Where are the class action suits against Microsoft for continually producing such flawed software that makes it easy to 0wn a box?
If it wasn't for 20 some years of MS indifference towards security, there wouldn't be botnets like this, being used for DDOS attacks and forwarding billions of spams a day.
"And that computer did useful work. Back in the day when you were lucky to get 256K - 512K in a desktop computer (and, yes - PCs really maxed out at 640K)."
Oh, what I would have given for 640K!
Well, no. For a LONG time, my only computer was a Commodore 128. Fully pimped out with JiffyDOS, 4 disk drives and the CMD SwiftLink modem interface (56k dialup on a 128? Yep. Life in the fast lane!)
I was able to do a LOT of serious, complicated work on that machine. Played some pretty fun games on it, too. (FPS games are not fun. Fast twitch shoot 'em ups are for the overly testosteroned.)
The current computer is a Mac G3, 450 Mhz, half gig of RAM, running OS X 10.3.9.
It runs a bit slow, to be sure, but hey, no big deal. Unlike some of the commenters, I don't feel the need to conflate my penis size with any particular Linux distro/hardware.
Your computer is just a calculator that displays its sums as colored dots on the display. Nothing more.
I maintain that Slashdot needs a "Linux Bigot" moderation, along with "Troll" and "Flamebait".
I selected "Start with blank page" in Preferences. Still starts up with "You've downloaded Firefox 2.0" page.
I selected "open new windows in new tab" in Preferences. New windows open in the current window or tab.
Contextual menus don't work as previous. In 1.5, leftclick and hold on a link would open the Mac contextual menu. In 2.0, I have to hold down the CONTROL key to open the Contextual menu.
Back to the working 1.5 version for me. Let me know when you get 2.0 "downgraded" to the functionality of 1.5.
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Try reading the fucking comment! Again! And paying attention to all the big words in the TFC. Maybe get a Mac user to help you understand what all the big words mean.
The fellow said exactly DICK about FireFox or Linux "automatically" installing anything.
Cheater512 is a living example of why we so desperately need a "Linux Bigot" comment moderation label.
Today, I can download a perfect image of a DVD. I can burn it to a blank DVD that will work in my DVD player, just like the storebought version.
I can also take that DVD, and, if I have the right printer, print a full color "label" right onto it, just like the storebought version.
I can also download the keepcase cover insert and print that as well, so that the keepcase from the stack of empty AOL CD keepcases in my closet will look just like the storebought version.
Tomorrow, I will be able to legally download the DVD, the DVD "Label" and the DVD case cover insert and make my own DVD with case, with the blessings of the movie studio. (They're taking the halting baby steps already, via iTunes. They'll eventually see that there's money to be made by letting the consumer do all the work of making the DVD.)
Essentially, I have a replicator that takes data and makes a product in my home at my demand. A DVD in a keepcase.
While I don't think I'll live to see a "Transmetropolitan"-esque 'maker' in every home, it IS coming. I regret that I won't be around to hear the howls of outrage from WalMart over that leap of technology.
I won't regret, however, the societal upheaval that will occur when anyone can have anything, as long as they pay the power bill and can keep the source matter bin full.
Oh, and the lawsuits over cracking the DRM for the makers will be hysterically entertaining. I'll miss following them, as well.
Seriously, though. Who neds Gap, Old Navy, Victoria's Secret, Bananna Republic or Levi as a physical place to go and buy something, when you can download the maker source code for a fee, tweak that code for yourself for size and color, and push a button to have that garment drop down the chute 30 minutes later?
Go to Apple.com, pay a fee, get the source for the new iPod, and there it is the next day, courtesy of your home maker.
What need have you for the Apple Store? And what need has Apple for factories in China?
Yeah, the world economy is going to get very sporty for a while once the maker is perfected.
And if it can make anything, why, I can have ALL THE HEROIN AND POT AND E that I want!
I can have all the prescription medicines I want!
I can have all the Coca-Cola I want!
Imagine THAT table full of lawyers. The PRC, The Taliban and Colombian govts (Opium and Cocaine), EVERY pharm hypercorps, and Coca-Cola, INC.
All trying to maintain their monopolies over atoms and molecules that have been stitched together in a particular manner and that, by tradition, belong to them and them alone.
I quite understand what you're saying, and I agree with you 100%. That's an important clarification and something that I should have noted. Thanks!
I will say, though, that it's likely that most files via the iTMS are either played on an iPod or via the computer speakers, any signal degredation is not likely to be noticed.
Certainly I can't tell with my somewhat bad hearing.
If/when QTFairUse is ported to OS X and can strip FairPlay faster than it does now, preferably as a batch function, I'll likely use it in place of AudioHijack.
You make valid points. And you are inferring what I never said nor implied.
I said exactly DICK about any of the topics you mentioned. Artists getting screwed by the record companies. Mate, that's been happening since the days of Edison max cylinders. If musicians are getting themselves screwed by a record company, here in the 21st Century, fuck 'em! It's their own fault. Change companies when the contract is up and learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of every sodding musician who got screwed by a record company.
Why the hell would I want to use a Windows music service? iTunes PWN3D the digital music industry the day it became the iTunes Music Store.
Some of us, get our music legally from sources other than iTunes. We still put those files on our iPods, along with the files we buy from the iTunes store. And in my own case, every file I buy from ITMS gets run through Audio Hijack Pro and converted to an MP3 file. No hassle at all.
To reitierate: The vast majority of iPod users and repeat buyers DO NOT CARE! They don't give a fat rat's ass about DRM or anything else you mentioned.
They want an easy to use service. ITMS is that easy to use service.
You are not the target audience for ITMS.
You have never been the target audience for ITMS.
You will never be target audience for ITMS.
Get over yourself and welcome you new, Jonathan Ive designed, overlord!
Or use that POS, OEM plastic player from China that plays WMA and Ogg, like the other few thousand people that use them.
Sorry about how your Concern Beam is no match for my unbreechable Barrier of Cynical Reality.
DRM, lack of WMA compatiblity, ITMS files can't play on other players, "this here no name plastic player from China is cheaper and plays Ogg and... yadda yadda yadda".
OK, sit down, shut up and pay attention.
The overwhelming majority of people who buy iPods and KEEP buying iPods don't care a fat rat's ass about ANY OF THAT. Not one little bit do they care.
They want something that simply works. They don't care about ITMS DRM. They DO care about the fact that they can get music they want right now for a modest sum. They know they'll get a quality file.
They buy iPods because the interface is simple and it works well.
They buy iPods because they are small, sturdy and hold an amazing amount of music.
The overwhelming majority of the buying public is who Apple is targetting the iPod line to.
Not you smelly Linux hippies with your handmade machines and having 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.
Just to install an MP3 player. (and after all that, you STILL won't have more friends!)
You are not the consumer Apple cares about.
You have never been the consumer Apple cares about.
You will never be the consumer Apple cares about.
Get over yourself and welcome your new, Jonathan Ive designed, overlords!
WeÄôve all been there, bought a preowned game, put it excitedly into the console, then shouted ÄúOMFGz0rWTF!?!?Äù as the console wouldnÄôt recognise the game. Or perhaps you have a CD which contains important data, and M$ Windoze gives you a ÄúCyclic Redundancy CheckÄù error (fancy way of saying ÄòYour disc is bloody SCRATCHEDÄô).
Remember the good old days, before Microsft fucked up the American STANDARD Code for Information Interchange?
I'll beleive all those tasty specs when it SHIPS with all those tasty specs.
Until then...
Remember the SONY BMG rootkit on CDs. Remember that the PSP is a locked down, closed platform. (For at least the first 72 hours after an OS upgrade is released, that is.)
Sony is not your friend. Giving Sony your money will not make them your friend.
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Compromised Windows machines network.
Where are the class action suits against Microsoft for continually producing such flawed software that makes it easy to 0wn a box?
If it wasn't for 20 some years of MS indifference towards security, there wouldn't be botnets like this, being used for DDOS attacks and forwarding billions of spams a day.
"And that computer did useful work. Back in the day when you were lucky to get 256K - 512K in a desktop computer (and, yes - PCs really maxed out at 640K)."
Oh, what I would have given for 640K!
Well, no. For a LONG time, my only computer was a Commodore 128. Fully pimped out with JiffyDOS, 4 disk drives and the CMD SwiftLink modem interface (56k dialup on a 128? Yep. Life in the fast lane!)
I was able to do a LOT of serious, complicated work on that machine. Played some pretty fun games on it, too. (FPS games are not fun. Fast twitch shoot 'em ups are for the overly testosteroned.)
The current computer is a Mac G3, 450 Mhz, half gig of RAM, running OS X 10.3.9.
It runs a bit slow, to be sure, but hey, no big deal. Unlike some of the commenters, I don't feel the need to conflate my penis size with any particular Linux distro/hardware.
Your computer is just a calculator that displays its sums as colored dots on the display. Nothing more.
I maintain that Slashdot needs a "Linux Bigot" moderation, along with "Troll" and "Flamebait".
"When I find myself in times of trouble, PRZ, he comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, 'PGP, PGP!'"
..."Uber pwnage" in Korean?
So far under Mac OS X 10.3.9...
I selected "Start with blank page" in Preferences. Still starts up with "You've downloaded Firefox 2.0" page.
I selected "open new windows in new tab" in Preferences. New windows open in the current window or tab.
Contextual menus don't work as previous. In 1.5, leftclick and hold on a link would open the Mac contextual menu. In 2.0, I have to hold down the CONTROL key to open the Contextual menu.
Back to the working 1.5 version for me. Let me know when you get 2.0 "downgraded" to the functionality of 1.5.
Try reading the fucking comment! Again! And paying attention to all the big words in the TFC. Maybe get a Mac user to help you understand what all the big words mean.
The fellow said exactly DICK about FireFox or Linux "automatically" installing anything.
Cheater512 is a living example of why we so desperately need a "Linux Bigot" comment moderation label.
"(What were you doing a year ago, at exactly this time?"
Reading Slashdot.
"Two years?"
Reading Slashdot
"Five?"
Reading Slashdot
"Fifteen?)"
Bitching about how there was no Slashdot for me to read at this hour of the night.
Pathetic, isn't it?
It's an analogy. There is ALWAYS someone who thinks that the parable really IS ALL ABOUT sheep.
Everyone knows what a DVD is, what it looks like and what the packaging is.
The point I was making is that were are on the brink of an economic transistion where the brick and mortar establishment will be rendered obsolete.
Yes, I can indeed, rip all my DVDs to DivX and keep them on a computer and network the TV to the computer.
Now, try and grasp this concept (I'll use words of one syllable.):
I.Don't.Want.To.Do.That.
I prefer the DVD as physical entity, not as a data stream.
I know, I know. You cannot wrap your 31337 mind around that, can you.
Such is life. I'll try and cope with your disdain for my old fashioned ways.
...of the Age of The Replicator.
Today, I can download a perfect image of a DVD. I can burn it to a blank DVD that will work in my DVD player, just like the storebought version.
I can also take that DVD, and, if I have the right printer, print a full color "label" right onto it, just like the storebought version.
I can also download the keepcase cover insert and print that as well, so that the keepcase from the stack of empty AOL CD keepcases in my closet will look just like the storebought version.
Tomorrow, I will be able to legally download the DVD, the DVD "Label" and the DVD case cover insert and make my own DVD with case, with the blessings of the movie studio. (They're taking the halting baby steps already, via iTunes. They'll eventually see that there's money to be made by letting the consumer do all the work of making the DVD.)
Essentially, I have a replicator that takes data and makes a product in my home at my demand. A DVD in a keepcase.
While I don't think I'll live to see a "Transmetropolitan"-esque 'maker' in every home, it IS coming. I regret that I won't be around to hear the howls of outrage from WalMart over that leap of technology.
I won't regret, however, the societal upheaval that will occur when anyone can have anything, as long as they pay the power bill and can keep the source matter bin full.
Oh, and the lawsuits over cracking the DRM for the makers will be hysterically entertaining. I'll miss following them, as well.
Seriously, though. Who neds Gap, Old Navy, Victoria's Secret, Bananna Republic or Levi as a physical place to go and buy something, when you can download the maker source code for a fee, tweak that code for yourself for size and color, and push a button to have that garment drop down the chute 30 minutes later?
Go to Apple.com, pay a fee, get the source for the new iPod, and there it is the next day, courtesy of your home maker.
What need have you for the Apple Store? And what need has Apple for factories in China?
Yeah, the world economy is going to get very sporty for a while once the maker is perfected.
And if it can make anything, why, I can have ALL THE HEROIN AND POT AND E that I want!
I can have all the prescription medicines I want!
I can have all the Coca-Cola I want!
Imagine THAT table full of lawyers. The PRC, The Taliban and Colombian govts (Opium and Cocaine), EVERY pharm hypercorps, and Coca-Cola, INC.
All trying to maintain their monopolies over atoms and molecules that have been stitched together in a particular manner and that, by tradition, belong to them and them alone.
Good luck, guys. You'll need it.
I quite understand what you're saying, and I agree with you 100%. That's an important clarification and something that I should have noted. Thanks!
I will say, though, that it's likely that most files via the iTMS are either played on an iPod or via the computer speakers, any signal degredation is not likely to be noticed.
Certainly I can't tell with my somewhat bad hearing.
If/when QTFairUse is ported to OS X and can strip FairPlay faster than it does now, preferably as a batch function, I'll likely use it in place of AudioHijack.
You make valid points. And you are inferring what I never said nor implied.
I said exactly DICK about any of the topics you mentioned. Artists getting screwed by the record companies. Mate, that's been happening since the days of Edison max cylinders. If musicians are getting themselves screwed by a record company, here in the 21st Century, fuck 'em! It's their own fault. Change companies when the contract is up and learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of every sodding musician who got screwed by a record company.
Why the hell would I want to use a Windows music service? iTunes PWN3D the digital music industry the day it became the iTunes Music Store.
Some of us, get our music legally from sources other than iTunes. We still put those files on our iPods, along with the files we buy from the iTunes store. And in my own case, every file I buy from ITMS gets run through Audio Hijack Pro and converted to an MP3 file. No hassle at all.
To reitierate: The vast majority of iPod users and repeat buyers DO NOT CARE! They don't give a fat rat's ass about DRM or anything else you mentioned.
They want an easy to use service. ITMS is that easy to use service.
You are not the target audience for ITMS.
You have never been the target audience for ITMS.
You will never be target audience for ITMS.
Get over yourself and welcome you new, Jonathan Ive designed, overlord!
Or use that POS, OEM plastic player from China that plays WMA and Ogg, like the other few thousand people that use them.
Sorry about how your Concern Beam is no match for my unbreechable Barrier of Cynical Reality.
Whoops! The save as MP3, et al functions are in Audio Hijack Pro.
The pro version is US$30 or so, as I recall.
Still worth it, though, if for no other reason than it's still so much faster than burning and ripping to/from a CD.
...no need to burn iTunes purchased music to a CD and then rip to MP3. (if you're using OS X, that is.)
Audio Hijack intercepts the audio stream, stores it, and then gives you the option to safe it in diverse formats, including MP3 or a lossless format.
It also does the same thing with any streaming audio source, as well. Real, WMA, et al.
US$16.00. Worth every cent, in my opinion.
To quote myself:
DRM, lack of WMA compatiblity, ITMS files can't play on other players, "this here no name plastic player from China is cheaper and plays Ogg and... yadda yadda yadda".
OK, sit down, shut up and pay attention.
The overwhelming majority of people who buy iPods and KEEP buying iPods don't care a fat rat's ass about ANY OF THAT. Not one little bit do they care.
They want something that simply works. They don't care about ITMS DRM. They DO care about the fact that they can get music they want right now for a modest sum. They know they'll get a quality file.
They buy iPods because the interface is simple and it works well.
They buy iPods because they are small, sturdy and hold an amazing amount of music.
The overwhelming majority of the buying public is who Apple is targetting the iPod line to.
Not you smelly Linux hippies with your handmade machines and having to config it. And then you have to write some shell scripts. Update your RPMs. You have to partition your drives. And patch your kernel. Compile your binaries. Check your version dependencies. Probably do that once or twice.
Just to install an MP3 player. (and after all that, you STILL won't have more friends!)
You are not the consumer Apple cares about.
You have never been the consumer Apple cares about.
You will never be the consumer Apple cares about.
Get over yourself and welcome your new, Jonathan Ive designed, overlords!
From the mirrored site:
WeÄôve all been there, bought a preowned game, put it excitedly into the console, then shouted ÄúOMFGz0rWTF!?!?Äù as the console wouldnÄôt recognise the game. Or perhaps you have a CD which contains important data, and M$ Windoze gives you a ÄúCyclic Redundancy CheckÄù error (fancy way of saying ÄòYour disc is bloody SCRATCHEDÄô).
Remember the good old days, before Microsft fucked up the American STANDARD Code for Information Interchange?
Good times, good times.
This is just some insane publicity stunt by Stan Lee for the "Who Wants To Be A Superhero" TV show!
Injecting yourself with radioactive venom doesn't give you superpowers.
God KNOWS I've tried!
"Indeed. I'm just waiting for someone to trot out The Ayn Rand Quote."
OK, which dumbass Ayn Rand quote might this be, then?
There are SO MANY that the Randroids jerk off over, it's hard to keep track of them all.
" "Libertarianism, the autism of politics."
Heterodox, commentator on samizdata.net "
I wish I had mod points for you, even though you beat me to it!
"Can you say "Police State"? I voted for George Bush because he promissed me a smaller and less invasive government. This is what I got."
<Nelson Muntz>"HA-ha! You're a gullible idiot!</Nelson Muntz>
I'll beleive all those tasty specs when it SHIPS with all those tasty specs.
Until then...
Remember the SONY BMG rootkit on CDs. Remember that the PSP is a locked down, closed platform. (For at least the first 72 hours after an OS upgrade is released, that is.)
Sony is not your friend. Giving Sony your money will not make them your friend.
It just makes you their bitch.
Oh, man! Bing, I wish I had mod points!
I'm stealing that for the sig file.
Well done!
...Steven Jobs, he comes to me.
Speaking words of wisdow, 'A-P-P-L-E!'"
OS X...because making UNIX friendly was easier than fixing Windows.
"CATFIIIIIGHT!"
Two questions for the former police officer.
#1: Did you know of any corrupt police officers?
#2: If yes, what, if anything, did you do to get them fired/prosecuted for their corrupt actions?
The purple ponytail is sold seperately.