In an effort to prevent copycat terrorism, authorities revealed today that the 911 terrorists did NOT use box cutters to seize the aircraft with which they toppled the Twin Towers.
In actuality, they used a diabolical device developed by Al-Qaida technicians called a "spud-gun"!
Secret CIA documents indicate further that the Twin Towers themselves would have withstood the impact from two jet airliners had not the planes been massively overweighted with the sacks of potatos brought on board by the terrorists...
Homeland Security officials are reportedly set to institute a massive surveillance program using satellites and Internet surveillance on the state of Idaho...
1) Went to a news site (MSNBC? I forget...) - decided to try running a video - told me it needed the Microsoft plugin, sent me to Microsoft site to download Media Player 9.
2) Said okay, what the hell, I'll get it, EULA or no, downloaded, installed.
3) Broke my wallpaper changer - began giving me divide by zero errors when I changed wallpaper. Why? Who knows?
4) PowerPro began to crash on reboot for the wallpaper thingy... Why? Who knows?
12)Irony - Even after I installed Media Player 9, the fuckin' news site STILL SAID I NEEDED THE PLUGIN!
Fucking morons...
Within the next six months, I intend to go Linux only and wipe fraggin' Microcrap off the disk...
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Question is, have they recouped their investment so far? Will they recoup it if they are shut down before they get that $20,000,000 (assuming they are actually getting that kind of money, which I haven't seen anyone establish yet)?
It may well be that you're right - the whole thing is a sham on their part just to squeeze some money out of SOMEBODY before the show closes...
That would fit in with their attempt earlier on to divert donations from other people into their own pockets...
When is someone going to grab their lawyers by the scruff of the neck and say, "Look, asshole! We can't win this by supporting the notion of intellectual property and copyright! We probably can't win at all, since the State and the corporations are running things. But we should by Satan go out fighting! Which means we need to attack the WHOLE NOTION of IP and copyright as wrong from the git-go! Get on it!"
Actually the only NON-waste of time for these people would be to go TOTALLY underground - it would be cheaper to hire some hotshot crypto guys and bribe a few more Third World ratholes to host the servers and just OPERATE...
"You give us everything you have and do everything we tell you and we'll protect you from the bad people outside our borders and the bad people inside our borders (i.e, your neighbor and you - according to your neighbor) - and if there aren't any bad people inside or outside our borders, we'll make some."
So we have laws to criminalize drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, guns, music, comic books, video games, etc. ad infinitum, and we have Saddam Hussein, Bin Laden, etc., ad infinitum, all of which is created by the stroke of a pen and the distribution of tax dollars while everyone so affected votes for this to happen, then complains when it happens to THEM...
The whole sham is nothing but an extortion and protection racket, and not ONE PERCENT of the fucking population can see this...
No, it was the Neanderthals who were copying - so the humans made them extinct...
Unfortunately, the species that became intelligent BEFORE humans - you know, the guys flying the UFOs - already had nanotech, so they just told the humans to fuck off, and kept copying the stuff...
I could care less what Rousseau thought. If you want, match him against Lysander Spooner, author of "The Constitution of No Authority".
A king is a king because of primate stupidity. If you want to argue that a "social contract" is stupidity, I'll have to agree...
And democracy is just another unworkable human social institution which legitimizes the state. It's dependence on the notion of "social contract" is merely a symptom of the underlying stupidity.
"Social contract" is just another term for "herd stupidity" - that simple.
- As a producer of such copyrighted material (a - programmer with delusions of one day being a - novelist), I expect to receive compensation for - what I've produced and will produce
You may expect all you want, but if technology renders your expectations fruitless, you would be wise to change your business model...
As Q said to Bond, "Well, it's the future - get used to it!"
- Think about that for a minute, even a critic of - today's ridiculous, century-long copyright - laws, agrees that, left unchecked, piracy will - lead to fewer books, movies, video games, - albums, etc. being produced. That's bad
And it has never been established that it is true, either...
For one thing, piracy CANNOT BE UNCHECKED! At the very least, you can't pirate what does not exist. If your scenario that all producers would stop producing were true, by definition, there could be no more piracy (except of old works)...
The fact of the matter is that piracy (more properly called, unlicensed reproduction - the term "piracy" is a legal and moralistic judgemental term) is subject to the same economic laws as any other human activity. "Pirates" have marketing and production expenses as much as producers do - what they don't have are development expenses - or at least not to the same degree as an inventor, e.g.). To compete with "pirates", cut your price close to theirs and anyone with a brain will buy from the original producer...
Development costs can be recouped in other ways - such as bootstrapping...
Reducing the discussion to unproven claims that someone has a "right" to "IP" and the "right" to use state force to insure their income is nonsense...
Right - because Asians don't run from a fight like Iraqi farmboys as we learned in Vietnam...
If we EVER fight North Korea, we will take thousands and thousands of casualties and public support for such a war would evaporate, and Bush knows it...(unless of course North Korea attacked us first with some sort of nuke or something - then the public would be behind it - for a while anyway...)
Iraq is an easy target... It's like a biker beating up a/. geek...(heh, heh)
-The blame probably should lay squarely on -WinAMP, which pretty much pioneered the idea of -skinning media
Absolutely! I do not understand why some idiots thought that making a program look like a badly-designed media appliance was an advance in usability! Programmers should read a text like "Why Things Don't Work" or "Design For the Real World", before they get cute.
Fortunately, a little help for Winamp is available by running Jukebox for Winamp which has a slightly better interface - at least the fonts and icons are big so you can see them. And you can access the underlying Winamp if you need to. I much preferred MusicMatch Jukebox to Winamp, initially, despite the spyware and Registry abuse, but thanks to Jukebox for Winamp I could ditch MusicMatch and get something that makes Winamp at least marginally usable.
I would explain it all to you again, but I did that just a couple weeks ago...
Oh, well, one more time...
NO child can be HARMED by EXPOSURE to ANYTHING (excepting nerve gas, Ebola virus, you get the idea).
Over 200 studies of media violence impact on children have been done and NONE have established any significant impact without fudging the figures or manipulating the observations.
Any parent who believes his child must be "protected" from reality is a SHITTY PARENT AND SHOULD HAVE HIS CHILD TAKEN AWAY FROM HIM and reared by someone with a brain! (Or, more precisely, the child should be offered the option of dumping his asshole parent and living with someone he likes better - THAT policy would put fear in the hearts of 95% of parents who KNOW they are lousy parents just as THEIR parents were lousy...)
You domesticated primates really don't have a clue...
I used to be on the WELL back in the '80's, and Dave was on there too (of course - it was the premier online "community" at that time.)
I remember during the revolt in the Phillipines, Dave came on the WELL and demonstrated how you could fax from your PC. The Chief of Staff of the Phillipine military was an acquaintance of Dave's from West Point, so Dave fired up his PC, crafted a congratulatory message, sent it through a gateway into the fax network, and got a response from the Phillipine military acknowledging receipt.
Doesn't sound like much now, but this was in the mid-80's, when this sort of thing was not common.
Dave is no crackpot...He's definitely an online pioneer.
Ever read any of the studies that show massive economic return from industrial activities (and I don't mean something as big as asteroid mining, I mean much smaller activities) in space?
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This could be construed as "reverse engineering" something to "thwart copyright" - somehow, I assume, like everything else new or old has been accused of that recently...
Not to mention that with the military weighing in on it, I suspect Phrack will be accused of terrorism shortly... So much for Phrack...
Since, according to the GAO, in the last Gulf War, 80% of our "smart" bombs missed their targets, I don't think we'll notice if Saddam jams their guidance systems...
Military ordnance is not intended to WORK - it is intended to make profits for defense industry corporations who bribe Congress and the DOD for contracts...
After all, did we ever NEED 10,000 nuclear weapons? Of course not - we needed the MONEY we spent on them to insure our re-election...
Come on! With a set of tits like these, you KNOW these chicks were HIRED by the sponsors to work the show! That's probably how the show was financed - by a percentage of the proceeds from the hookers working the geeks...
Come on, geeks! 'Fess up! How much did YOU spend on these babes?
This is Howard Cosell, from the Hack-Attack-A-Thon in Austin, Texas. Now a word from our sponsors...
This is Howard Cosell, back at the Hack-Attack-A-Thon in Austin, Texas, where it seems the first team up has determined that the target box is running the unpatched version of SSL. That's a no-no, sysops... And now, a word from our sponsors...
This is Howard Cosell, back at the Hack-Attack-A-Thon in Austin, Texas. You know, I always wondered why quarterbacks never just kept the ball and ran with it... Well, it seems the first team has run out of time for their attack, and the box is STILL unbroken! And now, a word from our sponsors...
See the dollar sign? He wants 1,000,000 US DOLLARS (which, however, are currently worth only a few copper pennies...send him a sack of pennies, let him figure out what it's worth)
BTW, this post, too, is copyrighted, and also BTW, this is a EULA which states that reading this post (like viewing child porn) establishes a legal obligation on you to pay me IN PERSON ONE BILLION US DOLLARS IN CURRENT UNUSED BILLS BY NEXT TUESDAY BEFORE LUNCH!
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In an effort to prevent copycat terrorism, authorities revealed today that the 911 terrorists did NOT use box cutters to seize the aircraft with which they toppled the Twin Towers.
In actuality, they used a diabolical device developed by Al-Qaida technicians called a "spud-gun"!
Secret CIA documents indicate further that the Twin Towers themselves would have withstood the impact from two jet airliners had not the planes been massively overweighted with the sacks of potatos brought on board by the terrorists...
Homeland Security officials are reportedly set to institute a massive surveillance program using satellites and Internet surveillance on the state of Idaho...
1) Went to a news site (MSNBC? I forget...) - decided to try running a video - told me it needed the Microsoft plugin, sent me to Microsoft site to download Media Player 9.
2) Said okay, what the hell, I'll get it, EULA or no, downloaded, installed.
3) Broke my wallpaper changer - began giving me divide by zero errors when I changed wallpaper. Why? Who knows?
4) PowerPro began to crash on reboot for the wallpaper thingy... Why? Who knows?
5) Uninstalled Media Player 9.
10)Uninstalled WallMaster, reinstalled WallMaster.
11)WallMaster and PowerPro problem go away.
12)Irony - Even after I installed Media Player 9, the fuckin' news site STILL SAID I NEEDED THE PLUGIN!
Fucking morons...
Within the next six months, I intend to go Linux only and wipe fraggin' Microcrap off the disk...
Question is, have they recouped their investment so far? Will they recoup it if they are shut down before they get that $20,000,000 (assuming they are actually getting that kind of money, which I haven't seen anyone establish yet)?
It may well be that you're right - the whole thing is a sham on their part just to squeeze some money out of SOMEBODY before the show closes...
That would fit in with their attempt earlier on to divert donations from other people into their own pockets...
You do know that Hillary Rosen is a out lesbian...
Consider what she and her partner might be doing...
When is someone going to grab their lawyers by the scruff of the neck and say, "Look, asshole! We can't win this by supporting the notion of intellectual property and copyright! We probably can't win at all, since the State and the corporations are running things. But we should by Satan go out fighting! Which means we need to attack the WHOLE NOTION of IP and copyright as wrong from the git-go! Get on it!"
Actually the only NON-waste of time for these people would be to go TOTALLY underground - it would be cheaper to hire some hotshot crypto guys and bribe a few more Third World ratholes to host the servers and just OPERATE...
Works for the Medellin Cartel...
LAW CREATES CRIME!
The purpose of government is as follows:
"You give us everything you have and do everything we tell you and we'll protect you from the bad people outside our borders and the bad people inside our borders (i.e, your neighbor and you - according to your neighbor) - and if there aren't any bad people inside or outside our borders, we'll make some."
So we have laws to criminalize drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, guns, music, comic books, video games, etc. ad infinitum, and we have Saddam Hussein, Bin Laden, etc., ad infinitum, all of which is created by the stroke of a pen and the distribution of tax dollars while everyone so affected votes for this to happen, then complains when it happens to THEM...
The whole sham is nothing but an extortion and protection racket, and not ONE PERCENT of the fucking population can see this...
Morons...
No, it was the Neanderthals who were copying - so the humans made them extinct...
Unfortunately, the species that became intelligent BEFORE humans - you know, the guys flying the UFOs - already had nanotech, so they just told the humans to fuck off, and kept copying the stuff...
I could care less what Rousseau thought. If you want, match him against Lysander Spooner, author of "The Constitution of No Authority".
A king is a king because of primate stupidity. If you want to argue that a "social contract" is stupidity, I'll have to agree...
And democracy is just another unworkable human social institution which legitimizes the state. It's dependence on the notion of "social contract" is merely a symptom of the underlying stupidity.
"Social contract" is just another term for "herd stupidity" - that simple.
No, that was not a typo...it was a definition...
- Acopyright is a social contract with the public.
There is no such thing as a "social contract"...
- As a producer of such copyrighted material (a
- programmer with delusions of one day being a
- novelist), I expect to receive compensation for
- what I've produced and will produce
You may expect all you want, but if technology renders your expectations fruitless, you would be wise to change your business model...
As Q said to Bond, "Well, it's the future - get used to it!"
- Think about that for a minute, even a critic of
- today's ridiculous, century-long copyright
- laws, agrees that, left unchecked, piracy will
- lead to fewer books, movies, video games,
- albums, etc. being produced. That's bad
And it has never been established that it is true, either...
For one thing, piracy CANNOT BE UNCHECKED! At the very least, you can't pirate what does not exist. If your scenario that all producers would stop producing were true, by definition, there could be no more piracy (except of old works)...
The fact of the matter is that piracy (more properly called, unlicensed reproduction - the term "piracy" is a legal and moralistic judgemental term) is subject to the same economic laws as any other human activity. "Pirates" have marketing and production expenses as much as producers do - what they don't have are development expenses - or at least not to the same degree as an inventor, e.g.). To compete with "pirates", cut your price close to theirs and anyone with a brain will buy from the original producer...
Development costs can be recouped in other ways - such as bootstrapping...
Reducing the discussion to unproven claims that someone has a "right" to "IP" and the "right" to use state force to insure their income is nonsense...
So Arnold used YOUR car in Terminator 2...
You helped save the world from SkyNet!
You the Man!
Right - because Asians don't run from a fight like Iraqi farmboys as we learned in Vietnam...
/. geek...(heh, heh)
If we EVER fight North Korea, we will take thousands and thousands of casualties and public support for such a war would evaporate, and Bush knows it...(unless of course North Korea attacked us first with some sort of nuke or something - then the public would be behind it - for a while anyway...)
Iraq is an easy target... It's like a biker beating up a
Yeah, and all those re-used fake monsters they used to have on that show...
Had some good episodes though - remember James Darren as the android Mr. Omar?
Skip Homeier as the oceanographer with gills?
Can I go down on ^H^H^H^H^H^H take Stephanie Beacham down in one of these?
-The blame probably should lay squarely on
-WinAMP, which pretty much pioneered the idea of
-skinning media
Absolutely! I do not understand why some idiots thought that making a program look like a badly-designed media appliance was an advance in usability! Programmers should read a text like "Why Things Don't Work" or "Design For the Real World", before they get cute.
Fortunately, a little help for Winamp is available by running Jukebox for Winamp which has a slightly better interface - at least the fonts and icons are big so you can see them. And you can access the underlying Winamp if you need to. I much preferred MusicMatch Jukebox to Winamp, initially, despite the spyware and Registry abuse, but thanks to Jukebox for Winamp I could ditch MusicMatch and get something that makes Winamp at least marginally usable.
I would explain it all to you again, but I did that just a couple weeks ago...
Oh, well, one more time...
NO child can be HARMED by EXPOSURE to ANYTHING (excepting nerve gas, Ebola virus, you get the idea).
Over 200 studies of media violence impact on children have been done and NONE have established any significant impact without fudging the figures or manipulating the observations.
Any parent who believes his child must be "protected" from reality is a SHITTY PARENT AND SHOULD HAVE HIS CHILD TAKEN AWAY FROM HIM and reared by someone with a brain! (Or, more precisely, the child should be offered the option of dumping his asshole parent and living with someone he likes better - THAT policy would put fear in the hearts of 95% of parents who KNOW they are lousy parents just as THEIR parents were lousy...)
You domesticated primates really don't have a clue...
I used to be on the WELL back in the '80's, and Dave was on there too (of course - it was the premier online "community" at that time.)
I remember during the revolt in the Phillipines, Dave came on the WELL and demonstrated how you could fax from your PC. The Chief of Staff of the Phillipine military was an acquaintance of Dave's from West Point, so Dave fired up his PC, crafted a congratulatory message, sent it through a gateway into the fax network, and got a response from the Phillipine military acknowledging receipt.
Doesn't sound like much now, but this was in the mid-80's, when this sort of thing was not common.
Dave is no crackpot...He's definitely an online pioneer.
Ever read any of the studies that show massive economic return from industrial activities (and I don't mean something as big as asteroid mining, I mean much smaller activities) in space?
This could be construed as "reverse engineering" something to "thwart copyright" - somehow, I assume, like everything else new or old has been accused of that recently...
Not to mention that with the military weighing in on it, I suspect Phrack will be accused of terrorism shortly... So much for Phrack...
Since, according to the GAO, in the last Gulf War, 80% of our "smart" bombs missed their targets, I don't think we'll notice if Saddam jams their guidance systems...
Military ordnance is not intended to WORK - it is intended to make profits for defense industry corporations who bribe Congress and the DOD for contracts...
After all, did we ever NEED 10,000 nuclear weapons? Of course not - we needed the MONEY we spent on them to insure our re-election...
Oh, I like your sig!
I'm stealing it!
Sue me for IP infringement!
Come on! With a set of tits like these, you KNOW these chicks were HIRED by the sponsors to work the show! That's probably how the show was financed - by a percentage of the proceeds from the hookers working the geeks...
Come on, geeks! 'Fess up! How much did YOU spend on these babes?
This is Howard Cosell, from the Hack-Attack-A-Thon in Austin, Texas. Now a word from our sponsors...
This is Howard Cosell, back at the Hack-Attack-A-Thon in Austin, Texas, where it seems the first team up has determined that the target box is running the unpatched version of SSL. That's a no-no, sysops... And now, a word from our sponsors...
This is Howard Cosell, back at the Hack-Attack-A-Thon in Austin, Texas. You know, I always wondered why quarterbacks never just kept the ball and ran with it... Well, it seems the first team has run out of time for their attack, and the box is STILL unbroken! And now, a word from our sponsors...
See the dollar sign? He wants 1,000,000 US DOLLARS (which, however, are currently worth only a few copper pennies...send him a sack of pennies, let him figure out what it's worth)
BTW, this post, too, is copyrighted, and also BTW, this is a EULA which states that reading this post (like viewing child porn) establishes a legal obligation on you to pay me IN PERSON ONE BILLION US DOLLARS IN CURRENT UNUSED BILLS BY NEXT TUESDAY BEFORE LUNCH!