wow, you protected that server from a/.-ing by putting some brakcets and a space in the URL. I still hit it, and made sure it got a few ctrl+F5's though, just in case;)
now if only all/. articles could be done like that, eh? only those who deserve to get in (i.e. those who can work out the URL) would be able to, and many a webserver would still be alive, rather than a smoking heap of silicon, or what used to be a zeon
not that I mind an intel chip dying, being a/.-er im INCREDIBLY biased;)
...imagine a cluster of those!!!...ok, I really shouldn't have posted that, but I (ctrl+F, even... give it the credit) couldn't find anyone else who had. I apologise in advance!
indeed, we all say that we wont buy this stuff, but the sheep of this world.. that whole 99% of the rest of the population doesnt know, nor care, and is happily sucked in by advertising.
ahh anyways, I have purchased a mountain bike and have put over 100 miles on it in the last few weeks. Oh how nice the sun is, and being outside.. bikes come with a great sense of freedom!
When this DRM shit lands I probably wont care all that much, other hobbies people! develop other hobbies, which dont involve electricity and everything will be ok!
and it will happen, despite our noTCPA stickers, and crap.
i dont think theres much we can do about it all, to be honest.. oh well, better start saving up to buy a mammoth PC, -just before all this crap lands, so i can stay a geek for a year or 2 until it all becomes compulsory / cant connect to net without it, etc.. and then after that I will have to become a...um.. dunno. it'll probably involve sunlight though
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probably unethical? yeah, but TCPA, DRM.. and all that is just as unethical
it strips your privacy, and control of something you OWN.
damn, i really hate TCPA, and any form of DRM.
switching to 100% linux only will be a short term solution until the point comes where I wont be able to access the net, as the TCPA server I connect to, wont auth me.
I can live without the internet, and computers in my home. The question is, can you?
i agree with returning / fark it up and return it, though.. should be interesting:)
Spam isn't bad. I have to say I am delighted to receive spam and that it exists.
If there wasn't spam, I wouldn't have a Bayesian filter..and nor would you. Im sure you would actually miss having one. I know I would, a Bayesian filter is a geeky thing to own. Do any of your non-PC literate friends have one? No. Of course not. They probably use hotmail.
So yeah, spam is great, I never actually read any, I just receieve it, in a nice packaged and quarantined form and it goes into my "spam" box.
long live Bayesian Spam Filters, and long live spam!
My goodness, sooner or later the whole world will end up in india!
theres short term bonuses to be had at the moment, as its a poorer country, but surely if this keeps happening they'll eventually be as rich as the USA because of the amount of work and they'll want to outsource to here, as it'll be cheaper!...maybe;)
firstly tonight i read about Trusted Computing, and that Phoenix plan to put all sorts of weird and wonderful things into the BIOS (supposedly for our convienience and privacy, etc)
Phoenix's BIOS Roadmap
and then i read about this DRM crap. It all seems to be tied together quite nicely, and results in a general lack of rights, ease of use, and privacy for the end user.
they are literally stripping away our choice, with this stuff. subtly making it more convienient to use proprietary things, (eg windows media player 9: you have to buy the mp3 encoding plugin, or your stuck with WMA... M$'s own audio thing, which does funnily enough have some crappy DRM "protection" in it)
hardware will become the same, im sure: maybe even Linux will refuse to run on certain hardware, or more realistically, the hardware will refuse to let linux run on it as its not trusted / secure enough, or doesnt have such and such a thing.. / cant do the encryption / decryption and all sorts of..well, who knows.
i dont like it one bit...
anyways, im sorry for any typos, bad grammar, bad layout, presentation, etc.. i was never good at english, plus its my first/. post:D
weaken the individual and strengthen the big corperations further. its gradually happening, and will continue to. sure there'll always be some resistence, but the world has taught people to listen, to any old crap and its taught them not to think at all, and not to question.
This will lead somewhere nasty one day.
maybe im going too far, but ever played the game Deus Ex? quite a scary game if you ask me.
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wow, you protected that server from a /.-ing by putting some brakcets and a space in the URL. I still hit it, and made sure it got a few ctrl+F5's though, just in case ;)
/. articles could be done like that, eh? only those who deserve to get in (i.e. those who can work out the URL) would be able to, and many a webserver would still be alive, rather than a smoking heap of silicon, or what used to be a zeon
/.-er im INCREDIBLY biased ;)
now if only all
not that I mind an intel chip dying, being a
...imagine a cluster of those!!! ...ok, I really shouldn't have posted that, but I (ctrl+F, even... give it the credit) couldn't find anyone else who had. I apologise in advance!
indeed, we all say that we wont buy this stuff, but the sheep of this world.. that whole 99% of the rest of the population doesnt know, nor care, and is happily sucked in by advertising.
ahh anyways, I have purchased a mountain bike and have put over 100 miles on it in the last few weeks. Oh how nice the sun is, and being outside.. bikes come with a great sense of freedom!
When this DRM shit lands I probably wont care all that much, other hobbies people! develop other hobbies, which dont involve electricity and everything will be ok!
well said, imo.
...um.. dunno. it'll probably involve sunlight though
and it will happen, despite our noTCPA stickers, and crap.
i dont think theres much we can do about it all, to be honest.. oh well, better start saving up to buy a mammoth PC, -just before all this crap lands, so i can stay a geek for a year or 2 until it all becomes compulsory / cant connect to net without it, etc.. and then after that I will have to become a
man, how do you remember your user name???!! :/
probably unethical? yeah, but TCPA, DRM.. and all that is just as unethical
:)
it strips your privacy, and control of something you OWN.
damn, i really hate TCPA, and any form of DRM.
switching to 100% linux only will be a short term solution until the point comes where I wont be able to access the net, as the TCPA server I connect to, wont auth me.
I can live without the internet, and computers in my home. The question is, can you?
i agree with returning / fark it up and return it, though.. should be interesting
Spam isn't bad. I have to say I am delighted to receive spam and that it exists.
:)
If there wasn't spam, I wouldn't have a Bayesian filter..and nor would you. Im sure you would actually miss having one. I know I would, a Bayesian filter is a geeky thing to own. Do any of your non-PC literate friends have one? No. Of course not. They probably use hotmail.
So yeah, spam is great, I never actually read any, I just receieve it, in a nice packaged and quarantined form and it goes into my "spam" box.
long live Bayesian Spam Filters, and long live spam!
just my rather weird 0.02
lots of arguing here, over a simple thing that we should all be happy with.
;)
all be happy you say? huh?! Yes, all of us should be happy about this because competition is good, in general
and being an AMD user, of late, its good to see them doing well and personally, I think they make 'fab' chips
My goodness, sooner or later the whole world will end up in india! theres short term bonuses to be had at the moment, as its a poorer country, but surely if this keeps happening they'll eventually be as rich as the USA because of the amount of work and they'll want to outsource to here, as it'll be cheaper! ...maybe ;)
and the point of the join button is...to take you to a "no, you cant join actually.." page weird
my goodness, it'll look really dated and crap when it finally does come out.
i'll carry on waiting for HL2 i think..
DNF wont be the same, as Duke3d. it just wont have the character..
emailed!
some may disagree, but i think its scary.
..well, who knows.
/. post :D
firstly tonight i read about Trusted Computing, and that Phoenix plan to put all sorts of weird and wonderful things into the BIOS (supposedly for our convienience and privacy, etc) Phoenix's BIOS Roadmap
and then i read about this DRM crap. It all seems to be tied together quite nicely, and results in a general lack of rights, ease of use, and privacy for the end user.
they are literally stripping away our choice, with this stuff. subtly making it more convienient to use proprietary things, (eg windows media player 9: you have to buy the mp3 encoding plugin, or your stuck with WMA... M$'s own audio thing, which does funnily enough have some crappy DRM "protection" in it)
hardware will become the same, im sure: maybe even Linux will refuse to run on certain hardware, or more realistically, the hardware will refuse to let linux run on it as its not trusted / secure enough, or doesnt have such and such a thing.. / cant do the encryption / decryption and all sorts of
i dont like it one bit...
anyways, im sorry for any typos, bad grammar, bad layout, presentation, etc.. i was never good at english, plus its my first
oh yes, but isnt that half the idea?
weaken the individual and strengthen the big corperations further. its gradually happening, and will continue to. sure there'll always be some resistence, but the world has taught people to listen, to any old crap and its taught them not to think at all, and not to question.
This will lead somewhere nasty one day.
maybe im going too far, but ever played the game Deus Ex? quite a scary game if you ask me.