I've got off three copyright cases so far by forging emails giving me express permission from the author to use the software.
And I'm halfway through a settlement case for my last de-facto relationship relying on an email 'she sent me' which explains that I can have everything!
I figure if the RIAA can do it, it's not imorral for me to do it. Besides, this Bitch deserves it.
The motor car killed the horse and cart industry, and the Internet will kill the music industry.
Why not answer the question "Should customers morally purchase CD's in leu of stealing them from the Internet when they are supporting an industry that wastes billions of dollars (both consumer and tax payers) in the legal system in an effort to keep the control they have by squashing any innovative competitors?"
Noo, it's got nothing to do with age. Take Pornography for example.... I've got films that are more artistic than anything you'll see hanging on a wall in a dreary building but do they call that art? No. Because the only people who like it are straight men of all ages.
from dictionary.com: The fine arts are those which have primarily to do with
imagination and taste, and are applied to the production
of what is beautiful. They include poetry, music,
painting, engraving, sculpture, and architecture; but the
term is often confined to painting, sculpture, and
architecture.
ie. The public perception of what is art has nothing to do with imagination or talent... Art is anything which serves no practical purpose and is loved by women and fags.
Video games and Porn will never be "art"... sorry.... the good news is their creators usually get rich from their product. not like "artists" who's works aren't worth anything until they die.
Being an Australian I'm extatic to hear that Microsoft is squandering your tax payers dollars on crap like marketing vista.
Since we're basically ruled by your government under the guise of a "Free Trade Agreement" it's great to get something back!
Bring on the Vista Adds!!
I'm really looking forward to meet the microsoft marketing babes and getting my free lunch in the upcoming "buy our crap" roadshow that is likely to follow. Oh how much sweeter that food will taste knowing that indirectly George Bush is paying for it! (unless he is a tax dodger as well? Does any one know if George pays tax?)
It does take a painfully long time to hack your computer tho, I'm like:
CD \windows dir [wait for you to disconnect from the web, plug the modem into the PC, run 0wned script, plug back into the net] cd system32 dir [again...]
Okay, here's the short version of why it's important to remain anonymous.
Even in day to day business people do things that other people don't like.
If you are about to do something that people more powerful than you aren't going to like, it can be important for your own personal safety that they don't find out you were responsible.
If you are a residential customer on a non-usage charged plan, unused bandwidth is wasted. Where do you get off being selfish and thinking you shouldn't donate it to others in your neighbourhood??
This has the added benifit of you now having no control over what is downloaded on your connection... so unless you are caught with illegal material on your PC, any ISP logs saying your connection downloaded something illegal, did something illegal or otherwise behaved in an inappropriate way is no proof that you were actually the one doing it.
Here's something to take away: Charity begins at home.
Yeah, seriously... No, Just let me get this straight, because I'm slow...
You are complaining that a Video about Microsoft.com, featuring Microsoft employees, created by Microsoft is released in Microsoft's favorite media format which plays natively in Microsoft Windows Media Player.
Umm yeah, okay, it's really a secret ploy to give you linux nuts another reason to re-compile your kernel with evil capitalist codecs in it (or some other bullshit rant).
I'd like to introduce you to a little tool called "sysprep" distributed with your Windows XP resource kit, or avaliable as a download from microsoft's website.
I know the parent is a joke, but it's actually a valid comment, and why the whole arguement about not putting in raised floors is such bullshit.
With the new blade and single RU servers, the cooling arguement is untouchable... a fully populated 5RU Blade server can heat air by 5 degrees C as it blows from the front of the rack to the back... go on, stack 5 of them up and tell me you can cool bottom to top; regardless of how much cold air you can force into the bottom of the cabnet.
Raised floors may not be good for cooling, but they're still good for hiding cables, ducts and power. I've seen 2 server rooms be built recently without raised floors... which results in ugly exposed overhead ducting and someone getting a ladder (or climbing on racks depending on where the oc-health people are at) to re-route cable.
The arguement may no longer hold for 800mm raised floors, but you'd be mad not to put in something that allows you to hide infrastrucure under your walkways. You can get cheap 3" raised floors, if money is tight use them.
How is this news? I mean really??? Does anyone know " Sacramento County Sheriff's Lt. Bob Lozito of the Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force."... I don't, I've never heard of him, besides, he's a bloody COP. He's entitled to believe whatever he likes is illegal, it's NOT UP TO HIM.
This is typical scaremongering and dis-information. Hey, he's a County Sheriff.. Hi-Tech crimes probably translates to laptop-theft and computer vandalism at the local high-school.
I'm surpised he didn't use the words "Terrorist" or "Communist" or "Unpatriotic" in the article.. that usually gets blind support these days.
Let me know when any court actually backs this up.
Yeah, the stainless steel is a requirement for the Tesla flux free-energy theory to work.
I'm not a nutball, see, those rotating discs that you think only measure the amount of power you use which are in every house actually CREATE the power you use. I'm telling you this rather than making a PACKET of money out of it because I'm a scientest, and the government is trying to shut me up.... Look, I've got a shiny object with russian writing on it which PROVES the war wouldn't have been won by us if they had just read and understood Tesla's writings.
It's not offtopic, I sware, because the reason why NASA won't analize the data on those tapes and are so keen to throw out the only computer that will read them is because they KNOW it will prove my point, and that will put the oil companies out of business.
Maybe it's part of some Free-Trade negotiations...
America: No, You didn't support us in our silly War that we're still stuck in. We are going to Tariff you! Canada: How about we pass some silly laws so yours look less silly? you know, people are talking... America: Can you start a war with Albania for no reason so our voting public can be annoyed at you and forget about Iraq? Canada: Maybe... but lets just start with the silly laws. America: Okay, have a cigar.
Just as a quick show of hands, post September 11.. who has actually flown with a razor, pressurized deodorant can, cigarette lighter and a ball-point pen all in hand luggage? I can tell you all those things are potential weapons, and some are prohibited but not once have I been asked to forfeit them at the customs checks.
Sure, they're not as effective as a real knife or a gun and you'd be stuffed if an air marshal was on the targeted flight, but a terrorist would have an 'eye gouging' good time with all the theatrical effects of a flamethrower using nothing more.
Airport security checks are absolute bullshit. The only thing that will stop terrorism is to stop pissing off people who are likely to retalliate violently.
I'm with the parent... My first reaction to this story is.. Get the f*ck over it.
The eTax program is designed to cater for individuals doing their own tax. Most people don't use it, because they go to an accountant.. and others don't use it (like me) because its too intelligent and inflexable for it's own good.
If you're upset about loading windows onto your computer to do your tax.. do us all a favor and go to your nearest post office, pick up the tax pack and one of those pen thingys and do it the old way.
I'd prefer my tax dollars going to feeding you unemployed bastards rather than making more useless software for less than 10% of the population who A. trust the internet, B. Can't afford an accountant and C. don't want to spend (tax deductable) 45c on a stamp and/or can't handwrite.
Sorry, this is kinda close to a troll... but really, is this news??
I'm with you. I hardly ever got viruses until the major virus companies started making money from selling antivirus -- I guess we'll find out when Microsoft finally get around to putting all the AV companies out of business by building it into their OS.
Seems to me a little convenient that 99% of viruses created seem to do nothing more than spread. I remember when I was a 'script kiddie' I was maicious. If script kiddies were creating viruses they'd be deleting word and excel documents and filling hard drives and killing windows 9x OS's; printing shit to printers etc.
Being the sysadmin at a small company, I am the person who actually ends up reading people's email; and being a small company, the person who has to face the person who's email I just read.
The arguement is simple and well covered, the company owns the computer, your email, and anything you do on company time.
The only grey areas are 'does the company have the right to go through email you deleted', and 'does the company own something you did using company resources in your own time.'
I mix personal email with company email; as do many others...
I say openly to other employees "Yes, I can read your email. Yes, it's not private. Yes, we own it. BUT, The company and I don't care what you and your friends talk about and what you do on the weekend." If you're not trading secrets, resumes or bagging the company, even if we do read your email, we don't CARE.
If you're worried about privacy in a 1000+ employee company, remember this:
Slashdot Mirror
shhhh! don't tell anyone!
I've got off three copyright cases so far by forging emails giving me express permission from the author to use the software.
And I'm halfway through a settlement case for my last de-facto relationship relying on an email 'she sent me' which explains that I can have everything!
I figure if the RIAA can do it, it's not imorral for me to do it. Besides, this Bitch deserves it.
The motor car killed the horse and cart industry, and the Internet will kill the music industry.
Why not answer the question "Should customers morally purchase CD's in leu of stealing them from the Internet when they are supporting an industry that wastes billions of dollars (both consumer and tax payers) in the legal system in an effort to keep the control they have by squashing any innovative competitors?"
Noo, it's got nothing to do with age. Take Pornography for example.... I've got films that are more artistic than anything you'll see hanging on a wall in a dreary building but do they call that art? No. Because the only people who like it are straight men of all ages.
.. sorry. ... the good news is their creators usually get rich from their product. not like "artists" who's works aren't worth anything until they die.
from dictionary.com:
The fine arts are those which have primarily to do with
imagination and taste, and are applied to the production
of what is beautiful. They include poetry, music,
painting, engraving, sculpture, and architecture; but the
term is often confined to painting, sculpture, and
architecture.
ie. The public perception of what is art has nothing to do with imagination or talent... Art is anything which serves no practical purpose and is loved by women and fags.
Video games and Porn will never be "art".
Being an Australian I'm extatic to hear that Microsoft is squandering your tax payers dollars on crap like marketing vista.
Since we're basically ruled by your government under the guise of a "Free Trade Agreement" it's great to get something back!
Bring on the Vista Adds!!
I'm really looking forward to meet the microsoft marketing babes and getting my free lunch in the upcoming "buy our crap" roadshow that is likely to follow. Oh how much sweeter that food will taste knowing that indirectly George Bush is paying for it! (unless he is a tax dodger as well? Does any one know if George pays tax?)
[Really, this is not off topic I sware!]
All your script are belong to us.
It does take a painfully long time to hack your computer tho, I'm like:
CD \windows
dir
[wait for you to disconnect from the web, plug the modem into the PC, run 0wned script, plug back into the net]
cd system32
dir
[again...]
Well, that's where I'm up to anyway...
Okay, here's the short version of why it's important to remain anonymous.
Even in day to day business people do things that other people don't like.
If you are about to do something that people more powerful than you aren't going to like, it can be important for your own personal safety that they don't find out you were responsible.
Got it? It's not just terrorists and pirates.
I absolutly agree with the parent.
If you are a residential customer on a non-usage charged plan, unused bandwidth is wasted. Where do you get off being selfish and thinking you shouldn't donate it to others in your neighbourhood??
This has the added benifit of you now having no control over what is downloaded on your connection... so unless you are caught with illegal material on your PC, any ISP logs saying your connection downloaded something illegal, did something illegal or otherwise behaved in an inappropriate way is no proof that you were actually the one doing it.
Here's something to take away: Charity begins at home.
Lords of the ring is the title of a gay porno film.
Seriously, is it that hard to do a title search before you release a film?
Yeah, seriously... No, Just let me get this straight, because I'm slow...
You are complaining that a Video about Microsoft.com, featuring Microsoft employees, created by Microsoft is released in Microsoft's favorite media format which plays natively in Microsoft Windows Media Player.
Umm yeah, okay, it's really a secret ploy to give you linux nuts another reason to re-compile your kernel with evil capitalist codecs in it (or some other bullshit rant).
I'd like to introduce you to a little tool called "sysprep" distributed with your Windows XP resource kit, or avaliable as a download from microsoft's website.
It solves the problem.
Funny, i've yet to see someone who actually admits to liking giving head.
:)
Doesn't make it any less cool
I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but I have to tell you a little secret that Bill Hicks told me.
Non smokers die every day.
Sorry.
I know the parent is a joke, but it's actually a valid comment, and why the whole arguement about not putting in raised floors is such bullshit.
With the new blade and single RU servers, the cooling arguement is untouchable... a fully populated 5RU Blade server can heat air by 5 degrees C as it blows from the front of the rack to the back... go on, stack 5 of them up and tell me you can cool bottom to top; regardless of how much cold air you can force into the bottom of the cabnet.
Raised floors may not be good for cooling, but they're still good for hiding cables, ducts and power. I've seen 2 server rooms be built recently without raised floors... which results in ugly exposed overhead ducting and someone getting a ladder (or climbing on racks depending on where the oc-health people are at) to re-route cable.
The arguement may no longer hold for 800mm raised floors, but you'd be mad not to put in something that allows you to hide infrastrucure under your walkways. You can get cheap 3" raised floors, if money is tight use them.
Oh wait, do HBO do The West Wing? If they do I take that back. ... I don't know, I get it off BitTorrent.
What a bunch of assholes!
Now if they produced shows that didn't SUCK I might give a shit.
if !(On_Earth)
{
cout << "You are in a Dark Lonley Place...";
cout << "To submit to the guide...";
}
Now it covers the entire galaxy.
How is this news? I mean really??? ... I don't, I've never heard of him, besides, he's a bloody COP. He's entitled to believe whatever he likes is illegal, it's NOT UP TO HIM.
.. Hi-Tech crimes probably translates to laptop-theft and computer vandalism at the local high-school.
.. that usually gets blind support these days.
Does anyone know " Sacramento County Sheriff's Lt. Bob Lozito of the Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force."
This is typical scaremongering and dis-information. Hey, he's a County Sheriff
I'm surpised he didn't use the words "Terrorist" or "Communist" or "Unpatriotic" in the article
Let me know when any court actually backs this up.
Yeah, the stainless steel is a requirement for the Tesla flux free-energy theory to work.
... Look, I've got a shiny object with russian writing on it which PROVES the war wouldn't have been won by us if they had just read and understood Tesla's writings.
I'm not a nutball, see, those rotating discs that you think only measure the amount of power you use which are in every house actually CREATE the power you use. I'm telling you this rather than making a PACKET of money out of it because I'm a scientest, and the government is trying to shut me up.
It's not offtopic, I sware, because the reason why NASA won't analize the data on those tapes and are so keen to throw out the only computer that will read them is because they KNOW it will prove my point, and that will put the oil companies out of business.
Maybe it's part of some Free-Trade negotiations...
America: No, You didn't support us in our silly War that we're still stuck in. We are going to Tariff you!
Canada: How about we pass some silly laws so yours look less silly? you know, people are talking...
America: Can you start a war with Albania for no reason so our voting public can be annoyed at you and forget about Iraq?
Canada: Maybe... but lets just start with the silly laws.
America: Okay, have a cigar.
Just as a quick show of hands, post September 11 .. who has actually flown with a razor, pressurized deodorant can, cigarette lighter and a ball-point pen all in hand luggage? I can tell you all those things are potential weapons, and some are prohibited but not once have I been asked to forfeit them at the customs checks.
Sure, they're not as effective as a real knife or a gun and you'd be stuffed if an air marshal was on the targeted flight, but a terrorist would have an 'eye gouging' good time with all the theatrical effects of a flamethrower using nothing more.
Airport security checks are absolute bullshit. The only thing that will stop terrorism is to stop pissing off people who are likely to retalliate violently.
I'm with the parent... My first reaction to this story is .. Get the f*ck over it.
The eTax program is designed to cater for individuals doing their own tax. Most people don't use it, because they go to an accountant.. and others don't use it (like me) because its too intelligent and inflexable for it's own good.
If you're upset about loading windows onto your computer to do your tax.. do us all a favor and go to your nearest post office, pick up the tax pack and one of those pen thingys and do it the old way.
I'd prefer my tax dollars going to feeding you unemployed bastards rather than making more useless software for less than 10% of the population who A. trust the internet, B. Can't afford an accountant and C. don't want to spend (tax deductable) 45c on a stamp and/or can't handwrite.
Sorry, this is kinda close to a troll... but really, is this news??
I'm with you. I hardly ever got viruses until the major virus companies started making money from selling antivirus -- I guess we'll find out when Microsoft finally get around to putting all the AV companies out of business by building it into their OS.
Seems to me a little convenient that 99% of viruses created seem to do nothing more than spread. I remember when I was a 'script kiddie' I was maicious. If script kiddies were creating viruses they'd be deleting word and excel documents and filling hard drives and killing windows 9x OS's; printing shit to printers etc.
51% of the counted votes... In a perfect world that would be the same thing as "51% of the actively voting population"
Score: -1 offtopic.
Alcohol.
It's the ONLY way son.
Being the sysadmin at a small company, I am the person who actually ends up reading people's email; and being a small company, the person who has to face the person who's email I just read.
:)
The arguement is simple and well covered, the company owns the computer, your email, and anything you do on company time.
The only grey areas are 'does the company have the right to go through email you deleted', and 'does the company own something you did using company resources in your own time.'
I mix personal email with company email; as do many others...
I say openly to other employees "Yes, I can read your email. Yes, it's not private. Yes, we own it. BUT, The company and I don't care what you and your friends talk about and what you do on the weekend." If you're not trading secrets, resumes or bagging the company, even if we do read your email, we don't CARE.
If you're worried about privacy in a 1000+ employee company, remember this:
You're just not that important.