Actually, they're now up to 1025 free hours in your first 45 days. This leaves you 1 hour, 14 minutes, 40 seconds of non-online time each day. However, you'll spend at least an hour a day trying to dial in to their servers, so in reality you'll be connected 24/7.
I know I do. You could have a fishing submarine that uses this. All you have to do is cruise around for a bit, then surface. Your dinner would be floating right there, already cooked for you. Talk about convinience!
The reason they don't know about them is that nothing they do is prohibitting them from finding their music online.
I disagree. Suppose a normal user downloads a fake song from a RIAA server. Chances are they'll just redownload the song, without knowing who caused the fake to spread. If someone told them that the RIAA is responsible for all the fakes, they *might* be inclined to take action, but I doubt it.
Yeah, I'd be willing to pay $5/year as well. I'll just tape the bill to a Molotov and toss it in their mailbox.
Five bucks a year is too much. Five cents a year is too much. The RIAA is dead. They had a chance to move into the 21st century, to modernize. They missed the chance. Now they're desperately trying to find another way out. Too bad. They're changing the upholstery on the deck chairs of the Titantic while we're off burning CDs on lifeboats.
They think can get away with it because they have money to buy Congress. Why do they think this? Because it's true. They know from experience that they have enough money to make damn near any law they want to.
And consumer backlash about bad files, worms, etc? P2P is mainstream. Knowledge of what the **AAs are doing is not mainstream. I got some no-RIAA and no-MPAA stickers from ThinkGeek awhile back. Every single one of my friends (who all use P2P programs) had to ask what those 2 organizations stood for. Very few people who use P2P know about the **AAs and what they're doing, so how can they be pissed about it?
Who needs ushers? Install microphones all around the theater. Anyone who makes noise over a certain dB level (including cell phones or talking too loud) is picked up by a giant robotic arm and tossed out of the theater. Then their face is scanned and added to a image-recognition database so they can't go to the movies ever again. The image is also uploaded to a peer-to-peer network of other theaters so they are disallowed from going to movies elsewhere.
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In other news, copies of the Bill of Rights are being used as urinal cakes in the Capitol Building.
You asked for IANALs, so here. IANAL, but what have they done that's illegal? It may be unfair and bad for consumers but AFAIK as I know they haven't broken any laws. (Remember IANALYYY)
Given that the question talks about parents who don't sound very computer literate and P2P programs, I'd assume it's some flavor of Windows. Try to find a "hosts" file (no extension) in C:\WINDOWS\ or a subdirectory (I also found it in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\etc). Open it with notepad and add on a new line:
127.0.0.1 burstabit.com
This means that whenever the system tries to connect to burstabit.com, it'll skip the DNS lookup and connect to 127.0.0.1, which is your computer. This'll hopefully stop the spyware.
Agreed. Instead of making a hybrid like this, their time would be better spent trying to get NASA to dump MS completely. Point out MS's track record for bugginess and insecurity (do we want script kiddies to be able to fly the space shuttle?), and Linux's freeness (sure, NASA gets volume discounts, but free is still cheaper than a percentage of something). Linux running MS software seems to defeat the whole purpose.
Yeah, but that'll only take out a few radar operators, just a thorn in the side of the beast. What we really need is a small tactical nuclear weapon to use on RIAA HQ. You get the uranium, I'll google for the blueprints.
Same here. I just got my mod points message, and starting browsing this article to see if there was anything I should mod. However, instead of "Lost", what I think what we really need is "+1 Completely confusing to the mod but the poster sounds like he knows what he's talking about"
Advertising in posts is frowned upon, especially when advertising is posted in such a way that it's true nature is not clear. They could just as easily have posted the book titles or non-affiliate links to them.
I agree, but I think in addition to this show everyday tasks that people might not have realized can be done with Linux. People won't want to switch for the cool unusual technology unless they know they can still use the technology they're used to. Instead of:
"Wow... I can't do that with this other OS I'm using. I should try Linux."
aim for
"Wow... I can't do that with this other OS I'm using. I should try Linux...Hmm, they say I can listen to all of my MP3s and print out my Word documents too. I *really* should try Linux!"
They are good suggestions, but the links are part of Amazon's affiliate program. If someone clicks them and then buys the books, the poster is going to get a cut of it.
I'm not against allowing Ogg to be commercialized. What I *am* against is having companies like Real do it. They have proven time and again that they can't be trusted. Ask yourself what Real has to gain from this. I can't imgaine them wanting to help the OSS movement, so therefore they must stand to profit from it. How will they profit? Only time will tell. Will the way they profit give Ogg a bad name? I think so.
Anyone else think it's an insult to an good open codec like Ogg for an evil company like Real to be using it? More and more support for Ogg is great, but why do they do it when they already have their own proprietary codec? This seems similiar to Microsoft announcing that its workers can use Linux if they want to. There are other problems, too. Suppose Ogg becomes the new audio standard like at least some of us are hoping it will. If Ogg is supported by Real apps, then newbies might start using those Real apps to play their Oggs. This has the potential of associating Ogg with some bad stuff, like Real's spyware.
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Actually, they're now up to 1025 free hours in your first 45 days. This leaves you 1 hour, 14 minutes, 40 seconds of non-online time each day. However, you'll spend at least an hour a day trying to dial in to their servers, so in reality you'll be connected 24/7.
I know I do. You could have a fishing submarine that uses this. All you have to do is cruise around for a bit, then surface. Your dinner would be floating right there, already cooked for you. Talk about convinience!
Eagles soar, but wease^H^H^H^H^Hwhales don't get sucked into jet engines?
Bingo, sir.
I disagree. Suppose a normal user downloads a fake song from a RIAA server. Chances are they'll just redownload the song, without knowing who caused the fake to spread. If someone told them that the RIAA is responsible for all the fakes, they *might* be inclined to take action, but I doubt it.
Five bucks a year is too much. Five cents a year is too much. The RIAA is dead. They had a chance to move into the 21st century, to modernize. They missed the chance. Now they're desperately trying to find another way out. Too bad. They're changing the upholstery on the deck chairs of the Titantic while we're off burning CDs on lifeboats.
And consumer backlash about bad files, worms, etc? P2P is mainstream. Knowledge of what the **AAs are doing is not mainstream. I got some no-RIAA and no-MPAA stickers from ThinkGeek awhile back. Every single one of my friends (who all use P2P programs) had to ask what those 2 organizations stood for. Very few people who use P2P know about the **AAs and what they're doing, so how can they be pissed about it?
Who needs ushers? Install microphones all around the theater. Anyone who makes noise over a certain dB level (including cell phones or talking too loud) is picked up by a giant robotic arm and tossed out of the theater. Then their face is scanned and added to a image-recognition database so they can't go to the movies ever again. The image is also uploaded to a peer-to-peer network of other theaters so they are disallowed from going to movies elsewhere.
In other news, copies of the Bill of Rights are being used as urinal cakes in the Capitol Building.
So wouldn't L-- work just as well as P? Then after that we could have P++, just to confuse people.
How long until someone starts a dating service marketed towards geeks with this idea?
Odd, a quick google groups search turned up these on the first results page alone:
Hate Crimes Against American Muslims Skyrocket
COLORADO HATE CRIMES ROSE AFTER TERRORIST ATTACK
Spurt in hate crimes against US Muslims
Hate crimes against Muslims increase
You asked for IANALs, so here. IANAL, but what have they done that's illegal? It may be unfair and bad for consumers but AFAIK as I know they haven't broken any laws. (Remember IANALYYY)
127.0.0.1 burstabit.com
This means that whenever the system tries to connect to burstabit.com, it'll skip the DNS lookup and connect to 127.0.0.1, which is your computer. This'll hopefully stop the spyware.
Agreed. Instead of making a hybrid like this, their time would be better spent trying to get NASA to dump MS completely. Point out MS's track record for bugginess and insecurity (do we want script kiddies to be able to fly the space shuttle?), and Linux's freeness (sure, NASA gets volume discounts, but free is still cheaper than a percentage of something). Linux running MS software seems to defeat the whole purpose.
"I took the best nap today.. so so great. And I ate a sandwich, but it wasnt that great, and it kinda made me sick... but it's better than nothing."
Not a chance, Stephen Hawking's voicebox could waste Feynman's hair any day.
Yeah, but that'll only take out a few radar operators, just a thorn in the side of the beast. What we really need is a small tactical nuclear weapon to use on RIAA HQ. You get the uranium, I'll google for the blueprints.
Worse. Speakeasy is condoning the use of a technology that terrorists use. Therefore, Speakeasy are terrorists, right?
Same here. I just got my mod points message, and starting browsing this article to see if there was anything I should mod. However, instead of "Lost", what I think what we really need is "+1 Completely confusing to the mod but the poster sounds like he knows what he's talking about"
Advertising in posts is frowned upon, especially when advertising is posted in such a way that it's true nature is not clear. They could just as easily have posted the book titles or non-affiliate links to them.
"Wow... I can't do that with this other OS I'm using. I should try Linux."
aim for
"Wow... I can't do that with this other OS I'm using. I should try Linux...Hmm, they say I can listen to all of my MP3s and print out my Word documents too. I *really* should try Linux!"
They are good suggestions, but the links are part of Amazon's affiliate program. If someone clicks them and then buys the books, the poster is going to get a cut of it.
I'm not against allowing Ogg to be commercialized. What I *am* against is having companies like Real do it. They have proven time and again that they can't be trusted. Ask yourself what Real has to gain from this. I can't imgaine them wanting to help the OSS movement, so therefore they must stand to profit from it. How will they profit? Only time will tell. Will the way they profit give Ogg a bad name? I think so.
Anyone else think it's an insult to an good open codec like Ogg for an evil company like Real to be using it? More and more support for Ogg is great, but why do they do it when they already have their own proprietary codec? This seems similiar to Microsoft announcing that its workers can use Linux if they want to. There are other problems, too. Suppose Ogg becomes the new audio standard like at least some of us are hoping it will. If Ogg is supported by Real apps, then newbies might start using those Real apps to play their Oggs. This has the potential of associating Ogg with some bad stuff, like Real's spyware.