If you're duplicating money, that's called counterfeiting.
Actually now that you mention it, counterfeiting is a better term for copying music/games/movies than piracy.
Trust me, if the LEOs are so good, they would be earning 120k in the industry, and not the govt, but then again, we know that the police get very good Super (govt retirement funds), as good as the govt politians.
The NSW Computer Crime dudes are getting between 60 and 80K I believe, which is quite good.
PS: I don't know what industry you are working in, but forensic sysadmin work doesn't pay 120K in Australia:P
I know some guys in the computer crimes squad of the NSW police, they aren't idiots, and they aren't scared of linux.
One of the parents is correct that they're likely to just get a warrant, pull your PC/laptop apart and put some kind of wacky hardware keylogger in there instead.
Well, we can only hope that VU find that 'Johnny Headcrab goes to college' meets their definition of 'major title', because the sooner VU are out of the picture, the sooner we get HL3!
No. (Although I will concede that it could be 'Not yet')
PS: Regardless of the whole steam/valve thing, my personal experience is: I bought it on steam, it took about 10 minutes to decrypt on release day, I finished it in 5 days [and in my opinion it is definately the best FPS of all time], and now aside from mods, or me wanting to reminisce about how good it was, I will probably won't load steam again until HL3 comes out.
The only people who seem to be having problems are the ones buying the game on CD, and they are being fucked by Vivendi, not Valve. [No love lost in that relationship]. Buy it directly from steam and I'd imagine you would have a lot less problems.
PS: Wait for them to fix the stuttering bug first, if you aren't desperately panting to play it. Apparently the fix is being released some time today, but who can tell in this breakneck paced world of the internet.
Sure, but what makes you think Valve cares about Polish law. If you buy it online via Steam, they are following the laws of the state where Valve live, not where you live.
Well, anyone who can read the source code can do their own O/S support.
If Red Hat disappeared tomorrow, linux wouldn't die due to the lack of a vendor providing support.
If Sun died tomorrow, I am sure support would still be available for SunOS10.. [albeit in a rudimentary form, until the community got organised].
Surely open source means that applications can be ported to Solaris with no/very little pain.
I don't see how 'application lockin' will help you, and even if it does, how would you feel about linux turning into the next 'Windows', where people can't change because their apps are locked.
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If you're duplicating money, that's called counterfeiting. Actually now that you mention it, counterfeiting is a better term for copying music/games/movies than piracy.
So if I break into your netbanking account and drain it, I'm not stealing because I don't actually take anything tangible?
That's the funniest thing I've read today, if I wasn't blacklisted for modding you would be getting some modding even as we speak!
The NSW Computer Crime dudes are getting between 60 and 80K I believe, which is quite good. PS: I don't know what industry you are working in, but forensic sysadmin work doesn't pay 120K in Australia :P
There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that there is some sort of 'strokelog' capability, if nothing else.
One of the parents is correct that they're likely to just get a warrant, pull your PC/laptop apart and put some kind of wacky hardware keylogger in there instead.
Also, he doesn't have his boss riding him every 15 minutes to get those figures for Jennings.
Why?
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Well, we can only hope that VU find that 'Johnny Headcrab goes to college' meets their definition of 'major title', because the sooner VU are out of the picture, the sooner we get HL3!
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A: Nothing.
PS: Regardless of the whole steam/valve thing, my personal experience is: I bought it on steam, it took about 10 minutes to decrypt on release day, I finished it in 5 days [and in my opinion it is definately the best FPS of all time], and now aside from mods, or me wanting to reminisce about how good it was, I will probably won't load steam again until HL3 comes out.
The only people who seem to be having problems are the ones buying the game on CD, and they are being fucked by Vivendi, not Valve. [No love lost in that relationship]. Buy it directly from steam and I'd imagine you would have a lot less problems.
PS: Wait for them to fix the stuttering bug first, if you aren't desperately panting to play it. Apparently the fix is being released some time today, but who can tell in this breakneck paced world of the internet.
Sure, but what makes you think Valve cares about Polish law. If you buy it online via Steam, they are following the laws of the state where Valve live, not where you live.
Well, anyone who can read the source code can do their own O/S support. If Red Hat disappeared tomorrow, linux wouldn't die due to the lack of a vendor providing support. If Sun died tomorrow, I am sure support would still be available for SunOS10.. [albeit in a rudimentary form, until the community got organised].
Surely open source means that applications can be ported to Solaris with no/very little pain. I don't see how 'application lockin' will help you, and even if it does, how would you feel about linux turning into the next 'Windows', where people can't change because their apps are locked.
It takes about 2-3 minutes on my P4 1.6 crapmobile.
As a consumer your options are limited to 'buying it' or 'not buying it', now take your lithium you whiny girl.
When you start sharing content with anyone who asks for it, you ARE a publisher.
You are now king.
Good work!
That's just your bias showing, don't be embarassed!
But then:
But, it's not always only stupid users that are being deceived.
Are you sure? I'd count clicking 'yes' to something that you hadn't even bothered to look at as stupid.
Founding a theory on an incorrect premise gets you less than nothing, because not only were you wrong, you wasted my time as well.
Sorry.
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