Same here. I've got disks from when I got my first CDR. Was just using one the other day. My guess is the failures are if you use unbranded disks on an unbranded drive. I had one CDR drive that was AWFUL. You'd burn a disk, eject, put it back, and it would think it was an audio CD. Terrible drive. Disks burnt on that drive are EXTREMELY flaky.
Actually, thinking about it, I do have a couple of disks that are tough to read, but the fact is they've been like that from day one.
On my firewall, Kerio's Personal Firewall, EVERY application that wants to access the net has to ask for permission. I have Internet Explorer killed so it can't connect.
As for programs that need internet access, that's easy enough. Kerio you can have it ask every time a program wants to connect, so you can grant it connection rights JUST to the host you want to use. A hassle yes, but still perfectly feasible.
It's still low. Spying on your data and sending info is like shooting people because they might be a criminal. Cracks do have perfectly legitimate uses, despite what the software companies try to tell you. (Just ask anyone who has installed the latest patch for Neverwinter Nights and can't run it due to the retarded Securom protection).
This is why everyone should run a decent firewall. The amount of programs that phone home is alarming!
Yep. The war is still going on which shows the game makers who are releasing titles have dubious moral and ethical guides at the helm of their companies.
It was bad enough when the anti-terrorist games floodgates opened, but at least that was understandable since terrorism has no particular tie to any specific history. It's been around for centuries, and been the subject of games for many years before the current climate.
If I write "DEATH TO BILL AND TED HERE", nobody will notice before it's archived here, so I can say anything really, and use my karma bonus to post any old shit.
This is round about where, irony being what it is, a moderator will go "HA!" and smack me down hard, to them I say
GO AHEAD DO YOU WORST! I'VE SMOKED YOUR CRACK! IT'S NOT THAT GREAT!
WOOT!
I can say anything here.
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
But they DO generate a lot of interference. Makes the radio unlistenable. Some smacktard in the other thread was going on about how a few peoples hobby wasn't important. Well, guess what fuckhole, it is. Amateur radio saved your worthless ass. There would be no amateur radio left if the FCC continues with their stupidity.
You know, that may be right. I think I see about 5 ads an hours for Jackie Chan's new movie. Now I LOVE Jackie Chan, I think he's awesome, but they've battered me senseless with the advertising so much that I now don't care if I ever see Jackie Chan again.
Compare that to Freddy vs Jason. Very understated advertising campaign, and did gonzo at the box office this weekend.
A big reason I no longer play Counterstrike in the wild is because of the cheating. I have a bunch of guys I play it with that I know won't cheat and that's that. Don't play as much as I'd like, but if I get 0wned, I'd much rather know it was through skill than wonder if the guy behind the gun is an asshole running a wall hack.
I run Kerio Personal Firewall and have it set so that ANY software that tries to connect out, unless I've given it explicit permission in the past (and I ONLY permit stuff like WS-FTP, Mozilla etc...), it tells me and I can permit or deny. I even have Internet Explorer nuked so it can't connect to the net.
Anyone who cheats at an online game and in doing so effects other people (so wankers with wallhacks, people using maphacks on Warcraft etc..), I hope one of these trojans securely erases their hard drive so they can't get anything back.
I have no problem cheating in single player games. Making it rain cars in Vice City is hilarious. People who cheat online are scum.
Astout firewall would stop these trojans from sending anything. Kerio pops up a requester everytime an unauthorised program tries to access the net. Scary the amount of programs that do try and phone home.
I discovered a trojan on my system recently, but I think it was inactive. I think it came in in a Vice City trainer. (The aforementioned raining cars:)) I could find nothing hooking into it with a trojan scan.
For people who have to pay for their online time (England for example), these scumbags are essentially stealing money from people. Filtering only works once you've downloaded the mail. You still have to download their worthless drivel. Sure, it may be pennies a week in costs for a user, but you tally that up over a year or two of dealing with these idiots, and you've got a sizeable chunk of change. Certainly enough for a nice pizza.
Let's not forget the TIME these shits waste as well. All this work invested in stopping spam. Who know's what cool stuff may have come from the minds who instead are working on ways of dealing with the email cancer.
As I said, these scumbags should be legal to hunt and kill.
But that's still 3 pieces of shit you have to deal with. Sure, it's a simple click to delete, but the fact is WE SHOULD NOT FUCKING HAVE TOO.
Some wanker spammer got my email address and within two days my spam volume went from zero (seriously) to 30+ a day. All for the same fucking thing. These shits should be legal to hunt and kill.
In respose to the original troll, it's a bogus analogy. We PAY for our internet access. We get bombarded with ads on damn near every site... The revenue generated from these scumbags does NOT go towards funding your internet access, or the production of new content. It goes to their wallets. Ergo, you're an idiot.
Side note: "Last, best hope"... I can't be alone in expecting "for peace" to come after that.
HAMS were responsible for a lot of the emergency communications on September 11th when the rest of the networks were down.
To think this is just a few people screwing over millions is short sighted at best, and outright moronic at worst.
I'm sure you'd change your tune if a tornado hit your area and injured you and the emergency network was amateur radio. But if this powerline stupidity goes through, there will BE no hams to help you, and you'll die, which will be no sad loss.
I'm sure I'm not the only one that finds bouncing radio waves off the atmosphere a ton more interesting and impressive than sending some packets over the internet.
I'm only into shortwave, I'm not a ham, but I can pick them up.
Picking up someone in Ecuador for example is a LOT cooler than getting an email from someone in Ecuador.
The RFID tags are being increased in power as well, which will interfere with amateur radio too possibly. Not sure on the techie details as I'm relatively new to this.
Even if you don't want to be illegal (and I doubt that any fan of Tron would have a problem downloading MAME and the rom, and I highly doubt they can expect legal action doing so), the copyright will expire eventually:)
That's beside the point though. So what if it's out of context? The RIAA have always changed their story when it suits them.
You check back over the quotes regarding P2P, and you'll see Rosen and her ilk blathering about "perfect" copies, and how little Johnny downloading this perfect digital reproduction will be the death of the industry.
Then with this, she acknowledges their inferior. Well, Ms. Rosen, if they're inferior, why are you so concerned? The kind of person who would be satisfed with an "inferior" copy of a song is hardly likely to rush out and buy the latest CD's are they.
I think the RIAA's claim about sales being down has less to do with the piracy, and more to do with the rise of more entertainment. I was a HUGE music fan. Spent a fortune on albums, spent most of my time listening to music. These days I rarely listen. I have the net to surf, video games, DVD etc...
What the RIAA don't seem to understand is people only have a finite amount of money and time to spend on leisure. With more and more products competing for your attention every day, perhaps the RIAA need to look at ways they can make their product more appealing, instead of "Here's your music, but you don't really own it".
Compare DVD to CD. DVD offers tons of features. Extras, commentary etc... CD, where you just get the music and that's that (and maybe a video) is about as attractive to buy as a movie only DVD.
The thing I find interesting is this comment from Rosen.
"If you're using KaAaA today, you're getting, in my view, a crappy quality song -- not what the artist did in the studio, not what they wanted you to hear, not their finest work," she said."
Her contention is if you grab a song off Kazaa, you're getting an inferior versions.
I find this interesting, given the RIAA has said all along that the reason they're going after P2P is because the digital piracy of Napster has ability to make unlimted identical copies with no loss of quality.
Hmmm... Rosen speak with forked tongue methinks...
You see developers putting stuff like this out, and then you'll see articles saying "why aren't more women gamers?" Well could it be because most of you fucktards only portray women as objects in games? And if they're not just eye candy, they're ridiculously proportioned. (Christ, Lara Croft wouldn't be able to get out of bed!)
Note to developers: Instead of beings sexist jerks, try actually designing believable, realistic female characters that are neither sex objects, or ridiculously misproportioned.
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Same here. I've got disks from when I got my first CDR. Was just using one the other day. My guess is the failures are if you use unbranded disks on an unbranded drive. I had one CDR drive that was AWFUL. You'd burn a disk, eject, put it back, and it would think it was an audio CD. Terrible drive. Disks burnt on that drive are EXTREMELY flaky.
Actually, thinking about it, I do have a couple of disks that are tough to read, but the fact is they've been like that from day one.
On my firewall, Kerio's Personal Firewall, EVERY application that wants to access the net has to ask for permission. I have Internet Explorer killed so it can't connect.
As for programs that need internet access, that's easy enough. Kerio you can have it ask every time a program wants to connect, so you can grant it connection rights JUST to the host you want to use. A hassle yes, but still perfectly feasible.
It's still low. Spying on your data and sending info is like shooting people because they might be a criminal. Cracks do have perfectly legitimate uses, despite what the software companies try to tell you. (Just ask anyone who has installed the latest patch for Neverwinter Nights and can't run it due to the retarded Securom protection).
This is why everyone should run a decent firewall. The amount of programs that phone home is alarming!
Yep. The war is still going on which shows the game makers who are releasing titles have dubious moral and ethical guides at the helm of their companies.
It was bad enough when the anti-terrorist games floodgates opened, but at least that was understandable since terrorism has no particular tie to any specific history. It's been around for centuries, and been the subject of games for many years before the current climate.
If I write "DEATH TO BILL AND TED HERE", nobody will notice before it's archived here, so I can say anything really, and use my karma bonus to post any old shit.
E EE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
This is round about where, irony being what it is, a moderator will go "HA!" and smack me down hard, to them I say
GO AHEAD DO YOU WORST! I'VE SMOKED YOUR CRACK! IT'S NOT THAT GREAT!
WOOT!
I can say anything here.
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I'd rather live here then:) (Since I don't give a damn about The Medallion, but seeing a million ads for F vs J would have totally soured me on it.)
I fail to see the problem. Could it be the US don't like to be reminded that they lost this one?
I don't see how a Vietnam game is in bad taste either. People are just being overly sensitive.
What I find tacky is games coming out based on the recent bogus war on Iraq.
Lost me as a potential customer due to using the word "proactive".
Really? Interesting. I would say in the last week, I've seen at LEAST fifty ads for The Medallion, and about 6 for F vs J, if that.
In fact The Medallion advertising has been SO much that I don't think I've EVER seen a movie advertised this much on TV. Literally EVERY ad break.
But they DO generate a lot of interference. Makes the radio unlistenable. Some smacktard in the other thread was going on about how a few peoples hobby wasn't important. Well, guess what fuckhole, it is. Amateur radio saved your worthless ass. There would be no amateur radio left if the FCC continues with their stupidity.
You know, that may be right. I think I see about 5 ads an hours for Jackie Chan's new movie. Now I LOVE Jackie Chan, I think he's awesome, but they've battered me senseless with the advertising so much that I now don't care if I ever see Jackie Chan again.
Compare that to Freddy vs Jason. Very understated advertising campaign, and did gonzo at the box office this weekend.
I think it's quite useful. My PDA knows everything else about me, only fair it knows when I'm dead...
A big reason I no longer play Counterstrike in the wild is because of the cheating. I have a bunch of guys I play it with that I know won't cheat and that's that. Don't play as much as I'd like, but if I get 0wned, I'd much rather know it was through skill than wonder if the guy behind the gun is an asshole running a wall hack.
I run Kerio Personal Firewall and have it set so that ANY software that tries to connect out, unless I've given it explicit permission in the past (and I ONLY permit stuff like WS-FTP, Mozilla etc...), it tells me and I can permit or deny. I even have Internet Explorer nuked so it can't connect to the net.
Anyone who cheats at an online game and in doing so effects other people (so wankers with wallhacks, people using maphacks on Warcraft etc..), I hope one of these trojans securely erases their hard drive so they can't get anything back.
I have no problem cheating in single player games. Making it rain cars in Vice City is hilarious. People who cheat online are scum.
Astout firewall would stop these trojans from sending anything. Kerio pops up a requester everytime an unauthorised program tries to access the net. Scary the amount of programs that do try and phone home.
I discovered a trojan on my system recently, but I think it was inactive. I think it came in in a Vice City trainer. (The aforementioned raining cars:)) I could find nothing hooking into it with a trojan scan.
You probably ARE a scumbag spammer.
For people who have to pay for their online time (England for example), these scumbags are essentially stealing money from people. Filtering only works once you've downloaded the mail. You still have to download their worthless drivel. Sure, it may be pennies a week in costs for a user, but you tally that up over a year or two of dealing with these idiots, and you've got a sizeable chunk of change. Certainly enough for a nice pizza.
Let's not forget the TIME these shits waste as well. All this work invested in stopping spam. Who know's what cool stuff may have come from the minds who instead are working on ways of dealing with the email cancer.
As I said, these scumbags should be legal to hunt and kill.
But that's still 3 pieces of shit you have to deal with. Sure, it's a simple click to delete, but the fact is WE SHOULD NOT FUCKING HAVE TOO.
Some wanker spammer got my email address and within two days my spam volume went from zero (seriously) to 30+ a day. All for the same fucking thing. These shits should be legal to hunt and kill.
In respose to the original troll, it's a bogus analogy. We PAY for our internet access. We get bombarded with ads on damn near every site... The revenue generated from these scumbags does NOT go towards funding your internet access, or the production of new content. It goes to their wallets. Ergo, you're an idiot.
Side note: "Last, best hope"... I can't be alone in expecting "for peace" to come after that.
Unless it's modchipped, then you're solid.
Reading this, I'm REALLY glad I bought a seperate DVD player.
HAMS were responsible for a lot of the emergency communications on September 11th when the rest of the networks were down.
To think this is just a few people screwing over millions is short sighted at best, and outright moronic at worst.
I'm sure you'd change your tune if a tornado hit your area and injured you and the emergency network was amateur radio. But if this powerline stupidity goes through, there will BE no hams to help you, and you'll die, which will be no sad loss.
Troll!!!
I'm sure I'm not the only one that finds bouncing radio waves off the atmosphere a ton more interesting and impressive than sending some packets over the internet.
I'm only into shortwave, I'm not a ham, but I can pick them up.
Picking up someone in Ecuador for example is a LOT cooler than getting an email from someone in Ecuador.
The RFID tags are being increased in power as well, which will interfere with amateur radio too possibly. Not sure on the techie details as I'm relatively new to this.
Even if you don't want to be illegal (and I doubt that any fan of Tron would have a problem downloading MAME and the rom, and I highly doubt they can expect legal action doing so), the copyright will expire eventually:)
That's beside the point though. So what if it's out of context? The RIAA have always changed their story when it suits them.
You check back over the quotes regarding P2P, and you'll see Rosen and her ilk blathering about "perfect" copies, and how little Johnny downloading this perfect digital reproduction will be the death of the industry.
Then with this, she acknowledges their inferior. Well, Ms. Rosen, if they're inferior, why are you so concerned? The kind of person who would be satisfed with an "inferior" copy of a song is hardly likely to rush out and buy the latest CD's are they.
I think the RIAA's claim about sales being down has less to do with the piracy, and more to do with the rise of more entertainment. I was a HUGE music fan. Spent a fortune on albums, spent most of my time listening to music. These days I rarely listen. I have the net to surf, video games, DVD etc...
What the RIAA don't seem to understand is people only have a finite amount of money and time to spend on leisure. With more and more products competing for your attention every day, perhaps the RIAA need to look at ways they can make their product more appealing, instead of "Here's your music, but you don't really own it".
Compare DVD to CD. DVD offers tons of features. Extras, commentary etc... CD, where you just get the music and that's that (and maybe a video) is about as attractive to buy as a movie only DVD.
Napster=Napster, Kazaa etc... (Must use preview button. Must use preview button.)
The thing I find interesting is this comment from Rosen.
"If you're using KaAaA today, you're getting, in my view, a crappy quality song -- not what the artist did in the studio, not what they wanted you to hear, not their finest work," she said."
Her contention is if you grab a song off Kazaa, you're getting an inferior versions.
I find this interesting, given the RIAA has said all along that the reason they're going after P2P is because the digital piracy of Napster has ability to make unlimted identical copies with no loss of quality.
Hmmm... Rosen speak with forked tongue methinks...
Not AC, but quite happily married here too:)
You see developers putting stuff like this out, and then you'll see articles saying "why aren't more women gamers?" Well could it be because most of you fucktards only portray women as objects in games? And if they're not just eye candy, they're ridiculously proportioned. (Christ, Lara Croft wouldn't be able to get out of bed!)
Note to developers: Instead of beings sexist jerks, try actually designing believable, realistic female characters that are neither sex objects, or ridiculously misproportioned.
hehehehe
The breasts in the game are rather Lara Croftish...