the Internet Video Pirates did steal the movie, only to rip-off Michael Moore. A link to the Bit Torrent appears to exist on the Moore Watch web site? Boggle!
also interesting is that while I was on an EzBoard I got a lot of PHP pop-up errors from my local web server. Somehow the code on an Ezboard forum was trying to access 127.0.0.1 or something like that to run an exploit in PHP. I shut down my web server and the errors went away. I was using Firefox 0.9 and I never had this error before. Maybe if I used IE I would have been infected with some wonky ActiveX exploit?
and charge an arm and a leg for them. I've seen Classic NES games for the Gameboy Advance selling for $35 each or more for Excitebike. WTF? For less than that I can buy a used NES and Excitebike cart and play it on my TV set at home.
Or I can buy a game cart from Thailand with 8 bit NES games on it, 40 of them, for $10 from a flea market bizzare, that works with a Gameboy Advance. Keep in mind the different copyright laws in Thailand. The Thai cart has Excitebike, Super Mario Brothers, Donkey Kong, Mario Brothers, Ghostbusters, Arabian, 1943, Contra, Castlevania, and many more classic games on it as well.
Since Nintendo owns the freaking games, and the emulators are already out there and open source, and the NES games were gathering dust and not earning any money and had the development costs already paid off, why in the world would they charge $35 for a copy of the old NES game and the NES emulator for the GBA? The emulator and cost of the cart cannot cost that much, can it? For $35 I'd expect at least 10 NES games on it, not one. The ROM images are not worth more than $1 each, and the cost of making a cart is not too much. Plus how much does it cost to make an emulator based on an open sourced project anyway?
Apparently rather than create an awsume 3D GBA game and charge $35 for it, they would rather recycle a 2D NES game, and bundle a GB emulator with it for $35. Sort of like taking an 8088 based IBM PC from 1981 and then selling it sans a monitor but has a 160K floppy drive and 16K of RAM for $999 on the current market. Why? Because retro computing is coming back.
most of the Video Internet Pirates live outside the United States and this won't affect them. A majority of them are from China, and you will see bootleg copies of various popular movies with Chinese subtitles on them.
Also US Video Pirates will find movie houses that do not use inferred goggles. Many Video Pirates have their own movie houses and record the movies from the camera house, or are movie projectionists who set up a video camera in the camera house. Yes in some cases it is indeed an inside job!
Microsoft dropped legacy support in Longhorn, no more running DOS and Windows code. You'll have to buy all new programs or use an emulator. I've seen the beta, and this is the case. This is the only way Microsoft can provide a way to avoid getting infected with the current viruses and spyware and adware.
Also with it no longer being Windows, they will claim it has nothing to do with the DOJ case against them.
New OS, New API, New GUI, new everything. 100% controlled by MS.
Poor people who cannot afford to upgrade their old system.
Non-Profit organizations who haven't had an upgrade budget since 1990. Many still run Netware 3.X and DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 on 386 systems.
Many schools who kept getting their budgets cut, and never have any money to upgrade their old systems. DOS/Windows systems sit next to Apple// and TRS-80 Systems.
Third world countries who get the hand-me-downs of organizations who upgraded and never found out what to do with those 286 and 386 and 486 systems, so they got shipped to third world countries via charities. Some systems jury-rigged to run on a car battery in the poorer areas.
Already there are still people using DOS and Windows 3.X and refuse to upgrade. There will be people using 32 bit Windows for a long time as well.
Eventually the WINE development team will crack most of the undocumented Win32 API calls and make WINE better with each release. When that happens, Microsoft will have abandoned the Windows 32 bit platform for Longhorn. Then Linux + WINE will be very valuable for people with new machines who can only run Longhorn or Linux.
My only request is that WINE and other programs than run softare using the Win32 APIs, create a sandbox to prevent viruses and worms from spreading.
The bets are on as to how soon those Longhorn viruses and worms come out after Longhorn is released.
An alternative to Safari, Firefox has good themes and extensions. The adblock extension alone is worth using Firefox, not to mention the "Stumble!" extension.
You should have a Bookmarks/Manage Bookmarks menu. After selecting this, do an "File/export bookmarks". If not then browse to the directory your profile is in and copy the bookmarks.htm file to someplace else. Then copy it back to the new profile.
If the Mac OSX version of Firefox does not have the import/export bookmarks option, what good is it?;)
Ok for those of you who use this argument that DirecTV beams a signal into your skull, which gives you the right to use the signal as you see fit, I got a question for you.
What if your neighbors decide to take the signal from your cell phones and cordless phones, as the signal beams into their skulls, and then decode the conversations and post them as audio files on the Internet or use them for personal purposes of entertainment? How would you feel then?
Orion Blastar, my handle, my alias, and many organiztions think that name is real. I have a Yahoo address all mail for Orion goes to, and I check it every day. I always ask not to be put on third party list and not to add my name or email to lists, but it gets added anyway.
Apparently Orion gets credit card, insurance, bank account, loan, etc applications with rates better than I can get with my real name! I am not sure how, but somehow Orion got a credit history better than mine, with no income reported or recorded at all and no record of ever existing besides online web site registrations. If I did not use my real address on the registrations, I would have never known these things. He does not even have a SSN or any record of existing anywhere on the planet.;)
Orion Blastar is the ghost in the machine, the man who never existed, but gets treated better than the man who does indeed exist and is behind the ghost.:)
In a way, Orion Blastar is an Internet experiment of mine that went way out of my control. Based on a fictional character I used to play in a role playing game, and with fictatious posts in various forums, and pretending to be a space pirate, and various other nutty things. Plus a way I can register with an online web site and still stay anoymous. Woot! Who knew it would go this far?
Apparently they have technology to detect pirated cards and can shut them down via the satelite signal. I recall a Black Sunday event that they did just that, burned out the pirated cards or something like that.
I had to change one of my DirecTV cards recently, they sent me a new one and told me what to do to change cards. This helps them prevent theft.
As for the argumet that the signal is beamed into your skull, so is paying for a movie ticket and then claiming you have a right to videotape the movie. You are violating copyright laws by making an illegal copy for the purposes of using it later or selling it or distributing it. Just like those FBI Warnings on VHS tapes, for viewing purposes only, no recording. DirecTV subscribers have the right to decode the signal and make copies of broadcasts for viewing purposes, but not to spread around and sell, etc. If you do not have a DirecTV subscription, you do not have a right to their media, peroid.
Just like the Police 911 CB signals are also beamed into your skulls does not give you the right to broadcast on that signal.
Use common sense for once, seesh! Quit being such a cheapskate and actually pay for something for once.
Companies can actually charge for distribution costs, the cost of making media, manuals, etc. Red Hat does this, apparently.
Windows is free, to the Internet Pirates, just that the security updates for Windows are locked out on pirated copies. This allows worms and viruses to spread faster when critical service packs cannot be installed on the Pirated Windows workstations.
BTW Microsoft was toying with a subscription model for Windows Updates not too long ago.
Keep XP and Longhorn, free the other versions of Windows, and charge for support of older versions if they must.
It is InfoMagic and the web site was http://www.infomagic.com/. I just visited there and there was a web page placeholder. I guess you cannot buy the Linux CDs any more?
It was great for people who could not download the ISOs, or did not have access to a CD Burner to make them if they did. IIRC they also had a subscription to their CD set for newer CDs.
Ah, well at least I still have my memories of them.
They can charge you for the distribution of the Linux software. Also Linspire/Lindows contains commercial code that does not fall under the GPL. Sort of like CrossOver Office being based on WINE. While you can download WINE for free, CrossOver Office is only available if you pay for it. Such is the same deal for Linspire/Lindows.
Finally a Linux company with a workable business plan, find a way to make Linux pay off besides just charging for support and Tux Dolls.;)
You can still use apt-get in Linspire/Lindows. Go to/etc/apt/sources.lst and take out the comments, those "#" signs and then apt-get works as it should.
apt-get install gcc apt-get install man apt-get install mozilla
No need to run the CNR program at all. Just watch out for KDE updates that can corrupt the Linspire/Lindows code.
Also they crippled RPM too./var/lib/rpm/ was missing so I created it, ran apt-get install rpm and then rpm --initdb and rpm --rebuilddb and it fixed the problem of not being able to load RPMs with Linspire.
Once you get apt-get and rpm working properly, you are able to get good luvin' OSS installs working like a champ!
I remember that, our local Linux group used to give it out for free at meetings to the noobs. I got a copy and installed Slackware from it back in 1995, IIRC. It also had a full Linux FTP site on a few CD disks of applications.
All Linspire/Lindows is doing is what InfoMagik used to do, only without the Linux FTP site on a few CD disks.
I wonder if they can include a Linux version of the OpenCD or some other OSS installer disk?
Linspire/Lindows has some customized code to run the same data and media files as a Windows workstation, too bad they did not make the code for that as GPL to share it with other distros.
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the Internet Video Pirates did steal the movie, only to rip-off Michael Moore. A link to the Bit Torrent appears to exist on the Moore Watch web site? Boggle!
See Michael Moore expose himself.
See how much Michael Moore lied about.
Watch a movie more closely based on reality than any of Michael Moore's films.
Even the Internet Video Pirates refuse to watch and record his film, does that tell you something?
also interesting is that while I was on an EzBoard I got a lot of PHP pop-up errors from my local web server. Somehow the code on an Ezboard forum was trying to access 127.0.0.1 or something like that to run an exploit in PHP. I shut down my web server and the errors went away. I was using Firefox 0.9 and I never had this error before. Maybe if I used IE I would have been infected with some wonky ActiveX exploit?
and charge an arm and a leg for them. I've seen Classic NES games for the Gameboy Advance selling for $35 each or more for Excitebike. WTF? For less than that I can buy a used NES and Excitebike cart and play it on my TV set at home.
Or I can buy a game cart from Thailand with 8 bit NES games on it, 40 of them, for $10 from a flea market bizzare, that works with a Gameboy Advance. Keep in mind the different copyright laws in Thailand. The Thai cart has Excitebike, Super Mario Brothers, Donkey Kong, Mario Brothers, Ghostbusters, Arabian, 1943, Contra, Castlevania, and many more classic games on it as well.
Since Nintendo owns the freaking games, and the emulators are already out there and open source, and the NES games were gathering dust and not earning any money and had the development costs already paid off, why in the world would they charge $35 for a copy of the old NES game and the NES emulator for the GBA? The emulator and cost of the cart cannot cost that much, can it? For $35 I'd expect at least 10 NES games on it, not one. The ROM images are not worth more than $1 each, and the cost of making a cart is not too much. Plus how much does it cost to make an emulator based on an open sourced project anyway?
Apparently rather than create an awsume 3D GBA game and charge $35 for it, they would rather recycle a 2D NES game, and bundle a GB emulator with it for $35. Sort of like taking an 8088 based IBM PC from 1981 and then selling it sans a monitor but has a 160K floppy drive and 16K of RAM for $999 on the current market. Why? Because retro computing is coming back.
most of the Video Internet Pirates live outside the United States and this won't affect them. A majority of them are from China, and you will see bootleg copies of various popular movies with Chinese subtitles on them.
Also US Video Pirates will find movie houses that do not use inferred goggles. Many Video Pirates have their own movie houses and record the movies from the camera house, or are movie projectionists who set up a video camera in the camera house. Yes in some cases it is indeed an inside job!
RTFA and see if Longhorn has legacy support. Unless they added it in since that article was written, I doubt it.
Microsoft dropped legacy support in Longhorn, no more running DOS and Windows code. You'll have to buy all new programs or use an emulator. I've seen the beta, and this is the case. This is the only way Microsoft can provide a way to avoid getting infected with the current viruses and spyware and adware.
Also with it no longer being Windows, they will claim it has nothing to do with the DOJ case against them.
New OS, New API, New GUI, new everything. 100% controlled by MS.
Fix all the damage we have done over the ages before we leave for another planet?
Poor people who cannot afford to upgrade their old system.
// and TRS-80 Systems.
Non-Profit organizations who haven't had an upgrade budget since 1990. Many still run Netware 3.X and DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 on 386 systems.
Many schools who kept getting their budgets cut, and never have any money to upgrade their old systems. DOS/Windows systems sit next to Apple
Third world countries who get the hand-me-downs of organizations who upgraded and never found out what to do with those 286 and 386 and 486 systems, so they got shipped to third world countries via charities. Some systems jury-rigged to run on a car battery in the poorer areas.
Already there are still people using DOS and Windows 3.X and refuse to upgrade. There will be people using 32 bit Windows for a long time as well.
Eventually the WINE development team will crack most of the undocumented Win32 API calls and make WINE better with each release. When that happens, Microsoft will have abandoned the Windows 32 bit platform for Longhorn. Then Linux + WINE will be very valuable for people with new machines who can only run Longhorn or Linux.
My only request is that WINE and other programs than run softare using the Win32 APIs, create a sandbox to prevent viruses and worms from spreading.
The bets are on as to how soon those Longhorn viruses and worms come out after Longhorn is released.
I use CLAMAV for Linux anyway, I won't miss RAV Antivirus for Linux.
An alternative to Safari, Firefox has good themes and extensions. The adblock extension alone is worth using Firefox, not to mention the "Stumble!" extension.
You should have a Bookmarks/Manage Bookmarks menu. After selecting this, do an "File/export bookmarks". If not then browse to the directory your profile is in and copy the bookmarks.htm file to someplace else. Then copy it back to the new profile.
;)
If the Mac OSX version of Firefox does not have the import/export bookmarks option, what good is it?
Ok for those of you who use this argument that DirecTV beams a signal into your skull, which gives you the right to use the signal as you see fit, I got a question for you.
What if your neighbors decide to take the signal from your cell phones and cordless phones, as the signal beams into their skulls, and then decode the conversations and post them as audio files on the Internet or use them for personal purposes of entertainment? How would you feel then?
Hmm, seems to be a common argument, you beam a signal into someone's skull and then they think that gives them the right to pirate the service.
because they beam a signal into your skull?
Orion Blastar, my handle, my alias, and many organiztions think that name is real. I have a Yahoo address all mail for Orion goes to, and I check it every day. I always ask not to be put on third party list and not to add my name or email to lists, but it gets added anyway.
;)
:)
Apparently Orion gets credit card, insurance, bank account, loan, etc applications with rates better than I can get with my real name! I am not sure how, but somehow Orion got a credit history better than mine, with no income reported or recorded at all and no record of ever existing besides online web site registrations. If I did not use my real address on the registrations, I would have never known these things. He does not even have a SSN or any record of existing anywhere on the planet.
Orion Blastar is the ghost in the machine, the man who never existed, but gets treated better than the man who does indeed exist and is behind the ghost.
In a way, Orion Blastar is an Internet experiment of mine that went way out of my control. Based on a fictional character I used to play in a role playing game, and with fictatious posts in various forums, and pretending to be a space pirate, and various other nutty things. Plus a way I can register with an online web site and still stay anoymous. Woot! Who knew it would go this far?
Cypherpunks
Cypherpunks
Iwethey
Iwethey
Two that I know of anyway. Until they stop allowing the password to be the same as the user ID for security reasons.
when the registration requires a real email address to verify first before it lets you complete registration?
Like it sends you a link in email to click on to activate your account, or a code you have to enter into a web form?
Apparently they have technology to detect pirated cards and can shut them down via the satelite signal. I recall a Black Sunday event that they did just that, burned out the pirated cards or something like that.
I had to change one of my DirecTV cards recently, they sent me a new one and told me what to do to change cards. This helps them prevent theft.
As for the argumet that the signal is beamed into your skull, so is paying for a movie ticket and then claiming you have a right to videotape the movie. You are violating copyright laws by making an illegal copy for the purposes of using it later or selling it or distributing it. Just like those FBI Warnings on VHS tapes, for viewing purposes only, no recording. DirecTV subscribers have the right to decode the signal and make copies of broadcasts for viewing purposes, but not to spread around and sell, etc. If you do not have a DirecTV subscription, you do not have a right to their media, peroid.
Just like the Police 911 CB signals are also beamed into your skulls does not give you the right to broadcast on that signal.
Use common sense for once, seesh! Quit being such a cheapskate and actually pay for something for once.
Companies can actually charge for distribution costs, the cost of making media, manuals, etc. Red Hat does this, apparently.
Windows is free, to the Internet Pirates, just that the security updates for Windows are locked out on pirated copies. This allows worms and viruses to spread faster when critical service packs cannot be installed on the Pirated Windows workstations.
BTW Microsoft was toying with a subscription model for Windows Updates not too long ago.
Keep XP and Longhorn, free the other versions of Windows, and charge for support of older versions if they must.
It was great for people who could not download the ISOs, or did not have access to a CD Burner to make them if they did. IIRC they also had a subscription to their CD set for newer CDs.
Ah, well at least I still have my memories of them.
They can charge you for the distribution of the Linux software. Also Linspire/Lindows contains commercial code that does not fall under the GPL. Sort of like CrossOver Office being based on WINE. While you can download WINE for free, CrossOver Office is only available if you pay for it. Such is the same deal for Linspire/Lindows.
;)
Finally a Linux company with a workable business plan, find a way to make Linux pay off besides just charging for support and Tux Dolls.
You can still use apt-get in Linspire/Lindows. Go to /etc/apt/sources.lst and take out the comments, those "#" signs and then apt-get works as it should.
/var/lib/rpm/ was missing so I created it, ran apt-get install rpm and then rpm --initdb and rpm --rebuilddb and it fixed the problem of not being able to load RPMs with Linspire.
apt-get install gcc
apt-get install man
apt-get install mozilla
No need to run the CNR program at all. Just watch out for KDE updates that can corrupt the Linspire/Lindows code.
Also they crippled RPM too.
Once you get apt-get and rpm working properly, you are able to get good luvin' OSS installs working like a champ!
I remember that, our local Linux group used to give it out for free at meetings to the noobs. I got a copy and installed Slackware from it back in 1995, IIRC. It also had a full Linux FTP site on a few CD disks of applications.
All Linspire/Lindows is doing is what InfoMagik used to do, only without the Linux FTP site on a few CD disks.
I wonder if they can include a Linux version of the OpenCD or some other OSS installer disk?
Linspire/Lindows has some customized code to run the same data and media files as a Windows workstation, too bad they did not make the code for that as GPL to share it with other distros.