First i will state , I no longer partake in the warez scene (grew out of it when in my teens , the most i do now a days are download a few TV shows i can not get over in Deutschland in DVD form)
"You gotta start somewhere my man. It's those small baby steps that leads up to the grand prize" I disagree on that point , you see its more like an infection , if you stop a small part somewhere in the middle it will not affect other parts which will continue to develop. You hit the first part and part 2 grows exponentially whilst you are focusing on part 1 . This has happened since the dawn of the internet (before even , "DONT COPY THAT FLOPPY")
" Cause corporate knows(for the most part) were mindless drones they can manipulate and who will continue to buy." Hate to agree with you there , but for the most part your right
I would not defend these warez folks at all (the commercial ones), some of them are involved in large organised crime rackets with whole sale reselling in many many markets. They are a major problem and need caught and prosecuted. The ones who do it for bragging rights , are like most hackers who do it for infamy extremely daft
Don't get me wrong,I really do not agree with what they do , i can understand it though. I have many friends who still download a lot of this stuff , some of them i really do frown upon when they boast about it , others i can totally understand.
I didn't claim that , the documentary claimed that . I just said it was the views of the documentary. My view is that its a group of people who are not accountable for their actions in relation to the company
Who says i pirate , i don't . For me Games are very affordable. But not being self obsessed, I can see them as being rather expensive for a vast majority of the world.
yes , but the actions of a corporations are enacted by people.These people are not accountable for their actions , even the best of us can fall by the wayside under these circumstances. A corporations is not an entity , its not a person , its a group of people. like any other company those who make the decisions must be accountable
Considering a corporation a person may have some legal conceits , but it also has many many more scary legal advantages for the company. It removes blame from the actual managment in the corporation for the actions of the company,if the corperation commits a crime they generaly have to pay a fine. Most of the time this is not a problem as the fine is far far less than the profits they have made from the action in question. Hell they can (and do ) have people working 14 hour days in horrific conditions for meger wages , when this is generaly found out (so long as the situation is bad enough,sadly it has to be pretty awfull)they will be fined , so what they do is happily pay the small fine and move the factorys production to another area(which they would of done after a while anyway , once the wages began to rise . helping the area out of an awfull financial quandry in ths short term and later dumping them back in a worse one) and begin again. They can bribe news organisations , governmental departments and every day people. They can threaten and bully with threats of legal action. Whats the worst that can happen to them , a small fine(large by our standards). I very much doubt corporations would act this appaulingly if the managment and uper echelons could face prison time for these offenses (like a normal legal person). They havwe all the advantages of people in the legal sense , but very few of the disadvantages. This edict was not suggested as a way to keep corporations in check , it was suggested by the corporate lawyers so the corporations could have constitutional rights.
You can't kill all of it without draconian measures, which will create more of a problem than they solve. Games for me are what , about an hours wages., No skin off my back so I buy a lot of them each year. However my hours wages are nearly the same as most peoples wages for a day , this is why they are overpriced(actualy getting on to a previous post here). Talking to a freind of mine in romainia who constantly infringes a lot of copyrights , perhaps it is not right nor moral though when the games there are valued at a good portion of a persons monthly rent then a lot of people have little option if they want to enjoy them.
The only real piracy that needs dealt with is the long john silver type , oh and bootleging. Those making a profit off of it, you can fight that. Reducing the cost of games will fight that to a certain extent and it reduce downloads to a small extent. as you said , you can not beat a null value. Though a lot of people do like to own origional copys of things , collecting things is fun and a nicely packaged game with some great artwork beats a CD-r with some scribles on it any day.
We need a change in ethos if we are to totaly wipe it out (or as near as possible).People need to start seeing buying the games as supporting the production of quality gaming experiances. Not buying just so they can have it. Developers should get a larger share of the profits with less going to marketing.(changing peoples view on it is one thing , remembering we also need to change the way the art world works , music,film , books and games etc.Artists get screwed over if people buy the thing or not)
I am perhaps rambling a little so i appoligise , but its a bit of a heat wave here.
In risk a game i do very much enjoy , you partake in domination of the world , wiping out countless thousands of imaginary soldiers in your exploits. I also enjoy Chess , a game where you goal is to massacre the opposing army and capture their monarch. Or even "the game of life" there is some implied sex in that you know , you can GET MARRIED Have a..you can be a winner in the game of life(alluding to the old UK TV advertisement )
Of-course you don't actually see any of those things, they are implied though , just as they are implied in GTA SA Even if they were not , and you go to the trouble of unlocking the code , these are still polygons representing people having sex. OMG SEX its a cursed thing that will destroy our society if our young children are exposed to it , the shock the horror of children over 16(or whatever M means in real terms , i would of minded it when i was 12) seeing some graphics depicting sex. Lets face it most Male children of around that age have seen or own porn mag's (or most likely now a days JPEG collections , or PNG if your an OS proponent;) ) Sex is natural , sex is fun , people love to watch others having sex. Sex has never hurt any society , in fact it could be argued that prudent attitudes have generally coincided with the fall of many societies Basically , anyone offended by some cut sex scenes in a game which require a lot of twiddling (heehee) to unlock really is very immature. People have sex , if we didn't we would all be rather F*cked(well no we wouldn't) , stop trying to save people from one of the most natural and wonderful things in the world
So us tax payers have helped catch 120 dangerous criminals in a global anti criminal investigation that most likely cost hundreds of thousands if not millions to organise and see through , and will cost countless millions more in prosecution hearings. The vast majority of these individuals were most likely not even profiting off of this (if any , the details are not that clear). The world is now a safer place , we can rest easy in our beds as EAs multi billion dollar profits don't take an insignificant dent from these hooligans. One for justice , one for liberty Um sarcasm aside , 12 sites and 120 people is not even a tiny dent , 12 new sites will spring up today , and 12 tomorrow whilst hundreds of thousands if not millions of others download warez. Hit the route of the problem , over pricing and then you may get somewhere.
Mob rules apply , it takes just one person with dubious ethics at the upper echelons to cause company to commit some rather dubious acts. Just look at the amount of companies and corporations that employ sweatshop labour with abhorrent working conditions and wages, I would like to bet that a majority of the work force within that organisation would be disgusted if they knew.
Corporations love totalitarian requiems , Cheap labour , captive market and benefits galore. These companies are not bending to Chinese will , They are simply doing what they do best.
I was watching a rather interesting documentary a few weeks back called "the corporation" which went over a few things in this area (along with describing the way that in America since corporations are described as legal people , they could be classified as psychopathic). http://www.thecorporation.com/
The Death Star is a huge, warm, windowless room containing the rows and rows of servers that run Sony's online games. The whooshing of a massive air-conditioning system is so loud that conversation is almost impossible.
Now Reflexology is a foot massage , there is no difference apart from that a foot massage will generally be more thorough. Things it can help with are 1:) Foot pain 2:) lower ankle pain 3:) stress , it feels great 4:) probably nothing else Walking on cobbles (depending on the cobbles) can be a very relaxing experience. This has nothing to do with the principles of reflexology which have been consistently proven to be nothing more than a nice foot massage. Of course it can help lower blood pressure if the high blood pressure is caused by stress, its relaxing , its fun. Why ruin a perfectly good (if obvious) research piece by comparing it to snake oil
I think they meant "Nowhere near" as not that bad , its just phrased in a way that could be rather misleading , I did a double take of the results myself
NO , the performance is roughly 35% -40% less(too tired to work it out exactly) on the Intel chip (under certain tests) , The price/performance crown in this goes to the Intel chip here by a fair margin.
I much prefer to support linux myself , however as of this moment i still require to operate several windows workstations. If an open DB could be created and a server side POSIX program it could serve to support linux in the server market.I personally do use Spybot right now but would much rather have the program server side. Spyware as now is only a major windows problem , but in the future i can see it attempting to nudge into the Unix based OSs as market share increases so it may be an investment for the future. Linux on the desktop needs every push we can give it , but we should not forget about the server side. Clam-av is a great example of a program that Spyware definitions could be added too , personally i don't have the knowledge of windows to really do anything about this but im sure there are still a lot of people who have to use windows (and have the know how) for various reasons that may want to contribute to it. PS:Much respect , i do enjoy reading your site.
My machines are generally clean , but it takes just one person to ignore protocol before you have a problem on your hands. Its a last line of defence,but its a good one to have in case , i would just rather have the defensive line on my workstation/server (solaris or debian) rather than running on an infected machine. So long as your network is as safe as you can make it from intrusion , and you make sure people abide by your protocols you should be safe. My main problem is How can i be totally safe if i cant trust the provider of the defensive software. Having half of your network with Admin privileges is daunting and i do not envy you , i had the same problem at one point with an insurance program , Thankfully there was an update which didn't require that level of access so i got out of that loop rather quickly . Whilst i was stuck with it i had to basically limit net usage , which did not make me very popular , but it was better than the possibility of having to fix all the machines
Does anyone know of any OSS that is dedicated to the removal of ad-ware and spyware. I manage a number of windows machines at the office and wit he recent declassification's without good explanation that has occurred in the sector i have lost all faith in most of the products. An OSS solution would be wonderful (hell i would rather switch the machines to linux , but that is not an option right now due to certain programs that are required by the company). Commercial solutions always to me seem rather susceptible to legal action for the classification and or bribery.
Perhaps that CNN story was sponsored by a competitor of transmeta. Or perhaps someone who was looking to scoop up the ashes. Rumouring the demise of a company that may be suffering , but not out for the count can tip the scales. Especially if the story comes from a source like CNN. Its good to know this did not happen as i was looking forward to a few of the advances Transmeta were developing
No one will wipe out koalas , they are far too cute. Some parts of nature went for fearsome power , speed , teeth and claws that can eviscerate anything not made of stone and another part went for lazy and cute. Now look how well the gunny pig is doing compared to some of the big cats , coincidence.. i think not.
Just to play devils advocate here( i was also doing that in the grandparent post). This is a matter of survival , If elephants are being wiped off the face of the earth as they can't cope with the hunting habits of humans is that not natural selection. OK it could be argued that being cute is an evolutionary advantage as humans get sympathetic and try to save the species,but is it advantageous for the development of life. We are a part of nature , and we are very much on the top of the food chain right now.These animals need to adapt or be destroyed. If we destroyed several species with large fires 50k years ago , then there was a good reason for it. They may have been a danger to our survival , whilst elephants are not really a danger to us(unless we provoke them and are unarmed) they do have a commodity in the ivory. Now these hunters are not being the brightest , as farming the elephants would be more advantageous to the ivory trade.They couldn't farm the elephants though , most likely due to conservation rulings so they will continue to trade in it illicitly. The best way to do it would be to set up elephant farms , Trade in the ivory , sell the meat , and conserve the species . Its a win win situation;) (/Devils advocate)
50,000 years and the Aussies are still big on barbecues. Seriously though , Such is evolution.The species that could not adapt quickly enough died off. I always had a small problem with conservation efforts , I know its lovely to save endangered species and all that , but does it not hamper the natural order further by trying to save species that can not cope by themselves.
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First i will state , I no longer partake in the warez scene (grew out of it when in my teens , the most i do now a days are download a few TV shows i can not get over in Deutschland in DVD form)
,I really do not agree with what they do , i can understand it though.
"You gotta start somewhere my man. It's those small baby steps that leads up to the grand prize"
I disagree on that point , you see its more like an infection , if you stop a small part somewhere in the middle it will not affect other parts which will continue to develop. You hit the first part and part 2 grows exponentially whilst you are focusing on part 1 . This has happened since the dawn of the internet (before even , "DONT COPY THAT FLOPPY")
" Cause corporate knows(for the most part) were mindless drones they can manipulate and who will continue to buy."
Hate to agree with you there , but for the most part your right
I would not defend these warez folks at all (the commercial ones), some of them are involved in large organised crime rackets with whole sale reselling in many many markets. They are a major problem and need caught and prosecuted. The ones who do it for bragging rights , are like most hackers who do it for infamy extremely daft
Don't get me wrong
I have many friends who still download a lot of this stuff , some of them i really do frown upon when they boast about it , others i can totally understand.
I didn't claim that , the documentary claimed that . I just said it was the views of the documentary.
My view is that its a group of people who are not accountable for their actions in relation to the company
Who says i pirate , i don't . For me Games are very affordable .
But not being self obsessed, I can see them as being rather expensive for a vast majority of the world.
Since he is talking about the USA , i believe they have an amendment forbidding cruel and unusual punishment .
yes , but the actions of a corporations are enacted by people .These people are not accountable for their actions , even the best of us can fall by the wayside under these circumstances.
A corporations is not an entity , its not a person , its a group of people.
like any other company those who make the decisions must be accountable
Considering a corporation a person may have some legal conceits , but it also has many many more scary legal advantages for the company . ,if the corperation commits a crime they generaly have to pay a fine . ,sadly it has to be pretty awfull)they will be fined , so what they do is happily pay the small fine and move the factorys production to another area(which they would of done after a while anyway , once the wages began to rise . helping the area out of an awfull financial quandry in ths short term and later dumping them back in a worse one) and begin again.
It removes blame from the actual managment in the corporation for the actions of the company
Most of the time this is not a problem as the fine is far far less than the profits they have made from the action in question.
Hell they can (and do ) have people working 14 hour days in horrific conditions for meger wages , when this is generaly found out (so long as the situation is bad enough
They can bribe news organisations , governmental departments and every day people.
They can threaten and bully with threats of legal action.
Whats the worst that can happen to them , a small fine(large by our standards).
I very much doubt corporations would act this appaulingly if the managment and uper echelons could face prison time for these offenses (like a normal legal person).
They havwe all the advantages of people in the legal sense , but very few of the disadvantages.
This edict was not suggested as a way to keep corporations in check , it was suggested by the corporate lawyers so the corporations could have constitutional rights.
You can't kill all of it without draconian measures, which will create more of a problem than they solve. ., No skin off my back so I buy a lot of them each year. .
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.People need to start seeing buying the games as supporting the production of quality gaming experiances. Not buying just so they can have it. ,film , books and games etc .Artists get screwed over if people buy the thing or not)
Games for me are what , about an hours wages
However my hours wages are nearly the same as most peoples wages for a day , this is why they are overpriced(actualy getting on to a previous post here)
Talking to a freind of mine in romainia who constantly infringes a lot of copyrights , perhaps it is not right nor moral though when the games there are valued at a good portion of a persons monthly rent then a lot of people have little option if they want to enjoy them.
The only real piracy that needs dealt with is the long john silver type , oh and bootleging
Those making a profit off of it, you can fight that
Reducing the cost of games will fight that to a certain extent and it reduce downloads to a small extent.
as you said , you can not beat a null value. Though a lot of people do like to own origional copys of things , collecting things is fun and a nicely packaged game with some great artwork beats a CD-r with some scribles on it any day.
We need a change in ethos if we are to totaly wipe it out (or as near as possible)
Developers should get a larger share of the profits with less going to marketing.(changing peoples view on it is one thing , remembering we also need to change the way the art world works , music
I am perhaps rambling a little so i appoligise , but its a bit of a heat wave here.
In risk a game i do very much enjoy , you partake in domination of the world , wiping out countless thousands of imaginary soldiers in your exploits. ..you can be a winner in the game of life(alluding to the old UK TV advertisement )
. ;) ) . .
I also enjoy Chess , a game where you goal is to massacre the opposing army and capture their monarch.
Or even "the game of life" there is some implied sex in that you know , you can GET MARRIED Have a
Of-course you don't actually see any of those things, they are implied though , just as they are implied in GTA SA
Even if they were not , and you go to the trouble of unlocking the code , these are still polygons representing people having sex.
OMG SEX its a cursed thing that will destroy our society if our young children are exposed to it , the shock the horror of children over 16(or whatever M means in real terms , i would of minded it when i was 12) seeing some graphics depicting sex
Lets face it most Male children of around that age have seen or own porn mag's (or most likely now a days JPEG collections , or PNG if your an OS proponent
Sex is natural , sex is fun , people love to watch others having sex
Sex has never hurt any society , in fact it could be argued that prudent attitudes have generally coincided with the fall of many societies
Basically , anyone offended by some cut sex scenes in a game which require a lot of twiddling (heehee) to unlock really is very immature
People have sex , if we didn't we would all be rather F*cked(well no we wouldn't) , stop trying to save people from one of the most natural and wonderful things in the world
So us tax payers have helped catch 120 dangerous criminals in a global anti criminal investigation that most likely cost hundreds of thousands if not millions to organise and see through , and will cost countless millions more in prosecution hearings . . .
The vast majority of these individuals were most likely not even profiting off of this (if any , the details are not that clear)
The world is now a safer place , we can rest easy in our beds as EAs multi billion dollar profits don't take an insignificant dent from these hooligans
One for justice , one for liberty
Um sarcasm aside , 12 sites and 120 people is not even a tiny dent , 12 new sites will spring up today , and 12 tomorrow whilst hundreds of thousands if not millions of others download warez.
Hit the route of the problem , over pricing and then you may get somewhere.
Mob rules apply , it takes just one person with dubious ethics at the upper echelons to cause company to commit some rather dubious acts.
Just look at the amount of companies and corporations that employ sweatshop labour with abhorrent working conditions and wages, I would like to bet that a majority of the work force within that organisation would be disgusted if they knew.
Corporations love totalitarian requiems , Cheap labour , captive market and benefits galore.
These companies are not bending to Chinese will , They are simply doing what they do best.
I was watching a rather interesting documentary a few weeks back called "the corporation" which went over a few things in this area (along with describing the way that in America since corporations are described as legal people , they could be classified as psychopathic).
http://www.thecorporation.com/
Now Reflexology is a foot massage , there is no difference apart from that a foot massage will generally be more thorough . .
Things it can help with are
1:) Foot pain
2:) lower ankle pain
3:) stress , it feels great
4:) probably nothing else
Walking on cobbles (depending on the cobbles) can be a very relaxing experience
This has nothing to do with the principles of reflexology which have been consistently proven to be nothing more than a nice foot massage. Of course it can help lower blood pressure if the high blood pressure is caused by stress, its relaxing , its fun.
Why ruin a perfectly good (if obvious) research piece by comparing it to snake oil
I think they meant "Nowhere near" as not that bad , its just phrased in a way that could be rather misleading , I did a double take of the results myself
NO , the performance is roughly 35% -40% less(too tired to work it out exactly) on the Intel chip (under certain tests) , The price/performance crown in this goes to the Intel chip here by a fair margin .
and with the implementation of those scanners that can see through your clothes , even your nether packet is not safe from prying federal eyes
I much prefer to support linux myself , however as of this moment i still require to operate several windows workstations . .I personally do use Spybot right now but would much rather have the program server side. . .
If an open DB could be created and a server side POSIX program it could serve to support linux in the server market
Spyware as now is only a major windows problem , but in the future i can see it attempting to nudge into the Unix based OSs as market share increases so it may be an investment for the future
Linux on the desktop needs every push we can give it , but we should not forget about the server side
Clam-av is a great example of a program that Spyware definitions could be added too , personally i don't have the knowledge of windows to really do anything about this but im sure there are still a lot of people who have to use windows (and have the know how) for various reasons that may want to contribute to it.
PS:Much respect , i do enjoy reading your site.
but now they could shove a pentium 4 in it and double it as a portable grill
My machines are generally clean , but it takes just one person to ignore protocol before you have a problem on your hands . ,but its a good one to have in case , i would just rather have the defensive line on my workstation /server (solaris or debian) rather than running on an infected machine.
Its a last line of defence
So long as your network is as safe as you can make it from intrusion , and you make sure people abide by your protocols you should be safe.
My main problem is How can i be totally safe if i cant trust the provider of the defensive software.
Having half of your network with Admin privileges is daunting and i do not envy you , i had the same problem at one point with an insurance program , Thankfully there was an update which didn't require that level of access so i got out of that loop rather quickly . Whilst i was stuck with it i had to basically limit net usage , which did not make me very popular , but it was better than the possibility of having to fix all the machines
Does anyone know of any OSS that is dedicated to the removal of ad-ware and spyware. . .
I manage a number of windows machines at the office and wit he recent declassification's without good explanation that has occurred in the sector i have lost all faith in most of the products
An OSS solution would be wonderful (hell i would rather switch the machines to linux , but that is not an option right now due to certain programs that are required by the company)
Commercial solutions always to me seem rather susceptible to legal action for the classification and or bribery.
Perhaps that CNN story was sponsored by a competitor of transmeta . . .
Or perhaps someone who was looking to scoop up the ashes
Rumouring the demise of a company that may be suffering , but not out for the count can tip the scales
Especially if the story comes from a source like CNN.
Its good to know this did not happen as i was looking forward to a few of the advances Transmeta were developing
No one will wipe out koalas , they are far too cute. . .. i think not.
Some parts of nature went for fearsome power , speed , teeth and claws that can eviscerate anything not made of stone and another part went for lazy and cute
Now look how well the gunny pig is doing compared to some of the big cats , coincidence
Just to play devils advocate here( i was also doing that in the grandparent post). ,but is it advantageous for the development of life. .These animals need to adapt or be destroyed . . . . ;)
This is a matter of survival , If elephants are being wiped off the face of the earth as they can't cope with the hunting habits of humans is that not natural selection.
OK it could be argued that being cute is an evolutionary advantage as humans get sympathetic and try to save the species
We are a part of nature , and we are very much on the top of the food chain right now
If we destroyed several species with large fires 50k years ago , then there was a good reason for it
They may have been a danger to our survival , whilst elephants are not really a danger to us(unless we provoke them and are unarmed) they do have a commodity in the ivory
Now these hunters are not being the brightest , as farming the elephants would be more advantageous to the ivory trade.They couldn't farm the elephants though , most likely due to conservation rulings so they will continue to trade in it illicitly
The best way to do it would be to set up elephant farms , Trade in the ivory , sell the meat , and conserve the species . Its a win win situation
(/Devils advocate)
50,000 years and the Aussies are still big on barbecues. .The species that could not adapt quickly enough died off.
Seriously though , Such is evolution
I always had a small problem with conservation efforts , I know its lovely to save endangered species and all that , but does it not hamper the natural order further by trying to save species that can not cope by themselves.
I don't think they have got so far as to having the parrot do polygons or identifying Norwegian blues from notlob