Blizzard might not want to see any system under which CD keys get sent (other than with the CDs themselves) to anybody but their own servers.
That's a valid point--but how hard would it be to have the next version of the corporate bully's product encrypt the CD key on Bullysoft's public key, then? Then the pass-through is a non-issue.
If you had explained to me that I was dealing with someone of the caliber of yourself whose choices were limited to sheMachines and Hewlett Compaqard Bell, I wouldn't have wasted my time trying to educate you, you pathetic idiot. You might want to go clue shopping yourself.
Really? So I got MS Office installed with my Windows install? Why didn't you tell me earlier? I went out and bought OfficeXP the other day
Then you're a complete and utter fucking moron who, if you wanted Orifice all that bad, should have picked a machine that came bundled with that instead of works. Fuck wit.
This is a false statement by comeone who did NOT comprehend the article. PayPal IS NOT insured by the FDIC. PayPal claims and the FDIC has not refuted the idea that PayPal's INDIVIDUAL CUSTOMERS are insured when AND ONLY WHEN PayPal deposits their funds into an FDIC insured account, i.e. ONE IN A REAL BANK!
Are you just one of those bitter cretins that are jealous that someone smarter than you made an observation?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. A good CS curriculum would cover how the microcomputer world has repeated the same mistakes made in computing forty years ago, and is now returning to a glass house model of central computing with terminals (dot net, anyone?).
From day one, IBM offered a variety of operating systems. Instead of getting control-freaky with the I/O blueprints, IBM chose to give that data away, so that just about any company could build peripherals for the PC.
And in this and in the case of the S360 architechture, IBM tried litigating against makers of compatible hardware. And in the case of the ISA bus, they strongarmed Micro Channel adopters into paying "back royalties" for the use of ISA, strangling MCA in its cradle.
But I agree with the idea you present that PCs are open systems and Macs are closed. This, ultimately, will lead to Apple's undoing or absorption into Bill's empire (which has already partially happened).
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And make sure that when you get verified, you use a "chump" checking account with only about $10 or so in it that you don't use to operate your household or pay bills from.
That way, if they do try to retrieve money from a chargeback or because of an error, at least you only have a problem with them and a bank that isn't the primary holder of your money.
And, as you pointed out, you'd have to be freaking insane to carry a balance on PayPal.
What you did is called a cash advance, and is against the terms of the agreement you entered into with PayPal. If you hadn't done it twice, you probably would have gotten away with it, though.
I'm still happily using my 48G, and would be using my 42S from before that if I hadn't gone and lost it. Wouldn't have made it through the first two semesters of Calculus without the 42S.
It is unfortunate that we can't rely on brand names anymore--as soon as a product gets a decent reputation, the "brand builders" latch onto it, sell utter shite with the name, burn it up, and move on to the next. I agree with your assessment that Compaq will be history repeating itself, except that Compaq's quality (outside the server space) pretty much sucks these days, too.
Goodwill mining was an excellent choice of words. More like strip mining, in HP's case.
Rated R protectionist? I was under the impression that a PG or lower rating was the kiss of death for a feature film. By that logic, foreign films should be glad to be rated R.
IIRC, Canada is less restrictive of crypto in general, but since, after 9/11, everyone is "with the U.S. or a terrorist," I imagine Canada isn't offshore enough, unfortunately.
When the Freedom network was running, various ISP's throughout the world offered servers, and you could choose your route, e.g. you could make your packets go through Japan, England, and exit in the Netherlands. That would make a subpoena attack on all three very difficult.
I think that the demise of the Freedom network probably had quite a bit to do with ISP's becoming skittish at providing "terrorist grade" anonymity, and the network fell apart for lack of providers outside of ZKS right after 9/11.
The fact that the ZKS servers were the only ones running almost immediately after the announcement of the closer because of "market forces" (heh) seems to point to this.
Any individual in the U.S. who would put themselves in a position of carrying this traffic and not being able to immediately give up a given sender (which, by design, can't happen in the Freedom network) is one of:
a) a hero
b) has gonads the size of watermelons
b) totally and complete f*cking insane.
The only hope for such a network is offshore--one running in the U.S. would either keep logs for production on demand to Federal LEO's or be shut down, probably by force.
Even Freedom takes this stand with their new anonymizer-like product, Websecure. From the privacy statement:
Please note that, in some exceptional instances, we may need to log certain traffic data, for example, in order to detect and diagnose technical problems, prevent network abuse, or if compelled to do so by law.
Note that "compelled to do so by law" is open to interpretation--that could be anything from an intimidating guy in sunglasses asking nicely for what d00d123 did for the last six months, or a valid subpoena from a Federal court. It also gives them the ability to log anything they want, under the "detect and diagnose technical problems," without promising that this would not be individually identifiable.
And they still say with a straight face that ZKS Freedom wasn't a casualty of 9/11.
The problem with Amex is its fees are generally higher, and those sufficiently creditworthy to have an American Express almost always have a Visa or MasterCard as well, and are used to grabbing it when they hear "Sorry, we don't take American Express."
American Express, though, is making inroads--heck, even Wal-Mart takes them now. And there's nothing much more ironic than watching someone pull out his tres pretentious Platinum Card (no longer all that--the real elite have the Centurion black one) and hand it to the Wal-Mart cashier for diapers and soda pop.
Maybe now as a public company, PayPal will have to have some accountability to buyers and sellers, instead of hiding behind autoresponder bots and generally being difficult to contact.
Fortunately, for online auctions, there's viable competition, particularly eBay's own Billpoint.
Are you kidding? The software vendors want to have their cake and eat it, too:
- You can't resell it. It's licensed.
- Your CD melted? Sucks to be you. Guess you'll have to buy another one.
In an ideal world, the claim that software is only licensed would require lifetime replacement of media for the cost of shipping, and would at least make copy protection a bit less of a shafting for the public.
Holy shit! You're saying that putting a document on the Internet is no more giving permission to access it than leaving your door unlocked? My god, what a filthy thief I am for loading all those web pages over the years!!! Lock me up and throw away the key! (That was sarcasm: putting your documents/pictures/songs/poems on the web grants permission for their public access, unless you acutally use a lock, like, say, http basic authentication).
Tired comparisons to stealing your couch don't make the link correct. While it might not be terribly courteous to spider someone's webspace or link into it, it's a hazard of putting your stuff on the web. Copyright is nice and all, but without enforcement, it means bupkus. And unless you're http://riaa.org, you won't be getting any of that.
Executive summary: if you don't want people to look at it except on your terms, publish a book, not a web site.
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That's a valid point--but how hard would it be to have the next version of the corporate bully's product encrypt the CD key on Bullysoft's public key, then? Then the pass-through is a non-issue.
Uh, yeah. You have a nice grip on profanity for a cock-gargler. Now go back to your parents's basement and leave us grown-ups alone.
If you had explained to me that I was dealing with someone of the caliber of yourself whose choices were limited to sheMachines and Hewlett Compaqard Bell, I wouldn't have wasted my time trying to educate you, you pathetic idiot. You might want to go clue shopping yourself.
The three copies of that Connectix will sell can fund their Mac and Windows versions!
Then you're a complete and utter fucking moron who, if you wanted Orifice all that bad, should have picked a machine that came bundled with that instead of works. Fuck wit.
LOL. You realize you just dated yourself rather seriously, right?
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WHAT OS/2 SOFTWARE?
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This is a false statement by comeone who did NOT comprehend the article. PayPal IS NOT insured by the FDIC. PayPal claims and the FDIC has not refuted the idea that PayPal's INDIVIDUAL CUSTOMERS are insured when AND ONLY WHEN PayPal deposits their funds into an FDIC insured account, i.e. ONE IN A REAL BANK!
Are you just one of those bitter cretins that are jealous that someone smarter than you made an observation?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. A good CS curriculum would cover how the microcomputer world has repeated the same mistakes made in computing forty years ago, and is now returning to a glass house model of central computing with terminals (dot net, anyone?).
And in this and in the case of the S360 architechture, IBM tried litigating against makers of compatible hardware. And in the case of the ISA bus, they strongarmed Micro Channel adopters into paying "back royalties" for the use of ISA, strangling MCA in its cradle.
But I agree with the idea you present that PCs are open systems and Macs are closed. This, ultimately, will lead to Apple's undoing or absorption into Bill's empire (which has already partially happened).
Apparently, they'll be suing everyone soon.
They're next, I bet.
That way, if they do try to retrieve money from a chargeback or because of an error, at least you only have a problem with them and a bank that isn't the primary holder of your money.
And, as you pointed out, you'd have to be freaking insane to carry a balance on PayPal.
What you did is called a cash advance, and is against the terms of the agreement you entered into with PayPal. If you hadn't done it twice, you probably would have gotten away with it, though.
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I'm still happily using my 48G, and would be using my 42S from before that if I hadn't gone and lost it. Wouldn't have made it through the first two semesters of Calculus without the 42S.
It is unfortunate that we can't rely on brand names anymore--as soon as a product gets a decent reputation, the "brand builders" latch onto it, sell utter shite with the name, burn it up, and move on to the next. I agree with your assessment that Compaq will be history repeating itself, except that Compaq's quality (outside the server space) pretty much sucks these days, too.
Goodwill mining was an excellent choice of words. More like strip mining, in HP's case.
. . . CmdrTaco won't need this patch, since Kathleen said yes.
Rated R protectionist? I was under the impression that a PG or lower rating was the kiss of death for a feature film. By that logic, foreign films should be glad to be rated R.
When the Freedom network was running, various ISP's throughout the world offered servers, and you could choose your route, e.g. you could make your packets go through Japan, England, and exit in the Netherlands. That would make a subpoena attack on all three very difficult.
The fact that the ZKS servers were the only ones running almost immediately after the announcement of the closer because of "market forces" (heh) seems to point to this.
Any individual in the U.S. who would put themselves in a position of carrying this traffic and not being able to immediately give up a given sender (which, by design, can't happen in the Freedom network) is one of:
a) a hero
b) has gonads the size of watermelons
b) totally and complete f*cking insane.
The only hope for such a network is offshore--one running in the U.S. would either keep logs for production on demand to Federal LEO's or be shut down, probably by force.
Even Freedom takes this stand with their new anonymizer-like product, Websecure. From the privacy statement:
Note that "compelled to do so by law" is open to interpretation--that could be anything from an intimidating guy in sunglasses asking nicely for what d00d123 did for the last six months, or a valid subpoena from a Federal court. It also gives them the ability to log anything they want, under the "detect and diagnose technical problems," without promising that this would not be individually identifiable.
And they still say with a straight face that ZKS Freedom wasn't a casualty of 9/11.
Fuck Sega. I hope they rot in hell.
American Express, though, is making inroads--heck, even Wal-Mart takes them now. And there's nothing much more ironic than watching someone pull out his tres pretentious Platinum Card (no longer all that--the real elite have the Centurion black one) and hand it to the Wal-Mart cashier for diapers and soda pop.
What bank? And what "security procedures," or did they say?
Fortunately, for online auctions, there's viable competition, particularly eBay's own Billpoint.
- You can't resell it. It's licensed.
- Your CD melted? Sucks to be you. Guess you'll have to buy another one.
In an ideal world, the claim that software is only licensed would require lifetime replacement of media for the cost of shipping, and would at least make copy protection a bit less of a shafting for the public.
Holy shit! You're saying that putting a document on the Internet is no more giving permission to access it than leaving your door unlocked? My god, what a filthy thief I am for loading all those web pages over the years!!! Lock me up and throw away the key! (That was sarcasm: putting your documents/pictures/songs/poems on the web grants permission for their public access, unless you acutally use a lock, like, say, http basic authentication).
Tired comparisons to stealing your couch don't make the link correct. While it might not be terribly courteous to spider someone's webspace or link into it, it's a hazard of putting your stuff on the web. Copyright is nice and all, but without enforcement, it means bupkus. And unless you're http://riaa.org, you won't be getting any of that.
Executive summary: if you don't want people to look at it except on your terms, publish a book, not a web site.