So you're telling me that the spyware company True Active is given kudos for deciding not to send trojans out to the public anymore?
In related news, Attilla the Hun has been award the Nobel Peace Prize for not invading any sovreign lands since his death (although in all honesty he is far more deserving of it than Henry Kissinger)
Best Buy is one of the worst stores I have ever dealt with (far worse than Circuit City in the customer service department) For example, When my hard drive MP3 player (Creative Nomad Jukebox 3) broke about one year into the 3 year service/replacment plan (which I had paid an extra $30-$50, don't remember the exact number, for) it took visits to 4 stores (two over an hour from my home) and encounters with personal ranging from incompetent and untruthful (mostly floor staff) all the way to downright hostile and threating (store managers) to get them to honor the service plan and in the end I still had to pay $100 cash to "upgrade" to a better player (iPod), even though I just wanted my existing unit fixed or replaced, because all the stores claimed they did not have and couldn't order a new nomad or anything they considered a "comparible replacment". Not to mention the fact that the manager at the store that sold me the new iPod refused to transfer the reminder of the service plan to the new unit (even though the plan document clearly said that would happen) and threatened to sue me for slander when I said I intended complan to Best Buy corprate and the BBB. This happened months ago and I refuse to set foot in a Best Buy to this day.
In short Best Buy Sucks Ass, Don't Shop There Ever!!
> This sounds like the kind of doll that comes to life at night, eyes glowing red, saying "You must kill mommy and daddy," while its head spins completely around.
"Chainsaw not included."
Cindy's new brother Chucky Smart comes with a real butcher's knife though
Exactly, I fail to see the problem with M$ (or anyone else) monitoring usenet. It is a public forum and anyone who posts to it should be aware that their messages can be read, archived, analyized, etc by anyone who wants to
but why pay for something when you can download it for free?
Because thinking like this is what leads to DMCA style laws and barrages of lawsuits. I hate the **AAs as much as anyone but you have to remember that copyright infringment is illegal, no matter what you think of the copyright holders. Ever since Napster I have been saying that what we need is a good, legal music download system. While I don't trust M$ and seriously doubt this system will be worth using it is definatly a improvment over absrudly-DRMed subscription servies like pressplay
I am a big music fan and have a rather large collection of legal MP3s (mostly ripped from my CD collection and bought from people, mostly indie bands, that chose to distribute online) and I am looking foward to iTMS (the only, legal music download system that I consider worth the money) being ported to Windows and Linux (I can hope can't I?) in order to expand my collection.
Whille downloading music is not stealing, and is certinaly not as bad as the **AA wants people it think it is one must remember that it is illegal and going arround saying things like "why pay for something when you can download it for free" will only convince the **AAs that they need to buy more restrictive laws, use more DRM and sue more people. If you really want to send them a message you should either boycott their products (and do without them, not get them illegally) or promote change in the right direction by supporting whatever legal distribution methods you approve of (iTMS, bands selling mp3s online, etc)
Makes one wonder whether the Justice Dept was working as hard as they could have been
You remember that the the DOJ vs. M$ case ended on a settlement proposed by M$, not a judge's rulling. The US has a very pro-busniess/anti-regulation president and attorney general so it is fairly safe to assume that a judge would have impossed a far more severe penalty than the settlement.
Personally, I've always favored "take them out and shoot them" but that is just a matter of personal opinion (for example, if you want to shoot spamers indoors don't let me stop you)
Either SpamAssassin or SpamPal do their job at above average level.
Agreed, I've been using SpamAssassin and would say it averages about 2 missed spams per 1,000 messages and almost no flase positives (I don't have a exact number but I would estimate about 1 in 20,000)
and they can't use the DMCA on you because you're not circumventing a *copy-protection* mechanism.
Your not? I assume they would use the DMCA by saying that whatever meassures they use (sealed case, non-standard interface, encrypted files, etc) are copy-protection devices to stop you from copying the files from the camera's memory to your computer.
I'm not familar with iTunes but what, if anything, prevents someone from burning CDs and then ripping them MP3, OGG or some other non-DRM format and doing whatever they want with them?
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I don't have a iPod but I tried using a FM adaptor with my nomad jukebox and the quality sucks (far worse than a tape adapter) especially in or near cities with a lot of radio stations.
I am farily certain that it is the concept of an "unwholesome" Mickey cartoon that concerns them most, because, as you said, Disney could and would continue to sell his likeness...
You are right about the unwholesome image thing but I think Disney is also very concerned that people would use characters they had invented without having to pay them. Historyically Disney has been strict in enforcing their copyrights and trademarks even when they were not used in unwholesome or objectionable ways (for example, in the late 1980s they forced several day care centers to remove pictures of Mickey and other Disney characters from their walls)
Seems to me that the RIAA companies should have to decide if they are selling the physical CD, in which case the buyer can do anyything they want with it(excluding reproduction for commercial purposes) or, they are selling a license to listen to the music, in which case they should be obligated to replace damaged media for free or at cost (i.e. the cost to them of making and shipping the disc, no license fees)
Someone needs to start an open source filter project that only blocks XXX porn, and verifies with human eyeballs every page blocked
That is any interesting idea however I doubt that it would be possible simply because of the sheer number of porn sites (google search for "xxx" returns over 45 million sites) combinded with the fact that sites appear and disappear and urls change on a daily basis.
Also what definition of porn would be used? (i.e. is Playboy porn? What about Maxim? The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issuse? Victoria's Secret Catalogs? National Geographic?)
The term "mod chip" is not inherently negative and doesn't imply copyright infringment. All it says is that the chip MODifies the console to do something it was not designed/intended to do, be it run linux, play out of region games or any number of other things
I have discussed this scene with several people (one of whom has a PhD in English) and almost everyone agrees that when you boil it down the architect's speech means almost nothing but is written in such a way that the vast majority of people who see the movie will not be able to decipher its meaning (or the lack thereof) and will assume that it has a very deep and significant meaning that they don't understand.
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In related news, Attilla the Hun has been award the Nobel Peace Prize for not invading any sovreign lands since his death (although in all honesty he is far more deserving of it than Henry Kissinger)
In short Best Buy Sucks Ass, Don't Shop There Ever!!
And on the odd chance you care here are Some more stories of Best Buy mistreating customers and employees
2. Firewall (I use Zonealarm)
3. Mozilla or Firebird and Thunderbird
4. Openoffice
5. Winamp
6. Ad-aware
7. Nero Burning ROM if you have a CD-R or CD-RW
8. Kazaa Lite K++
9. A PDF Viewer (such as Acrobat Reader)
10. A install disk for your favorite Linux Distro. Windows Sucks!
Verisign gave $83,000 to republicans and $40,000 to democrats in the last election
Details Here
Bush or Vader?
And does anyone think they won't give (or sell) all the admitted filesharers info to other groups that can sue them (MPAA, BSA, etc)
Just make sure to include his prisoner number
Price seems OK to me. I ussually buy "premium" coffee from places like Starbucks and Whole Foods and am used to paying about $10 a pound
Cindy's new brother Chucky Smart comes with a real butcher's knife though
Doesn't go to her directly but they are fighting the same battles
Exactly, I fail to see the problem with M$ (or anyone else) monitoring usenet. It is a public forum and anyone who posts to it should be aware that their messages can be read, archived, analyized, etc by anyone who wants to
I'm on campus and my building (SCC) is fine
Because thinking like this is what leads to DMCA style laws and barrages of lawsuits. I hate the **AAs as much as anyone but you have to remember that copyright infringment is illegal, no matter what you think of the copyright holders. Ever since Napster I have been saying that what we need is a good, legal music download system. While I don't trust M$ and seriously doubt this system will be worth using it is definatly a improvment over absrudly-DRMed subscription servies like pressplay
I am a big music fan and have a rather large collection of legal MP3s (mostly ripped from my CD collection and bought from people, mostly indie bands, that chose to distribute online) and I am looking foward to iTMS (the only, legal music download system that I consider worth the money) being ported to Windows and Linux (I can hope can't I?) in order to expand my collection.
Whille downloading music is not stealing, and is certinaly not as bad as the **AA wants people it think it is one must remember that it is illegal and going arround saying things like "why pay for something when you can download it for free" will only convince the **AAs that they need to buy more restrictive laws, use more DRM and sue more people. If you really want to send them a message you should either boycott their products (and do without them, not get them illegally) or promote change in the right direction by supporting whatever legal distribution methods you approve of (iTMS, bands selling mp3s online, etc)
You remember that the the DOJ vs. M$ case ended on a settlement proposed by M$, not a judge's rulling. The US has a very pro-busniess/anti-regulation president and attorney general so it is fairly safe to assume that a judge would have impossed a far more severe penalty than the settlement.
Agreed, I've been using SpamAssassin and would say it averages about 2 missed spams per 1,000 messages and almost no flase positives (I don't have a exact number but I would estimate about 1 in 20,000)
Your not? I assume they would use the DMCA by saying that whatever meassures they use (sealed case, non-standard interface, encrypted files, etc) are copy-protection devices to stop you from copying the files from the camera's memory to your computer.
I'm not familar with iTunes but what, if anything, prevents someone from burning CDs and then ripping them MP3, OGG or some other non-DRM format and doing whatever they want with them?
I don't have a iPod but I tried using a FM adaptor with my nomad jukebox and the quality sucks (far worse than a tape adapter) especially in or near cities with a lot of radio stations.
And what is your source on this?
You are right about the unwholesome image thing but I think Disney is also very concerned that people would use characters they had invented without having to pay them. Historyically Disney has been strict in enforcing their copyrights and trademarks even when they were not used in unwholesome or objectionable ways (for example, in the late 1980s they forced several day care centers to remove pictures of Mickey and other Disney characters from their walls)
Seems to me that the RIAA companies should have to decide if they are selling the physical CD, in which case the buyer can do anyything they want with it(excluding reproduction for commercial purposes) or, they are selling a license to listen to the music, in which case they should be obligated to replace damaged media for free or at cost (i.e. the cost to them of making and shipping the disc, no license fees)
That is any interesting idea however I doubt that it would be possible simply because of the sheer number of porn sites (google search for "xxx" returns over 45 million sites) combinded with the fact that sites appear and disappear and urls change on a daily basis.
Also what definition of porn would be used? (i.e. is Playboy porn? What about Maxim? The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issuse? Victoria's Secret Catalogs? National Geographic?)
The term "mod chip" is not inherently negative and doesn't imply copyright infringment. All it says is that the chip MODifies the console to do something it was not designed/intended to do, be it run linux, play out of region games or any number of other things
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