Go see a lawyer. A consult us usually free and he might just charge a small fee to send a letter to Kelkea Inc. Mention stuff like lost income, puntivtive damages, and the like. I bet you will be off the MAPS list in a heart beat.
I hope you get better luck out of sony for you p2p that I did out of them for my th-55 clie. It stopped working. I sent it in for repairs. They fucked it up there and blamed it on me even. Now I have a pda worth shit. Buy sony shit only at your own risk
Also, the ones smart enough to have noticed this article are smart enough that they're already protecting their data better.
Tell me about it. Now that I know what they are looking for I know what not to change my password too. It also gave me peace of mind knowing that the pass phrase I use to protect the shit that I don't want anyone knowing has nothing to do with any hobby I have nor is it in any tv program or book I've read.
It is a stupid ideal. I had to use one of those rsa cards to log into the dial in at work. It was a pain in the ass to use but I used it. They paid me to use it. Now mickysoft is going to require me to use one when I log on to MY computer at my house? I don't think so.
Joe Sixpack hates passwords and login's on his machine at home. The good part is this can be disabled. Now they are going increase the login process and make it harder? I don't think so.
More security doesn't always equal better security.
I think I can rest my case now. There are eleven replies to my original reply, including two now three that are my own. Of those two by posters that disagree with my option but offered intelligent replies or critics of my original statement that where worthy of a response. You know who you are. One was a humorous jab at someone else's response which I can include in my intelligent posters list.
The other seven where responses to a stupid tag line totally unrelated to the original topic, most of them where anonymous cowards too. These people are the fools that I'm talking about. You will find that they fit perfectly into my percentage predictions at the time of this posting.
Also at the time of this posting the original post is at +4, Insightful. Checking my own record you will find that most of my posts are in the +3 to +4 range, so my record stands for itself. Granted most of them are rated Funny but that is because I'm a very funny person. The few Trolls that I have are because someone didn't understand the joke. My fault.
My statement stands. Most people are idiots. The others are worth your attention.
Yes, that is true, but there is a flaw in your logic. You don't treat them like idiots, you simply let them be idiots. Once you realize that they are idiots you know what to expect from them. Being a good actor helps too.
One more piece of advice from my asshole's guide to survival. Sincerity, learn to fake it. Once people think you honestly give a damn about thier problems they will do almost anything for you.
No, people are intelligent. But they are intelligent according to their own definition of intelligent, not yours or mine.
Good point, but personal experence has taught me otherwise. People as a group tend to be as smart at the least common denominator. Unfortunally the least common denominator all tends to be the ones with tie. Now then, there are some pretty brilliant people out there but those people only really shine when alone or in small groups.
On the average, I would say that between 75% and 90% of the people that you deal with on a daily bases are fools. This number are reflected in the posters on/. too. I have been active on this board since first year it opened. Anyone can tell you the quality of the comments has dropped like a stone over the years.
It's called Sturgeon's Law, 90% of everything is crap. Learn it, live by it for it is correct and it applies equally to people
People aren't stupid. Let me say that again: people are not stupid, they are not dumb, they are not morons
Yes, they are. People are stupid. Individuals are intelligent. People are not. Here is a little advice for you. If you go through life thinking people are stupid you will be a lot less dissappointed. Keep your expectations set low and you will seldom be let down.
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All spelling, gammer, and logical mistakes are intentinal because I'm to fucking lazy to look it up. If you don't like it, Fuck Off!
Hehe. That was my line of thinking. The rest of us will continue using the stuff that works.
With DVD's pushing between 20 and 30 bucks and blanks under 50 cents each, you would be a fool not to make a copy general play. But that wasn't the real thing that pushed me over the edge to making a copy of every DVD I buy. It's the shit they pile on at the front of it.
At first it was insert dvd, get main menu, watch movie. Then it became insert dvd, get previews for upcoming movies, press menu button to get to menu. Then it became insert dvd, fastward through god damn fucking previews, main menu. Now on some its insert dvd, wait through ads, threats, preveiws you don't give a fuck about, can't fastword, menu button doesn't do shit.
GOD DAMN FUCKING BASTARDS!!! I KNOW WHAT FUCKING MOVIES ARE COMING, I JUST WANT TO WATCH THE FUCKING MOVIE!
While backing up the movie, I simply rip the shit out. God Damn Bastards
Tell me about it. What I don't understand as an American company why don't Google just tell france to 'Fuck off.' Yahoo should have just told them the same thing. What are they going to do? Invade and shut down the server.
Fuck you too, you pile of useless shit. Idiots such as yourself and your crones are what have destroyed Usenet and Slashdot itself. I remember when I could store several weeks worth of intelligent conversations on a 40MB harddrive and download them with a 1200bps modem.
Spelling and grammar mistakes where ignored because English wasn't people's first language and correction posts took up harddrive space. Space that more valuable storing a intelligent post than a stupid grammar correction. The where also ignored because people where posting to it between classes and had limited time so they typed fast and made mistakes. But that wasn't important, it was the content.
Now then fools, such as yourself, come along an think it's your duty to correct every little mistake that someone makes. There once was a time when intelligent discussions could be found here. Those times are long gone. Time to put Slashdot in read-only mode an head for greener pastures.
Fuck all you bastards and the horse you rode in on.
Who gives a fuck what you are he was referriing too? On Usenet it is bad manners to correct someone over bad grammer and bad spelling. It will be nice to go back to a place where ideals and content are valued instead of the small mistakes that don't matter. Won't it be great to see us go so fools like you can continue to debate on/. grammer and spelling mistakes? I imagine that is all you will be debating.
You have no clue about the irony in your post, do you?
If you mean by assuming that you will be one of them leaving, I sure do. But I have to admit it will be nice to be back on Usenet after your gone. Haven't been on it in years.
Hell, it could be better. Think of instead of using the old forward and store system of article distribution we can cross it with modern P2P technology. Instead of one central server or a backbone servers to store huge caches of articles smaller home machines on cable and ASDL connections could have smaller caches. There would just be more of them. Of course small home machine is purely subjective. Most of us have machines many times more powerful than machines that used to run Usenet. For instance this box that I'm typing this on is a 64bit system with 2GB of RAM and well over a teribyte of harddrive space.
No, it won't. If all the riftraft and other clueless morons leave Usenet then it will become a useful comunications tool for a small but well inteligent group of users again. Small I mean as in 10,000 or 20,000 users. In other words it will return to its roots where people, such as myself, will begin running small and large servers decited to the free exchange of ideals. I think this could be the beginning to a new golden age for Usenet myself.
Make sure you look at that column at the end, the one that says "Worldwide Gross." And please feel free to notice that these are all American or American style films. I would love to see numbers like this matching bollywood or any other non-hollywood films.
Take your time, I'll wait. And yes there are some stinkers down at the bottm.
I have looked outside my borders and my statement still stands. Where ever there is an American movie playing it will always do better than the local talent. The world prefers American films over just about anyone elses. Maybe that should read American Style films.
Some people may not like that but it is a simple fact.
No, I really don't consider africa as part of the world. The only reason they watch bollywood movies is because they don't know, no better.
Why would I want to crawl out of my well. It's really nice down here. I have an nice collection of movies from Europe, Britain and Germany make up most of them but there are some nice French and Russian titles in there too.
Now for the other side of the world. I have a strong love for Japanese movies. Japan is renown for it's anime which I have an excellent collection of. Ghost in the Shell, Escaflowne, Princess Mononoke, serveral titles by Hayao Miyazaki, and of course Akira. Those are just movies, Japan has some wonder TV series too. I highly recommend Witchhunter Robin and Fullmetal Panic. Two with a lot of character development that I would recommend are Figure 17 and Chobits.
Of course I have a few Chinesse movies but I don't like them as much as the anime. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and I'm going to pick up Hero but I don't think it counts as forgien. I sw another one that I'm looking forward to also, House of the Flying Daggers I think it was called.
Don't tell me I need to crawl out of my well. I watch more than enough movies from all over the world. My statement still stands. Bollywood movies may think they are popular but the world prefers American movies over them any day.
Oh yes, for the record I do watch the anime movies in the language they where intended and I am fluent enough in it to enjoy them.
Lets not forget that the rest of the world seems to prefer American films over bollywood. Case in point, when was the last time you attended a major opening of a bollywood film in japan?
That is what I thought.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, fuck it. Get a better ISP.
Go see a lawyer. A consult us usually free and he might just charge a small fee to send a letter to Kelkea Inc. Mention stuff like lost income, puntivtive damages, and the like. I bet you will be off the MAPS list in a heart beat.
And if not. sue their fucking asses.
I hope you get better luck out of sony for you p2p that I did out of them for my th-55 clie. It stopped working. I sent it in for repairs. They fucked it up there and blamed it on me even. Now I have a pda worth shit. Buy sony shit only at your own risk
How about "fuck off pig?" That way when they ask you under oath what you pass word is you can sincerally tell them what it is and what they can do.
Tell me about it. Now that I know what they are looking for I know what not to change my password too. It also gave me peace of mind knowing that the pass phrase I use to protect the shit that I don't want anyone knowing has nothing to do with any hobby I have nor is it in any tv program or book I've read.
It is a stupid ideal. I had to use one of those rsa cards to log into the dial in at work. It was a pain in the ass to use but I used it. They paid me to use it. Now mickysoft is going to require me to use one when I log on to MY computer at my house? I don't think so.
Joe Sixpack hates passwords and login's on his machine at home. The good part is this can be disabled. Now they are going increase the login process and make it harder? I don't think so.
More security doesn't always equal better security.
Isn't it kind of to late? I mean UPN is already advertizing the season final some time next month.
I think we can stick a fork in this heffer.
I think I can rest my case now. There are eleven replies to my original reply, including two now three that are my own. Of those two by posters that disagree with my option but offered intelligent replies or critics of my original statement that where worthy of a response. You know who you are. One was a humorous jab at someone else's response which I can include in my intelligent posters list.
The other seven where responses to a stupid tag line totally unrelated to the original topic, most of them where anonymous cowards too. These people are the fools that I'm talking about. You will find that they fit perfectly into my percentage predictions at the time of this posting.
Also at the time of this posting the original post is at +4, Insightful. Checking my own record you will find that most of my posts are in the +3 to +4 range, so my record stands for itself. Granted most of them are rated Funny but that is because I'm a very funny person. The few Trolls that I have are because someone didn't understand the joke. My fault.
My statement stands. Most people are idiots. The others are worth your attention.
Yes, that is true, but there is a flaw in your logic. You don't treat them like idiots, you simply let them be idiots. Once you realize that they are idiots you know what to expect from them. Being a good actor helps too.
One more piece of advice from my asshole's guide to survival. Sincerity, learn to fake it. Once people think you honestly give a damn about thier problems they will do almost anything for you.
No, people are intelligent. But they are intelligent according to their own definition of intelligent, not yours or mine.
Good point, but personal experence has taught me otherwise. People as a group tend to be as smart at the least common denominator. Unfortunally the least common denominator all tends to be the ones with tie. Now then, there are some pretty brilliant people out there but those people only really shine when alone or in small groups.
On the average, I would say that between 75% and 90% of the people that you deal with on a daily bases are fools. This number are reflected in the posters on /. too. I have been active on this board since first year it opened. Anyone can tell you the quality of the comments has dropped like a stone over the years.
It's called Sturgeon's Law, 90% of everything is crap. Learn it, live by it for it is correct and it applies equally to people
People aren't stupid. Let me say that again: people are not stupid, they are not dumb, they are not morons
Yes, they are. People are stupid. Individuals are intelligent. People are not. Here is a little advice for you. If you go through life thinking people are stupid you will be a lot less dissappointed. Keep your expectations set low and you will seldom be let down.
--
All spelling, gammer, and logical mistakes are intentinal because I'm to fucking lazy to look it up. If you don't like it, Fuck Off!
Hehe. That was my line of thinking. The rest of us will continue using the stuff that works.
With DVD's pushing between 20 and 30 bucks and blanks under 50 cents each, you would be a fool not to make a copy general play. But that wasn't the real thing that pushed me over the edge to making a copy of every DVD I buy. It's the shit they pile on at the front of it.
At first it was insert dvd, get main menu, watch movie. Then it became insert dvd, get previews for upcoming movies, press menu button to get to menu. Then it became insert dvd, fastward through god damn fucking previews, main menu. Now on some its insert dvd, wait through ads, threats, preveiws you don't give a fuck about, can't fastword, menu button doesn't do shit.
GOD DAMN FUCKING BASTARDS!!! I KNOW WHAT FUCKING MOVIES ARE COMING, I JUST WANT TO WATCH THE FUCKING MOVIE!
While backing up the movie, I simply rip the shit out. God Damn Bastards
Tell me about it. What I don't understand as an American company why don't Google just tell france to 'Fuck off.' Yahoo should have just told them the same thing. What are they going to do? Invade and shut down the server.
Yes, it was pretty good wasn't it? Time to let it die and get on with life.
Fuck you too, you pile of useless shit. Idiots such as yourself and your crones are what have destroyed Usenet and Slashdot itself. I remember when I could store several weeks worth of intelligent conversations on a 40MB harddrive and download them with a 1200bps modem.
Spelling and grammar mistakes where ignored because English wasn't people's first language and correction posts took up harddrive space. Space that more valuable storing a intelligent post than a stupid grammar correction. The where also ignored because people where posting to it between classes and had limited time so they typed fast and made mistakes. But that wasn't important, it was the content.
Now then fools, such as yourself, come along an think it's your duty to correct every little mistake that someone makes. There once was a time when intelligent discussions could be found here. Those times are long gone. Time to put Slashdot in read-only mode an head for greener pastures.
Fuck all you bastards and the horse you rode in on.
Who gives a fuck what you are he was referriing too? On Usenet it is bad manners to correct someone over bad grammer and bad spelling. It will be nice to go back to a place where ideals and content are valued instead of the small mistakes that don't matter. Won't it be great to see us go so fools like you can continue to debate on /. grammer and spelling mistakes? I imagine that is all you will be debating.
You have no clue about the irony in your post, do you?
If you mean by assuming that you will be one of them leaving, I sure do. But I have to admit it will be nice to be back on Usenet after your gone. Haven't been on it in years.
Hell, it could be better. Think of instead of using the old forward and store system of article distribution we can cross it with modern P2P technology. Instead of one central server or a backbone servers to store huge caches of articles smaller home machines on cable and ASDL connections could have smaller caches. There would just be more of them. Of course small home machine is purely subjective. Most of us have machines many times more powerful than machines that used to run Usenet. For instance this box that I'm typing this on is a 64bit system with 2GB of RAM and well over a teribyte of harddrive space.
No, it won't. If all the riftraft and other clueless morons leave Usenet then it will become a useful comunications tool for a small but well inteligent group of users again. Small I mean as in 10,000 or 20,000 users. In other words it will return to its roots where people, such as myself, will begin running small and large servers decited to the free exchange of ideals. I think this could be the beginning to a new golden age for Usenet myself.
It's like the fucking nightmare that won't die. I loved the Amiga but that was 20 years ago. Pat the dirt down, it's time to move on people.
Yes, they did. Now here is my counter link. Movie Budgets and Gross
Make sure you look at that column at the end, the one that says "Worldwide Gross." And please feel free to notice that these are all American or American style films. I would love to see numbers like this matching bollywood or any other non-hollywood films.
Take your time, I'll wait. And yes there are some stinkers down at the bottm.
I have looked outside my borders and my statement still stands. Where ever there is an American movie playing it will always do better than the local talent. The world prefers American films over just about anyone elses. Maybe that should read American Style films.
Some people may not like that but it is a simple fact.
No, I really don't consider africa as part of the world. The only reason they watch bollywood movies is because they don't know, no better.
Why would I want to crawl out of my well. It's really nice down here. I have an nice collection of movies from Europe, Britain and Germany make up most of them but there are some nice French and Russian titles in there too.
Now for the other side of the world. I have a strong love for Japanese movies. Japan is renown for it's anime which I have an excellent collection of. Ghost in the Shell, Escaflowne, Princess Mononoke, serveral titles by Hayao Miyazaki, and of course Akira. Those are just movies, Japan has some wonder TV series too. I highly recommend Witchhunter Robin and Fullmetal Panic. Two with a lot of character development that I would recommend are Figure 17 and Chobits.
Of course I have a few Chinesse movies but I don't like them as much as the anime. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and I'm going to pick up Hero but I don't think it counts as forgien. I sw another one that I'm looking forward to also, House of the Flying Daggers I think it was called.
Don't tell me I need to crawl out of my well. I watch more than enough movies from all over the world. My statement still stands. Bollywood movies may think they are popular but the world prefers American movies over them any day.
Oh yes, for the record I do watch the anime movies in the language they where intended and I am fluent enough in it to enjoy them.
Why don't you just answer the question?
Lets not forget that the rest of the world seems to prefer American films over bollywood. Case in point, when was the last time you attended a major opening of a bollywood film in japan? That is what I thought.