Yup, there sure are. And there are tons that don't, yet do.
Important shit needs to be severed from the internet and the intranet and CDs/Flash Drives/etc by default, and access to each granted on a i-can-has? basis.
That aside, these stories always imply that OMG THEY GOT INTO THE MISSILE CONTROL SILO. No, they got into the computer of some office assistant at some university. That's a "government computer".
If you want your shit secure you get it offline, lock it up, put a guy with a gun to watch people who access it, and put a dog to watch the guy with the gun.
The item being transferred around still gets the sale for the publishers.
No copy is being made (thus, there is NO possible way copyright law is being violated).
And what about on the internet? Imagine the following:
Guy makes a torrent. People download it.
People fearing the MAFIAA can download in worm mode: All they do is download. Then, later, they seed it. Upon successful transmission of a piece, it's deleted from the user's computer.
No copy is being made by those in worm mode. Those in worm mode do not know if the ones they are getting pieces from are also in worm mode. If they choose to make a copy after it finishes downloading, and before it starts to seed, then that's completely their fault (and completely out-of-band, neener-neener-neener, you can't catch me!).
Obviously downloading in worm mode would be slow (as you're not uploading, you'll get the bottom of the barrel in terms of bandwidth), and uploading in worm mode is terribly efficient. It would fail hard, and no one would use it.
But ThePirateBay is letting people MOVE files. People are the ones subverting the system and copying them, and the MAFIAA can't prove anything ever occurred (they can't do that with regular bittorrent downloads - how do they know the file isn't actually being moved piece by piece, not copied?).
99.9% of the time it's useless crap that serves up all sorts of ads, malware, sucks up your CPU, etc.
Blocking it doesn't help because then the site doesn't work.
Javascript is actually the only one that serves a useful purpose in most cases, and the only one that can't easily be replaced while keeping functionality the same.
Why is it that Sci-Fi allows itself to be lumped in with Fantasy? I hate that shit! Give me some Sci-Fi, and NO, that does NOT include Lord of the boRings!
(Decided against Bored of the Rings, since it's always been boring, and it's the king of shitty boring stories that go on way too long.)
Immoral according to whom? (And before you trot out the word "ethics", they're the same fucking thing, and I don't have to agree with anyone else's "morals" OR "ethics".)
Who's Pol Pot? A paying customer? Sure no problem.
It's a bandwagon. A bandwagon full of retrads and morans. It started out as a piece of shit, then some intern at some news station was caught using it when they were supposed to be trawling youtube for breaking news to mooch off of. The media jumped on it, "OMG!"ing themselves into a frenzy and they won't shut up until something dumber comes along. (Hint: It's still shit, and it'll be a while before something dumber comes along, I hope.)
Hell, CNN had shit on their crawl (FUCK THE CRAWL!) all week about some twitter race between them (CNN) and Ashton Kutcher.
Jesus fucking christ.
Mainstream media Twitter Ashton Kutcher The fucking CRAWL
If they had worked in a liberal mac fan (redundant, I know), I would've taken the first plane over there and throttled Wolf Blitzer LIVE in the SITUATION ROOM!.
Of course this was back in the 80s when miles were much shorter than they are now.
Surely those 32-33 MPG you were getting translate into like, 12-13 in today's miles. And this means the car died just after 70,000 miles.
This is why we all need to switch to modern, fuel efficient vehicles which get around 30 miles per gallon and often last past 100,000 miles.
Of course, hybrids are the greatest thing ever, and will beat even modern fuel efficient, gas-only vehicles. We're already seeing that the new Prius model will get around 40 MPG when you're carrying nothing but yourself, on a straight stretch at 35 MPH non stop. And this is for just $10k more than a regular car! And the average Prius will probably last for 300,000 miles without having problems outside of normal maintenance, like replacing the thousand dollar battery. 300k is 5 times longer than the average Prius owner will keep their cars on the road before recycling them into eco-cubes and buying the new model!
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When I write legislators, I don't include hookers, blow, and cold hard cash in my statement.
And they stir the shit and accomplish nothing.
And would be completely unnecessary if it weren't for the thousands of other lobbyists.
Windows 7 lets you run without an account with admin access? What?
In the labs I used to work at:
You need to get to the motherboard to reset the password. No master password for you.
You need a hackz0rs saw to get through the locks we use in order to open the case or remove the machine.
Have fun under that desk for 20 minutes.
Uh no.
There is no way to be 100% protected against unknown attacks.
Manually approve each packet?
Yup, there sure are.
And there are tons that don't, yet do.
Important shit needs to be severed from the internet and the intranet and CDs/Flash Drives/etc by default, and access to each granted on a i-can-has? basis.
That aside, these stories always imply that OMG THEY GOT INTO THE MISSILE CONTROL SILO. No, they got into the computer of some office assistant at some university. That's a "government computer".
HOW THE FUCK is this offtopic?
If you want your shit secure you get it offline, lock it up, put a guy with a gun to watch people who access it, and put a dog to watch the guy with the gun.
The XP installer just creates the Administrator account for me.
Where is the piracy?
There is no theft involved.
The item being transferred around still gets the sale for the publishers.
No copy is being made (thus, there is NO possible way copyright law is being violated).
And what about on the internet?
Imagine the following:
Guy makes a torrent.
People download it.
People fearing the MAFIAA can download in worm mode:
All they do is download.
Then, later, they seed it.
Upon successful transmission of a piece, it's deleted from the user's computer.
No copy is being made by those in worm mode.
Those in worm mode do not know if the ones they are getting pieces from are also in worm mode.
If they choose to make a copy after it finishes downloading, and before it starts to seed, then that's completely their fault (and completely out-of-band, neener-neener-neener, you can't catch me!).
Obviously downloading in worm mode would be slow (as you're not uploading, you'll get the bottom of the barrel in terms of bandwidth), and uploading in worm mode is terribly efficient. It would fail hard, and no one would use it.
But ThePirateBay is letting people MOVE files. People are the ones subverting the system and copying them, and the MAFIAA can't prove anything ever occurred (they can't do that with regular bittorrent downloads - how do they know the file isn't actually being moved piece by piece, not copied?).
What I don't get is why ANY lobbyists are allowed. Ever. Anywhere.
Did you mean  ?
OMG FAILS ON PREVIEW.
Unicode A4
ALT+0164
Etc.
Ditching PDF.
And Flash.
And Java.
Get that shit off the web.
99.9% of the time it's useless crap that serves up all sorts of ads, malware, sucks up your CPU, etc.
Blocking it doesn't help because then the site doesn't work.
Javascript is actually the only one that serves a useful purpose in most cases, and the only one that can't easily be replaced while keeping functionality the same.
My dad always tells a story about a friend of his in college, who turned in a paper he found by some previous student.
He got an A on it, with a note:
"I gave this an A because I thought it deserved an A when I wrote in 15 years ago."
Yup, sounds like a professor alright.
"Think like this. Don't think for yourself, it's dangerous."
Turnitin and other similar shit should be abolished.
If professors want to catch plagiarism, they should do their fucking job and read the assignments that are turned in.
(No, pawning them off to the TA doesn't count, because the TA can't speak English!)
This is extremely bad news for lazy students everywhere. Won't someone please think of the plagiarists? :)
Why is it that Sci-Fi allows itself to be lumped in with Fantasy? I hate that shit! Give me some Sci-Fi, and NO, that does NOT include Lord of the boRings!
(Decided against Bored of the Rings, since it's always been boring, and it's the king of shitty boring stories that go on way too long.)
Immoral according to whom?
(And before you trot out the word "ethics", they're the same fucking thing, and I don't have to agree with anyone else's "morals" OR "ethics".)
Who's Pol Pot? A paying customer? Sure no problem.
They're using the same bullshit now, and now AAA and KBB are publishing their own ratings (or did they drop that when gas prices went down?).
The poster implied he gave the mileage he got - not the rated mileage.
Nobody drove 55.
Hell, there was a time before speed limits, you know, not too long ago, where people just did 100 across the country.
It's a bandwagon. A bandwagon full of retrads and morans. It started out as a piece of shit, then some intern at some news station was caught using it when they were supposed to be trawling youtube for breaking news to mooch off of. The media jumped on it, "OMG!"ing themselves into a frenzy and they won't shut up until something dumber comes along. (Hint: It's still shit, and it'll be a while before something dumber comes along, I hope.)
Hell, CNN had shit on their crawl (FUCK THE CRAWL!) all week about some twitter race between them (CNN) and Ashton Kutcher.
Jesus fucking christ.
Mainstream media
Twitter
Ashton Kutcher
The fucking CRAWL
If they had worked in a liberal mac fan (redundant, I know), I would've taken the first plane over there and throttled Wolf Blitzer LIVE in the SITUATION ROOM!.
You know the Germans make good stuff.
SHAMWOW!
"cryfreedomlove (929828)" LOL!
Nothing wrong with making weapons.
With a name like "General Atomic Predator C Avenger", I was expecting more.
Unamnned? Meh.
Looks lame? Meh.
Meh.
Of course this was back in the 80s when miles were much shorter than they are now.
Surely those 32-33 MPG you were getting translate into like, 12-13 in today's miles.
And this means the car died just after 70,000 miles.
This is why we all need to switch to modern, fuel efficient vehicles which get around 30 miles per gallon and often last past 100,000 miles.
Of course, hybrids are the greatest thing ever, and will beat even modern fuel efficient, gas-only vehicles. We're already seeing that the new Prius model will get around 40 MPG when you're carrying nothing but yourself, on a straight stretch at 35 MPH non stop. And this is for just $10k more than a regular car! And the average Prius will probably last for 300,000 miles without having problems outside of normal maintenance, like replacing the thousand dollar battery. 300k is 5 times longer than the average Prius owner will keep their cars on the road before recycling them into eco-cubes and buying the new model!
Now that's progress!