"Another case of parents not displaying proper parenting skills."
News at 11.
The blame has to be put on someone... why dig as deep as blaming the retailers that sold the games to this kid, instead of going straight to the source - the kid's homelife and relationship with parents.
Christ almighty, way to make a mountain out a molehill.
As long as any type of music is taking an analog path out to the listener's ear, it will ALWAYS be possible to "crack"...just route your soundcard's line out to the line in jack, creating a loopback, and have fun with your audio recorder program.
That's not cracking, it's common sense.
Talk about your sensationalist journalism... I was expecting to read some article about a batch processor that strips the DRM from the MP3 files, not requiring decoding and re-encoding again.
The movie piracy industry is ablaze in Asia (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia)...instead of calling out Macrovision with their snake oil, they should try to stop the piracy coming from Asia.
After all, even if you rent a DVD from Blockbuster and copy it to keep, the movie studios still get a few pennies from the rental. If you buy from a bootlegger, the only one whose pockets are lined are the bootlegger's.
Find the copyright owner (the movie studio for example) and report the seller to them. Inform the movie studio about eBay's VERO program, and the seller will be zapped in no time.
eBay states clearly in their policies that they won't cancel suspected infringing items unless the copyright owner contacts them.
This is going to be one piece of hardware I don't purchase on the launch date.
It's not backwards-compatible with any older technology like the DS was (it plays GBA games great, and is easier to hold than the GBA SP)...and there aren't any launch titles that appeal to the RPG addict in me.
I'm going to wait for at least the first hardware rev and a price drop.
There's only one benefit to living in the ghetto apartment complex that I do...
There are rows upon rows of locked mailboxes out front, each numbered indiscretely. Nobody knows whose is whose, and there is a separate key for each one. Ain't nobody gonna get my mail 'cept me.
Most of the hopeless nerds I know would at least haul their butts out of their PC chairs for a few hours every other Friday night to see the latest and greatest adventure flick at the theater. I guess those days are coming to a close. (anyone remember the news story about the lady who lived on her couch for years, and the fabric actually fused to her body? hehe.)
This is a fantastic example of the movie companies beginning to take advantage of the fact that some people would rather stay at home......though, if anyone of you have ever downloaded a pre-DVD release movie on the 'net, were you actually considering going to the theater anyway? I personally go for the huge screen and surround sound experience.
Then again, with one of those "100' projector for only $14.95" do-it-yourself projection screen kits from eBay and a set of Creative Labs Gigaworks S750 speakers, what's stopping anyone anymore? *sigh*
The majority of home ISPs do... at least I know Cox does.
They also block outgoing SMTP, port 25.
Networks of mindless get-rich-quick folk
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Phishing In The Channel
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Of course online fraud doesn't end with merely collecting credit card numbers.
Next, a network of illdoers must convert this stolen cash into something much less traceable. They enlist the help of folk running a variety of instant messenging programs.
Why, just this morning I received this gem on ICQ:
268-919-230 (9:13 AM): Hi there! where you disappeared?! 268-919-230 (9:13 AM): yes, I haven't been here for long, too - was busy working on Alfa Trans 268-919-230 (9:14 AM): by the way, I'd recommend you to check it, too. You can find company url in my about info.
The URL in this guy's (bot's) info is http://www.alfa-trans.com which appears to be an elaborate money laundering and courier service masquerading as a legit business. They "hire" "managers" to distribute this stolen stuff around the globe and pay them a percentage of runs completed, or money transferred. Very crafty, and sometimes very appealing to the poor college student who has no balls to apply for a local McJob.
Of course the joke's on the hapless student when the guys in black suits come a'knockin'.
Greed will always prevail, and I feel that it will be impossible to educate everyone about this kind of stuff... after all, as long as one or two suckers buy into every mass mailing, spam will continue, because there's money to be made.
Does anyone know of any type of employment I could pursue involving tracking online fraud? It fascinates me immensely.:)
I've been a 'member' of LiveJournal since 2001. In that time, I've seen many changes to the service, and most of them have been for the better. The server system seems stable (albeit slow sometimes, but outages are rare) and the development team seems extremely closely knit.
I seriously doubt that they will give up the ship so easily, unless they were offered a tremendous sum. There seems to be too much pride in the systems they've coded themselves. It's no small feat to create and maintain a system that houses over a million and a half active accounts. (just check the livejournal.com main page.
The difference is that supposedly the fellow who bought the game thought he was getting it from a reputable source.
Warez kiddies who grabs copies of the latest and greatest XBox games from Usenet know damn well that they're getting pirated copies, and would know better than to take their tales of woe to a tabloid.
I'm 95% certain that we'll never hear a proper followup to this story, including what the purchaser thought he was purchasing, so it doesn't really matter at this point. Still damn funny though.
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Mac only, and $20 bucks?
No thanks.
I wonder if Apple will go after these guys for trying to sell a software hack to one of their products... hmm.
Replacing the lamp in a DLP set is common and possible. Re-infusing a plasma set with gas is currently not. :P
I surely hope people aren't planning on gaming on that thing... don't plasmas suffer incredibly from burn-in?
They're still not user-repairable... they're good for HDTV and DVDs and that's about it.
My Samsung HLN567W (56" DLP, no HD tuner, but cost less than this) weighs about the same, and holy god does Halo 2 look spectacular on it.
It cost about $2799.
If you're a gamer, go with DLP and leave plasmas for your grandparents' theater rooms.
The upcoming trial about the kid who crucified his classmate.
"The Bible made me do it."
Oh wait, there will be no trial. After all, we know the Bible is incapable of any wrongdoing.
Surely this has happened before, but mainstream news will never get wind of it.
*eyes roll down the hallway*
"Another case of parents not displaying proper parenting skills."
News at 11.
The blame has to be put on someone... why dig as deep as blaming the retailers that sold the games to this kid, instead of going straight to the source - the kid's homelife and relationship with parents.
Christ almighty, way to make a mountain out a molehill.
...just route your soundcard's line out to the line in jack, creating a loopback, and have fun with your audio recorder program.
As long as any type of music is taking an analog path out to the listener's ear, it will ALWAYS be possible to "crack"
That's not cracking, it's common sense.
Talk about your sensationalist journalism... I was expecting to read some article about a batch processor that strips the DRM from the MP3 files, not requiring decoding and re-encoding again.
The movie piracy industry is ablaze in Asia (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia) ...instead of calling out Macrovision with their snake oil, they should try to stop the piracy coming from Asia.
After all, even if you rent a DVD from Blockbuster and copy it to keep, the movie studios still get a few pennies from the rental. If you buy from a bootlegger, the only one whose pockets are lined are the bootlegger's.
I wouldn't mind being paid $10 an hour just to go through listings picking out the fradulent ones... tracking suspected fraudulent sellers and stuff.
They should be hiring people to do that instead of relying on their customer base to report infringing stuff.
Find the copyright owner (the movie studio for example) and report the seller to them. Inform the movie studio about eBay's VERO program, and the seller will be zapped in no time.
eBay states clearly in their policies that they won't cancel suspected infringing items unless the copyright owner contacts them.
This is going to be one piece of hardware I don't purchase on the launch date.
...and there aren't any launch titles that appeal to the RPG addict in me.
It's not backwards-compatible with any older technology like the DS was (it plays GBA games great, and is easier to hold than the GBA SP)
I'm going to wait for at least the first hardware rev and a price drop.
Hahahahahahaha
:D
Some of the other articles on that site are downright hilarious, especially the one about Olestra.
There's only one benefit to living in the ghetto apartment complex that I do...
There are rows upon rows of locked mailboxes out front, each numbered indiscretely. Nobody knows whose is whose, and there is a separate key for each one. Ain't nobody gonna get my mail 'cept me.
Managers are also usually the first ones to get the ax, at least from what I've seen in my limited experience.
Good managers are a dime a dozen. Really good coders, you have to hunt for.
Snopes.com debunks this story. The photos are real, but they are NOT from Teen Beat magazine.
Heh, they block outbound port 80, not inbound.
:P
You can't serve, you can browse just fine though.
Most of the hopeless nerds I know would at least haul their butts out of their PC chairs for a few hours every other Friday night to see the latest and greatest adventure flick at the theater. I guess those days are coming to a close. (anyone remember the news story about the lady who lived on her couch for years, and the fabric actually fused to her body? hehe.)
...though, if anyone of you have ever downloaded a pre-DVD release movie on the 'net, were you actually considering going to the theater anyway? I personally go for the huge screen and surround sound experience.
This is a fantastic example of the movie companies beginning to take advantage of the fact that some people would rather stay at home...
Then again, with one of those "100' projector for only $14.95" do-it-yourself projection screen kits from eBay and a set of Creative Labs Gigaworks S750 speakers, what's stopping anyone anymore? *sigh*
The majority of home ISPs do... at least I know Cox does.
They also block outgoing SMTP, port 25.
Of course online fraud doesn't end with merely collecting credit card numbers.
: : :
:)
Next, a network of illdoers must convert this stolen cash into something much less traceable. They enlist the help of folk running a variety of instant messenging programs.
Why, just this morning I received this gem on ICQ:
268-919-230 (9:13 AM)
Hi there! where you disappeared?!
268-919-230 (9:13 AM)
yes, I haven't been here for long, too - was busy working on Alfa Trans
268-919-230 (9:14 AM)
by the way, I'd recommend you to check it, too. You can find company url in my about info.
The URL in this guy's (bot's) info is http://www.alfa-trans.com which appears to be an elaborate money laundering and courier service masquerading as a legit business. They "hire" "managers" to distribute this stolen stuff around the globe and pay them a percentage of runs completed, or money transferred. Very crafty, and sometimes very appealing to the poor college student who has no balls to apply for a local McJob.
Of course the joke's on the hapless student when the guys in black suits come a'knockin'.
Greed will always prevail, and I feel that it will be impossible to educate everyone about this kind of stuff... after all, as long as one or two suckers buy into every mass mailing, spam will continue, because there's money to be made.
Does anyone know of any type of employment I could pursue involving tracking online fraud? It fascinates me immensely.
Domain names must consist of only roman characters A-z, numbers 0-9 and hyphen -
Nothing else.
Right?
Absolutely. I hypothesize that it will be completely abandoned in another 12 months, at most.
LJ is nice if you know where to look. Many 'cliques' I know of on there (as do you, wahaha, I know of you) could be modded +5 Insightful :)
(not stalking, I promise)
I wonder how long it'll be before IL throws in the towel completely... probably not until they milk every last bit of money from their investors.
:)
Have fun watching their stock flipflop over the next few weeks as the pump&dump crowd has fun with it.
I've been a 'member' of LiveJournal since 2001. In that time, I've seen many changes to the service, and most of them have been for the better. The server system seems stable (albeit slow sometimes, but outages are rare) and the development team seems extremely closely knit.
I seriously doubt that they will give up the ship so easily, unless they were offered a tremendous sum. There seems to be too much pride in the systems they've coded themselves. It's no small feat to create and maintain a system that houses over a million and a half active accounts. (just check the livejournal.com main page.
The difference is that supposedly the fellow who bought the game thought he was getting it from a reputable source.
Warez kiddies who grabs copies of the latest and greatest XBox games from Usenet know damn well that they're getting pirated copies, and would know better than to take their tales of woe to a tabloid.
I'm 95% certain that we'll never hear a proper followup to this story, including what the purchaser thought he was purchasing, so it doesn't really matter at this point. Still damn funny though.
A simple search on eBay for any popular GBA title will reveal about 80% bootlegs.
Furthermore, Disney probably wouldn't have any comment on the GBA version of Monsters, Inc. because THQ created it.
If nothing else, after the 'publicity' - if I were the game creator or publisher, I would send this guy and his kid a free authentic copy of the game.
More public awareness needs to be made about pirated GBA carts. They're everywhere.