Just remember that those are Microsoft Minutes. Anyone who has installed a copy of windows or has copied files across a windows share knows just how long those Microsoft Minutes can really last for.
If more people would take the DIY distribution approach we'd have a lot more diversity in music than we do now
I think a lot of artists already take the DIY approach. Unfortunately for them it is difficult to get their sounds heard above the masive volume of crap CDs put out by the RIAA. There is diversity, it's just that the RIAA tends to saturate the marketplace with more than their fair share which tends to make it difficult to find that diversity...
Instead, there are a lot of lazy Americans who think they think that their collective fat asses are _entitled_ to a lifestyle equal to (or better!) than what they see on television just by virtue of being an American.
The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who have not, but those who know how to use what they have and those who do not.
Damn straight... The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who do not, but those who know how to use what they have and those who do not.
Gaps are widening everywhere in the Western world. There is more money around for sure but it's not moving around evenly. How can that not be a recipe for envy and frustration?
The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who have not, but those who know how to use what they have and those who do not.
Come on pal. Sober up and get with the program. The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who have not, but those who know how to use what they have and those who do not.
Sure. But it's a great way for liberals to get votes by telling you they're going to play Robin Hood to help.
The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who have not, but those who know how to use what they have and those who do not.
The message that being poor is an insurmountable barrier is a terrible reinforcement for the populace at large. It's hard to pull yourself up when you're constantly told it's too hard to even try. If something sucks, that should motivate you to work all the harder to escape it, not force you to live with it forever and just endure it because no-one else will help pull you out. A few summers working grounds maintenance at a golf course taught me that I'd rather be working with computers for a living than working grueling hours outdoors for minimum wage, and I made that happen myself.
The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who have not, but those who know how to use what they have and those who do not.
The poverty may remain, but the destitution that I recall as a child has disappeared completely from my home town. And it STILL ranks as a pretty damned poor town. It may be liberal chic to claim that the poor are getting poorer, but it simply isn't true.
The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who have not, but those who know how to use what they have and those who do not.
The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who have not, but those who know how to use what they have and those who don't.
The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who have not, but those who know how to use what they have and those who do not.
Having played with win98 for the first time in nearly five years, and getting a BSOD during the install process, yesterday, I can say that you are correct. XP/2k actually work as the MS marketing dept says they will... mostly... mostly... they come at night... mostly...
The spike is at 16:10 UTC which would be 2:10 AM in Korea. The article says the explosion happened at 11:00 AM.
Seismic waves take time to travel through the earths crust, just like a tidal wave on the ocean. It is possible that the wave took 3 hours to travel to the measrurement center at physics.hmc.edu
Those files have been slashdotted... anyone get originals?
I don't think you have much of an idea about how the warez scene has worked over the last 10 years. Before the days of widespread napster use FTP was king. The most effective way to send large files was to send via FTP. Email couldn't cut it. Scripting HTML was a time waster. Newsgroups required to much computing power and setup time. FTP required a server and a client, simple. Nearly everything was sent via FTP as it was the most effective way of doing things. Pubs are sitll used, windows boxes that are not secure are great for pub dumps. I'm sure a semi-log scale of warez transfered on a vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis would be very interesting.
On machines where I have to use microsoft, I try to make a complete format/rebuild with latest versions of web access and core OS every six -> twelve months. This helps make sure that anything that has got into the core OS gets wiped.
I live in Australia, no FBI here, yet. Our public servants couldn't organsie a shag in a knock shop. Only heads of government departments are that organsied. I don't think the bank would want it made public and might even deny or silence the fact. An organisation with as much money as some of the banks affected don't want these types of compromises made public.
The thing that changed me over from IE was a nasty trojen virus. For months I had been recieving emails telling me to login to validate my bank account at the "official" bank website (Westpac). I don't have a bank account with them, so I dismissed it as spam. One day Norton picked up a virus on my computer, the Norton virus definition had only been added two days prior and my weekly scan picked up this virus. It was a key logger that logged key strokes (acct/pwd) when the title of IE had a certain message in the title bar. It emailed these account/pw details off to somewhere where someone would be waiting...
I'm not real sure how I got the trojen, I'm usually very careful, but if I had been recieving these spam messages for months before Norton was on the case, then I guess the trojen had been in the wild for months as well... I'm just lucky my bank details haven't been compromised so far... passwords are all changed...
Until some guy steals a machine and reverse-engineers it.
They would have to use a challenge-response system like banks use at ATMs. This would allow deployment of offsite machines that could test passports and make stealing one almost pointless.
Sorry, but I still fail to see the significance of this story. What makes a small bunch of kids getting an iPod for free significant.
Could it be possible that the kids are being used as unsuspecting testers, to see what hacks they can come up with to beat copyprotection, or could it be to see what new, unsuspecting, unthought of and marketable ideas that come out of using it in ways that it was not originally intended for.
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If you really want to expand your mind, then get into psy-trance
ACDC
It was an Aliens reference... the Cartman version doesn't have quite the same impact.
The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who have not, but those who know how to use what they have and those who do not.
Damn straight... The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who do not, but those who know how to use what they have and those who do not.
The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who have not, but those who know how to use what they have and those who do not.
Come on pal. Sober up and get with the program. The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who have not, but those who know how to use what they have and those who do not.
The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who have not, but those who know how to use what they have and those who do not.
The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who have not, but those who know how to use what they have and those who do not.
The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who have not, but those who know how to use what they have and those who do not.
The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who have not, but those who know how to use what they have and those who don't.
The divide increasingly is not so much between those who have and those who have not, but those who know how to use what they have and those who do not.
Damn. I hope they don't send their lawyers after me. I'm probably on some RIAA/MPAA list now... :)
Having played with win98 for the first time in nearly five years, and getting a BSOD during the install process, yesterday, I can say that you are correct. XP/2k actually work as the MS marketing dept says they will... mostly... mostly... they come at night... mostly...
...and it shall henceforth be known as the BBOD (Blue Building of Death)
Those files have been slashdotted... anyone get originals?
I don't think you have much of an idea about how the warez scene has worked over the last 10 years. Before the days of widespread napster use FTP was king. The most effective way to send large files was to send via FTP. Email couldn't cut it. Scripting HTML was a time waster. Newsgroups required to much computing power and setup time. FTP required a server and a client, simple. Nearly everything was sent via FTP as it was the most effective way of doing things. Pubs are sitll used, windows boxes that are not secure are great for pub dumps. I'm sure a semi-log scale of warez transfered on a vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis would be very interesting.
On machines where I have to use microsoft, I try to make a complete format/rebuild with latest versions of web access and core OS every six -> twelve months. This helps make sure that anything that has got into the core OS gets wiped.
I live in Australia, no FBI here, yet. Our public servants couldn't organsie a shag in a knock shop. Only heads of government departments are that organsied. I don't think the bank would want it made public and might even deny or silence the fact. An organisation with as much money as some of the banks affected don't want these types of compromises made public.
My banking works fine with firefox.
The thing that changed me over from IE was a nasty trojen virus. For months I had been recieving emails telling me to login to validate my bank account at the "official" bank website (Westpac). I don't have a bank account with them, so I dismissed it as spam. One day Norton picked up a virus on my computer, the Norton virus definition had only been added two days prior and my weekly scan picked up this virus. It was a key logger that logged key strokes (acct/pwd) when the title of IE had a certain message in the title bar. It emailed these account/pw details off to somewhere where someone would be waiting...
I'm not real sure how I got the trojen, I'm usually very careful, but if I had been recieving these spam messages for months before Norton was on the case, then I guess the trojen had been in the wild for months as well... I'm just lucky my bank details haven't been compromised so far... passwords are all changed...
They would have to use a challenge-response system like banks use at ATMs. This would allow deployment of offsite machines that could test passports and make stealing one almost pointless.
Sorry, but I still fail to see the significance of this story. What makes a small bunch of kids getting an iPod for free significant.
Could it be possible that the kids are being used as unsuspecting testers, to see what hacks they can come up with to beat copyprotection, or could it be to see what new, unsuspecting, unthought of and marketable ideas that come out of using it in ways that it was not originally intended for.