Yeah, you can add a robots.txt file and ask them to remove your site and it'll be wiped from their records. The problem is, if you don't have access to the site anymore, you can't throw in the robots.txt file. But, I just checked on a web page I requested they remove, which no longer existed so I couldn't put up a robots files, but I made the request anyways.
It looks like the page has been removed! My guess is if you request to remove a page and it doesn't exist anymore, they probably will remove it for you. This web page revealed me as the pothead and pro-marijuana person that I was (and still am though in private) back in college. I was afraid my employers were going to find my old web page, but they're probably potheads too.. But still, its good to be able to cover up the silliness of my past.
You might have a point. Though I think you underestimate the ability of "ordinary people" to find cracked software. Isn't it ordinary people who are using Kazaa and other P2P file sharing? People who are determined to pirate will be able to do so, regardless of their computer knowledge. And then there's the pirates who supply their friends/family with software. I knew people who didn't even own computers but had a modded playstation and a huge collection of pirated games. Though I don't have any statistics to back this up, its my impression that copy protection does little to prevent piracy (though admittedly, it does that little amount). I suppose this is a never-ending debate.
btw I consider things like serial number verification totally acceptable since its just a one-time thing, and doesn't prevent you from making backups and doesn't annoy you any further after you've installed your software. Unless you lose your serial number, doh!
Quoting your original message: People who break copy protection are "good guys"?
They become good guys to the legitimate software buyers when they remove the annoyance of copy protection. Read some of the messages in this thread and you'll find this to be true. Pirates also become good guys when your original copy gets corrupted and you're stuck without a backup.
Incidentally, I cracked some software I bought back in the early 90's (so I obviously have a bias). I did it merely for the challenge (and in some cases to get rid of doc checks), though I did anonymously distribute many of them. Good times.
Copy protection is annoying for people who buy the software, too. CD checks, doc checks, inability to make a backup, etc.
These companies waste time trying to inconvenience pirates who are just going to crack it anyways. And they inconvenience the people who are making them money, too.
You might be able to, at best, use this vulnerability for DOS attack. In comparison to IIS holes which allow the attacker to take over, this is trivial.
What's worse: a web server going down for a little while or a web server being completely compromised and attempting to infect clients (many of which have vulnerabilities themselves) with viruses/worms while logging all credit card transactions and sending them to a third party?.
I've burned small amounts of data on CD-RW many times. Then there is the zip disk for my random access needs. I don't have any floppy drives on any of my PCs (the drives all went bad years ago), though I do have one on my network if I really need it (but I rarely do). There are times when a floppy would be convenient, for example boot disks, but they are never necessary.
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That poll is too old to be relevant. I'd like to see a new poll now that Mozilla 1.0 is out.
I find it amusing when people call 1 GHz machines "ancient." I'm still running quite comfortably with my AMD K6-2+ 450 and a P2 266. Of course I do notice the difference when I get on a faster machine, and when I have to compile something moderately large I have to go do something else and come back later. But even then, the difference isn't enough for me to want to upgrade my CPU/mobo and increase the amount of heat in my poorly ventilated room.
I'm most likely going to upgrade when Hammer comes a long. But even then, I'll wait a bit.
I think you're right, I had the sudden urge to watch the Weather channel after reading this. I'll at least go to their web site and see if its going to rain in my area today.
I want my PHONE to do ONE THING and ONE THING ONLY. Make calls. Hell I find it easier to carry around an address book then used the damnable system that most of these devices have in them.
I honestly love having a phonebook inside my cell phone. I quit writing numbers down a long time ago. There's been so many times I've needed to write down a girl's number, didn't have a pen or paper, but I just pulled out my cellphone and punched it in. Of course, they weren't able to get my number but that's not as important.
I also use my cellphone as a clock, since I don't wear a watch anymore. I welcome additional features on my cellphone. But at the same time, I want a simple and clean interface, and some of these phones do have convoluted interfaces.
2) My mom/sister/father/brother/friend/etc is an idiot! They deserved to get taken advantage of!
I've got some friends (mostly hot chicks) who have pulled some real idiot moves (e.g. running viruses downloaded with Kazaa). I just laugh and help them fix their problems. But people learn from doing stupid things, though.
One chick I know was accidently sharing nudie pics of herself. I guess she thought "My Shared Folder" was a great place to put them.
I've done a search for.doc before because I was looking for etexts. But all I found was some high school kid's papers written for school. And they were really really bad.
and these clients are designed to close into the system tray and keep running when the normal user thinks they have closed it (and stopped it from running).
And also the fact that by default these clients start when Windows starts up. I've seen a bunch of my friends running a P2P client constantly because they just didn't know better.
I would imagine most of the people who use this I option are on 56k or less. They can't afford to have their upstream bandwidth be completely used up, nor are they worth as much for downloading from (I suppose every bit counts, though). But, yeah someone on a T1 or even cable/DSL should not be using this option.
Somehow, going out to party with a bunch of sweaty male IT workers and Software Developers just doesn't sound like my idea of a good time.
So bring some girls. That's what I'd do if I was going. Most of the girls I know like getting drunk and talking to computer geeks. Too bad there are no parties in my town.
Chicks usually dig personality, social skills, confidence, money, power etc. - all of which are in rather short supply in the hacker community; if hackers had any real power they wouldn't be so desperate to show how "powerful" they are.
You're right, its not the hacker in me that attracts the hotties. In fact I don't tell them about that stuff anyways. But my point is that not all hackers are dweebs living in their parents house who can't get laid. Some of us who used to go around exploring systems, are now professionals making $65k/year. So I spent all my free time back in high school in front of a computer screen. Now I make big bucks working in front of a computer screen, and then get laid in my free time. I say again, damn life is good. This is no dream.
But you're right, being a hacker won't really get you chicks. But its not going to prevent you from getting chicks either.
It's a silly idea all together, hacking, but I guess it must be better than girls/sunlight.
Back in high school I hacked some schoolwork for some chicks, they loved me for it. Chicks dig hackers, its a huge turn-on for them. They also like guys who can fix their computers. Girls always say "come over fix my computer." And they usually repay me with sex. Damn life is good.
I've never gotten a virus. Virus protection software is like condoms.. only idiots us them.
I know this dumb slut that got a virus, though. She wasn't using any antivirus software. But she was dumb enough to run a.vbs file. That's what she gets for sharing her stuff on peer-to-peer networks, and not using a condom.
Yeah, really. Aren't you supposed to be building robots using microcontrollers and coding them in assembly with an extremely small amount of memory to work with? That's where the challenge is anyways.
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Yeah, you can add a robots.txt file and ask them to remove your site and it'll be wiped from their records. The problem is, if you don't have access to the site anymore, you can't throw in the robots.txt file. But, I just checked on a web page I requested they remove, which no longer existed so I couldn't put up a robots files, but I made the request anyways.
It looks like the page has been removed! My guess is if you request to remove a page and it doesn't exist anymore, they probably will remove it for you. This web page revealed me as the pothead and pro-marijuana person that I was (and still am though in private) back in college. I was afraid my employers were going to find my old web page, but they're probably potheads too.. But still, its good to be able to cover up the silliness of my past.
You might have a point. Though I think you underestimate the ability of "ordinary people" to find cracked software. Isn't it ordinary people who are using Kazaa and other P2P file sharing? People who are determined to pirate will be able to do so, regardless of their computer knowledge. And then there's the pirates who supply their friends/family with software. I knew people who didn't even own computers but had a modded playstation and a huge collection of pirated games. Though I don't have any statistics to back this up, its my impression that copy protection does little to prevent piracy (though admittedly, it does that little amount). I suppose this is a never-ending debate.
btw I consider things like serial number verification totally acceptable since its just a one-time thing, and doesn't prevent you from making backups and doesn't annoy you any further after you've installed your software. Unless you lose your serial number, doh!
Quoting your original message:
People who break copy protection are "good guys"?
They become good guys to the legitimate software buyers when they remove the annoyance of copy protection. Read some of the messages in this thread and you'll find this to be true. Pirates also become good guys when your original copy gets corrupted and you're stuck without a backup.
Incidentally, I cracked some software I bought back in the early 90's (so I obviously have a bias). I did it merely for the challenge (and in some cases to get rid of doc checks), though I did anonymously distribute many of them. Good times.
Copy protection is annoying for people who buy the software, too. CD checks, doc checks, inability to make a backup, etc.
These companies waste time trying to inconvenience pirates who are just going to crack it anyways. And they inconvenience the people who are making them money, too.
You might be able to, at best, use this vulnerability for DOS attack. In comparison to IIS holes which allow the attacker to take over, this is trivial.
What's worse: a web server going down for a little while or a web server being completely compromised and attempting to infect clients (many of which have vulnerabilities themselves) with viruses/worms while logging all credit card transactions and sending them to a third party?.
Hmmm.. is there a way to anonymously report credit card theft?
I've burned small amounts of data on CD-RW many times. Then there is the zip disk for my random access needs. I don't have any floppy drives on any of my PCs (the drives all went bad years ago), though I do have one on my network if I really need it (but I rarely do). There are times when a floppy would be convenient, for example boot disks, but they are never necessary.
That poll is too old to be relevant. I'd like to see a new poll now that Mozilla 1.0 is out.
What client are you using that shares incomplete downloads?
I find it amusing when people call 1 GHz machines "ancient." I'm still running quite comfortably with my AMD K6-2+ 450 and a P2 266. Of course I do notice the difference when I get on a faster machine, and when I have to compile something moderately large I have to go do something else and come back later. But even then, the difference isn't enough for me to want to upgrade my CPU/mobo and increase the amount of heat in my poorly ventilated room.
I'm most likely going to upgrade when Hammer comes a long. But even then, I'll wait a bit.
I think you're right, I had the sudden urge to watch the Weather channel after reading this. I'll at least go to their web site and see if its going to rain in my area today.
I want my PHONE to do ONE THING and ONE THING ONLY. Make calls. Hell I find it easier to carry around an address book then used the damnable system that most of these devices have in them.
I honestly love having a phonebook inside my cell phone. I quit writing numbers down a long time ago. There's been so many times I've needed to write down a girl's number, didn't have a pen or paper, but I just pulled out my cellphone and punched it in. Of course, they weren't able to get my number but that's not as important.
I also use my cellphone as a clock, since I don't wear a watch anymore. I welcome additional features on my cellphone. But at the same time, I want a simple and clean interface, and some of these phones do have convoluted interfaces.
For me I would replace #2 with
2) My mom/sister/father/brother/friend/etc is an idiot! They deserved to get taken advantage of!
I've got some friends (mostly hot chicks) who have pulled some real idiot moves (e.g. running viruses downloaded with Kazaa). I just laugh and help them fix their problems. But people learn from doing stupid things, though.
One chick I know was accidently sharing nudie pics of herself. I guess she thought "My Shared Folder" was a great place to put them.
I've done a search for .doc before because I was looking for etexts. But all I found was some high school kid's papers written for school. And they were really really bad.
and these clients are designed to close into the system tray and keep running when the normal user thinks they have closed it (and stopped it from running).
And also the fact that by default these clients start when Windows starts up. I've seen a bunch of my friends running a P2P client constantly because they just didn't know better.
I would imagine most of the people who use this I option are on 56k or less. They can't afford to have their upstream bandwidth be completely used up, nor are they worth as much for downloading from (I suppose every bit counts, though). But, yeah someone on a T1 or even cable/DSL should not be using this option.
Somehow, going out to party with a bunch of sweaty male IT workers and Software Developers just doesn't sound like my idea of a good time.
So bring some girls. That's what I'd do if I was going. Most of the girls I know like getting drunk and talking to computer geeks. Too bad there are no parties in my town.
Chicks usually dig personality, social skills, confidence, money, power etc. - all of which are in rather short supply in the hacker community; if hackers had any real power they wouldn't be so desperate to show how "powerful" they are.
You're right, its not the hacker in me that attracts the hotties. In fact I don't tell them about that stuff anyways. But my point is that not all hackers are dweebs living in their parents house who can't get laid. Some of us who used to go around exploring systems, are now professionals making $65k/year. So I spent all my free time back in high school in front of a computer screen. Now I make big bucks working in front of a computer screen, and then get laid in my free time. I say again, damn life is good. This is no dream.
But you're right, being a hacker won't really get you chicks. But its not going to prevent you from getting chicks either.
It's a silly idea all together, hacking, but I guess it must be better than girls/sunlight.
Back in high school I hacked some schoolwork for some chicks, they loved me for it. Chicks dig hackers, its a huge turn-on for them. They also like guys who can fix their computers. Girls always say "come over fix my computer." And they usually repay me with sex. Damn life is good.
I've never gotten a virus. Virus protection software is like condoms.. only idiots us them.
.vbs file. That's what she gets for sharing her stuff on peer-to-peer networks, and not using a condom.
I know this dumb slut that got a virus, though. She wasn't using any antivirus software. But she was dumb enough to run a
Where? I couldn't find it, I looked all over.
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Do the rest of the conversion yourself, dumbass.
Dude that song was funny as well. How can anyone not pick on RMS after hearing that?