How am I the only one to identify this scenario as a troll?!?!? This guy worked at a video store and can afford a plasma screen tv?!? And on top of that, he has the cash and know-how to set up a multi-terabyte disc array?!? This is an absolute bullcrap story.
There's a pretty simple hack for some of the APEX DVD players. You can simply remove the DVD drive and replace it with a hard drive full of SVCD files. It can mount the drive and then provide a menu for selecting what movie you want to watch.
Caveats:
Have to yank the hard drive to add more movies. These are SVCD files, not full DVDs with extras and menus, etc.
The huge plus is that it's a real easy solution for this need. Grab a 250 gig HD for a hundred bucks and rip around 250 DVDs to the drive. Swap it into your Cyberhome player, then you've got a quick solution that has a proper remote control and doesn't require a noisy, hot computer in your house.
Here's a link to a how-to. It talks about adding a different power supply, but I've heard you can get away using the original ps.
I recommend you stick with hotmail. Dabbling in stuff like spamassasin is going to be just too much work for someone as lazy as you sound. Apple makes a good built-in spam filter on its Mail client app. Why don't you go there?
You're forgetting that prison also is supposed to serve as a
deterrent to crime. By your reasoning, all foreigners, especially the ones just vacationing in Canada, should commit felonies of all kinds. Get caught robbing a bank? No big deal, your vacation is cut short a few days. Hell, don't even bother purchasing a roundtrip ticket. Just go one-way and start committing more risky crimes as you get more and more homesick!
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Pirates have long known that seals are no match. Sure, they can make a lot of racket when your schooner is leaving the harbor, but if they see you tossing a bunch of mullet overboard, they'll quickly jump in the water to feast. Shuts them up pronto.
So, the FBI is using old technology. It's easily circumvented with a bucket of dead fish. Sometimes even a beachball thrown for them to balance on their nose will do the trick.
I dunno. All this random live CD distro stuff is seriously diffusing trustworthiness. if you ask me. When there are only 5 supposed users of one of these Live CD distros, it's quite possible a given downloadable distro could be a trojan. It might either fdisk your hard drive or do any number of things on your LAN. It would be hella-easy to modify a Knoppix to put the ethernet card into promiscuous mode and then forward all interesting data to some IRC server in Bulgaria. Happening while your cousin experiences linux for the first time on a computer at work.
All I'm saying is, stick with the live CD distros coming from as reputable sources as you can possibly find. Avoid the obscure ones.
Can't believe this post is off topic... odd moderation..
Anyway, you paint it like Microsoft's crime here is ironically that they treated contractors too well. No. What they did was limited their headcount of real employees on the books, while keeping a lot of 'temps' who essentially were doing everything a real employee is, except for benefits. All the perks you mention were examples that had to be brought up in court to illustrate that Microsoft's workforce is becoming temps while working the same as employees.
It came to a real breaking point when Microsoft was promoting contractors to manage other contractors. If you're in management within the organization, you shouldn't be a contractor at that point.
Think about it. Were the contractors who brought this lawsuit trying to get treated worse than employees? No. They wanted to become employees.
You lived near MS for a while, but you didn't talk to the current 'employees' too much, did you?
Now Microsoft pays crap and uses mostly contractors so they don't have to give stock options, benefits or make people secure. Check this article out about how they got sued over this.
And the punishment for downloading a binary and running it is? Please provide a link to the acceptable use policies of your school. I'd like to see what school prohibits browser choice in such a draconian manner.
It's not that your school network prohibits you from installing anything. It's that you're dumb. Firebird isn't even an install. Just decompress and launch. Can you not download a file and launch it?
I'm disappointed in you all. Really, I am. That petition server hasn't received the slashdot effect. Only 3072 signatures as of my signing a minute ago. Let's get to work on that puppy and crank it up to 20,000 before the day's out.
WOW. First they fumbled the Pixar re-sign deal and now they're turning to Microsoft for DRM. What's next? Osama Bin Laden running security at Epcot Center?
This guy intentionally purchased the products so he could sue. That doesn't make spam profitable. Purchasing the products and then doing nothing makes spamming profitable.
Had you read down to the third paragraph in the story, you'd have seen that this doesn't exclusively relate to spam, anyay....
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Denver, seeks class-action status to represent an estimated 1 million people who ordered the products in response to advertisements on television, radio and spam e-mail.
Later on it says,
Horton's lawsuit alleges that Leading Edge promotes its enlargement products by e-mail, radio ads and television - including a half-hour infomercial starring adult-film legend Ron "Hedgehog" Jeremy. The lawsuit accuses the defendants of fraud, theft and money-laundering.
I think these companies are ideal targets for a fraud lawsuit. They're selling products advertised with lies.
This guy is returning truth to advertising. He's not cheating us out of a 'useful legal system.'
I remember reading sometime ago... before the official release of Mac OS X and the iMac, et. al. that Michael Dell was asked what he would do if he were CEO of Apple. He said that he would liquidate the company and give the cash to the shareholders.
Dell sucks the cocks of shareholders so much, that's just another example of it. All he cares about are the investors. Not the customers. Not the employees. This is evident of his "do anything to reduce the bottom line" business strategy of moving tech support to India (consumer tech support is still based there). Perhaps Dell embracing Linux is a sign of the market demand out there. He sure as F wouldn't be getting involved in Linux because he believes in Open Source or anything about freedom from the monopoly, etc.
Yeah, Dell is on the top 10 list of richest men in the world. But it's not from taking risks. Because of that, I have much more respect for a guy like Steve Jobs.
I was in London working for a few months back in 2000 and had my laptop snatched right off my lap as I was using it on the train. The culprits had been standing on the train platform waiting for the train and they simply ran in, grabbed it, then ran out with it an out of the station. The train driver and the police all got involved and called up to have the video cameras download the video recording to the central police station. Apparently, they store the video data locally where the cameras are and then if something happens, they'll grab the footage for the time of the incident. Well, even though they had video footage of the criminals standing around and then committing the crime, they were never caught.
NAT is thrown around here like it's no big deal. And it won't be for simple web surfing and so forth. But when all these goofs want to use their p2p apps that require inbound ports to be forwarded to specific IP addresses...
Oh my!
The ONLY way to do it is assign static IPs to everyone. Then give everyone a range of ports and set the NAT to forward each range of port numbers to the appropriate IP. Oh, and if some of these people have multiple computers...
Now you have a network admin job when you get home from work! Let's see them send that one to India
Those Japanese car factories are located in America because tariffs on imported cars make it more economically sound to build the cars in America. While you seem to be espousing free-market trade, you use an example that is in fact protectionist. You get rid of those tarrifs and those Toyota and Mazda factories will evaporate back to Asia.
And how hospitable will the martian climate be to these microbes? It's unlikely they'll survive. And if they do persevere against the temperature-o2-UV-h2o differences, they depend on proteins that exist exclusively in our habitat. Without those, they'll surely perish. This is a silly complaint.
If OJ Simpson had owned TiVO, the police could have issued a warrant for the usage data. When he said he was watching TV at home, they could have introduced evidence that he didn't fast-forward past any commercials, etc. or change channels and compare it to other usage data gathered from periods when he wasn't across town cutting his ex-wifes throat.
Perhaps someday soon we'll see a case that debunks an alibi because of TiVO usage data.
I'm really not trying to criticize you. Perhaps you are trolling here and I've bit...
Your rant here verges on paranoid schizophrenic babble. Under no circumstances would it be cost-effective to go out and round up everyone who tuned-in to a particular piece of content. No authoritarian dictatorship would even try something like that. There's no need to. Damage control and spin works just fine.
What piece of content could ever threaten a dictatorship? Look at what we've got in the US. Bush can exaggerate WMD to unbelievable heights, thumb his nose at the rest of the world, and spend kabillions of dollars invading a country. Day after day now, we hear that the original threat was a sham. Will he win re-election? Probably.
Even if pictures were published of Laura Bush with a black eye given her by George, the mega-corporations that own this country would simply replace him with a new puppet.
Paranoid Schizophrenic theories frequently place the individual at some unrealistic level of importance in relation to the Authoritarian regime. THEY are following / tapping the phone / videotaping the individual to monitor her actions. It's just not cost-effective to do that. Do the math.
Uhhh.. Yeah. I know the scenario. I was drawing a comparison to working at a company with such draconian IT policies and a place where the computer is just a terminal to look up auto part numbers....
Seriously. Just don't put up with crap like that. If you work for a backwards-ass company, leave. I worked at a Fortune 500 company and have consulted at a few others. None had browser rules like this.
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And the punishment for downloading a binary and running it is? Please provide a link to the acceptable use policies of your school. I'd like to see what school prohibits browser choice in such a draconian manner.
The horror. The horror.
Oh, and jackass is one word, not two.