Is it true that every line in the source contains comments like this?
; Hah! Take that user! ; Oh nice try but we thought of that! ; Clearly they are trying to steal this. ; Thief! Thief! ; MP3s have no DRM. Refuse to play. ; Block association away from Windows Media Player ; SONY rootkit plugs in here ; Powered up. Now lets get today's authorization.
I'm going to steal this from Jimmy Wales. It's significant for two reasons.
Paragraph 1. It's not just Tiananmen, but every other dirty thing the Chinese Government is doing they've helped suppress. Who are they holding this information from? Not you or I, but from the Chinese Public. They're helping the Chinese Government spread lies.
Paragraph 2. It's worked! Today Young Chinese don't believe Tiananmen ever happened. Mission Accomplished, Google! They are having a related problem in Cambodia where young people don't believe the Killings Fields ever happened.
"In January 2006, Google agreed to censor their mainland China site, Google.cn, to remove information about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre [3], as well as other topics such as Tibetan independence, the banned spiritual movement Falun Gong and the political status of Taiwan. When people search for those censored topics, it will list the following at the bottom of the page in Chinese, "According to the local laws, regulations and policies, part of the searching result is not shown." The uncensored Wikipedia articles on the 1989 protests, both in English and Chinese Wikipedia, have been attributed as a cause of the blocking of Wikipedia by the government in mainland China.
In 2006, the American PBS program "Frontline" broadcast a segment filmed at Peking University, many of whose students participated in the 1989 protests. Four students were shown a picture of the Tank man, but none of them correctly identified the person or the event depicted. Some responded that it was a military parade, or an artwork. This is reflective of either strong censorship of the event in mainland China, or the effectiveness of political indoctrination such that students feigned ignorance to an American journalist."
All that is required for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing. I get a little tired of heading apologists make the same arguments trotted out at Nuremberg. "If I didn't do it, someone else would."
Have you noticed this trend of corporate hand-wringing? They do something morally questionable in the interests of making more cash, then later say, "Gee... we feel bad about doing that..." But keep doing the same thing. It lends credence to theory that the "NGO Code of Conduct" recently reported on slashdot http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/78 402533/article.pl was a publicity stunt.
So they are scared of the bad publicity. Not scared enough to stop mind you, but scared enough to throw a few PR people at it. Reckon Brin made that decision off his own bat? They would have talked about it with their PR spokesweasels beforehand.
But if they are scared enough to do this, take heart. I still use Google beause it's (1) good, (2) free. But check out Altavista and the alternatives now and then. I've found Google limits some keyword searches where AltaVista doesn't. If you find better, you can drop Google as my favored brand in under 15 seconds.
> Blizzard... can no longer play on Battle.Net if you are using any form of No-CD patch, > regardless of your bought and valid CD Key.
I use no-cd on all my games, because I hate fumbling for disks from a stack whenever I want to play something. I only have one drive you know. Some laptops have none!
Thanks for the warning. There are so many games out there now days and such little time that you can afford to be choosy. If companies do this, lets name them and shame them so at least buyers know they'll spend a week of their life this next year shuffling CDs.
Thanks for modifying your search algorithm for political reasons. Your previous explanation said you did not interfere with this because it would be... *wrong* to modify your search algorithm for political reasons. (I won't give the link, because you took that explanation down when you flip-flopped).
Now that you've demonstrated you will do this, how about removing references to Iraq and Body Bags. That just upsets people.
I am a Godaddy customer and I'm not happy with this. Not one bit.
It isn't *your* job to enforce Internet safety. It's your job to look after the domain names of your customers. Get that straight: I pay *your* salary. You and Bob Parsons work for *me and all your other customers*.
I really resent the idea that some corporation can say right words to you, and shut down my web site. You're my domain shop. You are not my Priest, Lawyer or Moral Guardian.
If MySpace want to shut something down, make them go to the courts and get an order like everyone else. Your behavior on this matter is abysmal. It worries me so much that if anyone here suggests a similarly priced service, I'll go there. Quite frankly, I don't trust with my domain names.
It is weird that they'd be getting all high-and-mighty about selling virtual items. As you say, fraud on eBay is rampant! Several friends of mine are "addicted" to it (their words).
One said he bought an 8Gb SD card which turned out to be a 4Gb factory reject (high error rate) with a sticker on it. Another bought a brand laptop advertised as "not-working, suitable for parts". When he got it, not *one* part was salvageable. They had taken broken parts and stuffed them into one case. Even the CPU's didn't match the socket(!) They just crunched and pushed until it hung there. eBay were unmoved. Their 3-month-rule means anything you buy from overseas will be out-of-time when it finally reaches you shores. PayPal only offer you protection until you need it. But I'm sure everyone here has similar stories.
Yes, eBay *are* aware of the fraud and unmoved. None of my friends, despite being burned, have stopped using it. "Must be more careful next time!" So it is weird that they're banning virtual items. Why don't they say "HEY EVERYONE! LOTS OF MONEY THERE! ANSCHE CHUNG! ANSCHE CHUNG! WHOA YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO BE SO RICH!" (upper case deliberate;-)
eBay is a big, profit-focused company. They don't walk away from money unless there is a reason. Either they've decided it will become a problem in the future, or more likely, it's a problem for them now. That could be the cost and ill-will of complaints for selling virtual items is now making it cost more than they're making out of it. What do you think?
DRM *is* a pain the ass. Even on DVDs, with copies you don't have to sit through those annoying ads and logos or the annoying main menu (which always leads to the movie). On the real-McCoy you must suffer. How many people with legal copies of Windows are using volume keys just because they don't want to call up Microsoft for permission whenever they change their config?
The MPAA (and Microsoft) are fighting the way their enemy fights best. If you make DRM inconvenient, and it *is* inconvenient, hackers will find a way around it. If you overcharge, or having play-one-time-only restrictions, people won't use it. If you make any system harder to use than what is out there already, people will go around it! And I'd bet my money on a bunch of teenager hackers over any boring, Microsoft wage serf.
My suggestion: make movies cheaper and drop DRM altogether. PC game companies are realising this. My Oblivion DVD says 'we didn't include any copy protection so please don't copy this'... and I didn't. They've got my goodwill. Some hackers probably did copy it, but DRM doesn't make it any more or less likely. Maybe even more?
Ask the guy who wrote Forest Gump. the movie studio rigged their accounting so he didn't get a cent. Peter Jackson is suing Newline for ripping him off on royalties. This is called "Hollywood Accounting"
Yes, piracy is stealing, but so are the studios when they steal from these guys. I doubt the Forest Gump author would shed a tear if you told him you stole 'his' movie;-)
I've done some impromptu surveys at social gatherings over the holidaymas. At every single one, *everybody* said they pirate movies. I'm not talking geek here. There were business people, tradesmen, mechanics. One coworker said on the bus he overheard two old people talking. One said "Well, ya gotta use 'DVDShrink' ya see"
Yes, everyone is doing it. I'm amazed really. The Anti-P2P companies are very efficient in finding downloadable movies and sending warning notices. They say in 85% of cases the people who get them, even though the notes are usually anonymous and quite calmly written "please remove this", they panic and never go near bit torrent again. Pretty much every Donkey server in the U.S. is run by Anti-P2P companies. Privacy Firewalls like BlockManager and PeerGuardian do blacklist the IPs used by these companies, ad companies and web trackers too, but that's fringe stuff and I seriously doubt most people are that careful or even know. "Whats an IP?"
If the numbers are true the copyright laws are broken, by sheer virtue of the fact so many people are breaking them. I guess most people don't mind paying for movies, so long as the prices are fair. If you give people the option of downloading DVD-quality movies for a fair price *that they can watch over and over again without DRM trying to limit that*, on a very high speed network (many seeders means high-speed, and legal means many seeders), you could have a winner. Jack Valenti, if you're reading this, lay off the DRM crap. Look at bit torrent a way to sell a DVD without WalMart and the distributor taking their 75% markups, and you could have a winner. When it becomes cheaper and easier not to pirate, people won't pirate.
> Its really sad it died just a few hours after capture, though it would be expected if its usual surroundings are at immense pressure (600 metres down).
They should have left it in the ocean where i at least stood a chance. No point catching it unless they had a 600 m pressure tank. They speculate it wasn't well before, but putting it in a shallow pool they sealed its fate.
Sadly, I know of one Japanese aquarium where they caught two whale sharks. Both died. They thought they had a new tourist attraction. Only one example of what happens on this planet every day. Greedy human seeks $$$$$$$.
Slashdot Mirror
Is it true that every line in the source contains comments like this?
; Hah! Take that user!
; Oh nice try but we thought of that!
; Clearly they are trying to steal this.
; Thief! Thief!
; MP3s have no DRM. Refuse to play.
; Block association away from Windows Media Player
; SONY rootkit plugs in here
; Powered up. Now lets get today's authorization.
I'm going to steal this from Jimmy Wales. It's significant for two reasons.
t ests_of_1989
Paragraph 1. It's not just Tiananmen, but every other dirty thing the Chinese Government is doing they've helped suppress. Who are they holding this information from? Not you or I, but from the Chinese Public. They're helping the Chinese Government spread lies.
Paragraph 2. It's worked! Today Young Chinese don't believe Tiananmen ever happened. Mission Accomplished, Google! They are having a related problem in Cambodia where young people don't believe the Killings Fields ever happened.
"In January 2006, Google agreed to censor their mainland China site, Google.cn, to remove information about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre [3], as well as other topics such as Tibetan independence, the banned spiritual movement Falun Gong and the political status of Taiwan. When people search for those censored topics, it will list the following at the bottom of the page in Chinese, "According to the local laws, regulations and policies, part of the searching result is not shown." The uncensored Wikipedia articles on the 1989 protests, both in English and Chinese Wikipedia, have been attributed as a cause of the blocking of Wikipedia by the government in mainland China.
In 2006, the American PBS program "Frontline" broadcast a segment filmed at Peking University, many of whose students participated in the 1989 protests. Four students were shown a picture of the Tank man, but none of them correctly identified the person or the event depicted. Some responded that it was a military parade, or an artwork. This is reflective of either strong censorship of the event in mainland China, or the effectiveness of political indoctrination such that students feigned ignorance to an American journalist."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_pro
Google apologists are saying "If Google didn't help the Chinese Government cover up the murder of 2,000 to 3,000 people, then someone else would"
But it's only covered up when everyone that controls the flow of information agrees to silence discussion.
I wonder if any 'Stealth Marketers' are present here?
All that is required for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing. I get a little tired of heading apologists make the same arguments trotted out at Nuremberg. "If I didn't do it, someone else would."
8 402533/article.pl was a publicity stunt.
Have you noticed this trend of corporate hand-wringing? They do something morally questionable in the interests of making more cash, then later say, "Gee... we feel bad about doing that..." But keep doing the same thing. It lends credence to theory that the "NGO Code of Conduct" recently reported on slashdot http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7
So they are scared of the bad publicity. Not scared enough to stop mind you, but scared enough to throw a few PR people at it. Reckon Brin made that decision off his own bat? They would have talked about it with their PR spokesweasels beforehand.
But if they are scared enough to do this, take heart. I still use Google beause it's (1) good, (2) free. But check out Altavista and the alternatives now and then. I've found Google limits some keyword searches where AltaVista doesn't. If you find better, you can drop Google as my favored brand in under 15 seconds.
True. Just saves you have to keep the ISO on your HDD. (BTW wikipedia says latest version of Daemon tools has spyware you need to deselect on install)
This is a good place for NO-CD patches. *Seem* virus/spyware free. Legal caveats apply:
http://gamecopyworld.com/
> Now, a patent application has come to light which patents the very same feature, blatantly ignoring prior art.
Bet the USPTO grants the patent anyway. Really.
Might add if you think you're response for public safety, how about shutting down tobacco company web sites?
And don't use the "Save the Children!" argument. We're not stupid.
> Blizzard ... can no longer play on Battle.Net if you are using any form of No-CD patch,
> regardless of your bought and valid CD Key.
I use no-cd on all my games, because I hate fumbling for disks from a stack whenever
I want to play something. I only have one drive you know. Some laptops have none!
Thanks for the warning. There are so many games out there now days and such little time
that you can afford to be choosy. If companies do this, lets name them and shame them
so at least buyers know they'll spend a week of their life this next year shuffling CDs.
Blizzard, you're evicted!!!
Thanks for modifying your search algorithm for political reasons. Your previous explanation said you did not interfere with this because it would be... *wrong* to modify your search algorithm for political reasons. (I won't give the link, because you took that explanation down when you flip-flopped).
Now that you've demonstrated you will do this, how about removing references to Iraq and Body Bags. That just upsets people.
Thanks
Karl^H^H^H^H
> Then again, i called mastercard and told them i didn't authorize that charge, so they didn't get that $200 from me. I like you! :-)
I am a Godaddy customer and I'm not happy with this. Not one bit. It isn't *your* job to enforce Internet safety. It's your job to look after the domain names of your customers. Get that straight: I pay *your* salary. You and Bob Parsons work for *me and all your other customers*. I really resent the idea that some corporation can say right words to you, and shut down my web site. You're my domain shop. You are not my Priest, Lawyer or Moral Guardian. If MySpace want to shut something down, make them go to the courts and get an order like everyone else. Your behavior on this matter is abysmal. It worries me so much that if anyone here suggests a similarly priced service, I'll go there. Quite frankly, I don't trust with my domain names.
Does this mean if I buy a media pack exported from Canada (media tax included) I can pir8 anything I want on them?
GREAT! Where do I send the money? Hells bells man! You could sell these on eBay!!!
It is weird that they'd be getting all high-and-mighty about selling virtual items. As you say, fraud on eBay is rampant! Several friends of mine are "addicted" to it (their words).
;-)
One said he bought an 8Gb SD card which turned out to be a 4Gb factory reject (high error rate) with a sticker on it. Another bought a brand laptop advertised as "not-working, suitable for parts". When he got it, not *one* part was salvageable. They had taken broken parts and stuffed them into one case. Even the CPU's didn't match the socket(!) They just crunched and pushed until it hung there. eBay were unmoved. Their 3-month-rule means anything you buy from overseas will be out-of-time when it finally reaches you shores. PayPal only offer you protection until you need it. But I'm sure everyone here has similar stories.
Yes, eBay *are* aware of the fraud and unmoved. None of my friends, despite being burned, have stopped using it. "Must be more careful next time!" So it is weird that they're banning virtual items. Why don't they say "HEY EVERYONE! LOTS OF MONEY THERE! ANSCHE CHUNG! ANSCHE CHUNG! WHOA YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO BE SO RICH!" (upper case deliberate
eBay is a big, profit-focused company. They don't walk away from money unless there is a reason. Either they've decided it will become a problem in the future, or more likely, it's a problem for them now. That could be the cost and ill-will of complaints for selling virtual items is now making it cost more than they're making out of it. What do you think?
DRM *is* a pain the ass. Even on DVDs, with copies you don't have to sit through those annoying ads and logos or the annoying main menu (which always leads to the movie). On the real-McCoy you must suffer. How many people with legal copies of Windows are using volume keys just because they don't want to call up Microsoft for permission whenever they change their config?
The MPAA (and Microsoft) are fighting the way their enemy fights best. If you make DRM inconvenient, and it *is* inconvenient, hackers will find a way around it. If you overcharge, or having play-one-time-only restrictions, people won't use it. If you make any system harder to use than what is out there already, people will go around it! And I'd bet my money on a bunch of teenager hackers over any boring, Microsoft wage serf.
My suggestion: make movies cheaper and drop DRM altogether. PC game companies are realising this. My Oblivion DVD says 'we didn't include any copy protection so please don't copy this'... and I didn't. They've got my goodwill. Some hackers probably did copy it, but DRM doesn't make it any more or less likely. Maybe even more?
> Of course no one reading this would fall for such an elementary con.
./! No way we'd fall for something like that.
Too right! This is Slashdot! The big
Not like we're n00bs! ha ha.
> The article gives detailed instructions on how to make sure your
> computer doesn't connect automatically to any offered network,
{Sound of frantic typing, hyperventilating and weeping}
Ask the guy who wrote Forest Gump. the movie studio rigged their accounting so he didn't get a cent. Peter Jackson is suing Newline for ripping him off on royalties. This is called "Hollywood Accounting"
;-)
Yes, piracy is stealing, but so are the studios when they steal from these guys. I doubt the Forest Gump author would shed a tear if you told him you stole 'his' movie
Probably the mod like me spends too much time starting at the "spoolsv.exe has terminated with an error" popup :-(
I've done some impromptu surveys at social gatherings over the holidaymas. At every single one, *everybody* said they pirate movies. I'm not talking geek here. There were business people, tradesmen, mechanics. One coworker said on the bus he overheard two old people talking. One said "Well, ya gotta use 'DVDShrink' ya see"
Yes, everyone is doing it. I'm amazed really. The Anti-P2P companies are very efficient in finding downloadable movies and sending warning notices. They say in 85% of cases the people who get them, even though the notes are usually anonymous and quite calmly written "please remove this", they panic and never go near bit torrent again. Pretty much every Donkey server in the U.S. is run by Anti-P2P companies. Privacy Firewalls like BlockManager and PeerGuardian do blacklist the IPs used by these companies, ad companies and web trackers too, but that's fringe stuff and I seriously doubt most people are that careful or even know. "Whats an IP?"
If the numbers are true the copyright laws are broken, by sheer virtue of the fact so many people are breaking them. I guess most people don't mind paying for movies, so long as the prices are fair. If you give people the option of downloading DVD-quality movies for a fair price *that they can watch over and over again without DRM trying to limit that*, on a very high speed network (many seeders means high-speed, and legal means many seeders), you could have a winner. Jack Valenti, if you're reading this, lay off the DRM crap. Look at bit torrent a way to sell a DVD without WalMart and the distributor taking their 75% markups, and you could have a winner. When it becomes cheaper and easier not to pirate, people won't pirate.
> An ex-HP exec claims he was instructed by the company's management to spy on Dell's printer business plans.
Actually they were wondering if anyone at Dell had managed to get a printer working with Windows.
> Its really sad it died just a few hours after capture, though it would be expected if its usual surroundings are at immense pressure (600 metres down).
They should have left it in the ocean where i at least stood a chance. No point catching it unless they had a 600 m pressure tank. They speculate it wasn't well before, but putting it in a shallow pool they sealed its fate.
Sadly, I know of one Japanese aquarium where they caught two whale sharks. Both died. They thought they had a new tourist attraction.
Only one example of what happens on this planet every day. Greedy human seeks $$$$$$$.
Yeah. Me too. I'm waiting for someone else to come along now and tell the both of us :-)
> You do know there are only two slashes in http:/// [http] don't you?
;-)
Do you? Take a look at your post...
Handier Hint cheerfully accepted! :-)
... that checks parked domains against a block list. If it's in the block list, no web site.
It means no ad revenue for domain parking scum.
It discourages people from buying parked domains, because of the 12 month purgatory in taking them out of the blocklist!