You know what's funny. The RIAA and music industry sure doesn't have a problem with a record store selling millions of CD's and whatnot...Then the stores buy them back...and sell the cd again. I mean, isn't that illegal as well? They're selling the same merchandise TWICE, and the musicians and record companies are not getting any more kickback, because they're not buying NEW cd's from them. Just reselling ones already sold. SO...in a sense...they're stealing money from the artists and music companies. "The Warehouse" formerly Warehouse Music is the LARGEST supplier of these. They're also doing this with movies. What bugs me, is they are griping about all this thanks to Metallica's original Napster issue. What happened there? We went to Kazaa and Limewire. Fact is, as long as there are programmers, and information that is obtainable to computers, there will always be hacking, cracking, and ripping. Now, Granted we shouldn't give away other people's property, but once we purchase the damn thing we own a small copyright to it. And another thing...Isn't it only illegal if we're getting paid for it??? And...we're not duplicating the music, we're merely transfering to a different media. It's not copying...because when you have CD...it's considered ".cda" format. And another thing...If they wouldn't make concerts cost so damn much money...Then maybe people would be able to afford to goto a concert and decide weather they like a band or not...rather than pirate one or 2 of their songs. I don't see the RIAA or whoever going after Ticketmaster for adding the $10+ service charge per ticket they sell for not cutting them in on that...Or...maybe they are getting a cut of that...hence why they're able to do it... so...a 20$ concert ticket turns into 30+....The Music audience is just taking something back since we have to give so much just to see and hear our favorite music...
DOWN WITH THE RIAA!!!!
~Peace
It seems now that Discover and American Express are joining the list of compromised cards. Here is a report snipit from CNN.com's article... :
"Discover and American Express would not disclose how many accounts were involved. In a statement, MasterCard put the overall security breach at about eight million accounts, including 2.2 million of its own cards. Visa said 3.4 million of its cards were affected."
You do the math folks... that is 5.6 million from MC/VISA which leaves 2.4 million to be left for DISC and AMX. Fact is that until they knew the CC's were compromised, they couldn't very well verify the legitimacy of the use of the CC's especially if they were used for internet Purchases. Basically, they were covering their asses it seems...as to keep the general public from going into chaos. I know reading this report is somewhat comforting, but I know the reality...why? Because i'm a Geek. By this I mean I can see through the bullshit the media tries to put over on the idiots. but if I check my bank and it's wiped, then someone is going to have to fork out Rent money...and let's not forget the beer money too!!:-p
-IHW
1.don't even try to say "linux can't compete with windows". If you want to complain about this worm...Let's talk about Nimba where it was a DOS attack that was started from a IIS server. 2.Let's talk about CodeRed. Yet another Worm that was started in a WINDOWS IIS server...which was prior to Nimba, that still is a menace to servers. 3. Finally, we have the latest SQL worm that does not hit the OSS's MySQL...but again it hit MS SQL. This argument about windows being better than Linux holds no water...:0)
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You know what's funny. The RIAA and music industry sure doesn't have a problem with a record store selling millions of CD's and whatnot...Then the stores buy them back...and sell the cd again. I mean, isn't that illegal as well? They're selling the same merchandise TWICE, and the musicians and record companies are not getting any more kickback, because they're not buying NEW cd's from them. Just reselling ones already sold. SO...in a sense...they're stealing money from the artists and music companies. "The Warehouse" formerly Warehouse Music is the LARGEST supplier of these. They're also doing this with movies. What bugs me, is they are griping about all this thanks to Metallica's original Napster issue. What happened there? We went to Kazaa and Limewire. Fact is, as long as there are programmers, and information that is obtainable to computers, there will always be hacking, cracking, and ripping. Now, Granted we shouldn't give away other people's property, but once we purchase the damn thing we own a small copyright to it. And another thing...Isn't it only illegal if we're getting paid for it??? And...we're not duplicating the music, we're merely transfering to a different media. It's not copying...because when you have CD...it's considered ".cda" format. And another thing...If they wouldn't make concerts cost so damn much money...Then maybe people would be able to afford to goto a concert and decide weather they like a band or not...rather than pirate one or 2 of their songs. I don't see the RIAA or whoever going after Ticketmaster for adding the $10+ service charge per ticket they sell for not cutting them in on that...Or...maybe they are getting a cut of that...hence why they're able to do it... so...a 20$ concert ticket turns into 30+ ....The Music audience is just taking something back since we have to give so much just to see and hear our favorite music...
DOWN WITH THE RIAA!!!!
~Peace
It seems now that Discover and American Express are joining the list of compromised cards. Here is a report snipit from CNN.com's article... : "Discover and American Express would not disclose how many accounts were involved. In a statement, MasterCard put the overall security breach at about eight million accounts, including 2.2 million of its own cards. Visa said 3.4 million of its cards were affected." You do the math folks... that is 5.6 million from MC/VISA which leaves 2.4 million to be left for DISC and AMX. Fact is that until they knew the CC's were compromised, they couldn't very well verify the legitimacy of the use of the CC's especially if they were used for internet Purchases. Basically, they were covering their asses it seems...as to keep the general public from going into chaos. I know reading this report is somewhat comforting, but I know the reality...why? Because i'm a Geek. By this I mean I can see through the bullshit the media tries to put over on the idiots. but if I check my bank and it's wiped, then someone is going to have to fork out Rent money...and let's not forget the beer money too!! :-p
-IHW
1.don't even try to say "linux can't compete with windows". If you want to complain about this worm...Let's talk about Nimba where it was a DOS attack that was started from a IIS server. :0)
2.Let's talk about CodeRed. Yet another Worm that was started in a WINDOWS IIS server...which was prior to Nimba, that still is a menace to servers.
3. Finally, we have the latest SQL worm that does not hit the OSS's MySQL...but again it hit MS SQL. This argument about windows being better than Linux holds no water...