If the University's Wi-Fi is going to be used, couldn't you just have your IT department give you access even limited access to the logs for the nearest nodes of the network? After the test starts, take a reading, got users that are in your class, call them out. Collect names of objects with net access first day, match that to the student. Sure you might get some jackhole that finds out the name used on a classmates device and spoof them, but after looking at the logs and a visual check of the supposed offending student would tell you the truth.
Sounds rather simple to me, but that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
I heard something along this line a while ago when a reporter wasn't trespassing on a property because the sidewalk to the house was considered an extension of the sidewalk along the street. Could the driveway be in this same subject area? I would say yes. Then that would mean that I would take out a strip of my driveway and sidewalk if they touched public land/pavement and post a single sign stating no trespassing.
There is no connection to the public property by extension and to get to MY sidewalk or driveway a person would have to cross my land first. I am at odds with part of this solution as I always thought that a sign was never needed to declare private property.
I can't recall the actual case of the reporter but it all sounds good. Then again nothing that sounds good ever flies very far in the courts of today. Then again there are no "real" courts around today so anything goes I guess.
I was a customer for about a year, mostly just hobby stuff. Started a small business site, not high traffic by any means. Maybe an order about once a week. I then started a friends company site as well. Again, no high traffic nothing really to order but we switched their mail over through them.
About the year mark there were outages that were never warned about or explained. Then one day all my sites went black. For 5 days, nothing, no warning before and for 3 of those 5 days even their home site was down and all emails were kicked back.
When things started working again they said it was a DNS move and that everyone was sent an email about the switch. Nope, never got one.
I lost the one business site because you just can't go down for 5 days with no warning. I canceled my service because of that outage and they said no problem, then proceeded to bill me for an extra two months then said they refunded it when they never did. Then after I switched, everything was moved and service was no longer, well my sites were dead and they never answered tickets or emails, a month later I started getting invoices, 3 at a time.
I filed a complaint with BBB and IC3 and of course nothing was every heard from either complaint.
There is no real justice that can be had, unless you lose or are robbed for thousands and thousands, then I suppose someone might lift a finger.
Now with ANY service I am going to buy, they have to have proper contact info and I call them FIRST.
I swear that whenever I take the time to back track any SPAM messages I get, and I don't mean all the Viagra ads, but the ones that I get from a subject that I might have interest in but I know I never did business with them or requested anything from them. They are hiding out at GoDaddy.
Most don't have the unsubcribe link, most just don't work. I have only come across ONE company that did anything about an emailing I got and that was Google.
Typical online marketing email saying you can make tens of thousands of dollars doing nothing per month. Just buy their $97 advertising "secrets" and you will have a mansion and a Ferrari in months. I complained to Google since the email didn't have an unsubsribe link or removal link.
They must have done something or sent them something because I got another email asking me why I turned them in and that they weren't SPAM.
I politely told them they were whack and have since blocked their domains and emails at my web hosting level.
When I try this with GoDaddy. I either get nothing in reply or a canned email from GoDaddy stating they don't get inbetween a business and it's customers about money owed or services not renedered. WHAT? I tell them they have a violation of their own User Agreement and they spew back nonsense.
Why would they want to do anything or cut off anything that is making them money?
We need to have more control given back to the normal person, and heck I have a small company and even going through that I can't get ISP or Registrars to do anything worth while. If you aren't making THEM a lot of money, you just simply don't matter.
I think he is talking about the Groups hosted by Yahoo, sure you can get the posts emailed to you, but the SpamAssassin wouldn't do much with a spam sent directly to the group with false headers. Even the non-false header spam would pass through I think as the posting gets made after a bot creates an account in the group.
I would guess every group would have to have new membership moderated before making any kind of post.
This is just silly.
All the groups I belong to are legitimate and have nothing to do with porn. To tell you the truth, using a Yahoo Group for porn never entered my mind.
The Yahoo Chat on the other hand has nothing but that sort of thing being asked for or advertised by the bots.
The Yahoo groups aren't all that bad. I belong to a few and over the past two weeks we got a few infected links from members that got infected. Straight spam has been like maybe one every three months or so.
Now the Yahoo chat, well.. that is just unusable as I use to remember it. When I became wise and got rid of AOL, Yahoo chat was a great replacement. You could actually have conversations with real people. Then the script kiddies were flooding the rooms with their booters and such. The bots were easily spotted and ignored.
Now... Take any given room, even with the captcha and you will have over 60% bots. As soon as you log into the chat room you get flooded by spam adds to your list and spam chat windows. It IS completly useless compared to what it was a bunch of years ago. Yahoo is the ONLY one to blame for this. Sure they use captcha, and sure there are admins in ever room. But they obviously do NOTHING.
I now only pop into those chat rooms once a month, maybe. My wife just said she couldn't right click and it was due to Yahoo's new toolbar, even though she doesn't use the new toolbar. So all of that just spells out to me that is that only Yahoo email is worth anything. And even that hasn't been my main email for 5 some years. I figure it will very slow or maybe not even at all that Yahoo will try and make all of that better. I would go for a guess that now that Google has been called out on it, something will be tried to fix the problems very soon.
But... that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
SO, someone scans the drive, maybe comes across a few music files. They log said files and each file might have meta data information. But what about file sharing data? Does the fact that I have uTorrent ensure a copyright infringement or me a distributor? Do such programs keep logs of all the files shared or distributed?
And what would be in the meta data that would also label me as the above mentioned. If any music files WERE found then if you can produce the original disk great, if not then your up the creek with out a paddle I guess.
I am glad to see the RIAA not get their way on this front. Letting them choose the company would have been WAY out of line and far to great a possibility of abuse. Also glad to see a court that actually seems like it knows what it is doing.
But in this example the Lawyer would have to be for only good and ONLY for the common person. As this is not true in this dimension and it probably not true in any other dimension either, the Lawyers are the perpetual motion machines of the entire universe.
They never work like they should or be what they claim to be.
Throwing Lawyers into this type of scenario would doom all known universes to a quantum legalese paradox that would tear a hole across all known and unknown dimensions and blink them out of existence.
Maybe we need to put all the Lawyers in a dimensional Blue parabox, and the rest of us in a Yellow dimensional parabox and pull each other through the other to keep each dimension from destroying itself.
How about, or is there any way to do the search without the ranking algorithms?
My team uses Google for searches during our yearly Trivia contest, but some of our newer players don't know how to work around the algorithms so we don't get a bunch of junk advertisements in our results.
Google was great when it first started out, I could simply type in a MS error code and get the exact results I wanted instead of some software company advertising a bundle that will fix all my MS troubles.
When Google first came out, I used it almost exclusively to look up Microsoft Windows NT / 98 error codes. Google helped me launch my career in the IT service business by letting us little ol techs find the "magic" fix to all of our user boxes out on the floor.
Without Microsoft, what else was I suppose to waste... er.. spend my time productively searching for?
I got burnt out in only 10 years... I did change careers, but only slightly. I now work for a TV station. I am still around high tech equipment but I am not called upon to actually fix anything. Sure if something pops up and the part time IT person isn't around and it's simple and wont get me fired? Sure, I will fix it.
But to stay into the business I became a web master, I help others get their homes wired, research components, I got a little workshop where I like to just make things...
No, I am not getting rich off of my side shoots, but I get other perks if not money. Deals on books and electronic merchandise from the people who I help that are connected to those fields. I know there are horror stories out there when you family and friends find out you can fix computers of always being nagged, but you can do damage control on that by telling them you just can't fix it. Sure I could, but eh.. I don't have the time or simply don't want to.
I have hobbies that can incorporate my IT experience. Being a web master I get to test out my programming skills with scripts or working with programs there. I love gaming so I've made my own control system... that's joystick to you lay people.
But my point is before you get burnt out dial it back a little. Find hobbies that could fetch you a few bucks or favors here and there. If you have no talents for profitable hobbies then you can install security systems, help with audio installations in cars and homes... whichever, that's up to you. Keep your mind occupied with new and changing things. 20 years of the same thing and you just don't think any thing is new anymore and poof... all burnt up.
It says that this thing doesnt use any electricity or lenses... but by filtering through precise slots... so basically... its like one of those Kracker Jack toys that "move" when you turn it side to side... cept now.. the Sun "moves" and the image is reflected..
It only LOOKS digital...
Kind of cool... but whats the point, and why $12,000???
Just another trick of the "Iluminintia" to keep you under the boot heel of the fake Federal Reserve.
A note is still as worthless as it ever was, amazing that we get charged such a high price for a group of counterfeiters to give us our own money.
I wonder what the Dove Report has to say about this one?? LOL
(in a whispy, fairy-like voice) "Oh beloved Ascended Master Franken Berry! Please forgive those who make pink $20's! We are mere mortals who love your cereal, but can never find it in stores... only our Target stores!"
or something like that...
No.. youve had them roughly since 1931. Its called a Social Security number. You have just been branded for the Feds meat coral.
Reclaim your US Nationalism title and live as United States Americans were suppose to live.
And does anyone else see the IRS as another "King" that we should revolt against?
I am sure most will completly disagree with all of this, but before you do, just do some research.
One thing you should be worried about is the fact that the Federal Reserve Bank is a privately owned bank.. hmmm my constitution says thats a big no no...
go ahead.. look it up.. have fun earning you freedom.
Waste works the same way doesnt it? We have a small waste p2p set up and we all exchange our IP's and Public Keys, then this allows us to view each others files. If someone else were to get an IP but not the key they couldnt connect to the shared files. I can see where this will work on its own, say on a laptop in a plane for 4 hours. What I dont see is anyone complaining about how this in anti competitive behavior. I dont like to use any MS products either, but where I work we have to. I mostly use ConTEXT as an editor for some code. Now, if someone makes a plain text document in notepad, then I am not going to be able to open this document? I know notepad isnt a part of Office, but I can do the same with *.doc files. Since they have the majority of the business in the workplace, isnt this behavior going to ensure that no other competitor will be able to co-exist with their software products?
Who is to say we can't make up false files with the mp3 extension. I am sure someone could come up with a file that would either play nothing, or have gibberish text, or maybe some words of wisdom, (unlike Madonna).
Then we could call these "fake" files all names of top 10 hits, then replicate them a hundred fold on our machines, then sit back and watch as the RIAA's legal fund gets whittled down to nothing when they try and prosecute and find out that all the files are actually bogus, and that no real mp3's were ever violating their precious copywright laws.
Of course we would have to use a new file swapping program, that say... encrypts files between users, and still works like a p2p network...hmmmmmmm
Really? Is it ground-breaking? Is it "New"? Is it a blatantly free advertising spoof for a over priced water cooling system? NO! NO! and YES! If you want to learn about water cooling, odds are you know of someone who is doing it, or heard about it from a friend, or are at a site which sells the units. This isn't needed on a site like this. Besides, the systems they sell at these overclocker sites are way over-priced any way. My cooling system, which I bought the radiator on ebay automotive was brand new, 3 to 4 times the size you will find at a overclocking site and only $23, thats including shipping. The water pumps are for the most part the same ones used within pond fountains or those fancy worthless desk-top rock fountains, which again can be bought for much less through the proper channels. My pump is rated over 500+ gallons an hour and again I got it for $26 including shipping. All in all, my cooling system was about $80. Go and recruit your goombas somewhere else... were trying to read interesting articles here. *whew* ok.. rant done...
Yes, Batman would whoop Supermans ass, I follow the comics, its always been Batman on top, his tactics took down all of the new JLA. But come on, its Hollywood folks, its going to be like the animated pairing, they fight, they notice that each underestimated the other, they shake hands, and fight whatever evil menace Hollywood decides to bring up. It would be bad moral for America if Superman, the shining star of American Freedom, Justice and all that crap, got beaten by a Dark Knight who bends and breaks the law to get the job done. No, it will be some cushy kids movie and another waste of celluloid spewed from the anal passage that is Hollywood. Nuff said Bub!
I bought "Brother Where Art Thou?" soundtrack produced after there protection startup. I know, it was stupid of me, but I wanted it.
I run Windows 98SE using either Music Match, or SB Live Play Center. Neither program will play the cd.
There "Player" did'nt work either.
So, as I have tried to write/. in the past, I used Audio Grabber, which is using the LAME codec, and ripped the cd.
I then returned the CD to Walmart where I bought it, they refused to take it back.
But now with the release of UMG's conditions of returnability, I can now return my CD.
I suggest all of you doing this.
Go ahead buy the CD, rip it with Audio Grabber, return it.
I left feedback on the UMG site when this all happend, I got no return comments what so ever, not even a form letter.
A previous reply said to write the artist, thats a great idea. Why write UMG, they care not about us, otherwise they would never have tried the copy protection on such a wide scale in the first place.
Why are companies building and releasing products like this any way? If all of us are letting the recording industry copy protect a CD so that even if you own it you can copy from it, then there is no point in ever making or buying a MP3 player/recorder.
Is it just me or does it seem that the CD copy protection scam is going ignored while every one else is blinded by this company or that company putting out the "Latest, Greatest" thing to handle all your MP3 needs?
This seems like a good way to get around the DMCA because its a licensed company, and not a "general hardware element of a computer system like CD-Roms". But it still will not matter because the medium being used for CDs won't allow copying of any kind with any kind of hardware.
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If the University's Wi-Fi is going to be used, couldn't you just have your IT department give you access even limited access to the logs for the nearest nodes of the network? After the test starts, take a reading, got users that are in your class, call them out. Collect names of objects with net access first day, match that to the student. Sure you might get some jackhole that finds out the name used on a classmates device and spoof them, but after looking at the logs and a visual check of the supposed offending student would tell you the truth. Sounds rather simple to me, but that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
I heard something along this line a while ago when a reporter wasn't trespassing on a property because the sidewalk to the house was considered an extension of the sidewalk along the street. Could the driveway be in this same subject area? I would say yes. Then that would mean that I would take out a strip of my driveway and sidewalk if they touched public land/pavement and post a single sign stating no trespassing. There is no connection to the public property by extension and to get to MY sidewalk or driveway a person would have to cross my land first. I am at odds with part of this solution as I always thought that a sign was never needed to declare private property. I can't recall the actual case of the reporter but it all sounds good. Then again nothing that sounds good ever flies very far in the courts of today. Then again there are no "real" courts around today so anything goes I guess.
I was a customer for about a year, mostly just hobby stuff. Started a small business site, not high traffic by any means. Maybe an order about once a week. I then started a friends company site as well. Again, no high traffic nothing really to order but we switched their mail over through them. About the year mark there were outages that were never warned about or explained. Then one day all my sites went black. For 5 days, nothing, no warning before and for 3 of those 5 days even their home site was down and all emails were kicked back. When things started working again they said it was a DNS move and that everyone was sent an email about the switch. Nope, never got one. I lost the one business site because you just can't go down for 5 days with no warning. I canceled my service because of that outage and they said no problem, then proceeded to bill me for an extra two months then said they refunded it when they never did. Then after I switched, everything was moved and service was no longer, well my sites were dead and they never answered tickets or emails, a month later I started getting invoices, 3 at a time. I filed a complaint with BBB and IC3 and of course nothing was every heard from either complaint. There is no real justice that can be had, unless you lose or are robbed for thousands and thousands, then I suppose someone might lift a finger. Now with ANY service I am going to buy, they have to have proper contact info and I call them FIRST.
I swear that whenever I take the time to back track any SPAM messages I get, and I don't mean all the Viagra ads, but the ones that I get from a subject that I might have interest in but I know I never did business with them or requested anything from them. They are hiding out at GoDaddy. Most don't have the unsubcribe link, most just don't work. I have only come across ONE company that did anything about an emailing I got and that was Google. Typical online marketing email saying you can make tens of thousands of dollars doing nothing per month. Just buy their $97 advertising "secrets" and you will have a mansion and a Ferrari in months. I complained to Google since the email didn't have an unsubsribe link or removal link. They must have done something or sent them something because I got another email asking me why I turned them in and that they weren't SPAM. I politely told them they were whack and have since blocked their domains and emails at my web hosting level. When I try this with GoDaddy. I either get nothing in reply or a canned email from GoDaddy stating they don't get inbetween a business and it's customers about money owed or services not renedered. WHAT? I tell them they have a violation of their own User Agreement and they spew back nonsense. Why would they want to do anything or cut off anything that is making them money? We need to have more control given back to the normal person, and heck I have a small company and even going through that I can't get ISP or Registrars to do anything worth while. If you aren't making THEM a lot of money, you just simply don't matter.
I think he is talking about the Groups hosted by Yahoo, sure you can get the posts emailed to you, but the SpamAssassin wouldn't do much with a spam sent directly to the group with false headers. Even the non-false header spam would pass through I think as the posting gets made after a bot creates an account in the group. I would guess every group would have to have new membership moderated before making any kind of post.
This is just silly. All the groups I belong to are legitimate and have nothing to do with porn. To tell you the truth, using a Yahoo Group for porn never entered my mind. The Yahoo Chat on the other hand has nothing but that sort of thing being asked for or advertised by the bots.
The Yahoo groups aren't all that bad. I belong to a few and over the past two weeks we got a few infected links from members that got infected. Straight spam has been like maybe one every three months or so. Now the Yahoo chat, well.. that is just unusable as I use to remember it. When I became wise and got rid of AOL, Yahoo chat was a great replacement. You could actually have conversations with real people. Then the script kiddies were flooding the rooms with their booters and such. The bots were easily spotted and ignored. Now... Take any given room, even with the captcha and you will have over 60% bots. As soon as you log into the chat room you get flooded by spam adds to your list and spam chat windows. It IS completly useless compared to what it was a bunch of years ago. Yahoo is the ONLY one to blame for this. Sure they use captcha, and sure there are admins in ever room. But they obviously do NOTHING. I now only pop into those chat rooms once a month, maybe. My wife just said she couldn't right click and it was due to Yahoo's new toolbar, even though she doesn't use the new toolbar. So all of that just spells out to me that is that only Yahoo email is worth anything. And even that hasn't been my main email for 5 some years. I figure it will very slow or maybe not even at all that Yahoo will try and make all of that better. I would go for a guess that now that Google has been called out on it, something will be tried to fix the problems very soon. But... that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
SO, someone scans the drive, maybe comes across a few music files. They log said files and each file might have meta data information. But what about file sharing data? Does the fact that I have uTorrent ensure a copyright infringement or me a distributor? Do such programs keep logs of all the files shared or distributed? And what would be in the meta data that would also label me as the above mentioned. If any music files WERE found then if you can produce the original disk great, if not then your up the creek with out a paddle I guess. I am glad to see the RIAA not get their way on this front. Letting them choose the company would have been WAY out of line and far to great a possibility of abuse. Also glad to see a court that actually seems like it knows what it is doing.
But in this example the Lawyer would have to be for only good and ONLY for the common person. As this is not true in this dimension and it probably not true in any other dimension either, the Lawyers are the perpetual motion machines of the entire universe. They never work like they should or be what they claim to be. Throwing Lawyers into this type of scenario would doom all known universes to a quantum legalese paradox that would tear a hole across all known and unknown dimensions and blink them out of existence. Maybe we need to put all the Lawyers in a dimensional Blue parabox, and the rest of us in a Yellow dimensional parabox and pull each other through the other to keep each dimension from destroying itself.
How about, or is there any way to do the search without the ranking algorithms? My team uses Google for searches during our yearly Trivia contest, but some of our newer players don't know how to work around the algorithms so we don't get a bunch of junk advertisements in our results. Google was great when it first started out, I could simply type in a MS error code and get the exact results I wanted instead of some software company advertising a bundle that will fix all my MS troubles.
When Google first came out, I used it almost exclusively to look up Microsoft Windows NT / 98 error codes. Google helped me launch my career in the IT service business by letting us little ol techs find the "magic" fix to all of our user boxes out on the floor. Without Microsoft, what else was I suppose to waste... er.. spend my time productively searching for?
I got burnt out in only 10 years... I did change careers, but only slightly. I now work for a TV station. I am still around high tech equipment but I am not called upon to actually fix anything. Sure if something pops up and the part time IT person isn't around and it's simple and wont get me fired? Sure, I will fix it. But to stay into the business I became a web master, I help others get their homes wired, research components, I got a little workshop where I like to just make things... No, I am not getting rich off of my side shoots, but I get other perks if not money. Deals on books and electronic merchandise from the people who I help that are connected to those fields. I know there are horror stories out there when you family and friends find out you can fix computers of always being nagged, but you can do damage control on that by telling them you just can't fix it. Sure I could, but eh.. I don't have the time or simply don't want to. I have hobbies that can incorporate my IT experience. Being a web master I get to test out my programming skills with scripts or working with programs there. I love gaming so I've made my own control system... that's joystick to you lay people. But my point is before you get burnt out dial it back a little. Find hobbies that could fetch you a few bucks or favors here and there. If you have no talents for profitable hobbies then you can install security systems, help with audio installations in cars and homes... whichever, that's up to you. Keep your mind occupied with new and changing things. 20 years of the same thing and you just don't think any thing is new anymore and poof... all burnt up.
only took a few seconds to /. ???
When will they learn?
pfft
Can they splice an Elephant and a Potbellied pig??
I want a mini Elephant damnit, or i'll kick you square in da NUTS!
Did the underpants gnomes teach you anything??
1)Acquire creative control
2)Change everything except the name
3)?????
4)Profit
DUH!
WeaponX
I understand now, and read that it uses DIGITS, and thus they called it Digital...
But who else in here, when you hear Digital time peice thinks of a big ass clock that uses Digits instead of Roman numerals or no electricity????
its missleading to me, thats all...
It says that this thing doesnt use any electricity or lenses... but by filtering through precise slots... so basically... its like one of those Kracker Jack toys that "move" when you turn it side to side... cept now.. the Sun "moves" and the image is reflected.. It only LOOKS digital... Kind of cool... but whats the point, and why $12,000???
Just another trick of the "Iluminintia" to keep you under the boot heel of the fake Federal Reserve. A note is still as worthless as it ever was, amazing that we get charged such a high price for a group of counterfeiters to give us our own money. I wonder what the Dove Report has to say about this one?? LOL (in a whispy, fairy-like voice) "Oh beloved Ascended Master Franken Berry! Please forgive those who make pink $20's! We are mere mortals who love your cereal, but can never find it in stores... only our Target stores!" or something like that...
No.. youve had them roughly since 1931.
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Its called a Social Security number.
You have just been branded for the Feds meat coral.
Reclaim your US Nationalism title and live as United States Americans were suppose to live.
And does anyone else see the IRS as another "King" that we should revolt against?
I am sure most will completly disagree with all of this, but before you do, just do some research.
One thing you should be worried about is the fact that the Federal Reserve Bank is a privately owned bank.. hmmm my constitution says thats a big no no...
go ahead.. look it up..
have fun earning you freedom.
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Waste works the same way doesnt it?
We have a small waste p2p set up and we all exchange our IP's and Public Keys, then this allows us to view each others files. If someone else were to get an IP but not the key they couldnt connect to the shared files.
I can see where this will work on its own, say on a laptop in a plane for 4 hours.
What I dont see is anyone complaining about how this in anti competitive behavior.
I dont like to use any MS products either, but where I work we have to. I mostly use ConTEXT as an editor for some code. Now, if someone makes a plain text document in notepad, then I am not going to be able to open this document?
I know notepad isnt a part of Office, but I can do the same with *.doc files.
Since they have the majority of the business in the workplace, isnt this behavior going to ensure that no other competitor will be able to co-exist with their software products?
Who is to say we can't make up false files with the mp3 extension. I am sure someone could come up with a file that would either play nothing, or have gibberish text, or maybe some words of wisdom, (unlike Madonna). Then we could call these "fake" files all names of top 10 hits, then replicate them a hundred fold on our machines, then sit back and watch as the RIAA's legal fund gets whittled down to nothing when they try and prosecute and find out that all the files are actually bogus, and that no real mp3's were ever violating their precious copywright laws. Of course we would have to use a new file swapping program, that say... encrypts files between users, and still works like a p2p network...hmmmmmmm
Really? Is it ground-breaking? Is it "New"? Is it a blatantly free advertising spoof for a over priced water cooling system?
NO! NO! and YES!
If you want to learn about water cooling, odds are you know of someone who is doing it, or heard about it from a friend, or are at a site which sells the units. This isn't needed on a site like this.
Besides, the systems they sell at these overclocker sites are way over-priced any way.
My cooling system, which I bought the radiator on ebay automotive was brand new, 3 to 4 times the size you will find at a overclocking site and only $23, thats including shipping.
The water pumps are for the most part the same ones used within pond fountains or those fancy worthless desk-top rock fountains, which again can be bought for much less through the proper channels.
My pump is rated over 500+ gallons an hour and again I got it for $26 including shipping.
All in all, my cooling system was about $80.
Go and recruit your goombas somewhere else... were trying to read interesting articles here.
*whew* ok.. rant done...
Yes, Batman would whoop Supermans ass, I follow the comics, its always been Batman on top, his tactics took down all of the new JLA.
But come on, its Hollywood folks, its going to be like the animated pairing, they fight, they notice that each underestimated the other, they shake hands, and fight whatever evil menace Hollywood decides to bring up.
It would be bad moral for America if Superman, the shining star of American Freedom, Justice and all that crap, got beaten by a Dark Knight who bends and breaks the law to get the job done.
No, it will be some cushy kids movie and another waste of celluloid spewed from the anal passage that is Hollywood.
Nuff said Bub!
I bought "Brother Where Art Thou?" soundtrack produced after there protection startup. I know, it was stupid of me, but I wanted it. I run Windows 98SE using either Music Match, or SB Live Play Center. Neither program will play the cd. There "Player" did'nt work either. So, as I have tried to write /. in the past, I used Audio Grabber, which is using the LAME codec, and ripped the cd.
I then returned the CD to Walmart where I bought it, they refused to take it back.
But now with the release of UMG's conditions of returnability, I can now return my CD.
I suggest all of you doing this.
Go ahead buy the CD, rip it with Audio Grabber, return it.
I left feedback on the UMG site when this all happend, I got no return comments what so ever, not even a form letter.
A previous reply said to write the artist, thats a great idea. Why write UMG, they care not about us, otherwise they would never have tried the copy protection on such a wide scale in the first place.
Why are companies building and releasing products like this any way? If all of us are letting the recording industry copy protect a CD so that even if you own it you can copy from it, then there is no point in ever making or buying a MP3 player/recorder.
Is it just me or does it seem that the CD copy protection scam is going ignored while every one else is blinded by this company or that company putting out the "Latest, Greatest" thing to handle all your MP3 needs?
This seems like a good way to get around the DMCA because its a licensed company, and not a "general hardware element of a computer system like CD-Roms". But it still will not matter because the medium being used for CDs won't allow copying of any kind with any kind of hardware.