Internet2 was designed (and funded) for use by universities and educational facilities, as well as governments so they could "[develop] and [deploy] advanced network applications and technology, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet." It doesn't really seem as though the MPAA has anything to bring to the table. Their membership application should be denied on that basis alone. Plus the fact that there is simply no evidence that there is anything untoward happening on Internet2, just that it's *possible*.
Sirius already offers this included in the cost of their service. Hell, you don't even need to be a subscriber to use it. You can sign up for a 3-day trial, wait for it to expire, then sign up again (according to their customer service).
Oh, and XM isn't 100% commercial-free, where Sirius is.
I had an instructor who was so hopeless it was beyond words. Lucky for the students, he did something amazingly stupid and actually GAVE IT TO US. Click on the link in my sig to watch it!
Oh, and click here for those of you that disable sigs.
If you don't want to directly engage the scammers, but still want to hurt their cause, check out this site. All the images there are taken from the fake banking sites that the scammers set up. The pages refresh every 2 minutes to keep the bandwidth usage going. If you REALLY want to hurt them, and have bandwidth to spare, try going to this page. It will load 12 images, all from the aforementioned fake banking sites as fast as your connection will allow.
Comcast drone #1: Geeks already don't like us, right? Comcast drone #2: Right. Comcast drone #1: Something to do with the DMCA, no? Comcast drone #2: Most likely. Comcast drone #1: But they all like this TechTV show, right? Comcast drone #2: Seems like it, yes. Comcast drone #1: I have an idea....let's let the entire cast go and relocate to LA! Comcast drone #2: Brilliant!
Second, whenever one of those trailers plays in a theater with several hundred college students inside, everyone's gut response is laughter. I think the first time I saw one of those interviews was right before Spiderman, and the whole theater was balling. (emphasis mine)
Errrr....I think you mean bawling, as balling is usually illegal in a theater, and it's unusual to see an entire theatre doing it at once...
Usual disclaimers apply (IANAL), but when you decide to post on a public website under the auspices of privacy, you have a right to expect that their end of the bargain will be held up, no? Couldn't it be viewed that the privacy statement was a sort agreement between the department and the poster? Now that the department has broken its promise, is there any form of redress a person can seek?
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Again, working at an ISP, we cannot dictate what a user can or should not receive. He should have installed filters.
I think he was having email spoofed to look as though it were coming FROM him, so that people were bitching about him sending it, when he wasn't. I believe this is referred to as a Joe Job.
If you want to do the same thing as this guy, try using SpamCop. Paste the entire email (with headers, duh) there, and it will backtrack the message to where it originated. It will tell you which company it came from, which one is being advertised, etc. For the especially lazy, it will also allow you to send a carbon-copy form letter to all parties involved. Best of all, it's free. Consider donating though, it's worth it.
Holy hell, that's several times as many people that were sued! Why would so many people go for this, when there wasn't any legal action yet? And, if I remember correctly, those who were sued were offered this "deal". Why didn't these people just wait to see if they were going to get sued, and THEN take the deal?
Ok, so I go the site, and it has an option that says: Loaded Audio:On. I'm at work, so I didn't want that. I chose to permanently disable them, and I get this:
Your preferences have been updated
Thank you. You will never hear sounds again.
I think BuyMusic.com just threatened to deafen me. Hrmph. I guess it's their sounds or no sounds.
By "primate behavior" I assume you mean you howled and flung your feces at the computer? =)
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...when it was called IRC. Seriously, this sounds like a traditional IRC channel with XDCC bots. Decentralized (many servers on the same net comprising a single channel) and varied (you can have many varied channels). I mean, it sounds like a cool idea, and a neat proof-of-concept, but is it really needed or useful?
That makes it what, roughly a billion or so to go until they've atoned for stifling creativity and ruining music? Anyway, what kind of company would use software that sends out cease and desist letters automatically? Shouldn't there be at least SOME human intervention? That way, someone could say, "Hey, I've never heard of this Professor Usher. Did we just sign him? Maybe we should look into this. Or at least, I dunno...listen to the file first?"
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Yes.
Fucking hell, this question actually has to be asked?
Not so fast...haven't you heard of Pirates?
Errr...you DID notice his username, didn't you?
Fuck this "buffer overflow" crap. You mean to tell me RAR actually stands for something?
The one they tell you about and the real one.
Internet2 was designed (and funded) for use by universities and educational facilities, as well as governments so they could "[develop] and [deploy] advanced network applications and technology, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet." It doesn't really seem as though the MPAA has anything to bring to the table. Their membership application should be denied on that basis alone. Plus the fact that there is simply no evidence that there is anything untoward happening on Internet2, just that it's *possible*.
Get a life, MPAA.
"Flash chips, which retain data after a host computer is turned off, are used in flash cards and cell phones, while DDR DRAM is used inside PCs."
This being Slashdot and all, one wouldn't think that needed to be said. =)
Sirius already offers this included in the cost of their service. Hell, you don't even need to be a subscriber to use it. You can sign up for a 3-day trial, wait for it to expire, then sign up again (according to their customer service).
Oh, and XM isn't 100% commercial-free, where Sirius is.
I had an instructor who was so hopeless it was beyond words. Lucky for the students, he did something amazingly stupid and actually GAVE IT TO US. Click on the link in my sig to watch it!
Oh, and click here for those of you that disable sigs.
If you don't want to directly engage the scammers, but still want to hurt their cause, check out this site. All the images there are taken from the fake banking sites that the scammers set up. The pages refresh every 2 minutes to keep the bandwidth usage going. If you REALLY want to hurt them, and have bandwidth to spare, try going to this page. It will load 12 images, all from the aforementioned fake banking sites as fast as your connection will allow.
"Soliocentric"? I don't know what YOU'RE personally orbiting around, but I think the word you're looking for is "heliocentric".
Yes, because no one uses any P2P apps like KaZaA or Grokster since they're all linked with illegal activities.
Comcast drone #1: Geeks already don't like us, right?
Comcast drone #2: Right.
Comcast drone #1: Something to do with the DMCA, no?
Comcast drone #2: Most likely.
Comcast drone #1: But they all like this TechTV show, right?
Comcast drone #2: Seems like it, yes.
Comcast drone #1: I have an idea....let's let the entire cast go and relocate to LA!
Comcast drone #2: Brilliant!
Second, whenever one of those trailers plays in a theater with several hundred college students inside, everyone's gut response is laughter. I think the first time I saw one of those interviews was right before Spiderman, and the whole theater was balling. (emphasis mine)
Errrr....I think you mean bawling, as balling is usually illegal in a theater, and it's unusual to see an entire theatre doing it at once...
"LOLOLOLO!!!!11 j00 h4v3 b33n HAC....buffering.....buffering....buffering...."
Usual disclaimers apply (IANAL), but when you decide to post on a public website under the auspices of privacy, you have a right to expect that their end of the bargain will be held up, no? Couldn't it be viewed that the privacy statement was a sort agreement between the department and the poster? Now that the department has broken its promise, is there any form of redress a person can seek?
As opposed to the non-combustible variety? =)
Again, working at an ISP, we cannot dictate what a user can or should not receive. He should have installed filters.
I think he was having email spoofed to look as though it were coming FROM him, so that people were bitching about him sending it, when he wasn't. I believe this is referred to as a Joe Job.
If you want to do the same thing as this guy, try using SpamCop. Paste the entire email (with headers, duh) there, and it will backtrack the message to where it originated. It will tell you which company it came from, which one is being advertised, etc. For the especially lazy, it will also allow you to send a carbon-copy form letter to all parties involved. Best of all, it's free. Consider donating though, it's worth it.
Holy hell, that's several times as many people that were sued! Why would so many people go for this, when there wasn't any legal action yet? And, if I remember correctly, those who were sued were offered this "deal". Why didn't these people just wait to see if they were going to get sued, and THEN take the deal?
Ok, so I go the site, and it has an option that says: Loaded Audio: On. I'm at work, so I didn't want that. I chose to permanently disable them, and I get this:
Your preferences have been updated Thank you. You will never hear sounds again.
I think BuyMusic.com just threatened to deafen me. Hrmph. I guess it's their sounds or no sounds.
By "primate behavior" I assume you mean you howled and flung your feces at the computer? =)
...when it was called IRC. Seriously, this sounds like a traditional IRC channel with XDCC bots. Decentralized (many servers on the same net comprising a single channel) and varied (you can have many varied channels). I mean, it sounds like a cool idea, and a neat proof-of-concept, but is it really needed or useful?
That makes it what, roughly a billion or so to go until they've atoned for stifling creativity and ruining music? Anyway, what kind of company would use software that sends out cease and desist letters automatically? Shouldn't there be at least SOME human intervention? That way, someone could say, "Hey, I've never heard of this Professor Usher. Did we just sign him? Maybe we should look into this. Or at least, I dunno...listen to the file first?"