You just lost it right there. I'm tired of paying for all these things, plain and simple. $45/month for Internet access, $20/year for a domain, $10/month for hosting, now $??/year for the 'registry'...And I don't think I'm the only one that's keeping track of the costs of sending 'free' emails.
It's a nice thing that you can afford all of this, but I'm not rich. Current filters are still free; a hassle to use, but free.
I believe he was referring to email from friends and whatnot. Of course business-related email should always get through. But it would be nice if my personal account that's just for email from my friends wasn't full of Viagra spam.
The next thing we'll see is sites that don't work if you block the popups.
Then I just don't go back to those sites. I've already encountered some of those, but I can't tell you which ones because I found the info I wanted elsewhere.
You forget that WE are the customers. If they make it too difficult to read an article they lose viewers (and potential sales from ads). A website that doesn't display is the same as Wal-Mart leaving it's doors locked all day.
Do you intend to pay for their lawyers? Fighting a billion-dollar government isn't free, you know. Greenpeace (and any other organization) would be financially destroyed. That is not a free society...
Well, we sure don't get foriegn aid when we have a disaster, do we?
Then the next time you have a 9/11 and your people are stranded in Nova Scotia, we Canadians will just let them sleep on the runway rather than welcome them into our homes.
Is it not possible to somehow conceal an IP address? I'm surprised someone hasn't figured out how to create such a protocol yet. We have anonymous proxy servers for http traffic, but none for P2P traffic...
Innovation is a great thing...but I wish companies would give up on all this small media and put all their resources into something larger.
I'd pay a whole bunch for a small 200GB hard drive that I could hang on my keychain. Laptop drives are small, but not quite small enough. I'd put up with their extra size, but I haven't seen any break 80GB.
I'd just like to be able to plug my own hard drive into someone else's computer and have my own OS and files all ready. No smart cards, just smart technology. We should be able to build something like that by now...
Is proof of wrongdoing no longer required for a lawsuit? How can the RIAA prove you stole music if all the music is encrypted on your computer. How can they prove that all the encrypted files on your computer are in fact pirated songs?
Guilt can't be proven with only an IP address...or can it?
Software should be bought. But not everyone can afford it. That may not be legal justification for pirating software, but it is a cold fact of life.
I would love to have enough money to buy all the software I like to use, but unfortunately I am not that lucky. I pirate software so that I can learn how to use it so that I can compete against rich people for jobs. I'm sorry, but I don't want to work at McDonald's for the rest of my life just because I'm poor.
Piracy is wrong...but so are a lot of other things.
Actually they are shoving it down my throat. Work forces me to use Microsoft Office. Not OpenOffice or StarOffice - specifically Microsoft Office. Which requires Windows.
You are very lucky to be able to afford $300 software. I'm not so lucky...that $300 is part of my rent.
This used to be a problem for me too, and was the main reason I didn't switch completely to Linux. But recent browsers don't seem to have this problem anymore. Some newer browsers allow custom USER_AGENT values, which can trick a website into thinking you are using MSIE.
Give the current release of Firefox a try. Works great for me.
Weren't USB memory keys supposed to solve this problem? Just give the key a 512 or 1,024 bit password. If you lose the key, get a new one with a different password.
I use a file encryption program called AxCrypt along with a USB key; works great, albeit slow. A built-in AES or Blowfish function in the OS would be even simpler.
...getting sued means that you are on the right track. If they thought your findings weren't important, they wouldn't waste their time and money trying to sue you.
They're trying to cover up their own mistakes with this lawsuit. Everyone knows that.
...especially if you're a really poor Canadian. You can download and share all the files you want. They can't sue me for what I don't got. $30,000? Go fish!
...this won't likely happen. As important as stopping terrorism is, tracking every internet user is impossible. Too much data to store and sort through, especially once you factor in the resources required in decrypting most communications. If the government wants to waste money and time, why not try tracking every mosquito just in case it carries the West Nile virus?
Besides, do terrorists sell weapons of mass destruction on eBay now?
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You just lost it right there. I'm tired of paying for all these things, plain and simple. $45/month for Internet access, $20/year for a domain, $10/month for hosting, now $??/year for the 'registry'...And I don't think I'm the only one that's keeping track of the costs of sending 'free' emails.
It's a nice thing that you can afford all of this, but I'm not rich. Current filters are still free; a hassle to use, but free.
I believe he was referring to email from friends and whatnot. Of course business-related email should always get through. But it would be nice if my personal account that's just for email from my friends wasn't full of Viagra spam.
Then I just don't go back to those sites. I've already encountered some of those, but I can't tell you which ones because I found the info I wanted elsewhere.
You forget that WE are the customers. If they make it too difficult to read an article they lose viewers (and potential sales from ads). A website that doesn't display is the same as Wal-Mart leaving it's doors locked all day.
Do you intend to pay for their lawyers? Fighting a billion-dollar government isn't free, you know. Greenpeace (and any other organization) would be financially destroyed. That is not a free society...
Then the next time you have a 9/11 and your people are stranded in Nova Scotia, we Canadians will just let them sleep on the runway rather than welcome them into our homes.
I'd pay a whole bunch for a small 200GB hard drive that I could hang on my keychain. Laptop drives are small, but not quite small enough. I'd put up with their extra size, but I haven't seen any break 80GB.
I'd just like to be able to plug my own hard drive into someone else's computer and have my own OS and files all ready. No smart cards, just smart technology. We should be able to build something like that by now...
I would love to have enough money to buy all the software I like to use, but unfortunately I am not that lucky. I pirate software so that I can learn how to use it so that I can compete against rich people for jobs. I'm sorry, but I don't want to work at McDonald's for the rest of my life just because I'm poor.
Piracy is wrong...but so are a lot of other things.
You are very lucky to be able to afford $300 software. I'm not so lucky...that $300 is part of my rent.
Give the current release of Firefox a try. Works great for me.
I use a file encryption program called AxCrypt along with a USB key; works great, albeit slow. A built-in AES or Blowfish function in the OS would be even simpler.
Good idea or bad idea?
(notice: I didn't say legal, I said not illegal...for the time being)
They're trying to cover up their own mistakes with this lawsuit. Everyone knows that.
Keep up the good work!
I only mention it because I'm in it :)
Right...
tell that to my ex-girlfriend! No really...tell her. Better late than never.
Unless I got that backwards and I wasn't supposed to eat that can of black greasy goop...
Besides, do terrorists sell weapons of mass destruction on eBay now?
Gee, and I thought I did a good job only having half-a-dozen screws left over...