The title has nothing to do with the summary, in fact the summary doesn't even comment on the title's conclusion, so what's the point of this article? The only thing I've learned from the article is that science does what it does and nothing has failed anything.
What you quoted has nothing to do with this case. The FBI hasn't altered or destroyed anything. The FBI is not even denying access to anything. The data is still in the care of the people hosting it and it's up to them if the data is deleted or opened for access.
Will the data get deleted? Yes, and I hope the idiots wake up and realize how fucking stupid they were for keeping the only copy of their so very important data on some random server, instead of on their local media.
Were these same people going to sue MegaUpload when a DMCA request was filed (rightly or not) to have their data removed? I didn't think so.
so we don't have every phone number of every person we knew and liked from the 1970s.
Yes, that's the point. If you don't have their number (or email address, or address), you're obviously not friends. Why do you need to know about what they are doing, or think they need to know what you are doing?
It seems that you are too mentally challenged to understand why some people used a website host to publish their information on the Internet, instead of publishing it on a forum or other such website. This shows that anything you say (or type) is meaningless drivel.
GeoCities had many very high traffic user sites on it. Just because your world revolves around Facebook, it doesn't mean every other person's Internet use is that shallow.
Also, if I want to catch up with old friends, I'll call them.
Due to MediaFire's system of unlimited simultaneous downloads, they are becoming the choice place to host your files. If you go to reddit's r/jailbaitarchive (I only know about them because someone linked to my site in one of their posts), you'll see how the child molesters prefer using MediaFire. Sharing music albums and other "illegal" files with MediaFire has also been common practice due to the lack of delays and high download limits.
"illegal" files being the crap the USA pumps out and tries to sue people over.
This is the new thing. Make a shit ton of money from customers (advertisers, publishers), and after you've hit your goal, close down and never pay anyone or refund any of the advertising money. Etology (of etology.com) did the same thing about 5 months ago - stole advertisers money and essentially stole money that publishers were owed (for displaying their ads). Megaupload cut off their affiliate program and didn't pay anyone out some time ago. Rapidshare.com went through 5 different version of billing and affiliate methods a couple of years ago - in the end, screwing everyone in the same way rapidshare.de did a year or two earlier. The only company that I've dealt with that has actually paid out what they owed, after cutting off their affiliate program, was Wupload.
The mistake you made was using Firefox. I've used Opera on Pentium 2 systems running Windows XP and it ran quickly and efficiently, unlike any other browser.
You forgot to point out that Opera not only uses the least amount of resources while being the fastest, it also has EVERYTHING running and installed by default. Ad blocking, tabs, flash blocking, script blocking, developer tools, mail, IRC, feed reader, completely configurable UI, themes, full control of the browser with opera:config, and the list goes on and on. On top of having all of this running, it's also brought most of those things to the market, long before these other browsers even existed.
It's just funny that everyone tries so hard to ignore Opera. If it wasn't for the Opera developers, we'd still be using IE and Netscape. It also helps that Opera controls a massive chunk of the mobile browser market.
So, they became drug dealers, because that's the easiest (illegal) job they could do with extremely high returns. Wow, not being a drug addict certainly makes a difference in life choices!
Are you really dumb enough to think that a person who works that hard for the $10 worth of scrap is using it for food for family? Someone that hard working would get a job easily. The people doing this are not able to get jobs because of their drug addictions. They do not have families.
Indeed. There are so many instances that I can't even remember all of the people with perfectly good hardware stats complaining about their system being slow. Then when I check it out there are a couple of small viruses running and the master virus (Symantec/McAfee) running in the background, slowing their systems to a near halt. Format their computers and they go on about "OMG IT'S SO FAST!" Install MSE or Avast! Free and they are good to go.
I've also had issues with installing MSE on XP - sometimes it just doesn't want to finish the install. I generally just default to Avast! on any system that can't use MSE. I'll test out Comodo and see how it is in comparison.
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The title has nothing to do with the summary, in fact the summary doesn't even comment on the title's conclusion, so what's the point of this article? The only thing I've learned from the article is that science does what it does and nothing has failed anything.
No, they do not.
If you cared so much about the people you want to "catch back up with", you'd never have lost contact.
What you quoted has nothing to do with this case. The FBI hasn't altered or destroyed anything. The FBI is not even denying access to anything. The data is still in the care of the people hosting it and it's up to them if the data is deleted or opened for access.
Will the data get deleted? Yes, and I hope the idiots wake up and realize how fucking stupid they were for keeping the only copy of their so very important data on some random server, instead of on their local media.
Were these same people going to sue MegaUpload when a DMCA request was filed (rightly or not) to have their data removed? I didn't think so.
No, they don't.
so we don't have every phone number of every person we knew and liked from the 1970s.
Yes, that's the point. If you don't have their number (or email address, or address), you're obviously not friends. Why do you need to know about what they are doing, or think they need to know what you are doing?
It seems that you are too mentally challenged to understand why some people used a website host to publish their information on the Internet, instead of publishing it on a forum or other such website. This shows that anything you say (or type) is meaningless drivel.
GeoCities had many very high traffic user sites on it. Just because your world revolves around Facebook, it doesn't mean every other person's Internet use is that shallow.
Also, if I want to catch up with old friends, I'll call them.
I'm pretty sure we knew this from actually playing the games.
Due to MediaFire's system of unlimited simultaneous downloads, they are becoming the choice place to host your files. If you go to reddit's r/jailbaitarchive (I only know about them because someone linked to my site in one of their posts), you'll see how the child molesters prefer using MediaFire. Sharing music albums and other "illegal" files with MediaFire has also been common practice due to the lack of delays and high download limits.
"illegal" files being the crap the USA pumps out and tries to sue people over.
This is the new thing. Make a shit ton of money from customers (advertisers, publishers), and after you've hit your goal, close down and never pay anyone or refund any of the advertising money. Etology (of etology.com) did the same thing about 5 months ago - stole advertisers money and essentially stole money that publishers were owed (for displaying their ads). Megaupload cut off their affiliate program and didn't pay anyone out some time ago. Rapidshare.com went through 5 different version of billing and affiliate methods a couple of years ago - in the end, screwing everyone in the same way rapidshare.de did a year or two earlier. The only company that I've dealt with that has actually paid out what they owed, after cutting off their affiliate program, was Wupload.
If you're dumb enough to store important files online, and not have a local copy, why should you get them back when that service goes offline?
Yeah, you're definitely a little bitch. Too much of a bitch to post with your account.
"Hey guys, let's all link to Wikipedia when you can't access it without being a huge faggot."
Also, you're a huge faggot.
You are a retard.
That's nice.
Kill yourself, fanboy: http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2625952&cid=38735474
The point was that linking to Wikipedia won't work because it will just return a black page.
100% of the words you write form piles of bullshit.
The mistake you made was using Firefox. I've used Opera on Pentium 2 systems running Windows XP and it ran quickly and efficiently, unlike any other browser.
You forgot to point out that Opera not only uses the least amount of resources while being the fastest, it also has EVERYTHING running and installed by default. Ad blocking, tabs, flash blocking, script blocking, developer tools, mail, IRC, feed reader, completely configurable UI, themes, full control of the browser with opera:config, and the list goes on and on. On top of having all of this running, it's also brought most of those things to the market, long before these other browsers even existed.
It's just funny that everyone tries so hard to ignore Opera. If it wasn't for the Opera developers, we'd still be using IE and Netscape. It also helps that Opera controls a massive chunk of the mobile browser market.
So, they became drug dealers, because that's the easiest (illegal) job they could do with extremely high returns. Wow, not being a drug addict certainly makes a difference in life choices!
Are you really dumb enough to think that a person who works that hard for the $10 worth of scrap is using it for food for family? Someone that hard working would get a job easily. The people doing this are not able to get jobs because of their drug addictions. They do not have families.
>not using Opera
Indeed. There are so many instances that I can't even remember all of the people with perfectly good hardware stats complaining about their system being slow. Then when I check it out there are a couple of small viruses running and the master virus (Symantec/McAfee) running in the background, slowing their systems to a near halt. Format their computers and they go on about "OMG IT'S SO FAST!" Install MSE or Avast! Free and they are good to go.
I've also had issues with installing MSE on XP - sometimes it just doesn't want to finish the install. I generally just default to Avast! on any system that can't use MSE. I'll test out Comodo and see how it is in comparison.