Not to include deathmatch in the original release? Doesn't seem to make much sense that a multiplayer deathmatch is not included, especially in a game like HL2.....
Hmph...."next big craze in illegal file-sharing", eh?
What the hell? How is trading copies of broadcast television shows illegal? Since when is it piracy to copy and share copies of tv shows THAT ARE ON TV? I pay my dues in cable bills, so how the hell is it illegal? Recording shows to VHS has been done plenty of times - and you'd think they'd want you to watch the shows again and again....I don't see the logic or the losses involved here. Either way you end up seeing the show (commercial free or not)...
TFA states that people will have "no need to spring for satellite feeds or specialty channels" Hell, some specialty channels are a waste anyway...I mean, who needs 6 ESPNs, or 5 Discovery channels, or 10 friggin HBOs? I think some people would still hang on to their channels anyway...Its still a hell of a lot easier (for most) to watch tv at 6 than download and play clips offline. They make it sound like everyone's going to drop their cable services and rely on the downloading and recording of one lone pirate with an eye patch and a rouge TiVO....
TFA also states a line about "In his forum speech, Chernin said: "Consumers need to understand that stealing is wrong, and there are consequences." "
When the fuck did free use become a dirty word? Stealing? Bah!
What a good way to start Thanksgiving leftovers...
Hmph....Does this mean me saying "CmdrTaco sucks*" on a/. discussion mean he can come sue the pants off me? A scary prescendent to be set indeed....There are a hell of a lot of websites, and a lot of personal pages out there that probably slander people left and right...What about them?
*I've never met Mr. Rob Malda, so I can't attest or unattest to his personality:)
Linux Times.net? I looked over their site, and most of it seems to be some/. stories and stuff about a few different topics.....I'm not trying to knock them, but I've never heard of them. Are they new 'round these parts?
I spent two years at the local Food City, and carts get banged around to no end. Unless those carts are used in a specialty grocer where they don't venture out much, they're wasting their money...
-thewldisntenuff
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A Hack A Day
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· Score: -1, Offtopic
This in from Argentina Indymedia, which has a different view -
FBI took the hard drives of IMC servers in the UK por Mat ((!)) Thursday October 07, 2004 at 06:10 PM - The US authorities issued a subpoena to Rackspace's office in the US ordering them to physically remove Indymedia hardware located in London. Rackspace is one of Indymedia's web hosting providers with offices in the US and London. Rackspace complied and turned over Indymedia's hard drives/servers in the UK. This affects some 20+ Indymedia sites worldwide.
Since the subpoena was issued to Rackspace and not to Indymedia, the reasons for this action are still unknown to Indymedia.
At the same time a second server was taken down at Rackspace which provided streaming radio to several radio stations, BLAG (linux distro), and a handful of miscellanous things.
The last few months have seen numerous attacks on independent media by the US Federal Government. In August the Secret Service used a subpoena in an attempt to disrupt the NYC IMC before the RNC by trying to get IP logs from an ISP in the US and the Netherlands, last month the FCC shut down comunity radio stations around the US, and now the FBI is shutting down IMCs around the world.
The list of affected local media collectives includes Ambazonia, Uruguay, Andorra, Poland, Western Massachusetts, Nice, Nantes, Lilles, Marseille (all France), Euskal Herria (Basque Country), Liege, East and West Vlaanderen, Antwerpen (all Belgium), Belgrade, Portugal, Prague, Galiza, Italy, Brazil, part of the Germany site, UK Radio, and the global Indymedia Radio site.
Micah Anderson of the global imc-tech collective said, "We suspect it has to do with an FBI request that we take down a post on the Nantes IMC that had a photo of some undercover Swiss police. They claimed there was threats and personal information, but there was nothing of the sort. The undercover police that were photographed on the page were photographing protesters. Rackspace is a US company, but have colocation in the UK where these servers are (err, were) located. So this is about Swiss police, on a French site, on a server in England, taken away by American federal police."
"Well, some smarty-pants decided to repost my entire blog entry about bug 259708 as a comment on one of my entries, with an e-mail address of "fulldisclosure@netsys.com". Word for word, no changes, and no commentary either. This annoyed the hell out of me. On the one side, I could see this anonymous poster's point: the bug was already in the public domain when it disappeared very suddenly."
What are you complaining about? Isn't this your fault for taking the entry down to begin with?
I'm going to troll a bit here, but doesn't this essay/blog entry just bitch about how he feels things weren't handled in a manner to his liking? And shouldn't he be faulted for how he initially handled the bug? (Noted below-)
"Losing data is horrendous, yes, but not as bad as losing it to someone else. That just wasn't happening here. So I decided not to ask for a security group review. That was my first mistake.
Lesson Number One: The very instant you start to wonder if a bug might cause a security concern, stop wondering and ask the security group to review. Don't try to do the security group's job by trying to decide if it really is one or not."
I think the bigger concern here was whether or not the bug got fixed, and once it was properly classified, it was indeed fixed. There probably could have been a faster fix for this bug, but I think most of what happened in this case can be directly faulted to him.....
"If your old laptop has a tiny hard drive, and by small I mean under 100 MB of space, you may or may not be able to upgrade it. Even if you can, you are certainly looking at no more than a gigabyte of space and will probably be making use of someone else's used drive."
I could see using Windows...Hell, I used Win95 0SR2 on a 166mhz ATT Globalyst without much of a hitch.....Slow for mp3s, but ran most of the web and IRC chat well enough for me.
But Windows aside, he never makes mention of distros like Knoppix or even Damn Small Linux (Isn't DSL like 50mb?)...You could easily run a distro off a Knoppix or Live CD....Wouldn't it be more useful to do this, as one gets a full-fledged OS with software to boot?
What about the children? WHO WILL SAVE THE CHILDREN?
"Why is the Internet Industry allowed to avoid their responsibilities on this?"
Why the hell aren't you watching your kids? What the hell ever happened to active parenting? If you don't want your kids to see such content then keep them off the damn internet,or at least monitor what they do online.....Furthermore, filtering may do more harm than good by keeping useful information blocked anyway............The "internet industry" is composed of a hell of a lot of people, and there is no one person to lay such responsibility on anyway.....The internet is not a cable tv show or a movie - it wasn't designed with a ratings system in mind.........
I found it odd that they cite plenty of numbers on how often kids had accessed pornography, the survey simply stated -
In November last year Dr Michael Flood of the Australia Institute cited a new study showing that concerns about pornography and children were warranted: "Children who regularly see violent pornography are more likely to be sexually aggressive and to believe that sexual abuse is normal".
What study? What percentages? What numbers?
Finally, From TFA -
"This may have the result of putting cost pressures on some of the smaller ISPs, but there are arguably too many of these at the moment, and adequate competition could be maintained with 30 ISPs rather than the hundreds in existence now," it said.
*Couldn't there be a startup project to get existing windows-compatible HDTV cards to work within Linux? I mean, there's a good sized community out there, and with the right motivation (recorded HD for all?) couldn't this be done?
As far as DRM-disabled tivos....I doubt it will happen....Even if someone rolled out one, no doubt it'd be stopped before it hit the shelves.....
*Disclaimer - I don't know much about HDTV cards..Know how they work and all, but I don't know what's available on the market.....
Hydrogen pretty dangerous stuff? I mean, I know it's quite explosive....(From what I recall from freshman chem:) ) Does anyone remember the Hindenberg?
Which brings my question - how do you stablize hydrogen so it's not so explosive?.....A car accident could spell disaster if not properly contained...Or am I wrong?
"This seems to be a huge misuse of resources, an infringement upon various global spam laws, an infringement upon our own Copyright Act under Section 102 and needless stress and cost upon small Australian organizations and companies," Smith said.......
"Linux Australia is concerned that this kind of shoot-in-the-dark approach to copyright protection is potentially damaging for Australian organizations and companies," Smith added. "Organizations that participate in such behavior should be held accountable and forced to put at least some effort into researching the validity of their keyword searches."
Why aren't there any similar laws in the United States? Or are there similar laws that are applicable here (in the States)? I mean, it's understandable once or twice (ie- story where professor posted an mp3 of his lectures and RIAA hounded him for it), but any more than that and it just doesn't make any sense...... "Should be held accountable" indeed......
Offtopic - what movies were named "Twisted" or "Grind"? Anybody?
I'm going to go off a bit (and get modded down), but here we go -
Anywho, does this mean that our quality of democracy is weakened?
Who (who defined loosely as the media) has pushed the envelope or sought more answers against the war on terror, or the Patriot Act? While the megacorps clamp down on individual rights, who goes after them? Who goes after Bush when science is thrown aside in favor of religion? When beauraucracies(sic) withhold information in the name of "protecting from the terror threat", who questions it? I mean, yes, there are a few investigative reports every now and then, but it's rare.......
"This "zeal for secrecy" I am talking about - and I have barely touched the surface - adds up to a victory for the terrorists."
Indeed.....An interesting read with a lot of insight into our current situation......Might be worth RTFA-ing this time around.....
This wasn't even a readable story - just a small synopsis of a story that will be featured in Mobile PC mag next month. There could have been plenty more info, but instead we got two paragraphs.....
OTOH, is an average 9% drop in performance even an issue? I mean, 9% in office apps is nothing....Who needs high performance when typing, making spreadsheets, or even a PowerPoint presentation?
This (once again) illustrates the MS push towards security over performance/compatibility
then what's the point....What's scary is that someday they'll lock the pirates out of patches...Leads to two scenarios -
1.) Increase of unpatched, demon, zombie PCs
or
2.) Linux Migration!:)
You could probably piss a hell off a lot of people, who as TFA states "namely, people who bought a computer that they thought had a legitimate copy of Windows." You're gonna force them into buying a new copy?
And that still doesn't get around ordering a patch cd in the mail.
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Not to include deathmatch in the original release? Doesn't seem to make much sense that a multiplayer deathmatch is not included, especially in a game like HL2.....
-thewldisntenuff
Hmph...."next big craze in illegal file-sharing", eh?
What the hell? How is trading copies of broadcast television shows illegal? Since when is it piracy to copy and share copies of tv shows THAT ARE ON TV? I pay my dues in cable bills, so how the hell is it illegal? Recording shows to VHS has been done plenty of times - and you'd think they'd want you to watch the shows again and again....I don't see the logic or the losses involved here. Either way you end up seeing the show (commercial free or not)...
TFA states that people will have "no need to spring for satellite feeds or specialty channels" Hell, some specialty channels are a waste anyway...I mean, who needs 6 ESPNs, or 5 Discovery channels, or 10 friggin HBOs? I think some people would still hang on to their channels anyway...Its still a hell of a lot easier (for most) to watch tv at 6 than download and play clips offline. They make it sound like everyone's going to drop their cable services and rely on the downloading and recording of one lone pirate with an eye patch and a rouge TiVO....
TFA also states a line about "In his forum speech, Chernin said: "Consumers need to understand that stealing is wrong, and there are consequences." "
When the fuck did free use become a dirty word? Stealing? Bah!
What a good way to start Thanksgiving leftovers...
-thewldisntenuff
Hmph....Does this mean me saying "CmdrTaco sucks*" on a /. discussion mean he can come sue the pants off me? A scary prescendent to be set indeed....There are a hell of a lot of websites, and a lot of personal pages out there that probably slander people left and right...What about them?
:)
*I've never met Mr. Rob Malda, so I can't attest or unattest to his personality
-thewldisntenuff
That they sent me the books with like $20 already inside.....
I never did complete them, but I always hoped they'd send more...:)
-thewldisntenuff
Linux Times.net? I looked over their site, and most of it seems to be some /. stories and stuff about a few different topics.....I'm not trying to knock them, but I've never heard of them. Are they new 'round these parts?
-thewldisntenuff
These things won't last...
I spent two years at the local Food City, and carts get banged around to no end. Unless those carts are used in a specialty grocer where they don't venture out much, they're wasting their money...
-thewldisntenuff
In Soviet Russia, the DAYS hack YOU! :)
-thewldisntenuff
Because it wasn't "some website raided by the FBI". It was an independant media source that was taken down by the FBI for reasons unknown....
The regular media doesn't get taken down so easily...Sounds suspicous....Politically motivated? Possibly...
But kiddy porn ring, no....
Suspicious indeed....Possibly linked to RNC delegate identification? See this link from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04264/382137.stm
This in from Argentina Indymedia, which has a different view -
FBI took the hard drives of IMC servers in the UK
por Mat ((!)) Thursday October 07, 2004 at 06:10 PM
-
The US authorities issued a subpoena to Rackspace's office in the US ordering them to physically remove Indymedia hardware located in London. Rackspace is one of Indymedia's web hosting providers with offices in the US and London. Rackspace complied and turned over Indymedia's hard drives/servers in the UK. This affects some 20+ Indymedia sites worldwide.
Since the subpoena was issued to Rackspace and not to Indymedia, the reasons for this action are still unknown to Indymedia.
At the same time a second server was taken down at Rackspace which provided streaming radio to several radio stations, BLAG (linux distro), and a handful of miscellanous things.
The last few months have seen numerous attacks on independent media by the US Federal Government. In August the Secret Service used a subpoena in an attempt to disrupt the NYC IMC before the RNC by trying to get IP logs from an ISP in the US and the Netherlands, last month the FCC shut down comunity radio stations around the US, and now the FBI is shutting down IMCs around the world.
The list of affected local media collectives includes Ambazonia, Uruguay, Andorra, Poland, Western Massachusetts, Nice, Nantes, Lilles, Marseille (all France), Euskal Herria (Basque Country), Liege, East and West Vlaanderen, Antwerpen (all Belgium), Belgrade, Portugal, Prague, Galiza, Italy, Brazil, part of the Germany site, UK Radio, and the global Indymedia Radio site.
Micah Anderson of the global imc-tech collective said, "We suspect it has to do with an FBI request that we take down a post on the Nantes IMC that had a photo of some undercover Swiss police. They claimed there was threats and personal information, but there was nothing of the sort. The undercover police that were photographed on the page were photographing protesters. Rackspace is a US company, but have colocation in the UK where these servers are (err, were) located. So this is about Swiss police, on a French site, on a server in England, taken away by American federal police."
However, according to information from IMC Nantes the pictures in question were already removed a week ago.
Link to Argentina Indymedia
http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2004/10/22769
and one more to NYC Indymedia, which is still up
http://nyc.indymedia.org/
How many video game stores did you knock off for these, eh? Beat up any little kids for consoles lately?
What a hell of a collection....
-thewldisntenuff
And this involves our rights online how? Even with the censorship of Clear Channel and the FCC.....
We need a simple "Rights" section, although I don't know if this even qualifies for rights period....
Just news...
-thewldisntenuff
"Well, some smarty-pants decided to repost my entire blog entry about bug 259708 as a comment on one of my entries, with an e-mail address of "fulldisclosure@netsys.com". Word for word, no changes, and no commentary either.
This annoyed the hell out of me. On the one side, I could see this anonymous poster's point: the bug was already in the public domain when it disappeared very suddenly."
What are you complaining about? Isn't this your fault for taking the entry down to begin with?
I'm going to troll a bit here, but doesn't this essay/blog entry just bitch about how he feels things weren't handled in a manner to his liking? And shouldn't he be faulted for how he initially handled the bug? (Noted below-)
"Losing data is horrendous, yes, but not as bad as losing it to someone else. That just wasn't happening here. So I decided not to ask for a security group review. That was my first mistake.
Lesson Number One: The very instant you start to wonder if a bug might cause a security concern, stop wondering and ask the security group to review. Don't try to do the security group's job by trying to decide if it really is one or not."
I think the bigger concern here was whether or not the bug got fixed, and once it was properly classified, it was indeed fixed. There probably could have been a faster fix for this bug, but I think most of what happened in this case can be directly faulted to him.....
-thewldisntenuff
"If your old laptop has a tiny hard drive, and by small I mean under 100 MB of space, you may or may not be able to upgrade it. Even if you can, you are certainly looking at no more than a gigabyte of space and will probably be making use of someone else's used drive."
I could see using Windows...Hell, I used Win95 0SR2 on a 166mhz ATT Globalyst without much of a hitch.....Slow for mp3s, but ran most of the web and IRC chat well enough for me.
But Windows aside, he never makes mention of distros like Knoppix or even Damn Small Linux (Isn't DSL like 50mb?)...You could easily run a distro off a Knoppix or Live CD....Wouldn't it be more useful to do this, as one gets a full-fledged OS with software to boot?
-thewldisntenuff
The page is on a .jp uni server so they SHOULD be able to handle the herd of rhinos that is ./.
:)
He should have called us a "herd of nerds"
-thewldisntenuff
What about the children? WHO WILL SAVE THE CHILDREN?
:) )
"Why is the Internet Industry allowed to avoid their responsibilities on this?"
Why the hell aren't you watching your kids? What the hell ever happened to active parenting? If you don't want your kids to see such content then keep them off the damn internet,or at least monitor what they do online.....Furthermore, filtering may do more harm than good by keeping useful information blocked anyway............The "internet industry" is composed of a hell of a lot of people, and there is no one person to lay such responsibility on anyway.....The internet is not a cable tv show or a movie - it wasn't designed with a ratings system in mind.........
I found it odd that they cite plenty of numbers on how often kids had accessed pornography, the survey simply stated -
In November last year Dr Michael Flood of the Australia Institute cited a new study showing that concerns about pornography and children were warranted: "Children who regularly see violent pornography are more likely to be sexually aggressive and to believe that sexual abuse is normal".
What study? What percentages? What numbers?
Finally, From TFA -
"This may have the result of putting cost pressures on some of the smaller ISPs, but there are arguably too many of these at the moment, and adequate competition could be maintained with 30 ISPs rather than the hundreds in existence now," it said.
Screw the small guys, huh?
(Sorry bout the long rant, can't sleep
-thewldisntenuff
Actual link to article - http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1652391,00.as p
Not to be a grammar/spelling nazi, but wtf is -
"Microsoft not anticipating the storage that user of the free email accounts..."
More like (FTA)-
"We are seeing customers consuming more storage than we anticipated, and we're bringing more storage online," she said.
I would think this wouldn't have gotten past the eds...But in any case, hope this clears things up.
-thewldisntenuff
*Couldn't there be a startup project to get existing windows-compatible HDTV cards to work within Linux? I mean, there's a good sized community out there, and with the right motivation (recorded HD for all?) couldn't this be done?
As far as DRM-disabled tivos....I doubt it will happen....Even if someone rolled out one, no doubt it'd be stopped before it hit the shelves.....
*Disclaimer - I don't know much about HDTV cards..Know how they work and all, but I don't know what's available on the market.....
Hydrogen pretty dangerous stuff? I mean, I know it's quite explosive....(From what I recall from freshman chem :) ) Does anyone remember the Hindenberg?
Which brings my question - how do you stablize hydrogen so it's not so explosive?.....A car accident could spell disaster if not properly contained...Or am I wrong?
-thewldisntenufff
No, probably not.....Nintendo can re-release them in a "retro" gaming pack-
:)
Thus, it will not hurt them, but rather, pay off as people buy the gaming pack
Or you could be a l33t hax0r and boot an emulator onto the DS
-thewldisntenuff
"This seems to be a huge misuse of resources, an infringement upon various global spam laws, an infringement upon our own Copyright Act under Section 102 and needless stress and cost upon small Australian organizations and companies," Smith said. ......
"Linux Australia is concerned that this kind of shoot-in-the-dark approach to copyright protection is potentially damaging for Australian organizations and companies," Smith added. "Organizations that participate in such behavior should be held accountable and forced to put at least some effort into researching the validity of their keyword searches."
Why aren't there any similar laws in the United States? Or are there similar laws that are applicable here (in the States)? I mean, it's understandable once or twice (ie- story where professor posted an mp3 of his lectures and RIAA hounded him for it), but any more than that and it just doesn't make any sense...... "Should be held accountable" indeed......
Offtopic - what movies were named "Twisted" or "Grind"? Anybody?
-thewldisntenuff
From someone with 10 feedback commments!
/joke
The only buyer from this guy stated this in his "positive" feedback -
"works great. I get a great burn in my abs. thanks."
OMG! Don't do it
-thewldisntenuff
What a long FA......
I'm going to go off a bit (and get modded down), but here we go -
Anywho, does this mean that our quality of democracy is weakened?
Who (who defined loosely as the media) has pushed the envelope or sought more answers against the war on terror, or the Patriot Act? While the megacorps clamp down on individual rights, who goes after them? Who goes after Bush when science is thrown aside in favor of religion? When beauraucracies(sic) withhold information in the name of "protecting from the terror threat", who questions it? I mean, yes, there are a few investigative reports every now and then, but it's rare.......
"This "zeal for secrecy" I am talking about - and I have barely touched the surface - adds up to a victory for the terrorists."
Indeed.....An interesting read with a lot of insight into our current situation......Might be worth RTFA-ing this time around.....
-thewldisntenuff
Had a blurb on this....Apparently it brings porn to your searches.....
r a.ml/
For example, if you search "Frontpage SEO", pr0n shows up in the image toolbar....I've seen it, but haven't played around with it much.....
Link to the story
http://news.com.com/2061-1032-5371766.html?tag=xt
was this even posted at all?
This wasn't even a readable story - just a small synopsis of a story that will be featured in Mobile PC mag next month. There could have been plenty more info, but instead we got two paragraphs.....
OTOH, is an average 9% drop in performance even an issue? I mean, 9% in office apps is nothing....Who needs high performance when typing, making spreadsheets, or even a PowerPoint presentation?
This (once again) illustrates the MS push towards security over performance/compatibility
-thewldisntenuff
then what's the point....What's scary is that someday they'll lock the pirates out of patches...Leads to two scenarios -
:)
1.) Increase of unpatched, demon, zombie PCs
or
2.) Linux Migration!
You could probably piss a hell off a lot of people, who as TFA states "namely, people who bought a computer that they thought had a legitimate copy of Windows." You're gonna force them into buying a new copy?
And that still doesn't get around ordering a patch cd in the mail.
-thewldisntenuff