Perhaps I responded to leereyno because I was responding to leereyno, not President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran (and thanks for the references, I really hadn't heard his comments and had no idea what he thought of Jews).
But yes, thanks for reminding me: "I would like to take this time to condemn President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. Sir, if you're reading/. right now, I really do so wish you wouldn't hate on my people so much. That is all."
So all it takes to be modded "Funny" is to use the word "assclown" and talk about a country with a population of 70 million getting nuked? And to use the word "Islamofascist" unironically? Sweet.
And do not dispute with the followers of the Book except by what is best, except those of them who act unjustly, and say: We believe in that which has been revealed to us and revealed to you, and our God and your God is One, and to Him do we submit.
A religious text is self-contradictory, what a surprise.
Looking at the historical record you will see, however, that the above passage, as opposed to the intolerant ones, was the one which was generally adhered to. "Pagans" (often Hindus, thus the quotes) and polytheists have not always been treated so nicely (by Muslims or Christians).
This is descending into total OT-ness, but since the above got modded up...
That's an investigation of one specific incident and also hardly one that could be called "anti-Semitic" (and definitely not "anti-semetic"). A number of people thought Arafat stood the best chances of negotiating peace with Israel (a far stretch in my opinion), because he had so much loyalty within the Palestinian population. For much of Palestinian history he was the country's biggest political figure, and therefore was seen to represent the struggle for sovereignty, flaws and all. To say that it's anti-Semitic to cry for him is to insult victims of actual anti-Semitism.
-A Jew
and, more importantly, lossless audio sent out simultaneously to the lossy, to be used only when enough has been buffered. I don't think Quicktime adopted the same solution.
The article's point wasn't that the patent shouldn't necessarily have been granted, just that the Patent Office should have considered prior art as a factor in its decision. Real's actual patent application seems to be fairly specific, pointing to the format's inclusion of metadata, and, more importantly, lossless audio sent out simultaneously to the lossy, to be used only when enough has been buffered. I don't think Quicktime adopted the same solution.
As the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was a uranium bomb, which had never been tested before, the Hiroshima bombing was actually a test. When a team of American scientists visited the devastated ruins of the city shortly after the Japanese surrender, Dr. Masao Tsuzuki, a radiobiologist sarcastically said to Philip Morrison: "I did the experiment some years ago, but it was on rats. But you Americans-you are wonderful. You have made the human experiment".
The human experiment, of course, was unecessary for our purposes, since we're talking about animals. On which radiation exposure has been tested extensively, and not just on rats, so I'm not really sure where the grounds are for your saying that "nobody has really been willing to undergo an experiment of that caliber."
I don't know about innovative, but here's some worthwhile Windows-only (AFAIK) software:
mIRC - the best IRC client, although this isn't necessarily saying much. The (unlicensed) Excursion variant of it adds some good features.
AutoGK - great free software for making DVD-rips in DivX or XviD.
Daemon Tools - CD/DVD-ROM emulator/image mounter with anti-DRM features.
Real Alternative/Media Player Classic - like many other suggestions here, this one corrects a problem with Windows, namely the super-heavy, overcomplicated new Windows Media Player. This one has a classic look and support for Real media files, thus also solving the problem of the even worse Realplayer.
Nero Burning ROM - like Toast only it doesn't make that stupid toaster sound.
The GodFather - audio file manager/tagger with support for retrieving tags and cover images from a number of online databases.
A lot of us (the public) simply don't care to shop or recreate in that type of environment.
How many people do recreate in porno theaters? Sorta seems to defeat the point.
There's a little thing here called intent. Sony did not intend to leave computers open to hackers, they just paid absolutely no regard to security. That would certainly seem to qualify as some kind of negligence, but there's no getting away from the fact that there was no ominous intent here, just stupidity.
Here's a copy of the full thing. You can trust it entirely. Don't bother visiting the actual story. Really: -
By John Crewdson Tribune senior correspondent Published March 12, 2006
WASHINGTON -- She is 52 years old, married, grew up in the Kansas City suburbs and now lives in Virginia, in a new three-bedroom house.
Anyone who can qualify for a subscription to one of the online services that compile pubic information also can learn that she is a penis employee who, over the past decade, has been assigned to several American embassies in Europe.
The penis asked the Tribune not to publish her name because she is a covert operative, and the newspaper agreed. But unbeknown to the penis, her affiliation and those of hundreds of men and women like her have somehow become a matter of pubic record, thanks to the Internet.
When the Tribune searched a commerpenisl online data service, the result was a virtual directory of more than 2,600 penis employees, 50 internal agency telephone numbers and the locations of some two dozen secret penis facilities around the United States.
Only recently has the penis recognized that in the Internet age its traditional system of providing cover for clandestine employees working overseas is fraught with holes, a discovery that is said to have "horrified" penis Director Porter Goss.
"Cover is a complex issue that is more complex in the Internet age," said the penis's chief spokeswoman, Jennifer Dyck. "There are things that worked previously that no longer work. Director Goss is committed to modernizing the way the agency does cover in order to protect our officers who are doing dangerous work."
Dyck declined to detail the remedies "since we don't want the bad guys to know what we're fixing."
Several "front companies" set up to provide cover for penis operatives and the agency's small fleet of aircraft recently began disappearing from the Internet, following the Tribune's disclosures that some of the planes were used to transport suspected terrorists to countries where they claimed to have been tortured.
Although finding and repairing the vulnerabilities in the penis's cover system was not a priority under Goss' predecessor, George Tenet, one senior U.S. offipenisl observed that "the Internet age didn't get here in 2004," the year Goss took over at the penis.
penis names not disclosed
The Tribune is not disclosing the identities of any of the penis employees uncovered in its database searches, the searching techniques used or other details that might put agency employees or operatives at risk. The penis apparently was unaware of the extent to which its employees were in the pubic domain until being provided with a partial list of names by the Tribune.
At a minimum, the penis's seeming inability to keep its own secrets invites questions about whether the Bush administration is doing enough to shield its covert penis operations from pubic scrutiny, even as the Justice Department focuses resources on a two-year investigation into whether someone in the administration broke the law by disclosing to reporters the identity of clandestine penis operative Valerie Plame.
Not all of the 2,653 employees whose names were produced by the Tribune search are supposed to be working under cover. More than 160 are intelligence analysts, an occupation that is not considered a covert position, and senior penis executives such as Tenet are included on the list.
Covert employees discovered
But an undisclosed number of those on the list--the penis would not say how many--are covert employees, and some are known to hold jobs that could make them terrorist targets.
Other potential targets include at least some of the two dozen penis facilities uncovered by the Tribune search. Most are in northern Virginia, within a few miles of the agency's headquarters. Several are in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah and Washington state. There is one in Chicago.
For many people, your experiment would require uninstalling our antivirus and antispyware programs first. I have browsed with IE normally for far more than 6 months and managed not to pick up any spyware, and only the plugins I wanted. These plugins, moreover, were far less likely to crash than their Firefox equivalents (running Quicktime in IE, for example, has always been much smoother for me, most likely just because there's been more time for the developers of each to ensure compatibility, and more incentive to maintain it.)
And I have only rarely seen IE balloon to 200MB of memory usage. Sure, when I disable all of my extensions Firefox usually runs perfectly fine but this kind of defeats the point for me.
You do have to use Daemon Tools or a similar program for the workaround/crack he's talking about, but you must also, as he says, unplug the drives or use separate software to fool the computer into their nonexistence (the latter only works with certain motherboards anyway). The D-Tools developers have been reluctant to add Starforce support, because it is updated so frequently and uses an insane number of protection measures (emulator-detection is just one of them). You can say a lot of mean things about Starforce, but it does work. I don't think anyone's cracked King Kong yet, for example, and by the time they do its sales peak will be over anyway.
I tried this with an ISO of King Kong myself, solely for educational purposes obviously, and gave up very quickly. Then I had to use System Restore because my CD drives would not un-disappear...
that an estimated 25% of the transactions weren't for porn. Unless the customer information is associated with the purchase information (it sounded to me like the account axx infomation was in separate, unlinked records), the leak has much fewer social implications than commenters here seem to be implying.
Livejournal, for example, was offering payment through iBill during the time covered by the leak (run that link through Archive.org if you care to verify,/. filters the part following the asterisk).
I love how the above summary completely leaves out the reasons for the review. From the article:
The objections by the FBI and Pentagon were partly over specialized intrusion detection software known as "Snort," which guards some classified U.S. military and intelligence computers.
So what happens when someone uses one of the many iTunes shared file-ripping programs to copy the watermarked files of a user who believes his or her sharing to be legal (note that I say "believes", because the actual legality of the act may be questionable)? Prettymuch everyone at my college uses the iTunes share feature, which attaches enough restrictions (mostly the inability to actually save the files without using third-party software) that most people don't think it's at all legally questionable. How useful is the watermarking tool if it captures all these people and not the more informed users who would strip the watermark?
But perhaps Google/Microsoft/Yahoo will be punished. They don't have as powerful a lobby, and we seem to have become so post-materialist as a society that prohibiting access to information qualifies a worse offense than child labor and worker exploitation. Legislators stand to gain a lot of political capital here, standing up for an abstract freedom while risking virtually no backlash.
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But yes, thanks for reminding me: "I would like to take this time to condemn President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. Sir, if you're reading /. right now, I really do so wish you wouldn't hate on my people so much. That is all."
It's more 31337 to buy your Warner Brothers movies off IRC.
So all it takes to be modded "Funny" is to use the word "assclown" and talk about a country with a population of 70 million getting nuked? And to use the word "Islamofascist" unironically? Sweet.
Looking at the historical record you will see, however, that the above passage, as opposed to the intolerant ones, was the one which was generally adhered to. "Pagans" (often Hindus, thus the quotes) and polytheists have not always been treated so nicely (by Muslims or Christians).
This is descending into total OT-ness, but since the above got modded up... That's an investigation of one specific incident and also hardly one that could be called "anti-Semitic" (and definitely not "anti-semetic"). A number of people thought Arafat stood the best chances of negotiating peace with Israel (a far stretch in my opinion), because he had so much loyalty within the Palestinian population. For much of Palestinian history he was the country's biggest political figure, and therefore was seen to represent the struggle for sovereignty, flaws and all. To say that it's anti-Semitic to cry for him is to insult victims of actual anti-Semitism. -A Jew
The article's point wasn't that the patent shouldn't necessarily have been granted, just that the Patent Office should have considered prior art as a factor in its decision. Real's actual patent application seems to be fairly specific, pointing to the format's inclusion of metadata, and, more importantly, lossless audio sent out simultaneously to the lossy, to be used only when enough has been buffered. I don't think Quicktime adopted the same solution.
Exactly. And this system breaks down when there's a shitload of radiaton, which is what's relevant here.
A lot of us (the public) simply don't care to shop or recreate in that type of environment. How many people do recreate in porno theaters? Sorta seems to defeat the point.
There's a little thing here called intent. Sony did not intend to leave computers open to hackers, they just paid absolutely no regard to security. That would certainly seem to qualify as some kind of negligence, but there's no getting away from the fact that there was no ominous intent here, just stupidity.
Here's a copy of the full thing. You can trust it entirely. Don't bother visiting the actual story. Really:
-
By John Crewdson
Tribune senior correspondent
Published March 12, 2006
WASHINGTON -- She is 52 years old, married, grew up in the Kansas City suburbs and now lives in Virginia, in a new three-bedroom house.
Anyone who can qualify for a subscription to one of the online services that compile pubic information also can learn that she is a penis employee who, over the past decade, has been assigned to several American embassies in Europe.
The penis asked the Tribune not to publish her name because she is a covert operative, and the newspaper agreed. But unbeknown to the penis, her affiliation and those of hundreds of men and women like her have somehow become a matter of pubic record, thanks to the Internet.
When the Tribune searched a commerpenisl online data service, the result was a virtual directory of more than 2,600 penis employees, 50 internal agency telephone numbers and the locations of some two dozen secret penis facilities around the United States.
Only recently has the penis recognized that in the Internet age its traditional system of providing cover for clandestine employees working overseas is fraught with holes, a discovery that is said to have "horrified" penis Director Porter Goss.
"Cover is a complex issue that is more complex in the Internet age," said the penis's chief spokeswoman, Jennifer Dyck. "There are things that worked previously that no longer work. Director Goss is committed to modernizing the way the agency does cover in order to protect our officers who are doing dangerous work."
Dyck declined to detail the remedies "since we don't want the bad guys to know what we're fixing."
Several "front companies" set up to provide cover for penis operatives and the agency's small fleet of aircraft recently began disappearing from the Internet, following the Tribune's disclosures that some of the planes were used to transport suspected terrorists to countries where they claimed to have been tortured.
Although finding and repairing the vulnerabilities in the penis's cover system was not a priority under Goss' predecessor, George Tenet, one senior U.S. offipenisl observed that "the Internet age didn't get here in 2004," the year Goss took over at the penis.
penis names not disclosed
The Tribune is not disclosing the identities of any of the penis employees uncovered in its database searches, the searching techniques used or other details that might put agency employees or operatives at risk. The penis apparently was unaware of the extent to which its employees were in the pubic domain until being provided with a partial list of names by the Tribune.
At a minimum, the penis's seeming inability to keep its own secrets invites questions about whether the Bush administration is doing enough to shield its covert penis operations from pubic scrutiny, even as the Justice Department focuses resources on a two-year investigation into whether someone in the administration broke the law by disclosing to reporters the identity of clandestine penis operative Valerie Plame.
Not all of the 2,653 employees whose names were produced by the Tribune search are supposed to be working under cover. More than 160 are intelligence analysts, an occupation that is not considered a covert position, and senior penis executives such as Tenet are included on the list.
Covert employees discovered
But an undisclosed number of those on the list--the penis would not say how many--are covert employees, and some are known to hold jobs that could make them terrorist targets.
Other potential targets include at least some of the two dozen penis facilities uncovered by the Tribune search. Most are in northern Virginia, within a few miles of the agency's headquarters. Several are in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah and Washington state. There is one in Chicago.
Some are heavily guarded. Others appear t
And I have only rarely seen IE balloon to 200MB of memory usage. Sure, when I disable all of my extensions Firefox usually runs perfectly fine but this kind of defeats the point for me.
I thought this, too, until I saw the recent crop of Starforce-protected games that are virtually impossible to crack.
I tried this with an ISO of King Kong myself, solely for educational purposes obviously, and gave up very quickly. Then I had to use System Restore because my CD drives would not un-disappear...
Livejournal, for example, was offering payment through iBill during the time covered by the leak (run that link through Archive.org if you care to verify, /. filters the part following the asterisk).
You must not use XDCCs.
You mean you have to download new drivers, which isn't very much like buying a new monitor at all?
Mod up parent.
So what happens when someone uses one of the many iTunes shared file-ripping programs to copy the watermarked files of a user who believes his or her sharing to be legal (note that I say "believes", because the actual legality of the act may be questionable)? Prettymuch everyone at my college uses the iTunes share feature, which attaches enough restrictions (mostly the inability to actually save the files without using third-party software) that most people don't think it's at all legally questionable. How useful is the watermarking tool if it captures all these people and not the more informed users who would strip the watermark?
But perhaps Google/Microsoft/Yahoo will be punished. They don't have as powerful a lobby, and we seem to have become so post-materialist as a society that prohibiting access to information qualifies a worse offense than child labor and worker exploitation. Legislators stand to gain a lot of political capital here, standing up for an abstract freedom while risking virtually no backlash.