Well, you aren't going to be able to grab hundreds of thousands of dollars in bitcoin in the trunk of a car on its way out of the country. That's one of their favorite tactics -- claim it's drug money and you get to keep the cash.
FTFY.
If a drug sniffing dog finds a roach under the carpet in the back of your car where an assembly line worker tossed it so he didn't get caught by his supervisor, they can and will confiscate your car and sell it at auction. You still have to keep up the payments on it, though. Good ol' 'zero tolerance', funding the police since the 90's...
You actually believe that if a third party achieved a significant voice in government, that they wouldn't sell out to corporations just as the two main parties have?
No need to buy them out when you can just do the Beria routine on them and frame them for kiddie porn & child molesting. Scratch Yet Another 3rd Party Politician. Rinse and repeat as necessary, provided the election boards just don't bother to disallow the candidates on the ballot and toss any writeins for them on the grounds that they're not a 'legal candidate'. Remember, most of the election board members are either Republicans or Democrats, very few 3rd Partyers onboard.
My guess is the DDOS was to prevent users from updating their details while **RIA via some (government) agency went about shutting the site down.
Email addresses could identify users. Demonoid does keep a history of upload & download stats, but I'm not sure if they maintain a list of torrents downloaded.
yikes, I hope not. I can't remember which (if any) email address I used to register.
Good thing I never registered for an account there, eh? But I did search for a torrent within the last 2 years...
OPENSTEP wasn't 'openned up' til '94. Before then, it was actually commercial software. NeXTStep wasn't available for anything other than a NeXT.
I do remember AfterStep, which wasn't too awful bad in the 1.x versions, but the new version? It evolved away from something I liked, and I never bothered to learn how to configure it 'right'.
But that's not as much fun, nor does it appeal to the 'cowboy' mentality it seems a lot of Feds have been cultivating lately. And the collateral damage? Shouldn'tve put your data on a server those eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil terrorrorrorrist pyrates could use! Now go file the appropriate papwerwork, along with the appropriate fees, and maybe, if you're good kids and eat all your vegetables, they MIGHT let you see your (totally legal) data sometime before the Second Coming of Elvis.
It's my understanding that the general public is okay with this, since they haven't stormed the castle and killed the royalty.
So you're advocating that the only way for the laws to better reflect the "people" as opposed to corporations is for a civil uprising resulting in murder of the "ruling" class?
You need to start someplace.
Why not start with the lawyers? And their computers too?
Actually from what I hear the DMCA requires immediate carrier response. If they tell the carrier your content is infringing, then your carrier MUST shut it down; it's not their call, legally they must remove the content on claim. Then you can come back and say bullshit, and your carrier can re-instate it, and then it's your legal battle--there's no edit war here, you're now responsible for the content and the carrier by statute is able to legally accept your claim as primary until the court decides who has controlling interest.
Which is nothing more than the provisions the *AA wrote into it to cover their own asses and protect themselves if something misfired. The 'Safe Harbor' portion was designed to not knock out another corporation on the theory that the 'rights holder' may wanna do business with them someday, so absolve them of everything if they play ball, and once they do, you know you can trust them to deal 'fairly' with you in the future at the expense of their own customerrs.
Due to CLAIMED copyright infringement. That's no different then when you get arrested by the police for a CLAIMED act of murder. You are still presumed innocent by the jury and the judge when you go to trial.
Except the cops won't arrest you for a 'claimed act of murder' unless there were:
1. a real provable murder. 2. evidence that you committed said provable murder sufficient to get a grand jury to hand down an indictment. 3. sufficient evidence that would lead a prosecutor to believe they would win a conviction based on said evidence.
There is no 'Round up the usual suspects!' hue and cry raised every time a body hits the pavement. That's not how the system works here in the US. The automated 'system' in place at Youtube is flakey and generates false positives. This is one. But at the end of the day, I love the fact that a government entity got bit in the ass by it in favor of a corporation. Too bad it was NASA.
CDE came out during the computer Stone Age. At that time, CDE was cutting edge, blowing away Windows 3.1 (yeah, it goes that far back!!) as a GUI. This was the 90's, guys. The 'decent' GUI for Linux at the time was FVWM/FVWM2. Compare screenshots of the two, and you'll know why I was envious as hell of the 'commercial *nixes' at the time. XFCE came out as a CDE lookalike/workalike. And today it looks nothing like it used to Back In The Day. Motif? Uglier than my ex-wife, but back then, it was THE widget set, nobody else had come out with anything remotely like it.
Today we have all kinda stuff we can drop in. More widget sets than ticks on a dog, 90 zillion different window managers/desktop environments. Even Windows doesn't look the same. This is a piece of computer history on the level of the old Xerox PARC GUI that mutated into MacOS and Windows. The 'genetics' are there for you to see, warts and all, in its pristine prehistoricalness.
Anyone else here old enough to remember the panic when an urban legend spread that McDonalds was using ground earthworms in their burgers?
And I remember hearing something about a McDonald's spokesmutant reputedly recording something on the order of "Now why would we had earthworms at $7.50 a pound to 85 cent a pound ground round to save money????'
We're not vegetarians, but we used to be. But meat still isn't high on our radar except for the occasional fish or chicken. Sometimes beef from good quality small farms. We eat meat about 1-3 times in a given month. One doesn't have to go completely vegetarian, but cutting down on meat is a good idea I think.
No, we're omnivores. We evolved to eat whatever we could find. Way the hell back before the Stone Age, there were no domesticated grains you could use to make a balanced vegetarian diet. It just wasn't happening. Meat was the only source of concentrated proteins. It was only after we developed agriculture that we domesticated and bred plants for higher protein content. You still have to do some research though to balance your diet if you go vegetarian.
Thing is, I doubt there'll be a big market for Steam without doing their own distro.
Here's the thing. Right now, just about every distro is free to download and install. No 'keys' and such you gotta enter. For somebody who's used to getting their software for free, why would they pay for a game, especially one that kinda sorta runs more or less ok, but crashes and burns with disturbing regularity? Let's face it, driver support in Linux is ok for things like word processing, surfing the web, and playing media files. Outrageous frame rates so you get that genuine 'blood in the face' experience? Not happening.
By doing their own distro, Steam gets muscle to twist arms at the hardware shops and instant respectability to help develop the drivers needed for high frame rate games. Patch Wine? Wine pretty much sucks. I've got an app here at the house I need for work, and Wine doesn't cut it. I run it in VirtualBox under XP. It's slow, and kludgy, but it works and doesn't crash. Weird thing is, it's a Java app, and reputedly some people got it running with Ubuntu. I've been waiting to find out the trick for a couple months now, still no response on their support board. It's not a well-known app, either..
Yeah, right. Marketting research tells you who wants to buy your stuff. If they haddn't bothered with it, Apple would have died back when they finished burning their original funding on beer, weed, and pizza in Steve's garage.
But the big thing was I taught myself to program. First BASIC, then when it proved too slow Z-80 assembler.
This was also my experience. I saw the display model at the local Radio Shack and was fascinated. The owner let me take the programming manual home overnight. It was extremely well written. The next day when I brought it back, I could program in BASIC. I was breaking into the program and modifying it, and I was definitely hooked. I got a loan and bought one that day.
The first 'pc' I worked on (hardware-wise) was a Model 1. I did the upgrade to 48K for a buddy of mine and installed a 3rd party lowercase mod. That was back in the day when I could still solder for shit. Haven't picked up an iron in almost a decade.
First 'pc' I owned was a CoCo 1. 16K RAM (until I got it home and voided the warrantee), the old Microsoft ROM BASIC. I learned Basic on it, then 6809 machine code. I got a 64K CoCo2, ran a COBBS board on it for about 6 months, a high speed board at 1200 baud! It taught me how to patch the Basic ROMs in RAM so you could do more with the system. Then, I got into OS9, going all the way up to a 256K CoCo3 before getting into an IBM.
Nickel fetish, I think. Anyways, we have to use a card that we load up with cash at the box by the office. Keeps the locals from breaking i It takes 5s, 10s & 20s. No ones. It costs 5 bucks for the card. I've gone through 3 of them in the 2 1/2 years I've lived in this apartment.
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Actually, the human race goes on to something better. We just can't get there from here.
FTFY.
If a drug sniffing dog finds a roach under the carpet in the back of your car where an assembly line worker tossed it so he didn't get caught by his supervisor, they can and will confiscate your car and sell it at auction. You still have to keep up the payments on it, though. Good ol' 'zero tolerance', funding the police since the 90's...
Have to ban half the reality tv shows on, too. So much for '16 And Pregnant', 'Jersey Shore', 'Real Housewives', etc.
Mebbe that'd be a good thing...
Been tried. It didn't work so well except as a way of employing a bunch of feds by making 'organised crime' flourish.
Love to see some stats on that. Those I can remember say there was no change, but that could just be spin or bad memory...
Now if we can just genetically modify the fish to impart a slight bacon taste...
Hell, if voting could change anything anymore, they'd make it illegal. You do realise how many layers are between you and the Powers That Wanna Be?
BTJunkie folded earlier this year, damn it.
You actually believe that if a third party achieved a significant voice in government, that they wouldn't sell out to corporations just as the two main parties have?
No need to buy them out when you can just do the Beria routine on them and frame them for kiddie porn & child molesting. Scratch Yet Another 3rd Party Politician. Rinse and repeat as necessary, provided the election boards just don't bother to disallow the candidates on the ballot and toss any writeins for them on the grounds that they're not a 'legal candidate'. Remember, most of the election board members are either Republicans or Democrats, very few 3rd Partyers onboard.
My guess is the DDOS was to prevent users from updating their details while **RIA via some (government) agency went about shutting the site down.
Email addresses could identify users. Demonoid does keep a history of upload & download stats, but I'm not sure if they maintain a list of torrents downloaded.
yikes, I hope not. I can't remember which (if any) email address I used to register.
Good thing I never registered for an account there, eh? But I did search for a torrent within the last 2 years...
Cue jackboots in 3... 2... 1...
OPENSTEP wasn't 'openned up' til '94. Before then, it was actually commercial software. NeXTStep wasn't available for anything other than a NeXT.
I do remember AfterStep, which wasn't too awful bad in the 1.x versions, but the new version? It evolved away from something I liked, and I never bothered to learn how to configure it 'right'.
But that's not as much fun, nor does it appeal to the 'cowboy' mentality it seems a lot of Feds have been cultivating lately. And the collateral damage? Shouldn'tve put your data on a server those eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil terrorrorrorrist pyrates could use! Now go file the appropriate papwerwork, along with the appropriate fees, and maybe, if you're good kids and eat all your vegetables, they MIGHT let you see your (totally legal) data sometime before the Second Coming of Elvis.
Not even close. 'Safe Harbor' means 'do what they tell you and you can't be sued for it', not even by the guy whose video got taken down illegally.
Why not start with the lawyers? And their computers too?
Actually from what I hear the DMCA requires immediate carrier response. If they tell the carrier your content is infringing, then your carrier MUST shut it down; it's not their call, legally they must remove the content on claim. Then you can come back and say bullshit, and your carrier can re-instate it, and then it's your legal battle--there's no edit war here, you're now responsible for the content and the carrier by statute is able to legally accept your claim as primary until the court decides who has controlling interest.
Which is nothing more than the provisions the *AA wrote into it to cover their own asses and protect themselves if something misfired. The 'Safe Harbor' portion was designed to not knock out another corporation on the theory that the 'rights holder' may wanna do business with them someday, so absolve them of everything if they play ball, and once they do, you know you can trust them to deal 'fairly' with you in the future at the expense of their own customerrs.
Due to CLAIMED copyright infringement. That's no different then when you get arrested by the police for a CLAIMED act of murder. You are still presumed innocent by the jury and the judge when you go to trial.
Except the cops won't arrest you for a 'claimed act of murder' unless there were:
1. a real provable murder.
2. evidence that you committed said provable murder sufficient to get a grand jury to hand down an indictment.
3. sufficient evidence that would lead a prosecutor to believe they would win a conviction based on said evidence.
There is no 'Round up the usual suspects!' hue and cry raised every time a body hits the pavement. That's not how the system works here in the US. The automated 'system' in place at Youtube is flakey and generates false positives. This is one. But at the end of the day, I love the fact that a government entity got bit in the ass by it in favor of a corporation. Too bad it was NASA.
Keep in mind a couple quick things.
CDE came out during the computer Stone Age. At that time, CDE was cutting edge, blowing away Windows 3.1 (yeah, it goes that far back!!) as a GUI. This was the 90's, guys. The 'decent' GUI for Linux at the time was FVWM/FVWM2. Compare screenshots of the two, and you'll know why I was envious as hell of the 'commercial *nixes' at the time. XFCE came out as a CDE lookalike/workalike. And today it looks nothing like it used to Back In The Day. Motif? Uglier than my ex-wife, but back then, it was THE widget set, nobody else had come out with anything remotely like it.
Today we have all kinda stuff we can drop in. More widget sets than ticks on a dog, 90 zillion different window managers/desktop environments. Even Windows doesn't look the same. This is a piece of computer history on the level of the old Xerox PARC GUI that mutated into MacOS and Windows. The 'genetics' are there for you to see, warts and all, in its pristine prehistoricalness.
Anyone else here old enough to remember the panic when an urban legend spread that McDonalds was using ground earthworms in their burgers?
And I remember hearing something about a McDonald's spokesmutant reputedly recording something on the order of "Now why would we had earthworms at $7.50 a pound to 85 cent a pound ground round to save money????'
I'll take the Over for $200, Alex...
We're not vegetarians, but we used to be. But meat still isn't high on our radar except for the occasional fish or chicken. Sometimes beef from good quality small farms. We eat meat about 1-3 times in a given month. One doesn't have to go completely vegetarian, but cutting down on meat is a good idea I think.
No, we're omnivores. We evolved to eat whatever we could find. Way the hell back before the Stone Age, there were no domesticated grains you could use to make a balanced vegetarian diet. It just wasn't happening. Meat was the only source of concentrated proteins. It was only after we developed agriculture that we domesticated and bred plants for higher protein content. You still have to do some research though to balance your diet if you go vegetarian.
Thing is, I doubt there'll be a big market for Steam without doing their own distro.
Here's the thing. Right now, just about every distro is free to download and install. No 'keys' and such you gotta enter. For somebody who's used to getting their software for free, why would they pay for a game, especially one that kinda sorta runs more or less ok, but crashes and burns with disturbing regularity? Let's face it, driver support in Linux is ok for things like word processing, surfing the web, and playing media files. Outrageous frame rates so you get that genuine 'blood in the face' experience? Not happening.
By doing their own distro, Steam gets muscle to twist arms at the hardware shops and instant respectability to help develop the drivers needed for high frame rate games. Patch Wine? Wine pretty much sucks. I've got an app here at the house I need for work, and Wine doesn't cut it. I run it in VirtualBox under XP. It's slow, and kludgy, but it works and doesn't crash. Weird thing is, it's a Java app, and reputedly some people got it running with Ubuntu. I've been waiting to find out the trick for a couple months now, still no response on their support board. It's not a well-known app, either..
Yeah, right. Marketting research tells you who wants to buy your stuff. If they haddn't bothered with it, Apple would have died back when they finished burning their original funding on beer, weed, and pizza in Steve's garage.
Oh God yes!! True geek porn in every issue. I miss that magazine.
But the big thing was I taught myself to program. First BASIC, then when it proved too slow Z-80 assembler.
This was also my experience. I saw the display model at the local Radio Shack and was fascinated. The owner let me take the programming manual home overnight. It was extremely well written. The next day when I brought it back, I could program in BASIC. I was breaking into the program and modifying it, and I was definitely hooked. I got a loan and bought one that day.
The first 'pc' I worked on (hardware-wise) was a Model 1. I did the upgrade to 48K for a buddy of mine and installed a 3rd party lowercase mod. That was back in the day when I could still solder for shit. Haven't picked up an iron in almost a decade.
First 'pc' I owned was a CoCo 1. 16K RAM (until I got it home and voided the warrantee), the old Microsoft ROM BASIC. I learned Basic on it, then 6809 machine code. I got a 64K CoCo2, ran a COBBS board on it for about 6 months, a high speed board at 1200 baud! It taught me how to patch the Basic ROMs in RAM so you could do more with the system. Then, I got into OS9, going all the way up to a 256K CoCo3 before getting into an IBM.
Fun times.
Nickel fetish, I think. Anyways, we have to use a card that we load up with cash at the box by the office. Keeps the locals from breaking i It takes 5s, 10s & 20s. No ones. It costs 5 bucks for the card. I've gone through 3 of them in the 2 1/2 years I've lived in this apartment.