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Vista Vs. Gutsy Gibbon
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I'd rather have a small violation of a non-legit codec then to have this ginormous company that was convicted of illegal monopolistic predatory practices telling me what I can and can't do with my computer.
Download the ISO. Burn it to a CD. Boot the CD and wait for it to eject. Remove the CD and load a DVD. Enjoy. When done, eject the DVD and select "Exit". This entire operation leaves no trace or record on your hard drive.
With Vista taking forever to boot up, the CD boot is faster. If all I want to do is watch a movie, the CD boot is the best choice. The codec and player are not compliant with the DVD consortium which is a good thing. Put in the DVD and watch the movie instead of the FBI warning and "Don't steal this film".
More generally, poor programmers try to make programs so simple that only simple things are possible.
In the Windows world, I often found programs nutered so they can sell the premium edition. It is so prevelant it has a name... Crippleware and Demoware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoware
Pick up any recent HP computer and you will find many installed examples of this broken stuff littered all over it. When I first wanted to try Ubuntu, I downloaded the ISO on my wife's XP dell because it had the CD writer. Guess what, the CD writer program had ISO burning disabled, but they were kind enough to include a software package to offer to download the upgrade, no waiting for about $50. Grr. I never bothered to spend the $50 for a copy of Ubuntu. A search of friendlier software quickly turned up a real CD ISO burner.
Once Ubuntu was up and running, I found the simple task of burning a CD was simple, elegant, without bloat, and worked.
poor programmers try to make programs so simple that only simple things are possible I find poor programmers try to make programs to extract the most cash possible. 1 Pay to be the default installation 2 Have reduced functionality of an essentual feature such as printing or burning 3 Have built in links to the upgrade fee processing site.
when you are using bittorrent though, you aren't setting a shared directory- you have to upload the torrent that you want to share- how is this any more non-secure than accidentally uploading your my documents to an ftp or a web host?
My bad. I used torrents as just an example of P-P. The article was more specific mentioning Limewire.
Clip from the artice.... "Gregory Thomas Kopiloff primarily used Limewire's file-sharing program to troll other people's computers for financial information, which he used to open credit cards for an online shopping spree, federal prosecutors said today."
I've never used Limewire, so I am not aware of how to configure it, but it seems a lot of people manage to share a lot of unintended stuff on P-P networks.
Even some stuff is left out on servers without needing P-P software.
10 years for stealing a printer? Seems a little harsh.
Try swiping a "Printer" from Fort Knox.. It's the intended application and who it was stolen from is the problem. It was an ID printer. If you want years, grap a printing press and the plates for a few $20's from Fort Knox. It is not the same as stealing a newsprint press or an HP inkjet.
Odds are, with a $10 usb 2.5" drive caddy, he could have removed all of the data that he needed from the unencrypted hard drive. Or he could have booted into one of those nifty live cds with cracking tools installed.
I see you have never been asked to recover an IBM laptop with hard drive encryption turned on.
Some agencies who have had high profile data leaks of consumer data now require it. It is effective. A live CD will simply show the entire hard drive is really encrypted. It is handled in hardware. The fix for a lost password is to toss the drive and replace it or spend lots of time on the chance you might brute force it. With a secure key, your chances are slim.
FYI the new version of Ubuntu supports full hard drive encryption! Use the alternative installer. You too can protect your laptop from data disclosure in a theft.
Sure it was a dumb mistake and it's kinda funny, but c'mon... why keep showing how people are getting caught.
If it was never reported that anyone ever got caught, then more people may try it. For example look at the early days of Napster and KazZa. Now that people are getting caught, people are either stopping, or using other harder to detect methods. KazZa and Limewire are big no-no's, but who do you know who has been busted for bringing an iPod to a friends house and swapping files like my kids do. iPods and friends houses often equal copyright violations. Chance of getting caught is very slim. If through some magic, they busted every 10th kid who did this, the chilling effect on the remaining 90% would be swift as they flee to find something else safer to do.
I mean, this guy is braindead for calling for tech support to use his stolen goods - but at least through his stupidity & security measures they caught him. If I was an ass, I could easily crank off what I wanted to without anyone being the wiser.
In short, moving the decimal place two places is changing from 0.3 to 3 to 30 which is break neck speeds for dial-up with many ISP's who often provide much less than 15 on a 56K modem.
Wow, I just got the alternate Gutsy ISO off Bit Torrent an got 500KB/s. The DL took just under 25 minutes for the 693 meg download. I hope this change on Comcast is permanent! Sweet!
It might be the OSDL labs mirror doesn't provide a penalty for those who leach only and are letting me DL at full speed. I'll check the other Torrent sites for speed later.
My upload on the other hand is currently at 0.1 meg uploaded at a rate of 0.0KB/s with no upload caps checked. I guess I'm stuck being a leach at this point. What is the point of Peer to Peer if there are no bandwidth hosts? I hope Comcast runs Bit Torrent servers to make up for the uploads I can't provide the peers. Being forced to leach only sucks.
I find it hard to believe that if you actually downloaded the torrent that your speed would only be 0.3k --
I'm on Comcast. That's what the gripe is all about. A single CD of stuff such as a CD distro can take over a day to transfer. As soon as you get the entire thing, the upload speed drops to zero and stays there. I use mirrors for distro's now. It's much faster.
Just for grins, I'll check the speed now...
Wow... they must have cut back on the filter this week!!! I hit 180Kbps.. I can get Gutsy on torrent in under 2 hours.. Their filter must be broken.. WooHoo... Anybody else notice this?
My wife was suffering empty nest syndrome. Our kids are grown so we now have grandkids. Denying the wife the kids is something not done.
You wouldn't buy a dog with rabies, would you?
Let me guess, you never bought anything based on the test drive or demo and then felt let down? We had the kids as foster kids for a while. As they reached adolescence and the honeymoon was over, the difficulties started. Kind of like one of my hard drives after the warranty expires.
Having or adopting kids is a bad budgeting move in any case, adopting damaged goods is an obvious and avoidable disaster.
Good kids are worth having. Money can't buy everything and a kids true love can't be bought. Like buying many products, the hidden damage is larger than it first appears. Windows 98SE was the OS to end all. Everything past it has been new improved, expanded, better, etc.. Seen the latest on the VIsta WGA activation issues? XP is the largest botnet in existence. The problems showed up later. 20/20 hindsight is a well DUH event. The foresight is a little murky. To protect the children's privacy, the state doesn't always bother to share all the history of abuse, violence, drug use, etc with prospective parents. After the adoption we got the records, almost a full filing cabinet drawer full. They had a rough life. We took them out of the ghetto quite literally, but we haven't gotten the ghetto mentality of verbal abuse, anger outbursts, authority defiance, and filthy language out of them yet. Things can and do quickly escalate out of control unlike our other kids.
The daughter is doing much better after the boarding school and will likely go on to have a reasonably normal adult life. The son on the other hand is probably headed into regular law enforcement encounters. Unless he changes soon, his prospects don't look too good. We get almost weekly calls from the school regarding behavior problems and have to make adjustments for supervision when he is suspended. I wish these kids came with a money back guarantee, but they don't.
Some kids stay out of trouble. Other kids can't stay out of trouble. RIAA lawsuits and my kids direct violations of internet use is why they are filtered and heavily monitored. The CD drive is not a writer. All their MP3 trading is done behind my back using the tradional sneaker net with burned CD's and USB drives. I know it happens. They buy few CD's but manage to fill up a Zen and and iPod. Much of the music is stuff I don't permit but catch them with all the time. It's gotten to the point they don't even try to hide it anymore openly asking friends to rip stuff for them. They know it's illegal, but they don't care.
Intriguing. A friend of mine wanted to upgrade to Gutsy, and downloaded the iso in 2 hours using Bittorrent. Mainly due to all the people using BT to download it, it was coming down at breakneck speed.
My Bit-Torrent test was clocking at 0.3k. Dial-up is faster on a modem. Using a mirror was 2 orders of magnitude faster.
AT&T rolls out their FIOS and suddenly all these anti-Comcast articles start showing up.
Actualy, ATT roll out is not important for most of the US as it hasn't hit our state, city, neighborhood, street, house yet. It's about as important to this as the rain in New Orleans or the fires in LA. It just happened to be near the same time frame.
The real issue is the new version of Ubuntu came out. The server mirror overloaded. My download died at 80%. I used the mirror because Bit-torrent would have taken days.... The following day I downloaded Gutsy in about 3 hours from the mirror. The speed test on Bit Torent was slower than dial-up.
If you are looking for a conspiracy, check this one out... MS investes in cable TV. Ubuntu Gutsy is due out. They recommend using a torrent to ease the load off the servers and mirrors. Comcast throttles Bit-Torrent.
Sounds like you need a better job, or you need to budget a little bit better.
The job is fine. My wife is working on her Masters. The budget was fine until we adopted kids with problems. 1 year later at boarding school for emotionaly challanged kids with eating disorders, we now have the $65,000 bill. Life does have expensive options. The kid is doing fine now.
The options were; 1 was to wait for domestic violence to burn down the house. 2 was get into a program to fix the problem. 3 kill the kid and let the state take care of my retirement in prison.
We opted for number 2 and are now part of the working poor selling investments early and throwing it at debt. College savings have been diverted.
Never adopt kids with emotional problems unless you have a big budget and bigger heart. They will abuse you. Get used to it.
Health care and state medical coupon do not cover that one. Needless to say the college money is mostly gone. The kids will need to do student loans like most everyone else.
OK I agree the language is a little strong and maybe not safe for work, but it was Bill Clinton that signed the DMCA into law.
Next up is the other Clinton who promises socialized health care with everyone entitled. Have you ever needed anything besides a basic need met from the government? Needing treatment and getting only triage care due to overload of entitled people who may just need thera-flu is the problem. Everyone now just runs to the doctor for every sniffle instead of spending the money at the pharmacy. Socialized medicine would have failed me for my surgery last year. I'll take insurance instead with a reasonable deductable. The care is there if I need it for major care. If you want socialized medicine, adopt a foster kid on a State Medical Coupon and try to get an appointment. It will be an eye-opener compared to your regular insurance.
With insurance I schedual dental appointments every 6 months in advance. The kids on state medical don't get appointments. You call every day and see if they have an opening. (opening is a regular patient that cancelled and they haven't filled the slot yet) If I had to call daily to get an appointment only one or two days in advance for the dentist, it would probably not get done.
With insurance, it's scheduled and done. With government health care, getting an appointment is the same as getting an appointment to renew you drivers license because you can't drop-in and spend time in line. The state has not figured out how to do mail in dental work. Office visit appointments just don't really exist.
Anyway, I hope the flaimbait was for the liberal use of explicitives instead of the content. I too am afraid the other Clinton may make it and mess up the economy.
I'm not talking the teenagers that have to skip lunch this month to buy a game, but the people with full-time jobs and disposable income.
Incorrect assumption on those with a full-time job. Many with full time jobs are the working poor. Their disposable income was spent years ago while they lived in their parrents basement. Now they have full time mortguages, phone bills, credit card bills, tuition loans... Those with a debt load of $50,000 or more shouldn't be buying $50 videogames. I don't have any console games. My kid bought a playstation.. Used for $19.95. Guess how many brand new retail games we buy for it? I may have sold a bunch of stock lately, but that just rolled over into getting out of an ARM at over 8%. Investments are not disposable income. They have a purpose. Debt is just that, debt. Now that my car is paid for, doesn't mean I now have disposable income. It simply means I can now attack debt at a faster rate. $50 videogames are still not in the budget.
What number were you expecting? 0%? 0.001%? 1%? I'd like to know a) exactly what the numbers are, b) what constitutes a search for "sensitive financial information".
Most P-P stuff is copyright violations of photos (porn) movies (Hollywood & Porn) and sound (RIAA stuff which is mostly audio soft porn and cursing with parental advisory stull the parents won't let the kids buy) Most P-P stuff does not involve theft (unless you ask **AA who will tell you copyright violations is theft) and when ID is stolen and used for a shopping spree, then the search for those responsible gets cranked up a notch. When money leaves someone else's account, they take notice.
Making confidential information available is a breach of security no matter what protocol you use to distribute it.
Many people simply don't read the manual. They go "Oh, goody, freebies" and point the software at their My Documents folder. Later they wonder why someone else is using their credit card info. Have you ever saved a confirmation screenshot for an online purchase? Does it include your shipping info, full name and credit card details? This oops in security is the focus of the article.
The I didn't upload my credit card details to face book is not the issue. The issue is you were stupid (lots who don't read the manual) and pointed the software to the My Documents folder along with tax returns, credit card and banking info.
Now, instead of RIAA, I have to worry about the Secret Service and the NSA when I'm browsing pirate bay looking for some mus
Your search for muscle building is probably not going to raise any eyebrows. The fact you are sharing your entire My Documents folder with your Turbo Tax records is of a bigger concern. Go to any P-P site and do a search for common applications extensions..doc,.xls,.ppt, are just the tip of the iceberg. Try searching for.pwl.. enjoy.
Many people just don't get the fact they shouldn't use their home directory as a place to download their goodies. It is what they share without even knowing is what is dangerous.
What 'Linux Protocols' replace CIFS? And dont say NFS, because that has nothing to do with Linux, and predated Linux.
CIFS is a networking protocol. Not all protocols are related to networking. NTFS is a Microsoft Hard Disk storage protocol (format). Alternatives include ext2 ext3 Rieser, etc. Why pay Microsoft to use NTFS, FAT32, or FAT16?
A download is not necessarily a lost sale (or rental), but don't use that as a justification to cheap out.
Simply put, I didn't cheap out. I didn't download it. I simply didn't buy it. Maybe when it's in the pre-viewed section at Blockbuster at 4 for $20, I'll pick it up. Otherwise it simply remains unsold at that price.
When products are priced for mass markets, the cost of goods is often not figured in high mark-up items. The sale price is based on the maximum profit point. Price it too low and you don't maximise profits. Raise the price and fewer units will sell, but the quainty sold at the high price is enough to maximise profit. If the price is raised too much, then volume drops enough to diminish profits.
The record lables haven't figured out the sweet selling price and focused too long on too high an average selling price instead of maximum profit. As a result, CD sales are way down while DVD sales are way up. Unfortunately, they are trying to capitolise on the HDTV craze and are selling HD movies in the laserdisk price range. Early adopters will pay the price, but don't expect the average price for a movie to remain at near $30. Won't happen as most people won't spend that much building a home library. A few titles will do well, but movies like Howard the Duck, 13 going on 30, Weekend at Bernie's, and other movies just them will not sell in quanity at that price. Phantom of the Opera may do OK.
DVD's don't have Macrovision. They have a Macrovision flag. A legal player adds Macrovision to the player output. Rippers never bothered with the flag and don't have a Macrovision license to use the encoder.
If you paid extra for a ripper that "Removes Macrovision" you got ripped off. You would have to pay extra for a ripper that adds Macrovision.
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I'd rather have a small violation of a non-legit codec then to have this ginormous company that was convicted of illegal monopolistic predatory practices telling me what I can and can't do with my computer.
Download the ISO. Burn it to a CD. Boot the CD and wait for it to eject. Remove the CD and load a DVD. Enjoy. When done, eject the DVD and select "Exit". This entire operation leaves no trace or record on your hard drive.
http://geexbox.org/en/downloads.html
With Vista taking forever to boot up, the CD boot is faster. If all I want to do is watch a movie, the CD boot is the best choice. The codec and player are not compliant with the DVD consortium which is a good thing. Put in the DVD and watch the movie instead of the FBI warning and "Don't steal this film".
More generally, poor programmers try to make programs so simple that only simple things are possible.
In the Windows world, I often found programs nutered so they can sell the premium edition. It is so prevelant it has a name... Crippleware and Demoware
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoware
Pick up any recent HP computer and you will find many installed examples of this broken stuff littered all over it. When I first wanted to try Ubuntu, I downloaded the ISO on my wife's XP dell because it had the CD writer. Guess what, the CD writer program had ISO burning disabled, but they were kind enough to include a software package to offer to download the upgrade, no waiting for about $50. Grr. I never bothered to spend the $50 for a copy of Ubuntu. A search of friendlier software quickly turned up a real CD ISO burner.
Once Ubuntu was up and running, I found the simple task of burning a CD was simple, elegant, without bloat, and worked.
poor programmers try to make programs so simple that only simple things are possible
I find poor programmers try to make programs to extract the most cash possible.
1 Pay to be the default installation
2 Have reduced functionality of an essentual feature such as printing or burning
3 Have built in links to the upgrade fee processing site.
What they missed is The Internet and Google. Crippleware is deadware.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crippleware
when you are using bittorrent though, you aren't setting a shared directory- you have to upload the torrent that you want to share- how is this any more non-secure than accidentally uploading your my documents to an ftp or a web host?
My bad. I used torrents as just an example of P-P. The article was more specific mentioning Limewire.
Clip from the artice....
"Gregory Thomas Kopiloff primarily used Limewire's file-sharing program to troll other people's computers for financial information, which he used to open credit cards for an online shopping spree, federal prosecutors said today."
I've never used Limewire, so I am not aware of how to configure it, but it seems a lot of people manage to share a lot of unintended stuff on P-P networks.
Even some stuff is left out on servers without needing P-P software.
10 years for stealing a printer? Seems a little harsh.
Try swiping a "Printer" from Fort Knox.. It's the intended application and who it was stolen from is the problem. It was an ID printer. If you want years, grap a printing press and the plates for a few $20's from Fort Knox. It is not the same as stealing a newsprint press or an HP inkjet.
Odds are, with a $10 usb 2.5" drive caddy, he could have removed all of the data that he needed from the unencrypted hard drive. Or he could have booted into one of those nifty live cds with cracking tools installed.
I see you have never been asked to recover an IBM laptop with hard drive encryption turned on.
http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/security/securecomm.html
Some agencies who have had high profile data leaks of consumer data now require it. It is effective. A live CD will simply show the entire hard drive is really encrypted. It is handled in hardware. The fix for a lost password is to toss the drive and replace it or spend lots of time on the chance you might brute force it. With a secure key, your chances are slim.
FYI the new version of Ubuntu supports full hard drive encryption! Use the alternative installer. You too can protect your laptop from data disclosure in a theft.
Sure it was a dumb mistake and it's kinda funny, but c'mon... why keep showing how people are getting caught.
If it was never reported that anyone ever got caught, then more people may try it. For example look at the early days of Napster and KazZa. Now that people are getting caught, people are either stopping, or using other harder to detect methods. KazZa and Limewire are big no-no's, but who do you know who has been busted for bringing an iPod to a friends house and swapping files like my kids do. iPods and friends houses often equal copyright violations. Chance of getting caught is very slim. If through some magic, they busted every 10th kid who did this, the chilling effect on the remaining 90% would be swift as they flee to find something else safer to do.
I mean, this guy is braindead for calling for tech support to use his stolen goods - but at least through his stupidity & security measures they caught him. If I was an ass, I could easily crank off what I wanted to without anyone being the wiser.
He was also stupid enough to use try to mess with a state using Digimarc on the licenses.
http://www.digimarc.com/govt/edl.asp
Creating a valid digimarc that matches the other data on the document is not easy without the license.
Using a mirror was 2 orders of magnitude faster. So that would be what, 1.2k? Break-neck speeds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude
In short, moving the decimal place two places is changing from 0.3 to 3 to 30 which is break neck speeds for dial-up with many ISP's who often provide much less than 15 on a 56K modem.
Wow, I just got the alternate Gutsy ISO off Bit Torrent an got 500KB/s. The DL took just under 25 minutes for the 693 meg download. I hope this change on Comcast is permanent! Sweet!
It might be the OSDL labs mirror doesn't provide a penalty for those who leach only and are letting me DL at full speed. I'll check the other Torrent sites for speed later.
My upload on the other hand is currently at 0.1 meg uploaded at a rate of 0.0KB/s with no upload caps checked. I guess I'm stuck being a leach at this point. What is the point of Peer to Peer if there are no bandwidth hosts? I hope Comcast runs Bit Torrent servers to make up for the uploads I can't provide the peers. Being forced to leach only sucks.
I find it hard to believe that if you actually downloaded the torrent that your speed would only be 0.3k
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I'm on Comcast. That's what the gripe is all about. A single CD of stuff such as a CD distro can take over a day to transfer. As soon as you get the entire thing, the upload speed drops to zero and stays there. I use mirrors for distro's now. It's much faster.
Just for grins, I'll check the speed now...
Wow... they must have cut back on the filter this week!!! I hit 180Kbps.. I can get Gutsy on torrent in under 2 hours.. Their filter must be broken.. WooHoo... Anybody else notice this?
My wife was suffering empty nest syndrome. Our kids are grown so we now have grandkids. Denying the wife the kids is something not done.
You wouldn't buy a dog with rabies, would you?
Let me guess, you never bought anything based on the test drive or demo and then felt let down? We had the kids as foster kids for a while. As they reached adolescence and the honeymoon was over, the difficulties started. Kind of like one of my hard drives after the warranty expires.
Having or adopting kids is a bad budgeting move in any case, adopting damaged goods is an obvious and avoidable disaster.
Good kids are worth having. Money can't buy everything and a kids true love can't be bought. Like buying many products, the hidden damage is larger than it first appears. Windows 98SE was the OS to end all. Everything past it has been new improved, expanded, better, etc.. Seen the latest on the VIsta WGA activation issues? XP is the largest botnet in existence. The problems showed up later. 20/20 hindsight is a well DUH event. The foresight is a little murky. To protect the children's privacy, the state doesn't always bother to share all the history of abuse, violence, drug use, etc with prospective parents. After the adoption we got the records, almost a full filing cabinet drawer full. They had a rough life. We took them out of the ghetto quite literally, but we haven't gotten the ghetto mentality of verbal abuse, anger outbursts, authority defiance, and filthy language out of them yet. Things can and do quickly escalate out of control unlike our other kids.
The daughter is doing much better after the boarding school and will likely go on to have a reasonably normal adult life. The son on the other hand is probably headed into regular law enforcement encounters. Unless he changes soon, his prospects don't look too good. We get almost weekly calls from the school regarding behavior problems and have to make adjustments for supervision when he is suspended. I wish these kids came with a money back guarantee, but they don't.
Some kids stay out of trouble. Other kids can't stay out of trouble.
RIAA lawsuits and my kids direct violations of internet use is why they are filtered and heavily monitored. The CD drive is not a writer. All their MP3 trading is done behind my back using the tradional sneaker net with burned CD's and USB drives. I know it happens. They buy few CD's but manage to fill up a Zen and and iPod. Much of the music is stuff I don't permit but catch them with all the time. It's gotten to the point they don't even try to hide it anymore openly asking friends to rip stuff for them. They know it's illegal, but they don't care.
Intriguing. A friend of mine wanted to upgrade to Gutsy, and downloaded the iso in 2 hours using Bittorrent. Mainly due to all the people using BT to download it, it was coming down at breakneck speed.
My Bit-Torrent test was clocking at 0.3k. Dial-up is faster on a modem. Using a mirror was 2 orders of magnitude faster.
AT&T rolls out their FIOS and suddenly all these anti-Comcast articles start showing up.
Actualy, ATT roll out is not important for most of the US as it hasn't hit our state, city, neighborhood, street, house yet. It's about as important to this as the rain in New Orleans or the fires in LA. It just happened to be near the same time frame.
The real issue is the new version of Ubuntu came out. The server mirror overloaded. My download died at 80%. I used the mirror because Bit-torrent would have taken days.... The following day I downloaded Gutsy in about 3 hours from the mirror. The speed test on Bit Torent was slower than dial-up.
If you are looking for a conspiracy, check this one out... MS investes in cable TV. Ubuntu Gutsy is due out. They recommend using a torrent to ease the load off the servers and mirrors. Comcast throttles Bit-Torrent.
Possible, Yes.. Plausable, no.
Sounds like you need a better job, or you need to budget a little bit better.
The job is fine. My wife is working on her Masters. The budget was fine until we adopted kids with problems. 1 year later at boarding school for emotionaly challanged kids with eating disorders, we now have the $65,000 bill. Life does have expensive options. The kid is doing fine now.
The options were;
1 was to wait for domestic violence to burn down the house.
2 was get into a program to fix the problem.
3 kill the kid and let the state take care of my retirement in prison.
We opted for number 2 and are now part of the working poor selling investments early and throwing it at debt. College savings have been diverted.
Never adopt kids with emotional problems unless you have a big budget and bigger heart. They will abuse you. Get used to it.
Health care and state medical coupon do not cover that one. Needless to say the college money is mostly gone. The kids will need to do student loans like most everyone else.
We have Bill fucking Clinton to thank for that.
OK I agree the language is a little strong and maybe not safe for work, but it was Bill Clinton that signed the DMCA into law.
Next up is the other Clinton who promises socialized health care with everyone entitled. Have you ever needed anything besides a basic need met from the government? Needing treatment and getting only triage care due to overload of entitled people who may just need thera-flu is the problem. Everyone now just runs to the doctor for every sniffle instead of spending the money at the pharmacy. Socialized medicine would have failed me for my surgery last year. I'll take insurance instead with a reasonable deductable. The care is there if I need it for major care. If you want socialized medicine, adopt a foster kid on a State Medical Coupon and try to get an appointment. It will be an eye-opener compared to your regular insurance.
With insurance I schedual dental appointments every 6 months in advance. The kids on state medical don't get appointments. You call every day and see if they have an opening. (opening is a regular patient that cancelled and they haven't filled the slot yet) If I had to call daily to get an appointment only one or two days in advance for the dentist, it would probably not get done.
With insurance, it's scheduled and done. With government health care, getting an appointment is the same as getting an appointment to renew you drivers license because you can't drop-in and spend time in line. The state has not figured out how to do mail in dental work. Office visit appointments just don't really exist.
Anyway, I hope the flaimbait was for the liberal use of explicitives instead of the content. I too am afraid the other Clinton may make it and mess up the economy.
I'm not talking the teenagers that have to skip lunch this month to buy a game, but the people with full-time jobs and disposable income.
Incorrect assumption on those with a full-time job. Many with full time jobs are the working poor. Their disposable income was spent years ago while they lived in their parrents basement. Now they have full time mortguages, phone bills, credit card bills, tuition loans... Those with a debt load of $50,000 or more shouldn't be buying $50 videogames. I don't have any console games. My kid bought a playstation.. Used for $19.95. Guess how many brand new retail games we buy for it? I may have sold a bunch of stock lately, but that just rolled over into getting out of an ARM at over 8%. Investments are not disposable income. They have a purpose. Debt is just that, debt. Now that my car is paid for, doesn't mean I now have disposable income. It simply means I can now attack debt at a faster rate. $50 videogames are still not in the budget.
What number were you expecting? 0%? 0.001%? 1%? I'd like to know a) exactly what the numbers are, b) what constitutes a search for "sensitive financial information".
Most P-P stuff is copyright violations of photos (porn) movies (Hollywood & Porn) and sound (RIAA stuff which is mostly audio soft porn and cursing with parental advisory stull the parents won't let the kids buy) Most P-P stuff does not involve theft (unless you ask **AA who will tell you copyright violations is theft) and when ID is stolen and used for a shopping spree, then the search for those responsible gets cranked up a notch. When money leaves someone else's account, they take notice.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/security/man-used-filesharing-program-to-steal-data-money/2007/09/07/1188783469524.html
Taking a copy of your MP3 is not the same as taking your bank account. You still have your MP3 unlike the money that was in your account.
Anyone that stupid should not be using the internet.
True, but they do. As an example of a large collection of these people, visit My Space.
Making confidential information available is a breach of security no matter what protocol you use to distribute it.
Many people simply don't read the manual. They go "Oh, goody, freebies" and point the software at their My Documents folder. Later they wonder why someone else is using their credit card info. Have you ever saved a confirmation screenshot for an online purchase? Does it include your shipping info, full name and credit card details? This oops in security is the focus of the article.
The I didn't upload my credit card details to face book is not the issue. The issue is you were stupid (lots who don't read the manual) and pointed the software to the My Documents folder along with tax returns, credit card and banking info.
Now, instead of RIAA, I have to worry about the Secret Service and the NSA when I'm browsing pirate bay looking for some mus
.doc, .xls, .ppt, are just the tip of the iceberg. Try searching for .pwl.. enjoy.
Your search for muscle building is probably not going to raise any eyebrows. The fact you are sharing your entire My Documents folder with your Turbo Tax records is of a bigger concern. Go to any P-P site and do a search for common applications extensions.
Many people just don't get the fact they shouldn't use their home directory as a place to download their goodies. It is what they share without even knowing is what is dangerous.
Here is a WSJ article detailing the problem..
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118134946950829716-QWDmBwH_qAgisaepbCCMoT_4cPA_20070710.html?mod=fpa_editors_picks
Compuerworld article;
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012961
and an article regarding an ID theft and arrest
http://www.smh.com.au/news/security/man-used-filesharing-program-to-steal-data-money/2007/09/07/1188783469524.html
They are not interested in your searches for marginal photos. They are interested in the security leaks.
So just where are you pointing your downloads? Just what are you making available?
I downloaded Firefly
Great movie.. I rented it and enjoyed it. I have not seen it for sale recently, so haven't bought it.
What 'Linux Protocols' replace CIFS? And dont say NFS, because that has nothing to do with Linux, and predated Linux.
CIFS is a networking protocol. Not all protocols are related to networking. NTFS is a Microsoft Hard Disk storage protocol (format). Alternatives include ext2 ext3 Rieser, etc. Why pay Microsoft to use NTFS, FAT32, or FAT16?
A download is not necessarily a lost sale (or rental), but don't use that as a justification to cheap out.
Simply put, I didn't cheap out. I didn't download it. I simply didn't buy it. Maybe when it's in the pre-viewed section at Blockbuster at 4 for $20, I'll pick it up. Otherwise it simply remains unsold at that price.
When products are priced for mass markets, the cost of goods is often not figured in high mark-up items. The sale price is based on the maximum profit point. Price it too low and you don't maximise profits. Raise the price and fewer units will sell, but the quainty sold at the high price is enough to maximise profit. If the price is raised too much, then volume drops enough to diminish profits.
The record lables haven't figured out the sweet selling price and focused too long on too high an average selling price instead of maximum profit. As a result, CD sales are way down while DVD sales are way up. Unfortunately, they are trying to capitolise on the HDTV craze and are selling HD movies in the laserdisk price range. Early adopters will pay the price, but don't expect the average price for a movie to remain at near $30. Won't happen as most people won't spend that much building a home library. A few titles will do well, but movies like Howard the Duck, 13 going on 30, Weekend at Bernie's, and other movies just them will not sell in quanity at that price. Phantom of the Opera may do OK.
Not if the higher-ups who sign your paycheck or your diploma have already made the decision to buy into the Microsoft protocols.
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I've also noticed they also are one of the supporters of OSDL as listed here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSDL
Nah, I just rip them and remove the macrovision.
DVD's don't have Macrovision. They have a Macrovision flag. A legal player adds Macrovision to the player output. Rippers never bothered with the flag and don't have a Macrovision license to use the encoder.
If you paid extra for a ripper that "Removes Macrovision" you got ripped off. You would have to pay extra for a ripper that adds Macrovision.