Whats the US going to do? shoot them down? I don't think so, Europe could have done better than this rather than just give in sheepishly. Ive seen bush standing next to the queen he looks a kid standing next to the head-mistress, she could have come in there and said "i think we would quite like these frequencies" and then just walked out. One of the major points of galileo is that it is a system not to undermined by the us gps, it needs an equal footing to say "were here, you're not the only country in the world, get over it".
I dunno, i think most voters dont have any idea about DRM or the DMCA, at most they might think it was something to do with a male Christian radio station on Digital Radio Mondiale! Any publicity on this is good tho (well almost any) aslong as it doesnt get biased news coverage about hippies dammanding the downfall of the economy. Its a very difficult topic to explain to the public about, most people don't understand the concept of digital or that your DVD player wont fast-forward only because its been told not to by the DVD. When the masses start to really understand the implications of it all then they will be very pissed off and no ammount of money can fix a very pissed off country of people.
Not trying to be a privacy nut but this could easily be used to track you, if you had your laptop running in the car the service station logs could build up a map of your journey, even if you had it turned off and just used it at afew stops it could still give some decent location information. But then again, thats what wardriving is all about.. heh... ok ill stop.
Assuming you dont have separate firewall or CD with some tools on it:
1) Connect to net. 2) Launch IE, goto google as quickly as you can 3) Search for "xxx", "hardcore horse fuck", or "warez cracks serials" 4) Open as many sites as you can in a new window 5) These will sporn pop-up windows and slow your net connection down enough so that you might be free from incomming attacks (if you can download videos even better). 6) Download your updates and gradually close excess windows to divert bandwidth to your update downloading. 7) Disconnect
As a side-effect you will certainly catch some ad-ware/spy-ware but its better then getting a worm, and you can think of it as a metaphore - with IE, unprotected browsing is the same as unprotected sex with 300 annoying people that keep offering to sell you wireless spy cams. But unlike your dick, you never have to use IE again, so close it down and install Firefox.
Was side-talking patented? If so that would be a brilliant example to show people stupid patenting laws, I only hope Nokia were just taking the piss when they put it on the feature list - surely it must have just been an internal joke, and maybe one of the engineers went and gave in a patent for a laugh? heh "back-side-talkin"?.. er.. no? Ok were screwed.
In Opera I ctrl-shift click links and they open in a background tab which is very useful, but the reason I like tabs instead of windows is because my task bar is almost always full (and its 3 blocks high!) and my broswer tab-bar is almost always full, All those extra windows would be a nightmare. Then theres the ease of closing the browser and having everything close with it (and open back up the next time if you want). And if you happen to be hit by a pop-up bomb (which isnt going to happen unless i turn off my blocker) you can just hit close and kill them all. All this technically could be done with windows - including restoring from crashes but it isnt, Tabbed browsing is really a blanket term for all this extra cool stuff that IE doesnt have. Sticking tabs in and adding some functions to the menus shouldnt take even a single programmer project that long.
The FCC governs free-speech and breasts on public airwaves. As long as you don't commit one of the many atrocities such as showing your natural body, saying what's on your mind, or questioning the great leader you'll be fine, now if this Broadband interference could enable people to eavesdrop on peoples connections and someone happened to be transferring porn, then you can bet ur ass the FCC will be on the case.
WTF!? you mean they actually stopped developing that POS? I understand someone dumping developement on something because its so fundamentally messy and flawed and crap but really thats leaving people hanging surely that should have fixed some of the more major issues before stopping developement. If IE could even just get basic CSS working I would be happy, they dont even have to fix the security holes - I dont use it, but most people do and that means sites have to work with it.
They could technically be sued either way - Lindows lost on less of a case. These are the exact same size and shape as CDs and 'work' in CD drives and are packaged and sold as CDs, 9 out of 10 people questioned in a store would say they had bought a CD and the other 1 would say 'get out of my face' theres absolutely no debate that these wouldnt be confused as CDs as much as I hate patent and IP law and im sure the relevent CD trademark owners have either been paid a shitload to allow this or are about to win a shitload in court.
I think after a time out it will give up and then only send a signal every so-often, either that or it listens out for a tower before trying to contact it. Otherwise im never going on the tube in rush-hour again.. fuck that things in my pocket blasting out radiation at my family jewels!
What pisses me off more than anything is the way they manage to play it so that most people won't know that theres anything different. Everyone who buys this should at the very least be clearly told what they are buying and not some sugar coated version of the truth. Its just really sneaky and weasly.
And how did my ranting and raving not make sense? Infact your post makes almost no sense! Where did slashdot being shut down come into it? What is this egg drying metaphore? Our rights are being screwed over on a daily basis go read about some of the laws being pushed through every year!
Plenty of human-rights abusing reigemes have had secret police for years, it keeps the population in check, because you never know who you're talking to! Start a conversation with that guy sitting in the park? better be careful what you say about your glorious leader or you might find yourself locked up and the key literally thrown away! Don't forget who started bribing locals to grass-up the whereabouts of all the jews - the nazis thats who, and guess which regieme also had an army of secret police ready to get freaky on anyone who said the wrong thing, heres a clue - we invaded them last year and now were using their former prision of injustice to make cheap BDSM porn. Hey maybe the pentagon could go the full way like Israel and send their secret police abroad to kidnap people!
I still use Opera over Firefox because because im used to it but i can see Firefox definately taking over soon. Mostly because its free and open and just as good as Opera. Opera might be smaller but the general trend in computing is bloat-ware, just looking at my windows (argh) pocketpc, its a couple years old now but it comes packed full of useless rom-wasting things - like an AOL install tool that you would only use once if that. As the power and memory of these devices goes up and it is going up very quickly, size and efficiency goes out the door and costs take over! I would rather have small tightly written programs but in the end thats how it goes: 20-30 years ago things like java and GUI's would be laughed at for being stupidly wasteful - even Opera would be considered a bloated snail, but now PC hardware has reached the spot were no-one cares if your flashy menus eat up resources "its just 1%" - just like no-one cares if their cars eat a gallon to go 15 miles - its just abit of cheap liquid!
This is a stupid law, spyware can be stopped with basic security, what we _really_ need is laws to protect people who write anti-adware software, you should be allowed to infringe trademarks and copyright of advertisers and say "this software will get rid of x and y adware" and the advertising pigs shouldnt have any power to sue you for somehow 'infringing' on their business model, maybe they don't already but i wouldnt be surprised. The same goes for pop-up blockers etc (and tools in general but thats off-topic)
"Has anyone survived such a trip and lived to tell the tale with a fat wallet?"
"Better to be tortured by a leash and a polaroid than have your friggin head cut off."
"You are indeed pioneers! It's like the ole west over there with money to be made in the face of great danger."
Im just starting to understand why they hate us so much. They have competent geeks themselves but their jobs are being out-sourced already, they don't all agree with the people who go around abducting everyone but yet they get equal blame. I know not everyone here agrees with bombing the crap out of everything they have to catch afew assholes but you have to see from their point of view - rebuilding Iraq means rebuilding it for them, thats why we're there right? to help a country get rid of a dictator and get back on its feet? not to make lots of money for ourselves? - your profit comes last in the equation, the world isnt all capitalism.
The way I see it, the only way to tell someones ability is to sit them down in front of a computer for half an hour and ask them to do things. Grades, MCSE's, degrees etc are all meaningless if the person cant actually do things and think for themselves, why doesnt this happen in real life? At least give people the optionn to say "let me show you what i can do," or "here are my qualifications - 5 PHDs, suck it" I know there needs to be accountability - i.e you cant just let anyone loose on your systems but there must be another way?
Nice article, if you didnt read it, i can sum it up for you in my own words:
"If you the corporations dont make the hardware that we want (i.e non-drm), then we're going to go and buy it from someone that does! And all you pig-fucking assholes who think you can tell me what i can to with my own property: go stick your region encoded DVD right up your ass and i hope it snaps in half and cuts you."
You see this is what we have to put up with, I like Europe and i think its a great idea for the UK to be part of a big body and they've had some great ideas including free speech rights! But what pisses me off is these idiotic politicians who either are fucking some corporation (quite literally one of them is married to the head of vivendi!) or totally obsessed with Nazis. Now I hate Hitler as much as the next guy (is that hate speech??), but i can see that the risk of him being re-incarnated and leading his storm troopers across Europe in a tour of mass genocide (sponsored by IBM and Monsanto) is very very unlikely and i would much rather my politicians concentrated their valuable time on thinks that FUCKING MATTERED! such as making sure we have free speech rights and patent laws that make sense when you're not stoned. Can we please ban these people from the European parliament instead of banning free speech?
Well America under Bush is becoming a "terribly brutal military theocratic dictatorship". Obviously its no where near Japan was but the Bush administration has some disturbing traits of their own.
The attacks on the world trade center/pentagon had no real strategic value (imagine it was war) but destroyed moral. It wasnt a case of stealing some empty airliners and crashing them in the deseart to say "look what we can do" they killed real people who were mostly civilians and targeted places to cause maximum damage, shock and media coverage. The people who did it or organised it believed that they were right and they needed to do this for their cause.
There are attacks to kill people and attacks to make people fear you, both can cause each-other but usually they are intended one way or another. Which way was the atomic bombing?
This should stop those pesky anti-war protesters and people who don't like Bush (may they burn in hell). Of course it will never be used against people legitimately exercising their right to protest gun-laws etc - the true heros of America!
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Whats the US going to do? shoot them down? I don't think so, Europe could have done better than this rather than just give in sheepishly. Ive seen bush standing next to the queen he looks a kid standing next to the head-mistress, she could have come in there and said "i think we would quite like these frequencies" and then just walked out. One of the major points of galileo is that it is a system not to undermined by the us gps, it needs an equal footing to say "were here, you're not the only country in the world, get over it".
I dunno, i think most voters dont have any idea about DRM or the DMCA, at most they might think it was something to do with a male Christian radio station on Digital Radio Mondiale! Any publicity on this is good tho (well almost any) aslong as it doesnt get biased news coverage about hippies dammanding the downfall of the economy. Its a very difficult topic to explain to the public about, most people don't understand the concept of digital or that your DVD player wont fast-forward only because its been told not to by the DVD. When the masses start to really understand the implications of it all then they will be very pissed off and no ammount of money can fix a very pissed off country of people.
Not trying to be a privacy nut but this could easily be used to track you, if you had your laptop running in the car the service station logs could build up a map of your journey, even if you had it turned off and just used it at afew stops it could still give some decent location information. But then again, thats what wardriving is all about.. heh... ok ill stop.
Assuming you dont have separate firewall or CD with some tools on it:
1) Connect to net.
2) Launch IE, goto google as quickly as you can
3) Search for "xxx", "hardcore horse fuck", or "warez cracks serials"
4) Open as many sites as you can in a new window
5) These will sporn pop-up windows and slow your net connection down enough so that you might be free from incomming attacks (if you can download videos even better).
6) Download your updates and gradually close excess windows to divert bandwidth to your update downloading.
7) Disconnect
As a side-effect you will certainly catch some ad-ware/spy-ware but its better then getting a worm, and you can think of it as a metaphore - with IE, unprotected browsing is the same as unprotected sex with 300 annoying people that keep offering to sell you wireless spy cams. But unlike your dick, you never have to use IE again, so close it down and install Firefox.
Was side-talking patented? If so that would be a brilliant example to show people stupid patenting laws, I only hope Nokia were just taking the piss when they put it on the feature list - surely it must have just been an internal joke, and maybe one of the engineers went and gave in a patent for a laugh? heh "back-side-talkin"?.. er.. no? Ok were screwed.
In Opera I ctrl-shift click links and they open in a background tab which is very useful, but the reason I like tabs instead of windows is because my task bar is almost always full (and its 3 blocks high!) and my broswer tab-bar is almost always full, All those extra windows would be a nightmare. Then theres the ease of closing the browser and having everything close with it (and open back up the next time if you want). And if you happen to be hit by a pop-up bomb (which isnt going to happen unless i turn off my blocker) you can just hit close and kill them all. All this technically could be done with windows - including restoring from crashes but it isnt, Tabbed browsing is really a blanket term for all this extra cool stuff that IE doesnt have. Sticking tabs in and adding some functions to the menus shouldnt take even a single programmer project that long.
The FCC governs free-speech and breasts on public airwaves. As long as you don't commit one of the many atrocities such as showing your natural body, saying what's on your mind, or questioning the great leader you'll be fine, now if this Broadband interference could enable people to eavesdrop on peoples connections and someone happened to be transferring porn, then you can bet ur ass the FCC will be on the case.
WTF!? you mean they actually stopped developing that POS? I understand someone dumping developement on something because its so fundamentally messy and flawed and crap but really thats leaving people hanging surely that should have fixed some of the more major issues before stopping developement. If IE could even just get basic CSS working I would be happy, they dont even have to fix the security holes - I dont use it, but most people do and that means sites have to work with it.
They could technically be sued either way - Lindows lost on less of a case. These are the exact same size and shape as CDs and 'work' in CD drives and are packaged and sold as CDs, 9 out of 10 people questioned in a store would say they had bought a CD and the other 1 would say 'get out of my face' theres absolutely no debate that these wouldnt be confused as CDs as much as I hate patent and IP law and im sure the relevent CD trademark owners have either been paid a shitload to allow this or are about to win a shitload in court.
I think after a time out it will give up and then only send a signal every so-often, either that or it listens out for a tower before trying to contact it. Otherwise im never going on the tube in rush-hour again.. fuck that things in my pocket blasting out radiation at my family jewels!
Yeah but someone managed to complete one of the downloads and review it - mines estimated time is 6 days for act one, thats not too bad i guess.
What pisses me off more than anything is the way they manage to play it so that most people won't know that theres anything different. Everyone who buys this should at the very least be clearly told what they are buying and not some sugar coated version of the truth. Its just really sneaky and weasly.
And how did my ranting and raving not make sense? Infact your post makes almost no sense! Where did slashdot being shut down come into it? What is this egg drying metaphore? Our rights are being screwed over on a daily basis go read about some of the laws being pushed through every year!
Plenty of human-rights abusing reigemes have had secret police for years, it keeps the population in check, because you never know who you're talking to! Start a conversation with that guy sitting in the park? better be careful what you say about your glorious leader or you might find yourself locked up and the key literally thrown away! Don't forget who started bribing locals to grass-up the whereabouts of all the jews - the nazis thats who, and guess which regieme also had an army of secret police ready to get freaky on anyone who said the wrong thing, heres a clue - we invaded them last year and now were using their former prision of injustice to make cheap BDSM porn. Hey maybe the pentagon could go the full way like Israel and send their secret police abroad to kidnap people!
I still use Opera over Firefox because because im used to it but i can see Firefox definately taking over soon. Mostly because its free and open and just as good as Opera. Opera might be smaller but the general trend in computing is bloat-ware, just looking at my windows (argh) pocketpc, its a couple years old now but it comes packed full of useless rom-wasting things - like an AOL install tool that you would only use once if that. As the power and memory of these devices goes up and it is going up very quickly, size and efficiency goes out the door and costs take over! I would rather have small tightly written programs but in the end thats how it goes: 20-30 years ago things like java and GUI's would be laughed at for being stupidly wasteful - even Opera would be considered a bloated snail, but now PC hardware has reached the spot were no-one cares if your flashy menus eat up resources "its just 1%" - just like no-one cares if their cars eat a gallon to go 15 miles - its just abit of cheap liquid!
This is a stupid law, spyware can be stopped with basic security, what we _really_ need is laws to protect people who write anti-adware software, you should be allowed to infringe trademarks and copyright of advertisers and say "this software will get rid of x and y adware" and the advertising pigs shouldnt have any power to sue you for somehow 'infringing' on their business model, maybe they don't already but i wouldnt be surprised. The same goes for pop-up blockers etc (and tools in general but thats off-topic)
"Has anyone survived such a trip and lived to tell the tale with a fat wallet?"
"Better to be tortured by a leash and a polaroid than have your friggin head cut off."
"You are indeed pioneers! It's like the ole west over there with money to be made in the face of great danger."
Im just starting to understand why they hate us so much. They have competent geeks themselves but their jobs are being out-sourced already, they don't all agree with the people who go around abducting everyone but yet they get equal blame. I know not everyone here agrees with bombing the crap out of everything they have to catch afew assholes but you have to see from their point of view - rebuilding Iraq means rebuilding it for them, thats why we're there right? to help a country get rid of a dictator and get back on its feet? not to make lots of money for ourselves? - your profit comes last in the equation, the world isnt all capitalism.
The way I see it, the only way to tell someones ability is to sit them down in front of a computer for half an hour and ask them to do things. Grades, MCSE's, degrees etc are all meaningless if the person cant actually do things and think for themselves, why doesnt this happen in real life? At least give people the optionn to say "let me show you what i can do," or "here are my qualifications - 5 PHDs, suck it" I know there needs to be accountability - i.e you cant just let anyone loose on your systems but there must be another way?
Fuck you Hatch, fuck you all the way to hell. Human rights are not your property to sell to the highest corporate bidder.
Nice article, if you didnt read it, i can sum it up for you in my own words:
"If you the corporations dont make the hardware that we want (i.e non-drm), then we're going to go and buy it from someone that does! And all you pig-fucking assholes who think you can tell me what i can to with my own property: go stick your region encoded DVD right up your ass and i hope it snaps in half and cuts you."
You see this is what we have to put up with, I like Europe and i think its a great idea for the UK to be part of a big body and they've had some great ideas including free speech rights! But what pisses me off is these idiotic politicians who either are fucking some corporation (quite literally one of them is married to the head of vivendi!) or totally obsessed with Nazis. Now I hate Hitler as much as the next guy (is that hate speech??), but i can see that the risk of him being re-incarnated and leading his storm troopers across Europe in a tour of mass genocide (sponsored by IBM and Monsanto) is very very unlikely and i would much rather my politicians concentrated their valuable time on thinks that FUCKING MATTERED! such as making sure we have free speech rights and patent laws that make sense when you're not stoned. Can we please ban these people from the European parliament instead of banning free speech?
Well America under Bush is becoming a "terribly brutal military theocratic dictatorship". Obviously its no where near Japan was but the Bush administration has some disturbing traits of their own.
The attacks on the world trade center/pentagon had no real strategic value (imagine it was war) but destroyed moral. It wasnt a case of stealing some empty airliners and crashing them in the deseart to say "look what we can do" they killed real people who were mostly civilians and targeted places to cause maximum damage, shock and media coverage. The people who did it or organised it believed that they were right and they needed to do this for their cause.
There are attacks to kill people and attacks to make people fear you, both can cause each-other but usually they are intended one way or another. Which way was the atomic bombing?
This should stop those pesky anti-war protesters and people who don't like Bush (may they burn in hell). Of course it will never be used against people legitimately exercising their right to protest gun-laws etc - the true heros of America!