What about all the CS & EE students back home who use it at the university and get used to having a big pile of free, powerful, and stable apps, and demand the same thing on their desktop both at work and at home after they graduate?
That's what Kazaa is for. Windows software is actually really nice when it isn't freezing up my computer.
Destroyed irreplacable historic artifacts in exchange for more Farmland. Farmland, for crying out loud. As if the world need more Farmland.
We need educated people not bloody peasants.
More people need more farmland. You can have a billion books, but it won't do much good if you're starving to death. Food is the most important necessity of life. Books and learning are much lower on the list. "Artifacts" are probably dead last IMHO. Nobody gives a damn about two thousand year old broken clay pottery when their stomach is empty.
What is wrong with video extraction? No doubt this book will be bypassed for web sites, and possibly other books that don't overlook this important and entirely reasonable "hack".
Not to mention by the time the book hits the shelves all the "hacks" will probably be patched by TiVo and you're left with basically an obsolete historical look at TiVo hacking. Should be a good book to alert the TiVo management to fixing bugs in their OS that let you hack it. I'm continually amazed that people continue to buy these things with the intent to modify them to do something the company doesn't intend them to do and is adamantly against. Build a MythTV box instead and quit supporting closed source corporations.
And if you wanna intercept my phone calls, go right ahead.
Actually I agree with that too. If you're using the public airwaves for your transmissions and I can intercept it on my property then I should certainly be allowed to listen to your phone calls. If you were to sit out on your front porch having sex with your girlfriend am I to go to jail if I watched from my yard? If you don't want people intercepting your signal then use a cable. Cell phones should have the same requirements that ham radio does. You should need a license after taking a test, announce your call sign ever so often during the conversation, and it should be completely open for anyone to hear.
I also found that there was a tendancy by others to regard myself as less committed, simply by lack of physical presence, even though in every other way it was clear I was playing more than a full role.
You'll probably never get over this though. If no one can see you at work, you're not working. You could be sleeping at your desk and your coworkers would have a higher view of you than a telecommuter. I don't know if it's jealously or just plain incomprehension of the fact that someone doesn't need to sit their butt at the office to do work for the company.
It's not like you're sitting there sorting and filing papers or working at a factory. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection and most of us could do 99% of our jobs in our pajamas from home. Of course, then you get the frightening prospect that your work could just as easily be farmed off to some low-payed worker in India. It's a double-edged sword.
Or perhaps the US could solve the problem by not being so damn greedy?
IP Everywhere... not just the US!
I can see some poor peasant farmer in China cheering you on. Perhaps someday he can work enough to afford running water and a toilet and his sons may be able to afford electricity. In 2-3 more generations they may even be able to get a television and eventually a computer. Doubt it.
Well, that's a good idea as long as there's a strong way to identify the people serving and the people downloading the files in case of nefarious activities. We wouldn't want people distributing illegal material afterall. For example, you have the innocent Slashdot user pulling down Debian ISO images, while the slightly more illicit act of downloading Matrix 2, and the despicable act of distributing child pornography are occuring. No matter how good of an argument you can make for the legitimate uses, the illegitimate ones will always outweigh it.
Man, 229 million times! That's a lot of BDE spyware installs. Somebody please tell me again why with such a huge exploited base that these spyware tools are not detected by Norton Antivirus, McAfee, and others? Why must we resort to third party specialty programs like Spybot Search and Destroy and Adaware to clean our computers of these trojans?
If Microsoft added spyware that was impossible to uninstall (via normal methods) to Windows Media Player or IE people would have a shit-fit. If Kazaa does it they dismiss it and say to go download Kazaa Lite. Why support a company or piece of software that supports spyware? What's next? In order to run this shareware program you need to let us install Nimda on your system. The program will not run on a non-Nimda infected system?
First we train a decade of Windows lusers to click next-next-next-next-ok-finish without paying attention because of 500 page end-user license agreements and then some company comes along and slips a couple of sentences into there and suddenly they feel justified to install a trojan on your system that hides itself and makes itself difficult to uninstall. The average user cannot do it by themselves. That's just outright wrong. If I come across another system with 40 different spybots running I'm going to scream.
I get occasional spam with ADV in the subject line, but the vast majority of my spam does not, and I know the spammers aren't targetting me by my location (I don't live in California, but they wouldn't have a way to know that). How much difference will this new law make?
Well, if there was a law that said you had to use ADV in the subject and spammers were forced to comply with such a simple rule then I certainly wouldn't have any more complaints with them. I'd just add it to my filters and live happily ever after. Afterall, the spammers use the argument that you can opt out of their mailing lists right? Why not just clearly identify that your mail is an advertisement and let the users filter it themselves? Oh right, because everyone would filter your spam and you'd be out of business. So I guess it really is a bullshit opt-out argument.
Geez, and I remember when my NumberNine and Matrox video cards were the shiznit. Now am I to understand my blazingly fast GeForce 2 is old and busted? This is just insane. What the hell is the point in spending $400 for a good video card if they're just going to come out with something twice as good 6 months later and lower the price on your card to $40? Can we just stick with the current cards? They're fast enough for Counter-Strike. What else would I need a 3D card for?
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Gator actually has a use? To me it's always been a trojan that shows up on my computer from time to time. I don't install it, I can't uninstall it without using third party software (spybot search and destroy), and I don't want it. To me that's malware. Anti-virus vendors are on crack for not scanning for this shit and removing it.
Spyware causes nothing but problems for every single person I've ever encountered with it on their computer. Everything from using 90%+ of the CPU and slowing their computer to a crawl (sometimes with dozens of different spybots installed without the user having any clue about them) to losing sound in certain applications. The last three times my mother has called me frantically saying her computer is broke because she has no sound was Gator. Uninstalling it mysteriously fixed it, every single time. Spyware makers can go to hell along with the pedophiles and spammers.
Well honestly how can you really tell if it is going into a commercial anyways? Its not like the screen doesn't change at all within a show on TV anyways...
Congress should pass a law that specifies stations must put in a clearly defined cut pattern between television programs and the commercials. Without such a pattern I'm left to wonder sometimes whether what I'm watching is a commercial or the actual program. Please Congress, pass a law to demand consumers be protected against being duped into watching parts of the program that are actually a commercial!!! Oh yea, make it something that's standard and easy to recognize with a PVR. Thanks.
On most cel plans in the states, SMS costs more than making a voice call (voice calls are usually a flat rate for the month unless usage crosses a threshold)
I don't understand the big deal with these SMS messages. People sit there and type them out on a little cell phone key pad? Why not dial the phone and just call the person? Seems like it'd be much less effort than trying to type out sentences on a little phone keypad. I tried typing up a short e-mail message on my sprint pcs phone when I first got it but haven't done that in months. It takes too long. I guess there's weird shorthand you can use, but who understands that besides 12 year old girls?
The first and fully accepted meaning of deprecate is "to express disapproval of." But the word has steadily encroached on the meaning of depreciate. It is now used, almost to the exclusion of depreciate, in the sense "to belittle or mildly disparage,".
I blame the rise in popularity on the fact that "ps -aux" started popping up a message about the "-" being deprecated years ago.
Actually there could never have been much doubt. SCO by itself doesn't have either much reason or power to play with IBM without covert backing from Redmond. Was there any other reason for their going directly after IBM and ignoring RH/SuSE?
Hey, it's the UNIX Cold War. On one side you have an evil superpower secretly supporting small rogue states (the USSR, Microsoft) fighting against the good guys of freedom (IBM, Vietnam, South Korea, etc.). My personal conspiracy theory is that SCO (aka Caldera) leaked the code into the general Linux base at the request of Microsoft so that they could bring about this case. It's not like there's a big central CVS repository that comprises "Linux".
They could've sneaked the code in through some little lame package, then someone came along and borrowed the routines from that to build a bigger program, and then someone used those library routines to go build Gimp or even glibc. Pretty soon your whole distribution is infected by the GPL's viral license. Ingenious.
I have always been sceptical of calling electric vehicles "zero-emission." All you're doing is removing yourself a few steps from the emissions. It's like having a really long exhaust pipe, and then claiming that since the exhaust fumes are nowhere near your car, you aren't the one causing them.
They're called that because they are zero-emission. What a silly question. You could always replace the dirty burning coal and oil power plants with much more efficient nuclear power. Or in the cases where the idiotic enviro-hippies have brainwashed the population that nuclear power is evvvviiiil you can use solar, hydroelectric, wind, etc. It's much easier to upgrade and replace one central source of something instead of trying to replace 100 million end nodes.
If anyone is reading an article on Slashdot about The Matrix without having seen the movie gets what they deserve. If they don't want to be spoiled, they should avoid reading these articles. I'd rather people be responsible for their own actions.
Sorry, but no. It's long been proper netiquette to put an generic subject line and include at least 1 full page of whitespace following something like "*** SPOILERS BELOW!!! ***". Just because most Usenet traffic has migrated to Blogs doesn't make it any less relevent. That's as lame as putting something like "OMFG LONE GUNMEN DIE IN FINAL X-FILES EPISODE AIRED 5 MINUTES AGO EST!!!!" Oh right, Slashdot did that.
Is there anyone else in the world dumb enough to publically and personally insult every one of their customers?
That woman from the Dixie Chicks? Nobody has to worry these days though. As long as you're not in politics you could call someone a stupid dumb fuck to their face and 6 months later they'll be asking for your autograph again. Americans are stupid and have short memories. The Dixie Chicks are as popular as ever, if not more. I'm sure Madonna will sell another platinum album this year.
The current bills are pretty obvious, though, now that everybody knows about them.
My $20 bills already look like this new one since everytime I seem to have one the god damn cashiers run a highlighter over it. What, pink and yellow highlighting is the new anti-counterfeiting technique? I thought defacing currency was a federal offense.
Exactly. Sears and JC Penney's charge you your state sales tax when you order from their catalog and have it delivered by UPS. They have for decades. How is ordering from a print catalog different from ordering from an electronic catalog?
Sears and JC Penneys most likely have a brick and mortar store somewhere in your state. If they don't then they're not forced to collect sales tax. Simple as that really. Why should a small store in Washington have to know the various local and state tax rates around the country? For example, where I live the sales tax is 7%, while 5 miles to the south the sales tax is 5.5%. It'd be a huge effort to collect and get back to the states. Therefore they rely on you to record it as a use tax which we all do right?;-)
I'm quite certain that kids understand Coyote is his own worst enemy. I'm pretty certain it's clear that you can't push your brother off a cliff somewhere in a Southwestern desert, and expect him to live. The only people who have troubles with such distinctions are moronic do-gooding adults.
Really? Tell that to kids who re-enact "stunts" from Jackass. I thought it was all a bunch of whining parents complaining about it until I saw a bunch of local kids JUMPING OFF THEIR ROOF and videotaping it a few months ago. WTF? Kids are just stupid these days. I blame MTV and Anime like the Power Rangers.;-)
You can always compile it without css support if you wanted to stay legal...
Yea, but then I can't watch my DVDs.:-) I've yet to come upon a DVD that didn't have CSS encryption... maybe porn doesn't, but anything from Hollywood seems to. I realize it's probably the moral equivalent of j-walking, but there seem to be some pretty hefty consequences in the eyes of the law if someone chooses to make an example out of you.
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That's what Kazaa is for. Windows software is actually really nice when it isn't freezing up my computer.
More people need more farmland. You can have a billion books, but it won't do much good if you're starving to death. Food is the most important necessity of life. Books and learning are much lower on the list. "Artifacts" are probably dead last IMHO. Nobody gives a damn about two thousand year old broken clay pottery when their stomach is empty.
Not to mention by the time the book hits the shelves all the "hacks" will probably be patched by TiVo and you're left with basically an obsolete historical look at TiVo hacking. Should be a good book to alert the TiVo management to fixing bugs in their OS that let you hack it. I'm continually amazed that people continue to buy these things with the intent to modify them to do something the company doesn't intend them to do and is adamantly against. Build a MythTV box instead and quit supporting closed source corporations.
Actually I agree with that too. If you're using the public airwaves for your transmissions and I can intercept it on my property then I should certainly be allowed to listen to your phone calls. If you were to sit out on your front porch having sex with your girlfriend am I to go to jail if I watched from my yard? If you don't want people intercepting your signal then use a cable. Cell phones should have the same requirements that ham radio does. You should need a license after taking a test, announce your call sign ever so often during the conversation, and it should be completely open for anyone to hear.
You'll probably never get over this though. If no one can see you at work, you're not working. You could be sleeping at your desk and your coworkers would have a higher view of you than a telecommuter. I don't know if it's jealously or just plain incomprehension of the fact that someone doesn't need to sit their butt at the office to do work for the company.
It's not like you're sitting there sorting and filing papers or working at a factory. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection and most of us could do 99% of our jobs in our pajamas from home. Of course, then you get the frightening prospect that your work could just as easily be farmed off to some low-payed worker in India. It's a double-edged sword.
I can see some poor peasant farmer in China cheering you on. Perhaps someday he can work enough to afford running water and a toilet and his sons may be able to afford electricity. In 2-3 more generations they may even be able to get a television and eventually a computer. Doubt it.
Unless Japan suddenly becomes the 51st state of the USA, no. RIAA/MPAA are American organizations. Other countries should tell them to buzz off.
Oh yea Mr. Smartypants? Well a thousand l33t warez phreak BBS sysops can't be wrong. It's virii!
Why swat a fly with a hand grenade? Sometimes all you really need is a TCP plug and anything else is really overkill. A VPN certainly would be.
Well, that's a good idea as long as there's a strong way to identify the people serving and the people downloading the files in case of nefarious activities. We wouldn't want people distributing illegal material afterall. For example, you have the innocent Slashdot user pulling down Debian ISO images, while the slightly more illicit act of downloading Matrix 2, and the despicable act of distributing child pornography are occuring. No matter how good of an argument you can make for the legitimate uses, the illegitimate ones will always outweigh it.
If Microsoft added spyware that was impossible to uninstall (via normal methods) to Windows Media Player or IE people would have a shit-fit. If Kazaa does it they dismiss it and say to go download Kazaa Lite. Why support a company or piece of software that supports spyware? What's next? In order to run this shareware program you need to let us install Nimda on your system. The program will not run on a non-Nimda infected system?
First we train a decade of Windows lusers to click next-next-next-next-ok-finish without paying attention because of 500 page end-user license agreements and then some company comes along and slips a couple of sentences into there and suddenly they feel justified to install a trojan on your system that hides itself and makes itself difficult to uninstall. The average user cannot do it by themselves. That's just outright wrong. If I come across another system with 40 different spybots running I'm going to scream.
Well, if there was a law that said you had to use ADV in the subject and spammers were forced to comply with such a simple rule then I certainly wouldn't have any more complaints with them. I'd just add it to my filters and live happily ever after. Afterall, the spammers use the argument that you can opt out of their mailing lists right? Why not just clearly identify that your mail is an advertisement and let the users filter it themselves? Oh right, because everyone would filter your spam and you'd be out of business. So I guess it really is a bullshit opt-out argument.
Geez, and I remember when my NumberNine and Matrox video cards were the shiznit. Now am I to understand my blazingly fast GeForce 2 is old and busted? This is just insane. What the hell is the point in spending $400 for a good video card if they're just going to come out with something twice as good 6 months later and lower the price on your card to $40? Can we just stick with the current cards? They're fast enough for Counter-Strike. What else would I need a 3D card for?
Spyware causes nothing but problems for every single person I've ever encountered with it on their computer. Everything from using 90%+ of the CPU and slowing their computer to a crawl (sometimes with dozens of different spybots installed without the user having any clue about them) to losing sound in certain applications. The last three times my mother has called me frantically saying her computer is broke because she has no sound was Gator. Uninstalling it mysteriously fixed it, every single time. Spyware makers can go to hell along with the pedophiles and spammers.
Congress should pass a law that specifies stations must put in a clearly defined cut pattern between television programs and the commercials. Without such a pattern I'm left to wonder sometimes whether what I'm watching is a commercial or the actual program. Please Congress, pass a law to demand consumers be protected against being duped into watching parts of the program that are actually a commercial!!! Oh yea, make it something that's standard and easy to recognize with a PVR. Thanks.
I don't understand the big deal with these SMS messages. People sit there and type them out on a little cell phone key pad? Why not dial the phone and just call the person? Seems like it'd be much less effort than trying to type out sentences on a little phone keypad. I tried typing up a short e-mail message on my sprint pcs phone when I first got it but haven't done that in months. It takes too long. I guess there's weird shorthand you can use, but who understands that besides 12 year old girls?
I blame the rise in popularity on the fact that "ps -aux" started popping up a message about the "-" being deprecated years ago.
Hey, it's the UNIX Cold War. On one side you have an evil superpower secretly supporting small rogue states (the USSR, Microsoft) fighting against the good guys of freedom (IBM, Vietnam, South Korea, etc.). My personal conspiracy theory is that SCO (aka Caldera) leaked the code into the general Linux base at the request of Microsoft so that they could bring about this case. It's not like there's a big central CVS repository that comprises "Linux".
They could've sneaked the code in through some little lame package, then someone came along and borrowed the routines from that to build a bigger program, and then someone used those library routines to go build Gimp or even glibc. Pretty soon your whole distribution is infected by the GPL's viral license. Ingenious.
They're called that because they are zero-emission. What a silly question. You could always replace the dirty burning coal and oil power plants with much more efficient nuclear power. Or in the cases where the idiotic enviro-hippies have brainwashed the population that nuclear power is evvvviiiil you can use solar, hydroelectric, wind, etc. It's much easier to upgrade and replace one central source of something instead of trying to replace 100 million end nodes.
Sorry, but no. It's long been proper netiquette to put an generic subject line and include at least 1 full page of whitespace following something like "*** SPOILERS BELOW!!! ***". Just because most Usenet traffic has migrated to Blogs doesn't make it any less relevent. That's as lame as putting something like "OMFG LONE GUNMEN DIE IN FINAL X-FILES EPISODE AIRED 5 MINUTES AGO EST!!!!" Oh right, Slashdot did that.
That woman from the Dixie Chicks? Nobody has to worry these days though. As long as you're not in politics you could call someone a stupid dumb fuck to their face and 6 months later they'll be asking for your autograph again. Americans are stupid and have short memories. The Dixie Chicks are as popular as ever, if not more. I'm sure Madonna will sell another platinum album this year.
My $20 bills already look like this new one since everytime I seem to have one the god damn cashiers run a highlighter over it. What, pink and yellow highlighting is the new anti-counterfeiting technique? I thought defacing currency was a federal offense.
Sears and JC Penneys most likely have a brick and mortar store somewhere in your state. If they don't then they're not forced to collect sales tax. Simple as that really. Why should a small store in Washington have to know the various local and state tax rates around the country? For example, where I live the sales tax is 7%, while 5 miles to the south the sales tax is 5.5%. It'd be a huge effort to collect and get back to the states. Therefore they rely on you to record it as a use tax which we all do right? ;-)
Really? Tell that to kids who re-enact "stunts" from Jackass. I thought it was all a bunch of whining parents complaining about it until I saw a bunch of local kids JUMPING OFF THEIR ROOF and videotaping it a few months ago. WTF? Kids are just stupid these days. I blame MTV and Anime like the Power Rangers. ;-)
Yea, but then I can't watch my DVDs. :-) I've yet to come upon a DVD that didn't have CSS encryption... maybe porn doesn't, but anything from Hollywood seems to. I realize it's probably the moral equivalent of j-walking, but there seem to be some pretty hefty consequences in the eyes of the law if someone chooses to make an example out of you.