Why not kick in some p2p as well? If you're going to download a x00 mb file, then you might as well be a good neighbor and share some of that upstream bandwidth you've got there. And if p2p is not an option, why not just take a random OS FTP server, stuff it in an IRC client, let the initial connection go through the server and let browsing & data-transfer go through a direct connection.
Seems to me that writing a file transfer protocol ( Where have I heard that before? ) would be like reinventing the wheel. I mean, it's useful, sure. It's also been around for ages, as well.
I sympathize, really. I do own a few legal games and CD checks ONLY to see if you got the legal CDs are annoying. I paid 40+ for a CD or two, a cheap-ass quickstart guide ( no more printed manuals, go print the PDF on the CD ) and a cheap DVD case already, be glad I bought it already and not downloaded it. Anyways, all those little copy-protection things annoy me, like activation codes, SafeDisc and all other protections which mangle CDs, etc etc. But remember, just because I sympathize with you and agree with you on this doesn't mean the game-producers do. And guess which of us has more money to donate to political campaigns?
Besides, circumventing ANY kind of protection on software and/or data is illegal by US law. And this whole stunt clearly show that US laws is pretty much king all over the world these days. It's a sad state of affairs, but there's not allot I can do about it, being a non-US citizen.
As much as I hate to admit it, software "piracy" is bad and no matter what excuses peiople come up with. There are many improvements to be made with the current system but that's not the main issue at the moment. Still though, copying and cracking software is wrong. I'm not justifying it for myself either, I know it's wrong.
Then again, the bad part is that the happened on request of the US customs. ( Over here in the Netherlands at least.. ) The idea that 'my'* goverment bends over to the US will without any investigation on it's own and just raids places the US goverment tells them to, scares me. What if I suddenly become a PITA to the US goverment? Will my place be raided too?
This is something very concerning. There are so many laws and regulations that nearly any normal living person is, unwillingly and unknowingly, violating some minor laws and regs. If people really wanted to fuck you up, they could just throw any laws they can find at you until they find SOMETHING you violate. Scarey thing is, what if the US goverment decides to fuck up someone's life abroad in the name of "fighting terrorism"? Will 'my' goverment roll over, bark thrice and give a paw at the US goverment then, as well?
*... 'My' goverment as in... "I didn't vote that lying bastard PM of ours into power, thank you." goverment.
... as long as it remains an idea. Games are meant to be played, not looked at. Movies are meant to be looked at and, apart from some oddbal anime cosplayers and the occasional fanatical Star Trek fan, not to be played out. Basically, it means these two forms of entertainment are diametrically opposed and hence it's not a very smart idea to cross them.
And jackasses like this want a piece of the pie? What about the good old days when knowledge belonged to the world, and people put out their works for everyone else to use?
Welcome to 2004.
Knowledge today is nothing more then a simple object of value. Patents, IP, and the whole are used as sleeper agents lately. You patent something extremely broad today and in 10 years, you fuck up everyone by sueing people left and right. That's normal these days and basically not much to worry about. After all, the big companies in IT at the moment got in their current position by other means. Google by sheer usefulness, IBM by overpowering all mainframe competition over time, Microsoft by succesfully ripping of good ideas, etc. If you look at the Fortune 500 list, who in that list made and kept his fortune by starting silly lawsuits? ( lawyers dont start lawsuits, they just porfit from them. Immensely. )
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A woman drinks a tainted glass of wine, drops immediately after the first sip
Actually, if you use the right chemicals under good circumstances, along with a few careful preprations , this will actually work. The effect will last about 6 hours after which the woman will wake up, not recalling anything at all. Even better, the body will remain warm, supple and won't discolour.
And, as it says in the article, u137unk is aimed at port 137 using UDP. NetBIOS request en masse. Over the internet? Why does this not make sense? Maybe all those exploits are Messenger spams? However, iirc, Messenger spam uses a different port and TCP. So if this is not Messenger spam... Then what?
there's no guarantee that the version installed today will not be completely dropped next month.
As far as I know, that doesn't stop a whole lot of software companies from doing just that every year, forcing their customers to either upgrade at 80% of the full price or watch support for their current version dwindle down to the eventual EOLing in a year or two, maybe three. That is two or three years/version down the road of said product.
Also, what kind of support are we talking about here? REAL support as in talking to one of the developers regarding some weird bug one has encountered? Or support as in cheapo callcenter with underpaid operators where your worth is judged on how quickly you get your ass of the line?
I was hoping for global warming! I already had ordered a few 100.000s tonnes of pearly white sand to make some lovely beaches in soon-to-be-sunny Greenland... Damn it!
Really? XTC is really quite common around here, loads of people use it... And I know it's pretty much harmless in small quantities ( It does raise blood pressure and disturbs the chemical balance iirc ) and defintely allot easier to get then heroin... Then again, I'm in the Netherlands...
Problem is, people on here probably aren't used to XTC and I don't think anyone is really interested in having a small army of geeks vibrating all over Slashdot in some XTC hyper...
Of course, considering spammers are such honest and legitimate business people, they will pay me fairly for the amount of CPU time I have given them. I mean, people who spam do not have questionable business models and serve as role models for entrepeneurs of all levels.
Excuse me, the nurse says it's time for my medication again. I need my happy fun pills!
GForge: Fork of Alexandria code by former Sourceforge developer. Rips out foundries and is for optimized PHP and Postgresql and Apache. Patches for Oracle in beta, refuses mysql patches.
Why? No seriously, I wouldn't support a project once I encounter this kind of attitude. People often go "Well, it's their project so they have the final say about it.", which is bullshit. If you're going to start your own OS project and be a complete jackass to people who use it, ( In short, your developers, bugtesters, QA people, support staff AND users all in one. ) then DO NOT START A DAMNED OS PROJECT. Look what's happening to Xfree86 for example; they went anal about licensing and voila, the OS community gave them the collective middle finger and it's highly likely that in a few years time Xfree86 wil be nothing more then an interesting little footnote in computing history. Remember people, don't just open your source, alos open your mind. And for the love of Eris, get rid of that crap "No matter how fucked up/lacking things are, my will be done. Infidel." attitude.
On a slightly different note, doesn't this whole idea about SF, one of the flagships of the OS community, is actually closed source and used to promote offshore outsourcing seem painfully ironic? Especially when one considers Slashdot is actually part of VA Software? Don't you subscribers love to know that your hard-earned money might one day be used to A) buy these people a penis extension on four wheels with an engine and B) fire this guy and replace him with Deeptendu Chakrapani from Bangladesh? At least the spelling will improve, though...
Well, Honda and other car companies moving production overseas makes more sense. After all, if a manufacturing plant can cough up 1000 cars a day in the wrong country, then you'll also have to pay for shipping, handling, import/export tariffs, added paperwork & bureaucracy, licensing, more paperwork, both foreign AND local QA organizations who get involved with you product and more. Basically, it just makes sense to have two plants instead: One serving the local market and one serving the foreign market. The savings in time, costs and paperwork is apparently worth it.
Software, though, is a vastly different thing, considering software outsourcing is quite recent and Japanese car manufacturers have been in the US ( and here in Europe, too... Do they even have Volvo, Peugot, Volkswagen and the like in the US? ) for ages. Besides, it costs practically nothing to ship software overseas, especially if you you decide to press and package the CDs in the destination country. But if companies so badly want to save some money, why don't the fire all CEOs and the entire "Board of Directors" and outsource THAT to India? I mean, the average tech-CEO salary comes down to about 21 million a year, which we will round down to 10 million a year because of smaller companies and all that. Now, what would be better for the company? Mr. D. P. Drizzle at $ 21.000.000 a year or A. Ghadami at $ 21.000 a year? Outsource the CEOs!
Not patriotic, iirc. The department overseeing exports and all that has a blacklist of countries that are deemed dangerous, hostile to US interests, the target of the week or any combination thereof. It's pretty much the law under which US companies operate.
To be honest, it would be fun to go to Libya, try to buy MS Windows legally and then have MS sued for doing business in Libya, hehe!
Good news, they won't (probably) cost more than the current NIMH batteries.
The bad news is that they start to pulsate gamma radiation, require the sacrifice of an unborn child conceived during a full moon and each recharged battery causes an angel to lose his or her wings.
Actually, YES. It does. Having something modded up as "Funny" gains you no karma whatsoever. However, if the same thing is modded down again, you DO lose karma. Is it unfair? I guess so, so I decided to report this as a bug. However, the developer's response so far has been... odd, at best. I do think that is not the right way to treat one's userbase/bug checkers. On a good note, this might just get me on some editor's "Shit list"... Which would be cute, in a really weird way... Nevermind that.
Funny you start about this so shortly after I file a bug report on this... Read my bio too, it also contains a nice little rant about people who mod "n+, Funny" comments down. To be honest, the whole damned moderation system could use a good overhaul; "Underrated" and "Overrated" are not open for metamoderation. About a month ago I had Excellent karma. Loads of +4 or +5 "Funny" posts later, I end up with positive, almost all posts modded down 2 or 3 points by using "Overrated".
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Why not kick in some p2p as well? If you're going to download a x00 mb file, then you might as well be a good neighbor and share some of that upstream bandwidth you've got there. And if p2p is not an option, why not just take a random OS FTP server, stuff it in an IRC client, let the initial connection go through the server and let browsing & data-transfer go through a direct connection.
Seems to me that writing a file transfer protocol ( Where have I heard that before? ) would be like reinventing the wheel. I mean, it's useful, sure. It's also been around for ages, as well.
Really?
I sympathize, really. I do own a few legal games and CD checks ONLY to see if you got the legal CDs are annoying. I paid 40+ for a CD or two, a cheap-ass quickstart guide ( no more printed manuals, go print the PDF on the CD ) and a cheap DVD case already, be glad I bought it already and not downloaded it. Anyways, all those little copy-protection things annoy me, like activation codes, SafeDisc and all other protections which mangle CDs, etc etc. But remember, just because I sympathize with you and agree with you on this doesn't mean the game-producers do. And guess which of us has more money to donate to political campaigns?
Besides, circumventing ANY kind of protection on software and/or data is illegal by US law. And this whole stunt clearly show that US laws is pretty much king all over the world these days. It's a sad state of affairs, but there's not allot I can do about it, being a non-US citizen.
As much as I hate to admit it, software "piracy" is bad and no matter what excuses peiople come up with. There are many improvements to be made with the current system but that's not the main issue at the moment. Still though, copying and cracking software is wrong. I'm not justifying it for myself either, I know it's wrong.
Then again, the bad part is that the happened on request of the US customs. ( Over here in the Netherlands at least.. ) The idea that 'my'* goverment bends over to the US will without any investigation on it's own and just raids places the US goverment tells them to, scares me. What if I suddenly become a PITA to the US goverment? Will my place be raided too?
This is something very concerning. There are so many laws and regulations that nearly any normal living person is, unwillingly and unknowingly, violating some minor laws and regs. If people really wanted to fuck you up, they could just throw any laws they can find at you until they find SOMETHING you violate. Scarey thing is, what if the US goverment decides to fuck up someone's life abroad in the name of "fighting terrorism"? Will 'my' goverment roll over, bark thrice and give a paw at the US goverment then, as well?
* ... 'My' goverment as in... "I didn't vote that lying bastard PM of ours into power, thank you." goverment.
Same thing the other way around.
Welcome to 2004.
Knowledge today is nothing more then a simple object of value. Patents, IP, and the whole are used as sleeper agents lately. You patent something extremely broad today and in 10 years, you fuck up everyone by sueing people left and right. That's normal these days and basically not much to worry about. After all, the big companies in IT at the moment got in their current position by other means. Google by sheer usefulness, IBM by overpowering all mainframe competition over time, Microsoft by succesfully ripping of good ideas, etc. If you look at the Fortune 500 list, who in that list made and kept his fortune by starting silly lawsuits? ( lawyers dont start lawsuits, they just porfit from them. Immensely. )
Actually, if you use the right chemicals under good circumstances, along with a few careful preprations , this will actually work. The effect will last about 6 hours after which the woman will wake up, not recalling anything at all. Even better, the body will remain warm, supple and won't discolour.
Or so I heard... Ahem.
And, as it says in the article, u137unk is aimed at port 137 using UDP. NetBIOS request en masse. Over the internet? Why does this not make sense? Maybe all those exploits are Messenger spams? However, iirc, Messenger spam uses a different port and TCP. So if this is not Messenger spam... Then what?
As far as I know, that doesn't stop a whole lot of software companies from doing just that every year, forcing their customers to either upgrade at 80% of the full price or watch support for their current version dwindle down to the eventual EOLing in a year or two, maybe three. That is two or three years/version down the road of said product.
Also, what kind of support are we talking about here? REAL support as in talking to one of the developers regarding some weird bug one has encountered? Or support as in cheapo callcenter with underpaid operators where your worth is judged on how quickly you get your ass of the line?
One Ford Escort + one hour + one roll of saran wrap/cling film
Oh, those... They were on sale last week at RadioShack.
Nothing like a good old SimQuisition to clear up The Sims Online. Mayhaps even a SimCrusade against the illegal underground SimGoverment?
I was hoping for global warming! I already had ordered a few 100.000s tonnes of pearly white sand to make some lovely beaches in soon-to-be-sunny Greenland... Damn it!
Really? XTC is really quite common around here, loads of people use it... And I know it's pretty much harmless in small quantities ( It does raise blood pressure and disturbs the chemical balance iirc ) and defintely allot easier to get then heroin... Then again, I'm in the Netherlands...
Oh, you mean XTC? Worth a shot, I guess...
Problem is, people on here probably aren't used to XTC and I don't think anyone is really interested in having a small army of geeks vibrating all over Slashdot in some XTC hyper...
It's "liberation" instead, people.
Of course, considering spammers are such honest and legitimate business people, they will pay me fairly for the amount of CPU time I have given them. I mean, people who spam do not have questionable business models and serve as role models for entrepeneurs of all levels.
Excuse me, the nurse says it's time for my medication again. I need my happy fun pills!
Why? No seriously, I wouldn't support a project once I encounter this kind of attitude. People often go "Well, it's their project so they have the final say about it.", which is bullshit. If you're going to start your own OS project and be a complete jackass to people who use it, ( In short, your developers, bugtesters, QA people, support staff AND users all in one. ) then DO NOT START A DAMNED OS PROJECT. Look what's happening to Xfree86 for example; they went anal about licensing and voila, the OS community gave them the collective middle finger and it's highly likely that in a few years time Xfree86 wil be nothing more then an interesting little footnote in computing history. Remember people, don't just open your source, alos open your mind. And for the love of Eris, get rid of that crap "No matter how fucked up/lacking things are, my will be done. Infidel." attitude.
On a slightly different note, doesn't this whole idea about SF, one of the flagships of the OS community, is actually closed source and used to promote offshore outsourcing seem painfully ironic? Especially when one considers Slashdot is actually part of VA Software? Don't you subscribers love to know that your hard-earned money might one day be used to A) buy these people a penis extension on four wheels with an engine and B) fire this guy and replace him with Deeptendu Chakrapani from Bangladesh? At least the spelling will improve, though...
Well, Honda and other car companies moving production overseas makes more sense. After all, if a manufacturing plant can cough up 1000 cars a day in the wrong country, then you'll also have to pay for shipping, handling, import/export tariffs, added paperwork & bureaucracy, licensing, more paperwork, both foreign AND local QA organizations who get involved with you product and more. Basically, it just makes sense to have two plants instead: One serving the local market and one serving the foreign market. The savings in time, costs and paperwork is apparently worth it.
Software, though, is a vastly different thing, considering software outsourcing is quite recent and Japanese car manufacturers have been in the US ( and here in Europe, too... Do they even have Volvo, Peugot, Volkswagen and the like in the US? ) for ages. Besides, it costs practically nothing to ship software overseas, especially if you you decide to press and package the CDs in the destination country. But if companies so badly want to save some money, why don't the fire all CEOs and the entire "Board of Directors" and outsource THAT to India? I mean, the average tech-CEO salary comes down to about 21 million a year, which we will round down to 10 million a year because of smaller companies and all that. Now, what would be better for the company? Mr. D. P. Drizzle at $ 21.000.000 a year or A. Ghadami at $ 21.000 a year? Outsource the CEOs!
Give us back our trojans, silly Mac people! We don't steal your GUI, input devices or hot artist chick users, do we? ... Wait a sec...
... have got me slightly worried. Slightly.
Someone give the entire company a moderation of "+1, Troll", thanks :)
Not patriotic, iirc. The department overseeing exports and all that has a blacklist of countries that are deemed dangerous, hostile to US interests, the target of the week or any combination thereof. It's pretty much the law under which US companies operate.
To be honest, it would be fun to go to Libya, try to buy MS Windows legally and then have MS sued for doing business in Libya, hehe!
The bad news is that they start to pulsate gamma radiation, require the sacrifice of an unborn child conceived during a full moon and each recharged battery causes an angel to lose his or her wings.
Please, think of the angels!
Subject should read decrease instead of increase. Oopsie.
Actually, YES. It does. Having something modded up as "Funny" gains you no karma whatsoever. However, if the same thing is modded down again, you DO lose karma. Is it unfair? I guess so, so I decided to report this as a bug. However, the developer's response so far has been... odd, at best. I do think that is not the right way to treat one's userbase/bug checkers. On a good note, this might just get me on some editor's "Shit list"... Which would be cute, in a really weird way... Nevermind that.
Funny you start about this so shortly after I file a bug report on this... Read my bio too, it also contains a nice little rant about people who mod "n+, Funny" comments down. To be honest, the whole damned moderation system could use a good overhaul; "Underrated" and "Overrated" are not open for metamoderation. About a month ago I had Excellent karma. Loads of +4 or +5 "Funny" posts later, I end up with positive, almost all posts modded down 2 or 3 points by using "Overrated".