Hyperbole much? None of those would likely ever result in sex offense charges. Not unless there were some really weird details you left out, like peeing in a forest *in front of a bunch of girl scouts* or something.
I wouldn't take the site down and put a different one saying that. But you might get results by taking the site down and waiting for them to call you about it, since they would probably just assume it's a technical issue. Of course, if you don't have control of the registrar then it's pointless.
So in short: take the site down or maybe turn the database off so it doesn't function correctly. Make sure any and all credentials you have for it are changed so that they are less able to get someone else to fix it. When they call you, simply feign ignorance of the problem and explain that you can look into it after they have paid their outstanding balance in full. Just be polite about it, and don't actually fix anything until you have a check or some other written notification from within the company signifying the check is on it's way. Once done, you can turn the database back on, or open port 80 back up or whatever.
Don't, under any circumstances, attempt to publicly shame them. It's unprofessional and you won't run a small business for very long with an "eye for an eye" attitude, at least not publicly. Furthermore, you'll just go to the bottom of their list of debts to pay, and probably to the top of their legal stack.
I just tell them to stop watching porn, stop downloading movies, and stop clicking on links inside email. For most people, that probably equates to "don't use the internet" which is fine as far as I'm concerned.. If you want to use a tool without getting hurt, invest a little time and effort into learning how. If not, just accept the fact that you will magically have problems crop up here and there, sort of like a car that never gets its fluids checked.
The problem is, most people simply don't want to learn new things past the age of about 16, so trying to elaborate any more than that is pointless.
Something that hasn't been mentioned is that the 48fps seems to be only for the 3D release. So unless you are really into that particular experience, none of this really matters right now.
How in the world did it take you two days to figure out Spamhaus was blocking your stuff?
Save yourself some time down the road and just go to mxtoolbox.com. Enter the domain name it and can check all kinds of things for you. If a list is blocking it, you can get details as to why. In the past I've seen various reasons, but most are pretty detailed and provide quick access to the forms you need to get removed.
As for your idea of a secret shared blacklist between hotmail and yahoo, it sounds more like it's just a dynamic content filter that pulls data from spam lists to prevent the propagation of bad links. I doubt it's 100% realtime, so after getting Spamhaus to unlist you, yahoo and hotmail need to wait for their next content filter update to see the changes.
Anyway, I just thought it was a little weird that it took you 2 days to even get to step two of your problem.
Smaller companies are considered easier targets, which helps to set a precedent. That could be the true goal with it. You know, a test-the-waters thing.
The problem is that people *can't* work for less. Inflation has been way ahead wage growth for decades now, and isn't going to change soon. China gets away with it because, as a nation, they seem to be rather accepting of having 98% of the population living in literal poverty. That won't fly here in the U.S. and a lot of the political unrest we've had in the last 10 years is one side effect.
As for bond investors leaving the U.S. market, that's also not going to happen any time soon because, as bad off as we are, there are still no better alternatives for bond investments. It doesn't matter how economically powerful China gets, there's still way too much government corruption, lack of fiscal transparency, and a propensity to mess with their exchange rate to suite their needs. That's not an ideal alternative. The UK failed because the U.S. was right there ready to step in and take over, with an emerging democratic economy and a thriving industrial base.
Simply put, America becoming a stronger economy was beneficial to the rest of the world, including China, partly because is created a strong consumer-driven economy. China becoming a stronger economy won't have that effect because they lack any sort of middle class; the super-rich can only consume so much. Like it or not, as the U.S. economy tanks, the rest of the worlds will follow (and is following) until either we right our ship, or another similar economy is ready to step up and be the dominate consumer-driven economy, or the world economies all start to fracture and become more isolated again, at least for a while.
I find it kind of funny how a guy that left America to avoid paying taxes is now hoping to get back in due to (as he claims) being framed for a murder after not paying bribes to the government. Oh, so now you want to pay taxes and get my sympathy? Nice.
The last thing Big Media wants is even faster downloads of movies. They've pushed hard to make sure data caps are in place to mitigate it all, so there's no way they'll let this fly.
I'm not sure how shutting down CoH would have helped GW2 post launch. Especially since CoH was more or less run independently by Paragon Studios, who have no real connection to ArenaNet. The target audiences are even completely different. Lastly, since GW2 lacks a subscription, it would be difficult for one to take away from the other financially.
The GeForce 210 is an older entry level workstation card. It's there to display lots of excel sheets and maybe a youtube video. Having 1GB of RAM is irrelevant for that card, when it comes to gaming.
In this case, just Apple. I don't particularly care if a company ships jobs overseas; that's normal, as sad as it is. What I care about is a company shipping jobs over seas and then trying to make it sound like they are some all american company.
I'm a Microsoft guy through and through, when it comes to the enterprise. These licensing costs are just getting really difficult to justify. I know there's some open source replacement available, but it's not all very coherently tied together the way MS stuff is. I'd love to be able to move away though.
I couldn't care less about where it was assembled. The parts are still made in China, which is where the quality is real labor comes from. I'll be impressed if they open up actual factories here in the US, and stop using Ireland to funnel cheaper tax rates.
I know this was modded Funny and all, but it's actually the best advice you can get right now. Government and law enforcement officials, for whatever reasons, don't seem to want to acknowledge the fact that an IP address does not equal a specific person. We may as well take advantage of that ignorance while we can. Eventually, after enough innocent people get fined and jailed, the mob mentality of the general population will force them to actually listen to the experts in the field.
It's kind of like global warming really, in that politicians mostly ignored and denied it until they had no other choice but to accept the fact that weather is all kinds of fucked up now, regardless of how the oil lobby tries to spin it.
Why in the world did the FBI even have to get a repair shop involved in the first place? Was the task of reimaging a computer truly that daunting for them?
Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 are also designed to be online games, rather than single player games, so it makes sense for them to be tied to Battle.Net. And yes, I know there is always going to be someone out there complaining about being stuck in a hotel room with bad/no wifi and can't played a game they paid for, etc, but I think it's pretty clear that those situations are in the minority.
Does Battle.Net have some of the positive (for Blizzard) side effects of traditional DRM? Sure. That doesn't make it DRM though, especially since the games aren't designed to be off-line experiences anymore.
Blizzard doesn't really use DRM. It just ties every game to Battle.Net which is entirely different. And since we're talking about their older games, it's worth noting that those had some of the better "trials" on disk, which you could load up on any number of computers. I don't remember the restrictions but I remember it was a great way to legally add people to a LAN game.
What Doom 3 has that those other games don't, is FPS action. The Doom games have never been designed purely for scaring the players. Their just FPS's that happen to take place in creepy environments. Sort of like the Dead Space series really. They can have their scary moments, but the core gameplay is still that of an FPS rather than survival horror.
Possibly. It depends on how much truth there is behind both sides claims. Neither the Feds nor Kim have much credibility here, and both have a history of distorting as much truth as possible to get their way. I don't envy the ones who have to try and cut through the bullshit and figure out exactly what needs to be done.
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Hyperbole much? None of those would likely ever result in sex offense charges. Not unless there were some really weird details you left out, like peeing in a forest *in front of a bunch of girl scouts* or something.
How are they handling Direct X? I assume it's not simply a WINE port.
I wouldn't take the site down and put a different one saying that. But you might get results by taking the site down and waiting for them to call you about it, since they would probably just assume it's a technical issue. Of course, if you don't have control of the registrar then it's pointless.
So in short: take the site down or maybe turn the database off so it doesn't function correctly. Make sure any and all credentials you have for it are changed so that they are less able to get someone else to fix it. When they call you, simply feign ignorance of the problem and explain that you can look into it after they have paid their outstanding balance in full. Just be polite about it, and don't actually fix anything until you have a check or some other written notification from within the company signifying the check is on it's way. Once done, you can turn the database back on, or open port 80 back up or whatever.
Don't, under any circumstances, attempt to publicly shame them. It's unprofessional and you won't run a small business for very long with an "eye for an eye" attitude, at least not publicly. Furthermore, you'll just go to the bottom of their list of debts to pay, and probably to the top of their legal stack.
I just tell them to stop watching porn, stop downloading movies, and stop clicking on links inside email. For most people, that probably equates to "don't use the internet" which is fine as far as I'm concerned.. If you want to use a tool without getting hurt, invest a little time and effort into learning how. If not, just accept the fact that you will magically have problems crop up here and there, sort of like a car that never gets its fluids checked.
The problem is, most people simply don't want to learn new things past the age of about 16, so trying to elaborate any more than that is pointless.
Something that hasn't been mentioned is that the 48fps seems to be only for the 3D release. So unless you are really into that particular experience, none of this really matters right now.
How in the world did it take you two days to figure out Spamhaus was blocking your stuff?
Save yourself some time down the road and just go to mxtoolbox.com. Enter the domain name it and can check all kinds of things for you. If a list is blocking it, you can get details as to why. In the past I've seen various reasons, but most are pretty detailed and provide quick access to the forms you need to get removed.
As for your idea of a secret shared blacklist between hotmail and yahoo, it sounds more like it's just a dynamic content filter that pulls data from spam lists to prevent the propagation of bad links. I doubt it's 100% realtime, so after getting Spamhaus to unlist you, yahoo and hotmail need to wait for their next content filter update to see the changes.
Anyway, I just thought it was a little weird that it took you 2 days to even get to step two of your problem.
The tracker just says "Connecting..."
That can't be good.
Smaller companies are considered easier targets, which helps to set a precedent. That could be the true goal with it. You know, a test-the-waters thing.
The problem is that people *can't* work for less. Inflation has been way ahead wage growth for decades now, and isn't going to change soon. China gets away with it because, as a nation, they seem to be rather accepting of having 98% of the population living in literal poverty. That won't fly here in the U.S. and a lot of the political unrest we've had in the last 10 years is one side effect.
As for bond investors leaving the U.S. market, that's also not going to happen any time soon because, as bad off as we are, there are still no better alternatives for bond investments. It doesn't matter how economically powerful China gets, there's still way too much government corruption, lack of fiscal transparency, and a propensity to mess with their exchange rate to suite their needs. That's not an ideal alternative. The UK failed because the U.S. was right there ready to step in and take over, with an emerging democratic economy and a thriving industrial base.
Simply put, America becoming a stronger economy was beneficial to the rest of the world, including China, partly because is created a strong consumer-driven economy. China becoming a stronger economy won't have that effect because they lack any sort of middle class; the super-rich can only consume so much. Like it or not, as the U.S. economy tanks, the rest of the worlds will follow (and is following) until either we right our ship, or another similar economy is ready to step up and be the dominate consumer-driven economy, or the world economies all start to fracture and become more isolated again, at least for a while.
I find it kind of funny how a guy that left America to avoid paying taxes is now hoping to get back in due to (as he claims) being framed for a murder after not paying bribes to the government. Oh, so now you want to pay taxes and get my sympathy? Nice.
The last thing Big Media wants is even faster downloads of movies. They've pushed hard to make sure data caps are in place to mitigate it all, so there's no way they'll let this fly.
Shouldn't a feature like this be tied to parental controls rather than an all or nothing approach?
I'm not sure how shutting down CoH would have helped GW2 post launch. Especially since CoH was more or less run independently by Paragon Studios, who have no real connection to ArenaNet. The target audiences are even completely different. Lastly, since GW2 lacks a subscription, it would be difficult for one to take away from the other financially.
The problem is, you bought a high-end workstation and expect it to be a gaming machine.
The GeForce 210 is an older entry level workstation card. It's there to display lots of excel sheets and maybe a youtube video. Having 1GB of RAM is irrelevant for that card, when it comes to gaming.
In this case, just Apple. I don't particularly care if a company ships jobs overseas; that's normal, as sad as it is. What I care about is a company shipping jobs over seas and then trying to make it sound like they are some all american company.
I'm a Microsoft guy through and through, when it comes to the enterprise. These licensing costs are just getting really difficult to justify. I know there's some open source replacement available, but it's not all very coherently tied together the way MS stuff is. I'd love to be able to move away though.
I couldn't care less about where it was assembled. The parts are still made in China, which is where the quality is real labor comes from. I'll be impressed if they open up actual factories here in the US, and stop using Ireland to funnel cheaper tax rates.
I know this was modded Funny and all, but it's actually the best advice you can get right now. Government and law enforcement officials, for whatever reasons, don't seem to want to acknowledge the fact that an IP address does not equal a specific person. We may as well take advantage of that ignorance while we can. Eventually, after enough innocent people get fined and jailed, the mob mentality of the general population will force them to actually listen to the experts in the field.
It's kind of like global warming really, in that politicians mostly ignored and denied it until they had no other choice but to accept the fact that weather is all kinds of fucked up now, regardless of how the oil lobby tries to spin it.
It's hard to have kids when half the world is raiding.
Why in the world did the FBI even have to get a repair shop involved in the first place? Was the task of reimaging a computer truly that daunting for them?
Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 are also designed to be online games, rather than single player games, so it makes sense for them to be tied to Battle.Net. And yes, I know there is always going to be someone out there complaining about being stuck in a hotel room with bad/no wifi and can't played a game they paid for, etc, but I think it's pretty clear that those situations are in the minority.
Does Battle.Net have some of the positive (for Blizzard) side effects of traditional DRM? Sure. That doesn't make it DRM though, especially since the games aren't designed to be off-line experiences anymore.
Blizzard doesn't really use DRM. It just ties every game to Battle.Net which is entirely different. And since we're talking about their older games, it's worth noting that those had some of the better "trials" on disk, which you could load up on any number of computers. I don't remember the restrictions but I remember it was a great way to legally add people to a LAN game.
What Doom 3 has that those other games don't, is FPS action. The Doom games have never been designed purely for scaring the players. Their just FPS's that happen to take place in creepy environments. Sort of like the Dead Space series really. They can have their scary moments, but the core gameplay is still that of an FPS rather than survival horror.
Possibly. It depends on how much truth there is behind both sides claims. Neither the Feds nor Kim have much credibility here, and both have a history of distorting as much truth as possible to get their way. I don't envy the ones who have to try and cut through the bullshit and figure out exactly what needs to be done.