Uhm, I always find that there are really a lot of interesting metal bands that are NOT on any major label... try Nuclear Blast, or Century Media. Non-RIAA, and a wide range of metal bands from all styles.
But don't you find it crazy that
4. Assigned an official religion by the state, based on what you parent were/are ? This in itself might be the worst of all of it! Err, that's not what is happening here in Germany. You just "join" one of the churches if your parents baptise you, and then that means that you are automatically required to pay the church tax - which, as someone else already correctly stated, is not a tax, but just a membership fee for the church collected by the state. My parents baptised me, though I never really became a christian, and as such I left the church by declaring this officially as soon as I would have had to pay my first of these fees. Really now, only reason to be mad at your parents, not at the church.
Although I would prefer it if the state did not collect the fees, as it would make more people conscious about whether they really want to support the church or not. Ah well, they are already losing members like crazy anyhow.
Well, I also use that definition, and yeah, id Software are n the same boat, they simply wrestle out publishing deals on every new title they develop, Activision just always won out so far. And yes, that also makes both Valve and id independent developers, as they are both self-funded. Just because they developed AAA titles doesn't mean they cannot be independent from a big publisher as a money sorce, now can it?
Well, yes, you are right with what you wrote, but you basically forget the IMO most important angle: "we techies" invented this shit so that it gets used the way we want it. "They" only hopped on, and actually built e.g. their websites in "our" realm. Then, all of a sudden, they realize that our realnm has some consequences that they didn't foresee (for failure to understand the concept, or most often just simply for failure to try to do so), and begin to sue and badmouth those that are leftovers from the original phase, or those that adhere to the original philosphy.
In this case (ignoring the fact that the defendant already had an injunction against him) the operators could probably have prevented their DNS server to serve this data (probably, as I am not an admin in this area). In other cases, such as deep linking, well, it is a little rougher, but they could for example not use frames, but good page layout, which automatically shows all their ads in the standard headers and such, or make stuff password protected, or use.htaccess to redirect requests that go straight for their meat back to the frontpage, just like many free image hosters do now for hotlinking. But no, they just decide to litigate...
I think you kind of nailed it - I have always felt that the studios desperately just cling to the name of the franchise, instead of seeing what they really could do if they used it as a backdrop. THat is incidently why I am looking forward for the Warcraft movie- up until now I only heard that it will not be based on plot inside either of their games, but will be taking place roughly a year or so before WoW. So they have some established characters, and plenty of bad or good scenarios from the lore to use as backdrop. And since they have never been afraid to change the lore itself when it suited them, well, it might actually be half decent. Now if only they would render it the way they do the intro movies, and not use live actors... ah well.
I thought I would just throw in here that on DeviantArt you are expected to include a model release when you upload a picture of a person, I know I was asked to. I don't actually remember the wording of the asking, and even if I uploaded / send it, but it seems that maybe Flickr should look into that...
My personal favorite webcomic would be The Order Of The Stick, a fantasy comic which is about a group of adventurers in a Dungeons and Dragons table top session, with the twist that you see the made-up characters, but the conversation is usually that between the human players, in a way, so it involves a lot of meta information and the like. Check it out at www.giantitp.com.
Thank you, that was one of the best comments I have read here in some time (in other words, you are at +5 already, and I have no mod points, but I still want to tell you somehow).
I own an NForce based mainboard and use it under Windows XP, and yes, it seems the only way to access the firewall is to have it install an Apache. You can iamgine I was kinda surprised on my first install of this mainboard when I had not yet installed my own productivity tools and task manager already reported a running Apache...
Also, while this might not be a concern for those living in the USA, Valve has secretly (yeah, you usually get a small CC notation somewhere in the purchasing dialog, DE or so) began handing out localized version of the games over the last year or so. At the beginning of Steam, you coul d set your Steam cleint to English, and you would get the "english" version of the games. Now, they check your country of origin by your IP address, and you will get the censorware you can sometimes buy in the stores here in Germany. Guess why I set my client to english, Valve? Feck, Titan Quest was multilingual when I bought it in the store here. Returned it because it was a bug fest. After I heard bugs had been fixed, I bought it on Steam and get German version only. Guess it is back to ordering retail boxes and actiating them, so I got the US Orange Box (they obviously can and still do between types of activation keys).
The infuriating thing is that they still want to behave according to US law, i.e. not honor German/European "send it back 14 days after purchase without a reason" laws that are mandatory for online retailers over here...
Thats what I think, exactly. And I had to write this "Me too!" comment because I accidently clicked the dropdown list for commenting and selected "Flamebait" because the browser was lagging (Old machine, Citrix, yadda yadda)... this comment will reverse that. I'd love for an "Undo moderation" or at least an "Are you sure?" checkbox next to the dropdown list...
Regarding text rendering... What bugs me is that since the first Firefox, every so often, you get a horisontal line which is skewed by one pixel. This happens on both Linux and Windows, on different machines, with different fonts, with all Gecko engines. When this happens between lines, it's not TOO bad -- it just looks odd when there's suddenly a pixel more space between two lines than all the others, but when it happens in the text itself, it's VERY noticable. And if you select the text on that line and unselect it again, the problem goes away. It's like the rendering engine pre-calculates how much vertical space to set aside for the text in order to to increase rendering speed. Then, when drawing the text, the actual result never matches the space, so it duplicates or chops lines at random intervals until it the text fits. I'd rather wait a little longer and avoid this problem. Yes, thanks, that bugs me a lot as well, though I find this happens a lot more often (only?) on Linux, not (so much?) on Windows. Did you experience this bug cross plattform?
Erm, a CMS and a CRM system are something totally different. You explained CMS quite well, so I will not add more about this, but a CRM system is about Customer Relationship Management. It is a classic big business tool, and often goes hand in hand with an ERP system (Enterprise Resource Planning). Big names include SAP, Oracle, Siebel,...
What it is used for is, well, an electronic version of an address book, and much more. You built relationships between customers (companies who buy from you), their contact persons, how you do your marketing towards them based on previous purchases, it often has built-in online shops or at least order management. So, business partner management, marketing tools, order tools. If connected to an ERP, orders are directly connected to warehousing (can we send that order? do we have the item on the shelfs?), and as such big companies can't do much without one of these babies.
For small shops they are simply to expensive, and this is where stuff like SugarCRM kicks in, a PHP/MySQL web-based CRM suite instead of the bigwigs like SAP running on OracleDB and clustered servers in the datacenter.
Hm, no, I am German as well, but that paints a wrong picture. Most banks in Germany require you to call in advance if you want to get more than say 5k or so, and there are indeed a lot of things you cannot do without an EC or CC card here. Have you tried to buy a flight recently, or booked a hotel room? CC. No option for paying with cash, since they cannot bill you additional charges then (destroyed furniture, cancellation fees if you do not show up, etc). Sure, you can buy groceries with cash, and clothes and the like, but that's about it in my experience.
Has anybody tested out Wired? I never got around to installing it myself, but it looks promising as well. Just wondering since it does not seem to be mentioned here at all...
A new Ghostbusters game is in the making, and a gameplay video was released already. It is currently in hiatus due to IP negotiations, but from all I heard it looks good... check Bluesnews, I think it was even linked yesterday or the day before.
Don't forget that a lot of companies don't just install Windows upgrades because MS releases them. They undergo rigid inhouse testing and then later are deployed from their own update servers, so they would not be counted as donwloads from Microsoft anyway.
Also, IE7 is (at the moment, fix upcoming in SAPGui release 20 IIRC) incompatible with SAP software, so any admin worth his salt will block this update if the company also uses SAP software (which I bet are quite a lot of desktops). And this problem is AFAIK a blunder by SAP, saying things like "uh, nobody gave us IE7 early enough, how were we supposed to fix our code".
Uhm, no, it doesn't need that much or kind of maintenance. Imagine all the big companies, they cannot afford downtime for a whole weekend, every week! They even use scheduling to offload automated heavy work processes to the night and the weekend, and they need the systems up for this.
So it must be something else in your place... SAP is kind of maintenance friendly (if you got it running they way you want it, to get it there you have to jump through hoops more often than not).
Nah, it's not a marketing term, and not something even remotely connected to DRM.
I am a CRM consultant (though not dealing with Microsoft's implementation, but rather SAP). Among the various aspects of business software, CRM is the part that helps a company get new contracts and keep good relations to their old customers. It is indeed (among others things) responsible for sending out Xmas cards, but also for sending new offers to old customers. You can build web shops for B2B and B2C with it, and you can track which of your customers are how "valuable" (i.e. purchase what and how much of it) and are the best targets for new campaigns for new products.
This is a booming industry, my company (Germany, ~170 consultants) is currently looking for CRM consultants because everybody and their mother is realizing they need better ways to manage their customers then simply keeping them as debitors in their Enterprise Resource Planning system or as contacts in an Outlook system.
Yeah, that is what I have always been wondering about as well. But I guess we are geting to this point, for example trees are already done with SpeedTree in a lot of games (Oblivion, NWN2, Unreal 2007?). I also think that some houses should just push this business model onto the market: create e.g. high quality human models or car models, in a generic 3d format, and sell them to studios. Change the head and clothing, and voila - new NPC for your game. Sure, locusts in GoW can't really be sold like that becaus ethey are too specific, but cars, trees, buildings, humans, animals, "everyday" objects like Mp5s for shooters or crossbows for fantasy games - why not?
Damn, +5 already, and I have mod points. Just need to reply then, and link this from my blog (which nobody reads, but hey, that never stopped anyone from having one). Anyway, very interesting way to see this problem!
Can't be, because on my Firefox 2 here the session gets restored everytime I restart the browser. Of course, I manually enabled that feature in the Preferences window. Maybe you want to do that as well? It is on the very first page of the window, the first drop down list box, set it to restore from the last session.
Had trouble getting this, others obviously as well, so here it is.
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The Discreet Charms of the Nanny State Published by Shivam Vij October 6th, 2006 in The Internet and bylines.
Books and films are banned as a result of protests when someone claims to be offended, but websites are blocked unilaterally, clandestinely by the government in its benign attempt to save you from propaganda of both the extreme left and the extreme right.
An edited version of this article by me has appeared in Tehelka.
On 29 June this year, the Department of Telecom of the Ministry of India's Communication and Information Technology asked some 150 Internet Servive Providers to block access to the website of the People's War Group, www.geocities.com/cpimlpwg. Exactly a month later, the DoT issues another letter informing ISPs that "M/S Yahoo! Inc." (which runs Geocities) had removed the PWG site anyway, and so all ISPs were requested to make sure that Geocities per se was not blocked.
This is the first time a provider of Internet services has agreed to the Indian government's demand of completely removing a particular website, thus establishing a dangerous precedent. Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft do this regularly for China and other countries, with the difference that it is public knowledge there, and these companies come under attack from free speech activists the world over.
It is curious as to what made Yahoo! Change its mind about India: in 2003 they had refused the India's demand to remove a mailing list run on Yahoo! Groups by a banned militant outfit, the Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC), a militant outfit of the Khasi tribe in Meghalaya.
The terms and conditions of these online services - which no one reads - clearly say that they may terminate their services on requests by law enforcement or other government agencies without prior notice.
On 15 May 2006, the Maoist website www.peoplesmarch.com was deleted by their hosting company on the request of the Indian government. Not that it has made much of a difference to them: they're now at http://peoplesmarch.googlepages.com/ whose homepage asserts their right to free speech and condemns India's censorship attempts. So how long before this site gets blocked too? To be sure they have put up all their content on http://peoplesmarch.wordpress.com/ as well. Planning to block this one too? They have the content stored somewhere on their hard disk and they'll put it up on a thousand free sites. There's also http://naxalrevolution.blogspot.com/ and many more.
The most illustrative case of Internet censorship in India is that of Hinduunity.org, which, though run from the US by one Rohit Vyasmaan, claims to be the official website of the Bajrang Dal. The Hindu Unity site posts anti-Muslim hate speech, creative interpretation of Qur'anic verses and most famously, a "hit list" of those who it says are against Hindus. The hit list has on it not just leftist columnists but also people and organisations who in India would be regarded as being somewhat sympathetic to Hindutva. Lalu Prasad Yadav is listed for "swindling Gau-chara's money"!
In 2001, the site's then host in the US, Addr.com, received complaints about the site. Vyasmaan told Addr.com that his site did not advocate violence, but they shut down the site anyway for its very obvious hate speech. As it happened, Hinduunity.org was then rescued by Rabbi Meir's Kahane group, a banned Zionist organisation in the US. Hinduunity now advocates "Hindu militancy" on its site, and heavily aligns with the anti-Palestine cause. No wonder it is block in countries of the Middle East as well.
Hinduunity.org was first blocked by India in 2004, when the NDA was in power and when the site was calling Atal Bihari Vajpayee names for 'catching the pseudo-secularism bug'. Curiously, in July 2006 the DoT again asked for
That was exactly my first thought. After checking some pics on the install guide, my jaw dropped to the floor. This installer replaces tcpip.sys and even advises the user just to click away the warning message Windows pops up because system files are being touched. Install guides like this are ok if I find them on some forum explaining how to install XP Visual Styles by using patched Dlls since I kinda know what I am doing, but coming from a global player like EMI and obviously directed at the unsavvy unwashed mashes... *shudder* I mean, Joe Sixpack will trust these guys!
This is one major point where Microsoft has always been critizised - lax security. And now really big companies undermine even the weak efforts Microsoft has put into their OS because of freaking ad-supported DRM encumbered music... way to go, EMI...
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Uhm, I always find that there are really a lot of interesting metal bands that are NOT on any major label... try Nuclear Blast, or Century Media. Non-RIAA, and a wide range of metal bands from all styles.
4. Assigned an official religion by the state, based on what you parent were/are ? This in itself might be the worst of all of it! Err, that's not what is happening here in Germany. You just "join" one of the churches if your parents baptise you, and then that means that you are automatically required to pay the church tax - which, as someone else already correctly stated, is not a tax, but just a membership fee for the church collected by the state. My parents baptised me, though I never really became a christian, and as such I left the church by declaring this officially as soon as I would have had to pay my first of these fees. Really now, only reason to be mad at your parents, not at the church.
Although I would prefer it if the state did not collect the fees, as it would make more people conscious about whether they really want to support the church or not. Ah well, they are already losing members like crazy anyhow.
Well, I also use that definition, and yeah, id Software are n the same boat, they simply wrestle out publishing deals on every new title they develop, Activision just always won out so far. And yes, that also makes both Valve and id independent developers, as they are both self-funded. Just because they developed AAA titles doesn't mean they cannot be independent from a big publisher as a money sorce, now can it?
Amen to that, brother. All of that.
Well, yes, you are right with what you wrote, but you basically forget the IMO most important angle: "we techies" invented this shit so that it gets used the way we want it. "They" only hopped on, and actually built e.g. their websites in "our" realm. Then, all of a sudden, they realize that our realnm has some consequences that they didn't foresee (for failure to understand the concept, or most often just simply for failure to try to do so), and begin to sue and badmouth those that are leftovers from the original phase, or those that adhere to the original philosphy.
In this case (ignoring the fact that the defendant already had an injunction against him) the operators could probably have prevented their DNS server to serve this data (probably, as I am not an admin in this area). In other cases, such as deep linking, well, it is a little rougher, but they could for example not use frames, but good page layout, which automatically shows all their ads in the standard headers and such, or make stuff password protected, or use .htaccess to redirect requests that go straight for their meat back to the frontpage, just like many free image hosters do now for hotlinking. But no, they just decide to litigate...
I think you kind of nailed it - I have always felt that the studios desperately just cling to the name of the franchise, instead of seeing what they really could do if they used it as a backdrop. THat is incidently why I am looking forward for the Warcraft movie- up until now I only heard that it will not be based on plot inside either of their games, but will be taking place roughly a year or so before WoW. So they have some established characters, and plenty of bad or good scenarios from the lore to use as backdrop. And since they have never been afraid to change the lore itself when it suited them, well, it might actually be half decent. Now if only they would render it the way they do the intro movies, and not use live actors... ah well.
I thought I would just throw in here that on DeviantArt you are expected to include a model release when you upload a picture of a person, I know I was asked to. I don't actually remember the wording of the asking, and even if I uploaded / send it, but it seems that maybe Flickr should look into that...
My personal favorite webcomic would be The Order Of The Stick, a fantasy comic which is about a group of adventurers in a Dungeons and Dragons table top session, with the twist that you see the made-up characters, but the conversation is usually that between the human players, in a way, so it involves a lot of meta information and the like. Check it out at www.giantitp.com.
Thank you, that was one of the best comments I have read here in some time (in other words, you are at +5 already, and I have no mod points, but I still want to tell you somehow).
I own an NForce based mainboard and use it under Windows XP, and yes, it seems the only way to access the firewall is to have it install an Apache. You can iamgine I was kinda surprised on my first install of this mainboard when I had not yet installed my own productivity tools and task manager already reported a running Apache...
Also, while this might not be a concern for those living in the USA, Valve has secretly (yeah, you usually get a small CC notation somewhere in the purchasing dialog, DE or so) began handing out localized version of the games over the last year or so. At the beginning of Steam, you coul d set your Steam cleint to English, and you would get the "english" version of the games. Now, they check your country of origin by your IP address, and you will get the censorware you can sometimes buy in the stores here in Germany. Guess why I set my client to english, Valve? Feck, Titan Quest was multilingual when I bought it in the store here. Returned it because it was a bug fest. After I heard bugs had been fixed, I bought it on Steam and get German version only. Guess it is back to ordering retail boxes and actiating them, so I got the US Orange Box (they obviously can and still do between types of activation keys). The infuriating thing is that they still want to behave according to US law, i.e. not honor German/European "send it back 14 days after purchase without a reason" laws that are mandatory for online retailers over here...
Thats what I think, exactly. And I had to write this "Me too!" comment because I accidently clicked the dropdown list for commenting and selected "Flamebait" because the browser was lagging (Old machine, Citrix, yadda yadda)... this comment will reverse that. I'd love for an "Undo moderation" or at least an "Are you sure?" checkbox next to the dropdown list...
Erm, a CMS and a CRM system are something totally different. You explained CMS quite well, so I will not add more about this, but a CRM system is about Customer Relationship Management. It is a classic big business tool, and often goes hand in hand with an ERP system (Enterprise Resource Planning). Big names include SAP, Oracle, Siebel, ...
What it is used for is, well, an electronic version of an address book, and much more. You built relationships between customers (companies who buy from you), their contact persons, how you do your marketing towards them based on previous purchases, it often has built-in online shops or at least order management. So, business partner management, marketing tools, order tools. If connected to an ERP, orders are directly connected to warehousing (can we send that order? do we have the item on the shelfs?), and as such big companies can't do much without one of these babies.
For small shops they are simply to expensive, and this is where stuff like SugarCRM kicks in, a PHP/MySQL web-based CRM suite instead of the bigwigs like SAP running on OracleDB and clustered servers in the datacenter.
Hm, no, I am German as well, but that paints a wrong picture. Most banks in Germany require you to call in advance if you want to get more than say 5k or so, and there are indeed a lot of things you cannot do without an EC or CC card here. Have you tried to buy a flight recently, or booked a hotel room? CC. No option for paying with cash, since they cannot bill you additional charges then (destroyed furniture, cancellation fees if you do not show up, etc). Sure, you can buy groceries with cash, and clothes and the like, but that's about it in my experience.
Has anybody tested out Wired? I never got around to installing it myself, but it looks promising as well. Just wondering since it does not seem to be mentioned here at all...
A new Ghostbusters game is in the making, and a gameplay video was released already. It is currently in hiatus due to IP negotiations, but from all I heard it looks good... check Bluesnews, I think it was even linked yesterday or the day before.
Don't forget that a lot of companies don't just install Windows upgrades because MS releases them. They undergo rigid inhouse testing and then later are deployed from their own update servers, so they would not be counted as donwloads from Microsoft anyway.
Also, IE7 is (at the moment, fix upcoming in SAPGui release 20 IIRC) incompatible with SAP software, so any admin worth his salt will block this update if the company also uses SAP software (which I bet are quite a lot of desktops). And this problem is AFAIK a blunder by SAP, saying things like "uh, nobody gave us IE7 early enough, how were we supposed to fix our code".
Uhm, no, it doesn't need that much or kind of maintenance. Imagine all the big companies, they cannot afford downtime for a whole weekend, every week! They even use scheduling to offload automated heavy work processes to the night and the weekend, and they need the systems up for this. So it must be something else in your place... SAP is kind of maintenance friendly (if you got it running they way you want it, to get it there you have to jump through hoops more often than not).
Nah, it's not a marketing term, and not something even remotely connected to DRM. I am a CRM consultant (though not dealing with Microsoft's implementation, but rather SAP). Among the various aspects of business software, CRM is the part that helps a company get new contracts and keep good relations to their old customers. It is indeed (among others things) responsible for sending out Xmas cards, but also for sending new offers to old customers. You can build web shops for B2B and B2C with it, and you can track which of your customers are how "valuable" (i.e. purchase what and how much of it) and are the best targets for new campaigns for new products. This is a booming industry, my company (Germany, ~170 consultants) is currently looking for CRM consultants because everybody and their mother is realizing they need better ways to manage their customers then simply keeping them as debitors in their Enterprise Resource Planning system or as contacts in an Outlook system.
Yeah, that is what I have always been wondering about as well. But I guess we are geting to this point, for example trees are already done with SpeedTree in a lot of games (Oblivion, NWN2, Unreal 2007?). I also think that some houses should just push this business model onto the market: create e.g. high quality human models or car models, in a generic 3d format, and sell them to studios. Change the head and clothing, and voila - new NPC for your game. Sure, locusts in GoW can't really be sold like that becaus ethey are too specific, but cars, trees, buildings, humans, animals, "everyday" objects like Mp5s for shooters or crossbows for fantasy games - why not?
Damn, +5 already, and I have mod points. Just need to reply then, and link this from my blog (which nobody reads, but hey, that never stopped anyone from having one). Anyway, very interesting way to see this problem!
Can't be, because on my Firefox 2 here the session gets restored everytime I restart the browser. Of course, I manually enabled that feature in the Preferences window. Maybe you want to do that as well? It is on the very first page of the window, the first drop down list box, set it to restore from the last session.
Had trouble getting this, others obviously as well, so here it is.
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The Discreet Charms of the Nanny State
Published by Shivam Vij October 6th, 2006 in The Internet and bylines.
Books and films are banned as a result of protests when someone claims to be offended, but websites are blocked unilaterally, clandestinely by the government in its benign attempt to save you from propaganda of both the extreme left and the extreme right.
An edited version of this article by me has appeared in Tehelka.
On 29 June this year, the Department of Telecom of the Ministry of India's Communication and Information Technology asked some 150 Internet Servive Providers to block access to the website of the People's War Group, www.geocities.com/cpimlpwg. Exactly a month later, the DoT issues another letter informing ISPs that "M/S Yahoo! Inc." (which runs Geocities) had removed the PWG site anyway, and so all ISPs were requested to make sure that Geocities per se was not blocked.
This is the first time a provider of Internet services has agreed to the Indian government's demand of completely removing a particular website, thus establishing a dangerous precedent. Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft do this regularly for China and other countries, with the difference that it is public knowledge there, and these companies come under attack from free speech activists the world over.
It is curious as to what made Yahoo! Change its mind about India: in 2003 they had refused the India's demand to remove a mailing list run on Yahoo! Groups by a banned militant outfit, the Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC), a militant outfit of the Khasi tribe in Meghalaya.
The terms and conditions of these online services - which no one reads - clearly say that they may terminate their services on requests by law enforcement or other government agencies without prior notice.
On 15 May 2006, the Maoist website www.peoplesmarch.com was deleted by their hosting company on the request of the Indian government. Not that it has made much of a difference to them: they're now at http://peoplesmarch.googlepages.com/ whose homepage asserts their right to free speech and condemns India's censorship attempts. So how long before this site gets blocked too? To be sure they have put up all their content on http://peoplesmarch.wordpress.com/ as well. Planning to block this one too? They have the content stored somewhere on their hard disk and they'll put it up on a thousand free sites. There's also http://naxalrevolution.blogspot.com/ and many more.
The most illustrative case of Internet censorship in India is that of Hinduunity.org, which, though run from the US by one Rohit Vyasmaan, claims to be the official website of the Bajrang Dal. The Hindu Unity site posts anti-Muslim hate speech, creative interpretation of Qur'anic verses and most famously, a "hit list" of those who it says are against Hindus. The hit list has on it not just leftist columnists but also people and organisations who in India would be regarded as being somewhat sympathetic to Hindutva. Lalu Prasad Yadav is listed for "swindling Gau-chara's money"!
In 2001, the site's then host in the US, Addr.com, received complaints about the site. Vyasmaan told Addr.com that his site did not advocate violence, but they shut down the site anyway for its very obvious hate speech. As it happened, Hinduunity.org was then rescued by Rabbi Meir's Kahane group, a banned Zionist organisation in the US. Hinduunity now advocates "Hindu militancy" on its site, and heavily aligns with the anti-Palestine cause. No wonder it is block in countries of the Middle East as well.
Hinduunity.org was first blocked by India in 2004, when the NDA was in power and when the site was calling Atal Bihari Vajpayee names for 'catching the pseudo-secularism bug'. Curiously, in July 2006 the DoT again asked for
That was exactly my first thought. After checking some pics on the install guide, my jaw dropped to the floor. This installer replaces tcpip.sys and even advises the user just to click away the warning message Windows pops up because system files are being touched. Install guides like this are ok if I find them on some forum explaining how to install XP Visual Styles by using patched Dlls since I kinda know what I am doing, but coming from a global player like EMI and obviously directed at the unsavvy unwashed mashes... *shudder* I mean, Joe Sixpack will trust these guys!
This is one major point where Microsoft has always been critizised - lax security. And now really big companies undermine even the weak efforts Microsoft has put into their OS because of freaking ad-supported DRM encumbered music... way to go, EMI...