Third Party Advertising
The ads appearing on the Exeem.com Web site and within eXeem(TM) application are delivered by our web advertising partner, Cydoor. Information about users of eXeem(TM) and Exeem.com, such as the number of times they have viewed an ad (but not user name, address, or other personal information), is used to serve ads to users. If you would like more information about Cydoor, please visit: http://www.cydoor.com/Cydoor/Company/CompanyPrivac y.htm
Ads that might appear outside Exeem.com and eXeem(TM) application are Opt-out ads, that you have a chance to uninstall. Outside Exeem.com and eXeem(TM) application is eXeem's Toolbar LookSmart.
This technology can be activated both in online and offline modes. The technology's architecture can be integrated into any software program. Cydoor can update or rotate banner ads not only when users are online, but also when they are offline. Upon installation of a software application integrated with their advertising technology, Cydoor Technologies sets a numerical identifier on your computer.
The following files are used:
In C:\Windows\System: cd_clint.dll, cd_gif.dll, cd_swf.dll and cd_load.exe.
Removal:
You can delete the C:\Windows\System\Adcache directory. Then remove all instances from the Registry. Look in HKLM\Software, HKCU\Software. Look also for entries in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run and in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Shareddlls.
If you wish to KaZaa without the Cydoor spyware, copy the cd_clint.dll, remove the Cydoor agents with a spyware cleaner, and place the cd_clint.dll back in the Windows System folder.
If it doesn't use trackers, how is the connection between clients done? "Suprnodes" i suppose? I'm trying to find out but TFSHBS (The * Site Has Been Slashdotted). So, any info plz? Or a.torrent for the docs?;)
I wish I had made more friends while in highschool / college. Instead i spent too much time alone. Either studying, playing videogames or chatting on irc. And now that I want to make new friends, I CAN'T. I work fulltime.
So, make sure you make friends in college. It might be your last chance.
The most popular channels in IRC are warez and porn channels! They use most of the bandwidth and the most people go in there!
If you don't tell me I would've never suspected. Of course, i'm of those chitchatters that spend less than 1% of the bandwidth of irc in occasional conversations, using short acronyms like "brb" and "lol". So I guess I'm not representative at all. Oh well.
I remember starting to learn astronomy after watching this anime show, knights of the Zodiac, but the learning I did myself. So it's all about incentivate learning on young kids, right?
I'm pretty sure there are alternatives to this. Maybe it's the education system that we're having that makes study boring. (Teacher dictates, blablablabla... kids get their wrists tired of writing so much, one starts playing with paper airplanes... is this what education meant to be? I can't imagine Plato dictating some text to his philosohpy students, but rather encouraging them to learn by themselves and question things.
Teachers make students learn, but can they teach the students to learn by themselves?
Hawking presented his solution to the 17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation in Dublin.... Hawking also dismisses his previous suggestion that the information might have leaked into a different "Baby" universe. "The information remains firmly in our universe," he told the conference. "I am sorry to disappoint science fiction fans, but if information is preserved, there is no possibility of using black holes to travel to other universes. If you jump into a black hole, your mass energy will be returned to our universe, but in a mangled form which contains the information about what you were like, but in an unrecognisable state.
OK I think that no matter how you feel, you should demand answers NOW. Demand the unfinished script, and next time you sign a contract, include a license that gives you full access to non-encrypted copies of all the scripts, and that these copies (not the original scripts themselves) remain your property and you can do whatever you want with them (with exceptions of publicly distributed scripts i.e. GPL or LGPL licenses and such).
Closed source is poison. An uncle of mine hired a company to do some website for him, but he doesn't have access to the files (not even the PUBLISHED files on the host).
Also, was there a time-limit specified on the contract? Can't you sue these guys for non-fulfillment of contract or something?
XSL wasn't meant for formatting and printing. It was meant for converting XML into other XML formats (such as XHTML + CSS helloooo???)
Comparing XSL vs. CSS is like comparing Table-based design with Table AND CSS-based design.
(X)HTML's Document Object Model has default styles ("default" CSS if you prefer) assigned to each element. Of course using CSS is necessary.
And the reason many XSLT stylesheets are so long is because of the stupid design imposed on them (non-changeable variables, result-tree-fragments, inability to eval an xpath expression... ok who was the genius who came out with these ideas, anyway?)
Unfortunately, current browsers cannot do ALL the formatting. Try turning off IE's header and footer using CSS. Or customizing your own header and footer, or print landscape instead of portrait. Let's hope that CSS3 solves these problems - but until then, server-side PDF generation is the solution.
Anyway if browsers had supported XSL, it would be a mainstream component of the web today. We would have marvelous things like client-side inclusion (I've done it with XSLT alone, _NO_ javascript!), bandwidth savings... (imagine that with Google!) In the end it became a pipedream due to the lack of browser support.
We've all heard the one about the spammers begin sued. Now, an Ausie spammer is suing back, for being blacklisted. Claiming damages and equipment replacement costs and so on. The whole article is over at
Yahoo. So, I guess now, not only are we subjected to the spam, but we can't block it either?
I don't know what happened to the guy. But it's certainly a legal precedent. What do you think?
Soon you'll find kids at school sharing their illegal freenet access CD's. Any imposition against the people will eventually fail. I place my bets that the copyright tyrans will find their names placed on the black book of historic villains. Oh yes, I can see it... in 50 years kids will laugh at the stupid congressmen who passed the bills.
And, yes, the documentary will be freely available for download.
The files would have to be in some sort of "illegal files database" along with their hashes. The software would then alert the user when he can't download an "illegal file".
Of course, crackers would release PATCHES to circumvent said "anti-warez" security. Not to mention ALTERED versions of the copyrighted works i.e. audio: "This file was cracked by pyr8 rulz! Powah to da peepl! (song begins here)"
This mean there could be countless hashes for a single copyrighted work. Hey what if a file i'm sharing accidentally has THE SAME HASH? Collisions HAVE been found in MD5.
(But also, can there be a way to prevent the OWNER of the files from downloading them? Then there would have to be a database of owners, along with private and public keys. Oh, what happens if somehow the key is lost? More bureaucracy.
So, in order to successfully prevent a copyrighted work from being shared, we need to:
a) Connect to a massive database, spending a HUGE AMOUNT of bandwidth in comparing the hash of the file you're downloading with the database.
b) Implement a very secure (possibly redundant) hash algorithm so that no duplicates are found.
c) And with the increasing number of copyrighted works, the database would soon take control of all works. Obviously this needs to be an INTERNATIONAL effort, and some countries won't participate.
d) And then there would have to be a standarized, even possibly patented LIBRARY for the security of copyrighted works.
e) If the database can't be connected, that could possibly be a loophole, but since we have to respect the law, the transfer would not begin in the first place. This would effectively turn the hash database into an "internet access key", which is just ridiculout. Otherwise, one could just use a firewall to prevent connections to the database. Ta-da! Instant sharing. So much for nothing.
f) In the end, the whole internet could become unusable.
Frankly I don't see how such a hairball of protections is going to a) be practically implementable, and b) have any positive consequences for the industry or the "affected" parties.
That bill should have to be ruled as inconstitutional. (Free speech, anyone?) And if this trend continues, even calling a buddy by phone would be illegal. Now do they want the chat programs to insert spyware as to detect possible copyright infringements? What's next, ruling encryption illegal (oh, wait...) ?
Excuse me my congressmen, but this whole idea of using law to prevent technology from accessing something which CAN'T BE MEASURED technologically, is just ridiculous. It would be like using science to prove the existence of God.
Copyright infringers have to be caught ON THE ACT for the law to be respected.
captions on almost each scene? Doh? I remember reading one that said "TWO MONTHS LATER" on Law&Order. Again, i didn't RTFA, but I think the article submitter should be clearer on what he means by "fast".
Slashdot Mirror
And from elsewhere:
OK, I think I'll pass.
If it doesn't use trackers, how is the connection between clients done? "Suprnodes" i suppose? I'm trying to find out but TFSHBS (The * Site Has Been Slashdotted). So, any info plz? Or a .torrent for the docs? ;)
And in the second quarter...
pirates 1, EA 1
Friends
I wish I had made more friends while in highschool / college. Instead i spent too much time alone. Either studying, playing videogames or chatting on irc. And now that I want to make new friends, I CAN'T. I work fulltime.
So, make sure you make friends in college. It might be your last chance.
The most popular channels in IRC are warez and porn channels! They use most of the bandwidth and the most people go in there!
If you don't tell me I would've never suspected. Of course, i'm of those chitchatters that spend less than 1% of the bandwidth of irc in occasional conversations, using short acronyms like "brb" and "lol". So I guess I'm not representative at all. Oh well.
We'll send an astronaut in cryo so he can turn the switch back on :)
I remember starting to learn astronomy after watching this anime show, knights of the Zodiac, but the learning I did myself. So it's all about incentivate learning on young kids, right?
I'm pretty sure there are alternatives to this. Maybe it's the education system that we're having that makes study boring. (Teacher dictates, blablablabla... kids get their wrists tired of writing so much, one starts playing with paper airplanes... is this what education meant to be? I can't imagine Plato dictating some text to his philosohpy students, but rather encouraging them to learn by themselves and question things.
Teachers make students learn, but can they teach the students to learn by themselves?
Quote:
(Emphasis mine)
Ran off skipping and giggling, like a 13 year old who just put toothpaste on the toilet seat?
By any chance, was his name "Zero Cool"?
With a great Power... come$ a great re$pon$ibility.
You should check out http://www.sitepoint.com/ for contract and legal tips dealing with web programming. They even have a newsletter about it.
OK I think that no matter how you feel, you should demand answers NOW. Demand the unfinished script, and next time you sign a contract, include a license that gives you full access to non-encrypted copies of all the scripts, and that these copies (not the original scripts themselves) remain your property and you can do whatever you want with them (with exceptions of publicly distributed scripts i.e. GPL or LGPL licenses and such).
Closed source is poison. An uncle of mine hired a company to do some website for him, but he doesn't have access to the files (not even the PUBLISHED files on the host).
Also, was there a time-limit specified on the contract? Can't you sue these guys for non-fulfillment of contract or something?
It has Y! Mail Plus, and it offers POP3 and SMTP access (along with disposable e-mail, etc).
So what's the big fuzz?
XSL wasn't meant for formatting and printing. It was meant for converting XML into other XML formats (such as XHTML + CSS helloooo???)
Comparing XSL vs. CSS is like comparing Table-based design with Table AND CSS-based design.
(X)HTML's Document Object Model has default styles ("default" CSS if you prefer) assigned to each element. Of course using CSS is necessary.
And the reason many XSLT stylesheets are so long is because of the stupid design imposed on them (non-changeable variables, result-tree-fragments, inability to eval an xpath expression... ok who was the genius who came out with these ideas, anyway?)
Unfortunately, current browsers cannot do ALL the formatting. Try turning off IE's header and footer using CSS. Or customizing your own header and footer, or print landscape instead of portrait.
Let's hope that CSS3 solves these problems - but until then, server-side PDF generation is the solution.
Anyway if browsers had supported XSL, it would be a mainstream component of the web today. We would have marvelous things like client-side inclusion (I've done it with XSLT alone, _NO_ javascript!), bandwidth savings... (imagine that with Google!)
In the end it became a pipedream due to the lack of browser support.
/. is backwards today... I post a funny and I get +3 Insightful. Oh well... karma is karma, no matter the flavor :)
And don't forget to TURN ON the communication device before sending. *smirk*
That open source works better than millions of dollars of investment in closed source.
:)
Thumbs up for pro-am's!
When someone tries to patent "hyperlinks", we can show them prior art! :P
Unemployment for 935 years? Don't worry! You just need a congressman to pass the "Soylent-Green Bill". Problem solved! :)
how the middle-earth Elves managed to live so long. However, the pointy-ears question still bugs me...
Soon you'll find kids at school sharing their illegal freenet access CD's. Any imposition against the people will eventually fail. I place my bets that the copyright tyrans will find their names placed on the black book of historic villains. Oh yes, I can see it... in 50 years kids will laugh at the stupid congressmen who passed the bills.
And, yes, the documentary will be freely available for download.
The files would have to be in some sort of "illegal files database" along with their hashes. The software would then alert the user when he can't download an "illegal file".
Of course, crackers would release PATCHES to circumvent said "anti-warez" security. Not to mention ALTERED versions of the copyrighted works i.e. audio: "This file was cracked by pyr8 rulz! Powah to da peepl! (song begins here)"
This mean there could be countless hashes for a single copyrighted work. Hey what if a file i'm sharing accidentally has THE SAME HASH? Collisions HAVE been found in MD5.
(But also, can there be a way to prevent the OWNER of the files from downloading them? Then there would have to be a database of owners, along with private and public keys. Oh, what happens if somehow the key is lost? More bureaucracy.
So, in order to successfully prevent a copyrighted work from being shared, we need to:
a) Connect to a massive database, spending a HUGE AMOUNT of bandwidth in comparing the hash of the file you're downloading with the database.
b) Implement a very secure (possibly redundant) hash algorithm so that no duplicates are found.
c) And with the increasing number of copyrighted works, the database would soon take control of all works. Obviously this needs to be an INTERNATIONAL effort, and some countries won't participate.
d) And then there would have to be a standarized, even possibly patented LIBRARY for the security of copyrighted works.
e) If the database can't be connected, that could possibly be a loophole, but since we have to respect the law, the transfer would not begin in the first place. This would effectively turn the hash database into an "internet access key", which is just ridiculout. Otherwise, one could just use a firewall to prevent connections to the database. Ta-da! Instant sharing. So much for nothing.
f) In the end, the whole internet could become unusable.
Frankly I don't see how such a hairball of protections is going to a) be practically implementable, and b) have any positive consequences for the industry or the "affected" parties.
That bill should have to be ruled as inconstitutional. (Free speech, anyone?) And if this trend continues, even calling a buddy by phone would be illegal. Now do they want the chat programs to insert spyware as to detect possible copyright infringements? What's next, ruling encryption illegal (oh, wait...) ?
Excuse me my congressmen, but this whole idea of using law to prevent technology from accessing something which CAN'T BE MEASURED technologically, is just ridiculous. It would be like using science to prove the existence of God.
Copyright infringers have to be caught ON THE ACT for the law to be respected.
End of discussion, case dismissed.
NEXT!
Isn't that why we have those
"MONDAY 11:30AM"
captions on almost each scene? Doh? I remember reading one that said "TWO MONTHS LATER" on Law&Order. Again, i didn't RTFA, but I think the article submitter should be clearer on what he means by "fast".
The correct url is:
www.secure-ebay-transactions.ru.stupid