I agreed right up until everything that came after "meatspace". Fighting this online will do NOTHING. Most people don't give a crap about the internet and know squat about technology.
However, the measures are, as his name states, very trollish.
Yes they are. It doesn't matter how hypocritical and slimy those guys are. What matters is what they are capable of doing, and they're banking on most people (congress included) being ignorant.
Yes, because the MPAA/RIAA have never pulled costs out of their ass. "Look at what these miscreants did! They took down our site and it cost us (insert Pinocchio numbers here)! The government needs to crack down on this kind of hooliganism! Here, let us stuff your pockets, Senator Bedfellow..."
Are you really this STUPID? Can 4chan muster hordes of lawyers and effectively lobby congress? Anonymous is far too shortsighted to have any kind of lasting impact here. You're apparently one of them. A DDoS that brings their site down is nothing. It gives them more ammo to use against piracy when they lobby congress. 4chan isn't capable of more. They're rarely capable of anything in the real world, and that's where the RIAA and MPAA are hurting people.
This is nothing. This is a "moral" victory for idiots who need to feel important online because they don't know how to do that in the real world.
This is so true. I can sympathize with some of the ideas of Anonymous, but the problem is that they are feeding the very people they hate with idiocy like this. Now they have more ammo to sling right back, not only at the public, but at congress as well. "Look at what these little miscreants did! This is what pirates are like! Extend our already overextended power!"
The DDoS will be beneficial to the **AAs in the long run and the shortsighted idiots on 4chan are handing it to them on a silver platter.
Um...no. Most people don't give a crap about the website. They see the preview, the poster, and buy a ticket. On top of that, it's not like they can't get the trailer via Youtube if the site is down, assuming they would even go to that site for those few hours.
DDoSing a movie site would do diddly squat to the bottom line.
Disney did this years and years ago. I remember a ride in Disneyworld that was a 3D theater ride. Toward the end, it would let you choose how to get home, whether it was through space, plane, etc. The theater would choose by pushing one of several buttons on the armrest and the winning sequence would play. It has been done.
The graphics have already been benched. Anand had early samples and showed that the Intel integrated SB video was actually faster than a Radeon 5450 in most cases. Yeah, that's not great, but for integrated graphics that's pretty damned impressive.
Why no funeral for the Kin, MS? Also, I have to laugh heartily at the iPhone and Blackberry funerals. WM7 is going to kill those just like the Zune killed the iPod!
Aaaand nothing you've said in that post has anything to do with vaccines, which are for diseases that can be fatal. Sure, crawling around is necessary. I'm not a big fan of clean freaks who sterilize the hell out of everything. We can agree on that. But I fail to see how vaccines fit into that. Not slathering Purell on your hands every time you touch something isn't going to kill you. Pertussis could.
I know there was a hearing and he faced the possibility, but I'd heard that he got to keep it. Perhaps I'd heard wrong. It was an ugly fiasco, in any case.
Seeing as how mercury was almost entirely removed from childhood vaccines 10 years ago (about the only place you'll find it is a flu shot) and there was no accompanying drop in autism rates, I don't think you'd need to bother with that mercury test.
Trusting the word of someone in a profession where he/she inarguably knows more than you is not blind faith. It's called listening to your doctor. You're far more likely to be wrong or make a mistake than he/she is.
Hol-ee SHIT, are you really this fucking THICK? The entire vaccine scare was kicked off by an utter fraud who manipulated the hell out of his study and almost lost his license as a result. There is diddly squat to show a link between autism and vaccines. There is a crapload of research to show that it's all a load of crap. I remember the vaccine nutters going on about thimerasol...when it has been almost entirely absent from childhood vaccines for a decade! About the only place you'll find it is flu shots.
That and there is an utterly undeniable genetic component to autism.
This is a very good point. If they keep his money, I hope he sues the hell out of them and has criminal charges brought as well. It's goddamned time Paypal was held accountable. They should be held to the same regulations as banks.
What the hell are you smoking? The photographer was already paid by the shoe company, you dope, at least in cases where it was pulled by shoe company sites. The shoe company gets their return by having a picture of their shoe for people who want one and consider a purchase. How in the HELL does an internal database of these pictures in ANY way impact that business?
And when was the last time someone tried to sell a picture of a goddamned shoe tread?
All of your physical comparisons are utterly moot. You can't copy a car. Do you work for the damned RIAA or something?
As for software, that's strictly a commercial product. How is it "stealing" when you grab a freely available image from a website? When was the last time you had to pay for an image, excluding porn?
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Exactly. Free unlocking FTW!
I agreed right up until everything that came after "meatspace". Fighting this online will do NOTHING. Most people don't give a crap about the internet and know squat about technology.
However, the measures are, as his name states, very trollish.
Yes they are. It doesn't matter how hypocritical and slimy those guys are. What matters is what they are capable of doing, and they're banking on most people (congress included) being ignorant.
Yes, because the MPAA/RIAA have never pulled costs out of their ass. "Look at what these miscreants did! They took down our site and it cost us (insert Pinocchio numbers here)! The government needs to crack down on this kind of hooliganism! Here, let us stuff your pockets, Senator Bedfellow..."
Are you really this STUPID? Can 4chan muster hordes of lawyers and effectively lobby congress? Anonymous is far too shortsighted to have any kind of lasting impact here. You're apparently one of them. A DDoS that brings their site down is nothing. It gives them more ammo to use against piracy when they lobby congress. 4chan isn't capable of more. They're rarely capable of anything in the real world, and that's where the RIAA and MPAA are hurting people.
This is nothing. This is a "moral" victory for idiots who need to feel important online because they don't know how to do that in the real world.
This is so true. I can sympathize with some of the ideas of Anonymous, but the problem is that they are feeding the very people they hate with idiocy like this. Now they have more ammo to sling right back, not only at the public, but at congress as well. "Look at what these little miscreants did! This is what pirates are like! Extend our already overextended power!"
The DDoS will be beneficial to the **AAs in the long run and the shortsighted idiots on 4chan are handing it to them on a silver platter.
Um...no. Most people don't give a crap about the website. They see the preview, the poster, and buy a ticket. On top of that, it's not like they can't get the trailer via Youtube if the site is down, assuming they would even go to that site for those few hours.
DDoSing a movie site would do diddly squat to the bottom line.
You must be quite the acrobat to stretch that far. Jesus Christ, are you really that desperate to defend Google?
Disney did this years and years ago. I remember a ride in Disneyworld that was a 3D theater ride. Toward the end, it would let you choose how to get home, whether it was through space, plane, etc. The theater would choose by pushing one of several buttons on the armrest and the winning sequence would play. It has been done.
The graphics have already been benched. Anand had early samples and showed that the Intel integrated SB video was actually faster than a Radeon 5450 in most cases. Yeah, that's not great, but for integrated graphics that's pretty damned impressive.
We'd be like the Linux of algae
So they're going to grow algae in their neckbeards?
Why no funeral for the Kin, MS? Also, I have to laugh heartily at the iPhone and Blackberry funerals. WM7 is going to kill those just like the Zune killed the iPod!
Aaaand nothing you've said in that post has anything to do with vaccines, which are for diseases that can be fatal. Sure, crawling around is necessary. I'm not a big fan of clean freaks who sterilize the hell out of everything. We can agree on that. But I fail to see how vaccines fit into that. Not slathering Purell on your hands every time you touch something isn't going to kill you. Pertussis could.
I fail to see what you're trying to say here.
I know there was a hearing and he faced the possibility, but I'd heard that he got to keep it. Perhaps I'd heard wrong. It was an ugly fiasco, in any case.
Seeing as how mercury was almost entirely removed from childhood vaccines 10 years ago (about the only place you'll find it is a flu shot) and there was no accompanying drop in autism rates, I don't think you'd need to bother with that mercury test.
Um...autism existed before vaccines, so there you go.
Trusting the word of someone in a profession where he/she inarguably knows more than you is not blind faith. It's called listening to your doctor. You're far more likely to be wrong or make a mistake than he/she is.
Apparently they are. Your kid will be exposed to more crap by crawling around on the carpet than by getting injected with a vaccine.
This has to be a troll. An utter troll. Either that or it's a chiropractor who thinks his profession is somehow more than glorified massage therapy.
There is a known cause for autism. It's called genetics, and right now, it's the only known factor in the causation of autism.
Hol-ee SHIT, are you really this fucking THICK? The entire vaccine scare was kicked off by an utter fraud who manipulated the hell out of his study and almost lost his license as a result. There is diddly squat to show a link between autism and vaccines. There is a crapload of research to show that it's all a load of crap. I remember the vaccine nutters going on about thimerasol...when it has been almost entirely absent from childhood vaccines for a decade! About the only place you'll find it is flu shots.
That and there is an utterly undeniable genetic component to autism.
This is a very good point. If they keep his money, I hope he sues the hell out of them and has criminal charges brought as well. It's goddamned time Paypal was held accountable. They should be held to the same regulations as banks.
What the hell are you smoking? The photographer was already paid by the shoe company, you dope, at least in cases where it was pulled by shoe company sites. The shoe company gets their return by having a picture of their shoe for people who want one and consider a purchase. How in the HELL does an internal database of these pictures in ANY way impact that business?
And when was the last time someone tried to sell a picture of a goddamned shoe tread?
When was the last time someone tried to sell you a picture of a shoe?
All of your physical comparisons are utterly moot. You can't copy a car. Do you work for the damned RIAA or something?
As for software, that's strictly a commercial product. How is it "stealing" when you grab a freely available image from a website? When was the last time you had to pay for an image, excluding porn?