This Gator software you speak of is probably related to the new Divx;-) 5. If you download the standard version, there are no ads, no nothing. The pro version however, is either A) pay for it or B) gain_trickler. If Divx pro can't find the gain trickler it wont run. The trickler sits as an idle process, but when you browse the web it watches you and throws targeted advertising at you. My solution was to use ZoneAlarm to block the gain trickler from accessing the internet, this way I get divx 5 pro for free, and no ads. adaware is also quite helpful.
I think Microsoft is going to sue all of us who say there software is poor. But wait! We can sue them back for saying *nix/open source sux. Oh how emotionally distressed I am, I deserve someone elses money because they exhibited their right to free speech. Sorrow!
you might as well kill yourself. Like my friend's roomate last year. He played Asheron's Call day and night. What kind of life is that? It's a waste of life if you ask me. Suicide isn't a good thing, and I'm really opposed to it, but at the same time who needs these people that play MMORPGs 24/7? No offense to the people who play them casually and not all the time, however few of you there are.
you may be dissapointed in the moderators. And I see where you are coming from. I do not mean to insult any of these people. I instead mean to complement them. It is the principle of disobeying a law which is unjust that they and others have used to better the ways of the world. This situation is not as drastic, nor is it a clearly unconstitutional oppression. However, I do believe it is a situation in which the same principle of disobeying unjust laws will lead to these laws being repealed.
Then in jail I will sit. However I believe that once the country sees someone in jail for doing what I do they will either a) fight to get me out or b) stop stealing, for fear of going to jail themselves.
There's a difference between fair use, and theft. Fair use is me listening to the song in my house. Fair use is me making a copy of a CD in case the cd gets scratched. Fair use is me copying a cassette in case the tape player eats it. Fair use is me using a copyrighted mp3 in a presentation on digital audio encoding for a class in school. Theft is you writing a song, me taking the song and telling the world that indeed I wrote the song not you, and I should be given the credit. Theft is me downloading a copy of the song without paying you. Often when I download music from the internet I send checks to the artists for an amount of money I feel their music is worth. If I don't like/delete their music I don't pay them. I don't buy CDs in the store because the RIAA gets all the money, not the artists.
Prime example is Japan, where CDs cost a fortune, because the artists get a large large portion of that money.
Fair use != theft. I wont steal. But if one day what I feel is fair use is considered against the law, so be it.
what kind of right it is. It doesn't matter whether it's a legal right or a constitutional right. I want it, and I will refuse to give it up. I do whatever I please with no thought for the law. I base my actions on my personal values and morals. If I happen to break a law, like the DMCA, tough. The civil rights activists were breaking a law when they sat at the front of the bus and refused to get up. They said the law was unjust, they went to jail for it, and they won. I plan to do the same.
I'm still waiting for a PDA, mp3 player, graphing calculator, pager, cell phone, digital camera with lots and lots of memory and really low battery usage. Has to have a full color lcd too. Or whatever the GBA screen is made of. Has to have wireless net connection too.
ISP's should not distribute any software whatsoever. If they chose to distribute software, or are paid to distribute software they should make it clear whether or not the software is necessary in order to use that ISP. It is OK in some instances such as Cable or DSL to include software only for the purpose of establishing a connection for security reasons.
Prime examples, 1 good and 1 bad.
Let's start with the worst, AOL. AOL requires a large piece of memory eating, slow as crap software to connect to the internet and use their service. Everything is proprietary, slow and crappy. I mean, proprietary is sometimes ok, but not if it's slower than the standard.
SNET internet http://www.snet.net. Their dial up service is exceptional. They give you a cd, but you don't need it. You can use any standard PPP connection software, like the ones built into windows or linux. All the software does it re-configure explorer to say brought to you by snet. If you don't mind it, install it. Their DSL while being fast, amazing, cheap, and everything else is equivalent. It comes with the same non-essential explorer customizing software. And it comes with the little program they use to establish the dsl connection. This is so they can require a name and password and transmit it securely. The software runs under windows. But I've made the dsl work in linux.
The best ISP in the world, college. Plug computer into wall. Auto configure lan connection with dhcp. Open any type of internet software, it works, fast, and reliable. No extra software needed.
I love your exaggerated analogies. Let's say you have a nice 4 bedroom house with jewerly and electronics in it. Now you don't lock your doors, windows, or have ay theft deterrent system whatsoever. When you go on vacation you leave the house wide open. Your jewelry isn't even in a safe place, it's in an open jewerly box on the dresser in your bedroom. If you don't have any security and you get robbed, well how could you not see it coming?
This is my last post today. I take precautions to prevent getting spammed. And it works. Beause I haven't been spammed in years. If you don't take precautions, and you invite spam, it's going to come to your party. If you leave the door open, spam is going to come in. The spammers aren't 100% to blame. Spamming and robbing are both crimes. No amount of law will stop them from happening. We might be able to put spammers in jail and take all their mail, but I would rather have a clean e-mail box and not bother with suing people.
Of course as a money making-scheme I could set up a new e-mail box, invite spam into it, then sue. In which case I would be just as evil as they are. Lock your doors when you aren't at home.
No, don't complain about getting fired because you could have worked harder and not given them a reason to fire you. If you made yourself valuable enough to the company they wouldn't fire you. If they lay you off for financial reasons, and you were a great worker, they will be a great reference to you on your next job.
I don't use any of those things, nor will I probably ever. I'm not really into the open source thing. I'm into the free software thing. The only good I see in open source is that the software is free. Nothing has shown me that it's necessarily higher quality than other software. But that's not the point.
If you don't want spam, don't put your e-mail address there. If you put your e-mail out, expect spam. If you don't unlist your phone # expect telemarketers. It's not right for the spammers to take your e-mail off of the website and then spam you. But if you know that it's going to happen, and you do it anyway, don't complain about getting spam, because you could have prevented it.
It doesn't make you at fault for getting spammed. However you COULD, as many websites do, make a form that allows users to send you e-mail addresses without actually revealing your e-mail address to them. It's not difficult and it saves you trouble, so why not?
I would sue all the people that send me spam, but you know what. I don't get any. I've had the same e-mail address for almost 2 years, it has an alias or two also, and not one spammer has gotten ahold of it yet. Why is this? I'm not an idiot. I don't use the address book. I do use PGP. I remove myself from any and all non-spam newletters and announcements I don't want. And I don't put my e-mail in public places where spammers would look to pick it up. As far as I'm concerned if you get spammed, it's your fault.
However, we should still punish those who surf the net collecting e-mail addresses and spamming away. But while spamming is still a problem, deal with it and don't be an idiot.
seriously, I mean can we find a decent place to mirror anything? I still can't download mandrake 8.2 and that was 2 or 3 days ago. Seem like nobody knows how to set up an ftp that works these days.
The best password ever is one my friend has. He took the name of a family pet, just like an idiot would. But then he encrypted it with 4096 RSA PGP and the passphrase was his favorite saying. The 15th through 23rd characters where his password. And after he told me this, he changed it. Because he changes his PGP keys every week.
If you are one of these people who has a stupid password, you deserve what you get.
I'm going to get the book of petnames now and write a brute force hack into paypal, wee! My money problems are solved. I don't do stuff like that, but someone should. Send all the money to me that is.
E-mail has reciept notification. In this case the sender of an e-mail recieves an e-mail telling when the sent e-mail was recieved. If the reciever of the e-mail edited the mail the date and time at which the file was last edited will be different than the time and date it was recieved. Therefore the reciever has edited the mail. Which is now, just as illegal as editing a contract without the other partys' consent. Also If you send an e-mail you keep a copy of it in your sent folder. If it doesn't match what the other guy's got, then hoo hah! Nobody will be able to get away with using vi to get millions of dollars.
if you get a pioneer car stereo it will be. People find mp3 good enough because they dont' realize there's a difference. I did a presentation for professional communications on CDex, the little window program that rips mp3s. I ripped a 128, a 320, and a VBR. I played the same 5 second clip from each version, and then from the CD, everyone was shocked and amazed, they didn't realize that mp3 was lossy. Later 3 of them told me that they started to replace all their low rate mp3s with 320s. People do want higher quality, you just have to make them realize it. The public wants the same things that we want. They just need to be shown.
All this bill of rights needs is some support from artists. If you get top name musicians and movie makers to support this then it's all good.
But there is one problem this still doesn't fix. For years and years the music industry has purposely not put out high quality recordings. CD quality is damn good, yes, but remember DAT? Know about DVD Audio? what's gonna be?
I don't think that bnetd is a bad idea. I don't think the DMCA is good either. However, this one circumstance I have to side with "evil". Most of the time the DMCA only makes our lives difficult by taking away my fair use. However, in this one case it is preventing indirect software piracy. You see, to play blizzard games online you need to use battle.net. And battle.net run by blizzard keeps track of cd-keys and such, the same way half-life has wonids. Making another way to play blizzard games online isn't bad at all. Except for the fact that it allow people who have pirated blizzard's games to play them online, which they would not be able to do with only battle.net. Therefore bnetd is essentially a program that allows users to get by the copy protection on blizzard's games.
It's one thing to pirate music. The RIAA is an evil organization and I have no moral qualms about stealing from them. Blizzard is the only game developer to never ever make a crappy game. They almost made one crappy warcraft game, then they cancelled it. In fact not only are none of their games crappy, they are all smash hits, amazing, etc. I have moral qualms about stealing form blizzard, they deserve to get money for their software.
Why don't blizzard and bnetd team up to incorporate the copy protection into bnetd? Why doesn't blizzard write their own?
Slashdot Mirror
This Gator software you speak of is probably related to the new Divx ;-) 5. If you download the standard version, there are no ads, no nothing. The pro version however, is either A) pay for it or B) gain_trickler. If Divx pro can't find the gain trickler it wont run. The trickler sits as an idle process, but when you browse the web it watches you and throws targeted advertising at you. My solution was to use ZoneAlarm to block the gain trickler from accessing the internet, this way I get divx 5 pro for free, and no ads. adaware is also quite helpful.
I am a student at RIT. We kick ass. yeah, mod me down whatever. I'm a cs major, maybe I'll go for the game developement master. WHo knows. ph33r.
I think Microsoft is going to sue all of us who say there software is poor. But wait! We can sue them back for saying *nix/open source sux. Oh how emotionally distressed I am, I deserve someone elses money because they exhibited their right to free speech. Sorrow!
you might as well kill yourself. Like my friend's roomate last year. He played Asheron's Call day and night. What kind of life is that? It's a waste of life if you ask me. Suicide isn't a good thing, and I'm really opposed to it, but at the same time who needs these people that play MMORPGs 24/7? No offense to the people who play them casually and not all the time, however few of you there are.
you may be dissapointed in the moderators. And I see where you are coming from. I do not mean to insult any of these people. I instead mean to complement them. It is the principle of disobeying a law which is unjust that they and others have used to better the ways of the world. This situation is not as drastic, nor is it a clearly unconstitutional oppression. However, I do believe it is a situation in which the same principle of disobeying unjust laws will lead to these laws being repealed.
Then in jail I will sit. However I believe that once the country sees someone in jail for doing what I do they will either a) fight to get me out or b) stop stealing, for fear of going to jail themselves.
There's a difference between fair use, and theft. Fair use is me listening to the song in my house. Fair use is me making a copy of a CD in case the cd gets scratched. Fair use is me copying a cassette in case the tape player eats it. Fair use is me using a copyrighted mp3 in a presentation on digital audio encoding for a class in school. Theft is you writing a song, me taking the song and telling the world that indeed I wrote the song not you, and I should be given the credit. Theft is me downloading a copy of the song without paying you. Often when I download music from the internet I send checks to the artists for an amount of money I feel their music is worth. If I don't like/delete their music I don't pay them. I don't buy CDs in the store because the RIAA gets all the money, not the artists.
Prime example is Japan, where CDs cost a fortune, because the artists get a large large portion of that money.
Fair use != theft. I wont steal. But if one day what I feel is fair use is considered against the law, so be it.
what kind of right it is. It doesn't matter whether it's a legal right or a constitutional right. I want it, and I will refuse to give it up. I do whatever I please with no thought for the law. I base my actions on my personal values and morals. If I happen to break a law, like the DMCA, tough. The civil rights activists were breaking a law when they sat at the front of the bus and refused to get up. They said the law was unjust, they went to jail for it, and they won. I plan to do the same.
I'm still waiting for a PDA, mp3 player, graphing calculator, pager, cell phone, digital camera with lots and lots of memory and really low battery usage. Has to have a full color lcd too. Or whatever the GBA screen is made of. Has to have wireless net connection too.
ISP's should not distribute any software whatsoever. If they chose to distribute software, or are paid to distribute software they should make it clear whether or not the software is necessary in order to use that ISP. It is OK in some instances such as Cable or DSL to include software only for the purpose of establishing a connection for security reasons.
Prime examples, 1 good and 1 bad.
Let's start with the worst, AOL. AOL requires a large piece of memory eating, slow as crap software to connect to the internet and use their service. Everything is proprietary, slow and crappy. I mean, proprietary is sometimes ok, but not if it's slower than the standard.
SNET internet http://www.snet.net. Their dial up service is exceptional. They give you a cd, but you don't need it. You can use any standard PPP connection software, like the ones built into windows or linux. All the software does it re-configure explorer to say brought to you by snet. If you don't mind it, install it. Their DSL while being fast, amazing, cheap, and everything else is equivalent. It comes with the same non-essential explorer customizing software. And it comes with the little program they use to establish the dsl connection. This is so they can require a name and password and transmit it securely. The software runs under windows. But I've made the dsl work in linux.
The best ISP in the world, college. Plug computer into wall. Auto configure lan connection with dhcp. Open any type of internet software, it works, fast, and reliable. No extra software needed.
Thats how it should be.
I love your exaggerated analogies. Let's say you have a nice 4 bedroom house with jewerly and electronics in it. Now you don't lock your doors, windows, or have ay theft deterrent system whatsoever. When you go on vacation you leave the house wide open. Your jewelry isn't even in a safe place, it's in an open jewerly box on the dresser in your bedroom. If you don't have any security and you get robbed, well how could you not see it coming?
This is my last post today. I take precautions to prevent getting spammed. And it works. Beause I haven't been spammed in years. If you don't take precautions, and you invite spam, it's going to come to your party. If you leave the door open, spam is going to come in. The spammers aren't 100% to blame. Spamming and robbing are both crimes. No amount of law will stop them from happening. We might be able to put spammers in jail and take all their mail, but I would rather have a clean e-mail box and not bother with suing people.
Of course as a money making-scheme I could set up a new e-mail box, invite spam into it, then sue. In which case I would be just as evil as they are. Lock your doors when you aren't at home.
No, don't complain about getting fired because you could have worked harder and not given them a reason to fire you. If you made yourself valuable enough to the company they wouldn't fire you. If they lay you off for financial reasons, and you were a great worker, they will be a great reference to you on your next job.
Same thing for girls.
not my real e-mail address :-)
I don't use any of those things, nor will I probably ever. I'm not really into the open source thing. I'm into the free software thing. The only good I see in open source is that the software is free. Nothing has shown me that it's necessarily higher quality than other software. But that's not the point.
If you don't want spam, don't put your e-mail address there. If you put your e-mail out, expect spam. If you don't unlist your phone # expect telemarketers. It's not right for the spammers to take your e-mail off of the website and then spam you. But if you know that it's going to happen, and you do it anyway, don't complain about getting spam, because you could have prevented it.
It doesn't make you at fault for getting spammed. However you COULD, as many websites do, make a form that allows users to send you e-mail addresses without actually revealing your e-mail address to them. It's not difficult and it saves you trouble, so why not?
I would sue all the people that send me spam, but you know what. I don't get any. I've had the same e-mail address for almost 2 years, it has an alias or two also, and not one spammer has gotten ahold of it yet. Why is this? I'm not an idiot. I don't use the address book. I do use PGP. I remove myself from any and all non-spam newletters and announcements I don't want. And I don't put my e-mail in public places where spammers would look to pick it up. As far as I'm concerned if you get spammed, it's your fault.
However, we should still punish those who surf the net collecting e-mail addresses and spamming away. But while spamming is still a problem, deal with it and don't be an idiot.
seriously, I mean can we find a decent place to mirror anything? I still can't download mandrake 8.2 and that was 2 or 3 days ago. Seem like nobody knows how to set up an ftp that works these days.
Look at the stuff that gets slashdotted these days. Can't you tell when someone has made up something based on the trailers they saw? I mean come on.
we keep our public keys in a shared network folder. So when you want to encrypt something you go to the folder to get the most current key.
The best password ever is one my friend has. He took the name of a family pet, just like an idiot would. But then he encrypted it with 4096 RSA PGP and the passphrase was his favorite saying. The 15th through 23rd characters where his password. And after he told me this, he changed it. Because he changes his PGP keys every week.
If you are one of these people who has a stupid password, you deserve what you get.
I'm going to get the book of petnames now and write a brute force hack into paypal, wee! My money problems are solved. I don't do stuff like that, but someone should. Send all the money to me that is.
E-mail has reciept notification. In this case the sender of an e-mail recieves an e-mail telling when the sent e-mail was recieved. If the reciever of the e-mail edited the mail the date and time at which the file was last edited will be different than the time and date it was recieved. Therefore the reciever has edited the mail. Which is now, just as illegal as editing a contract without the other partys' consent. Also If you send an e-mail you keep a copy of it in your sent folder. If it doesn't match what the other guy's got, then hoo hah! Nobody will be able to get away with using vi to get millions of dollars.
if you get a pioneer car stereo it will be.
People find mp3 good enough because they dont' realize there's a difference. I did a presentation for professional communications on CDex, the little window program that rips mp3s. I ripped a 128, a 320, and a VBR. I played the same 5 second clip from each version, and then from the CD, everyone was shocked and amazed, they didn't realize that mp3 was lossy. Later 3 of them told me that they started to replace all their low rate mp3s with 320s. People do want higher quality, you just have to make them realize it.
The public wants the same things that we want. They just need to be shown.
All this bill of rights needs is some support from artists. If you get top name musicians and movie makers to support this then it's all good.
But there is one problem this still doesn't fix. For years and years the music industry has purposely not put out high quality recordings. CD quality is damn good, yes, but remember DAT? Know about DVD Audio? what's gonna be?
I don't think that bnetd is a bad idea. I don't think the DMCA is good either. However, this one circumstance I have to side with "evil". Most of the time the DMCA only makes our lives difficult by taking away my fair use. However, in this one case it is preventing indirect software piracy. You see, to play blizzard games online you need to use battle.net. And battle.net run by blizzard keeps track of cd-keys and such, the same way half-life has wonids. Making another way to play blizzard games online isn't bad at all. Except for the fact that it allow people who have pirated blizzard's games to play them online, which they would not be able to do with only battle.net. Therefore bnetd is essentially a program that allows users to get by the copy protection on blizzard's games.
It's one thing to pirate music. The RIAA is an evil organization and I have no moral qualms about stealing from them. Blizzard is the only game developer to never ever make a crappy game. They almost made one crappy warcraft game, then they cancelled it. In fact not only are none of their games crappy, they are all smash hits, amazing, etc. I have moral qualms about stealing form blizzard, they deserve to get money for their software.
Why don't blizzard and bnetd team up to incorporate the copy protection into bnetd? Why doesn't blizzard write their own?
WTF took them so long. Yeah screw karma I gots 50. Now my GameCube 0wnz all j00 who spent 100$ extra on a PS2 for nothing. No matter what you say.