Hmm, what could be the news group with the most activity? Let's search for groups with the word "pictures" in them and I'll bet we find out.
I've been downloading pr0n from Usenet for the last 10 years, and I have accumulated well over than 36 thousand pictures.
Whenever a friend of mine comes to my place and I leave him 5 minutes on the computer, he's always looking at the same series of pay pr0n sites that tease you with 10 free pictures. By experimenting, I found out that all the pictures are on the same directory, and it is just the webpages that show you the pay pictures you have to pay to get.
So I wrote a PHP script that, whenever you enter the pr0n site teaser page, fishes out the URLs for the pictures, then generates a webpage that fetches all those pictures.
Well, about 90% of those pay-to-see pictures, I've already seen on USENET...
Our project is aimed squarely at winning the X-Prize and not in the first instance about ferrying truckloads of people into space. Truckloads of people? So, they gonna stack'em like boxes and shove them into space???
How do the canadians prevent their borrowers from ripping the CD?
I vaguely remember signing an agreement with the library agreeing not to copy any music I borrow. I disregard if because it deprives me if my fair uses rights granted to me by the law.
And like if the library actually cared whether the users copy the music the loan out...
Since they are "real tangible" things, like books, only 1 subscriber can borrow a CD at a time.
So let's automatize the lending process: only one subscriber can lend a MP3 at a time; at that time, the MP3 becomes locked. It's only when he checks it back that it is unlocked and someone else can borrow it out.
What he does with the MP3 when he has it his is own business (and in Canada, making a copy for your own private use is LEGAL - that's how I made my own MP3 collection).
Of course, if some americans would borrow MP3s, and it's illegal for them to copy them in the US, well, that's a problem for the US, no? And given how the US/Canadian networks are intermingled, you can't be sure packets won't go through the US. As a matter of fact, to go to my library, eight blocks from my home, packets go through New-York City:
traceroute www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca
traceroute to montrealweb.ville.montreal.qc.ca (65.39.219.34), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 Montreal-HSE-pppxxxx.sympatico.ca (65.95.xx.xx) 7.259 ms 7.217 ms 7.52 ms
2 dis4-montrealak-Vlan200.in.bellnexxia.net (64.230.237.130) 7.986 ms 7.829 ms 7.497 ms
3 core1-montrealak-Gigabite2-1.in.bellnexxia.net (64.230.240.61) 7.525 ms 8.529 ms 7.509 ms
4 core1-newyork83-pos1-2.in.bellnexxia.net (64.230.240.78) 15.416 ms 16.171 ms 15.896 ms
5 HSE-Sherbrooke-ppp98979.qc.sympatico.ca (64.230.223.118) 16.103 ms 16.248 ms 16.18 ms
6 208.50.13.129 (208.50.13.129) 17.011 ms 15.065 ms 15.398 ms
7 pos2-0-2488M.cr1.NYC1.gblx.net (67.17.64.145) 15.663 ms 15.865 ms 15.641 ms
8 pos0-0-2488M.cr1.JFK1.gblx.net (64.214.65.162) 15.161 ms 15.854 ms 15.653 ms
9 so0-0-0-2488M.ar1.JFK1.gblx.net (64.214.65.198) 16.12 ms so3-0-0-2488M.ar1.JFK1.gblx.net (64.214.65.202) 15.865 ms 15.664 ms
10 Peer-1.so-2-0-0.ar1.JFK1.gblx.net (67.17.161.118) 17.287 ms 17.566 ms 17.64 ms
11 OC48POS3-0.mtl-core-a.peer1.net (216.187.123.233) 25.005 ms 24.602 ms 26.489 ms
12 Gig5-0.mtl-gsr-a.peer1.net (216.187.90.6) 26.721 ms 25.644 ms 25.271 ms
13 65.39.219.252 (65.39.219.252) 26.458 ms 26.752 ms 26.453 ms
So, this clearly shows that the system is definitely b0rk3n, and that scheme could really force a redesign of the whole IP hoopla...
Market pressure does not not necessarily eradicate losers, because once they get enough money, they can feed off each other, creating industries of incompetence (marketing, management consultants;) ).
If anything, it also reaffirms another commonly held beleif about our government:
Anything the government does is done is incomplete or not done at all.
That's mostly due to the anglo-saxon neurosis that makes them believe that everything coming from the State is bad. This has the unfortunate effect of painting State workers (civil servants) in a bad light, assuming by default that they are incompetent.
This has the unfortunate effect of turning the competent people away from the civil service and thus having the State seemingly make more mistakes than the private sector.
I say "seemingly" because the private sector makes as much if not more mistakes than the public sector, but by it's own virtue of privateness, is much better apt at hiding those mistakes than the public sector which, by definition, does things publicly and thus is under the constant spotlight.
It's their logo. Set in Microgramma/Eurostyle, it is just not serious enough to look like a cheesy movie organization à la Men In Black. But this is real life! That's what's scary!!!
Only an asshole would think that they have the right to DUMP CRAP in people's mailboxes. Or phone people at all hours of the day and disrupt their lives with FUCKING MARKETING.
People like you are a good example of WHAT'S WRONG WITH AMERIKA. Assholes like you that for businesses, ANYTHING GOES. Well, perhaps you haven't have had enough jets flown into your buildings, then. One day, all the assholes like you will be lined against the wall and shot dead; then, the clueful people will take over and live will be much more bearable.
The first amendment talks about Freedom of speech - freedom of the press. Nowhere does it permits anyone from using someone else's press, as spamming does by using someone else's computer/network ressources.
The last "A" is RIAA stands for America. While the Americans are still the majority of the Internet users, it is changing quickly as more and more contries get their telecom act together.
If everyone took jobs for $28k, who is going to pay for universal healthcare?
With the exchange rate, the average canadian salary is not much more than $18k.
The universal health care system cares for EVERYONE and is paid by everyone. Since EVERYONE has the SAME COVERAGE, there is no need to pay private bureaucrats to check if someone is covered for this procedure or not.
In fact, the universal canadian health care system costs the same PER-CAPITA as the private jury-rigged WASTEFUL US sytem, but for the same price, 100% of canadians are insured instead of 40% of the americans.
And as it is prohibited for doctors to operate private hospitals, the very rich are forced to use the same system as everyone else, that keeps it functionnal, unlike what happenned to the US public school system which has had been gutted in order to insure that only the rich can educate their offspring properly.
If the yankees didn't have their heads stuck so much in their arses, they'd see that there are things that the State can do better than the private sector.
On the other hand, we don't hear much about extreme-right types calling for privatizing roads and highways...
Why do people obstinately continue to program in C, a pretty stupid language that allows buffer overflows?
One would have thought that, by now, programmers would have LEARNED to code in order to prevent buffer overflows...
But, noooo. The egoistical code jocks think they are 1337 by coding obscure and obfuscated C code, and their clueless PHBs let that CCC (Crappy C Code) go by...
Perhaps everyone who let a buffer overflow error slip by should be COMPELLED to program in COBOL for a year (who ever heard of buffer-overflows in COBOL programs???).
Why do people obstinately continue to program in C, a pretty stupid language that allows buffer overflows?
One would have thought that, by now, programmers would have LEARNED to code in order to prevent buffer overflows...
But, noooo. The egoistical code jocks think they are 1337 by coding obscure and obfuscated C code, and their clueless PHBs let that CCC (Crappy C Code) go by...
Perhaps everyone who let a buffer overflow error slip by should be COMPELLED to program in Pascal for a year.
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Whenever a friend of mine comes to my place and I leave him 5 minutes on the computer, he's always looking at the same series of pay pr0n sites that tease you with 10 free pictures. By experimenting, I found out that all the pictures are on the same directory, and it is just the webpages that show you the pay pictures you have to pay to get.
So I wrote a PHP script that, whenever you enter the pr0n site teaser page, fishes out the URLs for the pictures, then generates a webpage that fetches all those pictures.
Well, about 90% of those pay-to-see pictures, I've already seen on USENET...
In the USA, everything goes to the lawyers... Fuck the people.
I suppose the next step would be ATMs that print money???
They really ought to know, given Disaster Area's track record...
And like if the library actually cared whether the users copy the music the loan out...
Since they are "real tangible" things, like books, only 1 subscriber can borrow a CD at a time.
So let's automatize the lending process: only one subscriber can lend a MP3 at a time; at that time, the MP3 becomes locked. It's only when he checks it back that it is unlocked and someone else can borrow it out.
What he does with the MP3 when he has it his is own business (and in Canada, making a copy for your own private use is LEGAL - that's how I made my own MP3 collection).
Of course, if some americans would borrow MP3s, and it's illegal for them to copy them in the US, well, that's a problem for the US, no? And given how the US/Canadian networks are intermingled, you can't be sure packets won't go through the US. As a matter of fact, to go to my library, eight blocks from my home, packets go through New-York City:
traceroute www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca
traceroute to montrealweb.ville.montreal.qc.ca (65.39.219.34), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 Montreal-HSE-pppxxxx.sympatico.ca (65.95.xx.xx) 7.259 ms 7.217 ms 7.52 ms
2 dis4-montrealak-Vlan200.in.bellnexxia.net (64.230.237.130) 7.986 ms 7.829 ms 7.497 ms
3 core1-montrealak-Gigabite2-1.in.bellnexxia.net (64.230.240.61) 7.525 ms 8.529 ms 7.509 ms
4 core1-newyork83-pos1-2.in.bellnexxia.net (64.230.240.78) 15.416 ms 16.171 ms 15.896 ms
5 HSE-Sherbrooke-ppp98979.qc.sympatico.ca (64.230.223.118) 16.103 ms 16.248 ms 16.18 ms
6 208.50.13.129 (208.50.13.129) 17.011 ms 15.065 ms 15.398 ms
7 pos2-0-2488M.cr1.NYC1.gblx.net (67.17.64.145) 15.663 ms 15.865 ms 15.641 ms
8 pos0-0-2488M.cr1.JFK1.gblx.net (64.214.65.162) 15.161 ms 15.854 ms 15.653 ms
9 so0-0-0-2488M.ar1.JFK1.gblx.net (64.214.65.198) 16.12 ms so3-0-0-2488M.ar1.JFK1.gblx.net (64.214.65.202) 15.865 ms 15.664 ms
10 Peer-1.so-2-0-0.ar1.JFK1.gblx.net (67.17.161.118) 17.287 ms 17.566 ms 17.64 ms
11 OC48POS3-0.mtl-core-a.peer1.net (216.187.123.233) 25.005 ms 24.602 ms 26.489 ms
12 Gig5-0.mtl-gsr-a.peer1.net (216.187.90.6) 26.721 ms 25.644 ms 25.271 ms
13 65.39.219.252 (65.39.219.252) 26.458 ms 26.752 ms 26.453 ms
So, this clearly shows that the system is definitely b0rk3n, and that scheme could really force a redesign of the whole IP hoopla...
I finally found out why my mouse is always sticky.It's full of sperm.
This has the unfortunate effect of turning the competent people away from the civil service and thus having the State seemingly make more mistakes than the private sector.
I say "seemingly" because the private sector makes as much if not more mistakes than the public sector, but by it's own virtue of privateness, is much better apt at hiding those mistakes than the public sector which, by definition, does things publicly and thus is under the constant spotlight.
Now I can make a stealth pr0n server!!!
It's their logo. Set in Microgramma/Eurostyle, it is just not serious enough to look like a cheesy movie organization à la Men In Black. But this is real life! That's what's scary!!!
All your fucking filters do is PRESS DELETE for you. That DOESN'T solve the problem.
Only an asshole would think that they have the right to DUMP CRAP in people's mailboxes. Or phone people at all hours of the day and disrupt their lives with FUCKING MARKETING.
People like you are a good example of WHAT'S WRONG WITH AMERIKA. Assholes like you that for businesses, ANYTHING GOES. Well, perhaps you haven't have had enough jets flown into your buildings, then. One day, all the assholes like you will be lined against the wall and shot dead; then, the clueful people will take over and live will be much more bearable.
Anybody who says otherwise is BULLSHITTING.
The first amendment talks about Freedom of speech - freedom of the press. Nowhere does it permits anyone from using someone else's press, as spamming does by using someone else's computer/network ressources.
It's a good thing that Enron and Worldcom products can't be barcoded, because the thing would explode if it scanned any of those...
The universal health care system cares for EVERYONE and is paid by everyone. Since EVERYONE has the SAME COVERAGE, there is no need to pay private bureaucrats to check if someone is covered for this procedure or not.
In fact, the universal canadian health care system costs the same PER-CAPITA as the private jury-rigged WASTEFUL US sytem, but for the same price, 100% of canadians are insured instead of 40% of the americans.
And as it is prohibited for doctors to operate private hospitals, the very rich are forced to use the same system as everyone else, that keeps it functionnal, unlike what happenned to the US public school system which has had been gutted in order to insure that only the rich can educate their offspring properly.
If the yankees didn't have their heads stuck so much in their arses, they'd see that there are things that the State can do better than the private sector.
On the other hand, we don't hear much about extreme-right types calling for privatizing roads and highways...
The nazis have introduced the notion of guilt by being related...
Why do people obstinately continue to program in C, a pretty stupid language that allows buffer overflows?
One would have thought that, by now, programmers would have LEARNED to code in order to prevent buffer overflows...
But, noooo. The egoistical code jocks think they are 1337 by coding obscure and obfuscated C code, and their clueless PHBs let that CCC (Crappy C Code) go by...
Perhaps everyone who let a buffer overflow error slip by should be COMPELLED to program in COBOL for a year (who ever heard of buffer-overflows in COBOL programs???).
Who in his right mind would trust a closed-source voting system whose binary executable image is not verifyable by CRC???
Sheeesh.
Why do people obstinately continue to program in C, a pretty stupid language that allows buffer overflows?
One would have thought that, by now, programmers would have LEARNED to code in order to prevent buffer overflows...
But, noooo. The egoistical code jocks think they are 1337 by coding obscure and obfuscated C code, and their clueless PHBs let that CCC (Crappy C Code) go by...
Perhaps everyone who let a buffer overflow error slip by should be COMPELLED to program in Pascal for a year.
Who is surprised by this???