So what you are saying is that the only thing you use a computer for is sending email using MS Office - Outlook?... and that you are a 2 finger typer who's favourite game is freecell?
The GIS mapping applications I serve may process faster with 64 bit, allowing my server to send out web pages sooner to those who request them.
The GIS and CAD software I use will benefit from the greater amount of RAM I'll be able to use, even with the current 2GB limit that any single program can use. Complex calculations that take hours may just get done sooner. I may be able to store terabytes of GIS raster data within a single partition if I choose (once the drives of that size exist).
Not to mention all the proof that 64bit will be a boost to everything, as seen by all the athlon64's out there already using 64bit linux or XP64 beta.
Have you actually seen a BSOD in the last 3 or 4 years?
I haven't. I have not had to do any reinstall of XP, I have not had any significant problems, I have not had a virus, I've had a smooth running computer hosting web pages, running CAD and GIS software, and playing games.
On time? - 64bit processors have been available for what 2 years now? MS was warned long before that they should prepare for the release of 64bit processors, but choose not to act.
Steal the limelight from apple? - yes, lets release it now so that the 5% of computer users that have Apples will somehow miss a minor update to their own OS. Yes, lets all be in awe of the buzz that has only kept a tiny portion of computer users using apples,... computers that would no longer exist if the iPod wasn't propping up the company.
I remember when MS stepped in and saved apple from iminent bankrupcy. It was greeted with a big So What, since it was obviously done because MS needed it to appear like there is some competition for them.
MS is afffected by the improper use of their products. It makes fools like you hate MS even more than there is reason to. Are you really so stupid to not see that as a reason for MS to take action? This is the Civil reason for MS to sue... you know... a Civil suit... where a private company or individual sues people for the damages caused by negligence or criminal activity, whether or not they have been found guilty of criminal activity.
Ford sue car thieves? - Why not? In most areas car theives are released from jail over and over after very little punishment to steal more cars. The authorities do little to help.
Glaxo sue drug addicts? - Why not? the addicts using Glaxo drugs make Glaxo look bad, hurting their reputation and their bottom line, and possibly scaring people away from their drugs who could truly benefit from them.
Do you think the NRA stands idle when people blame guns for the actions of the idiots weilding them?
Yes, I hate the RIAA as much as anyone... but you are fooling no one but yourself if you think downloading mp3's isn't breaking copyrights. Don't like how RIAA handles things? - Then dont buy, don't download and dont listen to the music they protect. There's plenty of good independant music out there that is free to share.
So, the dreaded, hated phishers, who try to steal your money or identity are in fact heroes.
Yes, lets all blame MS for the actions of the phishers. It's no fault of the actual bastards who are doing the crime.
Only on/. can the most hated bastards be considered heroes... taken advantage of by MS who somehow forced them to phish with their software.
analogy time!
Someone break into your house?... must be the fault of the Door manufacturer, not the bastard who broke it open!
Someone steal your car?... must be the fault of the car maker, not the bastard who took it.
Someone rape your grandma?... must be the fault of granny for being made so insecure by old age, not the bastard who attacked her.
Give me a break dumbasses! This one isn't MS's fault. Do you blame the gun maker when some dumbass american shoots his neighbour? Nooo! its the dumbass american mis-using the tool.
you never cared for how you hurt others. It was the threat to yourself that supposedly cleaned you up, not any type of quilt or remorse for the victimization of others.
and you use the damage you caused to make money now when really you should be bending over and taking some fine victimization of your own to feel.
And you really think people consider you to be running a reputable business?
Come on! Prove it!
Start some advertising here!... What's your business name? Who are these suckers... errr clients you pretend to be protecting? Let your record be public for all to see.
No doubt what he didn't tell you is that aside from the notice from his school, he was also downloading every movie he could find and sharing the files with the rest of the world consuming a huge amount of the schools bandwidth.
The problem isn't the tool, its the illegal actions taken using the tool.
The writer is simply trying to deflect his illegal actions by blaming it on bittorrent.
Jerks like you have no conscience. You couldnt care less about the people you victimize.
You stole the $800 to repay the company to keep your ass out of jail, then went on, business as usual victimizing others. No one believes you gave up the taste for easy stolen money. People like you can't leave it alone once you start.
You are a leech and have no legitimate place in society.
The dumbass who lets his info be stolen by a bastard like you, or the dumbass who hires a criminal to protect him?
Since you've cleaned up your life, how many of your 'clients' have had mysterious thefts of their property? huh? Or theft of their customer's information you pretend to be protecting? huh? huh?
Why else would you brag about having access to so much customer info that is locked down to anyone else?
Once a theif, always a theif don't bother trying to atone, unless your next effort to atone includes jumping into traffic. One of your 'clients' will catch you one day, and it will be back to jail for you.
Why do so many people think online transactions are any less secure than any other kind of transaction?
Every time you use a card to order a pizza you are giving your name, card number and expirely date to some kid who may be in some gang for all you know, any time you use a card in a store the clerk could be double swiping it to copy the card info electronically or just copying the receipt information. Remember that time you didnt get your monthly bill? Surprise, some bastard stole your mail and has the card info.
Stop it already! If you use a credit card, you could have the info stolen, period!
The process that secures the song was purposely prevented from working. This shows the criminal intent.
Therefore the DRM was still broken... by avoiding its application that otherwise should have happened.
If Apple screwed up and the security had not been applied due to some bug then obviously theres no problem. But some hacker did it with full intent to avoid the DRM. Why are so many people unable to make the connection?
Do you also think it would be legal to gas up your car by siphoning the gas out of the underground tanks avoiding having the bill tallied by the pumps? I'm sure the gas station and the cops wouldn't mind one bit!
Yes the guy is in Norway, That doesn't necessarily mean the law won't get him. Those damn americans are constantly trying to force their laws on the rest of the world, forgetting where their borders are, and for all we know Norway may have some kind of extradition agreement with the US. At the very least he won't be able to travel to the US if he ever wants or needs to.
Thats no different that the fools who hacked various online role playing games so that they could play without clicking the 'I Accept' button every time they sign on.... claiming that the EULA's didn't apply to them because they never clicked it. As if by knowingly breaking the software exsolved them of their obligations.
The intent is there, the hack applied. Therefore the crime is there.
I guess its worked! By keeping a camp in Cuba, and others in Iraq, and using the 2 second long attention span of the average ignorant american to their advantage, they've succeeded in keeping them hidden from you.
Do you really think you are being protected by allowing your rights to be stripped away? Can't you see that the protection you think you are getting is far worse than the alternative... that being your freedom gone forever by the hands of your own government?
Your government created most of their own enemies in recent times. If they would just treat the world with the same respect they think they deserve for themselves, you wouldnt have any need for fear inducing war-mongering imbicile presidents!
Dont you remember how your government gave the chemical weapon technology to Hussein to use on Iraq, that he instead used on his own people? And how only a year later your government gave weapons to Iran to use on Iraq?
Dont you remember how Bin Laden was trained by the CIA and given $3billion n funding to help fight against the soviets in Afghanistan, and how for decades the Bush family has kept close financial ties to the Bin Laden's?
Don't you recall Noriega? A Trained CIA officer that decided to go his own way?
How about the dreaded Pinochet? Dreaded murderous dictator, installed by your government in Chile?
Doesn't it make you even a little quesy how Bush can be so hard against terrorism, and yet he worships the well known terrorist leader of Libya, who has many billions to spend on blowing up whatever he wants... which of course was one of the reasons given for taking out Hussein.
Or how Bush is best friends with Pakistan... that would be the nuclear capable military dictatorship of pakistan.
The NSA warned Bush that action must be taken to protect the 4t amendment.
Bush then passed the Patriot Act, with effectively suspends the 4th amendment (and 6th).
And the American people said..
"thank you thank you! please take more of my inaliable rights away from me so I can feel safe from the enemies my government makes for itself!"
The average american decided it was ok to allow their fellow citizens to be arrested and held without charge, without being allowed to see a lawyer or even notify family. As long as the thousands of citizens that were now being abused was not them personally, then who cares.
When really, they should have carried out their own Constitutional Responsibility to fight for those rights to the point of overthrowing Bush.
But the average american stopped thinking they need to act on their responsibilities a few decades ago when suing everyone for any stupid reason became the norm.
America has died at the hands of its own people. Welcome back to 1930's Germany.
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So what you are saying is that the only thing you use a computer for is sending email using MS Office - Outlook? ... and that you are a 2 finger typer who's favourite game is freecell?
The GIS mapping applications I serve may process faster with 64 bit, allowing my server to send out web pages sooner to those who request them.
The GIS and CAD software I use will benefit from the greater amount of RAM I'll be able to use, even with the current 2GB limit that any single program can use. Complex calculations that take hours may just get done sooner. I may be able to store terabytes of GIS raster data within a single partition if I choose (once the drives of that size exist).
Not to mention all the proof that 64bit will be a boost to everything, as seen by all the athlon64's out there already using 64bit linux or XP64 beta.
Have you actually seen a BSOD in the last 3 or 4 years?
I haven't. I have not had to do any reinstall of XP, I have not had any significant problems, I have not had a virus, I've had a smooth running computer hosting web pages, running CAD and GIS software, and playing games.
I call for an 'overrated' mod for the parent.
Where have you been?
... computers that would no longer exist if the iPod wasn't propping up the company.
On time? - 64bit processors have been available for what 2 years now? MS was warned long before that they should prepare for the release of 64bit processors, but choose not to act.
Steal the limelight from apple? - yes, lets release it now so that the 5% of computer users that have Apples will somehow miss a minor update to their own OS. Yes, lets all be in awe of the buzz that has only kept a tiny portion of computer users using apples,
I remember when MS stepped in and saved apple from iminent bankrupcy. It was greeted with a big So What, since it was obviously done because MS needed it to appear like there is some competition for them.
Hello!
... you know ... a Civil suit ... where a private company or individual sues people for the damages caused by negligence or criminal activity, whether or not they have been found guilty of criminal activity.
... but you are fooling no one but yourself if you think downloading mp3's isn't breaking copyrights. Don't like how RIAA handles things? - Then dont buy, don't download and dont listen to the music they protect. There's plenty of good independant music out there that is free to share.
Dumbass anonymous coward!
MS is afffected by the improper use of their products. It makes fools like you hate MS even more than there is reason to. Are you really so stupid to not see that as a reason for MS to take action? This is the Civil reason for MS to sue
Ford sue car thieves? - Why not? In most areas car theives are released from jail over and over after very little punishment to steal more cars. The authorities do little to help.
Glaxo sue drug addicts? - Why not? the addicts using Glaxo drugs make Glaxo look bad, hurting their reputation and their bottom line, and possibly scaring people away from their drugs who could truly benefit from them.
Do you think the NRA stands idle when people blame guns for the actions of the idiots weilding them?
Yes, I hate the RIAA as much as anyone
So, the dreaded, hated phishers, who try to steal your money or identity are in fact heroes.
/. can the most hated bastards be considered heroes ... taken advantage of by MS who somehow forced them to phish with their software.
... must be the fault of the Door manufacturer, not the bastard who broke it open!
... must be the fault of the car maker, not the bastard who took it.
... must be the fault of granny for being made so insecure by old age, not the bastard who attacked her.
Yes, lets all blame MS for the actions of the phishers. It's no fault of the actual bastards who are doing the crime.
Only on
analogy time!
Someone break into your house?
Someone steal your car?
Someone rape your grandma?
Give me a break dumbasses! This one isn't MS's fault. Do you blame the gun maker when some dumbass american shoots his neighbour? Nooo! its the dumbass american mis-using the tool.
The combined mass of all the brain matter in the heads of everyone who voted for Bush for the first AND second terms!
"I won't let information get in the way of fighting terrorism" - George W. Bush.
wohooo!
Cmdtaco slashdotted himself!
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which just proves my point.
you have no conscience.
you never cared for how you hurt others. It was the threat to yourself that supposedly cleaned you up, not any type of quilt or remorse for the victimization of others.
and you use the damage you caused to make money now when really you should be bending over and taking some fine victimization of your own to feel.
And you really think people consider you to be running a reputable business?
Come on! Prove it!
Start some advertising here!
Contest cancelled!
He couldn't stand up for what he believed in. He was convinced to back down lest the truth of the insecurities be revealed and proven!
You're still a worthless piece o shit.
You victimized people, and now profit supposedly legitimately from what you learned by the victimization of those people.
You should do the world a favour and jump into traffic.
There is no other atonement.
There is no honour among theives. You are and always shall be worthless.
Obviously you've never been the victim of one of these pieces of shit.
Do you think he ever repaid the other 10grand+ he's admitted to stealing?
Whatever!
Do you guys really believe this fool?
No doubt what he didn't tell you is that aside from the notice from his school, he was also downloading every movie he could find and sharing the files with the rest of the world consuming a huge amount of the schools bandwidth.
The problem isn't the tool, its the illegal actions taken using the tool.
The writer is simply trying to deflect his illegal actions by blaming it on bittorrent.
Give us a break!
Jerks like you have no conscience. You couldnt care less about the people you victimize.
You stole the $800 to repay the company to keep your ass out of jail, then went on, business as usual victimizing others. No one believes you gave up the taste for easy stolen money. People like you can't leave it alone once you start.
You are a leech and have no legitimate place in society.
Who's the bigger fool
The dumbass who lets his info be stolen by a bastard like you, or the dumbass who hires a criminal to protect him?
Since you've cleaned up your life, how many of your 'clients' have had mysterious thefts of their property? huh? Or theft of their customer's information you pretend to be protecting? huh? huh?
Why else would you brag about having access to so much customer info that is locked down to anyone else?
Once a theif, always a theif don't bother trying to atone, unless your next effort to atone includes jumping into traffic. One of your 'clients' will catch you one day, and it will be back to jail for you.
Come on!
'I rarely use my credit card online'
Like that matters in any way!
Why do so many people think online transactions are any less secure than any other kind of transaction?
Every time you use a card to order a pizza you are giving your name, card number and expirely date to some kid who may be in some gang for all you know, any time you use a card in a store the clerk could be double swiping it to copy the card info electronically or just copying the receipt information. Remember that time you didnt get your monthly bill? Surprise, some bastard stole your mail and has the card info.
Stop it already! If you use a credit card, you could have the info stolen, period!
The process that secures the song was purposely prevented from working. This shows the criminal intent.
... by avoiding its application that otherwise should have happened.
Therefore the DRM was still broken
If Apple screwed up and the security had not been applied due to some bug then obviously theres no problem. But some hacker did it with full intent to avoid the DRM. Why are so many people unable to make the connection?
Do you also think it would be legal to gas up your car by siphoning the gas out of the underground tanks avoiding having the bill tallied by the pumps? I'm sure the gas station and the cops wouldn't mind one bit!
Yes the guy is in Norway, That doesn't necessarily mean the law won't get him. Those damn americans are constantly trying to force their laws on the rest of the world, forgetting where their borders are, and for all we know Norway may have some kind of extradition agreement with the US. At the very least he won't be able to travel to the US if he ever wants or needs to.
And you got an 'imformative' for that?
... claiming that the EULA's didn't apply to them because they never clicked it. As if by knowingly breaking the software exsolved them of their obligations.
Come on!
Thats no different that the fools who hacked various online role playing games so that they could play without clicking the 'I Accept' button every time they sign on.
The intent is there, the hack applied. Therefore the crime is there.
Don't like the system? Don't buy the music.
Of course you dealt with the issue the way most Canadians deal with issues.
Unfortuneately too many out there prefer to take the American approach that has come to drive most of the world crazy.
Its not bigotry when its true. Redundant perhaps, but not bigotry.
Please explain to me how those puppet's passwords could read or alter my tax/bank records?
You've made big assumptions on how I deal with personal information while on an office computer.
Either that or you go around making your puppet co-workers use passwords that could give them access to your records.
Big deal.
Some other study found that most people will give out their workstation password in exchange for a chocolate bar.
Who cares.
All it proves is that the average american office worker is just a brain dead puppet waiting for a paycheque.
There's nothing to see here. Carry on.
You haven't seen the Muslim concentration camps?
... that being your freedom gone forever by the hands of your own government?
... which of course was one of the reasons given for taking out Hussein.
... that would be the nuclear capable military dictatorship of pakistan.
I guess its worked! By keeping a camp in Cuba, and others in Iraq, and using the 2 second long attention span of the average ignorant american to their advantage, they've succeeded in keeping them hidden from you.
Do you really think you are being protected by allowing your rights to be stripped away? Can't you see that the protection you think you are getting is far worse than the alternative
Your government created most of their own enemies in recent times. If they would just treat the world with the same respect they think they deserve for themselves, you wouldnt have any need for fear inducing war-mongering imbicile presidents!
Dont you remember how your government gave the chemical weapon technology to Hussein to use on Iraq, that he instead used on his own people? And how only a year later your government gave weapons to Iran to use on Iraq?
Dont you remember how Bin Laden was trained by the CIA and given $3billion n funding to help fight against the soviets in Afghanistan, and how for decades the Bush family has kept close financial ties to the Bin Laden's?
Don't you recall Noriega? A Trained CIA officer that decided to go his own way?
How about the dreaded Pinochet? Dreaded murderous dictator, installed by your government in Chile?
Doesn't it make you even a little quesy how Bush can be so hard against terrorism, and yet he worships the well known terrorist leader of Libya, who has many billions to spend on blowing up whatever he wants
Or how Bush is best friends with Pakistan
Or how Dubya can't even say nuclear properly?
Well spoken!
And obviously spoken by a person who has not yet been abused by his government.
We'll see how you feel after you are held for days on end without charge in filty conditions at a place like New York's Pier 57.
Remember, one day there will be no one left to help when they come for you.
The NSA warned Bush that action must be taken to protect the 4t amendment.
..
Bush then passed the Patriot Act, with effectively suspends the 4th amendment (and 6th).
And the American people said
"thank you thank you! please take more of my inaliable rights away from me so I can feel safe from the enemies my government makes for itself!"
The average american decided it was ok to allow their fellow citizens to be arrested and held without charge, without being allowed to see a lawyer or even notify family. As long as the thousands of citizens that were now being abused was not them personally, then who cares.
When really, they should have carried out their own Constitutional Responsibility to fight for those rights to the point of overthrowing Bush.
But the average american stopped thinking they need to act on their responsibilities a few decades ago when suing everyone for any stupid reason became the norm.
America has died at the hands of its own people. Welcome back to 1930's Germany.