I, as many avid young slashdot readers are, am a highly active member of the Panties Of the Month Club. With a catchphrase like "because lingerie is the gift that touches her when you can't" who wouldn't be drawn into such an extravagant service?
How can they lie to us like this you must be asking? I believe I have it all figured out. A simple whois returns
Registrant: Lila Williams - Panty of theMonth (LA Williams (PANTIES-DOM)
Rural Route 3 BOX 75-B
Fairfield, IA 52556
US
Domain Name: PANTIES.COM
What's so special about that? A simple Google search links Lila Williams with 577 different counts of terrorism("Searched the web for Lila Williams terrorist. Results 1 - 10 of about 577") Those Israeli bastards are trying to hit us where our women are most sensitive - their vaginas.
This post will get modded down, Please redistribute it to help spread the word. We cant let the terrorists get to our vaginas. You're not anti-vagina, are you? FREE VAGINAS
None, Each server dosnt feel much of an effect since the load is spread out upon many different servers. Atleast, thats how it was when I used to do this a few years ago.
Its better than that, It can convert to. So if you find an evil rm file, you can convert it to mpeg and send it to your friends. Mplayer alsosupports quicktime(including sorenson), windows media, and pretty much anything else you'll ever need. I just wish they'd port it to windows so i dont have to boot to lin to watch stuff:(
Thats why I dislike touch typing. The style I type looks like hunt-and-pecking, but without the hunting. After a while your mind just learns where all the keys are, And your speed increases greatly. The only problem is this makes getting a new keyboard really really sucky:(
"but how many people can really be bothered?" Only need one. Once that one circumvents it, they have a clean copy they can redistribute freely, which the rest of us will download instead of buying--erm, licensing-- a broken product.
I'm not about to give them ANY information unless I can download a full dump of their database whenever I want. Anyone remember how badly people got burned by CDDB? Its the same buisness plan;
Phase 1) Invent neat idea with a few good uses so that people will populate your content Phase 2) ??? Phase 3) Profit!
where ??? becomes 'Fuck over users, start charging for access, bite hand that feeds.'.
Lets start taking bets on how long until this thread gets threadslapped. I've got $5 on 10pm tonight. (No timezone specified so I can be a pussy and claim timezone difference later)
"I'm more interested in seeing a PC like mod-community surround the PS3 - something we don't have now." We had it, sort of. Anybody remember GTA: London 1969? IIRC rockstar(Producers of GTA) took off the shelf GTA editors that people hacked together from reverse engineering gta, Rethemed everything, And released a 'patch' disk that had replacement maps/sounds/weapons/cars/etc.
Except when debians ftp gets hit and this worm infects every.deb on their server. Then those all get mirrored (and ran), Infecting all other machines. Why do people trust md5sums that come from the same compromised host?
This comment reminds me of that commercial where the kids are playing with the educational toys teaching them to spell, and the dad comes in and says 'put the toys down, go study', kids put it down, then pick it up, etc. Commercials like that disturb me, To see a father so out of touch with his childs life. Those things are like $45/ea, did his wife just go out and spend close to $100 on stuff for his kids without him even knowing it? Does he not care about his kids enough to know what they're doing? I know I'm taking this too far, but damn that bothers me.
"Linux is under a LICENSE that RESTRICTS what you can "
Have you even read the GPL? Linux is under a license that grants you additional rights. You're welcome to ignore the license and treat it like any other copyrighted software.
By banning them, They increase demand exponentialy. These games are costing ~$45+, do you really think little timmy is buying this himself? Of course not, His parents buy it for him. So who really cares if they'll sell it to minors? Personaly, I used to play plenty of M-rated games when I was 7+. Never tried to perform a fatalaty on anyone. No mental scaring, either. Shielding children from content is just going 1)Make them want it more 2)Increse effect when they finally do get it (they will).
" One of my favorite ways is to browse other users' files on file sharing programs."
A variation on that that I've been doing with SoulSeek a lot lately is, If I see someone downloading some songs I have that I really like, i browse their files and look for good songs. Then you can message them and ask about the band, or join one of the chat channels. I highly recommend SoulSeek, It's like napster was at its peak. (Unfortunately their servers are at 300% utilization, so I didnt provide any link. If you care enough, google for it.)
"You are correct, and they would be much better off if they didn't."
No, They wouldnt, And neither would we(the users). If KDE and Gnome were each standalone apps that both reinvented the wheel for everything, You wouldnt be able to run Gaim in KDE, konquer in Gnome, or any gtk/qt apps with a better(for power users like myself) wm [fvwm2, *box]. Luckily KDE/Gnome are on top of X, so everything is nice and crossplatform.
I'm close enough to pegged at the cap that I really dont care about karma. Afterall, It's just a number^H^H^H^H^H^Hword 'mostly affected by moderation of your comments' (in addition to changed if an editor disagrees with you).
I doubt this site will make it till morning, so just incase..
Microsoft Reader format CRACKED! Date: Monday, December 30 @ 22:19:50 EST Topic: Breaking News!
Frustrated by the tight security and lack of interoperability of Microsoft Reader eBooks, a programmer named Dan Jackson obtained the source code for a command-line program called Convert Lit and made it available to the public. Convert Lit or "Clit.exe" is a command line utility that can downgrade the DRM5 security to DRM1. From there, the formerly encrypted Lit book can be converted to HTML, text, or any other format.
In a blatently open move, Mr. Jackson announced via his website a willingness to improve upon the original code of his program (that is reportedly less than 1 month old), in addition to providing more capabilities to the program itself. "I wish to provide an all-in-one solution for the recovery of data in the MS Reader.lit file format. If there is interest, I am also open to creating a.dll to make it possible for others to implement a LIT conversion utility from their ebook applications."
Other Internet hackers have already captured this code and provided a Windows 9x front-end that illiminates the need to know and understand command-line functions. This addition is called cuntlits.exe and contains nude buttons and offensive language.
Pocket PC Addict obtained independent verification that these utilities do in fact remove the encryption and security from Microsoft Reader books.
It remains to be seen what kind of impact an already hesitant eBook market. By removing the security of the Reader books, formerly encrypted eBooks can be traded and downloaded free of charge on the Internet.
"You can also get messages on an answering machine, and for millions of years kids got along just fine without being able to call their mommies from anywhere on Earth."
For thousands of years people got along without transportation, electricity, language...
By your logic, the world should cease to change from now on because everything in some way or another 'works'.
"The biggest obvious problem is the stupid Gnome/KDE/window manager 'multality' (as opposed to duality?). Just pick one and stick with it damnit. I know the popular view here is that is a 'good' thing, but to the 99% of us outside the 'community' it's just, well, retarded." Picking one is your job, young padawan. No one says you have to learn and use both on a daily basis, just find which one works for you. Personaly, I prefer just running a window manager(fvwm2) and keeping my only 'desktop' as the thing that my monitor is sitting on.
People complaining about kde/gnome should also complain about windowsXP's styles, them disapearing in.net, hen coming back in longhorn (with much differences).
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Or the real question. Is it astroturfing if its done by OSS developers? Get a fucking life, fanboy.
I'll do that, But when I get sued for sexual harasment you get my legal bills.
I, as many avid young slashdot readers are, am a highly active member of the Panties Of the Month Club. With a catchphrase like "because lingerie is the gift that touches her when you can't" who wouldn't be drawn into such an extravagant service?
Well as I recently found out, this club is a SHAM. The entire thing is preselected an entire YEAR in advance, as shown here:
January
Feburary
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
How can they lie to us like this you must be asking? I believe I have it all figured out. A simple whois returns
Registrant:
Lila Williams - Panty of theMonth (LA Williams (PANTIES-DOM)
Rural Route 3 BOX 75-B
Fairfield, IA 52556
US
Domain Name: PANTIES.COM
What's so special about that? A simple Google search links Lila Williams with 577 different counts of terrorism("Searched the web for Lila Williams terrorist. Results 1 - 10 of about 577")
Those Israeli bastards are trying to hit us where our women are most sensitive - their vaginas.
This post will get modded down, Please redistribute it to help spread the word. We cant let the terrorists get to our vaginas. You're not anti-vagina, are you?
FREE VAGINAS
Because moderators are on crack. Glad I could help.
None, Each server dosnt feel much of an effect since the load is spread out upon many different servers. Atleast, thats how it was when I used to do this a few years ago.
Its better than that, It can convert to. So if you find an evil rm file, you can convert it to mpeg and send it to your friends.
Mplayer alsosupports quicktime(including sorenson), windows media, and pretty much anything else you'll ever need. I just wish they'd port it to windows so i dont have to boot to lin to watch stuff:(
Error: Brain0 ON FIRE!
On the sites Terms Of Service. Most E-tailers(I hate that word) only service the United States, So anywhere else is irrelivent to this discussion.
Thats why I dislike touch typing. The style I type looks like hunt-and-pecking, but without the hunting. After a while your mind just learns where all the keys are, And your speed increases greatly. The only problem is this makes getting a new keyboard really really sucky:(
MOD PARENT UP +1 MORE WORTH READING THAN THE CRAPPY ARTICLE.
lameness filter encountered, please append random crap to the bottem of your post.
"but how many people can really be bothered?"
Only need one. Once that one circumvents it, they have a clean copy they can redistribute freely, which the rest of us will download instead of buying--erm, licensing-- a broken product.
I'm not about to give them ANY information unless I can download a full dump of their database whenever I want.
Anyone remember how badly people got burned by CDDB? Its the same buisness plan;
Phase 1) Invent neat idea with a few good uses so that people will populate your content
Phase 2) ???
Phase 3) Profit!
where ??? becomes 'Fuck over users, start charging for access, bite hand that feeds.'.
Lets start taking bets on how long until this thread gets threadslapped.
I've got $5 on 10pm tonight. (No timezone specified so I can be a pussy and claim timezone difference later)
"I'm more interested in seeing a PC like mod-community surround the PS3 - something we don't have now."
We had it, sort of.
Anybody remember GTA: London 1969?
IIRC rockstar(Producers of GTA) took off the shelf GTA editors that people hacked together from reverse engineering gta, Rethemed everything, And released a 'patch' disk that had replacement maps/sounds/weapons/cars/etc.
Except when debians ftp gets hit and this worm infects every .deb on their server. Then those all get mirrored (and ran), Infecting all other machines. Why do people trust md5sums that come from the same compromised host?
Offtopic, so I'll drop the +1 Bonus.
This comment reminds me of that commercial where the kids are playing with the educational toys teaching them to spell, and the dad comes in and says 'put the toys down, go study', kids put it down, then pick it up, etc.
Commercials like that disturb me, To see a father so out of touch with his childs life. Those things are like $45/ea, did his wife just go out and spend close to $100 on stuff for his kids without him even knowing it? Does he not care about his kids enough to know what they're doing?
I know I'm taking this too far, but damn that bothers me.
"Linux is under a LICENSE that RESTRICTS what you can "
Have you even read the GPL?
Linux is under a license that grants you additional rights. You're welcome to ignore the license and treat it like any other copyrighted software.
By banning them, They increase demand exponentialy.
These games are costing ~$45+, do you really think little timmy is buying this himself? Of course not, His parents buy it for him. So who really cares if they'll sell it to minors?
Personaly, I used to play plenty of M-rated games when I was 7+. Never tried to perform a fatalaty on anyone. No mental scaring, either. Shielding children from content is just going 1)Make them want it more 2)Increse effect when they finally do get it (they will).
" One of my favorite ways is to browse other users' files on file sharing programs."
A variation on that that I've been doing with SoulSeek a lot lately is, If I see someone downloading some songs I have that I really like, i browse their files and look for good songs. Then you can message them and ask about the band, or join one of the chat channels.
I highly recommend SoulSeek, It's like napster was at its peak. (Unfortunately their servers are at 300% utilization, so I didnt provide any link. If you care enough, google for it.)
"You are correct, and they would be much better off if they didn't."
No, They wouldnt, And neither would we(the users).
If KDE and Gnome were each standalone apps that both reinvented the wheel for everything, You wouldnt be able to run Gaim in KDE, konquer in Gnome, or any gtk/qt apps with a better(for power users like myself) wm [fvwm2, *box].
Luckily KDE/Gnome are on top of X, so everything is nice and crossplatform.
6) Profit!
I'm close enough to pegged at the cap that I really dont care about karma. Afterall, It's just a number^H^H^H^H^H^Hword 'mostly affected by moderation of your comments' (in addition to changed if an editor disagrees with you).
I doubt this site will make it till morning, so just incase..
.lit file format. If there is interest, I am also open to creating a .dll to make it possible for others to implement a LIT conversion utility from their ebook applications."
Microsoft Reader format CRACKED!
Date: Monday, December 30 @ 22:19:50 EST
Topic: Breaking News!
Frustrated by the tight security and lack of interoperability of Microsoft Reader eBooks, a programmer named Dan Jackson obtained the source code for a command-line program called Convert Lit and made it available to the public. Convert Lit or "Clit.exe" is a command line utility that can downgrade the DRM5 security to DRM1. From there, the formerly encrypted Lit book can be converted to HTML, text, or any other format.
In a blatently open move, Mr. Jackson announced via his website a willingness to improve upon the original code of his program (that is reportedly less than 1 month old), in addition to providing more capabilities to the program itself. "I wish to provide an all-in-one solution for the recovery of data in the MS Reader
Other Internet hackers have already captured this code and provided a Windows 9x front-end that illiminates the need to know and understand command-line functions. This addition is called cuntlits.exe and contains nude buttons and offensive language.
Pocket PC Addict obtained independent verification that these utilities do in fact remove the encryption and security from Microsoft Reader books.
It remains to be seen what kind of impact an already hesitant eBook market. By removing the security of the Reader books, formerly encrypted eBooks can be traded and downloaded free of charge on the Internet.
"You can also get messages on an answering machine, and for millions of years kids got along just fine without being able to call their mommies from anywhere on Earth."
For thousands of years people got along without transportation, electricity, language...
By your logic, the world should cease to change from now on because everything in some way or another 'works'.
"The biggest obvious problem is the stupid Gnome/KDE/window manager 'multality' (as opposed to duality?). Just pick one and stick with it damnit. I know the popular view here is that is a 'good' thing, but to the 99% of us outside the 'community' it's just, well, retarded."
.net, hen coming back in longhorn (with much differences).
Picking one is your job, young padawan.
No one says you have to learn and use both on a daily basis, just find which one works for you.
Personaly, I prefer just running a window manager(fvwm2) and keeping my only 'desktop' as the thing that my monitor is sitting on.
People complaining about kde/gnome should also complain about windowsXP's styles, them disapearing in