To think that Society must bend-over for their desires. This only proves even more that they should be totally destroyed by eliminating their source of revenue, accomplished by "pirating" their wares.
I can agree entirely that what is obscene to me is porn to the next guy, but there must be a line somewhere.
There can't be. One man's pr0n is another man's garbage.
Myself, I find pix of naked ch1x0r not arousing at all (must have been because my parents didn't make a big deal when I read my father's pr0n when I was a kid). However, put them in tight spandex - the more the better (even better: put them in basketball shoes), and I become horny as the devil.
Yes, because dipictions of murder and violence is ok but if a dinky goes into a yahoo that's intollerable.
What is the root of this stupidity? A lot of it was exported to India when the British ruled them, and hermaphrodites there who were once a revered type of people (because Vishnu has sex with his female half to create the other gods) are now much less tolerated, and a crack down on non procreative sex occured.
A lot of it appears to be the Christian/Victorian viewpoint since in Thailand it is much more open to different sexual identity (they recognize more then 2 genders as far as I know with the difference being that Thailand and other similiar countries were never directly ruled by a european type power.
That's shritstianity's at work, pal. The old jewish fears of the dangling doo-dah (maybe the old patriarchs could not bear being reminded of their own sexual dysfunction - Ah! If we had Viagra back then!!!) was perpetuated in the stupid christianity what setback Mankind a thousand years (if that Jesus H. Fucking Christ guy had not been nailed 2000 years ago, and people would not have believed his "son of god" scam, we'd have had bases on the moon for several centuries by now).
Shritstians cannot bear the thought of people having - GASP - fun, but they have no problem in inflicting pain and suffering to others (crusades, spanish inquisition, anyone?), hence the approval for murder and mayhem violence.
Mankind should rebel at this stupid state of affairs, and take a pro-active role; every priest, preacher and shritstian religious loony should be shot 20 times in the abdomen and left to suffer 2 hours before being shot in the head with a.303 bullet.
Jack uses a Cyberstalker law in Florida to threaten people who email him. Basically he cussess them out then ends it with "and don't email me back", and when they reply, he says they're harrassing him and to stop or he'll call it Cyberstalking.
What's this wiggler's e-mail address? (Not that I'd like to e-mail him, but I'll gladly make his e-mail address available to spammers, who would then be complained against for cyberstalking when they keep sending him v1a9ra spam)...
There are a bunch of computer geeks out there who think that the video game industry has a constitutional right to paint a bullseye on your back and on your officers' backs...
Well, chubby, as long as law enforcement officers will act like assholes who think that civilians are an inferior life form, it is only fitting that some people would paint targets on your backs. Maybe one day, the remaining ones will develop brains (you know, natural selection, survival of the fittest, etc...) and will manage to learn to behave less assininely and thus will be acceptable to lowly civilians.
Because, as we all know, in the future, media will just float around magically on the internet, including back-ups.
The Internet is now like the mercury-delay line memory was, many moons ago...
Wanna save something for Eternity? Just dump it on the Internet; somebody will mirror it and preserve it forever...
(Delay line memory was a tank of mercury with a speaker at one end, and a microphone at the other. Bits were stored as sound impulses travelling in the tank. Just like dynamic memory, it had to be continuously refreshed).
Hell, it's not like anyone actually cares what you print unless you're doing something illegal that would warrent them spending a lot of time and money to try and find you.
Don't ever think it won't happen to you for no reason. If you do, one day, I'll guarantee you'll be for a very rude awakening.
Just wait until you get your ass hauled-in by an overzealous cop while you were doing something perfectly innocent or legal (like photographing old buses at a busy intersection - I know, it happenned to me. Two hours of vacation down the drain because some shit-brained bitch thought I was a terrorist - no, don't ask what happenned in her sorry neurons to think that).
Cops think they are above normal civilians and do not hesitate to abuse their powers. For them, making a lowly civilian life hell is just what swatting a fly for you.
The easier it is to abuse their power (like finding out where one photocopy was made), the more likely they will do it.
Now that the EFF has published the "secret" code, everyone can do it, including that jealous spouse, screwey boss or suspicious business associate.).
Cops think they are above normal civilians and do not hesitate to abuse their powers. For them, making a lowly civilian life hell is just what swatting a fly for you.
The easier it is to abuse their power (like finding out where one photocopy was made), the more likely they will do it.
Now that the EFF has published the "secret" code, everyone can do it, including that jealous spouse, screwey boss or suspicious business associate.
I couldn't care less. I hardly get any spam at all. I use spamassassin on my server and junkmatcher on my client. I'm sure I won't notice a difference at all with this douche.
You and people with your attitude are 50% of the spam problem. You don't "see" spam, and you think it doesn't affect you. Think again.
Although you don't see it, it still goes into your computer, and it takes bandwidth, space, and CPU cycles in order to process it and run spamassassin. The spammer STEALS those ressouces from you: spam is theft.
You're 50% of the spam problem because it no longer affects you so you don't take more active measures to eliminate spam at the source, like the FBI does when it raids Ralsky. If people really complained to authorities properly instead of sticking their heads in the sand like you do, there would be proper laws against spamming, instead of the insanely lame and stupid CAN-SPAM act with the moronic opt-out requirements.
The key is to do away with the centralized server, so no company or organization can control it.
Go peer-to-peer, using each other's IP address.
To discover someone's IP address, just e-mail your contacts a special message from which their IM will update it's table of address. Polling will check whether one is available or not.
Yes, it's time to take back our IM!!!
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I don't understand how this can blow apart bacteria but not blow apart your skin cells.
Because the epidemis of your skin is made of dead cells... You can't kill what's dead already...:)
And bacterial cell membrane are a lot more fragile than the dead cells of your skin.
As a simple example, take a web application. The web people believe (reasonably or not) that the form fields will be cleaned up by the backend people. How do they know what's dangerous anyway? The backend people believe (reasonably or not) that the data will be cleaned up by the web people. How do they know the various encoding schemes used, etc.
If there is a company that is stupid enough to assume that the other do their jobs, it only deserves to be driven into bankrupcy for gross incompetence and stupidity.
Furthermore, in case of bankrupcy for gross incompetence and stupidity, the law should mandate the flattening of gonads with heavy mallets, just like spammers.
With my women...I pretty much let them have the run over the place...decorating, etc, 'cause frankly, they do a better job than me. But, I spend $$$ putting together AV equipment, and no one tells me it doesn't 'match', or that proper speaker placement isn't working with room design...etc. Lord, do all you married guys have to put up that? If so...what do you get out of the deal...it sounds like they have to give their stamp of approval over any new toy in the house...how it looks, how it sounds...etc.
This is why there are so many gay men. Geeez, if women would understand that we don't give a shit whether the colours match, whether the doily looks good or not, there would not be so many men who would say "the hell with it" and go to live with another man. Then they won't have to bother if colours match, they won't give a shit about doilies, driking beer, watching the game, farting, making sex jokes and comments on other men and, most important, they'll be able to have all the sex they want, whenever they want, with whomever they want, wherever they want, because, men don't have headaches.
I've tried this on occastion, typically with managers. But I've found it impossible to explain to them why I need this mysterious, incomprehensible stuff called "source code". Why can't I just examine the program itself?
Simple. Write the prototypical "Hellow, orld" program in any compiled language, and print out the source code and a hex dump (sans ASCII) of the executable.
Only in the US would there be laws against selling pipes... hell, in Canada there's legal stores that will sell everything you need except the actual marijuana, all legit. Maybe the US's problem is they are insanely backwards and stupid...
Shitbull.
Er, in Québec (french canada), we say "boulechitte", which is pronounced exactly like in english.
Why not just add a law mandating documented file formats?
Even if your company goes bust, your customers data should remain accessible.
The law could say that they have to deposit the file format in the library of congress in order to protect that information, and it should be renewable every so often, paying the protection fee at each renewal. If the company goes under or does not support the data format anymore, it won't pay for renewal and the format becomes publically accessible.
How the data is used privately should be up to the customer, and is not the concern of the producer. We will have laws soon telling us how to use toilet roll, and inspectors coming round arresting us for unlicensed operations.
To this, however, I object. Toilet paper should be deployed ABOVE the roll, not below, so there should be a law prohibiting this, with roaming teams of toilet-paper inspectors.
Or, put in other words, the exercise of a RIGHT cannot be prohibited to a given individual except by a court of law, the idea being to remove the law-making ability that has been put into private hands by the DMCA, for example.
Furthermore, more than ever, the Internet allows the "grass is greener" syndrome. The ability to send information instantaneously over great distances means that in any case, you'll always find a more favourable jurisdiction, rendering the prohibition moot.
For example, I live a day's drive away from the US federal capital, yet I can legally share music over the Internet, and nothing prevents me from running DeCSS on my computer, nor distributing crackster on my web server, things that would land me in jail if I had the foolish notion of embarking on a 30 minute drive (but fortunately, I don't have a car).
I'm in the middle of moving with my family from Europe to the United States. Besides the fact that things with electrical outlets won't work as everybody knows -- the very idea that I can't view my purchased movies I bought in this European country to play on my DVD player in the United States is absolutely ludicrous. It's not in a different "voltage", it's just a simple friggin' MPEG-file on a piece of plastic!
You're obviously one of those skilled workers with skills that americans are too stupid to learn; that is, you're far more valuable than the average yankee for your employer to be willing to fork-out the extra cash needed to have you come from abroad.
So, bring your own DVDs and play them on a computer with "illegal" software. If you get busted by the content police (did you know that the FBI has a special squad that, thanks to a special, secret law, is allowed to break into homes in order to check that the DVD players can only play US content?), your employer will be glad to bail you out because you're so valuable. Once bailed out, you prepare your getaway and you'll simply go back home, skipping bail. Hopefully, your deep-pocketed employer will be pissed-off enough to bully Washington into dropping the brain-dead legislation that caused the whole problem in the first place.
Slashdot Mirror
Try the Indian one!!!!
To think that Society must bend-over for their desires. This only proves even more that they should be totally destroyed by eliminating their source of revenue, accomplished by "pirating" their wares.
Myself, I find pix of naked ch1x0r not arousing at all (must have been because my parents didn't make a big deal when I read my father's pr0n when I was a kid). However, put them in tight spandex - the more the better (even better: put them in basketball shoes), and I become horny as the devil.
Shritstians cannot bear the thought of people having - GASP - fun, but they have no problem in inflicting pain and suffering to others (crusades, spanish inquisition, anyone?), hence the approval for murder and mayhem violence.
Mankind should rebel at this stupid state of affairs, and take a pro-active role; every priest, preacher and shritstian religious loony should be shot 20 times in the abdomen and left to suffer 2 hours before being shot in the head with a .303 bullet.
At least, Stalin had the right idea there.
Wanna save something for Eternity? Just dump it on the Internet; somebody will mirror it and preserve it forever...
(Delay line memory was a tank of mercury with a speaker at one end, and a microphone at the other. Bits were stored as sound impulses travelling in the tank. Just like dynamic memory, it had to be continuously refreshed).
Just wait until you get your ass hauled-in by an overzealous cop while you were doing something perfectly innocent or legal (like photographing old buses at a busy intersection - I know, it happenned to me. Two hours of vacation down the drain because some shit-brained bitch thought I was a terrorist - no, don't ask what happenned in her sorry neurons to think that).
Cops think they are above normal civilians and do not hesitate to abuse their powers. For them, making a lowly civilian life hell is just what swatting a fly for you.
The easier it is to abuse their power (like finding out where one photocopy was made), the more likely they will do it.
Now that the EFF has published the "secret" code, everyone can do it, including that jealous spouse, screwey boss or suspicious business associate.).
Cops think they are above normal civilians and do not hesitate to abuse their powers. For them, making a lowly civilian life hell is just what swatting a fly for you.
The easier it is to abuse their power (like finding out where one photocopy was made), the more likely they will do it.
Now that the EFF has published the "secret" code, everyone can do it, including that jealous spouse, screwey boss or suspicious business associate.
Although you don't see it, it still goes into your computer, and it takes bandwidth, space, and CPU cycles in order to process it and run spamassassin. The spammer STEALS those ressouces from you: spam is theft.
You're 50% of the spam problem because it no longer affects you so you don't take more active measures to eliminate spam at the source, like the FBI does when it raids Ralsky. If people really complained to authorities properly instead of sticking their heads in the sand like you do, there would be proper laws against spamming, instead of the insanely lame and stupid CAN-SPAM act with the moronic opt-out requirements.
Go peer-to-peer, using each other's IP address.
To discover someone's IP address, just e-mail your contacts a special message from which their IM will update it's table of address. Polling will check whether one is available or not.
Yes, it's time to take back our IM!!!
And bacterial cell membrane are a lot more fragile than the dead cells of your skin.
There's only one way to deal with this.
GO POSTAL!!!
Furthermore, in case of bankrupcy for gross incompetence and stupidity, the law should mandate the flattening of gonads with heavy mallets, just like spammers.
Show both to boss.
(YMMV according to the boss's hair pointyness...)
Security through obscurity is stupid from the start; it ALWAYS gets b0rk3d into.
Just don't get caught.
Seriously, less-broadly specified rights shall definitely trump precisely defined prohibitions. Like "fair-use", which is far more broadly defined than "thou shalt not circumvent © protections".
Or, put in other words, the exercise of a RIGHT cannot be prohibited to a given individual except by a court of law, the idea being to remove the law-making ability that has been put into private hands by the DMCA, for example.
Furthermore, more than ever, the Internet allows the "grass is greener" syndrome. The ability to send information instantaneously over great distances means that in any case, you'll always find a more favourable jurisdiction, rendering the prohibition moot.
For example, I live a day's drive away from the US federal capital, yet I can legally share music over the Internet, and nothing prevents me from running DeCSS on my computer, nor distributing crackster on my web server, things that would land me in jail if I had the foolish notion of embarking on a 30 minute drive (but fortunately, I don't have a car).
So, bring your own DVDs and play them on a computer with "illegal" software. If you get busted by the content police (did you know that the FBI has a special squad that, thanks to a special, secret law, is allowed to break into homes in order to check that the DVD players can only play US content?), your employer will be glad to bail you out because you're so valuable. Once bailed out, you prepare your getaway and you'll simply go back home, skipping bail. Hopefully, your deep-pocketed employer will be pissed-off enough to bully Washington into dropping the brain-dead legislation that caused the whole problem in the first place.