The only thing you can do with a console is play games,
Say what? My PS3 is used around 75% of the time as a client for my media server, around 15% of the time for playing Blu-Ray movies, and about 10% of the time for playing games.
Or at least use double ROT 13 encryption so the government can't read your ideas without using illegal encryption tools.
You must be some kind of cyber-terrorist. I read that post, and it was encrypted with Double ROT-13. You must have stolen the keys or used a cluster of zombie machines to perform a brute-force attack.
See, if it were all about the downloaders, then why did MediaDefender attack the tracker's server when it closed the hole that allowed "illicit" content to be downloaded? They did a "good" thing by closing that hole, and MediaDefender should have moved on. But instead, they brought out the big guns. It's like MediaDefender wanted the tracker to keep serving up the "illicit" torrents.
But yes, it is confusing. The only thing we know for sure is that the situation with MediaDefender is totally fucked up. I mean, even with the "fake files" thing - how are they supposed to prosecute somebody for downloading fake files in the first place? And wouldn't they be equally guilty if they were serving up copyrighted content, even if it was "fake"? From my understanding, the person sharing the files usually gets punished more than the downloader.
I suspect that the whole thing is a scam, and MediaDefender has no interest in preventing piracy whatsoever. They just want to bill their clients for their "services" - which they admitted in internal emails to be fraudulent. Any network activity in MediaDefender's name is "evidence" that they are doing their job (whatever that is) and allows them to bill their clients.
That's not eBay favoring sellers, that's sellers not being retarded. Why don't you go and ask Amazon or Wal*Mart to give you something before paying sometime. I'm sure they'll be happy to oblige you.
Right, and who would be so stupid to think that the stakes are not geared towards the seller in the case of Amazon or Wal*Mart? Just because things are tilted against the buyer everywhere else, doesn't mean they aren't also tilted against the buyer on eBay. It's just that with eBay, things are even more tilted against the buyer than usual.
Get a clue. Sellers are HIGHLY protective of their feedback ratings for some very good reasons. A low positive rating directly affects how much they get for their auctions and can even get them kicked out of the power seller program or off eBay. Worst thing that happens to a buyer from negative feedback is that they might be looked at more carefully when buying high priced stuff which they should damn well expect
But typical individual buyers have feedback numbers under 100. Any medium-sized seller has potentially thousands of points of feedback. So negative feedback hurts the typical buyer more than the typical seller. And waiting until the buyer leave positive feedback, even though the transaction was good, is just underhanded and spiteful. The way sellers were using the feedback system was outrageous, which is why I suspect that eBay removed the ability to give negative feedback on buyers. If the sellers hadn't totally abused that system, then maybe you would still have that capacity?
The kids that are special needs need to be taught separately. The normal kids that coexist peacefully need their own school. The brilliant kids need their own schools
So total segregation is the answer, huh? I'd love to see the fucked up world that would produce. Kids need to socialize with different kinds of people, not get isolated in places where everybody is the same. This would just lead to societal civil war or class warfare.
When school is a privilege it is cherished. When it is free it is unappreciated.
Well, firstly, going to school is never free. But I certainly appreciate that it is cheap and widely accepted. Otherwise we'd be even more fucked than we are now, a real world of morons, not just a world with about 30-50% morons like we have today. It wouldn't be pretty.
I dunno, MediaDefender seem to want it both ways. I wouldn't be surprised if they simultaneously posted fake stuff to a tracker to disrupt traffic, and also to accuse the tracker owners of violating copyright. After all, that's pretty much what happened here. The site got DoS'ed because they closed the backdoor in their tracker, and Mediadefender had been using it to inject fake content. In any case, it's probably a mistake to "think the best" of MediaDefender's intentions.... they have consistently shown themselves to be more than reprehensible and two-faced.
I never said I should get to determine it - just that people who run businesses on eBay are total assholes of the type who fancy "get rich quick" schemes. Thus, the market for honest person-to-person sales has been demolished by the hungry "power sellers". Heh, I don't think my arrogance (of which there's plenty) can compare to the craziness of people who go to eBay brainwashing meetings for sellers, who buy into the cult completely. It's like fucking Scientology crossed with Amway.
The evidence is that the buyer has to risk sending their money, before receiving any goods. As a seller. you can check for fraudulent payments before sending the goods. And up until recently, you could withhold positive feedback, until you got it from the seller - even though you had successfully received the payment. This let sellers use the feedback system in very vindictive ways, even though it is the individual buyer who relies on that positive feedback more.
Anyway, sounds like your beef is more with Paypal than with eBay (although there is a fine line between the two). Paypal might tip the balance slightly back toward the buyer, but the balance was already tipped so far towards the seller, it's not funny. Sounds like you're just a bitter seller, and you can't see straight because of that bias.
No corporation can have a monopoly on violence without becoming a government, in which case it isn't a corporation anymore.
That doesn't make any sense at all, unless you define government only as "those which have a monopoly on violence" - which is not the definition of government. If you want to look at reality, nobody has a monopoly on violence, it is free for the taking.
What evidence do you have that Mussolini is a socialist? Even if his parents were socialists, what relevance does that have? Have you never heard of children rebelling against their parents?
Or, as you newfangled kids say these days when you're not getting the hell off my lawn, I hope Google drinks eBay's milkshake.
Errr, no. Google drinking eBay's milkshake would put Google in the inferior position, with eBay enjoying all the pleasure of having its milkshake consumed. It doesn't work at all like "eating your lunch", it's a completely different metaphor.
Try actually running a real business someday before making such a ridiculous statement. "More profit"? Try ANY profit. It is extremely difficult to make ANY profit selling on eBay
Well, fuck you for trying to run a business on eBay. It should be about individual sellers selling their used personal items, not fucktards who ruin it for everybody.
If VLC is considered "mature" for an Open Source project, then that's a pretty damn low standard of maturity. Is Open Source held to a completely different level of user expectations than proprietary software or something?
Hey, don't be racist. Blacks and hispanics also buy games.
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Geekdome isn't even an academic thing.
No, it's more like the Thunderdome.
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And yes, "engineer" does generally equal "smart". There is a correlation there. Sure there may be some incompetent engineers out there, but any decent one is going to be more intelligent than the average guy on the street.
Which street are you talking about? What's your definition of intelligence?
There are plenty of streets in the world where an engineer would be one of the worst-performing people.
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Say what? My PS3 is used around 75% of the time as a client for my media server, around 15% of the time for playing Blu-Ray movies, and about 10% of the time for playing games.
Most of the Blu-Ray discs I've bought from Amazon have been around $20, some less.
You must be some kind of cyber-terrorist. I read that post, and it was encrypted with Double ROT-13. You must have stolen the keys or used a cluster of zombie machines to perform a brute-force attack.
See, if it were all about the downloaders, then why did MediaDefender attack the tracker's server when it closed the hole that allowed "illicit" content to be downloaded? They did a "good" thing by closing that hole, and MediaDefender should have moved on. But instead, they brought out the big guns. It's like MediaDefender wanted the tracker to keep serving up the "illicit" torrents.
But yes, it is confusing. The only thing we know for sure is that the situation with MediaDefender is totally fucked up. I mean, even with the "fake files" thing - how are they supposed to prosecute somebody for downloading fake files in the first place? And wouldn't they be equally guilty if they were serving up copyrighted content, even if it was "fake"? From my understanding, the person sharing the files usually gets punished more than the downloader.
I suspect that the whole thing is a scam, and MediaDefender has no interest in preventing piracy whatsoever. They just want to bill their clients for their "services" - which they admitted in internal emails to be fraudulent. Any network activity in MediaDefender's name is "evidence" that they are doing their job (whatever that is) and allows them to bill their clients.
Right, and who would be so stupid to think that the stakes are not geared towards the seller in the case of Amazon or Wal*Mart? Just because things are tilted against the buyer everywhere else, doesn't mean they aren't also tilted against the buyer on eBay. It's just that with eBay, things are even more tilted against the buyer than usual.
Get a clue. Sellers are HIGHLY protective of their feedback ratings for some very good reasons. A low positive rating directly affects how much they get for their auctions and can even get them kicked out of the power seller program or off eBay. Worst thing that happens to a buyer from negative feedback is that they might be looked at more carefully when buying high priced stuff which they should damn well expectBut typical individual buyers have feedback numbers under 100. Any medium-sized seller has potentially thousands of points of feedback. So negative feedback hurts the typical buyer more than the typical seller. And waiting until the buyer leave positive feedback, even though the transaction was good, is just underhanded and spiteful. The way sellers were using the feedback system was outrageous, which is why I suspect that eBay removed the ability to give negative feedback on buyers. If the sellers hadn't totally abused that system, then maybe you would still have that capacity?
So total segregation is the answer, huh? I'd love to see the fucked up world that would produce. Kids need to socialize with different kinds of people, not get isolated in places where everybody is the same. This would just lead to societal civil war or class warfare.
Well, firstly, going to school is never free. But I certainly appreciate that it is cheap and widely accepted. Otherwise we'd be even more fucked than we are now, a real world of morons, not just a world with about 30-50% morons like we have today. It wouldn't be pretty.
I dunno, MediaDefender seem to want it both ways. I wouldn't be surprised if they simultaneously posted fake stuff to a tracker to disrupt traffic, and also to accuse the tracker owners of violating copyright. After all, that's pretty much what happened here. The site got DoS'ed because they closed the backdoor in their tracker, and Mediadefender had been using it to inject fake content. In any case, it's probably a mistake to "think the best" of MediaDefender's intentions.... they have consistently shown themselves to be more than reprehensible and two-faced.
I never said I should get to determine it - just that people who run businesses on eBay are total assholes of the type who fancy "get rich quick" schemes. Thus, the market for honest person-to-person sales has been demolished by the hungry "power sellers". Heh, I don't think my arrogance (of which there's plenty) can compare to the craziness of people who go to eBay brainwashing meetings for sellers, who buy into the cult completely. It's like fucking Scientology crossed with Amway.
The evidence is that the buyer has to risk sending their money, before receiving any goods. As a seller. you can check for fraudulent payments before sending the goods. And up until recently, you could withhold positive feedback, until you got it from the seller - even though you had successfully received the payment. This let sellers use the feedback system in very vindictive ways, even though it is the individual buyer who relies on that positive feedback more.
Anyway, sounds like your beef is more with Paypal than with eBay (although there is a fine line between the two). Paypal might tip the balance slightly back toward the buyer, but the balance was already tipped so far towards the seller, it's not funny. Sounds like you're just a bitter seller, and you can't see straight because of that bias.
That doesn't make any sense at all, unless you define government only as "those which have a monopoly on violence" - which is not the definition of government. If you want to look at reality, nobody has a monopoly on violence, it is free for the taking.
Uhh, when has the "right wing" ever tried to increase liberty? Not in living memory.
What evidence do you have that Mussolini is a socialist? Even if his parents were socialists, what relevance does that have? Have you never heard of children rebelling against their parents?
Sure, Australians know about drop bears, but these are Moose! Much heavier.
Errr, no. Google drinking eBay's milkshake would put Google in the inferior position, with eBay enjoying all the pleasure of having its milkshake consumed. It doesn't work at all like "eating your lunch", it's a completely different metaphor.
Well, fuck you for trying to run a business on eBay. It should be about individual sellers selling their used personal items, not fucktards who ruin it for everybody.
Are you ludicrously insane and out-of-touch with reality? There is a massive barrier to entry in the online auction market. It's called eBay.
What the fuck? eBay has never been favorable to buyers. It has always been tilted in favor of sellers, to a ridiculous degree.
If a buyer pays with PayPal and they want their money back they'll get it almost every time.So, what if they don't pay with PayPal, huh?
They are known to drop from the trees and surprise foreigners with deadly force.
Wait. How is any of that a "clear" legal meaning? All three points are vague and subjective.
Errr, what? The majority of spams don't contain any "curse words", but a fuckload of legitimate emails do.
If VLC is considered "mature" for an Open Source project, then that's a pretty damn low standard of maturity. Is Open Source held to a completely different level of user expectations than proprietary software or something?
Hey, don't be racist. Blacks and hispanics also buy games.
No, it's more like the Thunderdome.
Which street are you talking about? What's your definition of intelligence?
There are plenty of streets in the world where an engineer would be one of the worst-performing people.