The guy had $300,000 stashed in an account he figured the police would not find when they went searching - I mean, who the hell keeps $300,000 in their Paypal account unless it's to avoid it being noticed when his bank records are requested.
Last time I provisioned a web server in the UK it was only about £1500 and it seems to have not changed. A two unit server would most likely handle his website, since I don't believe he was even running the trackers, just a basic site to point people to the torrents. So $300,000 is enough to buy over 100 servers!
All of his hosting, domain registration, and hardware costs were ALREADY COVERED by the donations - the $300,000 was surplus to requirements.
There is no doubt in my mind he was just going to suck as much cash as he could out of people and then squirrel the money away in the Caymen Islands.
They should now trial him for defrauding the public of donations.
As a fan of free speech I kind of have to disagree with the notion that Google moving out the market increases free speech - if anything it will decrease it.
You stated and many would agree that Google is the superior engine, even though it is not the most popular. Being a better engine, we could expect it to deliver better results when people are searching on topics of interest. Taking this out of the market therefore actually reduces the amount of free speech potentially available to the people of China.
It's having to censor the exact same sites as all the other engines, so they are dead even in this regard.
So overall, Google being there increases the availability of free speech, and is no more hamstrung than any other product.
Of course, you can immediately discard any useful thing being in traffic from Youtube - unless the hacker is desperately short of crummy user provided content and comments that make the raptor jesus cry.
They can discard anything from news sites too - particularly since you can just read the comments on each news article you look at via the url.
Really, it's only sites that provide private information that can't be filtered from their 'look at' list. Sites like your email, forums (assuming they care what you write in semi-public places), your banking (which is already heavily encrypted).
Actually, if it's really important and needs encrypting it probably is already.
Zed's a total asshole. No wonder the programmers don't like him and won't listen to him. Maybe if he spent some of that stats time working on people skills he'd find office life much more enjoyable.
The real moral of this story is that when you go on the run, you need to re-roll.
If the guy had just grabbed a new copy of WoW for sub $20 and the expansions, then some game cards - he could have played all he wanted anonymously.
On the run, hiding out alone in a different country, what better time to roll a FOTM and get leveling!
St Johns wort - food.
coffee - food
fish oil = food
They are all sold as a food, rather than a medicine - regardless of potential health benefits of each. If they wanted to make claims of medicinal usage then they'd need to send the product through extensive testing for effectives and side effects, etc. It's simpler to make a vague allegation of some possible effect and watch the foolish snap them up.
That's right, if you go for a subscription model you end up owning nothing when you unsubscribe. I'll take the plastic discs any day since I can enjoy them for the rest of my life - or even sell them on if I choose. Sure, they may be more expensive to acquire, but in the long run they will most likely be cheaper and I tend to watch the same movies quite a number of times. That's mainly because I only buy films that I think have repeat viewability - otherwise it's rental time.
...who don't want to lie and cheat to get the suite, and aren't students? List price on Amazon is $499, but you can buy it for $390, about the same price as a Lindows PC!
That's a nice attempt there, but you're missing two key points:
The point about his logic stills is not irrelevant to the argument. The second point is that he is just the same as every other joe coffee out there - hardly an attack.
The second part you are missing is that I haven't then gone on to use a slur against his character to break down his argument. In fact, I go on to talk about *my* character and finish with the point that we are all basically the same.
I won't insult you by assuming you know what an ad hominem attack is, or can't look it up on google, you just don't seem to know how it applies.
As for irony, again you can find this word defined in many places, so google for it. I can only assume you are referring to the use of the word facetious, because there is nothing else that might even come close to being ironic in my post. This is not ironic, because I am pointing out that your action is facetious, not that you yourself are facetious. There's a difference, one that may be subtle, but present i.e. note the difference between me calling someone an "angry man" and "angry". One is implying the man is frequently angry, and the other describes their present state. Since I was describing your actions as facetious, and not you personally (e.g. you are a facetious man) there is actually nothing ironic about my posts at all.
And I suppose all of this data you are referring to is in my and your local libraries? I doubt that very much, since my local library is about twice the size of my small flat. You'd do better on the internet finding this information. Maps, newspapers and periodicals it has in spades, so much so that I don't bother with printed copies now unless I know I absolutely want to be AFK while reading it. Theses must be published, that's what they're for, and since they are univerity works you have again a brilliant chance of finding them on the net. "A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.
464,407 theses in collection; last updated 19 January 2005". Google has links to 4.3 million sites on theses, this was number 2.
You know what I am referring to when speaking of the public domain, so don't play fecesious, it only weakens your already thin argument.
Local libraries are not likely to have a law or medical reference section either, you need to go to university or specialty libraries for that. As for diaries, the web has it all over anything you will find in the libraries. It has a wealth of this information, the good, the bad, and the ugly - choose what you want to read, you can ignore the rest.
As for blogging, I don't, and I don't know why you assume I do. And the ad-hominem attack, well, it just goes to show that you prefer to attack the person rather than their argument or position. Try a little harder in future.
1. It may not be there in it's entirety, but I'm willing to bet that if it is knowledged published into the public domain (as books are) then you will find references to it, summaries of it, dissections on it, and opinion pieces. You also have a good chance of finding even more than that.
2. See point 1 above.
3. References are also published online, as you well know.
His point is without base, as books don't contains all known knowledge either.
We put it there through publishing it into a place google can access. Content prior to 1990 will still be there if it is still out there, with the exception of newsgroups. Google traverse more than the web, it does newsgroups too. It doesn't do FTP because that it binary data, but it will do HTTP that points to FTP entries. If it's well tagged, the data will come back appropriately. The Net does not contain everything humans have discovered or thought. And neither do books.
In the US they have the Republicans, which are just like our Tories, and they also have the Democrats, which are just like our Tories. For those outside the UK, the Tories are our right wing party.
(And yes, people who "don't read classic literature" are, perforce, less completely educated -- or at the very least, less cultured. I make no claims regarding intelligence, however.)
The only part of this statement that could be construed as being true is that those who don't read classical literature are less educated *in classic literature*. Can you really claim to be as well educated in all aspects of knowledge, simply because you have read some old fiction? If not, then how can you claim to be better educated than others? You're certaintly not well educated in logic, that much is apparent.
As to more cultured, there are vastly more forms of culture than the contents of these old stories. I attend film, ballet, musuems, theatre, rock/punk/dance/electro/improv electronica/classical concerts. I participate in role plays, and engage in a variety of other forms of culture. And I ensure I do this at least several times a month. I am a well cultured person, and have not read a single one of those "classic" literature novels the literatti seem so keen on - that's not to say I am not familiar with their contents, just that I am not interested in their contents. You try and hold literature as a way of separating yourself from others in society, to feel smug and superior, above others, when in fact you are exactly the same as the rest of us.
Don't try comparing yourself to others, there is always someone out better than you are.
I say again, if you can't find it in google, it's because you don't know how to use a search engine. I.T. workers can glean all the information they need to do their job from google, because we put all that information in there. Sure, researchers should read books, that their job for god's sake and they are a special case. A lot of others are simply looking for the key information on a subject, not war and peace, because we've got better things to do than read an entire textbook on herbology to find out which chemicals have the fun results, etc.
Is that he is using a blog to express this tepid and out of date opinion of his. When you write personal opinion pieces and display it on the web it is a blog, no matter what the software used.
If only he would learn how to use google to do a search he might get relevant results back instead of white noise. As for his lifetime work "Universal Bibliographic Control", it sounds like a failure to me since full-text searching does a much better job than simple indexing - and we can use indexes too where we think they might be faster.
Really, if stuffy old coots like this could get their head out of the sand, and the information tied up in paper volumes into the digital world then maybe he *could* find the results he's looking for in google. Until then, you may well have to read the entire book, just to glean that one paragraph of information you really required.
Really, if you donated money to a site dedicated to IP theft then you got what you deserved. There's a line between harmless and reasonable sharing of files and that of IP crime, and the line is money - don't cross it. Share with your mates, but don't donate to obviously unscrupulous people.
They burnt their most ardent supporters, the free community once already. I bought a subscription to up2date only to here a few months later that they were discontinuing it. So much for paid support! In return the offered a "trial" version of an OS that I, as a home user couldn't afford, really $1200 is too much for my home PC OS. I've moved to Gentoo and Debian and not looked back since. You know what they say:
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
And programmers tend to hang on slashdot and other techie sites, so it is quite relevant to us. If patents are allowed to run their course, then there will be almost no chance of a single coder being able to innovate and bring a new product to market without being sued to crap by a heartless monolith. That's why programmers should care, unless they only want to work for mega corporations...
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The guy had $300,000 stashed in an account he figured the police would not find when they went searching - I mean, who the hell keeps $300,000 in their Paypal account unless it's to avoid it being noticed when his bank records are requested. Last time I provisioned a web server in the UK it was only about £1500 and it seems to have not changed. A two unit server would most likely handle his website, since I don't believe he was even running the trackers, just a basic site to point people to the torrents. So $300,000 is enough to buy over 100 servers! All of his hosting, domain registration, and hardware costs were ALREADY COVERED by the donations - the $300,000 was surplus to requirements. There is no doubt in my mind he was just going to suck as much cash as he could out of people and then squirrel the money away in the Caymen Islands. They should now trial him for defrauding the public of donations.
As a fan of free speech I kind of have to disagree with the notion that Google moving out the market increases free speech - if anything it will decrease it. You stated and many would agree that Google is the superior engine, even though it is not the most popular. Being a better engine, we could expect it to deliver better results when people are searching on topics of interest. Taking this out of the market therefore actually reduces the amount of free speech potentially available to the people of China. It's having to censor the exact same sites as all the other engines, so they are dead even in this regard. So overall, Google being there increases the availability of free speech, and is no more hamstrung than any other product.
That's odd, my account name has a period in the centre and I've had that since beta days.
Of course, you can immediately discard any useful thing being in traffic from Youtube - unless the hacker is desperately short of crummy user provided content and comments that make the raptor jesus cry. They can discard anything from news sites too - particularly since you can just read the comments on each news article you look at via the url. Really, it's only sites that provide private information that can't be filtered from their 'look at' list. Sites like your email, forums (assuming they care what you write in semi-public places), your banking (which is already heavily encrypted). Actually, if it's really important and needs encrypting it probably is already.
Oh noes, suddenly wearing black clothing is no longer slimming. All the nerds forced to fly in the future will be cueing up to buy girdles.
The terrorists are already in your country, eating your food, watching your TV, waiting for the call to awake.
Zed's a total asshole. No wonder the programmers don't like him and won't listen to him. Maybe if he spent some of that stats time working on people skills he'd find office life much more enjoyable.
The real moral of this story is that when you go on the run, you need to re-roll. If the guy had just grabbed a new copy of WoW for sub $20 and the expansions, then some game cards - he could have played all he wanted anonymously. On the run, hiding out alone in a different country, what better time to roll a FOTM and get leveling!
It's sold as a food here in Aus. Even water can kill you when you drink too much - but I don't see anyone trying to get that treated as a medicine.
St Johns wort - food. coffee - food fish oil = food They are all sold as a food, rather than a medicine - regardless of potential health benefits of each. If they wanted to make claims of medicinal usage then they'd need to send the product through extensive testing for effectives and side effects, etc. It's simpler to make a vague allegation of some possible effect and watch the foolish snap them up.
That's right, if you go for a subscription model you end up owning nothing when you unsubscribe. I'll take the plastic discs any day since I can enjoy them for the rest of my life - or even sell them on if I choose. Sure, they may be more expensive to acquire, but in the long run they will most likely be cheaper and I tend to watch the same movies quite a number of times. That's mainly because I only buy films that I think have repeat viewability - otherwise it's rental time.
...who don't want to lie and cheat to get the suite, and aren't students? List price on Amazon is $499, but you can buy it for $390, about the same price as a Lindows PC!
The point about his logic stills is not irrelevant to the argument. The second point is that he is just the same as every other joe coffee out there - hardly an attack.
The second part you are missing is that I haven't then gone on to use a slur against his character to break down his argument. In fact, I go on to talk about *my* character and finish with the point that we are all basically the same.
I won't insult you by assuming you know what an ad hominem attack is, or can't look it up on google, you just don't seem to know how it applies.
As for irony, again you can find this word defined in many places, so google for it. I can only assume you are referring to the use of the word facetious, because there is nothing else that might even come close to being ironic in my post. This is not ironic, because I am pointing out that your action is facetious, not that you yourself are facetious. There's a difference, one that may be subtle, but present i.e. note the difference between me calling someone an "angry man" and "angry". One is implying the man is frequently angry, and the other describes their present state. Since I was describing your actions as facetious, and not you personally (e.g. you are a facetious man) there is actually nothing ironic about my posts at all.
You know what I am referring to when speaking of the public domain, so don't play fecesious, it only weakens your already thin argument.
Local libraries are not likely to have a law or medical reference section either, you need to go to university or specialty libraries for that. As for diaries, the web has it all over anything you will find in the libraries. It has a wealth of this information, the good, the bad, and the ugly - choose what you want to read, you can ignore the rest.
As for blogging, I don't, and I don't know why you assume I do. And the ad-hominem attack, well, it just goes to show that you prefer to attack the person rather than their argument or position. Try a little harder in future.
2. See point 1 above.
3. References are also published online, as you well know.
His point is without base, as books don't contains all known knowledge either.
We put it there through publishing it into a place google can access. Content prior to 1990 will still be there if it is still out there, with the exception of newsgroups. Google traverse more than the web, it does newsgroups too. It doesn't do FTP because that it binary data, but it will do HTTP that points to FTP entries. If it's well tagged, the data will come back appropriately. The Net does not contain everything humans have discovered or thought. And neither do books.
In the US they have the Republicans, which are just like our Tories, and they also have the Democrats, which are just like our Tories. For those outside the UK, the Tories are our right wing party.
Don't look at the finger, or you will miss all of that heavenly glory.
The only part of this statement that could be construed as being true is that those who don't read classical literature are less educated *in classic literature*. Can you really claim to be as well educated in all aspects of knowledge, simply because you have read some old fiction? If not, then how can you claim to be better educated than others? You're certaintly not well educated in logic, that much is apparent.
As to more cultured, there are vastly more forms of culture than the contents of these old stories. I attend film, ballet, musuems, theatre, rock/punk/dance/electro/improv electronica/classical concerts. I participate in role plays, and engage in a variety of other forms of culture. And I ensure I do this at least several times a month. I am a well cultured person, and have not read a single one of those "classic" literature novels the literatti seem so keen on - that's not to say I am not familiar with their contents, just that I am not interested in their contents. You try and hold literature as a way of separating yourself from others in society, to feel smug and superior, above others, when in fact you are exactly the same as the rest of us.
Don't try comparing yourself to others, there is always someone out better than you are.
I say again, if you can't find it in google, it's because you don't know how to use a search engine. I.T. workers can glean all the information they need to do their job from google, because we put all that information in there. Sure, researchers should read books, that their job for god's sake and they are a special case. A lot of others are simply looking for the key information on a subject, not war and peace, because we've got better things to do than read an entire textbook on herbology to find out which chemicals have the fun results, etc.
If only he would learn how to use google to do a search he might get relevant results back instead of white noise. As for his lifetime work "Universal Bibliographic Control", it sounds like a failure to me since full-text searching does a much better job than simple indexing - and we can use indexes too where we think they might be faster.
Really, if stuffy old coots like this could get their head out of the sand, and the information tied up in paper volumes into the digital world then maybe he *could* find the results he's looking for in google. Until then, you may well have to read the entire book, just to glean that one paragraph of information you really required.
Don't get into that RPG stuff, it's dangerously addictive. I have a little crack I'm not smoking now I'm playing WoW, maybe I could mail it to you ;->
Really, if you donated money to a site dedicated to IP theft then you got what you deserved. There's a line between harmless and reasonable sharing of files and that of IP crime, and the line is money - don't cross it. Share with your mates, but don't donate to obviously unscrupulous people.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
And programmers tend to hang on slashdot and other techie sites, so it is quite relevant to us. If patents are allowed to run their course, then there will be almost no chance of a single coder being able to innovate and bring a new product to market without being sued to crap by a heartless monolith. That's why programmers should care, unless they only want to work for mega corporations...