Is it me or are they actually beginning to shape up? I know it's blasphemy to praise MS, but after reading that document I was quite impressed. A few times I was surprised and uttered, "Wow, they actually fixed that!" to myself as I was reading.
...but what's the catch? Seems too good to be true.
Perhaps there is some remote code that manipulates pixels on your screen to subliminally flash messages to you thus making you relinquish your spiritual ownership and connection to your soul. You are now one of them.
You also have to realize that this firewall is meant for everyday average users who don't know the first thing about properly securing their system against malicious attacks. I'm not particularly sure they're trying to replace popular third-party firewall programs with the SP2 release (not yet, anyway).
Granted, those items you listed would be nice and handy for us geeks to have, but the majority of Windows users will have absolutely no use for them.
One of the additions to this kernal that caught my eye as I was reading a summary was the addition of Hyperthreading.
I was actually confused by this as the article's wording made it seem that the new kernel could give this ability to ANY processor instead of just the Pentium 4.
I'm not too keen on processor technology and what is/is not possible, but is this true or did I misinterpret the wording of the article?
If how I interpreted it correctly, that's such an awesome addition being able to take your single CPU and making Virtual CPUs from it to balance processing load.
I have a fast connection and can usually snag two or three while I'm at work.
I just add 'em to my DVD collection. There's always new movies being uploaded. Indiana Jones Trilogy, Alien Quadrilogy (I'll skip on Resurrection), Pirates of the Carribbean and T3 were leaked like a month before their release..
Not to be a troll, but it seems to me that anything beyond version 2 is just bloated.
I mean, the main function of this software is to play music (and video for some). Looking at all these extra "features" makes me wonder if anyone truly uses these. Visualizations are cool for a few minutes, or if you're really stoned out of your mind, a few hours.
...and paying for the pro version to rip Mp3s? Are they crazy? Do they not realize the plethora of free ripping utilities that are available?
Sounds like AOL is pulling the strings on this one! Notice the "Add AOL icons to desktop". No thank you!
The difference being... writing software is not form of art (I suppose that can be argued by some).
I think people are irked in general not because they don't wanna pay, but because music, an art form, has been bastardized by corporate america. When people go out and use technology to listen to music, they get punished for it.
Musicians aren't obligated to make millions.. it's the studios who choose to give it to them and expect to make it back in CD sales. Artists make nil from CD sales. It's all from touring.
Technically, they should be in it for the music, not for the money and it's this fact along that angers people.
While I completely understand your post about losing profit if someone were to download your software, it is in no way, shape, or form a crime to listen to music without paying for it.
AT&T has a reputation with pulling this crap. It might not be with everyone, but it happens more than it really should.
I've known a few people who've worked for AT&T who claim some of the stuff they do is no good.
For example, when I switched long distance carriers from AT&T, I *knew* I'd have some kind of issue with it. Lo and behold, 2 weeks after terminating service with them, AT&T mysteriously accepts an order "placed by me" and reactivates my service through them. I call back to cancel and to make sure it's cancelled and they tell me I was removed from the system.
A week later, it happened again. I guess I must be sleepwalking or something, because, again, they claim I place a service reactivation order.
In the end it all got straigtened out, but after hearing from people who used to work there that they practice some shady business tactics, it doesn't surprise me in the least bit that the number switching would "mysteriously" fail.
They're doing nothing more than making examples of people.
Personally, I'm not in the least bit concerened. Hell, I'll admit it: I share over 10 gigs of farily popular music on most of the P2P networks. I'd love to see them try me in a court of law.. unfortunately for them, I'm "tech savvy" and they'll have a hell of a time proving I share music.
These stories do nothing but piss me off and make me share/download more music (and movies now, too). I know a few people still in High School and I actually encourage them to share/download music. They'll tell me about how they're gonna buy so-and-so's CD, I say, "No, don't. I'll download it for you."
Yeah, this will probably get modded troll, or even flamebait, but it's really not. I'm just a person who's fed up with general apathy from people who let corporations get away with this shit. We're talking about downloading and sharing music, not murder, rape, or any other "crime". We know CD sales are unaffected because of artists who continue to break platinum status.
It's okay for them to spend years overcharging people for CDs and for mass marketing canned acts like Britney Spears/Justin Timberlake, but it's not okay for them to take some heat?! Sorry, that's not how it works.
If you can't take it, then by all means, don't fucking dish it out.
Am I the only one who finds this constant "cyber battle" between good and evil absolutely entertaining?
I mean, first you get the good hackers doing things like hacking Madonna's website because she thought she'd be all slick and release those "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" Mp3s. You also have the wonderful folks who are so good at defacing the RIAA's site because they're such ridiculous pricks.
Then you have the "bad" guys: people who target the so-called "good" sites like these Anti-Spam deals, or the people who make these worms that cause millions of dollars worth of damage because the folks at MS are too lazy to fix their stuff.
The fact that Anti-Spam sites are now being targetted makes it that much better because those sites have actually caused me a lot of personal headache by labeling me as a spammer even though I've never touched the stuff in my life!! I've sent countless emails explaining to them that they have no proof or reason to even remotely believe I was ever a spammer, they don't listen. I guess this is what they get, hehe.
Man, I love it. I personally can't wait for the next "Code Red" to hit so I can laugh at the damage it's caused.
The fundamental question is how long can they continue along this path before the public demands a fundamental reform of copyright laws and intellectual property mechanisms.
Considering the majority of the public is uneducated about law and worry more about Ben Affleck's love life, probably a very very very long time... if ever. After all... it's the people who let shit like the Patriot Act happen.
Man, what a great idea.. let's allow the FBI to search our houses without even KNOWING!! Woo!!
If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be able to copy the massive amounts of DVDs that I rent from Netflix and Blockbuster.
We need more people like this guy who aren't afraid to stick their middle fingers up to corporate morons and who aren't afraid to fight stupid-assed laws.
Kids dropping out of school is a bit out of place considering it's perfectly legal for them to do so at 16. Under that, they're really too young to even think about making that decision.
Beyond this, it's like getting into the "legalize drugs" debate. People really do need to start being responsible for their own actions. You can find just as many pros and you will with cons, but the most important "pro" lingering over everyone's head: I can do whatever I want to my own body, and that's true. Using the tax dollar argument of, "Well one day you'll be hooked and my tax dollars will be spent, etc etc.." Well, there's not much you can do about any of that because right now $80 billion of everyone's tax dollars are being spent on a pointless war.
That's fine if law enforcement started cracking down on this, but Google should just stick with what they do instead of telling people what's right/wrong for them. That's not their place to do so.
The doctor gave me 5 ambien 10mg each, so it really isn't an addiction. It takes several weeks to become dependent on them.
After each of those 5 nights of sleep, I woke up early and felt completely refreshed and ready to go. I never felt like that after waking up, ever.
Yes, I have sleeping issues, but I workout regularly and have very little stress.
I'm not asking for a lifelong supply of them. I'm a responsible person. Even if I wasn't, that's my own fault.
I simply want them for nights where I absolutely cannot fall asleep and lay awake for 2 hours on end. I mean, that's what those pills are designed to do. Why even bother selling them then if the docs aren't gonna prescribe them?
If people want to buy pills without a prescription, then by all means let them. What's the big deal?
I've been lookin' at some of those sites lately because I would like some Ambien. I've had sleeping issues for years now and doctors are very reluctant to prescribe them to me because they're "too addictive", which is total BS. They might be, but I don't have addictive personality. The best sleep I've had in my life has been while on those pills. Considering it's my sleep being affected, I really don't see the problem with buying 'em online. It's not like I'm buying Oxycontin and getting doped up.
Like other companies get these harebrained ideas that they could make their stuff hackproof, it's not gonna happen.
You could NEVER have voting over the internet!! Well, I wouldn't say never, but not anytime soon.. not until there's a revolution in computer security, anyway.
Most people in charge of these elections know nothing about technology. What's to guarantee us that they'd know if someone hacked the system and skewed votes? They wouldn't.
Unless, of course, you brought in some company to monitor it, but that's not gonna work.
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Is it me or are they actually beginning to shape up? I know it's blasphemy to praise MS, but after reading that document I was quite impressed. A few times I was surprised and uttered, "Wow, they actually fixed that!" to myself as I was reading.
...but what's the catch? Seems too good to be true.
Perhaps there is some remote code that manipulates pixels on your screen to subliminally flash messages to you thus making you relinquish your spiritual ownership and connection to your soul. You are now one of them.
You also have to realize that this firewall is meant for everyday average users who don't know the first thing about properly securing their system against malicious attacks. I'm not particularly sure they're trying to replace popular third-party firewall programs with the SP2 release (not yet, anyway).
Granted, those items you listed would be nice and handy for us geeks to have, but the majority of Windows users will have absolutely no use for them.
One of the additions to this kernal that caught my eye as I was reading a summary was the addition of Hyperthreading.
I was actually confused by this as the article's wording made it seem that the new kernel could give this ability to ANY processor instead of just the Pentium 4.
I'm not too keen on processor technology and what is/is not possible, but is this true or did I misinterpret the wording of the article?
If how I interpreted it correctly, that's such an awesome addition being able to take your single CPU and making Virtual CPUs from it to balance processing load.
"Studying" Linux, hehe.
Developer 1: "Ah.. so this is how they do it in this section..." *copies and pastes code and gives it a quick test* "That should do it. Next section!"
DVDs are about 4-5 gigs a pop to download.
I have a fast connection and can usually snag two or three while I'm at work.
I just add 'em to my DVD collection. There's always new movies being uploaded. Indiana Jones Trilogy, Alien Quadrilogy (I'll skip on Resurrection), Pirates of the Carribbean and T3 were leaked like a month before their release..
Tons of things you can use your broadband for.
Not to be a troll, but it seems to me that anything beyond version 2 is just bloated.
...and paying for the pro version to rip Mp3s? Are they crazy? Do they not realize the plethora of free ripping utilities that are available?
I mean, the main function of this software is to play music (and video for some). Looking at all these extra "features" makes me wonder if anyone truly uses these. Visualizations are cool for a few minutes, or if you're really stoned out of your mind, a few hours.
Sounds like AOL is pulling the strings on this one! Notice the "Add AOL icons to desktop". No thank you!
This will probably be marked as Troll/Flamebait for whatever reason, but in all honesty they deserve it and brought it upon themselves.
SCO is flat out jerking the US legal system with these far out LIES and no one's doing anything about it... so DDoS away!
Hopefully they'll soon learn the err of their ways.. or worse things shall happen! Time will only tell.
The difference being... writing software is not form of art (I suppose that can be argued by some).
I think people are irked in general not because they don't wanna pay, but because music, an art form, has been bastardized by corporate america. When people go out and use technology to listen to music, they get punished for it.
Musicians aren't obligated to make millions.. it's the studios who choose to give it to them and expect to make it back in CD sales. Artists make nil from CD sales. It's all from touring.
Technically, they should be in it for the music, not for the money and it's this fact along that angers people.
While I completely understand your post about losing profit if someone were to download your software, it is in no way, shape, or form a crime to listen to music without paying for it.
Surely a firewall applicance that damns god can't be that great... can it?! ;)
I'm 30 mins from Canada's border.
I wonder, for argument's sake, if I could buy the blank CD-R's there and bring them back over to the US.
Technically I paid the music piracy tax. If I was taken to court and I proved that I paid this tax, wouldn't I then be let off?
AT&T has a reputation with pulling this crap. It might not be with everyone, but it happens more than it really should.
I've known a few people who've worked for AT&T who claim some of the stuff they do is no good.
For example, when I switched long distance carriers from AT&T, I *knew* I'd have some kind of issue with it. Lo and behold, 2 weeks after terminating service with them, AT&T mysteriously accepts an order "placed by me" and reactivates my service through them. I call back to cancel and to make sure it's cancelled and they tell me I was removed from the system.
A week later, it happened again. I guess I must be sleepwalking or something, because, again, they claim I place a service reactivation order.
In the end it all got straigtened out, but after hearing from people who used to work there that they practice some shady business tactics, it doesn't surprise me in the least bit that the number switching would "mysteriously" fail.
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Grok!
They're doing nothing more than making examples of people.
Personally, I'm not in the least bit concerened. Hell, I'll admit it: I share over 10 gigs of farily popular music on most of the P2P networks. I'd love to see them try me in a court of law.. unfortunately for them, I'm "tech savvy" and they'll have a hell of a time proving I share music.
These stories do nothing but piss me off and make me share/download more music (and movies now, too). I know a few people still in High School and I actually encourage them to share/download music. They'll tell me about how they're gonna buy so-and-so's CD, I say, "No, don't. I'll download it for you."
Yeah, this will probably get modded troll, or even flamebait, but it's really not. I'm just a person who's fed up with general apathy from people who let corporations get away with this shit. We're talking about downloading and sharing music, not murder, rape, or any other "crime". We know CD sales are unaffected because of artists who continue to break platinum status.
It's okay for them to spend years overcharging people for CDs and for mass marketing canned acts like Britney Spears/Justin Timberlake, but it's not okay for them to take some heat?! Sorry, that's not how it works.
If you can't take it, then by all means, don't fucking dish it out.
Am I the only one who finds this constant "cyber battle" between good and evil absolutely entertaining?
I mean, first you get the good hackers doing things like hacking Madonna's website because she thought she'd be all slick and release those "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" Mp3s. You also have the wonderful folks who are so good at defacing the RIAA's site because they're such ridiculous pricks.
Then you have the "bad" guys: people who target the so-called "good" sites like these Anti-Spam deals, or the people who make these worms that cause millions of dollars worth of damage because the folks at MS are too lazy to fix their stuff.
The fact that Anti-Spam sites are now being targetted makes it that much better because those sites have actually caused me a lot of personal headache by labeling me as a spammer even though I've never touched the stuff in my life!! I've sent countless emails explaining to them that they have no proof or reason to even remotely believe I was ever a spammer, they don't listen. I guess this is what they get, hehe.
Man, I love it. I personally can't wait for the next "Code Red" to hit so I can laugh at the damage it's caused.
Simple. Everyone should ignore the RIAA.
After all.. it would take eons to sue 320+ million people. That's a perfectly reasonable solution, in fact.
No go forth and make papa proud.
The fundamental question is how long can they continue along this path before the public demands a fundamental reform of copyright laws and intellectual property mechanisms.
Considering the majority of the public is uneducated about law and worry more about Ben Affleck's love life, probably a very very very long time... if ever. After all... it's the people who let shit like the Patriot Act happen.
Man, what a great idea.. let's allow the FBI to search our houses without even KNOWING!! Woo!!
If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be able to copy the massive amounts of DVDs that I rent from Netflix and Blockbuster.
We need more people like this guy who aren't afraid to stick their middle fingers up to corporate morons and who aren't afraid to fight stupid-assed laws.
Kids dropping out of school is a bit out of place considering it's perfectly legal for them to do so at 16. Under that, they're really too young to even think about making that decision.
Beyond this, it's like getting into the "legalize drugs" debate. People really do need to start being responsible for their own actions. You can find just as many pros and you will with cons, but the most important "pro" lingering over everyone's head: I can do whatever I want to my own body, and that's true. Using the tax dollar argument of, "Well one day you'll be hooked and my tax dollars will be spent, etc etc.." Well, there's not much you can do about any of that because right now $80 billion of everyone's tax dollars are being spent on a pointless war.
That's fine if law enforcement started cracking down on this, but Google should just stick with what they do instead of telling people what's right/wrong for them. That's not their place to do so.
The doctor gave me 5 ambien 10mg each, so it really isn't an addiction. It takes several weeks to become dependent on them.
After each of those 5 nights of sleep, I woke up early and felt completely refreshed and ready to go. I never felt like that after waking up, ever.
Yes, I have sleeping issues, but I workout regularly and have very little stress.
I'm not asking for a lifelong supply of them. I'm a responsible person. Even if I wasn't, that's my own fault.
I simply want them for nights where I absolutely cannot fall asleep and lay awake for 2 hours on end. I mean, that's what those pills are designed to do. Why even bother selling them then if the docs aren't gonna prescribe them?
If people want to buy pills without a prescription, then by all means let them. What's the big deal?
I've been lookin' at some of those sites lately because I would like some Ambien. I've had sleeping issues for years now and doctors are very reluctant to prescribe them to me because they're "too addictive", which is total BS. They might be, but I don't have addictive personality. The best sleep I've had in my life has been while on those pills. Considering it's my sleep being affected, I really don't see the problem with buying 'em online. It's not like I'm buying Oxycontin and getting doped up.
Who's Google to step in and play the police?
What's up with these goons improperly modding my posts lately?
This is in no way, shape, or form a troll. Not even a little bit.
Biotech is Godzilla.
I love how people whine and cry whenever they don't get their way.
Guess they should've have been trying to screw with the system! They're lucky Google doesn't block them completely.
Sorry, didn't RTFA because PDFs have to be one of the most annoying file formats ever created alongside Real media.
Anyway, if anything, next gen. P2P networks should be encrypted AND anonymous.
I heard that WASTE does this, but it's not true. You can always see the IP address (along with the handle) of the person you're downloading from.
People need to stop putzing around and start developing some real secure file sharing apps. We need 'em more than anything.
Hell no!
Like other companies get these harebrained ideas that they could make their stuff hackproof, it's not gonna happen.
You could NEVER have voting over the internet!! Well, I wouldn't say never, but not anytime soon.. not until there's a revolution in computer security, anyway.
Most people in charge of these elections know nothing about technology. What's to guarantee us that they'd know if someone hacked the system and skewed votes? They wouldn't.
Unless, of course, you brought in some company to monitor it, but that's not gonna work.