...the built in Windows XP firewall (enabled by default on SP2 and assuming you don't have any other services enabled or open) and/or have a $30 personal firewall/router, there is a 100% chance you won't get compromised.
Right, that's why they say unprotected windows pc. Those items you mention are some sort of protection...
(so does that mean that you should always use protection when using windows..?:)
I think that "market forces" probably sums it up. Furthermore, the "average" user doesn't even know that a BIOS can be flashed, or what the hell a BIOS is. Therefore, it's not a priority for them.
I'm sure that when an "average" user tries to do something that would required a BIOS flash (like using a big hard drive or changing processor or something), they usually end up being told that their motherboard doesn't support it and they need to buy a new motherboard. Which they then do...
Precisely. The Sith philosophy is all about power. (and grabbing the universe by the balls and shaping it to your will:)
Peace is a lie, there is only passion Through passion I gain strength Through strength I gain power Through power I gain victory In victory my chains are broken The force shall free me
If it was all about business, marijuana would be as legal as milk.
But my point is that it's not all about business. There's some insane prejudice involved also.
Well I guess it's not all about business.... it's all about money.
See, the current "war on drugs" creates a huge Seizure Business for the U.S. Government. If they legalized MJ, they wouldn't be able to steal property, money, etc. from the subjects of the USA anymore...:)
I always found Diablo II was a fun game to play @ lunchtime. Doesn't take too powerful hardware, and you can network and play w/others. Simple hack & slash mindless fun:)
So in other words... they filmed a couple of their people splashing around in the water for a bit, punctured the raft, and came up with a "dramatic" story:)
Is what ever happened to their "one million download challenge", which promised that the CEO would swim from Norway to the USA? There was briefly mention of it on their site, but now... nothing.
Home Theater: If someone's talking too much, you can pause the movie and lay out a smack-down.
Theater: you have to put up with stupid punks talking all the time because they have nowhere else to go to "hang out" with their buddies until mom comes to pick them up.
yeah, I loooove paying $20+ to watch a movie that I can't hear half the fucking dialog.
I just wanted to chime in here and say that I agree w/the parent's post - contact Comcast. I had a similar problem a few months ago w/comcast (right around the time they upgraded speed to 4Mbps). I would do a speed test, and my d/l speed would end up something pitiful like 20Kbps while my upload was a little higher (but still pitiful) around 50-100Kbps. I thought that someone else in my area must be d/l'ing a bunch of stuff and chewing up the "shared" bandwidth for my area. I contacted comcast, told them my suspicions, and they sent a tech out to look @ my computer. I talked to the tech when they were there, and told him in no uncertain terms that the traffice WAS NOT coming from my machines (I have a firewall, and the external light was flashing wildly, while the trusted side was not -- pretty obvious that I'm not the cause of the traffic). After that, he contacted their cable technicians, and the next day there was a comcast truck outside my place for a little bit, and when I got home there was a note on my door saying that they had replaced a bad cable someplace outside. (past my house, since my cable was still the same)
After that, my speed was right back up where it should be.
Yes, but you have to compare three years to the seriousness of the offence, and sentences for other offences.
Exactly. People that molest children get 300 days in county jail, and then get out early for good behaviour.
Are people sharing copyrighted content doing more damage than child molesters?
The punishment doled out under this law, when compared with other sentences for other (more serious, IMO) crimes, seems to show us right where the priorities of the administration is... same as always i guess, just follow the $$$...
These "Vantage Service Gateway" appliances that Zyxel sells are pretty neat, but not exactly cheap: vsg-1200 @ buy.com.
They have some quirks, as we're still playing around w/the one we have.. Like they seem to break VPN for example. They do a weird rewrite of DNS that screws up people trying to check their email via outlook over a VPN... But if you don't need VPN from behind then, they seem to do the job.
Transparently controls access to the internet, no configuration on the user's machine is needed. It intercepts any web traffic and makes the user login, as you were mentioning. You can set up user accounts locally on the VSG, or use a RADIUS server. You can control access time and bandwidth limits based on users and billing profiles that you set up on the box. The web interface seems a little "clunky" to me... think it was written in a different country and translated based on the wording of some of the error messages:)
Well, the best use (or at least the one I enjoy most) I've found for my iPaq is to load it up w/a couple of emulators for games:)
You definately want to grab pocketnester. Then you can play any NES game that you want:)
Also, check out MAME CE3. Unfortunately it was written w/an older version of MAME, so a lot of the ROMs I have tried didn't work:( But you can play Galaga all day to your heart's content:)
Except you're not borrowing it. You're keeping it permanently.
Partially accurate, but doesn't really tell the whole story. One thing you missed: You're not taking anything from anyone when you download music. You're simply making a copy that you're not authorized to make. You don't deprive anyone of anything.
You can't deprive someone of "potential revenue", because they never had it in the first place...
Of course the only parts of the TiVo prone to failure are the hard drives and modem; the hard drive is replaceable, and the modem is circumventable. So you could say the effective lifetime of a TiVo unit is unlimited.
Bwahahahaha!:)
So is that why I had to have my DirecTiVo replaced twice before I finally got one that didn't die in 3-6 months? Wasn't the hard drive or the modem either time as well. First time was the power supply, 2nd was the tuner cards...
That said, however, I love my TiVo:) It will be a shame if tivo goes away...:(
However when a movie distributer says "LokiTorrent users are stealing our intellectual property," they are exactly correct, because the do, in fact, own the property in question.
No, actually they are not correct. LokiTorrent users aren't stealing their intellectual property, they are making unauthorized copies of their intellectual property. Nothing is taken from the original owner. Nothing is given in compensation either, but that doesn't mean that their compensation has been "stolen", since they didn't have the compensation in the first place!
The copyright owner has just that: The right to copy. Therefore, if you aren't the copyright owner, and you don't have the copyright owner's permission, you are violating their copyright by making copies when you download, but not stealing...
I also think Enterprise and Star Trek in general has just crumbled under the weight of it's own enormous history. When your fan base can spot even a minor continuity error from a mile away and there are volumes of material available detailing the history of your imaginary universe then you've got to walk a very fine line with your stories. Each season slowly tightens the noose a little more. The people doing Star Trek have gotten progressively worse at keeping things plausible and Enterprise has been a train wreck where continuity is concerned.
But, didn't they find the perfect loophole for that? I had heard that the semi-official line was "Well, it doesn't matter if the current enterprise co-incides with what you already knew in the original series. Ever since the events of ST: First Contact happened, the timeline has been irreversably changed, so things don't neccessarily have to happen the same."
They wrote themselves a brilliant loophole with that one. A loophole so big that they could basically throw out anything that they wanted to, and re-write the "history" so to speak with Enterprise...
This guy was doing a stupid, possibly dangerous thing. It wasn't terrorism, however, and a multi-decade prison sentence isn't going to discourage actual terrorists (though it will hopefully discourage other idiots who don't have terroristic intent to pull similar crap - though I somehow doubt that too).
Exactly!
This is a ridiculous, and in my opinion "cruel and unusual" punishment for this guy being stupid. I'm all for stupid people being accountable for their actions and all. And I would be singing a different song if some person/people were hurt by his actions.
However, as far as I can tell, nobody was hurt. The punishment should fit the crime, and in this case, it most certainly does not.
Fucking child molesters get 1 year in county jail, and this dumbass is getting 25 years? What the fuck?
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"largest freshwater fish ever".... which was promptly eaten.
Right, that's why they say unprotected windows pc. Those items you mention are some sort of protection...
(so does that mean that you should always use protection when using windows..?
I think that "market forces" probably sums it up. Furthermore, the "average" user doesn't even know that a BIOS can be flashed, or what the hell a BIOS is. Therefore, it's not a priority for them.
I'm sure that when an "average" user tries to do something that would required a BIOS flash (like using a big hard drive or changing processor or something), they usually end up being told that their motherboard doesn't support it and they need to buy a new motherboard. Which they then do...
Precisely. The Sith philosophy is all about power. (and grabbing the universe by the balls and shaping it to your will :)
Peace is a lie, there is only passion
Through passion I gain strength
Through strength I gain power
Through power I gain victory
In victory my chains are broken
The force shall free me
If it was all about business, marijuana would be as legal as milk.
:)
But my point is that it's not all about business. There's some insane prejudice involved also.
Well I guess it's not all about business.... it's all about money.
See, the current "war on drugs" creates a huge Seizure Business for the U.S. Government. If they legalized MJ, they wouldn't be able to steal property, money, etc. from the subjects of the USA anymore...
No, but I was looking forward to watching him try :)
I always found Diablo II was a fun game to play @ lunchtime. Doesn't take too powerful hardware, and you can network and play w/others. Simple hack & slash mindless fun :)
So in other words... they filmed a couple of their people splashing around in the water for a bit, punctured the raft, and came up with a "dramatic" story :)
:P
Nice big PR grab....
Is what ever happened to their "one million download challenge", which promised that the CEO would swim from Norway to the USA? There was briefly mention of it on their site, but now... nothing.
Meh... I guess I shouldn't have expected much...
This leads to an obvious problem: If the rich and powerful are also physically stronger than us, how are we gonna overthrow them?
Guns. Lots of guns. As they say: "God didn't make all men equal, Samuel Colt did."
Home Theater: If someone's talking too much, you can pause the movie and lay out a smack-down.
Theater: you have to put up with stupid punks talking all the time because they have nowhere else to go to "hang out" with their buddies until mom comes to pick them up.
yeah, I loooove paying $20+ to watch a movie that I can't hear half the fucking dialog.
I just wanted to chime in here and say that I agree w/the parent's post - contact Comcast. I had a similar problem a few months ago w/comcast (right around the time they upgraded speed to 4Mbps). I would do a speed test, and my d/l speed would end up something pitiful like 20Kbps while my upload was a little higher (but still pitiful) around 50-100Kbps. I thought that someone else in my area must be d/l'ing a bunch of stuff and chewing up the "shared" bandwidth for my area. I contacted comcast, told them my suspicions, and they sent a tech out to look @ my computer. I talked to the tech when they were there, and told him in no uncertain terms that the traffice WAS NOT coming from my machines (I have a firewall, and the external light was flashing wildly, while the trusted side was not -- pretty obvious that I'm not the cause of the traffic). After that, he contacted their cable technicians, and the next day there was a comcast truck outside my place for a little bit, and when I got home there was a note on my door saying that they had replaced a bad cable someplace outside. (past my house, since my cable was still the same)
After that, my speed was right back up where it should be.
This site seems to focus on software patents in Europe, but they seem to have some information on why they are "bad": http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/intro/index. html
(disclaimer: I haven't really read much of it myself, just looked over it briefly since it was linked from the knoppix site...)
Haven't yet, but I plan to in the next 10 years or so if everything works out... ask me again in a few years :)
Yes, but you have to compare three years to the seriousness of the offence, and sentences for other offences.
Exactly. People that molest children get 300 days in county jail, and then get out early for good behaviour.
Are people sharing copyrighted content doing more damage than child molesters?
The punishment doled out under this law, when compared with other sentences for other (more serious, IMO) crimes, seems to show us right where the priorities of the administration is... same as always i guess, just follow the $$$...
Am I the only one that thought of this type of crack when they read that headline? :)
These "Vantage Service Gateway" appliances that Zyxel sells are pretty neat, but not exactly cheap: vsg-1200 @ buy.com.
:)
They have some quirks, as we're still playing around w/the one we have.. Like they seem to break VPN for example. They do a weird rewrite of DNS that screws up people trying to check their email via outlook over a VPN... But if you don't need VPN from behind then, they seem to do the job.
Transparently controls access to the internet, no configuration on the user's machine is needed. It intercepts any web traffic and makes the user login, as you were mentioning. You can set up user accounts locally on the VSG, or use a RADIUS server. You can control access time and bandwidth limits based on users and billing profiles that you set up on the box. The web interface seems a little "clunky" to me... think it was written in a different country and translated based on the wording of some of the error messages
Another one here... that they claim doesn't have the OC intro: http://www.piratebay.org/torrents-details.php?id=3 300612
(remove the space from the link, etc, etc...)
Well, the best use (or at least the one I enjoy most) I've found for my iPaq is to load it up w/a couple of emulators for games :)
:)
:( But you can play Galaga all day to your heart's content :)
You definately want to grab pocketnester. Then you can play any NES game that you want
Also, check out MAME CE3. Unfortunately it was written w/an older version of MAME, so a lot of the ROMs I have tried didn't work
Except you're not borrowing it. You're keeping it permanently.
Partially accurate, but doesn't really tell the whole story. One thing you missed: You're not taking anything from anyone when you download music. You're simply making a copy that you're not authorized to make. You don't deprive anyone of anything.
You can't deprive someone of "potential revenue", because they never had it in the first place...
FUD, FUD, FUD, FUD, FUD, FUD, FUD, FUD, FUD!
from the speech:
Songwriters, singers, musicians, labels, publishers--the entire music food chain is at risk.
Yet despite the "entire music food chain" being at risk, the recording industry still saw cd sales rise by 2.3% in 2004, the first time in four years.
Yeah, sure sounds like it's hurting their business to me. I think the RIAA and MPAA both need a big serving of STFU.
Of course the only parts of the TiVo prone to failure are the hard drives and modem; the hard drive is replaceable, and the modem is circumventable. So you could say the effective lifetime of a TiVo unit is unlimited.
:)
:) It will be a shame if tivo goes away... :(
Bwahahahaha!
So is that why I had to have my DirecTiVo replaced twice before I finally got one that didn't die in 3-6 months? Wasn't the hard drive or the modem either time as well. First time was the power supply, 2nd was the tuner cards...
That said, however, I love my TiVo
However when a movie distributer says "LokiTorrent users are stealing our intellectual property," they are exactly correct, because the do, in fact, own the property in question.
No, actually they are not correct. LokiTorrent users aren't stealing their intellectual property, they are making unauthorized copies of their intellectual property. Nothing is taken from the original owner. Nothing is given in compensation either, but that doesn't mean that their compensation has been "stolen", since they didn't have the compensation in the first place!
The copyright owner has just that: The right to copy. Therefore, if you aren't the copyright owner, and you don't have the copyright owner's permission, you are violating their copyright by making copies when you download, but not stealing...
Don't buy into the FUD.
I also think Enterprise and Star Trek in general has just crumbled under the weight of it's own enormous history. When your fan base can spot even a minor continuity error from a mile away and there are volumes of material available detailing the history of your imaginary universe then you've got to walk a very fine line with your stories. Each season slowly tightens the noose a little more. The people doing Star Trek have gotten progressively worse at keeping things plausible and Enterprise has been a train wreck where continuity is concerned.
But, didn't they find the perfect loophole for that? I had heard that the semi-official line was "Well, it doesn't matter if the current enterprise co-incides with what you already knew in the original series. Ever since the events of ST: First Contact happened, the timeline has been irreversably changed, so things don't neccessarily have to happen the same."
They wrote themselves a brilliant loophole with that one. A loophole so big that they could basically throw out anything that they wanted to, and re-write the "history" so to speak with Enterprise...
This guy was doing a stupid, possibly dangerous thing. It wasn't terrorism, however, and a multi-decade prison sentence isn't going to discourage actual terrorists (though it will hopefully discourage other idiots who don't have terroristic intent to pull similar crap - though I somehow doubt that too).
Exactly!
This is a ridiculous, and in my opinion "cruel and unusual" punishment for this guy being stupid. I'm all for stupid people being accountable for their actions and all. And I would be singing a different song if some person/people were hurt by his actions.
However, as far as I can tell, nobody was hurt. The punishment should fit the crime, and in this case, it most certainly does not.
Fucking child molesters get 1 year in county jail, and this dumbass is getting 25 years? What the fuck?