I don't mean support, as in technical support, but support as in they chose it to over IE to distribute. I support Firefox, meaning that I use it and recommend it to friends.
Speakeasy is wonderful because it's nice to have an option for DSL. If it wasn't for them, there would be no alternatives to Bellsouth other than cable in the area I live in. Now they're supporting Firefox. That just makes it all the better.
If preventing physical access entirely is not possible, it's best to make sure that you have a tough BIOS password and booting from CD disabled. Just about anything on any hard drive can be accessed with a custom built linux Live CD. In a world with free 250MB web-mail accounts, you just e-mail anything you find interesting.
I generally recommend Slax as a good place to start when making a custom CD.
"I'm just smart enough to know what the dif between spyware and adware is. Just coz cydoor has been evil in the past doesn't mean they can't change. No1 likes ads, but no1 is forcing you to use this either. I was simply saying anyone saying it's spyware ridden has no clue. Any decent anti-spyware/adware utility will remove the cydoor parts that get installed anyhow."
First off, the odds of a company changing it's business practices are slim to none if the current practice is bringing in profits.
Second, you're absolutely right. No one is forcing me, or anyone else to use it.
Third, you say it has no spyware. It communicates with Cydoors servers while eXeem is running. I don't know what it's sending, but it could be anything. That may not be the official definition of spyware, but it certainly is in my book.
And finally, you also say that any decent anti-adware/spyware utility will remove it. You're right, it does, but it's promptly re-installed the next time you run eXeem. If that's not sneaky and underhanded, I don't know what is. Cydoor is not to be trusted, that is unless you're paying them for user data or advertising. Then I'm sure they're very nice to you.
"Read the fucking submission, they said WEST not WEB"
Actually, the submission used both. It used WestSideStory once, and WebSideStory twice. For the record, it's supposed to be WebSideStory.
Well, before they change it on me and make me look like an ass, this is what the submission states:
"News.com reports that the popularity of alternative Web browser Firefox continues to rise at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, according to a new study by WestSideStory. The study measured market share by embedding sensors on major web sites such as those of Walt Disney, Best Buy, Sony and Liz Claiborne. WebSideStory retrieves data from 30 million internet users a day passing through its monitored sites. The company then takes a snapshot of two days and compares the growth. Since beginning its measurements last summer, WebSideStory has been cautious to draw any broad conclusions about Firefox's popularity. This time around, the company said many people are not only downloading Firefox, they're sticking with it and using it."
"do a little research guys. Cydoor is actually a respecteble ADware comapny now. NOT spyware. If you don't want to use it because you choose not to believe, then fine. Anyone who visited suprnova.org before got ads from the EXACT same ad company."
Yet another AC defending Cydoor and Exeem. I wonder if he works for Exeem or Cydoor. My odds are on Exeem, as Cydoor doesn't much care what people think of them.
"I scanned with my Ad aware SE ( newest update) and it didnt pick up any spyware after installing Exeem.."
I love how all the posts in this thread claiming that there's no spyware in Exeem are made by that infamous Anonymous Coward.
A thought has just occurred to me. Do you know who will use Exeem? The idiots that have been using Kazaa and all the other spyware-laden p2p apps. The smarter ones that have been using BT, avoiding spyware and closed networks, will continue to use BT. The p2p community doesn't need Exeem. It's just another Kazaa, Bearshare, or Morpheus. Enjoy your spyware, folks. It's all yours.
" I scanned my machine with AdAware 6 (fully updated) and there is no spyware in eXeem beta.
"
Perhaps AdAware isn't recent enough to pick up on the spyware in Exeem. The Exeem FAQ states that it does indeed contain adware/spyware. They fail to tell the user what it's doing or collecting. As I don't see any visible ads in Exeem, I can only assume they're data mining.
which way is up, this post you've just made and received a "+5 informative" for is my post from December 2nd when Exeem was first brought up for discussion. It would appear that this is the second time you've done this today. Quit being such a karma whore.
As a side note, I was banned from the Exeem beta forum for making this post on Slashdot.
Moderators, please mod down this plagiarizing piece of crap.
"The ability to create your own 'torrents' is what will really set this service apart. Some of the downsides of the other p2p applications (including bittorrent apps) was the inability of the layman user to contribute and share things new and unique."
I'm sure this has never occurred to you, but do you think it's possible that not allowing the average user to create their own torrents might be a good thing? Really, do I want to sift through 20 different torrents for the most recent episode of The Daily show because some boobs downloaded it from Loki and wanted to be the first to post it on Exeem? The reason why Suprnova.org was so great was that just about every torrent, unless posted by a regular submitter, was checked before making it onto the front page. Having people download from 20 different torrents instead of just one completely defeats the purpose of swarmed downloading.
I think Exeem will quickly turn into another Kazaa, except slightly better. It'll wind up being full of garbage just like Kazaa. I hope I'm wrong, but that's what will happen when you let anyone submit anything they want.
And before someone tries to lecture me on the comment system built into Exeem, and how it'll prevent all of these problems, it won't. For anyone looking for an example, the second most seeded file on Exeem at the moment is called 'Barbie web cam sexe.mpeg' It has 102 seeds, a rating of 81.6%, yet all of the comments say it's stupid and not worth the bandwidth. I'm glad the comment system is getting rid of all those worthless downloads.
I'll stick to the real BitTorrent, open-source and spyware-free, and I'll just continue to support the sites that aren't willing to cave like suprnova.org.
"One thing I've noticed in theese advices is that they are written by either relly smart or really successful guys. What are their advice worth for one that isn't very far above the average in intellegence and will probably not be successful. (face it, not any high percentage gets to be millionaries)
I'd need more advice on how to get a good life as a mediocrity person, because that's probably what I are going to be."
The insight in your post alone indicates you have more potential in you than most.
"Not out of some legal obligation but to partonize the artist"
Time to do some math..
Let's assume that you have $50 a month spendable income that you want to use for music..
Let's also assume that you're in an area that gets frequented by music tours reasonaly often..
The average CD costs between $15 and $20 here in the US. Let's say you can get 3 new CDs for your $50. That's 3 artists, each getting about $0.15. Let's also assume that you can get a concert ticket for $25. So you could go to two concerts with your $50, with each artist getting between $5 and $15 from your ticket. Or you could go to just one show, and buy a $25 t-shirt while you're there. That's one artist getting between $15 to $30 of your $50. Which one supports the artists most? In case your math isn't so sharp, I'll help you out. 3 new CDs($50) x $0.15 is $0.45 going to the artists. If you spent your money on two concert tickets, and the band was getting the low end of the portion ($5), that's $10 between the two artists. You would have to spend over $1000 on CDs in order to give the same amount to the artists as you would buying two concert tickets for $50.
Now, I know you can argue that the recording industry uses CD sales to determine how much they're going to give the artists in their next contract, but that's the RIAA screwing the artists, not the consumers.
Support the artists. Download your music. Buy a ticket or t-shirt.
"You could wire the whole place, everyone could have their own connection. screw the wireless, it isn't working for them, one person pays for the ISP with a broadband connection. use DHCP, and pay for just one ISP between all 20 of them."
Apparently you've never completely saturated a DSL line. I have 3Mbps down, and 384kbps up. (that's a pretty fat DSL line.) I completely saturate my bandwidth up and down shortly after 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' airs every weekday night. Would you want me as a neighbor sharing your connection, or anyone else that's discovered BitTorrent for that matter?
"Some of my best friend/players on line are females.
Nothing cuter than a girl playing a game seriously.:)"
I'm hoping you realize that online games and MMORPGs have just as many men posing as women as there are actually women playing. Unless you've met her in person, it may be 'Bob' that you're flirting with. Seriously.
Personally, as a hetero male, I found it incredibly amusing to play a lesbian female in a MMORPG. The game had lost it's 'replay value' until I decided to play as a lesbian. Too funny. Sad thing is, I had more girlfriends in the game as a lesbian than I did as a straight male. Too sad.. Let's hope they were actually women.
I'm thinking this post should be anonymous, but, who cares.. it was funny..
Aero
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I was reading your post as if it had the chance at being interesting or informative.. and then I saw this:
"That's one of the biggest differences between man and man-made machines. People can be injured and keep going (watch any Arnold movie). A machine, on the other hand, is pretty much all or nothing (except in Arnold movies)."
Eh, in most of the Arnold movies I've seen (3 out of 5), Arnold is a machine that gets injured and keeps going. Didn't he even cut out his own eye in the first one? I'd call that one hell of an injury. And he kept going.
Your search - "newegg refurbished fraud" - did not match any documents. Suggestions: - Make sure all words are spelled correctly. - Try different keywords. - Try more general keywords.
Did it not occur to you that doing a search for "newegg refurbished fraud" with the quotes wouldn't return anything because no one would actually use that exact phrase in their article? Trying doing the search without the quotes, dipshit.
Sixthed? Yes, I'm making up words. Can I be President now?
Actually, not only do I buy nearly all of my computer needs from Newegg, I use them as a comparison when dealing the wholesalers in the local area. If they can't beat Newegg, I have no need to deal with them. Newegg.com redefines what an online reseller should be. 99% of the time, they get my money. And as a small business owner on the east coast, I get somehow get my parts in 2 or 3 days. That's amazing.
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I don't mean support, as in technical support, but support as in they chose it to over IE to distribute. I support Firefox, meaning that I use it and recommend it to friends.
Aero
Speakeasy is wonderful because it's nice to have an option for DSL. If it wasn't for them, there would be no alternatives to Bellsouth other than cable in the area I live in. Now they're supporting Firefox. That just makes it all the better.
Aero
They're a good deal for the bandwidth too. There aren't too many other ISPs that care about giving you a large pipe to upload with.
Aero
Heh, I had no idea Firefox could do that..
Maybe I should RTFM..
Aero
Considering the reputation of that website and the poor quality of that RAM, I really wouldn't expect that stick of RAM to work at all.
Aero
If preventing physical access entirely is not possible, it's best to make sure that you have a tough BIOS password and booting from CD disabled. Just about anything on any hard drive can be accessed with a custom built linux Live CD. In a world with free 250MB web-mail accounts, you just e-mail anything you find interesting.
I generally recommend Slax as a good place to start when making a custom CD.
Aero
"I'm just smart enough to know what the dif between spyware and adware is. Just coz cydoor has been evil in the past doesn't mean they can't change. No1 likes ads, but no1 is forcing you to use this either. I was simply saying anyone saying it's spyware ridden has no clue. Any decent anti-spyware/adware utility will remove the cydoor parts that get installed anyhow."
First off, the odds of a company changing it's business practices are slim to none if the current practice is bringing in profits.
Second, you're absolutely right. No one is forcing me, or anyone else to use it.
Third, you say it has no spyware. It communicates with Cydoors servers while eXeem is running. I don't know what it's sending, but it could be anything. That may not be the official definition of spyware, but it certainly is in my book.
And finally, you also say that any decent anti-adware/spyware utility will remove it. You're right, it does, but it's promptly re-installed the next time you run eXeem. If that's not sneaky and underhanded, I don't know what is. Cydoor is not to be trusted, that is unless you're paying them for user data or advertising. Then I'm sure they're very nice to you.
Aero
"Read the fucking submission, they said WEST not WEB"
Actually, the submission used both. It used WestSideStory once, and WebSideStory twice. For the record, it's supposed to be WebSideStory.
Well, before they change it on me and make me look like an ass, this is what the submission states:
"News.com reports that the popularity of alternative Web browser Firefox continues to rise at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, according to a new study by WestSideStory. The study measured market share by embedding sensors on major web sites such as those of Walt Disney, Best Buy, Sony and Liz Claiborne. WebSideStory retrieves data from 30 million internet users a day passing through its monitored sites. The company then takes a snapshot of two days and compares the growth. Since beginning its measurements last summer, WebSideStory has been cautious to draw any broad conclusions about Firefox's popularity. This time around, the company said many people are not only downloading Firefox, they're sticking with it and using it."
Aero
"do a little research guys. Cydoor is actually a respecteble ADware comapny now. NOT spyware. If you don't want to use it because you choose not to believe, then fine. Anyone who visited suprnova.org before got ads from the EXACT same ad company."
Yet another AC defending Cydoor and Exeem. I wonder if he works for Exeem or Cydoor. My odds are on Exeem, as Cydoor doesn't much care what people think of them.
Aero
"I scanned with my Ad aware SE ( newest update) and it didnt pick up any spyware after installing Exeem.."
I love how all the posts in this thread claiming that there's no spyware in Exeem are made by that infamous Anonymous Coward.
A thought has just occurred to me. Do you know who will use Exeem? The idiots that have been using Kazaa and all the other spyware-laden p2p apps. The smarter ones that have been using BT, avoiding spyware and closed networks, will continue to use BT. The p2p community doesn't need Exeem. It's just another Kazaa, Bearshare, or Morpheus. Enjoy your spyware, folks. It's all yours.
Aero
I believe 'which way is up' has brought the defintion of karma-whore to a whole new level. It's so sad that it's almost amusing..
Aero
" "Exteem" and "Exteem Lite" are two different things."
Now, if you would kindly explain to use what the fuck Exteem us, we would all be greatly appreciative.
The rest of us have been discussing some new shitty p2p app called Exeem.
Aero
" I scanned my machine with AdAware 6 (fully updated) and there is no spyware in eXeem beta. "
Perhaps AdAware isn't recent enough to pick up on the spyware in Exeem. The Exeem FAQ states that it does indeed contain adware/spyware. They fail to tell the user what it's doing or collecting. As I don't see any visible ads in Exeem, I can only assume they're data mining.
Aero
which way is up, this post you've just made and received a "+5 informative" for is my post from December 2nd when Exeem was first brought up for discussion. It would appear that this is the second time you've done this today. Quit being such a karma whore.
As a side note, I was banned from the Exeem beta forum for making this post on Slashdot.
Moderators, please mod down this plagiarizing piece of crap.
Aero
"The ability to create your own 'torrents' is what will really set this service apart. Some of the downsides of the other p2p applications (including bittorrent apps) was the inability of the layman user to contribute and share things new and unique."
I'm sure this has never occurred to you, but do you think it's possible that not allowing the average user to create their own torrents might be a good thing? Really, do I want to sift through 20 different torrents for the most recent episode of The Daily show because some boobs downloaded it from Loki and wanted to be the first to post it on Exeem? The reason why Suprnova.org was so great was that just about every torrent, unless posted by a regular submitter, was checked before making it onto the front page. Having people download from 20 different torrents instead of just one completely defeats the purpose of swarmed downloading.
I think Exeem will quickly turn into another Kazaa, except slightly better. It'll wind up being full of garbage just like Kazaa. I hope I'm wrong, but that's what will happen when you let anyone submit anything they want.
And before someone tries to lecture me on the comment system built into Exeem, and how it'll prevent all of these problems, it won't. For anyone looking for an example, the second most seeded file on Exeem at the moment is called 'Barbie web cam sexe.mpeg' It has 102 seeds, a rating of 81.6%, yet all of the comments say it's stupid and not worth the bandwidth. I'm glad the comment system is getting rid of all those worthless downloads.
I'll stick to the real BitTorrent, open-source and spyware-free, and I'll just continue to support the sites that aren't willing to cave like suprnova.org.
Aero
"One thing I've noticed in theese advices is that they are written by either relly smart or really successful guys. What are their advice worth for one that isn't very far above the average in intellegence and will probably not be successful. (face it, not any high percentage gets to be millionaries)
I'd need more advice on how to get a good life as a mediocrity person, because that's probably what I are going to be."
The insight in your post alone indicates you have more potential in you than most.
Aero
"or even spell in high school. All of these things I taught myself"
"I would have done quite well accademically."
I'm glad you have that spelling thing covered. No more worrying about that..
Aero
"Not out of some legal obligation but to partonize the artist"
Time to do some math..
Let's assume that you have $50 a month spendable income that you want to use for music..
Let's also assume that you're in an area that gets frequented by music tours reasonaly often..
The average CD costs between $15 and $20 here in the US. Let's say you can get 3 new CDs for your $50. That's 3 artists, each getting about $0.15. Let's also assume that you can get a concert ticket for $25. So you could go to two concerts with your $50, with each artist getting between $5 and $15 from your ticket. Or you could go to just one show, and buy a $25 t-shirt while you're there. That's one artist getting between $15 to $30 of your $50. Which one supports the artists most? In case your math isn't so sharp, I'll help you out. 3 new CDs($50) x $0.15 is $0.45 going to the artists. If you spent your money on two concert tickets, and the band was getting the low end of the portion ($5), that's $10 between the two artists. You would have to spend over $1000 on CDs in order to give the same amount to the artists as you would buying two concert tickets for $50.
Now, I know you can argue that the recording industry uses CD sales to determine how much they're going to give the artists in their next contract, but that's the RIAA screwing the artists, not the consumers.
Support the artists. Download your music. Buy a ticket or t-shirt.
Aero
"You could wire the whole place, everyone could have their own connection. screw the wireless, it isn't working for them, one person pays for the ISP with a broadband connection. use DHCP, and pay for just one ISP between all 20 of them."
Apparently you've never completely saturated a DSL line. I have 3Mbps down, and 384kbps up. (that's a pretty fat DSL line.) I completely saturate my bandwidth up and down shortly after 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' airs every weekday night. Would you want me as a neighbor sharing your connection, or anyone else that's discovered BitTorrent for that matter?
Aero
"Some of my best friend/players on line are females.
:)"
Nothing cuter than a girl playing a game seriously.
I'm hoping you realize that online games and MMORPGs have just as many men posing as women as there are actually women playing. Unless you've met her in person, it may be 'Bob' that you're flirting with. Seriously.
Personally, as a hetero male, I found it incredibly amusing to play a lesbian female in a MMORPG. The game had lost it's 'replay value' until I decided to play as a lesbian. Too funny. Sad thing is, I had more girlfriends in the game as a lesbian than I did as a straight male. Too sad.. Let's hope they were actually women.
I'm thinking this post should be anonymous, but, who cares.. it was funny..
Aero
I was reading your post as if it had the chance at being interesting or informative.. and then I saw this:
"Meesa dissappointed."
You, sir, should be shot.
You're probably right, but I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't.
Aero
"That's one of the biggest differences between man and man-made machines. People can be injured and keep going (watch any Arnold movie). A machine, on the other hand, is pretty much all or nothing (except in Arnold movies)."
Eh, in most of the Arnold movies I've seen (3 out of 5), Arnold is a machine that gets injured and keeps going. Didn't he even cut out his own eye in the first one? I'd call that one hell of an injury. And he kept going.
Aero
Your search - "newegg refurbished fraud" - did not match any documents. Suggestions: - Make sure all words are spelled correctly. - Try different keywords. - Try more general keywords.
Did it not occur to you that doing a search for "newegg refurbished fraud" with the quotes wouldn't return anything because no one would actually use that exact phrase in their article? Trying doing the search without the quotes, dipshit.
Here are two links in case I confused you.
This one works: Without Quotes
This one doesn't work: With Quotes
If you're still confused, try Google's help section. Careful though, you might learn something.
Aero
Sixthed? Yes, I'm making up words. Can I be President now?
Actually, not only do I buy nearly all of my computer needs from Newegg, I use them as a comparison when dealing the wholesalers in the local area. If they can't beat Newegg, I have no need to deal with them. Newegg.com redefines what an online reseller should be. 99% of the time, they get my money. And as a small business owner on the east coast, I get somehow get my parts in 2 or 3 days. That's amazing.
Aero