There have been table top sized nuclear bombs for a long time. The USSR had one that fit in a suitcase. There was a tube mounted diagonally in the suitcase that smashed the two nuclear masses into each other to cause the explosion.
Let's just talk about her decoding video and sending it to someone.
Totally uncompressed video is FUCKING HUGE. Basically imagine the size of a bitmap the same resolution + bpp of the video, then multiply that size by 30*seconds of video (for 30 fps video, which is pretty standard I think).
So she could decompress it, and then if she wanted to send it to this Finnish guy there would either have to be a T3 or so between them...
On running the Morpheus Preview Edition setup.exe, I am presented with the dialog box about how this will set up Morpheus on your computer, shut down all other programs, blahblahblah. Then after I click next I am presented with an Accept / Don't Accept dialog box which has
"GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed."
Kazaa came out with an update for their client a few weeks back. The way that the updates for Kazaa and Morpheus work is that they slowly spread because whenever you connect to a node that has the updated version you are forced to update. Then if anyone happens to connect to you they have to update.
So Kazaa made an updated version and let their updated version spread to all Kazaa users. Then either by a preset date or some sort of signal they activated the one "feature" of this update: to give all Morpheus users the bad version error. Really underhanded.
Right now sometimes on Morpheus you might still connect, depending on if you are lucky and connect to another Morpheus node, but you are only in contact with a small part of the network.
If you haven't read any other comments or articles, Kazaa is responsible for taking Morpheus off the network they shared through some sort of semi-viral attack. Let them know how you feel.
Second off it seems that they utilized the nature of the fasttrack network to basically kick all Morpheus users off and try and make them switch to Kazaa. Rat bastards.
Personally I think instead of switching to Gnutella Morpheus should have come out with a new version that isn't affected by the attack from Kazaa, and fucks over Kazaa clients too.
They could have got into a war coming out with new versions that would screw over the other company's client.
But I guess they didn't want a fight so they're leaving the FastTrack network.
Personally I wonder what the creators of the FastTrack network have to do with this...
My impression was that the company that runs the FastTrak network that Kazaa and Morpheus both share decided to cut out Morpheus. A few days ago when I tried to go on Morpheus, I couldn't connect, and there was this message along the lines of "some of our technology partners have made changes that disable current versions of Morpheus." Nothing about a hacker attack...
Maybe Kazaa paid the FastTrak people to do it or something.
Whatever you do, don't switch to Kazaa. It is filled with Spyware, they are assholes.
The Warforge fork of bnetd that allowed WC3Beta play was also open source. There were one or two versions of bnetd with crappy and buggy support for WC3Beta which were released without source, but no one knows who made them and they only lasted a few hours before everyone went to Warforge.
Warforge took their stuff down VOLUNTARILY, Blizzard never contacted them. Blizzard has yet to contact the people responsible for playing WC3Beta on non-Battle.net servers.
This whole case has made me rather saddened with how people are willling to give up their rights.
First argument I get from Blizzard fanboys is "it's illegal!". Too much respect for the law. MAYBE it's illegal, under the DMCA. Crappy laws should be disobeyed.
Blizzard has also apparently sent these types of notices to people who develop cheats for their games or develop chat bots for their Battle.Net servers. Now I hate cheating, but I don't see giving up the right to free speech as an acceptable way to try and stop it. Apparently a lot of these Blizzard fanboys do. As for the bots, apparently a lot of people use them in an annoying way. So we should throw away our rights because they might let people annoy us. Blizzard is welcome to try and stop emulated servers, cheats, and bots through technical means (and they should), but the programmers shouldn't be called criminals because of a program they wrote.
What seems a sad part to me often is the fact that Blizzard owes a lot of their popularity to the Multiplayer success of Warcraft 2. If you wanted to play Warcraft 2 on the Internet, you used a third-party program "Kali", which emulated the protocol used by Warcraft and provided a matchmaking server. So basically, Blizzard wouldn't be where they are today without an earlier program quite similar to BNETD and FSGS.
Offer $1,000 to anyone who shows up and has a semi-permanent birth control operation (vasectomy, fallopian tubes tied). Stupid crackheads have less kids, government saves money on paying for welfare or prison for those kids, society has less stupid people, and population pressure in general decreases.
Personally I like very many libertarian ideas but I think some things will have to be looked at as more important than the libertarian philosophy or else the country might go to shit worse than it already is.
When people are stupid poor crackheads, we should fund them from other people's money so they can continue to pump out babies?
To me a little bit of Darwinism seems to be a good thing, if these people are mentally incapable of being functional members of society, we shouldn't be giving them money so that they can breed like rabbits...
Tim
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The best is idiots paying more than $500 for some crappy jacket with a billboard for "Avirex" on the back... And then they are afraid to go outside in it because it might get messed up or rained on or something.
I have a First Down jacket that I was able to get cheap cause the store had a sale AND it was in the "irregular" bin, but I feel dumb enough wearing it cause it is the same brand some of these kids wear to show off that they can afford a jacket or something. Once I was bored on the bus and I was sitting next to one of these dumbass kids... In my boredom I took off my jacket and started ripping off all the "First Down" labels and tags that I could, this kid got shocked and he starts cursing at me and stuff... Hilarious...
Same kind of kids that buy the "Timberland" boots and leave that stupid leather keychain looking tag on, just so they can show off their newest "Tim'"s with all the logos they can.
Heh, I forgot to make clear I'm not actually in NYC, I'm maybe 40 miles away...
Seeing as it was supposed to function as an emergency hospital too, there was also some sort of intravenous feeding stuff. Maybe you could stick a needle full of that in your arm whenever you got hungry, if you got tired of the crackers...
The best things were the "Sani-Kit IV"s.. They were these cylindrical cardboard cans, and when you opened them they had a plastic bag, toilet seat to fit the top of the can, rolls of toilet paper, sanitizing chemicals, everything you need for a porta-potty except the privacy. I might have taken home and used some of the toilet paper too, can't really remember...
Ever been on the log flume ride? You get on from the center hub, where the spinning speed is slowest.
Tell me about shelf life...
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Several years back, my school decided to get rid of this Civil Defense Postapocalyptic Nuclear Shelter/Hospital that they had in the basement.
Apparently, if the Commies ever dropped the Big One on NYC, the survivors were supposed to live on water, crackers, and hard candies. The water was all gone by the time we went in there, along with the Geiger Counters (which I really wanted - apparently at some point some public agency came and took them back), but there were still maybe an 8' high 6' wide 18' long stack of all these boxes of candy and crackers, packed with various dates around 1963. There were big cardboard boxes with a Civil Defense logo on the side, the words SURVIVAL CRACKERS or CARBOHYDRATE SUPPLEMENT on the side, and inside were either 6 tins of crackers (~40 pounds total) or 2 45 pound tins of red and yellow hard candies.
Both were still good in '99 when we cut open the tins and tried. Crackers tasted pretty nasty and dry, but the candy was delicious. I still have stored in an airtight container some candy that was dated October 1963, I'm waiting for October next year so I can eat 40 year old sour balls.
Are you sure about Thursday? Thursday night the "single player crack" came out (you could play multiplayer games by yourself.. boring actually) Friday nothing happened, Saturday, first one or two hacked up, buggy, versions of bnetd appear along with a 9 Megabyte client side crack for Warcraft Beta 1.02, and then later on Saturday Warforge started their server and their 32KB client-side crack....
I have account #43 on wc3beta.warez-u.org and #127 on the Warforge Official server so I know i am pretty early there...
Go to battle.net and fill up their forums with complaints. Recently though they changed it to require a Blizzard game CD key so dig up the old Starcraft CD first.
Play warcraft III beta on cracked servers just to piss them off.
The worst part is is that BNETD.ORG the first site they shutdown made absolutely NO WARCRAFT III support at all. It was an open source project which other groups improved on. They have also apparently shut down the Warforge (WCIII compatible Bnetd version) official sites, but the files at least are back up somewhere else now, and the Warforge game servers themselves seem to be still up.
DMCA is a totally fucked-up move...
I'm going to go play some Warcraft III now, suck it Blizzard lawyers!
If you actually read his comment you would understand that the computers were equipped with sensors to measure the REAL WORLD RESULTS accurately instead of getting a close guess with a stopwatch or something. No simulation involved.
The reason is that 555 is never used in real phone systems. Otherwise:
A.) People WILL call a number from a movie or such. I remember reading about this popular song a few decades back called "Jenny" or something that mentioned a 7 digit phone number that was not 555. Anyone who had that number got calls because of the song. This is annoying to the people who receive the calls.
B.) More importantly to the media companies, people could perhaps sue if they received calls due to this.
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There have been table top sized nuclear bombs for a long time. The USSR had one that fit in a suitcase. There was a tube mounted diagonally in the suitcase that smashed the two nuclear masses into each other to cause the explosion.
Let's just talk about her decoding video and sending it to someone.
Totally uncompressed video is FUCKING HUGE. Basically imagine the size of a bitmap the same resolution + bpp of the video, then multiply that size by 30*seconds of video (for 30 fps video, which is pretty standard I think).
So she could decompress it, and then if she wanted to send it to this Finnish guy there would either have to be a T3 or so between them...
He was probably just watching some porno anyway.
followed by the rest of the GPL.
You are just plain wrong, sorry.
Kazaa came out with an update for their client a few weeks back. The way that the updates for Kazaa and Morpheus work is that they slowly spread because whenever you connect to a node that has the updated version you are forced to update. Then if anyone happens to connect to you they have to update.
So Kazaa made an updated version and let their updated version spread to all Kazaa users. Then either by a preset date or some sort of signal they activated the one "feature" of this update: to give all Morpheus users the bad version error. Really underhanded.
Right now sometimes on Morpheus you might still connect, depending on if you are lucky and connect to another Morpheus node, but you are only in contact with a small part of the network.
Too bad that Star Trek had the following explanations for any technical questions.
"How does the warp drive work?"
"Very well, thank you."
"How does the transporter work?"
"It recalibrates the photonic field generators in the alternative energy matrix to recapitulate the baryonic flux."
info@kazaa.net
press@kazaa.net
If you haven't read any other comments or articles, Kazaa is responsible for taking Morpheus off the network they shared through some sort of semi-viral attack. Let them know how you feel.
First off they have spyware anyway.
Second off it seems that they utilized the nature of the fasttrack network to basically kick all Morpheus users off and try and make them switch to Kazaa. Rat bastards.
Personally I think instead of switching to Gnutella Morpheus should have come out with a new version that isn't affected by the attack from Kazaa, and fucks over Kazaa clients too.
They could have got into a war coming out with new versions that would screw over the other company's client.
But I guess they didn't want a fight so they're leaving the FastTrack network.
Personally I wonder what the creators of the FastTrack network have to do with this...
Anyway, don't use Kazaa. Spyware, and DOS attack.
Tim
My impression was that the company that runs the FastTrak network that Kazaa and Morpheus both share decided to cut out Morpheus. A few days ago when I tried to go on Morpheus, I couldn't connect, and there was this message along the lines of "some of our technology partners have made changes that disable current versions of Morpheus." Nothing about a hacker attack...
Maybe Kazaa paid the FastTrak people to do it or something.
Whatever you do, don't switch to Kazaa. It is filled with Spyware, they are assholes.
Tim
The Warforge fork of bnetd that allowed WC3Beta play was also open source. There were one or two versions of bnetd with crappy and buggy support for WC3Beta which were released without source, but no one knows who made them and they only lasted a few hours before everyone went to Warforge.
Warforge took their stuff down VOLUNTARILY, Blizzard never contacted them. Blizzard has yet to contact the people responsible for playing WC3Beta on non-Battle.net servers.
This whole case has made me rather saddened with how people are willling to give up their rights.
First argument I get from Blizzard fanboys is "it's illegal!". Too much respect for the law. MAYBE it's illegal, under the DMCA. Crappy laws should be disobeyed.
Blizzard has also apparently sent these types of notices to people who develop cheats for their games or develop chat bots for their Battle.Net servers. Now I hate cheating, but I don't see giving up the right to free speech as an acceptable way to try and stop it. Apparently a lot of these Blizzard fanboys do. As for the bots, apparently a lot of people use them in an annoying way. So we should throw away our rights because they might let people annoy us. Blizzard is welcome to try and stop emulated servers, cheats, and bots through technical means (and they should), but the programmers shouldn't be called criminals because of a program they wrote.
What seems a sad part to me often is the fact that Blizzard owes a lot of their popularity to the Multiplayer success of Warcraft 2. If you wanted to play Warcraft 2 on the Internet, you used a third-party program "Kali", which emulated the protocol used by Warcraft and provided a matchmaking server. So basically, Blizzard wouldn't be where they are today without an earlier program quite similar to BNETD and FSGS.
Tim
Offer $1,000 to anyone who shows up and has a semi-permanent birth control operation (vasectomy, fallopian tubes tied). Stupid crackheads have less kids, government saves money on paying for welfare or prison for those kids, society has less stupid people, and population pressure in general decreases.
Personally I like very many libertarian ideas but I think some things will have to be looked at as more important than the libertarian philosophy or else the country might go to shit worse than it already is.
So......
When people are stupid poor crackheads, we should fund them from other people's money so they can continue to pump out babies?
To me a little bit of Darwinism seems to be a good thing, if these people are mentally incapable of being functional members of society, we shouldn't be giving them money so that they can breed like rabbits...
Tim
The best is idiots paying more than $500 for some crappy jacket with a billboard for "Avirex" on the back... And then they are afraid to go outside in it because it might get messed up or rained on or something.
I have a First Down jacket that I was able to get cheap cause the store had a sale AND it was in the "irregular" bin, but I feel dumb enough wearing it cause it is the same brand some of these kids wear to show off that they can afford a jacket or something. Once I was bored on the bus and I was sitting next to one of these dumbass kids... In my boredom I took off my jacket and started ripping off all the "First Down" labels and tags that I could, this kid got shocked and he starts cursing at me and stuff... Hilarious...
Same kind of kids that buy the "Timberland" boots and leave that stupid leather keychain looking tag on, just so they can show off their newest "Tim'"s with all the logos they can.
Tim
Heh, I forgot to make clear I'm not actually in NYC, I'm maybe 40 miles away...
Seeing as it was supposed to function as an emergency hospital too, there was also some sort of intravenous feeding stuff. Maybe you could stick a needle full of that in your arm whenever you got hungry, if you got tired of the crackers...
The best things were the "Sani-Kit IV"s.. They were these cylindrical cardboard cans, and when you opened them they had a plastic bag, toilet seat to fit the top of the can, rolls of toilet paper, sanitizing chemicals, everything you need for a porta-potty except the privacy. I might have taken home and used some of the toilet paper too, can't really remember...
Tim
Ever been on the log flume ride? You get on from the center hub, where the spinning speed is slowest.
Several years back, my school decided to get rid of this Civil Defense Postapocalyptic Nuclear Shelter/Hospital that they had in the basement.
Apparently, if the Commies ever dropped the Big One on NYC, the survivors were supposed to live on water, crackers, and hard candies. The water was all gone by the time we went in there, along with the Geiger Counters (which I really wanted - apparently at some point some public agency came and took them back), but there were still maybe an 8' high 6' wide 18' long stack of all these boxes of candy and crackers, packed with various dates around 1963. There were big cardboard boxes with a Civil Defense logo on the side, the words SURVIVAL CRACKERS or CARBOHYDRATE SUPPLEMENT on the side, and inside were either 6 tins of crackers (~40 pounds total) or 2 45 pound tins of red and yellow hard candies.
Both were still good in '99 when we cut open the tins and tried. Crackers tasted pretty nasty and dry, but the candy was delicious. I still have stored in an airtight container some candy that was dated October 1963, I'm waiting for October next year so I can eat 40 year old sour balls.
Tim
Are you sure about Thursday? Thursday night the "single player crack" came out (you could play multiplayer games by yourself.. boring actually) Friday nothing happened, Saturday, first one or two hacked up, buggy, versions of bnetd appear along with a 9 Megabyte client side crack for Warcraft Beta 1.02, and then later on Saturday Warforge started their server and their 32KB client-side crack....
I have account #43 on wc3beta.warez-u.org and #127 on the Warforge Official server so I know i am pretty early there...
Do mini-cds fit in slot loading CD-ROM drives? I Don't think so...
Tim
I submitted several bugs/comments under a fake name and an extra hotmail address.
Besides just emailing them...
Go to battle.net and fill up their forums with complaints. Recently though they changed it to require a Blizzard game CD key so dig up the old Starcraft CD first.
Play warcraft III beta on cracked servers just to piss them off.
The worst part is is that BNETD.ORG the first site they shutdown made absolutely NO WARCRAFT III support at all. It was an open source project which other groups improved on. They have also apparently shut down the Warforge (WCIII compatible Bnetd version) official sites, but the files at least are back up somewhere else now, and the Warforge game servers themselves seem to be still up.
DMCA is a totally fucked-up move...
I'm going to go play some Warcraft III now, suck it Blizzard lawyers!
Tim
If you actually read his comment you would understand that the computers were equipped with sensors to measure the REAL WORLD RESULTS accurately instead of getting a close guess with a stopwatch or something. No simulation involved.
Tim
This will only work on people who were dumb enough to share the entire C:\ drive. Works with autoexec.bat too....
How many car companies do you think want their cars portrayed as being good for killing people and committing felonies?
The reason is that 555 is never used in real phone systems. Otherwise:
A.) People WILL call a number from a movie or such. I remember reading about this popular song a few decades back called "Jenny" or something that mentioned a 7 digit phone number that was not 555. Anyone who had that number got calls because of the song. This is annoying to the people who receive the calls.
B.) More importantly to the media companies, people could perhaps sue if they received calls due to this.
Tim
K-Mart is going out of business probably, I don't think they will be printing any gift certificates of any denomination after a month or two.