The Royal Website has been slashdotted.. long live royal.gov.uk!
You people will pay for this - Infecting a government website with a virus (windows) and then nuking it (slashdot effect). Don't think just because your bigger than us we can't kick your ass - remember, our soldiers can _aim_
...and i found some stuff from some years ago. it seems that while i was high on crack one day, i filed the following patents:
10312934823: "Using red for a record button"
10312934824: "Pausing live TV using narcotics"
10312934825: "Recording TV using memory performance drugs"
10312934826: "Demolishing buildings with airliners"
and 10312934827 (which could change everything): "Patenting everything that everyone else hasn't thought of yet."
From: Me
To: The Recording Industry
Re: Online Music Rental.
After reading your proposals for online music rental, I have come-up with some new ideas that I think will benefit everyone:
1. Instead of: "You pay us a monthly fee": "I will pay you nothing, you evil money grabbing basterds".
2. Instead of: "You can download 100 of our great songs a month": "I will download what ever songs i see fit enough to be listened to, and in any quantity"
3. Instead of: "You will use our format, and the songs will only work when your computer authenticates with our server": "I will listen to whatever i want, when ever i want, and however i want, and you will go and f*uck yourselves."
and finally
4. Instead of: "We will pay our artists their share of money for their time and effort": "I will pay your artists by merchandise, and tour tickets, if i think they are worthy of my time. unworthy people such as Hear'Say, Westlife and other timewasters, will give back their limos, and go and get jobs, if they want to make music, they will do it in their own time."
Just tell me: "who thinks this shit up?", and: "how can i get a job thinking up dumb ideas?"
why would i want to buy music on a closed proprietary format that controls what i do on my own computer. Why would i want to pay a company for something that won't work if i'm not connected to the internet. WHY OH GOD WHY IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, THE F*CKING HElL WOULD I WANT TO HAVE MY COMPUTER ASK PERMISSION TO LISTEN TO SOMETHING I HAVE ON MY HARDDRIVE!?!?!?. And last of all... Please, someone tell me, why i would want to spend a month building up a collection that wont work if i stop paying, when i can build up a collection for free?
This is absolutely defiantly going on top of the dumb ideas hall of fame:
The Dumb Ideas Hall of Fame:
Online Music Rental
CueCat
Cactus, SafeAudio (and any other system)
CSS (not style sheets)
The DMCA
The SSSCA
Crypto-export laws and backdoor laws
DVD (what a stupid format)
DivX (the old rental format, not the codec)
Windows Media Format
DRM
Windows Product Activation
Dongles (why?)
G.W.Bush
Just like everything else, it will look _really_ good while you see everyone else using it, but when you finally get a go, the fun will wear off fast. Then you will get to experience your first crash (i mean software): the balance system will fail because of some buggy programming - suddenly, you will come to a complete stop from 17mph to zero as the brakes lock in and you will go flying. After a few years, rumours will start that the devices are all filled with special chips that will allow them to be remote controlled, allowing the company to take over the world by making all the IT's run wild. Also, the name - it will be called 'IT' not segway. segway is a stupid name. people are used to calling it IT so they will carry on doing it. within 10 years there will be an anti-trust case, over the monopolisation of IT and a few years after that, there will be similar IT projects such as FreeIT, OpenIT, GnuIT, and gIT. also the oil company shell will produce its own version running on petrol called shellIT, or shIT for short.
software so sophisticated it puts Microsoft to shame.
My microwave - it has never crashed.. (unless you count that time when it ran for 20 mins with the door open, and i didn't notice even though i was standing next to it and thought "my brain feels warm...")
or should that read: "software so messy it puts Microsoft to shame.
I've been looking for some nice mindless violence for some time now. The problem is, most games want me to shoot at monsters, zombies, aliens, robots or other stupid things. Why?? how do they think i can relax and lower my stress by shooting at a stupid make-believe character? no. I need something based on real life. looking through my rifle scope as i pick off innocent bystanders. beating policemen to the ground until they bleed and then gibbing them with some explosives. Shooting tossers in the back of the head and watching them fall to the ground, and generally running things over and blowing stuff up.
So far the only game i've found to satisfy my needs is GTA3, which does this brilliantly. (and also provides some sort of storyline thing for when i get bored). I think the best aspect of GTA3 is the little classical radio station that provides a _perfect_ background for some mindless violence (alla Gary Oldman in Leon). Also a good thing, is the fact that i can shoot at both armed gangsters _and_ unarmed pedestrians because - sometimes a challenge is good, but other times i just want some free kills (candy from a baby). - oh yeah, why are there no children in GTA3? i was hoping for some good-for-nothing youths to smash up, or even the classic "oh no! my baby's buggy is rolling in the middle of the road" gag:). The lack of gibbing ability for bodies is an irritation, but the baseball-bat more than makes up for this.
i notice all the things i want are not on the list:
-A small army of followers who are dumb enough to do whatever i say.
-A thermo-nuclear war-head (Pref 600KT or more).
-A house in mexico.
-400Kg of crack cocaine.
Its called capitalism and globalisation and is the reason why the entire world hates America:
Capitalism - definition:
Everyone is free to do what they want, so companies grow.
Quickly, the small companies fall behind, and the large companies grow. Soon there is just one, this is called a monopoly (see Microsoft). Large companies affect government policies through things called 'donations' a donation can by you a law that makes it illigal for people to own photocopiers for example. Soon, large corporations create laws, and the capitalist country is no longer capitalist - it has been socialised by the capitalists (if that makes any sense). The capitalist government, soon sees that being part of the socialist movement is a well paid position and allows itself to be bought by the companies. The end.
What if you put the CD in a normal player and then tapped the digital stream _before_ it went through the DAC, feed it into a computer, and thus get a perfect copy (but without the control codes/tracks etc. Does the same not apply to DVD? All this should require is a kind of mod-chip like conversion. Or, if you put it in a nice CD player, and used a decent line cable and a good sound card you could create a copy that was basically the same (if its going through mp3 or ogg then its going to loose quality anyway.
Oh yeah, i forgot. In america, line cables are banned under the DMCA.
--- A youth was arrested today at JFK for attempting to smuggle oxygen-free, gold-plate line cables in from europe. Police estimate the stash could of had a street price of upto $19 and 12 cents! --
The RIAA has said that it is planning to roll-out a new copy-protection system for CDs. The system should be introduced within a few months, but, unlike previous attempts, the association has claimed that this system will remain uncrack-able. The new system will involve new technology pioneered by Microsoft called "CD-Blank". At the pressing plant, the CD master images are put through a process known as "Blanking" where all the digital sample values are set to '0'. This results in a disk containing data as such:
'000000000000000000000000000000000000' etc.
The process ensures that the disks will remain _completely_ unreadable by PC-CDROM drives. inserting a "CD-Blank" disk in Microsoft Windows for example will cause the message "The disk is not formatted" to appear. However some independent testers have claimed that inserting it into some Windows machines will crash them. At a press conference, a spokesman for the RIAA was asked by a journalist why the CDs would not play on normal CD players. The journalist then went on to claim that the CDs were in fact _blank_ and filled entirely with 0's. When presented with this information, the spokesman went on to explain how this technology could also be used in DVDs, CD-ROMS, and other digital media. meanwhile, the journalist was escorted out of the conference by security
Several crack-taking recording industry figures are said to be interested in the technology
does ppp stand for point to point protocal? does p2p stand for point to point protocal? Is the internet not a filesharing network? (ie a network (a collection of computers) that shares files (transfers files around)? Why has the riaa not just forced the whole internet to shutdown in the US under the dmca or whatever? or is that the whole point and am i just stupid?
Why the hell not? there must of been thousands of people around on the streets with cameras (isn't it a tourist spot - how close can you get?) If they had hit the whitehouse then maybe some lucky news crew would have got it - that would have been an incredible image... i can just see the independence day spoofs...
..if there are so many cameras, why has no-one filmed the pentagon crash, the queens crash, got anymore shots of the others? i am a sick, sick person who wants to see these...
I thought the entertainment industry was on crack and badly needed more money to feed the habit. They implemented these protection systems as a last attempt to increase income so they could get some more gear. (they know they will die soon so what happens after everyone catches on and stops buying is irrelevant). The whole idea of DVD, was not to provide a new format, but to make a format that was designed _totally_ to sell units in the billions for a small overhead, for about 3-4 years before all the copy protection systems would be cracked, the format would become obsolete, and everyone would realise that the quality was total shit.
Following your logic: the government will also look for the routes and add cameras to them thus reducing both mugging and freedom at the same time... not a dumb idea, but not a good one either... maybe a kind-of idea ish.. no?
Slashdot Mirror
half of which we invented
The Royal Website has been slashdotted.. long live royal.gov.uk!
You people will pay for this - Infecting a government website with a virus (windows) and then nuking it (slashdot effect). Don't think just because your bigger than us we can't kick your ass - remember, our soldiers can _aim_
...and i found some stuff from some years ago. it seems that while i was high on crack one day, i filed the following patents:
10312934823: "Using red for a record button"
10312934824: "Pausing live TV using narcotics"
10312934825: "Recording TV using memory performance drugs"
10312934826: "Demolishing buildings with airliners"
and 10312934827 (which could change everything): "Patenting everything that everyone else hasn't thought of yet."
MR BIN LADEN I WANT MY ROYALTIES!!!!
an example?
They have no brakes? oh, well thats okay then.. they must be safe
From: Me
To: The Recording Industry
Re: Online Music Rental.
After reading your proposals for online music rental, I have come-up with some new ideas that I think will benefit everyone:
1. Instead of: "You pay us a monthly fee": "I will pay you nothing, you evil money grabbing basterds".
2. Instead of: "You can download 100 of our great songs a month": "I will download what ever songs i see fit enough to be listened to, and in any quantity"
3. Instead of: "You will use our format, and the songs will only work when your computer authenticates with our server": "I will listen to whatever i want, when ever i want, and however i want, and you will go and f*uck yourselves."
and finally
4. Instead of: "We will pay our artists their share of money for their time and effort": "I will pay your artists by merchandise, and tour tickets, if i think they are worthy of my time. unworthy people such as Hear'Say, Westlife and other timewasters, will give back their limos, and go and get jobs, if they want to make music, they will do it in their own time."
I wanted to dry my dog, but he was to big to fit in with the door closed...
Just tell me: "who thinks this shit up?", and: "how can i get a job thinking up dumb ideas?"
why would i want to buy music on a closed proprietary format that controls what i do on my own computer. Why would i want to pay a company for something that won't work if i'm not connected to the internet. WHY OH GOD WHY IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, THE F*CKING HElL WOULD I WANT TO HAVE MY COMPUTER ASK PERMISSION TO LISTEN TO SOMETHING I HAVE ON MY HARDDRIVE!?!?!?. And last of all... Please, someone tell me, why i would want to spend a month building up a collection that wont work if i stop paying, when i can build up a collection for free?
This is absolutely defiantly going on top of the dumb ideas hall of fame:
The Dumb Ideas Hall of Fame:
Online Music Rental
CueCat
Cactus, SafeAudio (and any other system)
CSS (not style sheets)
The DMCA
The SSSCA
Crypto-export laws and backdoor laws
DVD (what a stupid format)
DivX (the old rental format, not the codec)
Windows Media Format
DRM
Windows Product Activation
Dongles (why?)
G.W.Bush
Anything i've missed out?
ROFL! :)
So that's what channel 4 were talking about when they said they would make rich and culturally diverse alternative programs...
Just like everything else, it will look _really_ good while you see everyone else using it, but when you finally get a go, the fun will wear off fast. Then you will get to experience your first crash (i mean software): the balance system will fail because of some buggy programming - suddenly, you will come to a complete stop from 17mph to zero as the brakes lock in and you will go flying. After a few years, rumours will start that the devices are all filled with special chips that will allow them to be remote controlled, allowing the company to take over the world by making all the IT's run wild. Also, the name - it will be called 'IT' not segway. segway is a stupid name. people are used to calling it IT so they will carry on doing it. within 10 years there will be an anti-trust case, over the monopolisation of IT and a few years after that, there will be similar IT projects such as FreeIT, OpenIT, GnuIT, and gIT. also the oil company shell will produce its own version running on petrol called shellIT, or shIT for short.
software so sophisticated it puts Microsoft to shame.
My microwave - it has never crashed.. (unless you count that time when it ran for 20 mins with the door open, and i didn't notice even though i was standing next to it and thought "my brain feels warm...")
or should that read: "software so messy it puts Microsoft to shame.
I've been looking for some nice mindless violence for some time now. The problem is, most games want me to shoot at monsters, zombies, aliens, robots or other stupid things. Why?? how do they think i can relax and lower my stress by shooting at a stupid make-believe character? no. I need something based on real life. looking through my rifle scope as i pick off innocent bystanders. beating policemen to the ground until they bleed and then gibbing them with some explosives. Shooting tossers in the back of the head and watching them fall to the ground, and generally running things over and blowing stuff up.
:). The lack of gibbing ability for bodies is an irritation, but the baseball-bat more than makes up for this.
So far the only game i've found to satisfy my needs is GTA3, which does this brilliantly. (and also provides some sort of storyline thing for when i get bored). I think the best aspect of GTA3 is the little classical radio station that provides a _perfect_ background for some mindless violence (alla Gary Oldman in Leon). Also a good thing, is the fact that i can shoot at both armed gangsters _and_ unarmed pedestrians because - sometimes a challenge is good, but other times i just want some free kills (candy from a baby). - oh yeah, why are there no children in GTA3? i was hoping for some good-for-nothing youths to smash up, or even the classic "oh no! my baby's buggy is rolling in the middle of the road" gag
sell the car, buy the player... no, sell the play.. buy the car.. sell your appendix to the medical campus.. buy player... install.
i notice all the things i want are not on the list:
-A small army of followers who are dumb enough to do whatever i say.
-A thermo-nuclear war-head (Pref 600KT or more).
-A house in mexico.
-400Kg of crack cocaine.
And a puppy.
Its called capitalism and globalisation and is the reason why the entire world hates America:
Capitalism - definition:
Everyone is free to do what they want, so companies grow.
Quickly, the small companies fall behind, and the large companies grow. Soon there is just one, this is called a monopoly (see Microsoft). Large companies affect government policies through things called 'donations' a donation can by you a law that makes it illigal for people to own photocopiers for example. Soon, large corporations create laws, and the capitalist country is no longer capitalist - it has been socialised by the capitalists (if that makes any sense). The capitalist government, soon sees that being part of the socialist movement is a well paid position and allows itself to be bought by the companies. The end.
What if you put the CD in a normal player and then tapped the digital stream _before_ it went through the DAC, feed it into a computer, and thus get a perfect copy (but without the control codes/tracks etc. Does the same not apply to DVD? All this should require is a kind of mod-chip like conversion. Or, if you put it in a nice CD player, and used a decent line cable and a good sound card you could create a copy that was basically the same (if its going through mp3 or ogg then its going to loose quality anyway.
Oh yeah, i forgot. In america, line cables are banned under the DMCA.
--- A youth was arrested today at JFK for attempting to smuggle oxygen-free, gold-plate line cables in from europe. Police estimate the stash could of had a street price of upto $19 and 12 cents! --
The RIAA has said that it is planning to roll-out a new copy-protection system for CDs. The system should be introduced within a few months, but, unlike previous attempts, the association has claimed that this system will remain uncrack-able. The new system will involve new technology pioneered by Microsoft called "CD-Blank". At the pressing plant, the CD master images are put through a process known as "Blanking" where all the digital sample values are set to '0'. This results in a disk containing data as such:
'000000000000000000000000000000000000' etc.
The process ensures that the disks will remain _completely_ unreadable by PC-CDROM drives. inserting a "CD-Blank" disk in Microsoft Windows for example will cause the message "The disk is not formatted" to appear. However some independent testers have claimed that inserting it into some Windows machines will crash them. At a press conference, a spokesman for the RIAA was asked by a journalist why the CDs would not play on normal CD players. The journalist then went on to claim that the CDs were in fact _blank_ and filled entirely with 0's. When presented with this information, the spokesman went on to explain how this technology could also be used in DVDs, CD-ROMS, and other digital media. meanwhile, the journalist was escorted out of the conference by security
Several crack-taking recording industry figures are said to be interested in the technology
protocal um... er.. its the um _british_ spelling.. yeah (i think they're dumb enough to fall for that).
does ppp stand for point to point protocal? does p2p stand for point to point protocal? Is the internet not a filesharing network? (ie a network (a collection of computers) that shares files (transfers files around)? Why has the riaa not just forced the whole internet to shutdown in the US under the dmca or whatever? or is that the whole point and am i just stupid?
Why the hell not? there must of been thousands of people around on the streets with cameras (isn't it a tourist spot - how close can you get?) If they had hit the whitehouse then maybe some lucky news crew would have got it - that would have been an incredible image... i can just see the independence day spoofs...
..if there are so many cameras, why has no-one filmed the pentagon crash, the queens crash, got anymore shots of the others? i am a sick, sick person who wants to see these...
I thought the entertainment industry was on crack and badly needed more money to feed the habit. They implemented these protection systems as a last attempt to increase income so they could get some more gear. (they know they will die soon so what happens after everyone catches on and stops buying is irrelevant). The whole idea of DVD, was not to provide a new format, but to make a format that was designed _totally_ to sell units in the billions for a small overhead, for about 3-4 years before all the copy protection systems would be cracked, the format would become obsolete, and everyone would realise that the quality was total shit.
Following your logic: the government will also look for the routes and add cameras to them thus reducing both mugging and freedom at the same time... not a dumb idea, but not a good one either... maybe a kind-of idea ish.. no?
from a country that can't spell colour? I didn't vote for Bush, or Blair.
presedent is.. um.. the british spelling
If you live in student halls, and the marks are yellow, then i think i can answer your question...