Probably not. Unauthorized uploading and downloading is prohibited. Presumably by placing your *own* content on the net you are implicitly giving people permission to download it (but not necessarily to then re-upload it). I would imagine that if you "stole" the code/content from a website and then re-uploaded it, yes, that would fall under this, hem, law.
I sent off a LART to the hosting provider's abuse email. No response. I don't consider that a good sign.
Letting Paypal know is probably more likely to get you somewhere. I forwarded one of these things to the "imitated" bank once, and got a (not form-letter) reply within an hour. I don't know what, if anything, they actually did about it, but I figure Bank of America is more likely to get JimmyDean ISP's attention than I am.
I don't know, idiots maybe? It would appear that their marketing is aimed not really at end users, but at gullible companies who think they're going to somehow more effectively "drive customers" to purchase something. Of course this rather clumsily sidesteps the issue of how exactly this silly several-hundred dollar device makes its way into people's homes.
I guess no one told them that the silly era of thinking "if it involves the internet, profit is assured" ended several years ago.
It would seem that some minimum-sentencing laws would be a more appropriate way to go if the judges are slacking off on these matters. This is just nuts. If it's signed in to law it will last for about one day, which is how long it will take everyone to realize how incredibly intrusive and annoying to everyone it is.
So can anyone tell me how things like Gator install themselves? Does an IE box come up and ask permission to install, or is it worse than that? I guess my question is this: is it dangerous to use IE if you have the presence of mind not to say 'yes' to activeX install requests?
I use Mozilla, and recently downloaded and ran Spybot to check my system. No bad stuff was found (well, some cookies, but nothing beyond that). I'm just curious about the IE world.
They're not so worried about defeating your individual filters, as the ISPs' filters. Those nasty ISPs are preventing millions of mortgage enlargement and Nigerian Viagra ads from reaching the intended idiots.
Are you willing to take a paycut of 50% just so you can be employed?
Actually I'm sure a lot of people would jump at the chance to get their old jobs back at half the previous pay. That's what annoys me so much; it's like this isn't even an option.
He did try to get a job (or something like that) to help fix the problem. They didn't go for that; the blackmail was plan B. Neither plan was really very good.
"What do you mean, Hal? Let me out of the damn car."
"Dave, your HalStar records indicate you are parked outside 'The Red Light Saloon' in Tacoma Washington. Correlating this with your recent computer search for ("good time girls" AND "tacoma") we predict a 93% chance of impending illegal activity."
"Hal the car is on fire! Let me out!"
"I'm sorry, Dave, but the car is not on fire. If the car were on fire I'd have known about it long before you did. I'm calling the police now to come and assist you."
There are several links further down in this discussion where people have done exactly this. So it may be practical for some, and you can benefit from their work.
Well ya know what? To everyone who is bothered about the naughty redirect and feels that it's part of some evil plan: please change the code however you like and recompile it for your own use. I mean, there it is, the source, just sitting there...it's OPEN. Cease this carping and caviling, revel in the open-ness of the source.
I think the parent's distinction is an important one: there are "region free" DVD players and those that you can set to be different regions at your whim. The studios have tried to crack down on the "region free" things and there's little guarantee that they won't continue in that vein. I think a switchable region player is the safer way to go. A lot of the leet-DVD sites don't seem to consider this point. Any suggestions for true switchable region DVD players?
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Probably not. Unauthorized uploading and downloading is prohibited. Presumably by placing your *own* content on the net you are implicitly giving people permission to download it (but not necessarily to then re-upload it). I would imagine that if you "stole" the code/content from a website and then re-uploaded it, yes, that would fall under this, hem, law.
I thought that the term regularly trundled out by our IP cognoscenti for general-oohing-and-aahing-over was "unauthorized copying".
Revocable? One need read no further. Any agreement where one party reserves the right to modify the terms in the future is no agreement at all.
One asked for a replacement. How many never bothered to ask, and just trashed it? It's annoying to cater to the whims of idiots, but sometimes...
1200 dpi, the same as decent-quality printed material. I mean, that is what this is all about, right, replacing printed material?
That's great if you have 2k3. In Outlook 2000 these options do not exist.
Letting Paypal know is probably more likely to get you somewhere. I forwarded one of these things to the "imitated" bank once, and got a (not form-letter) reply within an hour. I don't know what, if anything, they actually did about it, but I figure Bank of America is more likely to get JimmyDean ISP's attention than I am.
I don't know, idiots maybe? It would appear that their marketing is aimed not really at end users, but at gullible companies who think they're going to somehow more effectively "drive customers" to purchase something. Of course this rather clumsily sidesteps the issue of how exactly this silly several-hundred dollar device makes its way into people's homes.
I guess no one told them that the silly era of thinking "if it involves the internet, profit is assured" ended several years ago.
It would seem that some minimum-sentencing laws would be a more appropriate way to go if the judges are slacking off on these matters. This is just nuts. If it's signed in to law it will last for about one day, which is how long it will take everyone to realize how incredibly intrusive and annoying to everyone it is.
Wow. Just...wow. If there was some way a post could get a +6 rating, the parent post should have it.
That's a really nice summary! Thanks.
No, "we" can't. The backdoor that doomjuice installs will only accept signed executables.
I use Mozilla, and recently downloaded and ran Spybot to check my system. No bad stuff was found (well, some cookies, but nothing beyond that). I'm just curious about the IE world.
They're not so worried about defeating your individual filters, as the ISPs' filters. Those nasty ISPs are preventing millions of mortgage enlargement and Nigerian Viagra ads from reaching the intended idiots.
Actually I'm sure a lot of people would jump at the chance to get their old jobs back at half the previous pay. That's what annoys me so much; it's like this isn't even an option.
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He did try to get a job (or something like that) to help fix the problem. They didn't go for that; the blackmail was plan B. Neither plan was really very good.
"Hal?"
"HAL?!"
"I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that."
[long pause]
"What do you mean, Hal? Let me out of the damn car."
"Dave, your HalStar records indicate you are parked outside 'The Red Light Saloon' in Tacoma Washington. Correlating this with your recent computer search for ("good time girls" AND "tacoma") we predict a 93% chance of impending illegal activity."
"Hal the car is on fire! Let me out!"
"I'm sorry, Dave, but the car is not on fire. If the car were on fire I'd have known about it long before you did. I'm calling the police now to come and assist you."
I believe that's Citroen . Slight difference.
There are several links further down in this discussion where people have done exactly this. So it may be practical for some, and you can benefit from their work.
Criminy, just can't please some people.
I think the parent's distinction is an important one: there are "region free" DVD players and those that you can set to be different regions at your whim. The studios have tried to crack down on the "region free" things and there's little guarantee that they won't continue in that vein. I think a switchable region player is the safer way to go. A lot of the leet-DVD sites don't seem to consider this point. Any suggestions for true switchable region DVD players?
Totally offtopic, but just for the record the good ones do.
Whatdaya mean, "slowly"?
Supposing that the above hello.php was on the same domain as a message board, posting the link to the board would illicit many victims.
That's 'elicit', not 'illicit'.