Considering the notice was sent to his apartment, Im assuming what happened is that he did download movies, later lost his home, and is now getting legal action.
As much as I dont like the RIAA and the rest, the real problem is tort legislation in America, not the lawyers who abuse it or make an honest mistake. Change torts, change everything. These guys shouldnt be allowed to sue like this without some kind of real damages threshold, and in case of IP law they should pay the court if they lose.
Point taken. So the Virgin ISP contract specifies that it respect net neutrality? Yeah, I didnt think so.
So lets see, on one side we have a censorship loving dramatic hipster and the other a large anti-neutrality corporation. I hope there's a third side because right now these are both losing propositions. Or are we saying the the enemy of my enemy is always my friend?
People's nostalgia for XP has more do with how quickly computer hardware became cheap in the period of its release than anything else. For instance on the release day of XP what were most home pc's like? Perhaps 64 or 128 megs of ram running a first generation pentium? The past three years or so have made very powerful computers very cheap. People have gotten used to running an OS developed for machines that came out 6-7 years ago running on modern hardware.
That said, I still dont think this is MS's fault. If people are buying machines with 256 megs of ram and a 800x600 screen they really shouldnt expect it to be a desktop replacement running everything they run at home just as quickly.
>, I'm sure someone else can chime in with it, but there was a band which had one of its members buy a tank to drive in England, perfectly legal
Youre probably thinking of Richard D. James of Aphex Twin. He doesnt own a proper tank. Its a Daimler Ferret Mark 3 armored scout car, which looks like a mini tank. He also bought a working russian submarine recently for 40,000 pounds.
There's a lot of conspiracy theories about these collapses but the IAPV virus was found in over 95% of collapsed hives. I know its much more hip to blame humans, pollutants, wifi radiation, lack of bee tin foil hats, etc but this is just nature vs nature.
I cant comment on the bias as I have not seen their methodology, but frankly this is part of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. Since Ive been online, using BBSs as a child in the 1980s, Ive noticed that anonymous people are nasty people. Even on sites that go out of their way to be productive and are heavily moderated like ask.metafilter.com you'll see that most answer to social problems are the most dramatic. Should someone get a divorce. Yes. Should someone quit their job? Yes.
When people are anonymous and dont know the person they are responding to they often will just pick the most extreme solution and go with it. It really takes a decent person to sit back and think of the person they are talking to as a real person, like a friend of loved-one. This kind of thing almost never happens on the internet and I am not surprised to see it when it comes to suicide. Hopefully, the people who are looking up those websites also pick up the phone to a suicide hotline. Funny, how something like a real human voice and real interaction suddenly changes everything.
Yeah, heaven forbid we start taking security seriously. Users are not going to be secure sitting there with full admin rights and clicking left and right on any shiny thing.
Yes its somewhat annoying but these are growing pains. People and developers need to get used to understanding the serious business of running a net-enabled computer safely and securely.
Even MS knows how incredibly lazy Win32 developers are. If they had some way to run an app as elevated by default then all developers would simply make their app elevated and walk away. Fuck them if they cant follow some basic guidelines. No more "create c:\temp" folder or writing to %systemroot% because thats what they learned in college 10+ years ago.
Dont like it? Dont develop for the platform. The times are changing. We need some young blood here not dinosaurs who complain that a security prompt is "annoying" and that its "hard" to write an app that respects profiles and basic security guidelines.
The real problem with that setup is that the "i have all day to game" demographic is usually just bored teenagers. So once they control the towns, the currency, and the quests you'll end up logging in and told by "GnarrlyDude" to "fetch me a burrito of knowledge for an advnaced twinkie." Thats the best case scenario. Most likely it would degenerate into a Second Life fetish fest.
WoW works for the exact opposite reasons. Its centrally controlled, quests and mobs are in-game, etc.
Dont get me wrong. ToA sounds like heaven to me, but you need some serious role-players and people dedicated to running this thing well. I doubt your average WoW player could fill those shoes. I would imagine this would only work with lots of "players" who were actually employees and some pretty strict filtering, censorship, and lots of bans and kicks.
Why are email providers still allowing people to send executables out via email? I believe only gmail blocks them. End users shouldnt be receiving executables via email. If you need to send them something they can get it via http or ftp. This will stop the whole "but it looked like an acrobat file" social hack we've been seeing.
This includes executables in container formats too (zip, rar, etc).
Unfortunately its very hip right now to hate this movie, so the film community just focuses on its negative parts and the hard-core sci-fi fans are always pissed about even the slightest deviation from the book.
That said, its a stunning movie. I've watched it many times and am always noticing something new. The design of the objects, sets, and costumes is extremely original and creative. It builds this dark alien sci-fi mood that no other movie has, perhaps with the exception of bladerunner. Its really an incredible piece of filmmaking and I hope the generation that associates Dune with the sci-fi channel should give it a chance.
>1. Where is the mention of her being criticised for taking lobbyist money? >2. Where is the mention of critisism for her "exaggerating" her own stories for dramatic effect?
Oh man, that could be used against any politician. Look wikipedia is supposed to show a general entry about that person and their career. It shouldnt be whitewashed but it shouldnt be a line by line item of manufacturer media outrages. For instance if she had a conviction it should be noted, but if some bloger or newspaper says 'OMG DUDEZ SHE TOOK LOBBYI$T MONEY - $ELLOUT' that isnt noteworthy or unique. If fact, demanding this just shows how people want to turn wikipedia into a political flamefest.
Right because women dont also act in self-interest or in selective mating. Women never do:
1. Overlook faults (aggression, uglines, etc) for wealth. 2. Overlook faults for looks. 3. Overlook faults for non-wealth based power and connections.
This is how you hairless apes act, regardless of gender. Blaming men as the problem ignores that youre a primate and these are the mating habits of primates. The second you accept that is the second you realize that you just cant blame one group and you are also to blame. Although I will concede its fashionable to blame men and its fashionable to play up this broken stereotype.
>are likely not the same people protesting the Scientology organization.
So wait, youre telling that vigilante hackers (thats what anon is) cant be responsible for this? Err, theyre fricking vigilantes and when theyre done with scientology its back to spamming for profit and managing the bot networks. I think its time to bury whole 'righteous hacker' mythology once and for all.
>without gambling on whether or not they will be alive after a weekend on screensaver.
Thats what group policy is for. What a waste of cycles and energy someone's left on PC running some screensaver must be. This is like complaining to Ford that your SUV left in idle for 10 hours might stall.
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Sig size mostly. Of course thst can be lifted. They can just ignore the URL size, to a certain degree of course.
> this is what's going to happen on sept 1 2008.
Sept 1st 2008. Never forget.
>If you had no idea that the plane existed and you saw it at night in the sky at a distance, you'd never believe it was an aircraft.
Oh man, dont say that to an x-files fan. If its weird and in the sky its an alien!
Considering the notice was sent to his apartment, Im assuming what happened is that he did download movies, later lost his home, and is now getting legal action.
As much as I dont like the RIAA and the rest, the real problem is tort legislation in America, not the lawyers who abuse it or make an honest mistake. Change torts, change everything. These guys shouldnt be allowed to sue like this without some kind of real damages threshold, and in case of IP law they should pay the court if they lose.
Point taken. So the Virgin ISP contract specifies that it respect net neutrality? Yeah, I didnt think so.
So lets see, on one side we have a censorship loving dramatic hipster and the other a large anti-neutrality corporation. I hope there's a third side because right now these are both losing propositions. Or are we saying the the enemy of my enemy is always my friend?
Yeah youre right. I mean to say first generation pentium 4. But now that you mention it 256megs was common too.
No it wasnt. It was slower than 2000 on day one.
People's nostalgia for XP has more do with how quickly computer hardware became cheap in the period of its release than anything else. For instance on the release day of XP what were most home pc's like? Perhaps 64 or 128 megs of ram running a first generation pentium? The past three years or so have made very powerful computers very cheap. People have gotten used to running an OS developed for machines that came out 6-7 years ago running on modern hardware.
That said, I still dont think this is MS's fault. If people are buying machines with 256 megs of ram and a 800x600 screen they really shouldnt expect it to be a desktop replacement running everything they run at home just as quickly.
>, I'm sure someone else can chime in with it, but there was a band which had one of its members buy a tank to drive in England, perfectly legal
Youre probably thinking of Richard D. James of Aphex Twin. He doesnt own a proper tank. Its a Daimler Ferret Mark 3 armored scout car, which looks like a mini tank. He also bought a working russian submarine recently for 40,000 pounds.
There's a lot of conspiracy theories about these collapses but the IAPV virus was found in over 95% of collapsed hives. I know its much more hip to blame humans, pollutants, wifi radiation, lack of bee tin foil hats, etc but this is just nature vs nature.
I cant comment on the bias as I have not seen their methodology, but frankly this is part of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. Since Ive been online, using BBSs as a child in the 1980s, Ive noticed that anonymous people are nasty people. Even on sites that go out of their way to be productive and are heavily moderated like ask.metafilter.com you'll see that most answer to social problems are the most dramatic. Should someone get a divorce. Yes. Should someone quit their job? Yes.
When people are anonymous and dont know the person they are responding to they often will just pick the most extreme solution and go with it. It really takes a decent person to sit back and think of the person they are talking to as a real person, like a friend of loved-one. This kind of thing almost never happens on the internet and I am not surprised to see it when it comes to suicide. Hopefully, the people who are looking up those websites also pick up the phone to a suicide hotline. Funny, how something like a real human voice and real interaction suddenly changes everything.
>It is an idiotic approach.
Yeah, heaven forbid we start taking security seriously. Users are not going to be secure sitting there with full admin rights and clicking left and right on any shiny thing.
Yes its somewhat annoying but these are growing pains. People and developers need to get used to understanding the serious business of running a net-enabled computer safely and securely.
Even MS knows how incredibly lazy Win32 developers are. If they had some way to run an app as elevated by default then all developers would simply make their app elevated and walk away. Fuck them if they cant follow some basic guidelines. No more "create c:\temp" folder or writing to %systemroot% because thats what they learned in college 10+ years ago.
Dont like it? Dont develop for the platform. The times are changing. We need some young blood here not dinosaurs who complain that a security prompt is "annoying" and that its "hard" to write an app that respects profiles and basic security guidelines.
The real problem with that setup is that the "i have all day to game" demographic is usually just bored teenagers. So once they control the towns, the currency, and the quests you'll end up logging in and told by "GnarrlyDude" to "fetch me a burrito of knowledge for an advnaced twinkie." Thats the best case scenario. Most likely it would degenerate into a Second Life fetish fest.
WoW works for the exact opposite reasons. Its centrally controlled, quests and mobs are in-game, etc.
Dont get me wrong. ToA sounds like heaven to me, but you need some serious role-players and people dedicated to running this thing well. I doubt your average WoW player could fill those shoes. I would imagine this would only work with lots of "players" who were actually employees and some pretty strict filtering, censorship, and lots of bans and kicks.
If you use that on a plane dont be surprised if you end up in prison. I seriously doubt those things are 100% safe when it comes to avionics.
Why are email providers still allowing people to send executables out via email? I believe only gmail blocks them. End users shouldnt be receiving executables via email. If you need to send them something they can get it via http or ftp. This will stop the whole "but it looked like an acrobat file" social hack we've been seeing.
This includes executables in container formats too (zip, rar, etc).
That's the tyranny of free. You can be as big of a dick as you like until the point it forces a fork by a lesser dick.
Unfortunately its very hip right now to hate this movie, so the film community just focuses on its negative parts and the hard-core sci-fi fans are always pissed about even the slightest deviation from the book.
That said, its a stunning movie. I've watched it many times and am always noticing something new. The design of the objects, sets, and costumes is extremely original and creative. It builds this dark alien sci-fi mood that no other movie has, perhaps with the exception of bladerunner. Its really an incredible piece of filmmaking and I hope the generation that associates Dune with the sci-fi channel should give it a chance.
>RMS will announce a new project The Torvolds Barnyard
By project you must mean "country band."
>1. Where is the mention of her being criticised for taking lobbyist money?
>2. Where is the mention of critisism for her "exaggerating" her own stories for dramatic effect?
Oh man, that could be used against any politician. Look wikipedia is supposed to show a general entry about that person and their career. It shouldnt be whitewashed but it shouldnt be a line by line item of manufacturer media outrages. For instance if she had a conviction it should be noted, but if some bloger or newspaper says 'OMG DUDEZ SHE TOOK LOBBYI$T MONEY - $ELLOUT' that isnt noteworthy or unique. If fact, demanding this just shows how people want to turn wikipedia into a political flamefest.
>I was reading an editorial in the WSJ bout the how successful "the surge" allegedly is
Do you know what an editorial is?
Right because women dont also act in self-interest or in selective mating. Women never do:
1. Overlook faults (aggression, uglines, etc) for wealth.
2. Overlook faults for looks.
3. Overlook faults for non-wealth based power and connections.
This is how you hairless apes act, regardless of gender. Blaming men as the problem ignores that youre a primate and these are the mating habits of primates. The second you accept that is the second you realize that you just cant blame one group and you are also to blame. Although I will concede its fashionable to blame men and its fashionable to play up this broken stereotype.
7. Change the name.
8. Offer a UI skin that is more like ps.
AVG is not open source and they can change their license at any time. Its also only free for personal use, not for corporate/non-profit use.
What you are looking for is something call clamav
>are likely not the same people protesting the Scientology organization.
So wait, youre telling that vigilante hackers (thats what anon is) cant be responsible for this? Err, theyre fricking vigilantes and when theyre done with scientology its back to spamming for profit and managing the bot networks. I think its time to bury whole 'righteous hacker' mythology once and for all.
Yeah they missed some pretty other obvious:
qotd 17/udp Quote of the Day
gopher 70/tcp Gopher
finger 79/tcp Finger
pcmail-srv 158/tcp PCMail Server
audit 182/tcp Unisys Audit SITP
>without gambling on whether or not they will be alive after a weekend on screensaver.
Thats what group policy is for. What a waste of cycles and energy someone's left on PC running some screensaver must be. This is like complaining to Ford that your SUV left in idle for 10 hours might stall.