I think people should be able to sue with this blatant violation of the RFCs. (Also how Verisign happily signs up spammer domains filled with false registration info.)
As for SPEWS. It is still there, but under a constant DDOS. (Probably from a bunch of spammer recently spanked.) But access is really spotty. You may want to try to use the SpamCop BL as an alternative until SPEWS is backonline reliably.
Can you take care of it? I am getting a new toupe to match the color of my Mercedes. And I'm expecting my shipment of Enlargo to be in by Thursday too.
Many artists painted the record industry as a bloated, overstuffed giant with too many mouths to feed and too many middlemen to pay, selling an overpriced, often mediocre product.
Gee, ya think??
The RIAA did not initiate these lawsuits to defend artists' rights, the musicians say, but to protect corporate profits.
Considering the RIAA is NOT made up of any of the musicians but CEOs and lawyers who can't stop putting their hand in the cookie jar. (Then whine when the cookies are gone. RIAA: "WHAA! These eville internet kidz stole our cookies! WHAA!".)
Most acts maintain Web sites, and virtually every one features some free downloads. Country Joe McDonald said he posts more than 50 tracks available for free downloads on his site, countryjoe.com.
Now this is an excellent idea. This is what all the artists should be doing to get people interested in their music. And it allows the artists to make contact directly with the fans and bypass all those shady promoters and middlemen. (Are you hearing this RIAA!?! Either you change your business model or go the way of the dinosaur. Actually, don't change, I'd rather see the big record companies just fade away.)
S Korea and Japan lead with between 60 and 70% of S Korean households wired for speed, with Japan catching up quickly.
With about 80-90% of these households running open proxies to be hijacked by spammers. That is not really something to be proud of. (Ask any ISP who resorted to using korea.blackholes.us.)
but it is disappointing that the availability and price are in such sorry states here in the U.S."
Now that would be the ultimate way for the RIAA to self-destruct.. sue themselves for violating their own rules they hold so dear and wank off to after suing 12-year-olds.:-)
Of course the RIAA is going to eventually run itself into the ground because they are blowing money left and right. It is quite a sure bet M$ will watch this one closely before they go and try to copyright/patent the binary number system again.
SCO: "Well, this sort of looks like our code.. Well, *technically* it's from SGI.. but 'SGI' is almost spelled like 'SCO' so we can call it ours by (open) proxy."
RIAA: "They must be hiding more songs in those VoIP packets. We must intercept and sue! Quick! To the batcave!"
But seriously, I remember using MS netmeeting several years ago when my fiancee was stuck at UC Davis. Even with the crummy sound quality, it was still nice not having to pay the 5 cents per minute that the long distance carriers charged. It is great to see that there is still ongoing interest and work with further development into VoIP. (Guess that is why ATT has the flatrate for their long distance service now, eh?:-))
Yeah I know this was rated a troll.. but I'll manage something intelligible.
Don't think that the prices are high because of the fileswapping. These high prices was artifically set YEARS before the Internet became commercial. This fileswapping only caught their "attention" less than a few years ago.
The record labels, not satisfied with infuriating a younger generation with high prices and legal threats, is now enraging clueless middle-aged parents forced to pay $3,000 to $15,000 settlements over individual downloading lawsuits. Record companies pursued an act of Congress for the right to invade the privacy of Internet companies and customers in search of burners' personal information. For good measure, the labels forced a New York 12-year-old to pay a $2,000 fine, taking customer relations to a new level.
Suing 12-year-olds. Brilliant.. just brilliant, RIAA. What's next? Attempt at suing people who download public domain music? Or how about people who download MIDI files too? Let's go for the gusto.. JPGs! I wonder how much more alienation must go on until the record companies realize their ailment is terminal?
Most of all, spend less on lawyers and more on creative thinkers. You can't subpoena success.
They can't since the RIAA appears to be made up of mostly lawyers. (Probably why all the music we see out there is junk anyways.)
I'm not much for the Patriot Act due to the invasiveness with regards to privacy. But at the same time, I have no sympathy for drug makers like that of methamphetamines.
Have anyone ever lived near a place being used for a meth lab? Does anyone realize the danger of being poisoned by being within the proximity of the vapors that come from those labs? Has anyone been near the proximity of a meth lab when it explodes?
As far as I'm concerned it IS a "chemical weapon".. so throw the key away. Those SOBs know how dangerous that crap is, yet still risk themselves and anyone else around to make a fast buck off of someone's misery.
There are a lot of hacked Windows machines out there sending out viruses that the owners don't even realize are hacked.
When are people with Windows machines on broadband going to do their homework and STOP CLICKING ON EVERY ATTACHMENT SENT BY STRANGERS? (Geez.. didn't their parents tell them not to talk to strangers when they were kids?)
Is it my imagination or are these cellphone beginning to resemble more like laptops for each generation of phone?
Interesting on how throughout the article Nokia is likened to Microsoft: Nokia seems to assume that everyone wants to leave their phone on Bluetooth "discoverable" mode at all times - but frankly, given the fact that the protocol is completely insecure, we'd really rather not, and it would be nice to have an LED to show us what the status is at any given time.
Windows is more stable? Really? Wasn't it just the other day that ANOTHER security hole was found in the Windows OS?:->
But seriously though, with the competition, we the public is the winner since these companies need to struggle to offer the best bang for the buck. (This is of course that ATI and Nvidia continue to hate each other.:-))
Lets see, we have graphics, sound, and to a point touch, all we need on our PCs is something to simulate smell. (Gotta have that gunpowdery smell after you show the wrong end of your boomstick to your buddy playing Doom 3.:-))
Speaking about ad-ware. Anyone remember the big stink Award/Pheonix brought about when they attempted to install a spy.. I mean.. ad-ware program hardwired into the BIOSes?
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I think people should be able to sue with this blatant violation of the RFCs. (Also how Verisign happily signs up spammer domains filled with false registration info.)
As for SPEWS. It is still there, but under a constant DDOS. (Probably from a bunch of spammer recently spanked.) But access is really spotty. You may want to try to use the SpamCop BL as an alternative until SPEWS is backonline reliably.
I hope this Pentium 4 Extreme isn't anything like GI Joe Extreme. What a bad piece of animation that was.
Just give me a stable processor that won't explode if it overheats.
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Darl,
Uhhh.. SGI is knocking at our door.
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Can you take care of it? I am getting a new toupe to match the color of my Mercedes. And I'm expecting my shipment of Enlargo to be in by Thursday too.
-Darl
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Many artists painted the record industry as a bloated, overstuffed giant with too many mouths to feed and too many middlemen to pay, selling an overpriced, often mediocre product.
Gee, ya think??
The RIAA did not initiate these lawsuits to defend artists' rights, the musicians say, but to protect corporate profits.
Considering the RIAA is NOT made up of any of the musicians but CEOs and lawyers who can't stop putting their hand in the cookie jar. (Then whine when the cookies are gone. RIAA: "WHAA! These eville internet kidz stole our cookies! WHAA!".)
Most acts maintain Web sites, and virtually every one features some free downloads. Country Joe McDonald said he posts more than 50 tracks available for free downloads on his site, countryjoe.com.
Now this is an excellent idea. This is what all the artists should be doing to get people interested in their music. And it allows the artists to make contact directly with the fans and bypass all those shady promoters and middlemen. (Are you hearing this RIAA!?! Either you change your business model or go the way of the dinosaur. Actually, don't change, I'd rather see the big record companies just fade away.)
S Korea and Japan lead with between 60 and 70% of S Korean households wired for speed, with Japan catching up quickly.
With about 80-90% of these households running open proxies to be hijacked by spammers. That is not really something to be proud of. (Ask any ISP who resorted to using korea.blackholes.us.)
but it is disappointing that the availability and price are in such sorry states here in the U.S."
Price is more of a setback than anything else.
You mean "encraption".
Sounds way too much like "spammer speach" to me.
We don't need to give any legitimacy to ebonics. Either spell it right or go here.
No large buildings to mount these things on?
Now that would be the ultimate way for the RIAA to self-destruct.. sue themselves for violating their own rules they hold so dear and wank off to after suing 12-year-olds. :-)
Of course the RIAA is going to eventually run itself into the ground because they are blowing money left and right. It is quite a sure bet M$ will watch this one closely before they go and try to copyright/patent the binary number system again.
SCO: "Well, this sort of looks like our code.. Well, *technically* it's from SGI.. but 'SGI' is almost spelled like 'SCO' so we can call it ours by (open) proxy."
This means we could send out Greenpeace to shovel all that dirty ion/x-ray radiation back into that dirty neutron star. :-)
RIAA: "They must be hiding more songs in those VoIP packets. We must intercept and sue! Quick! To the batcave!"
:-))
But seriously, I remember using MS netmeeting several years ago when my fiancee was stuck at UC Davis. Even with the crummy sound quality, it was still nice not having to pay the 5 cents per minute that the long distance carriers charged. It is great to see that there is still ongoing interest and work with further development into VoIP. (Guess that is why ATT has the flatrate for their long distance service now, eh?
Yup.. which one can make the mistake into thinking that the phone went dead if neither side makes any sound. :-)
As for the cellphone towers. Usually those things are placed some distance from the population. (i.e. top of a large hill, mountain areas, etc.)
I think you should be more worried about braindraining that comes from the crap music the RIAA tries to push on to the kids.
Any more blinky lights and our computers will regress back to... this. :-)
Yeah I know this was rated a troll.. but I'll manage something intelligible.
Don't think that the prices are high because of the fileswapping. These high prices was artifically set YEARS before the Internet became commercial. This fileswapping only caught their "attention" less than a few years ago.
The record labels, not satisfied with infuriating a younger generation with high prices and legal threats, is now enraging clueless middle-aged parents forced to pay $3,000 to $15,000 settlements over individual downloading lawsuits. Record companies pursued an act of Congress for the right to invade the privacy of Internet companies and customers in search of burners' personal information. For good measure, the labels forced a New York 12-year-old to pay a $2,000 fine, taking customer relations to a new level.
Suing 12-year-olds. Brilliant.. just brilliant, RIAA. What's next? Attempt at suing people who download public domain music? Or how about people who download MIDI files too? Let's go for the gusto.. JPGs! I wonder how much more alienation must go on until the record companies realize their ailment is terminal?
Most of all, spend less on lawyers and more on creative thinkers. You can't subpoena success.
They can't since the RIAA appears to be made up of mostly lawyers. (Probably why all the music we see out there is junk anyways.)
I'm not much for the Patriot Act due to the invasiveness with regards to privacy. But at the same time, I have no sympathy for drug makers like that of methamphetamines. Have anyone ever lived near a place being used for a meth lab? Does anyone realize the danger of being poisoned by being within the proximity of the vapors that come from those labs? Has anyone been near the proximity of a meth lab when it explodes?
As far as I'm concerned it IS a "chemical weapon".. so throw the key away. Those SOBs know how dangerous that crap is, yet still risk themselves and anyone else around to make a fast buck off of someone's misery.
There are a lot of hacked Windows machines out there sending out viruses that the owners don't even realize are hacked.
When are people with Windows machines on broadband going to do their homework and STOP CLICKING ON EVERY ATTACHMENT SENT BY STRANGERS? (Geez.. didn't their parents tell them not to talk to strangers when they were kids?)
Is it my imagination or are these cellphone beginning to resemble more like laptops for each generation of phone?
:-)
Interesting on how throughout the article Nokia is likened to Microsoft:
Nokia seems to assume that everyone wants to leave their phone on Bluetooth "discoverable" mode at all times - but frankly, given the fact that the protocol is completely insecure, we'd really rather not, and it would be nice to have an LED to show us what the status is at any given time.
"Insecure." 'nuff said.
Windows is more stable? Really? Wasn't it just the other day that ANOTHER security hole was found in the Windows OS? :->
:-))
:-))
But seriously though, with the competition, we the public is the winner since these companies need to struggle to offer the best bang for the buck. (This is of course that ATI and Nvidia continue to hate each other.
Lets see, we have graphics, sound, and to a point touch, all we need on our PCs is something to simulate smell. (Gotta have that gunpowdery smell after you show the wrong end of your boomstick to your buddy playing Doom 3.
Won't be long until it is fashionable to be Borg.
"Yes and here we have J-Lo sporting her Eau Du Borg and watch as she assimilates Ben Afflec's wallet! Ooooo! Ahhhh!"
Don't be fooled this amnesty == trap by all accords.
The EFF is correct with its warning. You admit to your crime and it may (likely) be held against you at anytime.
Speaking about ad-ware. Anyone remember the big stink Award/Pheonix brought about when they attempted to install a spy.. I mean.. ad-ware program hardwired into the BIOSes?