All in all, I'd rather see the new blockbuster on the big screen, rather than some crappy pirate version..
I recently had cause to write to MyVue because of an incident with annoying kids in the cinema, whose idea of the movie-watching experience includes shouting, swearing and setting off ringtones every 5 minutes. Sadly, leathering the crap out of them is the kind of thing that appears to be frowned upon these days.
I was amused by the trailer that played before the film, you know the one, the anti-piracy "some viewers may choose to watch a pirate copy" crap, where the picture-perfect audience all sit around, arm-in-arm laughing, screaming, eating their overpriced popcorn.
Anyway, I wrote to MyVue contrasting my experience with that in the trailer and received 9 free tickets instead of the requested refund. So they missed the point entirely.
Fast forward a few days and King Kong is out - a picture crying out to be seen in the cinema. And 9 free tickets burning a hole in my pocket.
So what did I do? I waited ages for a decent dvdrip of King Kong to come out so I could watch it in the privacy of my own home, away from little bastards who think they are far more entertaining than the film. Could have used the free tickets there, but chose not to. Didn't want a film I was looking forward to ruined.
So I chose to ruin it for myself, by watching it on a 28" 4:3 CRT tube, in paltry stereo.
I'm willing to bet I still enjoyed it more there, under those conditions, than I would have at MyVue telling snot-noses not to keep setting their 'funny' ringtones off every 5 minutes.
If the Cinema chains want to get people back, they can start by cleaning up their own damn acts, and actually making it into somewhere you look forward to going.
"Hopefully companies like Amteus Plc that are bringing a technology to overcome this problem of snooping, spam, phishing etc.. will survive attacks from those that hide behind anonimity."
Can I ask why you don't point out that in fact you work for Amteus ?
Pushing your own commercial solutions without declaring that interest kind of sounds a little, underhand, don't you think?
Is technology that will bring us privacy and freedom of speach, the freedom of speaking without anyone being able to snoop on our conversations or emails.
Amteus is being floated. Check that company. I am buying some shares. We need many companies like amteus # posted by Ramon Leonato : 7:00 AM"
Well of course you're buying shares. You work for the company:)
You say it yourself: "open source is borne out of everyone doing whatever they find to be most fascinating"
Noble as it may be to suggest these people develop open GPUs etc, the reality is that it's easier (and more importantly - within reach) to poke around in something that's already been built, find out how it works and what else we can do with it. Building something complete from scratch, raising a fab to manufacture it and - most of all - to convince someone to bankroll the whole operation is far trickier than breaking out the screwdrivers and having a bit of a tinker.
You do seem to dismiss the difference between hacking an existing system compared to the immense difficulty/cost of designing a completely new&open one as though it's a small step.
Sounds like the action of someone who understands spyware/trojans and is fully aware that their software could be used in such a capacity. And is seeking to protect their revenue stream in effect by tying the hands of spyware/trojan etc detection publishers.
It may not be a virus as you say - so GRI would be right to remove it as such - but it could be used as a trojan as you are very well aware.
If someone had installed this on my system, I would want to know it was there. Would you?
If it's my system and I have installed it to keep an eye on the kids, and XXX product spots it's there, then I simply whitelist it. Simple, no?
No need for the "I'm a burglar - and if you are a policeman then you are forbidden from speaking to me" clause.
If they make it more open once the trial is over, and also so I can stream it to the xbox/tv instead of us all having to huddle round the PC, then I'm in.
" Would that second item be the same as "Safe Mode with Command Prompt"? If it is then it's already too late. I'm guessing that because the only way the NT kernel know how to ready the filesystem is by loading the ntfs drivers it'll also load the nasty drivers installed by the root kit."
It's not the same. You can bring the recovery console up off the CD loading nothing from the hard disk.
Add another thumbs-up for this top application. Frankly, even if the encryption was breakable eventually, I would expect anyone to have grabbed it to have moved onto someone else's weaker system instead of bothering trying to hit this.
Also, I've always found that the moment I take a note of a password, it remains in my brain a lot easier than if I hadn't written something down. Never quite worked out why this is - it's not like I see the visual reminder, but that I know there is one somewhere and the info sticks.
Weird. Maybe the solution is to write your password down, and then eat the piece of paper:P
all we need are some volunteers to set up a few unpatched machines, surf to a few sites and pick up all the crap of the day (without agreeing to anything that actually asks of course) and then file suit.
Who's game for some of that? Could be good fun - if the law actually has any teeth that is...
"Or is it the fact that it has to send *to* port 25 that's getting blocked"
Yes.
Some more responsible ISPs block port25 as a matter of course, except to their own mail servers which hopefully you won't be able to spam through madly without being noticed. If at all.
Got a legitimate need to run your own mail server? Ask your ISP for it.
Schools should be teaching children "concepts", and not "programs". ie, the concept of a GUI, the concept of an email application, the concept of a web browser.
That way, the students are equipped to move from os to os, platform to platform without prejudice.
It's how your user who has never seen anything other than MS products can move from XP to OSX or KDE with little difficulty without complaining about the missing start button and throwing up their hands in horror.
It's how they can deduce how to browse the web, write a letter or send an email based on experiences in other systems.
Platform independence comes naturally once you understand the underlying concepts. This is what should be concentrated on rather than "product X".
That schools may be using OSS is not the point and it shouldn't be championed on that aspect alone. Get a mix in there, let the kids see all sorts.
Google for "preventable user operations" or PUOP's.
You can have sections on your DVD where pressing the Title, or Menu button is ignored, likewise fast-forward or whatever.
This is usually to FORCE you to have to sit through a certain section, most usually an advert.
The reason you don't see the problem is that you haven't hired one of those DVDs yet.
IIRC, the first time this hit in anger was with the Region 1 copy of "The Sixth Sense" - well, it was the first time I heard about it and there was quite the uproar.
However, I think the article pertains to sections within content that can be skipped, and not to the removal of PUOP's - so in other words, I doubt this would have the desired effect.
What some are failing to spot is that these ad-supported games come with a free, geek-game included.
Yes folks, included in the box - your opportunity to take part in blacklisting the ad-servers for GameX at your firewall or gateway.
Some smart startup could knock up a small program that would download definitions on a regular basis, keeping all those nefarious ads out of your box.
Of course, you couldn't just write something like that and give it away for free - the bandwidth for the defs would eventually cost a fair sum. It would probably need to be, errr, ad-supported?
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Typo? I think you meant:
"In 1999 the Self-Serving Baby Bootstrap ran for president, and won"
When my TV is on and a programme is interrupted to tell me how sexy I'll be if I just buy this car/hair-product/whatever, I always hit the button and channel-surf for 3 minutes.
By your logic, I am stealing ALL shows, simply because I hate adverts and don't watch them.
Except on BBC of course, but my license fee covers that.:)
Would I like to pay up a small fee for a non-DRM'd , advert-free episode of ?
Damn right I would.
If the broadcasters would trust us to pay for their output and be honest about the use of it, then most people would gladly pay up.
Until they get past that fear, it will never happen.
Don't get me started on us having to wait till June to see Sin City over here. I wonder how many people will be pissed off and hit the torrents before then? Revenue lost, film studios.
"TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- A lawsuit claims the video game "Grand Theft Auto (search)" led a teenager to shoot two police officers and a dispatcher to death in 2003, mirroring violent acts depicted in the popular game."
Clicking (search) takes you straight to a page where you can buy the game in question.
I wonder if that makes Fox News accomplices in this as a result? After all, they may be participating in the "training of the next killer".
Perhaps I should call those nice attorneys for the plaintiff and tip them off, after all Fox has deeper pockets than Rockstar I'd imagine.
Just continuing the ridiculous vein I started on below.
More injustice has been done against man in the name of their particular God's name than for any other reason.
Who's up for campaigning to get all religious literature removed from the shelves? No-one? Thought so.
I took a look at the bible, and it's full of people being murdered in Gods name. Why, that whole book is just a training manual for murder and carnage. Covetting thy neighbours ox? Smite him down!
(hey, who's up for registering and copyrighting WWE-Smite-down.com before anyone else does?;))
Serial killer to police: "God told me do it". "I was doing Gods work".
etc
He could have said that "life is like a box of chocolates" before shooting the officer - would Cadbury's be in the dock?
Just a few random stupid thoughts in response to a stupid lawsuit.
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Always nice to see popup advertising on a site that's (presumably?) intended to help keep your privacy...
Wow, I haven't heard an "Irish" joke for ages !
;)
Are you, by any chance, from the 70's ?
All in all, I'd rather see the new blockbuster on the big screen, rather than some crappy pirate version..
I recently had cause to write to MyVue because of an incident with annoying kids in the cinema, whose idea of the movie-watching experience includes shouting, swearing and setting off ringtones every 5 minutes. Sadly, leathering the crap out of them is the kind of thing that appears to be frowned upon these days.
I was amused by the trailer that played before the film, you know the one, the anti-piracy "some viewers may choose to watch a pirate copy" crap, where the picture-perfect audience all sit around, arm-in-arm laughing, screaming, eating their overpriced popcorn.
Anyway, I wrote to MyVue contrasting my experience with that in the trailer and received 9 free tickets instead of the requested refund. So they missed the point entirely.
Fast forward a few days and King Kong is out - a picture crying out to be seen in the cinema. And 9 free tickets burning a hole in my pocket.
So what did I do? I waited ages for a decent dvdrip of King Kong to come out so I could watch it in the privacy of my own home, away from little bastards who think they are far more entertaining than the film. Could have used the free tickets there, but chose not to. Didn't want a film I was looking forward to ruined.
So I chose to ruin it for myself, by watching it on a 28" 4:3 CRT tube, in paltry stereo.
I'm willing to bet I still enjoyed it more there, under those conditions, than I would have at MyVue telling snot-noses not to keep setting their 'funny' ringtones off every 5 minutes.
If the Cinema chains want to get people back, they can start by cleaning up their own damn acts, and actually making it into somewhere you look forward to going.
I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile professor.rm rtsp://152.3.208.146:80/spring06 /cspd/01232006.rm?cloakport=80,554,7070
:)
(mplayer is available in a win32 binary if you're not on linux)
Works every time..
"Hopefully companies like Amteus Plc that are bringing a technology to overcome this problem of snooping, spam, phishing etc.. will survive attacks from those that hide behind anonimity."
r .html)
:)
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Can I ask why you don't point out that in fact you work for Amteus ?
Pushing your own commercial solutions without declaring that interest kind of sounds a little, underhand, don't you think?
But of course, it's not your first time:
(from: http://drubin.blogspot.com/2004/07/penned-in-ange
"amteus amteus amteus...
What is this...
Is technology that will bring us privacy and freedom of speach, the freedom of speaking without anyone being able to snoop on our conversations or emails.
Amteus is being floated. Check that company. I am buying some shares. We need many companies like amteus
# posted by Ramon Leonato : 7:00 AM"
Well of course you're buying shares. You work for the company
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/talkback/?PROCESS=show&ID=
"Today many companies, like the company I work
for Amteus Plc"..
Feel free to spam-post all you like. Modded accordingly I hope. Credibility -1 perhaps?
You say it yourself: "open source is borne out of everyone doing whatever they find to be most fascinating"
Noble as it may be to suggest these people develop open GPUs etc, the reality is that it's easier (and more importantly - within reach) to poke around in something that's already been built, find out how it works and what else we can do with it. Building something complete from scratch, raising a fab to manufacture it and - most of all - to convince someone to bankroll the whole operation is far trickier than breaking out the screwdrivers and having a bit of a tinker.
You do seem to dismiss the difference between hacking an existing system compared to the immense difficulty/cost of designing a completely new&open one as though it's a small step.
Sounds like the action of someone who understands spyware/trojans and is fully aware that their software could be used in such a capacity. And is seeking to protect their revenue stream in effect by tying the hands of spyware/trojan etc detection publishers.
It may not be a virus as you say - so GRI would be right to remove it as such - but it could be used as a trojan as you are very well aware.
If someone had installed this on my system, I would want to know it was there. Would you?
If it's my system and I have installed it to keep an eye on the kids, and XXX product spots it's there, then I simply whitelist it. Simple, no?
No need for the "I'm a burglar - and if you are a policeman then you are forbidden from speaking to me" clause.
It's an admission of guilt I think.
If they make it more open once the trial is over, and also so I can stream it to the xbox/tv instead of us all having to huddle round the PC, then I'm in.
It's not the same. You can bring the recovery console up off the CD loading nothing from the hard disk.
Knoppix LiveCD for starters...
It's not the hardware vendor's fault.
It's MS pushing this DRM crap through. HDTV standard has no scope for defining DRM AFAIK, it's just a display standard. 780p/1080i etc.
It's MS that should be afraid, when their customers look to alternatives that don't include this unwanted tripe.
Add another thumbs-up for this top application. Frankly, even if the encryption was breakable eventually, I would expect anyone to have grabbed it to have moved onto someone else's weaker system instead of bothering trying to hit this.
:P
Also, I've always found that the moment I take a note of a password, it remains in my brain a lot easier than if I hadn't written something down. Never quite worked out why this is - it's not like I see the visual reminder, but that I know there is one somewhere and the info sticks.
Weird. Maybe the solution is to write your password down, and then eat the piece of paper
all we need are some volunteers to set up a few unpatched machines, surf to a few sites and pick up all the crap of the day (without agreeing to anything that actually asks of course) and then file suit.
Who's game for some of that? Could be good fun - if the law actually has any teeth that is...
"Or is it the fact that it has to send *to* port 25 that's getting blocked"
Yes.
Some more responsible ISPs block port25 as a matter of course, except to their own mail servers which hopefully you won't be able to spam through madly without being noticed. If at all.
Got a legitimate need to run your own mail server? Ask your ISP for it.
Way to go.
Schools should be teaching children "concepts", and not "programs". ie, the concept of a GUI, the concept of an email application, the concept of a web browser.
That way, the students are equipped to move from os to os, platform to platform without prejudice.
It's how your user who has never seen anything other than MS products can move from XP to OSX or KDE with little difficulty without complaining about the missing start button and throwing up their hands in horror.
It's how they can deduce how to browse the web, write a letter or send an email based on experiences in other systems.
Platform independence comes naturally once you understand the underlying concepts. This is what should be concentrated on rather than "product X".
That schools may be using OSS is not the point and it shouldn't be championed on that aspect alone. Get a mix in there, let the kids see all sorts.
Google for "preventable user operations" or PUOP's.
You can have sections on your DVD where pressing the Title, or Menu button is ignored, likewise fast-forward or whatever.
This is usually to FORCE you to have to sit through a certain section, most usually an advert.
The reason you don't see the problem is that you haven't hired one of those DVDs yet.
IIRC, the first time this hit in anger was with the Region 1 copy of "The Sixth Sense" - well, it was the first time I heard about it and there was quite the uproar.
However, I think the article pertains to sections within content that can be skipped, and not to the removal of PUOP's - so in other words, I doubt this would have the desired effect.
What some are failing to spot is that these ad-supported games come with a free, geek-game included.
Yes folks, included in the box - your opportunity to take part in blacklisting the ad-servers for GameX at your firewall or gateway.
Some smart startup could knock up a small program that would download definitions on a regular basis, keeping all those nefarious ads out of your box.
Of course, you couldn't just write something like that and give it away for free - the bandwidth for the defs would eventually cost a fair sum. It would probably need to be, errr, ad-supported?
Typo? I think you meant:
"In 1999 the Self-Serving Baby Bootstrap ran for president, and won"
When my TV is on and a programme is interrupted to tell me how sexy I'll be if I just buy this car/hair-product/whatever, I always hit the button and channel-surf for 3 minutes.
:)
By your logic, I am stealing ALL shows, simply because I hate adverts and don't watch them.
Except on BBC of course, but my license fee covers that.
Would I like to pay up a small fee for a non-DRM'd , advert-free episode of ?
Damn right I would.
If the broadcasters would trust us to pay for their output and be honest about the use of it, then most people would gladly pay up.
Until they get past that fear, it will never happen.
Don't get me started on us having to wait till June to see Sin City over here. I wonder how many people will be pissed off and hit the torrents before then? Revenue lost, film studios.
"We come in peace - now, take me to your porn sites and discount viagra!"
That won't kill floaters - they use DHTML. AFAIK, there's no way to disable DHTML - apart from not starting your browser up that is.
Today, a variety of lawsuits were filed against 'Make' magazine under the guise of the DMCA etc..
:PP
Give it time people.....
Seriously though, looks like a good read.
"TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- A lawsuit claims the video game "Grand Theft Auto (search)" led a teenager to shoot two police officers and a dispatcher to death in 2003, mirroring violent acts depicted in the popular game."
Clicking (search) takes you straight to a page where you can buy the game in question.
I wonder if that makes Fox News accomplices in this as a result? After all, they may be participating in the "training of the next killer".
Perhaps I should call those nice attorneys for the plaintiff and tip them off, after all Fox has deeper pockets than Rockstar I'd imagine.
Just continuing the ridiculous vein I started on below.
"God told me to do it"
;))
More injustice has been done against man in the name of their particular God's name than for any other reason.
Who's up for campaigning to get all religious literature removed from the shelves? No-one? Thought so.
I took a look at the bible, and it's full of people being murdered in Gods name. Why, that whole book is just a training manual for murder and carnage. Covetting thy neighbours ox? Smite him down!
(hey, who's up for registering and copyrighting WWE-Smite-down.com before anyone else does?
Serial killer to police: "God told me do it". "I was doing Gods work".
etc
He could have said that "life is like a box of chocolates" before shooting the officer - would Cadbury's be in the dock?
Just a few random stupid thoughts in response to a stupid lawsuit.
Ah (closes porn popup) - p2p.
That's where (closes gambling popup) I get (closes porn popup) all my critical win (closes porn popup) dows updates from.
Never done (closes viagra popup) me any harm !