http://m39.computergearplus.com/ has tried to bring down their traffic costs by making their page a blank page titled 'untitled document' (go frontpage!?)
" Sure we're pounding spammer sites, but does replacing one form of useless traffic with another really accomplish anything?"
Sure, we have double the traffic for a while, but after the spammers die out, this screensaver will no longer need to be used on those dead spammers sites, being removed from the target list and thereby traffic being eliminated.
I might also add, I think it's a good thing. If the spam is using the same server as the website -- disabled website = halted spam production = cleaner and safer internet.
However, this of course doesn't make any difference if they exploit open mail relays.
Actually, it does, think about it: the only reason spammers continue to do that they do best (spam) is because people actually buy their products.
If the people who buy their products click a link in an e-mail and get 'this page cannot be displayed (advanced info: connection timed out)' then they won't buy the products.
If people don't buy the products for a long enough time, that, coupled with the increased bandwidth costs = spammer shop closed down.
Therefore, DDOS'd sites = safer internet = lycos a good thing.
I use to use this screensaver but disabled it, it was conflicting with my audio hardware.
I voicechat a lot using teamspeak [www.goteamspeak.com]
Every time the screensaver would activate my microphone to other people would become pure static, blaring out their ears. The only fix would be to quit and re-launch teamspeak.
I voicechat while doing other things sometimes on teamspeak, and it became an annoyance, so I set my screensaver, once again to 'Blank'
" no moving parts, leading to better reliability; a very small power consumption; very small dimensions (diameter: 8mm; thickness: 2mm); and a very fast response time of 2/100th of a second."
Man, sounds like a lot for a cell phone (which are pretty much disposable, you get a new provider, you usually get a new phone)
Wouldn't this technology be better used for things such as digital cameras?
I hope so. I mean, if you're going to be pirating material, you should also have the open source spirit (if you pirate, you must not like copyrights and such?)
It will be quite ironic if the source is closed and proprietary, when you expect such a piracy ring to be all for 'open shows, content etc.'
I could tweak the codec too if I could afford to license the source code. I'm sure it's not an affordable 200 dollar source license.
I know a couple of friends who are actually really good at encryption and compression c/c++ programming, so I'm sure if I could afford a license I could improve mpeg4.
Still, will you tell me how I can afford to broadcast such large res images without having to afford a server on an optical network?
My words still stand: The rich get richer. Law of life, baby.
They idolize him like some sort of genius. In fact one of the articles even said that.
If I was a billionare able to employ such a venture, I could have done it too. I just don't have the money to get dedicated oc256 lines to 'stream' all the high quality video.
All this tech is, is higher quality streams. It still uses the same technology as traditional streams, just in higher bitrates. (E.G. Higher server bills, e.g. why it's so expensive)
If I was a billionare I could easily edit a.conf file to have a higher bitrate too. All I need is a server connected to a fast pipe.
How does having money for a dedicated server and the ability to boost up the bitrate of a broadcast make you a "true genius in normal mens clothing"?
Setting up a high quality stream of licensed video from local TV stations is NOT genius, it just takes a wad of cash to do, that's all.
Too bad I'm not rich... I could then have gotton richer by doing this first.
"In other words, you believe that people don't have the right to pursue information about this judicial government proceeding. That seems like censorship to me -- here I thought Groklaw were the good guys."
Didn't you read the slashdot article about them claiming that Linux was in the wrong at one point? I'd search for it... but when I type anything in the slashdot searchbox e.g. sco: i'll get a summary of every post posted today, and yesterday (all the way to the begining of./) in chronological order, as if i just typed in * or something.
I have no idea how people search slashdot... search is broken.
Take for instance http://yro.slashdot.org/search.pl?query=mepis+linu x mepis linux brings up results about Freya Reaches 2.0 Beta Release Three Books On The iPod 2004 Interactive Fiction Results Clean System to Zombie Bot in Four Minutes
Sounds a lot like todays articles doesn't it? Nothing to do with MEPIS... anyhow this is off topic, but if someone could explain to me why the search filter dont do shit on./ I'd be obliged.
Yeah, I remember when MSBLASTER was making it's rounds. At about the same time I had to reinstall Windows. Once the network was up, I started to install the soundblaster drivers. During the install, a 'System Shutdown in 30 seconds' notice came up. I was quite surprised because at the time I didn't even know about MSBLAST...
How annoying that was... at the command prompt every minute or so I'd have to type SHUTDOWN/A while I was in 'msconfig' removing it from the startup items. MSBLASTER resides on my system still today, but it's disabled from startup.
Amazing what a few minutes unprotected can do for (or against) you.
" I don't know about as a home computer, but since it already runs on 12 volts, this could make an excellent car MP3 player. Someone said something about it being more than 100.00 dollars with a monitor, but 100.00 bucks and little LCD monitor to browse your MP3 list...and I'll buy one for each vehicle I own.:) I went to the web page but there wasn't much information. How much storage space do these things have again?"
They have 120 megs storage space. DSL takes up 70 megs of the 120 megs.
" The press release states that it uses a compact flash drive. I'd assume it is a micro drive and not solid state, so the number of writes are the same as your desktop PC. "
I have a IBM Deskstar, so that would be like... say... 6 months?
"Why not use the resources used to develop this program to work on better spam filtering software? If nobody sees the messages, nobody buys the spamvertised products, and the spammers go away."
But people will see the messages because 99% of the internet's users are too stupid to configure and set-up something like spamassassin. Even if it was point-click-install, people still wouldn't use it, too much trouble. It'd have to come with windows for 99% of the world to end up using such a 'miracle' program you expect lycos to invent.
It's a lost cause, and like someone said, it's an investment. You nearly take the internet down fighting these companies, but if/when they finally go under the payoff is BIG!!!
I say we have nothing to loose at this point, with spam on the rise means that the internet core routers are on the rise of getting closer to overloaded every day. We must try and stop it before, else, in the end, the routers will be bogged and we will all get 9.5 PL. Then there won't be any hope for tactics like this.
"As for why the BPI is still called the BPI, well, it's historical momentum, I guess. Twentieth Century Fox is still called Twentieth Century Fox too, right?"
QUOTE "Also, in this case you would not be letting the policy lapse. You add the compact to the policy, remove the SUV. The policy has not lapsed. When you need to drive the SUV, you readd it to the policy. If you were letting *all* your insurance lapse, that would be a situation where they can raise your rate, but not if you have another vehicle insured. "
This guy is driving his SUV every weekend. Doing policy changes and stuff every week would get a little hectic.
"Do you really think other countries will tolerate this? It's not like a satellite will stay in position over China. Satellites circle the globe in some patern. This could be the begin of a satellite war. Also, what's to stop China from using this on the US and Great Britian along with other countries of the world?"
If it's in a SYNCHRONOUS ORBIT it will stay in position.
A SYNCHRONOUS ORBIT is one in which the satellite moves or rotates at the same speed as the earth (e.g. means it wouldn't be wondering around the earth, since it'd be in sync with the earths rotation)
"There's no real point to cracking it if you have a legal version. You'd risk running some hacker's code on your machine just to save -maybe- 10 or 15 seconds when you loaded up a game? That's foolish. "
Isn't foolish at all, it's a time saver, and it also prevents you from having to buy a new CD-ROM dedicated to that game (if you play the game a lot.)
Say I play CS a lot, why should I have to buy a secondary CDROM to keep the CS disc in all the time? Thats when no-cd cracks come in handy.
"So far most crack authors have been very good about being minimalist and unintrusive, but someday, with some crack, they're going to fuck you."
Slashdot Mirror
http://m39.computergearplus.com/ has tried to bring down their traffic costs by making their page a blank page titled 'untitled document' (go frontpage!?)
http://www.artofsense.com/ claims they were innocent and were targeted anyways.
" Sure we're pounding spammer sites, but does replacing one form of useless traffic with another really accomplish anything?"
= 10980078
Sure, we have double the traffic for a while, but after the spammers die out, this screensaver will no longer need to be used on those dead spammers sites, being removed from the target list and thereby traffic being eliminated.
See my related post http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131532&cid
I might also add, I think it's a good thing. If the spam is using the same server as the website -- disabled website = halted spam production = cleaner and safer internet.
However, this of course doesn't make any difference if they exploit open mail relays.
Actually, it does, think about it: the only reason spammers continue to do that they do best (spam) is because people actually buy their products.
If the people who buy their products click a link in an e-mail and get 'this page cannot be displayed (advanced info: connection timed out)' then they won't buy the products.
If people don't buy the products for a long enough time, that, coupled with the increased bandwidth costs = spammer shop closed down.
Therefore, DDOS'd sites = safer internet = lycos a good thing.
I use to use this screensaver but disabled it, it was conflicting with my audio hardware.
I voicechat a lot using teamspeak [www.goteamspeak.com]
Every time the screensaver would activate my microphone to other people would become pure static, blaring out their ears. The only fix would be to quit and re-launch teamspeak.
I voicechat while doing other things sometimes on teamspeak, and it became an annoyance, so I set my screensaver, once again to 'Blank'
" no moving parts, leading to better reliability; a very small power consumption; very small dimensions (diameter: 8mm; thickness: 2mm); and a very fast response time of 2/100th of a second."
Man, sounds like a lot for a cell phone (which are pretty much disposable, you get a new provider, you usually get a new phone)
Wouldn't this technology be better used for things such as digital cameras?
Will this product be open source?
I hope so. I mean, if you're going to be pirating material, you should also have the open source spirit (if you pirate, you must not like copyrights and such?)
It will be quite ironic if the source is closed and proprietary, when you expect such a piracy ring to be all for 'open shows, content etc.'
I'll have to keep my eye open for it.
"large res images"
Should be large res video, sorry.
re: jerw134
I could tweak the codec too if I could afford to license the source code. I'm sure it's not an affordable 200 dollar source license.
I know a couple of friends who are actually really good at encryption and compression c/c++ programming, so I'm sure if I could afford a license I could improve mpeg4.
Still, will you tell me how I can afford to broadcast such large res images without having to afford a server on an optical network?
My words still stand: The rich get richer.
Law of life, baby.
They idolize him like some sort of genius. In fact one of the articles even said that.
.conf file to have a higher bitrate too. All I need is a server connected to a fast pipe.
If I was a billionare able to employ such a venture, I could have done it too. I just don't have the money to get dedicated oc256 lines to 'stream' all the high quality video.
All this tech is, is higher quality streams. It still uses the same technology as traditional streams, just in higher bitrates. (E.G. Higher server bills, e.g. why it's so expensive)
If I was a billionare I could easily edit a
How does having money for a dedicated server and the ability to boost up the bitrate of a broadcast make you a "true genius in normal mens clothing"?
Setting up a high quality stream of licensed video from local TV stations is NOT genius, it just takes a wad of cash to do, that's all.
Too bad I'm not rich... I could then have gotton richer by doing this first.
"In other words, you believe that people don't have the right to pursue information about this judicial government proceeding. That seems like censorship to me -- here I thought Groklaw were the good guys."
./) in chronological order, as if i just typed in * or something.
u x
./ I'd be obliged.
Didn't you read the slashdot article about them claiming that Linux was in the wrong at one point? I'd search for it... but when I type anything in the slashdot searchbox e.g. sco: i'll get a summary of every post posted today, and yesterday (all the way to the begining of
I have no idea how people search slashdot... search is broken.
Take for instance http://yro.slashdot.org/search.pl?query=mepis+lin
mepis linux brings up results about
Freya Reaches 2.0 Beta Release
Three Books On The iPod
2004 Interactive Fiction Results
Clean System to Zombie Bot in Four Minutes
Sounds a lot like todays articles doesn't it? Nothing to do with MEPIS... anyhow this is off topic, but if someone could explain to me why the search filter dont do shit on
You don't mention the same about linux neither? Linux and all other unix based systems are built mor e secure in nature.
I wish marketshare would skyrocket for a unix-based OS so we could prove to the world, togeather, that market share isn't what protects these systems.
Yeah, I remember when MSBLASTER was making it's rounds. At about the same time I had to reinstall Windows. Once the network was up, I started to install the soundblaster drivers. During the install, a 'System Shutdown in 30 seconds' notice came up. I was quite surprised because at the time I didn't even know about MSBLAST...
/A while I was in 'msconfig' removing it from the startup items. MSBLASTER resides on my system still today, but it's disabled from startup.
How annoying that was... at the command prompt every minute or so I'd have to type SHUTDOWN
Amazing what a few minutes unprotected can do for (or against) you.
" Windows supports Novell, UNIX. Word supports Corel, etc.."
That's why I always get so frustrated when I mistakingly type 'ls' in a command prompt to only find that it's not an internal or external command.
Why in the sam hill would I want to 'switch to internet explorer rendering'?
Isn't that the whole reason we go to firefox? For safer browsing?
If I want to browse with IE's engine, I'll use IE, which won't take time to load since it's resident in the systems memory already.
Duh. Why would anyone download a browser to browse in IE?
" I don't know about as a home computer, but since it already runs on 12 volts, this could make an excellent car MP3 player. Someone said something about it being more than 100.00 dollars with a monitor, but 100.00 bucks and little LCD monitor to browse your MP3 list...and I'll buy one for each vehicle I own. :) I went to the web page but there wasn't much information. How much storage space do these things have again?"
They have 120 megs storage space. DSL takes up 70 megs of the 120 megs.
That leaves a couple megs for a few MP3's.
"
The press release states that it uses a compact flash drive. I'd assume it is a micro drive and not solid state, so the number of writes are the same as your desktop PC. "
I have a IBM Deskstar, so that would be like... say... 6 months?
"Why not use the resources used to develop this program to work on better spam filtering software? If nobody sees the messages, nobody buys the spamvertised products, and the spammers go away."
But people will see the messages because 99% of the internet's users are too stupid to configure and set-up something like spamassassin. Even if it was point-click-install, people still wouldn't use it, too much trouble. It'd have to come with windows for 99% of the world to end up using such a 'miracle' program you expect lycos to invent.
It's a lost cause, and like someone said, it's an investment. You nearly take the internet down fighting these companies, but if/when they finally go under the payoff is BIG!!!
I say we have nothing to loose at this point, with spam on the rise means that the internet core routers are on the rise of getting closer to overloaded every day. We must try and stop it before, else, in the end, the routers will be bogged and we will all get 9.5 PL. Then there won't be any hope for tactics like this.
Worth a try, right?
"As for why the BPI is still called the BPI, well, it's historical momentum, I guess. Twentieth Century Fox is still called Twentieth Century Fox too, right?"
Yeah... I guess so.
" I think that it's fair to say that record refers to recording, not only to vinyl or any other specific medium."
I also think it's fair to say that phonorecord and phonograph refer to a recording medium.
Article quote "...The British Phonographic Industry (BPI)..."
Im glad I'm doing my part to driving up the industry's sales. I'll keep using my P2P networks and try to drive it even more.
It seems to work out for both of us. I pay nothing, the industrys sales skyrocket.
Woohoo for modern tech!
QUOTE "Also, in this case you would not be letting the policy lapse. You add the compact to the policy, remove the SUV. The policy has not lapsed. When you need to drive the SUV, you readd it to the policy. If you were letting *all* your insurance lapse, that would be a situation where they can raise your rate, but not if you have another vehicle insured.
"
This guy is driving his SUV every weekend. Doing policy changes and stuff every week would get a little hectic.
"Do you really think other countries will tolerate this? It's not like a satellite will stay in position over China. Satellites circle the globe in some patern. This could be the begin of a satellite war. Also, what's to stop China from using this on the US and Great Britian along with other countries of the world?"
If it's in a SYNCHRONOUS ORBIT it will stay in position.
A SYNCHRONOUS ORBIT is one in which the satellite moves or rotates at the same speed as the earth (e.g. means it wouldn't be wondering around the earth, since it'd be in sync with the earths rotation)
"he used to be a computer geek just like so many others and he's cut off from part of the internet just by virtue of his success."
No, he was a geek, not a computer geek. He hired people to do work on MS-DOS. He's the marketing type. He hired people to do his work.
Steve jobs never did too much neither, it was steve wozniac who did the work, steve jobs did the talking.
So what's bill gate's email address? The article neglected to mention that.
"There's no real point to cracking it if you have a legal version. You'd risk running some hacker's code on your machine just to save -maybe- 10 or 15 seconds when you loaded up a game? That's foolish. "
Isn't foolish at all, it's a time saver, and it also prevents you from having to buy a new CD-ROM dedicated to that game (if you play the game a lot.)
Say I play CS a lot, why should I have to buy a secondary CDROM to keep the CS disc in all the time? Thats when no-cd cracks come in handy.
"So far most crack authors have been very good about being minimalist and unintrusive, but someday, with some crack, they're going to fuck you."
No need to use foul language.