Taco said:
Ya know, I really want to pirate DirecTV, but not to get all the channels... just to get a damn FOX affiliate over my dish so I could use my DirecTivo for The Family Guy and That 70s Show. Is that to much to ask?
Then geomcbay said:
Is paying DirecTV for usage of their system too much to ask?
I don't know, is growing a sense of humor too much to ask?
He's joking, people! Is it really that hard to tell?
Thank you for bringing to my attention my possible thievery. Enclosed you will find a VHS tape of me wiping my Windows partition, as well as removing all Adobe and Macromedia software from my Linux partition. You will also see that I have burned all of my commercial software discs so that they do not fall into the hands of evil, Nazi-loving software pirates. Since I am no longer a licensee of any of your softare cartel's member companies, I will assume that this matter is closed and any further action on your part will be taken as harrassment and will be dealt with accordingly.
Again, thank you for bringing this urgent matter to my attention.
"Giant worm devours Bush"
"White House found to be infested with worms"
"Computer thingy does stuff to other computer thingy"
"Pedophilic, drug dealing, open source hackers attack White House"
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There. Now we can just end this topic and get on with more important things. What's that? Good software takes ten years?...
So yours would be one of the 58 "I'm sick of hearing about Napster" posts?
The water coming out of my bathroom sink is 76F and that was just the stuff that's been sitting in the pipes all day (as opposed to the stuff that's been buried underground all day). Ambient apartment temp is about 83F.
Lots of people are mentioning PCP&C supplies, but I've found Enermax power supplies to be amazingly quiet despite having two fans. They cost less also. My power supply is actually quieter than my PCP&C CPU fan. They aren't kidding when they say "whisper."
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The latest String Theories, some of which I have been analysing at the Neils Bohr Institute in Kaiserslautern, Germany, show that at high energies and in phasic light, such as produced in an intense laser, normal matter can transmute into dark matter due to resonances.
Washing machines turn socks into dark matter in a similar way, using high energy washic water.
In fact, I studied high energy washic interactions and resonant sockal transduction at the Maytag Repair Guy Institute in Hoboken, New Jersey. Unfortunately, long-term exposure to sudsions has left me impotent.
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>> This is a brilliant (dumbshit) move on Gracenote's part. Why, with all the attention
>> they've paid to fairness and equitable behavior in the past (screwing CDDB users), you
>> can be sure that this is a case of Gracenote spending time trying to uphold a piece of
>> legislation that is necessary and supports freedom, equality, and ethical behavior (for
>> Nazis).
>I invoke Godwin's law. You lose.
There should be some sort of Godwin's Law for the DMCA.
Prosecutor: "Under the DMCA--"
Judge: "Godwin's Law. You lose. Next case."
To those who argue that direct mailing should be easily opted out of, consider this: how easy is it to opt out of the existing direct mail offers you receieve via snail mail?
It's wrong either way. I had to pay $5.00 in postage to be taken off of a bunch of mailing lists and I still receive junk mail. I have to pay $7.00 a month to get a no solicitation message put on my phone calls. I should not have to pay an arm and a leg just to be left alone.
Only commercial offers are spam? Come ON. Direct marketing is as American as apple pie. The Internet is no different.
So is killing Native Americans and taking their land. So was slavery until 1865.
If you're going to wage war on direct marketing, wage it on all fronts: telemarketing, direct mail, direct email. There's no need to single out email.
Songs don't make it big because they are good, the make it because they are promoted. Technology has addressed everything else the RIAA does, with the promotion piece solved they'd go the way of the Dodo.
Actually the RIAA (the member corporations, really) don't even do promotion. They pay other people to do that. The business model of a major record label resembles that of the worst dot-coms in existence, only record companies are subsidized by taxpayers.
Seriously, how do people put up with that? My thinking is that a large portion of people visiting those sites must be waves of newsbies getting on for the first time. I guess some people must think the content is very good to put in credit card number and put up with all those windows of ads.
Why worry about large corporations? All they want you to do is to buy things and not harm you.
Companies sell your data to whomever is willing to pay. They don't care why the buyer wants the data. Some of these telemarketers use prison inmates to do their dirty work.
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Taco said:
Ya know, I really want to pirate DirecTV, but not to get all the channels... just to get a damn FOX affiliate over my dish so I could use my DirecTivo for The Family Guy and That 70s Show. Is that to much to ask?
Then geomcbay said:
Is paying DirecTV for usage of their system too much to ask?
I don't know, is growing a sense of humor too much to ask?
He's joking, people! Is it really that hard to tell?
Not to mention that pop-overs can be closed as they are loading. Pop-unders require much more work. I think that's really why they were invented.
1. Disable pop-unders and pop-overs.
Mozilla does this. In fact, it does it better than Konqueror (though there's no ui for it, yet).
2. View the Web in anti-aliased fonts.
I've found anti-aliased fonts to be over-rated. Crappy fonts still look crappy and good fonts don't really need anti-aliased.
4. Add bookmarks to specific folders/submenus.
Mozilla has been doing this for quite some time, now.
5. Enjoy browsing the Web.
I enjoy browsing the web more with Mozilla than with Konqueror, but YMMV.
Dear Mr. Kruger,
Thank you for bringing to my attention my possible thievery. Enclosed you will find a VHS tape of me wiping my Windows partition, as well as removing all Adobe and Macromedia software from my Linux partition. You will also see that I have burned all of my commercial software discs so that they do not fall into the hands of evil, Nazi-loving software pirates. Since I am no longer a licensee of any of your softare cartel's member companies, I will assume that this matter is closed and any further action on your part will be taken as harrassment and will be dealt with accordingly.
Again, thank you for bringing this urgent matter to my attention.
Sincerely,
$ENDUSER
It's also an opt-out in Iowa. The lady was really thrown when she asked me if I wanted a different number from my SSN on my license and I said yes.
Also the Constitution is (for now) in the public domain.
"Giant worm devours Bush"
"White House found to be infested with worms"
"Computer thingy does stuff to other computer thingy"
"Pedophilic, drug dealing, open source hackers attack White House"
There. Now we can just end this topic and get on with more important things. What's that? Good software takes ten years?...
So yours would be one of the 58 "I'm sick of hearing about Napster" posts?
so, how are they going to prevent me from taping new "protected" shows on my old (very old) VCR?
Macrovision.
[For my money, you should be subject to arrest for giving your conference such an overly-dramatic title. Hacking for human rights, my arse.]
Given what happened, I'd say it was a pretty apt title.
The water coming out of my bathroom sink is 76F and that was just the stuff that's been sitting in the pipes all day (as opposed to the stuff that's been buried underground all day). Ambient apartment temp is about 83F.
I have to disagree with the sediment. I think they mix quite well.
That's not a very concrete response.
Well, thanks to x-treme radio station merging, the ads are pretty much the only content not uniformily broadcast to everyone in the country.
Lots of people are mentioning PCP&C supplies, but I've found Enermax power supplies to be amazingly quiet despite having two fans. They cost less also. My power supply is actually quieter than my PCP&C CPU fan. They aren't kidding when they say "whisper."
The entire fear behind GPL, is that someone will take your work and make a killing from it.
As opposed to the current system.
If that is true, which I can't find any reference to on the net, then my apologies. I'd appreciate a reference to this murder.
Done and done.
The latest String Theories, some of which I have been analysing at the Neils Bohr Institute in Kaiserslautern, Germany, show that at high energies and in phasic light, such as produced in an intense laser, normal matter can transmute into dark matter due to resonances.
Washing machines turn socks into dark matter in a similar way, using high energy washic water.
In fact, I studied high energy washic interactions and resonant sockal transduction at the Maytag Repair Guy Institute in Hoboken, New Jersey. Unfortunately, long-term exposure to sudsions has left me impotent.
For $140,000, I could make a Beowulf cluster.
Well, yeah. If most people can't even get the game into a playable state, then I'd say the playability of the game is pretty sucky, wouldn't you?
Is "playability" a word?
>> This is a brilliant (dumbshit) move on Gracenote's part. Why, with all the attention
>> they've paid to fairness and equitable behavior in the past (screwing CDDB users), you
>> can be sure that this is a case of Gracenote spending time trying to uphold a piece of
>> legislation that is necessary and supports freedom, equality, and ethical behavior (for
>> Nazis).
>I invoke Godwin's law. You lose.
There should be some sort of Godwin's Law for the DMCA.
Prosecutor: "Under the DMCA--"
Judge: "Godwin's Law. You lose. Next case."
How many of you assemble a wallet and then hand it to some guy on the street who happens to be dressed in a pinstripe suit with a tie?
Look, I only did that once, will you stop hounding me about it?! Besides, he was very convincing. He said, "Wallet inspector. Give me your wallet."
It's wrong either way. I had to pay $5.00 in postage to be taken off of a bunch of mailing lists and I still receive junk mail. I have to pay $7.00 a month to get a no solicitation message put on my phone calls. I should not have to pay an arm and a leg just to be left alone.
Only commercial offers are spam? Come ON. Direct marketing is as American as apple pie. The Internet is no different.
So is killing Native Americans and taking their land. So was slavery until 1865.
If you're going to wage war on direct marketing, wage it on all fronts: telemarketing, direct mail, direct email. There's no need to single out email.
Oh, believe me, I'm not.
Songs don't make it big because they are good, the make it because they are promoted. Technology has addressed everything else the RIAA does, with the promotion piece solved they'd go the way of the Dodo.
Actually the RIAA (the member corporations, really) don't even do promotion. They pay other people to do that. The business model of a major record label resembles that of the worst dot-coms in existence, only record companies are subsidized by taxpayers.
Seriously, how do people put up with that? My thinking is that a large portion of people visiting those sites must be waves of newsbies getting on for the first time. I guess some people must think the content is very good to put in credit card number and put up with all those windows of ads.
Or they just turn off Javascript.
Why worry about large corporations? All they want you to do is to buy things and not harm you.
Companies sell your data to whomever is willing to pay. They don't care why the buyer wants the data. Some of these telemarketers use prison inmates to do their dirty work.