Try WinMX. It seems to be one of the last P2P programs left that doesn't put Spyware on your computer. It uses the OpenNap, Napster, WinMX, and other networks to search for files, and my experience with it has been pretty good. It's not as popular as the others, but it gets the job done and it does it without spyware.
Dude, the point of spyware is not to match the personal information you signed up with to the banner ad you're viewing. It's to watch every single website you visit in your web browser so it can match its advertising to your habits, as well as develop a large consumer database that it can sell off to another company during the execution of its Dot Com Exit Strategy.
The entire POINT of Gator is to be spyware, much like the Comet Cursor. It offers a free and stupid little feature to attract as many people as possible for the purpose of getting spyware on their computer. Of course it still uses it, because it still exists!
The installation of Cydoor and Gator is optional, but one thing it doesn't ask you about is whether or not you want tons of crap about casinos and big purple ape spyware on your desktop. I installed LimeWire yesterday, and before I even opened the program, I became so annoyed with what it does to my comp that I immediately uninstalled it and used AdAware to make absolutely sure the damn thing was gone.
Alex, try looking back at your post. You separate anti-democratic hate speech and speech you disagree with into seperate categories... yet you disagree with anti-democratic hate speech. Anti-democratic hate speech and what you disagree with aren't two different categories, in reality. You disagree with anti-democratic hate speech. Therefore, you are banning what you disagree with, under the banner that it's "wrong", which is exactly what Hitler and countless other dictators have tried to do.
One thing you, as a person, really have to learn, is that your morality is connected to your own life. You find anti-democratic speech to be evil. Many Muslims, on the other hand, actually feel that democracy is being forced on them, the same way the people of the United States felt that communism or fascism was being forced on them by other countries in their wars. To you, democracy is a good thing. To others, it is a violation of their ideals, their morals, and their faith that is being forced upon them by the world's lone superpower.
Morality is a subjective thing. To some, democracy is good. To others, it is evil. Some want to welcome people of all races into their home/territory/country, while others just want to be left alone. Still others want to persecute people with their speech, but really, as long as they aren't physically violating those people, I don't see a problem with it. Free speech allows for a diversity of opinions, even ones you think are wrong. The US Constitution is an inherently dangerous thing that allows people to incite riots, carry the necessary equipment to murder each other, spread violent speech, and yes, even to tell a Jew to get the FUCK off their property right this fucking minute. The idea behind this, as well as the freedom and democracy that fuels it, is that people are allowed to say whatever they want, as long as they don't hurt each other. If people burn others while they sleep, they should be jailed for a very long time. If they just say that the fuckin' niggers are ruining their neighborhood... that's fine.
Preaching democracy, but fighting against free speech. In my humble opinion, your values are pretty fucked up.
No one is talking about throwing the constitution out the window. No, not even Bush et al. But sometimes you have to live in the real world, not this ivory tower world where the police have no surveillance powers at all and must catch all criminals in the act with a full video record.
It's amazing how many people lately aren't able to read between the lines. If tons of unreasonable surveillance laws that ignore the fourth amendment are passed, then the fourth amendment is abolished. Do you really need to hear George Bush publicly say, "I'm abolishing the fourth amendment" before you believe that it's been ignored, tread upon, and fully abolished?
This reminds me of all of those gun control people that actually try to argue that "We're not trying to abolish the second amendment. We're just trying to outlaw guns in America". The theft of your constitutional liberties will not come in an open statement by the President of the United States. It will come in a horde of small laws written by Congress and endorsed by the President and Attorney General that chip away at it until it's completely ignored in contemporary law.
As an experienced IE user, I immediately took the usual steps to get around IE vulnerabilities. I immediately turned off Active Scripting (it was a blunder on my part that it wasn't disabled, because I didn't know IE6 had added THAT MUCH new stuff), and then went to Windows Update...
You can't go to Windows Update to download patches any more after you've turned Active Scripting off. Microsoft sends you to a page telling you to turn Active Scripting and all sorts of other dangerous things back on.
Redmond dumb-asses.
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Unfortunately for them, mental control through electronic equipment is very, very obvious to the person with the electronic equipment inside them. I presume, very seriously, that the cat ran into the street against its better judgement because it was going insane from the forced electrical stimulation and the intense pain of having that many pieces of electrical equipment stuffed into its body.
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People have made entire (and successful) businesses out of having people sending them their PlayStations for them to solder a mod chip to. People are more inclined to either rip their stuff apart or have someone else rip it apart than YOU think.
I download 24-30 minute fansubbed anime episodes on a regular basis through IRC FServs and occasionally through P2P services, using my calbe modem. It's still a faster download than a regular 5-6MB MP3 on a 56K. Lots of people do this, as well as with other shows. In fact, anything ever created with the "Buffy: The Vampire Slayer" name on it, including wrap reels and the unaired original pilot, are mirrored in dozens of IRC FServs.
This is more widespread than most people think...
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I just wanted to say thanks for making your site, man. I love it. It's very informative and helpful.
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They are not hardware compatible with standard DVD's, first of all none of the DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW or DVD-RAM drives are able to write two layer discs, then you have the added problem with the protection strips, and as somebody else has indicated the discs spin in an inverse spiral, that's even if you can get hold of the discs since they're a custom size and spec. This isn't like PSX games, it would be very difficult to burn these things with a off the shelf DVD burner.
This is where the "CD burners weren't ubiquitous when the PlayStation was released" part comes in. CD burners have come a long way since the PlayStation came out. In fact, I think they may have been in the $600-$700+ Dark Ages when the PlayStation came out. In the last year and a half of the PlayStation's life (and the PS1 games can still be pirated to your new PS2), CD burners came standard with your new Dell/Compaq/Gateway/Whatever machine, and were at $100-$150 alone. The point? Sure, you can't pirate GameCube games easily NOW, but technology will catch up fast. If DVD burners don't start coming out with dual layer capability, then packages of blank, specially made DVDs, complete with the GameCube security strip already on them, will start appearing on Lik-Sang. The point is, if someone doesn't figure out how to do it immediately, then technology in general will find a way soon, because writable DVD technology is bound to be a quickly growing market, much like writable (and rewritable) CD technology was a quickly growing market until it became completely ubiquitous in new PCs.
As for the whole "inverse spinning" thing, the page makes no mention of that, and someone here has already said it's a rumor. Personally, I'm inclined to think that it IS a rumor, because I've been to that site many times before, and I seriously doubt that they would've noticed that the laser range is larger than the disc, but not notice that the disc is spinning backwards at the same time.
I doubt taking the top off the box will let you use standard CDR's as stated before, if it doesn't play RedBook audio disc's then I doubt it plays any ISO9660 discs. They might have gone as far as using a different laser wavelength than standard DVD's.
I completely agree. Using CDRs is a long shot, but I think someone should still try it out as a test. It would be dumb NOT to try it out.
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Three technical things about pirating GameCube games:
1. If taking the top off will help people put full CDs or DVDs in there, then A LOT of them will do it. Who thought anyone would solder a chip to their console, or send it off to be soldered on by a "piracy professional"? Yet lots of people did with the PlayStation.
2. Someone will find a way to replicate the safety strip, probably with regular PC hardware. If not, someone will make something themselves that can do it, and they will sell the pirated discs directly for a cheap price. Cartridges are difficult to pirate, but CDs and DVDs are still widely-used, easily burnable things. I have confidence that someone will find a way.
3. DVD burners aren't ubiquitous in PCs yet. But then again, CD burners weren't ubiquitous when the PlayStation came out. But they WERE ubiquitous in the last three years of the PlayStation's life, and especially in the last two. Unless the GameCube bombs faster than the Virtual Boy, piracy for it will eventually be widespread.
I don't condone piracy of new games. I am saying all of this just because I think the technical side of piracy is interesting, so please, waste your "privacy is wrong" flames on someone that doesn't agree with you.
Yes, I noted that in the second paragraph. I said it affected the development of MAMMALS, which in turn influenced the later development of humans, which are mammals. I didn't say it affected humans directly, or that humans were around anywhere near the time it happened, but that it affected the development of mammals because it changed the climate of the Earth.
Did anyone else immediately think "Lavos" when they read this article? A meteor from outer space drastically affecting the course of human civilization... could you imagine how different our lives might be if these civilizations had survived?
Also, as someone else pointed out, this is technically the SECOND meteor to change the course of human development. The first was the meteor that struck when the dinosaurs were around, which caused the ice age that brought about the sudden jump in the evolution of mammals as a species, leading to man's appearance.
The NES one has already been done. It's called the Game Axe. There's also a Game Axe Color, and they're both a lot smaller and better than what this guy has made.
As for the N64 one... it hasn't already been done, but this hack is pretty crappy. Much like the NES "hack", it's just the original system in a new case. in fact, this time it's just the original system outside of its case and hooked up to an LCD screen through regular video cables. If he had left it in the box and hooked it up to an LCD screen, it would've been the same thing.
This is a crappy hack. The portable PlayStation was much more inventive and generally cooler, as was the Atari portable from the same guy.
I am so tired of this absurd argument by gun nuts that citizens with pistols, rifles, and shotguns can successfully defend themselves against a government gone bad. That may have been the case when the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were written, but it's not any longer. Tanks, planes, and bombs are relatively immune to some bunch of yahoos with Glocks, Rugers, and Colts.
Most protests, riots, and general citizen insurrections do not involve tanks, planes, or bombs. They usually involves people fighting against the armed police officers, in which case five hundred people with shotguns will easily overwhelm one hundred police officers. So while a gun won't help if the government if they choose to go all the way into using tanks, planes, and bombs, a situation that rarely arises because it risks other large governments taking "humanitarian action" against them, it WILL help in 99% of citizens-versus-local-government altercations.
Personally, I think anyone that doesn't come to a large, potentially violent protest without a gas mask and a gun somewhere on their person is dumb. I would at least take those two "just in case".
An abridged version of a reply I gave someone else:
Even two-way satellite is just 128K upload and download. While that seems somewhat nice to the average home user on a 56K, try thinking about it from the school administration perspective. As much as sixty kids could be on the computers at any time. That's 2K per kid, which is NOT acceptable.
It's about a 128K download speed and a 50-60K upload speed. While most people would consider that as at least "sort of good" in comparison to their 56Ks, those speeds become really, really crappy when you have kids on fifty to sixty different computers in the school at a time wildly downloading things, including big video files as video aids and shockwave games during lunch hours. Just think about it. With about sixty kids on at a time, that's only 2K per kid. You'd practically have to start downloading a page a day ahead at that rate.
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Try WinMX. It seems to be one of the last P2P programs left that doesn't put Spyware on your computer. It uses the OpenNap, Napster, WinMX, and other networks to search for files, and my experience with it has been pretty good. It's not as popular as the others, but it gets the job done and it does it without spyware.
Dude, the point of spyware is not to match the personal information you signed up with to the banner ad you're viewing. It's to watch every single website you visit in your web browser so it can match its advertising to your habits, as well as develop a large consumer database that it can sell off to another company during the execution of its Dot Com Exit Strategy.
The entire POINT of Gator is to be spyware, much like the Comet Cursor. It offers a free and stupid little feature to attract as many people as possible for the purpose of getting spyware on their computer. Of course it still uses it, because it still exists!
The installation of Cydoor and Gator is optional, but one thing it doesn't ask you about is whether or not you want tons of crap about casinos and big purple ape spyware on your desktop. I installed LimeWire yesterday, and before I even opened the program, I became so annoyed with what it does to my comp that I immediately uninstalled it and used AdAware to make absolutely sure the damn thing was gone.
One thing you, as a person, really have to learn, is that your morality is connected to your own life. You find anti-democratic speech to be evil. Many Muslims, on the other hand, actually feel that democracy is being forced on them, the same way the people of the United States felt that communism or fascism was being forced on them by other countries in their wars. To you, democracy is a good thing. To others, it is a violation of their ideals, their morals, and their faith that is being forced upon them by the world's lone superpower.
Morality is a subjective thing. To some, democracy is good. To others, it is evil. Some want to welcome people of all races into their home/territory/country, while others just want to be left alone. Still others want to persecute people with their speech, but really, as long as they aren't physically violating those people, I don't see a problem with it. Free speech allows for a diversity of opinions, even ones you think are wrong. The US Constitution is an inherently dangerous thing that allows people to incite riots, carry the necessary equipment to murder each other, spread violent speech, and yes, even to tell a Jew to get the FUCK off their property right this fucking minute. The idea behind this, as well as the freedom and democracy that fuels it, is that people are allowed to say whatever they want, as long as they don't hurt each other. If people burn others while they sleep, they should be jailed for a very long time. If they just say that the fuckin' niggers are ruining their neighborhood... that's fine.
Preaching democracy, but fighting against free speech. In my humble opinion, your values are pretty fucked up.
No one is talking about throwing the constitution out the window. No, not even Bush et al. But sometimes you have to live in the real world, not this ivory tower world where the police have no surveillance powers at all and must catch all criminals in the act with a full video record.
It's amazing how many people lately aren't able to read between the lines. If tons of unreasonable surveillance laws that ignore the fourth amendment are passed, then the fourth amendment is abolished. Do you really need to hear George Bush publicly say, "I'm abolishing the fourth amendment" before you believe that it's been ignored, tread upon, and fully abolished?
This reminds me of all of those gun control people that actually try to argue that "We're not trying to abolish the second amendment. We're just trying to outlaw guns in America". The theft of your constitutional liberties will not come in an open statement by the President of the United States. It will come in a horde of small laws written by Congress and endorsed by the President and Attorney General that chip away at it until it's completely ignored in contemporary law.
You can't go to Windows Update to download patches any more after you've turned Active Scripting off. Microsoft sends you to a page telling you to turn Active Scripting and all sorts of other dangerous things back on.
Redmond dumb-asses.
Unfortunately for them, mental control through electronic equipment is very, very obvious to the person with the electronic equipment inside them. I presume, very seriously, that the cat ran into the street against its better judgement because it was going insane from the forced electrical stimulation and the intense pain of having that many pieces of electrical equipment stuffed into its body.
People have made entire (and successful) businesses out of having people sending them their PlayStations for them to solder a mod chip to. People are more inclined to either rip their stuff apart or have someone else rip it apart than YOU think.
I download 24-30 minute fansubbed anime episodes on a regular basis through IRC FServs and occasionally through P2P services, using my calbe modem. It's still a faster download than a regular 5-6MB MP3 on a 56K. Lots of people do this, as well as with other shows. In fact, anything ever created with the "Buffy: The Vampire Slayer" name on it, including wrap reels and the unaired original pilot, are mirrored in dozens of IRC FServs.
This is more widespread than most people think...
I just wanted to say thanks for making your site, man. I love it. It's very informative and helpful.
They are not hardware compatible with standard DVD's, first of all none of the DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW or DVD-RAM drives are able to write two layer discs, then you have the added problem with the protection strips, and as somebody else has indicated the discs spin in an inverse spiral, that's even if you can get hold of the discs since they're a custom size and spec. This isn't like PSX games, it would be very difficult to burn these things with a off the shelf DVD burner.
This is where the "CD burners weren't ubiquitous when the PlayStation was released" part comes in. CD burners have come a long way since the PlayStation came out. In fact, I think they may have been in the $600-$700+ Dark Ages when the PlayStation came out. In the last year and a half of the PlayStation's life (and the PS1 games can still be pirated to your new PS2), CD burners came standard with your new Dell/Compaq/Gateway/Whatever machine, and were at $100-$150 alone. The point? Sure, you can't pirate GameCube games easily NOW, but technology will catch up fast. If DVD burners don't start coming out with dual layer capability, then packages of blank, specially made DVDs, complete with the GameCube security strip already on them, will start appearing on Lik-Sang. The point is, if someone doesn't figure out how to do it immediately, then technology in general will find a way soon, because writable DVD technology is bound to be a quickly growing market, much like writable (and rewritable) CD technology was a quickly growing market until it became completely ubiquitous in new PCs.
As for the whole "inverse spinning" thing, the page makes no mention of that, and someone here has already said it's a rumor. Personally, I'm inclined to think that it IS a rumor, because I've been to that site many times before, and I seriously doubt that they would've noticed that the laser range is larger than the disc, but not notice that the disc is spinning backwards at the same time.
I doubt taking the top off the box will let you use standard CDR's as stated before, if it doesn't play RedBook audio disc's then I doubt it plays any ISO9660 discs. They might have gone as far as using a different laser wavelength than standard DVD's.
I completely agree. Using CDRs is a long shot, but I think someone should still try it out as a test. It would be dumb NOT to try it out.
1. If taking the top off will help people put full CDs or DVDs in there, then A LOT of them will do it. Who thought anyone would solder a chip to their console, or send it off to be soldered on by a "piracy professional"? Yet lots of people did with the PlayStation.
2. Someone will find a way to replicate the safety strip, probably with regular PC hardware. If not, someone will make something themselves that can do it, and they will sell the pirated discs directly for a cheap price. Cartridges are difficult to pirate, but CDs and DVDs are still widely-used, easily burnable things. I have confidence that someone will find a way.
3. DVD burners aren't ubiquitous in PCs yet. But then again, CD burners weren't ubiquitous when the PlayStation came out. But they WERE ubiquitous in the last three years of the PlayStation's life, and especially in the last two. Unless the GameCube bombs faster than the Virtual Boy, piracy for it will eventually be widespread.
I don't condone piracy of new games. I am saying all of this just because I think the technical side of piracy is interesting, so please, waste your "privacy is wrong" flames on someone that doesn't agree with you.
Yes, I noted that in the second paragraph. I said it affected the development of MAMMALS, which in turn influenced the later development of humans, which are mammals. I didn't say it affected humans directly, or that humans were around anywhere near the time it happened, but that it affected the development of mammals because it changed the climate of the Earth.
Also, as someone else pointed out, this is technically the SECOND meteor to change the course of human development. The first was the meteor that struck when the dinosaurs were around, which caused the ice age that brought about the sudden jump in the evolution of mammals as a species, leading to man's appearance.
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Sir, your post will now grace my sig lines. That's the most intelligent thing anyone has said during the entire terrorism arguement. Thank you.
I am so sick of this ever present, eternally stupid "It could've been worse" attitude.
A link to an article with some commentary (Wired?) would be a big help, please.
As for the N64 one... it hasn't already been done, but this hack is pretty crappy. Much like the NES "hack", it's just the original system in a new case. in fact, this time it's just the original system outside of its case and hooked up to an LCD screen through regular video cables. If he had left it in the box and hooked it up to an LCD screen, it would've been the same thing.
This is a crappy hack. The portable PlayStation was much more inventive and generally cooler, as was the Atari portable from the same guy.
Try reading the page before posting, dumb ass. It makes it very obvious that it uses AA batteries with an OPTIONAL AC adapter.
That's a portable NES, not a portable SNES.
Most protests, riots, and general citizen insurrections do not involve tanks, planes, or bombs. They usually involves people fighting against the armed police officers, in which case five hundred people with shotguns will easily overwhelm one hundred police officers. So while a gun won't help if the government if they choose to go all the way into using tanks, planes, and bombs, a situation that rarely arises because it risks other large governments taking "humanitarian action" against them, it WILL help in 99% of citizens-versus-local-government altercations.
Personally, I think anyone that doesn't come to a large, potentially violent protest without a gas mask and a gun somewhere on their person is dumb. I would at least take those two "just in case".
Even two-way satellite is just 128K upload and download. While that seems somewhat nice to the average home user on a 56K, try thinking about it from the school administration perspective. As much as sixty kids could be on the computers at any time. That's 2K per kid, which is NOT acceptable.
It's about a 128K download speed and a 50-60K upload speed. While most people would consider that as at least "sort of good" in comparison to their 56Ks, those speeds become really, really crappy when you have kids on fifty to sixty different computers in the school at a time wildly downloading things, including big video files as video aids and shockwave games during lunch hours. Just think about it. With about sixty kids on at a time, that's only 2K per kid. You'd practically have to start downloading a page a day ahead at that rate.