"Whats the psychology behind a crackpot conspiracy theorist? I mean is it some kind of mental disorder? Do you think there could ever be a treatment?"
So sorry, but trying to put me down with childish name-calling will not change reality.
If a plane had NOT hit the Pentagon that would be a huge story every network would want to get to the bottom of and scoop the rest of the news industry. The reason why no mainstream news sources dispute that a plane hit the Pentagon is because a PLANE ACTUALLY HIT THE PENTAGON.
This comment is also meaningless and close to slander. By the same logic, one must conclude that if a plane had hit the Pentagon it would not be a huge story mentioned on any news network.
So what else do you think is fake that the rest of the world accepts as fact?
By the logic everyone thinks it is true so it must be, I am forced to conclude that the world was indeed flat until someone realized it was round.
Please search the web and look at the available evidence that indicates if a Boeng 747 did or did not hit the Pentagon 11. September 2001. Please look into it and judge the available evidence yourself. http://www.terrorize.dk/ is a new Danish collection of available 911 photos and videos with real footate most people in the USA have never seen, the site will provide a great insight regardless of your current view.
"The number of contradictions in the official version of . . . 9/11 is so overwhelming that . . . it simply cannot be believed. Yet . . . the official version cannot be abandoned because the implication of rejecting it is far too disturbing: that we are subject to a government conspiracy of 'X-Files' proportions and insidiousness."
"The implications are indeed disturbing. Many people who know or at least suspect the truth about 9/11 probably believe that revealing it would be so disturbing to the American psyche, the American form of government, and global stability that it is better to pretend to believe the official version. I would suggest, however, that any merit this argument may have had earlier has been overcome by more recent events and realizations. Far more devastating to the American psyche, the American form of government, and the world as a whole will be the continued rule of those who brought us 9/11, because the values reflected in that horrendous event have been reflected in the Bush administration's lies to justify the attack on Iraq, its disregard for environmental science and the Bill of Rights, its criminal negligence both before and after Katrina, and now its apparent plan not only to weaponize space but also to authorize the use of nuclear weapons in a preemptive strike.
I strongly disagree with "but don't think the privacy of your tv is more important than your online privacy" for ONE simple reason.
Most people run Windows on their computers and are thereby at the whim of a company who is still telling you a airplane hit the Pentagon on 11. September 2001 http://thewebfairy.com/killtown/flight77.htmlhttp://www.google.com/search?q=pentagon+flight+77 in their so-called Encyclopedia even though it is so much evidence one did not that it should be totally obvious even to a four year old, but with computers, at least you have a choice. There are other choices like Linux available. You can choose to run a Operating System where you have complete access to the source code.
But when it comes to Television, you traditionally have absolutely no control what so ever what the device is doing. You have to blindly put your faith in the hands of the corporation who provided you with the device. With a computer, you can encrypt your e-mail, deny sites to set cookies and so forth. You are control. With a TV-type device, you are generally NOT. That is why I find it far more important to ensure that such devices respect your privacy; You simply have to accept the software in the device where as a computer allows you to completely customize it according to your privacy preferences.
Are you afraid that Google will spy on you?
Edit - Preferences - Cookies - Allow sites to set cookies - Click "for the orginating web site only", select Keep Cookies: until I close Firefox
That being said, there is also a lot of plug-ins like the ones who show "Page Rank" that track you. And the Google spyb.. eh, toolbar. But those are optional additions, just like keeping cookies (or accepting them at all) is a choice IF you have basic computer knowledge.
"With high federal offices being given to the wives, sons and daughters of senior members of the Bush administration, the Hearst Corporation executives that publish Popular Mechanics magazine probably didn't worry about the ethical considerations of hiring a cousin of Michael Chertoff, a former Assistant Attorney General and the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as senior researcher."
Is it not interesting that the Hearst Corporation http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/hearst.asp thinks a person from the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security is better suited to tell the truth than a real, educated journalist? (It is a good idea to visit cjr and educate yourself on what other media stations are likely only to publish what SDHS approves, like "National Geographic": http://www.terrorize.dk/911/pentagon2/
Is it not also interesting that their article that is supposed to debulk the truth, read page 6 in that so-called "facst" article, in no way what so ever proves that a plane hit anywhere near the Pentagon, only provdes loose slander? http://www.terrorize.dk/911/pentagon1/
Is it not nice to know that most of the free world view it as a fact that the fires in the Pentagon were started by arson?
Is it not comforting to know that most of the, in reality, free world now - like 63% of Canada - now view it as a FACT proven beyond all doubt that WTF 1, 2 and 7 were destroyed by controlled demolition?
I was about to, then I did whois and found someone took the name back in 1998.. I will of course follow your idea as soon as you come up with another great name that's not already taken.
The adult anY Of Us industry does not pAy foR that kind of slEazy adveRtIsements in-line in content. NothinG indicaTes that this is very common. There are also nobody In the inDustry who posts on Slashdot just to promote theIr websites. This post is meant to be informative anD NOT just something I wrote to make you click my link and then onto the porn sites listed theer. Such claims are just Bogous, wIerD arE Not that corrUpt, nothinG indicates tHey got money.
Actually, I already read through that whole article. And compared bit by bit with the Wikipedia article and all the links to other sources that provides. And that is why there is absolutely no doubt what so ever in my mind... Please do so yourself and give it careful consideration. Feel free to tell me if you'd like to debate this further in a relevant thread on Slashdot or any other forum; this particual thread is about RFID chips.
We all know it is bad that people now are able to tell the truth about corporate abuse. The world was much a much better place when corporations like Fox were able to say that "We will decide what the news is. The news is what we tell you it is." http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1998Q2/foxbgh.htm l and make journalists who were able to think for themselves and had their own opinions shup up.
Oh. They setup a computer and watched how it could be exploited and went after the people doing the exploiting. Now that seems like a smart way to handle the problem. If it was my product then I would consider actually closing the holes that allow spammers to exploit Windows to be the best solution. But hell, what do I know?
And as soon as RFID chip passports and RFID-identification cards are commonly distributed, someone screams out that everyone should be required to carry a RFID-enabled ID card at all times.
Take my word for it. This is only a first step towards such an underlying goal. And the numb-minded US population will fall for it and accept it. And if they do not initially, then the US goverment can (and will) just create another illuded terrorist threat or train someone to fly a couple of air-planes into a building and then, hours after, blow it up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theor ies so the population again thinks they need the goverment, who in reality is threatening their, their security and their freedom, to protect them against future threats.
What will the punishment for being stopped on the street without RFID identification be? Let me guess, some kind of RFID-enabled implant...
HBO is not giving you a free download, as in your cheese analogy.
You are right. HBO are not http://xiando.com/ and are not giving away (adult) movies for free. This is why xiando > HBO.
HBO is fighting illegal distribution of their material. They do give you a free taste of the show in their advertising. That is the level they feel comfortable giving out.
They are also giving away the show free on the normal airwaves. They seem fairly comfortable with that. BitTorrent distribution would cost them about $100/month pr. 6mbit seed, if they were to set that up themselves. The current situation, however, is that other people seem to be willing to pay for such seeds. HBO are getting a pile of free viewers extra at virtuall no cost. And they are, for some reason, angry about that increased revenue potential.
HBO could post their own shows with advertisements and make huge profit. Instead they are stupid and act like children.
You downloading the show is like going to the dairy section and opening / eating whatever cheese you want. They should do like XM and let you get an online account if you pay for the service and download / stream content when you can't watch otherwise.
There is no good alternative way to download TV shows. Streaming is no alternative. All kinds of streaming solutions suck compared to divx/bittorrent. Most of them don't even work with Linux. Show me a equally good alternative to "dirty pirate" bittorrent sites for downloading TV shows? There is none regardless of how much you are willing to pay.
You pay for the stuff, why not get internet access as well? If enough people go that way, maybe you can even charge for access online instead of offering it free to your current subscribers...
People are willing to pay for any solution with the same quality. Adult sites allow you to download the movies in.wmv and other formats. People love to download good adult movies for free from bittorrent sites like http://xiando.com/and they also love to pay for such movies at very cheap pay-sites. The system could easily be applied to mainstream shows.
There is no free site with say a few TV-episodes and links to pay-sites where you can pay $5 to download all the episodes of that show. HBO are idiots. They should allow me to push a few of each episode of all their shows and provide a $5 paysite where people can sign up and download all the episodes in the divx quality format people are used.:)
Thank you for reading all of this. May I just add that adult movies are good for you!?
Obviously Microsoft is "capable of" linking to a 100MB installer, but they charge you a pile of dollars for a copy of MS Office. Google can and will link, like anyone, because OpenOffice is free. This is just a brick in the house Google is trying to build by promoting open source, because they know every new brick in that house is a brick taken from Microsofts fortress.
The fact that the current situation is bad does not make it a good thing or make it right. And there ARE Linux-based alternatives http://welectronics.com/gsm/Motorola/Motorola_A768 i.html available today. The choice is yours, you do not need to buy a phone with custom created software if you do not want one.
I posted this already, many times. But regardless, I am going to repeat myself.
I simply do not accept to pay when buying something with DRM as if I were buying it but am in reality RENTING IT.
By that I mean that if I BUY an apartment, then I am allowed to paint the walls the color that pleases me because it is MINE, I own it and can do as I please with MY apartment. However, if I RENT an apartment, then I must ASK the OWNER of the apartment for his/her permission to paint the walls. If I own it I do not need to ask, it is mine to do as I please. If I rent, then it is NOT mine and I must ask the REAL owner.
Now, with DRM, I am paying like I am buying, I am told I am buying, but the reality remains I still have to get someone else to give me permission to do as I please with my device. And if I have to do that, then I do not feel like I am the real owner.
And your boss sounds like the most naive person I have read about as of yet. Usually what you do and create at work belongs to your employer, what you do in your spare time belongs to you. That is why you are paid during work hours and not paid when you are at home, that is the difference between your time and company time. But since your boss seems so eager to give away the IP rights that by all sense should belong to the company who pays you for developing it you should try to get them to allow it to be released under GNU GPL or Creative Commons.
Seriously, how many of the biggest torrentt sites on the net does not have any advertisements? Most of them do. So this advertisement revenue is used to actually pay for the right to distribute the content that is already illegally available at torrent sites instead of going strait into the site owners pocket, is not that a good thing? If you can download the latest movie or whatever easily, does it really bother you that the money goes to pay the actual copyright holder instead of being used to found a new sports-car for the tracker owner?
'The piracy business is not something anyone can make money on,' is the most stupid thing I ever read. Are not The Pirate Bay making money? If you think they are not then look at their traffic http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details? q=&url=thepiratebay.org and ask yourself "Is there a website with that much traffic that is NOT making money?". Yeah, I realize that their sponsors, the advertisement companies they use, are among the worst in the industry. Why? Because more serious corporations like Google Adsense does not allow their advertisements to be placed on websites like that. But even though they are using the worst paying solutions in the industry, they ARE making money. Lots of money.
BitTorrent sites are generally not about "being kind" or "we are against copyright or have some other justification". Websites (including BitTorrent trackers) ARE ABOUT PROFIT. And there IS profit in it. I know. I once had sites who, then, had the same traffic as the pirate bay had. It was not a tracker, the sites merely indexed trackers and mirrored their torrents. So it was even "more innocent" than the pirate bay. And I could claim that "we are not hosting this content" and "we are not even tracking it" and therefore me, in fact, in reality, making money off piracy was therefore alright and justified. Then the RIAA started getting angry about music and even though the sites technically were not doing anything wrong it was obvious the money made was made because of piracy. So I choose to remove the music section and configure the spider to ignore.mp3. Then the MPAA started their propaganda in the media against movie piracy and I rewrote the spider and the scripts and so they automatically removed all movies. Then were was only television shows left, and the MPAA did not indicate they minded that. But later they decided that too was bad and again pushed propaganda on the media, and then there was nothing left to filter away and I closed those sites, contacted the mainstream entertainment industry, tried to get legal deals and found that only the adult industry were willing to allow some content to be distributed by BitTorrent. Today I have several (legal) adult torrent sites.
I honestly consider I did consider the alternative: Rent servers in a country like Sweden and engage i major copyright theft. I even made spreadsheets and so on. Even though I got quite pissed off when the MPAA stupidly claimed that sharing television shows is somehow piracy and bad and that alone, apart from the huge profit, made me want to do it, I at length decided that it would be morally wrong.
Why am I telling you all of this? To make a point. There IS a lot of money to be made off piracy. And that is why a lot of people are doing it. I never had a thousand-part of the traffic the pirate bay has today, and I still made a lot of advertisement money off mirroring torrents. Technically that money was not made from piracy, only by distributing hash codes and links as one may innocently claim, but in reality it was made off illegal distribution of copyrighted media files. No matter how much you claim "we are only tracking" or "only mirroring torrents" or whatever, torrent sties and torrent search engines and even normal search engines who pick up.torrents make a lot of profit off piracy. That is the truth and we all know it, we just choose to support this and turn the blind eye because it suits us (and also because there IS NO LEGAL ALTERNATIVE that is equally good).
The people who run BitTorrent sites and trackers, legal or not, sites do it because IT IS PROFITABLE.
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As a general security measure, I use different passwords for all the Internet services I use. I simply do not trust the random forum and service owners I use enough; not because I distrust any concrete service like say Slashdot, but because it only takes one dishonest service owner to look up my password in order to have them all if I were to use the same one everywhere. Instead, I have a very long, huge text-file with all my password which is stored on my bestcrypt http://www.jetico.com/ partition. The system works great for me. Alright, I have to look up the service and password every time, but as I always have that file open in kate since I use it frequently it is not a big deal. This works fine for me and I recommend it. This way I only have to remember the actual sentence I use as a password for my bestcrypt drive, and nobody can use the password on one service to guess my password on another since they are all random garbage like we4kBoc3fis...
So I think that a "a master password" IS the solution. Every employee can easily have their own personal master password where they keep a record of all their passwords, and this allows every employee to have a random password that only works for them assigned for each service they use.
ALL. I did a pull on this locally. Not a very big one, it counted less than two hundred, but it still gave a clear and disturbing picture. The majority would accept and allow to have a video camera which they were not allowed to turn off or cover up in every room in their home to prevent crime and terrorism. Finding out this made me sick so I almost puked, but is the sad truth: The majority thinks that is acceptable.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
And I do not want to check if the majority would allow DNA samples to be taken from every child at birth, simply because I already know the answer and just do not want it documented. But I secretly know that too is inevitable.
People will by into any propaganda-hyped threat selected by the government and accept any and all violation of their privacy. It does not matter if the threat is real or not. The war, being against countries, terrorism or anything else which fits the current day and age, is meant to and will continue to exist, because the threat is not meant to be overwinned. The state of fear is meant to be continuous. It does not matter if the threat exists, it does not matter if it is real, the only thing that really matters is that it is ever-present so people continuously fear something so badly that they are willing to accept anything the government proclaims will give them back a notion of security.
Could it be that the _real_ long-term agenda and question here is not just collecting from those who come in contact with the Police at some point, but to create a database of EVERYONE?
Could this, if it passes, just be another small step towards making a law which requires everyone to have their DNA in a database?
Could it be that EVERY TIME another push in that direction this dream comes one step closer?
Will everyones grandchildren blindly accept that their children DNA is, by pure routine, sampled at the hospital at birth? Since this is normal to them, because we allowed it?
Have you ever heard of a bill or suggestion to give back freedom and privacy to the citizens? I never have. Allow video surveillance of your cities. Allow video surveillance of all public places. Allow everyones DNA to be sampled. Allow a law that requires a video camera which is not allowed to be turned off in every room with four walls. It's all good, for it will prevent terrorism.
Now what kind of society do you have? Well, I'll tell you. At the rate inch by inch of privacy and liberty is taken away, you're one step our society three years from now. Feel free to bookmark this post. I am serious. This vision is much closer than you may think.
This is also subject to debate, but there are good reasons to view a human being who is driving a car a kind of cyborg. It's not living tissue over metal skeleton, it's a metal skeleton with living tissue inside it, controlling it, but if you view the car moving along as a single entity and want to call that something then "cyborg" is among the words who come to mind as pretty fitting.
Building weapons like this is a bad idea. How can they ensure that the enemy, who ever they are, does not get access to the robots control system and thus turn them? By software, I assume. Software can have bugs. Bugs, on any kind of armed robot, can have disastrous effects. What if an enemy attempt at taking over the robots makes it lock it's control system from external access so even their owners can't control it anymore? What if the attack software bugs and starts viewing any biological life-form as hostile? Is it just me who gets way too many questions like that when I read about such robots? Am I the only one who gets a huge fear that the schedule for the inevitable Terminator-movies Judgment Day was just moved forward by a century? What if this robot, or the next generator, or the far more advanced version that will be produced in 10 years get infected with a computer virus, worm or just malfunctions because of a bug in the software?
Environment impact free electricity ? Have you got some?
No. So sorry, like with a free-lunch, there is no such thing. But there are, obviously, some methods who are less damaging than others.
your house, bike etc. If you want to have a significant impact on saving the environment, I suggest killing yourself, because it will immediately and very effectively prevent the environmental damage you'll cause by your mere existance for the next 30 to 50 years (or however long you live).
Yes. I have very seriously considered killing myself for exactly those reasons. But I am egoistic, so I found that I will kill myself delayed: I am not going to have children.
That's the first time I've heard of environmental impact being used to justify the theft of other people's right to control the copying of their work.
I do not justify piracy nor participate in it. But what I said remains true. If you download a porn movie from http://xiando.com/ then you have NOT engaged in theft. We have the RIGHT to distribute a broad range of quality adult movies.. We do NOT have the right to distribute any mainstream movies because the mainstream movie industry are stuck in the 90s and think the CD and DVD have a long-term future, which they do not.
Are you next going to suggest robbing banks so that they can't give money to people because those people might then go and buy an SUV which has an environmental impact ?
Please actually read the original post and perhaps think before posting in the future. I never encouraged stealing, merely stated a fact. On-line distribution vs traditional DVD distribution HAS NOTHING to do with piracy. You can download a few movies free from http://hardcoretorrents.com/ and you can, if you like the free movies, sign up for five bucks and get access to thousands more quality porn movies. Five bucks. LEGAL. No violation of anything. This modell works for the adult industry, it works very well, and has done so for years. As I already stated in this thread, most adult industry have already switched to pure on-line distribution, where as the mainstream industry still thinks it is 1995.
I never said P2P is a good thing. I am just saying that the mainstream movie industry should provide a equally good legal alternative, just like the adult industry did years ago.
Thank you very much for pointing out that every single time you purchase any kind of goods or service, you are casting a vote
* for or against the future of all living species on earth and
* for or against a corporation and their environmental policy.
And I know the choice between buying a DVD or buying entertainment on-line is a small and insignificant part of a huge whole. But the thread is about DVD movies. I could go on and on about this subject, but this is not a fitting thread to rabble on about that subject.
And I do realize it is very hard to maintain a sustaiable life today, but it is worth trying to ensure sustainability every single time you make any kind of choice anyway. I personally do not own or want to ever own a car, I do not buy new clothes for fashion or other extravagant reasons, I wear those I have until they are too full of holes to do their function regardless of the way short-sighted society looks at me. Because I try my best to choose sustainability every time I make a choice. And I still do huge damage to the earth and biological diversity, and even though I am confident my personal damage is less than a tenth of the damage the average local person does, I still feel bad about the damage I do.
You produce the DVD. Then you recycle it. Then you make another DVD. Are you trying to tell me that somehow leaves zero footprint? How could that be possible, eh? Does it not require raw materials to be extracted from the earth, eh? Does not the recycle process itself also cause bi-products, eh? Does it not require energy, eh?
If you download a movie from the Internet then you have done zero damage. Do you not understand, after reading my suggestion to actually THINK AHEAD a tad longer than your nose, perhaps a few generations or so?
Are you not reading my posts at all, or are you just very stupid, or am I explaining sustainability in too hard terms for you and the American population, who I read yesterday have a stunning 20% who still thinks the earth is the center of the universe and that the sun spins around it daily?
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"Whats the psychology behind a crackpot conspiracy theorist? I mean is it some kind of mental disorder? Do you think there could ever be a treatment?"
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So sorry, but trying to put me down with childish name-calling will not change reality.
If a plane had NOT hit the Pentagon that would be a huge story every network would want to get to the bottom of and scoop the rest of the news industry. The reason why no mainstream news sources dispute that a plane hit the Pentagon is because a PLANE ACTUALLY HIT THE PENTAGON.
This comment is also meaningless and close to slander. By the same logic, one must conclude that if a plane had hit the Pentagon it would not be a huge story mentioned on any news network.
So what else do you think is fake that the rest of the world accepts as fact?
By the logic everyone thinks it is true so it must be, I am forced to conclude that the world was indeed flat until someone realized it was round.
Please search the web and look at the available evidence that indicates if a Boeng 747 did or did not hit the Pentagon 11. September 2001. Please look into it and judge the available evidence yourself. http://www.terrorize.dk/ is a new Danish collection of available 911 photos and videos with real footate most people in the USA have never seen, the site will provide a great insight regardless of your current view.
"The number of contradictions in the official version of . . . 9/11 is so overwhelming that . . . it simply cannot be believed. Yet . . . the official version cannot be abandoned because the implication of rejecting it is far too disturbing: that we are subject to a government conspiracy of 'X-Files' proportions and insidiousness."
"The implications are indeed disturbing. Many people who know or at least suspect the truth about 9/11 probably believe that revealing it would be so disturbing to the American psyche, the American form of government, and global stability that it is better to pretend to believe the official version. I would suggest, however, that any merit this argument may have had earlier has been overcome by more recent events and realizations. Far more devastating to the American psyche, the American form of government, and the world as a whole will be the continued rule of those who brought us 9/11, because the values reflected in that horrendous event have been reflected in the Bush administration's lies to justify the attack on Iraq, its disregard for environmental science and the Bill of Rights, its criminal negligence both before and after Katrina, and now its apparent plan not only to weaponize space but also to authorize the use of nuclear weapons in a preemptive strike.
-- Griffin Madison: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/10/326074.htm
I strongly disagree with "but don't think the privacy of your tv is more important than your online privacy" for ONE simple reason.
Most people run Windows on their computers and are thereby at the whim of a company who is still telling you a airplane hit the Pentagon on 11. September 2001 http://thewebfairy.com/killtown/flight77.html http://www.google.com/search?q=pentagon+flight+77 in their so-called Encyclopedia even though it is so much evidence one did not that it should be totally obvious even to a four year old, but with computers, at least you have a choice. There are other choices like Linux available. You can choose to run a Operating System where you have complete access to the source code.
But when it comes to Television, you traditionally have absolutely no control what so ever what the device is doing. You have to blindly put your faith in the hands of the corporation who provided you with the device. With a computer, you can encrypt your e-mail, deny sites to set cookies and so forth. You are control. With a TV-type device, you are generally NOT. That is why I find it far more important to ensure that such devices respect your privacy; You simply have to accept the software in the device where as a computer allows you to completely customize it according to your privacy preferences.
Are you afraid that Google will spy on you? Edit - Preferences - Cookies - Allow sites to set cookies - Click "for the orginating web site only", select Keep Cookies: until I close Firefox That being said, there is also a lot of plug-ins like the ones who show "Page Rank" that track you. And the Google spyb.. eh, toolbar. But those are optional additions, just like keeping cookies (or accepting them at all) is a choice IF you have basic computer knowledge.
"With high federal offices being given to the wives, sons and daughters of senior members of the Bush administration, the Hearst Corporation executives that publish Popular Mechanics magazine probably didn't worry about the ethical considerations of hiring a cousin of Michael Chertoff, a former Assistant Attorney General and the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as senior researcher."
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Is it not interesting that the Hearst Corporation http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/hearst.asp thinks a person from the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security is better suited to tell the truth than a real, educated journalist? (It is a good idea to visit cjr and educate yourself on what other media stations are likely only to publish what SDHS approves, like "National Geographic":
http://www.terrorize.dk/911/pentagon2/
Is it not also interesting that their article that is supposed to debulk the truth, read page 6 in that so-called "facst" article, in no way what so ever proves that a plane hit anywhere near the Pentagon, only provdes loose slander?
http://www.terrorize.dk/911/pentagon1/
Is it not nice to know that most of the free world view it as a fact that the fires in the Pentagon were started by arson?
Is it not comforting to know that most of the, in reality, free world now - like 63% of Canada - now view it as a FACT proven beyond all doubt that WTF 1, 2 and 7 were destroyed by controlled demolition?
http://www.terrorize.dk/911/
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/10/326074.htm
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=2005102
I was about to, then I did whois and found someone took the name back in 1998.. I will of course follow your idea as soon as you come up with another great name that's not already taken.
The adult anY Of Us industry does not pAy foR that kind of slEazy adveRtIsements in-line in content. NothinG indicaTes that this is very common. There are also nobody In the inDustry who posts on Slashdot just to promote theIr websites. This post is meant to be informative anD NOT just something I wrote to make you click my link and then onto the porn sites listed theer. Such claims are just Bogous, wIerD arE Not that corrUpt, nothinG indicates tHey got money.
Actually, I already read through that whole article. And compared bit by bit with the Wikipedia article and all the links to other sources that provides. And that is why there is absolutely no doubt what so ever in my mind... Please do so yourself and give it careful consideration. Feel free to tell me if you'd like to debate this further in a relevant thread on Slashdot or any other forum; this particual thread is about RFID chips.
We all know it is bad that people now are able to tell the truth about corporate abuse. The world was much a much better place when corporations like Fox were able to say that "We will decide what the news is. The news is what we tell you it is." http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1998Q2/foxbgh.htm l and make journalists who were able to think for themselves and had their own opinions shup up.
Oh. They setup a computer and watched how it could be exploited and went after the people doing the exploiting. Now that seems like a smart way to handle the problem. If it was my product then I would consider actually closing the holes that allow spammers to exploit Windows to be the best solution. But hell, what do I know?
And as soon as RFID chip passports and RFID-identification cards are commonly distributed, someone screams out that everyone should be required to carry a RFID-enabled ID card at all times.
r ies so the population again thinks they need the goverment, who in reality is threatening their, their security and their freedom, to protect them against future threats.
Take my word for it. This is only a first step towards such an underlying goal. And the numb-minded US population will fall for it and accept it. And if they do not initially, then the US goverment can (and will) just create another illuded terrorist threat or train someone to fly a couple of air-planes into a building and then, hours after, blow it up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theo
What will the punishment for being stopped on the street without RFID identification be? Let me guess, some kind of RFID-enabled implant...
HBO is not giving you a free download, as in your cheese analogy.
.wmv and other formats. People love to download good adult movies for free from bittorrent sites like http://xiando.com/ and they also love to pay for such movies at very cheap pay-sites. The system could easily be applied to mainstream shows.
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You are right. HBO are not http://xiando.com/ and are not giving away (adult) movies for free. This is why xiando > HBO.
HBO is fighting illegal distribution of their material. They do give you a free taste of the show in their advertising. That is the level they feel comfortable giving out.
They are also giving away the show free on the normal airwaves. They seem fairly comfortable with that. BitTorrent distribution would cost them about $100/month pr. 6mbit seed, if they were to set that up themselves. The current situation, however, is that other people seem to be willing to pay for such seeds. HBO are getting a pile of free viewers extra at virtuall no cost. And they are, for some reason, angry about that increased revenue potential.
HBO could post their own shows with advertisements and make huge profit. Instead they are stupid and act like children.
You downloading the show is like going to the dairy section and opening / eating whatever cheese you want. They should do like XM and let you get an online account if you pay for the service and download / stream content when you can't watch otherwise.
There is no good alternative way to download TV shows. Streaming is no alternative. All kinds of streaming solutions suck compared to divx/bittorrent. Most of them don't even work with Linux. Show me a equally good alternative to "dirty pirate" bittorrent sites for downloading TV shows? There is none regardless of how much you are willing to pay.
You pay for the stuff, why not get internet access as well? If enough people go that way, maybe you can even charge for access online instead of offering it free to your current subscribers...
People are willing to pay for any solution with the same quality. Adult sites allow you to download the movies in
There is no free site with say a few TV-episodes and links to pay-sites where you can pay $5 to download all the episodes of that show. HBO are idiots. They should allow me to push a few of each episode of all their shows and provide a $5 paysite where people can sign up and download all the episodes in the divx quality format people are used.
Thank you for reading all of this. May I just add that adult movies are good for you!?
Obviously Microsoft is "capable of" linking to a 100MB installer, but they charge you a pile of dollars for a copy of MS Office. Google can and will link, like anyone, because OpenOffice is free. This is just a brick in the house Google is trying to build by promoting open source, because they know every new brick in that house is a brick taken from Microsofts fortress.
The fact that the current situation is bad does not make it a good thing or make it right. And there ARE Linux-based alternatives http://welectronics.com/gsm/Motorola/Motorola_A768 i.html available today. The choice is yours, you do not need to buy a phone with custom created software if you do not want one.
I posted this already, many times. But regardless, I am going to repeat myself.
I simply do not accept to pay when buying something with DRM as if I were buying it but am in reality RENTING IT.
By that I mean that if I BUY an apartment, then I am allowed to paint the walls the color that pleases me because it is MINE, I own it and can do as I please with MY apartment. However, if I RENT an apartment, then I must ASK the OWNER of the apartment for his/her permission to paint the walls. If I own it I do not need to ask, it is mine to do as I please. If I rent, then it is NOT mine and I must ask the REAL owner.
Now, with DRM, I am paying like I am buying, I am told I am buying, but the reality remains I still have to get someone else to give me permission to do as I please with my device. And if I have to do that, then I do not feel like I am the real owner.
And your boss sounds like the most naive person I have read about as of yet. Usually what you do and create at work belongs to your employer, what you do in your spare time belongs to you. That is why you are paid during work hours and not paid when you are at home, that is the difference between your time and company time. But since your boss seems so eager to give away the IP rights that by all sense should belong to the company who pays you for developing it you should try to get them to allow it to be released under GNU GPL or Creative Commons.
"Now we've got advertising to deal with as well."
Seriously, how many of the biggest torrentt sites on the net does not have any advertisements? Most of them do. So this advertisement revenue is used to actually pay for the right to distribute the content that is already illegally available at torrent sites instead of going strait into the site owners pocket, is not that a good thing? If you can download the latest movie or whatever easily, does it really bother you that the money goes to pay the actual copyright holder instead of being used to found a new sports-car for the tracker owner?
'The piracy business is not something anyone can make money on,' is the most stupid thing I ever read. Are not The Pirate Bay making money? If you think they are not then look at their traffic http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details? q=&url=thepiratebay.org and ask yourself "Is there a website with that much traffic that is NOT making money?". Yeah, I realize that their sponsors, the advertisement companies they use, are among the worst in the industry. Why? Because more serious corporations like Google Adsense does not allow their advertisements to be placed on websites like that. But even though they are using the worst paying solutions in the industry, they ARE making money. Lots of money.
.mp3. Then the MPAA started their propaganda in the media against movie piracy and I rewrote the spider and the scripts and so they automatically removed all movies. Then were was only television shows left, and the MPAA did not indicate they minded that. But later they decided that too was bad and again pushed propaganda on the media, and then there was nothing left to filter away and I closed those sites, contacted the mainstream entertainment industry, tried to get legal deals and found that only the adult industry were willing to allow some content to be distributed by BitTorrent. Today I have several (legal) adult torrent sites.
.torrents make a lot of profit off piracy. That is the truth and we all know it, we just choose to support this and turn the blind eye because it suits us (and also because there IS NO LEGAL ALTERNATIVE that is equally good).
BitTorrent sites are generally not about "being kind" or "we are against copyright or have some other justification". Websites (including BitTorrent trackers) ARE ABOUT PROFIT. And there IS profit in it. I know. I once had sites who, then, had the same traffic as the pirate bay had. It was not a tracker, the sites merely indexed trackers and mirrored their torrents. So it was even "more innocent" than the pirate bay. And I could claim that "we are not hosting this content" and "we are not even tracking it" and therefore me, in fact, in reality, making money off piracy was therefore alright and justified. Then the RIAA started getting angry about music and even though the sites technically were not doing anything wrong it was obvious the money made was made because of piracy. So I choose to remove the music section and configure the spider to ignore
I honestly consider I did consider the alternative: Rent servers in a country like Sweden and engage i major copyright theft. I even made spreadsheets and so on. Even though I got quite pissed off when the MPAA stupidly claimed that sharing television shows is somehow piracy and bad and that alone, apart from the huge profit, made me want to do it, I at length decided that it would be morally wrong.
Why am I telling you all of this? To make a point. There IS a lot of money to be made off piracy. And that is why a lot of people are doing it. I never had a thousand-part of the traffic the pirate bay has today, and I still made a lot of advertisement money off mirroring torrents. Technically that money was not made from piracy, only by distributing hash codes and links as one may innocently claim, but in reality it was made off illegal distribution of copyrighted media files. No matter how much you claim "we are only tracking" or "only mirroring torrents" or whatever, torrent sties and torrent search engines and even normal search engines who pick up
The people who run BitTorrent sites and trackers, legal or not, sites do it because IT IS PROFITABLE.
I use Another Password Generator for all my passwords. http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/
As a general security measure, I use different passwords for all the Internet services I use. I simply do not trust the random forum and service owners I use enough; not because I distrust any concrete service like say Slashdot, but because it only takes one dishonest service owner to look up my password in order to have them all if I were to use the same one everywhere. Instead, I have a very long, huge text-file with all my password which is stored on my bestcrypt http://www.jetico.com/ partition. The system works great for me. Alright, I have to look up the service and password every time, but as I always have that file open in kate since I use it frequently it is not a big deal. This works fine for me and I recommend it. This way I only have to remember the actual sentence I use as a password for my bestcrypt drive, and nobody can use the password on one service to guess my password on another since they are all random garbage like we4kBoc3fis...
So I think that a "a master password" IS the solution. Every employee can easily have their own personal master password where they keep a record of all their passwords, and this allows every employee to have a random password that only works for them assigned for each service they use.
ALL. I did a pull on this locally. Not a very big one, it counted less than two hundred, but it still gave a clear and disturbing picture. The majority would accept and allow to have a video camera which they were not allowed to turn off or cover up in every room in their home to prevent crime and terrorism. Finding out this made me sick so I almost puked, but is the sad truth: The majority thinks that is acceptable.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
And I do not want to check if the majority would allow DNA samples to be taken from every child at birth, simply because I already know the answer and just do not want it documented. But I secretly know that too is inevitable.
People will by into any propaganda-hyped threat selected by the government and accept any and all violation of their privacy. It does not matter if the threat is real or not. The war, being against countries, terrorism or anything else which fits the current day and age, is meant to and will continue to exist, because the threat is not meant to be overwinned. The state of fear is meant to be continuous. It does not matter if the threat exists, it does not matter if it is real, the only thing that really matters is that it is ever-present so people continuously fear something so badly that they are willing to accept anything the government proclaims will give them back a notion of security.
Could it be that the _real_ long-term agenda and question here is not just collecting from those who come in contact with the Police at some point, but to create a database of EVERYONE?
Could this, if it passes, just be another small step towards making a law which requires everyone to have their DNA in a database?
Could it be that EVERY TIME another push in that direction this dream comes one step closer?
Will everyones grandchildren blindly accept that their children DNA is, by pure routine, sampled at the hospital at birth? Since this is normal to them, because we allowed it?
Have you ever heard of a bill or suggestion to give back freedom and privacy to the citizens? I never have. Allow video surveillance of your cities. Allow video surveillance of all public places. Allow everyones DNA to be sampled. Allow a law that requires a video camera which is not allowed to be turned off in every room with four walls. It's all good, for it will prevent terrorism.
Now what kind of society do you have? Well, I'll tell you. At the rate inch by inch of privacy and liberty is taken away, you're one step our society three years from now. Feel free to bookmark this post. I am serious. This vision is much closer than you may think.
This is also subject to debate, but there are good reasons to view a human being who is driving a car a kind of cyborg. It's not living tissue over metal skeleton, it's a metal skeleton with living tissue inside it, controlling it, but if you view the car moving along as a single entity and want to call that something then "cyborg" is among the words who come to mind as pretty fitting.
Building weapons like this is a bad idea. How can they ensure that the enemy, who ever they are, does not get access to the robots control system and thus turn them? By software, I assume. Software can have bugs. Bugs, on any kind of armed robot, can have disastrous effects. What if an enemy attempt at taking over the robots makes it lock it's control system from external access so even their owners can't control it anymore? What if the attack software bugs and starts viewing any biological life-form as hostile? Is it just me who gets way too many questions like that when I read about such robots? Am I the only one who gets a huge fear that the schedule for the inevitable Terminator-movies Judgment Day was just moved forward by a century? What if this robot, or the next generator, or the far more advanced version that will be produced in 10 years get infected with a computer virus, worm or just malfunctions because of a bug in the software?
Environment impact free electricity ? Have you got some?
No. So sorry, like with a free-lunch, there is no such thing. But there are, obviously, some methods who are less damaging than others.
your house, bike etc. If you want to have a significant impact on saving the environment, I suggest killing yourself, because it will immediately and very effectively prevent the environmental damage you'll cause by your mere existance for the next 30 to 50 years (or however long you live).
Yes. I have very seriously considered killing myself for exactly those reasons. But I am egoistic, so I found that I will kill myself delayed: I am not going to have children.
That's the first time I've heard of environmental impact being used to justify the theft of other people's right to control the copying of their work.
I do not justify piracy nor participate in it. But what I said remains true. If you download a porn movie from http://xiando.com/ then you have NOT engaged in theft. We have the RIGHT to distribute a broad range of quality adult movies.. We do NOT have the right to distribute any mainstream movies because the mainstream movie industry are stuck in the 90s and think the CD and DVD have a long-term future, which they do not.
Are you next going to suggest robbing banks so that they can't give money to people because those people might then go and buy an SUV which has an environmental impact ?
Please actually read the original post and perhaps think before posting in the future. I never encouraged stealing, merely stated a fact. On-line distribution vs traditional DVD distribution HAS NOTHING to do with piracy. You can download a few movies free from http://hardcoretorrents.com/ and you can, if you like the free movies, sign up for five bucks and get access to thousands more quality porn movies. Five bucks. LEGAL. No violation of anything. This modell works for the adult industry, it works very well, and has done so for years. As I already stated in this thread, most adult industry have already switched to pure on-line distribution, where as the mainstream industry still thinks it is 1995.
I never said P2P is a good thing. I am just saying that the mainstream movie industry should provide a equally good legal alternative, just like the adult industry did years ago.
Thank you very much for pointing out that every single time you purchase any kind of goods or service, you are casting a vote
* for or against the future of all living species on earth and
* for or against a corporation and their environmental policy.
And I know the choice between buying a DVD or buying entertainment on-line is a small and insignificant part of a huge whole. But the thread is about DVD movies. I could go on and on about this subject, but this is not a fitting thread to rabble on about that subject.
And I do realize it is very hard to maintain a sustaiable life today, but it is worth trying to ensure sustainability every single time you make any kind of choice anyway. I personally do not own or want to ever own a car, I do not buy new clothes for fashion or other extravagant reasons, I wear those I have until they are too full of holes to do their function regardless of the way short-sighted society looks at me. Because I try my best to choose sustainability every time I make a choice. And I still do huge damage to the earth and biological diversity, and even though I am confident my personal damage is less than a tenth of the damage the average local person does, I still feel bad about the damage I do.
plastic recycling program?
My argument remains valid.
You produce the DVD. Then you recycle it. Then you make another DVD. Are you trying to tell me that somehow leaves zero footprint? How could that be possible, eh? Does it not require raw materials to be extracted from the earth, eh? Does not the recycle process itself also cause bi-products, eh? Does it not require energy, eh?
If you download a movie from the Internet then you have done zero damage. Do you not understand, after reading my suggestion to actually THINK AHEAD a tad longer than your nose, perhaps a few generations or so?
Are you not reading my posts at all, or are you just very stupid, or am I explaining sustainability in too hard terms for you and the American population, who I read yesterday have a stunning 20% who still thinks the earth is the center of the universe and that the sun spins around it daily?