...are people not smart enough to secure their systems. And the more people they bust, the more people will be enticed to secure their systems, thus causing the RIAA's overhead to rise.
Frankly, the RIAA is trying to shovel back the ocean with a fork. The only question is how much money they're willing to spend trying.
I myself serve almost 500 gigs of stuff (most of it anime, jpop, and the like), and if the RIAA wants to track me they can sure try. I knew the risks when I got into this, and accept them as a cost of doing business.
That being said, if the RIAA breaks down the door to get the HDs I keep the stuff on, I have no problems whatsoever with activating the electromagnets sitting on top of 'em and scrambling the whole mess into indecipherable gobbledygook. I got a nice stack of back-up CDs in a safe place;)
Oh, and for those of you who use Kazaa Lite: The latest ver blocks the IP ranges that the RIAA and their minions/co-conspirators use.
Who says resistance is futile?
Berrik
IMO, these weapons are a good idea, since they'd save the lives of our troops (ie we wouldn't have to risk our pilots or infantry as much)... but god forbid the liberals admit that the lives of our troops are worth saving.
Anyways. I see where this will end up... Awards to Inanimate Tungsten Rod for distinguished service!
-begin off topic rant-
Oh, and to all you liberals: If you hate the US so much, why don't you move to some 3rd world country like, say, Iran? Or perhaps South Africa? Or some other hick country with no TP. Take your pick. There's a lot of em out there.
Oh, right. If you left you'd have to sell your nice house and car, and give up ever going to McDonalds to stuff your face again.
If the US were anywhere near as authoritarian as you people would like us to believe it is, then you wouldn't have the freedom to wave your signs around under people's noses and burn flags. Instead, the local milice would call in the gunships and mow you down.
Kind of the same thing that would happen, in say, Iraq at this time 5 years ago.
As for the UN... I lost all faith in them when they stalled and stalled and stalled on Iraq. Iraq had the damn WMDs... the Kurds sure didn't gas themselves.
If Bush had faked the WMD evidence, what would have stopped him from bringing in and planting some of our WMDs for the US to 'find'?
Instead, the US is continuing to search Iraq for these weapons, even though the slim results so far are proving a major embarrasment to us.
-end off-topic rant-
Berrik
1)Download and install Zonealarm (any ver).
2)Connect to the Net.
3)When spyware attempts to get past your shiny new firewall, give it the finger.
Being able to see which programs are trying to connect to the Net and being able to allow or deny them is the fastest way possible of detecting spyware.
It won't work... I think it was mostly passed so they can look north and think out loud to the media "Hey, we're less violent than the USA." The only real result of this will be massive amounts of bootlegs, just like when banning most items.
Berrik
Yeah... I only bought UT and Quake III for mods in the first place. Mods have the ability to keep any game alive well beyond it's expected lifespan... heck, look at Doom 1! There are still people out there developing new and improved engines for it, and it's one of the oldest FPS out there. And, of course, there's the large number of modded Starcraft maps out there... OK, I don't really know where I'm going with this, so I should stop while I'm ahead.
-Berrik
Note to self: Staying up all night=Bad.
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I, for one, welcome our new robot masters.
Berrik
My ass and the seat it's sitting on are 'weakly' radioactive too, and they havn't caused any problems yet.
The sidewalk in front of my house is more radioactive than a DU round.
Berrik
Bleh, spacing errors again. Sorry all.
...are people not smart enough to secure their systems. And the more people they bust, the more people will be enticed to secure their systems, thus causing the RIAA's overhead to rise. Frankly, the RIAA is trying to shovel back the ocean with a fork. The only question is how much money they're willing to spend trying. I myself serve almost 500 gigs of stuff (most of it anime, jpop, and the like), and if the RIAA wants to track me they can sure try. I knew the risks when I got into this, and accept them as a cost of doing business. That being said, if the RIAA breaks down the door to get the HDs I keep the stuff on, I have no problems whatsoever with activating the electromagnets sitting on top of 'em and scrambling the whole mess into indecipherable gobbledygook. I got a nice stack of back-up CDs in a safe place ;)
Oh, and for those of you who use Kazaa Lite: The latest ver blocks the IP ranges that the RIAA and their minions/co-conspirators use.
Who says resistance is futile?
Berrik
Bleah, spacing's messed up in previous post. I'm new to SD-- how do I edit my posts?
(And yes, this post itself should be marked off-topic since it is...)
Berrik
IMO, these weapons are a good idea, since they'd save the lives of our troops (ie we wouldn't have to risk our pilots or infantry as much)... but god forbid the liberals admit that the lives of our troops are worth saving. Anyways. I see where this will end up... Awards to Inanimate Tungsten Rod for distinguished service! -begin off topic rant- Oh, and to all you liberals: If you hate the US so much, why don't you move to some 3rd world country like, say, Iran? Or perhaps South Africa? Or some other hick country with no TP. Take your pick. There's a lot of em out there. Oh, right. If you left you'd have to sell your nice house and car, and give up ever going to McDonalds to stuff your face again. If the US were anywhere near as authoritarian as you people would like us to believe it is, then you wouldn't have the freedom to wave your signs around under people's noses and burn flags. Instead, the local milice would call in the gunships and mow you down. Kind of the same thing that would happen, in say, Iraq at this time 5 years ago. As for the UN... I lost all faith in them when they stalled and stalled and stalled on Iraq. Iraq had the damn WMDs... the Kurds sure didn't gas themselves. If Bush had faked the WMD evidence, what would have stopped him from bringing in and planting some of our WMDs for the US to 'find'? Instead, the US is continuing to search Iraq for these weapons, even though the slim results so far are proving a major embarrasment to us. -end off-topic rant- Berrik
1)Download and install Zonealarm (any ver). 2)Connect to the Net. 3)When spyware attempts to get past your shiny new firewall, give it the finger. Being able to see which programs are trying to connect to the Net and being able to allow or deny them is the fastest way possible of detecting spyware.
It won't work... I think it was mostly passed so they can look north and think out loud to the media "Hey, we're less violent than the USA." The only real result of this will be massive amounts of bootlegs, just like when banning most items. Berrik
Actually... I think that once the music industry lightens up and gets a clue, pay-to-download will become more popular and common.
Yeah... I only bought UT and Quake III for mods in the first place. Mods have the ability to keep any game alive well beyond it's expected lifespan... heck, look at Doom 1! There are still people out there developing new and improved engines for it, and it's one of the oldest FPS out there. And, of course, there's the large number of modded Starcraft maps out there... OK, I don't really know where I'm going with this, so I should stop while I'm ahead. -Berrik Note to self: Staying up all night=Bad.