And this, of course, would be a logical thing for the media companies to support. Pay $15-$20 a month and we get to pick and choose the shows we want to download. And, since we're spreading the files using our own bandwidth, there's little cost to the media companies.
From the point of view of the publisher the problem is that what is going to stop you from taking the shows you paid for and re-distribute them in another medium (edonkey, bittorrent,e tc)?
What could they do? Some form of DRM? That's not so hard to overcome, as iTunes found out.
Oh great... I was planning on ignoring that link but now I fell I *have* to click it. Problem is, I've developed a (rather healthy) fear for the.cx ctld.
I recently had to replace Outlook Express with Thunderbird because Outlook refused to display the text of any emails it had ever received or sent!
That bug is still around??? I remember having that problem back in the days of "Internet mail and news" (remember those?). I had to erase the index files of the mailboxes so the program would rebuild them. I ended up switching to Eudora.
A lot of kiddie porn has relative innocuous names.
Conversely, almost every other file (it seems) on gnutella seems to have sex keywords attached to their names. Some including "preteen rape anal schoolgirl bestiality child", etc. Even files that are neither images nor video files.
Don't they say in that movie "Death becomes her" that at the very end of the movie at Dr. Ernest Menville's death, the narrator that he lives on through his progeny?
Boy, that movie sucked. Like pretty much everything with Goldie Hawn in it.
Not that it invalidates your comment. Just my OT opinion.
I did try Thunderbird and loved it... except for the lack of calendar features.
I like receiving an email and creating an appointment/todo with a single click (so to speak).
Outlook XP has never been a security problem for me. The only gripe I have with it is that it's *sloooow*. Even when properly maintaining my PST (regular archiving, etc).
I'm interested in the mozilla calendar project, if it integrates with thunderbird, I'll switch for good. But they are still in the early stages of developement, it seems.
"This thread is worthless without pics..." Whoops... wrong forum...
But seriously, the game description of half naked spring breakers that reward you by showing you their boobs for answering trivia questions reminds me of those tetris clones (porntris?) where the filled rows became part of a hardocore image.
No thank you. If I want to see "Girls Gone Wild", I'll just check out the latest video and save myself the trouble.
One thing that amuses me is sites that include the MD5 checksum on the download page. Yes, because if someone got in and changed the tarball, they sure wouldn't even bother updating that MD5 string at the same time!;)
I always tought that too. I guess the solution would be to host the page (with the MD5 sums) in a different server than the tarballs. MD5 can be small enough not to merit mirrors.
The only solid system is where user 2 is also secure (meaning that he is a trusted party in a PKI-style web of trust)
Enev then the system is not secure. Infiltration might be easier than you think.
The police is already able to infiltrate criminal organizations (or at least they do in the movies). You just need a weak link. Sooner or later somebody is going to make a mistake and offer to infiltrate an undercorver agent in exchange for leniency.
It's really just a matter of safety (and paranoia): only with opensource clients I can be relatively sure that the client won't rat out on me or install malware of various sorts. Honor among thieves (or pirates:)) is nothing I'll trust on...
I hear ya... Remember the earthstation5 scandal a few months back (can't find the link to the slashdot story).
Nope... no closed source p2p for me either. How do I know that spiffy new torrent/g2 client is not actually turning my machine into a spam sending zombie or worse?
feeds the results *via a remote server* to my browser!
Eh? Doesn't it creates a local server to feed you the results? I thought that's how it worked and that the remote results (from google's site) are proxied thru said server.
If it's as you say, then that's a serious potential security breach.
I've never played a tabletop rpg. Not exactly for lack of oportunity, but because it doesn't really attract me.
I love RPG rulebooks and guidebooks. I've read some shadowrun, vampire the masquerade and d&d books. I like background stories, the kind that set the ambiance for the game (I guess). I like looking at the maps. I don't actually care if some super duper villain dwells in a dungeon and needs to be killed, but I'm interested in the the kind of society that gave birth to the incident. The politics between noblemen and guilds. The rise of a mega corporation whose chairman managed to acquire power that rivals those of a small nation, etc.
What does this have to do with this story? I read a bit of it and tought "meh... average at best". But the license will allow people to extend the story and make it available to the public at large without fear of repercusion. Or maybe make a scenery using Never Winter Nights of some other engine. Or maybe release short novels or whatever.
The execs at Lycos are accountable to board members and shareholders. The legal grounds for this kind of operation are shaky at best (I don't think there are any precedents).
Exposing the company to legal action (from the spammers, ISPs, etc) would not be in the best interest of the shareholders.
I think that whoever ok'd this plan was not the one who cancelled. Maybe he/she was simply overriden by higher-ups. Heck, for all we know, that exec might be looking for work right now.
Do you really think it was a good idea? If enough people think so, somebody will come up with a copy of it... maybe as an extension of SPEWS or somesuch service.
Myself, I think the intentions are noble but the execution flawed. Is there any accountability for this? You would no longer be just excerising your right not to be bothered by using RBL. You will be actively striking back at somebody, and innocent bystanders that get targeted will incur in damages that go beyond not being able to send e-mail.
Canadian credit cards are mostly the same as US cards: Visa, MasterCard, AMEX...
... and the rest of the world. The catch is, the store has the ability to know if your card was emitted by a canadian (or wherever) bank. And your billing address must be canadian too.
Don't you just love it how first posts are always modded redundant. I mean, all you did was make a comment. You expressed your opinion. I wonder, what is it that the moderator expected ?
In my glass-is-half-full view of the world, the post was modded so because mods believe Gentoo (and emerge) to be way cool, and stating so in a post is actually redundant.;-)
Slashdot Mirror
and nobody really wants to be a doctor
I do! Unfortunately I faint at the sight of blood and I hate people...
And this, of course, would be a logical thing for the media companies to support. Pay $15-$20 a month and we get to pick and choose the shows we want to download. And, since we're spreading the files using our own bandwidth, there's little cost to the media companies.
From the point of view of the publisher the problem is that what is going to stop you from taking the shows you paid for and re-distribute them in another medium (edonkey, bittorrent,e tc)?
What could they do? Some form of DRM? That's not so hard to overcome, as iTunes found out.
Oh great... I was planning on ignoring that link but now I fell I *have* to click it. Problem is, I've developed a (rather healthy) fear for the .cx ctld.
<courage>
What do I do? What do I do?
</courage>
Offtopic:
I recently had to replace Outlook Express with Thunderbird because Outlook refused to display the text of any emails it had ever received or sent!
That bug is still around??? I remember having that problem back in the days of "Internet mail and news" (remember those?). I had to erase the index files of the mailboxes so the program would rebuild them. I ended up switching to Eudora.
Is fscking obvious now that everyone has seen them and has seen every derivative of the same jokes by every other comedian.
Are you going to tell me that Abott and Costello weren't original?
A lot of kiddie porn has relative innocuous names.
Conversely, almost every other file (it seems) on gnutella seems to have sex keywords attached to their names. Some including "preteen rape anal schoolgirl bestiality child", etc. Even files that are neither images nor video files.
Don't they say in that movie "Death becomes her" that at the very end of the movie at Dr. Ernest Menville's death, the narrator that he lives on through his progeny?
Boy, that movie sucked. Like pretty much everything with Goldie Hawn in it.
Not that it invalidates your comment. Just my OT opinion.
I did try Thunderbird and loved it... except for the lack of calendar features.
I like receiving an email and creating an appointment/todo with a single click (so to speak).
Outlook XP has never been a security problem for me. The only gripe I have with it is that it's *sloooow*. Even when properly maintaining my PST (regular archiving, etc).
I'm interested in the mozilla calendar project, if it integrates with thunderbird, I'll switch for good. But they are still in the early stages of developement, it seems.
"This thread is worthless without pics..." Whoops... wrong forum...
But seriously, the game description of half naked spring breakers that reward you by showing you their boobs for answering trivia questions reminds me of those tetris clones (porntris?) where the filled rows became part of a hardocore image.
No thank you. If I want to see "Girls Gone Wild", I'll just check out the latest video and save myself the trouble.
One thing that amuses me is sites that include the MD5 checksum on the download page. Yes, because if someone got in and changed the tarball, they sure wouldn't even bother updating that MD5 string at the same time! ;)
I always tought that too. I guess the solution would be to host the page (with the MD5 sums) in a different server than the tarballs. MD5 can be small enough not to merit mirrors.
The only solid system is where user 2 is also secure (meaning that he is a trusted party in a PKI-style web of trust)
Enev then the system is not secure. Infiltration might be easier than you think.
The police is already able to infiltrate criminal organizations (or at least they do in the movies). You just need a weak link. Sooner or later somebody is going to make a mistake and offer to infiltrate an undercorver agent in exchange for leniency.
It's really just a matter of safety (and paranoia): only with opensource clients I can be relatively sure that the client won't rat out on me or install malware of various sorts. Honor among thieves (or pirates :)) is nothing I'll trust on...
I hear ya... Remember the earthstation5 scandal a few months back (can't find the link to the slashdot story).
Nope... no closed source p2p for me either. How do I know that spiffy new torrent/g2 client is not actually turning my machine into a spam sending zombie or worse?
Why not distribute .torrents by using emule or irc... lets go underground..
You also need the trackers. You can't distribute those.
I think we should qualify that one as "copy protection stupidity" instead of "copyright stupidity".
Sure you are. Just what continent do you think Canada is on?
feeds the results *via a remote server* to my browser!
Eh? Doesn't it creates a local server to feed you the results? I thought that's how it worked and that the remote results (from google's site) are proxied thru said server.
If it's as you say, then that's a serious potential security breach.
desktop.google.com doesn't clarifies it.
I've never played a tabletop rpg. Not exactly for lack of oportunity, but because it doesn't really attract me.
I love RPG rulebooks and guidebooks. I've read some shadowrun, vampire the masquerade and d&d books. I like background stories, the kind that set the ambiance for the game (I guess). I like looking at the maps. I don't actually care if some super duper villain dwells in a dungeon and needs to be killed, but I'm interested in the the kind of society that gave birth to the incident. The politics between noblemen and guilds. The rise of a mega corporation whose chairman managed to acquire power that rivals those of a small nation, etc.
What does this have to do with this story? I read a bit of it and tought "meh... average at best". But the license will allow people to extend the story and make it available to the public at large without fear of repercusion. Or maybe make a scenery using Never Winter Nights of some other engine. Or maybe release short novels or whatever.
and find it annoying that I have to crack a commercial media player to run all my movies I download from Stile Project and Consumption Junction.
You mean paying for it is not an option?
I have but one word for this behavior: cowardism
The execs at Lycos are accountable to board members and shareholders. The legal grounds for this kind of operation are shaky at best (I don't think there are any precedents).
Exposing the company to legal action (from the spammers, ISPs, etc) would not be in the best interest of the shareholders.
I think that whoever ok'd this plan was not the one who cancelled. Maybe he/she was simply overriden by higher-ups. Heck, for all we know, that exec might be looking for work right now.
Do you really think it was a good idea? If enough people think so, somebody will come up with a copy of it... maybe as an extension of SPEWS or somesuch service.
Myself, I think the intentions are noble but the execution flawed. Is there any accountability for this? You would no longer be just excerising your right not to be bothered by using RBL. You will be actively striking back at somebody, and innocent bystanders that get targeted will incur in damages that go beyond not being able to send e-mail.
Just interesting to where and how the money gets distributed.
I'm guessing 10% for the lawyers, the rest for the feds.
I like pan. ;)
I like pan, too, tho I'm partial to xnews. Too bad it (xnews) looks like crap under wine.
Canadian credit cards are mostly the same as US cards: Visa, MasterCard, AMEX...
... and the rest of the world. The catch is, the store has the ability to know if your card was emitted by a canadian (or wherever) bank. And your billing address must be canadian too.
I'll second that. But my (write protected) post-install flash drive also contains the latest AVG and definitions.
You can also turn on the filtering of incoming tcp packets until you apply all the corresponding patches.
Don't you just love it how first posts are always modded redundant. I mean, all you did was make a comment. You expressed your opinion. I wonder, what is it that the moderator expected ?
;-)
In my glass-is-half-full view of the world, the post was modded so because mods believe Gentoo (and emerge) to be way cool, and stating so in a post is actually redundant.
Man, I should get a job as a spin doctor.
You also have the opportunity to fix the bugs you find, because you have the sourcecode
Where does that leave non-coders?