3. It doesn't affect that many systems - I'm running 3 Vista x64 systems and none of them have this problem
This all seems a bit knee-jerk. Just to counterargue your third point: if the problem is in the x32 version of the OS, then you would of course not have the same problem. Kneejerk reaction?
Christ, that's the most incomprehensible, flaming and irrelevant comment I've seen in a while. Welcome to Slashdot - you'll fit right in. The funny thing about that is how close yours and his UIDs are. (Not that I really care about those, it's just like a rookie telling another rookie "Welcome! Now let me tell you all you need to know...")
Speaking as a Google Certified Adwords Professional, I'd say their editors truly suck. At least their danish ones. I've had nothing but problems on their part; last time I wrote to them about an error in their system*, their reply took a month. And was almost useless. Oooh, and had something along the lines of "We apologixe for the inconvenience. We are currently having trouble meeting our 24 hour service goal". GODSDAMNTHEM! I'm so glad I've had most of my customers moved to a coworker so I can concentrate on my real work.
/empaler
*: If you've never had to work with the Adwords System, praise yourself lucky.
(turns out moderations are undone even if I press for "anon". woot.)
Amazing how you in four short sentences call bullshit twice and use a dozen exclamation marks.
Apart from that, if the supermarket gives away free food it has effectively taken money from their own pockets to pay for a product to give away. (They do this all the time, by the way, in the form of free samples - which boosts sales of the products, otherwise, why bother?) On the other hand, we have a software developer who might only ever have sold 10'000 licenses. He'd be steadily updating the software, he'd even have to (gasp!) bugfix. Enter the pirate crowd. Suddenly he gets enormous exposure. He gets a lot of attention he wouldn't have gotten, a lot more people (prospective customers) knows his product. Let's say 100'000 new users, 80% of which stop using it after a week, 10% after a month. The last 10% keeps using the program regularly, and of those 10%, 9 of them never buy a license, but the last 1 percent point do. That is, 1% of 100'000. 1'000 new paying users. 10% increase.
I know of no study of the above, but I'd eat my own favorite hat on that on average, small developers benefit from pirate software.
In the end, I apologize to Coldplay, Radiohead, The Beta Band, The Turin Brakes, The Beatles, The Doves and all the other bands we blatantly abused to slightly increase the sales at a small fledgling establishment.
Bands which, when they were just starting, also blatantly abused THEIR predecessors...
Sarcasm aside: pot, meet kettle.
Only now you can't do it any more. YOU are a criminal (or soon will be!). THEY weren't. It's just the record mafia - they represent the artists in the same way as the US government represents the US people.
"In both US (whether the RIAA thinks so or not) and Sweden, a tracker is not illegal."
Bird-dogging. People have been convicted of drug dealing because they told people where to find the dope house. Great thing, this freedom of speech. As long as you don't use it to speak about that which we don't approve of.
How ironic - I've worked for Telia DK (both mobile and their Internet dept., both the old dialup and the gobbled up broadband (former danish ISP they just got up and purchased, Stofa)). Given that experience, I'm actually very adamant about using Telia, especially as ISP.
If I move hinsidan, I now know they actually know what they're doing over there:-)
How evil it might sound one could even argue that not censoring already existing images is good because then noone have to create new ones.. Thought the fact that they exist might spark more weird ideas in peoples heads and the people who are into it would probably document it anyway. If that argument was viable, new (regular) porn wouldn't be churning out of every nook and cranny of the internet. It gets old wanking to the same porn all the time, I bet the same goes for kiddie porn.
How about starting talks with Venezuela? Granted, US Citizens might have a hard time supporting a project that hosts server in the country, it being a terrorist breeding ground according to the people in power.
Secondly, are you suggesting that they deserve what they get because they hosted legal but objectionable content? Is it acceptable censorship to deny access not only to sites that host child pornography but also to sites that may attract pedophiles? What is the legal standard here... the creepiness standard? I suggest we block Google for allowing creepy stuff.
Nope. TPB does not host any illegal content. All they have on there site is what is ostensibly text files saying "this guy (ip address) has this file (file name)".
Would you care to explain this On the linked page:
bayimg.com is a place where you can host all your images. We do not censor them. We believe in freedom of speech, it's of utter importance to us. As long as your pictures are legal they will be hosted here, but we reserve the right to remove images due to technical reasons though. If something crashes here, you better have a backup yourself - hopefully that won't happen. Usually we know what we're doing.
BTW - If you tag your content, we would like you to know that we did not build this site for any kind of porn. There are so many places on the net that host porn and we're on another mission here than hosting your fap material. Put the porn on Imagefap.com or some other site instead if possible, ok?
Think of the children, eh? Filthy pervert! I'm reporting you to the Swedish police! Good. That'll get them to block/., which will leave the Danish viewpoints unopposed by the filthy Swedish hordes.
I ved I hører hjemme under Dansk styre, I Svenske hunde!:-p
I think the problem here is that a law meant to protect children is being abused to protect copyright. Just like that recent case where anti-terrorism laws were used to catch pedophiles.
I fervently hold the opinion that those involved in child pornography ought to be neutered, but when the law gets abused by the state, then you know you're heading in a wrong direction.
the RIAA has control over the Swedes??? I mean, what the hell are you talking about "forced". Anything the Swedish gov does, it does by choice - no corporation from the US is at fault for the swedish police state. Kinda like Russia autonomously deciding to shut down AllOfMP3. It wasn't force
Apart from that, the Swedish police has responded to complaints about this along the lines of "If the content is removed before we re-review this case in two weeks' time, we won't ban them". They apparently did not point to any such material, though. Kinda like Butters' parents: "STOP MAKING FACES AT YOUR MOTHER!"
(For those who haven't seen that episode of South Park; he wasn't making faces. (I really hate spoiling jokes))
What does being low paid or at the bottom of a social class have to do with acting morally? Are you saying its ok for poor people to steal, lie and cheat?
People who understand game theory tend to get ahead. Those who don't work at Geek Squad. People who understand game theory tend to make sure that if they break the rules, they're not caught.
MS stopped at DOS 6.22 as a standalone product. There's 7.0 in the 9Xs. DR-DOS/OpenDOS, I believe, stranded at 7.01 or something. 6.6 is a number I haven't heard before...
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This all seems a bit knee-jerk. Just to counterargue your third point: if the problem is in the x32 version of the OS, then you would of course not have the same problem. Kneejerk reaction?
The funny thing about that is how close yours and his UIDs are. (Not that I really care about those, it's just like a rookie telling another rookie "Welcome! Now let me tell you all you need to know...")
There has been a sign, they stuck two fingers up at everyone. Did you just call everyone French?
Thanks for the link - that program looks interesting. I'll give it a spin, and I might buy it if it turns out to be worth the 16 dollars.
Stupid Debians can't handle my RAID yet...
/F2 stepping processor can virtualize...
Fedora, however, is the ticket.
Now, if only Xen would properly acknowledge that my X2
-- Brian Boyko
-- Former Associate Editor, Daily Texan Newspaper, Austin, TX.
-- M.A. Journalism, University of Texas.
You sound like a trustworthy source, mister Boyko.
If that is your real name?
Speaking as a Google Certified Adwords Professional, I'd say their editors truly suck. At least their danish ones. I've had nothing but problems on their part; last time I wrote to them about an error in their system*, their reply took a month. And was almost useless. Oooh, and had something along the lines of "We apologixe for the inconvenience. We are currently having trouble meeting our 24 hour service goal". GODSDAMNTHEM!
I'm so glad I've had most of my customers moved to a coworker so I can concentrate on my real work.
/empaler
*: If you've never had to work with the Adwords System, praise yourself lucky.
(turns out moderations are undone even if I press for "anon". woot.)
Amazing how you in four short sentences call bullshit twice and use a dozen exclamation marks.
Apart from that, if the supermarket gives away free food it has effectively taken money from their own pockets to pay for a product to give away. (They do this all the time, by the way, in the form of free samples - which boosts sales of the products, otherwise, why bother?)
On the other hand, we have a software developer who might only ever have sold 10'000 licenses. He'd be steadily updating the software, he'd even have to (gasp!) bugfix.
Enter the pirate crowd. Suddenly he gets enormous exposure. He gets a lot of attention he wouldn't have gotten, a lot more people (prospective customers) knows his product. Let's say 100'000 new users, 80% of which stop using it after a week, 10% after a month. The last 10% keeps using the program regularly, and of those 10%, 9 of them never buy a license, but the last 1 percent point do. That is, 1% of 100'000. 1'000 new paying users. 10% increase.
I know of no study of the above, but I'd eat my own favorite hat on that on average, small developers benefit from pirate software.
My study shows a waning interest in your studies. Nyah nyah nyah.
I combined the power of the M rating with the power of Playboy - my first self-purchased PC software was a Playboy CD-ROM, rated M.
Ah, those were the days.
Bands which, when they were just starting, also blatantly abused THEIR predecessors...
Sarcasm aside: pot, meet kettle.
Only now you can't do it any more. YOU are a criminal (or soon will be!). THEY weren't. It's just the record mafia - they represent the artists in the same way as the US government represents the US people.
The North Korean anti "I don't like the sites so you can't visit" list is actually quite effective. Like a bullet.
... and tell you that you have misspelt 'an' and 'me'.
Bird-dogging. People have been convicted of drug dealing because they told people where to find the dope house. Great thing, this freedom of speech. As long as you don't use it to speak about that which we don't approve of.
How ironic - I've worked for Telia DK (both mobile and their Internet dept., both the old dialup and the gobbled up broadband (former danish ISP they just got up and purchased, Stofa)). Given that experience, I'm actually very adamant about using Telia, especially as ISP.
:-)
If I move hinsidan, I now know they actually know what they're doing over there
How about starting talks with Venezuela? Granted, US Citizens might have a hard time supporting a project that hosts server in the country, it being a terrorist breeding ground according to the people in power.
I ved I hører hjemme under Dansk styre, I Svenske hunde!
I fervently hold the opinion that those involved in child pornography ought to be neutered, but when the law gets abused by the state, then you know you're heading in a wrong direction.
Because the European countries are autonomous?
Apart from that, the Swedish police has responded to complaints about this along the lines of "If the content is removed before we re-review this case in two weeks' time, we won't ban them". They apparently did not point to any such material, though. Kinda like Butters' parents: "STOP MAKING FACES AT YOUR MOTHER!"
(For those who haven't seen that episode of South Park; he wasn't making faces. (I really hate spoiling jokes))
People who understand game theory tend to get ahead. Those who don't work at Geek Squad.
People who understand game theory tend to make sure that if they break the rules, they're not caught.
MS stopped at DOS 6.22 as a standalone product. There's 7.0 in the 9Xs. DR-DOS/OpenDOS, I believe, stranded at 7.01 or something. 6.6 is a number I haven't heard before...