I enjoyed the content but this has to hold the record for longest running off-topic thread with the most positive karma points awarded...rofl. I'm WAAAY down the list of comments so far and havent' found one for scroll lock yet...haha.
Yeah....funny how I can't remember the names now tho. Some of them had some cool features for doing slideshows, auto-resizing, etc that I can't seem to find on any modern viewers. One of the old WFW viewers I remember using was LView.
Actually it was something I saw linked in another discussion on here right when the lawsuits started. I also heard it on the radio. However I don't have the link still, sorry. If I find it I'll definitely post it.
My $100 against would have won your 60-40 against. They already have several times. They were sued over the amnesty agreement due to it being "hollow" and not agreeing not to pass the information along to other parts of the organization. They have already sued & settled many people who voluntarily become part of the amnesty. Do a search on it. It happened. They only agreed that "they" would not sue. They had no guarantees about the information volunteered being private and confidential. RIAA still screwed over many of the supposed "amnesty protected" citizens who tried to come clean.
I, for one, have not bought a single CD since I lost my slow preview of music called Kazaa via dialup. Now that I have no clue what songs are good and what songs suck I refuse to give them my $$ at Wal Mart for the CDs. Yeah you can assume all you want about previewing over radio but I can't pick up a single station where I live. They've lost over 6 months of purchases when I averaged over 50 cd's a year before. If only there were more like me.
If it is less than the amount needed to be considered an amount to "distribute", you are pretty much treated the same as someone who had 2 beers. This is due to MADD being completely focused on 3 things. 1) making prohibition legal. 2) Wear short skirts to all court appearances with legs open in front of judge while whispering incriminating statements (true or not) in front of the judge where he can hear it. 3) Making sure having so much as one joint in your vehicle (whether under the influence or not) is a major offense equal to capital murder.
Don't be so quick to judge...I've seen it twice so far in court hearings. The case involving #3 ended in the defendant getting 2 30 yr sentences stacked due to having a joint in the vehicle and testing negative after the accident even tho the people who he hit head on were on his side of the road in all of the police photos. The ones he hit head on on his side of the road were drunk too.
This shows that laws are so skewed that you can't count on them doing anything other than the wishes of the lobbiests.
You mean like me cutting myself off at 2 beers & driving home at the same time the patrolman saw me going 41 in a 40 mph zone? I no longer have any respect for the law. I have called them for: 1) A hit & run on my 6 hour old vehicle that was shoved on top of a sports car next to it 2) A breakin & theft of property in my own house by a roommate I kicked out 2 months prior due to 3 months late on rent. 3) Grand theft of my motorcycle with a name & address of the person guilty 1) ended in not being able to find them (I handed them the license plate that was stuck in my tire). 2)ended in (domestic dispute). 3) ended in me breaking & entering to steal it back after I gave them a name & address of who had it (because I knew).
All 3 ended in....drumroll....absolutely NOTHING. I lost over $40,000 in the 3 events combined. However they didn't hesitate to take my $7,000 for drinking 2 beers when I only weighed enough to drink 2. The point it still. LAWS ARE IN PLACE. THEY DON'T ENFORCE THEM. THEY ARE TOO BUSY BRINING IN INCOME.
Did the laws stop any of these 3 criminals? NO! They weren't enforced. Think about it. How many drug dealers are released & right back to selling to school children over & over. It does NOT deter crime.
Where the hell did this come from? You must be a lawyer with all of those assumptions you came up with all on your own. I hate spammers, I hate worm writers, I hate virus writers, I HATE porno pop-up ads. All of these fall under the category of more than $2,000 in personal and financial damage I was talking about. I was talking about someone who reboots a computer being classed the same as someone who commits murder. And where the hell did the gun design & build comment come from? You seem to have issues. I didn't say any of what you accuse me of. You remind me of my ex girlfriend.
No it's been proven that tweaking the kernel can finally handle 4 slots with a 120 second process. I would recommend disabling sound and SCSI in the kernel.
Computer, how can I increase the size of my penis?
Google crashes, traffic increases to the point of an internet standstill, and your computer gets a number of matches so high that it has a floating point error & crashes.
Good points. In a perfect world the crime should be based on the personal and financial amount of damage done. This is not a perfect world though...sigh....those writing laws and proposing laws are as clueless as some of the moderators here.
However, the flipside of that coin is that if it doesn't work what will they do? Make more laws? Waste taxpayer money? Take away more freedoms and civil liberties like the RIAA is doing monitoring what I do through my ISP? They already mentioned the amount of porn being downloaded so you know they weren't only monitoring mp3's like they proposed the court order for in the first place.
It's not the time spent behind bars for minor crimes, it's the fact that it's on your record FOREVER. With the internet it's more & more popular for employers to fork out the $20-50 to do a background check on potential employees. Making them spend more time behind bars isn't the answer. I'm all for making the punishment fit the crime. If someone ends a life intentionally, I believe the remainder of their life should be spent behind bars. If someone causes a BSOD via an exploit, they could spend 3 days in jail, be noticed by their employer they were gone, and have it on their record. If someone "hacks" and steals credit card numbers you are now in the grand theft and personal damages category. These laws seem to be generalizing the script kiddies crashing windows in with the thieves. It's just another case of people writing laws who don't even know what the hell they're talking about.
Also, the "cracker" comment is quite derogatory and immature. Grow up.
Yeah it's the same with the MADD sponsored DUI laws. It's down to 1 beer makes anyone under 120 lbs legally drunk now and the laws get tougher & tougher. Currently in TX you get in more trouble for 2 beers than you would for being caught with halucinogens. You lose your license for 1 year for a first offense as of Sept 1. For 2 beers I had to pay $2500 bond, $2500 fines, $1500 lawyer fees, and $150 to get my vehicle back. Next phase is my insurance went up over $2000/year. All that was for cutting myself off at 2 beers and going home early.
I know it sounds off topic, but making more laws does not prevent breaking the law. It is simply another source of income for law enforcement and the court system. You can compare it to the gun laws. There are more than enough laws on the books to enforce what they want (and then some) but it's a lack of enforcement that makes some people think more laws are needed.
MS didn't get where they are because of a failure of capitalism. They got there because of a failure of the government to support the antitrust effort.
While I agree with this to an extent, I am also old enough to remember the splitting up Ma Bell. I don't know about you but my phone service is worse, the split companies don't cooperate, and prices are higher rather than lower. I can just see MS split up as a bunch of different groups writing code without any knowledge of the other portions actions. When will the fingerpointing stop when it is found that MS-Houston and MS-Atlanta have 2 programs that cause each other to crash? Also splitting it up with just create more CEO's with pockets yearning for a golden parachute we have to pay for.
From the article: The lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, also claims that Microsoft's security warnings are too complex to be understood by the general public
What? Click here to download is too complex?
It also seems to be focused on 2 recent viruses Slammer and Blaster. Slammer is SQL based and Blaster is Outlook based. I wonder how Microsoft phasing out support for Outlook Express will affect this?
With all of the security notifications I get for linux I wonder what kind of precautions they will be forced to take?
The lawsuit happy businesses of today are causing way too many problems. Someone has to pay for all the time locked up in court and for the millions stolen by lawyers who make their living suing for things that don't even affect them. It sounds like whining about what others do is becoming very profitable. Why not sue Playboy for carpal tunnel?
I keep noticing the sound effect used over & over that I heard in the last room of Doom. You know...the spooosh sound when it launched another creature in the room every 2 seconds?
"Another added: 'After sitting at the keyboard all day, I needed revenge.'"
I bet most of them had just been modded troll on slashdot and were fed up with typing long articles that were refused only to see it pop up again days later under another users name. *grin*
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Maybe I misunderstood the original poster & his point of view on this. I think it's implied that some things do need NDA's but in the.com boom I was having to sign NDA's before I constructed internal LAN/WAN structures. I was also in charge of network security. Signing an NDA saying I won't make my life hell by posting network data was a waste of 30 minutes in a meeting with myself and 2 other people. Interestingly enough I had network access to all of the website source code & never had to sign one for that. *snicker*
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I enjoyed the content but this has to hold the record for longest running off-topic thread with the most positive karma points awarded...rofl. I'm WAAAY down the list of comments so far and havent' found one for scroll lock yet...haha.
Yeah....funny how I can't remember the names now tho. Some of them had some cool features for doing slideshows, auto-resizing, etc that I can't seem to find on any modern viewers. One of the old WFW viewers I remember using was LView.
hehehe....I dunno how to answer this....it's sexual in nature...lets leave it at that ;)
Actually it was something I saw linked in another discussion on here right when the lawsuits started. I also heard it on the radio. However I don't have the link still, sorry. If I find it I'll definitely post it.
Zippo will be next to go. We all know lighters cause arson ;)
j/k
My $100 against would have won your 60-40 against. They already have several times. They were sued over the amnesty agreement due to it being "hollow" and not agreeing not to pass the information along to other parts of the organization. They have already sued & settled many people who voluntarily become part of the amnesty. Do a search on it. It happened. They only agreed that "they" would not sue. They had no guarantees about the information volunteered being private and confidential. RIAA still screwed over many of the supposed "amnesty protected" citizens who tried to come clean.
Just like they did when they sued people who called them & voluntarily gave contact information during the amnesty period?
I, for one, have not bought a single CD since I lost my slow preview of music called Kazaa via dialup. Now that I have no clue what songs are good and what songs suck I refuse to give them my $$ at Wal Mart for the CDs. Yeah you can assume all you want about previewing over radio but I can't pick up a single station where I live. They've lost over 6 months of purchases when I averaged over 50 cd's a year before. If only there were more like me.
If it is less than the amount needed to be considered an amount to "distribute", you are pretty much treated the same as someone who had 2 beers. This is due to MADD being completely focused on 3 things. 1) making prohibition legal. 2) Wear short skirts to all court appearances with legs open in front of judge while whispering incriminating statements (true or not) in front of the judge where he can hear it. 3) Making sure having so much as one joint in your vehicle (whether under the influence or not) is a major offense equal to capital murder.
Don't be so quick to judge...I've seen it twice so far in court hearings. The case involving #3 ended in the defendant getting 2 30 yr sentences stacked due to having a joint in the vehicle and testing negative after the accident even tho the people who he hit head on were on his side of the road in all of the police photos. The ones he hit head on on his side of the road were drunk too.
This shows that laws are so skewed that you can't count on them doing anything other than the wishes of the lobbiests.
You mean like me cutting myself off at 2 beers & driving home at the same time the patrolman saw me going 41 in a 40 mph zone? I no longer have any respect for the law. I have called them for:
1) A hit & run on my 6 hour old vehicle that was shoved on top of a sports car next to it
2) A breakin & theft of property in my own house by a roommate I kicked out 2 months prior due to 3 months late on rent.
3) Grand theft of my motorcycle with a name & address of the person guilty
1) ended in not being able to find them (I handed them the license plate that was stuck in my tire). 2)ended in (domestic dispute). 3) ended in me breaking & entering to steal it back after I gave them a name & address of who had it (because I knew).
All 3 ended in....drumroll....absolutely NOTHING. I lost over $40,000 in the 3 events combined. However they didn't hesitate to take my $7,000 for drinking 2 beers when I only weighed enough to drink 2. The point it still. LAWS ARE IN PLACE. THEY DON'T ENFORCE THEM. THEY ARE TOO BUSY BRINING IN INCOME.
Did the laws stop any of these 3 criminals? NO! They weren't enforced. Think about it. How many drug dealers are released & right back to selling to school children over & over. It does NOT deter crime.
Where the hell did this come from? You must be a lawyer with all of those assumptions you came up with all on your own. I hate spammers, I hate worm writers, I hate virus writers, I HATE porno pop-up ads. All of these fall under the category of more than $2,000 in personal and financial damage I was talking about. I was talking about someone who reboots a computer being classed the same as someone who commits murder. And where the hell did the gun design & build comment come from? You seem to have issues. I didn't say any of what you accuse me of. You remind me of my ex girlfriend.
No it's been proven that tweaking the kernel can finally handle 4 slots with a 120 second process. I would recommend disabling sound and SCSI in the kernel.
Doing a 180 degree turn that fast has to be hard on the body. It's hard on the hairline when under the sheets too.
Computer, how can I increase the size of my penis?
Google crashes, traffic increases to the point of an internet standstill, and your computer gets a number of matches so high that it has a floating point error & crashes.
Good points. In a perfect world the crime should be based on the personal and financial amount of damage done. This is not a perfect world though...sigh....those writing laws and proposing laws are as clueless as some of the moderators here.
However, the flipside of that coin is that if it doesn't work what will they do? Make more laws? Waste taxpayer money? Take away more freedoms and civil liberties like the RIAA is doing monitoring what I do through my ISP? They already mentioned the amount of porn being downloaded so you know they weren't only monitoring mp3's like they proposed the court order for in the first place.
It's not the time spent behind bars for minor crimes, it's the fact that it's on your record FOREVER. With the internet it's more & more popular for employers to fork out the $20-50 to do a background check on potential employees. Making them spend more time behind bars isn't the answer. I'm all for making the punishment fit the crime. If someone ends a life intentionally, I believe the remainder of their life should be spent behind bars. If someone causes a BSOD via an exploit, they could spend 3 days in jail, be noticed by their employer they were gone, and have it on their record. If someone "hacks" and steals credit card numbers you are now in the grand theft and personal damages category. These laws seem to be generalizing the script kiddies crashing windows in with the thieves. It's just another case of people writing laws who don't even know what the hell they're talking about.
Also, the "cracker" comment is quite derogatory and immature. Grow up.
Yeah it's the same with the MADD sponsored DUI laws. It's down to 1 beer makes anyone under 120 lbs legally drunk now and the laws get tougher & tougher. Currently in TX you get in more trouble for 2 beers than you would for being caught with halucinogens. You lose your license for 1 year for a first offense as of Sept 1. For 2 beers I had to pay $2500 bond, $2500 fines, $1500 lawyer fees, and $150 to get my vehicle back. Next phase is my insurance went up over $2000/year. All that was for cutting myself off at 2 beers and going home early.
I know it sounds off topic, but making more laws does not prevent breaking the law. It is simply another source of income for law enforcement and the court system. You can compare it to the gun laws. There are more than enough laws on the books to enforce what they want (and then some) but it's a lack of enforcement that makes some people think more laws are needed.
While I agree with this to an extent, I am also old enough to remember the splitting up Ma Bell. I don't know about you but my phone service is worse, the split companies don't cooperate, and prices are higher rather than lower. I can just see MS split up as a bunch of different groups writing code without any knowledge of the other portions actions. When will the fingerpointing stop when it is found that MS-Houston and MS-Atlanta have 2 programs that cause each other to crash? Also splitting it up with just create more CEO's with pockets yearning for a golden parachute we have to pay for.
What? Click here to download is too complex?
It also seems to be focused on 2 recent viruses Slammer and Blaster. Slammer is SQL based and Blaster is Outlook based. I wonder how Microsoft phasing out support for Outlook Express will affect this?
With all of the security notifications I get for linux I wonder what kind of precautions they will be forced to take?
The lawsuit happy businesses of today are causing way too many problems. Someone has to pay for all the time locked up in court and for the millions stolen by lawyers who make their living suing for things that don't even affect them. It sounds like whining about what others do is becoming very profitable. Why not sue Playboy for carpal tunnel?
Not if we use RIAA lawyers for the ass-tronauts.
I keep noticing the sound effect used over & over that I heard in the last room of Doom. You know...the spooosh sound when it launched another creature in the room every 2 seconds?
I bet most of them had just been modded troll on slashdot and were fed up with typing long articles that were refused only to see it pop up again days later under another users name. *grin*
Maybe I misunderstood the original poster & his point of view on this. I think it's implied that some things do need NDA's but in the .com boom I was having to sign NDA's before I constructed internal LAN/WAN structures. I was also in charge of network security. Signing an NDA saying I won't make my life hell by posting network data was a waste of 30 minutes in a meeting with myself and 2 other people. Interestingly enough I had network access to all of the website source code & never had to sign one for that. *snicker*
I'm no history expert but I believe the force of arms is how this country became independant and free.