but then what would they be listening to? And what pray tell, did all those people do for all those centuries when there was no recorded music available? They must've gone stark raving mad! Not! And what about all those people in third world countries who can't even afford to eat, much less waste money on music?
That is the mistake that you and others like you (and particularily the crooked bean counters at the RIAA) keep making: That somehow people need to listen to something! Recorded music is nowhere even close to a need...it's something that many people can (and do) do without. Believe it or not, there is a whole world outside of recorded music and many of us could live in it quite happily.
Or maybe I would just say "fuck you all" and pick up my guitar and amuse muself. Or I might just go play outside...
You have to face the facts: Digital copies made by people who never would have bought the music in the first place have no relevance whatsoever, and do not hurt anyone, be it the RIAA or "indie" musicians. You might as well assume for the sake of this discussion that for all practical purposes, neither the copies, nor the copiers even exist, because the effect they are having is the same as if it would be if there were no file sharers or files to share.
Another factor is there is more competition for that $20 burning a hole in your pocket. Let's face it: You have more choices now: a $15 CD with one or two good songs (total entertainment duration 10 min), a $20 DVD (total entertainment duration 2+ hours), or you can put a couple of $20s together and by a game and have many many hours of entertainment. Well guess what? More often than not, the lackluster music CD is probably going to lose.
Now he can be bangin' Anna Nicole Smith in the afterlife! It's gonna take something with a LOT more diameter than a paperclip to pleasure that ho! What she needs is something with dimensions closer to a Swingline stapler...
Now rationally no one would put a bomb, even a bomb the size of a D cell, on something with bright flashing lights in the shape of late-night cartoon characters because it would be totally obvious to even a mindless self-serving attention-hungry bureaucrat who can't take a joke and is afraid he/she (he) might end up looking like even more of a total chump if he admitted he/she (he) was taken for a chump...gasp...that making a bomb look this way would only attract undue attention; bored boarding school youths would steal them; bums would urinate on them; etc... Yeah but you're dealing with fucking morons who think that good terrorist preparedness means watching seasons one through five of 24! Real bombs do not have blinkinlights...nor do they have nice, convenient, highly visible LED timers counting down the seconds to detonation! They come hidden in everyday objects (like car trunks or rental trucks) The Governor of Massachusetts should be tossed out of office on his ass. Immediately. He's too fucking STUPID to continue to hold public office.
He's not trying to stop people from doing the Electric Slide, he's trying to stop people from doing it incorrectly! He's mroe than willing to share the correct steps with everyone!
Of course trying to drill the correct steps into the thick booze-addled skulls of all the way-behind-the-curve morons that show up at people's weddings and make asses of themselves may be just a much a fool's errand as...well...getting Slashdot idiots to read articles!
I have circa 2001 mainstream PCs that choke on XP. I have to call bullshit. I have a pretty basic 800Mhz Athlon box that I put together in mid-2000 that runs XP just fine. It was by no means the fastest system available at the time either.
Systems I was deploying in 2001 were all pretty much 1-1.2 GHz Athlons with Windows 2000 and they all run XP just fine as well.
Mind you there's some frightfully bad shit out there in the wasy of PCs that were unabashedly sold by sleazy big box electronics retaillers to rubes, that won't run anything well, but that isn't exactly XP's fault, is it?
NT4 was the best. Reg key was something like 123-9876543. why can't Microsoft stick with simplicity like that? The one I knew was 456-1234567, but there were probably others.
What I'm wondering, is how many of those girls in that dating site that was featured in one of the ads that this story linked to are going to wind up getting asked for dates now, due to the inundation of desperate, geeky basement-dwellers?
2. Say "Well, looks like we're doomed anyway, and I'm sure as hell not living to 2100, so may as well pillage the planet for all its worth while we still can! This is somebody else's problem, not mine. Dick Cheney, is that YOU?
Are you supporting it in a business environment? No way I'll be deploying this anytime soon. We've only just managed to get the kinks ironed out of XP.
For one client who is a medical service provider, I'm pretty sure that the "rights" that M$ has awarded itself via Vista's EULA are at odds with the requirements for keeping clients' medical records confidential. So until someone can provide assurances to the contrary, Vista isn't coming anywhere near their facilities.
In BC there's a cooling off period for contracts, that allows you to rescind your agreement if you decide that it wasn't a good deal for you. This was enacted to get people out of ridiculous gym memberships and their equally ridiculous initiation fees, that uususpecting consumers found themselves coaxed, guilted, or badgered into by pushy salesmen.
There's also a comprehension clause. In other words, if you can demonstrate that you didn't understand the terms of the agreement, it can be nullified. I'm pretty sure an EULA on the inside of a box, and another that that everybody clicks through without reading, would fall into that category.
There are multiple options. 1) Buy an upgrade version that requires a previous OS version to already be installed. 2) Buy the full version to install however the hell you want. 3) Use an alternate OS other than MS. Fuck that! I'll be using option 4:
4) Download a cracked version and install it instead.
Bill Gates can go attempt asexual reproduction if he thinks I'm going to run through two installs just to get one O/S working.
Ever hear of movies? They're kinda cool. You pay $7.50 or so, and get to watch a story uninterrupted by commercials. Except for the 20 min or so of fucking commercials that they make you sit through now, plus the stupid product placement that is sneaking in.
I see...somebody typing in say, cumfiesta.com isn't going to know that it's a porn site, but if it was cumfiesta.xxx, they would know?!? Give me a freaking break!
Besides, who else but a pornographer is going to use a domain such as that, regardless of what the TLD is?
You're saying that half of all broadband users are capable of downloading a bit torrent client, running it, finding divx, installing it, and getting the movie to run... sure, they could be downloading quicktime movies or WMV files, but any of these combinations is equally challenging to your mom, your grandpa, and your brother in law- 1 person out of 5 is a hell of a lot of people. Umm...it's not that hard...
Step 1: Download Bitlord. Step 2: Download VLC Media Player Step 3: Visit Mininova and find a tracker. Step 4: Open file with VLC and enjoy.
But still I think your right. It's probably not 18% of all citizens, probably more like 18% of all households with broadband.
The '24' episodes in question actually appeared on YouTube prior to their primetime January 14 premiere They also appeared on bittoreent and that other file distribution entity that we're not supposed to name, at least a week prior to their premiere. Of course they never made it on to my hard drive! No sir!
"I wonder what would happen if I used the installation CD..." Well that'll learn you to let curiousity get the better of you! That Damn CD is the first thing to get tossed.
$200 of my time is a lot less than three days. Mine too...I was being obnoxious. Geek Squad wants $130 to do a WiFi setup...bandits! I just charge a one hour minimum.
And don't get me started on how awful it was setting up a wireless router with Windows XP... I spent $200 worth of my time to configure a $15 piece of hardware. It took you three days to configure a wireless router with Wondows XP?!? It should've taken you 15 minutes tops. On a slow day, I get it done in 10...
So keep your sensitive personal data on a server at home, where the protections against warrantless search and seizure are more clearly defined, and take with you on your laptop only what you need. Also there are all sorts of ways to remotely access your at-home data securely (DNS Forwarder/VPN, etc). That way your data is there when YOU need it and not sitting on your portable when you are crossing borders or sitting in your employer's office. I have made it quite clear to contractors that their laptops will be subject to scrutiny prior to their being permitted to access our corporate LAN, as well there my be periodic spot-checks, especially if I suspect that a laptop might have become infected with something nasty.
If this is relating to computer fraud how the fuck can they justify over 100 years of punishment? Rapists and murderers get less. Maybe the problem isn't that this spammer's sentence is too harsh, maybe the problem is the sentences handed down to rapists and murderers are are too lenient. I don't have a problem with the Enron fraudsters spending the rest of their days behind bars, and the magnitude of fraud that this scumbag is guilty of, is on a similar scale.
I also hope it's hard-core poundin-in-the-ass prison they send him to, and not some freakin club-fed country club.
I'm trying to remember a game from the mid to late 70s. It was a space battle game, with graphics similar to Asteroids, and there was a rocket looking ship and a saucer type thing that usually wasted you really quickly.
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I don't know about you, but I'm going to be keeping a shotgun and a chainsaw close by at all times!
That is the mistake that you and others like you (and particularily the crooked bean counters at the RIAA) keep making: That somehow people need to listen to something! Recorded music is nowhere even close to a need...it's something that many people can (and do) do without. Believe it or not, there is a whole world outside of recorded music and many of us could live in it quite happily.
Or maybe I would just say "fuck you all" and pick up my guitar and amuse muself. Or I might just go play outside...
You have to face the facts: Digital copies made by people who never would have bought the music in the first place have no relevance whatsoever, and do not hurt anyone, be it the RIAA or "indie" musicians. You might as well assume for the sake of this discussion that for all practical purposes, neither the copies, nor the copiers even exist, because the effect they are having is the same as if it would be if there were no file sharers or files to share.
Another factor is there is more competition for that $20 burning a hole in your pocket. Let's face it: You have more choices now: a $15 CD with one or two good songs (total entertainment duration 10 min), a $20 DVD (total entertainment duration 2+ hours), or you can put a couple of $20s together and by a game and have many many hours of entertainment. Well guess what? More often than not, the lackluster music CD is probably going to lose.
Real bombs do not have blinkinlights...nor do they have nice, convenient, highly visible LED timers counting down the seconds to detonation! They come hidden in everyday objects (like car trunks or rental trucks)
The Governor of Massachusetts should be tossed out of office on his ass. Immediately. He's too fucking STUPID to continue to hold public office.
He's not trying to stop people from doing the Electric Slide, he's trying to stop people from doing it incorrectly! He's mroe than willing to share the correct steps with everyone!
Of course trying to drill the correct steps into the thick booze-addled skulls of all the way-behind-the-curve morons that show up at people's weddings and make asses of themselves may be just a much a fool's errand as...well...getting Slashdot idiots to read articles!
I have a pretty basic 800Mhz Athlon box that I put together in mid-2000 that runs XP just fine. It was by no means the fastest system available at the time either.
Systems I was deploying in 2001 were all pretty much 1-1.2 GHz Athlons with Windows 2000 and they all run XP just fine as well.
Mind you there's some frightfully bad shit out there in the wasy of PCs that were unabashedly sold by sleazy big box electronics retaillers to rubes, that won't run anything well, but that isn't exactly XP's fault, is it?
What I'm wondering, is how many of those girls in that dating site that was featured in one of the ads that this story linked to are going to wind up getting asked for dates now, due to the inundation of desperate, geeky basement-dwellers?
For one client who is a medical service provider, I'm pretty sure that the "rights" that M$ has awarded itself via Vista's EULA are at odds with the requirements for keeping clients' medical records confidential. So until someone can provide assurances to the contrary, Vista isn't coming anywhere near their facilities.
That works in the Province of British Columbia.
In BC there's a cooling off period for contracts, that allows you to rescind your agreement if you decide that it wasn't a good deal for you. This was enacted to get people out of ridiculous gym memberships and their equally ridiculous initiation fees, that uususpecting consumers found themselves coaxed, guilted, or badgered into by pushy salesmen.
There's also a comprehension clause. In other words, if you can demonstrate that you didn't understand the terms of the agreement, it can be nullified. I'm pretty sure an EULA on the inside of a box, and another that that everybody clicks through without reading, would fall into that category.
1) Buy an upgrade version that requires a previous OS version to already be installed.
2) Buy the full version to install however the hell you want.
3) Use an alternate OS other than MS. Fuck that! I'll be using option 4:
4) Download a cracked version and install it instead.
Bill Gates can go attempt asexual reproduction if he thinks I'm going to run through two installs just to get one O/S working.
I see...somebody typing in say, cumfiesta.com isn't going to know that it's a porn site, but if it was cumfiesta.xxx, they would know?!?
Give me a freaking break!
Besides, who else but a pornographer is going to use a domain such as that, regardless of what the TLD is?
Step 1: Download Bitlord.
Step 2: Download VLC Media Player
Step 3: Visit Mininova and find a tracker.
Step 4: Open file with VLC and enjoy.
But still I think your right. It's probably not 18% of all citizens, probably more like 18% of all households with broadband.
Geek Squad wants $130 to do a WiFi setup...bandits! I just charge a one hour minimum.
So keep your sensitive personal data on a server at home, where the protections against warrantless search and seizure are more clearly defined, and take with you on your laptop only what you need. Also there are all sorts of ways to remotely access your at-home data securely (DNS Forwarder/VPN, etc). That way your data is there when YOU need it and not sitting on your portable when you are crossing borders or sitting in your employer's office.
I have made it quite clear to contractors that their laptops will be subject to scrutiny prior to their being permitted to access our corporate LAN, as well there my be periodic spot-checks, especially if I suspect that a laptop might have become infected with something nasty.
Rapists and murderers get less. Maybe the problem isn't that this spammer's sentence is too harsh, maybe the problem is the sentences handed down to rapists and murderers are are too lenient.
I don't have a problem with the Enron fraudsters spending the rest of their days behind bars, and the magnitude of fraud that this scumbag is guilty of, is on a similar scale.
I also hope it's hard-core poundin-in-the-ass prison they send him to, and not some freakin club-fed country club.
I'm trying to remember a game from the mid to late 70s. It was a space battle game, with graphics similar to Asteroids, and there was a rocket looking ship and a saucer type thing that usually wasted you really quickly.
...and after he gets shot, it becomes a sundial...