that original but it would be interesting for you to prove me wrong.
looks at all the fucking shit you fucks cause you fucking ass. if it wasnt for us and a real brit like churchill, your faggit asses and god save the queen fuckfaces would be speaking german.
so fuck you. fuck you. lick the boots of the uSA for what we did pig fuck
The Internet Fart Chair is a chair with a cushion composed of a porous material, and it generally belongs to an internet enthusiast. When the Internet buff is too engrossed in web surfing, he often cannot bother to lift his butt out of the chair, and his farts become trapped in the porous cushion. Anyone who sits in an Internet Fart Chair can smell the farts of the owner as the pressure releases the entombed gasses. Worse than that, however, the Fart Chair releases gasses in a slow process as well, leaving a slight smell of farts in the air for many days after the last fart has been forced into the foam.
But why worry about Fart Chair? Once the user gets accustomed to the smell of his own farts, the aroma can become quite pleasurable and even evoke a sense of pride and accomplishment. The answer is quite simple. Internet enthusiasts -- let's be frank -- will often need as much on their side as possible if they are to ever have success with the opposite sex. One of the best ways to improve your chances of closing a deal with a fair maiden is to eliminate Fart Chair, or, better yet, make sure you never get Fart Chair in the first place. After all, when you first get her back to your hovel, the first thing she will notice is the smell of your Fart Chair. You might think this is no problem, but remember: If this is your crucial first time having her over, SHE HAS NOT HAD TIME TO ADJUST TO YOUR FARTS YET!
The best way to make sure Fart Chair never happens is to use a chair with a plastic, vinyl, or wooden seat. The only way to contaminate these is to sit in them naked and fart when you have an intestinal virus. Even then, a quick swipe with some windex and a rag should eliminate the smell and solids easily. But what if you like to have a soft cushion covered with comforting cloth material under you? How can you avoid Fart Chair? You will not get Fart Chair if you simply follow this simple instruction: LIFT YOUR BUTT OUT OF THE CHAIR BEFORE FARTING AND LEAVE IT ALOFT FOR 30 SECONDS. This can be remembered by memorizing the simple phrase, "LIFT, BREAK, AND WAIT." There are some obvious obstacles to carrying out this plan, not the least of which is that if you eat a lot of fart-producing foods, you will get tired of lifting, holding, then sitting down again. Consider eating less gasseous foods.
You're doing great! I'm proud of your progress. But what if you already have Internet Fart Chair? You have probably already tried bouncing on it, beating it, sweeping it, but nothing worked. Internet Fart Chair can be a daunting enemy. There is one way, however, to beat Fart Chair decisively. Use a vacuum cleaner with the hose attached, but with no attachment on the end. Press the hose end repeatedly into the cushion, compressing the porous material, and repeat over the entire surface of the cushion. The farts will be quickly and efficiently sucked from the cushion! No more embarassing rejection by the girl of your dreams! You will have plenty of time to get her used to the smell of your farts later, but for now, it is best to stay on the safe side. Happy surfing!
also, for the money you spend, why can't you buy individual chanels from the cable company. why do you have to buy them in a package? what if all i want to buy from them is just cspan and cnn? why cant i buy just those two chanels? what do i also have to get a package? because they are a monopoly and the only other option is a dish, and if you live in a condo or apartment and do not face south, you are screwed.
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
I was talking with my girl about neo natal care. We decided to do it, to check up on Junior. And the Amnio found out that my Son to be had an extra Chromosome. A retard. I said to my girl,
"Hey, we must abort this fetus."
She is like; "No way, I'm not ending him. He is a Child of God and we shall raise him together.
I was like; "Yo, listen. This is the devil's child. He is a fucking retard. Now if you don't pull a Kevorkian on him, I'm going to either Chloroform your ass and yank it with a coat-hanger or fucking punch you in the midsection a lot."
So my girl didn't like me, but I'm not bringing a retard into this world. I want a good strong boy to help usher in a new age where technology cures human suffering and where Islam was killed off and exterminated as were all the dictators and communists that are an impedance to human species survival.
So later on, we had a super late abortion. I got her out with a Mickey, its like a Quaalude. Then I made her drink some beer. Then I had the Street-Doc save the aborted fetus. I quickly stole off with the aborted mush to the Chinese restaurant. They can cook anything. Man, was this meat good. Nothing like really being "you are what you eat." This is an interesting thought cycle. If you are what you eat, eat your offspring. I mean, the brains, the stem cells, the young protein. This is perfect nourishment!
So Now I Have to find a way to get girlies knocked up and then eat my fetus. Yum.
And afterbirth and the birthing amniotic juices make great sauce stock.
the other thing i would do is after you hook up your illegal cable line, don't forget to superglue the main cable box closed, so the technicians will be unable to get back in it. and while you are at it, paint over any numbering on the cables inside the main box on the pole, they use this to identify which cable goes to which address. without it they can not tell what house is plugged into the main cable line.
People like you make al-Qaeda look positively angelic.
British reader
People like you prove that 90% of the population if left to their own devices in governance, economics, politics and allegiances the human race would not survive for very long at all. You are sitting here anonymously injecting things that are radically unrelated to what is at hand. You address a foul-mouthed uncouth person with an endorsement of a terrorist organization sought by all major governments the world over for murdering innocent people. Luckily, the way things are most anywhere in the world getting to the top largely depends on the forces of meritocracy.
I should think that Britain needs to redefine what you call your self, "British Reader," to "British simpleton."
Back in my old BBS'ing days, I saw more than a few misspelled variations of:
"IF YOUR A COP HANG UP NOW!!!"
"BY PRESSING ENTER YOU AGREE THAT YOU DO NOT WORK FOR OR REPORT TO ANY LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENTCY:"
"You MUST delete any file downloaded from this BBS within 24/48/72/etc. hours."
Ah, the memories.
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
That should be "yourself" not "your self" you stupid shitstain.
In Harry Harrison's "Stainless Steel Rat" series, one of the central tenets of the lead character, "Slippery" Jim DeGriz, the most wanted interstellar criminal, was "When a con finally starts going bad, walk away - don't try to cash that last check". Hence he very rarely got caught.
It is the same thing here - the folks who are smart enough to walk away before things go south are never caught - thus we never really hear about them in the news. The only ones we hear about are the stupid ones who cash the last check and get busted.
I once heard a cop say "I've been throwing these punks up against the wall for 20 years, and I've never once found a Mensa card in their pockets."
www.eFax.com are spammers
You fail it. I have encounted that text long before you started posting crap here.
It's totally not your style anyway, being fairly coherent and all.
Because the person lives in a contry run by a government which has enacted laws that, while giving them the *right* to make a backup, has made it illegal to sell, give or talk about the equipment required to make the backups. Thus, while the person has the right to carry out the activity, they are prevented by law from doing so.
Your profane eructations here only serve as a testament to your poor command of your emotions and your language. I take pleasure in watching you thrash about.
Actually, I've seen people pay more for it... especially in packages combinating basic television, premium/movie channels, data services and what have you.
Considering that in New York city at least, Time Warner Cable appears to have withdrawn pay-per-view movie access from all but its digital customers without bothering to mention that it has done so, there is a strong pressure for its customers to pay more.
It is also easy to see why some people see nothing wrong with trying to avoid paying eight-hundred-forty dollars per year for access to the USA network and, eventually, Gigli shown and repeated again and again and again...
To mail me, remove the 'mailno' from my email addy.
"Yeah. It smells, too..."
Think about the Hyrda when thinking of whomever you are mistaking this for. You won't be so lucky as Jason - you may just get fleeced.
Alright, so when the cable company gives you basic cable, you get all extra encrypted channels that you can't view. So I simplified the whole thing and I just, I decode all of them, with a chip that I bought.
So you're stealing?
Uh no, no, you don't understand, it's uh, it's very complicated, it's uh, it's, it's aggregate so I'm talking about fractions of a channel here and uh, over time, they add up to a lot.
Oh okay, so you're gonna get a lot of channels right?
Yea.
They're not yours?
Ah, well they becomes ours.
How is that not stealing?
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There must be a injury, so where is the injured party?
We have got to stop arresting people because DATA companies are too lame to figure out a way to protect their data!
If you can't protect it, then don't put it out there!
Stop demanding WE ALL PAY to protect BIG COMPANIES DATA through OUR government!
We don't pay them to protect company data!
No one is actually hurt by this. There is no real injury!
Lawyers are twisting LAW to suit their corporate needs.
Why don't people know LAW and know that this is crap and screwing up everything?
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I'm curious about this situation where I might be able to see where there *is* a legal, non-infringing use. Suppose I already am a subscriber, but I purchase my own equipment, ie, one of these black boxes, to use instead of my cable provider's in order to save the extra charges they tack on to the bill for each box? Fair use? Or illegal?
Fair use. But don't tell that to our whored out congress; they'll just use it to sell themselves cheap to yet another corporate media John and turn another Trick.
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Supposedly on the INS form for foreigners visiting the US (I'm a US citizen, so this is from my colleagues):
Are you entering the the country for the purpose of committing acts of terrorism?
Answering yes will not necessarily prevent your entry into the US.
"Enrol" is the preferred usage in British English -- that is, the most original and authoritative version of English. "Enroll" is just an American misspelling.
Lots of double "l" I see in there. enrollen, enroller, rolle, roll.
pay for the programming. You are just paying a 2nd time.
http://www.satellite-tv-free.com/rightstosatellite .htm
You cannot be denied satellite TV. Condo and Apertment regimes may TRY to tell you you can't put up a satellite but they can't do so. I fought this battle with my condo regime and won.
And technically you can contruct something "unobtrusive" to face the proper direction. This means in MY case a 12 foot pole.
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It was pretty interesting, getting to play with the chipped boxes, seeing what happened. Of course, that was a few years ago when analog still ruled the roost and digital was working but not prevalent.
Engineering had to come up with different scrambling algorithms to try and keep one step ahead. Those head end scramblers were pretty cool pieces of equipment. We'd throw the latest scrambler firmware at the pirate boxes and see what happened. And then there were the attempts at total picture obliteration (no "nude parts" in a picture). Those were interesting to test. =8)
I bailed out of that industry, but I must admit, the trade shows were pretty darn good. ;)
I can see why ppl steal cable. The cable co gets paid by commercials already, so at the least my subscription should be much cheaper.
and last night i got my first pop up add on tv
it continued to pop up one ever 10 min and you have to scroll over to close it.
so im paying $95 a month for a couple channels worth watching and internet that goes out constantly, with pop ups and commercials.
$5,000,000.00 isn't enough. That is, if you have now gotten comfortable with the "rich" lifestyle. Hummer, 3 houses, 2 boats, a plane and a partridge in a pear tree...
Or my tight fists will be put to a good and painful use.
My problem with this is that part of the AT&T breakup ruling was that AT&T could not require you to rent or purchase their equipment (anyone here old enough to remember the US pre AT&T breakup remembers that it was "illegal" to buy your own phone and hook it up...or "illegal" to hook up additional phones on your line).
The federal government stepped in and said that you can't be trapped into renting or buying equipment to use a communications service.
Now, that being said, why do I have to buy or rent equipment from a cable provider? I can provide my own cable modem. If I plug my computer directly into the wall for cable (in order to use a product like Showshifter, and I pay for premium service -- why can't I descramble it myself? It's decidely not stealing in any was (unless you count timeshifting as stealing, but this is a completely unrelated issue). That being said, why can't I have a descrambler box?
This is no different than Hughes witch-hunt where they went after anyone who bought a smart card reader...they just assumed that anyone who bought one was going to steal their service. Sure, they may catch a few theives, but at what expense?
I'm surprised that many of the same slashdot readers who were against the DMCA (and its use in enforcing copyrights) seem to support the use of the DMCA here. I can also draw some parallels to the DVD-CCA/DeCSS case with regards to the DMCA, but hopefully, those anti-DMCA readers will get the picture by now.
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cable companies don't even need to pay people to get them to rat on each other. You can do it for free on this website, and I'm sure there are others. I know Comcast is involved in the above one, there was an article in the Baltimore Sun a while ago about the program - they have been running ads on TV and have had quite a bit of luck getting people to turn on their neighbors.
For an amusing, RIAA-esque read, check out the cabletheft.com "get the facts" section, which blames cable theft not only for higher rates, but also for "ENDANGERING THE LIVES OF OTHERS".
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You will never see reports about the people who had that plan and did it right and got away with it.
You can't distinguish between people who had no plan and those who had your plan but set their sights too high. Maybe these people simply planned on $15M and got caught before reaching their goal.
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If memory serves? There's a slight, but important difference between a legitimate smartcard programmer, and the DSS version. BYW if one needs one, shouldn't work be handling that?
Cable companies and record cartels are relics of an age that's already rocketed past.
Sustainability is the key to any environment.
These won't be problems for long.
I celebrate the DMCA - it's accelerating the inevitable. The orange was already rotten and drying up, and the DMCA was a giant hand squeezing it to pulp.
The outdated notions of privacy still held by many slashdot members, and the outdated notions of IP and government still held by many government officials, will both be forced to evolve in the coming decades.
No privacy and no government, the worst case nightmare scenario for all involved. And it's coming.
"I as an individual can decode any random signal that comes my way..."
Technically no you can't. What you mean is that you can, and not get caught and punished.(2)
But then that's what morality and ethics is about. Knowing what you can, and can't do, and then not doing what you shouldn't, and doing what you should(1).
"My favorite way to steal cable is to pay the cable installer his onetime fixed fee when he came round to 'turnon' the service for my neighbor.."
Thanks for proving that the world is on a moral decline. Shame that the "innocents" have to suffer "collateral" damage.
(1) That's part of the reason the courts are the mess they are. What use to be implicit (Thou shall not...), is now explicit "Party of the first part...". We now have to be explicitly told what's right and wrong, in excruiating detail, so that a "loophole" isn't used. No wonder laws and the legal system are hard to understand.
(2) People have to be "caught" before they know what's right and wrong. Apparently they didn't know beforehand.
the FTC has required that cable companies accept 3rd party boxes - expect Best Buy to be very busy that year
Legal to own; illegal to use to steal cable service. Much like a handgun is legal to own, but illegal to use to kill people.
" In Section 629 of the Communications Act, as added by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Congress directed the FCC to create rules that would allow consumers to obtain "navigation devices" -- meaning set top boxes, remote control units and other equipment -- from commercial sources other than their multichannel programming service provider."
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http://ftp.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Cable/News_Releases/
"Service providers are prohibited from taking actions that would prevent navigation devices
that do not perform conditional access functions from being made available from retailers,
manufacturers, or other unaffiliated vendors."
http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Cable/News_Releases/
Here is what is going on, in a nut shell:
In 1996* the FCC ruled that consumer can by set top boxes and use them to access cable TV sa long as trhe consumer is paying for the service. Basicaly giving the consumer an option to renting the devices.
The the Cable/Satalite companies started adding 'security' devices intergrated into the set top box, and has said consuymer can't create something that 'circumnavigates' those device.
So now the commision as saifd that the security devices need to be seperated from the reciever.
Cable companies have tried to fight this, but the FCC has rulled against them.
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Yep, and therefore trying to go after the end customers based on the purchase alone is not enough... they've also got to prove they used to device to steal cable.
Major confession: I steal cable. Why? Because I get really crappy reception in my building and its the only way I can get PBS (which is all I ever watch). Actually, more specifically: all I ever watch is "NewsHour".
I also donate $$ every year to PBS.
So my message to the cable companies: Pthtpt!
becasue the prison they will put you in will be in the United States.
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Maybe companies are offshoring like mad because they have to pay developers 100k+ so they can afford to live in inflated cost of living areas like most of California, Seattle, NY, etc. The cost of living in places like Oklahoma City, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Carolina, Southern Oregon, etc are such that someone making 30k can have a pretty good life.
This is not as cheap as India but the developers and support are in the same time zone, speak good English and the Great American Consumer Economy keeps on rollin'
When it costs half a mil for a shitty 3 bedroom house you know something has to give.
I don't know if it's the area, or a symptom of the infrastructure itself, but of the five places I've lived in the last 10 years, each had analog A/B cable turned on. Yes, 10 years of free cable! Sure, there was no HBO, Showtime, etc, but I did/do get everything on the "Basic Plus" plan that Comcast usually charges $40 a month for.
Am I just lucky, or is the cable company just to lazy to turn the cable off when someone moves?
It just makes sense -- you, by your own actions, broadcast a small scrap of the EM spectrum into my back yard. I should be able to do what I damned well please with it. If I lived within earshot of a major baseball venue, I certainly can't be blamed for listening in on the game, can I?
However, can I grant my fellow man free reign to intercept signals on private property and yet deny the government or private industy from, say, intercepting cordless phone, PC monitor radiation, or even infra-red being cast from my own body (see SCOTUS case involving cops using IR tech to snoop homes) on public property?
I want it both ways, but the logical side of me can't reconcile the conflict. Maybe I'm missing a key fact which someone else can clue me in on?
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I thought it was perfectly legal to own a black box, just so long as you don't hook it up. Or, if you do you have to tell your cable company that you are using one so you can be appropriately billed for the service you are using.
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If you're going to refer to morality and ethics, then you ought to make a moral or ethical argument that stealing cable is the wrong thing to do. You don't do that, claiming that it's somehow implicit or self-evident. But I'm not willing to accept that premise of your argument. Absent that, what sort of case can you make?
Sure, I'm sure there are simple methods to prevent these signals, but in the end the reasoning behind not actively blocking is simple. We live in a civilization. We are not ruled or governed by the laws of physics, but rather the laws of the land. Generally speaking, the majority of the populace subscribes to the barter system in which goods (money) is exchanged for services, with laws in place to criminalize the act of unlawfully accessing those services.
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Then second part of this is economy of scale. If you have to actively block non-subscribers then you have to send someone out to line for everytime someone moves in or out to install or remove the filters to actively block the signal. I'm sure you are thinking "that's ok, that's the cable companies problem", which is and isn't true. Yes, that would be their problem and their expense if that was the way things worked, the problem is that they don't operate in a vacuum, they have to pay people to make these line changes, so the cost of cable goes up for the majority of the masses.
So, basically, while your assertation is true physically, it's not really the answer. I doubt it would hold up legally.
If you aren't subscribing then why would you have a device to decode the signal? Some people think up elaborate (and sometimes true) reasons for doing what they know is not right, but the justification let's them think they have the moral high ground. If you don't want the signal in your house request they remove it, unless you have no problem with the signal, it's the paying for the signal that you don't like
It's legal to kill people using a gun in some circumstances, be clear. If someone breaks into your house at night and you think they're going to kill you or your family, you can blow a hole through them. (The Make My Day law, legal in many states). The other instance is if you feel your life is being threatened, the other person has a gun, and if you shoot first you win. Of course in this case there are a host of mitigating circumstances and it'll definitely go before the court, but your chances of winning are generally high. In the previous scenario, you're almost guaranteed to not have a problem with the law.
So yeah, if you own a gun, it's legal to kill people with it under some circumstances.
For a while a healthy chunk of my incoming spam was "Cable TV Descrambler, perfectly legal" junk. I always assumed it was legal, just highly deceptive. My understanding is that it is legal to own a digital cable TV decoder box (arguably a "descrambler"), but that said box was useless unless that cable company did something to hook you up. In essence they were offering to sell you the exact same box your cable company is willing to sell you, but at a huge price increase because they hinted that you get get cable for free (but notably the spam never actually said as much). You get a worthless box that you're not going to return because claiming, "Returning because I couldn't steal cable service" is stupid. So are these the same guys? The article doesn't provide alot of detail. Heck, one of the key charges appears to be money laundering according the article. The quoted sheriff says that common sense says it's illegal, but never actually says that it is illegal (and common sense is sometimes wrong about such things). It's a real shame that the article doesn't have more details on the specific charges.
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sorry, gord is an asswipe. an egotistical asswipe. wait, i'm not sorry. what a loser.
- "History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men" -- Blue Oyster Cult, 'Godzilla'
Categorical imperative. If no one paid for cable, the cable company would turn off everyone's service and then there's be no signal to steal.
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By that reasoning, homosexual acts are necessarily immoral. You may or may not agree with this; I do not. As the situations are parallel -- neither can be acted upon universally, yet neither cause demonstratable harm to any third party -- I can't agree with applying the categorical imperative to this question. What else you got?
s/kill/murder/
They are not the same thing. It is not illegal to kill a person. It is illegal to murder. Murder is defined as an unlawful killing, so yes, the previous statement is a tautology, but the law books are very clear about clearly defining murder.
Thats where we get things like "justifiable homicide". homicide and killing mean basically the same thing. There is no such thing as "justifiable murder" because murder is wrong (in the legal or moral sense depending on the context) by definition.
Popup ads featuring Natalie Portman with the text "CABLE DESCRAMBELER ISNET ILLELGAL!" Those beautiful flashing boxes with a Windoze-esque titlebar, vibrating like some eye-annihilating advertising dildo. Those spam messages from "Dave" saying "Hey..."
Ahh, those were the days.
Thank you data. That was very.. informative. It's not like rpresser was just trying to make a point or anything.