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I've talked to my lawyer about this and he says that I must give permission to modify my intellectual property. Moderation is modifying it and I will not allow it. He told me to contact him if my posts are moderated down and he'll file a lawsuit against this site and have it shutdown.
Although you can file suit against John Doe, I've never seen a suit filed by a John Doe. So the moderator who modded you down as Offtopic may sleep soundly.
Surely you're not so dense as to believe that a store is going to stop selling the CD's immediately because someone tries to return one...
I can assure you that I'm not as dense as you are;-) As others have pointed out, don't bring it back just once, but do it over and over again. And count on other people doing it too.
The only reasonable solution that doesn't screw you out of 20 bucks is not to buy the CD.
But if everybody just lies down, you soon won't have any CD to buy which will play in your computer. And don't write off you twenty bucks too quickly either: after you came back with your broken CD for the fifth time, the store manager might just give up, and allow you to get a refund and/or a different CD.
Of course, you need plenty of free time to pull this off. So if you're an overworked professional, doing 60-hours weeks, don't bother. But if you're a bored student with plenty of time on your hand, just have a go at it. You'll have fun, and make the world a better place for the rest of us by teaching those sleezy companies a lesson;-)
However, exchanging the CD isn't going to help if you're just getting the same thing in return.
It does help. Are you really thinking that the store is trying to sell the opened copy to somebody else? No way: either they are going to eat the losses, or they send it back to the manufacturer (...who eats the loss). Bottom line: you're costing the store real money, which will act as a disincentive not to store such CD's. Eventually some manager somewhere gets the message and this new format hopefully dies a well-deserved death.
If the system were 99.99% accurate and it indicated a match, wouldn't you want to pull the person out for closer inspection? (this is not to say that you treat him like a terrorist)
After all, airports already arbitrarily subject people to random inspection of their luggage.
The problem with such profiling is not that anybody who looks like a terrorist is being singled out once for closer inspection. It's that he will be singled out every time he travels. Whereas for random checks, you'd have to be fairly unlucky to get picked every single time.
...religiously without ever throwing it out, not even spams, virii, chain letters etc.:
With a little bit of luck Bin Laden, or one of his cronies, might have caught the Sircam virus, and unwittingly mailed out his secret plans. Now is the moment to (safely) open these old mails, and check out whether maybe you have something among them which might interest the FBI... It would astonish me if among all those zillions of Sircam mails that were sent around the world back in spring, there wasn't one containing juicy details...
In order to "safely" open Sircam mails, detach the attachment (in Unix), then strip of the 134 first kilobytes:
Then transfer the stripped attachment to your Winders box, and open it in Word/Excel or wherever. Enjoy!
N.B. Many word files can be viewed using strings -a. They seem to contain the Ascii text in integro near the end, buried among the binary rubble. And if you've got a Sircam'ed zip file, just unzip it just like you would unzip any other file (i.e. unzip attach.zip.vbs): indeed Zip files are "anchored" at the end, and any trailing garbage is silently ignored.
I just thought maybe it was Nimda clogging things up.
During the first outbreak of Code Red in July people though that it slowed down their network.
However, later it turned out that the slowdowns were actually due to a tunnel fire under Baltimore...
I wonder if anyone is going to attempt to lift this before the authorities can get to it? That would be one hell of an engineering feat, not to mention logistical nightmare. But, I suppose, not impossible...
That was a major plot device in Die Hard III. If I remember correctly, they used a
tunnel boring machine to dig from the bombed subway station inside the bank. Conceivably, in our case, the villains could use a similar machine to bore through the "bathtub" walls into the rubble. However, they'd need to face the same water problems than the regular excavation workers would, and they'd have the additional problem of bringing such heavy equipment near the site without raising suspicions...
Just make an outrageous EULA, and the geeks will flock to by your product to check with their own eyes that the EULA is indeed as outrageous as the rumors says it is...
What I had been hearing was that they were built to withstand a "707", and I was also under the impression that the 757 & 767 were both smaller than the 747. Can anyone clear that up?
According to the engineers who designed the building (rather than some hack who just wrote about it thirty years later...), it was indeed designed to withstand a 707 (current at the time), rather than a 747.
Moreover, it is not clear whether then design of the building also accounted for the fire caused by the fuel, or just for the mechanical choc of the impact. Indeed, the building did withstand the impact, it's the fire that got them.
Anybody else heard rumors of some really big action planned for 9/22 ?
Yes, according to
this article, there is indeed some risk. However, according to the same article, the FBI is aware of it, and are stepping up security. In any case, it'll be prudent to avoid planes, high-rises, subways and huge crowds.
The web page talked about two names: attackontwintowers.com and worldtradetowerattack.com. However, a quick whois search shows that attackontwintowers.com was registered on 2001/9/11, after the attack. Tasteless, yes, involved with the act, no.
And the other address is completely unknown to whois.
Just strip off the 134k first bytes: dd if=file.in of=file.out bs=1024 skip=134
However, most files have readably Ascii text inside, which can be viewed by strings -a, or even emacs. And if it is
a zip file, just unzip it without any further steps: indeed, zip files are
"anchored" at the end, and zip transparently ignores any garbage prepended to an archive.
Maybe, with a little bit of luck somebody might come across a sircamed copy of battle plans that/bin/laden had sent to his cronies...
Same problem, but the following seems to be fine: http://ag.idaprog.org/Indis35prod/doc/333,
or any of the other URLs that have been posted.
Thanks to everybody who has posted mirrors.
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Just let him go ?
Simple: just chose not to install a system with such a high "false positives" rate.
I can assure you that I'm not as dense as you are ;-) As others have pointed out, don't bring it back just once, but do it over and over again. And count on other people doing it too.
The only reasonable solution that doesn't screw you out of 20 bucks is not to buy the CD.
But if everybody just lies down, you soon won't have any CD to buy which will play in your computer. And don't write off you twenty bucks too quickly either: after you came back with your broken CD for the fifth time, the store manager might just give up, and allow you to get a refund and/or a different CD.
Of course, you need plenty of free time to pull this off. So if you're an overworked professional, doing 60-hours weeks, don't bother. But if you're a bored student with plenty of time on your hand, just have a go at it. You'll have fun, and make the world a better place for the rest of us by teaching those sleezy companies a lesson ;-)
That's not a problem with apartheid. That's an unfortunate problem of having that skin color.
Why am I thinking that such an argument is not really gonna fly at a court of justice? And rightly so.
It does help. Are you really thinking that the store is trying to sell the opened copy to somebody else? No way: either they are going to eat the losses, or they send it back to the manufacturer (...who eats the loss). Bottom line: you're costing the store real money, which will act as a disincentive not to store such CD's. Eventually some manager somewhere gets the message and this new format hopefully dies a well-deserved death.
After all, airports already arbitrarily subject people to random inspection of their luggage.
The problem with such profiling is not that anybody who looks like a terrorist is being singled out once for closer inspection. It's that he will be singled out every time he travels. Whereas for random checks, you'd have to be fairly unlucky to get picked every single time.
With a little bit of luck Bin Laden, or one of his cronies, might have caught the Sircam virus, and unwittingly mailed out his secret plans. Now is the moment to (safely) open these old mails, and check out whether maybe you have something among them which might interest the FBI... It would astonish me if among all those zillions of Sircam mails that were sent around the world back in spring, there wasn't one containing juicy details...
In order to "safely" open Sircam mails, detach the attachment (in Unix), then strip of the 134 first kilobytes:
Then transfer the stripped attachment to your Winders box, and open it in Word/Excel or wherever. Enjoy!
N.B. Many word files can be viewed using strings -a. They seem to contain the Ascii text in integro near the end, buried among the binary rubble. And if you've got a Sircam'ed zip file, just unzip it just like you would unzip any other file (i.e. unzip attach.zip.vbs): indeed Zip files are "anchored" at the end, and any trailing garbage is silently ignored.
During the first outbreak of Code Red in July people though that it slowed down their network. However, later it turned out that the slowdowns were actually due to a tunnel fire under Baltimore...
That was a major plot device in Die Hard III. If I remember correctly, they used a tunnel boring machine to dig from the bombed subway station inside the bank. Conceivably, in our case, the villains could use a similar machine to bore through the "bathtub" walls into the rubble. However, they'd need to face the same water problems than the regular excavation workers would, and they'd have the additional problem of bringing such heavy equipment near the site without raising suspicions...
And check the definition of Microsoft in the Encarta... Any dictionary lauding Microsoft that much has to be owned by them...
Just make an outrageous EULA, and the geeks will flock to by your product to check with their own eyes that the EULA is indeed as outrageous as the rumors says it is...
According to the engineers who designed the building (rather than some hack who just wrote about it thirty years later...), it was indeed designed to withstand a 707 (current at the time), rather than a 747.
Moreover, it is not clear whether then design of the building also accounted for the fire caused by the fuel, or just for the mechanical choc of the impact. Indeed, the building did withstand the impact, it's the fire that got them.
According to Libération, the explosion was due to an accident, rather than terroristm.
Yes, according to this article, there is indeed some risk. However, according to the same article, the FBI is aware of it, and are stepping up security. In any case, it'll be prudent to avoid planes, high-rises, subways and huge crowds.
... but a helluva blowjob for Mr Gorsky.
And the other address is completely unknown to whois.
dd if=file.in of=file.out bs=1024 skip=134
However, most files have readably Ascii text inside, which can be viewed by strings -a, or even emacs. And if it is a zip file, just unzip it without any further steps: indeed, zip files are "anchored" at the end, and zip transparently ignores any garbage prepended to an archive.
Maybe, with a little bit of luck somebody might come across a sircamed copy of battle plans that /bin/laden had sent to his cronies...
Actually, the new nimda virus has been released exactly one week after the first plane hit , precise to the minute.
Care to explain how anything that helps convince people not to use Microsoft can be called "annoying" ;-)
I think it was actually only around 65535. More than that, and their excellent bug tracking software overflows...
Same problem, but the following seems to be fine:
http://ag.idaprog.org/Indis35prod/doc/333, or any of the other URLs that have been posted.
Thanks to everybody who has posted mirrors.
FBI probes European short-selling-NEWS
Yes, and those stocks were unfortunately traded on European markets, which were indeed open last week.
To their credit, they also have PDF... But this seems to be irrelevant anyways, as currently their site only shows a white page.