And if the supreme court changes something that's not to their liking the RIAA and music industry will just buy themselves a new law. There is no winning when our politicians are in the pockets of entrenched industries. The only true way to bring an end to this is pirate... pirate as much as possible. Make it as easy as possible not to give them money. Once they're bankrupt, then we'll have a chance to have laws created in favor of the citizens of this country and not faceless corporations.
Never buy a college text book until the first class in which the teacher asks you to pull it out. At that point you claim you forgot it and buy it before your next class. I did this all the way through college and ended up not needing over half my textbooks. Scam indeed.
Why the hell can't I buy a BLACK AND WHITE printer anymore?!?!? Why?!?! Instead I have to buy a color printer, that after I get it home I find out can not opperate without a color cartridge in it. I think "Oh well, I'll print only in black and white" a week later the color cartridge is dead. But I didn't use any color, and my black and white cartridge is still half full. So i look it up on their website "Even when printing in black and white this printer uses color ink" What??!?! It uses MORE color ink printing in black and white than it uses black ink? So I figure, thats ok, I'll just not refill it. Oh no, it will not let you print if the ink is low. So I set the printer into it's change mode, pull the old cartridge and just stick it back in too fool it. But it still knows it's empty? How? I look it up and sure enough there's a FUCKING MICROCHIP IN THE INK. They put a god damn chip in the ink to force me to buy a new cartridge.
So I return to the store, tell them the printer is broke and got a different brand. This one I played with in the store and made sure I could print without a color cartridge in it. For the love of god, someone please invent a USB dot matrix printer for me.
Logging all inbound and outbound port connections for even a tiny ISP would be completely insane. The amount of data collected in just a few ours would be unbelievably huge. They'd need racks upon racks of servers just to store all the data. Now, monitoring port connections on customers they suspect of abusing their service would be different. But the idea that they could store their entire customer bases connections logs is just plain crazy.
Exactly. I think that if there was a way to check maybe they would... but there is no way. Anyone on earth can claim copyright on something and there's no way to prove it that doesn't require a team of lawyers.
You could have made this post 2/3rds shorter and gotten the same affect. That's just not productive enough, so we're sorry but we're going to have to let you go.
All you need is a copy of one of the form letters. Change the IP address on the letter. Done. You have to remember these complaints take up huge amounts of resources for the ISP and are not profitable at all. Even if they only have 1 employee on staff working them, think about how much that 1 employee costs them and they are generating no revenue at all. If you made it so they had to have 5 people working on this alone? 10 people? The more bogus complaints they get the more customers will start calling in saying WTF? So they'd need people to take those calls. Trust me, things would change rather quickly.
ha! You obviously don't get how broadband works. If only there were such a thing. What I'd recommend is not going after their residential accounts, it would be to go after their work accounts. They are probably public ranges. Ping them, see if you get a response, if you do, send a letter. It's not fool proof, they might not be returning ping requests for example, but if you start thinking along those lines you could probably come up with something. At the very least you could bury their employees in emails. If they start getting several thousand emails a day, I doubt they could keep up.
I actually work copyright complaints for an ISP and have an intimate understanding of how this all works. If someone REALLY wanted to highlight the flaws in this process the simple solution would be to get IP addresses of influential members of the government and/or the ISPs and start sending bogus emails to the copyright/abuse/legal mailboxes of the ISP. They'd start cutting off service automatically to all the right people. The uproar would be both hilarious and effective. Trust me, it would work very quickly as the ISP has absolutely no way of verifying the emails. Get the internet cut off to most government buildings and they might start to rethink this policy.
The fact that EVE is "hard" is exactly it's appeal. Eve and Wurn are probably the only MMO's on the market right now that provide any challenge what-so-ever. It's like the Arcade owner swapped out all the games for whack-a-mole because it was his most profitable game and now he's wondering why no-one comes around anymore. Perhaps if he made whack-a-mole free to play but made the hammer to small to hit the moles... then he could charge for a bigger hammer? Brilliant!!
The fact of the matter is they could have some really cool stuff in cars but they chose not to because they want to sell you crap. Every car should have a USB port in the dash. I should be able to get all my cars info on a laptop or upload songs to the audio system. Or even plug in a cellular modem or wifi card. All of this would be cheap and easy for any automaker to implement and the fact that it doesn't exist just shows how they continue to be out of touch with what their consumers want. Onstar is what's stopping real automotive computing systems from coming forward because GM sees it as a way to milk more money from you rather than an included feature that simply makes the car more desirable. Imagine if they charged a monthly fee for using the heated seats. It's just that stupid.
Or you could just do what I did and hack the WII and back everything up to USB hard drive. I think hacking it was more fun than any of the games I've got for it.
The only reason a Major ISP hasn't had a full, network wide outage is simply a lack of desire on the part of the people that would be capable of doing such a thing. In fact, many ISPs do have network wide outages fairly regularly but are able to keep it hidden. Most customers think it was local to them. What makes networks so week? The same thing that caused the oil spill in the gulf. It costs to much to do things correctly. And what are the chances anything bad will happen... right?
Not when every ISP out there is voiping everything out of soft switches. There is no "Old school phone system" any more. It all VOIPS eventually. Any major data outage WILL affect voice as long as it's on a lower layer... i.e. DNS problems shouldn't cause a problem but routing issues certainly will.
We have done a LOT of testing of underwater nukes and they are far safer than open air detonations. They do not cause tidal waves... lol I think you are misjudging how power full nukes are in comparison to the kind of power it takes to set off a tidal wave. We're talking about several orders of magnitude here. Also, the kind of nuke that would be used in this situation would be a very small demolitions type of device. Even smaller than the relatively tiny nukes used in japan. Also, the army has done a lot of reaserch into "Clean nukes" that, while they aren't really "clean" give off a lot less gamma rays that your average nuke. On top of all this, if they were able to somehow get the device bellow the ocean floor before detonating it, there would be absolutely no radiation to speak of. It would be trapped by the bedrock. This is one of the relatively few situations in which nuclear weapons might come in handy.
I retract my bomber statement. Apparently they can get a submersible right up to the well. I was under the impression the oil would be bad for the rover but heard otherwise. In that case, set the nuke right on top of it. A low yield warhead would release very little gamma radiation and I'm fairly sure everything in the area is already dead anyway. It would seal it up in a jiffy.
This is just AOL/Time Warner all over again. Their both just trying to extend their inevitable death spiral. It reminds be of that Disney movie "Black Hole" They're just stuck there on the edge... doomed. Waiting for that crazy robot guy to smash the ship and send them spiraling in.
I'd love to ask this guy why he thinks the PC game market's in the sewer right now. It's not piracy... it's not people spending all their time playing demos instead of paying for games... It's people like him and his attitude.
I could secure their entire network from USB thumb drives in a couple of hours with a flat-head screwdriver. This reminds me of the old story about NASA and the million dollar investment into pens that could write in a weightless environment while the soviets just used pencils.
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And if the supreme court changes something that's not to their liking the RIAA and music industry will just buy themselves a new law. There is no winning when our politicians are in the pockets of entrenched industries. The only true way to bring an end to this is pirate... pirate as much as possible. Make it as easy as possible not to give them money. Once they're bankrupt, then we'll have a chance to have laws created in favor of the citizens of this country and not faceless corporations.
Never buy a college text book until the first class in which the teacher asks you to pull it out. At that point you claim you forgot it and buy it before your next class. I did this all the way through college and ended up not needing over half my textbooks. Scam indeed.
Why the hell can't I buy a BLACK AND WHITE printer anymore?!?!? Why?!?! Instead I have to buy a color printer, that after I get it home I find out can not opperate without a color cartridge in it. I think "Oh well, I'll print only in black and white" a week later the color cartridge is dead. But I didn't use any color, and my black and white cartridge is still half full. So i look it up on their website "Even when printing in black and white this printer uses color ink" What??!?! It uses MORE color ink printing in black and white than it uses black ink? So I figure, thats ok, I'll just not refill it. Oh no, it will not let you print if the ink is low. So I set the printer into it's change mode, pull the old cartridge and just stick it back in too fool it. But it still knows it's empty? How? I look it up and sure enough there's a FUCKING MICROCHIP IN THE INK. They put a god damn chip in the ink to force me to buy a new cartridge. So I return to the store, tell them the printer is broke and got a different brand. This one I played with in the store and made sure I could print without a color cartridge in it. For the love of god, someone please invent a USB dot matrix printer for me.
Logging all inbound and outbound port connections for even a tiny ISP would be completely insane. The amount of data collected in just a few ours would be unbelievably huge. They'd need racks upon racks of servers just to store all the data. Now, monitoring port connections on customers they suspect of abusing their service would be different. But the idea that they could store their entire customer bases connections logs is just plain crazy.
Exactly. I think that if there was a way to check maybe they would... but there is no way. Anyone on earth can claim copyright on something and there's no way to prove it that doesn't require a team of lawyers.
You could have made this post 2/3rds shorter and gotten the same affect. That's just not productive enough, so we're sorry but we're going to have to let you go.
All you need is a copy of one of the form letters. Change the IP address on the letter. Done. You have to remember these complaints take up huge amounts of resources for the ISP and are not profitable at all. Even if they only have 1 employee on staff working them, think about how much that 1 employee costs them and they are generating no revenue at all. If you made it so they had to have 5 people working on this alone? 10 people? The more bogus complaints they get the more customers will start calling in saying WTF? So they'd need people to take those calls. Trust me, things would change rather quickly.
ha! You obviously don't get how broadband works. If only there were such a thing. What I'd recommend is not going after their residential accounts, it would be to go after their work accounts. They are probably public ranges. Ping them, see if you get a response, if you do, send a letter. It's not fool proof, they might not be returning ping requests for example, but if you start thinking along those lines you could probably come up with something. At the very least you could bury their employees in emails. If they start getting several thousand emails a day, I doubt they could keep up.
I actually work copyright complaints for an ISP and have an intimate understanding of how this all works. If someone REALLY wanted to highlight the flaws in this process the simple solution would be to get IP addresses of influential members of the government and/or the ISPs and start sending bogus emails to the copyright/abuse/legal mailboxes of the ISP. They'd start cutting off service automatically to all the right people. The uproar would be both hilarious and effective. Trust me, it would work very quickly as the ISP has absolutely no way of verifying the emails. Get the internet cut off to most government buildings and they might start to rethink this policy.
The fact that EVE is "hard" is exactly it's appeal. Eve and Wurn are probably the only MMO's on the market right now that provide any challenge what-so-ever. It's like the Arcade owner swapped out all the games for whack-a-mole because it was his most profitable game and now he's wondering why no-one comes around anymore. Perhaps if he made whack-a-mole free to play but made the hammer to small to hit the moles... then he could charge for a bigger hammer? Brilliant!!
Meteors hit the earth pretty regularly as well. That doesn't mean we should start mining asteroids by crashing them into coastal wetlands.
The fact of the matter is they could have some really cool stuff in cars but they chose not to because they want to sell you crap. Every car should have a USB port in the dash. I should be able to get all my cars info on a laptop or upload songs to the audio system. Or even plug in a cellular modem or wifi card. All of this would be cheap and easy for any automaker to implement and the fact that it doesn't exist just shows how they continue to be out of touch with what their consumers want. Onstar is what's stopping real automotive computing systems from coming forward because GM sees it as a way to milk more money from you rather than an included feature that simply makes the car more desirable. Imagine if they charged a monthly fee for using the heated seats. It's just that stupid.
Or you could just do what I did and hack the WII and back everything up to USB hard drive. I think hacking it was more fun than any of the games I've got for it.
The only reason a Major ISP hasn't had a full, network wide outage is simply a lack of desire on the part of the people that would be capable of doing such a thing. In fact, many ISPs do have network wide outages fairly regularly but are able to keep it hidden. Most customers think it was local to them. What makes networks so week? The same thing that caused the oil spill in the gulf. It costs to much to do things correctly. And what are the chances anything bad will happen... right?
Not when every ISP out there is voiping everything out of soft switches. There is no "Old school phone system" any more. It all VOIPS eventually. Any major data outage WILL affect voice as long as it's on a lower layer... i.e. DNS problems shouldn't cause a problem but routing issues certainly will.
We have done a LOT of testing of underwater nukes and they are far safer than open air detonations. They do not cause tidal waves... lol I think you are misjudging how power full nukes are in comparison to the kind of power it takes to set off a tidal wave. We're talking about several orders of magnitude here. Also, the kind of nuke that would be used in this situation would be a very small demolitions type of device. Even smaller than the relatively tiny nukes used in japan. Also, the army has done a lot of reaserch into "Clean nukes" that, while they aren't really "clean" give off a lot less gamma rays that your average nuke. On top of all this, if they were able to somehow get the device bellow the ocean floor before detonating it, there would be absolutely no radiation to speak of. It would be trapped by the bedrock. This is one of the relatively few situations in which nuclear weapons might come in handy.
I retract my bomber statement. Apparently they can get a submersible right up to the well. I was under the impression the oil would be bad for the rover but heard otherwise. In that case, set the nuke right on top of it. A low yield warhead would release very little gamma radiation and I'm fairly sure everything in the area is already dead anyway. It would seal it up in a jiffy.
Nuke it. 1 Kiloton nuke inside a bunker buster warhead dropped from a bomber. Problem solved.
This is just AOL/Time Warner all over again. Their both just trying to extend their inevitable death spiral. It reminds be of that Disney movie "Black Hole" They're just stuck there on the edge... doomed. Waiting for that crazy robot guy to smash the ship and send them spiraling in.
Amish...
5? Well, ok 3... but it gets REALLY silly at 5.
What would be awesome is if Adblock worked in kind, and just "adblock" escapists domain. lol
It's Travarian with a few references to ultima... wait, there are not references. So it's just Travarian. Also, it sucks.
I'd love to ask this guy why he thinks the PC game market's in the sewer right now. It's not piracy... it's not people spending all their time playing demos instead of paying for games... It's people like him and his attitude.
I could secure their entire network from USB thumb drives in a couple of hours with a flat-head screwdriver. This reminds me of the old story about NASA and the million dollar investment into pens that could write in a weightless environment while the soviets just used pencils.