Microsoft didn't wake up one day and say, "hey we should make a hackable system and sell it for less than cost!" That way NEBWBIE and the other 0.05% of the market will buy it! Just think of the $250,000 we can lose!
If you want a hackable system, go buy a computer. I'm sure you've heard of it. Ohhh, you can't find one under cost? I wonder why they're not giving them out for free! Just think of all the money someone could make doing that!
Go make a system. Buy a microATX board, and make a small hackable system. Lots of fun.
And last but not least, there is nothing stopping you from hacking your old xbox. There's nothing to keep you from trying to hack a new xbox.
Companies have been dipping their chips in epoxy for decades.
It IS no concern of theirs what you do with your old xbox. Unless of course you caught bill breaking into your house last night, changing the chips on your old xbox.??
Actually, you can still do whatever you want with your new xbox.
Are you going to sue Cadillac for not putting sockets for airplane wings on your car. (because goddam it, you should be allowed to hack your car into a plane)
yea, but microsoft isn't doing anything to the product you only bought. Notice...they're not going door to door asking for Timmy's XBOX so they can cripple it.
They're just producing new XBox's that are a little different.
You're right. Thanks for reminding me that America isn't the only place full of fucking assholes.
Considering the article was about about UPS, FedEx, the United States Post Office, AND about Netflix (where only USA customers are allowed to be customers due to postal considerations) you'll have to forgive me for not reading your mind. I've traded packages with lots of European nations, and I never heard of any of them complaining about their postage rates except Yugoslavia.
So instead of your message being wrong, it's just off topic.
This sounds like the old George Bush guessing that a gallon of milk cost $9.
A mini-cd can fit in a small envelope, and weighs in under the 1-ounce, meaning only 1 stamp needed. A full size cd can fit safely in a padded envelope and mail at under $1.
For $3.95 you can send anything that fits into a priority box/envelope. You can probably fit 40 cd's in there.
I thought the same thing. But considering how brilliant interviewers can be... he might have meant he could FIND someone specific on all [major] peer-to-peer file sharing. Or the biggest stockpiles, etc.
How much I listen to, what I listen to is similar to everyone else. I have my favorites, and they fit on my hard drive. At work, I switch between the new Punk-O-Rama 7, Braveheart soundtrack, and some progressive trance tracks almost all the time. However, the only difference is, once in a while I'll try some legendary Jazz. Can't say I like it much, but I consider it an education. Plus Miles Davis isn't too bad. When I'm feeling blue, I try out my extensive Blues collection. I have found out exactly which era I enjoy (Muddy waters, et al)
...A shoebox full of burned CDs is a highly inefficient way to archive anything important enough to retrieve semi-regularly....
My shoe box is an almost-finished Mindstorm Lego robotic "contraption" that grabs the correct CD-r and puts it into an external CDROM. All the albums and which CD-R they are on, are in a MySQL database. The remote works with it, as does a web interface. As soon as DVD-R/+R figures itself out, i can move them to DVD-R/+R, allowing for more room to grow.
Otherwise, looking forward to the day that hard drives get bigger and smaller. How much memory will a portable player have in 10 years? 1TB? Probably more. Just in time for my kid to carry around all the music in the world (exaggerating) in his pocket.
Besides, as Mad Max has shown, I'll need something to trade at Barter Town.
And last but not least, collectors have a well known sickness: Collecting.
similar to people who download copies of 3d Studio max each time a new version comes out. Even though they don't use it.
Read some of the stuff ex-warez people post. Either they accumulate it all for trading fodder... or other reasons they can't quite put their finger on.
Could you lay out the foundation of starting a release group? How to find providers, how to find couriers.
How permanent (and secure) are DoD's official backup FTP servers? Are they still out there? Or did all the convicted cought them all up?
Did any of you get away from Operation Buccaneer? Obviously there were more people involved, but did they get all the main players?
Do you think they have other Operations going on out there? DoD seems like a dent in the wall compared to all the ones that are STILL churning software out.
What about movie releasers, or new music releasers? Are they under scrutiny, or was warez at the top of the list. (Why??)
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Microsoft didn't wake up one day and say, "hey we should make a hackable system and sell it for less than cost!" That way NEBWBIE and the other 0.05% of the market will buy it! Just think of the $250,000 we can lose!
If you want a hackable system, go buy a computer. I'm sure you've heard of it. Ohhh, you can't find one under cost? I wonder why they're not giving them out for free! Just think of all the money someone could make doing that!
Go make a system. Buy a microATX board, and make a small hackable system. Lots of fun.
And last but not least, there is nothing stopping you from hacking your old xbox. There's nothing to keep you from trying to hack a new xbox.
Companies have been dipping their chips in epoxy for decades.
I'm sure microsoft should start listening to you for their financial future.
It IS no concern of theirs what you do with your old xbox. Unless of course you caught bill breaking into your house last night, changing the chips on your old xbox.??
Actually, you can still do whatever you want with your new xbox.
Are you going to sue Cadillac for not putting sockets for airplane wings on your car. (because goddam it, you should be allowed to hack your car into a plane)
...but to do it for the sole purpose of keeping people who buy it from uning it any way they see fit is what makes them scumbags...
which means play free games.
You do own what you purchase. If you bought an old xbox, you can still mod it. IF you bought a new xbox, you can still TRY and mod it.
What, you think MS should send a step by step guide on how to play free games on it?
The XBOX is suppose to play games. It still does.
yea, but microsoft isn't doing anything to the product you only bought. Notice...they're not going door to door asking for Timmy's XBOX so they can cripple it.
They're just producing new XBox's that are a little different.
You're right. Thanks for reminding me that America isn't the only place full of fucking assholes.
Considering the article was about about UPS, FedEx, the United States Post Office, AND about Netflix (where only USA customers are allowed to be customers due to postal considerations) you'll have to forgive me for not reading your mind. I've traded packages with lots of European nations, and I never heard of any of them complaining about their postage rates except Yugoslavia.
So instead of your message being wrong, it's just off topic.
That's not what they told him at his A+ certification class!
I too seem to be nonprofit.
$7?
This sounds like the old George Bush guessing that a gallon of milk cost $9.
A mini-cd can fit in a small envelope, and weighs in under the 1-ounce, meaning only 1 stamp needed. A full size cd can fit safely in a padded envelope and mail at under $1.
For $3.95 you can send anything that fits into a priority box/envelope. You can probably fit 40 cd's in there.
Never send jewel cases either, just use sleeves
I've been mailing cd-r's with mp3 albums for a long time, and the postage isn't that bad until you start looking at over seas trades.
You forgot the baddies. Claw. Or is it Klaww?
Don't forget the storm troopers in the "train".
And was that a mix of a Gary Oldman in "Lost In Space" + a leader of the 3rd reich?
yea.. the purpose of a bouncing camera is lost on me.
I laughed so loud my wife woke up.
But the one moment of [great] joy didn't sell me. I have a TIVO.. if I'm bored watching other shit, i'll try this out again.
Because they have lawyers.
There's nothing stopping this company from emailing you their requests and you replying with an attachment containing the file. Evidence.
if you automate it, then you'll automatically give out your evidence to anyone, including them.
vitamin supplements?
Well, vitamins of course.
Why raise suspicions on that, when one trip to mcdonalds is what a person should really worry about.
I thought the same thing. But considering how brilliant interviewers can be... he might have meant he could FIND someone specific on all [major] peer-to-peer file sharing. Or the biggest stockpiles, etc.
and what was the excuse for your lack of efficacy schooling?
Sounds like someone needs to download and burn a pirated copy of Adobe Premiere. Need a copy?
How much I listen to, what I listen to is similar to everyone else. I have my favorites, and they fit on my hard drive. At work, I switch between the new Punk-O-Rama 7, Braveheart soundtrack, and some progressive trance tracks almost all the time. However, the only difference is, once in a while I'll try some legendary Jazz. Can't say I like it much, but I consider it an education. Plus Miles Davis isn't too bad. When I'm feeling blue, I try out my extensive Blues collection. I have found out exactly which era I enjoy (Muddy waters, et al)
...A shoebox full of burned CDs is a highly inefficient way to archive anything important enough to retrieve semi-regularly....
My shoe box is an almost-finished Mindstorm Lego robotic "contraption" that grabs the correct CD-r and puts it into an external CDROM. All the albums and which CD-R they are on, are in a MySQL database. The remote works with it, as does a web interface. As soon as DVD-R/+R figures itself out, i can move them to DVD-R/+R, allowing for more room to grow.
Otherwise, looking forward to the day that hard drives get bigger and smaller. How much memory will a portable player have in 10 years? 1TB? Probably more. Just in time for my kid to carry around all the music in the world (exaggerating) in his pocket.
Besides, as Mad Max has shown, I'll need something to trade at Barter Town.
And last but not least, collectors have a well known sickness: Collecting.
similar to people who download copies of 3d Studio max each time a new version comes out. Even though they don't use it.
Read some of the stuff ex-warez people post. Either they accumulate it all for trading fodder... or other reasons they can't quite put their finger on.
40 cd's is only 28 GB. At 3MB a song, that only comes to 9,333 mp3's. (A 1/3 of what you guessed)
I only mentioned this because I've got 1100 CD-R's, and it only comes to 139,000 songs or so.
Could you lay out the foundation of starting a release group? How to find providers, how to find couriers.
How permanent (and secure) are DoD's official backup FTP servers? Are they still out there? Or did all the convicted cought them all up?
Did any of you get away from Operation Buccaneer? Obviously there were more people involved, but did they get all the main players?
Do you think they have other Operations going on out there? DoD seems like a dent in the wall compared to all the ones that are STILL churning software out.
What about movie releasers, or new music releasers? Are they under scrutiny, or was warez at the top of the list. (Why??)
Or was it like Sneakers where your friend got away to Canada because he was out getting pizza?
LOL.
"Whatchoo waiting for?!"