I contacted gamespy, informed them that I'm an independant security consultant, had heard about a Cease-Desist sent to a fellow analyst, and requested to be transferred to their legal department. I was put on hold for about 10 minutes, then the receptionist returned to the line, informed me the legal department was on another line and I was promptly hung up on. All in all 11 minutes of my time taken today dealing with them. I suggest you draw your own conclusions here, but I think if I come up with an insecurity in their software I'll merely publish it to bugtraq, slashdot and anywhere else that it'll be very hard to get rid of until they fix their code.
Here's what we do know...
While we don't know the identity of GAIN-Supported Software users, the GAIN AdServer and TGC collect and use the following kinds of anonymous information:
Some of the Web pages viewed
The amount of time spent at some Web sites
Response to GAIN Ads
Standard web log information (excluding IP Addresses) and system settings
What software is on the personal computer
First name, country, city, and five digit ZIP code
Non-personally identifiable information on Web pages and forms
Software usage characteristics and preferences
so you track who we are (list item 6, and 7 different list items of data about us, including what kind of computer we have, where we surf, what software we use to go there and configuration information on our computers.) YOU ARE SPYING ON US.
spy
n. pl. spies (spz)
An agent employed by a state to obtain secret information, especially of a military nature, concerning its potential or actual enemies.
One employed by a company to obtain confidential information about its competitors.
One who secretly keeps watch on another or others.
An act of spying.
for those who are illiteratei among us, please check the third definition.
Thus I declare that you (Gator) are manufactures and purveyors of spyware onto the masses.
attbi is owned by comcast, and thus is not a part of AT&T, however worldnet it appears, having talked to a customer will fall under these blocks, judging by the mailprofile I saw on an account there today, and not by any actual previous notice (verisign anyone?). Btw the only link in that add is hosted on the DSL I'm posting this reply from, I've got less than 100ms lag. So either noone cares, or more likely our site doesn't use large sucky images. PS: Check out the AHBL (abusive hosts blocking list, soon to be released)
Zone Contact:
Fanger Communications
Robert Fanger
303 N. Alabama St., Ste. 250
Indianapolis, IN 46204
US
Phone: 317-955-9020
Email: rfanger@fangercom.com Domain ID:D761595-LROR Domain Name:ATACONNECT.ORG
there's another phone number or two, I can't find a robert fanger listed in indianapolis, closest match is:
3023 Wilderness Rd Fort Wayne, IN (260) 497-0266 Created On:13-Oct-1996 04:00:00 UTC Last Updated On:23-Sep-2003 05:44:28 UTC Expiration Date:12-Oct-2004 04:00:00 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:R63-LROR Status:OK Registrant ID:35266199-NSI Registrant Name:Fanger Communications Registrant Organization:Fanger Communications Registrant Street1:238 S. Meridian St. Registrant Street2:Ste. 210 Registrant City:Indianapolis Registrant State/Province:IN Registrant Postal Code:46225 Registrant Country:US Registrant Email:rfanger@fangercom.com Admin ID:35266199-NSI Admin Name:Fanger Communications Admin Organization:Fanger Communications Admin Street1:238 S. Meridian St. Admin Street2:Ste. 210 Admin City:Indianapolis Admin State/Province:IN Admin Postal Code:46225 Admin Country:US Admin Email:rfanger@fangercom.com Billing ID:35266199-NSI Billing Name:Fanger Communications Billing Organization:Fanger Communications Billing Street1:238 S. Meridian St. Billing Street2:Ste. 210 Billing City:Indianapolis Billing State/Province:IN Billing Postal Code:46225 Billing Country:US Billing Email:rfanger@fangercom.com Tech ID:35266199-NSI Tech Name:Fanger Communications Tech Organization:Fanger Communications Tech Street1:238 S. Meridian St. Tech Street2:Ste. 210 Tech City:Indianapolis Tech State/Province:IN Tech Postal Code:46225 Tech Country:US Tech Email:rfanger@fangercom.com Name Server:NS1.WEST-DATACENTER.NET Name Server:NS2.WEST-DATACENTER.NET
consider this a request for datapull (ala alan ralsky) on Robert Fanger of Indianapolis, IN. PS I may drop by his office tomorrow to tell him how much I love him and the work he does. oddly indiana has a DO NOT CALL list of it's own which has stood several appeals. C'mon rob at least police your own state!
Hi, SCO execs have swelled the stock up 500% since January. During this time SCO has released no new product, and published no financial gains of any significance. Their Board has dumped hundreds of thousands in SCO stock.
ATTENTION IDIOTS IN THE SEC! THIS IS A PUMP AND DUMP SCHEME! PLEASE SAVE OUR COMMUNITY FROM ANY MORE PAIN BY OPENING THEIR BOOKS AND CLOSING THEIR BUSINESS!
I'm quite honestly sick of hearing about this, but I don't blaim slashdot, I don't blaim SGI, SGI is a GOOD COMPANY and has done the right thing, SCO is a group of EXTORTIONISTS (though if I call them a company perhaps I can get them for racketerring and RICO violations as organized criminals) endeavoring to manipulate the stockmarket and our economy. Ladies and Gentlemen this is a VERY serious situation. In fact if this is not quickly remedied, this will turn into another scandal of Enron porportions, and seriously DAMAGE our economy.
I mean, we just set a legal precedent stating that Internet Exploerer in parts is worth over half a billion dollars. Which means that when you go and steal windows, then get sued for copyright violation... well there's an established value for that software now that's a bit higher than it was before.
but umm fortunately it doesn't work that way so we can all breath easily, and go back to swapping on kazaa, untill the MPAA knocks on our door.
sounds like a case of acute acronym dependancy, (Where a nontechnical person overuses tech jargon acronyms to sound intelligent, most often found in IT bosses, and salesdroids). I'd suggest a quick jaunt out to the nearest highway to play in traffic, it's the only known cure I'm afraid.:)
quite humping the frickin "laser"! Would you and the frickin "laser" go and get a room or something?
(I'm sorry I really just had to after reading the parent)
I don't know whether to post this anonymously or not, so moderators take pity, but the above pissed me off. A: I don't play games B: I don't watch tv except the news which is mostly the war C: I think we went to war against the Afghani government, which we didn't even recognize D: I think we went to war against Saddam Hussain's regime, because the UN pretty much wouldn't do anything to free 45 million oppressed persons.
Now that I'm not quite so pissed off... I spent a year in military school, around the military and intimately involved with both officers and enlisted men. Not one of them wants to go off and fight a war. But every one of them wants to do their duty. The deaths of those "thousands" of thus far uncounted and unconfirmed civilians, though I will not doubt nor debate the death tole in civilian life will be high, how high we do not know yet. Listen, Weapons of Mass Destruction are scary, scary beyond belief. Your entire family grows sick and falls dead around you, perhaps we know who did it or even why, but most likely we don't know at all... it just happens. The question as to whether or not we find WMD in Iraq is a NONISSUE. The fact that Saddam broke repeatedly over the course of 12 years, the UN resolution which ended the first war, the fact that his generals committed genocide, the fact that he has done everything possible to prevent UN weapons inspectors from doing their jobs. So lets ask, why did the French Germans and Russians NOT want a war in IRAQ. Not touched upon in the CNN reports when they wen't through the Iraqi bunkers was that not all the weapons were Kalaishnikovs, several German-made Steyr Aug (think counterstrike here) and other german manufactured weapons were found, a reporter even held one up, but not knowing his firearms misunderstood it's critical importance. The French were trading food for oil, and a war with Iraq would be against French oil interests. Meaning France acted to support it's own oil (a claim that's been thrown against the US repeatedly) Last but not least Russia was openly dealing arms to the Iraqi's up to the last minute before the bombs started falling. All these countries stood a FINANCIAL or ECONOMIC gain from NOT going to war in Iraq. War has gotten a lot less messy in the past 25 years, we don't carpet bomb anymore, and while thousands may have lost their lives, tens of thousands of lives were saved by pinpoint laser bombing technologies and improved cruise missiles. Saddam killed more muslims during his regime than we did even if we did kill thousands of Iraqi citizens. There are two branches of Islam, Sunni and Shiite. Saddam is Sunni, but many other Iraqi's were Shiite, their religion was violently repressed with executions and torture. And lets not forget the previously mentioned gassing of the Kurds. One more note, I've sat down to dinner with a Devout Sunni Muslim, a Devout Reform Jew, and I my self am a practicing Roman Catholic. The conversation on religion was both intelligent as it was intriguing. Peoples in the world need not hate each other because of religion. No major religion preaches that infidels be destroyed, especially not Islam. I've had the honor of knowing many of the Islamic faith, and Christians, and I myself could learn a few things about temperment from them. In closing, remember that three peoples were freed by this war, oppression was stopped, and a regime which had actively used weapons of mass destruction against their own people, was put down. If we should pray for something, lets pray that the Iraqi people can find peace and restore the heart of civilization to what it once was. I part you in the traditional words of both Hebrew, and Islam. Shalom, peace be with you.
and the RIAA can let go all the staff who have to track piracy,
with a pat on the back and not much else, I hope these cocksuckers starve.
you fucked with our students
you fucked with our armed forces
you need to be disappeared. NOW.
this guy has missed it, I mean truly missed it. The point of freesoftware is that people contribute back what THEY want to use. His treatment of various projects, Enlightenment for one (a waste of time) and Gaim, HERE WRITE YOUR PROGRAM HOW I WANT IT! Sir to quote ESR, you don't get it.
Why must everyone adopt linux? I quite frankly don't want to have to deal with the 200 morons and 10 clued people I work with all adopting linux and then having to answer all their questions. I'd be quite happy if they'd simply switch from IE to Mozilla so I don't have to keep removing virii from their desktop.
The foolish push to get everyone to use linux for everything is misguided. Quite honestly if I was a developer in any project he mentioned, I would be incredibly insulted. Fortunately I'm not but I still find this prevailing attitude that the sheep need to use linux on the desktop misguided.
first off it's Xiph, not Xing. And secondly, you aren't getting the product because you donated, people that do not choose to donate recieve the product in the same manner and timeframe as those that donate (in fact those that take time to donate before downloading may get their product in a longer time frame (in length by the time it takes to make the donation which Xiph does greatly appreciate.) So legally no you do not get ogg, vorbis, theora or speex out of your donation. This makes the FULL amount tax deductable on your 1040.
This question is part of what makes the 501(c)3 process take so long. One of the main questions is "does the donator get anything from the donatee out of the donation". Since the GPL/BSDL are in place the answer is no, just as with the Apache Foundation.
This is not to say that these charities can continue producing software without the money. Xiph.Org PAYS several of it's coders to code fulltime, their lifestyle and continued productivity do rely on your donations, and other projects which put money in the Xiph coffers. (currently a red shoebox in emmett's closet with the xiph fish on it)
I'm glad you asked that. the 501(c)3 effort, as best as I followed it took well over a year, with paperwork being filed with the local IRS offices on multiple occasions and Emmett having to run off to talk to the IRS or lawyers repeatedly. That statement was in no way an exhaggeration. It's much harder to get the IRS to allow you to not make money, than to set up a for-profit business.
information should be free, unless there's a pricetag attached, and in this case there is, it's like trying to take the little "do not remove" dye thingy off a shirt in teh store, you know you're gonna look like an ass when you walk out covered in black dye. Well now these people who admittedly deserve it look like asses. It sucks to have your cornflakes pissed in.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
now you have learned a hard lesson, trying to fuck with the system, does not and will not ever pay off. Really you should know better by now. But I personally think it's damn funny you A: bought something you saw in spam or on ebay only, B: got ripped off doing it and C: TRIED TO STEAL FROM YOUR CABLE COMPANY. Do you think they became multibillion dollar companies for being STUPID? what in the hell were you thinking?
With karma to spare I felt this needed to be said.
I guess IBM didn't have much to say on the matter.
IBM Text-to-Speech Research Demonstration
Input Communcations Error.
You have reached this page because of an severe input error. It appears that the client didn't connect to the server. Please inform the system administrator using the feedback mechanism on the main home page.
So how can Ogg Vorbis be supporting piracy, if none of the pirates are using Ogg Vorbis?
So, how can Saddam Hussein be a threat to humanity, if none of the weapon's inspectors haven't found any weapons of mass destruction in his country?
Short answer: he isn't.
First, I shouldn't dip into this obvious troll's post/quagmire, but I figured I'd try in vain to clear up a few points.
The UN resolution didn't state "we're going to go look for weapons in your country" it said "you are going to show us you have destroyed your weapons as the treaty we signed in good faith 12 years ago said you would (obviously noting the chemical genocide of the kurds in that time). Iraq has failed to do this and has created missiles which violate that treaty.
Long answer: Bush wants to whack Saddam, so that he can lay his hands on his oil. And once he has the oil, he is no longer dependant on the Saudi's oil, and thus can start going after them!
70% of our oil comes from venezula, and much of the rest from Alaska. Our oil interests aren't particularly threatened.
Now let me touch on chemical and biological weapons.
I quote from the movie "The Rock" "Vx is something so horrible we wish we could uninvent it." all of them are, chemical and biological weapons are a horrible slow death. Beyond that I'd like to see the US move with the full support of the UN security council. I do believe without a doubt that Saddam is in violation of the Articles and the treaty that ended the 1991 war. These weapons should have been destroyed 12 years ago. The "lets give them another month" thing just isn't cutting it anymore.
In summation this is really REALLY unfortunate. Biological and chemical weapons are unfortunate, as are nuclear weapons. But there are two bottom lines here: A: Israel is our main interest in the Middle East, and quite frankly without us holding them back Israel would turn the Middle East into a bloodbath, Sharon is a bloodthirsty moron, and the Israeli military puts the American armed forces to shame in training and equipment. Yes they would lose eventually as the combined might of the Arab States came to bare, but the loss of humanity would be truly stunning, and entirely unacceptable. B: This has little to nothing to do with oil.
Moderators: I hope you'll forgive my short venture into the world of offtopicness, and have some mercy in my attempt to answer this troll's questions.
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I contacted gamespy, informed them that I'm an independant security consultant, had heard about a Cease-Desist sent to a fellow analyst, and requested to be transferred to their legal department. I was put on hold for about 10 minutes, then the receptionist returned to the line, informed me the legal department was on another line and I was promptly hung up on. All in all 11 minutes of my time taken today dealing with them. I suggest you draw your own conclusions here, but I think if I come up with an insecurity in their software I'll merely publish it to bugtraq, slashdot and anywhere else that it'll be very hard to get rid of until they fix their code.
EULA's aren't secretive? they read at a college level. That's a GREAT place to hide information, I mean microsoft and co do it all the time.
Here's what we do know...
While we don't know the identity of GAIN-Supported Software users, the GAIN AdServer and TGC collect and use the following kinds of anonymous information:
so you track who we are (list item 6, and 7 different list items of data about us, including what kind of computer we have, where we surf, what software we use to go there and configuration information on our computers.) YOU ARE SPYING ON US.
spy
n. pl. spies (spz)
for those who are illiteratei among us, please check the third definition.
Thus I declare that you (Gator) are manufactures and purveyors of spyware onto the masses.
attbi is owned by comcast, and thus is not a part of AT&T, however worldnet it appears, having talked to a customer will fall under these blocks, judging by the mailprofile I saw on an account there today, and not by any actual previous notice (verisign anyone?). Btw the only link in that add is hosted on the DSL I'm posting this reply from, I've got less than 100ms lag. So either noone cares, or more likely our site doesn't use large sucky images. PS: Check out the AHBL (abusive hosts blocking list, soon to be released)
isn't slashdot itself prior art on this? I mean, you log in, and your stored preferences (Credits etc) are loaded for your page-viewing pleasure.
does this feature work anything like talkd which has been around since time began? you know like when people type, you SEE THEM TYPE.
Zone Contact:
Fanger Communications
Robert Fanger
303 N. Alabama St., Ste. 250
Indianapolis, IN 46204
US
Phone: 317-955-9020
Email: rfanger@fangercom.com
Domain ID:D761595-LROR
Domain Name:ATACONNECT.ORG
there's another phone number or two, I can't find a robert fanger listed in indianapolis, closest match is:
3023 Wilderness Rd
Fort Wayne, IN
(260) 497-0266
Created On:13-Oct-1996 04:00:00 UTC
Last Updated On:23-Sep-2003 05:44:28 UTC
Expiration Date:12-Oct-2004 04:00:00 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:R63-LROR
Status:OK
Registrant ID:35266199-NSI
Registrant Name:Fanger Communications
Registrant Organization:Fanger Communications
Registrant Street1:238 S. Meridian St.
Registrant Street2:Ste. 210
Registrant City:Indianapolis
Registrant State/Province:IN
Registrant Postal Code:46225
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Email:rfanger@fangercom.com
Admin ID:35266199-NSI
Admin Name:Fanger Communications
Admin Organization:Fanger Communications
Admin Street1:238 S. Meridian St.
Admin Street2:Ste. 210
Admin City:Indianapolis
Admin State/Province:IN
Admin Postal Code:46225
Admin Country:US
Admin Email:rfanger@fangercom.com
Billing ID:35266199-NSI
Billing Name:Fanger Communications
Billing Organization:Fanger Communications
Billing Street1:238 S. Meridian St.
Billing Street2:Ste. 210
Billing City:Indianapolis
Billing State/Province:IN
Billing Postal Code:46225
Billing Country:US
Billing Email:rfanger@fangercom.com
Tech ID:35266199-NSI
Tech Name:Fanger Communications
Tech Organization:Fanger Communications
Tech Street1:238 S. Meridian St.
Tech Street2:Ste. 210
Tech City:Indianapolis
Tech State/Province:IN
Tech Postal Code:46225
Tech Country:US
Tech Email:rfanger@fangercom.com
Name Server:NS1.WEST-DATACENTER.NET
Name Server:NS2.WEST-DATACENTER.NET
consider this a request for datapull (ala alan ralsky)
on Robert Fanger of Indianapolis, IN.
PS I may drop by his office tomorrow to tell him how much I love him and the work he does.
oddly indiana has a DO NOT CALL list of it's own which has stood several appeals. C'mon rob at least police your own state!
Hi, SCO execs have swelled the stock up 500% since January. During this time SCO has released no new product, and published no financial gains of any significance. Their Board has dumped hundreds of thousands in SCO stock.
ATTENTION IDIOTS IN THE SEC! THIS IS A PUMP AND DUMP SCHEME! PLEASE SAVE OUR COMMUNITY FROM ANY MORE PAIN BY OPENING THEIR BOOKS AND CLOSING THEIR BUSINESS!
I'm quite honestly sick of hearing about this, but I don't blaim slashdot, I don't blaim SGI, SGI is a GOOD COMPANY and has done the right thing, SCO is a group of EXTORTIONISTS (though if I call them a company perhaps I can get them for racketerring and RICO violations as organized criminals) endeavoring to manipulate the stockmarket and our economy. Ladies and Gentlemen this is a VERY serious situation. In fact if this is not quickly remedied, this will turn into another scandal of Enron porportions, and seriously DAMAGE our economy.
Andrew D Kirch
(how's this for an open letter)
I mean, we just set a legal precedent stating that Internet Exploerer in parts is worth over half a billion dollars. Which means that when you go and steal windows, then get sued for copyright violation... well there's an established value for that software now that's a bit higher than it was before.
but umm fortunately it doesn't work that way so we can all breath easily, and go back to swapping on kazaa, untill the MPAA knocks on our door.
sounds like a case of acute acronym dependancy, (Where a nontechnical person overuses tech jargon acronyms to sound intelligent, most often found in IT bosses, and salesdroids). I'd suggest a quick jaunt out to the nearest highway to play in traffic, it's the only known cure I'm afraid. :)
nor of course will it be useable :)
*ducks*
Fucktard6969 won't work on most irc servers as the default NICKLEN is 9
and let us not forget the grits, we must have grits :)
trelane
quite humping the frickin "laser"! Would you and the frickin "laser" go and get a room or something? (I'm sorry I really just had to after reading the parent)
I don't know whether to post this anonymously or not, so moderators take pity, but the above pissed me off.
A: I don't play games
B: I don't watch tv except the news which is mostly the war
C: I think we went to war against the Afghani government, which we didn't even recognize
D: I think we went to war against Saddam Hussain's regime, because the UN pretty much wouldn't do anything to free 45 million oppressed persons.
Now that I'm not quite so pissed off... I spent a year in military school, around the military and intimately involved with both officers and enlisted men. Not one of them wants to go off and fight a war. But every one of them wants to do their duty. The deaths of those "thousands" of thus far uncounted and unconfirmed civilians, though I will not doubt nor debate the death tole in civilian life will be high, how high we do not know yet.
Listen, Weapons of Mass Destruction are scary, scary beyond belief. Your entire family grows sick and falls dead around you, perhaps we know who did it or even why, but most likely we don't know at all... it just happens. The question as to whether or not we find WMD in Iraq is a NONISSUE. The fact that Saddam broke repeatedly over the course of 12 years, the UN resolution which ended the first war, the fact that his generals committed genocide, the fact that he has done everything possible to prevent UN weapons inspectors from doing their jobs.
So lets ask, why did the French Germans and Russians NOT want a war in IRAQ. Not touched upon in the CNN reports when they wen't through the Iraqi bunkers was that not all the weapons were Kalaishnikovs, several German-made Steyr Aug (think counterstrike here) and other german manufactured weapons were found, a reporter even held one up, but not knowing his firearms misunderstood it's critical importance. The French were trading food for oil, and a war with Iraq would be against French oil interests. Meaning France acted to support it's own oil (a claim that's been thrown against the US repeatedly) Last but not least Russia was openly dealing arms to the Iraqi's up to the last minute before the bombs started falling. All these countries stood a FINANCIAL or ECONOMIC gain from NOT going to war in Iraq.
War has gotten a lot less messy in the past 25 years, we don't carpet bomb anymore, and while thousands may have lost their lives, tens of thousands of lives were saved by pinpoint laser bombing technologies and improved cruise missiles.
Saddam killed more muslims during his regime than we did even if we did kill thousands of Iraqi citizens. There are two branches of Islam, Sunni and Shiite. Saddam is Sunni, but many other Iraqi's were Shiite, their religion was violently repressed with executions and torture. And lets not forget the previously mentioned gassing of the Kurds.
One more note, I've sat down to dinner with a Devout Sunni Muslim, a Devout Reform Jew, and I my self am a practicing Roman Catholic. The conversation on religion was both intelligent as it was intriguing. Peoples in the world need not hate each other because of religion. No major religion preaches that infidels be destroyed, especially not Islam. I've had the honor of knowing many of the Islamic faith, and Christians, and I myself could learn a few things about temperment from them.
In closing, remember that three peoples were freed by this war, oppression was stopped, and a regime which had actively used weapons of mass destruction against their own people, was put down. If we should pray for something, lets pray that the Iraqi people can find peace and restore the heart of civilization to what it once was.
I part you in the traditional words of both Hebrew, and Islam.
Shalom, peace be with you.
and the RIAA can let go all the staff who have to track piracy,
with a pat on the back and not much else, I hope these cocksuckers starve.
you fucked with our students
you fucked with our armed forces
you need to be disappeared. NOW.
this guy has missed it, I mean truly missed it. The point of freesoftware is that people contribute back what THEY want to use. His treatment of various projects, Enlightenment for one (a waste of time) and Gaim, HERE WRITE YOUR PROGRAM HOW I WANT IT! Sir to quote ESR, you don't get it.
Why must everyone adopt linux? I quite frankly don't want to have to deal with the 200 morons and 10 clued people I work with all adopting linux and then having to answer all their questions. I'd be quite happy if they'd simply switch from IE to Mozilla so I don't have to keep removing virii from their desktop.
The foolish push to get everyone to use linux for everything is misguided. Quite honestly if I was a developer in any project he mentioned, I would be incredibly insulted. Fortunately I'm not but I still find this prevailing attitude that the sheep need to use linux on the desktop misguided.
first off it's Xiph, not Xing. And secondly, you aren't getting the product because you donated, people that do not choose to donate recieve the product in the same manner and timeframe as those that donate (in fact those that take time to donate before downloading may get their product in a longer time frame (in length by the time it takes to make the donation which Xiph does greatly appreciate.) So legally no you do not get ogg, vorbis, theora or speex out of your donation. This makes the FULL amount tax deductable on your 1040.
This question is part of what makes the 501(c)3 process take so long. One of the main questions is "does the donator get anything from the donatee out of the donation". Since the GPL/BSDL are in place the answer is no, just as with the Apache Foundation.
This is not to say that these charities can continue producing software without the money. Xiph.Org PAYS several of it's coders to code fulltime, their lifestyle and continued productivity do rely on your donations, and other projects which put money in the Xiph coffers. (currently a red shoebox in emmett's closet with the xiph fish on it)
I'm glad you asked that. the 501(c)3 effort, as best as I followed it took well over a year, with paperwork being filed with the local IRS offices on multiple occasions and Emmett having to run off to talk to the IRS or lawyers repeatedly. That statement was in no way an exhaggeration. It's much harder to get the IRS to allow you to not make money, than to set up a for-profit business.
information should be free, unless there's a pricetag attached, and in this case there is, it's like trying to take the little "do not remove" dye thingy off a shirt in teh store, you know you're gonna look like an ass when you walk out covered in black dye. Well now these people who admittedly deserve it look like asses. It sucks to have your cornflakes pissed in.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
now you have learned a hard lesson, trying to fuck with the system, does not and will not ever pay off. Really you should know better by now. But I personally think it's damn funny you A: bought something you saw in spam or on ebay only, B: got ripped off doing it and C: TRIED TO STEAL FROM YOUR CABLE COMPANY. Do you think they became multibillion dollar companies for being STUPID? what in the hell were you thinking? With karma to spare I felt this needed to be said.
I wasn't aware people used GiFT :)
I guess IBM didn't have much to say on the matter.
IBM Text-to-Speech Research Demonstration
Input Communcations Error.
You have reached this page because of an severe input error. It appears that the client didn't connect to the server. Please inform the system administrator using the feedback mechanism on the main home page.
So how can Ogg Vorbis be supporting piracy, if none of the pirates are using Ogg Vorbis? So, how can Saddam Hussein be a threat to humanity, if none of the weapon's inspectors haven't found any weapons of mass destruction in his country?
Short answer: he isn't.
First, I shouldn't dip into this obvious troll's post/quagmire, but I figured I'd try in vain to clear up a few points.
The UN resolution didn't state "we're going to go look for weapons in your country" it said "you are going to show us you have destroyed your weapons as the treaty we signed in good faith 12 years ago said you would (obviously noting the chemical genocide of the kurds in that time). Iraq has failed to do this and has created missiles which violate that treaty.
Long answer: Bush wants to whack Saddam, so that he can lay his hands on his oil. And once he has the oil, he is no longer dependant on the Saudi's oil, and thus can start going after them!
70% of our oil comes from venezula, and much of the rest from Alaska. Our oil interests aren't particularly threatened.
Now let me touch on chemical and biological weapons. I quote from the movie "The Rock" "Vx is something so horrible we wish we could uninvent it." all of them are, chemical and biological weapons are a horrible slow death. Beyond that I'd like to see the US move with the full support of the UN security council. I do believe without a doubt that Saddam is in violation of the Articles and the treaty that ended the 1991 war. These weapons should have been destroyed 12 years ago. The "lets give them another month" thing just isn't cutting it anymore. In summation this is really REALLY unfortunate. Biological and chemical weapons are unfortunate, as are nuclear weapons. But there are two bottom lines here:
A: Israel is our main interest in the Middle East, and quite frankly without us holding them back Israel would turn the Middle East into a bloodbath, Sharon is a bloodthirsty moron, and the Israeli military puts the American armed forces to shame in training and equipment. Yes they would lose eventually as the combined might of the Arab States came to bare, but the loss of humanity would be truly stunning, and entirely unacceptable.
B: This has little to nothing to do with oil.
Moderators: I hope you'll forgive my short venture into the world of offtopicness, and have some mercy in my attempt to answer this troll's questions.
this is probably the biggest issue in my "if I get it working catagory" is adjusting for the distortion, if you have any recommendations let me know.