Maxim actually bought this exact product probably a year or so ago. It was $30,000 and the CEO was very proud to have a 3rd representation of a boob on his desk.
AntiTrust for me was like hackers done right. They didn't dumb down anything for the viewer. They even explained what an IP Address was. The credits were in HTML tags. The main programmer dude had Warcraft and Starcraft action figures on his desk (just like me. =] ) It was probably the most real major release computer nerd movie. The only part I didn't like is that the program they were working on was like an over-glorified Napster clone in which the Microsoft wannabes wanted to steal from the main guy.
Swordfish wasn't really true to life. But there was this one scene where he's sitting infront of his 10 computer screens programming his ass off. He's all happy and coding like crazy, doing everything right. I turn to my friend sitting next to me in the theater and ask "Where the hell is the cussing and screaming?" And sure enough, five seconds later something doesn't work right. He goes into a fit of rage, yelling and screaming at the computer just as if it was the computer's fault. Just like any real programmer. =)
This whole P2P issue will be over when Microsoft finally creates their own P2P program and distributes it along with their OS. It would be completely distributed to the mass markets. The average joe, not just the computer geeks who uses KaZaA now. With their lawyers they'd find the perfect way to get around all these silly laws. MS also has the brainpower to re-do Gnutella correctly so that it has no centralized servers and no one can get sued. And when someone does try to sue them, and if they are forced to stop distributing the application, then they can simply open source the application.
I know many of you/. people are anti-MS for your own reasons. But sometimes MS can be cool. They do have a few open source applications out there. And they try to find any way they can to dominate in every market. So often they do come out with the best software. Especially when some other company already has a working product out. They'll take the concept and improve it to perfection.
I've been checking out the URLs to popups I get so I can block their host names, forward them to 127.0.0.1 I noticed when going to tripod websites, the popups were sending a little bit more info than I care to give out. Now I usually don't give a damn about privacy. Because it's mostly anonymous and doesn't matter to me whatsoever. But these sometimes get very specific. In google, I did a search for "quake 3 console commands timedemo" I found one page on a tripod members website, popup came up. I look at the URL to the popup, and lookydo, tripod is sending the entire search string that I was looking for at Google.com to doubleclick.net http://ln.doubleclick.net/adi/tr. ln/memberpopup;kw =quake+3+console+commands+timedemo;h=misc;sz=468x6 0;ord=153227739823552?
To do a test on it, I searched for "tripod pr0n" came up with this result. Not only does it have my google search string, but my IP address (not that this matters, doubleclick gets it automatically when I download the banner, why is it in the URL?!) Along with the specific member I'm visiting and the specific webpage on his site I'm visiting. http://members.tripod.com/adm/popup/roa dmap.shtml? member_name=iron_mousey&path=updates.html&client_i p=63.205.211.142&ts=1017517610&ad_type=POPUP&categ ory=ent&search_string=tripod+pr0n&id=630279c715479 b78319b5f1116d96f5e
For those of you doing the HOSTS file adding 127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net thing.... Here's a 404.html file that I wrote up. Basically set this file as the 404 file to your webserver. It'll automatically close pop-ups for you.
<script> var done; done = false; if (parent) {
if (parent.href) { //it is a frame //do nothing
done = true;
} } //if ((!done) && (self.location.href==top.location.href)) { if ((!done) && (self==top)) { //popup or top level page
self.close(); } </script> <!-- This is crap for IIS. For some stupid reason, the file needs to be of a certain size. The Javascript above does not count as enough data for a 404 file? Odd. insert dummy data here until 404 file works properly. moo blah cow moo blah cow -->
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Maxim actually bought this exact product probably a year or so ago. It was $30,000 and the CEO was very proud to have a 3rd representation of a boob on his desk.
AntiTrust for me was like hackers done right. They didn't dumb down anything for the viewer. They even explained what an IP Address was. The credits were in HTML tags. The main programmer dude had Warcraft and Starcraft action figures on his desk (just like me. =] ) It was probably the most real major release computer nerd movie. The only part I didn't like is that the program they were working on was like an over-glorified Napster clone in which the Microsoft wannabes wanted to steal from the main guy. Swordfish wasn't really true to life. But there was this one scene where he's sitting infront of his 10 computer screens programming his ass off. He's all happy and coding like crazy, doing everything right. I turn to my friend sitting next to me in the theater and ask "Where the hell is the cussing and screaming?" And sure enough, five seconds later something doesn't work right. He goes into a fit of rage, yelling and screaming at the computer just as if it was the computer's fault. Just like any real programmer. =)
This whole P2P issue will be over when Microsoft finally creates their own P2P program and distributes it along with their OS. It would be completely distributed to the mass markets. The average joe, not just the computer geeks who uses KaZaA now. With their lawyers they'd find the perfect way to get around all these silly laws. MS also has the brainpower to re-do Gnutella correctly so that it has no centralized servers and no one can get sued. And when someone does try to sue them, and if they are forced to stop distributing the application, then they can simply open source the application. I know many of you /. people are anti-MS for your own reasons. But sometimes MS can be cool. They do have a few open source applications out there. And they try to find any way they can to dominate in every market. So often they do come out with the best software. Especially when some other company already has a working product out. They'll take the concept and improve it to perfection.
I've been checking out the URLs to popups I get so I can block their host names, forward them to 127.0.0.1 I noticed when going to tripod websites, the popups were sending a little bit more info than I care to give out. Now I usually don't give a damn about privacy. Because it's mostly anonymous and doesn't matter to me whatsoever. But these sometimes get very specific.. ln/memberpopup;kw =quake+3+console+commands+timedemo;h=misc;sz=468x6 0;ord=153227739823552?
a dmap.shtml? member_name=iron_mousey&path=updates.html&client_i p=63.205.211.142&ts=1017517610&ad_type=POPUP&categ ory=ent&search_string=tripod+pr0n&id=630279c715479 b78319b5f1116d96f5e
//it is a frame
//do nothing
//popup or top level page
In google, I did a search for "quake 3 console commands timedemo" I found one page on a tripod members website, popup came up. I look at the URL to the popup, and lookydo, tripod is sending the entire search string that I was looking for at Google.com to doubleclick.net
http://ln.doubleclick.net/adi/tr
To do a test on it, I searched for "tripod pr0n" came up with this result. Not only does it have my google search string, but my IP address (not that this matters, doubleclick gets it automatically when I download the banner, why is it in the URL?!) Along with the specific member I'm visiting and the specific webpage on his site I'm visiting.
http://members.tripod.com/adm/popup/ro
For those of you doing the HOSTS file adding 127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net thing.... Here's a 404.html file that I wrote up. Basically set this file as the 404 file to your webserver. It'll automatically close pop-ups for you.
<script>
var done;
done = false;
if (parent) {
if (parent.href) {
done = true;
}
}
//if ((!done) && (self.location.href==top.location.href)) {
if ((!done) && (self==top)) {
self.close();
}
</script>
<!--
This is crap for IIS. For some stupid reason, the file needs to be of a certain size.
The Javascript above does not count as enough data for a 404 file? Odd.
insert dummy data here until 404 file works properly.
moo
blah
cow
moo
blah
cow
-->