You wipe the OS and install a new one. You clean it up from the default bloatware and hook it to the network. You analyze the connection and if there is no communication the devices are safe.
You seem like a intelligent gentleman providing great solution for both the latest gov IT attacks AND the recession!
If this happens, I can see both China's computer espionage and Kim Jong's heads exploding from the sore happiness!
I understand breaking the monitor and keyboard in such situation, but you actually went out of the house, walked to your tool shack, picked up an axe and smashed your telephone line with it? That's a little bit aggressive, dont you think?
Besides that it allows caching of ~2000 songs on the device that you can take with you. But atleast here in scandinavia unlimited 2G/3G plans are so cheap that might just aswell use them.
..._requires_ a Premium account - a normal, free account is not allowed to log in. This is all for understandable reasons relating to how Spotify, when used with a free account, enforces ads that can not be shut off or ignored.
Which I find really interesting from Apple's perspective, because
The application will be free, but will require the user to have a premium Spotify subscription, which costs £10.
means Apple wont be getting its share from the sales on the app store, because those premium subscriptions are bought directly from Spotify's site.
Yep, Windows OS is quite open (not meaning the OSS way now) compared to Apple's stuff and even Windows Mobile is a lot more open than iPhone, you can install any software on it like on Windows. Hell, you can even get Linux and Android running on it without hacks or jailbreaking.
Leigh stated that it isn't a ROM hack or anything, but a Linux image running within Windows Mobile. Hmm, a dual boot device could be very enticing for the mobile gadget geek.
And you two are missing the point aswell. The whole story isn't about how surprised everyone are that Apple accepted it, but that spotify is now actually released for iPhone too. Stop trying to this thread into another "apple is bad, apple dont approve apps" discussion. I would a lot more like to read and discuss about the actual thing, aka spotify, here because its a great system and program.
I hope they get versions out to Windows Mobile and Symbian out soon too, would be great to listen on the road and the 3g internet is practically unlimited and cheap here.
nor it is needed to fight something like this in Sweden.
Dude, I know this is Slashdot and all. Nobody reads the article. Some dont even read the summary. But for the love of god please even read the headline you're answering to!
Like I said in both posts, courts in scandinavia look into purpose too and it can count a lot. I do not know how its in USA or elsewhere, but I know its so in here. But I guess if Google were being a search engine only for warez and illegal content, they would be shutdown quite fast too. Even if they have lots of DMCA issues and are linking to illegal content, they are a general search engine and do what they need by law to remove such content (and fight for net neutrality too). But its obvious what is The Pirate Bay's purpose and why everyone of their users are using it.
Read my comment again and you should see what I mean. They have values for freedom of speech and net neutrality and defend that (probably for their own cause too of course). Those things I value, but not the warez stuff they're doing.
And seeing who I'm responding to, you are doing exactly how game companies should be doing, but people still pirate games and give these stupid reasons for it. If people can get it for free, obviously they will, and sites like TPB are making indirect money off others work. You can compare them to warez sellers, but just that they're not selling it directly but generating revenue indirectly from ads.
I love Democracy and Kudos btw and have bought them:) And I could think that pirating games will hit most bad the innovaters and indie game developers, because they cant get the game out to masses and stores the same way EA and so on. There's lots of bashing for EA and similar companies for doing the same thing for over and over again, but who still pirate indie game developers who actually make out of the box thinking games.
I'm just telling that the intention counts in courts aswell. If its as clear as The Pirate Bay is and how they handled to all the DMCA requests (even if theres no such law in sweden, but common sense works long way), judges are going to see and punish for it. You cannot get around that with technical reasonings like "but we dont host the files, we just provide.torrent files". And before anyone jumps on the "but then Google should be sued and shutdown too" bullshit, everyone can see the difference between TPB and Google.
This is really just the last attemps to remain online. How long will it take until they're closed at another ISP again? (TPB is down again btw). And how long will it take until their domain is pulled down?
This time they're not just arguing against media companies/RIAA/MPAA in USA, but their own goverment and courts. Shit is going to hit the wall.
And with the latest GGF buyout news and suspected inside trading with stocks, losing in swedish courts and everything happening with them recently, this just seems like the last attemps to get the remaining money off the site.
Personally, I would like to see them stay online and fight for the values they have (or are giving to people). But it really doesn't seem like its going to happen.
The thing is, The PiratePirate Bay's talk about "but we only host the.torrent files, not the files" didn't work out for them. It's also pretty clear what was The Pirate Bay's purpose, along how they mocked companies asking to remove content. The point being they are clearly breaking the law and giving technical excuses for it, while the purpose counts just as good (and I'm saying this as a swedish person)
Sadly, it seems like the world is going to more closed place again by what goverments do. I dont want USA's laws here either. But instead of the clear pro-warez propaganda of all of the Pirate Parties, they should go more for net neutrality, freedom of speech and making people understand why they should be valued and what can happen if those rights are taken away. "But we just want free warez and dont want to pay for entertainment!" is not going to work, and it is the wrong kind of agenda. You should pay for people who spend tons of it, or just not use it like any other product. Just because it can be digitized on your computer doesn't mean you should be able to get it for free.
It's interesting to see how this develops however. Persons behind TPB have a great idea about freedom and net neutrality. It would be sad to see them getting beaten, even if I dont agree with TPB's main purpose.
I'm actually pretty tired of that, but the problem is that theres no fun content for lower level players either. I hate the 1-10 lvl grind, and its specially bad because there's no instances, dungeons, battlegrounds or arena teams for us still at that level. Not everyone has the time to play World of Warcraft 24/7, so we could we get something too?
And now they will save money when they dont need to buy so many new servers to cater to people who used 30% more resources.
Also its not immediate 2% loss. Maybe the gold farmers bought new accounts (they do it for money anyway). Those bans also were only temporary first. After it expired and account returned to same activies, it was only banned completely then.
I don't play the game, but these guys just forfeited 2% of their profits. And you're saying "about time"?
Knowingly cutting that kind of revenue requires more than balls, my friend. That requires the confidence that doing this is going to bring at least that 2% back. That it does not scare away more that are exploiting that haven't been caught. These guys took a chance for ideals of the players. There should be nothing but kudos from the community and an understanding that they have your best interests in mind despite scandals in the past.
Getting rid of the 2% that ruins the game for everyone else does a lot better for the game than trying to keep them in just because they offer extra 2% profit. Maybe someone has left the game because of that and now wants to go back to try it again. Maybe more players will join (they did get article to slashdot again, and probably to lots of other sites). As you see from the analysis, you also see that this 2% used a lot more cpu etc resources than normal players and affected stability of systems aswell, so they save extra there.
I've been wondering long time if I should try EVE and last time I read that you could quite nicely do mining on background while doing work and other stuff on internet. Now that they got rid of these people, maybe it would be even nicer experience for me.
And this is good. There's not so many players on the lower end regions now (and haven't been for long time), so the leveling isn't the same fun that it used to be with more players in the area. Its frustrating to play an mmorpg game and just be alone of with 1-2 players in the area. Its great that blizzard lowered the leveling requirements, because many times I stopped playing and paying for subscription because I just felt like playing alone, and I could had done that in more fun games. But most players are in the higher end and its more fun to get there quickly.
Players still see all the content and areas, but if they want they can do it more quickly now. It doesn't really make much sense to force people to grind and shit and even more so because its damn boring now without so many other players.
I understand your point, and I know this very well aswell. But my point is that "normal users" aren't going to see it, but just trust these short url services and then they spread those links to everyone who want to see them. I would never use these for giving personal stuff to friends, but people who dont know that good about the issues do - which is what i'm worried about.
Yes, you can get the specific url from tinyurl. But thats not the point. If you have free access to the complete database *without knowing the url*, its gonna break privacy. People use these services to post personal images/information with short urls, and they shouldn't be available for everyone.
Think about this for a minute. What information could anyone glean from knowing that a particular URL has been mapped, especially since you don't have to use an account to create the shortened URL so there's no way of showing who originally created it? Also, given that a given shortened URL is trivially resolvable to the original address, what privacy did you incorrectly think it was granting you?
What about if you linked to your private pictures? Or maybe something even more personal. Such can give out lots of personal privacy info to everyone, and I dont really agree with that. Even if its the open source way to go. People use these services to short url links they give to people they know; they sure as hell shouldn't be available to everyone.
In addition, "tr.im will offer all link-map data associated with tr.im URLs to anyone that wants it in real-time. This will involve a variety of time-based snapshots of aggregated destination URLs, the number of tr.im URLs created for any given destination URL, and aggregate click data."
Am I the only one who this sounds scary? Open source is great, but open data like that not. I sure as hell wont be using tr.im to shorten my urls if they intend to make it all public. When I use tinyurl and such I kind of can know that all the destination urls wont be open data to everyone. Yeah, I know you shouldn't paste personals url via other sites, but people still do. Some privacy, please?
The point isn't fully about losing weight, but to feel better. It was a huge difference when I tried it the first time and I still always feel the difference when eating other kind of food. I never feel stuffed, hungry after a few hours and my stomach is at peace.
And in my opinion meat, fish and eggs is more natural food than potatoes or manufactured food, which usually contains more of those carbohydrates.
Just to note before someone comes saying, that drop to ketosis takes 3-5 days and you shouldnt eat more than 15-20g of carbs a day. After 6-7 days your body has adjusted and you start feeling really really great and you have a lot more energy than previously, and wont hungry all the time. But it takes that period to adjust your body into it, so you cant just try it 1-2 days and say you feel like shit.
However how does it compare when you drop almost all carbohydrates and bring your body into ketosis? I always feel really energetic then, after "fat" food too. This doesn't include such fatty food than pizza and deep fried fries, but high-fat and high-protein meat, fish, ground beef and so on. Pizza and such is completely different, I think it comes from when you mix fat and carbohydrates (either "good" or "bad" ones) together.
Also my stomach feels a lot better when eating high-fat/protein food with next to nothing carbs. I also get much more work done that way when I feel great after eating too.
So definitely there is differences in body when eating fat together with carbs, and when eating fat but without carbs.
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You wipe the OS and install a new one. You clean it up from the default bloatware and hook it to the network. You analyze the connection and if there is no communication the devices are safe.
You seem like a intelligent gentleman providing great solution for both the latest gov IT attacks AND the recession!
If this happens, I can see both China's computer espionage and Kim Jong's heads exploding from the sore happiness!
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I understand breaking the monitor and keyboard in such situation, but you actually went out of the house, walked to your tool shack, picked up an axe and smashed your telephone line with it? That's a little bit aggressive, dont you think?
It's not GBP, its 9,99 euros = ~$14.
It supports 2G/3G as well (Q/A)
Besides that it allows caching of ~2000 songs on the device that you can take with you. But atleast here in scandinavia unlimited 2G/3G plans are so cheap that might just aswell use them.
I dont know what idea of free you have, but its free for user. Like tv stations with ads are free for user. Now get off your high horse.
..._requires_ a Premium account - a normal, free account is not allowed to log in. This is all for understandable reasons relating to how Spotify, when used with a free account, enforces ads that can not be shut off or ignored.
Which I find really interesting from Apple's perspective, because
The application will be free, but will require the user to have a premium Spotify subscription, which costs £10.
means Apple wont be getting its share from the sales on the app store, because those premium subscriptions are bought directly from Spotify's site.
Yep, Windows OS is quite open (not meaning the OSS way now) compared to Apple's stuff and even Windows Mobile is a lot more open than iPhone, you can install any software on it like on Windows. Hell, you can even get Linux and Android running on it without hacks or jailbreaking.
Leigh stated that it isn't a ROM hack or anything, but a Linux image running within Windows Mobile. Hmm, a dual boot device could be very enticing for the mobile gadget geek.
And you two are missing the point aswell. The whole story isn't about how surprised everyone are that Apple accepted it, but that spotify is now actually released for iPhone too. Stop trying to this thread into another "apple is bad, apple dont approve apps" discussion. I would a lot more like to read and discuss about the actual thing, aka spotify, here because its a great system and program.
I hope they get versions out to Windows Mobile and Symbian out soon too, would be great to listen on the road and the 3g internet is practically unlimited and cheap here.
nor it is needed to fight something like this in Sweden.
Dude, I know this is Slashdot and all. Nobody reads the article. Some dont even read the summary. But for the love of god please even read the headline you're answering to!
You cannot get around that with technical reasonings like "but we dont host the files, we just provide .torrent files".
You can not get around that with technical reasonings like "but I did not stab anyone, I just sold him the knife".
More correct analogy would be "but I did not stab anyone, I just gave the movement to the knife. It wasn't me who stabbed him, it was the knife!"
Like I said in both posts, courts in scandinavia look into purpose too and it can count a lot. I do not know how its in USA or elsewhere, but I know its so in here. But I guess if Google were being a search engine only for warez and illegal content, they would be shutdown quite fast too. Even if they have lots of DMCA issues and are linking to illegal content, they are a general search engine and do what they need by law to remove such content (and fight for net neutrality too). But its obvious what is The Pirate Bay's purpose and why everyone of their users are using it.
Read my comment again and you should see what I mean. They have values for freedom of speech and net neutrality and defend that (probably for their own cause too of course). Those things I value, but not the warez stuff they're doing.
And seeing who I'm responding to, you are doing exactly how game companies should be doing, but people still pirate games and give these stupid reasons for it. If people can get it for free, obviously they will, and sites like TPB are making indirect money off others work. You can compare them to warez sellers, but just that they're not selling it directly but generating revenue indirectly from ads.
I love Democracy and Kudos btw and have bought them :) And I could think that pirating games will hit most bad the innovaters and indie game developers, because they cant get the game out to masses and stores the same way EA and so on. There's lots of bashing for EA and similar companies for doing the same thing for over and over again, but who still pirate indie game developers who actually make out of the box thinking games.
I'm just telling that the intention counts in courts aswell. If its as clear as The Pirate Bay is and how they handled to all the DMCA requests (even if theres no such law in sweden, but common sense works long way), judges are going to see and punish for it. You cannot get around that with technical reasonings like "but we dont host the files, we just provide .torrent files". And before anyone jumps on the "but then Google should be sued and shutdown too" bullshit, everyone can see the difference between TPB and Google.
This is really just the last attemps to remain online. How long will it take until they're closed at another ISP again? (TPB is down again btw). And how long will it take until their domain is pulled down?
This time they're not just arguing against media companies/RIAA/MPAA in USA, but their own goverment and courts. Shit is going to hit the wall.
And with the latest GGF buyout news and suspected inside trading with stocks, losing in swedish courts and everything happening with them recently, this just seems like the last attemps to get the remaining money off the site.
Personally, I would like to see them stay online and fight for the values they have (or are giving to people). But it really doesn't seem like its going to happen.
The thing is, The PiratePirate Bay's talk about "but we only host the .torrent files, not the files" didn't work out for them. It's also pretty clear what was The Pirate Bay's purpose, along how they mocked companies asking to remove content. The point being they are clearly breaking the law and giving technical excuses for it, while the purpose counts just as good (and I'm saying this as a swedish person)
Sadly, it seems like the world is going to more closed place again by what goverments do. I dont want USA's laws here either. But instead of the clear pro-warez propaganda of all of the Pirate Parties, they should go more for net neutrality, freedom of speech and making people understand why they should be valued and what can happen if those rights are taken away. "But we just want free warez and dont want to pay for entertainment!" is not going to work, and it is the wrong kind of agenda. You should pay for people who spend tons of it, or just not use it like any other product. Just because it can be digitized on your computer doesn't mean you should be able to get it for free.
It's interesting to see how this develops however. Persons behind TPB have a great idea about freedom and net neutrality. It would be sad to see them getting beaten, even if I dont agree with TPB's main purpose.
I'm actually pretty tired of that, but the problem is that theres no fun content for lower level players either. I hate the 1-10 lvl grind, and its specially bad because there's no instances, dungeons, battlegrounds or arena teams for us still at that level. Not everyone has the time to play World of Warcraft 24/7, so we could we get something too?
And now they will save money when they dont need to buy so many new servers to cater to people who used 30% more resources.
Also its not immediate 2% loss. Maybe the gold farmers bought new accounts (they do it for money anyway). Those bans also were only temporary first. After it expired and account returned to same activies, it was only banned completely then.
I don't play the game, but these guys just forfeited 2% of their profits. And you're saying "about time"?
Knowingly cutting that kind of revenue requires more than balls, my friend. That requires the confidence that doing this is going to bring at least that 2% back. That it does not scare away more that are exploiting that haven't been caught. These guys took a chance for ideals of the players. There should be nothing but kudos from the community and an understanding that they have your best interests in mind despite scandals in the past.
Getting rid of the 2% that ruins the game for everyone else does a lot better for the game than trying to keep them in just because they offer extra 2% profit. Maybe someone has left the game because of that and now wants to go back to try it again. Maybe more players will join (they did get article to slashdot again, and probably to lots of other sites). As you see from the analysis, you also see that this 2% used a lot more cpu etc resources than normal players and affected stability of systems aswell, so they save extra there.
I've been wondering long time if I should try EVE and last time I read that you could quite nicely do mining on background while doing work and other stuff on internet. Now that they got rid of these people, maybe it would be even nicer experience for me.
And this is good. There's not so many players on the lower end regions now (and haven't been for long time), so the leveling isn't the same fun that it used to be with more players in the area. Its frustrating to play an mmorpg game and just be alone of with 1-2 players in the area. Its great that blizzard lowered the leveling requirements, because many times I stopped playing and paying for subscription because I just felt like playing alone, and I could had done that in more fun games. But most players are in the higher end and its more fun to get there quickly.
Players still see all the content and areas, but if they want they can do it more quickly now. It doesn't really make much sense to force people to grind and shit and even more so because its damn boring now without so many other players.
I understand your point, and I know this very well aswell. But my point is that "normal users" aren't going to see it, but just trust these short url services and then they spread those links to everyone who want to see them. I would never use these for giving personal stuff to friends, but people who dont know that good about the issues do - which is what i'm worried about.
Yes, you can get the specific url from tinyurl. But thats not the point. If you have free access to the complete database *without knowing the url*, its gonna break privacy. People use these services to post personal images/information with short urls, and they shouldn't be available for everyone.
Think about this for a minute. What information could anyone glean from knowing that a particular URL has been mapped, especially since you don't have to use an account to create the shortened URL so there's no way of showing who originally created it? Also, given that a given shortened URL is trivially resolvable to the original address, what privacy did you incorrectly think it was granting you?
What about if you linked to your private pictures? Or maybe something even more personal. Such can give out lots of personal privacy info to everyone, and I dont really agree with that. Even if its the open source way to go. People use these services to short url links they give to people they know; they sure as hell shouldn't be available to everyone.
In addition, "tr.im will offer all link-map data associated with tr.im URLs to anyone that wants it in real-time. This will involve a variety of time-based snapshots of aggregated destination URLs, the number of tr.im URLs created for any given destination URL, and aggregate click data."
Am I the only one who this sounds scary? Open source is great, but open data like that not. I sure as hell wont be using tr.im to shorten my urls if they intend to make it all public. When I use tinyurl and such I kind of can know that all the destination urls wont be open data to everyone. Yeah, I know you shouldn't paste personals url via other sites, but people still do. Some privacy, please?
The point isn't fully about losing weight, but to feel better. It was a huge difference when I tried it the first time and I still always feel the difference when eating other kind of food. I never feel stuffed, hungry after a few hours and my stomach is at peace.
And in my opinion meat, fish and eggs is more natural food than potatoes or manufactured food, which usually contains more of those carbohydrates.
Just to note before someone comes saying, that drop to ketosis takes 3-5 days and you shouldnt eat more than 15-20g of carbs a day. After 6-7 days your body has adjusted and you start feeling really really great and you have a lot more energy than previously, and wont hungry all the time. But it takes that period to adjust your body into it, so you cant just try it 1-2 days and say you feel like shit.
However how does it compare when you drop almost all carbohydrates and bring your body into ketosis? I always feel really energetic then, after "fat" food too. This doesn't include such fatty food than pizza and deep fried fries, but high-fat and high-protein meat, fish, ground beef and so on. Pizza and such is completely different, I think it comes from when you mix fat and carbohydrates (either "good" or "bad" ones) together.
Also my stomach feels a lot better when eating high-fat/protein food with next to nothing carbs. I also get much more work done that way when I feel great after eating too.
So definitely there is differences in body when eating fat together with carbs, and when eating fat but without carbs.