THEY don't get to decide. once you buy something, they have no legal or ethical rights to it any longer.
that was of course before their "illegal" practice of deliberate crippling of their product to prevent the purchaser of having full control over THEIR bought and paid for hardware.
name any other fucking company that has that much control over their product AFTER it has been bought? imagine if other non-tech industries did this to their "customers"?!
by definition, you cannot do anything with YOUR hardware that the manufacturers don't authorise.
no running distributed projects, no faster than realtime h264 encoding, no scientific applications, nothing!
welcome to the world of ubiquitous DRM.
i'll gladly pay for HW that isn't crippled and illegal to sell (someone should bust their asses for selling deliberately broken merchandise, this is fucking unethical, even by non-slashdot standards).
you keep bringing up what if microsoft made cars... well they do... and so does sony and also nintendo... they only run when they give you the green light. next time you jump into your hotrod, ask the manufacturer for permission to start your car. no, it's not the world's best analogy, but it gets the job done.
too bad our "representatives" aren't. they were bought and paid for long before your great grandparents were born. every 2/4 years, meet your new bosses, same as the old ones. give me a call when democracy means anything other than a veiled dictatorship by the elites/criminals.
how about the fucking webserver stores preferences and temp cache on their own fucking computers?
it's like the argument for DRM... maybe a softer kinder HANDCUFF...
there is no such thing as a good cookie. if you need temp storage, do it on your own damn computer and then delete it if it so pleases you to save space.
i don't see how technologically, we're not advanced enough to keep a few small pieces of data pertaining to individuals on servers themselves.
and i hate those goddamn sites that require cookies to do even the most basic things (some won't even let you in without accepting their crappy cookies).
and what a wonderful word "cookie" is... so benign.. so doublespeak. like using TRUSTED computing to mean that the rightful owner of the machine cannot be trusted. remember kids, when you let others control the words, they control the language.
fuck off and die you goddamn sons of bitches "marketers" aka lowlife pieces of shit.
the easiest and most hassle free way of protecting your systems from windows attacks is to use a router.
it blocks all of the windows related cracking attempts. it does NOTHING for spy/mal/junk/etcware though. that requires not running as admin plus the usual remedies of not running IE, having a spyware cleaning program, AV and not running just any old program that you come accross.
windows won't be attacked unpatched even in 20 years if you have a router. at least through the aforementioned means.
you can find a cheap router for 20-40 bucks, and it will be well worth every penny.
as to your situation... did you check the services list? the only reason the dll might not be found in safe mode is because a spyware service can't run in safe mode to create it. also check your device manager and check list hidden devices for any "drivers" they may have installed.
you can also use, as people have mentioned, the recovery console. also you can use a knoppix cd.
after the cleaning, run SFC to make sure no trojans or rootkits were installed. though it's probably safer after such a massive infection to just start over and reinstall.
it's also coming out for the pc and with current gen gfx cards and with the imminent introduction of new cards, it'll run with no problems and will look just as good (it could look nicer if they took advantage of the pcs strengths).
the point is, they were using some obfuscation in addition to or in conjunction with javascript. it was defeated but they vowed to start an arms race...
here's a clue.. if you don't want people to view all the pages of your book, why put them all there in the first place?
why not a small sampling that tries to please everyone.
the point is.. they are the problem i was speaking of in my original comment. trying to hide the way the code works to prevent something which is mostly harmless. do you think people prefer viewing pages on screen , trying to decipher the method of pseudo-DRM used and saving those low res pages to their drives in order to read a book OR buy a physical copy?
in any case, i've made my point.
as long as you legitimately obtained said item, then you have every right to sell it. but since 99.9999999999 of all virtual items for sale have been obtained by cheating,"farming", hacking other people's accounts thru trojans, etc then you have zero rights to sell.
end the bot farmers and you'll end the industry of cheating mother****** item sellers.
very few hardcore people will spend 12-18 hour days doing the same eyeball popping hairpulling repetitive moves over and over to get items.
so you know who really is to blame for all this...
the mmorpg COMPANIES who tolerate the massive amount of bots (cheating). they can easily wipe out all the cheaters but simply do not want to. they would rather have 30 bucks more a month than simply killing off the small population of crackers and cheaters. so then the less inclined have to cheat as well or leave the game.
put the blame where it's due... THE FUCKING COMPANIES!
it has to do with morons and kiddies who think buying virtual property is for "losers" who prefer cheating and scamming other online inhabitants to get the items they want.
the few who are really clueless are so few that they have virtually no voice.
mmorpg/persistent online games = HAVENS FOR CHEATING MOTHER******.
but the real insult is for the few honest players... having to pay monthly fees to play along side those real losers.
no... i'm not bitter at all... whatever gave you that idea...
selling intangible things like virtual property are scams?
well i guess that makes software fall in the same category. not to mention music, movies and a whole load of things i can't seem to think of at the moment. all things have value... if you don't like the value to money/whatevercurrency ratio, don't buy. but for fuck's sake, don't insult people who do want to partake. i'm not saying you are... just those who have and do.
imagine the consequences if you applied this to all intangible things in our societies... nourishment for comprehension.
in my definition , artificial enhancements don't count. your dna has to have the augmentations in order to be considered super.
now... maybe there's a certain other BILLIONAIRE superhero... who lives in the northwest US... somehow , having the hero be a rich bastard (no doubt he earned every penny...), makes him less likeable IMO.
so people can't figure out how to block your version of pop-up windows? or to find the real links to files/streams? among other things, i'm not very familiar with it.
but this stinks of DRM type shit. somewhat like that amazon fiasco that prevents the same user from viewing all the pages of a book.
to purposefully obfuscate code is the same as a painter purposefully maasking the meaning of a painting. it's absurd and reeks of evil.
if you want to "hide and hoard" your code, don't write javascript in the first place.
if i'm off base, someone tell me. but to me this is rediculous.
with post processing enabled (including ati hw post processing). compared to the last beta divx fusion.
the only reason i ever download and use divx player is for the hw PP'ing. now if some smart fool were to enable system wide directshow (or even enabled in mplayer/ffdshow/vlc/etc) , then i can dump this garbage.
it's been almost 5 years since the r300 generation of dx9 cards... and only in the last month have we seen dxva (direct x video acceleration) support for wmv9 HD... if these aren't difficult to program, why the hell has it taken this many years to get something that was promised way back in 2001?
recently ati has also promised h264 decoding... who knows if it's a next gen-only feature... it's not like the current crop of cards have even been remotely tapped in regards to their potential to decoding video.
ati and nvidia both suck badly in regards to overpromising and false advertising.
someone set us up the class action lawsuit.
since they cannot hear the throngs of people complaining, maybe their wallets will. yes, make lawyers richer and make unethical companies poorer. and no, giving 1 dollar off coupons on new products, is NOT a penalty or suitable punishment.
proprietary sw/hw suck roosters. eventually i will migrate away from it, as well the rest of the poor souls who are in situations like myself.
yes virginia, DRM and open standards are mutually exclusive.
NO MORE TAKING AWAY OUR RIGHTS TO USE THE HARDWARE WE PAID FOR!!!
running your own code on hardware you own... such a simple early 20th century idea. maybe in another 50-100 years of DRM hell (not related to DLL hell), we might get back to the 1950's era of trusting one's machine.
those who repeat history, often never remember long enough to benefit the next generation - ME.
psp firmware broken, purchasers now own their hardware.
running your own code on hardware you own... such a simple early 20th century idea. maybe in another 50-100 years of DRM hell (not related to DLL hell), we might get back to the 1950's era of trusting one's machine.
those who repeat history, often never remember long enough to benefit the next generation - ME.
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as long as they're not leaving work/calling in sick to be the first to see a movie...
oh wait...
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THEY don't get to decide. once you buy something, they have no legal or ethical rights to it any longer.
that was of course before their "illegal" practice of deliberate crippling of their product to prevent the purchaser of having full control over THEIR bought and paid for hardware.
name any other fucking company that has that much control over their product AFTER it has been bought? imagine if other non-tech industries did this to their "customers"?!
bunch of ignorant sheep...
i guess they still have a say in what you do with YOUR hardware after you purchase it...
stupid "consumer", control is for the corporations.
by definition, you cannot do anything with YOUR hardware that the manufacturers don't authorise.
no running distributed projects, no faster than realtime h264 encoding, no scientific applications, nothing!
welcome to the world of ubiquitous DRM.
i'll gladly pay for HW that isn't crippled and illegal to sell (someone should bust their asses for selling deliberately broken merchandise, this is fucking unethical, even by non-slashdot standards).
you keep bringing up what if microsoft made cars... well they do... and so does sony and also nintendo... they only run when they give you the green light. next time you jump into your hotrod, ask the manufacturer for permission to start your car. no, it's not the world's best analogy, but it gets the job done.
too bad our "representatives" aren't. they were bought and paid for long before your great grandparents were born. every 2/4 years, meet your new bosses, same as the old ones. give me a call when democracy means anything other than a veiled dictatorship by the elites/criminals.
ahh, copyright infringement in space.
it all makes sense now...
how about the fucking webserver stores preferences and temp cache on their own fucking computers?
it's like the argument for DRM... maybe a softer kinder HANDCUFF...
there is no such thing as a good cookie. if you need temp storage, do it on your own damn computer and then delete it if it so pleases you to save space.
i don't see how technologically, we're not advanced enough to keep a few small pieces of data pertaining to individuals on servers themselves.
and i hate those goddamn sites that require cookies to do even the most basic things (some won't even let you in without accepting their crappy cookies).
and what a wonderful word "cookie" is... so benign.. so doublespeak. like using TRUSTED computing to mean that the rightful owner of the machine cannot be trusted. remember kids, when you let others control the words, they control the language.
fuck off and die you goddamn sons of bitches "marketers" aka lowlife pieces of shit.
and what do you do when it doesn't honor your preferences?
it seems like it could be activated again without your knowledge.
that's why it's best to keep spyware and adware shit like flash off ones computer.
lucky for us, some of us are smart enough not to install shit like flash.
how much faster they could grow if they stopped using the hardware lock-in and made things open.
rule of paradoxes: they don't exist.
2nd rule: see rule #1
the easiest and most hassle free way of protecting your systems from windows attacks is to use a router.
it blocks all of the windows related cracking attempts. it does NOTHING for spy/mal/junk/etcware though. that requires not running as admin plus the usual remedies of not running IE, having a spyware cleaning program, AV and not running just any old program that you come accross.
windows won't be attacked unpatched even in 20 years if you have a router. at least through the aforementioned means.
you can find a cheap router for 20-40 bucks, and it will be well worth every penny.
as to your situation... did you check the services list? the only reason the dll might not be found in safe mode is because a spyware service can't run in safe mode to create it. also check your device manager and check list hidden devices for any "drivers" they may have installed.
you can also use, as people have mentioned, the recovery console. also you can use a knoppix cd.
after the cleaning, run SFC to make sure no trojans or rootkits were installed. though it's probably safer after such a massive infection to just start over and reinstall.
go to safemode.
it doesn't load anything superfluous. and begin the cleanup process.
that'll get rid of most spyware that don't attack/infect/alter system files.
then run SFC (system file checker), hopefully it won't be dismantled too...
then think about not running as Administrator (even though it's virtually required).
you forgot...
there are 2 sets of laws.
one for the great unwashed masses
the other for the top 1% who bind them in the darkness.
it's also coming out for the pc and with current gen gfx cards and with the imminent introduction of new cards, it'll run with no problems and will look just as good (it could look nicer if they took advantage of the pcs strengths).
the point is, they were using some obfuscation in addition to or in conjunction with javascript. it was defeated but they vowed to start an arms race... here's a clue.. if you don't want people to view all the pages of your book, why put them all there in the first place? why not a small sampling that tries to please everyone. the point is.. they are the problem i was speaking of in my original comment. trying to hide the way the code works to prevent something which is mostly harmless. do you think people prefer viewing pages on screen , trying to decipher the method of pseudo-DRM used and saving those low res pages to their drives in order to read a book OR buy a physical copy? in any case, i've made my point.
as long as you legitimately obtained said item, then you have every right to sell it. but since 99.9999999999 of all virtual items for sale have been obtained by cheating,"farming", hacking other people's accounts thru trojans, etc then you have zero rights to sell.
end the bot farmers and you'll end the industry of cheating mother****** item sellers.
very few hardcore people will spend 12-18 hour days doing the same eyeball popping hairpulling repetitive moves over and over to get items.
so you know who really is to blame for all this...
the mmorpg COMPANIES who tolerate the massive amount of bots (cheating). they can easily wipe out all the cheaters but simply do not want to. they would rather have 30 bucks more a month than simply killing off the small population of crackers and cheaters. so then the less inclined have to cheat as well or leave the game.
put the blame where it's due... THE FUCKING COMPANIES!
it has to do with morons and kiddies who think buying virtual property is for "losers" who prefer cheating and scamming other online inhabitants to get the items they want.
the few who are really clueless are so few that they have virtually no voice.
mmorpg/persistent online games = HAVENS FOR CHEATING MOTHER******.
but the real insult is for the few honest players... having to pay monthly fees to play along side those real losers.
no... i'm not bitter at all... whatever gave you that idea...
selling intangible things like virtual property are scams?
... nourishment for comprehension.
well i guess that makes software fall in the same category. not to mention music, movies and a whole load of things i can't seem to think of at the moment. all things have value... if you don't like the value to money/whatevercurrency ratio, don't buy. but for fuck's sake, don't insult people who do want to partake. i'm not saying you are... just those who have and do.
imagine the consequences if you applied this to all intangible things in our societies
why batman is NOT a "super" hero.
he may be a good guy, just not a superhero.
in my definition , artificial enhancements don't count. your dna has to have the augmentations in order to be considered super.
now... maybe there's a certain other BILLIONAIRE superhero... who lives in the northwest US... somehow , having the hero be a rich bastard (no doubt he earned every penny...), makes him less likeable IMO.
what the hell are people thinking?
so people can't figure out how to block your version of pop-up windows? or to find the real links to files/streams? among other things, i'm not very familiar with it.
but this stinks of DRM type shit. somewhat like that amazon fiasco that prevents the same user from viewing all the pages of a book.
to purposefully obfuscate code is the same as a painter purposefully maasking the meaning of a painting. it's absurd and reeks of evil.
if you want to "hide and hoard" your code, don't write javascript in the first place.
if i'm off base, someone tell me. but to me this is rediculous.
which softmod is this?
:)
and where might one find such an educational link?
you misspelled "copyright infringement".
almost doubly slower..
with post processing enabled (including ati hw post processing). compared to the last beta divx fusion.
the only reason i ever download and use divx player is for the hw PP'ing. now if some smart fool were to enable system wide directshow (or even enabled in mplayer/ffdshow/vlc/etc) , then i can dump this garbage.
it's been almost 5 years since the r300 generation of dx9 cards... and only in the last month have we seen dxva (direct x video acceleration) support for wmv9 HD... if these aren't difficult to program, why the hell has it taken this many years to get something that was promised way back in 2001?
recently ati has also promised h264 decoding... who knows if it's a next gen-only feature... it's not like the current crop of cards have even been remotely tapped in regards to their potential to decoding video.
ati and nvidia both suck badly in regards to overpromising and false advertising.
someone set us up the class action lawsuit.
since they cannot hear the throngs of people complaining, maybe their wallets will. yes, make lawyers richer and make unethical companies poorer. and no, giving 1 dollar off coupons on new products, is NOT a penalty or suitable punishment.
proprietary sw/hw suck roosters. eventually i will migrate away from it, as well the rest of the poor souls who are in situations like myself.
yes virginia, DRM and open standards are mutually exclusive.
NO MORE TAKING AWAY OUR RIGHTS TO USE THE HARDWARE WE PAID FOR!!!
... such a simple early 20th century idea. maybe in another 50-100 years of DRM hell (not related to DLL hell), we might get back to the 1950's era of trusting one's machine.
running your own code on hardware you own
those who repeat history, often never remember long enough to benefit the next generation - ME.
psp firmware broken, purchasers now own their hardware.
... such a simple early 20th century idea. maybe in another 50-100 years of DRM hell (not related to DLL hell), we might get back to the 1950's era of trusting one's machine.
running your own code on hardware you own
those who repeat history, often never remember long enough to benefit the next generation - ME.