http://www.openoffice.org/ OSS Office alternative. You know, in case don't want to spend a fortune on stupidly bloated software. Don't forget Shareaza, MIRC, and Context
p.s. I don't really understand the point of this, even though I am contributing. I don't believe the world has yet thrown its arms up in despair and sorrowfully welcomed its new Spyware overlords. Not yet anyway. Besides, all those people who do see your site aren't going to be the average computer-newbie who thinks spyware only happens to people on the FBI's most wanted list, they'll be people smart enough to tell between a spyware app and a clean app.
http://www.bitcomet.com/ is a bittorrent client far superior to Azureus in both performance (Azureus's java background eats up memory and cpu) and accessibility. It has every feature Azureus has, without the bizarrely worded options dialogues and clumsy tabs. Best of all, it features key bittorrent decentralization protocols that Azureus hasn't implemented yet.
In 2008, Google merges with popular technology news site, Slashdot. Despite feverish resistance from the fledgling Nerd headquarters,/.'s patented Nerd Acne cannons were no match for Google's Massive Legal Nukes. In seconds, the hordes of defeated geeks had been all but destroyed, and what remained of their forces were persuaded to welcome their new media overlords. Only a feeble group of diehards dared continue the fight. For their impudence, Google would purposely disable their GoogleFox browsers, forcing upon them the vastly insecure Googlenet Explorer. For a moment, there was a great disturbance in the force, as if thousands of nerds had cried out in unison, and then were cr4shed forever. The resistance was over. Google had PWN3D the/.ers, and the Googlenet was its to control. Thus began the Google Age.
I should just put off using the internet until microsoft decides to distribute some of their dough that goes into purchasing 1600 dollar Verisign certificates.
Because, hell, did you think Firefox was a non-profit organization or something? Sheesh, naive slashdotters!
Yes. Piracy is wrong. Even from someone who does this almost exclusively (I have NO MONEY), I admit it is wrong. Arguing the legality of such sites is moot, it only serves as a source of mental compensation for everyone who participates in piracy. But are the corporates taking the right approach to solving the problem? Does terrorizing 11 year olds and website volunteers sound ethical to you? Why not embrace the technology, and stop fighting it? Don't tell me this is impossible - it hasn't been tried. Couldn't the industries offer high qual versions for download w/ mandatory ads? Or maybe a subscription site that lets you "rent" movies? Do you believe that poor folk (read: me) wouldn't use these services instead? I'd much rather pay $20 a month for unlimited downloads of official quality files than spend all night with my rackety computer keeping me awake for a potentially crap-quality theater-recorded piece of crap.
I'm particularily afraid for demonoid.com. They're suffering tremendously from the hail of suprnova refugees, and they have a comprehensive database indicating share ratios. I've recommended to them before to ditch the DB, but I think they're afraid it might undermine their community mantra. What I'm afraid of is that it'll undermine their community's bank accounts as well...
update: http://www.demonoid.com/ has hit the slammer.
Not Found
The requested URL / was not found on this server
Chalk another one up for the RI/MP Ass. Of America, at least for now.
They have always had bandwidth problems. Recent events probably only helped encourage them to shutdown, and as there was no direct comment regarding either AA, we can probably assume no direct pressure was applied (unless you're a crank conspiracy theorist, in which case you can join the speculating hordes at suprnovaforums.net). I strongly believe that Exeem has a lot to do with this. I stated in another post that they've probably planned this shutdown of their HTML index for a while, but have had to do so earlier mainly because of the looming fear of raids and jail-time. No amount of rebellious nature and self-conviction could've convinced them to swap the possibility of the big canner with keeping their site up longer. Even if they are based in Slovenia, the fact that there is no precedent might be the most alarming precedent of all -- if they can get to Finland, they might just as easily get to Slovenia.
suprnova's goodbye message stated that they won't be back in the "same form." I'm guessing that this is a heads up for anyone who knew about Exeem. My guess is that they've been planning for this shift for a while, but have had to push ahead the schedule because of the recent raids. Chances are, they'll play their cards right with Exeem, and we might finally have the ultimate P2P service. Or not -- let's keep our hopes up shall we:).
The RIAA collects information the same way the folks at Register did. A script was used to collect IP addresses from specific swarms, and that IP address could be traced with sufficient help from certain bulliable ISP's. If you checked the suprnova "bad files" forum, there was a guy employed for an ISP that would periodically post warnings on "watched torrents." I'm not sure if he ever listed this one specifically, but it's stupid to assume that one ISP has recieved all the **AA C&D letters. Still, it's a reminder to folks who haven't installed peerguardian or aren't behind a firewall (routers count). I'd probably be knee deep in these things if I hadn't...
Two questions - read programmers
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1. Is it possible, perhaps, for a P2P oriented website? Of course, this would call for a new protocol, years of trial and error before widespread acceptance (if ever), but imagine what this could do for the internet as a whole - bandwidth itself wouldn't be a big problem any longer.
2. the average download speed of 240 kbps O_O. I've been working with 30-50kbps on average, and I have my ports opened too. Could it be my smutty upload speed?
The amish lifestyle is fairly subjective, and it works as a demonstration of the "through anyone else's eyes" philosophy. For those of us used to it, the telephone ringing and the monthly bills become part of our lives, not a complexity. Instead, we'd probably find hard manual labor to be much more complicating, what with our on-the-go lifestyles and what not.
What keeps the amish population from advanced technology is what has driven so many away from the "old ways," fear. They're afraid of big changes just as we are, but in a different way. They've just made it a part of their religion, as well.
The first one was great, the second one was reassuring, and the third one was a sellout. Simon, I'm sure the pro gaming community appreciates what you're doing, but I'm concerned that you do not. You seemed to have completely lost your sense of pacing, or otherwise what might be called cohesive directing (and ethics) with this latest movie. I loved the first movie, even though I didn't play CS competitively, because it was exciting and felt like a real play-by-play breakdown like you'd see on ESPN. I was hoping for more of the same, but instead we get "OMG LEET GRAPHICZ *SWIPE*." Come on, what were you thinking?
It's not that advertising in your movies is bad, on the contrary, I think it makes them appear more professional, in fact, but when you combine the typical commercial break with cheap product endorsements, you movie loses its credibility and starts to feel like a washed out version of the SpikeTV Video Gaming awards.
Don't feel bad though. Maybe it had to do with the fact that you were covering painkiller. I'm sure that had something to do with it.
1. Slashdot, turned out MirrorDot
2. Wikipedia, turned out Wikipedia discussion on deleting its Bukkake article.
3. Google News, turned out Google News Canada (I'm not kidding).
4. Tiananmen Square Massacre, turned out a bizzare article on the BCC only faintly alluding to it.
5. China Blocks Google News, turned out a news article titled "Google Expands..." (irrelevant)
and last, but not least:
6. Chinese girls in the nude turned out "naked-old-lady.com" (NSFW).
Parents don't apply pressure on their kids to do better in school, they feel it's not important. It's common belief among bureaucrats and administrators today that education spending is always positively correlated with educational return -- which is usually true, -- but we have to consider how this money is spent.
Take my school district for example. Last year, several million dollars were spent on bathroom renovations and a NEW gym. So our school has new bathrooms (which have already been wrecked) and a new gym (whose size is comparable to our old one, which is still what we're using for PE). Our teachers, however, are currently going on strike over wages. Several popular courses, including an excellent creative writing class, were cut.
Let's face it, we Americans are too convinced of our superiority. We consider our lax educational policies to be an evolution and laugh upon those who are forced into school 6 days a week. But who can blame us, being painfully wealthy tends to make you stupid.
Kroll also likes the relative anonymity of purchasing e-books from Web sites that specialize in female-oriented erotica, some of them available only in electronic form. ''It's a lot nicer, especially if you're embarrassed to go into a bookstore,'' she says.
So e-books DO have a niche in the market besides scifi!
But where do you draw the line? The most controversial people in history have often proven to be right. If we were to eliminate the "crazies," nevermind the potential for abuse, we might be removing the truth as well. Who knows, maybe the Cube-Time theory is TRUE?
Google and other search engines are the only viable portal to the internet. If your sight is stripped from all search engines, and you don't put out massive amounts of ads and have many, many popular websites link to you, your site might as well not exist at all. Thus, when the engines censor something, they are more or less removing something from the internet.
Of course, the Abu Gharib images are easy to find elsewhere, but it's the concept that matters. This isn't the only thing that google has censored, it's given into legal pressure from groups like the Church of Scientology and Microsoft, and who knows what else. If google gives in this easy to pressure, and other groups catch on, than we wouldn't be able to trust what we find on google anymore. However, Google will remain deceptively innocent to the masses, and their searches for "Iraq War Crimes" will remain deceptively CENSORED. The internet is the single most popular and accessible portal for free speech, so obviously, it's scary when you realize that your most trusted portals are cracking down on controversial material.
Group think? Alarmism? I think you've got your terms mixed up. If anything, they're antonyms, where in the latter serves to counteract the former.
As for logic, I think your lack of any logical argument elaborating on why you think censorship isn't important speaks for itself.
Slashdot Mirror
"$9940 in support so far, $30,000 needed"
p.s. I don't really understand the point of this, even though I am contributing. I don't believe the world has yet thrown its arms up in despair and sorrowfully welcomed its new Spyware overlords. Not yet anyway. Besides, all those people who do see your site aren't going to be the average computer-newbie who thinks spyware only happens to people on the FBI's most wanted list, they'll be people smart enough to tell between a spyware app and a clean app.
http://www.bitcomet.com/ is a bittorrent client far superior to Azureus in both performance (Azureus's java background eats up memory and cpu) and accessibility. It has every feature Azureus has, without the bizarrely worded options dialogues and clumsy tabs. Best of all, it features key bittorrent decentralization protocols that Azureus hasn't implemented yet.
In 2008, Google merges with popular technology news site, Slashdot. Despite feverish resistance from the fledgling Nerd headquarters, /.'s patented Nerd Acne cannons were no match for Google's Massive Legal Nukes. In seconds, the hordes of defeated geeks had been all but destroyed, and what remained of their forces were persuaded to welcome their new media overlords. Only a feeble group of diehards dared continue the fight. For their impudence, Google would purposely disable their GoogleFox browsers, forcing upon them the vastly insecure Googlenet Explorer. For a moment, there was a great disturbance in the force, as if thousands of nerds had cried out in unison, and then were cr4shed forever. The resistance was over. Google had PWN3D the /.ers, and the Googlenet was its to control. Thus began the Google Age.
Googlezon.
Googlezon.
Wait... I know how this ends. GoogleDot!
Nice to see you keeping on top of things as usual.
Because, hell, did you think Firefox was a non-profit organization or something? Sheesh, naive slashdotters!
Ya, getting a slip of paper in the mail always gives me the jitters too.
Yes. Piracy is wrong. Even from someone who does this almost exclusively (I have NO MONEY), I admit it is wrong. Arguing the legality of such sites is moot, it only serves as a source of mental compensation for everyone who participates in piracy. But are the corporates taking the right approach to solving the problem? Does terrorizing 11 year olds and website volunteers sound ethical to you? Why not embrace the technology, and stop fighting it? Don't tell me this is impossible - it hasn't been tried. Couldn't the industries offer high qual versions for download w/ mandatory ads? Or maybe a subscription site that lets you "rent" movies? Do you believe that poor folk (read: me) wouldn't use these services instead? I'd much rather pay $20 a month for unlimited downloads of official quality files than spend all night with my rackety computer keeping me awake for a potentially crap-quality theater-recorded piece of crap.
update: http://www.demonoid.com/ has hit the slammer.
Not Found
The requested URL / was not found on this server
Chalk another one up for the RI/MP Ass. Of America, at least for now.
They have always had bandwidth problems. Recent events probably only helped encourage them to shutdown, and as there was no direct comment regarding either AA, we can probably assume no direct pressure was applied (unless you're a crank conspiracy theorist, in which case you can join the speculating hordes at suprnovaforums.net). I strongly believe that Exeem has a lot to do with this. I stated in another post that they've probably planned this shutdown of their HTML index for a while, but have had to do so earlier mainly because of the looming fear of raids and jail-time. No amount of rebellious nature and self-conviction could've convinced them to swap the possibility of the big canner with keeping their site up longer. Even if they are based in Slovenia, the fact that there is no precedent might be the most alarming precedent of all -- if they can get to Finland, they might just as easily get to Slovenia.
suprnova's goodbye message stated that they won't be back in the "same form." I'm guessing that this is a heads up for anyone who knew about Exeem. My guess is that they've been planning for this shift for a while, but have had to push ahead the schedule because of the recent raids. Chances are, they'll play their cards right with Exeem, and we might finally have the ultimate P2P service. Or not -- let's keep our hopes up shall we :).
The RIAA collects information the same way the folks at Register did. A script was used to collect IP addresses from specific swarms, and that IP address could be traced with sufficient help from certain bulliable ISP's. If you checked the suprnova "bad files" forum, there was a guy employed for an ISP that would periodically post warnings on "watched torrents." I'm not sure if he ever listed this one specifically, but it's stupid to assume that one ISP has recieved all the **AA C&D letters. Still, it's a reminder to folks who haven't installed peerguardian or aren't behind a firewall (routers count). I'd probably be knee deep in these things if I hadn't...
2. the average download speed of 240 kbps O_O. I've been working with 30-50kbps on average, and I have my ports opened too. Could it be my smutty upload speed?
+1 troll for the sig w/ no distinguishable wit.
oh and, +1 foe, if you will.
Where'd the other 44% go?
What keeps the amish population from advanced technology is what has driven so many away from the "old ways," fear. They're afraid of big changes just as we are, but in a different way. They've just made it a part of their religion, as well.
It's not that advertising in your movies is bad, on the contrary, I think it makes them appear more professional, in fact, but when you combine the typical commercial break with cheap product endorsements, you movie loses its credibility and starts to feel like a washed out version of the SpikeTV Video Gaming awards.
Don't feel bad though. Maybe it had to do with the fact that you were covering painkiller. I'm sure that had something to do with it.
1. Slashdot, turned out MirrorDot
2. Wikipedia, turned out Wikipedia discussion on deleting its Bukkake article.
3. Google News, turned out Google News Canada (I'm not kidding).
4. Tiananmen Square Massacre, turned out a bizzare article on the BCC only faintly alluding to it.
5. China Blocks Google News, turned out a news article titled "Google Expands..." (irrelevant)
and last, but not least:
6. Chinese girls in the nude turned out "naked-old-lady.com" (NSFW).
Couldn't agree with you more.
Parents don't apply pressure on their kids to do better in school, they feel it's not important. It's common belief among bureaucrats and administrators today that education spending is always positively correlated with educational return -- which is usually true, -- but we have to consider how this money is spent.
Take my school district for example. Last year, several million dollars were spent on bathroom renovations and a NEW gym. So our school has new bathrooms (which have already been wrecked) and a new gym (whose size is comparable to our old one, which is still what we're using for PE). Our teachers, however, are currently going on strike over wages. Several popular courses, including an excellent creative writing class, were cut.
Let's face it, we Americans are too convinced of our superiority. We consider our lax educational policies to be an evolution and laugh upon those who are forced into school 6 days a week. But who can blame us, being painfully wealthy tends to make you stupid.
So e-books DO have a niche in the market besides scifi!
But where do you draw the line? The most controversial people in history have often proven to be right. If we were to eliminate the "crazies," nevermind the potential for abuse, we might be removing the truth as well. Who knows, maybe the Cube-Time theory is TRUE?
Of course, the Abu Gharib images are easy to find elsewhere, but it's the concept that matters. This isn't the only thing that google has censored, it's given into legal pressure from groups like the Church of Scientology and Microsoft, and who knows what else. If google gives in this easy to pressure, and other groups catch on, than we wouldn't be able to trust what we find on google anymore. However, Google will remain deceptively innocent to the masses, and their searches for "Iraq War Crimes" will remain deceptively CENSORED. The internet is the single most popular and accessible portal for free speech, so obviously, it's scary when you realize that your most trusted portals are cracking down on controversial material.
Group think? Alarmism? I think you've got your terms mixed up. If anything, they're antonyms, where in the latter serves to counteract the former.
As for logic, I think your lack of any logical argument elaborating on why you think censorship isn't important speaks for itself.
Wow. You are my god. May I kiss your feet?