This is the great irony about the whole situation.
MU is being held up as the bastion for moneymakers, but anyone remotely familiar with filesharing knows MU was one host the moneymakers avoided like the plague.
Even if it's true that such an ancient binary works on more than a handful of Flash-using sites (which I am skeptical of), it has 1001 security holes and should be replaced by something more recent.
64-bit Flash has worked well enough for quite some time now, no need to run the 32-bit version. Try the Flash-Aid addon if you use Firefox to handle auto-updating the plugin for you.
Anonymous uploads needed to be downloaded every 21 days or they were deleted, and even free named accounts required 90-day downloads, which is very different from Dropbox and other systems, where persistence, rather than popularity-of-download, is the goal.
My experience as a free user was that anything I uploaded was not removed even with no/little download activity. I uploaded a number of things I only downloaded once or not at all, and none of those files were removed from my account over the course of a year and a half.
Give Mediafire a try. It was and is the most downloader friendly site for free users, meaning you can direct people there and be certain they can get the file without undue hassle and without paying anything.
Do what I did and have a look at the Wikipedia articles on Mormonism and Joseph Smith, then.
I saw lots of parallels between the lives of the founders of the LDS and Scientology churches. One merely happened to get started ~130 years prior to the other, and thus his church is more "established".
It's transparently nothing but a way the USA used to rank itself and its allies first by definition, for political reasons rather than economic.
This is incorrect. As Wikipedia states:
French demographer, anthropologist and historian Alfred Sauvy, in an article published in the French magazine L'Observateur, August 14, 1952, coined the term Third World, referring to countries that were unaligned with either the Communist Soviet bloc or the Capitalist NATO bloc during the Cold War. His usage was a reference to the Third Estate, the commoners of France who, before and during the French Revolution, opposed priests and nobles, who composed the First Estate and Second Estate, respectively. Sauvy wrote, "Like the third estate, the Third World is nothing, and wants to be something." He conveyed the concept of political non-alignment with either the capitalist or communist bloc.
The idea that these countries were undeveloped or inferior is not related to the original usage.
The AC's post is actually old copypasta that just happens to sound relevant given the recent going-ons here. I've read that exact post several times before.
Also, it's from a minute after the story went up, whereas the shills always manage to get the same time stamp as the story.
Luckily, Chromium has two useful appearance options under the "Personal Stuff" section that mitigates this. You can choose "Use GTK+ theme" to get your system colours, and "Use system title bar and borders" to put your window manager back in control. No idea if it works in Windows, but it was a huge improvement for me in Debian.
I installed Chromium just today on my KDE Arch box and it had "Use system titlebar and borders" turned on by default.
Do the adblock extensions actively stop the URLs from being accessed, or do they simply hide the images/kill accesses in progress?
Both the extension and SRWare Iron merely hide the images as they are requested.
Iron's adblocking was noteworthy before Chrome had extensions, but nowadays there is no functional difference between the two AFAIK other than blocklist auto-updates.
It's not Firefox's fault that you choose to use an "64-bit" OS where 95% of the programs happend to be 32 bit. (i.e. Windows) Try running IE in 64-bit mode and see how many things won't work.
I looked at the Programs Folders sizes on a Win 7 64-bit machine recently:
Program Files : 819MB Program Files (x86) : 40.43GB
Windows is still a very long way from allowing you to run a full 64-bit enviroment, but you can do that today on Linux if you like.
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Try installing Krusader.
I still using Dolphin for things like picture browsing, but Krusader is great for file management.
FileSonic was one of the hosts most beloved by for-profit autoposters, who spam links everywhere they can to rack up rewards payouts for lots of downloads, all while ignoring forum rules and drowning out people who actually want to share with other community members.
I'm not sad to see some of the for-profit whores exit the file sharing scene. Good riddance.
MU's affilate programs was very hard to actually garner any payouts from. The minimum payout was $100 for 100000 points IIRC, and the definiton of what downloads counted towards points was quite narrow. One had to be a semi-professional uploader to get money from MU in my opinion... posting on multiple forums, using bots for downloading/posting, etc.
This is is in contrast to other sites like FileSonic, where the bar for getting payouts was far more moderate and could be reached by a large number of users.
It's also been "industry" standard to know that Megaupload is very nice for piracy uploaders.
Megaupload is very nice for downloaders. Unlike most other sites, you were not able to make money by uploading to MU. It was the generous downloading limts that made the site popular.
MU had unrivalled file retention for a free service. Even when uploading as a free user, files were retained for years, even without any downloads. It's fully possible to find working MU links posted in 2005. The only thing they removed files for was a DMCA takedown. If there was a limit or the files you could upload to a free account, I never hit it. Other sites did not offer anything similar unless you paid for preimum membership.
Kim make have been a crook, but MU itself was the bastion of free filesharing in the P2P mould from a user standpoint, whereas nearly every other site except Mediafire is based on commerical (payouts to uploaders) filesharing.
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The asterisk by his name means he is a /. subscriber.
He can see stories and prepare a post before the story goes live for everyone else.
It's the non-subscribers who gets lots of first posts you need to watch out for.
This is the great irony about the whole situation.
MU is being held up as the bastion for moneymakers, but anyone remotely familiar with filesharing knows MU was one host the moneymakers avoided like the plague.
Even if it's true that such an ancient binary works on more than a handful of Flash-using sites (which I am skeptical of), it has 1001 security holes and should be replaced by something more recent.
64-bit Flash has worked well enough for quite some time now, no need to run the 32-bit version. Try the Flash-Aid addon if you use Firefox to handle auto-updating the plugin for you.
Anonymous uploads needed to be downloaded every 21 days or they were deleted, and even free named accounts required 90-day downloads, which is very different from Dropbox and other systems, where persistence, rather than popularity-of-download, is the goal.
My experience as a free user was that anything I uploaded was not removed even with no/little download activity. I uploaded a number of things I only downloaded once or not at all, and none of those files were removed from my account over the course of a year and a half.
The company was actually based out of Hong Kong. People in Hong Kong were not able to use Megaupload.
Kim Dotcom lived in New Zealand.
Give Mediafire a try. It was and is the most downloader friendly site for free users, meaning you can direct people there and be certain they can get the file without undue hassle and without paying anything.
Sweden and Norway both border Finland, but it's still funny. :)
Romney and Obama hold the same corporatist positions on anything that matters.
Absolutely. An AC captured this fact elegantly in a previous story:
Mitt Romney + tanning bed = Barack Obama
Nothing is going to change one iota when President Obamney is sworn in next year.
In case you haven't been paying attention the last 30 years... greed is ruling in force.
Do what I did and have a look at the Wikipedia articles on Mormonism and Joseph Smith, then.
I saw lots of parallels between the lives of the founders of the LDS and Scientology churches. One merely happened to get started ~130 years prior to the other, and thus his church is more "established".
Perhaps you've seen the movie Idiocracy? :)
It's transparently nothing but a way the USA used to rank itself and its allies first by definition, for political reasons rather than economic.
This is incorrect. As Wikipedia states:
French demographer, anthropologist and historian Alfred Sauvy, in an article published in the French magazine L'Observateur, August 14, 1952, coined the term Third World, referring to countries that were unaligned with either the Communist Soviet bloc or the Capitalist NATO bloc during the Cold War. His usage was a reference to the Third Estate, the commoners of France who, before and during the French Revolution, opposed priests and nobles, who composed the First Estate and Second Estate, respectively. Sauvy wrote, "Like the third estate, the Third World is nothing, and wants to be something." He conveyed the concept of political non-alignment with either the capitalist or communist bloc.
The idea that these countries were undeveloped or inferior is not related to the original usage.
Karma bonus adds +1, asshole.
Super Street Fighter II came after CE and Turbo, not before.
Errr... the karma bonus lets you post at +2, as you and I are doing.
The AC's post is actually old copypasta that just happens to sound relevant given the recent going-ons here. I've read that exact post several times before.
Also, it's from a minute after the story went up, whereas the shills always manage to get the same time stamp as the story.
So this is just old-school FP trolling, IMO. :)
Luckily, Chromium has two useful appearance options under the "Personal Stuff" section that mitigates this. You can choose "Use GTK+ theme" to get your system colours, and "Use system title bar and borders" to put your window manager back in control. No idea if it works in Windows, but it was a huge improvement for me in Debian.
I installed Chromium just today on my KDE Arch box and it had "Use system titlebar and borders" turned on by default.
Do the adblock extensions actively stop the URLs from being accessed, or do they simply hide the images/kill accesses in progress?
Both the extension and SRWare Iron merely hide the images as they are requested.
Iron's adblocking was noteworthy before Chrome had extensions, but nowadays there is no functional difference between the two AFAIK other than blocklist auto-updates.
It's not Firefox's fault that you choose to use an "64-bit" OS where 95% of the programs happend to be 32 bit. (i.e. Windows) Try running IE in 64-bit mode and see how many things won't work.
I looked at the Programs Folders sizes on a Win 7 64-bit machine recently:
Program Files : 819MB
Program Files (x86) : 40.43GB
Windows is still a very long way from allowing you to run a full 64-bit enviroment, but you can do that today on Linux if you like.
Try installing Krusader.
I still using Dolphin for things like picture browsing, but Krusader is great for file management.
FileSonic was one of the hosts most beloved by for-profit autoposters, who spam links everywhere they can to rack up rewards payouts for lots of downloads, all while ignoring forum rules and drowning out people who actually want to share with other community members.
I'm not sad to see some of the for-profit whores exit the file sharing scene. Good riddance.
MU's affilate programs was very hard to actually garner any payouts from. The minimum payout was $100 for 100000 points IIRC, and the definiton of what downloads counted towards points was quite narrow. One had to be a semi-professional uploader to get money from MU in my opinion... posting on multiple forums, using bots for downloading/posting, etc.
This is is in contrast to other sites like FileSonic, where the bar for getting payouts was far more moderate and could be reached by a large number of users.
And it is exactly the sort of thing that makes nasty things like SOPA and the like get momentum.
SOPA gets momentum from those who corporate groups who lobby the government for it. Putting the blame on /. opinions is misdirection at best.
It's also been "industry" standard to know that Megaupload is very nice for piracy uploaders.
Megaupload is very nice for downloaders. Unlike most other sites, you were not able to make money by uploading to MU. It was the generous downloading limts that made the site popular.
MU had unrivalled file retention for a free service. Even when uploading as a free user, files were retained for years, even without any downloads. It's fully possible to find working MU links posted in 2005. The only thing they removed files for was a DMCA takedown. If there was a limit or the files you could upload to a free account, I never hit it. Other sites did not offer anything similar unless you paid for preimum membership.
Kim make have been a crook, but MU itself was the bastion of free filesharing in the P2P mould from a user standpoint, whereas nearly every other site except Mediafire is based on commerical (payouts to uploaders) filesharing.
A sad day. Back to the torrents!
2008 was the last Madden game released on PC.