I kinda agree, there really haven't been any really origional bands in the past several years worth putting $13 down for a couple songs.
Yes, but that's only true for the Big Five. There are dozens of small labels around which produce great artists not for the sake of the big buck but because they love music!
IFPI Switzerland seems to go down the same road according to this article (german).
As in Canada, only uploading copyrighted music is illegal here, not downloading. As Switzerland is not member of the EU, the laws between the EU and Switzerland are quite different in some points. Cracking copy protection for instance isn't illegal (yet) AFAIK.
One wonders how the US government would react if a foreign nation tried a similar approach.
Invade it?
Ofcourse only if said country sits on shitloads of oil.
The german computer magazine c't reviewed word processors in it's last issue. They especially looked into large documents by inserting hundrets of images and footnotes into a document. MS Word's layout falled apart after 52 images (rendering the document in an unreparable state) while OpenOffice.org didn't show any problems at all.
This isn't a new problem BTW. I remeber having lost a document in Office 97 a few years ago...
Is there a way to trace back the master of these trojans and do something about it? Surely these trojans need to do something for their masters at some stage, probably waiting for commands somewhere.
Actually, there is a way. The German computer magazine c't had a story a few weeks ago (not aviable online) about a CS student who found out pretty much about a virus author. He disassembled the code, found an IRC channel hardcoded in the virus and then contactet those guys, pretending being interested in renting spambots.
At some point, he asked c't for asistance. After some more investigation, they gave all the acquired data to Scotland Yard. The virus author was arrested.
As it seems, virus authors aren't that smart and make mistakes because of their greed. So there is hope to catch a few more of'em...
since I use the Adblock extension for Mozilla and Firefox, the net has become practically adfree for me.
I remember a time when ads didn't disturb the reading pleasure of a website with all sorts of motion and sounds. I even clicked on banners sometimes back then. But since all those flashbanners and whatnot appeared, I rather block them
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Maya? Hey, we got PovRay, what more do we need? Well, sorta...
I kinda agree, there really haven't been any really origional bands in the past several years worth putting $13 down for a couple songs.
Yes, but that's only true for the Big Five. There are dozens of small labels around which produce great artists not for the sake of the big buck but because they love music!
This one is my favourite:
RFC 1149: A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
IFPI Switzerland seems to go down the same road according to this article (german).
As in Canada, only uploading copyrighted music is illegal here, not downloading. As Switzerland is not member of the EU, the laws between the EU and Switzerland are quite different in some points. Cracking copy protection for instance isn't illegal (yet) AFAIK.
One wonders how the US government would react if a foreign nation tried a similar approach. Invade it? Ofcourse only if said country sits on shitloads of oil.
The german computer magazine c't reviewed word processors in it's last issue. They especially looked into large documents by inserting hundrets of images and footnotes into a document. MS Word's layout falled apart after 52 images (rendering the document in an unreparable state) while OpenOffice.org didn't show any problems at all.
This isn't a new problem BTW. I remeber having lost a document in Office 97 a few years ago...
Is there a way to trace back the master of these trojans and do something about it? Surely these trojans need to do something for their masters at some stage, probably waiting for commands somewhere.
Actually, there is a way. The German computer magazine c't had a story a few weeks ago (not aviable online) about a CS student who found out pretty much about a virus author. He disassembled the code, found an IRC channel hardcoded in the virus and then contactet those guys, pretending being interested in renting spambots.
At some point, he asked c't for asistance. After some more investigation, they gave all the acquired data to Scotland Yard. The virus author was arrested.
As it seems, virus authors aren't that smart and make mistakes because of their greed. So there is hope to catch a few more of'em...
OK guys, I think the time is come to buy one last decent computer before this whole TPC-NGSCB-hell breaks loose...
since I use the Adblock extension for Mozilla and Firefox, the net has become practically adfree for me. I remember a time when ads didn't disturb the reading pleasure of a website with all sorts of motion and sounds. I even clicked on banners sometimes back then. But since all those flashbanners and whatnot appeared, I rather block them
Go ask the people in Afganistan and Iraq how much they think Dubya is simulated...
> The good folks at RealNetworks have an opportunity
> to become a de facto standard but they should run
> right out of the box
I never thought to see "good folks" and RealNetworks so close in one sentence...
Could someone explain to this genious what a Joe-Job is?