Win2K and NT with the IIS service automatically running and they haven't noticed???
If I had done an express install, i probably wouldn't have noticed. I did a custom install, however. So my question to you is, are you saying that people who use an express install are incompetent?
Actually i think the better question is this: sometimes, when a criminal is caught, the takes a while for the news to get around, so law enforcement in another area could theartically still be on the lookout for him. I guess the moral of the story is that if you have an 'evil twin', is to stay low while he's a wanted man.
Quote from the ruling: "... pirating DVDs is illegal, and DeCSS facilitates in the pirating of DVDs."
Jeez, how many times have we heard this bullshit argument? Just because you can use a certain piece of software illegal does not automatically make that software illegal!
us geeks who actually want to have different passwords for everything. I for one don't want to have just one login/password for everything i use. If you want to have a single login/pass for everything you do, that's fine by me, but I would still rather have the choice. Given the fact that this is not a very secure service to begin with, and the fact that the people who use this aren't going to be very computer-saavy(and have a good chance of coming up with an easily sniffed out password), and you're just asking for trouble. I really hope that AOL and MS's new fad doesn't catch on. I can maybe give MS the benefit of the doubt for at some sort of security, but AOL! No way! The last thing I need is some hacker to have a skeleton key to just about everything I need protected by this poor excuse for a service.
Accordingly the AC-3 software accessible from your site must be removed from public access immediately.
a) password protect the file. now it's no longer "publicly accessible".
b) let the password "leak" onto some forum.
c) crack a wicked smile, knowing you've used a lawyer's own words against him.
Got Freedom?
Little boy: How come i gotta pay an extra 10% on my cds.
Clerk: Oh well, since someone patented the idea for exchaning money for goods and services pretty much everyone has had to license this very unobvious technology.
Little Boy: Doesn't the government supposed to stop this stupid shit from happening?
Clerk: I think you've been reading too many fairytales, little boy.
The government is getting bigger and bigger and we need to do something before it takes away all our rights.
I don't like it either, but we're fucked either way. Corporate power, or Government Power? What really is the difference? At least with government power, I can always vote for the other guy. There is no difference between anarcho-capitalism and a dictatorship.
I am afraid that the government is trying to stop progress with mp3 file sharing.
You don't seem to get it. These new services are most likely not going to use mp3s for distribution. They're most likely going to use proprietary, "copyright-friendly"(which really means "no fair use allowed") formats.
Anyways, you don't seem to be grasping what the situation is. This is not about "intrusive government intervention." This is about Corporate Control of what music we can listen to. The "Big Five" have buttfucked us consumers, the artists we listen to for long enough. The internet is the last bastion of getting unkown artists heard, but now they want to control that too, so only they can decide what artists the we should listen to. We've fed up with their bullshit long enough. Let them burn.
this isn't really complaining, but I just find it very odd that Wolfenstein 3-D was somehow left out of the list, especially since they gave it praise while they were commenting on Doom, and given the obvious FPS tilt. Once again, i'm not trying to complain or anything, just an observation.
Or.... they could not block the above said formats, but let them install and intentionally set up the system so they crash, and then when the core dump gets sent to them and you've been found to be using "pirate tools", they send your name to the RIAA/MPAA as a "potential pirate".
A little bit paranoid. Maybe. But as Cmdr. Sisko once said, "Isn't it possible?"
Boy: Hey, didn't you use to sell Marilyn Manson cds?
Clerk: Yeah but we had to stop. We found that they were making people unstable. They started uses the words "fuck" and "shit" in their daily vocabulary. That's definitely not normal.
Boy: Who are you to decide what's normal and what's not normal?
Clerk: Shut up little boy, you're stupid and we know what's better for you. This is for your own good.
To those who say "they're just blocking drivers that crash your system", or "don't write drivers that crash":
I'm a big boy now. If I choose to run software that *might* cause XP problems, then that's the risk i take. It's my fucking problem, *NOT* MS's. If I want to run v 1.1 of software x instead of v 1.2, because I didn't like what they did in 1.2, why can't i just keep v 1.1 and deal with the problems it has myself?
On another note... beta drivers tend to crash the system, is MS going to prevent people from downloading them? I can see it now....
"Sir, we can't seem test our beta XP drivers on our XP machines, XP is refusing to install them."
If the removal of the Java VM makes your software break - do not install XP
How about this... say i'm running a website that uses java, and some of my customers switch to XP. Of course my site breaks on their machines, and they're confused as to why my site has been broken, and think it's some error that I made. There, now I've been affected by XP, and I haven't even bought it.
I've been kind of irked by this whole Microsoft anti-trust thing. I think this whole "bundling" thing is really just irrelevant to how they've abused their monopoly power. Unfortunately, there are some misdeeds that just never seemed to get addressed. People just talk about the bundling over and over again and forget about...
I know this stuff was touched upon in the suit, but during the whole trial it was just a big argument over whether or not MS could bundle IE with its OS.
that is true, but they've already gotten a patent in the us for this "technology", so it's very likely that they'll try to get this put on cds over here.
The first thing i do when i buy a cd is to rip it and convert to mp3. Nothing illegal about this. So, now i risk breaking my speakers for a legitamate use of something I paid for. that's not right.
On a side note, since it was not explicitly mentioned, does this protect against cd to wav copying(the article implied that it only protected against cd to cd copying). I guess if that's the case the whole point is moot, but still something to think about.
Torricelli has included an amendment on his proposed bill that would ban the use of linux operating system on any school computer, claiming that "only hackers use that stuff."
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Why? Because we can! Because we're dorks! Because we have absolutely nothing better to do!
change the logo. unless they want to keep on squeezing in 'I's between the q-halves. probably wouldn't look to good IMO.
If I had done an express install, i probably wouldn't have noticed. I did a custom install, however. So my question to you is, are you saying that people who use an express install are incompetent?
Actually i think the better question is this: sometimes, when a criminal is caught, the takes a while for the news to get around, so law enforcement in another area could theartically still be on the lookout for him. I guess the moral of the story is that if you have an 'evil twin', is to stay low while he's a wanted man.
oops, make that use a piece of software illegally. sorry for the bad english.
"... pirating DVDs is illegal, and DeCSS facilitates in the pirating of DVDs."
Jeez, how many times have we heard this bullshit argument? Just because you can use a certain piece of software illegal does not automatically make that software illegal!
us geeks who actually want to have different passwords for everything. I for one don't want to have just one login/password for everything i use. If you want to have a single login/pass for everything you do, that's fine by me, but I would still rather have the choice. Given the fact that this is not a very secure service to begin with, and the fact that the people who use this aren't going to be very computer-saavy(and have a good chance of coming up with an easily sniffed out password), and you're just asking for trouble. I really hope that AOL and MS's new fad doesn't catch on. I can maybe give MS the benefit of the doubt for at some sort of security, but AOL! No way! The last thing I need is some hacker to have a skeleton key to just about everything I need protected by this poor excuse for a service.
how their toy works. ze germans?
Remember, this is the same supreme court that angered 49% of the entire country without seeming to care at all.
a) password protect the file. now it's no longer "publicly accessible".
b) let the password "leak" onto some forum.
c) crack a wicked smile, knowing you've used a lawyer's own words against him. Got Freedom?
Clerk: Oh well, since someone patented the idea for exchaning money for goods and services pretty much everyone has had to license this very unobvious technology.
Little Boy: Doesn't the government supposed to stop this stupid shit from happening?
Clerk: I think you've been reading too many fairytales, little boy.
I don't like it either, but we're fucked either way. Corporate power, or Government Power? What really is the difference? At least with government power, I can always vote for the other guy. There is no difference between anarcho-capitalism and a dictatorship.
I am afraid that the government is trying to stop progress with mp3 file sharing.
You don't seem to get it. These new services are most likely not going to use mp3s for distribution. They're most likely going to use proprietary, "copyright-friendly"(which really means "no fair use allowed") formats.
Anyways, you don't seem to be grasping what the situation is. This is not about "intrusive government intervention." This is about Corporate Control of what music we can listen to. The "Big Five" have buttfucked us consumers, the artists we listen to for long enough. The internet is the last bastion of getting unkown artists heard, but now they want to control that too, so only they can decide what artists the we should listen to. We've fed up with their bullshit long enough. Let them burn.
A lawsuit will take that much time or that the might of the "big five" will be able to fight this out, because they've been nailed for this before
this isn't really complaining, but I just find it very odd that Wolfenstein 3-D was somehow left out of the list, especially since they gave it praise while they were commenting on Doom, and given the obvious FPS tilt. Once again, i'm not trying to complain or anything, just an observation.
A little bit paranoid. Maybe. But as Cmdr. Sisko once said, "Isn't it possible?"
Clerk: Yeah but we had to stop. We found that they were making people unstable. They started uses the words "fuck" and "shit" in their daily vocabulary. That's definitely not normal.
Boy: Who are you to decide what's normal and what's not normal?
Clerk: Shut up little boy, you're stupid and we know what's better for you. This is for your own good.
I'm a big boy now. If I choose to run software that *might* cause XP problems, then that's the risk i take. It's my fucking problem, *NOT* MS's. If I want to run v 1.1 of software x instead of v 1.2, because I didn't like what they did in 1.2, why can't i just keep v 1.1 and deal with the problems it has myself?
On another note ... beta drivers tend to crash the system, is MS going to prevent people from downloading them? I can see it now....
"Sir, we can't seem test our beta XP drivers on our XP machines, XP is refusing to install them."
How about this... say i'm running a website that uses java, and some of my customers switch to XP. Of course my site breaks on their machines, and they're confused as to why my site has been broken, and think it's some error that I made. There, now I've been affected by XP, and I haven't even bought it.
That's odd... i saw a completely opposite reaction for some particularly annoying "features".
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MS buttfucking spyglass, or the conjuring of Steve Barkto, or maybe even vaporware
I know this stuff was touched upon in the suit, but during the whole trial it was just a big argument over whether or not MS could bundle IE with its OS.
And the senators who want an XP junction, unfortunatley, have missed the point as well, stating the bundling is the problem, but neglecting to address the issues of not letting people legitamately use the products they paid for.
that is true, but they've already gotten a patent in the us for this "technology", so it's very likely that they'll try to get this put on cds over here.
On a side note, since it was not explicitly mentioned, does this protect against cd to wav copying(the article implied that it only protected against cd to cd copying). I guess if that's the case the whole point is moot, but still something to think about.
is for someone to go deaf or have their ears damaged by this and the lawsuits will start pouring in.
Torricelli has included an amendment on his proposed bill that would ban the use of linux operating system on any school computer, claiming that "only hackers use that stuff."