Maybe I'm missing something, but if you encrypt all of your data with your own key and don't allow anyone access to it, how is it going to be useful as a universal sign-on? I kinda thought the places you were signing on to might need the info they store there, hence the point of the service.
I agree with most of what you say, but the part about dubbya not having to take a back seat to Saddam on anything is a bit overblown. Last I checked there weren't any mass graves filled with turkish insurgents on GWB's resume. And as much as systematically destroying everyone's rights is an atrocity on it's own, he still hasn't managed to rape / torture / murder his way to anywhere near the numbers that Hussein has under his belt.
Hilarity. Here we are discussing the pros and cons of censoring hate speech from the internet, and we have/. mods in effect censoring someone for trying to point out how stupid and impossible it would be to try to ban any type of speech from the internet. And then we have dipshits trying to tell us that the mods were right to shitcan the comment, because of the offensive-to-some content. Well to that, I say "fuck you, Mr. nigger-kike-wetback-chink-fag."
Hey, General Re(tard). Wake up. Your analogy sucks. Listen, man...the cabbie wasn't gonna just drive around like a fuckwit, wasting gas. Have you bought gas lately? It's fucking expensive! No matter how your flawed little brain looks at it, your analogy's broken. The satellite, on the other hand, will be beaming it's waves at me no matter what. I have no say in that. It costs them no more money, since they're already using the power to bathe the whole planet in radiation anyways. By decoding the signal as it comes through my house, I'm not weakening it so that the legit subscribers can't get it. I'm not taking up bandwidth. They lose NOTHING. If you're looking for a better analogy, the closest (not perfect) I came up with was this: should the city's water department bill you for rain you've collected in a bucket, since it's depriving them of "potential revenue"? Does the electric company get pissy with you for turning off your lights during the day because our earth happens to orbit a giant flaming sphere? Are they going to try to block out the sun, Monty Burns style? DirecTV needs to deal with the fact that they're broadcasting a signal to the whole planet, and this shit's gonna happen.
I agree with you one hundred percent. Everyone who uses their service should pay for it. At the same time, they could have done a little more work in trying to secure the system, if they really were so terribly worried about this. But the current legal climate in the U.S. makes it cheaper to deploy your shitty, easily crackable system and sue everyone than to develop a more secure offering. Secure systems take skilled engineers time to develop. Law suits, especially when backed by legislation like the D.M.C.A. ("they're reverse engineering our cards!") is easy and cheap, given that any large company already likely has a fleet of lawyers on hand. You get to market faster and can still keep a fair number of potential "pirates" in line with the threat of the law. Plus, rather than spending a little time to narrow down their targets, they're sinking so low as to just accuse everyone with certain technology of breaking the law. It's nothing but fishing, and they deserve to be fined for it, and made to repay everyone who settled because they couldn't afford to fight it in court. It's not that hard to find out who's the cheapest game in town for reprogramming satellite cards, and it should take very little effort by them to find a few dozen of the real criminals that are doing this, make a big public show about how they found them and took them to court, and scare the rest of the little delinquents straight. And I'd have no problem with that.
I've used something like this for years. It looks a little like this (although the majority of mine is in a.js file with the document.write() in the body of the page). I also set it up with variables so I can call the same script for everyone in my office on our "contact us" page.
var domain_ = "bar.net" var at_ = String.fromCharCode(64); var user_ = "foo"
Oh, for fucks sake, it's NOT stealing. How the fuck is it stealing? If you stand outside my house and throw rolls of quarters through my window, I'm keeping them, so fuck you. And even *that* is more similar to stealing than this. They're already beaming their signal straight into my fucking skull while I sleep. It costs them absolutely nothing, and they lose absolutely nothing, if I have hardware to decode that signal. Whether or not that signal is turned into viewable television or just radiates my already shrivelled testicles has absolutely no effect on DirecTV, their finances, or any of their property. So yeah, it's a violation of the DMCA (in the U.S.) and of copyright laws, but IT'S NOT FUCKING GODDAMN STEALING.
I don't think it will get as bad for a long time. Here in Canada, most people don't pay for bandwidth by the mb, but they pay for cell service by the minute. Unlimited cell plans are pretty fucking expensive, from what I've seen. So people are less likely to raise a stink over email spam or web ads than they are over cell telemarketing or sms spam, since most of us still pay per message / minute. And it's a hell of a lot easier to track down the pig fuckers spamming you over a cell network.
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This/. journal of yours, what is that? Some sort of web log?
It's not at the label's expense. Don't think for one second that it's coming out of their pockets. This is getting billed to the artist. Imagine you're a musician, and instead of the normal pittance you make off of album sales, instead you find in your mailbox a bill for two million dollars for a couple hundred spins of your single on the radio. Any increase in cd sales that may have come from this won't be making you money, but instead paying back "advertising and marketing" to your label. If you're lucky the extra cd sales will cover it and you won't be in debt to the label for years to come.
Best spam subject I've had yet (and I've gotten it about three times in the last two weeks) was "Haha, U Have A Real Small Penis". Of course I wasn't amused at first, as I thought maybe it was from my ex. Fucking herbal viagra bullshit:/
Material that is "objectionable" to some is ALWAYS going to be available to those who want it, no matter how much others object. Any matter of drug is available if you know where to look. Same with fire arms. Same with porn tapes. Move that into the internet and it still holds true. No matter how hard the entertainment cartels try to shut down copyright infringers, their product still gets traded. No matter what software companies try, the warez scene moves on. People into a scene move with it. You can always find warez on IRC, or news groups, even if the newest p2p network gets shut down. Child porn is, and always will be, the same. Trying to take it off of the web is feel-good legislation at best, since I'm pretty sure that there aren't casual viewers of hardcore sex with infants that browse for it on the web, and the fiends who want it know where to look, just like a drug addict.
And, just like someone points out every time this comes up, as long as I have a stereo with analog outs, I can record a damn near perfect copy of the song without all of the bullshit. I may not be able to rip it right off the cd like I'd like to, but I sure as hell can record it. And then I can burn it as many times as I'd like. Why haven't they figured this out yet?
Well it sure does come off like a troll. How about you try "My 14 yr old didn't know that was illegal since all of her friends do it too, but since what you're asking for is only ALL OF THE MONEY I'LL MAKE IN THE NEXT 22 YEARS, will you take cash?" How the FUCK can they claim that a few pop songs have done damages to them of over HALF A FUCKING MILLION DOLLARS? This is beyond gross stupidity. Either pay us your next two months worth of salary or we'll take you to court for half a million, and good luck with the lawyer bills. As for your bad analogy, when's the last time YOU got a half a million dollar speeding ticket? You never have? Do you suppose that's because the punishment is supposed to fit the crime?
There has to be a solution to this involving a couple GPS units, some servos rigged to the antenna, and some perl scripts. I'm just too tired right now to think it through.
Why waste money on calling tech support. There are plenty of tools out there that they don't need a call staff. Following along your lines, this subnet could give you links (all on the subnet) to download whatever tools are needed to clean your computer, and an online port / virus scan. With your clean bill of health, you get your connection back. That would keep tech support down to the truly stupid people who can't even follow the instructions (provided you make them painfully simple).
I don't generally bother with ACs (changing my comment threshold to a negative number is tedious) but what the hell. In case the subject didn't make my thoughts known, there was an "etc." at the end of that for a reason. And yeah, if you're going to contrast the similarities between border towns with the differences in very distinct geographical regions, then of course there will be a difference. That would hold true for most any bordering countries. But I was referring to the countries taken as a whole, including political climate and the effect it has on the citizens, and not just small things like regional dialects and local economies.
There are times when I, as a Canadian, am glad to *not* be an American. But for the most part, not being an American doesn't have anything to do with having something against the U.S., but with being distinctly Canadian. I don't know if Europeans mind getting lumped together as such, or if they'd prefer to be French, Italian, Spanish, or whatever. I don't know if Asians would rather be referred to as Japanese or Chinese, etc. But Canadians in general seem to be proud of being Canadian and don't like to be lumped in with our southern neighbours as "Americans". For all of our likenesses, we do have very distinct cultures, and we like it that way.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but if you encrypt all of your data with your own key and don't allow anyone access to it, how is it going to be useful as a universal sign-on? I kinda thought the places you were signing on to might need the info they store there, hence the point of the service.
For anyone unsure of what this "freedom" word means, you can find it in your dictionary somewhere between "fascism" and "fucked".
I agree with most of what you say, but the part about dubbya not having to take a back seat to Saddam on anything is a bit overblown. Last I checked there weren't any mass graves filled with turkish insurgents on GWB's resume. And as much as systematically destroying everyone's rights is an atrocity on it's own, he still hasn't managed to rape / torture / murder his way to anywhere near the numbers that Hussein has under his belt.
Hilarity. Here we are discussing the pros and cons of censoring hate speech from the internet, and we have /. mods in effect censoring someone for trying to point out how stupid and impossible it would be to try to ban any type of speech from the internet. And then we have dipshits trying to tell us that the mods were right to shitcan the comment, because of the offensive-to-some content. Well to that, I say "fuck you, Mr. nigger-kike-wetback-chink-fag."
...am I clicking on a link to "Xtreme ads.com", thank you very much.
It's been far too long since I added anything to this thread.
That is all.
Hey, General Re(tard). Wake up. Your analogy sucks. Listen, man...the cabbie wasn't gonna just drive around like a fuckwit, wasting gas. Have you bought gas lately? It's fucking expensive! No matter how your flawed little brain looks at it, your analogy's broken. The satellite, on the other hand, will be beaming it's waves at me no matter what. I have no say in that. It costs them no more money, since they're already using the power to bathe the whole planet in radiation anyways. By decoding the signal as it comes through my house, I'm not weakening it so that the legit subscribers can't get it. I'm not taking up bandwidth. They lose NOTHING. If you're looking for a better analogy, the closest (not perfect) I came up with was this: should the city's water department bill you for rain you've collected in a bucket, since it's depriving them of "potential revenue"? Does the electric company get pissy with you for turning off your lights during the day because our earth happens to orbit a giant flaming sphere? Are they going to try to block out the sun, Monty Burns style? DirecTV needs to deal with the fact that they're broadcasting a signal to the whole planet, and this shit's gonna happen.
I agree with you one hundred percent. Everyone who uses their service should pay for it. At the same time, they could have done a little more work in trying to secure the system, if they really were so terribly worried about this. But the current legal climate in the U.S. makes it cheaper to deploy your shitty, easily crackable system and sue everyone than to develop a more secure offering. Secure systems take skilled engineers time to develop. Law suits, especially when backed by legislation like the D.M.C.A. ("they're reverse engineering our cards!") is easy and cheap, given that any large company already likely has a fleet of lawyers on hand. You get to market faster and can still keep a fair number of potential "pirates" in line with the threat of the law. Plus, rather than spending a little time to narrow down their targets, they're sinking so low as to just accuse everyone with certain technology of breaking the law. It's nothing but fishing, and they deserve to be fined for it, and made to repay everyone who settled because they couldn't afford to fight it in court. It's not that hard to find out who's the cheapest game in town for reprogramming satellite cards, and it should take very little effort by them to find a few dozen of the real criminals that are doing this, make a big public show about how they found them and took them to court, and scare the rest of the little delinquents straight. And I'd have no problem with that.
I've used something like this for years. It looks a little like this (although the majority of mine is in a .js file with the document.write() in the body of the page). I also set it up with variables so I can call the same script for everyone in my office on our "contact us" page.
var domain_ = "bar.net"
var at_ = String.fromCharCode(64);
var user_ = "foo"
document.write("<A HREF=\"mailto:" + user_ + at_ + domain_ + "?subject=" + "hello there!" + "\"><U>" + "Email me" + "</U></A>")
Oh, for fucks sake, it's NOT stealing. How the fuck is it stealing? If you stand outside my house and throw rolls of quarters through my window, I'm keeping them, so fuck you. And even *that* is more similar to stealing than this. They're already beaming their signal straight into my fucking skull while I sleep. It costs them absolutely nothing, and they lose absolutely nothing, if I have hardware to decode that signal. Whether or not that signal is turned into viewable television or just radiates my already shrivelled testicles has absolutely no effect on DirecTV, their finances, or any of their property. So yeah, it's a violation of the DMCA (in the U.S.) and of copyright laws, but IT'S NOT FUCKING GODDAMN STEALING.
I don't think it will get as bad for a long time. Here in Canada, most people don't pay for bandwidth by the mb, but they pay for cell service by the minute. Unlimited cell plans are pretty fucking expensive, from what I've seen. So people are less likely to raise a stink over email spam or web ads than they are over cell telemarketing or sms spam, since most of us still pay per message / minute. And it's a hell of a lot easier to track down the pig fuckers spamming you over a cell network.
Mod anything funny up as Underrated until the /. devs repair the mod system, or dont mod up funny at all. See Journal.
/. journal of yours, what is that? Some sort of web log?
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Your character has contracted "violent tendencies", giving him -3 save vs. arrest, but it's almost balanced out by the +2 from his tin foil helm.
It's not at the label's expense. Don't think for one second that it's coming out of their pockets. This is getting billed to the artist. Imagine you're a musician, and instead of the normal pittance you make off of album sales, instead you find in your mailbox a bill for two million dollars for a couple hundred spins of your single on the radio. Any increase in cd sales that may have come from this won't be making you money, but instead paying back "advertising and marketing" to your label. If you're lucky the extra cd sales will cover it and you won't be in debt to the label for years to come.
Best spam subject I've had yet (and I've gotten it about three times in the last two weeks) was "Haha, U Have A Real Small Penis". Of course I wasn't amused at first, as I thought maybe it was from my ex. Fucking herbal viagra bullshit :/
EMACS is a nice OS too, but it needs a plain text editor...
Material that is "objectionable" to some is ALWAYS going to be available to those who want it, no matter how much others object. Any matter of drug is available if you know where to look. Same with fire arms. Same with porn tapes. Move that into the internet and it still holds true. No matter how hard the entertainment cartels try to shut down copyright infringers, their product still gets traded. No matter what software companies try, the warez scene moves on. People into a scene move with it. You can always find warez on IRC, or news groups, even if the newest p2p network gets shut down. Child porn is, and always will be, the same. Trying to take it off of the web is feel-good legislation at best, since I'm pretty sure that there aren't casual viewers of hardcore sex with infants that browse for it on the web, and the fiends who want it know where to look, just like a drug addict.
Judging by the crazy angry teller at the RBC around the corner from me, I'd say I've definitely been in the unstable branch.
And, just like someone points out every time this comes up, as long as I have a stereo with analog outs, I can record a damn near perfect copy of the song without all of the bullshit. I may not be able to rip it right off the cd like I'd like to, but I sure as hell can record it. And then I can burn it as many times as I'd like. Why haven't they figured this out yet?
Well it sure does come off like a troll. How about you try "My 14 yr old didn't know that was illegal since all of her friends do it too, but since what you're asking for is only ALL OF THE MONEY I'LL MAKE IN THE NEXT 22 YEARS, will you take cash?" How the FUCK can they claim that a few pop songs have done damages to them of over HALF A FUCKING MILLION DOLLARS? This is beyond gross stupidity. Either pay us your next two months worth of salary or we'll take you to court for half a million, and good luck with the lawyer bills. As for your bad analogy, when's the last time YOU got a half a million dollar speeding ticket? You never have? Do you suppose that's because the punishment is supposed to fit the crime?
Only 36"? You poor bastard. I'm sitting five feet away from a Roland CammJet that checks in at 54" wide, roll fed. *sigh* I need a bigger printer.
There has to be a solution to this involving a couple GPS units, some servos rigged to the antenna, and some perl scripts. I'm just too tired right now to think it through.
Why waste money on calling tech support. There are plenty of tools out there that they don't need a call staff. Following along your lines, this subnet could give you links (all on the subnet) to download whatever tools are needed to clean your computer, and an online port / virus scan. With your clean bill of health, you get your connection back. That would keep tech support down to the truly stupid people who can't even follow the instructions (provided you make them painfully simple).
I don't generally bother with ACs (changing my comment threshold to a negative number is tedious) but what the hell. In case the subject didn't make my thoughts known, there was an "etc." at the end of that for a reason. And yeah, if you're going to contrast the similarities between border towns with the differences in very distinct geographical regions, then of course there will be a difference. That would hold true for most any bordering countries. But I was referring to the countries taken as a whole, including political climate and the effect it has on the citizens, and not just small things like regional dialects and local economies.
There are times when I, as a Canadian, am glad to *not* be an American. But for the most part, not being an American doesn't have anything to do with having something against the U.S., but with being distinctly Canadian. I don't know if Europeans mind getting lumped together as such, or if they'd prefer to be French, Italian, Spanish, or whatever. I don't know if Asians would rather be referred to as Japanese or Chinese, etc. But Canadians in general seem to be proud of being Canadian and don't like to be lumped in with our southern neighbours as "Americans". For all of our likenesses, we do have very distinct cultures, and we like it that way.