Not to troll, but it's not like the majority of content out there is actually worth protecting. Soap operas? Censored, cut , full of commercial movies? Sitcoms (although the simpsons might be worth it)? Tampon commericals? Stuff that is worth watching (like the sopranos, other hbo stuff) has normally been encrypted in the past, so it not like that is much of a change, but when you can buy a season on dvd for $60, its not that big of a deal)
I've never bought anything by clicking on a banner, partially because I have an ad filter (working beautifully I assume). I've probably clicked on a few banners (browsing at school and what not) but these have mainly consisted of the some of the neat stuff they have.
Now, tampons, lose weight by april 28th and x10 kits is a short list of stuff I will never buy, and certainly not click banners advertising.
I have no gunshot wound that needs plugging, I am not overweight partially because I don't use a remote to turn on a bloody light that is ten feet away. I'm also a college student, which, by definition means I'm broke, and when I do have money it goes to food, skool, girlfriend, hardware or beer, probably in that order, although it may vary, especially on fridays. Can advertisers eventually get to the realization that I am not going to buy a product that is completely and utterly useless to me? Why are advertisers constantly wasting bandwidth? I probably wouldn't mind ads that are at least generated sorta based on my interests. hint hint. Same thing with spam, although I really enjoyed reading the nigerian money laundering one.
If this were on fark.com, it would have an obvious tag. I suppose if your more expensive, inferior product can't compete 1:1 with its competitor, you have to resort to something like this.
Although this appears to be a flamebait (intel's move, and yes, to an extent, my article), I think that the intel move is fairly irrelevant considering intel has a crapload of the market (i.e. OEM, businesses, etc) and it doesn't look like HPaq / IBM, etc will be switching to AMD.
Tho I have one thing positive to say about the p4, small chip, big ass heat sink, tres cool. If intel wants to increase its market share into the "geek" community, sell a 4 lb copper heatsink w/ a window / light kit mounted on the chip:) of copper on em, along with a window kit
Sir! We've instituting a policy of registration because umm.. umm.. . fuck! Because people could umm.. guide anthrax with the tracking of objects in space.
Condescending assholes. How fucking lame is that shit? Why the hell would these dumbshits block it to the public? Bandwidth? God forbid anybody express interest in what is going on, you know, people who could drum up some public support for the space program. God forbid we actually encourage people to be interested in something somewhat factual, as opposed to the cnn and nbc excrement. Of course, there is probably some amateur site with better coverage. end rant.
I'll just pay Guido to torture your ass for $10,000. There are other ways of extracting information . . . ironically brute force is an option in both umm professions. .. Sort of off topic, but honestly, the investment (for the machine) isn't worth it unless you plan on doing this a lot of times, and if somebody was going to do this on a case by case basis, it would be cheaper to hire one of Pol-pot's henchmen to do the job.
Jesus fucking christ. As cool as the project is, don't these people have any common sense? You don't get paid for a year, you jump ship. I'd be gone after 2 bounced [or not received] paychecks. The market is shitty, but I'm sure that someone could hire them. Of course management got paid, this was a friggin sweatshop.
is getting someone to support it against Blizard. Unless the EFF or a major player steps in, its not like anything is going to happen. With so many copies of bnetd out there, its not like it is a major issue, but hey.
By the way, don't bother with wc3, the game sucks dick for bus fare and then walks;) Nice graphics and all, but the gameplay is piss poor.
Anyone else feel that support@bliz sounds like a bot if you mention bnetd? Try sending the peeps a legit question and somewhere mention bnetd and see if you get a response to your question or the canned Piracy FAQ response. lamerize "bnetd" and then send more emails to support . . .
Ban all non-secure devices. Kicks ass. Do this soon so Canada and Mexico can sue (well, sorta because the actual proceedings are made up of a secret tribunal) the fuck out of the USA under chapter 11 of NAFTA as it is 'tantamount to expropriation'.
Hell, the Canadians are already suing because there is no market for their MTBE poison any more [Cali used to use it as a gasoline additive, MTBE is fairly nasty shit, Cali banned it only recently, Methanex sued for $970 million, pending]
For example - if a Canadian company sold the serial connectors to the ps2 (or whatever was on/. a while back) and US Customs seized them based on the fact that they were in violation of the DMCA, the Canadian company could sue the American govt under chapter 11 and be awarded damages. Methinks you would have to be a huge company with lots of lawyers to even be considered, but Loewen [funeral assholes] is suing the us govt because a jury trial found the company guilty of fraudlent and malicious business practices, Loewen filed suit against the USA and is currently seeking a $USD 725 million settlement because it was fined by the jury.
If you're bored, look up the Bill Moyers video and watch it, very eye opening.
If you want free health coverage in the state of Oregon and are a single person, the maximum that you are allowed to make is $712 a month. I suppose someone pulled that figure out of their ass in the late 80's and it hasn't been adjusted for inflation, but hey. .. It just pisses me off that I am being encouraged by the government not to work, or even work less hours. bah.
I dunno, but perhaps it is time to just start banning IP [subnets] completely. I'd hate to sound like some egalitarian asshole, but with the exception of a few friends, I wouldn't miss anything coming from the IP addies owned by ATT, and sure as hell not miss any of the excrement that is AOL. Stuff like doubleclick I wouldn't miss either . . .
Broke college students and an entire culture raised on broadcast radio, tv and the premise that media and entertainment is free. Think about this example - think back to the days where a personal cd player cost around $150, sucked batteries etc, etc. Think of what the CD industry was before Columbia House (and scamming their ass hard). It sucked, virtually nobody had cds - why? well, because the ability to play awesome quality music / not have to ff, etc, etc wasn't worth the cost.
I have no idea how the entertainment industry can think that their attempts at DRM, etc can compete with "free" or at the very least "cheap alternative" sources like the radio or the cds burned by polly the pirate. You can't change the mindset of people who were raised to turn on the tv / radio and tune to whatever station and get a program without any hastle.
The cat is out of the bag, more people use the "illegal" services than use the legal - hell - if you use a commercial DRM supporting player - i.e. rio 600 - there is actually value lost - the interface is a fucking pain compared to how i get files to my rio volt (cd mp3 player). Not that diamond could ever make software worth a damn anyways (hw kicks ass), but still . ..
Now the video industry has something that actually might save their ass - DVD special features, the fact that data speeds over the net are slow and the lack of a comercial player for DIVX on your TV - which are the only things that are preventing DIVX from being in almost every household.
Quality sure as hell isn't stopping people - the new 4.12 divx codec looks damn near dvd quality at full screen if postprocessing is set to max (needs a good box tho, about 1 GHz, damn).
What can I say, this isn't a financial war they are fighting, but one against a mindset, and they are approaching it the wrong way.
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fyi, the canadian form - imp has a package with macaroni and cheese - arguably the most popular.
"Oh fuck. You caught us [feign death]. Even though we already used the data, we are so sorry and promise to never, ever ever do it again. We really mean it this time." Not to sound like an open source bigot (actually, even if a program is open source, most people won't even bother looking at source code, dare you say actually compiling it) but there is a reason that this code was put in, you can be sure that placing a more or less unique code into an online database was a bitch to program, so it wasn't put in there without a reason.
What can I say, at lease MS is changing their privacy policy, even though they aren't doing much else about it.
Arrogant companies piss me off, what can I say... bah
It's not that expensive, considering the amount of money a corp wastes every year. If you put it in perspective - it is half of an average worker's yearly salary - and if management thinks it will save that much money over a year. . .
Companies have private jets so the pres / vp can get wasted while traveling across the country - $20k is nothing.
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Senators going to try and put another protection act next week? What a victory.
Not to troll, but it's not like the majority of content out there is actually worth protecting. Soap operas? Censored, cut , full of commercial movies? Sitcoms (although the simpsons might be worth it)? Tampon commericals?
Stuff that is worth watching (like the sopranos, other hbo stuff) has normally been encrypted in the past, so it not like that is much of a change, but when you can buy a season on dvd for $60, its not that big of a deal)
I've never bought anything by clicking on a banner, partially because I have an ad filter (working beautifully I assume). I've probably clicked on a few banners (browsing at school and what not) but these have mainly consisted of the some of the neat stuff they have.
Now, tampons, lose weight by april 28th and x10 kits is a short list of stuff I will never buy, and certainly not click banners advertising.
I have no gunshot wound that needs plugging, I am not overweight partially because I don't use a remote to turn on a bloody light that is ten feet away.
I'm also a college student, which, by definition means I'm broke, and when I do have money it goes to food, skool, girlfriend, hardware or beer, probably in that order, although it may vary, especially on fridays.
Can advertisers eventually get to the realization that I am not going to buy a product that is completely and utterly useless to me? Why are advertisers constantly wasting bandwidth? I probably wouldn't mind ads that are at least generated sorta based on my interests. hint hint.
Same thing with spam, although I really enjoyed reading the nigerian money laundering one.
If this were on fark.com, it would have an obvious tag.
:)
I suppose if your more expensive, inferior product can't compete 1:1 with its competitor, you have to resort to something like this.
Although this appears to be a flamebait (intel's move, and yes, to an extent, my article), I think that the intel move is fairly irrelevant considering intel has a crapload of the market (i.e. OEM, businesses, etc) and it doesn't look like HPaq / IBM, etc will be switching to AMD.
Tho I have one thing positive to say about the p4, small chip, big ass heat sink, tres cool. If intel wants to increase its market share into the
"geek" community, sell a 4 lb copper heatsink w/ a window / light kit mounted on the chip
of copper on em, along with a window kit
In numerical terms, what exactly is 9.25 shitload? :)
Sir! We've instituting a policy of registration because umm.. umm .. . fuck! Because people could umm.. guide anthrax with the tracking of objects in space.
Condescending assholes. How fucking lame is that shit? Why the hell would these dumbshits block it to the public? Bandwidth? God forbid anybody express interest in what is going on, you know, people who could drum up some public support for the space program. God forbid we actually encourage people to be interested in something somewhat factual, as opposed to the cnn and nbc excrement.
Of course, there is probably some amateur site with better coverage.
end rant.
I'll just pay Guido to torture your ass for $10,000. There are other ways of extracting information . . . ironically brute force is an option in both umm professions. . .
Sort of off topic, but honestly, the investment (for the machine) isn't worth it unless you plan on doing this a lot of times, and if somebody was going to do this on a case by case basis, it would be cheaper to hire one of Pol-pot's henchmen to do the job.
And what, pray tell, is a fucking 10?
I think someone is being a little um. . . friendly to these jerks. Not that the warez leech kiddies don't deserve it.
Bah
Gimme a D, gimme a R, gimme an M. . . /. ads ;)
What's it spell?
I also see my ad filter is working on the new
Jesus fucking christ. As cool as the project is, don't these people have any common sense? You don't get paid for a year, you jump ship. I'd be gone after 2 bounced [or not received] paychecks. The market is shitty, but I'm sure that someone could hire them. Of course management got paid, this was a friggin sweatshop.
is getting someone to support it against Blizard.
;) Nice graphics and all, but the gameplay is piss poor.
Unless the EFF or a major player steps in, its not like anything is going to happen. With so many copies of bnetd out there, its not like it is a major issue, but hey.
By the way, don't bother with wc3, the game sucks dick for bus fare and then walks
Anyone else feel that support@bliz sounds like a bot if you mention bnetd? Try sending the peeps a legit question and somewhere mention bnetd and see if you get a response to your question or the canned Piracy FAQ response.
lamerize "bnetd" and then send more emails to support . . .
Ban all non-secure devices. Kicks ass.
/. a while back) and US Customs seized them based on the fact that they were in violation of the DMCA, the Canadian company could sue the American govt under chapter 11 and be awarded damages. Methinks you would have to be a huge company with lots of lawyers to even be considered, but Loewen [funeral assholes] is suing the us govt because a jury trial found the company guilty of fraudlent and malicious business practices, Loewen filed suit against the USA and is currently seeking a $USD 725 million settlement because it was fined by the jury.
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Do this soon so Canada and Mexico can sue (well, sorta because the actual proceedings are made up of a secret tribunal) the fuck out of the USA under chapter 11 of NAFTA as it is 'tantamount to expropriation'.
Hell, the Canadians are already suing because there is no market for their MTBE poison any more [Cali used to use it as a gasoline additive, MTBE is fairly nasty shit, Cali banned it only recently, Methanex sued for $970 million, pending]
For example - if a Canadian company sold the serial connectors to the ps2 (or whatever was on
If you're bored, look up the Bill Moyers video and watch it, very eye opening.
http://www.citizen.org/trade/issues/mai/Investo
http://www.citizen.org/trade/nafta/CH__11/artic
http://www.google.com/search?q=nafta+chapter+11
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:KFFJHC4Zdg
If you want free health coverage in the state of Oregon and are a single person, the maximum that you are allowed to make is $712 a month. I suppose someone pulled that figure out of their ass in the late 80's and it hasn't been adjusted for inflation, but hey. . .
It just pisses me off that I am being encouraged by the government not to work, or even work less hours.
bah.
I dunno, but perhaps it is time to just start banning IP [subnets] completely. I'd hate to sound like some egalitarian asshole, but with the exception of a few friends, I wouldn't miss anything coming from the IP addies owned by ATT, and sure as hell not miss any of the excrement that is AOL.
Stuff like doubleclick I wouldn't miss either . . .
Broke college students and an entire culture raised on broadcast radio, tv and the premise that media and entertainment is free.
.
Think about this example - think back to the days where a personal cd player cost around $150, sucked batteries etc, etc. Think of what the CD industry was before Columbia House (and scamming their ass hard). It sucked, virtually nobody had cds - why? well, because the ability to play awesome quality music / not have to ff, etc, etc wasn't worth the cost.
I have no idea how the entertainment industry can think that their attempts at DRM, etc can compete with "free" or at the very least "cheap alternative" sources like the radio or the cds burned by polly the pirate. You can't change the mindset of people who were raised to turn on the tv / radio and tune to whatever station and get a program without any hastle.
The cat is out of the bag, more people use the "illegal" services than use the legal - hell - if you use a commercial DRM supporting player - i.e. rio 600 - there is actually value lost - the interface is a fucking pain compared to how i get files to my rio volt (cd mp3 player). Not that diamond could ever make software worth a damn anyways (hw kicks ass), but still . .
Now the video industry has something that actually might save their ass - DVD special features, the fact that data speeds over the net are slow and the lack of a comercial player for DIVX on your TV - which are the only things that are preventing DIVX from being in almost every household.
Quality sure as hell isn't stopping people - the new 4.12 divx codec looks damn near dvd quality at full screen if postprocessing is set to max (needs a good box tho, about 1 GHz, damn).
What can I say, this isn't a financial war they are fighting, but one against a mindset, and they are approaching it the wrong way.
fyi, the canadian form - imp has a package with macaroni and cheese - arguably the most popular.
"Oh fuck. You caught us [feign death]. Even though we already used the data, we are so sorry and promise to never, ever ever do it again. We really mean it this time."
Not to sound like an open source bigot (actually, even if a program is open source, most people won't even bother looking at source code, dare you say actually compiling it) but there is a reason that this code was put in, you can be sure that placing a more or less unique code into an online database was a bitch to program, so it wasn't put in there without a reason.
What can I say, at lease MS is changing their privacy policy, even though they aren't doing much else about it.
Arrogant companies piss me off, what can I say...
bah
besides the fact that the game fucking sucks in terms of gameplay, I think that bliz will have less $$ coming in because of this.
It's not that expensive, considering the amount of money a corp wastes every year. If you put it in perspective - it is half of an average worker's yearly salary - and if management thinks it will save that much money over a year. . . :)
Companies have private jets so the pres / vp can get wasted while traveling across the country - $20k is nothing.
Google roxxor!
I fail to see the problem (although I am recently divorced and unemployed)
(I love the smell of satire in the morning)
Cooling? Bah, it's winter, put a fan and two box filters on either side of it and replace the furnace :)
how many times must we tell you, these are FEATURES!!
:)
And can you go ahead and use 90% of the other apps out there? Yeah, thought so. I mean, goddamn it, I want my Castle Wolfenstein!
MPAA's new site which lists new tv copy protection.
All.your.TV/are/belong/to/us
(Apologies)
woot! now I won't have to use support@aol.com when I fill in registration forms online!!