Buy used CDs and DVDs. Preferably from local independently owned shops.
The ONLY new DVDs I've purchased in the last year or so have been the FUTURAMA movies, because I want MORE FUTURAMA! And the best way for that to happen is to show Fox that it's to their financial advantage to make more FUTURAMA.
However, other than those purchases, every DVD and CD I've bought for the past few years has been previously owned.
I get the movies and music I want, and the MAFIAAs get not one penny of my money in return.
When I get my newly purchased used discs home, CDs get ripped to iTunes, DVDs get ripped & stripped via MacTheRipper. Discs then get filed away for safekeeping, and my digital copies are used in their place.
If you MUST download music and video, USENET is a much safer alternative. The alt.binaries hierarchies have just as much digital new content as BitTorrent, and the popular/most used newsgroups have dedicated users who will, if asked politely, take requests for content reuploads.
Via NZB, downloads are as simple as one or two mouseclicks and are usually faster than BitTorrent.
Oh, and they are almost completely untraceable. Making life for the MAFIAAs all the more miserable.
My reason for attempting to post that was to get an opinion from any experts as to potential "weakness" of it as a password.
But DO keep posting such helpful and courteous comments. They help maintain the polite tone and high level of informative discourse that makes Slashdot the shining beacon of Fact and Truth on The Internet.
"Really, though, I think your observation was spot-on."
Thank you!
For all their talk about freedom and liberty and voluntary cooperation, it always seems to come down to "the money".
And if some action, somewhere reduces the profit margin of some multinational hypercorp, the cry of "SOCIALISM!" is heard throughout their tubby ranks, and the sound of their chubby thighs rubbing together as they rise, en masse, to rush, well, actually, waddle, to their keyboards, sounds like the oncoming wind. The clacking of the keys, as they go on the Internet to register their displeasure is deafening!
They're the nerds who give honest & rational nerds a bad reputation.
The stench of Randroid droppings is thick in the air, tonight.
It's all the fault of:
The Unions The Liberals The Democrats The Socialists
(Choose as many as apply. Bonus points for suitable quotations from Atlas Shrugged and/or The Fountainhead. Triple points for quotes by Milton Friedman, quoting Atlas Shrugged and/or The Fountainhead.)
"I'm trapped on Gilligan's Island, but I'm not paying any INCOME TAX!"
Mary Ayn Rand
Your Junior Penguin Patrol badge and official membership card notwithstanding, your order to "STFU and go away" means, essentially, dick, to me.
"You've got to config it. And then you have to write some shell scripts. Update your RPMs. You have to partition your drives. And patch your kernel. Compile your binaries. Check your version dependencies. Probably do that once or twice.
It's just so easy. And so simple. I don't know why everyone doesn't run Linux."
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Fame is so fleeting!
To go from "Insightful"(2) to "Offtopic" (0).
Truly, the league of OSS fanboys will not permit even the slightest criticism of their beloved free as in beer playthings.
A year or so ago, I did have X11 installed in Mac OS, specifically so I could use GIMP. Seriously, the developers needn't have bothered with their so-called OS X version.
It both sucked AND blew! The user interface was an abomination. I was not greatly impressed.
As I said previously, Graphic Converter, with its PS plug in compatibility blows GIMP away, tracks down the bloody remains, pisses all over the bloody remains, reloads, and blows the bloody, piss-soaked remains away. AGAIN.
I can't imagine GIMP being any better under Linux or any other OS.
Remember, boys and girls of the Penguin Patrol, anything free is worth exactly what you paid for it.
No thanks! I've no intention of installing X11 just for one application. Merely because it's "free".
Particularly with an ass-backwards interface for something as simple as drawing a circle or square.
Graphic Converter @ US$30, performs a substantial subset of Photoshop actions, uses most Photoshop plug ins/filters, including the latest incarnation of Noise Ninja (image noise reduction), AND does CYMK, too.
It also draws circles and squares.
And all without installing X11.
So, tell me again, why should should I jump through all the hoops to use GIMP on my Mac?
And 'Cuz it's free, man! Free as in beer, that's why!" is not an acceptable answer/explanation/incentive.
Very easily. Libertarians are selfish loons who worship a dead selfish loon who held that selfish behavior was the ideal.
Libertarian philosophy can be boiled down to this: "I got mine, fuck you, Jack!", and of course, "All.Glory.To.The.Invisible.Hand!"
I could point out that numerous left wing economists have, for quite some time, been pointing out that the Libertarian deregulation of the diverse financial markets would (and did) lead to exactly the situation we're in right now.
I could, but I have better and more productive things to do with my time. Such as pick my nose and flick the boogers at you.
"Public funded space exploration is wrong because it deprives tax payers of their liberty. It takes resoures from people without their consent that they earned with their own sweat and hard work."
The air is thick with the stench of Randroid droppings!
"I'm trapped on Gilligan's Island, but I'm not paying ANY income taxes!"
Mary Ayn Rand
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It's as simple as that.
Buy used CDs and DVDs. Preferably from local independently owned shops.
The ONLY new DVDs I've purchased in the last year or so have been the FUTURAMA movies, because I want MORE FUTURAMA! And the best way for that to happen is to show Fox that it's to their financial advantage to make more FUTURAMA.
However, other than those purchases, every DVD and CD I've bought for the past few years has been previously owned.
I get the movies and music I want, and the MAFIAAs get not one penny of my money in return.
When I get my newly purchased used discs home, CDs get ripped to iTunes, DVDs get ripped & stripped via MacTheRipper. Discs then get filed away for safekeeping, and my digital copies are used in their place.
If you MUST download music and video, USENET is a much safer alternative. The alt.binaries hierarchies have just as much digital new content as BitTorrent, and the popular/most used newsgroups have dedicated users who will, if asked politely, take requests for content reuploads.
Via NZB, downloads are as simple as one or two mouseclicks and are usually faster than BitTorrent.
Oh, and they are almost completely untraceable. Making life for the MAFIAAs all the more miserable.
Ahem! They showed what appears to be a Constitution class starship being built Earthside.
There was, as far as I can tell, no indication that it was Enterprise.
People write viruses & trojans & worms to infect Windows because Windows is so easy to 0wn.
"Botnets. Spammers Botnets.
What kind of boxes are on botnets?
Compaq, HP, Dell & Sony, true!
Gateway, Packard Bell, maybe even Asus, too!
Are boxes, found on botnets, all running Windows, FOO!"
Why is it that TFAs almost never mention the OS of all the computers that make up these botnets?
Perhaps it's just one of those things that EVERYBODY knows, and as such, doesn't really need to be mentioned.
No offense taken whatsoever!
My little ditty was, in its own way, a similar response as your own.
Not there wasn't more than a metric tonne of grains of truth to either, mind you.
You mean to say that this three year old Trojan ONLY affects machine running the Windows Operating System.
I'm shocked, shocked, I say!
"Botnets, spammers botnets!
What kind of boxes make up botnets?
Compaq, HP, Dell and Sony, true!
Gateway, Packard Bell, maybe even ASUS, too!
Are boxes, found on botnets, all running Windows. FOO!"
Ollabelle, take a look here for some larger images, including a TIFF which should be scalable to your desktop size.
...by selling my complete set of Magnus: Robot Fighter comics on eBay!
Learn the secrets of master robot fighter MAGNUS NOW, before it's TOO LATE!
"Botnets, spammers botnets!
What kind of boxes make up botnets?"
Compaq, HP, Dell and Sony, true.
Gateway, Packard Bell, maybe even ASUS, too!
Are boxes, found on botnets, all running Windows, FOO!"
...How many machines were running Mac OS or Linux/Unix?
How many were running Windows?
To quote Adam Savage: "Well, THERE'S your problem!"
OW! I'm SO not going to the prom with you!
My reason for attempting to post that was to get an opinion from any experts as to potential "weakness" of it as a password.
But DO keep posting such helpful and courteous comments. They help maintain the polite tone and high level of informative discourse that makes Slashdot the shining beacon of Fact and Truth on The Internet.
Sodding lameness filter won't let me post a 2048 bit PGP public key as an example.
(NOT my public key, by the way. One just generated a few minutes ago as an example.)
And you're ALL Number 6.
Do you have the courage that Number 6 had? Will you fight back against Number 2?
Are you just "A number" or are you Free Men & Women?
The choice is yours.
"Really, though, I think your observation was spot-on."
Thank you!
For all their talk about freedom and liberty and voluntary cooperation, it always seems to come down to "the money".
And if some action, somewhere reduces the profit margin of some multinational hypercorp, the cry of "SOCIALISM!" is heard throughout their tubby ranks, and the sound of their chubby thighs rubbing together as they rise, en masse, to rush, well, actually, waddle, to their keyboards, sounds like the oncoming wind. The clacking of the keys, as they go on the Internet to register their displeasure is deafening!
They're the nerds who give honest & rational nerds a bad reputation.
Ha! Well played, Sir! Well played, indeed!
The stench of Randroid droppings is thick in the air, tonight.
It's all the fault of:
The Unions
The Liberals
The Democrats
The Socialists
(Choose as many as apply. Bonus points for suitable quotations from Atlas Shrugged and/or The Fountainhead. Triple points for quotes by Milton Friedman, quoting Atlas Shrugged and/or The Fountainhead.)
"I'm trapped on Gilligan's Island, but I'm not paying any INCOME TAX!"
Mary Ayn Rand
Oh, did I hurt your fragile little feelings?
Go whine about it to RMS.
Your Junior Penguin Patrol badge and official membership card notwithstanding, your order to "STFU and go away" means, essentially, dick, to me.
"You've got to config it. And then you have to write some shell scripts. Update your RPMs. You have to partition your drives. And patch your kernel. Compile your binaries. Check your version dependencies. Probably do that once or twice.
It's just so easy. And so simple. I don't know why everyone doesn't run Linux."
Fame is so fleeting!
To go from "Insightful"(2) to "Offtopic" (0).
Truly, the league of OSS fanboys will not permit even the slightest criticism of their beloved free as in beer playthings.
A year or so ago, I did have X11 installed in Mac OS, specifically so I could use GIMP. Seriously, the developers needn't have bothered with their so-called OS X version.
It both sucked AND blew! The user interface was an abomination. I was not greatly impressed.
As I said previously, Graphic Converter, with its PS plug in compatibility blows GIMP away, tracks down the bloody remains, pisses all over the bloody remains, reloads, and blows the bloody, piss-soaked remains away. AGAIN.
I can't imagine GIMP being any better under Linux or any other OS.
Remember, boys and girls of the Penguin Patrol, anything free is worth exactly what you paid for it.
No thanks! I've no intention of installing X11 just for one application. Merely because it's "free".
Particularly with an ass-backwards interface for something as simple as drawing a circle or square.
Graphic Converter @ US$30, performs a substantial subset of Photoshop actions, uses most Photoshop plug ins/filters, including the latest incarnation of Noise Ninja (image noise reduction), AND does CYMK, too.
It also draws circles and squares.
And all without installing X11.
So, tell me again, why should should I jump through all the hoops to use GIMP on my Mac?
And 'Cuz it's free, man! Free as in beer, that's why!" is not an acceptable answer/explanation/incentive.
"How can you dismiss that?"
Very easily. Libertarians are selfish loons who worship a dead selfish loon who held that selfish behavior was the ideal.
Libertarian philosophy can be boiled down to this: "I got mine, fuck you, Jack!", and of course, "All.Glory.To.The.Invisible.Hand!"
I could point out that numerous left wing economists have, for quite some time, been pointing out that the Libertarian deregulation of the diverse financial markets would (and did) lead to exactly the situation we're in right now.
I could, but I have better and more productive things to do with my time. Such as pick my nose and flick the boogers at you.
"All.Glory.To.The.Invisible.Hand!"
You know, citing Ron Paul in any instance is prima facie evidence of self-delusion.
You might as well be quoting from 'Dianetics', while expecting to be taken seriously.
Shorter Bodhammer:
"All.Glory.To.The.Invisible.Hand!"
"would you care to refute his points?"
No. Libertarianism is the Scientology of politics. No point in arguing/debating with Randroids. The response is always the same:
"The.Free.Market.Solves.All.Problems. All.Glory.To.The.Invisible.Hand."
My time would be better spent and far more productive by picking my nose and flicking the boogers at you.
"Public funded space exploration is wrong because it deprives tax payers of their liberty. It takes resoures from people without their consent that they earned with their own sweat and hard work."
The air is thick with the stench of Randroid droppings!
"I'm trapped on Gilligan's Island, but I'm not paying ANY income taxes!"
Mary Ayn Rand
"The truth hurts, and the shoe fits. It is not my job to fill your life with joy."
But it is my job to laugh at you, and at what a credulous fool you are.
You, sir and/or madam, have pwn3d YOURSELF!
Rats off to ya!