All your personal, private stuff displayed on screen for nosey office people to snoop over your shoulder.
And by the way, what's to stop someone from putting a wedge(tap) between your pc and your monitor?? They could siphon off your display output to a $29 VCR 8 hours at a time if they wanted. Most PC's being jammed under desks would never be noticed if an inline video tap was dropped in.
All your privacy is totally down the toilet then. With an 8hour videotape I can come in behind you and access EVERYTHING.
I saw on TV a few weeks ago where a car shop somewhere installs MOD chips that turns kittens into tigers.
The chips apparently modify the fuel injection system, pollution control, timing, etc.
It used to be to hot rod a car you installed goodies like NOS injectors, turbo chargers, Holly four barrel, etc.. Now you replace the factory chip with a "HOT" mod chip..
I don't see the car companies invoking DMCA to stop that.. What the hell is the difference?? mod chipping a car to run better vs. mod chipping the xbox to run better (replace M$ w/ Linux) ?????
I am going to go buy an xbox now and hack it. Just because it's illegal and for no other reason. I WANT to violate the DMCA just because the DMCA SUCKS.
I have no intentions of buying or using ANY m$ games on the xbox, I just want to load Linux on it and use it to store all my mp3's, movies, etc. and use it as an entertainment center, as described in a previous/. article..
When it's sitting idle I want to set up a task to spam Microsoft with hate mail detailing how much I despise them and their crappy products but how grateful I am for them selling me such a cheap entertainment console.
I'll do it and I dare them to do anything about it. They would be ill advised to attempt to stop me from modifying a peice of hardware that I buy and that belongs to *ME*... Possesion is 9/10's of the law. When it's in my possesion and I paid cash for it from a store and I have a bill of sale on it, it's mine to do with as I please.
Do be aware that I otherwise would have had no interest in doing any such thing until I was told that it was forbidden for me to do so..
Thanks Bill, your heavy handedness has pushed me to hate you..
"New news: a report paid for by Microsoft shows that Windows is a better server than Red Hat. "
What a pantload! Windows is a superior server for serving up viruses. I was looking through my firewall logs this morning and there were hundreds of entries such as this.
There is a saying in the gun owners world. "When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns"
Another take on that same saying is, "When guns are outlawed only governments will have guns."
Now we are left to consider this, take the above statements and substitute "non-TCPA PC's" for "guns" and mull it over for awhile.
Remember in "1984" when Winston goes to meet O'Brien at the "Ministry of Love" for O'Brien to give Winston the latest copy (Ninth edition) of the NewSpeak Dictionary?
As they are standing there O'Brien reaches down and turns off the viewscreen. Winston gasps in shock, "You can.......?" O'Brien, "Yes, we're allowed that privledge."
One set of rules for the little people, another set of rules for the rulers. You can be certain that they will pass a law making it illegal to connect non-TCPA devices to any network. The super DMCA (state versions) are the groundwork for such laws.
Remember Spock, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one." ?? That's the mindset of the law makers. The laws that are on the table now and that are still in gestation (still haven't seen sunshine yet) are all designed to strip people of personal rights and personal freedoms for the "common good of the people" read people as "state"... We have a New Soviet Union in the making here. Why else would they import former KGB General Yevgeni Primakov to setup an internal US passport system? KGB General Yevgeni Primakov hired for Homeland Security and, New Powers to Snoop Sought
Ever notice the FREQUENT use of the word "czar" when describing government posts? Doesn't that ring odd with anyone?? One must wake up and rub the sleepy dust out of his eyes to see what is happening. People are too busy worrying about keeping the tank topped off on their SUV, or planted too deeply into that fat leather couch in front of the idiot box to notice, much less understand what is happening right in front of their face..
And then I leave you with this parting thought. "He who has all the guns makes the rules."
"I'm betting on the fact that Sun, IBM or _someone_ (maybe the Chineese) will carry on making TCPA-free hardware for a while at least, which should give OSS types somewhere to go when all the rest have been influenced into not selling TCPA enabled systems."
Sure, that will work until they make it illegal to use non TCPA hardware. In the name of home land security you know. Remember, only terrorists use non-TCPA devices.
Your unsecured PC is a threat to the infrastructure. You MUST comply. It's for the common good of the people, your needs are not an issue. It's for the common good of the people. It's for the common good of the people. It's for the common good of the people.
"I also think that anyone using popups that are meant to look like geniune system error messages should be told that they have SARS by their doctor"
I know quite a few people that get suckered by this damn things. They freak out and click them. BAM! They're screwed. They next thing you know I have to go over and clean up their systems..
One old guy was clicking the damn things several times a day until I told him to STOP and call me if any of them showed up. Arrrrgh!!
Dude, that's sick. How fscking gross. Like I want to hang out on the toilet and surf the web, much less touch something in a public restroom that some SARS fool has touched. This is disgusting...
"The technology, formerly code-named Palladium, will create what amounts to a secure computer within a computer. Certain areas of memory, the processor and even the channels to the display, keyboard and networks are locked down and accessible only by trusted software."
Users can opt to "turn off" the system when it becomes available, most likely in the next generation of Windows expected in 2004 or 2005. But doing so might well severely hamper consumers' access to digital information that's important to them -- and which may indeed be necessary in their work environment.
I can see that this, combined with IPv6 will be the implementation of Homeland Security, Patriot Act III, etc..
Want on the Internet? Use Windows. Don't want to use Windows? Tough. Your new computer won't run anything else. Don't want to use a new computer? Tough. Your old computer won't log on to the Internet. Try to circumvent the system? Too bad, you're busted. Men in black ski masks with MP5 machine guns will be by shortly to chat with you.
Want to run and hide? Too bad, you're tracked. Your cell phone with GPS knows where you are. Oh, that's right, ditch the cell phone. Hungry? Stop at a store and buy some chips and a soda cash. That RFID tag in your shirt collar and the scanner & camera at the door says, "busted". They know where you are again. Camera's with face recognition tech lock on and track you.
No where to run, no where to hide. Are you Winston Smith or THX1138?? Bill Gate$ is laying the foundation for a digital "Metropolis"
That's ignorant. Legally armed citizens DETER crime. If you want to live like a sheep, move to England or Austrailia, they already do that.
One last parting thought. When you shoot a burglar and kill him, you know that *HE* won't be a repeat offender. When some thug car jacker tries to jump in your car and you stick a 9mm Glock up his nostril and tell him "Get out of my car" you can be sure that he won't be jacking *YOUR* car and dragging your baby to death down the road by the seatbelt..
Just say no to cowards. I prefer to defend myself. The police are only there to take a report AFTER the crime has been commited. You dial 911 the next time someone breaks into your home and see what happens.
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All your personal, private stuff displayed on screen for nosey office people to snoop over your shoulder.
And by the way, what's to stop someone from putting a wedge(tap) between your pc and your monitor?? They could siphon off your display output to a $29 VCR 8 hours at a time if they wanted. Most PC's being jammed under desks would never be noticed if an inline video tap was dropped in.
All your privacy is totally down the toilet then.
With an 8hour videotape I can come in behind you and access EVERYTHING.
All your DATA are belong to us...
STHU!!! Don't give them any bright ideas!!
However, I wouldn't mind if they got rid of Chilton manuals, they suck anyway.
When I buy a car I always order the factory manuals, from the factory. Chiltons reminds me of First Grade Readers books...
A few people were arrested for wearing DeCSS T-shirts that listed the source code..
I had that circumvention thing done to me when I was a baby... And *now* they make it illegal?!...
Damn...
I saw on TV a few weeks ago where a car shop somewhere installs MOD chips that turns kittens into tigers.
The chips apparently modify the fuel injection system, pollution control, timing, etc.
It used to be to hot rod a car you installed goodies like NOS injectors, turbo chargers, Holly four barrel, etc..
Now you replace the factory chip with a "HOT" mod chip..
I don't see the car companies invoking DMCA to stop that..
What the hell is the difference?? mod chipping a car to run better vs. mod chipping the xbox to run better (replace M$ w/ Linux) ?????
Screw them...
I am going to go buy an xbox now and hack it. Just because it's illegal and for no other reason. I WANT to violate the DMCA just because the DMCA SUCKS.
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I have no intentions of buying or using ANY m$ games on the xbox, I just want to load Linux on it and use it to store all my mp3's, movies, etc. and use it as an entertainment center, as described in a previous
When it's sitting idle I want to set up a task to spam Microsoft with hate mail detailing how much I despise them and their crappy products but how grateful I am for them selling me such a cheap entertainment console.
I'll do it and I dare them to do anything about it.
They would be ill advised to attempt to stop me from modifying a peice of hardware that I buy and that belongs to *ME*... Possesion is 9/10's of the law. When it's in my possesion and I paid cash for it from a store and I have a bill of sale on it, it's mine to do with as I please.
Do be aware that I otherwise would have had no interest in doing any such thing until I was told that it was forbidden for me to do so..
Thanks Bill, your heavy handedness has pushed me to hate you..
I nominate Bill Gate$ as the new "Homeland Security Minister of Information, Love and DRM Czar"
All Hail Gates! All Hail Redmond! Long live Micro$oft!!
"New news: a report paid for by Microsoft shows that Windows is a better server than Red Hat. "
What a pantload!
Windows is a superior server for serving up viruses.
I was looking through my firewall logs this morning and there were hundreds of entries such as this.
"Date: 05/08 12:52:09
Name: MS-SQL Worm propagation attempt
Priority: 2
Type: Misc Attack
IP info: 12.103.126.250:1059 -> xx.xx.xx.xx:1434"
Get that M$ crap out of my face. M$ is tra$h.
M$ is nothing but VIRUS CITY.....
Got windows? You've got Virus!
There is a saying in the gun owners world.
"When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns"
Another take on that same saying is,
"When guns are outlawed only governments will have guns."
Now we are left to consider this, take the above statements and substitute "non-TCPA PC's" for "guns" and mull it over for awhile.
Remember in "1984" when Winston goes to meet O'Brien at the "Ministry of Love" for O'Brien to give Winston the latest copy (Ninth edition) of the NewSpeak Dictionary?
As they are standing there O'Brien reaches down and turns off the viewscreen. Winston gasps in shock, "You can.......?"
O'Brien, "Yes, we're allowed that privledge."
One set of rules for the little people, another set of rules for the rulers. You can be certain that they will pass a law making it illegal to connect non-TCPA devices to any network. The super DMCA (state versions) are the groundwork for such laws.
Remember Spock, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one." ?? That's the mindset of the law makers. The laws that are on the table now and that are still in gestation (still haven't seen sunshine yet) are all designed to strip people of personal rights and personal freedoms for the "common good of the people" read people as "state"...
We have a New Soviet Union in the making here.
Why else would they import former KGB General Yevgeni Primakov to setup an internal US passport system?
KGB General Yevgeni Primakov hired for Homeland Security
and, New Powers to Snoop Sought
Ever notice the FREQUENT use of the word "czar" when describing government posts? Doesn't that ring odd with anyone??
One must wake up and rub the sleepy dust out of his eyes to see what is happening. People are too busy worrying about keeping the tank topped off on their SUV, or planted too deeply into that fat leather couch in front of the idiot box to notice, much less understand what is happening right in front of their face..
And then I leave you with this parting thought.
"He who has all the guns makes the rules."
"I'm betting on the fact that Sun, IBM or _someone_ (maybe the Chineese) will carry on making TCPA-free hardware for a while at least, which should give OSS types somewhere to go when all the rest have been influenced into not selling TCPA enabled systems."
Sure, that will work until they make it illegal to use non TCPA hardware. In the name of home land security you know. Remember, only terrorists use non-TCPA devices.
Your unsecured PC is a threat to the infrastructure. You MUST comply. It's for the common good of the people, your needs are not an issue.
It's for the common good of the people.
It's for the common good of the people.
It's for the common good of the people.
Amen brother!
Let's try this option first though,
First offense, chop off BOTH of their hands.
Second offense, string em up!!
End of spam problem.
Within 3 months spam will be a historical note...
My tangers got fingled up, I meant "box"
ROTFLMAO!!!
Dude, wait a minute, I think I'll patent that one!!!
Wow! Fame and fortune here I come!!
"I also think that anyone using popups that are meant to look like geniune system error messages should be told that they have SARS by their doctor"
I know quite a few people that get suckered by this damn things. They freak out and click them. BAM! They're screwed. They next thing you know I have to go over and clean up their systems..
One old guy was clicking the damn things several times a day until I told him to STOP and call me if any of them showed up. Arrrrgh!!
"....including one for pop-up audio ads that cannot be turned off.'"
Wanna bet?? I'll bet you any amount of money on earth that his crap won't work on my Linux box....
Someone should go beat the ever-loving crap out of this sleazebag. "People" (and I use the term loosely) like this guy are the scum of the earth..
Dude, that's sick.
How fscking gross.
Like I want to hang out on the toilet and surf the web, much less touch something in a public restroom that some SARS fool has touched.
This is disgusting...
Uh, maybe it means that you're going to get gored in the arse, just like when you mess with a bull.
The RFID tag in the bog will active your product when you walk out the door with it..
Wrong. The real name will be "Windows Beelzebub"
Version 6.66
Steve Jobs is from Vega??
Well that explains the Apple!
Damn, who would have ever thunk it!?
"The technology, formerly code-named Palladium, will create what amounts to a secure computer within a computer. Certain areas of memory, the processor and even the channels to the display, keyboard and networks are locked down and accessible only by trusted software."
Users can opt to "turn off" the system when it becomes available, most likely in the next generation of Windows expected in 2004 or 2005. But doing so might well severely hamper consumers' access to digital information that's important to them -- and which may indeed be necessary in their work environment.
I can see that this, combined with IPv6 will be the implementation of Homeland Security, Patriot Act III, etc..
Want on the Internet? Use Windows. Don't want to use Windows? Tough. Your new computer won't run anything else. Don't want to use a new computer? Tough. Your old computer won't log on to the Internet.
Try to circumvent the system? Too bad, you're busted. Men in black ski masks with MP5 machine guns will be by shortly to chat with you.
Want to run and hide? Too bad, you're tracked. Your cell phone with GPS knows where you are. Oh, that's right, ditch the cell phone. Hungry? Stop at a store and buy some chips and a soda cash. That RFID tag in your shirt collar and the scanner & camera at the door says, "busted". They know where you are again. Camera's with face recognition tech lock on and track you.
No where to run, no where to hide.
Are you Winston Smith or THX1138??
Bill Gate$ is laying the foundation for a digital "Metropolis"
That's ignorant.
Legally armed citizens DETER crime.
If you want to live like a sheep, move to England or Austrailia, they already do that.
One last parting thought. When you shoot a burglar and kill him, you know that *HE* won't be a repeat offender.
When some thug car jacker tries to jump in your car and you stick a 9mm Glock up his nostril and tell him "Get out of my car" you can be sure that he won't be jacking *YOUR* car and dragging your baby to death down the road by the seatbelt..
Just say no to cowards. I prefer to defend myself.
The police are only there to take a report AFTER the crime has been commited. You dial 911 the next time someone breaks into your home and see what happens.
I don't dial 911, I dial *1911*
I love it!!
Glad to see that at least *someone* isn't totally asleep at the wheel....
Oh yeah, the emoticon is for humor impaired types like yourself..
go take a midol and sit down for a while.