There is nothing transmitted between "entangled" particles, nor are any relevant bits of information passed between them in any method that comes close to the definition of "teleportation", or even "transportation". The quantum mechanics behind "entagled" particles should be described like this:
1.) You have 2 Rubick's Cubes. 2.) You "entagle" them by making the faces of each Cube exactly identical to the other. 3.) You separate them physically into different geological locations. 4.) You "measure" Cube A by turning one of its sides. 5.) You call a handler at Cube B using a "common channel" (phone). 6.) Cube B is "measured" by having its identical face turned exactly replicating Step 4, per the instructions received by step 5. 7.) Repeat steps 4 through 6 until your heart is content. 8.) Bring the Cubes together, and marvel that their faces are still identical to each other.
I think the principle problem with "quantum teleportation" is that any measurement on one Cube which is not duplicated exactly on the other, breaks the entanglement of the particles. They are only "entangled" in the sense that their states have been synchronized. There may be avenues of recovering the synchronization using permutations of "measurements", but then I haven't read much about what occurs during an error or fault in measurement, so this is all just my best guess.
Well, the MIT terms and conditions suggest that the data will be anonymized for MIT's purposes, so MIT will not use the data in a personally identifiable way. But, the terms and conditions also state:
"You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully-paid, worldwide, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish, translate, create derivative works from, communicate to the public and display the Tracking Data."
So, while they limit their own use, they grant themselves the right to provide the raw data, with personally identifiable information in tact, to some other entity.
That concerns me. What does the Department of Defense need from understanding the intimate social structures of the nation? So, for free, you're going to voluntarily tell the Department of Defense--those who were once involved in the search for Communists during McCarthy's heyday--everybody you have contact with, or influence over?
Sure, the auspices of the data, in an abstract, non-personally identifying manner, are relevant. But there's another purpose entirely by adding incentive to participate.
First and foremost, it breaks the scientific mold and corrupts the data. All of their data must be taken in the context of the incentive. It can only be applied to other situations that have a similar context. That severely limits the usefulness of the data, and negatively impacts the value of the data.
So what is the true value of this data, and how will it be used in the long run. Also: how long do they plan to keep it? (Until another McCarthy comes along on a witch-hunt? Who then, do you know, that would damn you to interrogation and thorough, disruptive inspection by the DoD?) They say it all with: "Is your blog effective at spreading information?"
I say, "Fuck red-balloons." Find me 10 people willing to die for the sins of everybody that ever lived. Hell, find me 10 Taco Bell dishes that don't make me shit my pants every time I sneeze.
How do you calculate the theft of value from a website's internal commenting and user contribution functions by services such as these? What about the violation of Fair Use by adjoining or abridging copyrighted content with such a service? How about damages evident by the content of unmitigated and unmoderated user submissions?
Whether Google or ReframeIt does it, it's stealing, and it's wrong. Sites like DIGG and Fark implement this kind of thing the right way, by centralizing the user submissions away from the site, and into a representation that does not adjoin the linked content. This is not stealing. This is an acceptable, legally-protected, alternate forum for contextual discussion which does not impede, supplant, or otherwise illicit participation from users navigating directly to websites in question.
Google and ReframeIt should be held liable for infringing on the copyrights of every site they encapsulate or otherwise co-opt with their software.
Aside from the science, language, and math classes I took until the end of high school, I'd say the it was pretty effective "unschooling". I've learned more about British aristocracy from Wikipedia than I ever learned in school--and far more interesting things than were present in any of the text books that we were tested on. History, Psychology, Social Studies... all of it was filled with crap I ultimately replaced with real education in the real world.
For example (and this may be only my experience), I never got exposed to the *whole* "states rights" argument about the Civil War in school, so for the most part I ended up thinking Lincoln was Jesus' second coming. 9 times out of 10, (especially if you come from the North) you leave school thinking that the whole point of the Civil War was about freeing the slaves, when it really had to do with a lot more things like taxes. Hell, the Emancipation Proclamation didn't come until well into the War. Then some of the things you learn about Lincoln outside of the heavily-doctored, high school textbooks makes him look like a generally nice guy that could be a real dick--which sounds a lot like a recent president I'm familiar with. In fact, in certain lights, he seems like being an agent of Empire than of Democracy. Either way, we can thank him for the world we live in today, as Americans, for better or worse.
My point is that I don't necessarily believe the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, had been imparted in school--making the substance worthless. And while I personally had some great teachers, there were far more "from the book" automatons which made the whole process uninteresting, and useless. But this is a perspective I didn't have until after I exposed myself to information outside of the classroom. Until then, I thought I had been fairly well schooled. Now, I'm certain I had been "unschooled".
What I think is important about the schooling process are those subjects which require a structured environment to really learn: namely science, language, and math. I would not hesitate for a moment to assume that those would be the weakest elements of a wholly "unschooled" individual. Which is a shame, as they are more important than anything else and serve as the best foundation for assimilating the world.
I've dropped more money into Blizzard than I care to admit. Year after year, you boast record profits from your largest titles. Each expansion for WoW costs as much as the original game itself, and with your adjustments to the original game content and the accelerated leveling mechanics the value of the original WoW, and the Burning Crusade, has all but been obliterated. Yet, the prices barely reflect this. On top of this, you are projecting SC2 to be an incomplete game, deliverable in 3 bite-size episodes at (probably more than) $50 a piece.
I'm personally sick and tired of having my wallet emptied by your new corporate strategies and board of directors for incomplete games. There was a time when Blizzard would not release an incomplete game--when years after the initial delivery dates would pass without event while the team worked tirelessly to perfect it and deliver a whole product, with a whole story, self-contained, and independent from any further expansion or episode.
It seems obvious that WoW was the changing point for Blizzard. Was it the lure of money-money-money that made Blizzard change how it treats is loyal fan-base? Why do you repeatedly rake your customers over the coals of investment, while actively depreciating their previous infusions of capital?
I want to know who this "Slashdot" pansy is, and where I can find him--and beat him. Too bad he didn't ask any questions about turning StarCraft 2 into episodic content. Sure, some people will happily pay 3 times for a storyline that continues... but fracturing each of the 3 species into 3 separate games? That's a cliff-hanging outrage if I've ever heard it. I should expect to play the Protoss campaigns sometime before 2020? Or not? Fuck. How long has it taken to get even just the promise of a new StarCraft, and now we have to wait for their sluggish development cycle to churn out story-lines? Oh, no... they already have the story... what we're really waiting for are the cut-scenes. Read the article. The cut-scenes from Blizzard are great, but Goddamn it, you guys! Scale the cut-scenes down, give me the whole story for one payment of $50, $60, or whatever the going rate for major titles is these days, and save the great cut-scene stuff for a big-screen movie. That way, I'm not stewing between releases about how I'm getting fucked over the coals by your new Activision Overlords, and you'll probably make more money in the long run from movie-ticket sales. Hell, I'd probably go see a StarCraft movie 5 times in the theater, and still by the Blu-ray--but the difference between that way of bleeding my wallet dry, and the way you're proposing is that I wouldn't feel like my loyalty is being exploited--but rewarded.
In this respect, Blizzard is a lot like the Federal Reserve. They keep the formulas, and because of this, they benefit nobody greater than Blizzard themselves.
Next up: the $10 tax for libraries, the $5.25 surcharge for porn producers, the $25 fee to newspaper outfits, and--of course--another $13 for Western Union's telegram service. I'm sure horseshoers need you to pay an extra $4000 on your car because of all the work they're not getting any more, thanks to you technologically-inclined assholes.
ISPs sure like opening cans of DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) whoop-ass on their networks, these days, with nary a consideration for their liability for it. First of all, if I make money selling advertising space on my website, how is it legal for somebody else to sell either that exact same space, or to ALTER my website to pack it with their own? They are then stealing my website, or hijacking it, and misrepresenting my business interests to my prospective clients. What if I don't like to carry competitors ads on my site? Well, I guess I just have no choice but to BLOCK THE ENTIRE ISP to prevent my company, and my web-presence from being underhandedly REDEFINED by a couple of greedy, autocratic assholes with routers.
Let's face it. Vista is XP: Reloaded. Or XP: Millenium Edition. Except that it has more problems than any of the XP service packs ever introduced. Like browsing file shares or using wireless networks? Not if you have Vista. Those things are relatively impossible to operate correctly.
I hope Vista users love being Microsoft's shortcut for Quality Assurance. Why pay a million people to test every facet of your code, when you can get a million people to pay you to do it for free?
What's that you say? Real people with real use in business don't use Release Candidates or Betas? That's just nonsense. Of course businesses will love to put "candidate" code on production servers to test things--this is America, and we *all* live dangerously here! And we all love Microsoft so much, that we'll religiously use the questionably-valuable, first versions of their products, while the rest of you pussies wait for the first Service Pack. This is real business, and I thank God that PC manufacturers like Dell *FORCE* you to use them on new systems, *FORCE* you to use alien code in established environments that poor, dear-old Microsoft couldn't possibly have simulated (e.g. transferring files from network shares on Windows 2003 domain systems--I know what you're thinking, "That's unheard of!").
Welcome to the revolution of the digital age, friends! Everybody gets to be a guinea pig! No waiting! Sign up today!
What you all think is about advertising and marketing couldn't be further from the truth. This program, and others like it, are stop-loss mechanisms to prevent legal liability by Verizon for handing this information over to the FBI, NSA, etc. *without* a warrant. Believe me, if you were a business looking at possible class-action damages on a scale that most of these Ma-Bell types are looking at-especially when courts are finding their information disclosures as unconstitutional-you'd find a way to trick people into implicit permission.
...before "Gaming Addiction" is enough of a "Mental Illness" to prevent you from owning or purchasing firearms?
Doctor: "I see here that you play voluminous amounts of Counter-Strike." Patient: "Yup." Doctor: "How many hours a day would you say?" Patient: "About 3 hours." Doctor: (writes things down)
-- LATER THAT DAY --
Gun Seller: "Your background check came back negative. Sorry buddy."
Not the source? Who exactly was crying for something to be done or fixed before the Administration decided to do something? Have any articles or newslinks you can cite as reference? I have nothing. Don't lay this at the feet of American citizens. Blame us for indifference, but not for malicious intent. Remember, most of us are more stupid than harmful.
... the little guys are more likely to crumble. Why not target the source of this crap? I did. Though, admittedly I'm sure SONY keeps their wallets fat enough to ignore us. See below:
Subject: attn: Mathew, Tony, Peter, Nick; re: Extreme displeasure with your XCP product.
To Whom it may concern:
I would like to address the outstanding issue regarding the software your company licensed to SONY BMG here in the United States. This software proposes to be a harmless DRM solution for the corporate customer as a method of protection against malicious users. However, what your software critically FAILS at is conscientiously protecting the end user against exploits of your poorly, shit-house written utilities. Personally, I'm glad that your nasty parlour tricks were recently exposed by SysInternals.com (http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-roo tkits-and-digital-rights.html) for the disreputable practices they are, and for identifying "First 4 Internet" (sounds like a shoddy store-front operation for a bunch of Black Hat rejects) as the company directly responsible for the most vile intrusion my system has ever received. And the fact that your ill-conceived product leaves my system open to additional intrusions of this nature is unforgivable. May whatever sink-hole from whence you rose quickly swallow you back. You have no right to voilate my computer's integrity. You have no right to scan the contents of my computer. You may have the right to hide in the darkness of Windows' subsystem like cowards, but that does not mean you won't be seen. You have no right to abuse the trust garnered by SONY from the citizens it regularly calls customers (or, perhaps more appropriately, "guinea pigs"). I hope the light of truth sends you roaches scurrying.
With the wretched taste of bile at the back of my throat,
[my name] [my email addy]
===
Personally, I purchased "The Dead 60s" latest album, and sure enough it had the exact same copy-protection crap as described on sysinternals.com. That article sure shed some light on the behavioral difference in my system since I got that CD (significantly slower start up and execution times on a 1.2 GHz, and constant 5 - 10% CPU usage with almost nothing running). Fuck them. Fuck them right in the ear.
It was stated before, and I'll reinforce it: This kind of DRM ADVOCATES piracy. You are safer without DRM. I intend to zap my Windows machine and go to Debian (as I've been considering, but now have good reason for security purposes), and return this CD by mail to SONY BMG in a thousand tiny pieces, but not before I copy it and distribute out of sheer spite.
No matter who or what you are talking about, when there is interest involved, you cannot believe or take directly to heart, the statements of those who can benefit from such statements. Ever. Even if RedHat were to say something so crass as "We're safer than Windows" you could not place credible value in their statements alone. Third parties which are completely objective, and have nothing to gain from the truth, are the only trustworthy source. Everybody is caught up in this dramatic bullshit that makes it analagous to a presidential debate. The fact is, that you MUST require the view points of many sources outside of Linux, Windows, and Macs altogether to know which, if any, are safer than the others.
Such views exist. And the only ones, with facts and data and evidence, that cheer for M$... are the ones that get paid by them. That alone should be enough to make any analytical intelligence give pause to joining a bandwagon.
Choose ye this day which OS shall serve you, but for me and my house, we shall run Debian.
(This also means you should tollerate the ignorance and free-will of others, regardless of whether or not YOU or I think ill of their choices.)
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In a series of what police are calling, "unusual events," a Texas man was slain today when his home computer contracted a virus, and shot him dead via a networked camera and rifle apparatus. Even though the system was connected to the Internet, and had Windows XP's Service Pack 2, authorities believe there was no foul play involved.
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Not only political parties, but also politics professors, and even politicians themselves.
There is nothing transmitted between "entangled" particles, nor are any relevant bits of information passed between them in any method that comes close to the definition of "teleportation", or even "transportation". The quantum mechanics behind "entagled" particles should be described like this:
1.) You have 2 Rubick's Cubes.
2.) You "entagle" them by making the faces of each Cube exactly identical to the other.
3.) You separate them physically into different geological locations.
4.) You "measure" Cube A by turning one of its sides.
5.) You call a handler at Cube B using a "common channel" (phone).
6.) Cube B is "measured" by having its identical face turned exactly replicating Step 4, per the instructions received by step 5.
7.) Repeat steps 4 through 6 until your heart is content.
8.) Bring the Cubes together, and marvel that their faces are still identical to each other.
I think the principle problem with "quantum teleportation" is that any measurement on one Cube which is not duplicated exactly on the other, breaks the entanglement of the particles. They are only "entangled" in the sense that their states have been synchronized. There may be avenues of recovering the synchronization using permutations of "measurements", but then I haven't read much about what occurs during an error or fault in measurement, so this is all just my best guess.
At the rate most IT people wear/wash their clothes, I think you mean "4 weeks of the month".
Well, the MIT terms and conditions suggest that the data will be anonymized for MIT's purposes, so MIT will not use the data in a personally identifiable way. But, the terms and conditions also state:
"You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully-paid, worldwide, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish, translate, create derivative works from, communicate to the public and display the Tracking Data."
So, while they limit their own use, they grant themselves the right to provide the raw data, with personally identifiable information in tact, to some other entity.
So, which one of us RTFA?
That concerns me. What does the Department of Defense need from understanding the intimate social structures of the nation? So, for free, you're going to voluntarily tell the Department of Defense--those who were once involved in the search for Communists during McCarthy's heyday--everybody you have contact with, or influence over?
Sure, the auspices of the data, in an abstract, non-personally identifying manner, are relevant. But there's another purpose entirely by adding incentive to participate.
First and foremost, it breaks the scientific mold and corrupts the data. All of their data must be taken in the context of the incentive. It can only be applied to other situations that have a similar context. That severely limits the usefulness of the data, and negatively impacts the value of the data.
So what is the true value of this data, and how will it be used in the long run. Also: how long do they plan to keep it? (Until another McCarthy comes along on a witch-hunt? Who then, do you know, that would damn you to interrogation and thorough, disruptive inspection by the DoD?) They say it all with: "Is your blog effective at spreading information?"
I say, "Fuck red-balloons." Find me 10 people willing to die for the sins of everybody that ever lived. Hell, find me 10 Taco Bell dishes that don't make me shit my pants every time I sneeze.
How do you calculate the theft of value from a website's internal commenting and user contribution functions by services such as these? What about the violation of Fair Use by adjoining or abridging copyrighted content with such a service? How about damages evident by the content of unmitigated and unmoderated user submissions?
Whether Google or ReframeIt does it, it's stealing, and it's wrong. Sites like DIGG and Fark implement this kind of thing the right way, by centralizing the user submissions away from the site, and into a representation that does not adjoin the linked content. This is not stealing. This is an acceptable, legally-protected, alternate forum for contextual discussion which does not impede, supplant, or otherwise illicit participation from users navigating directly to websites in question.
Google and ReframeIt should be held liable for infringing on the copyrights of every site they encapsulate or otherwise co-opt with their software.
Aside from the science, language, and math classes I took until the end of high school, I'd say the it was pretty effective "unschooling". I've learned more about British aristocracy from Wikipedia than I ever learned in school--and far more interesting things than were present in any of the text books that we were tested on. History, Psychology, Social Studies... all of it was filled with crap I ultimately replaced with real education in the real world.
For example (and this may be only my experience), I never got exposed to the *whole* "states rights" argument about the Civil War in school, so for the most part I ended up thinking Lincoln was Jesus' second coming. 9 times out of 10, (especially if you come from the North) you leave school thinking that the whole point of the Civil War was about freeing the slaves, when it really had to do with a lot more things like taxes. Hell, the Emancipation Proclamation didn't come until well into the War. Then some of the things you learn about Lincoln outside of the heavily-doctored, high school textbooks makes him look like a generally nice guy that could be a real dick--which sounds a lot like a recent president I'm familiar with. In fact, in certain lights, he seems like being an agent of Empire than of Democracy. Either way, we can thank him for the world we live in today, as Americans, for better or worse.
My point is that I don't necessarily believe the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, had been imparted in school--making the substance worthless. And while I personally had some great teachers, there were far more "from the book" automatons which made the whole process uninteresting, and useless. But this is a perspective I didn't have until after I exposed myself to information outside of the classroom. Until then, I thought I had been fairly well schooled. Now, I'm certain I had been "unschooled".
What I think is important about the schooling process are those subjects which require a structured environment to really learn: namely science, language, and math. I would not hesitate for a moment to assume that those would be the weakest elements of a wholly "unschooled" individual. Which is a shame, as they are more important than anything else and serve as the best foundation for assimilating the world.
Blizzard,
I've dropped more money into Blizzard than I care to admit. Year after year, you boast record profits from your largest titles. Each expansion for WoW costs as much as the original game itself, and with your adjustments to the original game content and the accelerated leveling mechanics the value of the original WoW, and the Burning Crusade, has all but been obliterated. Yet, the prices barely reflect this. On top of this, you are projecting SC2 to be an incomplete game, deliverable in 3 bite-size episodes at (probably more than) $50 a piece.
I'm personally sick and tired of having my wallet emptied by your new corporate strategies and board of directors for incomplete games. There was a time when Blizzard would not release an incomplete game--when years after the initial delivery dates would pass without event while the team worked tirelessly to perfect it and deliver a whole product, with a whole story, self-contained, and independent from any further expansion or episode.
It seems obvious that WoW was the changing point for Blizzard. Was it the lure of money-money-money that made Blizzard change how it treats is loyal fan-base? Why do you repeatedly rake your customers over the coals of investment, while actively depreciating their previous infusions of capital?
That "USENIX EVT" is an anagram for "UNISEX VET"?
I want to know who this "Slashdot" pansy is, and where I can find him--and beat him. Too bad he didn't ask any questions about turning StarCraft 2 into episodic content. Sure, some people will happily pay 3 times for a storyline that continues... but fracturing each of the 3 species into 3 separate games? That's a cliff-hanging outrage if I've ever heard it. I should expect to play the Protoss campaigns sometime before 2020? Or not?
Fuck. How long has it taken to get even just the promise of a new StarCraft, and now we have to wait for their sluggish development cycle to churn out story-lines? Oh, no... they already have the story... what we're really waiting for are the cut-scenes. Read the article.
The cut-scenes from Blizzard are great, but Goddamn it, you guys! Scale the cut-scenes down, give me the whole story for one payment of $50, $60, or whatever the going rate for major titles is these days, and save the great cut-scene stuff for a big-screen movie. That way, I'm not stewing between releases about how I'm getting fucked over the coals by your new Activision Overlords, and you'll probably make more money in the long run from movie-ticket sales. Hell, I'd probably go see a StarCraft movie 5 times in the theater, and still by the Blu-ray--but the difference between that way of bleeding my wallet dry, and the way you're proposing is that I wouldn't feel like my loyalty is being exploited--but rewarded.
In this respect, Blizzard is a lot like the Federal Reserve. They keep the formulas, and because of this, they benefit nobody greater than Blizzard themselves.
...Daikatana.
I have advice for him, it's a document titled "The Declaration of Independence". I'll be sure to send him a copy.
Next up: the $10 tax for libraries, the $5.25 surcharge for porn producers, the $25 fee to newspaper outfits, and--of course--another $13 for Western Union's telegram service. I'm sure horseshoers need you to pay an extra $4000 on your car because of all the work they're not getting any more, thanks to you technologically-inclined assholes.
ISPs sure like opening cans of DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) whoop-ass on their networks, these days, with nary a consideration for their liability for it. First of all, if I make money selling advertising space on my website, how is it legal for somebody else to sell either that exact same space, or to ALTER my website to pack it with their own? They are then stealing my website, or hijacking it, and misrepresenting my business interests to my prospective clients. What if I don't like to carry competitors ads on my site? Well, I guess I just have no choice but to BLOCK THE ENTIRE ISP to prevent my company, and my web-presence from being underhandedly REDEFINED by a couple of greedy, autocratic assholes with routers.
Is it a federal offense for NSI to own "iwanttokillthepresident.com"?
Let's face it. Vista is XP: Reloaded. Or XP: Millenium Edition. Except that it has more problems than any of the XP service packs ever introduced. Like browsing file shares or using wireless networks? Not if you have Vista. Those things are relatively impossible to operate correctly.
I hope Vista users love being Microsoft's shortcut for Quality Assurance. Why pay a million people to test every facet of your code, when you can get a million people to pay you to do it for free?
What's that you say? Real people with real use in business don't use Release Candidates or Betas? That's just nonsense. Of course businesses will love to put "candidate" code on production servers to test things--this is America, and we *all* live dangerously here! And we all love Microsoft so much, that we'll religiously use the questionably-valuable, first versions of their products, while the rest of you pussies wait for the first Service Pack. This is real business, and I thank God that PC manufacturers like Dell *FORCE* you to use them on new systems, *FORCE* you to use alien code in established environments that poor, dear-old Microsoft couldn't possibly have simulated (e.g. transferring files from network shares on Windows 2003 domain systems--I know what you're thinking, "That's unheard of!").
Welcome to the revolution of the digital age, friends! Everybody gets to be a guinea pig! No waiting! Sign up today!
What you all think is about advertising and marketing couldn't be further from the truth. This program, and others like it, are stop-loss mechanisms to prevent legal liability by Verizon for handing this information over to the FBI, NSA, etc. *without* a warrant. Believe me, if you were a business looking at possible class-action damages on a scale that most of these Ma-Bell types are looking at-especially when courts are finding their information disclosures as unconstitutional-you'd find a way to trick people into implicit permission.
"Oh, and if PAC-MAN effected people it doesn't mean we would eat pills and listen to repetitive music*."
You've never heard of raves, have you?
...before "Gaming Addiction" is enough of a "Mental Illness" to prevent you from owning or purchasing firearms?
Doctor: "I see here that you play voluminous amounts of Counter-Strike."
Patient: "Yup."
Doctor: "How many hours a day would you say?"
Patient: "About 3 hours."
Doctor: (writes things down)
-- LATER THAT DAY --
Gun Seller: "Your background check came back negative. Sorry buddy."
Not the source? Who exactly was crying for something to be done or fixed before the Administration decided to do something? Have any articles or newslinks you can cite as reference? I have nothing.
Don't lay this at the feet of American citizens. Blame us for indifference, but not for malicious intent. Remember, most of us are more stupid than harmful.
Good point, and in that case I rescind my offer to copy and distribute. The thousand pieces thing is still happening.
... the little guys are more likely to crumble. Why not target the source of this crap? I did. Though, admittedly I'm sure SONY keeps their wallets fat enough to ignore us. See below:
o tkits-and-digital-rights.html) for the disreputable practices they are, and for identifying "First 4 Internet" (sounds like a shoddy store-front operation for a bunch of Black Hat rejects) as the company directly responsible for the most vile intrusion my system has ever received. And the fact that your ill-conceived product leaves my system open to additional intrusions of this nature is unforgivable.
===
Mail-To: info@xcp-aurora.com, info@first4internet.co.uk
Subject: attn: Mathew, Tony, Peter, Nick; re: Extreme displeasure with your XCP product.
To Whom it may concern:
I would like to address the outstanding issue regarding the software your company licensed to SONY BMG here in the United States. This software proposes to be a harmless DRM solution for the corporate customer as a method of protection against malicious users. However, what your software critically FAILS at is conscientiously protecting the end user against exploits of your poorly, shit-house written utilities.
Personally, I'm glad that your nasty parlour tricks were recently exposed by SysInternals.com (http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-ro
May whatever sink-hole from whence you rose quickly swallow you back. You have no right to voilate my computer's integrity. You have no right to scan the contents of my computer. You may have the right to hide in the darkness of Windows' subsystem like cowards, but that does not mean you won't be seen. You have no right to abuse the trust garnered by SONY from the citizens it regularly calls customers (or, perhaps more appropriately, "guinea pigs"). I hope the light of truth sends you roaches scurrying.
With the wretched taste of bile at the back of my throat,
[my name]
[my email addy]
===
Personally, I purchased "The Dead 60s" latest album, and sure enough it had the exact same copy-protection crap as described on sysinternals.com. That article sure shed some light on the behavioral difference in my system since I got that CD (significantly slower start up and execution times on a 1.2 GHz, and constant 5 - 10% CPU usage with almost nothing running). Fuck them. Fuck them right in the ear.
It was stated before, and I'll reinforce it: This kind of DRM ADVOCATES piracy. You are safer without DRM. I intend to zap my Windows machine and go to Debian (as I've been considering, but now have good reason for security purposes), and return this CD by mail to SONY BMG in a thousand tiny pieces, but not before I copy it and distribute out of sheer spite.
No matter who or what you are talking about, when there is interest involved, you cannot believe or take directly to heart, the statements of those who can benefit from such statements. Ever. Even if RedHat were to say something so crass as "We're safer than Windows" you could not place credible value in their statements alone.
Third parties which are completely objective, and have nothing to gain from the truth, are the only trustworthy source. Everybody is caught up in this dramatic bullshit that makes it analagous to a presidential debate. The fact is, that you MUST require the view points of many sources outside of Linux, Windows, and Macs altogether to know which, if any, are safer than the others.
Such views exist. And the only ones, with facts and data and evidence, that cheer for M$... are the ones that get paid by them. That alone should be enough to make any analytical intelligence give pause to joining a bandwagon.
Choose ye this day which OS shall serve you, but for me and my house, we shall run Debian.
(This also means you should tollerate the ignorance and free-will of others, regardless of whether or not YOU or I think ill of their choices.)
In a series of what police are calling, "unusual events," a Texas man was slain today when his home computer contracted a virus, and shot him dead via a networked camera and rifle apparatus.
Even though the system was connected to the Internet, and had Windows XP's Service Pack 2, authorities believe there was no foul play involved.