At the request of a poster, I explained how to go about finding bootleg movies.
Some Anonymous Coward (aren't they all?) whined: "Gee thanks. Now kindly shut the fuck up. Don't ruin a good thing for no good reason. Talk about this enough and it will cease to be."
Suck it, Trebek.
This isn't a popular method because it isn't 1-click and it never will be a popular method for that same reason. You don't simply say "gee, I want Photoshop CS" and poof, there it is. You have to scan the groups day in and day out and if you miss more than two days (with the way retention works) then you're S.O.L.
Second, do you have any idea how the newsgroups work? No? Why am I not surprised? Because if you did, you'd realize how bloody difficult it is for the RIAA/MPAA/et al to do anything about newsgroups because it is nothing more than someone posting small chunks of noise which is collected by the user and sewn together. Of course this makes it impossible to stop for the same reason that international IP is not recognized by absolutely everyone. You'd have to get 100% cooperation from every government in the world to succeed.
It would be nice if ignorance were painful. In your case, lethal.
If you think that my post clued the four-letter goons in just now, you're an idiot. And if you think that more than two people who actually bother to read Slashdot -- and did not already know about newsgroups, no less -- suddenly figured it out thanks to me, you're a super idiot.
Bully for him. He can continue to trek to the store, enjoy the experience and even have my full, unmitigated support when doing so.
Call me silly, but for me the so-called "experience" is much enhanced by actually playing the game. Which is what I'll be doing while he's having his Calgon Moment (TM).
Saying that schlepping to the store to go about actually purchasing the game is vital to the "experience" is a bit like saying that the act of standing in line to buy a coffee is part of the "coffee experience." Don't lecture me on how f'kin awesome the line is. If I dig it then I'll dig it, I really don't need someone to point it out to me.
From the original post: "Zeyad, explains how he 'started playing Sierra adventure games' like Leisure Suit Larry when he was 11 or 12, and "learned a lot about American culture from these games."
What? He learned that we're a bunch of seersucker-wearing middle-aged viagra-crazed nitwits who like to spend our extra time fishing for rings in ladies bathrooms, root through ashtrays for hints and buy wine from places that sell condoms too?
That's just...great. No wonder why they don't want us there...
I happen to have a Toyota. But I've applied Occam's Razor to the problem. When I need to get the thing into a tight spot, I just kinda put my shoulder into it and nudge it sideways.
Two thousand bucks my !@#$. These things weight 100, 120lbs, tops...
I wrote: "The bottom line -- and an unavoidable one -- is that a billion dollars spent on the space program is a billion dollars worth of food that is not eaten and tens of thousands of humans that are not taken care of medically."
Stray7Xi replies: "Yes we could spend a billion dollars on food that's not eaten but that seems pointless... Instead take the billion dollars spent on food uneaten and move it somewhere useful..."
This is perhaps the most poorly-executed strawman attack I've ever seen. It doesn't even merit a response aside from notifying you of how ham-handed it is.
kippy writes: "Does anyone honestly think that putting that bit of money elsewhere would solve whatever domestic problems you want fixed? Have we yet cured hunger, poverty, or undereducation? No? Well, we've been throwing billions at them so far."
You're making the tacit argument that if we don't erradicate a given social problem, it's pointless to even bother.
The bottom line -- and an unavoidable one -- is that a billion dollars spent on the space program is a billion dollars worth of food that is not eaten and tens of thousands of humans that are not taken care of medically. You'd be very, very hard-pressed to find a person who feels that space exploration is more valuable than me. But when you're hanging on by your fingernails, you don't go waving your arms around (that's a quote from The Abyss).
You'd be hard-pressed to find a bigger proponent for space exploration than me, but this is a clear indication that Bush is out of his !@#$ing mind and believes his advisors when they tell him, "don't worry, the recovery is in full swing."
Vermifax writes: "Non-standard synonym for regardless if you'd ever bothered with a dictionary."
I just wanted you to tell me. This is a discussion, you know. You might want to work for it.
So it's two things -- according to you -- a synonym (means we already have a word for it) and non-standard. So basically it's a bovine version of something that works.
Gee, thanks Shakespeare, for doing your part in keeping the fire under the English language, always prodding it on, forcing it to grow.
Keep using "irregardless." And keep dealing with people telling you that you're a twit. I'll keep using it as an early warning device to spot people who get their panties in a bind whenever someone tells them they're wrong.
Vermifax writes: "Irregardless is a word. Stop saying it isn't. It might not be standard English usage, but at least use the correct terminology when you decide to play grammar Nazi."
"Irregardless" is as much a word as "flooberschnizzle," I suppose. If that's the guise under which you wish to be right, knock yourself out.
But if you think you can handle the stress of it all, I'll continue saying it isn't. That ok with you?
Goldberg's Pants writes: "As a parent to a two year old boy, I would be fully behind ANY product that let me back up my software that, under fair use laws, I should be able to backup anyway!"
Technically correct but misleading because you're only presenting one side of the coin.
You have the right to back up the material. The maker of the product is under no legal obligation whatsoever to make it simple or even possible for you to do so.
Don't get me wrong, I'm on the side of the consumer on this one, but there is a distinction here.
shaitand writes: "It doesn't matter how irresponsible you are with your media, you have the right to back it up (according to US copyright law)..."
Technically correct but misleading because you're only presenting one side of the coin.
You have the right to back up the material. The maker of the product is under no legal obligation whatsoever to make it simple or even possible for you to do so.
Don't get me wrong, I'm on the side of the consumer on this one, but there is a distinction here.
"...if you can actually make an "easy" backup of your game, it does not propagate rampant piracy as one would think. Look at Unreal Tournament. Think you are going to give your buddy a copy so you both can play online? Wrong. You have to connect to the internet to play and it checks your serial number."
Actually, it does. You've only shown that you can defeat a very, very small slice of the gaming market. Further, from what I'm told the latest Final Fantasy is an MMORPG. I've sure seen that posted on the newsgroups a lot lately. Now I didn't see that with, say, Planetside. So my guess is that someone found a way past their scheme.
If you run the server code yourself you can (*gasp!) disable the authenticity checking.
So at best you've shown that an extremely small group is diverted and at worst you've shown that half of that extremely small group has been diverted.
"Newer discs have inperfections purposely in them and the program scans for those inpefections and if it does not detect them, the game will not run."
Sub-channel data, weak sectors. Yeah, a 2-sheep burner (which most are these days) can handle that no problem.
Please, go get Alcohol 120%. Ironically enough, you can find it on the groups right now. Then go to alt.binaries.games or something, find a game you find interesting, download it and burn it. Then play off that CD.
Please, have some...small, infinitesimal clue about what you're talking about before you start blathering off like you've got one already. You look like a damned fool.
Tuxinatorium writes: "There is already a 3.5mb shareware program that will copy any and all games. Google Alcohol 120%. CloneCD is crap, i've seen it fail on numerous games, whereas Alcohol 120% never fails to make a perfect copy. I doubt even this overpriced Game X Copy program will even match it. There were better free DVD copying programs around on the internet long before DVD X Copy came out. Google Gordian Knot, by the way."
Careful. Much relies on the ability of your CD burner's ability to write subchannel data. AKA "n-sheep burners." Mine being a 2-sheep burner and therefore quite good for pretty much anything.
Why, do you, use commas in places, where they are not, needed?
Sorry, I don't mean to come off as a flamer, but here is an exerpt from the post:
"There is no scientific reason, why JPL is colorizing Mars in that dull red tint as in their press release images. In the latest panorama image, there is a hint, that they deliberately altered the colors, as the blue and green spots on the color calibration target (the sundial) suddenly converted to bright red and brown."
Don't need a single comma in any of it, yet you have four. Makes for extremely fragmented reading.
I realize this isn't quite what you were asking, but consider going to a sleep clinic.
Do you snore? Is your neck bigger than 16"? If either of these are true, odds are decent that you have sleep apnea. I do. Or rather "did." Had my uvula and tonsils taken out (plus had my septum straightened, it was heavily deviated).
When I wake up, it feels like I'm drugged. Literally. I wish I knew why, too. Once apnea was diagnosed, I assumed that going through surgery would stop this drug-like trance from happening. It didn't, but it helped a little. Plus I don't snore at all any more. It used to keep my former girlfriend up all night.
Sorry for rambling. I guess what I'm saying is that I'll be reading the replies to your post because I have the same needs/problems when it comes to waking. And checking to see if you have apnea could actually save your life while making your sleep a lot more restful.
Pope writes: "If you don't think it's worth seeing in the theatre, they do have these things called "video stores" where one can rent a movie. Geez, no one HAS TO see a movie right away, just wait 6 months and you can watch it at home."
The subject under discussion is pirate recording of movies in theatres, which the RIAA is trying to crack down on. One person posted that cam releases are of terrible quality. I replied that cams can range from terrible to fairly good.
And this is your reply? Do you just like hearing yourself talk, or...?
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At the request of a poster, I explained how to go about finding bootleg movies.
Some Anonymous Coward (aren't they all?) whined:
"Gee thanks. Now kindly shut the fuck up. Don't ruin a good thing for no good reason. Talk about this enough and it will cease to be."
Suck it, Trebek.
This isn't a popular method because it isn't 1-click and it never will be a popular method for that same reason. You don't simply say "gee, I want Photoshop CS" and poof, there it is. You have to scan the groups day in and day out and if you miss more than two days (with the way retention works) then you're S.O.L.
Second, do you have any idea how the newsgroups work? No? Why am I not surprised? Because if you did, you'd realize how bloody difficult it is for the RIAA/MPAA/et al to do anything about newsgroups because it is nothing more than someone posting small chunks of noise which is collected by the user and sewn together. Of course this makes it impossible to stop for the same reason that international IP is not recognized by absolutely everyone. You'd have to get 100% cooperation from every government in the world to succeed.
It would be nice if ignorance were painful. In your case, lethal.
If you think that my post clued the four-letter goons in just now, you're an idiot. And if you think that more than two people who actually bother to read Slashdot -- and did not already know about newsgroups, no less -- suddenly figured it out thanks to me, you're a super idiot.
Take your pick.
1.) Download xnews.
2.) Look in alt.binaries.svd, alt.binaries.vcd, alt.binaries.multimedia, alt.binaries.boneless, alt.bin...
3.) ??
4.) Profit!
Bully for him. He can continue to trek to the store, enjoy the experience and even have my full, unmitigated support when doing so.
Call me silly, but for me the so-called "experience" is much enhanced by actually playing the game. Which is what I'll be doing while he's having his Calgon Moment (TM).
Saying that schlepping to the store to go about actually purchasing the game is vital to the "experience" is a bit like saying that the act of standing in line to buy a coffee is part of the "coffee experience." Don't lecture me on how f'kin awesome the line is. If I dig it then I'll dig it, I really don't need someone to point it out to me.
It's sort of like explaining a joke.
Are you kidding me?
Two words. "Mall kiosk."
You could shove that hose up my ass and it would still be more enjoyable. Jesus. Tell me where I can send your boss my resume.
From her bio:
"[My] interests are: shuz, aerogel, Philip Treacy hats, make-up artist Topolino, and vinyl dipped pacifier nipples."
This defies any sort of comment, so I won't even try.
From the original post:
...great. No wonder why they don't want us there...
"Zeyad, explains how he 'started playing Sierra adventure games' like Leisure Suit Larry when he was 11 or 12, and "learned a lot about American culture from these games."
What? He learned that we're a bunch of seersucker-wearing middle-aged viagra-crazed nitwits who like to spend our extra time fishing for rings in ladies bathrooms, root through ashtrays for hints and buy wine from places that sell condoms too?
That's just
I happen to have a Toyota. But I've applied Occam's Razor to the problem. When I need to get the thing into a tight spot, I just kinda put my shoulder into it and nudge it sideways.
Two thousand bucks my !@#$. These things weight 100, 120lbs, tops...
Glad someone else thought of this. Thought I was the only one.
"Ding dongs taste good. Dan Quayle is a smart man. Mmm."
(ok, I forget precisely what he said but that's close... =)
simonoker asks:
"What Guilty Gaming Pleasures Do You Enjoy?
Playing with the camera angles in Tomb Raider?
H8X55 writes:
"I don't mean to be rude to Mr. Mayhew, but what leveridge does he have?"
Leveridge? Why, none at all...
I wrote:
"The bottom line -- and an unavoidable one -- is that a billion dollars spent on the space program is a billion dollars worth of food that is not eaten and tens of thousands of humans that are not taken care of medically."
Stray7Xi replies:
"Yes we could spend a billion dollars on food that's not eaten but that seems pointless... Instead take the billion dollars spent on food uneaten and move it somewhere useful..."
This is perhaps the most poorly-executed strawman attack I've ever seen. It doesn't even merit a response aside from notifying you of how ham-handed it is.
kippy writes:
"Does anyone honestly think that putting that bit of money elsewhere would solve whatever domestic problems you want fixed? Have we yet cured hunger, poverty, or undereducation? No? Well, we've been throwing billions at them so far."
You're making the tacit argument that if we don't erradicate a given social problem, it's pointless to even bother.
The bottom line -- and an unavoidable one -- is that a billion dollars spent on the space program is a billion dollars worth of food that is not eaten and tens of thousands of humans that are not taken care of medically. You'd be very, very hard-pressed to find a person who feels that space exploration is more valuable than me. But when you're hanging on by your fingernails, you don't go waving your arms around (that's a quote from The Abyss).
You'd be hard-pressed to find a bigger proponent for space exploration than me, but this is a clear indication that Bush is out of his !@#$ing mind and believes his advisors when they tell him, "don't worry, the recovery is in full swing."
Thanks for the info! I have a 2-sheep as well (Sony CRX220E1). Well, I saw a listing that said it was one, anyway.
Thanks for the reply. I never did quite understand what all that meant.
Can you suggest a specific model of a 3-sheep burner? Do the DVD-burners automagically qualify?
Vermifax writes:
"Non-standard synonym for regardless if you'd ever bothered with a dictionary."
I just wanted you to tell me. This is a discussion, you know. You might want to work for it.
So it's two things -- according to you -- a synonym (means we already have a word for it) and non-standard. So basically it's a bovine version of something that works.
Gee, thanks Shakespeare, for doing your part in keeping the fire under the English language, always prodding it on, forcing it to grow.
Keep using "irregardless." And keep dealing with people telling you that you're a twit. I'll keep using it as an early warning device to spot people who get their panties in a bind whenever someone tells them they're wrong.
Much obliged.
Vermifax writes:
"Irregardless is a word, because it has meaning..."
Really? What does it mean?
Vermifax writes:
"Irregardless is a word. Stop saying it isn't. It might not be standard English usage, but at least use the correct terminology when you decide to play grammar Nazi."
"Irregardless" is as much a word as "flooberschnizzle," I suppose. If that's the guise under which you wish to be right, knock yourself out.
But if you think you can handle the stress of it all, I'll continue saying it isn't. That ok with you?
Goldberg's Pants writes:
"As a parent to a two year old boy, I would be fully behind ANY product that let me back up my software that, under fair use laws, I should be able to backup anyway!"
Technically correct but misleading because you're only presenting one side of the coin.
You have the right to back up the material. The maker of the product is under no legal obligation whatsoever to make it simple or even possible for you to do so.
Don't get me wrong, I'm on the side of the consumer on this one, but there is a distinction here.
shaitand writes:
"It doesn't matter how irresponsible you are with your media, you have the right to back it up (according to US copyright law)..."
Technically correct but misleading because you're only presenting one side of the coin.
You have the right to back up the material. The maker of the product is under no legal obligation whatsoever to make it simple or even possible for you to do so.
Don't get me wrong, I'm on the side of the consumer on this one, but there is a distinction here.
mrshowtime writes: ..."
...small, infinitesimal clue about what you're talking about before you start blathering off like you've got one already. You look like a damned fool.
"Irregardless of
Isn't a word. Stop using it.
"...if you can actually make an "easy" backup of your game, it does not propagate rampant piracy as one would think. Look at Unreal Tournament. Think you are going to give your buddy a copy so you both can play online? Wrong. You have to connect to the internet to play and it checks your serial number."
Actually, it does. You've only shown that you can defeat a very, very small slice of the gaming market. Further, from what I'm told the latest Final Fantasy is an MMORPG. I've sure seen that posted on the newsgroups a lot lately. Now I didn't see that with, say, Planetside. So my guess is that someone found a way past their scheme.
If you run the server code yourself you can (*gasp!) disable the authenticity checking.
So at best you've shown that an extremely small group is diverted and at worst you've shown that half of that extremely small group has been diverted.
"Newer discs have inperfections purposely in them and the program scans for those inpefections and if it does not detect them, the game will not run."
Sub-channel data, weak sectors. Yeah, a 2-sheep burner (which most are these days) can handle that no problem.
Please, go get Alcohol 120%. Ironically enough, you can find it on the groups right now. Then go to alt.binaries.games or something, find a game you find interesting, download it and burn it. Then play off that CD.
Please, have some
Tuxinatorium writes:
"There is already a 3.5mb shareware program that will copy any and all games. Google Alcohol 120%. CloneCD is crap, i've seen it fail on numerous games, whereas Alcohol 120% never fails to make a perfect copy. I doubt even this overpriced Game X Copy program will even match it. There were better free DVD copying programs around on the internet long before DVD X Copy came out. Google Gordian Knot, by the way."
Careful. Much relies on the ability of your CD burner's ability to write subchannel data. AKA "n-sheep burners." Mine being a 2-sheep burner and therefore quite good for pretty much anything.
But not everyone has a burner this good. YMMV.
But yes, I swear by Alcohol 120%.
Why, do you, use commas in places, where they are not, needed?
Sorry, I don't mean to come off as a flamer, but here is an exerpt from the post:
"There is no scientific reason, why JPL is colorizing Mars in that dull red tint as in their press release images. In the latest panorama image, there is a hint, that they deliberately altered the colors, as the blue and green spots on the color calibration target (the sundial) suddenly converted to bright red and brown."
Don't need a single comma in any of it, yet you have four. Makes for extremely fragmented reading.
I realize this isn't quite what you were asking, but consider going to a sleep clinic.
Do you snore? Is your neck bigger than 16"? If either of these are true, odds are decent that you have sleep apnea. I do. Or rather "did." Had my uvula and tonsils taken out (plus had my septum straightened, it was heavily deviated).
When I wake up, it feels like I'm drugged. Literally. I wish I knew why, too. Once apnea was diagnosed, I assumed that going through surgery would stop this drug-like trance from happening. It didn't, but it helped a little. Plus I don't snore at all any more. It used to keep my former girlfriend up all night.
Sorry for rambling. I guess what I'm saying is that I'll be reading the replies to your post because I have the same needs/problems when it comes to waking. And checking to see if you have apnea could actually save your life while making your sleep a lot more restful.
Pope writes:
"If you don't think it's worth seeing in the theatre, they do have these things called "video stores" where one can rent a movie. Geez, no one HAS TO see a movie right away, just wait 6 months and you can watch it at home."
The subject under discussion is pirate recording of movies in theatres, which the RIAA is trying to crack down on. One person posted that cam releases are of terrible quality. I replied that cams can range from terrible to fairly good.
And this is your reply? Do you just like hearing yourself talk, or...?