American glorification has killed a lot of good movies, and Americans have killed a great number of innocent people. Dear Redneck, why don't you explain to the rest of the world why the Great United States has to carpet bomb an entire country to hurt one evil man?? While you're at it, please tell me why a perfectly good Red Cross installation (including inhabitants) was demolished for your war effort; I'm sure you can think up a quasi- logical justification for that massacre too.
Have you seen "Pearl Harbour?" It's another typical piece of turd-munching American propaganda that only the weakest of mind would confuse with the actual factual events as they occurred.. members of my family died in the Second World War and even off the Hawaiian coast (defending your sorry country) after that incident, and their accounts differ in many distinct ways from the rendition that came out Hollywood's poop chute.
You probably have the gall to wonder why the rest of the world doesn't give more than a superficial shit about your precious land and its heard-earned terrorist damage. If you were a world citizen, the answer would be obvious.
I think you should put the pig down, pull your pants up and take a sober look around. Your government rarely tells you the truth, and you fall for it every time. George Shrub is a fear-mongering attention whore and September 11 hasn't changed that: you people are dazzled by bigger guns and more missiles, allowing you to overlook that the little man pushing the buttons is slightly mad. Say goodbye to civil liberties, and Hello! to your new police state. "Yes, Black Hawk Down IS based on largely fictional events. There is not more than a small grain of truth in it." Goodbye.
If Microsoft fails to deliver, we'll all have a great laugh. However, if Microsoft does deliver and MONO succeeds, we'll have an explostion of desperately needed applications that will run on Linux.
Pardon?? Desperately needed applications? I wonder which industry you work in, that you would need vaporware and/or more poorly coded trash. Show me a useful.NET app and I'll guarantee it's been better done in Java. Java? Personally, I despise Java, but it is clear from reading the CLR specs that nothing new is introduced, and Java's quite a bit more mature..
from a web developer's perspective things would look quite different, no doubt, as the cloud of Microsoft assimilation approaches to darken sight; however, I fail to see why we need another superficially language-neutral virtual machine to run bloated, poorly written apps on. What ever happened to artfully coded, small and efficient programs?
Platform neutrality is not worth the cost in bloat. I hope that Java and.NET kill each other off, and Brutalware (http://hysteria.sk/brutalware) makes a comeback.
I've already wrapped up the large chocolate penis for my lovely lady, and the wine is chilling even as I write this.. I figure she can use the penis until it melts all over her, then I get to enjoy it. Mmmmmm..mmmm!
Then, I'll guzzle the wine, and SHE can use the bottle!
The rest of it I'll just keep to meself.
There ya go.. two gifts that we can both enjoy. I just love Valentine's Day.
I'd like to amend that to "a large chocolate penis for the lady, and a biiiig bottle of wine for me." Happy Valentine's Day!!
I can't wait to see my sweet-heart's face - this romantic shit really gets her going.
It's spelled four different ways, known by many other names, and I'll spell it in whatever fashion I choose to. Go stuff your twat with a fresh lobster if you don't like it, fuckwad.
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If this new read-once tech comes out into the mainstream, a few chemically-minded entrepreneurs will crank out read-once neutralizers to prevent decay of these discs. Looking at the basement Xtacy labs springing up everywhere (in BC, Canada at the least) assures me that if a bypass is found, it will become available en masse.
I think the assumption of the system's infallibility is inaccurate, as evidenced by the history of such schemes, ie. DivX et al. The only difference is that this is a physical copy prevention.
For every DRM there is an equal, opposite and excellent crack
I'll tell you what happens if you come up with that magical algorithm... millions of potential employers/financiers will be exposed to your mind-blowing talent, you'll get slashdotted with opportunities, AND you'll get a tour of the Holy Land! What more can a computer dude want?? Oh yeah... the 10K would be nice, but it's really just icing. Heck, GPL the program and the benefits will multiply even further..
Alternatively, you could think up that big beautiful idea, decline to send it in, try to market it independently (hey, it might happen) and ultimately you'd likely have squandered the coolest opportunity of a lifetime.
Think big or think small: free choice is a beautiful thing, n'est-ce pas?
[Hope I'm reading the tone of your post correctly.. ]
Sounds to ME like millions and Billions of people are getting useage of the fantastic Google search engine for free too... this is a cool opportunity to showcase one's skillz for a larger audience than you'll ever reach in a single lifetime otherwise.. Kinda like getting a free spot in the Superbowl, if your program gets chosen.
Dammit I'm gonna give it a shot even though there are thousands of more proficient programmers out there, because it's definitely worth my time. Hope y'all out there don't feel the same, cuz I need that green;O)
I have a good idea what a bandwidth pig uses hereabouts.. in British Columbia (just a couple miles north of your American border, BTW) good broadband currently costs about $40/month and that's uncapped - I regularly get about three T1 worth of bandwidth on demand. One member of my household was pulling in a GB per day in just mp3's..
Shaw Cable (AKA Rogers Cable in beautiful British Columbia) sent us a friendly little note and several 'urgent' phone messages regarding "Excessive Use," then directed us to a new TOS posted for all to see.
Apparently we are entitled to 8GB download per month AND up to 2 GB upload.
That's a pretty fair distance from our 75+ GB down and 10+ GB upload, eh.
Now they're inspecting us closely, and we can't afford to lose the provider since DSL isn't coming to the area until later this year. Soon enough, though, for us Canucks are a crafty breed;O)
I forgot to mention that those three necessary DLL's are left intact by the script; however, that information is made clear upon reading the documentation that accompanies it.
I'll save you the work of doing any research (or getting an education.. sorry I'll stop that one) and find that there are only three DLL's that 'doze actually NEEDS. The rest of IE is filler and bugs (IMHO only!), and need not remain on your disk.
If you don't like IE then bleeding well FEEL FREE to rip it out! The tool is safe on my installation of Win2K, but obviously YMMV and I won't make any explicit claims. I simply found it to be a useful tool for my personal purposes and did you the honour of bringing it to your attention as an option.
Don't like it? Don't use it. Don't like IE? Maybe you can remove it. You're intelligent enough to make those choices, but I wouldn't trust you much further. Sorry for the flamebait, but I feel that blatantly ignorant posting of mis-information is far worse.
Long live slashdot;O)
Opera 6 is the best 3.2 MB download I've done in the last year. It may display ads, but the popups are ToAST and that satisfies me more than you can possibly imagine. If Konqueror was as quick to load as Opera I'd leap for joy.
Having said that, my conscience feels better when I support Mozilla; on the other hand, my resources tend to slog a bit once 'zilla's fully under way - and that does NOT feel so good. When Mozilla comes in a teensy weeny package to download, launches as quickly (or, heck, even NEARLY) as Opera is then I'll toss the free beer for speech+beer. Same goes for ANY open source browser - Konqueror, Mozilla+derivatives or whatever.
Give me freedom, speech and beer but MOST OF ALL give me speed!
Winners don't do drugs.
Thanks.
Think Mozilla's bloated? check out how much space you can save by wiping out IE 6.
There's a tiny and FREE FREE utility called the IEradicator can wipe out internet explorer from Win98/NT and 2000 if you run pre-SP2...
Use Mozilla as your only browser (or, like me, use Opera too) if you like.
check out http://www.98lite.net/ieradicator.html
I concur mightily with your perception of Mozilla speed (or lack thereof).. it is, to be nice, the slowest (primarily in loading) browser I have ever used. It may be faster than it once was, but Opera kills it nonetheless. Yes, I really really really like Opera. However, it would be nice to have an open sourced alternative that could compete in all areas with it.
It will take more than 1.0 to heal the slow launch issue; that can only be solved by trimming the fat, so to speak. However, I HAVE to say that the new 'zilla is a HECKUVA lot more stable than it was just a short while ago! That, plus the open sourced pedigree, guarantees that I'll be back to bug test it once the school pressure's been relieved.
Props to Mozilla dudes.
Re:I don't see what all the fuss is about...
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> I can completely disassemble an iMac in about
> 30 seconds with a sledgehammer...
Oh yeah?? I managed to solve a Rubik's Cube in.2 seconds with a hammer! beat that!
I hear ya brother! It's time to bring back DarkWing Duck:O)
Patenting of DNA is ridiculous, in the same way that patenting a particular sequence of dominos is crazy. How can one patent a sequence of genetic material??
More importantly, how does one enforce that patent if a person/organism/sasquatch (or whatever) later expresses that sequence????!!?
Truly your American laws are a just a little daft..
Astute observation, amigo.. I'll bet you're thinking of that horribly done PP in the recent remake of 'the Thomas Crown Affair,' wherein Rene Russo wants a swig of Pepsi and painfully contorts her hand to avoid obscuring the label .
Crap like that should be seriously re-thought, then abandoned in favour of a real artistic vision.
Do it right, or not at all: is that too much to ask? The part that grinds me the most is that I'm actually paying to watch cheesebucket promotional garbage that actively intrudes on my enjoyment of an otherwise fine movie (or game, as the case may be - although games tend to be better done IME)
At a penny a post I should get rich quick.
hey buddy in case you didn't notice (and I know you didn't 'cuz I read your post) there IS no exploit - unless you consider allowing access to EXPLICITLY SHARED FILES with a FILE_SHARING app to be a security hole.
The REAL protection is to unshare any folders that shouldn't be accessible to the public. Simple, sweet, and common sense. The only way that your private files will be shared in a default installation of Morpheus/FastTrack client is if they are saved to the (newly created) directory.
Think about it. Read the BBC article. Then try to genuinely *HACK* Morpheus, and if you are successful in your mission I will eat my words with relish.
Sorry for tone of post, but it needed to be said.
Wow it looks like those crackers cited by BBC are really top notch! They've certainly got people-management skillz like Mitnik, if my reading of the BBC article has anything to say..
It should be obvious to anybody reading this thing that the "random list of shared personal filez" and such is a big user booboo. Obviously some people are st00p1d enough to leave personal details n docs in a shared folder..
How much did the RIAA pay to get this posted?
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American glorification has killed a lot of good movies, and Americans have killed a great number of innocent people. Dear Redneck, why don't you explain to the rest of the world why the Great United States has to carpet bomb an entire country to hurt one evil man?? While you're at it, please tell me why a perfectly good Red Cross installation (including inhabitants) was demolished for your war effort; I'm sure you can think up a quasi- logical justification for that massacre too. .. members of my family died in the Second World War and even off the Hawaiian coast (defending your sorry country) after that incident, and their accounts differ in many distinct ways from the rendition that came out Hollywood's poop chute.
Have you seen "Pearl Harbour?" It's another typical piece of turd-munching American propaganda that only the weakest of mind would confuse with the actual factual events as they occurred
You probably have the gall to wonder why the rest of the world doesn't give more than a superficial shit about your precious land and its heard-earned terrorist damage. If you were a world citizen, the answer would be obvious.
I think you should put the pig down, pull your pants up and take a sober look around. Your government rarely tells you the truth, and you fall for it every time. George Shrub is a fear-mongering attention whore and September 11 hasn't changed that: you people are dazzled by bigger guns and more missiles, allowing you to overlook that the little man pushing the buttons is slightly mad. Say goodbye to civil liberties, and Hello! to your new police state. "Yes, Black Hawk Down IS based on largely fictional events. There is not more than a small grain of truth in it."
Goodbye.
If Microsoft fails to deliver, we'll all have a great laugh. However, if Microsoft does deliver and MONO succeeds, we'll have an explostion of desperately needed applications that will run on Linux.
.NET app and I'll guarantee it's been better done in Java. Java? Personally, I despise Java, but it is clear from reading the CLR specs that nothing new is introduced, and Java's quite a bit more mature ..
.NET kill each other off, and Brutalware (http://hysteria.sk/brutalware) makes a comeback.
Pardon?? Desperately needed applications? I wonder which industry you work in, that you would need vaporware and/or more poorly coded trash. Show me a useful
from a web developer's perspective things would look quite different, no doubt, as the cloud of Microsoft assimilation approaches to darken sight; however, I fail to see why we need another superficially language-neutral virtual machine to run bloated, poorly written apps on. What ever happened to artfully coded, small and efficient programs?
Platform neutrality is not worth the cost in bloat. I hope that Java and
I've already wrapped up the large chocolate penis for my lovely lady, and the wine is chilling even as I write this.. I figure she can use the penis until it melts all over her, then I get to enjoy it. Mmmmmm..mmmm! .. two gifts that we can both enjoy. I just love Valentine's Day.
Then, I'll guzzle the wine, and SHE can use the bottle!
The rest of it I'll just keep to meself.
There ya go
I'd like to amend that to "a large chocolate penis for the lady, and a biiiig bottle of wine for me." Happy Valentine's Day!!
I can't wait to see my sweet-heart's face - this romantic shit really gets her going.
It's spelled four different ways, known by many other names, and I'll spell it in whatever fashion I choose to. Go stuff your twat with a fresh lobster if you don't like it, fuckwad.
X
ecstacy
xtacy
E
If this new read-once tech comes out into the mainstream, a few chemically-minded entrepreneurs will crank out read-once neutralizers to prevent decay of these discs. Looking at the basement Xtacy labs springing up everywhere (in BC, Canada at the least) assures me that if a bypass is found, it will become available en masse.
I think the assumption of the system's infallibility is inaccurate, as evidenced by the history of such schemes, ie. DivX et al. The only difference is that this is a physical copy prevention.
For every DRM there is an equal, opposite and excellent crack
I'll tell you what happens if you come up with that magical algorithm ... millions of potential employers/financiers will be exposed to your mind-blowing talent, you'll get slashdotted with opportunities, AND you'll get a tour of the Holy Land! What more can a computer dude want?? Oh yeah ... the 10K would be nice, but it's really just icing. Heck, GPL the program and the benefits will multiply even further..
Alternatively, you could think up that big beautiful idea, decline to send it in, try to market it independently (hey, it might happen) and ultimately you'd likely have squandered the coolest opportunity of a lifetime.
Think big or think small: free choice is a beautiful thing, n'est-ce pas?
[Hope I'm reading the tone of your post correctly .. ]
;O)
Sounds to ME like millions and Billions of people are getting useage of the fantastic Google search engine for free too... this is a cool opportunity to showcase one's skillz for a larger audience than you'll ever reach in a single lifetime otherwise.. Kinda like getting a free spot in the Superbowl, if your program gets chosen.
Dammit I'm gonna give it a shot even though there are thousands of more proficient programmers out there, because it's definitely worth my time. Hope y'all out there don't feel the same, cuz I need that green
I have a good idea what a bandwidth pig uses hereabouts .. in British Columbia (just a couple miles north of your American border, BTW) good broadband currently costs about $40/month and that's uncapped - I regularly get about three T1 worth of bandwidth on demand. One member of my household was pulling in a GB per day in just mp3's ..
;O)
Shaw Cable (AKA Rogers Cable in beautiful British Columbia) sent us a friendly little note and several 'urgent' phone messages regarding "Excessive Use," then directed us to a new TOS posted for all to see.
Apparently we are entitled to 8GB download per month AND up to 2 GB upload.
That's a pretty fair distance from our 75+ GB down and 10+ GB upload, eh.
Now they're inspecting us closely, and we can't afford to lose the provider since DSL isn't coming to the area until later this year. Soon enough, though, for us Canucks are a crafty breed
Hope that helps.
I forgot to mention that those three necessary DLL's are left intact by the script; however, that information is made clear upon reading the documentation that accompanies it.
Peace out dude
I'll save you the work of doing any research (or getting an education .. sorry I'll stop that one) and find that there are only three DLL's that 'doze actually NEEDS. The rest of IE is filler and bugs (IMHO only!), and need not remain on your disk.
;O)
If you don't like IE then bleeding well FEEL FREE to rip it out! The tool is safe on my installation of Win2K, but obviously YMMV and I won't make any explicit claims. I simply found it to be a useful tool for my personal purposes and did you the honour of bringing it to your attention as an option.
Don't like it? Don't use it. Don't like IE? Maybe you can remove it. You're intelligent enough to make those choices, but I wouldn't trust you much further. Sorry for the flamebait, but I feel that blatantly ignorant posting of mis-information is far worse.
Long live slashdot
Opera 6 is the best 3.2 MB download I've done in the last year. It may display ads, but the popups are ToAST and that satisfies me more than you can possibly imagine. If Konqueror was as quick to load as Opera I'd leap for joy.
Having said that, my conscience feels better when I support Mozilla; on the other hand, my resources tend to slog a bit once 'zilla's fully under way - and that does NOT feel so good. When Mozilla comes in a teensy weeny package to download, launches as quickly (or, heck, even NEARLY) as Opera is then I'll toss the free beer for speech+beer. Same goes for ANY open source browser - Konqueror, Mozilla+derivatives or whatever.
Give me freedom, speech and beer but MOST OF ALL give me speed!
Winners don't do drugs.
Thanks.
Think Mozilla's bloated? check out how much space you can save by wiping out IE 6. ...
There's a tiny and FREE FREE utility called the IEradicator can wipe out internet explorer from Win98/NT and 2000 if you run pre-SP2
Use Mozilla as your only browser (or, like me, use Opera too) if you like.
check out http://www.98lite.net/ieradicator.html
If you build it, they will come ...
;O)
I concur mightily with your perception of Mozilla speed (or lack thereof) .. it is, to be nice, the slowest (primarily in loading) browser I have ever used. It may be faster than it once was, but Opera kills it nonetheless. Yes, I really really really like Opera. However, it would be nice to have an open sourced alternative that could compete in all areas with it.
It will take more than 1.0 to heal the slow launch issue; that can only be solved by trimming the fat, so to speak. However, I HAVE to say that the new 'zilla is a HECKUVA lot more stable than it was just a short while ago! That, plus the open sourced pedigree, guarantees that I'll be back to bug test it once the school pressure's been relieved.
Props to Mozilla dudes.
> I can completely disassemble an iMac in about
.2 seconds with a hammer! beat that!
> 30 seconds with a sledgehammer...
Oh yeah?? I managed to solve a Rubik's Cube in
I hear ya brother! It's time to bring back DarkWing Duck :O)
Patenting of DNA is ridiculous, in the same way that patenting a particular sequence of dominos is crazy. How can one patent a sequence of genetic material??
More importantly, how does one enforce that patent if a person/organism/sasquatch (or whatever) later expresses that sequence????!!?
Truly your American laws are a just a little daft..
Astute observation, amigo.. I'll bet you're thinking of that horribly done PP in the recent remake of 'the Thomas Crown Affair,' wherein Rene Russo wants a swig of Pepsi and painfully contorts her hand to avoid obscuring the label .
Crap like that should be seriously re-thought, then abandoned in favour of a real artistic vision.
Do it right, or not at all: is that too much to ask? The part that grinds me the most is that I'm actually paying to watch cheesebucket promotional garbage that actively intrudes on my enjoyment of an otherwise fine movie (or game, as the case may be - although games tend to be better done IME)
At a penny a post I should get rich quick.
hey buddy in case you didn't notice (and I know you didn't 'cuz I read your post) there IS no exploit - unless you consider allowing access to EXPLICITLY SHARED FILES with a FILE_SHARING app to be a security hole.
The REAL protection is to unshare any folders that shouldn't be accessible to the public. Simple, sweet, and common sense. The only way that your private files will be shared in a default installation of Morpheus/FastTrack client is if they are saved to the (newly created) directory.
Think about it. Read the BBC article. Then try to genuinely *HACK* Morpheus, and if you are successful in your mission I will eat my words with relish.
Sorry for tone of post, but it needed to be said.
Wow it looks like those crackers cited by BBC are really top notch! They've certainly got people-management skillz like Mitnik, if my reading of the BBC article has anything to say..
It should be obvious to anybody reading this thing that the "random list of shared personal filez" and such is a big user booboo. Obviously some people are st00p1d enough to leave personal details n docs in a shared folder..
How much did the RIAA pay to get this posted?