...if you are using a pirated serial number. I don't know how they knew, must be some phoning-home taking place, because the serial number (cd key) I was using is owned by someone I knew and I don't think theres more than a few people using it. I installed the update, and now all my Office apps ask for a cd-key on startup. I tried many numbers from a certain database, and all failed. I eventually went back to using the old version (with sudo ipfw add deny udp from any to any 2222 to block it from detecting other coppies with the same key on my network).
I decided today that even if I could afford Office, I wouldn't. Disabling working software because the numbers don't match up is some lowdown dirty shit.
Fuck you, bill gates: I'm excercising my power as a consumer by going out of my way to use your software without paying. It's difficult, but it's worth it knowing that you won't get a penny of my money.
Re:out of the technical journal DUH.
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Kazaa Usability Study
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· Score: 2, Insightful
why do you think napster grew?
Napster only shared mp3s. So how does napster have anything to do with this? It sounds like KaZaa will share any type of file if it's under the shared directory. This is nothing like napster.
P2P RELIES on ignorance of its user base, and the good will of a small fraction of its tech savvy users.
Ah. Now I know you're just trolling. The fact that your post reached Score: 5, Insightful is a casebook example of the -1 to 5 moderation system not working.
I do want the whole album, as do a lot of other people. (Maybe you need to find better artists?)
1 to 2 cents is probably lower than we'll ever see, but i think 10 cents per song would be quite reasonable. What we need is a revolution in digital rights awareness, and a service where forwardthinking artists can choose to sell their mp3s cheaply (and under a license that allows users to redistribute them). Their should be a clear open policy about how much of the money goes to artists, though obviously the company will need a cut for operating costs.
There is absolutely no reason that the majority of the money we spend on music should end up in the pockets of business people rather than musicians; the current system is clearly broken. So until capitalism corrects itself and offers me a legal reasonable (affordable) way to get mp3s, I'm going to continue to ignore the RIAA's squeals and share music all I want.
Oh, and fuck Hilary Rosen. That bitch is pure evil, and not in the good way.
(1) $0.99/song would be almost 15 bucks for a 15 track (not unusual) cd. Thats a savings of, oh, roughly zero. I doubt the 99 cents per song plan would get very far.
(2) FastTrack and Audio Galaxy are ridden with spyware for almost all users. As far as I know, gnutella is the only decent naptster replacement, and even some gnutella clients (limewire, et al) are doing spyware now. It's not as easy as it once was, many people are paying a price they don't even realize for their free music.
Of course, if your serious about mp3s, you're not looking for 128kbps individual tracks with fucked up filenames, and thats what all those services are filled with. FTP (or hotline even) and full albums is what I like.
In a dramatic departure in February, though, the company embraced Linux as well, with Chief Executive Scott McNealy dressing as Tux, the penguin mascot of the Linux movement.
Surely, someone can link a picture of this, right? Please?
I cleared my cookies and went back, and said my school was STCC in Mass, and it still shows $1,249 as the cheapest eMac. Thats with a combo drive; I've looked around their store and I can't find a place where they offer it with a plain CD-ROM drive.
What does a CD-ROM drive have to do with security?
It's not the cdrom, it's the lack of cdr (though actually you can get the combo dvd/cdr/cdrw drive in the eMac), because a cdr drive might let kids do naughty things...
perl -e "print unless s aa\n&E vtuEAopuifs&PfsmEHbdlfs\n\na&&y i&b-z&i&a-y&i&&y eE &e J ed&&0"
how the heck does that work !?
Glad you asked! =)
First off, this part: s aa\n&E vtuEAopuifs&PfsmEHbdlfs\n\na&&y i&b-z&i&a-y&i&&y eE &e J ed
is the same as this: s//\n&E vtuEAopuifs&PfsmEHbdlfs\n\n/ && y/&b-z&/&a-y&/ && y/E &/ J/d
which is the same as this: s//\n&E vtuEAopuifs&PfsmEHbdlfs\n\n/; tr/&b-z&/&a-y&/; t r/E &/ J/d;
A few things to note so far, the usual delimiters (//) have been replaced with letters (a, i, and e) in those three expressions just to make things difficult to read. And y/// is just an alias for tr/// (I'm assuming your familiar with tr/// and s///, if not read the "Quote and Quote-like Operators" section in "perldoc perlop"). Also, the expressions are strung together without semicolons by using && (logical AND; as long as each expression is true it continues on to the next). Since the s/// and tr/// operators in perl operate on $_ by default, no variables need to be specified. The first part, s//\n&E vtuEAopuifs&PfsmEHbdlfs\n\n/; looks in $_ for the search string (an empty string) and replaces it with the string "\n&E vtuEAopuifs&PfsmEHbdlfs\n\n". Then the first tr/// statement moves every character one-up, as well as replacing '&' with '&' (does nothing, but hopefully draws the reader's attention from the &&'s elsewhere that function as logical ANDs). The next tr/// replaces occurances of 'E' or '&' in $_ with spaces, and replaces the one space with an uppercase 'J'.
At this point, the s/// and the two tr/// statements have built the output string and stored it in the $_ variable, and they've all returned true values. Since the code starts off with "print unless...", print will execute if everything after the unless evaluates to false. So far it's all evaluated true, so thats what the &&0 on the end is for. Since the whole thing is now finnaly false, print is called (and, for lack of another argument, prints the default variable, $_).
Heres the whole thing one more time: print unless ( s//\n&E vtuEAopuifs&PfsmEHbdlfs\n\n/ #builds most of the string, evaluates true && tr/&b-z&/&a-y&/ # shifts letters one-up, evaluates true && tr/E &/ J/d # replaces a few characters, evaluates true && 0 # false );
To be honest, I'm not really a very advanced perl programmer at all. I just enjoy fooling around with it, and after sifting through a bunch of perldoc one day I decided to make this obfu japh to try out some of the weird syntax tricks I'd just read about.
from the sourcefore page: Sorry, but HTML tags usable in User Space have been restricted to forbid javascript. Trolls were socially engineering things to encourage people to put foreign-site Javascript into their User Space, which is a cross-site scripting attack waiting to happen.
Is jamie is refering to your comment here that he replied to, or have there been other indcidents of trolls "social engineering" people into using offsite scripts?
damn. Now the user slashbox is filtered just like comments posts. Don't take your script out, or try and modify it whatever you do. As far as I could tell, it worked fine until I tried to modify it. (so if you've already got a script tag entered from before it should still work, but if you submit a change to it it gets filtered and only the
...in the time it took me to "sign" it, the count went from 4099 to 4214. And in the time it took me to go from there to here, and post this, it's gone to 4368. I mean 4379. I mean 4387.
And the way to "demand" Free Software is to buy the computer with the pre-installed, closed-scorce software rolled into the price, and then pat yourself on the back for not actually using the software you bought?
hey if the price is still low enough that it's a good deal (as in the case of the new imac - try getting that hardware, cdrw+dvdram included, for less money) then why not? Paying for more expensive hardware simply because it doesn't include a software liscense would be sort of stupid.
I wish I was smart like you, so I could understand that reasoning. Well, we all need something to aspire to.;-)
quote:
Fallacy 10: Open Source is the Answer
- Economic model is doubtful
- Source code is useless
- Motivation for Open Source is inappropriate for most software
- Nerd culture is counter-productive We write software for peer recognition. We write fancy structures because 'it's cool', but not particularly useful.
This guy isn't just bashing open source, but nerd culture itself.
If we could moderate articles, this one would get a -1, Flaimbait.
A local ISP in the "telecom valley", sonic.net, is offering another type of weireless broadband called "rooftop". Afaik, it doesn't piggyback other user's connections on top of yours. It sure is nice to see so many local broadband options in my area.
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sweet, the display does four whole lines of text!!
...if you are using a pirated serial number.
(sorry, missed the title in the previous post)
...if you are using a pirated serial number. I don't know how they knew, must be some phoning-home taking place, because the serial number (cd key) I was using is owned by someone I knew and I don't think theres more than a few people using it. I installed the update, and now all my Office apps ask for a cd-key on startup. I tried many numbers from a certain database, and all failed. I eventually went back to using the old version (with sudo ipfw add deny udp from any to any 2222 to block it from detecting other coppies with the same key on my network).
I decided today that even if I could afford Office, I wouldn't. Disabling working software because the numbers don't match up is some lowdown dirty shit.
Fuck you, bill gates: I'm excercising my power as a consumer by going out of my way to use your software without paying. It's difficult, but it's worth it knowing that you won't get a penny of my money.
why do you think napster grew?
Napster only shared mp3s. So how does napster have anything to do with this? It sounds like KaZaa will share any type of file if it's under the shared directory. This is nothing like napster.
P2P RELIES on ignorance of its user base, and the good will of a small fraction of its tech savvy users.
Ah. Now I know you're just trolling. The fact that your post reached Score: 5, Insightful is a casebook example of the -1 to 5 moderation system not working.
I do want the whole album, as do a lot of other people. (Maybe you need to find better artists?)
1 to 2 cents is probably lower than we'll ever see, but i think 10 cents per song would be quite reasonable. What we need is a revolution in digital rights awareness, and a service where forwardthinking artists can choose to sell their mp3s cheaply (and under a license that allows users to redistribute them). Their should be a clear open policy about how much of the money goes to artists, though obviously the company will need a cut for operating costs.
There is absolutely no reason that the majority of the money we spend on music should end up in the pockets of business people rather than musicians; the current system is clearly broken. So until capitalism corrects itself and offers me a legal reasonable (affordable) way to get mp3s, I'm going to continue to ignore the RIAA's squeals and share music all I want.
Oh, and fuck Hilary Rosen. That bitch is pure evil, and not in the good way.
two things:
(1) $0.99/song would be almost 15 bucks for a 15 track (not unusual) cd. Thats a savings of, oh, roughly zero. I doubt the 99 cents per song plan would get very far.
(2) FastTrack and Audio Galaxy are ridden with spyware for almost all users. As far as I know, gnutella is the only decent naptster replacement, and even some gnutella clients (limewire, et al) are doing spyware now. It's not as easy as it once was, many people are paying a price they don't even realize for their free music.
Of course, if your serious about mp3s, you're not looking for 128kbps individual tracks with fucked up filenames, and thats what all those services are filled with. FTP (or hotline even) and full albums is what I like.
Weird.
I cleared my cookies and went back, and said my school was STCC in Mass, and it still shows $1,249 as the cheapest eMac. Thats with a combo drive; I've looked around their store and I can't find a place where they offer it with a plain CD-ROM drive.
When I login for the school system I work for, it shows $999 for the base model.
Where is your school located?
I tried several california schools, and a couple from other states as well, and got $1,249 every time.
What does a CD-ROM drive have to do with security?
It's not the cdrom, it's the lack of cdr (though actually you can get the combo dvd/cdr/cdrw drive in the eMac), because a cdr drive might let kids do naughty things...
First off, this part:
s aa\n&E vtuEAopuifs&PfsmEHbdlfs\n\na&&y i&b-z&i&a-y&i&&y eE &e J ed
is the same as this:
s
which is the same as this:
s
tr/&b-z&/&a-y&/;
A few things to note so far, the usual delimiters (//) have been replaced with letters (a, i, and e) in those three expressions just to make things difficult to read. And y/// is just an alias for tr/// (I'm assuming your familiar with tr/// and s///, if not read the "Quote and Quote-like Operators" section in "perldoc perlop"). Also, the expressions are strung together without semicolons by using && (logical AND; as long as each expression is true it continues on to the next). Since the s/// and tr/// operators in perl operate on $_ by default, no variables need to be specified. The first part, s
At this point, the s/// and the two tr/// statements have built the output string and stored it in the $_ variable, and they've all returned true values. Since the code starts off with "print unless
Heres the whole thing one more time:
print unless (
s
&&
tr/&b-z&/&a-y&/ # shifts letters one-up, evaluates true
&&
tr/E &/ J
&&
0 # false
);
To be honest, I'm not really a very advanced perl programmer at all. I just enjoy fooling around with it, and after sifting through a bunch of perldoc one day I decided to make this obfu japh to try out some of the weird syntax tricks I'd just read about.
using pack is cheating!
im!ho, my way is more fun:
perl -e "print unless s aa\n&E vtuEAopuifs&PfsmEHbdlfs\n\na&&y i&b-z&i&a-y&i&&y eE &e J ed&&0"
offtopic?!
luckily i was able to avenge you in metamod...
Ha-ha.
from the sourcefore page:
Sorry, but HTML tags usable in User Space have been restricted to forbid javascript. Trolls were socially engineering things to encourage people to put foreign-site Javascript into their User Space, which is a cross-site scripting attack waiting to happen.
Is jamie is refering to your comment here that he replied to, or have there been other indcidents of trolls "social engineering" people into using offsite scripts?
upgrade. 8.2 is a hell of alot faster than 8.1.
Any insight on specifcally what is faster?
You don't mean bowls of sticky phat chronic buds, do you?
Now we've been dating for about 2.5 years, I'm probably gonna propose this summer (that'll be 3 years by then), and maybe get married a year after tha
Since you're posting that here, I can only assume she doesn't know your slashdot nick. C'mon, man, how close can you be?
...in the time it took me to "sign" it, the count went from 4099 to 4214. And in the time it took me to go from there to here, and post this, it's gone to 4368. I mean 4379. I mean 4387.
And the way to "demand" Free Software is to buy the computer with the pre-installed, closed-scorce software rolled into the price, and then pat yourself on the back for not actually using the software you bought?
;-)
hey if the price is still low enough that it's a good deal (as in the case of the new imac - try getting that hardware, cdrw+dvdram included, for less money) then why not? Paying for more expensive hardware simply because it doesn't include a software liscense would be sort of stupid.
I wish I was smart like you, so I could understand that reasoning.
Well, we all need something to aspire to.
The liscensing issue here isn't really valid, since they come with OSX on them. You can't buy one without it.
OK, so, to new imac buyers it's pretty much free-as-in-beer.
But it's still not entirely free-as-in-speech, and thats what some people demand.
quote:
Fallacy 10: Open Source is the Answer
- Economic model is doubtful
- Source code is useless
- Motivation for Open Source is inappropriate for most software
- Nerd culture is counter-productive We write software for peer recognition. We write fancy structures because 'it's cool', but not particularly useful.
This guy isn't just bashing open source, but nerd culture itself.
If we could moderate articles, this one would get a -1, Flaimbait.
oops. I was mistaken. Further reading revealed it does actually get access from other users. Oh well. ;-(
A local ISP in the "telecom valley", sonic.net, is offering another type of weireless broadband called "rooftop". Afaik, it doesn't piggyback other user's connections on top of yours. It sure is nice to see so many local broadband options in my area.