Note that you can't do this through Explorer. Windows will give you an error message saying it can't find two of the files, because Sony - being lowdown shits - had SecuROM give them invalid names. You need to use the command line: change directory to the folder, then do del/F/AH *. Or something like that. It's been a while since I've done it.
I've got a premium $50/month 10 Mb connection with a 60 GB cap. 250 GB? You guys are spoiled.
I was responding to this part, the attitude that they're 'spoiled' somehow with their mediocre infrastructure and value for money. It comes off to me in the same way as some schoolkid callously jeering at a well-to-do guy falling and bloodying his arms and legs, just because he's got something better than them. Hence my lame-ass post above.
Vista boot time: 56 seconds.
Ubuntu boot time: 50 seconds. While I give a big high five to the developers [...]
High five? You know, almost as bad as Vista isn't an accolade. It's a failure.
I just timed it, and my XP SP2 install takes 18 seconds to go from power-on to fully responsive desktop, and at least five seconds of that is the BIOS doing its thing. This is a year-old install with reasonably similar hardware to the one in the benchmark. It's got at least a hundred programs installed.
I wonder if his logic is consistently applied. That leads to some pretty hilarious artifacts when applied generally:
- Jews in Nazi Germany that didn't wear yellow stars or refused to be segregated were NOT protected by the law. Why should they get a get out of jail card? What part of ILLEGAL don't you understand?
- In countries where getting raped is a crime, the victim is NOT protected by the law. Why should they get a get out of jail card? What part of ILLEGAL don't you understand?
Yes, Middle-Eastern culture is fundamentally different than ours. No, we don't have a right to tell other nations how to run themselves socially.
Their culture is different so it's automatically above all reproach? You know I'm pretty sure we do have a right to tell people anything we damn well please.
They also redid the icons to look smoother. Oh, and they changed the magnifier's zoom selection widget to be the same as a volume slider (what the fuck). Luckily, it's easy enough to replace the executable with the one from XP.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected (X) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it (X) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists (X) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's life
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(X) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses (X) Asshats (X) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (X) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft (X) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers (X) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck (X) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being murdered ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email (X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Might I suggest doing business with spammers a crime instead?
It works. I put in the game, and the game plays, always.
That might be true if they'd just fix the diabolically bad hardware. I might even buy one. I hear the latest models have a 10% failure rate. Pretty good, coming down from around 35%...
Yeah, I'm sure the high price, low performance, econobox look, not to mention high maintenance and exaggerated claims of savings (which are actually negative compared to a comparably sized compact gas powered vehicle), has nothing to do with it.
Apparently it really doesn't. A few months back I read about how they were in such demand that Toyota were increasing production to compensate, and people were managing to sell used ones for a higher price than new.
My finger hurts too. You know those bits of skin just above and behind your nails? Part on that the left side of my left index finger has gotten torn a little and now it's like a flap. The problem is, I don't need to alter the aerodynamics of my finger because I can't fly. It's really just painful, instead of useful, like on an aeroplane.
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delete the SecuROM folder
Note that you can't do this through Explorer. Windows will give you an error message saying it can't find two of the files, because Sony - being lowdown shits - had SecuROM give them invalid names. You need to use the command line: change directory to the folder, then do del /F /AH *. Or something like that. It's been a while since I've done it.
Just opening and saving a JPEG file will change the hash, because of the lossy compression.
I've got a premium $50/month 10 Mb connection with a 60 GB cap. 250 GB? You guys are spoiled.
I was responding to this part, the attitude that they're 'spoiled' somehow with their mediocre infrastructure and value for money. It comes off to me in the same way as some schoolkid callously jeering at a well-to-do guy falling and bloodying his arms and legs, just because he's got something better than them. Hence my lame-ass post above.
Might want to avoid the US and the UK as well.
Oh, so because it now sucks a little closer to the amount yours does, it's okay? Jealousy sure is an ugly thing. (No, I'm not from the US)
...is populated by humans. Welcome to reality, CNN.
Vista boot time: 56 seconds. Ubuntu boot time: 50 seconds.
While I give a big high five to the developers [...]
High five? You know, almost as bad as Vista isn't an accolade. It's a failure.
I just timed it, and my XP SP2 install takes 18 seconds to go from power-on to fully responsive desktop, and at least five seconds of that is the BIOS doing its thing. This is a year-old install with reasonably similar hardware to the one in the benchmark. It's got at least a hundred programs installed.
Being tough? No, just looking tough.
Ireland too. 30 euros for 3072/384 kbits down/up, no cap.
Yeah, it's amazing how it does absolutely nothing at all.
I wonder if his logic is consistently applied. That leads to some pretty hilarious artifacts when applied generally:
- Jews in Nazi Germany that didn't wear yellow stars or refused to be segregated were NOT protected by the law. Why should they get a get out of jail card? What part of ILLEGAL don't you understand?
- In countries where getting raped is a crime, the victim is NOT protected by the law. Why should they get a get out of jail card? What part of ILLEGAL don't you understand?
Yes, Middle-Eastern culture is fundamentally different than ours. No, we don't have a right to tell other nations how to run themselves socially.
Their culture is different so it's automatically above all reproach? You know I'm pretty sure we do have a right to tell people anything we damn well please.
Nah. There are many premade lists like that, I only made some slight alterations and filled it in.
How are you doing that? When I divide by a hundred, it doesn't multiply any integer by ten no matter how many times I try it!
They also redid the icons to look smoother. Oh, and they changed the magnifier's zoom selection widget to be the same as a volume slider (what the fuck). Luckily, it's easy enough to replace the executable with the one from XP.
Your post advocates a
( ) technical (X) legislative ( ) market-based (X) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
(X) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
(X) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
(X) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's life
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(X) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(X) Asshats
(X) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(X) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
(X) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
(X) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
(X) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being murdered
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
(X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
Might I suggest doing business with spammers a crime instead?
Confabulation?
Even a $7.00 hour grunt realizes that everybody down there will be searched and all the video tape will be immediately reviewed.
Do they seriously get paid that badly?
It's sometimes easy to forget that the PC graphics market isn't owned by ATI and Nvidia
That's right. Intel own it too.
What will the outcome of the class action be? Coupons for 10% off the next EA game.
Oh no, he's educated. Verizon style.
It works. I put in the game, and the game plays, always.
That might be true if they'd just fix the diabolically bad hardware. I might even buy one. I hear the latest models have a 10% failure rate. Pretty good, coming down from around 35%...
Yeah, I'm sure the high price, low performance, econobox look, not to mention high maintenance and exaggerated claims of savings (which are actually negative compared to a comparably sized compact gas powered vehicle), has nothing to do with it.
Apparently it really doesn't. A few months back I read about how they were in such demand that Toyota were increasing production to compensate, and people were managing to sell used ones for a higher price than new.
Interesting...
I think you mean 'hilarious'.
My finger hurts too. You know those bits of skin just above and behind your nails? Part on that the left side of my left index finger has gotten torn a little and now it's like a flap. The problem is, I don't need to alter the aerodynamics of my finger because I can't fly. It's really just painful, instead of useful, like on an aeroplane.
Actually, does anyone know how that happens?