How about indie mom and pop stores not aflicated with the big media companies? Does the MPAA go about trying to find video stores that don't pay royalties?
As most/.ers should know by now, the Chinese government just ordered all ISPs in China to start monitoring email for subversive phrases and the like, so just reply to Chinese spam with little replies of the form at the end of this spam. Might be a useful tactic on companies who think that unsolicited email is "just regular advertising".
Bill
"Jack(export manager)" wrote: > > Dear Sir > How are you. > > We are a lighting factory in China,It is glad > to introduce ourselves to you: > > I am XUBIN (Jack) , XUBIN is my chinese name , you can just > call me Jack !! , I am export manager of [deleted], > China, our group have four factory [snipped] > > Here is our company profile: >
[Rest of sales talk snipped]
(And now, the reply)
Thank you for your coded order. The weapons and ammunition will ship by way of the usual route in ten days, and you already know our secret Swiss bank account number to wire the payment to.
It is a pleasure doing business with you for so long, and I hope your cause will prevail. I am new to this particular computer, so I hope the encryption is working and the monitoring authorities cannot read what I am sending you.
My APEX DVD player is region free, and can play both NTSC and PAL discs, even if you have a TV that doesn't support that standard; it autoconverts the output as necessary.
Movie88 had posed an unexpected threat to studios' own video-on-demand services such as Movielink and Movies.com, which are still months away from commercial service.
The Taiwanese site was run on a video-store model, allowing people to "rent" access to movies for three days in return for a payment of just $1. The movies, which were streamed to a computer in RealNetworks' video format, could not easily be saved to a hard drive or downloaded.
So how is Movie88 a pirate site if it attempts to prevent downloading of the videos? (Yes, I know Real Video can be downloaded with some utilities, but then again, you could copy rental video tapes/DVDs with the right hardware too)
How is it different in concept from any video store for that matter?
And most importantly, how is it different than the movie studios getting into the act, except for where the money goes? (Do video stores like Blockbuster have to pay royalties to movie studios? Curious...)
I'm from Taiwan, and have been to many Asian countries. Corruption is rampant -- Taiwan is relatively good compared to places like China, Thailand and Vietnam, but even so, if you pay the right authorities the right amount of money, you can pretty much skirt nearly any sort of law.
I wouldn't be surprised if the MPAA paid the ISP some "money" to do so...
The aforementioned program is NOT the best solution. It only generates CD-Keys, you still need to contact MS, give MS your key (and hope they don't notice it's generated) and get your activation key.
Most people don't want to contact MS in the first place -- perhaps worried they could trace IP-addresses...
The ideal crack would be a program that took a CD-Key as input, and generated a activation key as output, just like Microsoft itself.
The Chinese government just ordered all ISPs in China to start monitoring
email for subversive phrases and the like, so just reply to
Chinese spam with little replies of the form at the end of this spam.
Might be a useful tactic on companies who think that unsolicited
email is "just regular advertising".
Bill
"Jack(export manager)" wrote:
>
> Dear Sir
> How are you .
>
> We are a lighting factory in China,It is glad
> to introduce ourselves to you:
>
> I am XUBIN (Jack) , XUBIN is my chinese name , you can just
> call me Jack !! , I am export manager of [deleted] ,
> China, our group have four factory
[snipped]
>
> Here is our company profile :
>
[Rest of sales talk snipped]
(And now, the reply)
Thank you for your coded order. The weapons and ammunition
will ship by way of the usual route in ten days, and you
already know our secret Swiss bank account number to
wire the payment to.
It is a pleasure doing business with you for so long,
and I hope your cause will prevail. I am new to this
particular computer, so I hope the encryption is
working and the monitoring authorities cannot read
what I am sending you.
What compression scheme are they using, if any? MPEG-2? Windows Media?:-)
Will data on tape be encrypted itself? Or will the copy protection just be a few bits indicating a flag to permit/prohibit copy, like DAT? If the latter, then expect for this to be broken quickly, like the DAT copy protection scheme.
Runtime bounds checking, typecast checking, etc... do those get included in the native executable as well (and if so, then wouldn't the performance hit negate the advantages gained thru native compilation?), and if not, then it could be dangerous.
As a former Ricochet user who greatly got value from the service, I'm always looking for a suitable replacement.
Can the Verizon 3G be used to fully access the Internet (not just a watered down "wireless web" subset of it like the current 2G phones) What ISPs support this access mode?
If Verizon does this right, then maybe Ricochet users will finally have a viable substitute.
Of course it is. People just aren't going to give up the apps they already use.
Look at Mac OS X -- this UNIX-based OS, has built in a Mac OS 9 emulator, expresslly so people can run their old apps. Is it necessary for OS X itself to run? NO! But without such a emulator, Mac OS X would probably have not taken off as quicky as it is.
The situation is exactly the same with Wine and Windows, especially if one views Linux as an "upgrade" to Windows and wishes to target disgruntled Windows users.
OK, maybe the WINE isn't GPL (my mistake). But Linux itself surely is -- have they made any kernel level changes?
Re:Looks like Michael Robertson isn't improving WI
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· Score: 1
So it's basically just a dedicated (crippled?) Debian distro with Wine as its core then, as I take it from reading posts here (not having used Lindows myself)?
Any changes to WINE itself? And if so, are they publically available per the GPL?
Some situations where it might be useful
on
Time for a Beer?
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· Score: 4, Funny
For instance: If you're pubbing, and you've just heard that the Earth will be destroyed by aliens in 12 minutes to make way for a new space highway...
What about the country itself
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· Score: 5, Interesting
I believe that one of the conditions that Tuvalu originally gave Verisign, Network Solutions, or whatever it was called back then, for the right to sell.tv names was that the Tuvalu govt would get some royalties to be put back towards developing Tuvalu's own Internet/IT infrastructure.
Is this $45 million a one time lump sum, and is so, does this mean that Tuvalu itself has completely given up ownership of its domain (so if a Tuvalu company wanted to register, they'd have to go through Verisign like everyone else?)
He's actually got (at least) 3 of them. Another one of them was won by Thresh (a high school friend of mine, BTW) in 1997, after the Red Annihilation Quake II tournament. (Pictures from there are here).
Anyways, it's not his Testarossa, but one of a few...
The Cabinet room in Ottawa (the capital of Canada for the ignorant) has special curtains that are always drawn. The reason? The US Embassy (an ugly postmodern glass-and-steel combo with foot-thick windows) is just across the street, and happens to have a ton of spying equipment on the roof, including laser devices capable of picking up subtle vibrations of windows and passing the data to a computer that spits out a coherent version of the conversation.
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How about indie mom and pop stores not aflicated with the big media companies? Does the MPAA go about trying to find video stores that don't pay royalties?
As most /.ers should know by now, the Chinese government just ordered all ISPs in China to start monitoring
. ,It is glad , :
email for subversive phrases and the like, so just reply to
Chinese spam with little replies of the form at the end of this spam.
Might be a useful tactic on companies who think that unsolicited
email is "just regular advertising".
Bill
"Jack(export manager)" wrote:
>
> Dear Sir
> How are you
>
> We are a lighting factory in China
> to introduce ourselves to you:
>
> I am XUBIN (Jack) , XUBIN is my chinese name , you can just
> call me Jack !! , I am export manager of [deleted]
> China, our group have four factory
[snipped]
>
> Here is our company profile
>
[Rest of sales talk snipped]
(And now, the reply)
Thank you for your coded order. The weapons and ammunition
will ship by way of the usual route in ten days, and you
already know our secret Swiss bank account number to
wire the payment to.
It is a pleasure doing business with you for so long,
and I hope your cause will prevail. I am new to this
particular computer, so I hope the encryption is
working and the monitoring authorities cannot read
what I am sending you.
Long live the Falun Gong! Free Tibet!
Best regards,
Your arms supplier
My APEX DVD player is region free, and can play both NTSC and PAL discs, even if you have a TV that doesn't support that standard; it autoconverts the output as necessary.
It's useful (at least for me) for learning foreign languages to listen to the spoken words while having the written text on the bottom.
I assume that most Movie88 customers were in Taiwan, and do not speak English as their native language.
Movie88 had posed an unexpected threat to studios' own video-on-demand services such as Movielink and Movies.com, which are still months away from commercial service.
The Taiwanese site was run on a video-store model, allowing people to "rent" access to movies for three days in return for a payment of just $1. The movies, which were streamed to a computer in RealNetworks' video format, could not easily be saved to a hard drive or downloaded.
So how is Movie88 a pirate site if it attempts to prevent downloading of the videos? (Yes, I know Real Video can be downloaded with some utilities, but then again, you could copy rental video tapes/DVDs with the right hardware too)
How is it different in concept from any video store for that matter?
And most importantly, how is it different than the movie studios getting into the act, except for where the money goes? (Do video stores like Blockbuster have to pay royalties to movie studios? Curious...)
In case you didn't know, FOX is planning to pull the plug in it. Futurama is pretty good, but nothing compares to Family Guy!
http://www.damnyouall.net/savefamilyguy/
I'm from Taiwan, and have been to many Asian countries. Corruption is rampant -- Taiwan is relatively good compared to places like China, Thailand and Vietnam, but even so, if you pay the right authorities the right amount of money, you can pretty much skirt nearly any sort of law.
I wouldn't be surprised if the MPAA paid the ISP some "money" to do so...
The aforementioned program is NOT the best solution. It only generates CD-Keys, you still need to contact MS, give MS your key (and hope they don't notice it's generated) and get your activation key.
Most people don't want to contact MS in the first place -- perhaps worried they could trace IP-addresses...
The ideal crack would be a program that took a CD-Key as input, and generated a activation key as output, just like Microsoft itself.
Does such a program exist?
Post links please -- I'm already running a corporate version, but this might be useful for some of my friends.
The Chinese government just ordered all ISPs in China to start monitoring
,It is glad
email for subversive phrases and the like, so just reply to
Chinese spam with little replies of the form at the end of this spam.
Might be a useful tactic on companies who think that unsolicited
email is "just regular advertising".
Bill
"Jack(export manager)" wrote:
>
> Dear Sir
> How are you .
>
> We are a lighting factory in China
> to introduce ourselves to you:
>
> I am XUBIN (Jack) , XUBIN is my chinese name , you can just
> call me Jack !! , I am export manager of [deleted] ,
> China, our group have four factory
[snipped]
>
> Here is our company profile :
>
[Rest of sales talk snipped]
(And now, the reply)
Thank you for your coded order. The weapons and ammunition
will ship by way of the usual route in ten days, and you
already know our secret Swiss bank account number to
wire the payment to.
It is a pleasure doing business with you for so long,
and I hope your cause will prevail. I am new to this
particular computer, so I hope the encryption is
working and the monitoring authorities cannot read
what I am sending you.
Long live the Falun Gong! Free Tibet!
Best regards,
Your arms supplier
But the actual pages come up as frames surrounded by Google's image search. So, Google might be in trouble if this decision were allowed to stand.
What were ther easons for making it closed source? You often hear of projects going closed to open, but rarely, the other way around...
It wasn't cracked, but there are "corporate" XP versions floating around which don't require activation.
What compression scheme are they using, if any? MPEG-2? Windows Media? :-)
Will data on tape be encrypted itself? Or will the copy protection just be a few bits indicating a flag to permit/prohibit copy, like DAT? If the latter, then expect for this to be broken quickly, like the DAT copy protection scheme.
Runtime bounds checking, typecast checking, etc... do those get included in the native executable as well (and if so, then wouldn't the performance hit negate the advantages gained thru native compilation?), and if not, then it could be dangerous.
Singapore Changi Airport has offered free wireless Internet access for quite some time now. Hong Kong Airport also offers it, but not free.
As a former Ricochet user who greatly got value from the service, I'm always looking for a suitable replacement.
Can the Verizon 3G be used to fully access the Internet (not just a watered down "wireless web" subset of it like the current 2G phones) What ISPs support this access mode?
If Verizon does this right, then maybe Ricochet users will finally have a viable substitute.
Of course it is. People just aren't going to give up the apps they already use.
Look at Mac OS X -- this UNIX-based OS, has built in a Mac OS 9 emulator, expresslly so people can run their old apps. Is it necessary for OS X itself to run? NO! But without such a emulator, Mac OS X would probably have not taken off as quicky as it is.
The situation is exactly the same with Wine and Windows, especially if one views Linux as an "upgrade" to Windows and wishes to target disgruntled Windows users.
OK, maybe the WINE isn't GPL (my mistake). But Linux itself surely is -- have they made any kernel level changes?
So it's basically just a dedicated (crippled?) Debian distro with Wine as its core then, as I take it from reading posts here (not having used Lindows myself)?
Any changes to WINE itself? And if so, are they publically available per the GPL?
For instance: If you're pubbing, and you've just heard that the Earth will be destroyed by aliens in 12 minutes to make way for a new space highway...
I believe that one of the conditions that Tuvalu originally gave Verisign, Network Solutions, or whatever it was called back then, for the right to sell .tv names was that the Tuvalu govt would get some royalties to be put back towards developing Tuvalu's own Internet/IT infrastructure.
Is this $45 million a one time lump sum, and is so, does this mean that Tuvalu itself has completely given up ownership of its domain (so if a Tuvalu company wanted to register, they'd have to go through Verisign like everyone else?)
Sorry -- wrong John, that was John CARMACK, not Romero! Please disregard my previous post!
Looks like Ferarris are popular among the id employees, though...
He's actually got (at least) 3 of them. Another one of them was won by Thresh (a high school friend of mine, BTW) in 1997, after the Red Annihilation Quake II tournament. (Pictures from there are here).
Anyways, it's not his Testarossa, but one of a few...
The Cabinet room in Ottawa (the capital of Canada for the ignorant) has special curtains that are always drawn. The reason? The US Embassy (an ugly postmodern glass-and-steel combo with foot-thick windows) is just across the street, and happens to have a ton of spying equipment on the roof, including laser devices capable of picking up subtle vibrations of windows and passing the data to a computer that spits out a coherent version of the conversation.
Why would the US be spying on CANADA?
Conversely, why would Canada fear US spying?