I never had much luck playing most videos in windows until I downloaded the ACE mega codecs package off a DC++ user. Its a nasty hack but once its installed you could play almost every format ever conceived.
I wish there was a linux equivalent.
In my experience (as a recent convert to FreeBSD+KDE for my main desktop) the video codecs available are a little immature and just need some polishing. They remind me of what it was like watching videos on windows about 4-5 years ago. That is to say it can be hit and miss quality wise. Codecs in windows are pretty bullet proof now, and even poorly encoded videos display quite well.
For video I use vlc and mplayer...its my experience that if of those programs can't handle a video very well, the other one will. They even play obscure formats like matrosky or whatever its called. Also, the mplayer mozilla plugin works beautifully for me.
For audio check out BMP (beep media player, based on xmms but uses gtk2 instead of 1.2) or audacious (which is a new fork of bmp now that bmp development is dead.) These programs are a decent reproduction of the winamp interface, and even support most types of streaming. The only type of streams I haven't been able to get to work are certain asx encapsulated wma streams, and I think thats cause of some drm bullshit.
Some ppl get a hardon when they talk about amarok for audio, but I tried it and didn't care for it. An audio player shouldn't bring a p4 to its knees, but thats what amarok did to me. Too bad because it looked pretty good from what I read.
Bad files have been around for a few years now. They are the main reason I stopped using KLite and searched out something better.
Use DC++. All hubs are policed by hub owners and hub operators. When you find somebody sharing a garbage file, you just have to tell an op. The op can then tell that person to remove that file and if they don't they are banned.
The fundamental problem with kazaa and similar p2p networks is the lack of ability to deal with "bad" users who share bogus files and such. There is an easy solution to this found at http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/.
I hope it won't be overruled by others who might qualify the infrastructure they provide as a medium, like the CDR which are taxed in France and other countries.
It is pretty hard to overrule the SUPREME COURT.
As it usually does, the Canadian Supreme Court has made a sensible ruling here.
Speaking of CDRs, as a Canadian I pay levies (which are forwarded to the record companies) on all blank media that I purchase, so as far as I'm concerned I'm ALREADY paying for my right to copy music, even if it comes from the internet. Its a relief that my ISP won't be forced to contribute to that racket as well.
Don't forget that most of that money winds up going to Bryan Adams and Celine Dion anyway (I'll remind everyone here that the Canadian government has already apologized for Bryan Adams on several occasions, so please lets not start that discussion again!)
This kind of thing has been happening for a long time now. I've seen this on the kazaa networks for the last couple of years, usually with newly released songs.
To be honest, I get a kick out of it...I derive an amount of satisfaction after I find a "good" version of a song that somebody went through the trouble of making and distributing a decoy of, knowing that they FAILED in their attempt to stop me from downloading. Once you've had it happen to you enough times, it isn't all that hard to pick out the good versions of a song and ignore the messed up ones (I started calling them riaa bombs, since I figured they are probably behind it.)
This issue underscores one of the problems with p2p networks...if you want to get your music this way you have to remember its a crapshoot. You might get an intentionally messed up song like this, you might get an mp3 that was encoded by an idiot (full of pops and scratches, dropouts, terrible sound, joint stereo, low bitrate, came from the radio or analog tape, etc) who either doesn't bother or care to check his work; or you might get a nice well made music file.
It also seems like a lot of people download bad versions of songs like this, and never bother to check them...so their spread is helped. In fact this can help you spot bad files on kazaa, when 50 sources show up for one file there's a good chance its one of these.
On the other hand, the quality may be better than most mp3's on kazaa (they all tend to suck for some reason compared to my ripped CD's, even though I use the same bitrate.)
The big problem with kazaa is that it is a total crapshoot. Its mostly populated with people who have no clue there is a right way to encode an mp3, and they use shitty programs running with shitty settings and ripping songs with shitty hardware, and their mp3s sound like shit! These same people never check their work either they just stick it on kazaa and pollute the community with shit!
Kazaa is also filling up with those mpaa bombs, or whatever you want to call them: songs that play normally for 15-20 seconds and loop over and over, interspersed with digital noise. People download these and must never listen to them, and they propagate.
Thats one thing I really miss about the original napster, so little noise back in those days.
boooooring. then you don't have an open SMTP/HTTP/TCP proxy open for the taking, or a 1,000 user botnet on IRC. if you destroy the computer, then the owner immediately notices and your program will not spread as far. most worms are non-obvious so they go undetected for longer.
When (not if) somebody REALLY wants to destabilize things in the United States, or anywhere in the world for that matter, they will unleash one or several worms that affect systems similarly to this one. I have heard theories from a few people that the root cause of last summer's blackout was the result of something like this. It is easy to dismiss these claims as the wack job rants of conspiracy theorists, but it certainly IS possible, and if this was the real cause there were a lot of people who had a vested interest in keeping it quiet. Remember there is usually some element of truth in what the "nuts" have to say.
A group with enough talent and financial support (even small-to-mid level drug dealer types can generate millions of dollars every month) would have no trouble performing audits on and locating holes in all kinds of systems, and could write worms that could shut down a very large portion of the computers on the internet, including many military and governmnent installations. Google for "warhol worm" too get an idea of how quickly this could be done.
Our main concern shouldn't be the spammers who write viruses, it should be the first REAL cyberterrorist out there that decides to actually do something.
For the record, I know I am not any safer (well, not much safer anyway) because I run ipfilter for my firewall and apache for my web server, and update my virus patterns every day. IPV6 might help a little, at least in a 128 bit address space, my system won't be found by anybody's random scans.
Or applauding Paris Hilton for having the good sense to only videotape herself having regular and oral sex and not anal sex.
I for one DO applaud Paris Hilton for doing just that. After all, videotaping yourself having ANAL sex and having it leaked all over the internet might get a little embarrasing for her. Good thing she didn't let things go THAT far!
Many system admins, if they found you were running an unauthorized encrypted tunnel, would call in the corporate security people. Hope you enjoy being keylogged.
Maybe a better plan is not surf porn at work.
And just HOW am I supposed to do my job if I can't look at porn all day?
Ummm, hmm oh yeah nevermind...ooh LOOK! Is that an eagle over there?!?!/me points to the sky, and while everybody is distracted trying to find the bird, I go back to my "online researching." What's this? PokeAHotAss.com...sounds like some probing, in-depth material.
The poster has an unusual definition of "just barely" - according to the article there's only a one in 909,000 chance of it hitting us, and the odds are likely to become even slimmer once more measurements have been made.
OTOH, this is fifteen times more likely to come to pass than me buying a lottery ticket and winning, at least winning the 6/49 we have in Canada (about 1 in 14 million.)
I don't think that will happen, but if it does, it will be bad for them. By rejecting the GPL they would be creating an effective fork, and they would loss all support from the rest of the world community.
Holy shit! I bet THAT threat has them just quaking in their boots.
I mean, they would be totally FUCKED with a talent pool of only 2 billion people to recruit software engineers from.
This is all well and good for your and my firewall (we have the same setup, with the same ports and servers) but an ISP is overstepping their bounds if they start arbitrarily blocking ports.
The first AC response summed it up just as well as I could, so I won't repeat what he said, I'll just point out that he's right.
Didn't MSN announce recently they want to compete with google? It seems to me they are looking pretty hard for holes in google.
If you want information on tulips, and you type "flowers" in your search engine, then you clearly don't know how to use a search engine (not just google, but ANY search engine!) Go to google and type in "tulip information" (with or without the quotes) and you'll probably find what you want in the first three hits.
Similarly, if you want information on Apple Computer Inc, you'll probably want to enter "apple computer" and not just "apple" since there's a lot of things in this world that have something to do with apples but nothing to do with that company.
"If you want to be on google, you gotta be on the web" Well NO SHIT!!!!!!! Theres a shocking revelation. I sure as fuck don't go to google to look for things like my local TV schedule, unless of course I think that information might be somewhere on THE WEB.
I also don't follow the point about pdf files. Google spiders and indexes pdf files, so they show up in your search results. Is there a search engine out there that doesn't "implicitly push you toward information stored in articles and away from information stored in books?" Again the point being here we're looking on the WEB and not in the LIBRARY. I don't fire up google to tell me where to find a book at the library, I go to the library for that.
I love google, over 90% of the time I can find what I'm looking for with them (I remember searching being a crapshoot before google came along, when I was stuck using shit like altavista and lycos, they are fortunately just an unpleasant memory now) and their innovations mostly work for me. I like news.google.com and groups.google.com. I'd sure as fuck trust them more than and msn run search engine/portal, although to be fair I'll give them their chance when they start offering a service that is worth my time to use.
I can't speak for the IRS but I did work for Revenue Canada (now called CCRA or whatever) for a few years, menial student-type work such as opening returns, and sorting/ordering them for the auditors upstairs. Tons of cute college girls and $9/hour, it was close to heaven for a student!
Anyway, I got into a whole heap of trouble once because I "accidentally" mixed up some one-day-late tax returns in with the on-time returns. They didn't use the postmark date but tracked it by when the returns were physically received, and I put them in the wrong bin.
I just pleaded ignorance and nothing really bad came of it (I guess my old lady boss thought I was cute or something, thank god for 40 year olds and their glaucoma lol) and it just seemed retarded to worry about what usually amounted to a few cents worth of interest. I realize that would add up tho, but with the amount of money the government spends, big fucking deal! As an example, the Revenue Canada building where I live (one of three major centers in the country) is a HUGE building with some amazing architecture and very expensive large art displays, which can only be there for employees since access controls are pretty tight. Wow great use of tax money.
Computers don't start counting from one, they start counting from zero. The number 5 is actually the sixth element in a set of integers starting at zero.
8-track never really caught on (thank god!) and it was for the most part cheap crap.
Remember that VCRs were expensive almost until the end. I remember paying over $400 for a Hitachi VCR in 1994, and it was nothing special. I bought my first DVD player in 1999, a Pioneer DV424 and it also cost over $400, but now I can buy a DVD player for $99 (all prices CAD.)
DVD got cheap in a hurry, and thats why everybody seems to have a player all of a sudden. Its not like we needed to wait ten years for the price to become reasonable. DVD is a decent technology and probably won't be going away any time soon.
I agree with the parent post. I think DVD is all about "owning" a movie while VOD is all about renting. Some people will always want to "own" their favorite movie.
Still, VOD is going to share the space for sure, but definitely not replace. It's probably the end of Blockbuster more than the end of DVD.
Well said.
VOD will be more the evolution of PPV than anything else, and we all know PPV won't ever kill the home video sale business.
GEORDI: Let's [technobabble] the main thrusters so that we can [technobabble] the Borg.
This is the reason that I liked the Scotty episode so much (the 75 year transporter stasis bullshit aside.) Instead of their usual "we don't have any real substantive ideas on how to finish off this week's story so lets use ST technobabble to do it instead" they had a plot that ended with "I'll stick this thing here, and the door won't close until everybody is safe."
Its too bad they didn't do stuff like that a little more often. The way they usually wrote the show got soooo redundant.
I develop code myself, and having a bunch of morons flaming me because they're too lazy to research my license and credits could very well encourage me to take the closed source proprietory route...I wouldn't blame these guys if they did just that. And what about all the potential developers watching the shark-fest from the sidelines. Do you think they'll want to jump into the fray after watching this? I know Slashdot tends to jump in before testing the waters, but please, reserve judgement before you make a fool of yourself.
Morons huh? HERE'S a little research, from the CDex homepage
Please don't download NeoAudio:
There is an application called NeoAudio, which is a straight CDex rip off. They changed some string (i.e. replace CDex with NeoAudio), changed the logo and added some nice SpyWare and Adware. I contacted Richard M. Stallman about this issue, but unfortunately I can not do much about it, except for the fact that they are removing/changing copyright strings which they should not. So please do not download and install NeoAudio (they probably make quite a few dollars by shipping the adware) and also advice other people NOT to download NeoAudio either, and warn innocent users not to download this application but download CDex instead.
The only morons are the people that moderated your post up.
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... and networked computers are ruled out of the highest security classifications in the future, just like they are now.
I laughed out loud when I saw that. These geniuses couldn't connect two terminals that are 10 feet from each other? Are they both not part of the SAME system for that matter?
But the murder WAS premeditated. It was planned out in meticulous detail, obviously very far in advance. Only difference was there was a puppetmaster at work making it all come together.
Actually, this can be interpreted a couple of ways, and if someone wants to view it as a plot hole then they can look at it that way. Given that in the real world we don't have psychics telling us when people will be committing acts of murder (I guess that fat Cleo bitch is too busy telling all da hoes who the baby's daddy is to be saving anybody's life) however, we don't know how such a system would actually function, so it becomes a point of debate.
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I never had much luck playing most videos in windows until I downloaded the ACE mega codecs package off a DC++ user. Its a nasty hack but once its installed you could play almost every format ever conceived.
I wish there was a linux equivalent.
In my experience (as a recent convert to FreeBSD+KDE for my main desktop) the video codecs available are a little immature and just need some polishing. They remind me of what it was like watching videos on windows about 4-5 years ago. That is to say it can be hit and miss quality wise. Codecs in windows are pretty bullet proof now, and even poorly encoded videos display quite well.
For video I use vlc and mplayer...its my experience that if of those programs can't handle a video very well, the other one will. They even play obscure formats like matrosky or whatever its called. Also, the mplayer mozilla plugin works beautifully for me.
For audio check out BMP (beep media player, based on xmms but uses gtk2 instead of 1.2) or audacious (which is a new fork of bmp now that bmp development is dead.) These programs are a decent reproduction of the winamp interface, and even support most types of streaming. The only type of streams I haven't been able to get to work are certain asx encapsulated wma streams, and I think thats cause of some drm bullshit.
Some ppl get a hardon when they talk about amarok for audio, but I tried it and didn't care for it. An audio player shouldn't bring a p4 to its knees, but thats what amarok did to me. Too bad because it looked pretty good from what I read.
Bad files have been around for a few years now. They are the main reason I stopped using KLite and searched out something better.
Use DC++. All hubs are policed by hub owners and hub operators. When you find somebody sharing a garbage file, you just have to tell an op. The op can then tell that person to remove that file and if they don't they are banned.
The fundamental problem with kazaa and similar p2p networks is the lack of ability to deal with "bad" users who share bogus files and such. There is an easy solution to this found at http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/.
I hope it won't be overruled by others who might qualify the infrastructure they provide as a medium, like the CDR which are taxed in France and other countries.
It is pretty hard to overrule the SUPREME COURT.
As it usually does, the Canadian Supreme Court has made a sensible ruling here.
Speaking of CDRs, as a Canadian I pay levies (which are forwarded to the record companies) on all blank media that I purchase, so as far as I'm concerned I'm ALREADY paying for my right to copy music, even if it comes from the internet. Its a relief that my ISP won't be forced to contribute to that racket as well.
Don't forget that most of that money winds up going to Bryan Adams and Celine Dion anyway (I'll remind everyone here that the Canadian government has already apologized for Bryan Adams on several occasions, so please lets not start that discussion again!)
This kind of thing has been happening for a long time now. I've seen this on the kazaa networks for the last couple of years, usually with newly released songs.
To be honest, I get a kick out of it...I derive an amount of satisfaction after I find a "good" version of a song that somebody went through the trouble of making and distributing a decoy of, knowing that they FAILED in their attempt to stop me from downloading. Once you've had it happen to you enough times, it isn't all that hard to pick out the good versions of a song and ignore the messed up ones (I started calling them riaa bombs, since I figured they are probably behind it.)
This issue underscores one of the problems with p2p networks...if you want to get your music this way you have to remember its a crapshoot. You might get an intentionally messed up song like this, you might get an mp3 that was encoded by an idiot (full of pops and scratches, dropouts, terrible sound, joint stereo, low bitrate, came from the radio or analog tape, etc) who either doesn't bother or care to check his work; or you might get a nice well made music file.
It also seems like a lot of people download bad versions of songs like this, and never bother to check them...so their spread is helped. In fact this can help you spot bad files on kazaa, when 50 sources show up for one file there's a good chance its one of these.
On the other hand, the quality may be better than most mp3's on kazaa (they all tend to suck for some reason compared to my ripped CD's, even though I use the same bitrate.)
The big problem with kazaa is that it is a total crapshoot. Its mostly populated with people who have no clue there is a right way to encode an mp3, and they use shitty programs running with shitty settings and ripping songs with shitty hardware, and their mp3s sound like shit! These same people never check their work either they just stick it on kazaa and pollute the community with shit!
Kazaa is also filling up with those mpaa bombs, or whatever you want to call them: songs that play normally for 15-20 seconds and loop over and over, interspersed with digital noise. People download these and must never listen to them, and they propagate.
Thats one thing I really miss about the original napster, so little noise back in those days.
boooooring. then you don't have an open SMTP/HTTP/TCP proxy open for the taking, or a 1,000 user botnet on IRC. if you destroy the computer, then the owner immediately notices and your program will not spread as far. most worms are non-obvious so they go undetected for longer.
When (not if) somebody REALLY wants to destabilize things in the United States, or anywhere in the world for that matter, they will unleash one or several worms that affect systems similarly to this one. I have heard theories from a few people that the root cause of last summer's blackout was the result of something like this. It is easy to dismiss these claims as the wack job rants of conspiracy theorists, but it certainly IS possible, and if this was the real cause there were a lot of people who had a vested interest in keeping it quiet. Remember there is usually some element of truth in what the "nuts" have to say.
A group with enough talent and financial support (even small-to-mid level drug dealer types can generate millions of dollars every month) would have no trouble performing audits on and locating holes in all kinds of systems, and could write worms that could shut down a very large portion of the computers on the internet, including many military and governmnent installations. Google for "warhol worm" too get an idea of how quickly this could be done.
Our main concern shouldn't be the spammers who write viruses, it should be the first REAL cyberterrorist out there that decides to actually do something.
For the record, I know I am not any safer (well, not much safer anyway) because I run ipfilter for my firewall and apache for my web server, and update my virus patterns every day. IPV6 might help a little, at least in a 128 bit address space, my system won't be found by anybody's random scans.
I for one DO applaud Paris Hilton for doing just that. After all, videotaping yourself having ANAL sex and having it leaked all over the internet might get a little embarrasing for her. Good thing she didn't let things go THAT far!
Many system admins, if they found you were running an unauthorized encrypted tunnel, would call in the corporate security people. Hope you enjoy being keylogged.
/me points to the sky, and while everybody is distracted trying to find the bird, I go back to my "online researching." What's this? PokeAHotAss.com...sounds like some probing, in-depth material.
Maybe a better plan is not surf porn at work.
And just HOW am I supposed to do my job if I can't look at porn all day?
Ummm, hmm oh yeah nevermind...ooh LOOK! Is that an eagle over there?!?!
Maybe if they bathed a little more, they might put a little more strain on their power grid.
OTOH, this is fifteen times more likely to come to pass than me buying a lottery ticket and winning, at least winning the 6/49 we have in Canada (about 1 in 14 million.)
Bruce Willis can stay put.
Does he have to?
I don't think that will happen, but if it does, it will be bad for them. By rejecting the GPL they would be creating an effective fork, and they would loss all support from the rest of the world community.
Holy shit! I bet THAT threat has them just quaking in their boots.
I mean, they would be totally FUCKED with a talent pool of only 2 billion people to recruit software engineers from.
This is all well and good for your and my firewall (we have the same setup, with the same ports and servers) but an ISP is overstepping their bounds if they start arbitrarily blocking ports.
The first AC response summed it up just as well as I could, so I won't repeat what he said, I'll just point out that he's right.
Didn't MSN announce recently they want to compete with google? It seems to me they are looking pretty hard for holes in google.
If you want information on tulips, and you type "flowers" in your search engine, then you clearly don't know how to use a search engine (not just google, but ANY search engine!) Go to google and type in "tulip information" (with or without the quotes) and you'll probably find what you want in the first three hits.
Similarly, if you want information on Apple Computer Inc, you'll probably want to enter "apple computer" and not just "apple" since there's a lot of things in this world that have something to do with apples but nothing to do with that company.
"If you want to be on google, you gotta be on the web" Well NO SHIT!!!!!!! Theres a shocking revelation. I sure as fuck don't go to google to look for things like my local TV schedule, unless of course I think that information might be somewhere on THE WEB.
I also don't follow the point about pdf files. Google spiders and indexes pdf files, so they show up in your search results. Is there a search engine out there that doesn't "implicitly push you toward information stored in articles and away from information stored in books?" Again the point being here we're looking on the WEB and not in the LIBRARY. I don't fire up google to tell me where to find a book at the library, I go to the library for that.
I love google, over 90% of the time I can find what I'm looking for with them (I remember searching being a crapshoot before google came along, when I was stuck using shit like altavista and lycos, they are fortunately just an unpleasant memory now) and their innovations mostly work for me. I like news.google.com and groups.google.com. I'd sure as fuck trust them more than and msn run search engine/portal, although to be fair I'll give them their chance when they start offering a service that is worth my time to use.
I can't speak for the IRS but I did work for Revenue Canada (now called CCRA or whatever) for a few years, menial student-type work such as opening returns, and sorting/ordering them for the auditors upstairs. Tons of cute college girls and $9/hour, it was close to heaven for a student!
Anyway, I got into a whole heap of trouble once because I "accidentally" mixed up some one-day-late tax returns in with the on-time returns. They didn't use the postmark date but tracked it by when the returns were physically received, and I put them in the wrong bin.
I just pleaded ignorance and nothing really bad came of it (I guess my old lady boss thought I was cute or something, thank god for 40 year olds and their glaucoma lol) and it just seemed retarded to worry about what usually amounted to a few cents worth of interest. I realize that would add up tho, but with the amount of money the government spends, big fucking deal! As an example, the Revenue Canada building where I live (one of three major centers in the country) is a HUGE building with some amazing architecture and very expensive large art displays, which can only be there for employees since access controls are pretty tight. Wow great use of tax money.
Yeah, and I remember much the same being said about Yahoo! and Netscape back when they ruled the 'net.
One difference is that Yahoo and Netscape SUCKED. Google is solid.
Funny how things change.
No arguing that...keep moving or you get run over.
No no no, Morpheus is a T800 Terminator, flesh over metal endoskeleton.
I'm glad to see they finally licked that problem of the annoying accent, and that they fitted him with the cool-shades upgrade.
Computers don't start counting from one, they start counting from zero. The number 5 is actually the sixth element in a set of integers starting at zero.
Nobody else seems to remember this...
One wonders, what language would have been used?
No doubt, they used LOGO
8-track never really caught on (thank god!) and it was for the most part cheap crap.
Remember that VCRs were expensive almost until the end. I remember paying over $400 for a Hitachi VCR in 1994, and it was nothing special. I bought my first DVD player in 1999, a Pioneer DV424 and it also cost over $400, but now I can buy a DVD player for $99 (all prices CAD.)
DVD got cheap in a hurry, and thats why everybody seems to have a player all of a sudden. Its not like we needed to wait ten years for the price to become reasonable. DVD is a decent technology and probably won't be going away any time soon.
I agree with the parent post. I think DVD is all about "owning" a movie while VOD is all about renting. Some people will always want to "own" their favorite movie.
Still, VOD is going to share the space for sure, but definitely not replace. It's probably the end of Blockbuster more than the end of DVD.
Well said.
VOD will be more the evolution of PPV than anything else, and we all know PPV won't ever kill the home video sale business.
Scripts would look as so:
GEORDI: Let's [technobabble] the main thrusters so that we can [technobabble] the Borg.
This is the reason that I liked the Scotty episode so much (the 75 year transporter stasis bullshit aside.) Instead of their usual "we don't have any real substantive ideas on how to finish off this week's story so lets use ST technobabble to do it instead" they had a plot that ended with "I'll stick this thing here, and the door won't close until everybody is safe."
Its too bad they didn't do stuff like that a little more often. The way they usually wrote the show got soooo redundant.
I develop code myself, and having a bunch of morons flaming me because they're too lazy to research my license and credits could very well encourage me to take the closed source proprietory route...I wouldn't blame these guys if they did just that. And what about all the potential developers watching the shark-fest from the sidelines. Do you think they'll want to jump into the fray after watching this? I know Slashdot tends to jump in before testing the waters, but please, reserve judgement before you make a fool of yourself.
Morons huh? HERE'S a little research, from the CDex homepage
Please don't download NeoAudio:
There is an application called NeoAudio, which is a straight CDex rip off. They changed some string (i.e. replace CDex with NeoAudio), changed the logo and added some nice SpyWare and Adware. I contacted Richard M. Stallman about this issue, but unfortunately I can not do much about it, except for the fact that they are removing/changing copyright strings which they should not. So please do not download and install NeoAudio (they probably make quite a few dollars by shipping the adware) and also advice other people NOT to download NeoAudio either, and warn innocent users not to download this application but download CDex instead.
The only morons are the people that moderated your post up.
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I laughed out loud when I saw that. These geniuses couldn't connect two terminals that are 10 feet from each other? Are they both not part of the SAME system for that matter?
But the murder WAS premeditated. It was planned out in meticulous detail, obviously very far in advance. Only difference was there was a puppetmaster at work making it all come together.
Actually, this can be interpreted a couple of ways, and if someone wants to view it as a plot hole then they can look at it that way. Given that in the real world we don't have psychics telling us when people will be committing acts of murder (I guess that fat Cleo bitch is too busy telling all da hoes who the baby's daddy is to be saving anybody's life) however, we don't know how such a system would actually function, so it becomes a point of debate.