I tried unsubscribing and sending complaints via email. Next day I received some more email from them, so I actually openned and read some of them and they all offered me GREAT deals on cool merchandise.
"who regularly upload and download large graphics files, for instance, stand a greater risk of being affected than those who use their cable connection mostly for e-mail."
Who would get $40/month cable internet mostly for email?
Of course it applies to open source and free software! As a matter of fact they tax you about 90% of all profit made, so for free software that'll be a whole $0...
The fact is that the TOS is just a reflection of what kinds of decisions the management is going to be making anyhow. So this TOS is just a foreshadowing of what they plan to do in the future. Bad or good, they plan to work much more efficiently...
These two ISPs have those gay interfaces that load up content using MSIE automatically. Almost everyone who uses those services just browses within the AOL / CS2K window, which is just a wrapper for MSIE, AIM, their email client, etc.
Those users are pretty much fucked. I suppose if you're a hacker you know who to target now.
Also when downloading a WSZ file, you aren't even prompted to do any of the following:
Whether or not to open
Where to save it
What it should be named
Or to close the download dialog automatically
Obviously a person could write a very small binary and download it to a persons's computer in seconds. It still has to be determined if a binary can be executed this way though
Winamp is probably one of the most commonly used pieces of Windows software available. And might I point out, that it adds a mime type (or something) to windows' system that tells windows to automatically open the document when finished.
I tested it myself, I have Xitami on my Windoze machine, and renamed a binary to test.wsz. It downloaded and opened automatically (so fast I couldn't have canceled had I wanted to; but that's cause i was downloading from my own machine, but it's very possible to make it run by fast even on a remote server, especially if you target a broadband user.) Now since it opened to Winamp it obviously wasn't executed (just seemed to cause winamp to refresh its display.)
But I wonder, could there be a way to combined these two? Then the victims wouldn't have to do anything except load your page. Everything else could be made to happen so quickly they may not even notice!
"NOOOO!" Screamed the ignorant masses of Napster users who are, aside from using Napster and burning CDs on their parents' computer are completely computer illiterate.
Why hasn't anyone started using encryption? Personally I think it's because if you can make a decryption key available to thousands of napster users, it's also available to a couple anti-freedom agents of our very own "land of the free." The trick here is to exclude some large group somehow....but with thousands of dumbasses who would give up that info to anyone that asks, there is likely no way to accomplish this.
Personally I am happy! The only way we can keep "illegal" trading away from prosecution is to keep it a secret...when thousands of people know about it, it's no longer a secret! Smaller music fan communities should spring up out of the rubble of Napster and replace it. Use of encryption and other computer literate concepts can keep them safe, and since none contain thousands of users (accept for the few that fall into the hands of the ignorant masses) no one will find any particular group as a threat.
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I tried unsubscribing and sending complaints via email. Next day I received some more email from them, so I actually openned and read some of them and they all offered me GREAT deals on cool merchandise.
So i take it you're probably one of those annoying gnutella users who keeps on canceling my downloads from your machine
"who regularly upload and download large graphics files, for instance, stand a greater risk of being affected than those who use their cable connection mostly for e-mail."
Who would get $40/month cable internet mostly for email?
Of course it applies to open source and free software! As a matter of fact they tax you about 90% of all profit made, so for free software that'll be a whole $0...
I saw this ad while reading this story.
/. and SF changes their TOS in the same day.....coincidence?
Hmm, first M$ ad on
Dun dun dunnnnnN!
The fact is that the TOS is just a reflection of what kinds of decisions the management is going to be making anyhow. So this TOS is just a foreshadowing of what they plan to do in the future. Bad or good, they plan to work much more efficiently...
These two ISPs have those gay interfaces that load up content using MSIE automatically. Almost everyone who uses those services just browses within the AOL / CS2K window, which is just a wrapper for MSIE, AIM, their email client, etc.
Those users are pretty much fucked. I suppose if you're a hacker you know who to target now.
Also when downloading a WSZ file, you aren't even prompted to do any of the following:
Whether or not to open
Where to save it
What it should be named
Or to close the download dialog automatically
Obviously a person could write a very small binary and download it to a persons's computer in seconds. It still has to be determined if a binary can be executed this way though
Winamp is probably one of the most commonly used pieces of Windows software available. And might I point out, that it adds a mime type (or something) to windows' system that tells windows to automatically open the document when finished.
I tested it myself, I have Xitami on my Windoze machine, and renamed a binary to test.wsz. It downloaded and opened automatically (so fast I couldn't have canceled had I wanted to; but that's cause i was downloading from my own machine, but it's very possible to make it run by fast even on a remote server, especially if you target a broadband user.) Now since it opened to Winamp it obviously wasn't executed (just seemed to cause winamp to refresh its display.)
But I wonder, could there be a way to combined these two? Then the victims wouldn't have to do anything except load your page. Everything else could be made to happen so quickly they may not even notice!
"NOOOO!" Screamed the ignorant masses of Napster users who are, aside from using Napster and burning CDs on their parents' computer are completely computer illiterate. Why hasn't anyone started using encryption? Personally I think it's because if you can make a decryption key available to thousands of napster users, it's also available to a couple anti-freedom agents of our very own "land of the free." The trick here is to exclude some large group somehow....but with thousands of dumbasses who would give up that info to anyone that asks, there is likely no way to accomplish this. Personally I am happy! The only way we can keep "illegal" trading away from prosecution is to keep it a secret...when thousands of people know about it, it's no longer a secret! Smaller music fan communities should spring up out of the rubble of Napster and replace it. Use of encryption and other computer literate concepts can keep them safe, and since none contain thousands of users (accept for the few that fall into the hands of the ignorant masses) no one will find any particular group as a threat.