But all the link I can find seem to be "dead". It hasn't the sdame capability as Zmud, but it is sleak, small (hold on a 720k disk) and has good script capability. This was free to use. If you can try to find it, there is a windows version (wintin) and a linux one (tintin++ I think).
I should have said interresting instead of interressant. This day with all the french-hating I avoid saying I am french and use instead circumlocution ("Latin-based" language hehe).
I can read this sentence almost instantly and i am not english native, neither is my home language directly related to english language (Latin based). But on the other hand I read very easily english (although I write it with a lot errors).
I think this has partly to do with *how* you learnt english , but not whether it is your home language or not. (Heck I understand english humor perfectly like Discworld tongue-in-cheek humor whereas some Australian friend do not understand it). By "how" I mean how you read any word even in your own language !
Believe me or not I know I read by "grasping" what the phonem of a word are, and not necessaraly in a linear order. For example when i read a word which i do not know at all, I realize I read 1st phonem , then 3rd and 4th then 2nd etc... And not 1st , then 2nd, then 3rd. I also read book very quick with a full comprehension of what is written.
This seems to me to be pointing that "reading" might be far more complicated than most people describe it,might be education and cultural related, and depend on other factor. Such as training, whether you find pleasure in it or not, and (tadam) whether you learnt the language on your own without using somebody else method (as in my case with english : self taught).
It might be interressant to compare how people learn foreign language and then compare how they read *jumblewd* word out of those foreign language. it might give better conclusion than using native reader recognition of words.
Funny. Available only in the US and Canada
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*grumble grumble grumble* Well I'll cut my teeth on the downloadable document instead...
B.G. "own" from the last reports : 48 Billion. 168 Million is : 0,35% of his total worth. The day everybody giving up 0.35% of its total worth get a nice written article then I will start reading all those. In the mean time it might be generous from B.G. but frankly he might not see the difference at the end of the month. OTOH I know people which give as much as 1 to 2% of their total worth (I am not even speaking of income here) to charity. Where is the article to praise such people fo generosity and selfless ? Absolute sum means something , but if you want to speak about how generous is somebody , let us speak of %.
Obligatory "they started with..." quote
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RFID Hell
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ToTal Democratic Patriotic Protection Act
They started with the paedophile and it was OK because those are law breaker.
Then they went on murder condemned and It was also OK.
Then they went on tagging all former felon. Ok those were bad people anyway.
Then they tagged people with bad social past and juvenil arrest since those were the one with the highiest chance to re-iterate a crime.
. Then they tagged immigrant and it was also OK, because those bastard are not like us.
Then they tagged people belonging to certain religion "because they might be potential terrorist".
When they came to tag me I was the only one left in the neighbourhood without a tag...
And everybody not having enough money to lobby will be named "serf" while the other depending how much money thay have will be named "count", "duke", "baron" and "king". There is a reason some country are in democraty/republic. One of such was to have each citizen equal to each other independantly to possession/birth/religion. Your "too bad" for me is really a synonym of what has became far too bad in our society. And this is something innecceptable.
This is about monopoly of information source. The regulation , just like the sherman act, was put there to avoid a total concentration in a branch. What people oppose isn't fox per see, or clear channel, it is that one giant media organisation own everything and then imprint its own opinion/color onto everything. And since it would own the majority of the media there would be no way to get other source of info. Think simply of the skewing of the free market when there is a complete monopoly, but instead of pohysical product, think "information". That is IMO certainly a bigger threat to any nation/citizen freedom than any monopoly in a physical object industry.
US asked, pushed, blackmailed to get as much as free trade as possible. Always pushing "capitalism" where they begin to have interrest, but hell, as soon as it get cold they subsidide (the farmer, like EU), they want to put tariffs (steel) and now they are protesting some smart people outside US are "stealing" their job. Well tough luck. You can ask for free trade and have it all they way out, or tariff and protextionism. You can't have both.
And since you are speaking of protectionism, how about tarif on US farmer product, US biogenetic seeds, Tarifs on everything the US product and export everywhere. You might have a trade imbalance deficit, but once other country follow you, you WILL feel the pain.
Do not ask for more that you wish.
They proposed to track the homeless, and I could not care a shit because, he, who care about a bum. Then they extended the program to the criminal and I found it good. After all they are menace to society. Afterward they tracked the foreigner. Who knows, they could be terrorist. Then it went down to track atheist, and I could not agree more, they aren't real citizen since they aren't bathing in the light of God. Afterward they said I was going to be tracked in my everyday life, and I tried to protest, but nobody was there anymore to defend me.
I used to fabric diamond lens in my laboratory.
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For all those which think diamond are rare and precious, well let us put it that way, I am pretty sure somebody can fish out links about all that is "fishy" about debeers.
Now for all those that thinks that diamond made computer stuff will be expansive, let me put it that way. Natural diamond won't be used. Industrial grown one will be used. How are they made ?
Well here is the process we used, 10 years ago, I think it may have been perfectionned, but the basic is probably the same.
* First you seed the surface of where you want to grow diamond with diamond pulver (we used silicium waffer put in a liquid with low frequency vibration and diamond powder).
* then you put it in the middle of a Plasma oven (ours was a simple micro wave 10KW half spherical. i am speaking of industrial/labor microwave here).
* At this point various technic is created to make the plasma (there is a lot of litterature here available. just search plasma physic). Ours was H2 gas with about 1 to 5% CH4 gas, with a plasma of 6Kilo K (IIRC...).
* wait a bit (hours).
Et Voila ! Your microscopic diamond pulver grew in size and if logn enough make a nice shiny surface diamond. Ok it might not look as good as what your GF wants, but good enough for industrial application in the diamond age.
By the way, there was a slight yellowish hue, visible if you compared side by side in full light with a white paper screen behind a natural one and a industrial one. This was due to carbon inclusion which were not tetrahedrical crystalin. I dunno if the technic perfectionend in 10 years...
The proposal has a number of safeguard clauses:
* the proposal restates the general principles of intellectual property rights law, namely that procedures should be fair, not unnecessarily complicated, slow or costly and should not create barriers to 'legitimate trade'
* any penalties applied to offenders should be 'effective, proportionate and deterrent' i.e. the penalty should fit the crime
* where the Directive allows for seizure of suspect goods for evidence, the company or person whose goods have been seized can ask for a review of the seizure. Furthermore, the judge can make the rightholder pay a refundable guarantee which will be forfeit if the case brought is unfounded
* where the Directive allows for a court to force someone involved in handling infringing goods to reveal who they bought the illegal goods from, this can only be done under certain conditions (e.g. where this would not incriminate the person giving the information, so-called right to avoid self-incrimination)
* where the Directive allows for 'interlocutory injunctions' (an injunction in advance of a decision on the merits of the case), the company or person who has been ordered to stop participating in the suspected infringement can ask for a review of the injunction. Furthermore, the judge can make the rightholder pay a refundable guarantee which will be forfeit if the case brought is unfounded. In this case, the judge can also order the rightholder to compensate the suspected offender who is found innocent for any loss they have suffered as a result of the injunction
* where the Directive allows for various measures following a decision on the merits of a case (e.g. recall, destruction of goods or disposal outside commercial channels), this will not be applied where the offender has acted in good faith (i.e. neither intentionally nor through negligence) and can agree a fair settlement with the rightholder whose rights have been infringed
* legal costs are awarded also to the alleged offender, if they are found to be innocent
The full text of the proposed Directive is available at:
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/i ntprop/news/index.htm
IIRC, Please remark that there are already specific consumer protection law preventing abuse of such things, like enforcing the sdale of a specific tire with a chip inside it. Add it with the above and this doesn't seem so horrible as presented in the article summary above.
My job is so that I have access to all info on a credit card (Name of the person, date of expiration and full number), and even worst since the demand of the US governement (CAPS) on airline I have acess to the people their visa and their passport. Would it be possible to protect those data against me ? No way. I can acess the data at all level, and since I am the programmer , even if it is encrypted I can still acess it by putting a nice placed trap. Would I do it ? No way, I am honest. Is it possible for me to do it ? Yes.
You cannot protect yourself against all your employe, because at one point or another you have to to have some trust (at least at the facture time).So IMO this is a no new here, and I barely call that hacking. Rather insider stealing.
Because you described the life of the average MMORPG'er here :
Quote "Secondly, this promotes very anti-social behavior--people crouching away at their computers, beating wombat after wombat to get the extra gold and items. It takes the *fun* out of the game, as well as the *realism*. RPG stand for role-playing-game"
Let us be honest here. RPG stand for roleplaying game but MMORPG stand for Let-us-beat-wombat-after-wombat-before-beating-big ger-wombat.
After 2 years of being in 2 MMORPG I can guarantee
that the roleplaying part is an extrem minority of
the time you do in the games.
Looking at the (supposed) past of the guy, and knowing he offered freely its service, I would really search for all kind of backdoor in the source code, If I wear florida official...
I am sorry but revolution *NEVER* ameliorate the social status of people as a whole. Revolution only brutaly move the people up and down in the social pyramid (stealing/confiscating/murder/rape/execution) for some, but the rest "the paysant" the serf and so on, (particulary in the case of french revolution, anyone outside Paris) never changed anything. Note that I am speaking on the WHOLE. On a small scale you can observe social progress for some, but onlyx at the detriment of other. Why is that there is no progress ? Because of two facts :
1) even if the worst dictature the base of the pyramide (the people making up the most basic workforce), as long as thery fit in, usually only wants her/his next meal and some fun and that is it. Yeah call me elitiste , but if you think most people think of freedom of speech and not their next meal/sex time/alcohol then you are delusionnal. They pay more tax, and fit in even in the worst law, as long as they are left in peace. Only a few Intellectual, or powermonger which are not at the top usually wish the changes. The French revolution wasn't a "people" revolution, you just have to look at its leader beyond the first day.
2) Social revolution perturbate the economic of a country deeply. It doesn't help it. But only *ECONOMIC* help people raise their status in a social scale. You do not live on air and politic. You live on "Food". But while you are on the barricade fighting the goivernement those stuff , like in every war, either aren't supplied regulary or are plainly not grown.
What really change the live of people is economic revolution. not social one. Out of 3 revolution (Russian, French, US) I know that 2 brought more pain than ease for the people, and one (the US) I can't really speak of, but had the extrem advantage to be 1000's of kilometer away from the governement, and wasn't a revolution anyway , but a cut from a colony from its origin, and one can argue this is far easier on the evconomic of stuff.
Does mixing Arsenic with my cereal make the resulting stuff food ? No ? I thougth you would answer so. Do not forget, Alcohol , is a poison for the organism (particulary for the brain and liver). It does not matter whether there are all vitamin of the universe and all oligo element in your beer. Fact remain this is a poison to your organism and has a negative effect on you. This is what should rule it as a drug, not the rest of its composition. Oh, and before you yell at me by saying alcohol is fun or whatever, we are speaking here not whether people LIEK or DISLIKE beer, but we are speaking of the governement recognizing beer is not an Essential stuff, and can be downright nasty due to its component.
In kazaa and otehr p2p you are *the user* sending the file you have in a share onto the network and show it to everbody. You open yourself. The only way to avoid that is to have nothing to share and only download from other (which is the contrary to the spirit of P2p, because if everybody dodes that the file share pool dry like a well in sahara). Encrypting data do not help , because you show the open data to the world.
And if the RIAA sue you, well, you can hardly say to the court/justice , "sorry you can look at my HD , there is nothing to see. Ho wait it is encrypted ! Buahahah!". Then two minutes later you are sumoned to give the key, and 4 minutes later back to case 1 without the expensive encryption.
If this was really representating the voice of the people, then statistically it should be identical to the real result. It wasn't the nearest. Conclusion : something skewed the result / reasonement. Really, 2nd place really beg the question. It should have been 1st. It isn't.
Like the miranda stuff, gun possession amendement, weird law about punishing hacker/copyright infringer with more prison than a raper/thief and in some case murderer, the fact you can sue if you are in the wrong mood, 12 people which know nothing of the law , and can swallow any good discourse by defense/offense especially on "expert" debat, have to swear on the bible in court (?!) and I pass many of them.
it can all be resumed in : "different history , different culture, different law system". Do not try to understand. Accept it.
I mean I live in germany, I am a computer engineer, and earn about 36K brut (about 19K net) (*). I am nearly as competitive as India !!! Or , from my side of the pond, 75K is overpaid. Your call.
Half of the post here show a disgusting elistim. No wonder people look down at us geek when you pull a "you are stupid to click on such message" on such things. For pity's sake do you all realise that not everybody is knowledgeable in computer or technology in general ? All those poeple ever wanted was using email and browse a bit, not to be misleaded by a scamming company or being looked down and alughed at by us geek....
I think it is time for me to go away until this topic go in archive because I feel like seething and exploding at the insenssibility of people. Mod me as a troll. Go on. Or flamming.
Sorry but not everybody has expertise in computer. Especially I see my parents are the type of person clicking on it ("but, son, this is a windows message ! You gotta click on it !").
This has nothing to do with intelligence, but rather with scamming less knowledgeable people into doing something they would not do on their own. If this would have been an advertising for a software "X" people would not sue because they would not clik on it by error.
If you fail to see this point, man I advise you to take some step back, breath slowly, and think this twice "Is everybody as knowledgeable as me in Computer ? Am I as knowledgable in those other people area of expertise (sale, Medicine, biology, Math, Law, Cooking whatever) as to mock them with my superior intellect ?". If the answer is twice yes. Well congrat. You must be God and freaking Omniscient... In all other case you have no right to mock those people because they choosed another area of expertise.
Bottom line ifDoubleclick was not scamming and faking windows UI, those problem would not exist.
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If you are interrested in the windows version i have it plus many script I did myself which you might find interressant (triggers , macro, etc...).
But all the link I can find seem to be "dead". It hasn't the sdame capability as Zmud, but it is sleak, small (hold on a 720k disk) and has good script capability. This was free to use. If you can try to find it, there is a windows version (wintin) and a linux one (tintin++ I think).
I should have said interresting instead of interressant. This day with all the french-hating I avoid saying I am french and use instead circumlocution ("Latin-based" language hehe).
I can read this sentence almost instantly and i am not english native, neither is my home language directly related to english language (Latin based). But on the other hand I read very easily english (although I write it with a lot errors).
I think this has partly to do with *how* you learnt english , but not whether it is your home language or not. (Heck I understand english humor perfectly like Discworld tongue-in-cheek humor whereas some Australian friend do not understand it). By "how" I mean how you read any word even in your own language !
Believe me or not I know I read by "grasping" what the phonem of a word are, and not necessaraly in a linear order. For example when i read a word which i do not know at all, I realize I read 1st phonem , then 3rd and 4th then 2nd etc... And not 1st , then 2nd, then 3rd. I also read book very quick with a full comprehension of what is written.
This seems to me to be pointing that "reading" might be far more complicated than most people describe it,might be education and cultural related, and depend on other factor. Such as training, whether you find pleasure in it or not, and (tadam) whether you learnt the language on your own without using somebody else method (as in my case with english : self taught).
It might be interressant to compare how people learn foreign language and then compare how they read *jumblewd* word out of those foreign language. it might give better conclusion than using native reader recognition of words.
*grumble grumble grumble* Well I'll cut my teeth on the downloadable document instead...
B.G. "own" from the last reports : 48 Billion. 168 Million is : 0,35% of his total worth. The day everybody giving up 0.35% of its total worth get a nice written article then I will start reading all those. In the mean time it might be generous from B.G. but frankly he might not see the difference at the end of the month. OTOH I know people which give as much as 1 to 2% of their total worth (I am not even speaking of income here) to charity. Where is the article to praise such people fo generosity and selfless ? Absolute sum means something , but if you want to speak about how generous is somebody , let us speak of %.
ToTal Democratic Patriotic Protection Act
They started with the paedophile and it was OK because those are law breaker.
Then they went on murder condemned and It was also OK.
Then they went on tagging all former felon. Ok those were bad people anyway.
Then they tagged people with bad social past and juvenil arrest since those were the one with the highiest chance to re-iterate a crime.
. Then they tagged immigrant and it was also OK, because those bastard are not like us.
Then they tagged people belonging to certain religion "because they might be potential terrorist".
When they came to tag me I was the only one left in the neighbourhood without a tag...
And everybody not having enough money to lobby will be named "serf" while the other depending how much money thay have will be named "count", "duke", "baron" and "king". There is a reason some country are in democraty/republic. One of such was to have each citizen equal to each other independantly to possession/birth/religion. Your "too bad" for me is really a synonym of what has became far too bad in our society. And this is something innecceptable.
This is about monopoly of information source. The regulation , just like the sherman act, was put there to avoid a total concentration in a branch. What people oppose isn't fox per see, or clear channel, it is that one giant media organisation own everything and then imprint its own opinion/color onto everything. And since it would own the majority of the media there would be no way to get other source of info. Think simply of the skewing of the free market when there is a complete monopoly, but instead of pohysical product, think "information". That is IMO certainly a bigger threat to any nation/citizen freedom than any monopoly in a physical object industry.
US asked, pushed, blackmailed to get as much as free trade as possible. Always pushing "capitalism" where they begin to have interrest, but hell, as soon as it get cold they subsidide (the farmer, like EU), they want to put tariffs (steel) and now they are protesting some smart people outside US are "stealing" their job. Well tough luck. You can ask for free trade and have it all they way out, or tariff and protextionism. You can't have both.
And since you are speaking of protectionism, how about tarif on US farmer product, US biogenetic seeds, Tarifs on everything the US product and export everywhere. You might have a trade imbalance deficit, but once other country follow you, you WILL feel the pain. Do not ask for more that you wish.
But since you do not even attempt to citate it , I will then forget this phenomenon even exist and people research it...
They proposed to track the homeless, and I could not care a shit because, he, who care about a bum. Then they extended the program to the criminal and I found it good. After all they are menace to society. Afterward they tracked the foreigner. Who knows, they could be terrorist. Then it went down to track atheist, and I could not agree more, they aren't real citizen since they aren't bathing in the light of God. Afterward they said I was going to be tracked in my everyday life, and I tried to protest, but nobody was there anymore to defend me.
For all those which think diamond are rare and precious, well let us put it that way, I am pretty sure somebody can fish out links about all that is "fishy" about debeers.
Now for all those that thinks that diamond made computer stuff will be expansive, let me put it that way. Natural diamond won't be used. Industrial grown one will be used. How are they made ?
Well here is the process we used, 10 years ago, I think it may have been perfectionned, but the basic is probably the same.
* First you seed the surface of where you want to grow diamond with diamond pulver (we used silicium waffer put in a liquid with low frequency vibration and diamond powder). * then you put it in the middle of a Plasma oven (ours was a simple micro wave 10KW half spherical. i am speaking of industrial/labor microwave here). * At this point various technic is created to make the plasma (there is a lot of litterature here available. just search plasma physic). Ours was H2 gas with about 1 to 5% CH4 gas, with a plasma of 6Kilo K (IIRC...). * wait a bit (hours).
Et Voila ! Your microscopic diamond pulver grew in size and if logn enough make a nice shiny surface diamond. Ok it might not look as good as what your GF wants, but good enough for industrial application in the diamond age.
By the way, there was a slight yellowish hue, visible if you compared side by side in full light with a white paper screen behind a natural one and a industrial one. This was due to carbon inclusion which were not tetrahedrical crystalin. I dunno if the technic perfectionend in 10 years...
FAQ from EU IP directive
i ntprop/news/index.htm
Quote :
The proposal has a number of safeguard clauses: * the proposal restates the general principles of intellectual property rights law, namely that procedures should be fair, not unnecessarily complicated, slow or costly and should not create barriers to 'legitimate trade' * any penalties applied to offenders should be 'effective, proportionate and deterrent' i.e. the penalty should fit the crime * where the Directive allows for seizure of suspect goods for evidence, the company or person whose goods have been seized can ask for a review of the seizure. Furthermore, the judge can make the rightholder pay a refundable guarantee which will be forfeit if the case brought is unfounded * where the Directive allows for a court to force someone involved in handling infringing goods to reveal who they bought the illegal goods from, this can only be done under certain conditions (e.g. where this would not incriminate the person giving the information, so-called right to avoid self-incrimination) * where the Directive allows for 'interlocutory injunctions' (an injunction in advance of a decision on the merits of the case), the company or person who has been ordered to stop participating in the suspected infringement can ask for a review of the injunction. Furthermore, the judge can make the rightholder pay a refundable guarantee which will be forfeit if the case brought is unfounded. In this case, the judge can also order the rightholder to compensate the suspected offender who is found innocent for any loss they have suffered as a result of the injunction * where the Directive allows for various measures following a decision on the merits of a case (e.g. recall, destruction of goods or disposal outside commercial channels), this will not be applied where the offender has acted in good faith (i.e. neither intentionally nor through negligence) and can agree a fair settlement with the rightholder whose rights have been infringed * legal costs are awarded also to the alleged offender, if they are found to be innocent The full text of the proposed Directive is available at: http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/
IIRC, Please remark that there are already specific consumer protection law preventing abuse of such things, like enforcing the sdale of a specific tire with a chip inside it. Add it with the above and this doesn't seem so horrible as presented in the article summary above.
My job is so that I have access to all info on a credit card (Name of the person, date of expiration and full number), and even worst since the demand of the US governement (CAPS) on airline I have acess to the people their visa and their passport. Would it be possible to protect those data against me ? No way. I can acess the data at all level, and since I am the programmer , even if it is encrypted I can still acess it by putting a nice placed trap. Would I do it ? No way, I am honest. Is it possible for me to do it ? Yes.
You cannot protect yourself against all your employe, because at one point or another you have to to have some trust (at least at the facture time).So IMO this is a no new here, and I barely call that hacking. Rather insider stealing.
Because you described the life of the average MMORPG'er here :
g ger-wombat.
After 2 years of being in 2 MMORPG I can guarantee
that the roleplaying part is an extrem minority of
the time you do in the games.
Quote "Secondly, this promotes very anti-social behavior--people crouching away at their computers, beating wombat after wombat to get the extra gold and items. It takes the *fun* out of the game, as well as the *realism*. RPG stand for role-playing-game"
Let us be honest here. RPG stand for roleplaying game but MMORPG stand for Let-us-beat-wombat-after-wombat-before-beating-bi
Looking at the (supposed) past of the guy, and knowing he offered freely its service, I would really search for all kind of backdoor in the source code, If I wear florida official...
I am sorry but revolution *NEVER* ameliorate the social status of people as a whole. Revolution only brutaly move the people up and down in the social pyramid (stealing/confiscating/murder/rape/execution) for some, but the rest "the paysant" the serf and so on, (particulary in the case of french revolution, anyone outside Paris) never changed anything. Note that I am speaking on the WHOLE. On a small scale you can observe social progress for some, but onlyx at the detriment of other. Why is that there is no progress ? Because of two facts :
1) even if the worst dictature the base of the pyramide (the people making up the most basic workforce), as long as thery fit in, usually only wants her/his next meal and some fun and that is it. Yeah call me elitiste , but if you think most people think of freedom of speech and not their next meal/sex time/alcohol then you are delusionnal. They pay more tax, and fit in even in the worst law, as long as they are left in peace. Only a few Intellectual, or powermonger which are not at the top usually wish the changes. The French revolution wasn't a "people" revolution, you just have to look at its leader beyond the first day.
2) Social revolution perturbate the economic of a country deeply. It doesn't help it. But only *ECONOMIC* help people raise their status in a social scale. You do not live on air and politic. You live on "Food". But while you are on the barricade fighting the goivernement those stuff , like in every war, either aren't supplied regulary or are plainly not grown.
What really change the live of people is economic revolution. not social one. Out of 3 revolution (Russian, French, US) I know that 2 brought more pain than ease for the people, and one (the US) I can't really speak of, but had the extrem advantage to be 1000's of kilometer away from the governement, and wasn't a revolution anyway , but a cut from a colony from its origin, and one can argue this is far easier on the evconomic of stuff.
Does mixing Arsenic with my cereal make the resulting stuff food ? No ? I thougth you would answer so. Do not forget, Alcohol , is a poison for the organism (particulary for the brain and liver). It does not matter whether there are all vitamin of the universe and all oligo element in your beer. Fact remain this is a poison to your organism and has a negative effect on you. This is what should rule it as a drug, not the rest of its composition. Oh, and before you yell at me by saying alcohol is fun or whatever, we are speaking here not whether people LIEK or DISLIKE beer, but we are speaking of the governement recognizing beer is not an Essential stuff, and can be downright nasty due to its component.
In kazaa and otehr p2p you are *the user* sending the file you have in a share onto the network and show it to everbody. You open yourself. The only way to avoid that is to have nothing to share and only download from other (which is the contrary to the spirit of P2p, because if everybody dodes that the file share pool dry like a well in sahara). Encrypting data do not help , because you show the open data to the world.
And if the RIAA sue you, well, you can hardly say to the court/justice , "sorry you can look at my HD , there is nothing to see. Ho wait it is encrypted ! Buahahah!". Then two minutes later you are sumoned to give the key, and 4 minutes later back to case 1 without the expensive encryption.
If this was really representating the voice of the people, then statistically it should be identical to the real result. It wasn't the nearest. Conclusion : something skewed the result / reasonement. Really, 2nd place really beg the question. It should have been 1st. It isn't.
Like the miranda stuff, gun possession amendement, weird law about punishing hacker/copyright infringer with more prison than a raper/thief and in some case murderer, the fact you can sue if you are in the wrong mood, 12 people which know nothing of the law , and can swallow any good discourse by defense/offense especially on "expert" debat, have to swear on the bible in court (?!) and I pass many of them.
it can all be resumed in : "different history , different culture, different law system". Do not try to understand. Accept it.
I mean I live in germany, I am a computer engineer, and earn about 36K brut (about 19K net) (*). I am nearly as competitive as India !!! Or , from my side of the pond, 75K is overpaid. Your call.
(*) coding on a mainframe for a big company
Half of the post here show a disgusting elistim. No wonder people look down at us geek when you pull a "you are stupid to click on such message" on such things. For pity's sake do you all realise that not everybody is knowledgeable in computer or technology in general ? All those poeple ever wanted was using email and browse a bit, not to be misleaded by a scamming company or being looked down and alughed at by us geek....
I think it is time for me to go away until this topic go in archive because I feel like seething and exploding at the insenssibility of people. Mod me as a troll. Go on. Or flamming.
Sorry but not everybody has expertise in computer. Especially I see my parents are the type of person clicking on it ("but, son, this is a windows message ! You gotta click on it !").
This has nothing to do with intelligence, but rather with scamming less knowledgeable people into doing something they would not do on their own. If this would have been an advertising for a software "X" people would not sue because they would not clik on it by error.
If you fail to see this point, man I advise you to take some step back, breath slowly, and think this twice "Is everybody as knowledgeable as me in Computer ? Am I as knowledgable in those other people area of expertise (sale, Medicine, biology, Math, Law, Cooking whatever) as to mock them with my superior intellect ?". If the answer is twice yes. Well congrat. You must be God and freaking Omniscient... In all other case you have no right to mock those people because they choosed another area of expertise.
Bottom line ifDoubleclick was not scamming and faking windows UI, those problem would not exist.