redefining "pokie"....as in, she's spending some quality time in the state/county pokie.
still....a "poke" on facebook is synonymous to a wave in a public place. Technically it is a form of communicating but I think it's overkill. Besides...don't we have bigger fish to fry?
it doesn't have to use a "paid/premium" account to access those files and it automates a lot of the tedious aspects of the free versions of the services. plus there are services out there meant for uploading to those file hosting services, anonymously and automatically, as well as payment services from various countries that don't share the bed with the lobbyists like the US/UK/France that handle the payment services as well as proxy services...
yes...I can go on and on. It's a cat-and-mouse game, where the mouse usually is more savy and has a head-start.
obviously, when u stamp out one source....and not the demand, a new source will come to existence to fill in that demand.
Rapidshare, Megaupload, netload, etc. have been around for a while and do have legitimate uses (some times, trying to send to a 20MB PDF or Illustrator (.ai) advertising file can wreak havoc on email, especially with some of the free email ones or if your client is a small business).
Some opensource apps also use the services to host mirrors to their downloads to lighten the load on their own servers.
it's been used for years to check stability in rigs by overclocking and gaming enthusiasts. They even have various different "levels" of FFT tests to limit the torture tests to within CPU cache levels which tests the CPU...or more than tests the RAM, PSU, etc.
yea...same here...for some reason, I thought of that one scene from one of the Road Trip movies...where the nerd develops the "perfect weed" that is undetectable....etc.
so...basically, the download page for the p2p software can't have any advertising.
(wonder if the judge mentioned whether or not the website can't have ads at all...or just "alongside"...anyone speak/read Portuguese?)
either way, I still think that's stupid logic....streets are used for a multitude of law-breaking purposes, including copyright infringement (how do you think people transport counterfeit goods? an Asgard teleporter?), not to mention, prostitution, kidnapping, drug-running.
And by that logic...the government not only builds and maintains (except in my city...where the pot holes can scare the shit out of Russia pot holes) roads, they collect monies for them (either thru gas taxes or tolls, etc.) and thus profiting from crime...
misleading title...as the charges weren't "dropped," they were dismissed by the Judge (yes...I rtfa).
"Dropped" implies that the prosecutor did the "dropping," either due to a plea bargain or because the lack of evidence.
plus I don't like how the Examiner "labels" Childs as a hacker....he was the f*cking sysadmin and essentially the father/protector of the city's fiberWAN. Especially considering the incompetence with computers and network security policies and practices by other city workers, he was considered the messiah/scapegoat. (definitely, among those of us who have had to deal with the city govt)
there are plenty of other fish that the prosecutor(s) can fry that are worth the frying.
oh, btw, I can't get the triangle button to add a tag to work anymore.
just need to set your user-agent to a "quicktime" user-agent (which means u can do it in Firefox with one of the many user-agent extensions or using wget)
QuickTime/7.6.2 (qtver=7.6.2;os=Windows NT 5.1Service Pack 3)
or
QuickTime/7.6.2
though for me, firefox didn't work...but wget does.
it's more of a "man in the middle" sort of thing and it by itself does not "break" the encryption.
Think of it as a keylogger for your hard drive. No matter how complex and secure an encryption method is, if you can steal the password (or key), yea...you get the idea.
In that sense, the title, summary, and the title of the article in question is misleading as it doesn't really bypass any encryption but rather daisy-chains itself into the process (so once you enter a password/key, it can capture it).
dunno about the rest of ya but for me...every time I hear wind power generation, it reminds me of Dune....specifically, the Dune PC games...where the main source of power were these wind turbines.
(yea, the old DOS based game...Dune II...man...classic...)
but dang...300ft turbines? imagine the number of migratory birds, insects (notably monarch butterflies from mexico), and numerous PETA/Greenpeace boats would be destroyed.... I guess the downside is just the animals that would be sacrificed for the greater good. c'est la vie
for anyone who has suffered hard drive failures that take out the entire drive....yea....sometimes, I want a backup on disc...something that's static and unpowered and loads cheaper than tape.
because par2 can't do folders and structures and from my own experience takes longer to process (plus for some reason, quickpar has a high tendency to fail)
dvdisaster is what I use now...both on CDs and DVDs (it also supports dual-layer)
think of it as a way to embed par2 (parity) onto a disc (it requires an ISO image that you create in your favorite authoring software, then after it's done embedding the parity in it, you can burn it)
alternately, you can create a separate recovery data which you can store on backup tapes or hard drives or on another disc, etc.
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redefining "pokie"....as in, she's spending some quality time in the state/county pokie.
still....a "poke" on facebook is synonymous to a wave in a public place. Technically it is a form of communicating but I think it's overkill.
Besides...don't we have bigger fish to fry?
even down under? (assuming there's something left down under)
one word.... jdownloader
makes downloading RS easy
(still time consuming)
It can even do RS folders automatically.
never heard of jdownloader?
it doesn't have to use a "paid/premium" account to access those files and it automates a lot of the tedious aspects of the free versions of the services.
plus there are services out there meant for uploading to those file hosting services, anonymously and automatically, as well as payment services from various countries that don't share the bed with the lobbyists like the US/UK/France that handle the payment services as well as proxy services...
yes...I can go on and on.
It's a cat-and-mouse game, where the mouse usually is more savy and has a head-start.
this one needs a "no sh*t sherlock" tag...
obviously, when u stamp out one source....and not the demand, a new source will come to existence to fill in that demand.
Rapidshare, Megaupload, netload, etc. have been around for a while and do have legitimate uses (some times, trying to send to a 20MB PDF or Illustrator (.ai) advertising file can wreak havoc on email, especially with some of the free email ones or if your client is a small business).
Some opensource apps also use the services to host mirrors to their downloads to lighten the load on their own servers.
never heard of prime95?
it's been used for years to check stability in rigs by overclocking and gaming enthusiasts.
They even have various different "levels" of FFT tests to limit the torture tests to within CPU cache levels which tests the CPU...or more than tests the RAM, PSU, etc.
Prime95
yea...same here...for some reason, I thought of that one scene from one of the Road Trip movies...where the nerd develops the "perfect weed" that is undetectable....etc.
so...basically, the download page for the p2p software can't have any advertising.
(wonder if the judge mentioned whether or not the website can't have ads at all...or just "alongside"...anyone speak/read Portuguese?)
either way, I still think that's stupid logic....streets are used for a multitude of law-breaking purposes, including copyright infringement (how do you think people transport counterfeit goods? an Asgard teleporter?), not to mention, prostitution, kidnapping, drug-running.
And by that logic...the government not only builds and maintains (except in my city...where the pot holes can scare the shit out of Russia pot holes) roads, they collect monies for them (either thru gas taxes or tolls, etc.) and thus profiting from crime...
The AP reported this a few days ago.
And today, they report that they are suing the potential buyers of Skype as well.
For the PC version, yes.
But there are versions for consoles which aren't sold via some online distribution system.
And they do have L4D for PC on disc as well.
of course, I'm assuming they won't change the distribution method with L4D2 (obligatory: distant cousin of R2D2?)
yea, was thinking the same thing...
According to a news post in boing boing and according to the manufacturer's website, it's for 50$
so...no sperm banks either?
Or if your name is "banks"?
Or if you happen to be a particular brand of beer.
a bunch of my friends and I have been playing starcraft again recently...it's so freaking nostalgic.
some play on a mac and some on windows machines.
misleading title...as the charges weren't "dropped," they were dismissed by the Judge (yes...I rtfa).
"Dropped" implies that the prosecutor did the "dropping," either due to a plea bargain or because the lack of evidence.
plus I don't like how the Examiner "labels" Childs as a hacker....he was the f*cking sysadmin and essentially the father/protector of the city's fiberWAN.
Especially considering the incompetence with computers and network security policies and practices by other city workers, he was considered the messiah/scapegoat.
(definitely, among those of us who have had to deal with the city govt)
there are plenty of other fish that the prosecutor(s) can fry that are worth the frying.
oh, btw, I can't get the triangle button to add a tag to work anymore.
just need to set your user-agent to a "quicktime" user-agent (which means u can do it in Firefox with one of the many user-agent extensions or using wget)
QuickTime/7.6.2 (qtver=7.6.2;os=Windows NT 5.1Service Pack 3)
or
QuickTime/7.6.2
though for me, firefox didn't work...but wget does.
looks like hotlinking has been disabled.
and downloading didn't work...I got a 1KB file...think something got hosed
even more fail if McD**ald's and/or Pay*ess sue her for libel and defamation.
I think this belongs on the fail blog dot ORG.
and yes...there's plenty of room for the ol' kneepads zinger (and the fact that it's still not too late to deploy 'em).
it's more of a "man in the middle" sort of thing and it by itself does not "break" the encryption.
Think of it as a keylogger for your hard drive.
No matter how complex and secure an encryption method is, if you can steal the password (or key), yea...you get the idea.
In that sense, the title, summary, and the title of the article in question is misleading as it doesn't really bypass any encryption but rather daisy-chains itself into the process (so once you enter a password/key, it can capture it).
dunno about the rest of ya but for me...every time I hear wind power generation, it reminds me of Dune....specifically, the Dune PC games...where the main source of power were these wind turbines.
(yea, the old DOS based game...Dune II...man...classic...)
but dang...300ft turbines? imagine the number of migratory birds, insects (notably monarch butterflies from mexico), and numerous PETA/Greenpeace boats would be destroyed....
I guess the downside is just the animals that would be sacrificed for the greater good.
c'est la vie
need I say any more?
for anyone who has suffered hard drive failures that take out the entire drive....yea....sometimes, I want a backup on disc...something that's static and unpowered and loads cheaper than tape.
because par2 can't do folders and structures and from my own experience takes longer to process (plus for some reason, quickpar has a high tendency to fail)
it's still not enough redundancy for some people including myself.
and it's DUH...when it comes to the loss of space.
Microsoft suggested 8x or even 4x burning when deploying vista onto discs.
#2 sounds like total bull.
anyways...if you're really nuts, you can use some sort of mylar vacuum sealer to protect it from UV, oxygen, and other things that may harm it.
dvdisaster is what I use now...both on CDs and DVDs (it also supports dual-layer)
think of it as a way to embed par2 (parity) onto a disc (it requires an ISO image that you create in your favorite authoring software, then after it's done embedding the parity in it, you can burn it)
alternately, you can create a separate recovery data which you can store on backup tapes or hard drives or on another disc, etc.