cybersquatting is against the "rules" or was at least. not sure what the new rules are.
originally, networksolutions had organized the whole system and even had the forsight to consider cyber squatting and write the rules against it. what they didn't forsee was the "rush" being so immense that enforcing the rules was impossible.
now that its all in the hands of money grubbing capitalists, the rules are of course based on MONEY and non of that first come first serve or fair game bullshit. I don't know for sure, but I would guess that its perfectly legal to be squatting some domain name with only the intent for selling it at an outrageous price (so long as they pay the monthly premium?)
actually just about any post made in the first 10-15min is modded down. GNAA, goatse.cx, trolls for whatinthehell maybe you've heard of them? scroll down to the bottom of the page if you don't believe me, theres all the early posters
sigh.. and dotcomat.com is cybersquatted just like any other imaginable cool domain name. remember when network solutions had a "strict policy" on cyber squatting? I imagine flipping thru channels on tv and all the low numbers 1-99 show blank screens or "coming soon" where as all the good shit is on channel 249820 or 873923 or something
Try this. Scroll a line of text off the screen (or cover it up with another window) such that you can only see a one or two pixel strip of the top. You can still read it!
Pprhaes I was a llttie too qciuk wtih my psaire and esuianthtam. I jsut took a bcnuh of sectennes and ran samilir scnramblig prescesos oevr tehm, and smoe wree qutie unrdalbeae. I tnihk taht, prhapes, the oraginil scnetnee was clferauly curtsnocted to be screlambd, yet esay to raed, in oerdr to spaerd the meme. Pahreps?
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
I would say I'm just above avg on how many mp3's I've downloaded. I don't listen to primarily riaa over produced shit though, either. Out of all my mp3's maybe 30-40% are actually copyrighted riaa crap (which I would gladly delete, but wouldn't THINK of purchasing the cd's - funny eh?)
Anyways to answer your question, no I'm not a theif (or at least I wasn't before the whole mp3 thing). What drives me to stealing music (and I don't think I'm alone) is that I want to search for music and burn cd's.. I grown acustomed to being able to type in the latest hits, download, burn and listen to them in my car and the whole process didn't take but 15min. I'm not a chic, I don't like to go "shopping".. I buy stuff. Clothes, car parts, computer parts you name it I've got an online store bookmarked for it and I pay for the shit and it gets delivered to my front door. Seems like all the infrastructure is in place to do the same with music, just that it wasn't the RIAA that built it.. it was the OSS community and apparently the "pirates". Nope, I would gladly pay for being able to log onto kazaa or emule and dl this stuff but like I said - NOBODY'S CHARGING
k, but theres a big difference between downloading a song in 10 seconds.. having it on a cdr in 10 more seconds. I can literally download a bunch of songs and burn them to a cd while my gf gets ready in the bathroom so we can have fresh music to listen to in the car - AND I don't pay a dime for it, because nobody's CHARGING for it! (hello RIAA, wanna make money??!)
anyways, downloading a movie takes (on avg) 4-5 hours. I wouldn't even bother burning it on a cd because I have enough hd space (and half the time the filesize is about 50mb too big).. but if I did want to watch it on my dvd player (and didn't mind switching discs in the middle of the movie), it would take another 1-2 hours to re-encode it from divx to mpeg2.
I hate the RIAA more than ever.. I mean yea I have about 12000mp3's on my hd and only 30-40 divx's (because downloading movies takes forever.. and I can't exactly burn it on a 25 cent disc and watch it on my tv), but anyways.. lets see how they keep their cool when I CAN download a movie in 10 seconds, put it on a 25cent media and watch it on my home theater/give it away
I think the worry comes from there being like 5 or 6 people left that aren't on the do-not-call list. These last few people's lines are just constantly busy from telemarketers calling them.
a lot of "optin" email lists go thru my system.. and judging by the percentage of asdf@asdf.coms and blah@blah.coms I would say most people realize this.
also doesn't take a whole lot of common sense when your filling out a form for an online comic strip registration and its asking you for your home address and phone number. I mean unless your buying something why would you give this info out? people that give out personal info simply because some form is asking for it.. dummies, period
I'm looking at the owners manual for the olsen twins CD I just bought...
1. remove CD from protective sleeve 2. open included DCD concentrate and delute in 3oz water 3. add 1g authenticated signed substance, mix until fully dissolved 4. submerge CD in ASS solution for 30 seconds 5. remove CD from solution, allow 3 to 5 minutes to dry 6. enjoy your music...sucker
at least unfunny is better than offtopic, which is what you are, bitching about moderations and being an all around pompous ass.
of course bitching about bitching about moderations and being a pompous ass must put me somewhere below you. but Im not posting AC so at least im not a pussy
could be your monitor.. matrox cards do use high end components in their filters/dacs that do produce the best signal for CRTs. I've seen lots of best case vs. worse case graphics on STNR for matrox vs. noname ati/nvidia mfg and its pretty substantial. of course if your using an LCD its not even applicable.
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and here we are, lol :)
cybersquatting is against the "rules" or was at least. not sure what the new rules are.
originally, networksolutions had organized the whole system and even had the forsight to consider cyber squatting and write the rules against it. what they didn't forsee was the "rush" being so immense that enforcing the rules was impossible.
now that its all in the hands of money grubbing capitalists, the rules are of course based on MONEY and non of that first come first serve or fair game bullshit. I don't know for sure, but I would guess that its perfectly legal to be squatting some domain name with only the intent for selling it at an outrageous price (so long as they pay the monthly premium?)
actually just about any post made in the first 10-15min is modded down. GNAA, goatse.cx, trolls for whatinthehell maybe you've heard of them? scroll down to the bottom of the page if you don't believe me, theres all the early posters
sigh.. and dotcomat.com is cybersquatted just like any other imaginable cool domain name. remember when network solutions had a "strict policy" on cyber squatting? I imagine flipping thru channels on tv and all the low numbers 1-99 show blank screens or "coming soon" where as all the good shit is on channel 249820 or 873923 or something
Try this. Scroll a line of text off the screen (or cover it up with another window) such that you can only see a one or two pixel strip of the top. You can still read it!
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Pprhaes I was a llttie too qciuk wtih my psaire and esuianthtam. I jsut took a bcnuh of sectennes and ran samilir scnramblig prescesos oevr tehm, and smoe wree qutie unrdalbeae. I tnihk taht, prhapes, the oraginil scnetnee was clferauly curtsnocted to be screlambd, yet esay to raed, in oerdr to spaerd the meme. Pahreps?
but.. tihs is aonhter ltitle kwon slkil
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
I would say I'm just above avg on how many mp3's I've downloaded. I don't listen to primarily riaa over produced shit though, either. Out of all my mp3's maybe 30-40% are actually copyrighted riaa crap (which I would gladly delete, but wouldn't THINK of purchasing the cd's - funny eh?)
Anyways to answer your question, no I'm not a theif (or at least I wasn't before the whole mp3 thing). What drives me to stealing music (and I don't think I'm alone) is that I want to search for music and burn cd's.. I grown acustomed to being able to type in the latest hits, download, burn and listen to them in my car and the whole process didn't take but 15min. I'm not a chic, I don't like to go "shopping".. I buy stuff. Clothes, car parts, computer parts you name it I've got an online store bookmarked for it and I pay for the shit and it gets delivered to my front door. Seems like all the infrastructure is in place to do the same with music, just that it wasn't the RIAA that built it.. it was the OSS community and apparently the "pirates". Nope, I would gladly pay for being able to log onto kazaa or emule and dl this stuff but like I said - NOBODY'S CHARGING
k, but theres a big difference between downloading a song in 10 seconds.. having it on a cdr in 10 more seconds. I can literally download a bunch of songs and burn them to a cd while my gf gets ready in the bathroom so we can have fresh music to listen to in the car - AND I don't pay a dime for it, because nobody's CHARGING for it! (hello RIAA, wanna make money??!)
anyways, downloading a movie takes (on avg) 4-5 hours. I wouldn't even bother burning it on a cd because I have enough hd space (and half the time the filesize is about 50mb too big).. but if I did want to watch it on my dvd player (and didn't mind switching discs in the middle of the movie), it would take another 1-2 hours to re-encode it from divx to mpeg2.
not the same
I hate the RIAA more than ever.. I mean yea I have about 12000mp3's on my hd and only 30-40 divx's (because downloading movies takes forever.. and I can't exactly burn it on a 25 cent disc and watch it on my tv), but anyways.. lets see how they keep their cool when I CAN download a movie in 10 seconds, put it on a 25cent media and watch it on my home theater/give it away
I think the worry comes from there being like 5 or 6 people left that aren't on the do-not-call list. These last few people's lines are just constantly busy from telemarketers calling them.
you mean the slashdot effect of webservers melting? or the effect of hurds of ms haters bitching about ms?
guess it doesn't matter.. the answer is "not very" for either
yes I am
you can also gaurantee that they'r fat and ugly *SMACK*
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you this morning, anti-MS bigotry manifested in its most zealous form!
then perhaps a warning.. "this information is published in the whois database which is accessable to the general public"
which, I think, there already is? depends on the service
a lot of "optin" email lists go thru my system.. and judging by the percentage of asdf@asdf.coms and blah@blah.coms I would say most people realize this.
also doesn't take a whole lot of common sense when your filling out a form for an online comic strip registration and its asking you for your home address and phone number. I mean unless your buying something why would you give this info out? people that give out personal info simply because some form is asking for it.. dummies, period
and for big biz its usually accurate info and for individuals its usually ""
Nobody Important
1234 Nothing St.
Nowhere NA
(123)456-7890
so whats this story about? think I'll go rtfa
I'm looking at the owners manual for the olsen twins CD I just bought...
...sucker
1. remove CD from protective sleeve
2. open included DCD concentrate and delute in 3oz water
3. add 1g authenticated signed substance, mix until fully dissolved
4. submerge CD in ASS solution for 30 seconds
5. remove CD from solution, allow 3 to 5 minutes to dry
6. enjoy your music
at least unfunny is better than offtopic, which is what you are, bitching about moderations and being an all around pompous ass.
of course bitching about bitching about moderations and being a pompous ass must put me somewhere below you. but Im not posting AC so at least im not a pussy
could be your monitor.. matrox cards do use high end components in their filters/dacs that do produce the best signal for CRTs. I've seen lots of best case vs. worse case graphics on STNR for matrox vs. noname ati/nvidia mfg and its pretty substantial. of course if your using an LCD its not even applicable.
thus no longer sound like a leaf blower
now they only look like one
you really need linus to help you say "grow up"? poor guy gets his words pulled out've context for just about anything these days.
heh.. 23. Scalability "do we want scalability?"
*scratches all the free sql servers off the list*