I'm calling bullshit on this for one simple reason: Microsoft has such insanely inept (or evil) "anti-piracy" people, that they don't know what is or is not pirate. I once called M$ to ask why the microsoft.com web page (at that time) said that XP home supported remote desktops, but my recently purchased copy did not. After they insisted that it did for more than 20 minutes, the chick on the other end of the phone lost it and started screaming that I was a software pirate. She phoned my employer, my school, and my parents among others.
Another time, I had a legitimate copy of Windows 98, that I had purchased and been unable to return after finding that my PC came with an OEM copy (it was still shrink wrapped.) I listed it on eBay. My auction was closed under eBay's organized criminal activity (they call it VERO.) I asked why, and M$ said that any copy of any M$ software listed with an OPENING bid below the retail price had to be pirate. They said the secret service would be arresting me shortly. After I sent a demand letter, they said I could send them the copy and they would determine if it was pirate. I documented the hell out of it, and sent it to them. They eventually said that it was legit, worth more than $100, and that they had destroyed it because it was not feasible for them to return every legit copy they evaluate. You see, M$ claims that some of their products are pirate so they can stop resale, and thereby drive up the price. They also use this tactic to shut down bargain resellers to fix the price. M$ bribed the judge, and my case for slander, extortion, and price fixing never went to trial.
I have been thrown out of several job interviews after I was asked what software I run on my home computer. I run Linux, which I do not pay for. According to one bimbo who worked for IBM in 1998, "Anyone who does not pay for their operating system is a pirate, and should be dealt with."
Let's face it, piracy is a cry that is used to extort customers of the BSA / MPAA / RIAA into doing anything the companies say. If you use commercial software, you are a fool. If you pay for commercial software, you are committing racketeering, and should be "dealt with".
M$ ripped off code, and included it in Win 95. That's the only plausible reason that they would refuse to release the source. In today's litigous society, a few hundred cases of stealing code would lead to lawsuits that would bankrupt M$.
Andy Out!
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Wikipedia is a duplicate of what the wiki community believes the world is. If 10% of people are convinced that Elvis faked his death (or whatever) then 10% of the time, that will be on Wikipedia.
For example, I edited the articles for the RIAA, MPAA, and BSA to state that they were "organized crime families, that...da da da" That stayed in place for over a year before some evil, black-heareted editor removed the truth that the wiki community had agreed on.
The morons who think they know everything will claim that wikipedia should only be edited to show the "truth" as they know it. These are the same people who would deny that any media ever gets any story wrong. I'm certain that half of everything I know is wrong, so I'm always intersted in another point of view.
If you do not understand the EULA, or you do not understand FERPA, do not buy software for a school. You are comitting a felony under FERPA. Ther are specific requirements for student privacy, which are violated by M$' license agreements, which state that they may tap into and watch any user's PC at any time, and that they may seek out any data stored on that computer.
IIRC, the only part of the ruling that M$ refused to abide by was the release of the Win 95 source code. That proves that they have something worth $2,510,000.00 per day to hide. Given the current state if IP law, pirated code in Win 95 could easily be worth 10 times that amount.
You tell me - what else could M$ be hiding? Why else would they be funding SCO to fraudulently claim that the Linux Kernel contains SCO's code?
This is a pack of lies! Clinical trials have gone on with embryonic stem cells for years, and they all have 1 thing in common: the patients get cancer from the enbryonic stem cells.
Every patient in this study is being sentenced to death.
Andy Out!
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I used to support TW's independance, but after reading this, I no longer support them. The deaths of a few million in slave labor camps is a small price to pay to stop SPAM.
M$ is still illegally funding SCO's rediculous siuts against anyone running Linux. There will be a truce 10 years to the day after the last M$ employee who illegally funded SCO dies in a pison shower. That includes Bill himself.
First, understand that the goal here was not to stomp out piracy, it was to (1) supress new technologies, and (2) provide a cover for frivolous lawsuits against independant artists.
So the final solution to the RIAA / MPAA / BSA is to execute everyone who ever worked for the RIAA / MPAA / BSA, or one of their member companies.
Don't be fooled by the BS claims that this will cure diseases. Nobody has ever received an infusion on embryonic stem cells and then been free of cancer 18 months later. Embryonic stem cells are a death sentence.
All those "miracle cures" come from adult stem cells.
Unforutnately, there are so many leftist stem-cell-fundamentalists who refuse to see the truth, that we will never get down to the research that can save lives.
I'm sure I'm not the only person ever to have a PC so scrwed up that reinstalling XP home didn't fix it. Is pent over a year using my Linux box, before buying the ($200) copy of XP Pro, which installed and still did not fix it.
I can not afford to loose everything on it (not even the installs of programs that I have lost the discs to) so I mostly access it over a samba share, and occasionally switch the KVM over to it.
Result for MS: They got $200, and I've switched dozens of sections of "intro to computers with applications" that I teach to Knoppix Linux. Hundreds of students now use Knoppix every day instead of MS Windows.
They would do better to do the following:
The already licese that copy of MS Windows (or other s/w) to one processor. Why not allow me to download a new version of windows update that allows my pc to (1) verify what I paid for (even giving me the date of purchase, the amount, etc.) (2) scan every file for alterations, even using a bootable live CD that can get around any root kits (this disc would be $10 shipped, and would work with all versions of Windows, as it's only a bootstrap to get you on the web so you can run everything online) (3) purchase any updates I need, a piece at a time. Let my buy NAT routing for $15, instead of holding out for me to spend $200 on XP Pro. (4) remember my purchases, so that I can drop in that ubiquitous bootable CD any time, get online, and reinstall everything just as long as my processors serial number matches their records.
I know people are hesitant to allow MS to see who they are, but have you read the license agreement? They can eaves drop on everyhting you do, turn off you system if they want, and even delete all your files. They can commit fraud, theft, exthortion, and / or racketeering and you can not sue them. ( IT'S IN THE FUCKIN EULA!!! )
This would acutally help consmers. They would want to chagne the EULA to allow a license to be sold with the processor (not too bad) and to eliminate the absurd "5 component" rule.
If you want to promote science and technology, give us EASY access to it.
Grab a live-CD image that's for engineering applications, with CAD, CAM, and PCB software on it, and add on the blueprints that NASA has from decades of space travel. I'd live to see teh blueprints from the Appollo program. There should be clear explanations of what every file is.
This "release" is irrelevant. If you think that a plane hit the Pentagon, you'll believe it. If you don't think a plane hit the Pentagon, then you know they had plenty of time to fake a tape.
If they had released it quickly, I might have bothered to watch it.
So, someone in Congress realized that Congress is afraid of anything new, and decided that they can sneak through a bill that blocks anyone from posting anything on the Internet, in the name of protecting the CHILDREN from evil, new, high-tech web sites.
1. Declare the US Govt to no longer be a legitimate government. They are a criminal organization. They have no authoruity to rule.
2. Demand impeachemnt, trial in the Sennate, conviction, Removal from office, indictment in criminal court, trial, conviction, sentencing, & execution.
3. Train myself for civil war...it's been while since I did live-fire CQB drills. Guess what I'm doing the week after finals?
4. Swich from SBC/AT&T to Quest, or just cancel my local phone service.
5. Spend this summer building WMDs to take out federal buildings.
I send DVD-Rs with Knoppix Linux on them to public schools. I will not be able to use Fed Ed.
This is the equivalent of an organized crime family that sells magazines bribing the US Mail to confiscate their competitors magazines from the Mail.
I am sending a certified mail letter to Fed Ex explaining why neither I, nor the university I teach at will EVER use Fed Ex to send our research results again.
It's more and more clear that Fed Ex wants to stop all university research, and all FOSS.
> This happens just like this when someone, usually from within the company, notifies > Microsoft they thing software piracy is occuring. SOftware piracy is illegal. PERIOD.
Bullshit. This is what happens when MS wants to extort money from innocent people. What's worse, MS has the money to bribe the politicians so that peaceful change is impossible. Check what JFK said is inevitable when peaceful change is impossible.
This happens with risky closed-source, proprietary software. If you are 100% open source, you can tell them to fuck off. If they still come after you, shoot up their next shareholders' meeting.
My first response was: THANK FUCKING GOD!!! (that got me into a bit of trouble in the university's copmuter lab, but at least my students can't fail me.
My second response was that, like WalMart's Wikipedia page, this will be taken over by the evil masses of paid-for goons.
We solved this problem by requiring in our project-based classes every team present a series of large reports. Half the classes are project-based, so this is a lot of writing. It's relevant to the material, so it's not as bad as a english class.
For example, before a student builds an international mrotgage and real estate web site, (s)he must write a requirements document that is actually readable.
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I don't know that this is relevant, but it seems funny.
According to L. Neil Smith's "Forge of the Elders" the last capital crime on the Elder's world was for a politician to misuse the word "emergency."
Andy Out!
I'm calling bullshit on this for one simple reason: Microsoft has such insanely inept (or evil) "anti-piracy" people, that they don't know what is or is not pirate. I once called M$ to ask why the microsoft.com web page (at that time) said that XP home supported remote desktops, but my recently purchased copy did not. After they insisted that it did for more than 20 minutes, the chick on the other end of the phone lost it and started screaming that I was a software pirate. She phoned my employer, my school, and my parents among others.
Another time, I had a legitimate copy of Windows 98, that I had purchased and been unable to return after finding that my PC came with an OEM copy (it was still shrink wrapped.) I listed it on eBay. My auction was closed under eBay's organized criminal activity (they call it VERO.) I asked why, and M$ said that any copy of any M$ software listed with an OPENING bid below the retail price had to be pirate. They said the secret service would be arresting me shortly. After I sent a demand letter, they said I could send them the copy and they would determine if it was pirate. I documented the hell out of it, and sent it to them. They eventually said that it was legit, worth more than $100, and that they had destroyed it because it was not feasible for them to return every legit copy they evaluate. You see, M$ claims that some of their products are pirate so they can stop resale, and thereby drive up the price. They also use this tactic to shut down bargain resellers to fix the price. M$ bribed the judge, and my case for slander, extortion, and price fixing never went to trial.
I have been thrown out of several job interviews after I was asked what software I run on my home computer. I run Linux, which I do not pay for. According to one bimbo who worked for IBM in 1998, "Anyone who does not pay for their operating system is a pirate, and should be dealt with."
Let's face it, piracy is a cry that is used to extort customers of the BSA / MPAA / RIAA into doing anything the companies say. If you use commercial software, you are a fool. If you pay for commercial software, you are committing racketeering, and should be "dealt with".
Sic Semper Gates!
Andy Out!
M$ ripped off code, and included it in Win 95. That's the only plausible reason that they would refuse to release the source. In today's litigous society, a few hundred cases of stealing code would lead to lawsuits that would bankrupt M$.
Andy Out!
Wikipedia is a duplicate of what the wiki community believes the world is. If 10% of people are convinced that Elvis faked his death (or whatever) then 10% of the time, that will be on Wikipedia.
For example, I edited the articles for the RIAA, MPAA, and BSA to state that they were "organized crime families, that...da da da" That stayed in place for over a year before some evil, black-heareted editor removed the truth that the wiki community had agreed on.
The morons who think they know everything will claim that wikipedia should only be edited to show the "truth" as they know it. These are the same people who would deny that any media ever gets any story wrong. I'm certain that half of everything I know is wrong, so I'm always intersted in another point of view.
Andy Out!
If you do not understand the EULA, or you do not understand FERPA, do not buy software for a school. You are comitting a felony under FERPA. Ther are specific requirements for student privacy, which are violated by M$' license agreements, which state that they may tap into and watch any user's PC at any time, and that they may seek out any data stored on that computer.
Andy Out!
IIRC, the only part of the ruling that M$ refused to abide by was the release of the Win 95 source code. That proves that they have something worth $2,510,000.00 per day to hide. Given the current state if IP law, pirated code in Win 95 could easily be worth 10 times that amount.
You tell me - what else could M$ be hiding? Why else would they be funding SCO to fraudulently claim that the Linux Kernel contains SCO's code?
Andy Out!
Every human ever treated with embryonic stem cells developed terminal cancer in a few months. We'll see how long until these rodents die of cancer.
Andy Out!
This is a pack of lies! Clinical trials have gone on with embryonic stem cells for years, and they all have 1 thing in common: the patients get cancer from the enbryonic stem cells.
Every patient in this study is being sentenced to death.
Andy Out!
I used to support TW's independance, but after reading this, I no longer support them. The deaths of a few million in slave labor camps is a small price to pay to stop SPAM.
Andy Out!
M$ is still illegally funding SCO's rediculous siuts against anyone running Linux. There will be a truce 10 years to the day after the last M$ employee who illegally funded SCO dies in a pison shower. That includes Bill himself.
Andy Out!
So, the RIAA is saying that they have successfully crushed independant artists everywhere, with frivolous lawsuits?
That's all this was about...crushing indy artists, and stopping new technology so they keep their monopoly.
It's time for another Tim Mcveigh.
Andy Out!
First, understand that the goal here was not to stomp out piracy, it was to (1) supress new technologies, and (2) provide a cover for frivolous lawsuits against independant artists.
So the final solution to the RIAA / MPAA / BSA is to execute everyone who ever worked for the RIAA / MPAA / BSA, or one of their member companies.
Lock & Load!
Andy Out!
Don't be fooled by the BS claims that this will cure diseases. Nobody has ever received an infusion on embryonic stem cells and then been free of cancer 18 months later. Embryonic stem cells are a death sentence.
All those "miracle cures" come from adult stem cells.
Unforutnately, there are so many leftist stem-cell-fundamentalists who refuse to see the truth, that we will never get down to the research that can save lives.
Andy Out!
Nothing is going to change until we shoot the bastards.
Do you own a militarily useful firearm?
Can you employ it to help ambush a govt convoy?
If not, get your ass in gear. The clock is running.
Andy Out!
I'm sure I'm not the only person ever to have a PC so scrwed up that reinstalling XP home didn't fix it. Is pent over a year using my Linux box, before buying the ($200) copy of XP Pro, which installed and still did not fix it.
I can not afford to loose everything on it (not even the installs of programs that I have lost the discs to) so I mostly access it over a samba share, and occasionally switch the KVM over to it.
Result for MS: They got $200, and I've switched dozens of sections of "intro to computers with applications" that I teach to Knoppix Linux. Hundreds of students now use Knoppix every day instead of MS Windows.
They would do better to do the following:
The already licese that copy of MS Windows (or other s/w) to one processor. Why not allow me to download a new version of windows update that allows my pc to
(1) verify what I paid for (even giving me the date of purchase, the amount, etc.)
(2) scan every file for alterations, even using a bootable live CD that can get around any root kits (this disc would be $10 shipped, and would work with all versions of Windows, as it's only a bootstrap to get you on the web so you can run everything online)
(3) purchase any updates I need, a piece at a time. Let my buy NAT routing for $15, instead of holding out for me to spend $200 on XP Pro.
(4) remember my purchases, so that I can drop in that ubiquitous bootable CD any time, get online, and reinstall everything just as long as my processors serial number matches their records.
I know people are hesitant to allow MS to see who they are, but have you read the license agreement? They can eaves drop on everyhting you do, turn off you system if they want, and even delete all your files. They can commit fraud, theft, exthortion, and / or racketeering and you can not sue them. ( IT'S IN THE FUCKIN EULA!!! )
This would acutally help consmers. They would want to chagne the EULA to allow a license to be sold with the processor (not too bad) and to eliminate the absurd "5 component" rule.
Andy Out!
If you want to promote science and technology, give us EASY access to it.
Grab a live-CD image that's for engineering applications, with CAD, CAM, and PCB software on it, and add on the blueprints that NASA has from decades of space travel. I'd live to see teh blueprints from the Appollo program. There should be clear explanations of what every file is.
Andy Out!
This "release" is irrelevant. If you think that a plane hit the Pentagon, you'll believe it. If you don't think a plane hit the Pentagon, then you know they had plenty of time to fake a tape.
If they had released it quickly, I might have bothered to watch it.
Andy Out!
So, someone in Congress realized that Congress is afraid of anything new, and decided that they can sneak through a bill that blocks anyone from posting anything on the Internet, in the name of protecting the CHILDREN from evil, new, high-tech web sites.
It's time to shoot the bastards.
Andy Out!
1. Declare the US Govt to no longer be a legitimate government. They are a criminal organization. They have no authoruity to rule.
2. Demand impeachemnt, trial in the Sennate, conviction, Removal from office, indictment in criminal court, trial, conviction, sentencing, & execution.
3. Train myself for civil war...it's been while since I did live-fire CQB drills. Guess what I'm doing the week after finals?
4. Swich from SBC/AT&T to Quest, or just cancel my local phone service.
5. Spend this summer building WMDs to take out federal buildings.
Andy Out!
I send DVD-Rs with Knoppix Linux on them to public schools. I will not be able to use Fed Ed.
This is the equivalent of an organized crime family that sells magazines bribing the US Mail to confiscate their competitors magazines from the Mail.
I am sending a certified mail letter to Fed Ex explaining why neither I, nor the university I teach at will EVER use Fed Ex to send our research results again.
It's more and more clear that Fed Ex wants to stop all university research, and all FOSS.
Andy Out!
> This happens just like this when someone, usually from within the company, notifies
> Microsoft they thing software piracy is occuring. SOftware piracy is illegal. PERIOD.
Bullshit. This is what happens when MS wants to extort money from innocent people. What's worse, MS has the money to bribe the politicians so that peaceful change is impossible. Check what JFK said is inevitable when peaceful change is impossible.
Andy Out!
This happens with risky closed-source, proprietary software. If you are 100% open source, you can tell them to fuck off. If they still come after you, shoot up their next shareholders' meeting.
Andy Out!
My first response was: THANK FUCKING GOD!!! (that got me into a bit of trouble in the university's copmuter lab, but at least my students can't fail me.
My second response was that, like WalMart's Wikipedia page, this will be taken over by the evil masses of paid-for goons.
Andy Out!
We solved this problem by requiring in our project-based classes every team present a series of large reports. Half the classes are project-based, so this is a lot of writing. It's relevant to the material, so it's not as bad as a english class.
For example, before a student builds an international mrotgage and real estate web site, (s)he must write a requirements document that is actually readable.
Andy Out!
>>> Third, because the DMCA only applies when
>>> circumvention is done for the
>>> purpose of copyright violation...
>> BULLSHIT!!! The DMCA makes it a felony (25 year
>> in prison!) for me to play a DVD I bought on Linux.
> You own the DVD. You do not own the copyright on the
> DVD. Therefore CSS is a system for protecting a
> copyright that you do not own.
I suggest you re-read the comments.
I'm looking forward to the day that IP laws generate the Second American Civil War.
Andy Out!