If you can 'hack' the ATM, you could e.g. install a tool that logs PIN numbers in combination with the bank account number. And I'm sure there are other clever ways to abuse an ATM.
So how exactly do they fund their tour? You need a large amount of money to move a tour from city to city - and that money will have to come up front, because no bank will fund such a risky proposition as the concert fees of a relative unknown.
All you need is a van and a tank of gas.
And what were Van Gogh's expenses? Paints. As opposed to stack amps, crews, musical instruments, power, insurance, transportation, recording gear and time...
The costs are minimal, all you need is instruments. Power, amps, etc. is usually available at the club that hires the band. As for recording gear, you need a Mac and some software.
In no other places can you see so many fine looking women around so many butt ugly fat guys as in a rap music video.
I don't know what rap video's you're watching, but they can't be the same as the ones I see on the TV. There is no other genre with so many bad cheap-ass boob-jobs. Big breasts do not make women pretty, especially if it makes their nipples point to the sky, they should be on the front of the breasts, not on top.
"This represents a massive victory for the copyright owners," he said outside the court.
And that's exactly the problem, the latest CD I bought says on the cover something like : Copyright(C) 2004 $RECORDLABEL instead of Copyright(C) 2004 $ARTIST. They are always babbling about the artist not getting paid bla bla, while their only concern is their own bank account.
The fact is, tools like KaZaa have shown we don't need record companies anymore, and it has them scared shitless. Regarding the artists not getting paid and this whining about how it 'hurts' music: there is no need to pay them for download music, for several reasons.
Artists can earn money by performing (concerts and such), mp3's should be seen as advertising their trade. This happened all the time before the record companies stepped in, artists exchanged songs and travelled from city to city performing them in public, and getting paid for it.
If you're in it just for the money, I really don't want to hear your music anyway. Art should be created for the love of the art, not for monetary gain. Paying 'super stars' exorbitant amounts of money hasn't done their music any good. Look at the great artists from the past, Van Gogh didn't have a pot to piss in. What are rappers going to do ? Switch from music about 'the hood' and how hard life is on the street to singing about why it sucks to pay several million in income taxes ?
The only music that will die together with the record companies is 'produced' music. They won't be missed, really. My life would be just as complete without britney spears and the backstreet boys.
I wonder, (...) if I can sue the person who let out the code because it will increase the time I have to spend securing my system.
If you want to be secure, you shouldn't be using software whose security depends solely on the secrecy of the source. it's know as "security through obscurity" and almost everyone agrees it doesn't work.
Even microsoft won't be so stupid as to rely on it.
the semiconductor industry began using red phosphorus as a flame retardant instead of the Br-based compound it had used for years,' due to environmental concerns.
I wonder how well this decision worked out for the environment, with all those IC's ending up in the garbage pile prematurely (and being replaced).
I can't do that for the simple reason that the system is no more because it has evolved since that time (as in: every part has been replaced over the years, including the casing, the only original part is the disk drive)
I used to own (back in the day) a really cheap motherboard + all shit integrated on it (vga, lan etc.).
Really, it sucked, windows sometimes crashed on boot on the thing, reinstalling the thing didn't help at all. Reliability was gruesome... until I installed Linux (this machine was one of the reasons I switched). I never had one single crash while the machine was running Linux, running it on Windows (dual-boot) was still as unreliable as ever.
Ferrari Inc. would then copyright the design of the car and include a license with your friend's Ferrari.
If you're using a molecular assembler to copy the ferrari, you could use it to copy the license certificate, which would be an exact duplicate so unrecognisable from the original. Even if they register licensees, you just copy your friends passport (after instructing the assembler to change the photograph) so you can 'prove' you are $FRIEND and you're the legitimate licensee.
However, if molecular assemblers ever become mainstream I'd rather design my own car and let it assemble that. If everyone is driving a Ferrari I'd rather have something different.
Treating people as humans is exactly the reason why people shouldn't be given names but unique numbers.
There must be lots of people with the name 'jack' or 'leo' or whatever. there will be only ONE person called HUMAN_ID_0532134159123843892341 , that's a name that makes you totally unique.
Okay, you can run "testing", but I think a lot of the sysadmins only wants to run "stable" on their company machines. People run 'stable' for a reason, that reason is that it's well tested, and that is exactly the reason why there won't be a 2.6 kernel in stable anytime soon.
If you automate all the shitty jobs then the poor people will have no work.
That's the point, there will be no shitty jobs so there will be no reason to pay people to work and also no reason to charge money for stuff (because it costs nothing to make) so there will be no reason to keep the concept of money around.
I live in the netherlands, where we do have a captialistic/socialistic system, and it seems to be the best solution available at the moment.
Doesn't mean it's a good system, it's the least bad. I'd prefer a system without the concept of money with people working because of the intellectual challenges, not because of the money, but I don't see a workable implementation of such a system in the near future, the problem is there will always be people too lazy to work if they won't get paid. What needs to be done is that technology has to advance to such a stadium that working is optional, everything should be automated except for the fun stuff (like inventing new things).
true, every form of property can be traced back to someone saying "that's mine", and unfortunately it was usually the biggest bully on the block.
This is the basis for the capitalistic system, which is why capitalism sucks. The Big Problem(tm) however is: we have no better alternative to capitalism.
Music is art, one shouldn't have to pay for art and artists should be poor. We've all listened to music getting crappier while the artist got richer, we've all seen "behind the music" and "the osbourne's", we know what happens when you're actually going to pay artists for their work, it's not a pretty sight.
The RIAA should stop whining about how piracy hurts music, it doesn't, paying artists hurts music.
The only tool piracy crime being perpetraed is that the lawyers in that company are able to procreate without supervision.
They aren't very smart either (or, alternatively, they are very smart).
From the article: The master jig contained a license that says I've licensed the master jig, not bought it. (...) the Stots license says TemplateMaster may be used "in only one shop by the original purchaser only" and that "you may not allow individuals that did not purchase the original Product (to) use the Product (...) (emphasis mine)
So you're not buying the product, and are not allowed to let anyone who didn't buy the product use it. Ladies and gentlemen of the supposed jury, that does not make sense.!
"u" is used to adress ones elders, "je" or "jullie" (plural) would have been more usual here. 'u' is used as a politeness form (e.g. when talking to your boss), afaik there is no similar construct in the english language. 'je','jij','jullie', etc. is more informal. (e.g. when talking to friends, collegues, parents)
Using 'u' to adress ones elders is not commonly used anymore.
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If you can 'hack' the ATM, you could e.g. install a tool that logs PIN numbers in combination with the bank account number. And I'm sure there are other clever ways to abuse an ATM.
Why are these things running WinXP and not something a little more secure ?
Aren't there any regulations about cash machine security ?
The costs are minimal, all you need is instruments. Power, amps, etc. is usually available at the club that hires the band.
As for recording gear, you need a Mac and some software.
I don't know what rap video's you're watching, but they can't be the same as the ones I see on the TV. There is no other genre with so many bad cheap-ass boob-jobs. Big breasts do not make women pretty, especially if it makes their nipples point to the sky, they should be on the front of the breasts, not on top.
And that's exactly the problem, the latest CD I bought says on the cover something like : Copyright(C) 2004 $RECORDLABEL instead of Copyright(C) 2004 $ARTIST.
They are always babbling about the artist not getting paid bla bla, while their only concern is their own bank account.
The fact is, tools like KaZaa have shown we don't need record companies anymore, and it has them scared shitless.
Regarding the artists not getting paid and this whining about how it 'hurts' music: there is no need to pay them for download music, for several reasons.
If you want to be secure, you shouldn't be using software whose security depends solely on the secrecy of the source. it's know as "security through obscurity" and almost everyone agrees it doesn't work.
Even microsoft won't be so stupid as to rely on it.
Iirc those worked at 2400 baud, just like every modem above 2400 kbps.
baud != bits per second, baud is transitions per second, the bitrate depends on the baudrate and the modulation.
I can't do that for the simple reason that the system is no more because it has evolved since that time (as in: every part has been replaced over the years, including the casing, the only original part is the disk drive)
I used to own (back in the day) a really cheap motherboard + all shit integrated on it (vga, lan etc.).
Really, it sucked, windows sometimes crashed on boot on the thing, reinstalling the thing didn't help at all. Reliability was gruesome... until I installed Linux (this machine was one of the reasons I switched). I never had one single crash while the machine was running Linux, running it on Windows (dual-boot) was still as unreliable as ever.
Offcourse this is only one story.
but who would want to bother staying alive if there was no hope for sex?
You realize you're asking this on slashdot ?
Remember, you're the guy who's supposed to assist them in doing their work
Nice theory, but that's not how it works, IT runs the company/organisation.
You should read BOFH more often.
Ferrari Inc. would then copyright the design of the car and include a license with your friend's Ferrari.
If you're using a molecular assembler to copy the ferrari, you could use it to copy the license certificate, which would be an exact duplicate so unrecognisable from the original.
Even if they register licensees, you just copy your friends passport (after instructing the assembler to change the photograph) so you can 'prove' you are $FRIEND and you're the legitimate licensee.
However, if molecular assemblers ever become mainstream I'd rather design my own car and let it assemble that. If everyone is driving a Ferrari I'd rather have something different.
There's no problem with (partly) shutting down the system if required.
The point is, we pay for it, so we should have the finger on the shutdown button, not the US.
Treating people as humans is exactly the reason why people shouldn't be given names but unique numbers.
There must be lots of people with the name 'jack' or 'leo' or whatever. there will be only ONE person called HUMAN_ID_0532134159123843892341 , that's a name that makes you totally unique.
Okay, you can run "testing", but I think a lot of the sysadmins only wants to run "stable" on their company machines.
People run 'stable' for a reason, that reason is that it's well tested, and that is exactly the reason why there won't be a 2.6 kernel in stable anytime soon.
If you automate all the shitty jobs then the poor people will have no work.
That's the point, there will be no shitty jobs so there will be no reason to pay people to work and also no reason to charge money for stuff (because it costs nothing to make) so there will be no reason to keep the concept of money around.
You probably haven't played Better Than Life
As said in my post, those kinds of jobs need to be automated away first.
I live in the netherlands, where we do have a captialistic/socialistic system, and it seems to be the best solution available at the moment.
Doesn't mean it's a good system, it's the least bad.
I'd prefer a system without the concept of money with people working because of the intellectual challenges, not because of the money, but I don't see a workable implementation of such a system in the near future, the problem is there will always be people too lazy to work if they won't get paid.
What needs to be done is that technology has to advance to such a stadium that working is optional, everything should be automated except for the fun stuff (like inventing new things).
true, every form of property can be traced back to someone saying "that's mine", and unfortunately it was usually the biggest bully on the block.
This is the basis for the capitalistic system, which is why capitalism sucks. The Big Problem(tm) however is: we have no better alternative to capitalism.
It sucks, but it's the best we've got.
Why would anyone want to legally download music ?
Music is art, one shouldn't have to pay for art and artists should be poor. We've all listened to music getting crappier while the artist got richer, we've all seen "behind the music" and "the osbourne's", we know what happens when you're actually going to pay artists for their work, it's not a pretty sight.
The RIAA should stop whining about how piracy hurts music, it doesn't, paying artists hurts music.
The only tool piracy crime being perpetraed is that the lawyers in that company are able to procreate without supervision.
They aren't very smart either (or, alternatively, they are very smart).
From the article:
The master jig contained a license that says I've licensed the master jig, not bought it.
(...)
the Stots license says TemplateMaster may be used "in only one shop by the original purchaser only" and that "you may not allow individuals that did not purchase the original Product (to) use the Product (...)
(emphasis mine)
So you're not buying the product, and are not allowed to let anyone who didn't buy the product use it.
Ladies and gentlemen of the supposed jury, that does not make sense.!
"u" is used to adress ones elders, "je" or "jullie" (plural) would have been more usual here.
'u' is used as a politeness form (e.g. when talking to your boss), afaik there is no similar construct in the english language.
'je','jij','jullie', etc. is more informal. (e.g. when talking to friends, collegues, parents)
Using 'u' to adress ones elders is not commonly used anymore.